LAN gaming, the big picture and Youtube links
- As I walked to Caulfield station after an intense 6 hour session of LAN gaming, I realized that now I have a better endurance for gaming than 7 years ago. There was a time when I could only play CS for 3 hours before getting a headache and throwing up all over the place. Sadly, nobody would bother to clean up the mess, so you got Warnets closing down all over Jakarta. And all because of me puking all.. over the place.
- When my friends and I played Company of Heroes last night (a 2+ hour session, which ended in a stalemate. But I got the highest score as we finished, so technically I won. Haha), I saw that each one of us used different tactics. I tend to go on the defensive and construct 88s (uber-guns, pretty much can kill anything - unless bombed or artillery'd) at strategic places (e.g. bridges, hills). While my opponents, both are Business students at Monash, turtled up and built massive amount of Anti-tank and machine guns - obviously, to counter my teammate's Tiger tank assault (uber-tanks, can only be destroyed by lots of anti-tank guns). One thing I noticed from this match is how good they are at managing their resources; none of them ever went economically kaput. They have so much money, they just kept on spamming anti-tanks to kill my Tiger. Uncool.
- So, what happened? Well, I'm not so sure, but I think those guys were better than me at handling the micromanagement of things, like resources and allocation of troops. Maybe that's what they're taught at Uni, to think critical and to look at the details. I tend to look at things in a larger sense, like in a 'big-picture'. Most of the times I wouldn't bother with the details. I like to look for trends, patterns, cause and effect and you know, things in a larger sense.
- But I wouldn't say that I never pay attention to the details. Last summer, I spent 6 weeks tracing vector lines of underwater gas pipes and cables and creating a map of a gas and oil field north of Java. It was my job to see that each and every one of those objects goes where they're supposed to be. I had a list of all the cables and pipes in the region (i think it was 24 Km x 16 Km, 400 km square of nautical space) , and there were like, hundreds of them. I'm not shitting you, it's one of the most tedious and mind-blowingly fucked up thing I've ever worked on. But I was actually good at it. Looking at the details, knowing where things are and if they're misplaced. I don't know if that classifies me as an office-grunt, or a data entry slave (no offense to anyone). In terms of my life in general, sometimes I like to see things in a large scale; maybe too large. It gets to me sometimes, forgetting the small, yet very important things, and looking too far ahead. I wonder if I can slow things down.
Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to be.. someone else? Or, to be somewhere else. I always wondered what it'd be like to get on a train, and just pick a random destination. And go.. somewhere. I had this crazy idea once. I wanted to take a train to Sydney. By myself. I have a camera now, so at least there's some justification to this idea.
- So anyway, my rantings aside, I tubesurfed for a couple of hours today. Here's some videos that I found interesting:
John Mayer - Covered In Rain (solo)
Great artist, great song, wicked guitar solo. This song is about a man finding comfort in his girfriend during the dark few months after 9/11. One of John's best song, and his 5 minutes guitar solo is definitely the highlight of his pre-Continuum career.
Evolution of Dance
Judson Laipply, a motivational speaker, does a dance encore using songs from (mostly) American pop culture. With over 46 million hits in Youtube, this video is a must-see.
The Immigration Debate
This one is prone to internet flaming and death threats, so I'd let you watch it for yourself. It's a cartoon about early European immigrants and native Americans.
Kanye West and Hurricane Katrina
Ya know what this is.
- Before I wrap up for this entry, here's a link to my friend's Deviantart page. He's a badass photographer. More badass than me, that's for sure. People say his photos has meanings in it, yet I couldn't find one in that photo of a hot (female) model. Never ask me if there's a meaning in model photoshoots. Anyway, Tommy (the guy I'm talking about) also has a unique perspective on "orang2 kecil di jakarta", gak tau itu maksudnya org2 kyk gw yg kecil2 ato org2 yg .. lebih kecil dari org gede. Anyway, just go to his page. Take a look around, and make sure to give some comments.
That's all for today. Signing off.
Cheers,
Putra
Playlist: My iPod.
- When my friends and I played Company of Heroes last night (a 2+ hour session, which ended in a stalemate. But I got the highest score as we finished, so technically I won. Haha), I saw that each one of us used different tactics. I tend to go on the defensive and construct 88s (uber-guns, pretty much can kill anything - unless bombed or artillery'd) at strategic places (e.g. bridges, hills). While my opponents, both are Business students at Monash, turtled up and built massive amount of Anti-tank and machine guns - obviously, to counter my teammate's Tiger tank assault (uber-tanks, can only be destroyed by lots of anti-tank guns). One thing I noticed from this match is how good they are at managing their resources; none of them ever went economically kaput. They have so much money, they just kept on spamming anti-tanks to kill my Tiger. Uncool.
- So, what happened? Well, I'm not so sure, but I think those guys were better than me at handling the micromanagement of things, like resources and allocation of troops. Maybe that's what they're taught at Uni, to think critical and to look at the details. I tend to look at things in a larger sense, like in a 'big-picture'. Most of the times I wouldn't bother with the details. I like to look for trends, patterns, cause and effect and you know, things in a larger sense.
- But I wouldn't say that I never pay attention to the details. Last summer, I spent 6 weeks tracing vector lines of underwater gas pipes and cables and creating a map of a gas and oil field north of Java. It was my job to see that each and every one of those objects goes where they're supposed to be. I had a list of all the cables and pipes in the region (i think it was 24 Km x 16 Km, 400 km square of nautical space) , and there were like, hundreds of them. I'm not shitting you, it's one of the most tedious and mind-blowingly fucked up thing I've ever worked on. But I was actually good at it. Looking at the details, knowing where things are and if they're misplaced. I don't know if that classifies me as an office-grunt, or a data entry slave (no offense to anyone). In terms of my life in general, sometimes I like to see things in a large scale; maybe too large. It gets to me sometimes, forgetting the small, yet very important things, and looking too far ahead. I wonder if I can slow things down.
Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to be.. someone else? Or, to be somewhere else. I always wondered what it'd be like to get on a train, and just pick a random destination. And go.. somewhere. I had this crazy idea once. I wanted to take a train to Sydney. By myself. I have a camera now, so at least there's some justification to this idea.
- So anyway, my rantings aside, I tubesurfed for a couple of hours today. Here's some videos that I found interesting:
John Mayer - Covered In Rain (solo)
Great artist, great song, wicked guitar solo. This song is about a man finding comfort in his girfriend during the dark few months after 9/11. One of John's best song, and his 5 minutes guitar solo is definitely the highlight of his pre-Continuum career.
Evolution of Dance
Judson Laipply, a motivational speaker, does a dance encore using songs from (mostly) American pop culture. With over 46 million hits in Youtube, this video is a must-see.
The Immigration Debate
This one is prone to internet flaming and death threats, so I'd let you watch it for yourself. It's a cartoon about early European immigrants and native Americans.
Kanye West and Hurricane Katrina
Ya know what this is.
- Before I wrap up for this entry, here's a link to my friend's Deviantart page. He's a badass photographer. More badass than me, that's for sure. People say his photos has meanings in it, yet I couldn't find one in that photo of a hot (female) model. Never ask me if there's a meaning in model photoshoots. Anyway, Tommy (the guy I'm talking about) also has a unique perspective on "orang2 kecil di jakarta", gak tau itu maksudnya org2 kyk gw yg kecil2 ato org2 yg .. lebih kecil dari org gede. Anyway, just go to his page. Take a look around, and make sure to give some comments.
That's all for today. Signing off.
Cheers,
Putra
Playlist: My iPod.
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