Category: Gaming

Observations,mistrust chronicles and exploits

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The Art of being carried

I once read that you should aim to be the dumbest one in the room if you want to get ahead. For me, this has always been an issue as folk look to me as THE subject matter expert.

Raiding on The Division 2 spawns some interesting group dynamics which you have an organic hierarchy of Leader, lieutenants, grunts and carries. A carry is a player that shouldn’t even be in the Raid as they either don’t have the skills or know what to do.

A Carry is like the child you take for their first karate lesson. Interesting enough I’ve enjoyed running as a Carry with no responsibilities or ego for the past few months. Still no Eagle Bearer but I haven’t really earned it.

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 – Waiting for a Carry
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Holidays Survival

Sundays, Christmas holidays and meetings all have traits that make me want to head to an isolated beach and a snack.

The stealth poison of being busy contaminated the quality of all my relationships and I often allow to go unchallenged.

London 11:44 – one of the worst times to travel on the underground

Christmas holidays: The ba humbug of unnecessary overspending.

5 Traits of failed busYness

Failure to plan
Failure to anticipate
Failure to research
Failure to look at lessons learned from previous events
Peer or crowd pressure to follow the popular
Failure to create contingencies
Failure to avoid white noise
I’m busier than you disease
You are so lazy condemnation

No, I don’t want a gift from you
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Perfect Concussion

For the past few months my working environment, namely my primary office, has been an uncomfortable place to work from.  This environmental problem has been stealth and very gradual.  A part malfunction in the ventilation system pushing up the daily heat to 96 degrees daily but in a typical head in the sand approach I did nothing about it.

The environment impacted my mood, focus and ability to concentrate for more than 20 mins but my subconscious coping mechanism made me leave the office early, work from other areas in the building and generally be missing-in-action on a daily basis.

A simple call to building services resolved the issue but it dawned on me how often we ignore the root cause of a problem.

Time to re-focus – Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
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Trying to focus on the 90%

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
― Charles R. Swindoll

When someone gets on your final nerve and you are about to punch them in the face. Stop, take a breath and consider how you respond at this precise moment will dictate what happens to you. Surround yourself with friendlies and folks you can actually talk to or complain to. Never respond with core brutal action.

Anyhow, I avoided a meltdown in the workspace and life goes on.

Shut the F up!!!
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636 Milestone [level completed]

Getting older ripens you for future unknowns.  I can’t say that I’m truly prepared but at least a scale the Great Wall of China this year. I’m much happier this year so it’s up, up and away.

This time next year my life would have changed completely…