Video Games

Recently I got a new console and have played some games on it, those are some good graphics on those new consoles.

"Mechwarrior 2, fast cars, other Sega games. I don't have Super License, I have to drive the Nuerbergring to get the Gran Turismo 4 Super License, with the track car, as I run a minute quarter mile.

More Quake info at www.stomped.com.

SubSpace is also a good place to play.

This new stuff is MPLayer. Mechwarrior 2, Quake, WarCraft, and Big Red Boat. All over the Internet in real time. It has been a while since I played, like 60-6 in WarCraft. Beware the pepto bismol guy.

I have completed each level of StarCraft and StarCraft Brood Wars, at the maximum difficulty level, with no cheats.

Also, I used more RPGs as a child."

That's what I wrote before. Since then, I have played some more video games. I have played more real-time strategy and tactics games, and some first person games. I solved Half-Life, Mechwarrior 3, Shogun: Total War, and Rainbow Six Rogue Spear on the most difficult level, by the rules.

There are multiple multi-player gaming venues.

I started playing video games when I was young. I remember Pong, the video game. I played Coleco and Atari, Intellivision, Tandy, and mostly Commodore 64 video games, and some video games at the arcade. Then, I played more during college, and some later.

The Commodore 64 had the very best video games of any home system at the time. I have more than fifty floppies, and tapes and cartridges.



That's what I wrote before.

Since then, I still have played some video games. Ah, the computer game.

The other day I was happy to find myself drawing parallels among all sports. I found myself considering four dynamics: The individual dynamic is the key dynamic of sport. It encompasses the physical, mental, and emotional/mental game. Sometimes the other dynamics have more importance or focus at a time, yet it always returns that the key dynamic is the individual dynamic.

The team dynamic has much importance in team sports, sometimes the most importance. Where there is the larger team, therein lies the more importance within the team dynamic.

Some sports are solo sports, in those there is no team dynamic.

The opponent dynamic is very key. Some people play to competition, their individual dynamic is accentuated by the skill of their opponent, and vice versa, some people are only good at playing lesser opponents, some people rise to competition.

A key of the opponent dynamic is the crux of the diametric strengths of the competitors.

The field dynamic has to do with the playing situation. In chess, for example, the field is an eight by eight square, with alternating moves of pre-placed pieces. Most analog sports fields are different each time played. Each game is different, the field is always the field. Sometimes the field includes spectators.

The game dynamic includes both the obervers or spectators and the other players of the not in direct competition, the game and its results in context.

Those are dynamics I consider in sport, also I have begun to consider the openings, leadings and followings, and endings in sport.

Other concepts in sport to consider are the deliveries or responses. These are common concepts in many games, which when played with others are sports. For example, many games use a ball, the agent. The ball is delivered to its recipient. It is almost always the task to deliver the ball to the recipient. In billiards, the ball is the object ball and is delivered to the pocket. In American football, the ball is the football and is delivered to the end zone. In golf, the ball is the ball, and is delivered to the hole. In archery, the ball is the arrow, and it is delivered to the target. In chess, the agent is the piece, which is delivered. The response is the result of the delivery.

Another concept is the shot. The shot is comprised of the approach, the shot, and the follow-through. The shot is meant to deliver. The approach is all the things that go into deciding which shot to take. The shot is specifically the shot. The follow-through is what to expect after the shot.

Many games include a concept of defense. These are reactions and planned reactions to actions. That leads into the trite concepts of offense and defense. Do you understand when defense means more than yourself, or the British spelling?

I run fast. I have been horseback riding, I've played some basketball, I can throw a football, catch. I have a hand-made golf club or clubs, bowl, hacky-sack, frisbee, swim, lift little or much, chainsaw and pike/peavey, shadow box, wrestle, practice lacrosse, and follow various other pursuits. I'm competitively inclined to mathematics. I like tennis and racquetball, card games, wordplay, alpine skiing, and can put an arrow into something from seventy yards away. I have a bicycle and some cameras. I've set some speed records. I'm not very competitive in most of those things. Most aren't.

I drive cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles, and a few forms of construction equipment. I'm halfway decent at driving in inclement conditions, manual or automatic.

I've played some other video games. I was at one point 150-10 in Red Alert 2. My current favorite video game is either Half-Life or Jane's F-15 Strike Eagle. I know some guys who flew jets, including Phantoms, and some who went to Top Gun in real life. In F-15 I'm the flight leader. I night landed a jet on a carrier on a Commodore 64, when I was 12, after a couple tries, kept landing in the water, I still have problems refueling, the agents are delivered on target, 20/200 vision, claimed asthma. Space command. "Tweedle tweedle tweedle" - Sparrow. Heh, in Red Alert 2 I'm a global commander. In real life I espouse peace.

Contact lenses give me 20/10. At around six foot and 195 pounds, I don't complain.

Here are some things I'd like to try, I'm either not good at them or haven't: juggling, unicycle, endurance running, biathlon, triathlon, pentathlon, skeet, throwing arbitrary objects, pitching.

I remember being a little kid and having a dirtbike. A dirtbike is what is called a BMX bicycle. I think the tricks they do these days are great, my era was like five or more years before front tirestands on axle pegs, just running the dirt hills. I can ride around the block with no hands, yet, I haven't yet figured out how to ride a unicycle.

I really like skiing, it's a fun deal. I'm no good at powder or moguls, just bombing, stem christie, some parallel, and herringbones with push-offs, uphill skiing, nice trails, no jumps. Last time I took a jump I jammed my thumb on the pole as I landed. One time I did a flip headplant out of a gully, boy, that was educational. As I walked back up the hill gathering my gear I decided not to do that. Most of the time I ski all day standing, except for the lift and lunch.

I read fast. I read remarkably fast. Fast: adjective and adverb.

The football is a fun thing sometimes, but contact football is dangerous. I think it's fun. I learned to throw a spiral when I was a kid, I can throw the football forty or fifty yards playing catch a couple times. When I was a little kid it was really easy to fake me out, juke. I can catch. I've had a couple baseball gloves, baseball stymies me. I like casual basketball, I can't dunk but I can touch the net. I'd have to practise for weeks, intensively, before I could dunk.

I used to be very thin and had very little muscle mass, I almost never worked out and only rarely exercised, well, depending. What was there was effective. Now I weigh forty pounds more than my adolescent weight. I hit my form from cross-country track and then ignored it for years. I gain pretty fast. I guess I probably mostly use isometrics. I think there are a lot of fundamental skills and abilities that apply across the range of physical sports.

Soccer's pretty fun, I never played on a league team. I got some training from my uncle for the exercises and the kicks. I'm terrible at volleyball. Actually, I'm halfway decent at volleyball. In fact, I can serve and volley. I played tennis one time.

I took some horseback riding lessons, it was pretty cool. The horse goes forwards, backwards, sideways, front turn, and back turn, lets me pick up the foot, that kind of thing. Steering is a combination of reins, voice, and mostly stance, carriage. Galloping is fun, it's pretty fast. Before that I went trail-riding, riding all day.

I like swimming. I've been to an ocean warm enough to swim before and went snorkeling. I can freedive twenty or thirty feet or with a snorkel I guess, swim for a minute or two, for snorkeling a couple days. We rented a boat and my brother and I got dropped in the tide one time, it was all swimming to stay in one place. Ocean swimming kind of scares me because I'm afraid of sharks. I never got into cliff-diving, I think it's dangerous. I can kick at the edge of the pool and my legs go as fast as I want. I swim crawl, freestyle, breaststroke, sidestroke, some butterfly, and backstroke, intermediate/swimmer, no lifeguard.

I can shuffle. There are fifty-two cards in a standard deck, forty-eight in Pinochle, fifty-four in poker. I bridge shuffle, seven times, player right of the dealer cuts. Backgammon can be fun, there are lots of board games, a variety of games are played on a chessboard.

My sports hero is Stile. Also John Elway, best quarterback ever, uh, Moon, Young, Aikman, McNair. Grandpa. Dad, my brothers.

Dice are dice.

I've been shooting lots of pool. I play mostly eight ball and nine ball.

The other day, I was punching a heavy bag. I punched it, and punched it, and kicked it, a couple times. You'd be sad to see how it sagged. I also had blocked it, a couple times. Anyways, it is off its kilter. It is a happy-ass heavy bag. I'm concerned about what it means to be a twelve round heavy bag. I'm a heavyweight. Ask the bag how I punch, it says nothing. I can only punch forty or fifty times without stopping. My hands are not built for punching. I don't like to take a punch.

Here's one of my names: Burn. Here's another: Render. Here's another: Zeke. Don't forget Two Dog. I have more than thirty nick-names. I know a couple guys with nick-names. What's up, Nick. These are their aliases they sometimes use.

Fantasy and reality are easily blurred in video games, that's the point.

Video games are good, because, they're games, and nobody ever died or was injured from playing a video game, not counting induced epilepsy or carpal tunnel syndrome. Books outweigh games tremendously, currently.

Good luck, peace, love,




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