So it comes to pass ...

.... and it's finally happened ......

J.J Has finally decided it's time that the name of the new Star Wars film is released and ..... I couldn't be less thrilled than if it was named "Jar Jar drink wallpaper paste". So the first film in the new trilogy is to be called "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" .... Really ? the force awakens ? .. Sigh

Now I could understand if this was a prequel going all the way back to the formation of the Jedi, back into the days Pre KOTOR (Knights of the old republic), that I could understand, but this ? ... Yeah, doesn't quite sit well. However I guess we will see what we see. Obviously it's not going to stop me seeing it I mean, come on ... I'm a Star Wars nerd here, Like I'm not going to see it.


In other news, I stumbled across something so amazingly awesome, it feeds into so core needs of mine: Gaming, Collectibles, Nerd & Geek memorabilia. "Where do you find all this in one place ?" I hear you ask, ....... okay well I don't hear you asking anything cause I'm typing it .. obviously ....... but that place is lootcrate.com, and it's AWESOME, its like a subscription magazine service but instead of a glossy pamphlet to read on the toilet you instead get a ... well, Loot box, a box of loot, delivered to your door, once a month with a random selection of stuff inside and it's fantastic, cause it's all highly collectible and mostly random, although everyone will probably get a t-shirt or something but then even that's limited edition to that month. I would say go check them out over at Lootcrate.com or check out some lootcrate unboxing videos on youtube  ..... Oh wait, here's one I prepared earlier ... well found with like a 3 second look at youtube ... oh you get the point

And use this code: DOMO to get 10% your first order if you decide to try it ^_^


for now though it's all about Star Wars, and yes .... still killing zombies in DayZ and epic loot from little black boxes, it's all fun in the "Weird and wonderful world of a nerd"

Well that was ... Not Nice

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 ....

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

Saffi -  2002 - 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

Rumours of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated ....

Well well well, It's certainly been a while ....

So just what has been happening ? well quite a few things. I did make it to the USA and had a fantastic Christmas there and a brilliant new years, even though I did get stuck a few extra days more than I intended thanks to copious amounts of snow *sigh*. Things got a little busier in both worlds and that kept me away from this little blog but I still remained in weird and wonderful world of a nerd. 

Sadly I did see the end of a relationship, it had been fun and amazing but it's with sadness it came to an end, but I wasn't bitter or angry then and I'm still not now, it was an amazing point in my life which I will treasure and a relationship I'm thankful for. Things moved on and we went our separate ways, and I grew from it all and I have to admit I'm a better person today. 

Several months later and here I am, I'm in a new relationship and the world of a nerd has never been busier, especially with all the games, books and movies that have been released over the months, everything from new Star Wars books to Destiny & Sniper Elite 3, oh and getting a new job.

I will have to expand on all these in up coming post's, but this one is just to touch base for now and to show the world that I'm back in action and despite the rumours of my assimilation, they have been greatly over exaggerated .

Allot happens in my world, allot fantastic some bad and some just Meh, but will continue to chronicle them here ..... after all no day is the same in the weird and wonderful world of a nerd.

A stitch in time ..... Hurts my head

So it has been a while since I sat down with my keyboard, a cup of coffee as my sweet angel sleeps and written a blog. It's been a strange few weeks to say the least, lots of high points and a big low one, but the low point isn't really something for a blog. It's funny how a day evolves in my world, how some things remain the same and others are just completely wild, it's what makes life interesting and unpredictable I guess, but even when things seem dull it's also exciting at the same time. For example one minute your listening to music, loosing yourself in the melody of a soft tune and picturing a world of so many wonders unseen by the rest of the world as they have been created by you, the next your grooving in your seat and singing as loud as you can ... and if your me completely out of tune... to something like Sweet Home Alabama. Unpredictability .... so much fun.

However what was predictable was the awesomeness that was the Doctor Who 50Th Anniversary special which aired on Nov 23rd in over eighty countries simultaneously, in regular, HD and 3D as well as being shown in 3D in Cinemas .... what an event for a TV Show ...... well actually lets step back, not juts a TV show, the longest running Science Fiction TV show in television history with more fans than Star Trek and Star Wars Combined..... that should tell you something. And of course it's that awesome ... it's British sci-fi ...... ok that's enough patriotism for now.

The Day of the Doctor, which featured the return of David Tennant and Billie Piper and with special guest star John Hurt as "The War Doctor" saw an audiance of over 12 million, thats not counting those who recorded it to watch the next day or tuned in to watch it online via the BBC and BBC America Website ... wow huh ? The Day of the Doctor was certainly a thrill-seeking ride with sweeping shots of London much like in The Bells of Saint John. If fans were calling for a Doctor Who film then this is it. The Day of the Doctor celebrates not only all that is Doctor Whobut all that is British. The show is quintessentially British and everything is celebrated. It is all richly interwoven.
Saying this, the episode was more for the fans than the casual viewer. While it is certainly a lavish production with a raft of special effects, it is somewhat alienating (if you’ll pardon the phrase) for someone who has not seen the show before. The location captions are tries to provide clarity but it is not enough.

But putting the casual viewers to one side, this hit the spot for fans. It satisfies the needs of the fans and feeds their hunger, as well as consolidating some of the show’s mythology. When the show was brought back in 2005 it was said that the Doctor was the last of the Time Lords and this episode addresses all of that and the 16 year gap when the show was off the air which was great. 

I loved the references from the original Sixties intro to the fourth Doctor’s scarf. Tom Baker comes back right at the end and it is a delicious little addition and well played on Steven Moffat’s part. While the inclusion of all the incarnations – including Peter Capaldi’s Doctor-in-waiting – saving Gallifrey was magical. It was one of my favourite reveals and ties 50 years ofDoctor Who past and present together.

Watching the tenth and the eleventh Doctor on screen was rather marvellous and what we’ve all been waiting for. They poke fun at one another and it is great to watch. Tennant is straight off the mark and it’s like nothing has changed, it is wonderful to see him return. They bounce off each other and have a strong dynamic, diverging at some points in their performance and at other times playing it the same, But it is John Hurt who steals the show. He channels William Hartnell’s Doctor who is a grumpy, irritable old man. He is so watchable and not at all what we thought he was going to be. There is so much sympathy for him. There is also some great chemistry between Hurt’s incarnation and Billie Piper’s ethereal interface character.

We were given a slightly eccentric performance from Piper. She is a woman grown and not at all like Rose Tyler, Piper plays it like Suranne Jones’ version of the Tardis in The Doctor’s Wife. She is oddball and off-the-wall in her performance. She gives a mature turn that redeems those who did not like Rose Tyler. Overall it is 75 minutes of crazy, fantastical Doctor Who and a fitting tribute for fans, so if you are a fan and still haven't watched it ...... WATCH IT!!!!!!!!!!


Well with the Doctoe Who stuff safely out of the way, the other things happening in the Weird and wonderful world of a nerd are vast and varied, for instance, the world of Star Wars The Old Republic saw it's newest digital expansion released for free "Galactic Starfighter".

The new content has been opened for Subscribers only and includes 12v12 PvP dogfighting where experience can be earned to unlock new weapons and powers to customise the ships. BioWare Austin’s Jeff Hickman had this to say about the launch. “We are so excited for players to experience all the incredible new content in Galactic Starfighter, while still gaining additional XP and credits to give their ground game characters a boost. Free-flight space combat is a feature the fans have been asking for, and Galactic Starfighter really delivers on that feeling of heart-pounding fast-paced dogfighting action that you expect in a Star Wars game.”

Anyone can take out a subscription now and jump into the action otherwise the content won’t unlock for “Preferred Status Players” until 14 January. The general public will have to wait until 4 February. Ouch!
I have to admit I’m actually seriously impressed with this expansion and can foresee many many many tired, coffee stimulated hours playing this :D

So with this now being my longest blog to date .....

I guess for now, this is all in the Weird and Wonderful world of a nerd .........

A nerd walks into a bar ...

So the last few days have been extremely interesting and not to mention more fun than anything. As usual my ... less than normal .. friends have done their usual in sending me the daily fail of the regular YouTube, Weird News and crazy idea links of the day and as usual most of them turn out to be completely and utter boredom makers however one or two come through that really shine and they usual have the effect of giving me a good giggle,  Such as this one, Yes it is just a long line of fart jokes but it is very well done, I have to admit I probably giggled more than I should have to this one, but what can I say, A: I'm a nerd B: have a weird sense of humour and C: ....... well I will have to get back to you later on that one, but for now it made me giggle and thats enough.

So right now I'm just settling in with my amazingly fantastic girlfriend, we have just finished watching Monsters University together and we both agree the first one was way better, the last few days we have spent together have been really amazing, although if I'm honest, every single day with her is more amazing than the last, she makes the world shine.

We recently took a trip to a Second Life version of Disney World which I have to admit I enjoyed way more than I should, I think it may have been more due to my angels excitement  and enjoyment of the day than mine, and yes .... I wore the ears, and there  is photographic evidence >.<

The rest of the day was one of colours and magic as we hit the beach, snuggled under the setting sun, tried to have a meal at the Pixel Pot but that didn't really get anywhere and then I thought I might surprise her with gifts of clothes shopping. The entire day was magical and amazing and I am never going to forget it.


There hasn't really been much else going on in the world of this nerd, Finally got my router somewhat fixed and managed to keep it going about thirty eight hours at the time of writing this, and that's about it really  except for odd videos, great music and making amazing memories, and karma being the son of a Sith that it is will probably bite me in the ass one way or another probably with random program crashes, corrupted files or spilling my precious coffee yet again >.<, So for now I'm going to close out and snuggle up to my angel and see if Karma strikes me tonight, that's the way it goes in the Weird and Wonderful world of a nerd ...