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What are you doing Saturday?

What are you doing Saturday?

Saturday, the big 2012. And what are we looking forward for? Better ?, More business?, better lifestyle? New Bathroom?,  More friends?,  More nights out?, Money? A new bathroom?, Better Games?, III?, OL in London?, European Football championship?, New ?, More Traveling?, Better ?, World Peace?, A Piece of the World?, Surgery?, A revelation?

Just a few examples, of what to look for in the new year. you might have them all, you might have none.

I always enjoy the New Years Eve party. I never go out to town, i always stay at the party, where ever i am. Why spoil an evening with friends by going out after midnight? Crowded places, people being to drunk, Things that goes bang! I’m going to a nice private party with two good friends that invited me. The Charlotte, is not coming with me this evening, she has her own plans. People might call me stupid for not joining a party with 10 Stripfittness girls, but prioritizing some friends instead ;-) Have a nice and safe evening, and see you in 2012

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Diablo 3 and Swtor

Diablo 3 and Swtor

Sooo many , soooooo little time.

With Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3 and Skyrim already out, it’s hard to find time to enjoy them as it is. Trying to Balance Work, Professional theater, .com, social and Girlfriend beside the , is hard enough as it is. Now we have two greats games on the way, one with US release the 20th of December namely; Star Wars: . Second one is of cause 3. Both great game (hopefully, did try Swtor Beta). These titles are both valid reasons for calling in sick one week at the time :-D (of cause I’M not gonna do that)

With new games there is cool opening scenes to sell it. Where both Diablo 3 and Swtor has realeased them,posted here of cause. But to get back to the time issue. I find it harder and harder to find time for everything. Work takes up minimum 8 hours everyday, and the rest takes on my spare time when not sleeping! So you can see that it’s a lot of “hobbies” for the remainder of the time on a day.

PanCakeBeaver is finishing up some Projects for Why not Theatre, Mitrevski.org and myself, more to follow there in another post. Enjoys the posted Game .

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A weekend in review

A weekend in review

So the is coming to an end. And what did i do with my this weekend? Well it feels like i have got nothing done, but sometimes having a real chilling weekend might be good for ya. It’s not like i have done nothing at all, but accomplished very little.

Getting of Friday i had a great taste for beer. (Don’t you always have that on Fridays?) But had nothing planed. I then remembered that Halo: Reach got released some few days ago, and sense I’ve been a fan of the other Halo (even bought Halo: ODST) i thought to myself, that why not give it a go. So i acquired the game from my local Block Buster and went home, to start up the Campaign. Before i knew it, the time was way to much to be doing anything else and i just as well could keep on playing. So i did till about 3 in the morning.

Saturday i decided to get a bit out, so i arranged to go to my brothers place and see their new house/flat out in Nivå. I had to go to my English group The CTC first, where we are rehearsing the production of “” that premieres around start October. Afterwards i took the train for Nivå to meet the family. We decided to just stay in and have a drink (or many) when my was put to bed. My brother had all the ingredients needed to make Black or White Russians. For the Black Russian you just need Vodka and Kahlua, and to make a White you just add some milk afterwards.  Well….. we had a few and went to bed around 4 in the morning.

Returning this i was pretty much back in a planless weekend, and not because there is that much weekend left, but decided to a bit more Halo. This is where my accomplishment actually come in, for i succeeded in completing the solo campaign earlier this afternoon. On of my main reasons for loving Halo is for the fun you have when playing this kind of game in Cooperative mode, together with a friend or friends. Problem is just, that i don’t have any online who also have the game! So if you have the game, let me know, so we can complete it again in cooperative mode on Heroic mode!

Well, weekend is over and work is calling once again in the morning. Should go to bed a bit earlier than 3 and 4 in the morning! Woop woop

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Hello, tap-tap, is this thing on?

Hello, tap-tap, is this thing on?

It’s September, and it’s been a long time sense I’ve written anything. It’s time to start up again and starting out with a short update of what has happened the last couple of months.

During the i came to the decision to move back to The Motherland. I have had no job after i stopped at Elkjøp in February, and it just got to me. The reasons for moving back has been stacking up during the last year, and i decided that this was the best thing for me to do. My Norwegian way of life lasted for one year. Many might say that one year is not enough time to start up from fresh in a new place, and i agree with them. One of my former colleagues from Finland had to use 4 years to get attuned to her new life in Norway. As said the reason are there, where the main one is my theatrical work i do in . Not gonna get in details at this point.

My life in Norway has been a huge roller-coaster of emotions, thoughts, events and life changing things. I have met a lot of new people and lost some of them again. I’ve made new friends that  i ain’t gonna let go so easily. And i have had a wonderful life with Gf and her family. Gf has been my brightest point in Norway, when things seemed pointless and hopeless. You could say that with the events that took place like loosing our loved friend to the terrible accident in October 2009, not getting my contract on the job renewed, being unemployed, figuring out more meaning than 42, getting as the newest family member, loosing and everything else, might just have brought us closer together. All in all, it really sucks, that at this moment, she has not been able to come back with me to . All good things are worth waiting and working for. (more to come on this subject, just not right now) So status is now; me back in the apartment from where we moved in August last year.

After the decision was made to pull the anchor and return home, i applied for a job, went to the interview the week after. 4 hours after the interview i had the job. So what went wrong in Norway?, where i tried so very hard for 7 months? (yet another blog post to come) I got hired for working in Kamerahuset.dk Selling and helping people with their questions and purchases of digital cameras. Not my only function here, and i’m rapidly growing in the field of responsibilities. I was hired for start August 2, and have now been there for 1½ months. Once again I’ve met new people and have some awesome colleagues. Looking forward for the next long period of time, as i can hear my knowledge and mood grow for the better…. Just wish Gf was here to share the joy with me. (not that she is that far away, long live Skype!)

The same week i arrived at Copenhagen i also got hijacked for two plays with my lovely group The . We are doing a called “The House of Yes” and straight after that, we are doing the Christmas /musical “A Christmas Carol” looking very much forward to do these two , for i have had no acting involved in my life for the entire time in Norway.

When i arrived in Copenhagen i pretty much just had my suitcase with cloth and my laptop. And finally just last weekend i visited Gf and Gf-dad who was having his birthsday, in a van to pick up the rest of our stuff and my electronic equipment. I have been living on the couch of my loving family for the first month and just got my own place back this September. It’s all good.

Well this was as said just a quick update that i have started to write again, just as i used to. A lot of exiting things has been popping up that i wanted to write about; Food, games, gadgets and of cause photography, so hopefully i will be writing on a daily basis again.

Love ya all -  Tai out.

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Argh, where is my quicksave button?

Argh, where is my quicksave button?

Ever stood before a choice where you just wished you had the option to get back to the point before making the choice, just in case it goes terrible wrong? Computers and figured this out a long time ago. Like in Windows driver rollback and ’s Time machine software.

Not so long ago i noticed my cousin a game called though the system, and after a brief talk i decided to give it a try while it was on sale. The game itself is post by itself (that i will probably not write), but what i want to mention is the save system.

While many games let you save anytime you want, for example:  You are getting ready to invade a hostile city, and decide to by hitting the F5 key (most of the times is located on F5) so if the hostile takeover goes wrong, you just load the game and you are right back before the invasion. And you are now clear to make another choice. Or in First Person Shooters where you just before going round the corner (or just hitting it because of nerves every 34 seconds).

Well Mount and Blade has this option as well, BUT it also gives you the option to start the game in “realistic” mode. this means no quicksave, no manual save, only saving when clicking exit on the game. This means of course that you can just save and exit every 35 second, but do you really wanna do that? Gets tedious in the long run. And you can’t click exit on the game without it saving your progress.. This forces you to think more, and make the right choices. If youou don’t the game will punish you and you will suffer by the consequences.

This brings me a little bit back to the start of the post. Where is my quicksave button? Why is the human being not installed with Time machine? I have so many thoughts and choices to make the next 3 months that i really really really wish for a quicksave. I would be so great to be able to revert back to a specific point if the choices i make goes wrong….

“I’m normaly not a praying man, but if you are up there, please save me Superman” – Homer Simpson

Questionable sushi? Press Quicksave before eating

Questionable ? Press Quicksave before eating

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As seen on E3 (by others)

As seen on E3 (by others)

E3 is running at the moment i USA. And now i will just bib of my Nerd Alert.

********NERD ALERT*******

E3 is the biggest convention for in the world. It’s the fair where developers advertised their newest projects and , demos, gaming and more are revealed to the masses and press for the first time. All the biggest developers has their own fairs where they reveal their newest stuff. Developers like Blizzard and Apple (i know that Apple is not a developer in gaming, but it was to illustrate a point :-D )

Some of the stuff i have seen so far is stuff from Relic like the Warhammer 40K; Space Marine and Warhammer 40k; Millennium Online. The Space Marine trailer was already aired a year ago, but it’s still a cool trailer if you are fan of the 40K universe. has had their run at this years E3 as well. They have showed the final release of their Project Natal, that has now officially been renamed Kinect plus a new slimmer edition of the 360, that also comes bundled with the Kinect.

E3 is far from over,  following it still to see what treats they are dishing out. And to finish this post, I’ll end it with a quote from the new trailer from Portal 2. ”I think we are ready to put our differences beside us. For science…. You monster”

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Gonna Steam my Mac

Gonna Steam my Mac

Or i would if i had a .

Well Steam has finally been released for the Mac computers, so if you don’t have a Mac running an older outdated version of the operating system OS X, you can now install an join the community with ease.

For you who don’t know Steam, let me explain a little bit.  Steam is a program that install to your and sign up for an account. Via this account you now buy straight from the program, that after the purchase downloads straight to the , ready for immediately. The brilliant thing is that, when a game has been purchased you can now install steam on any you might have, log into your steam account and install that game, and play any time your please. Your purchases are saved within your account information. Brilliant. It’s never been easier to get new games (or old classics) for your .

Well Steam has now been released for Steam and together with the release, Steam has also launched the term “SteamPlay” SteamPlay is a term you should look for when browsing the Steam shop for games. It means; When buying a game you are able to play it on a as well as a Mac! Otherwize you need to make sure if the game is Mac compatible or .

But i doo think it’s brilliant that i can buy Civilization IV and play on my PC, and after that go on holiday together with Gf and install it on her Mac and play there as well. Just brilliant. Of cause got her own account as well, for the only thing about Steam you should know is, that you can’t log into your account two places at once. So i can’t buy a game and we both be playing it at the same time on a computer each. Bought her the “Indie Game Pack” so she has something to play with other that Sims 3 on her Mac.

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Rise of the Godslayer

Rise of the Godslayer

This Tuesday Funcom released their first expansion to the game: Age of Conan.

Conan was original released about two years ago. It had a huge problem with a lot of kiddie decease’s and lack of content alaround the possible lvl’s of the game. Two years has passes and the Age of Conan (AOC) you have today is something really really different. has not waisted any time fixing the bugs, making the game smooth and adding the missing content. This of cause has made sure that that AOC has a big fan base and are able to maintain servers, content and not go down the drain as so many other MMORPG we have seen (Vanguard anyone?)

When buying the expansion you actually get the original game included. So this means that if you wanna try the game you can buy the expansion for about 250-275 NOK and not worry about not having the original game.  And you get 30 days of time before the monthly fees kicks in.

Well i bought the expansion and went into the account page to add the expansion serial number. No need to actually install the expansion if you have the original installed. The updater will automatic install the needed content (beware we are talking about a 3.65 GB patch) The release of the new content was this Tuesday, but you where not able to game before today Wednesday. The servers was still being patched and did not go online before sometime after midnight. Well the servers are up again and the patching took about 1 hour for me. Posted here is a little that explains some of the new content.

On a side note, i can tell you that Age of Conen / is the most beautiful MMORPG games that has ever been. The graphics are breathtaking and nothing has been able to top it…. yet.

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PvE vs PvP vs Co-Op

PvE vs PvP vs Co-Op

In different you have different ways of playing beside the normal single-player campaign or whatever the game has to offer. In (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing ) you have the different servers to play on. All depending if its PvP or PvE you are looking for.

PvP stands for Player vs Player, so the game is pretty much based on competing against other online players. PvE stands for People vs Environment, so here you are ussually teamed together with others to take down some Bitch or dragon or whatever. When playing mmorpg games PvE are usually the servers i go for (or the RP “Role Playing” servers) Because i find it a lot more fun working together with others accomplishing a goal together. Yes you can still play together on a PvP server but the essence on those servers are still PvP.

I always look for games with an excellent Co-Operation (Co-Op) function. I don’t need an entire team to have fun playing together. Games like Gears of War 1 and 2 pretty much grinds my gears in a good way. I thinks it’s fun to battle the hordes of hell with just a single sidekick. This must be the reason why i also like the Halo games? Sense i played Halo the first time with one of my buddies. Two people in front of a little playing on the same xbox with a split screen trying to finish the halo games on the highest possible difficulty.

Many games offers different varieties of Co-Op. Games like Modern Warefare, Bad Company 2 and such. You have your team where you have to together to accomplish a goal or just killing the other team. Game types like Capture the Flag, King of the Hill. I like game types where you have to accomplish a goal compared to games where you just have to shoot the other team to shit. I like team vs team games, and maybe because of the team effort! I’m one of those players who tries to follow my squad leader, give orders to the others, really try becoming a team. I have no doubt that this is also a success criteria in these kind of games.

I pre-ordered as said before the for , so i that the multiplayer part of it will be well worth it. For there is a looooooong time to Gears of War 3 and we have no clue on 3 yet.

Gears of War 2

red dead redemption

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Red Dead Redemption blues

Red Dead Redemption blues

Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar Games is being released here in Maj. Once again i’m having trouble with deciding on what platform i should get it for. The or the . Normally i wait a little bit until there are some reviews from the different platforms, to see where the game runs the best. But this time it’s not that much the graphics and controls that bother me, but what friends to aim for. I have different friends on my lists on both and the Xbox (this also made me get Modern Warfare 2 for both consoles) I wanna play with all of my friends, but as long as we don’t all have the same type of platform, it’s a bit hard. This time i have an agreement with one of my friends, that he will sponsor half a game (why is a different story, can only say it involves Ninjas..) And to honor that i at least could get it for the type of that he has.

Having Modern Warfare 2 for both consoles made me really HATE the friend system that PS3 have compared to Xbox. On the Xbox you can form a party and chat away with the microphones and game at the same time. PS3 you can not. You will have to join the in-game communications because it shuts the com-party down. And in the in-game chat the sound is way to compressed, everybody sounds like a twelve year old, and you have screaming British people from Manchester that you constantly need to mute (i have nothing against British people, i just can’t understand Manchester when being screamed with a high pitch twelve year old voice) it SUCKS! Come on Sony, you can update this crap to be better.

Well… Despite the friends/communication babel i have now pre-ordered the game for PS3. At least i know i have 2 friends here who are getting it for the same platform, so next thing to do is to go out in the real world and make even more friends for my playlist, so we can have the ultimate Red Dead Redemption Possy.

red dead redemption

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