Unbanned: chronicles of the re-grind

Returning to Division 2 after the blanket ban is annoying but at least I had some fundamental loot to recreate a rifle and healer build.  An empty friends list and cautious game-play…just re-organizing, optimizing and deleting gear took 2 hours. Anyhow, no looking back now as mistakes were clearly made.

What’s the first thing you do when you leave jail?

I like my games Real but daaaaaaaaam

Every active Division agent must be thinking “oh s**t, they went and done it in the real world.” So, the collapse of societies is upon us.  Things that mattered 30 days ago are trivial today.

  • Hospitals and medical services unable to cope with demand.
  • Groceries and common supplies become limited – shelves are empty
  • Major cities on lock-down
  • Quarantine mandated
  • Martial Law in effect
  • Airline ground flights for the foreseeable future…..but
When’s the next train? Tom Clancy’s The Division
  • Water taps are running
  • Electricity is still here
  • Banks are still open
  • …And WhatsApp still works

More fiction please

God of War – Yes, finally and the first chapter takes you out of any reality your currently suck in.

No, I don’t know when this Pandemic will end – God of War

Consequences schmonsequences

Life of Gaming Crime It’s not real, right? Wrong….Peer, gang or clan pressure is a real thing that shapes your actual decisions.  Decisions that have real impact.  My 4-year-old Ubisoft account is banned from Division 2 as part of the Damage Per Second glitch exploit punishment.

Fair cope governor but maybe I’ve just been hanging with the wrong gamers.  Gamers who jumped on the YouTube train and like kiddy scripters followed a systematic method for shallow, fake success with no fear of what might happen to their time and economic investment.

It never felt good anyway…

Dishonorable associates unfollowed – Tom Clancy’s The Division 2

So now what? Well, for me a simple purge of all the “friends” who I followed down the wrong rabbit hole. Funny thing is that in my case these “friends” seems to have escaped the banning net and are playing happily, another lesson learned.

This case is very similar to real life cybercrime where the authority’s punish the exploiters rather than the creator or root cause of the exploit. I’ve always been a Beta Tester and Easter Egg hunter but this has the tendency to put your mindset into Hacker mode.

Too real to be fun anymore..Survival is FUN.

To add insult to injury, the workaround of using another account is negated as I didn’t use a hardcopy disk.

Cheese, hack, cheat, exploit {act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage} = ban

March 31st 2020 [15:58] – The demonstration of power has been clarified by an email from Ubisoft confirming a temporary suspension due to Misconduct.

4-year account banned – Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2

Do you know something I don’t know?

It’s kinda worrying when a health workers turns up to your house after you’ve called medical services for a C-19 test.

I’m not panicking yet as at least this way I will know either way why I feel so bad over the past few days. Is it Myasthenia gravis kicking my ass again or something else?

8 Days Later

Persistent dry cough, fluctuating body temperate, inability to think clearly, chronic lack of motivation. Feels like chest infection but goes away every few hours.

No contact with friends or family, checking email occasionally, No social media or WhatsApp. Visit the local grocery store every couple of days for food.

I was not prepared at all…..Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2

How to invite pain into your Life

Like the mythical Candy Man, it feels like I invited this historical pain into my life. Now it’s time to become an Exorcist.

‘Cause you could fall in, and go psycho
Ain’t no tellin’ where this might go
But I take my chances either way

So come and fuck my life up, baby
Fuck my life up
Come and fuck my life up, baby
Fuck my life up
Come and fuck my life up, baby
Fuck my life up
Come and fuck my life up, baby
Fuck my life up’

Arizona Zervas