Tag: Competent

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A little Bump and Grind

I’ve spent the past few days in the game reward loop earning points on Tom Clancy’s The Division Global Event.  It’s an excellent way to keep gamers playing with the hope of finding loot and rewards.

I ended up aiming for 50 mixed caches as my goal at the end of GE which should increase my chances of getting something special.  My cache opening ceremony will probably take 20-30 minutes just to re-organise the inventory.

Here’s what on the Wishlist

AlphaBridge Classified    Holster
Striker Classified        Gloves and Holster
Lone Star Classified      Mask, Knee Pads and Holster
D3-FNC Classified         Holster
Reclaimer Classified      Gloves and Knee Pads

This is absolute gibberish to non-Division gamers and like all acronyms and industry talk, it inadvertently divides people.  I could actually meet a Division player and have a full decent genuine conversation dispute the demographic or real-life profile.  Words like grind, face tanking, exotics and caches mean a totally different thing here.

This is what makes a game successful, I don’t see nothing wrong with a little Bump and Grind.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – Rush for loot

1st day of exercise for 50 days….feels good though.

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I will survive

After 20+ hours of grinding away and failing, I finally extracted from The Division’s Survival DLC today.   Good thing it was released for free but I’ll probably buy it in September ($14.99).

This mode has an excellent game cycle to keep you playing as well as the constant intensity of running around New York in a snowstorm scavenging for meds, food, water and guns….loot, loot, loot.

Of course, it meant hiding from real life stuff.  Tomorrow, just Global Event stuff, all part of the road to D2.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – Survived
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Lab time

Designing, setting up and maintaining a computer lab is always a great time for me.  Layer 1 is always a bit of a chore but getting the right team together makes it light work.

In 4-6 weeks I hope to have a decent backbone with an enterprise-class topology and a gaming rig at the core ready for Division 2.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – re-building an Infrastructure takes time.

Today’s attack was routed through Italy 82.102.21.145, a nasty little attempt.

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Duties and Achievements

After 434 in-game days, I’ve finished the last story mode chapter of FallOut 4.  It’s been a nice long read and a pleasant range of endings.  As a completist, I’m drawn to the final few trophy hunts one of which is aptly named  “They’re not Dolls”.

So far my bobblehead collection contains  
Charisma
Energy weapons
Medicine
Melee
Perception
Repair
Speech
Explosive
Small Guns
Intelligence
Luck

Searching for

Sneak
Science
Big guns
Barter
Endurance
Lock Picking
Strength
Unarmed
Agility
Tom Clancy’s The Division – Pulling us back to NY

This is gaming

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Make your head Nod

Day 1 –  EU Data Laws come into force today.

Look out for the Article 33 – 72 Hour breach notification debacle.

I can only imagine the litigations that are cued up and ready to go.  Enterprise is all lawyered up but Small Business owners must be wondering what to do.  The first cases will definitely hit the media.

Will it make the end-user safer or just cause admin hassle and change the strategic position of hackers and miscreants? A new era of Lawfare where regulations are used to tied up resources of a target, distracting them and potential weakening their infrastructure.

Policy, procedures, standards, compliance will someone please wake me up.

…but yet I’ve already had some vague clueless queries from worried business folk.

Data enemies approach – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

No matter, your friendly neighbourhood CISSP is here for ya.