Wednesday, August 26, 2009

We're going in Deep....

As you may know (most probably not) right now, its the dry season for gaming and the recent announcements of many excellent titles only make it worst. The delayed: Starcraft 2, Dark Void and Dragon Age Origins. The big titles coming to the PC (for me) are Alpha Protocol and Borderlands both of which are slated for an October release. That, leaves me with a month and a bit of nothing. So what did I do? Apart from playing TF2 and getting frustrated as fuck from not getting a hat despite playing the game since its release - I started playing EVE online.

Here's a short description of what it is:
It is a player-driven persistent-world massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in a science fiction space setting. Players pilot customizable ships through a universe comprising over 7.500 star systems. Most star systems are connected to one or more other star systems by means of jump gates. The star systems can contain several phenomena including, but not limited to: moons, planets, stations, wormholes, asteroid belts and complexes. (From Wikipedia)

I'll start blogging about my experiences in this game but for now check out these pictures.

This was my frigate. It was good while in lasted.
This! Is my new destroyer and get this - its fitted with 7 guns.
A fellow EVE player once said,"The lengths we go just to put holes into pirates."
A little fighting, normally you're up against five little frigates with their pea shooters. But it can be overwhelming when wave after wave accumulate into 14 of these bastards.

This is seriously shallow. I just started last Monday and thus I'm experiencing a very novice standpoint. From what I've read from Eve News (a new york times for the game, if you will) people are battling in insane situations. Fleet against fleet, corporations wage war against one another, billions of ISK (EVE currency) at stake.
Its crazy, and I've only just started.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Generic Hobbies Part one.

You know what I hate? I hate fucking politics. So I’m not going to write about that instead, here’s a write up on what I think are generic hobbies.

Photography. Fuck yeah every Tom, Dick, and Abu considers this a hobby. They think that buying an expensive camera, or being that one time family photographer was an awakening. Of course, most don’t take it up as a profession. But they have the bloody nerve to criticize the photography of others, or worst give half-baked badly memorized advice to the ignorant just because he googled: photography tips. Even if none of what I write is applicable to you, or whoever. It still is a fact, that Photography is the most common hobby on Earth excluding eating or masturbating. With the rise of the digital camera, and websites that hosts pictures (whether designed specifically for that: Flickr. Or as a feature, a.k.a. facebook) everyone and anyone will take pictures sometime in their life. And with such high penetration there is no doubt that people will take it up as a hobby in their respective fantasies.

Let me give you a brief definition of hobby: A small gray falcon with chestnut legs that breeds in Europe and Asia and winters in Africa, Latin name – Falco subbuteo. (What am I a fucking dictionary?)

In short! It’s about doing an activity you LOVE and knowing full well your boundaries and skill at it, so in short of an in short, it is about not being a douche bag just because you call it a hobby. Taking a few pictures of your ass once in awhile, well does that make you an avid photographer? Personally I like to take pictures, I have a camera. But it’s not my fucking hobby. Its something I became accustomed to due to one, my father and two, school. People who call themselves addicts or claiming whatever their doing a hobby just because they dabble in it are clowns.

“I play chess once in awhile therefore, that must mean I am a good chess player! More superior than anyone else, HAHAHA.” Go fuck yourself is what I say.

I’m not beefing on people with hobbies. I just think that people who normally claim that this (the activity) is their hobby automatically think they are good or knowledgeable at it. A person who only plays Dota calls himself a gamer. Hey, you don’t give a fuck about any other game other than Dota. So don’t call yourself a gamer. Playing one game for 10 minutes doesn’t make you a gamer. It applies for everything, like myself. Just because I play basketball every week, and the fact that I love the sport does not imply that I am any good at it, its my fucking hobby and despite that! Prepare yourself dear reader: I still like it!

Some people. Well some people think that time, gives them all the comfortable leeway’s like how old people seem to think that the young are indebted to them. Sure some of the old do deserve a complimentary amount of respect but do all the elderly deserve it? Many maybe if not, most, but definitely not all.

You know what. Fuck it. What do I know?