So I finally convinced my registrar to let me move (honestly, going through the process made progression attempts on Kael'thas look easy, least he follows some sort of plan)!
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The 2nd Nin:
I am currently working as a Research Engineer working on my Doctorate in System Level Integration. My area of focus is in Improvements in Embedded Internet Video Streaming.
This blog is primarily a way to say things I want to say, and they may be useful or worthless, but thats in the view of each reader. I play a lot of Warcraft at the moment so it seemed appropriate to base the posts around that, and the thoughts I have on it, the classes within it and the overall game itself, though that doesn't mean I won't branch out if I want to rant.
As always people are welcome to contact me either through comments or email. If you have any suggestions for posts or just want to chat feel free. If you want to spam, I prefer Monty Python.
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Writing a book? Now you're making me curious...
Is it WoW related?
Nah, not this one.
Generic fantasy novel #6,000,901,123 :P, just a story I thought of and wanted to get down, have the plot roughly worked through and need to get to getting chapters written down and stuff.
Not really sure what a WoW book could be on, and more to the point one that would be of interest that I could write, most of my posts are kindof random :P
Oh I've got a pretty clear picture. I'd love to read - or for that sake - write - a novel about guild life. About what a player experience and the people he/she meets during one or several years...
There are SO many stories to be told, so much of laughter and tears and love and disappointment and betrayals and personal development and social interaction... you name it!
Perhaps someone's already writing it, what do I know.
Likely they are, but I am not sure how interesting that would be, would anyone actually want to read about what has happened in the time I played WoW, or would they rather hear about other things, its quite hard to really tell (and at the moment hard to really write content that doesn't refer to the Beta or irrelevant mechanics :P).
Maybe its time to find out.
I'm not talking about a biography, it should be fictin, inspired by things you've seen in the game. But of course you need a good story and good portrying of people. Just that it's about the game isn't enough.
Works of fiction I could probably do, the tale of an addicted gamer, losing himself (herself) in the game world, losing connection with reality and wondering where real life ends, the virtual world begins, and the overlap between the two.
I actually saw a cool advert while I was in Finland, think the message was "get out more" but essentially a guy starting to see the game world when he went out, confusing his reality with the game. Could be an interesting book if done right, the overlap between the real and virtual worlds, and actually getting lost in them, you becoming your character and them you, acting out in the real world as you would in game, and trying to make sense of the game world from a modern perspective. I know its been done in various guises, however it always seems badly done in most overlaps that I have seen, and considering how addictive wow is (many other blog posts on it) I think it could be an interesting story, going either along the psycho route, or the route of how to differentiate what is real and what is not, when we are playing with real people in a fictional world, yet most of us probably admit that we play and spend a lot of time treating it more like irc than a game.
mmmh...
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