Gaming/Game Links

Leading with Cooking Mama again. Luckily after a few attempts, I managed to pick up a copy for $20 today, so yay! I haven't tried it yet, but the consensus seems to say it's not very good. The highest ranked review presented their review in a really creative manner. It was presented like a script of an iron chef episode pitting the DS version against the Wii version. Hopefully I'll get a chance to try it out this weekend.

Does anyone remember "You Don't Know Jack"? It was a really fun trivia game back in high school that was really creative in it's presentation, voicework and writing. Well, You Don't Know Jack is back....sorta. It used to have a multiplayer option, but now, only Dis or Dat is multiplayer. Anyway, check it out and have fun laughing!

Anyone ever play Mystery of Time and Space? It's one of those clicking games where you have click yourself out of a room. Well there are some new ones out...go nuts.

Anyone play Tower Defense, a single player subtype warcraft 3 game that became pretty popular. Here's a flash version of a Tower Defense game. Upgrade those Squirt towers and create a maze!

There's RPG/RTS (warcraft3) and action/RTS (Battlezone), but FPS/RTS?

And lastly, a "philosophical" Mii video:

Frustration

Argh. I was looking forward to getting some Warcraft III in tonight after work. I was even the first one on, which is unusual, because I'm usually last. There was the possibility of seeing three new players tonight, Matt, Andrea and Ernest. That is exciting!

But then we started playing some 4v4AT. And we lost 7 in a row. That's 2.5 hours of straight losing. Fuck. That is really frustrating. One team I suspect was hacking, and the rest of the games weren't even that close. Argh. Maybe it's the lost hour of sleep, but it's probably because I am more rusty than I thought. We played really poorly, no teamwork, no aggression, no confidence...well, at the very least I know I didn't play great. I think 7 losses in a row is a record. Bah.

Anyway, put a real damper on the evening, when I was looking forward to it so much. I guess that's the problem with playing online, sometimes you lose. I don't mean to discourage new players, but this losing feeling is not pleasant. Hopefully, this means that the next time we play we'll be matched up with noobs, instead of all the pros. Battle.net is like that - one day it'll keep matching you with higher skilled opponents and the next it'll keep matching you with lower skilled opponents.

Anway, at the very end, at least I got a game of DOTA in and we won, so at least there was some positive. Sorry for the boring post, I feel frustated...and my clicking finger is hurting. I guess what it really means is that I have to sharpen my skills with more practice. Sigh.

Working Out

I have started going to the gym again after a long hiatus. I'm the type that needs someone else to help me keep disciplined, so that's why I usually try to find a workout partner. Plus it makes working out a lot more fun. I almost exclusively work out with a partner and rarely go by myself. You know the term social drinker? You could call me a social excerciser.

Luckily, I've found a workout partner in Waterloo - Chris Erven. He's a good fit in the sense that he likes to do a lot of leg exercises and I like to do a lot of upper body work, so we work both muscle groups out consistently. We're not a good fit in the sense that he's over 6 feet tall and I'm short, which means we have to adjust the equipment all the time. In terms of weight, half the exercises I do more weight and the other half he does more, which is kinda strange. Maybe it has something to do with which exercises we respectively like.

I also went out and got an exercise ball to sit on instead of a chair. I hear it's suppose to be good for your abs or something. I hate doing ab excercises, so maybe this'll help. I didn't expect it, but I find it tiring to sit on it. But recently we've picked up Warcraft III again, and when I play, I don't pay any attention to what I'm sitting on. In fact, I hardly notice anything around me when I'm playing.

The reason we started again is because they reset the Ladder and Blizzard is starting season 5. This mean the rankings are wide open and it's possible to reach a very high standing without too much effort. For instance, we're only 3-1 (win-loss) so far in 4v4AT (4 versus 4 arranged team), and we're already ranked 13th (as of this writing). I think a lot of other people know this as well, because there seems to be a influx of players on battle.net. We use to joke in University that we were the hardest working team on bnet, because the only way we could get a high ranking was by playing a lot of games. Our high ranking is not indicative of our skill, because we're not very good. For example, we almost lost today 4 vs 3 (ie one opponent dropped) TWICE. That is pretty sad.

Anyway, hopefully all that sitting and clicking will burn enough calories so I can eat food worthy enough to post on BiteMe.