Bunny's brain space

I approach playing Black Ops a bit different to how I play other multiplayer. In all other games, I’m out to have a fun time and I would prefer if everyone has a fun time rather than just the winning team. Losing a closely fought match can be as fun as winning one at times. In Call of Duty, I assume everyone else in the game is deserving of as much mercy as your average genocidal dictator.

This of course means using grenade launchers, rockets and as many arsehole combos of things I can cook up and using them with as much skill as I can apply (turns out quite a bit in Black Ops). As a result, while committing these atrocities with my friend Simmy, we get a lot of messages. Some are your basic “Fuck you” thing but occasionally we get some hilarious ones (“noob tubing gimp” was a recent one).

Personally, I take them as compliments. I have done well enough that they have taken some time to write a message and insult me. I’ve made them rage hard enough to take personal offence and they want me to know about it.

I’ve also sent replies to some (often provoking them and making them angrier) and the replies back can be just as funny. Today was such an occasion and the reply back prompted me to write this.

I was playing on Grid and scored five kills in two grenade launcher rounds (God bless domination for that) and scored a bunch more throughout the match. What follows is the messages from a guy and my reply.

Him:”noob tube much?”

Me: “Yes. Lots”

Him: “haha. ace reply. all is forgiven”

I don’t regret using the old pro pipe to deliver 40mm packages of joy to him but I do feel a bit of a dick now. Shame he had to be on the other team really.

(Also, I gave up on 30 days of music. Been too concerned with other things lately. Once I get a desktop up and running I might be posting more but until then it’ll be once a blue moon posting)

I decided instead of doing half the list in one go, I’d throw them up in chunks of five. There won’t be any embeds on this, just links and why I’ve picked what I have. Also, it’s still Sunday in yankland so technically I made my deadline of today.

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Been a long time since I did anything here. I can’t remember the exact reason why I stopped but I imagine it was a combination of my laziness along with something mildly important and the fact I went computerless for a month or two.

In the space of about a month, I went from a barely working computer to four sets of computer bits where because one important bit wasn’t working in each chip/board combo I had no computer at all. It’s only because a kind friend lent me a (rather shitty) laptop that I even have something now.

As such, several things will be going up probably today (sunday for me) and I will be attempting to post at least once or twice a week from here on out. Here’s hoping I don’t end up with more dead tech

I hate naming new projects. I usually get distracted for hours finding one so I can refer to my project with a name rather than for example “the game framework I built to replace the crap one I was forced to use while at university” (That got named TMFW which stands for Totally Metal FrameWork). Because of this I just spent about an hour of my time creating a giant list of names that I can use at a later date.

It involved some random generators, a little bit of my own thought and occasionally me throwing things at a chart of names. It has however saved me a bunch of time at a later date. Now all I have to do when it comes to a name is look at the list and go “That one”.

Also, I can’t wait to start work on some of these even given that I only have names and my project names rarely, if ever, relate to the final product. Seriously, Bleeding Fist had better be one of the greatest things I have ever created or I’ll be super sad.

Today I watched the final episode in season 8 of 24. Yes, I know I am more than a little late but I only started watching 24 about a year and a half ago and it became a coping mechanism for my occasional meltdowns so I didn’t watch it very often. If I know I’m heading for a meltdown, I’ll retreat into my room and watch 24. Usually, I manage an entire season and it calms me down or I calm down half way through and finish the season off anyway.

I’m considering just starting up again from season 1 next time I start on the way to a meltdown because I identify so much with some of Jack’s beliefs it helps stick me back in the right frame of mind to pull myself out of a funk. Also, watching 24 gives me the most crazy but awesome game ideas and I love designing games based on these ideas.

As for the end itself, it was fantastic. The whole end section of season 8 had me not moving from my bed until it was done. I cannot imagine what it was like watching it week to week but I know I could have only barely managed it same as I barely managed it with Supernatural towards the end of the last season. The idea of a film sounds pretty cool and it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out