"plak!"; "plak!"; "plak!"; "plak!"; "plak!"; "plak!";
x 8:32 am
slipped disc!
x 1:07 am
sausage-eating, beer-swilling Imperial pudding-heads hah!
x 3:31 am
arrownage
oh alas! my turn comes in a matter of days, say three. the privileged life brakes to a halt, only to be replaced with that of toil and turmoil. anyway, to 'induce' me into the mood, i got this game which totally rocked, and puts me into the mood. medieval 2: total war, puts you in the seat of the one man controlling one of the varied factions. don't be fooled by the short/long campaign differences:a typical 'short' campaign WILL take at least a week for the casual gamer, and at most three days for one who plays about 12 hours a day! i've already finished with the English short campaign by conquering Scotland and France, but it's no walkover-the Papacy constantly intervenes. There was a point where my mortal enemies-the French, and the Imperials(Holy Roman Empire=Germans) dragged on an endless war, not only a military, and also a diplomatic war-ceasefire and declare war, rinse and repeat until done. The half-assed thing about this is that, they had allied with the Papacy, and had my faction excommunicated. Now the mad thing about being excommunicted by the Pope is that the Inquisition will then take place. In the game, all the Inquisitors do are to root out and exterminate your governors/generals all because they are not pious. In fact, they leave you murmuring the words 'unfair' and pump up lots of blood to your eyeballs. Hence, the Papal States, while not possessing the full territorial powers of empires, actually does have a very annoying and undeniable form of lowly existence. War is that cheap. Hah, anyway here are some screenshots. 1. enemy army being flanked on its right, so good day. 2. sign of the cross-let's take it as a homage to the whole lot of religious elements in the game. 3. arrownage. a hail of arrows on a fleeing soldier(at least he was before i took the screenshot). i noticed he had a headshot too. good game, i say. I have seen more, but failed to take related scenarios, such as the whole cavalry unit charging down on the sole swordsman etc..it just makes me laugh maniacally...the best thing is that you get to capture prisoners. I wanted my generals to build on their dread level, so i unswervingly had them summarily executed all at once, instead of ransoming them. i was even happier when i saw the royalty member on the top of the list, himself being worth 1000 florins in ransom, which in itself can buy you a fleet of quality warships already. of course i was glad to have him rest in my prisoners' camp, at my pleasure. i'd mouse over the execute button several times to hear all their pleas for mercy. Regardless, i know the last i heard from them was a painful death throe. and it makes me lol. (rhymes)
x 2:50 am
if world war II had been an online real-time strategy game..
The chat room traffic would have gone something like this.
*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got **** to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh1t u $#%s im gunna kick ur asses
T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right ***** im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an arss
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh sh1t help
Hitler: o man ur focked
paTTon: oh what now biotch
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: gj patton
paTTon: thnx
Hitler[AoE]: WTF eisenhower hax hes killing all my sh1t
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny~tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun #$%@socker
Stalin: rofl
T0J0: HAHAHHAA
Hitler[AoE]: u guys are fockin gay
Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city
*Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.*
benny~tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself
Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL
Stalin: OMG LMAO!
Hitler[AoE]: WTF i didnt click there omg this game blows
*Hitler[AoE] has left the game*
paTTon: hahahhah
T0J0: WTF my teammates are n00bs
benny~tow: shut up noob
Roosevelt: haha wut a moron
paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now?
Eisenhower: yah me too
T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol
Eisenhower: fock u
paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie
Stalin: go to hell lol
paTTon: fock this sh1t im goin afk
Eisenhower: yah this is gay
*Roosevelt has left the game.*
Hitler[AoE]: wtf?
Eisenhower: sh1t now we need some1 to join
*tru_m4n has joined the game.*
tru_m4n: hi all
T0J0: hey
Stalin: sup
Churchill: hi
tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY **** I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy ****holy****hoyl****!
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*
*The Allied team has won the game!*
Eisenhower: awesome!
Churchill: gg noobs no re
T0J0: thats bull**** u fockin suck
*T0J0 has left the game.*
*Eisenhower has left the game.*
Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for ****
Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbarss
tru_m4n: l8r all
benny~tow: bye
Churchill: l8r
Stalin: fock u all
tru_m4n: shut up commie lol
*tru_m4n has left the game.*
benny~tow: lololol u commie
Churchill: ROFL
Churchill: bye commie
*Churchill has left the game.*
*benny~tow has left the game.*
Stalin: i hate u all $#%s
*Stalin has left the game.*
paTTon: lol no1 is left
paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep
*paTTon has been eliminated.*
paTTon: o sh1t!
*paTTon has left the game.*
for those who dun know historya simple disclaimer for you..
benny-tow=benito mussolini,italian dictator, generalissimo
roosevelt left the game. he died of natural causes during the war.
hitler left the game cos he lodged a bullet in his head, effectively crumbling the wehrmacht.
stalin wasn't in the same team in the next game, he was on opposing team. the map was called cold war-domination in the nuclear-armed world
and patton got on a jeep and left the game? right after the war, he had a real unfortunate accident while on a military jeep. his neck snapped i think.
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A LEVELS OUT. SIGH.
okay i'm never gonna study history again...geography i'm coming for you! looks like my relief teaching now is indeed an excellent experience prematurely gained..its ending soon, too bad. i enjoyed it for the most part of it. geography cum english teacher. why not? i'm happy doing what i'm doing now. i wouldn't mind if i'd to do it for a substantially greater part of my life. with a D in economics, i know i'm never cut out for business already. waved goodbye to the financial world. and as pledged, never to do history as a subject again. i had thought i'd do worse, but still, affinity ends there. as for geography, bringing back a B would let my students continue to see that i'm qualified to teach them. same goes for my gp, a decent b3. at least i won't have mandatory english modules to take. im considering doing english language and sociology as well. psychology may be popular, but the a few main modules hardly appeal to me. i really hope i can get into nus fass with my barely can-do grades. if i can't get in, then i wun know how to console other friends already. i'm somewhere in between the good and the bad. the uncomfortable tension. the awkward silence. the nobody's child. the vagabond.
caught in the stasis.
x 9:48 pm
not much smarter actually..
A blonde woman was really struggling with the jigsaw she's trying to complete, so she decided to phone her boyfriend.
"Hi Bradley, I'm doing this jigsaw but I just can't work out where to start."
"Have you looked for the corners?"
"yes, I can't find them!"
"Are you using the picture on the box to help you?"
The blonde is now getting really distressed.
"Yes, Yes, Ive got the box in front of me, it's a tiger! i don't know what I'm doing wrong!!!"
"Okay, I'll come over and we'll see if we can do it together."
When Bradley gets to his girlfriend's house, she welcomes him and leads him into the living room, she's explaining that all the pieces looks the same. He takes her by her hand and leads her to the sofa to sit her down.
He says, "Darling, I'm going to make us a cup of coffee and then we'll put the Frosties back into the box."
x 9:46 pm