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		<title>Presenting the Halo: Reach for the Swag Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Salyers</dc:creator>
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<p>Well, the time has come. We&#8217;ve made a big push to bring awareness to our little contest, and now you get the juicy details. Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ll keep this short, sweet, and simple[citation needed].</p>
<h2>Prizes</h2>
<p>First off, the prizes. We&#8217;re going to be giving away three prizes.</p>
<h3>Second Prize: The &#8220;Grenades are Tactical&#8221; TGZ shirt.</h3>
<p>The only T-shirt guaranteed to protect you from grenade spam, noob tubes, and campers.*</p>

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<p>Inspired by such blockbuster games as Halo: Grenades, Call of Duty: Grenade Spam, and Battlegrenade: Bad Grenade 2, the &#8220;Grenades are Tactical&#8221; shirt is the perfect way to show your love of grenade spam.</p>
<p><em> *Disclaimer: Does not protect against grenade spam, noob tubes, or campers.</em></p>
<p>One winner will receive the &#8220;GaT&#8221; shirt in the size of their choice.</p>
<h3>First Prize: The Halo: Reach Standard Edition</h3>

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<p>The no frills added version of the future most-played-game-on-Xbox-Live. Save yourself $60, or give it to a friend to convince them to play it with you. Either way, you can never have too much Halo.</p>
<h3>And finally, the Grand Prize: The Halo: Reach Legendary Edition</h3>

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<p>Featuring the MacFarlane Toys Noble Team centerpiece, special Reach packaging and documentation, in-game flaming skull and elite armor, and a +10 Girth to your E- peen, promising to be one of the hottest special edition releases ever, this baby is guaranteed to make your friends jealous.</p>
<h3>Contest Method</h3>
<p>We&#8217;re gonna throw all your names in a hat and pick three of &#8216;em out. Simple enough right?</p>
<h3>Contest Entry</h3>
<p>There are three ways to enter the contest, and each one you do will net you a single chance, for a total of 6 chances total. Yes, I said six. No, I didn&#8217;t screw up the math.</p>
<h3>First Chance: The Contest</h3>
<p>Three times over the next month, we will be posting a quote and a question. All you have to do is put the quote and the answer in an email to contests@thegamerzzone.com with &#8220;Reach for the Swag Contest&#8221; in the subject line. Get it right, you win a chance. Simple right?</p>
<p>Oh, and the quote will be encoded in some way. Good luck.</p>
<p>Possible Chances: 3, one for each correct answer.</p>
<h3>Second Chance: Be a Forum Member</h3>
<p>That&#8217;s right. Simply be a forum member for a free chance to win. This does not apply only to current members: sign up the day of and you still get your shot. Simply include your forum name in the emails you send answering the question.</p>
<p>Possible Chances: 1</p>
<h3>Third Chance: Be a TGZ Donator</h3>
<p>Simply be one of our donors and receive up to two extra chances. Donations between $5 and $10 will give you one extra chance, and donations over $10 will give you two. This will apply retroactively, so all previous donors will be included, as well as those who choose to donate from here on out. Simply include your paypal account email for verification.</p>
<p><em>*Disclaimer* You are not purchasing a chance in the contest. It is a reward to those who choose to help us maintain the site and forums. Our donors are awesome people and deserve something for their contribution. We at TGZ thank you guys. Ya&#8217;ll rock.</em></p>
<p>Possible Chances: 2, 1 for $5+ and another for $10+</p>
<h3>Total Chances: 6, 3 contest, 1 forum, 2 donor</h3>

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<h2>Still a little confused? Well, let&#8217;s give you a practice run.</h2>
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Who said this quote?&#8217;</p>
<p>So you would send an email saying:</p>
<p>To:contests@thegamerzzone.com<br />
Subject:Reach for the Swag Contest<br />
Field: &#8220;Four of us and a thousand of them? Piss-poor odds for the little guys.&#8221; -<br />
Blue-Two</p>
<p>Forum Name: Morte<br />
Paypal Email: nick@thegamerzzone.com</p>
<p>And just like that, you got your first 4 chances. Answer the other two questions right and get six total.</p>
<p>After the last question has been given, we&#8217;ll tally the results, and do the drawing. Drawing will be done for the grand prize first, then first, then second, to give everyone a fair shot at the grand prize. Winners will be announced and notified shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>So, good luck Noble Six, and make sure you&#8217;re checking the forums and twitter as well, never know when we might toss out some extra opportunities to earn a free chance.</p>

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		<title>Pokemon Hard Mode 5.2 Will Go Live Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://thegamerzzone.com/2010/05/29/pokemon-hard-mode-5-2-will-go-live-tomorrow/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=pokemon-hard-mode-5-2-will-go-live-tomorrow</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 02:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Salyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry folks, but I&#8217;m smack dab in the middle of three birthdays, including a 12th, and 21st, and a 50th, and I&#8217;m just swamped, so Hard Mode 5.2 will (hopefully) go live tomorrow. In the mean time, here&#8217;s a picture of a Typhlosion stealing a cake. On a side note&#8230; Happy Birthday Mom, Anna, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry folks, but I&#8217;m smack dab in the middle of three birthdays, including a 12th, and 21st, and a 50th, and I&#8217;m just swamped, so Hard Mode 5.2 will (hopefully) go live tomorrow. In the mean time, here&#8217;s a picture of a Typhlosion stealing a cake.
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<p>On a side note&#8230;</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Happy Birthday Mom, Anna, and John. Love you guys.</h3>

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		<title>Technical Difficulties: Please Stand By</title>
		<link>http://thegamerzzone.com/2010/05/08/technical-difficulties-please-stand-by/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=technical-difficulties-please-stand-by</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 16:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Salyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These past two weeks have not been good to the Gamer Zone, technology-wise. On top of a server move, my phone and computer died. And on top of my computer dying, so did Phot&#8217;s. So what that means, dear friends, is that Hard Mode is on hiatus for at least a week. As soon as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These past two weeks have not been good to the Gamer Zone, technology-wise. On top of a server move, my phone and computer died. And on top of my computer dying, so did Phot&#8217;s. So what that means, dear friends, is that Hard Mode is on hiatus for at least a week. As soon as Phot&#8217;s computer is back up and running, Hard Mode will be back, and once I have a new computer, posts will increase. But until then, we ask that you remain patient, and don&#8217;t panic, for greatness is coming&#8230;</p>
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		<title>TGZ Chat is up</title>
		<link>http://thegamerzzone.com/2010/03/01/tgz-chat-is-up/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tgz-chat-is-up</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheKittyMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll need to fix the link in the forum layout, but on the main page, we now have a chatroom for people to discuss things. I still want people to post in the forum, but chats are always a fun way to talk to people in real time. To message instantly. An instant message. How [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll need to fix the link in the <a href="http://thegamezzone.com/forum">forum</a> layout, but on the main page, we now have a <a href="http://thegamerzzone.com/chatroom">chatroom</a> for people to discuss things. </p>
<p>I still want people to post in the forum, but chats are always a fun way to talk to people in real time. To message instantly. An instant message. How clever&#8230;</p>
<p>This chat is spread across the entire network. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.nicksalyers.com/chat">NS</a><br />
<a href="http://thekittyman.com/chat">TKM</a></p>
<p>and it&#8217;ll be up on DT and RM sometime soon. </p>
<p>Hope to have more updates for people soon. I&#8217;m hoping you&#8217;re enjoying some of the cool articles so far. Thanks everybody. </p>
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		<title>Still Working On Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheKittyMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing minor tweaks here and there. Trying to really set things up right. I still can&#8217;t figure out how to properly have a &#8220;comic&#8221; page, so for now, I&#8217;ll just have the category up there for people to see the comics. For now, it will do. I&#8217;ll eventually set up a navigation thing, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been doing minor tweaks here and there. Trying to really set things up right. I still can&#8217;t figure out how to properly have a &#8220;comic&#8221; page, so for now, I&#8217;ll just have the category up there for people to see the comics. For now, it will do. I&#8217;ll eventually set up a navigation thing, etc etc. My problem right now is how to integrate all of the functionality of a comic website into this particular theme. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a bit more complicated and advanced for me to set up and put together, so I&#8217;ll need some help on that. </p>
<p>Other than that, I have a lot of ideas, but I need some people to help me out with them. If anybody is interested, hit me up at km@thegamerzzone.com to let me know. I&#8217;ll give more details if you&#8217;re actually interested in helping. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m also heading out to see <a href="http://riotmonster.com">Riot</a> and might record Ep 1 of CyberSecks. I&#8217;m not sure. It depends. Need to see if we can find something interesting to talk about before doing it since it seems <a href="http://dustintriplett.com">Dustin</a> and I always have something to talk about and Morte ALWAYS has a great topic to rant on about with me. </p>
<p>Things are starting. Spread the word. ^_^</p>
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		<title>Still Under Construction, But Functional</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheKittyMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think at this point, that&#8217;s all I could really ask for after doing it on my own for a while. With HGN, I was used to Dub doing everything. Last time with TGZ? I was used to Penguin doing everything. Rick and I were getting the ideas for content together, staff, etc. Penguin was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think at this point, that&#8217;s all I could really ask for after doing it on my own for a while. With HGN, I was used to Dub doing everything. Last time with TGZ? I was used to Penguin doing everything. Rick and I were getting the ideas for content together, staff, etc. Penguin was doing all of the coding. Most of the designing. He&#8217;s spent countless hours working on something that isn&#8217;t in existence anymore. I feel bad for it, but I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s still on board for TGZ this time around. Maybe once I finally get more things set up, he can step in and take over after I&#8217;m exhausted and ready to kill some people.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a web designer. I&#8217;m not a person who can figure these things out, but I&#8217;m doing my best. Hopefully the site gets even more customized and feel more like home after I do some more work. I still have a hefty to-do list to dive into.</p>
<p>Well, it&#8217;s going well so far though. Ideas running around. It&#8217;s a good day people.. Good day.</p>
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		<title>Woops. Site is Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheKittyMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just getting some things set up for a few changes. I know Penguin worked his ASS off on a lot of things for the way things were before, but now we can get this all figured out in a good way. I&#8217;m hoping a lot of things come together because of this. Much love. -KM]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just getting some things set up for a few changes. I know Penguin worked his ASS off on a lot of things for the way things were before, but now we can get this all figured out in a good way. I&#8217;m hoping a lot of things come together because of this. Much love. -KM</p>
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