Tag: patience

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Lurking squishy tanks spawn camping for snipers

Gaming terms are always colourful and ever-changing. Watch any committed streamer on Twitch.TV and you will soon be looking up the terms or simply wondering  “what did he just say?”.

Language always brings people together and makes it very easy to spot an outsider or faker.

The level of game analysis you can see on The Division™ is truly educational.  Maths, logical thinking and creativity to doctorate levels.   Gaming PhDs (FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming) will be hosting their 11th Vienna Games Conference in Austria this week and chances are that I’ll show up just to lurk for an hour or so even if it’s all in German.

Last played 23 January 2017

There is still not much middle ground between Players and Academia.  Normal folk simply view Computer games as toys for school kids.

I’ve jumped back into Tom Clancy’s The Division™ [now patched to version 1.7] after adding some more streamers to my follow list and watching some deep game analysis.  I still haven’t finished the main story or reached the max rank but slightly more educated on what guns to go for.

My 2017 Division shopping list

PP-19 - Sub machine Gun
SASG 12 - ShotGun semi auto
G36 - Assault rifle
Scar-H - Rifle
M60 - Light machine Gun - Hungry Hog
Tom Clancy’s The Division™ – Final drive to Level 30

Weighed in at 118kg today…feeling great

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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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A radical approach

Fasting for something has always seemed extreme to me. The notion of self-denial is hard to accept.

But desperate times mean desperate notions.

I will be fasting today for someone who is in need of a positive interview selection.

6 am – 6 pm Fasting

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What a Wonderful World

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.

My Fallout 4 persona

Haven’t been to the gym this month

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I want to break free

My games library contains more filler and incomplete games than usual.  Time to delete some.

inFAMOUS Second Son
Just Cause 3
God of War® III
Retro Library – PacMan etc.

Open Worlds games at least give the illusion of choice

These button-bashing teenager games are brilliant but far from my usual Open World Player Verses Environment (PvE) setting.

I still need to complete Tales from the Borderlands and Until Dawn.  Re-living the BioShock series is excellent but I’m waiting for FarCry 5 (early 2018) and Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds (Nov 2017).

Star Wars Battlefront II (17-Nov 2017) is going to be hard to resist but Last of Us 2 and Days Gone are still nowhere to be seen.

Had my last 60mg of Pyridostigmin (Mestinon) today