Retro gaming at its best

Time to crank the gear shift one notch back, as we slide into the past and get all nostalgic in old toys. Toys for boys, so girls might as well just skip this. Unless the terms Dune, Sandworm, X-Com, Warcraft or Tiberium makes any sense to you, then by all means,read on and drop me a mail cause I love girls who are into retro gaming.

Anyway, when we speak of retro gaming, what is the first game that comes to mind? Other than this, of course...

For myself, it would be gems like X-Com, Warcraft (1 and 2, not that bloodsucking WoW), Command & Conquer down to puzzlers like Clockwerx, Incredible Machine or simulators like Championship Manager 2 or Simcity. But what I love far far far more than this, was the manuals that came with the games.

It was back in those 286 system days, where PCs were expensive and games were scarce. Actually, original games were scarce... expensive, difficult to obtain and import impossible. Mind you, this was a pre-internet time, an era where Amazon, Ebay and its likes never existed. So what was the next best options? Ask Malaysians, they know best when it comes to this. Pirate it. And they did it well. Imbi Plaza was stuff of legends. Any game you want, any genre, anything, could be found there. You name it, and they probably have it. If they didn't, just drop by the other 20 or more stores dealing in the exact same thing. The cost? RM8 per 5.25" disk (I may be wrong, it was so long ago), and RM5 for the manual. Ah yes, back to the manual.

Ironically, they said games brought your fantasies to life, letting you play the stuff of dreams. And I couldn't agree more. But the fact was, my imagination was more fun. I would consume the manual so much more than the game itself. The backstory, the units, the side stories, everything was so much better than the game itself. Don't believe me? Try searching for the Starcraft manual, read the Zerg and Protoss back story, and then tell me I am wrong. The manual for Dune 2 was far more vital, with the Mentat asking you questions from it (An ancient anti-piracy method which forgot about the advent of Xerox), or the old Dungeons and Dragons game, Shadow Sorcerer, where potion recipes are all in manual only (And also whereby I was murdered by a Dragon's fireball early in the game, gave it up, and spend the whole month just reading the manual, spells and potions and all.), down to another game which name I have forsaken, and is more of a gamebook + PC game combination.

Many games I bought end up like Shadow Sorcerer, too diffucult for my 8 year old mind, and abandoned after 30 minutes of gameplay, but the manuals lasts me a lifetime. Almost. Every now and then, I would pick one of them up, and imberse myself back into a life of spaceflight and lasers, to a time of sorcery and dragons, deeply engaged into the rich backstory and epic battles. My only regret? Tossing those books out after a spring cleaning session. I would love to read how the Zerg and Protoss are related to one another just one more time.

*Edit* - For anyone interested, replacementdocs is an excellent resource for all game manuals.

Tenth Post

The Ugly Duckling

This is the Wikipedia version of the original story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_Duckling#Plot_summary

A mother duck hatches her eggs and, while most of her ducklings are normal, one is grey, too large, and too clumsy to fit in among the others. Though she tries to accept him, the entire barnyard realizes that he simply does not belong and after a period of harassment he leaves to fend for himself. He is sheltered by an old woman in her poor cottage, but her cat and her hen will not accept him and he is forced to set off once again on his own. He wanders for the entire summer and fall, for no one will take him in, and he nearly freezes to death in an icy pond. Though he is rescued by a human, he cannot live in captivity, and he returns to the wild.By the end of winter, he is miraculously still alive. He comes to a pond in a park or garden, where beautiful white swans are swimming. He is drawn to their beauty, though he has no reason to think that they will treat him better than anyone else has. Still, he thinks, even if they kill him, he must approach them. To his surprise, the beautiful creatures welcome and accept him; gazing at his reflection, he sees that he too is a swan. The children declare that he is the most beautiful swan of them all, yet he is not proud, for a good heart is never proud. Because of all that he suffered he now appreciates his happiness so much more.

Quite sure everyFUCKINGbody heard of this story before...but the story we were brought up to believe was a majorly ugly duckling was born and he/she was outcast into exile by other ducks cause it is just THAT damn ugly...but he/she went through life unlike any other ducks should and finally as the story progress that stupid duck was actually a swan

...and so there I was thinking, if the story WERE to continue, how would it be for this swan. I mean if he went back to his original family and go

Swan "HAH! who is the ugly one now??? in your face fuglies!!"

.....seriously, this story will take a twisted dark turn of event, the piece of shit suddenly become something that every duck aspires to be..

1) for so many years of its life no one gives a rat ass about him/her and suddenly he/she gets SO much attention and its now not used to it

2) since now he/she is HOT its time to experiment new things

3) when he/she still an ugly piece of shit it will be in a contant 'lack of attention' mood, now...umm..will be even MORE 'lack of attention'

4) and now he/she is something everybody wants a piece off..can choose..and can be a bitch

dont you think this story can actually drag on to be quite a story....

and the end of the story..he/she gets hit with a rock and became ugly again..then appologise for being so full of him/her self

Of course stories like this apply more for the real world...

imagine some ugly girl that suddenly become pretty...
or
an ugly guy that suddenly become famous..

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Ninth Post!!

If guys weren't visual

I once told a story to Sarah, which ended with her saying "yerr..guys are so shallow..". The content of the story was rather simple. I told her that WE (guys) are visual creatures..you turn our head visually and we are officially owned. Which of course I will admit, we are shallow, cause we are visual, but can you imagine...IF we weren't visual creatures, how will YOU (girls) actually attact us??

If we weren't visual Lesson 1

I am not sure if you girls actually know this but I am suggesting that you ALL know...when you wear your Jimmy Choo, Prada and etc etc...we actually..dont notice..or dont know its a 1000 bucks pair of shoes?? or when you put on your LV or Burberry bag, WE really dont know and dont notice...and I know for a fact that you all put those fancy things on just to brag to OTHER GIRLS that you all have a Prada or LV.

But it doesnt change the fact that you all show more skin JUST to turn guys head. We are suckers for mini skirt YOU all know that..simpler english..we like it when girls wear less..

So imagine if WE weren't visual only, who you gonna show your legs to?? who you gonna show your cleavage to?? who you gonna show your mini skirt to?? whos head do you expect to turn when you wear on some super sexy bikini??

The fact is girls have uncover this little secret about guys and yet you all wanna criticise it...so really just take a moment to imagine how bad this world will be...if WE arent visual.

If we weren't visual Lesson 2

And so the Lust industry make billions and billions on dollars exploiting the guys so called visual turn ons, its because we are all visual thats how people like Hugh Hefner is so rich and so it some porn producing companies..So if we weren't visual, Hugh Hefner wont come out with a magazine that give guys a boner, porn industry will just die off cause...hey we are just not turned on seeing people fuck on screen..

Which brings me to a topic I was telling my friends and also the person above that called me shallow..if we dont get turned on visually..instead..like you girls..emotionally..or according to mood..or I dont know..something...anything. This world would be crazy shit..examples are below.. :)

Imagine, girl gives guy a present...something he really wants...he goes all happy...and then get a boner..

Imagine, girl tells guy 'I love you..' he gets all arroused and gets a boner..

Imagine, girl bakes a cake for guy, he goes all emo and then gets a boner..

Imagine, girl says nice things to guys...and then he gets a boner..

Imagine, you give us a hug, we feel safe around you...and then gets a boner..

I can give you more..but just on that few examples I think you can more or less imagine how sick this world can be if guys are NOT visual..

So God is fair, He gave girls all those nice assets which we crave for and make us visual so that we make good pets for you (girls). So dont go about saying we are shallow and all cause if you just picture all those shit I listed above, you will be happy that we are visual..

If we werent visual Lesson 3

If we werent visual the internet will go into a slump considering 20% of websites are porn and 40+% searches are for porn.

Now I am sure you all don't want that to happen..

20 Seconds

20 seconds is enough to show 9 months of gestation
20 seconds late for your own wedding is grounds for divorce.
20 seconds past 4 minutes is too late to save the world for Madonna and Justin.
20 seconds is sufficient forewarning for an earthquake.
20 seconds of joy is a documentary on the life of a base jumper.
20 seconds is the time it takes to make mayonnaise
20 seconds on 17 January 1995, in Kobe killed 6,434 people and injured tens of thousands more.
20 seconds would have saved this family from a fiery death.
20 seconds later than your date for the first date might have dashed your hopes of getting laid.
20 seconds would have made Michael Phelps beyond godlike in swimming.
20 seconds would've really helped the other guy Michael Phelps was swimming against.
20 seconds, in fact, would've actually put Michael Phelps last in most of his Olympic games.

From skitzels:
20 seconds is enough time for Chuck Norris to kill 20 people
20 seconds is enough for Rambo to multiply that based on amount of ammo.
20 seconds is the time skitzels wished it took to eradicate stupid people.

Addition:
20 seconds to realize he was being recorded would've saved Naveen a whole lot of embarrassment.
20 seconds multiplied by 3 is the amount of time you lose a day, and gain back on 29th February.

And finally,
20 seconds multiplied by alot would've been the time I would've saved if I didn't write this post.

So what does 20 seconds mean to everyone else here?

Eighth Post!!

What a guy want...

I read this quote somewhere 'In order for a relationship to work, the guy must love the girl ALOT and try not to understand her at all, a girl must love the guy a little and understand him ALOT', it is true actually...partially...

Over the years we always accuse girls of being damn unbelievably hard to understand, how ridiculous they can be (which they are 70% of the time) and on the other hand girls go on saying that guys are pigs, bastards this and that...

Today, the discussion is about what is in a GUYS head and the things that most of us actually thrive on for my safety purposes, I will have to filter out some of the things, but then again...who the fuck cares..haha

1) Thinking about sex every few seconds..

Some research actually said before that guys think of sex like every 40 seconds or so...the time span is a little short..but it doesnt change the fact that whenever we zone out, we are always somewhere near a happy place we call a naked body in our imagination..

2) Thinking how a girl look like naked whenever the chance comes by..

Yes its disgusting and all, but it is the truth. We tend to think how a girl look like naked whenever we have the chance, but really..girls..you all should be happy that we are the visual creatures..be VERY happy about it...

3) Dramatic Exits

For all the times we actually call girls drama queens, we are actually no different, we thrive on dramatic exit ALL the time, secretly hoping we get one. What I mean by dramatic exit is those shit you see in dramas, where the guy go self righteous and all, for the girl's sake...yeah..we like that..but we dont get to do it all the time

4) Challenging ...

For some reason, which I am not so sure WHAT..we tend to like challenges in the girls department, whether or not the guy is good at hitting on a girl or not..we thrive on it..when the girl is too easy...we dont like it...when the girl is NOT easy..we have a love/hate relationship there, on the surface we get all stressed out, but deep down inside we are going 'Yeah!!'

5) Sulking

Guys in general, actually like it when the girl sulk, it gives us a task to actually get correct...'to make her not sulk...'. Sounds like shit..but its true..

6) Out of the frying pan into the fire

Believe this...whenever we get out of on trouble and INTO another one..deep down inside we actually like the challange

Thats all for today...

20 seconds.

what's the value of 20seconds to you?

not much isnt it.

its just 20 seconds..

i mean. what can you do in 20 seconds?

not much.

so whats the big fuss about 20 seconds?

i saw a man on a motorbike run a red light today. there was just 20 seconds left on the clock. nothing happened and he sped off. but it got me thinking. if something had happened. would it have been worth those 20 seconds?

just 20 seconds.

winning but still losing

the above statement proves to be true most of the time.

the closest example can be found two posts below.

how many times have you found yourself in this situation where you get into an arguement with your partner(i am addressing the guys here, but if you happen to be the 'man' in your relationship then this probably applies to you as well) and you know, god knows, and everyone else in the world knows, that you are right, you will still lose. even if you manage to pull out all the facts and figures and eye witness evidence, you will still lose.

the fact of it is that she will find someway to get back at you, or make you admit defeat. ie. derek vs siow. you come to a point where you decide that its not worth the effort you put in. because, she is woman. she is always right. she will not admit defeat nor apologise.

frustrating isnt it.

could you imagine if you got it wrong? she will never let you forget it. 20 years down the road she will somehow someway manage to bring up the topic and remind you that you were wrong. it was probably something small like buying the wrong type of milk, but she'll remember. oh boy she will remember.

*Disclaimer, none of these events or people are real. all the events or people in this post were fictional. except the derek vs siao case.

Zenifant

peace. ohm.

One Thing

One thing you learn, after 13 years of experience in online life, blogging, flame waring and other trivial disputes which happen online, is that when someone argues with you for the sake of arguing, and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, there really isn't a point of fighting back. It would only fan the flames, drag it on, and leave sideliners tired, exhausted and bored.

And therefore, I shall lift my white flag, and agree with siows points, as illogical as it may be, and surrender. Yes ms siow, it is far better to be a girl. Now please excuse me while I head off to find myself some kilts.

Good night.