How far we've come

I'm graduating from JC in 3 and a half months.

It's just really quick... And my A levels are in 4 months.

I know I don't have much time left...

Now everyday I go to school knowing it is my last term in school. The last time I will be standing at the track, singing the national anthem, last time in the CC singing the school hymm, last time standing and perspiring under the sun listening to scripture being read out.. It's these little things that you'll no doubt take for granted in school.

Now that it's coming to an end, I guess I'm somewhat relieved, somewhat sad. The thought of not doing any more of these childish high school stuff, doesn't really bother me, but maybe just made me ponder for a while:

that truly, time is the master of destiny.

Internet literature

Murphy's law: 99% of everything is shit.

Today: Found some 1%.

I had actually heard about the LP for Animal Crossing for some time, but had never bothered to read it, assuming that it was just another black parody of a children's game. I started on Part 1 just now and then read it all the way through. "Let's Plays" are usually just some guy snarking his way through a video game, sometimes you get good laugh material, but this... this is beyond parody. This is nightmare fuel. Well-written, riveting nightmare fuel based off a children's game about cute animals. Link below.

The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing.


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Second story I found (a month or two ago) is a bit different. It's a trader-turned-scammer's account of how he did his first big scam in EVE Online. EVE's one of those mega-MMOs, so the virtual game money actually has some significant real-life value. The story's basically a crime action film, brought down to reality - I suppose that's why it got my heart pounding when the virtual spaceships start shooting. It's an alternately exciting and disgustingly fascinating look into the EVE metagame.

It's called Nightfreeze. It was written as some sort of memoir, but it's a bit cloudy as to how much of it's actually true. It's got some teeth-biting parts, but the ending's kind of lame. I'm actually toying around with writing a feature-length script for it someday (no srsly!).

Metagaming is the term we use to describe real-life actions that support virtual holdings and investments. For example, cutting the power to a guy's house so that your internet buddies can fly in with spaceships and blow up his expensive Titan. (that's an EVE Online ancedote, too!)