"App Tested, Cam Approved" or "My Role, In Gaming Terms"

Bits and pieces of potential bloggings have run through my head lately... Everything from "The Elegance of the Blade" which entails why I find blades of all sorts fascinating to "What Having My Friendship Means" in which I discuss what I can contribute. And I may very well expand on all of them at some point, but not today. Today I speak of how I define the roles I play for other people, but potentially in terms that don't make sense to people who aren't gamers, so I'll explain them as I get to them.

Section 1.4 Geekiness/Role Defining

Just to be clear, I don't fit any one specific role, and there are a decent amount of them, but I do have strong aspects of a few of the prototypical roles in the standard MMORPGs. Those roles are:

Tank: the defender of the group, drawing the attention of the enemies an taking the majority of the damage. they specialize in mitigating damage and taking bit hits that would seriously injure the other team members. Think heavily armored knight with a shield.

"Support class": there are actually different roles within the support archetype, but they all focus more on the teammates than the enemies they are fighting, as a generalization.

"DPS" or Damage Dealers: not really appropriate for what I'm talking about, but it's the third of the MMORPG trinity of roles, an comprise the majority of groups. They focus on their namesake, doing damage to the enemy, they're the ones responsible for eliminating the enemies in order of priority and making sure that they don't get the attention of the enemies. Yeah... Not so applicable.

Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that I've said that stuff before, but I can't remember where...

Anyways, here's what I see in myself.

I am a defender of those I know, I will readily throw myself in the line of fire and protect them. I can quite readily get the attacker's attention and make him focus on me, and I happen to be fairly large and can intimidate people if need be, I get quite intense when I step up to defend someone.

I am also support, I will go out of my way to make sure that people are doing well with whatever they're trying to accomplish and will help them in any way I can. Anything from raw encouragement to direct help and explanation of how to solve a problem, I'm there to give them support. This is the role I find myself in more often than not, seeing as how it's rare to find people being assaulted in our culture, and it's a role that I enjoy an perform well in (see section 1.1 on love languages as to why), so I'm pretty content with what I do.

Summary: I can be a Tank or Support depending on what's needed at the time, and I can perform admirably as both, but I find myself being support more often than not.

Alright, that's enough out of me, and it was a good test of my new Blogger App on my shiny new phone. Now to see if I can link the post to Facebook from this app....

Cheers,
~Cam

Things that Irk Me v2.0

Intros? Who needs them.  Straight to the list!

1. Being forced to read novels.  It takes all the fun out of reading if I have no choice in the material. Plus I am then forced to look for subtle things that I just don't pick up on, which is just frustrating to no end.  I mean, I can do it, but it takes way more effort than I like to put into reading a book.  Plus I'm far more comfortable with numbers and science, it just comes so much more easily to me....English is dumb.  Both as a language and a scholastic pursuit.  Which brings me to my next incident of irking...

2. The English language.  It's not elegant or pretty, breaks a lot of its own rules, and is very bad at describing a lot of what we look for in life to the point where we have to resort to stealing words from other languages to explain what we're talking about.  It's too bad that it's the only language I'm fluent in and that it's the language I live in, but such is life and I'll continue speaking and living in this English world of mine for probably the rest of my life.

3. People who judge others based on physical appearance.*Note: the following is directed at no one in particular, s'just using 2nd person perspective.*  Just because someone is dressed like a hipster/jock/whatever doesn't mean that they're going to fit into that tiny little stereotype that you've already labeled them in. For all you know they could be exactly the same as you and like all the same things you do, but you'll never know because you're too busy thinking that you're better than them for absolutely no reason. Oh, and side note, there is a high possibility that you're not actually better than those people you judge.  So you should really stop doing it.  And yes, I do realize that this is somewhat ironic, but at least I'm not just looking at someone and instantly thinking I'm better than them.  You, sir, can go blow your pretentious notions out your ear.

4.Being sick.  I strongly dislike it.  It leads to poor sleep, being tired and irritable all the time, and frankly it's just the pits.  Waking up not being able to breathe properly, coughing all the grossness out of your lungs but it doesn't want to leave so you just have to keep coughing and it eventually your throat is hoarse from it.  It is an entirely unpleasant experience.  And I've been sick for the past few days...bleh...

5. Have I mentioned how much I dislike English classes?  'Cause it's not a small amount.  I seriously dislike them, think they're dumb and all sorts of stuff. That doesn't stop me from doing relatively well in it, but that's mostly 'cause I know what to say to get a decent pass.  A- on my first essay?  I'm very okay with that, I was expecting a B, maybe C+ on it.  I guess it's a good thing that I know some basic composition and structure and was lucky in finding a decent insight into one of the texts we were forced to read that the essay was based on.  But aside from all that, yeah, I seriously dislike English.

6.  Forgetting things that I'm all "I should remember that so as to blog about it later" about. Seriously, what in the world was I gonna say?  So much irking, so little other people knowing what in the world I was thinking at the time. 

7.  Songs that clearly defy logic/physical laws in what they say.  Yes, I do realize that they have "creative license" to do/say whatever they feel like.  But seriously, 1000 ft/s?  Do you have any idea how fast that really is?  Quick conversion gets you 1097.28 km/h.  That is INSANELY fast.  Way faster than terminal velocity of a skydiver (which is about 195km/h).  So saying that someone is falling at 1000 feet per second is basically just lying.  It's an impossible feat.  Even if terminal velocity was faster than that, there is no way you could do that on earth.  Our atmosphere isn't nearly big enough to be able to fall far enough to achieve such velocity.  Whoever it is who sings that song, please go back to high school and take some basic sciences to get your facts straight.  I'm looking at you Hedley....you're lucky I don't have any influence over you guys or else you'd have such a reprimand coming your way.  There are more songs out there that do the same sort of thing, but that's the one that's gotten my goat most recently.

I'm pretty sure I had more than these, but I forgot them...see #6...Ah well, if more come up I'll do another redux of my irksome findings.

Cheers,

~Cam

Weathering the Storm

This time, as I ramble on: I discuss a few to several basic weather phenomena and what they mean to me. Stuff like Wind and Rain and Snow and Lightning and...something, I had a fifth, I can't remember it right now, it'll come to me later. Super Page Breaker Fun Time GO!

"Perceptions" or "A Different Take on Things"

Pick whatever title you want, I'm good with both.

In this episode, Cam discusses how he sees things in this world and other ways of his that seem to be unique.  Keep in mind though, he doesn't really know how other people work, so he may just be talking about something that everyone knows all the time.  More after the break!

Is Where I Prove the Blog Name Fitting.

So here we are again, me not thinking straight, you not necessarily caring.  Shall we walk down this path where we mingle and dance, like leaves on the wind or a field of ...something poetic?  Anyways, time to hold true to the title of my blog and ramble indiscernibly for a while.

Is Where I Give More Information About Myself.

Learning stuff is good. I'm an advocate of learning. Eventually, a guide to learning referred to as a "teacher" or even "professor." Until that time, I just like learning stuff. And I like helping other people learn stuff. So here's some stuff to learn about me. My blog, I'll do what I like.

Hey Guess What?!

Yeah...I have nothing interesting to say. But I do have MANGO SMOOTHIES! That I made myself. Recipes post break!

So I think I've Determined Something

And that something is that I'm not very good at being a friend when it comes to long-term friendships.

Reasoning:

1. If I haven't seen, heard from, or have an active interest in someone, it's very unlikely that I'll initiate any sort of conversation with them.
2. After a bunch of self analysis, I've determined that there is a high chance that I'm more self centered than I realize. And self-centeredness does not a good friend make.

Well, I guess that's less than I was thinking I would write, but still, enough to make me a seriously lacklustre friend in long term senses.

This isn't to say I'm a terrible friend, 'cause I'm pretty sure I'm not, I just am really bad at keeping in contact with people. And I'm extremely loyal, so I'm pretty sure if any of the people who I once referred to as good friends were to ask anything of me I'd do it....situation dependant of course.

Man, I need to stop feeling sad and sorry for myself and crap, I've never enjoyed it and it generally leads to more self-destructive criticism. That's one of the things about me, I'm my own worst critic, I don't really care what other people say about me but when I get feeling bad it's just a downward spiral. I really need a cup of cheer, or some more tangible equivalent. Or maybe just someone to talk to on a regular basis. I haven't had that for a few years, I think it's taking a toll on my sanity.

Ugh, I don't think this really helped, especially the whole "pointing out flaws in myself" thing. That never makes me feel great about myself.

Well, that's enough of that, I'll just bottle it all up and eventually pour it out on some unsuspecting person....well, after a lot of building of trust and establishing deep friendships. I don't tell people things readily, s'not in my nature.

Later,

~Cam.