Todays games

People who know me even a little would know that i'm a major game freak...
i may not be the Ult1mat3 Nem3sYs or Fatal1ty or g0D in gaming, but, i had my days as a good gamer in college...
Under the aliases of kab4al, uk, kat-ass-trop, dark horse and so on, i've created fear in many a hearts with my skillful fragging... want proof? have a look here...

chk eetz the frags by the kabals... oh... and here is quake...

so... i'm a good gamer... and i play a loads of games... well... at least i used to!!

I read an article by Mr.Maddox and i started thinking! Seriously! there is a point! whats the point in playing games with super duper graphics?! i mean come on! one needs to work hard to actually win in these!! i can give you loads of examples of such games! where you have to search for shit, or fight with 'villians' and the hi definition graphics makes this suck!
i'll show u an example... have a look here...


















i'm actually driving a car... and can barely see whats ahead! actually the picture is just one frame... so you can see stuff pretty clearly here... but, imagine at a frame rate of 40+... you can barely see a thing! and it becomes ridiculously tough to actually drive the car!

i started playing the game to have a good time! not a tough time trying to find where the freakin spikes are!!

now a days the concept of a good game has undergone so much change! i still remember those days when i used to love dave! and not to say the TV video games! awesome fun!! Hell yes! Contra!! and also kung fu... mario... road rage etc etc etc! i would be so thrilled to play those games!! every single time! but i don't see that happening now a days!

why is there such a change!! games are not only about extreme graphics and reality! its about the fun factor! which i would say most of today's games are missing or... its better put as being short lived...

may of you have heard of Grand Theft Auto... what an absolute kick ass game it is! i started playing GTA 2... which is a very low graphics game compared to its successors... as a result, the controls were damn easy... and the handling was awesome! but with GTA 3, vice city and others coming, the game became a first person type... and damn! was it tough!! and San Andreas! i think i played it only for 2 days... and got bugged of it... every time i enter a car, i have to set my camera to behave the way i want... but it refused! its so frustrating!! the whole purpose of gaming is defeated! where is the fun?!!

I hope the game developers go back and see what we really need!

there have been absolute kick ass games... like CS 1.6, HL, Quake, UT2000, Serious Sam, NFS PU, AOE, AOM, Max Payne etc... i hope i can keep playing these again and again and again!!

da fundas de life - 1NE

Eminem once sang

Lose yourself in the music
the moments u own it
u better never let it go
u only get one shot do not miss your chance blow
cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime!

and its pretty damn true!!
we dont realise how precisious and cool our lives are! and we bitch about small insignificant shit!

so I, the noble guy that I am, will give you fundas... so that you will appreciate ur life and thus other's lives too... so the whole world would become a cooler place to live in!

bring on the comments on whats bothering u... n i'll show the easy door...

to start with,

problem 1ne - traffic
well, almost all the ones living in major cities working for IT or otherwise find the city's traffic too ridiculous! u get pissed off to ride ur bike/drive ur car... coz theres just no place... and the agonizing traffic lights... damn! i need a break!

solution - u need a cell phone... and an opposite sex person to sms to...
how will this help? - well... once u start sending n receiving sms, trust me, u will forget about traffic! u will want the traffic jams to be bigger... so that you will get time to message back!
and every time ur phone vibrates in ur pocket, you would be eager to stop ur vehicle at the next signal! so the traffic signals dont bother you no more! :)

see... simple funda...

The sculptors.... aka architects!

This is, leddiez and gentulmans, ein tribute to the ones who are responsible for what i am now!
they are the ones with whom i went to school/college/tution/wherever!
they are the ones who have influenced me in more than one way... good or bad...
they are the ones who have sculpted this fine sculpture that is me... which you already know ;)
they are the architects...
if u are pissed off with me, just imagine what more off a kat-ass-trop i'd have been if these sculptors werent there!

so... the list begins... and theres no end to it... and also, there will/can be additions!

Mr.Beasty
normally called manju... likes to be called yash...
fokr is in purdue n will become a roket scientist soon... :D
boy is fully talented, purdue, need i say more?!
average build... a proof that knowledge dont need space to be stored in!
encyclopaedia boy he is! panta in kannada, english and many other things!


Mr.Panta

normally called Vivek... likes to eat and sleep and game...
fokr is in mysore aaraamse passing time with no or little or over work @ infy...
panta is his name... and for a reason! every ounce of fat in him has some knowledge... reads hell lotta books, watches umpteen movies, eats like a pig...
my roomie for a year and more...

Mr.Nekro
normally called sudhiranjan... likes ***n...
fokr is in hydbad doing some shit...
Nefarious necro... the gre boy ;) waste body is still in hydbad kiththing what i dont know!
father of age of mythology... my roomie for a year....
(Update - 9/12/08)
maame is on International bench!! TCS 1 yr US onsite made him work for 23hrs a day for first few months... and now... boy is on friggin bench... while onsite! spends most of his time playing the big brain thingy on facebook...


Mr.Don
normally called vinod... marwadi boy... from badhravati village :D
fokr is in aamchi mumbai kiththing with TCS... full practical boy...
likes to sing crawling by linkin park... my roomie for a year or so...
(update - 9/12/08)
Daan... still in mumbai... unmarried marwadi boy... lo... ur demand and dakshine will go down if u continue this way...

Mr.Veejay

normally called vijay... talented singer boy...
fokr is in IISc, offcourse also with his singing! founder member of a band called Blendzzz... boy sings like a girl also!! major Rahman fan... started listenin to english recently :)
(update - 9/12/08)
dude is in Univ of Texas... has braved Mr.Gustav and Ms.Ike... and maybe more!


Mr.Chichi

Normally called Niranjan... pukka shetty...
fokr is in IBM doing something that he doesnt like! coz he aint earning in the 8lakh bracket... always wants kaasu kaasu kaasu... he eats kaasu, breathes kaasu, drinks kaasu, thinks kaasu... does everything with kaasu except spending it!
uncle buddhi... gives advice on everything, if needed...
kollegal boy... so little danger... full links with veerappan...
"kaas michcha maadodu" is his motto... a little chool party also ;)
(update 9/12/08)
Item jumped to havuvei or whatever tht company is... doing loads of kaas michcha...

Mr.Thabdey

normally called Chetan...
fokr is aiming for a green tag with wipro in hydbad...
full genius boy from gangavati... wrote GATE... and lost his admit card... so couldnt go to IISc... ontara waste body! :)
but... full sheer geniusness oozing out in all directions from him...
(update 9/12/08)
Nothing could hold him back from IISc... boy quit job and is back in namma bengaluru preparing for GATE 09... ppl who are gonna write Gate 09... theres no hope for ur percentile when this bugger is around.


Mr.Paapi
normally called rajlaxman...
fokr is in Chennai, TCS, behind some black babes... (boy likes black babes!)
full painting talenty boyge... everywhere he can paint... Everywhere!
full hardworking boy... full determination... never say die attitude boy...
an indefatigable thirst to get as many marks in the exams...
(update 9/12/08)
Annavru is comitted... comitted to "art"... exhibiting his art in Chennai... apart from working with the tatas.




Mr.Bob
normally called prabhu...
fokr in mysore... sitting prolly on infy bench...
boy plays more quake than he breathes! makes a circus our of quake... forgets the fact that its a game of fragging... always strafe jumping, plasma climbing, verticle/horiz verbounce and similar shit... i always beat him at quake ;) gauntleted him many times :)

Mr.Atti
normally called srinidhi...
fokr is in bosch... posted as a hardware engineer... haha... paapa...
full homely boy... in an ideal way... rules are to be followed... and never broken... first bencher in class... every day, every class, all the 4 years of BE!
all assignments are for our good... so must be done...
my roomie in germany... cooks awesome bisi bele baath!




now are the ones without pics! coz i dont have the pics... or havent found them yet...

Mr. Dandra - normally called prasad... a delicate balance between rebel and ideal boy... hard working! full thale... not puttin it to use properly! fokr was in wirpo... jumped to samsung for more moolah!
Mr. Chutan - normally called Chetan... ideal mechie... bindaaas... handsome dude... fokr in IBM... a typical chik magnet... lives life to the fullest... no kirik... no tension...
Mr. Raghavendra - a special mention! normally called Guru! coz he is the one kinda fellas!! fokr is in ITPL... knows hell lotta computers... major programmer... NITK material! one of the deadli boys who pioneered the sculpting of the the sculpture which is writing this!
(update 9/12/08) He is doing what he was meant to be doing! Indian Institute of Science!
Mr.Pramod NDA - normally called Pramod... fokr is in Army! protecting us without our knowledge! much like the van allen belts!! among the pioneers!
Mr. Suraj Jain (Dr) - normally called suraj... marwadi number one! is a doctor now... but full different genre of talents boy has! also a pioneer in the sculpting business!

there are many more such fellas... but time is up... i need to go! so i might have skipped ur names... so... u can catch me and kick my ass for missing u ;)

catch me if u can...