Mom's Minute 11-30-2015

On the 176th episode of Mom's Minute Video Game Show which airs live, Ms. H hopes everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and fun shopping the Black Friday sales.  Ms. H talks about the Steam video game she played, Lineage II Infinite Odyssey.  In  lieu of giving a partial video game review of this game, Ms. H said she would share her opinion of not only this game at the next Mom's Minute Video Game Show, but will review an additional video game as well.  In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, Ms. H features Tekken video game character  Julia Chang as the video game character of the week.  She  announces that a later version of the video game Tekken is in the works; however, a specific release date is pending from the developers.  For the celebrity gamer of the week, Muhammad Ali's daughter from his third marriage is featured, Laila Ali.  Ms. H explained that even though Laila Ali is retired from boxing, she ended her reign on a winning streak.  There is talk that Laila Ali cherry-picked who she fought against, and may not have chosen some top of the line female boxers to defend her championship title against.  Ms. H shared Laila Ali response to this assertion.  Ms. H relates Laila Ali to video games by stating that Laila Ali is for boxing video games that support the sport of boxing.  Ms. H discusses her video game field trip to Walmart, Target and Best Buy during the Black Friday sales, that started 6:00 p.m. on  Thursday, November 26, 2015. She cautioned  her listeners to be sure items are really on sale and they are actually getting good deals not only during Black Friday, but when taking advantage of all sales. She  recommended choosing name-brand items as much as possible.  Ms. H leads a lively discussion on how Best Buy determines you are a Gamer's Club member which lead  to talk about the importance of keeping your privacy, including which email addresses to provide. Ms. H shared her experience purchasing a video game character on her Xbox One as well as what she did to safeguard her credit card information.  Topping the video game news is how the overload of traffic  on Cyber Monday was being handled by retailers such as Target, Neiman Marcus, Walmart, eBay and others.  Ms. H told all to consider shipping charges when deciding whether to take advantage of online sales.  The other news topic was a $5.00 computer that was sold out, but was at one time available for purchase in the UK.  She decribed the miniature computer.  Ms. H  shared that it's advantageous for everyone to know the value of programming and what it takes for actions to seemingly happen at the touch of a button -- when in actuality lots of expert programming is required for these actions to take place.  Ms. H rounds out her video game show on a positive note with her original saying to let positivity define you always.