I still have files on yahoo briefcase… very very valuable, but only to me… I am not talking about the contents of the file… yes, the files did cost me a lot, but I am not talking about that either. This is a different kind of value, which all of us appreciate. The value which is directly related to the object, the person and the time.. want examples ??? of course… Remember your old jeans? Remember your photos back from school days??  VALUABLE indeed ……

Sweet old memories I have in those uploaded bytes. The days of Gaming, Days of Age of Empires, Half-Life, Diablo II and Counter Strike… The days of my so called college, which I hardly ever bothered to attend… The days when the day used to dawn with the game and set with another… the memories of those addictive days crawl through my mind, unleashing torrents of energies, taking me into a trance, i see ….hoards of paladins raging through fields, rams attacking thick stone walls, Siege weapons hurling stones at distant enemy towers…. Somewhere deep beneath the town, we fight the legions of demons, just so we could reach to the portal which leads us to another realm…. GoGoGo… Strom the Front… Affirmative…….. Killing Spreee…. Double Kill…. Triple Kill……  …..GODLIKE!!!  Oh my GOD they’re so many names… WoW, DotA, Ragnarok, Warcraft III, Renegade, Commandos , CnC Generals, Red Alert II, GTA II, GTA Vice City, Quake III Arena, Day of Defeat, Unreal Tournament …  The awesomeness…..

I used to upload my savegame files over Yahoo Briefcase often… Just so that I could resume the game back home or in some other cyber cafe… I had plenty of Age of Empire custom maps, downloaded from several websites, stored in my briefcase, so that we wont need to find them again… Very addictive years they were… nothing else really mattered.. bunking college for days, spending those hours in cyber cafes playing multiplayer games with other kids, doing exactly the same with their colleges and their time was all that we used to do. Their real names never mattered, we hardly knew any real names of our fellow gamers… only nicknames like Nightmare, Casino, Shadow Warrior, Samrat, Pappupager, Cracker, A1, Chilli and so on… I still stick to my nickname “JaguarNac”…. I believe it’s something like gamer’s code that you do not ask a fellow gamer his real name until he exposes it by himself… or his parents come to the cafe yelling his name for bunking the college

Fun times indeed.

~JaguarNac~

As of now, I do not have any plans for remaining two days of this amazing vacations. Will keep this place posted for anything exciting. Latorz!!!

~JaguarNac

I’m happy indeed, I’ll finally get the time I needed to get my new PC running. I can now play Team Fortress 2 without any visual lag, Complete Half-Life 2, look into the OpenSocial things again, do some Adobe Air stuff and what not. Maybe a post or two on the Marathi blog that i started and left abandoned…

Diwali is a great festival. A festival of Light, Prosperity and the usual yet different celebration of the victory of Good against Evil. Friends, relatives and all the good food shared with them makes the days of Diwali even more energetic.

With all those energies, I wish you all a Very Very Happy, Prosperous and Peaceful Diwali. Enjoy the days, the food, the fireworks and the games !!!!

!!! Happy Diwali !!!

~JaguarNac~

It’s been a few years since Half-Life 2 was in play. I am a total fan of Half-Life 1 and many other nice mods that came along with it, including Counter Strike. The HL2 did meet all my expectations am happy killing zombies and headcrabs. This time, I even get to smash some robots ^_^.

Portal is one amazing game that comes with “The Orange Box”, second is “Team Fortress 2″. This dude is multiplayer only. I can’t even explain the experience on last Sunday when I played a multi-player team FPS after almost a year.

Lastly, we have “Spores” on the map. Spore comes from “Maxis” who are the creators of a one-of-its-kind game “The Sims” . Spore offers a mix of several gameplays. You start off as a single cell, eat plants or other cells to grow, eventually you gain some parts that can be attached to this tiny cell of yours in the process of eveolution and you soon end up with your very own creature.

Eventually, the creature gets smarter and smarter, establishes tribes, fight wars, make alliances and end up being a civilization who fights more wars, makes more friends and ultimately, goes to explore the outer space…

something different !!

~Nac

I bought The Orange Box yesterday. However, my Lappy has some Intel graphic card which skrooz the display when i start the game, so i believe I’ll have to wait till I come back to India. Too bad. Half Life was one of my most favorite games of all times.

Apart from that, I managed to share a single keyboard and mouse across two laptops. YES, Synergy is the tool that you need to do this. I currently connect two laptops, one with Windows Vista and other with Ubuntu 8.04, together to share mouse, keyboard and clippboard.

A nice guide for doing this is available on Synregy site. I may post some quick guide stuff soon.

It’s Fun !!

~Nac

Now.. why do i NOT use my ALTERNATE number then??? well… that number is also disabled thanks to the “non-verified” address followed by my utter laziness to submit the documents at some local office. Nevermind… laziness is FUNN !!! saves u from a lot of work !!!

On occasions, I’d put myself off the network on weekends to steal a sweet cake of dreamless afternoon sleep but two days is the maximum feasible duration for staying out of the world’s immediate reach. It starts to get boring. Even if chosen to stay disconnected, I can easily change my mind anytime during the weekend, switch the phone on and start annoying any “contact”. Current compulsive disconnection is more like a punishment given to me by elder gamegods for navigating away from routine worship.

Weekend so far was funn though… Began on Friday night with “National Treasure : Book of Secrets” which was an AWSOME movie. Just as fast and interesting as the first one. Fast, Fun, Chase, Fun, Caves and Treasure with Action used as punctuations. I liked the National Treasure Villains in both the movies though. They don’t much believe in intellectual redundancy. Gates does all the thinking and bad guys just grab a hostage and meet him at the treasure entrances. Movie is once again “FUNN!!!” go see it “NOW”!!

Saturday gave good worship points from “DotA” and “World of Warcraft”. It’s a HOLY experience to munch on potato chips along with games. In the cafe, I surprisingly met two of the cafe “alumni” after somewhat like three years. Felt good .

Now, Here on sunday… i finish this post wishing you a Happy Sunday!!

~JaguarNac~