Thursday, February 16, 2006
Fragathon!
The 2k to 3k frags, documented every hundred frags. Although it was preplanned, the 2800th frag is the best, because on that map, I bagged all the medals, frags, perfect, accuracy, gauntlet, excellent and impressive.
Clever things to do in quake:
1) use the rocket launcher, granade launcher, plasma gun and the BFG to jump higher with one of those jumping circles.
2) Be careful, but you can use the plasma gun pointed at a fifty degree angle to the walls to climb them!
3) To learn how a bot plays in an arena, go to skirmish, and select the map full of the bot you want, then play, learn to deal with them and then play in the real game. Useful when you are using the higher difficulty levels.
4) Camp like hell... and once you start getting a few frags, somehow the bots seem to accumalate
5) Bots play differently under different power ups. Most apparent, in for example, Uriel who is a pussy except under the influence of quad damage.
Frags: kills
Perfect: fragged by no bot, no self-frag
Accuracy: ammunition does not get wasted
Excellent: 2 frags within a second
Perfect: Two consecutive railgun hits
Gauntlet: Death with the only malee weapon, a spiked, spinning disk on the hand
Clever things to do in quake:
1) use the rocket launcher, granade launcher, plasma gun and the BFG to jump higher with one of those jumping circles.
2) Be careful, but you can use the plasma gun pointed at a fifty degree angle to the walls to climb them!
3) To learn how a bot plays in an arena, go to skirmish, and select the map full of the bot you want, then play, learn to deal with them and then play in the real game. Useful when you are using the higher difficulty levels.
4) Camp like hell... and once you start getting a few frags, somehow the bots seem to accumalate
5) Bots play differently under different power ups. Most apparent, in for example, Uriel who is a pussy except under the influence of quad damage.
Frags: kills
Perfect: fragged by no bot, no self-frag
Accuracy: ammunition does not get wasted
Excellent: 2 frags within a second
Perfect: Two consecutive railgun hits
Gauntlet: Death with the only malee weapon, a spiked, spinning disk on the hand
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Origin
Pretty weird how more or less nothing somehow culimnated to our civilisation, perhaps the most interesting thing around. Pretty boggling to sit in front of the computer and wonder why you are blogging and how can you blog and why the hell you are here.
Reading a few things, but I guess none of us can really come up with an answer to why things are. In the metaphysical cosmos, this is the case because the creation of the universe is beyond the scope of accurate scientific study. Philosophically there may be an ultimate purpose of everything, a destiny, a map for the universe in time which it has to adhere to. Religious beliefs involve creation (Christianity, Jewism) and endless cycles of birth and death (Hinduism). There are several planes of existence and endless levels where a soul can subsist in the esoteric or occult universe. How slightly different these viewpoints are, and they are all alternatives to the conventional scientific belief in the big bang.
The big bang almost definately happened, the experts claim, because of the background radiation awash in our cosmos. switch on the television screen or the radio, and purposely put them out of tune, and you can hear and see this background radiation - the sound of our universe being born, the noise, is the noise of origin.
Forgot the point, but I guess the moment we figure out what the hell is the deal with the cosmos, it will defeat its purpose. Will blog later, load shedding around the corner.
Reading a few things, but I guess none of us can really come up with an answer to why things are. In the metaphysical cosmos, this is the case because the creation of the universe is beyond the scope of accurate scientific study. Philosophically there may be an ultimate purpose of everything, a destiny, a map for the universe in time which it has to adhere to. Religious beliefs involve creation (Christianity, Jewism) and endless cycles of birth and death (Hinduism). There are several planes of existence and endless levels where a soul can subsist in the esoteric or occult universe. How slightly different these viewpoints are, and they are all alternatives to the conventional scientific belief in the big bang.
The big bang almost definately happened, the experts claim, because of the background radiation awash in our cosmos. switch on the television screen or the radio, and purposely put them out of tune, and you can hear and see this background radiation - the sound of our universe being born, the noise, is the noise of origin.
Forgot the point, but I guess the moment we figure out what the hell is the deal with the cosmos, it will defeat its purpose. Will blog later, load shedding around the corner.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
More Quake
Presented the Management project today, got decent marks despite the fact that we hardly worked on the presentation, but we worked on the project themselves, so that's more or less cool.
The first slide had a very provocative picture of a female nurse, and some people said that this was sexist. Interesting take on that... whenever anyone says this ad is sexist or this joke is sexist... those who are saying these things are being sesist and not the ad or the joke. The rationale behind this is that the said ads or jokes makes fun of the cunstructed and conditioned gender instead of the sex, which is actually healthy for the society because the conditioning is made fun of.
Weird way to look at it, but there it is. Anyway, plans for one night and 3k frags still on, will screencap every hundred frags and will meet you after ten caps and details.
The first slide had a very provocative picture of a female nurse, and some people said that this was sexist. Interesting take on that... whenever anyone says this ad is sexist or this joke is sexist... those who are saying these things are being sesist and not the ad or the joke. The rationale behind this is that the said ads or jokes makes fun of the cunstructed and conditioned gender instead of the sex, which is actually healthy for the society because the conditioning is made fun of.
Weird way to look at it, but there it is. Anyway, plans for one night and 3k frags still on, will screencap every hundred frags and will meet you after ten caps and details.
Monday, February 13, 2006
Mangling your Many Maroon Mums
Quake 3 like rocks. I am going to spend the night trying to go from2k frags to 3k frags in one night... for now I have to head over to college. I wonder what is the psychosexual motivation wanting to blow up digital freaks with cool guns. I wonder how it is in accordance to my self actualisation tendency. These psychologists need a GUT for psychology. There are too many holes in human behavior that are not explained by these psychological theories, and that's maybe human behavior is more or less arbitrary. Is this a theory?
For example, I borrowed a friends shorts, and kept telling him that I would shortly return them, but I appropriated them instead, and now both of us wonder if that was appropriate.
The priblem is that this behavior was not psychosexually motivated (unless you argue that appropriating a friends shorts makes the two of you better friends, and then you have more good friends, which increases your chances of getting laid. In fact, the fact that he did not find my appropriation appropriate may make him less of a friend, which means that I have more shorts, shows that I have more resources, and then increases my chances of getting laid, or stretching it even further, some research shows that girls like bad guys, so my stealing will actually help my sex life). Let's come back to the original and much better idea that borrowing the shorts was not psychosexually motivated at all. Freud might have had the hots for his mother, and said that the ego would not develop without it, but they probably hadn't invented shorts back then, so back then, borrowing shorts was not a flaw to his theory. To put another competing theory to the test, (who was it, Skinner or Roger) who came up with this whole self-actualising tendency thing. Basically the dirt is that every organism tries to be the best it can be and realise its destiny.
Maybe it was my destiny to get the shorts from him, but I was mildly disgusted by the fact that it was someone elese's shorts and not mine in the first place. I also took them mostly so that I could crack jokes about it, but if that is my destiny, then I am going to have one sad life. Again, the friends argument can work here, but I frankly do not think that I was, overally, too satisfied with myself for borrowing the shorts - showed that 1) I needed more shorts 2) I didn't have any to begin with, and since they didn't fit, 3) I have fat friends and 4) I am underweight.
Simply thrust of the argument is that I guess psychologists basically lead their lives the way they wanted to and generalised their own behaviors into theories of human psychology. Freud was psychosexually motivated and Skinner or Roger whoever, was an optimistic guy who believed in realising your destiny - and then these psychologists identified patterns that fit into their theories.
Which means we basically get to lead our lives any way we want, and all of us evolve complex and unique psychologies.
college, forgot college, leaving now.
For example, I borrowed a friends shorts, and kept telling him that I would shortly return them, but I appropriated them instead, and now both of us wonder if that was appropriate.
The priblem is that this behavior was not psychosexually motivated (unless you argue that appropriating a friends shorts makes the two of you better friends, and then you have more good friends, which increases your chances of getting laid. In fact, the fact that he did not find my appropriation appropriate may make him less of a friend, which means that I have more shorts, shows that I have more resources, and then increases my chances of getting laid, or stretching it even further, some research shows that girls like bad guys, so my stealing will actually help my sex life). Let's come back to the original and much better idea that borrowing the shorts was not psychosexually motivated at all. Freud might have had the hots for his mother, and said that the ego would not develop without it, but they probably hadn't invented shorts back then, so back then, borrowing shorts was not a flaw to his theory. To put another competing theory to the test, (who was it, Skinner or Roger) who came up with this whole self-actualising tendency thing. Basically the dirt is that every organism tries to be the best it can be and realise its destiny.
Maybe it was my destiny to get the shorts from him, but I was mildly disgusted by the fact that it was someone elese's shorts and not mine in the first place. I also took them mostly so that I could crack jokes about it, but if that is my destiny, then I am going to have one sad life. Again, the friends argument can work here, but I frankly do not think that I was, overally, too satisfied with myself for borrowing the shorts - showed that 1) I needed more shorts 2) I didn't have any to begin with, and since they didn't fit, 3) I have fat friends and 4) I am underweight.
Simply thrust of the argument is that I guess psychologists basically lead their lives the way they wanted to and generalised their own behaviors into theories of human psychology. Freud was psychosexually motivated and Skinner or Roger whoever, was an optimistic guy who believed in realising your destiny - and then these psychologists identified patterns that fit into their theories.
Which means we basically get to lead our lives any way we want, and all of us evolve complex and unique psychologies.
college, forgot college, leaving now.
I will not celebrate meaningless milestones
Used to play Quake like hell... then my comp somehow refused to let me play, so I used to play the demo version as much as possible at the houses of different friends. This is one game that I am really a fan of... and today, I started playing again, and guess where this took me.
The pair of green crossed swords below the yin-yang symbol stands for 'perfect' - which means that you went through a level without getting killed even once.
The red hand stands for 'gauntlet' - fragging with only the blade on your hand - exteremely difficult, foolhardy, and boring way to kill someone.
The blue line and wavy line and circles and squares denotes that I have done something 'impressive' by sccurately finding my target over two consecutive rail gun shots.
The white and purple corsair stands for 'accuracy', which means that most my bullets found my mark - yeah.
The yellow winged skull denotes 'excelence', something ahcieved by obtaining two frags within about as many seconds.
The red skull is the most impressive - the total number of frags that you have.
Yeah that's right - the process took over two years of sparse playing, but two thousand frags - thats as many digital murders through the agency of lighting guns, shot guns, rail guns, machine guns, RB guns, plasma guns, and almost every other type of gun you can think of.
What I remember most about Quake is the legacy that no one reads. Phobos and Doom are the charachters from the game Doom. The description leads that these players are gladiatoring for the sake of gods, who have created the arena for their entertainment. Also, apparently, all the aliens put an end to mankind warring with iteself - because they find other enemies amongst the stars.
Not sleepy at all, despite almost not sleeping for three days. Looks like this is going to be the fourth. Will see what downloads I have for quake at downloads.com... always wanted to create a map - might start today.
And to celebrate another meaningless milestone, I will be the six thousandth person to view this blog as soon as I post - hopefully, no one reads it before then.
The pair of green crossed swords below the yin-yang symbol stands for 'perfect' - which means that you went through a level without getting killed even once.
The red hand stands for 'gauntlet' - fragging with only the blade on your hand - exteremely difficult, foolhardy, and boring way to kill someone.
The blue line and wavy line and circles and squares denotes that I have done something 'impressive' by sccurately finding my target over two consecutive rail gun shots.
The white and purple corsair stands for 'accuracy', which means that most my bullets found my mark - yeah.
The yellow winged skull denotes 'excelence', something ahcieved by obtaining two frags within about as many seconds.
The red skull is the most impressive - the total number of frags that you have.
Yeah that's right - the process took over two years of sparse playing, but two thousand frags - thats as many digital murders through the agency of lighting guns, shot guns, rail guns, machine guns, RB guns, plasma guns, and almost every other type of gun you can think of.
What I remember most about Quake is the legacy that no one reads. Phobos and Doom are the charachters from the game Doom. The description leads that these players are gladiatoring for the sake of gods, who have created the arena for their entertainment. Also, apparently, all the aliens put an end to mankind warring with iteself - because they find other enemies amongst the stars.
Not sleepy at all, despite almost not sleeping for three days. Looks like this is going to be the fourth. Will see what downloads I have for quake at downloads.com... always wanted to create a map - might start today.
And to celebrate another meaningless milestone, I will be the six thousandth person to view this blog as soon as I post - hopefully, no one reads it before then.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
A theory on Public Urinals
In India, it is common to hear people complaining about how smelly the urinals are. I don't see the point in this. In fact, the smellier the better. The typical smell of urine is because of the urea (like, megaduh) and urea is one of the worst things an organism can encounter. So urea kills pathogens, and therefore, you are less likely to contract diseases from a smelly urinal. In fact, it is dangerous to use a urinal that is NOT smelly, because it is not sufficiently disinfected.
Pretty weird, but true.
While loosely on the subject, it is funny how almost everyone avoids using the word 'toilet'. 'Loo', "Restroom', 'Washroom' and sometimes, however funny as it may seem, 'Latrine' seems to be somehow less emberassing alternatives. I guess its just something we as kids used to giggle over, and then we have the hangover.
Pretty weird, but true.
While loosely on the subject, it is funny how almost everyone avoids using the word 'toilet'. 'Loo', "Restroom', 'Washroom' and sometimes, however funny as it may seem, 'Latrine' seems to be somehow less emberassing alternatives. I guess its just something we as kids used to giggle over, and then we have the hangover.
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