Yesterday, I played with the aforementioned band. There was much flailing on strings by me and it was all very inglorious yet, awesome. And in related news the massive blister on my index finger is looking better, the thumb, not so much. I'd say more but it was really just me and some guys playing music, playing more music, loling, playing music, taking a break, and then playing music again.
Also, today, I went to the dentist. Surprisingly no blood was drawn, my regular cleaning went by without incident, and I don't need any fillings, which is surprising how much sugar I eat.
So on both counts, all went better than expected!
And speaking of metal, there is yet another kind of metal that has taken my interest, scrap metal in Team Fortress 2. The mass of weapons that were released a few days ago have had their crafting recipes discovered, dropping their value exponentially. Luckily for me, I scrambled to trade them away, and succeeded before everyone else became aware of the recipes. So, a profiteer is me!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Computer Games Boot Camp, and other stuff
From the 8th to the 12th, I attended computer games boot camp part2; aftershock. This being the sequel to an event earlier in the year where I went to Monash University and listened to lectures and played games competitively or for fun and met interesting people. This was pretty much more of the same. For the sake of.. stuff, I generally avoid mentioning people by name, but I'll make an exception. I must commend and thank Andrew Owen for all of the work and effort he's put into Computer Games Boot Camp and continues to put into it. I'm exhausted just attending the damn thing and I can only imagine what its like for Andrew Owen. So all I can say is thanks. Also a shout out to everyone at Level Three and Green Tube LAN. Anyway moving on.
There were some cool presentations, a massive Tron LAN, tournaments for Brawl, CoD, Street Fighter, Tekken, Goldeneye and more, but mostly, the best things there were the people. I regret that the main event is so overcrowded, as it leaves a lot less time to hang out with awesome people.
Aside from that, I had some other things happening immediately after, which is why I hadn't made a blog post yet.
So far since then, I've played 1 session of AD&D, 1 of basic D&D, 1 of Ninja Burger, dismantled magic decks and helped build some new Elder Dragon Highlander (Generals) decks, as well as sorted probably another 500 cards.
Also Team Fortress 2's Christmas Update shipped yesterday, in all of its glory. I won't talk much about it here for fear of accidentally going on a rant. All I'll say more on the topic is that the player base isn't just split, but fragmented; rarely do two people share the same opinion and verdict on more than one update.
Other games I've played include Singularity, which is just like Half Life crossed with Bioshock, except instead of a resonance cascade, you have the singularity, and instead of plasmids you have the time manipulation device. You have the mindless once human creatures who suicidally rush you, the militant force trying to crush you (who's weapons you take), upgrade stations, a revolver, a sniper, a grenade launcher, a shotgun, a minigun, a rocket launcher, telekinesis, exploding barrels, non exploding barrels, blueprints and technology which when found allow you to upgrade yourself and your weapons at upgrade stations, and a character with no voice, no face, who always wears gloves, and almost no cinematic cut scenes except at the twist.
In upcoming events I'll shortly be playing with the other half of the band I'm in, for the very first time.
Until next time, and Happy Holidays!
There were some cool presentations, a massive Tron LAN, tournaments for Brawl, CoD, Street Fighter, Tekken, Goldeneye and more, but mostly, the best things there were the people. I regret that the main event is so overcrowded, as it leaves a lot less time to hang out with awesome people.
Aside from that, I had some other things happening immediately after, which is why I hadn't made a blog post yet.
So far since then, I've played 1 session of AD&D, 1 of basic D&D, 1 of Ninja Burger, dismantled magic decks and helped build some new Elder Dragon Highlander (Generals) decks, as well as sorted probably another 500 cards.
Also Team Fortress 2's Christmas Update shipped yesterday, in all of its glory. I won't talk much about it here for fear of accidentally going on a rant. All I'll say more on the topic is that the player base isn't just split, but fragmented; rarely do two people share the same opinion and verdict on more than one update.
Other games I've played include Singularity, which is just like Half Life crossed with Bioshock, except instead of a resonance cascade, you have the singularity, and instead of plasmids you have the time manipulation device. You have the mindless once human creatures who suicidally rush you, the militant force trying to crush you (who's weapons you take), upgrade stations, a revolver, a sniper, a grenade launcher, a shotgun, a minigun, a rocket launcher, telekinesis, exploding barrels, non exploding barrels, blueprints and technology which when found allow you to upgrade yourself and your weapons at upgrade stations, and a character with no voice, no face, who always wears gloves, and almost no cinematic cut scenes except at the twist.
In upcoming events I'll shortly be playing with the other half of the band I'm in, for the very first time.
Until next time, and Happy Holidays!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
The end of Spring
Ah what a wonderful day, the birds are cowering in their nests, and its hailing. Yup, IT MUST BE SUMMER! Welcome to Melbourne! So yeah for those of you who don't know, Melbourne is toted as having the most unpredictably irritating whether of all time. Although nowhere near as extreme as other places, or going through such a wide range of extremes in one day, it is horribly unpredictable, and quoted as "having 4 seasons in one day, all of them being shit". Although it only rains about 20 days a year, most people keep an umbrella with them at all times, one in their bag, or at their office, or just walk around carrying at their side; "I'm not paranoid, JUST YOU WAIT TIL IT RAINS", lo and behold, in the middle of spring, out of nowhere, a hail storm. Who's paranoid (but very very dry) now?
But enough about the shitty weather, I've lived in worse, but none quite as irritating.
So a few days ago I went out and played laser tag for 2 hours, in moderate heat, in warm clothes. Was not fun. I finished 2nd last each time, except when I finished dead last. Of course it would have been better with less/different rules. I like to take advantage of my height, and what little athletic prowess I have, in ways such as scaling constructed walls to get to a superior vantage point, or vaulting over short obstacles to quickly get out of the open. But no, the cursed rules were; No running, No anything-but-standing, No touching obstacles and No firing guns one handed. That last one might not seem like much of an issue, but each time I managed to trick the sensor into thinking my hand second hand was covering the barrel, I managed to tag someone. Over the shoulder, around a corner using a wall, sideways using my leg; all times were kills. Also the actual hit-zones were annoying, and that's just me being bad, but I landed plenty of hits on people that were outside the target zone, like on their leg, or JUST missing the small target zones. Next time it shall be paintball... and we'll see how well I do when I don't glow like a really tall (tall comparatively to everyone else, not tall for Christmas tree tall) Christmas tree, and have my height count for something other than making it easier to see me.
Also since the last blog post, was the celebration of my brothers birthday, a month later than it actually occurred, it was epic, there was cake, and it was good. There was also the long awaited union of 2 of my friends as "boyfriend and girlfriend" as well as a split of another long standing couple.
Team Fortress 2 also released their public beta, I got into Fallout New Vegas, and me and my friends discovered lackey, the best online CCG medium ever of all time.
Next blog post shall be after DnD tomorrow, the impending CGBC, and the first real meeting of my "band".
But enough about the shitty weather, I've lived in worse, but none quite as irritating.
So a few days ago I went out and played laser tag for 2 hours, in moderate heat, in warm clothes. Was not fun. I finished 2nd last each time, except when I finished dead last. Of course it would have been better with less/different rules. I like to take advantage of my height, and what little athletic prowess I have, in ways such as scaling constructed walls to get to a superior vantage point, or vaulting over short obstacles to quickly get out of the open. But no, the cursed rules were; No running, No anything-but-standing, No touching obstacles and No firing guns one handed. That last one might not seem like much of an issue, but each time I managed to trick the sensor into thinking my hand second hand was covering the barrel, I managed to tag someone. Over the shoulder, around a corner using a wall, sideways using my leg; all times were kills. Also the actual hit-zones were annoying, and that's just me being bad, but I landed plenty of hits on people that were outside the target zone, like on their leg, or JUST missing the small target zones. Next time it shall be paintball... and we'll see how well I do when I don't glow like a really tall (tall comparatively to everyone else, not tall for Christmas tree tall) Christmas tree, and have my height count for something other than making it easier to see me.
Also since the last blog post, was the celebration of my brothers birthday, a month later than it actually occurred, it was epic, there was cake, and it was good. There was also the long awaited union of 2 of my friends as "boyfriend and girlfriend" as well as a split of another long standing couple.
Team Fortress 2 also released their public beta, I got into Fallout New Vegas, and me and my friends discovered lackey, the best online CCG medium ever of all time.
Next blog post shall be after DnD tomorrow, the impending CGBC, and the first real meeting of my "band".
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Happy Happy Fun Times!
Hello everybody!
It was recently brought to my attention, by several people in fact, that people actually check this!
I apologize for not posting in a while, you see the problem is, when I created this blog, I created it with the intention of posting updates on all the cool and crazy and wild stuff I do. Unfortunately, when I'm doing crazy cool wild and fun stuff, I'm too busy to blog, and generally I wouldn't remember enough details to make a blog post later so I'd just take the lazy procrastinators way out and play video games, like any teenager should. So yeah long time no post.
In recent news I finished my last exam a few weeks ago, so I am nearly free of all obligations of anything at all whatsoever, including and not limited to waking hours.
Well I do believe I owe you guys some catching up....
The last blog post I made was 120 days ago, and since then, not much has changed, but a lot has happened.
In these 120 days, I've lost a few friends, but in the process realized who my true friends are, but I won't go into that with any names or details because the people involved are known by the readers of this blog. I have also obtained, on semi permanent loan, a veritable pile of Xbox 360 games, and about $10,000 in cards from various TCGs (Magic the Gathering, World of Warcraft, Medabots, Digimon, Neopets, Duel Masters, Dungeons and Dragons and a few more). All I can say is that I miss my floor. I also applied to, and got accepted into Mensa Australia, and my application for the Nation Youth Science Forum got rejected. I also saw quite a few movies, which in order of awesome are... Scott Pilgrim, RED, Goemon, The Loved Ones, The A-Team, She's out of your League, How to Train your Dragon and a few more which I can't remember, probably because they sucked in comparison and just don't register. I also finished watching all of Supernatural and How I met your mother, and started watching Scrubs. I also performed in the schools musical breakfast in 3 ensembles, something I'll only have to do once ever again, became the co-president of the SRC because everyone else left, started an eco-group at the school and realized that the schools management is full of douches who care about image more than impact and would rather fund the Gay Straight Alliance (no offense to anyone [except the management], but they only spend money on posters) than environmental activism. All of that and also so much more.
On a more recent note, I finished school, learned how to play electric bass (its an Ibanez 83[yes that means its older than me, well done]) and received my invitation to Computer Games Boot Camp 2010 part 2.
Future posts may have hyperlinks, images, videos, or even paragraphing. But its 5:15 AM as of this sentence and though not tired, I still have to fall asleep and wake up in the morning so spending time on stuff like that is not a luxury I can afford right now. I might do another blog post just dedicated to the cool and or obscure stuff that I didn't mention like how I finished bioshock 2 hardest difficulty in one sitting, or the pirate parade, or the epic Xbox 360 system link that my friends and I set up, or how for a week one of my friends was living here as of a family feud, or my brothers lego construct. So yeah expect a new blog post, or even several, each one elaborating on something specific.
Sam
PS: If anyone wants elaboration on anything mentioned, just say so in the comments. Nothing is taboo.
It was recently brought to my attention, by several people in fact, that people actually check this!
I apologize for not posting in a while, you see the problem is, when I created this blog, I created it with the intention of posting updates on all the cool and crazy and wild stuff I do. Unfortunately, when I'm doing crazy cool wild and fun stuff, I'm too busy to blog, and generally I wouldn't remember enough details to make a blog post later so I'd just take the lazy procrastinators way out and play video games, like any teenager should. So yeah long time no post.
In recent news I finished my last exam a few weeks ago, so I am nearly free of all obligations of anything at all whatsoever, including and not limited to waking hours.
Well I do believe I owe you guys some catching up....
The last blog post I made was 120 days ago, and since then, not much has changed, but a lot has happened.
In these 120 days, I've lost a few friends, but in the process realized who my true friends are, but I won't go into that with any names or details because the people involved are known by the readers of this blog. I have also obtained, on semi permanent loan, a veritable pile of Xbox 360 games, and about $10,000 in cards from various TCGs (Magic the Gathering, World of Warcraft, Medabots, Digimon, Neopets, Duel Masters, Dungeons and Dragons and a few more). All I can say is that I miss my floor. I also applied to, and got accepted into Mensa Australia, and my application for the Nation Youth Science Forum got rejected. I also saw quite a few movies, which in order of awesome are... Scott Pilgrim, RED, Goemon, The Loved Ones, The A-Team, She's out of your League, How to Train your Dragon and a few more which I can't remember, probably because they sucked in comparison and just don't register. I also finished watching all of Supernatural and How I met your mother, and started watching Scrubs. I also performed in the schools musical breakfast in 3 ensembles, something I'll only have to do once ever again, became the co-president of the SRC because everyone else left, started an eco-group at the school and realized that the schools management is full of douches who care about image more than impact and would rather fund the Gay Straight Alliance (no offense to anyone [except the management], but they only spend money on posters) than environmental activism. All of that and also so much more.
On a more recent note, I finished school, learned how to play electric bass (its an Ibanez 83[yes that means its older than me, well done]) and received my invitation to Computer Games Boot Camp 2010 part 2.
Future posts may have hyperlinks, images, videos, or even paragraphing. But its 5:15 AM as of this sentence and though not tired, I still have to fall asleep and wake up in the morning so spending time on stuff like that is not a luxury I can afford right now. I might do another blog post just dedicated to the cool and or obscure stuff that I didn't mention like how I finished bioshock 2 hardest difficulty in one sitting, or the pirate parade, or the epic Xbox 360 system link that my friends and I set up, or how for a week one of my friends was living here as of a family feud, or my brothers lego construct. So yeah expect a new blog post, or even several, each one elaborating on something specific.
Sam
PS: If anyone wants elaboration on anything mentioned, just say so in the comments. Nothing is taboo.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The Wonders of Science
Gentlemen, today, I did science!
Today began like any other day, with me staying up past midnight playing video games.
So, today, I finished playing Alien Swarm at around 2AM (which is a totally awesome, totally free game), and went to sleep, then got up, went to school, and then went on an "excursion" to the Gene Technology Access Center on campus, where I did this. And I was shocked. Because for the first time in a long time, my school had made science fun again. The program consisted of an incredibly boring lecture, which was good because I used it to catch up on some sleep I needed, followed by the 2 practical tasks ran simultaneously, which were totally awesome. We learned how to operate all the equipment necessary to complete the tasks, and consequently how to perform the tasks ourselves. Altering the DNA of E.coli to make it antibody resistant may not seem like tons of fun, but ... hey what am I talking about. Splicing genes into a potentially lethal strain of bacteria to make them even more lethal sounds like lots of fun to me! Luckily I didn't ingest any, so we're all safe for now...
So yeah. Me + Laboratory = Win. Or lose, depending on whether or not you piss me off. They didn't let me keep the lab coat though. Or the E.coli. Its probably better for the good of the world that I'm not allowed to handle potentially lethal bacteria. Or sharp objects. Or blunt objects.
This is going right up there with "fun stuff that seemed educational and boring but wasn't" along with Monash University's Computer Games Boot Camp (Think school, except replace all the boring stuff with games. And free stuff), and RMIT's "Engineering Experience" (the first and last time I will see what happens when you electrocute a pickle).
Today began like any other day, with me staying up past midnight playing video games.
So, today, I finished playing Alien Swarm at around 2AM (which is a totally awesome, totally free game), and went to sleep, then got up, went to school, and then went on an "excursion" to the Gene Technology Access Center on campus, where I did this. And I was shocked. Because for the first time in a long time, my school had made science fun again. The program consisted of an incredibly boring lecture, which was good because I used it to catch up on some sleep I needed, followed by the 2 practical tasks ran simultaneously, which were totally awesome. We learned how to operate all the equipment necessary to complete the tasks, and consequently how to perform the tasks ourselves. Altering the DNA of E.coli to make it antibody resistant may not seem like tons of fun, but ... hey what am I talking about. Splicing genes into a potentially lethal strain of bacteria to make them even more lethal sounds like lots of fun to me! Luckily I didn't ingest any, so we're all safe for now...
So yeah. Me + Laboratory = Win. Or lose, depending on whether or not you piss me off. They didn't let me keep the lab coat though. Or the E.coli. Its probably better for the good of the world that I'm not allowed to handle potentially lethal bacteria. Or sharp objects. Or blunt objects.
This is going right up there with "fun stuff that seemed educational and boring but wasn't" along with Monash University's Computer Games Boot Camp (Think school, except replace all the boring stuff with games. And free stuff), and RMIT's "Engineering Experience" (the first and last time I will see what happens when you electrocute a pickle).
Hello World!
Hey, its me, Sam Reich here. You may know me as "Jesus", "War_Wrecker" or "Epic Beard Guy!". Or maybe you don't know me at all and you managed to fin this blog via random happenstance. If that is the case congratulations, you get a cookie (not really). Expect more posts regularly about food, video games, philosophy, politics and stuff that's actually relevant to me.
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