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Words have Consequences.

Posted in MMORPG, Writing with tags , on February 9, 2012 by theerivs

An ex-Guild Master of mine once said, “Words have Consequences” to me, saying something, or in some cases not saying something is an action, and I am a firm believe that all actions whether good or bad lead to results, those results lead to other choices, that require action…well to quote Mr. Roosevelt, “Life is just one damn thing after another”  Bossy Pally had a lovely post on Words, and their effect and I thought I would do a little post myself.

Words I Wish They Would Stop Using!

5. Nigga – I hate the fact 13 year old white boys are saying this too each other, without knowing what it means, or what it stands for. They hear the black people calling each other that, and they think it’s cool. It isn’t cool, you walk into an all white upscale store as a black man and see how cool it is to be black. Sure things are getting better, but they are far from perfect.  The term Nigga is a friendly version of the racist word Nigger which means ignorant person. Call each other ignorant all you want, because most likely you are.

4. Fag – Like Nigga, this is tossed around way too much. Being a Homosexual in todays society is rough, you get picked on, maybe your an outcast, so you seek solace in the World of Warcraft, and here you have a Paladin Tank calling you a Fag, cause you can’t heal fast enough.

3. Bitch, Cunt, Any other word denoting you are womanly -  This irks me a bit, because what’s worse then being a homosexual, it’s being a woman. Gamers being male feel that being a woman is weak.  Really my Mom spit me out at 11lbs of an orifice of her body, jesus if that’s weak, I’d hate to see these guys do that. I cringe after burrito night, and I gotta shoot something pretty large out of my ass.

2. Rape - I loathe this word being used in connection with games, and try very hard not to use it in my gaming vocabulary. Rape is a bad thing, I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. Hey being a guy don’t think you’ll get raped, you may not. I hope you keep your nose clean, because guess what nerdy little white kid, you end up in prison…yeah you’ll have a new meaning to the word rape. Let’s just say you may want to buy some soap on a rope.  

1. Pwned – I hate this fucking word. Let’s stop using it please.

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I’m the Diet Coke of Evil

Posted in Writing with tags , on January 30, 2012 by theerivs

Even though in the virtual world,  I am Lawful Evil, and in every game I dedicate myself to the forces of malice, and chaos, and basically the douche bag of the blogosphere.  In my real life realm, I try to give back with my time and money. 

When I recently received an email about Iron Man Mode, and their endeavor to rise awareness, and give back to the community I felt compulsion to give them some props.

Iron Man Mode is an interesting concept, I find intriguing. You play a game, when you die the blog dies. That’s pretty cool I would think, though this blog would be dead 8,000 times over. Well I played a Mage in WoW for years, we died anytime some one dropped a hat.  Even though I just started reading them, I can already tell they are up to the challenge. So check them out.

Also check out their charity page, and try to help them raise some money for Child’s Play. I’ll be giving them a little money, as soon as I rob some piggy banks from little babies….Wha? Ain’t like I’m eating the babies….like I do SWTOR.

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Why Do I Blog?

Posted in Writing with tags , on January 23, 2012 by theerivs

Scary laments about his skills, and the whatfors of his blogging. It had me thinking why do I blog. I mean I suck at writing, I am not that well informed, I couldn’t min-max a stat to save a life.  Compared to some of those bloggers on his list, I am a flea on the blogospheres ass.

So why am I here….why do I waste my time, and possibly yours. I think it’s time for a list, cause the Internet loves a list.

1. It’s a hobby – People don’t build models of airplanes because they are going to show them off in competition with each other for the most part. People build model airplanes to reduce stress, to take a step back from life, and do something they enjoy.  I don’t take this overtly serious, it’s just something I do when I have time.

2. I enjoy writing – Even though I suck at it,  I enjoy doing it. I like to play chess too, and I suck at that as well. It takes me about 10 minutes to write a post, just imagine if I actually put effort into this.

3. Part of something – Even though I am a small shadowy corner of the blogosphere, I feel I am a part of it.

4. Camaraderie – I feel without blogging, I wouldn’t of met so many interesting people, and keep meeting them.

5. Bad Boy – I got this reputation among the blogosphere as a little bit rough around the edges bad boy, and I feel I have a niche to fill. Way to many good guys out there, someone has to be an asshole, and I am that man.

 

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Hi my name is River, Who the hell are you?

Posted in Writing with tags , on January 19, 2012 by theerivs

So I like to gander who is coming to my website, and from where once in awhile, and once in a while I come up with some strange site or another. Here’s the most recent strangness. Some Forums put a link to me from their site. I don’t even know why cause it’s all in a different language. I think it’s some sort of Russian.

This is what they said about me.

tak ještě k tomu mágovi neni to na wowko ale jen for fun ale chtěl bych něco jako chaotic (scoopy): něco z netu třeba tohle: http://highlatencylife.com/2009/12/page/3/ akorát male :D ale i tak díky za snahu

I have no clue what they are saying, are they saying I suck and want to kill me, or are they saying I am so awesome they want their hot women to marry me.

It boggles my mind sometimes this wonderful thing we call the internet, and then there are those greedy mongers who want to stiffle it. Here’s the thing is they are going back to 2009, if they can go back to find something so can the SOPA/PIPA people, but some good news on that front alot of politicians who were backing it, have removed their support…but I digress.

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My Favorite Classes of MMO’s

Posted in MMORPG, Writing with tags , on December 6, 2011 by theerivs

Some of you know me as the Mage, or the Chosen, but there were other classes I enjoyed from other games…some you might be suprised to read, but here it goes.

5. Smite Cleric  from Dark Ages of Camelot – I loved the versatility of this toon, and it was my first ever in the forays of MMOdom. I guess you always remember your first. Then came the great Smite nerf, and it made my Smite Cleric obsolete. I went to a healing cleric, and after a couple of years got burnt out on healing.

4. Necromancer from Age of Conan - I played alot of Necros in my life, this came closest I felt than the Necromancer in AoC. You had an army of minions, not just one, plus a good assortment of spells to kill things with .

3. Chosen from Warhammer Online - It let me be pure evil, and I was. I relished in everything Chaos. I loved the Inevitable City. I loved the art of Warhammer Online. I loved the feel, and visceral combat. In the end the game just got to be the same ole..same ole.

2. Mage from World of Warcraft – No class really represented me more than a mage. Noble Man who wielded powers beyond mortals grasp. Able to teleport at whim, and self sufficient for alot of things. Basically allowed me to bring out my inner Ass. I loved this class, the look, the feel, the rivalries between Warlocks, and Mages….Shadow Priests don’t count really.

1. Sith Warrior from SWTOR – I’m just going to say so far so good. The NDA has lifted, but mine hasn’t. I won’t start talking in earnest about this game, until I start playing in earnest.

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To Nano…or Not to Nano

Posted in Other Nerdy Pursuits, Writing on October 24, 2011 by theerivs

Every year I try my hand at writing a novel in a month, but every year life hits me pretty hard at that time. Like 2 years ago, my stepdad had a stroke, and last year I was trying to get myself well after corruption got into my leg. I drove out the unclean spirit through hard work and the darkest of arts.

This year I struggle with my day-to-day writing, and ideas are not flowing from me as they use to, which I’m sorry to say may show her in my work. I don’t know if I lack the motivation because of the dry spell in MMO’s which is the font for my inspiration is drying up, or in general my creativity as a writer is drying up…what little creativity I have left.

Oh sure I have some Novel Ideas rolling around in my head, but ideas are just that, to bring those ideas to life takes work, work I don’t know if I have the time for.

In general whether I join or not I think it’s a great idea, and a great time among writers, giving each other support. The website is awesome, and you get pep talk letters from authors that know their crap. If you ever thought about writing this is the time to do it.

As I think about this, and whether or not I want to jump in the fray again, I remember Yoda saying, “Do or Do Not Do, There is no try”

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Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life.

Posted in Writing with tags on August 15, 2011 by theerivs

After reading Scary’s article, He’s absolutely right. Many of us gamers lead a stationary life, and some of us need to change that.

I use to weigh close to 500 lbs, I was diagnosed with Adult Diabetes Type 2. I knew if I kept going down this path I would quickly be playing video games in hell. Which all they have in hell is a Vectrex game system.

I vowed to lose some weight. I changed my diet, and hit the gym regularly it worked, I am down to 375, but I can’t stop there. I have ALOT of work ahead of me, and his post made me recommit to my goal and lose 100 pounds before my 40th birthday. We are planning to go to Vegas, and I don’t want to have bigger breasts then some of the girls.  I admit I slacked off alot since my grandma died, but it’s time to get out of that funk, and into the gym.

Sometimes it takes a friend to kick you in the ass, but I think the words of Dean Wormer from Animal House ring the most true, “Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life. “ 

 

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What Else Do You Want To Talk About?

Posted in Writing with tags , on August 8, 2011 by theerivs

When I started High Latency Life, I wanted not just a site about MMO games, which pretty much what it devolved to, cause well that’s alot about what I like to do.  I wanted a hub almost of geekery, a forum if you will of all things geek…even if I don’t get into a subject like Anime, which I do enjoy, but I’m not a fanatic, nor am I an expert.

A friend of mine said I should do more about movies, and TV shows, thus Thurgeekery was born, where I try to talk about movies, and tv shows.

This is where I open the mic so to speak, and get your opinions, and feedback. What do you want to see more of?  How am I doing? What could I do different? Do you want to post a blog post of your own feel free to let me know via email cc0926(at)gmail(dot)com. Are you sick of my pictures of half naked chicks? Too bad. LOL!

As for the future of HLL, I don’t know, I’ve been winging it the last 3 years. Oh in case your wondering that is a picture of a drunk me with an orange in my mouth, and whipped cream on my face. Why is it here, cause it symbolizes how far I will go for a laugh…and that’s pretty far.

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Degrees of Friendship

Posted in Other Nerdy Pursuits, Writing with tags , , on July 12, 2011 by theerivs

Gordan over at We Fly Spitfires, had a lovely post about friends in MMOs, and it made real good sense…..if you weren’t me.

I don’t put friends in buckets, and define them in terms like “real” or “online”, to me it’s binary, either you are my friend or not, either you are with me, or against me. To me a friend is any who take their time to help me out. Let’s take my friend Scarybooster, I never met him, I never been to his crib, I don’t even really know his real name. (He told me once, but I drink alot) To me it doesn’t matter, he has earned my loyalty, and respect for he always helps me out, and is a man who has integrity. I try to return that to him. That’s just one example. Just because I never met someone does that mean that person is less than a friend, nope not in my book.  Heck Scary’s done more for me then some of the people I know, and called friend in the past.   

Sure I have friends who I spend more time with, or do activities with more, doesn’t make the rest of my friends any less of friend in my book.  I wouldn’t ask a friend who doesn’t like sports to a baseball game, well I might ask, but I would know the answer. Perhaps I’m old school, perhaps I have an idealist wet dream of what friendship is, but then again maybe in this day and age we are too hung up on labels. We want to classify everything, put everything, and everyone into a convenient box.

To me when I started to travel the lanes of the internet superhighway, it seemed there was a purity that was there. I talked to people and it didn’t matter who they were, what they were, where they came from, the physical was gone. It was like my soul, talking to theirs. I know silly romanticism of technology, but that’s what I fell in love with.

Some people portray a different person on the internet, or in their games then they are in real life, not me. What you see is me, the core of me. Sometimes brash, sometimes an asshole, but I am always honest to what and who I am, and I never get to big for my britches to admit when I am wrong, and to make sure I make amends.

Bottomline, I’m not going to stop any trends, or become the leader of some movement, but I’m trying to make a  point. I don’t like this thing or trend of quantifying friendship, and to me it  is not a good thing. If I say I’m your friend, and that I count you among mine, you can be damn sure I mean that….

Oh also realize not everyone that hangs around me is actually my friend.

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Help I Need an Adult!

Posted in Writing with tags on June 29, 2011 by theerivs

Well I’m going on vacation July 18-22nd. So I’m looking for Guest Bloggers who will be willing to write a post. I’m pretty much wide open on topics, and if you lack a topic I will give you one. I do not censor, or restrain in any way so rant away. If you are interested contact me at cc0926(at)gmail(dot)com

Hopefully I can find peace during my vacation that I need after the beach incident this summer when PETA tried to roll me back into the water…..That wasn’t a blowhole jerkoffs!

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