Monthly Archives for February 2003

The return of Shifty

I thought I would be rusty and get 0wnz0red, and be someone’s bitch, but instead it was I who 0wnz0red. I think that all of my co-players, both red and blue, were all teenagers. That’s just the demographic, but there was more. They don’t seem to have much cross-game experience in FPS, no history. They were in clans, this means that they have time to go to practice, and to go to wars. Kids.

At the end of the last map, my score was 107. My nearest rival was 32. This was not because of some amazing ability on my part, I think it was due to my years of experience in the genre. You see, I know that the object of CTF maps is flag-related. They do not. They seem to think it is somehow ratio related. My score reflects that I captured the enemy flag 8 times, and got 27 frags. Only one other player captured a flag, and that was Mr. 32.

BTW my ratio was 27/21, so by their standards I suck ass. Unfortunately when they thought that, they were thinking from their cold, flagless corpses.

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Punches, Unders and Ribs

Kirsten’s parents will be coming to Australia in less than four weeks, and I am a boombalada. This needs to change in order to make a less-bad impression.

Joining the gym wasn’t entirely unprecedented though. I have been swimming semi-regularly since I moved to Lane Cove, and kickboxing for 6 months. The kickboxing helped me choose my first class at the gym: Boxing. It wasn’t as softcock as I feared, but it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. There was no focus on technique - it was all a bit “accessible”. A cross was a punch, a hook was a rib (seriously) and an uppercut was an under. At least we were using focus mitts, I was afraid it would all be a bit tae-bo.

I will continue to go to the ‘boxing’ class, it was a good workout. I will try and maintain proper form. I will also do normal gym stuff.

I think I will have to go back to kickboxing as well, so I don’t get corrupted by the Punches, Unders and Ribs.

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Warmongers

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