New Blogging Direction

While my blog has never been religiously followed, or probably ever read for that matter, this title is quite unnecessary, for if I am to gain followers from my new posts, they will have zero knowledge on my previous posts.
I started college with so much positivity and excitement in life, but I was slowly dragged down by reality and my happiness started dwindling at an alarming rate.
Starting college when you are an extremely shy person is HARD. If you were born with the confidence to meet new people, embrace that feeling, because being an over thinking, self destructive, anxiety driven individual, change is terrifying.
I was leaving all of my friends that had taken years to accumulate, and shoved into a room with strangers, and I was expected to flourish in this new environment.
Unfortunately, this new environment showed me one thing, how incredibly different I am than most people my age.
While everyone was out socializing, and starting their new life, I was locked in my dorm room with homework, video games, and whatever novel I had latched onto that week. On Friday, I promptly packed my things and traveled home for the weekend to resume some form of normalcy. Then every Sunday was tears and late night packing as I prepared to start the process over again.
The years following proved to have no improvement on my social interactions, but in fact I was becoming more of a recluse. I had moved off to an apartment to live with my brother and three cats, leaving my house for class, work, and the occasional computer club meeting.
My friends back home had started new lives, and every friend I made in my new home could never achieve the level of comfort I made with my old friends before they were moving on as well.
I started to accept my loneliness, and gave up on making new friends. I started working from home, took all of my classes online, and even bought a home gym so that I could escape social interaction on campus.
And this is where I am now.
While the college experience jump started this lonely new life, I have nobody to blame but myself. I have let my social anxiety build to such a level, that the idea of leaving my comfort zone is unbearable.
The thought of hanging out with new people drives me to panic attacks.
And as a result, I have fallen into such a deep depression, that fighting to get out is becoming exhausting. The fight in me is giving out.
This is me, finally admitting, that I need help.

Pokemon Comics

This is what I find myself doing during fall break.. Looking up Pokemon comics all night. (Which, btw, I take no credit for these, I just thought I would share.)

Scholarship

Hey everyone, I am trying to win a scholarship, I've done the hard part, now the easy part is left up to you. Please, please vote for me, I really need to money for school next year, and it only requires two clicks out of you. One to go to the link, and one to vote for my essay. I know you probably don't care, but it takes almost no time out of your day. So please, take the minute to vote for me.

http://www.wyzant.com/scholarships/v2/essay12696-Morehead-KY.aspx

Panem October

Who here has read The Hunger Games? Well if you haven't I suggest you do, and if you are already fan join http://www.panemoctober.com/. If you are too lazy to do either, do me a favor and scan my I.D. card? All it requires is a smart phone and it will take a few moments of your time.

Thanks everyone!

New Book

I have decided that I want to write a book, and it's much harder than I would have thought. Coming up with all of the characters names and extraneous details, ugh. So much to research, but I am determined to come up with an actual novel.

Noob Gaming

I have to take a Speech class (STUPID GEN EDS) and was told that I had to write an informative speech. Being the procrastinator that I am, I waited unil the night before it was due to start it. So here is what I came up with.

Griefing, lag, hackers, Martyrdom, spawn camping, sucky teams, the list goes on and on. There is always that insufferable gamer that ruins the experience for everyone, it can change a full round of team deathmatch to 3 players on each team because everyone left the game. But who takes the cake for being the most annoying person online? Will it be the noob-tuber, the camper, or the little kid?

                First, the noob-tuber. For those of you who aren’t avid COD players, a “noob tube” is an expression used for the grenade launcher attachment used by newcomers to Modern Warfare, or the 4^th installment of Call of Duty. Essentially, it requires no skill or effort to use this weapon due to its wide kill radius and high power. It is considered cheap and lame to use the attachment, and sure to make everyone mad. 

                Now, before I continue, I want to make sure that everyone is on the same page. A noob is a newcomer to the game, and don’t really know what they are doing.  But while this tactic is called the “noob”-tuber, it is also widely used by jerks that have been in the game for a while, and just use it to piss everyone off. These people are an entirely different breed referred to as trolls or “the rager”, but that is a totally different topic. Basically, noob-tubing is highly disliked by the entire gaming community.

                Second  is the camper. A camper is someone who picks a strategic position and plays the waiting game. The will stay in this same spot where they can’t be seen for extended periods of time until a target runs in front of them. The point of the tactic is the surprise your enemy and take him out with ease. Now, this is a legitimate strategy, but it is considered unskillful, it slows down the game, and just drives everyone crazy. And not only will you make your enemies mad, you will anger everyone on the game, because you aren’t being a team player. Especially if you deploy this tactic during Search and Destroy.

                If you are the camper, you will try to argue that you have a higher KD (kill-death ratio, or to break it down more how many times you kill someone and how many times you die) than anyone, and that we are just mad. You might also say we have “bad strat” (poor strategies) and that running around searching for your enemy is a bad idea. Well, all I have to say to that is you are ridiculed and resented, I am not. So if it helps you sleep at night, yes your KD is higher than mine, congratulations camper.

                Finally, “The Little Kid”. There are so many aspects of an obnoxious child gamer, it will be hard to explain all of them. Little Kids usually play like noobs, and employ such tactics as noob-tubing and camping. In addition to that they double flash (flash bangs are grenades that blind and deafen those near it) to ensure they get the kill, constantly blocks doorways, and standing in the way of the guy you are trying to snipe. Not only that, but these 5 year olds are cussing worse than anyone else online. While they are shooting off these cuss words with their high pitched voices, they are also shrieking and destroying your eardrums, and sing the entire time EVERY TIME in the lobby. These gamers are not only ridiculed, but they are told multiple times to shut up, and when the distraction continues, the mute toggle is put into action. All the while you sit there wondering why their parents were irresponsible enough to buy their 5 year old an M-Rated game. Get back to to Cars 2 kids.

                All in all, Call of Duty, or any multiplayer platform can be ruined by people who can’t just play for fun. You’re either too worried about yourself, or go into the game just to piss everyone off.  If you want to enter the gaming world, please take these tips; DON’T NOOB-TUBE, DON’T CAMP, and above all else  DON’T PLAY IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 17. If you follow these rules, you will avoid being roasted by fellow players, and if you spot one of these players, tear them down with the new lingo you learned today.

College Internet

Frustration. SO MUCH FRUSTRATION.
For those of you who have never experienced using college internet, it is much like playing Mario, getting to the level before the castle, losing your last life, and having to start all over again. It is the most annoying shit in the world, and you want to throw your controller across the room, but in this case, it is a very expensive laptop and I have to control myself.
Internet on a college campus is so slow and breaks out every two seconds, it makes gaming incredibly difficult and annoying. You lag like a mofo and and get kicked out of every game you try to join on Call of Duty. This is also very annoying when you lose connection during the middle of a quest on World of Warcraft.
Essentially, all of my characters look like down syndrome babies because they can barely move and tend to give up and shut down.
Does anyone else share my pain?