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Signs you’re a hardcore gamer

Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at 10:19 pm

There’s a PurePwnage Contest listing top 10 signs you’re a hardcore gamer. There are some items that totally apply to me, I’ve listed them below:

Your Internet connection is more important than running water.
You book your vacation time based on World of Warcraft expansion release dates.
When you wake up on your birthday you yell “DING!”
When your exercise is walking to the bathroom and the fridge.
When your book collection is actually video game manuals.

All of the above are true with the exception of waking up on my birthday and yelling “Ding!”. I did however, say “Ding!” on my birthday, just not when I woke up….

For my own list:

When you close your eyes at night, you see the game you were playing recently
When your friends from out of town come over, they bring their laptops and play on your ironing board while you all watch MLG (Major League Gaming)

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The first day of the rest of my life + Zelda and Gaming

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at 11:54 pm

The first day of the rest of my life…sucked. I can’t watch Burn Notice w/o headphones because Zena’s listening to vent (Ventrillo, a VOIP program) as she raids (that is, playing World of Warcraft with 24 other people for 4 hours). Not that I’m tempted to play WoW again, but seeing it again after an entire month is a bit reminiscent of my recent Warcraft related dream…er- nightmare. When I woke up from my dream, I was kicking myself. “ARGH, how did I get back into WoW again?!” I thought. It only dawned on me a few minutes later that I didn’t get back into it, thank god.

I played Zelda: Ocarina of Time for 2.5 hours today. I only finished the first dungeon. I’m VERY thorough, I explore everything and talk to everyone that’s available to me at the time….then do the important, game changing things, then explore everything/talk to everyone again. Lately, I’ve been a bit spoiled with my gaming…I have guides galore as I want to finish everything 100% the first time around so that I don’t need to go back and (ever) play the same game again. I learned my lesson with my first RPG, Final Fantasy VII. Played that for 56 hours…then talked to someone and realized I did a lot of stuff wrong. Beat it again in 30ish hours…doing everything a lot better.

Anyways…this game is a bit old, I don’t have a guide for it and I’m going to try to not look on the internet/walkthroughs/anything. Old games were…well, they were different before but it’s more that I was different. When I was a kid, my parents rarely bought games for us (my brother and I). Each game I had, I beat, re-beat, found everything, knew everything. I had all the time in the world and only a few games to play.

Now, I’ve got money…and with money, it means buying games without much care about them. Because some games on purchased on a whim, they’re less important. Meaning less time is dedicated to them. But that’s the thing, I don’t have time anymore either. Well, not as much free time as when I was a child. So I buy lots of games but don’t have time to REALLY play them, get into them, know everything, like I did when I was younger. Plus, because of the internet and guides and my lack of time, I look things up a lot more easily. It’s faster but…not as fun if you don’t explore everything on your own. I kind of want to take my time with Zelda…play it like a game I’d play as a child/teen. It is a 1998 game so I would have been…16 when it came out. Yikes…still too old. I’ll play it like I’m 12. Small, socially awkward, loner asian kid. Friendly but isolated. Afraid of girls. Track pants everyday. Once wore my pajamas to school. That was embarrassing.

Damn repressed childhood memories. YOU STAY AWAY. *runs off and hides*

…………who am I kidding, I can’t run anymore.

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Leaving the World of Warcraft

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 at 7:15 pm

I’ve transferred all my assets, any items worth any value, all my gold (20k) to Zena. I used all my badges to purchase epic gems and sent them off to guildies. I relinquished guild leadership and gave it to Crimxona. I’ve canceled my subscription. I’ve deleted the files from my computer.

The transition was slow, I unofficially quit 3 months ago but still logged in once a week for 2 more months…this last month, I didn’t log in at all. And today…will be the last time I log in.

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1337 speak

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 11:55 pm

I’ve been using an increasingly large amount of 1337 (=leet=elite) speak lately in my twitter and blog. Most of it learned playing the World of Warcraft…

Awesomesauce
Weaksauce
lololololol
Epic Fail
Terribad
LOLs
lawl
lul
= Win.
= Fail.
FTW…or FTH (For the Horde)
pwn
nub (n00b)
Pr0n

I enjoy using these terms, it makes me feel young, like I could still talk to a teen, even now. I DO also use old slang as well though…making me old.

Dude
What’s up
Cowabunga! – nah, I don’t really say that

I wonder…what will happen to my 1337 speak now that I’ve stopped playing WoW. It’s undeniable that most of what I learned was from that game…
I never want to get too old that I forget how to talk like a teenage moron. What do I do? I don’t frequent urbandictionary often unless there’s a specific term I want.

I guess I should just play WoW and chill in Dalaran and watch the stupidity. If you’ve ever read/witnessed it, some of it is pretty fracking entertaining….pure genius hidden within pure idiocy. Some very intelligent people drowning their lives and their potential. Kinda like what I did.

Posting 2 old posts = EPIC WIN.
Running out of content = EPIC FAIL.

But that’s what this blog’s all about anyways. some EPIC FAIL. I CTRL-F 13 “Epic Fail”s on this page atm.

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Mario Kart (SNES) was THE game for me

Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

When I was in high school, my friend has gave me Initial D: First Stage (Anime) to watch. I was skeptical…an anime about cars? I had never been a car person…I took his word for it and gave it a try. Over a decade later, it would still be one of my favorite animes of all time.

Imagine my surprise when I found Initial D: Arcade Stage (Racing arcade game) at UWaterloo Campus Cove. After spending over $1000 in first and second year university playing Initial D, I became pretty damn good. On the online rankings, I would rank top 10 in Canada on over 1/2 of the (8) tracks (4 uphill, 4 downhill). Again, that doesn’t count all the people that don’t input their track times into the site so it’s a bit misleading. Still I would say that I was within the top 25 in Canada for sure. It was very…satisfying to be that good at something. Looking back at it now, I realize that my skill probably came from my years of Mario Kart (SNES).

I’m in a Facebook group called “I learned how to drive by playing Mario Kart”. While I didn’t learn to drive a real car from Mario Kart, I definitely learned the fundamentals of an ideal line, inertia, action and reaction, and drifting. Of all the games I’ve ever played in my life be it World of Warcraft, Initial D, any Street Fighter or Puzzle game, Contra, Mario Bros., I don’t think I’ve ever been more skilled at a game than Mario Kart. Mario Kart was my IT game. It was THE game for me.

My skills aren’t what they used to be anymore, I can’t do the lines or track times that I used to…but my SNES records from my prime speak for themselves. Recently, I tried to search the internet for best course times. People would post their fastest times and I compared them with mine and LUL, my times were still better!

I don’t think I ever played anyone who loved the game as much as me. I would have loved to competitively race another highly skilled driver. Maybe that’s why I loved Initial D so much. I’m like Takumi challenging other racers. But more likely, I’m one of the arrogant opponents who lose on their home course to Takumi :D I’m good…but I’m no Takumi :(

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