Tag: fool’s gold

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Shutting down for the Year

2017 was good to me in terms of recovering from my self-created 2015 personal austerity.   I paid attention to lessons learned and didn’t repeat my mistakes.

I found Love and Lost money, I stayed healthy and thrived professionally.

It’s all still very fragile and I’m not where I need to be but…

2018 is all about grinding one foot ahead at a time.  Most of all it’s about working on my true Dreams and Hope first, after all, I can’t make others happy if I’m not happy.

 

Academia in Vienna
Driving in Florida
Living in London

Avoiding the Fool’s Gold Door for 2018

In the meantime, Horizon Zero Dawn’s DLC  dropped and Star Wars Battlefront II is here next week for most of us.

Be Happy Johnson

My 2018 Top  Game PlayList (New and titles to complete)

Annual software budget $500 | Annual Hardware budget $400

Current Library 
Fall Out 4 - (Level 30 right now)
Alien: Isolation
Life is Strange (Episodes 2-5)
Until Dawn
Tom Clancy's The Division - UN Mission 

Wish List 
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Far Cry 5
Horizon Zero Dawn - The Frozen Wilds
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Detroit: Become Human
Days Gone
OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead
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The Comfort of Denial

One of the easiest emotions to embrace is pure denial, It’s like a warm duvet on a cold winter night.

Gaming is the ultimate denial of the real world. Feeling broke? Go out and find some loot. Feeling alone? Dive into a multiplayer session.

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can

Denial clouds the mind leading to lack of action in the futile hope that things will just get better on their own. Taking actions means risk. Risk of losing everything but also carries the real possibility that thing will improve.

Here are some great countermeasures:

Step 1  – Look at the cold hard facts
Step 2 – Look at your real options including the Hail Mary plays.
Step 3 – Take a single step forward

Christmas flight booked

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What da bleep, bleep…

It used to be pretty easy to manage your Apps from iTunes but now the giant vendor has stealthily taken that option away, which sucks for iPhone 4 or multiple device users.  Now you are forced to manage all Apps from the device itself.

Having to re-think mobile device management…Again.

The new App store looks and feels fantastic but it’s just a cold reminder that end users control nothing. 

At any point, your daily habits and behaviour can be manipulated with an Operating system update forcing you to act in a “crafted” way.  In the meantime, your walking, talking, driving, sleeping habit data is carefully harvested by your mobile device for later use.

How do you like dem Apples?

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Coming out of retirement

I put down Star Wars Battlefront after 129 hours, 25 minutes and 53 seconds of game time, ending with 5,321 kills and 7,505 deaths.

Now, after over a year of retirement, I’m coming back for Part 2.

I was kinda fooling myself into thinking I could just be satisfied with watching from the sidelines, clearly, the Dark Side is too strong to resist.  I’m be joining the Public Beta on 6-9 October and no doubt there will be over 5 million players doing the same thing.

EA Public Beta is a bit of a nonsense as the company probably has an army of professional gamers, developers and streamers willing to test at any time.  I guess the argument is to load testing the server network but I suspect the real motivation is to hook players into buying the game, pure “try before you buy” marketing.

EA Earning results

EA Digital net sales of $3.034 billion for fiscal 2017; this represents 61% of total net sales, up 20 % year over year.
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Something to talk about

In the absence of hard core facts, gossip festers like an untreated wound.  Add the emotion layer of relatives and family gossip has got to be one of hardest things to avoid.  Sometimes it’s just merely annoying but often deeply hurtful.

Like polymorphic malware, it changes itself constantly to the environment so that upon detonation it causes the most damage.

How to take advantage of HearSay…post-Fake News about yourself.

Tactically, I’m always undecided as to either feed the gossip with facts to shut it up or just ignore it and let it grow and die organically.

Alternatively, it’s fun to poison the stream with fake news and monitor the reactions.

People always want it to be juicy so it seems just a good move to make things uninteresting.  In my experience, the real facts of life are not what people really want to hear.

Move along nothing to see here