Living a Virtual Life in a Not So Virtual World.

Well guys. It's been forever since this blog saw the light of day. Well, I broke out my maid uniform, blew off the dust and used one of those duster feather things to remove the cobwebs!

Today I wanted to address the ability of one with a job (mainly military) to actually accomplish gaming while still fulfilling the contract I signed and the oath I swore.

Let's just say... it isn't easy.


For those of you who know me, you also know that well, I don't talk about my job. Not because I don't love it, quite the contrary: I'll be the first person to admit I love it, but there's not much to say and the cool stuff I can't talk about. Ah well. I swear cool stuff is boring. But yeah, I find it incredibly hard to actively pick up a controller or sit down in front of a keyboard unless I'm in port which is not often enough.


On board where I work we have guys who find time to play Madden or MLB or FIFA but still, when you're shoved into a cramped space and your console is one of those protective pelican type cases with a monitor and an HDMI hookup, it's almost more fun to sleep which I frequently do.

When I am in though, let me just say. I have recently continued playing Planetside 2 and the game continues to look stunning. I haven't quit minecraft and I don't plan to, though I find myself playing it way less then I used to, and last but not least Age of Empires.


I even started streaming but it turned into a huge flop. A few dedicated fans are asking me to return but I don't know if I have the drive to. Maybe I will, maybe I won't. It all is yet to be determined.


So there's my gaming rant for the day. It's like 3am here and I need to switch over my laundry.


Peace. -Tassemet

Tinker's Construct: Way Too Much Fun!

So, my buddy recently started up a server for us all to play on and insisted on "Only a few mods" to "make the game a bit easier and fun." Ok. Let's cut the crap there. Only a few mods resulted in Tinker's Construct, Applied Energistics, and some other mods like Zain's Minimap Mod... and while it certainly made the game more fun, an hour long car ride was really an hour of me using my phone and some graph paper to do drawings and tables/charts of all the things you needed and where they went and... GAH! Before I knew it I was sucked into one of the most fun yet complex mods I've seen short of Tekkit!


So yes, the biggest thing I liked in the Tinker's Construct mod was the modular tool system and how furnaces were more or less for early game. After that, the smeltery was the way to go. So let me show you some screenshots and let you all see our little village and how that's working out for us (as well as my complete inability to hold a solid thought long enough to construct a single building!) Via clicking.... HERE!

So yeah, this blog isn't letting me upload photos directly to it like I've done in the past but CLICK THAT LINK. You'll see it all in my imgur album including a Villager with a 'fro, me with a jester hat, and some other cool things.

Until next Tinker's Construct Update!

Cheers!
-Tassemet Zateki

A Lesson In How to be an Asshole and Not Walk Away

It's been a really long time since I have written anything. Anything at all. But recently, an event irked me, so let me first start by posting some logs here really quickly.

Wardec chat logz
From: Tassemet
Sent: 2014.05.29 12:40
To: XXX,

Lothar Holdchar > Yes hello
Tassemet > good evening, sir/
Tassemet > I was just looking to inquire into the reason you wardec'd our corp?
Lothar Holdchar > Because 25 million ISK
Tassemet > What do you mean?
Lothar Holdchar > That Raven contract today
Tassemet > Ah haha
Lothar Holdchar > A very insulting offer
Lothar Holdchar > so I'm going to come on up from Stain
Tassemet > Knew it was something market related
Lothar Holdchar > and say hello
Tassemet > I must ask how it was insulting considering I had my market window pulled up and it was showing 170mil buy orders :)
Lothar Holdchar > For a regular raven
Lothar Holdchar > mine had 3 large rigs
Lothar Holdchar > You were asking me to sell you a stripped raven
Lothar Holdchar > Lowballing me by 25 mil
Tassemet > Just trying to make isk, man. No offense, but I was polite :)
Lothar Holdchar > The offer was extremely insulting
Tassemet > I appologize if I insulted you.
Lothar Holdchar > I didn't realize it in first due to being in fleet
Lothar Holdchar > So a wardec is in order
Tassemet > Fair enough, friend.
Tassemet > I wish you the best of luck :)

Now that I have that out of the way, cue lesson.

It seems all too often nowadays that people are being absolute assholes, and I've noticed it ever more since my early days of EvE when I started after Red Moon rising came out. It appears to me that there's been a huge trend towards violence as a means to "put people in line." Now, before you all dismiss this as another scenario of "Boo-hoo. Another care bear whining, the tears they are delicious!" Let me say this.

Violence is unwarranted as a scare tactic.

I'm not scared, not in the least. I mean, sure, I made the guy a low offer as the chat logs explain but honestly, who doesn't play the market game and troll through contracts and look for people who might be looking for a quick sell? I was when I sent out several offers via evemail. And of all those, I must say, only one guy took the high road with a nice reply of "Sorry m8, it's priced fair." No worries.

This guy made the point to laugh at me, throw insults in chat and leave on one character, and then turn around and contact me on ANOTHER character AFTER he said no with only "You're dumb."
Oh and then he proceeds to wardec my corp over a market offer. Ah well.

Lesson to be learned here: If someone makes a market offer, no need to go nuts to the point of wardeccing a corporation to prove a point. Awesome, you know how to pvp. Got it. Go find some enemies out in null that are the real baddies that are threatening to take your space. And while some may argue that taking isk is just as bad, how is twenty five million isk in my favor going to change anything? I'm all about reinvesting and making more isk. So while you have a wardec going that you will keep paying out millions for, I'll just log on with an alt and continue to play the game and have fun.

Who knows, maybe you'll be so broke that you'll come to me asking me to buy your Raven for 170mil.

Ermagurd! Tassemet Is BACK!

Hey all! So once again as my job dictates, I'm back. Yeah. Life is... so so ish, what with my upcoming work schedules and such. But later nights can be filled with a bit of classy drinking, and some gaming, so without much further ado, I present to you, a screenshot montage courtesy of my new gaming rig, named Alessia.

Alessia is an Alienware running some nice high end shit. 2 AMD grafix cards, SATA hard drives, an i7 Intel processor, and 32gb RAM. That's just the basic stats. Externally, it's running a TACX Alienware keyboard that glows with the system case, as well as a Razer mousepad (Goliathus, Speed edition) and I am waitin gon a second monitor, and more paychecks before I upgrade my terribad headset and my semi-terribad mouse.

So, let's start off with the best thing that I have returned back to, EVE Online!

So I just want to put out there that these were screenshots I took with my settings on max, and I get about 120fps running this way, too. The game is absolutely stunning. When missiles hit, I hope you can see the shockwaves they leave on your ship as well as I can on my computer, because blowing your ass up never looked so good. Also, with the interaction with Eve and my Alienware LED case, the keyboard flashes and such when I hit certain milestones in the game (ie shields gone, armor gone, reached destination when on autopilot, etc.) So be sure to spend some money and get one of these things, you'll be glad you did.





And now onward to my favorite cubic game, Minecraft!

So, I've been gone a while and if you haven't kept up with Rooster Teeth Let's Play Minecraft, I suggest you catch up now. And if you've never seen it, google Rooster Teeth Let's Play Minecraft and watch it from the very beginning. And then all 54 episodes they're up to. New episodes released every Friday. And while you're waiting for that to come out, check out their other Let's Plays and be amused. Seriously, they have so much good stuff on their channels.

So, world wise, I have officially downloaded the tekkit launcher for my new machine and I can now run my modded world without lag. Not gonna lie, I had a great idea but... but I'm more focused on the core intent of the game now and solely play vanilla. Anyways, the screenshots aren't on my laptop where I'm blogging from so i'll update that in a separate post.

So, until then!
-TZ

The Tassemet Challenge: Security Lighting

Good evening ladies and gentlemen!

It's been a while since i last posted but never the less I always come back with to blogging with a vengence! This time around it's based on Minecraft and a challenge I thought up while underwater. So, without further ado, here's the challenge!

With the new 1.5 minecraft update, we were granted new Daylight Detector Blocks! These blocks as you may or may not know, send redstone signal based off of the dark/light level it recieves! So, I built a basic lamp that uses one of these connected to a piston connected to the new Redstone block to power 4 redstone lamps. So, to take that one step further, and it's something i'm working myself, is to connect this detector to a building that automatically turns on lighting to a whole building. I won't tell you how to build it but here's the rules of this challenge.

1. Use Vanilla Minecraft to give everyone a level and even playing field (We know you technic junkies laugh at Vanilla's simplicity)
2. Use a daylight detector to automatically turn lighting on in the building.
3. Lighting must be lamps. Redstone torches can be used in the circuitry, however.
4. The building (or buildings) must be 3 or more stories tall. Note I do say 3 or more.5. The circuitry must be hidden from view, because the buildings are to look "professional."

Anything beyond that, well, feel free to be as creative and aesthetic as you wish. Judging will be done by my girlfriend and I based on aesthetics, wow factor, and functionality, each worth 10 points. Each of us will judge seperately on the 30 point scale, and we'll average the two. In the case of a tie breaker, a third person will be brought in for judging, and we'll average three to break the tie of those tied.

Submissions for judging can be done via sending a world file to jmwalker8@gmail.com and the winning submission will be featured with an interview of your builds done, and the satisfaction of knowing you're an awesome builder! All entries are due by midnight of April 8th! If these challenges pick up we'll offer up some nice prizes but that's in the works!

Reply here if you're down so I can get estimates of interest.

Good luck building!
Cheers.
Tass

Tales From Cityscape 1

So just a few more photos with an update on my world. As you can see, I've made a few changes: For one, the world name is now "Cityscapes" to reflect what I'm building inside. I've also changed my skin to look classy as hell. And, I've even got a few more levels on my building! On a side note- the bottom two photos don't do justice to the work i'm doing inside and underground of that building- I'm swapping to Redstone Lamps to make my building more ecofriendly by reducing carbon released into the air... that's right! The torches are slowly being phased out!

Also, planning to do an underwater walkway of sorts as soon as I figure out how I want to accomplish that task (working underwater is such a pain!)

Another thing: I had a distinguished guest in one of my worlds the other day. Click there and check out who it was!

-Tassemet

Those Worlds That Make You Say...

I quit Minecraft.

Ok, not really. But this one world I saw today on reddit makes me look like a newbro to the game. The world is titled "The Kingdom Of Cipher" and features what looks to be a build done in Creative mode. I don't know where this guy's inspiration came from, but it looks to me like something out of either a Disney movie, or maybe even the Square Enix game, Kingdom Hearts.

I'm not going to post photos and steal this guy's imgur traffic, nope, he deserves it in my opinion.

Anyways, the build features a lot of pastel colors and glamorous shots of a fantasy kingdom. I'll just drop the link right here. Feel free to check it out and give him all your upvotes on reddit.

Another link here to a funny photo. Bedrock at level 26.

And another bedrock joke. Funny as hell.

Links galore. This one to a nice background for minecraft. I'd use it as my desktop if I were you.

I love Minecraft. And desktop backgrounds. Makes me wish I had a second or third screen to use it on!

How not to build a wheat farm. Seriously, decorative purposes only. I have a nice design for a stackable wheat farm as soon as I can find my graph paper drawing that I did...

And finally. An awesome legit build on survival. It looks like something I would build... only it needs a beacon somewhere in it.