Ca9ine – Gamer, Blogger, R3t@rd

by Ca9ine

That’s week 1 being unemployed over.
I gotta say, it really sucks. The first day was like a good day off from work, but when reality kicks in, and you see that you can barely cover your bills and your food budget in the coming weeks -maybe months, it gets to you.

Now I’ve taken the role of Mr.Mum and I’m doing housework to keep myself busy. I sit down when the necessary housework is done and watch some TV and go downstairs for some gaming pwnage, but it’s still in the back of my head. Gets tiresome, and is quite fatiguing i tell you.

Been looking around for work, applied to a fair ammount of employers but many don’t even reply or has their positions filled shortly after. What I’m really hoping for at the moment is that my old job, where I used to build boats are gonna up their production line again, and are gonna give us old workers there a call. They said they would when they upped their production after the credit crunch bankruptcy. I think I’ll call ahead myself and ask again.

Now, I think I’ll put some boxers on, smear my armpits with  deodorant, have a shave and play with my kids! They love it when Dad gets on the floor and is being a R3t@rd!

Cheers!

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Many of my friends, and members of The Group Thing is well aware that I’m a huge supporter indie game developers. One of my close friends is one of these developers (-don’t you worry Domi, you’re getting an entire entry for yourself later!), and there’s the major AAA Indie developer Zero Point Software which I follow very closely, and other smaller developers. These guys create the games they themselves want to play. There’s no middle man and no publishers like Activision (which I’ve lost all respect for) to tell them what to do, and when to do it. This makes for great games in my opinion. These are real gamers, creating the games they know real gamers want. Be it newer FPS’ or old school platformers. Whichever branch and style, the indie developers behind it, does it for the love of it.

So, why should you read this, or even care? Well, like I said; many of todays big names are big names because of their previous projects. Indie games and successful game mods. Take Splash Damage for example, known for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. Sure, they aren’t an indie developer, but they came from nowhere and gathered a team of modders who together created the incredibly successfull mod known as Quake III Fortress. The rest is history.

The point is this:
Support the indie developers, don’t go into the mindset of som many others that indie means bad or poor quality. More often than not, it’s in fact quite the opposite,  their products are very often of the finest quality available. Support the indie developers, if you like what they have to offer, purchase their products and/or donate a little of your spare cash. You might just be the trigger and helping hand to launch their careers.

Some links for you:
www.level13games.co.uk
www.zeropointsoft.com

www.interstellarmarines.com
www.supermeatboy.com
www.aaaindie.com

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So many people still think of gaming as a childish treat, and as a past time only the so called geeks spend hours on. Today, this is a false and wrong assumption. Today, we find gamers of all ages and social status, on all platforms available for exactly this which is now commonly known as Gaming.

Some gamers play casually, some play seriously, some play professionally and some, which is the kind of gamer I’m about to talk about, play for the comradery which you find in so many gaming clans around the world. The Clanner.

Myself have founded, and still run a very successful clan called Connect Gaming. This clan, above all else, value the sense of great friendship and comradery, rather than being the best and the biggest clan out there. The members of Connect Gaming are all of the same kind and even though they spend time away from gaming, or are active in other games the clan does not play, or for any other reason are not actively participating in the clan activities, they are still Connect Gaming members and never concidered anything else. That’s a big part of what I concider Clan Life.

Another big part of Clan Life, is the actual involement and caring for your friends and members personal lives and at times, being the one they come to with problems and real life issues they won’t share with anyone else. These things, are all a part of the bigger picture, which so many fail to understand and see. Even though we are gamers in a clan, from various places around the world, and many will never meet face-to-face, we are still real people and are still great friends as far and wide as the term “friend” reaches. No less.

I have here, an old rant written by David Campbell aka. PestControl of the IronKnights.
I recommend for both gamers and non-gamers to take the time to read it all.

“There is a fine line between a gamer and a clanner. These days, it seems like most would consider the terms interchangeable. They are as different as black and blue, yet their definitions underline one of the most important life lessons and concepts. Everything in this world revolves around attitude. It is a vent for our problems, concerns and emotions. Success in one’s life journey depends primarily on how one portrays oneself to all other people. A gamer is a hobbyist.. someone who plays games as a form of entertainment. A clanner is a gamer who lives for his close friends in their gaming community. Attitudes for both of these classifications are generally the same, but to be a great clanner, someone whose clan will value to the end of their days, requires a moral and ethical fibre that is rarer and rarer in today’s super-gaming world. It is the virtue of nobility in this industry that makes clan membership a rewarding enhancement to the game of your choice…” Continued Here

I will continue to be a gamer and a clanner…

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I’ll be removing the ugly and non-related ads from the blog. I’ve been using AdBrite as a substitute to Google’s AdSense, but they are doing quite the opposite of what they promise, which is ads matching the blog’s content.

AdBrite have provided me with giant links on a white background, which only link to a search engine looking thing. With random words taken out of my entries. That’s the closest I’ve come to content related ads.

The other provided AdBrite ads, have been for IQ tests, opinion marketing (whatever the hell that is), casinos (which I don’t want to advertise at all) and Russian “Brides For Marriage”! What the hell..? Where the hell does it say in my entries I’m looking for a new wife? And a Russian wife at that? Gimme a break..

So for my last attempt at getting quality and good looking ads, I’ve applied at BuySellAds.com, which I’ve done some reasearch about. Major bloggers and blog-tools authors like Yoast are using this company, and their ads seem to be very accurately based on their content, and they look a lot better than other companies’ provided ads.

I want to keep the blog looking good, and yet be able to advertise interesting websites, companies and products without the layout and design looking like a mess. It’s not good for the advertisers, and it’s not good for my blog.

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Well, I never thought I’d be the one to start playing these MMORPG’s as a pure blood FPS player,  but I gotta say I’m quite enjoying Guild Wars. I grabbed the free 14 day – 10 hour trial,  played it for a few hours, and I was sold.

 It’s becoming an old game, but still highly popular and many of The Group Thing’s members aside from the ones who have been playing it for years, are starting to play it. I’m actually hoping that Mrs. Ca9ine would come around and play too :D

I’m far away from being an expert or even adequate at the game, but I’m starting to get a minor grasp of what it’s all about. The only thing I’m concerned about is wheter or not the game will become boring when you reach lvl.20. Is there anything else to work towards? Sure, if you reach lvl.20 before the storyline ends, you have the story to play through, but when that’s over too,  then what?

I’ll continue to play it, and see if I will still enoy the game after I’m done with leveling up and playing through the various campaigns. Make no mistake, though! I am a FPS player and will never favor MMO’s over a good FPS!

Find me ingame as Canis Necromantia – a not so skilled Necromancer :/

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