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Multi-dimensional Wonders of the World (of Warcraft)

Brackarn Santhor - Humble, stalwart warrior and dancer extraordinaire

It used to be that when you went marauding heedlessly into a dungeon or chasing the enemy hordes across the battlefield, you knew exactly who you were dealing with. You were usually sitting around a table with your friends and a character sheet in front of you which listed all your strengths and weaknesses, along with the entire contents of your backpack.

Your landscape was painted by your imagination and with your band of fellow adventurers the imaginary world was your oyster. Sometimes that oyster contained wonderful, wealth-bringing pearls and other times it tried to bite your head off with its razor-sharp teeth. Such was the way of life for every role-playing enthusiast. Que sera, sera.

I have a confession to make – I enjoy role-playing games.

It started innocently enough; but anyone will tell you addiciton always begins that way. I only wanted to make reading more interesting. Choose Your Own Adventure books helped do that. You could read the same book and change the ending almost every time just by turning left instead of right. I was in control. Total control. At least that’s what I thought.

As the years passed I found myself needing something more. The buzz of being able to dominate a storyline was outgrowing the offerings of such simple books. I yearned for a setting in which I could develop instead of stagnating in the simplistic storylines that always ultimately ended with nothing. Sure, I’d just saved the planet/rescued the girl/recovered the lost artifact but where could I go from there? Nowhere. I needed to become more than the inconsistency of constant character change with each new book.

Enter Dungeons and Dragons. It had everything I was looking for and so much more. Opportunity for advancement, action and adventure at every turn. The role-playing genre wasn’t one-dimensional either. There were entire universes out there to explore and imagine. If medieval fantasy wasn’t your thing, you could always become a mutant kangaroo in the world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or show off your super hero powers in the world of Marvel. The options were endless!

Life in the fantasy worlds wasn’t always peachy though. Pen and paper RPGs (Role-Playing Games) had – and still do have a stigma attached to them. We’re nerds or geeks, and not necessarily esteemed in that stereotype. Jocks hated us, cheerleaders never dated us, but we understood our place and where we initially fell short in the real World, we made up for with our alter-egos.

These days it’s hard to find a group of role-players who still gather around a table to roll the dice and envision themselves in a fantasy world. Along with its many other offerings to the modern World, technology has brought a whole new dimension to the lives of role-players and gamers everywhere. It can pretty much be put down to three simple words – World of Warcraft.

I stayed away from it for a long time, knowing the effect it would have on me. I had no idea the effect it would have on the entire gaming community and indeed the rest of the World. People began playing to spend more time with their partners, relationships were formed and destroyed?by the game and I understand that some people actually called the real-world cops on a kid who stole some of their virtual property.

I am glad that I played in the end. I was fond of my avatar (pictured at the top of this post) and I had some exceptionally good fun. I met many new people and made a number of new friends. I even developed a crush on one of the girls with whom?I shared?adventures in the World (of Warcraft). But time and people move on, ever evolving and my time in the fantasty world has drawn to a close.

I do still enjoy role-playing and gaming, but rarely play anymore. Real life, while not always as thrilling, is certainly more rewarding in the long run.

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Doomo Arigato, Mr Roboto

I’m not sure if you’ve all been keeping up with the latest news on robotics and artificial intelligence but there seems to be a lot of advancement in the area lately. Or maybe it’s been happening for a long time but all the results are coming out now, like all these research agencies/companies have had an assignment set and now they have to report on it. I’m not following these developments closely, however it does present a great deal of wonderful and terrifying thought provocation. Or maybe that’s just my mind working overtime again.

Any sci-fi follower’s mind is flooded with images, scenarios and thoughts by the simple mention of the topics. Science fiction in its nature has usually been a pretty dark place. The popularly acclaimed writers of the genre (like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick) have had the most success with their dystopian or sociopolitically confronting works and thanks to the Terminator movies the idea of technology, artificial intelligence and robots taking over the World is often the first stop on the way through a conversation about technological evolution.

Anyway, back to the reports. It looks like everything’s coming together from various angles. Robots are being taught to feel emotions, teach themselves to speak, learn about others and let’s not forget the important things – play soccer, communicate with bees and become supermodels.

With all the “humanising” of robots, there’s the natural apprehension that Skynet WILL become self-aware. Then again, if they DO get emotions as well as intelligence; there’s something else we need to consider.

Today I got a phone-call from my mobile service provider. It was completely automated and by the end of it I became aware of an amazing factual possibility. You might even say I had an epiphany.

Excuse me, are you currently happy with your long-distance provider?

If robots learn to be like us – if they learn to speak our languages, understand and FEEL our emotions, it means that in addition to the super-bots, there will be underachievers. For all the logic-driven and achieving robots that may or may not want to destroy the human race, there will be those who want to get something for nothing and sit around smoking pot and watching daytime TV (or whatever the robot equivalent of being a slacker is).

It has been touched on in science fiction before and I’m sure that the supermodel-bots would agree with me here. Sometimes, killing people and taking over the World isn’t the only thing that robots want to do. Some may prefer to be artists, or engineers, or doctors.

If we’re working on making them suitable companions for ourselves and filling their “brains” with human emotions, we can be guaranteed that there will be robotic reprobates. We are, after all, currently building robots to perform menial tasks such as cleaning, cooking and building other machines. Give them free thought and instead of saying “I can rule the universe!”, they might just say “Forget this! I’m going to sit around the house and play Farmville.” Because after all – we can’t stop them.

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TGI Friday!!

First of all, let me apologise for the lack of posts over the last two days. Things have been happening and while I’ve been working on posts, each one that I started just?fell into disarray and became unworthy of posting. I’ve kept the drafts though?with the expectation that at some point I will be able to salvage and rebuild them into?something worth spending?five minutes of your life reading.

The week has been an?eventful and interesting one and not only for me. The Chilean miners have been safely reunited with their loved ones, the Commonwealth Games in Delhi have drawn to a close, Japan is bringing teleconferencing to a new, somewhat scary?age?and smartphones are helping African cow farmers maximise their stock’s breeding potential. Globally it seems to have been a pretty good news week.

I’ve also enjoyed (as usual) catching up on what my fellow bloggers have been up to this week. If you get the chance, I highly recommend visiting my friends to read more about their own adventures through life.

Marinasleeps?faced physical and life threatening danger when snapping a “Gasquatch” (I’ve coined this term given the quality of the photo, the fact that you can’t really see him smoking and the rarity of sightings these days. I am also?taking a moment to applaud my creativity on this one. Nice work, Christian.) and spent more of her fortune at Walgreens while suddenly remembering the unforgettable inspirational-yet-demeaning?rantings of her high school chemistry teacher. Big week Marina, I hope you get some rest this weekend!

The Edmonton Tourist was away in Paris last week – LUCKY! and this week she unfortunately missed Thanksgiving, but was thankful for a lot anyway (because after all, you don’t need a special occasion to be thankful for stuff).?A picture of John Cougar Mellencamp triggered a mildly panicked flashback but let me reassure you Tourist, you’re still a quality woman. I’ve got grey splashing across my temples, I own it completely and will never dye it. Unless I’m asked to by a movie studio that wants to pay me a couple of million bucks and make me a star. Even then though I won’t keep it dyed.

EduClaytion?reminded us that sometimes, dreams do come true. If I followed any kind of sport more closely I’d add a witty response about a comparable feat in Australian sport… Unfortunately I’ve got nothing in this particular arena. I do however love the post and all that it represents!

Blisstrack?filled us in on a week in the life of a student of medicine (sorry Bliss, my Spanish is still non-existent but the Google translator was pretty nice to me) and I just hope that this weekend will be restful! Posky, while battling infection, pondered the possibility of magical babies and jested musically?with the aid?of Billy Joel (which I found quite amusing).

Chase McFadden?filled us all in on?his latest adventure with Tax Credit #4, Lessons From Teachers and Twits?highlighted the potential issues related to children having mobile phones and lamented her need for reading glasses and BearyWeather?shared with us some wonderful photos of Fall embracing her little piece of paradise in Minnesota. It made me wish I could pack my bags and experience the place for myself.

Finally, Girl on the Contrary reported that yet again, the Austin City Limits music festival was a resounding success and even though she’s currently being ravaged by the plague, she still has the strength to share with us?excellent advice on avoiding fights with chimpanzees over the last banana, not speaking badly about people just in case they’re your waiter and putting your grandmother before Dancing with the Stars. Such unwavering humanitarianism.

I’m thinking of changing the?design theme of this blog but I can’t find much in the way of fun yet poignant graphics that I can use to create a header image. I may be able to string a few words together from time to time but when it comes to the visual arts, if there aren’t numbers to match to colours I’m toast. So if you have any suggestions I’d love to hear them! Last night I looked for pictures of garden gnomes and open roads. That’s the kind of combination I’m looking for. Everyone loves hearing stories from travelling gnomes.

He looks like he has some fun yet poignant stories.

I’ll keep adventuring and I hope you all do the same.

?I wish you all a very happy Friday, whether it’s almost over, just beginning?or is still a few hours away.

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Nachtreverie? Dozefancy? Sandmanfling?

There is no antonym for “Nightmare”. This fact vexes me greatly.

This morning I was talking to a friend of mine and she told me about her unpleasant night’s sleep due to a recurring nightmare she has been plagued with for most of her life. My heart sank to hear this and long after it settled heavily in my small intestine I was still thinking about how it seems that nightmares have a nasty habit of showing up again and again. Now I have a theory about why.

Good dreams don’t have a name, thats why.

We’ve given nightmares their own noun for crying out loud; why wouldn’t they keep coming back? Now they’re known, they’re a somebody. I wouldn’t give that up either. But good dreams? Nice, fun, exciting dreams? What do we call them? They have no names. Nightmares also have the “bad dreams” reference by default so we’re not really helping the situation by leaving good dreams all alone there. Would you want to keep hanging around somewhere when nobody knew your name?

In order to combat nightmares, particularly recurring ones, we need to have a name by which to call the pleasant dreams. Surely I’m not the only person in the World who has thought about this. In fact, I know that I’m not. Yahoo Answers and Answerbag have connected me with at least two other people who want an answer to this question – “What is the opposite of nightmare?” Obviously, concern is gripping the World.

While technically yes, daystallion IS the opposite of nightmare, it doesn’t help me in my quest to label the awesome dreams so that we can bring them back to our memory and hopefully work their recurrence into our psyches. If we cannot eliminate the nightmare altogether, we should at least have a counterpart for it to give us something to aspire to in our dreaming state!

I’m very interested to hear your thoughts on this. Have you coined a term that identifies a really great dream you’ve had? Do you have any thoughts on how to combat the recurrence of nightmares? Should I start emailing my local member of Parliament about this? Something needs to be done! I’m so determined to take some kind of action that I don’t even know where to begin!

At the moment, all I can do is offer encouragement to my wonderful friend concerning her nightmares. That’s not enough for me. Simply wishing someone “sweet dreams” doesn’t cut it in this particular situation. I need to be able to say something like “Hey, don’t worry about it at all. Before you know it, the dozefancies will roll in and annihilate those silly nightmares. You just wait and see.”

Yeah. I like the sound of that.

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The Cupid Files: Technically, It’s Love

Cupid; one cherubic little angel set with a?task that at the time seemed impossibly easy. When there are only two people in the World, how hard can it be to stick them both with a little love and watch the beautiful results? Kudos Cupid, job well done.

Fast forward to the 21st century and it is this single guy’s personal opinion that poor Cupid is suffering from chaos induced delirium. Even though his quiver is bottomless, his drawing arm has become undeniably fatigued by his eternal assignment. He’s drowning in a backlog of work and there’s no sign of him getting a break.

With recessions, headphones and all sorts of other antagonists throwing their weight around, the 21st Century has responded to Cupid’s cries for help. The digital age has stepped up to lend the?paladin of passion?a much needed hand.

Online Dating.

It is yet to be seen whether this mechanical mercenary is friend or foe. Some?believe it’s an abomination, to be shunned and stuck with pitchforks, hunted by torchlight and sent packing into the darkness from whence it came. Others praise its efforts to create love; to bring joy to the lives of the people?Cupid hasn’t gotten to yet and who also have their own reasons for preferring the safety of e-communication before taking the leap into love.

It’s the minigun to Cupid’s sniper rifle; the chainsaw to his scalpel. While the game itself hasn’t changed and the desired end result is?the same as it always has been,?Cupid’s new ally in affection is taking a slightly different approach.

It has set up dedicated camps for those who are seeking romantic attachment. It has announced itself to the World, loudly and with much ado, muscling its way into society with open arms to anyone and everyone. No matter what you’re looking for in a relationship, you can find it thanks to the internet.

This boon to the lovelorn is certainly encouraging. It has its merits and of course there are the success stories that have made this method of finding love much more common. It offers the sanctuary of your own home?from which to operate. Everything can be controlled and there’s no denying the security in that.

Getting to know someone via email is certainly easier and more comfortable than having to sit down with?them and ask them questions to their face. You don’t HAVE to make the first move. You don’t HAVE to ask “those” icebreaker questions. You can read through profiles of people and take your time, knowing that they too are looking for romance. Just like you are. Usually, by the time you actually meet the other person, you’re already comfortable in your knowledge about them and if you decide that things aren’t going to work out, you can just disassociate yourself. Piece of cake!

Online Dating, I mean you absolutely no disrespect when I say this. I appreciate absolutely everything you’re doing in the field of romance and I thank you for stepping up to the plate?on this one, but you and I – we have different views. I know that I could really lose out on this but I’ve thought very hard and I’m going to stick with the little guy on this one. I have every confidence that he’ll sort me out in the end.

You and I have had run-ins. You know what I’m talking about. I know you’re trying to help and you’re still young, so I’m going to let?the past slide. You ARE helping millions of people find love and Cupid isn’t alone in giving you a great big highfive. This is something I prefer to do the old-fashioned way though. The nerves, bumbling and light-headedness is what it’s all about.

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Netspeak – I Don’t Support It

I'm pretty sure Baby Jesus is crying right now.

The English language is under seige my friends, rally to me and fight back with all your might! The tide is against us, but we will overcome!

“Techlology” is killing the English language. You know what I’m referring to. What began as a mild mutation of English has?distorted almost exponentially into the monstrosity that now assaults so many eyes and ears.

There’s always a time for evolution. Throughout the ages the English language has been no exception. Inventions, advancements, discoveries, products and ideas change the way people speak and communicate. The advent of the mobile phone brought with it the SMS (Short Message Service) which was seen as a wonder by many. The internet brought with it instant messaging applications and before too long words and even entire phrases found themselves reduced to three or four letters at a time.

Then we got blindsided. I don’t even know if Google can help me support this, it happened so quickly. It would be understandable if things followed the straightforward and understandable process of change. But this just came out of nowhere and doesn’t seem to make any sense at all!

Some of it does, and I don’t really have an issue with that. I even use some of the language myself (given my recent admission about my online life you can surely grant me some understanding) and I can see its usefulness. There are, however, atrocities being committed on an hourly basis and I for one can’t take it anymore!

Lolcats has an awful lot to answer for. Sure, the concept is pretty good. Cats in funny photos with humourous captions that bring a giggle to everyone’s day. It’s certainly become popular on “teh intarwebz”. And there, ladies and gentlemen; between those quotation marks is crystal-clear, irrefutable proof that it is also the prime suspect in the murder of the English language.

Acronyms, while somewhat annoying and sometimes confusing are a part of life. They’re not ruining words, just simplifying sentences. LOL, BRB, LMAO, FTW, GTG (or G2G), IMHO and hundreds of others have become embedded in social networking, giving rise to the “netspeak” age. That I can live with. I can understand people’s attraction to this easier method of communication. Sure, shorten a word by removing?letters?and/or word parts. Most ppl can still read ur txt when u remove letters. (That was quite painful for me by the way, I think it took me longer to write that one sentence than it did to write the entire post so far.)

Seriously though people. Please help me out here. I’m trying my best to be tolerant and I want to understand, really I do. But it’s making my eyes bleed and my very soul cringe. Why must you spell words incorrectly by replacing correct letters with incorrect ones or even making regular short words longer?! Halp meh owt hear, iz dis maykin me kewl? Liek, srsly?!!11ONE!

I can only figure this is something the cool kids do. If that is indeed the case, I’m very happy to remain uncool. I don’t support netspeak at all and I’m pretty sure it makes Baby Jesus cry.

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