So today in the weird but wonderful world of a nerd there I was thinking of what I could do to pass some time. I sat down to read a few chapters of a book (Jurassic Park is still Awesome) and then watched a few episodes of Doctor Who and then decide to do a little lives streaming over on my Twitch.tv channel ... *!Shameless Plug alert!"* twitch.tv/esvakas ... Told ya.
So there I was just about to hit "Start Streaming" when I noticed something was off, everything looked a bit dull, so after about twenty minutes in photoshop I made a nice new overlay for the channel and jumped into some Sniper Elite III, and I was in my "Kill all, leave none alive" mode and channelling the spirit of some of the finest snipers of the last eighty years .... well at least in my mind anyway and so I was in, Time to kill!!!!
I come around the corner of a rock and see a shape vanish into a doorway and follow it, I go in, up the stairs, turn around and he hasn't seen me. He has a buddy on the floor below him, and above him. At this point I'm confident enough to kill this guy with out alerting the other two cause they will just think it's him shooting at some hapless Noob running out in the open, and I was right! and down he goes with a headshot. I go to the bottom level, same thing, another shot to the back of the head, then I climb the ladder and take out the last one. SUCCESS! I think, "The Clock Tower is ours" I call confidently down the Microphone.
Within thirty seconds I'm laying in a pool of blood and the match ends, Someone got a lucky shot off when I poked my head up, but thankfully we won and the timer started to tick down to the next map. And thats when it happened ...
...."You have been removed from the game!" ...
Stunned!, I sit there looking at the screen for several moments wondering why, and I almost tipped into the pool of anger, but shrugged it off voiced a "Meh" and logged out of the game thinking "Well that was ...not nice"
I guess it's just one of those days in the weird and wonderful world of a nerd ....
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Monday, 27 October 2014
Welcome one and all back to my world
Welcome one and all back to my world ....
Lets see, the original plan to put up a blog post this last Friday sadly went completely out of the window and unfortunately for a very sad reason. My beloved pet, my pooch Saffi who I had for twelve years sadly had to be put to sleep because in the early hours of that morning she suffered from a massive stroke and after a long night staying up with here and then what seemed to be an even longer conversation with the vet and realising there was nothing that could be done, I had to make the decision. Thankfully she didn't go alone in a corner of the house somewhere only to be found later, I was with her at the end and I was the last thing she saw, even though it did take every ounce of strength I had to put a smile on my face so she didn't see me sad.
It got me thinking about allot of things, especially life and death. In all the nerdy, geeky and probably stupid things I watch, read and play death is a common thing. Die in a game, Simple respawn, Die in a TV Show / Movie and just wait a series or a sequal cause chances are they magically bring the character back. Die in a book they become a hero ..... And we get so desensitised to it in these forms it kind of numbs us to the fact it actually happens, until it does then it hits us like a brick because it's not a game, A TV Show / Movie or a book.
It certainly makes you think .....
I'm going to miss my furry little gaming buddy, the faithful companion who would sit beside me and watch as I slaughtered zombies or saved a galaxy. The self heating foot warmer that would snuggle up to my feet as I lay on the sofa watching Red Dwarf or Star Wars ..... The member of the family who would sit with me and fall asleep on my lap as I was reading a book.
I'm going to miss my best friend
It's not a very happy week, but then not everything can be happy or awesome in the weird and wonderful .. if sad ... world of a nerd
Lets see, the original plan to put up a blog post this last Friday sadly went completely out of the window and unfortunately for a very sad reason. My beloved pet, my pooch Saffi who I had for twelve years sadly had to be put to sleep because in the early hours of that morning she suffered from a massive stroke and after a long night staying up with here and then what seemed to be an even longer conversation with the vet and realising there was nothing that could be done, I had to make the decision. Thankfully she didn't go alone in a corner of the house somewhere only to be found later, I was with her at the end and I was the last thing she saw, even though it did take every ounce of strength I had to put a smile on my face so she didn't see me sad.
It got me thinking about allot of things, especially life and death. In all the nerdy, geeky and probably stupid things I watch, read and play death is a common thing. Die in a game, Simple respawn, Die in a TV Show / Movie and just wait a series or a sequal cause chances are they magically bring the character back. Die in a book they become a hero ..... And we get so desensitised to it in these forms it kind of numbs us to the fact it actually happens, until it does then it hits us like a brick because it's not a game, A TV Show / Movie or a book.
It certainly makes you think .....
I'm going to miss my furry little gaming buddy, the faithful companion who would sit beside me and watch as I slaughtered zombies or saved a galaxy. The self heating foot warmer that would snuggle up to my feet as I lay on the sofa watching Red Dwarf or Star Wars ..... The member of the family who would sit with me and fall asleep on my lap as I was reading a book.
I'm going to miss my best friend
It's not a very happy week, but then not everything can be happy or awesome in the weird and wonderful .. if sad ... world of a nerd
Saffi - 2002 - 2014
Sunday, 19 October 2014
A morning in DayZ
So with any normal day comes the usual "What to do today ?" and today was no exception.
On my way home from work I was quietly pondering world domi..... errmm... what plans I had, and I remembered that myself and my angel had decided to play some DayZ and so I figured a gearing run was in order.
For those unfamiliar DayZ is a open world Zombie Horror survival game where you start with nothing but the clothes on your back, a flash light and a battery and ... yeah that's it. So you have to survive a zombie apocalypse with what you can scavenge all the while hoping you aren't disemboweled by a zombie, fed bleach then murdered by a player or freezing to death ... fun
So I met up with a good buddy of mine, and my thinking was, we meet up, kill some zombies, get some good loot then log out for the later afternoon session...... This of course didn't happen. Between Zombies and the elements we both died loosing all out gear ... back to square one it seems.
Guess I will just have to see how the afternoon session goes, after all had death by environment and zombie, perhaps next I will be taken hostage in hand cuffs, fed rotten fruit, given a transfusion of bad blood and then just before the point of death have the last vestige of life beaten out of me with a cattle prod , but I guess this should be expected in the weird and wonderful world of a nerd....
...... welcome to DayZ
On my way home from work I was quietly pondering world domi..... errmm... what plans I had, and I remembered that myself and my angel had decided to play some DayZ and so I figured a gearing run was in order.
For those unfamiliar DayZ is a open world Zombie Horror survival game where you start with nothing but the clothes on your back, a flash light and a battery and ... yeah that's it. So you have to survive a zombie apocalypse with what you can scavenge all the while hoping you aren't disemboweled by a zombie, fed bleach then murdered by a player or freezing to death ... fun
So I met up with a good buddy of mine, and my thinking was, we meet up, kill some zombies, get some good loot then log out for the later afternoon session...... This of course didn't happen. Between Zombies and the elements we both died loosing all out gear ... back to square one it seems.
Guess I will just have to see how the afternoon session goes, after all had death by environment and zombie, perhaps next I will be taken hostage in hand cuffs, fed rotten fruit, given a transfusion of bad blood and then just before the point of death have the last vestige of life beaten out of me with a cattle prod , but I guess this should be expected in the weird and wonderful world of a nerd....
...... welcome to DayZ
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