If anyone could talk and say nothing, it' me. I'm here to do 2 things. Kick a$$ and play videogames and guess what? I'm all out of a$$.

• 25May 12

  Graduated High School today.

  First off, my new excuse for not coming to GS often enough anymore. Life seems to be happening. I getting other things to do. Gotta check Facebook every now and then (for all sorts of reasons) talking to people on the phone, graduating, things like getting a license, car, job, going to college, keeping in contact with people, working out, actually playing games :p. All sorts of things. I know some people (not pointing any fingers, Neon and Light ) can still be as active despite their schedules, and I salute you all for that.

  Anyway, I graduated today! WEEE! Was I excited or nervous? (which seem to be the favorite questions). Not really. I do feel expanded though. All the oppurtunies opening and others closing. It's an odd feeling, knowing that the bus that has come to my house for 12 years requiring me to wake up at 6 and wear shoes will no longer stop for me. I'm done now. The world has prepped me to live in it as it sees fit, and now waits to reap the benefits of me living in it. Cool huh?!

  I started playing Iris Online and for the most part have quit playing Quake 3. The learning curve is just too crazy considering that the only people playing have had years of experience playing with people of equal skill level. No one ON THE ENTIRE PLANET ever plays in the lesser ranked servers, so I must throw myself to the big dogs right off the bat. Iris online is fun. It doesn't seem enormously innovative, but it's innovative and fun enough to enjoy. Of course, I play the mage. The class that, if your skill is on the higher tier, will be inevitably better than any other class. Whether or not I am, it's more fun knowing that whether or not I win or lose is almost always 100% my fault. Does that make any sense? Whatever. Anyway, it's an mmo rpg based on gypsies and tarot cards. The only problem I've found with playing the mage in this game is since it's relatively turn based, a stand alone mage is very hard to play. It isn't like Diablo where it's only about play style. Mages need space to be effective , but when hacking through waves of enemies, space is not readily apparent. Enemies respawn very fast, so I can't just walk backwards if I want after I get to the middle of an area when enemies spawn. Being completely alone AND being relatively turn based but real time with a cooldown system for your skills, playing the mage is rough. But, mages are late bloomers. I don;'t doubt that I'll be able to turn the tide with a wave of my hand soon. I'm still trying to figure some things out though. The Battlefield system rarely works (a pvp... thingy...)simply because enough people rarely join a bracket of your level. Getting a team to go into a dungeon is the same way. Without a party, you can't even enter a dungeon. You can learn different sorts of special Assistant Skills to craft buffing stuff of all kinds.

  I went to a LAN party (hooking up a crap ton of computers and playing games on em) with my whole computer and electronics class at CTC. I was a force. I played Unreal tournament for a few hours. I kind of whooped a$$. Quake Live got my reflexes nuts. We played mostly Capture the Flag, but I always got a team that couldn't do anything. (couldn't work together, aim, or really do anything) and the other team was always, like, the epitome of teamwork. Pi$$ed me off. I literally sat in my base with the enemy flag in my hand waiting for our flag to be returned so I could make a point for my team for 10 minutes. My entire team together couldn't take 1 flag holder for 10 minutes. After that, I just ran over to the opposite base and slaughtered the endlessly respawning waves of giant black males wearing armor and incredibly similiar dreadlocks. Never died after that.

  After a while I quit and started playing Super Smash Bros Brawl for the first time. I'm crazy at Melee, but I've never played Brawl. The guy who owned the game who thought he rocked didn't know that until the 3rd time in a row I wiped the floor with him with Fox. "WHAT!? THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME!?" It was pretty satisfying. I do that to people all the time with fighting games. . Kinda average at FPS's for the most part though.

  Gonna go play Iris Online.

  • Posted May 25, 2012 10:04 pm GMT
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• 12May 12

  Quake Live is awesome!

  Since I got Highspeed internet, many new doors have been opened to me. The internet is now useable, instead of being a window that I can view information from. Started playing Quake Live. It's REALLY fun. It's got a serious learning curve though. Since everyone else is a veteran, (my first match included someone with over 55,000 kills) starting out is more than hard. But I'm well on my way. My frags are usually 4 or 5 points higher than my deaths now. I find that the recording of kills and deaths is occasionally extremely inaccurate. My summary has 0 kills for a few weapons still, although I've killed a great deal with them all.

  I may have damaged my middle knuckled in a serious manner. Did I ever tells you guys that I bruised it on the inside somehow while I was hitting my heavbag. I waited about a month. It felt fine. So I tried punching again, and almost immediately I felt something in my knuckle go wrong. I walked and start moving my fingers up and down. It felt like what I imagine a rubberband feells like to be rubbed and stretched at once. It wasn't painful, just strange and obviously bad in an "oh$hitoh$hit$hit$hit sort of way. I really hope I didn't permeneantly damage my hand. I'm pretty sure it happened when I punched the bottom of the bag to hard. I tried machine gun punching the bottom too. I don't understand why it didn't happen to my right hand too... I just hope it heals eventually.

  • Posted May 12, 2012 6:45 am GMT
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• 27Apr 12

  Why I haven't been on lately.

  Lots of reasons. I'm not great at recalling things (possibly because I've cracked my forehead so many times) but for the past few weeks, I've had a lot to remember to do, with plenty of distractions to make forgetting easy. I've got a lot of sweet games to play, lots of sweet games to play that I haven't beaten yet (SNES, N64, & PC games), and helping people with their problems. Yeah, apparently I give good advice. When I give it, it usually solves the problem or at least helps. People almost always come back when they're in a tight spot again. Not that it's like work, but it is consumption of my brain power, attention, and time. I've trying to learn and do things concerning scholarships and college n stuff, but I forget a lot. (Not good. I know) That, on top of remembering to workout and do flexibility stretching, I forget things quite easily. Not that my schedule is ridiculously crammed, things just slip my mind. It doesn't help that everyone in my house has business either online or on the phone almost all the time. Timing is crucial.

  I'm trying to learn how to program games in C++. Unsurprisingly, it's extremely difficult. It's like trying to learn how to use Greek words to make sentences without knowing what the letters are. Hard. No, you don't understand. It's really hard. You have to read this HYOOGE text book and only at the end, once you have mastered it all, can you make a game that remotely works. I'll keep at it though. Like I'm sure many of us do, I have a lot of cool ideas. Even if I don't end up using it, it challenges my intelligence quite a bit, so I'm getting smarter for any other thing I want to learn. Plus, I'm sure the game programming skill looks GREAT on a resume to get a computer job.

  I've been at it for about a month. Can't do a lot yet. I learn at a Career Technical Center in the CNET course. I read up on it for roughly an hour & a half to 2 hours a day. It's rough stuff, but it's fun to learn because the writer understands the reader's mentality. He uses analogies effectively to help to understand concepts. I can't figure out how to make an EXE file. (in case you don't know, the file that starts the game). The book tells you, but it doesn't work. IT'S NOT USER ERROR. I read the one page explaining it like 18 times. Tried it double that. Researched it on the internet for weeks. Couldn't figure it out. It just tells me it can't be saved. So I just went on learning the coding out of the book. I don't want to waste too much time when I'll probably learn down the line somehow anyway. I had on idea for a Top Ten blog and I'm hungry.

  Dam, their just isn't enough time in my house. Be seein ya.

  • Posted Apr 27, 2012 3:07 pm GMT
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