GAME, WORK, GAME, EAT, SLEEP, GAME
ClickOnyxDC Always on PlayStation®5, Always Rambling
Yesterday was a perfect mirror match of real-world raw power and wealthy testing. Unleashing a vehicle with no speed limit or cops on a runway track with a professional co-driver is brilliant.
It took a while to actually ignore the rules of the road which are just ingrained into my driving habits. It has been a few years since I experienced the raw Porsche power off road and I found myself quickly becoming super comfortable in the seat of the awesome Ferrari.
Keep your dreams in Front of You
Vienna, renowned for Opera and Fine Arts, hosted the 11th Vienna Games Conference in the Vienna City Hall which is more accustomed to Banquets and Balls than Game tech.
I was actually hopeful, especially in the backdrop of just finishing the StarWars Battlefront II Open Beta. Sadly, this was probably the worst hybrid attempt at bringing Gaming Academia and Players together I have ever had the misfortune to spend time on.
I actually whizzed through the entire venue on a Sunday morning in under 90 mins. Considering PS4 and Xbox were heavily represented, the actual gaming content lacked anything new.
Titles that are already available for pre-order were presented to visitors to test drive and I had a great 10 mins on FarCry 5. The only other title I hadn’t seen before was Quantum Break (released April 2016) for Xbox and PC but this stands to reason as PS4 Player.
There were plenty of refreshing upsides to the event.
A brilliant absence of mandatory visitor data collection. A Beautiful Neo-Gothic palace-like structure built from 1872. Wonderful noise control (conversation level) No overcrowding and marketing hassle Excellent compliance to the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) age rating system, basically all 16-18+ had to prove it.
Very limited new gaming news No Star Wars Battlefront II presence or demos Small demo screen, most players today enjoy 37+ inch screens at home while we had to endure tired small screen old PS4 demos. Heavily restricted eSports access.
Vienna should stick to Opera and stay out of the Entertainment Software Industry. Shame on you Microsoft and Sony for allowing this travesty to actually happen in the Global Gaming arena.
I’ve jumped back into the bizarre apocalyptic world of FallOut 4. Every time I start this game I get crazy real-world distractions but this time I’m into it.
There must be over 100 hours of gameplay here.
I fought and struggled to get to a sanctuary City but at only level 7 I can’t do much enemy damage plus I’m super low on in-game cash. I’m thinking this game, excluding the DLCs, will take me 12-15 months to complete. A nice slow grind pace with a focus on quality and detail, exploration and creativity.
Haven’t been to the gym this month
11:00 – I got sick of dealing with update problems and latency just for a child’s laptop so decided to kick out Windows 10 in favour of any Linux OS.
It’s been a while since I’ve had to mess with laptop operating systems and ran into a MotherLoad of installation problems.
17:56 – Still trying to overcome a looping problem of “OS not found” WTF.
20:16 – Finally got rid of the troublesome Windows partition and Ubuntu seems to boot up fine and running like a Leopard.
21:08 – Firefox on Ubuntu not compatible with Netflix….Are you fucking kidding me right now? Error Code: F7344-1204
22:08 – Install Chrome via Command Line and it worked with Netflix
Difficulty level – positivity impossible for your casual end-user
The ultimate tester will be the child herself
The words Summit and Peak will never be the same again for me.
Yesterday, I inadvertently ended up trekking 612 metres up to Alpl 14, Krieglach, Austria. I’m a born Londoner so pretty much used to staying at no higher than 35 metres about sea level.
It was a combination of crowd trekking and sheer mental concentration to push my body to do what it didn’t want to do. Reaching the Summit was absolutely wonderful, my heart filled up with massive waves of happiness and my aching muscles were quickly forgotten.
The mountains in Horizon Zero Dawn are brilliant but the real-life view and air from the top of an actual mountain is simply to die for.
40 minutes of hiking up blindly ended up being a really important life lesson to self. I now know why people train for months and end up being addicted to trekking and conquering mountains. A work colleague reached the Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro which is over 5000 metres up, now the magnitude of their achievement has suddenly dawned on me.
Today, I’m reflecting on my shock achievement and trying to soothe my muscles.
I WILL do it again.
One of my heart’s desires is to walk away from internet connected technologies.
Sounds like career suicide for an Information Security Professional and a little hard to see how I could ever untangle my encrypted connections. My thoughts go back to my first glimpse into tech, as a kid, into Mr. Do! , one day after leaving Bakers Arms, Leyton, East London and heading to E10 7LS.
Arcade folk who didn’t even know my name would eventually call me Mr. Do! because I was always hitting high scores. I had worked out the routines and backdoors.
Who knew my backdoor talents would bury itself so deep into my Digital DNA.
Anyhow the irony of posting something like this on a blog is evident so don’t go there, Sherlock.
I’ve had a touch of the off-line life and I know I can thrive there, especially using a different part of my brain but for now, I’m on it 15-18 hours a day Work, Family, Love and Play.