Month: November 2020

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PS5 and beyond

My 2021 Top  Game PlayList (New and titles to complete)

Annual software budget $300 | Annual Hardware budget $700

Current Library (Installed)
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - Season 3 
Tom Clancy's The Divison - Survival
Need for Speed Payback
Erica
The Last of Us II

Wish List 
Horizon Forbidden West
...not much on my "must buy" list for now

"Must get back to it" List
FallOut 76
Alien: Isolation
With no sign of a PS5 available, I stumbled across this dusty relic in the Last of Us™ Part II
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Gamer’s Path to Respect (in-game & IRL)

Without even knowing it, the thirst for Respect is one of the key drivers for many Gamers.  Buried deep in our subconscious we grind for better achievements and exotic talents that are higher than our peers with the overwhelming desire to be “liked” and Respected.

I’ve been running the same Blind Banshee build for months merely because is earns so much respect in Div 2 protecting the team and being an effective King-maker.

Here’s a Path to Respect

Be considerate

This build doesn’t kill NPCs very fast, but it sets up teammates to kill without being harmed.

Act respectfully

With hardly any real damage to NPCs, I need to encourage teammates to focus on certain non-obvious threats without demanding they “SHOT HERE”.

Listen and Watch well

I need to have good situational awareness, map knowledge and enemy spawn knowledge to anticipate where the threats come from and where they are likely to run to.

Be useful

Look out for teammates under severe threat of dying and disable the threat immediately.

Don’t make excuses

I’m very squishy so always need to look after myself and can’t blame anyone for me being out of position or foolishly flanked.

Let go of anger

Sometimes, it seems no one is shooting in the right places, just relax and be patient…don’t rage quit.

Be willing to change

If all fails or the team asks you to, switch to a Damage per second Build

Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2 – All we really want is RESPECT
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Lifestyles of the Bored and Restless

The Lock-down lifestyle is a thing that just creeps up on you…the negatives can be overwhelming, but scraps of good stuff can emerge from your captivity.

Here’s my Top-10 Lockdown issue list

  1. Lack of real exercise or movement
    • Unless you are the healthy type or just have a nice home with a great garden or field then it’s natural to just meander from room to room with no real purpose.
  2. Lack of routine
    • This lack of purpose is just a headshrinker…. Why I am here? What is my purpose?
  3. Lack of real face-to-face social connection
    • So, what if you have 500+ LinkedIn. Body language makes up over 50% of our comms.
  4. Perpetual Snacking
    • I’m a grazer and can’t help but wonder in the kitchen every hour or so for a snack. Even when I’m not hungry
  5. Zoomed Out – Screen time Obesity
    • If our effort to become productive we use ever screen possible and this obsession pushes up to 10 hours a day on various devices.
  6. Trapped on a wheel
    • So, you walk from your home office to the dining room then to the kitchen then back to your home office…been here before.  Yes, you have.
  7. Losing your talent
    • I’m a creature of habit and routine and this is where my craft blossoms.  Without that routine, my talents are at risk…
  8. Filing Time with gibberish
    • Fooling yourself you are actually being productive is pretty common. Let’s have pointless Zoom meetings and phone calls whilst goofing off.
  9. The plague of interruptions
    • The perception that you are “available” at home is annoying and probably my number problem….Yes, I am busy and Yes you are interrupting me.
  10. Lost of Risk
    • From the time you step out of your house you are risking something to gain something. Without that Risk, there is nothing to gain and without that gain, you are just a cardboard cutout of your true self.

Creating my own certainty out of nothing, grind some labs and re-inventing my your own purpose.

Lifestyle of a job-hunter

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Reasons to be Cheerful – USA edition

Undoubtedly, in a year of constant bad news, watching the erasure of a racist, tyrant Bloodclat World leader has been the number one boast to my happiness.

It’s incredible how the audacity of hope hits me across the pond. Now it’s all about rebuilding a non-destructive situation and making my second home fantastic again.

U……S……A U……S……A U……S……A

Making the US Great again……Tom Clancy’s The Division 2