I have been sick for a while, we all know this, but I am hoping to get a diagnosis soon. Crossing fingers it’s nothing serious.
In the mean time I have been poked and prodded by all sorts of medical equipment for the last 2 months now. I keep telling myself it’s for the greater good but sylph knows it’s not something I want to do too often. And we won’t go into details but suffice to say I don’t wish this on too many people.
Lady K wants me to get Rock Band... I want to get a car.... so the compromise is SHE can buy the game and I will play it with her. Its only $150 and she is rich and in love with a male person who can provide for her. Hee hee heee /duck
Lady K, use your charms and get him to buy me a car too. Hee hee!
I am finished my work for the week but I am waiting here incase something comes up that needs my attention. Also I have taken a lot of time off for this sick stuff so I should not leave early for a long time.
I started driving lessons... yes, after 269 years I am finally going to drive something other than my feet forward. And now with gas prices at an all time high I don’t know if it’s even worth it anymore. I hate gas companies. Maybe I will buy a diesel and convert it to run on fryer oil. To hell with these oil companies.
Maybe Sylph, Undine and the Mother will bless me and allow me to win the Millionaire for Life lottery so I can fix myself and help those around me pay off their debts. I know Bitty would like to have her loans paid off. That would be nice to not have to worry about money for a little while and I can concentrate on my life’s experiences. I need to bring some more experiences with me back to The Stream to share with everything.
Oh I have not ranted yet in this post…. Oh wait I did a little about gas. Ok that’s great so I don’t need to worry about that part. What’s left?
Ohhh I should write a will. Last rights you know? Things that are important to me if I cannot tell people they are important. Like for instance I don’t want to be cremated. I think that the fires take away that which would become part of the food chain. Sort of like a final recycling trip to the depot. Worms need food too. Or something like I want a tree planted over me too, so that the nitrogen from my shell will nourish the tree.
Well I will get all that stuff down one day.
2cp
Friday, February 22, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Finally Finished
Took me a while I know. Can you blame me? I wanted to see it in HD 1080i. Yes you are hearing this correctly, I finished Assassins Creed. What a hell of a great game. The ending is rather different, and yes it does end abruptly. However for those who want to know what the ending means, Here a link for you to read up. I could type it up but it will basically say the same thing, so if you did not get it read that page. I decided that the fighting style of Altiar is similar to my own style. And after much research into the references they used to make the game, I come realize they did their homework and I can apply some of the armor styles(which are very period based) to my SCA armor. With some slight modifications of course to help change it so it fits more my style of fighting.
The main issue for me is figuring out a way to make my sword basket and gauntlet and still maintain the ability to maneuver it to fit the situation. I think if i armor up the bracer and have some sort of articulating gauntlet, I can keep the weapon free and able to be reversed. When ever I fought with a heavier blade I found that key to being able to adapt to the opponents offensive attacks. Being able to parry and riposte is the key to winning a fight, for me anyways.
I would like to experiment with smaller weapons. I see these guys using sword and shield, Florentine (duel weapons), heavy great swords, hammers etc. But I don’t see many who can fight duel well and I don’t see many using just a long or short sword. A shield I find encumbers me too much to be able to parry or even see the attack coming. I notice people 'hiding' behind their shields too long. Again I would like to note that I have not fought in this arena type and things will be different from my experience once I am facing an opponent of these styles.
Lady K has offered to help me make the armor, as to which I am honoured. I can hear her eyes rolling at the above paragraph but that’s cool. I only speak from my experience.
The main issue for me is figuring out a way to make my sword basket and gauntlet and still maintain the ability to maneuver it to fit the situation. I think if i armor up the bracer and have some sort of articulating gauntlet, I can keep the weapon free and able to be reversed. When ever I fought with a heavier blade I found that key to being able to adapt to the opponents offensive attacks. Being able to parry and riposte is the key to winning a fight, for me anyways.
I would like to experiment with smaller weapons. I see these guys using sword and shield, Florentine (duel weapons), heavy great swords, hammers etc. But I don’t see many who can fight duel well and I don’t see many using just a long or short sword. A shield I find encumbers me too much to be able to parry or even see the attack coming. I notice people 'hiding' behind their shields too long. Again I would like to note that I have not fought in this arena type and things will be different from my experience once I am facing an opponent of these styles.
Lady K has offered to help me make the armor, as to which I am honoured. I can hear her eyes rolling at the above paragraph but that’s cool. I only speak from my experience.
These photos are what I want to create for a Halloween costume with the armor bits used for my SCA fighting. That bracer is very close to what I want for maximum movement and protection of the forearm. I want to add some steel shoulder plates (maybe can be scavenged from my plate armor. I want to maybe make a chain shirt for under a cloth shirt with perhaps some plates in vital areas for added protection. I like the long coat style so I may see if I can get my seamstress to make me a coat similar to this. I really like the tails. The kidney belt and scabbard are great as well. In addition to the scabbard on the back which I would not mind having, for it is a great place to put an extra short weapon for easy access incase I get disarmed with my non-attached to my body sword. It will also provide that extra little bit of back protection that I want. My main goal is to get a great looking suit of armor with the criteria of high mobility, protection, and functionality. And I want it to look good to. If I get all this done I may donate my chest plate to the armory. We will see though because if I get the wrong idea for this one I may want something to fall back on. To tell you the truth I really don’t like that breastplate. It is cumbersome in the mid region. I can make it work but it needs to be modified. I can’t help but think that perhaps I should have swindled my way out of the breastplate and only got the helm (which I want to keep and use in this new setup) and the shoulders (pauldrons).
Most of all I want to avoid being pummeled. I like to go to work the next day looking good, not like I was in a bar fight. Poor Lady K is mangled today. Maybe she needs to fight in a giant bubble hee hee! Some of these guys are brutes though and will roux the day the put an unsportsmanlike pummeling on me.
2cp
Friday, February 1, 2008
Why game reviewers on TV should be shot.
Yesterday I was watching a preview for a game coming out. The nice young lady (Morgan Webb) was talking to a developer about this new game that was basically a cross between crap and more crap. The game in question is Prototype. You play a shape shifter that can "eat" people and then become them. You’re all powerful too allowing you to grow armor and weapons to take out hundreds of guys shooting at you for no reason on the docks of New York City.
I mean seriously. The developer says people want to be all powerful and nothing can harm them. Yeah people who are noobs. 12 year olds with their game genie and cheat codes for god mode. No talent ass clowns that in all honesty should not be playing games and should instead be sucking on their momma's teet.
Yeah I am talking to you, go cry yourself to sleep on your huge absorbent pilla!
To the rest of you, we are all much better than this crap. I don’t care about a game that gives me free roaming of New York (been there re: Spiderman the game). I don’t care about being all powerful and able to destroy cars as your running down the street(cars that look all the same, what did a Honda dealer open up and scare other car dealers away. We all know New Yorkers only drive Honda civics). I don’t give a rats ass about being able to shape shift into a dude that looks like Ron Jeremy or the dude from 3 men and a baby (pick one of the three).
Honestly developers. Listen to the people. Quit making crap. Have a great story and some visuals to go with it. We don’t want any more smash em up 'Hulk' games that make you so strong you can take out a city block with a well placed fart.
Take Crysis visuals, mix em with a bit of assassins creed stealth game play, mixed with splinter cell stealth which is awesome, get some COD4 action (first level COD4, the rest so far has become a plateau), then throw it all in with some great story and back-story like apparently (I have not played it yet) mass effect or final fantasy. Realism sells, but fantasy mixed with realism... gold mine.
If a developer reads this (doubt it) and they want a real gamer to help you create a story that will sell millions and then go on to become a blockbuster movie and TV series with great merchandise capability, Message me. (I promise not to use so many bracketed phrases)
2cp
P.S. I forgot to say why reviewers should be shot and instead I went into why developers should be shot. The reviewer said "We cant wait for this game to come out because it looks awsome." /cock gun /pull trigger.
I mean seriously. The developer says people want to be all powerful and nothing can harm them. Yeah people who are noobs. 12 year olds with their game genie and cheat codes for god mode. No talent ass clowns that in all honesty should not be playing games and should instead be sucking on their momma's teet.
Yeah I am talking to you, go cry yourself to sleep on your huge absorbent pilla!
To the rest of you, we are all much better than this crap. I don’t care about a game that gives me free roaming of New York (been there re: Spiderman the game). I don’t care about being all powerful and able to destroy cars as your running down the street(cars that look all the same, what did a Honda dealer open up and scare other car dealers away. We all know New Yorkers only drive Honda civics). I don’t give a rats ass about being able to shape shift into a dude that looks like Ron Jeremy or the dude from 3 men and a baby (pick one of the three).
Honestly developers. Listen to the people. Quit making crap. Have a great story and some visuals to go with it. We don’t want any more smash em up 'Hulk' games that make you so strong you can take out a city block with a well placed fart.
Take Crysis visuals, mix em with a bit of assassins creed stealth game play, mixed with splinter cell stealth which is awesome, get some COD4 action (first level COD4, the rest so far has become a plateau), then throw it all in with some great story and back-story like apparently (I have not played it yet) mass effect or final fantasy. Realism sells, but fantasy mixed with realism... gold mine.
If a developer reads this (doubt it) and they want a real gamer to help you create a story that will sell millions and then go on to become a blockbuster movie and TV series with great merchandise capability, Message me. (I promise not to use so many bracketed phrases)
2cp
P.S. I forgot to say why reviewers should be shot and instead I went into why developers should be shot. The reviewer said "We cant wait for this game to come out because it looks awsome." /cock gun /pull trigger.
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