My life is pretty harsh right now... I've had alot of emotional talks with the last few friends I have... do you guys remember xanga? Should you get curious you should check my xanga out, it's gryther... Wow, I used to be popular? it's an intense reawakening to see that again. It was a like a kick to the throat to realize that at one point in time, alot of people cared about me, hung on my every word. Enjoyed the 3 paragraph stories I wrote like it was water and they were dying of dehydration. I cried a bit when I read some of my old posts, how innocent i was then... How many people actually KNEW who I was, who cared about me. It was in more than once sense of the words, a kick the the throat. Don't feel bad if you don't give a shit. Most people don't and won't. Some of you, may actually check it out. Just read a few pages... You may get an inkling of what life was like when it was good. I was thinking about taking that epic masterpiece, some called it, that I wrote in like 6th grade about me and a few buds taking over school and killin' lotsa people. Maybe make it make sense, give it grammer... make it larger, turn it into a story and not a paragraph of stuff. I remember how many people loved it, were thankful they didn't die in it. I remember beaming at my computer screen, for the first time a long while, 100% happy.

I'm just not sure as to how I will survive this... I know i'm not the only person suffering in the world, but when you have not a dollar to your name, nor friends, nor family who seems to care, and are living with almost complete strangers... it's rough. I'm sure some of you can relate to me. Most of you cannot, since you're most likely sitting in a comfy office chair infront of your 3 thousand dollar computer sipping hot chocolate and eating chocolate. I, however, am sitting on a milk crate, using something that has kilobytes of memory, not gigs, and I doubt a video card existed when this was made. But it suits me, and it runs the internet. That's all that matters...
 
I was considering downloading AIM again, would any of you talk to me if I did? I doubt it, perhaps zach would. Perhaps seems to be a word that has a main place in my vocabulary of late.
How many of you have had a person you thought was a friend ignore you so completely, so utterly, that your skin felt like it started to turn translucent? Felt like you should have vanished from the existance of all? I just had that happen to me today, it hurt so bad I almost cried. But it was just someone over the internet, so why should it hurt? I dunno. It just did.
 
Anyway, life sucks, no money blah blah fucking blah. i still kick your ass at video games. I'm a natural. It's written in the stone! It's written, that only Link, can defeat Gannon! (lol YTP.) Anyway, someone give me some feed back.

NO FUCK THIS SHIT
I repeat, lay off the questions for a while. Thank ya kindly.
 
I'll be posting answers to the questions all you bitches sent me as soon as I feel like getting around to it, meaning, I DON'T HAVE INTERNET AT MY HOUSE, HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO T YPE THIS ON THE WEBNET. Thanks.
 
-Nick

Hey anyone who is reading this, I need some opininons, and nothing rediculious. I've decided to return to the art of telling stories since I had a big ammount of people who really enjoyed them, but I need some opininons on what you want to write, also if you want a part in my story drop your name and what you think you should get, you can also put other peoples names in, I.E. :

I want BUNG to be the main or secondary character : Cheese McFoofoo.

I really want BUNG to be the main or have a supporting roll, sincerly, Imathe Juggernaut.

I really need some honest opininons on a good topic, i'm best at things along the lines of fantasy types, but i'm open to new ideas, if you forgot already, I used to have a revised version of "The Final Day of School" up, I never thought i'd be a big hit, but it was a monsterious hit and even got me a writing award from some company who likes to read the stuff of beginners. I never finished the epic tale I had begun featuring Beef Drky as the main character, which had one of the best openings i've been told, I could finish that but I can't seem to find the story, I'll look around some more. Anyway just give me some insight, I could really use it to get my going, I just kind of want to see what people are interested in now adays, if it must contain some sort of pornographic scene, fine what ever, if your into that, I can write it.

-Nickers.

I don't want anything from you, no i'm serious don't worry about it. Even if you did get me somthing you couldn't give it to me. I'm going in to talk to the manager I bitch slapped with a cheese burger, it seems she needs to spawn moar overlords. Fine with me I could use the money. I also wanted to mention that I play World of Warcraft, the video in my blog is me pwning some noobs(PRE-SHADOWSONG). World of Warcraft is probably the greatest computer MMORPG ever made, and it's the only one that I play, and will ever play. No, I don't want to play maple story, no you cannot 1v1 me in counter-strike. I've been getting a dick load full of emails asking for help in WoW and also if I could teach them how I kill the noobs in various FPS games. Here's why I cannot do either,

1. If you don't play on Shadowsong, sorry. Not my fault, Shadowsong is a NORMAL server, but is big on Drama and raiding small towns of both factions. Also known as DRAMASONG. I do not plan on moving to your server unless your goin to pay for it and have some gold ready for me there, so sorry people.


2. The reason I cannot show you how to pwn various noobs in most FPS games.
   -- Because it's something you learn, although I could teach you some techniques very easily, I will choose not to. I had no one to teach me, I had no one to show me what to do, where to go, what strats for each map. On the matter of surfing in Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source : I've gotten THREE emails asking how it's done. HERE'S HOW, it's simple, when your on the left side of the triangle, hold right, when your on the right, hold left, never hold UP never hold DOWN, and when you go air born hold the direction you want to go and steer with your mouse. kthxbai.


3. Once again, NO I WILL NOT MOVE TO YOUR SERVER EVEN IF IT'S FREE. ALLIANCE SUCKS, HORDE IS BETTER. BOTH ARE THE SAME AT PLAYER VERSUS MONSTER. HORDE WINS IN PVP. I can give advice, but I cannot give you "supa epix" nor can I explain how to use a certain build for a certain class, it's all about learning it your self and making your own play style. I can and usually will help you with class questions, or what race to choose, I can help you find where to go to get your "supa epix" but I can't do much else unless you roll shadowsong, and I doubt most are goin to re-roll.


That is all, have a good day!

-Nikc (I put it that way on purpose.)

Hey folks, i'm here today to tell you a little something about Halo 3, the most recent in the Halo series by the wonderfull Bungie, INC. So many people say Dude fucks dat halo game it sucks! It sux cause when I shoot you in the face your head doesn't unrealisticly explode, or when I hit you with a shotgun you don't shred into peices that would take atleast 5 to 70 shots from a shot gun to actualy put you into. Get, the, fuck, over, it. Jesus Chrishna, this isn't Gears of War, i'm wearing half a ton of solid titanium Mjolner Mark IV armor, last time I checked it's impossible to tear a Spartan apart with bullets because of the fact of you know the titanium and the armor, and the giant polerized energy field. Alot of these people who exclaim halo sux, guess what, suck at halo, they get pissed off because they get owned, well I got news for you buddy, play the game, it takes time to get better at it! Just like gears of war, you don't play it for 10 minutes and when you get owned get pissed off and go cry to your mommy. You play it untill YOU own.  Also the last time I checked a single bullet does NOT cause your entire head to explode, unless of course that bullet is filled with microscopic C4 that goes off when it hits your head. In which cause I guess it would, but then again the "Long-Shot" does not shoot bullets filled with microscopic C4. Unless your "Gnasher" (shot-gun from Gears of War) is filled with bio-razers which are attached to each bullet so when they hit you the shred and rips chunks off you and magicly eat all your insides so they dont come out, or possibly the most mysterious weapon of all is the fragmentation greande, in gears of war, which when meleed will stick into an enemy if close enough to hit, now lets think of another game where a grenade sticks to people and then blows up, oh yeah! Halo! Thats right, the plasma grenade, And now the Brute Needle grenade, or even the fire grenade, all of which when hit sticks to and kills. But people might say, thats besides the point Gears had the melee to stick! They had the first REAL sticking grenade, well no, if you think back to Halo 1, the introduction of a grenade that sticks to machines and living things. But lets get off magicly exploding heads and the abilty to have grenades stick to things, i'm thinking of another impliment, people often bring this out to try and hit a desperate low blow in comparisen for ways of killing people in the two, The Chainsaw! Oh yes, the magical noob weapon of the century, the way to make your self feel better that you dont suck so much, the one and only weapon that when you successfully run into someone while holding B you kill them, how magical! People think this weapon makes Gears of War better, no need to even compare these top two Xbox Live games, the chainsaw is a game in it self! Why even bother with them just use the chainsaw, it means your good... right? You have 10 kills, and no downs, your a pro... Right? Well no, actualy your not. The chainsaw bayonet is probably the most rediculous weapon ever implimented in a game, i'm sure EPIC was thinking this : "Hmmm, lets put a weapon people MIGHT use when the have no other choice, a kind of draw setteling type weapon, yeah! Thats it, lets put a weapon that for some reason, when it touches you, you scream and wiggle your body for about 2 seconds then it hits you and you wiggle some more before finaly dieing. yeah! that sounds good, but lets make it so that no matter what as long as you run into them they die, even if in real life you would have plenty of time to run away from it. yeah good thinking! Good atleast people wont call you noob when you use it. Yeah thats good thing" Yeah thats probably exactly what they were thinking, or not, i'm not that good of a mind reader. Lets check in with bungie's dev team, : "Hey guys, how about we do a weapon where you run into people and they DIE! Oh yeah that sounds good, but what should we use? Uh... How about a gun that has a chainsaw on it! No, no, EPIC did that already, and most people hated it. Oh yeah, right, well how about we fix the sword, and add a giant gravity altering hammer that could blast stuff away, like rockets and grenades and even small to medium vehicles! Yeah, thats awesome!" Oh congratulations bungie, you did something original, you took an awesome weapon that was fun to use, and fixed it so it wasn't frustratingly gay! Yes, now swords take some skill (albiet minor unless someone your trying to kill ALSO has a sword.)  Cause alot of the times unless your invisable with over shields and behind them you'll miss, and you can get killed oh so easy by a sticky, a shotgun, an assualt rifle, a pistol, a turret, a sniper, SMGs, a battle rifle. Wait how about I just say you can get killed easily, oh yeah, and now you have to WAIT! Yeah thats right, your sword doesn't murderize people half a second after pressing Y to switch to it. I'm sure at this point your screaming HALO FANBOY in your mind, well yes, I love Halo, it's a fantastic story line, it's got exelent gameplay, which for the most part is completetly balanced. But guess what mr or miss/misses gamer, I also love Gears! It's got a pretty good story line, (although I have seen many, many games/movies that have an unlikely hero and evil things that come out of the ground) and it has it's moments in the game, and it does have one of the most balanced multiplayers i've seen in a while, it's really hard to not enjoy either game, but I can point out one major differense that hinders gameplay in both games,
Gears of War : BULLET LAG! Never have I EVER played a game that has had bullet lag, when I shoot, I expect the bullet to come out when I do, not when I turn around, (although this does lead to some lucky victorys and hilarious kills) 3 to 5 seconds later, it's almost impossible to pull of headshots on moving targets unless you've been playing the game for a very long time, like years or like 5 months of constent playing every day using only the sniper. Oh yeah and the chainsaw, and people who just melee you down.

Halo 3 : Uh... hmm... Well there's no bullet lag... Some people complain of general lag but I haven't gotten any actualy. Well there is the, no never mind... Uh oh yeah the melee system. Thats pretty crazy, I mean how is it possible that when he has more health then I do, I melee him and he doesn't die? But when I have less health he melees me and I do? Thats gay! I want to melee him and kill him even when I have 1% sheilds and he has 30%! YEAH!

I've had many people tell me Halo 3 has better graphics then Gears, some people think this aspect is debateable or that it's obvious Gears does, well no, while Gears does have good graphics, it doesn't match up to Halo 3, really, Halo 3 can handle so much more then Gears in terms of the game engine and graphical handleing. When you smoke the same guy two times in gears, guess what, it lags like mad, when you throw 50 greandes into 100 fusion cores and 90 plasma batterys, and they all blow up, oh whats this? no lag. When you stare at a pretty waterfall in halo it's pretty, when you stare at the 90% of the time dark arenas in gears it's stupid and ugly, this is the point where people say, Well it's Gears of War! It's supposed to be dark and griddy! Well guess what, just because the story says so, doesn't mean it's an excuse for ugly repetative scenery.  I love going from a rainy jungle to a suburben area, then into a big ship filled with the flood, it's creepy, it's different, and it looks awesome all the while. Some people complain that Halo has gone downhill since the first one, what are you talking about? Tell me, please! How can a game that improved in gameplay, replayabilty, weapons, graphics, suspence, and fanbase has gone down hill. When I look at a tree, I want to see a tree, not a bunch of sticks put together that look like a tree. When someone is chasing me with a weapon 90% more powerfull then anything i'm carrying, I want to be able to jump over a rock, hop in a vehicle, or even crouch behind a a building, to get away from him, I dont wanna run like i'm a grandpa or in "roadie run" which by the way is rediculious no one could possible run in that way unless they want to die from the pain of running like that, or make them selfs pass out due to constriction of the lungs resulting in an almost suffication. I dont wanna run into buildings and stick to them, while i'm trying to get away, I dont wanna have to navigate little blocks or objects that any 7 year old could hop over, while a fully grown man seems hardly able to clammer over. If he has a boomshot or a torque bow or a sniper rifle or a grenade or the hammer of dawn or a Lancer or a pistol or any weapons that shoot, he's gonna get you unless you manage to get around a corner or he's a noob, or he's playing with you letting you think your gonna get away. All he has to do is shoot you in the back 5 times and your down, even when it takes 5 seconds to get your ass off the floor he's gonna have you down again if your not already dead. Look, I enjoy the unrealistic head shots, I enjoy the spouting blood from unrealisticly blown off limbs, but I much more enjoy the non-bullet lagging, non-chainsawing, non-non-vehicle having, and the not getting stuck on tiny objects that make you die cause you get stuck on them.

So the end this, I enjoy and love BOTH games, while I would rather smash someone into the ground with a giant gravity altering hammer, or blow up a vehicle with a giant laser, or even just getting good old fashioned headshots, then having to aim way infront of their face to attempt but most likely fail at a headshot, get chainsawed, or get stuck on walls or blocks, get killed by lame weapons, and have to explain to a pissed off person how I managed to kill him after I he downed or killed me. I love them both.

THE END.
-Nick

NOW FOR A BONUS COMIC, YOU MIGHT SEE IT AFTER SASS ONCE AND A WHILE. IT'S CALLED 2 KLINERS.










If you enjoyed either one or both PLEASE comment with ideas or praise, it's all welcome. I really apreciate it if you would!

Hey everyone! Welcome to Steps to Being a Better Gamer, my new special blog. It really just depends on when I get around to writting it, it could be everyday it could be once or twice a week, it just depends. Anyway in each blog i'm going to post steps to better your self in the aspect of gaming. Each step may be a quite long or quite short, it depends on the length of nececary description. Now that, that's over, let's began!


1.Take care of your hands, things as simple as watching your hand positions, or taking breaks can really up your game. Even if your doing well, just take a break. Watch your own healh bar, at the end of a match, or in a safe position just tell your mates and get up grab a cup of chocolate milk and a pack of pop-tarts and sit down. Eat and drink your snack, then check your hands, make sure they arn't dirty, we don't want to dirty up that pretty controller.


2. Everynight as i'm laying in my bed I do a little exersize before I fall asleep, I massage my arms and hands, so far it seems to have some effect, what I do is using one hand at a time, the bendy part of my thumb knuckle and the middle bendy part of my pointer finger to kind of rub/gently pinch my wrist and fingers. Starting at the base of my wrist I massage up the bone of each finger, going down and then up the next in line, and so forth till I do it to each finger, don't stop even if your thumb and pointer start to hurt a bit, it will go away. Depending on the caliber of gamer you are, if you play alot of FPS or action games, you'll notice that when using your right hand, the pain from doing it with out stopping will come closer to the end, and will go away faster, where as using your left hand it will come closer to the start, and will last a longer. And the other way around if you play more RPGs, Puzzle games, and other non action games.


3.One thing I always tell my gamer buddies is: Always, always be a good sport! I can't stress it enough... If your an average gamer and you get killed alot more then you kill, and every time you scream "owned!" as loud as you can, as many times as you can every time, because you get a generic old kill, your being a poor sport, and not to mention a douche bag.  So take it easy, when someone else calls you names, ignore them or respond by agreeing with them, it's the easiest way to deal with fagobs. (faggot noobs) When you pop a head, or kill the whole team, let them know it, but when your down in the dumps admit it.


4. It's easy to get addicted to a good game, it's even easier to get addicted to online games. I know I am, and I admit it, it's an easy way to have fun with out leaving your house, and having fun with your friends with out the need to gather. I'll know I'll never stop playing video games, because they are fantastic! But you need a break, I love to roller blade, I love video games more, but I enjoy them both very much. So after I play some Gears for 5+ hours in a single sitting I know I better take a breather. So I drink a nice cold glass of water and hit the streets for a bit, sometimes for up to 2 hours. Soon as I get back, I get a snack if i'm hungry and I grab my favorite chair, and set back up for some more Live, because I know, I listened to the gamer instruction manual.


5.Take care of your instruments of destruction! Every Sunday when ever I wake up, I grab my box of ear cleaner things, grab my controller and clean it up, I check my set up, make sure everythings plugged in all the way. It's a simple and easy way to keep your self in a good mood, knowing your stuff is clean. It keeps you happy, which keeps you in the gaming zone, and so forth your performance is better. ;)


6. Keep up on your news. Don't bring up something from last week, unless it's something you figure the populus doesn't know about. A good way to make friends is to chat about up coming games, or updates that will improve your favorite games.


7. Always keep in mind, just because all your friends tell you your hilarious, or they tell you your great at a certain game, it doesn't mean you are to everyone, your joke about mac n' cheese may bring hilarity ensued laughter to your class room, but it could piss off fagobs or other players, it could cause people to hate you or even try to start trouble. Telling jokes is a good way to make friends too, but keep it simple ones you know make more then just your friends laugh. if your friends tell you your good at a game, keep in mind : Maybe they just suck. So don't enter a game being totaly arrogant! If you really are good, and they are good too, then you CAN go into a game being arrogant, because you know your good, and the other players are about to learn that too.


8.And perhaps the most important thing in this issue, always, always, always, pratice. Even if it means being a weapons/power ups, hog/whore, keep it up, use that sniper when you can get it, use that Torque Bow when you can, keep it up till you get get good with it, then use it less but use it when you need to catch up.


9. Last but not least, keep gaming, keep owning, and keep on keeping it on.

(RFD) Stands for read for details, for teh un-webnet savvy.


I'm getting high-speed webnets on monday around five o clock my time, so that'd be around....... 7 o'clock pennslyvania time. I will be on Gwen the instent I do, my live name is Sapremic, BUT since I dont feel like paying for live yet, i'll be on the account TYME if avaliable. For Safety measures, please leave your account somewhere in a comment, message, or reply. For those of you who didn't know I only have 2 games, Gears of War and Splinter Cell: Double Agent, I also have one multiplayer XBLA game. Feel free to add me, and hopefully join in on the fragtastic fragfest. Here are a few guidelines when dealing err... playing with me on seXBox Live .

1. I'm going to be extremely giddy, this is my first time on my OWN Xbox, playing MY OWN copy of Gears O' War/Splinter Cell: Double Agent, For those of you who have been playing a while or are not new to 360 internet sex, just gimmie a break.

2. I'm probably going to be a weapons whore, I tend to only use weapons I know can kill easy or weapons I know i'm overly skilled in, aka the pistols or shot-guns.

3.When ever I get an acheivement I usualy squeal with delight, sorry if it bothers you.

4. I always try for skilled kills, AKA headshots, killing a multiple people whom all attack me with out dying, using the sniper rifle.

5. I LOVE to talk to people on the internet, so i'm going to be a blaber mouth unless i'm in the zone.

6.I love pistols, and I mean LOVE, I use them alot, I use them everyday, and I use them to own.

7. Things you SHOULD do : Encourage me when i'm doing good, it helps my e-penis (ego/moral) Join me, and together lets own the noobs. Be a douche when i'm being a douche. (bitch/trashtalker) If someone calls you names or talks bad to you, don't yell at him, tell me, and i'll take out the trash. Know how to use active reloading tacticly. Know how to avoid mercs if your a spy, or know how to kill spys if your a merc. Know how to share. Know how to pop heads.

8. Things you SHOULD NOT do : Cry if we're on seperate teams. Bitch if I kill you. Bitch if I kill you on purpose, 'cause you were bitching. Bitch if someone on your/our team kills you on accident. Don't whine if you die 4 seconds into a match. Don't hog weapons, whoring is fine. And most of all don't be a poor sport, just cause you kill all but the last of the mercs or spys, just cause you kill 3 of the four COGs or Locust and die by the last, don't be a poor sport, just suck it up and reload faster.

9. If you were wondering, there is a big differense between WHORING and HOGGING.

10. Whoring is when you use your favorite weapon or cheap weapons for the whole round, a few rounds. No one cares if your good with it, no one cares if you like it cause it shoots or sounds cool, it's still whorin' so watch it, no one wants your STDs. I tend to do this alot, weather for acheivements or cause I feel like it.

11. Hogging/Jagging (heard a british guy call it that) is when you use your favorite or cheap weapons the whole round, all rounds. Everyone cares cause it's cheap, no one cares cause you love it. No one cares cause it sounds cool, or you need acheivements. it's still hoggin' so watch it, no one wants your bacon. (unless it's fresh and crispy)


12. Most importantly, be a good sport, tell people when you own, but admit it when you got owned, and always exclaim if you got an achievement, because everyone knows achievements are gold.

Also if you have a high gamerscore, people assume you own. So go for that 10th Torque Bow round.
                                                                        

Hello friends, I cannot stay online long. I'm currently using my neighbors dialup account (over heard it) I just wanted to let everyone know we got a fantastic house and sadly we have no highspeed internet (yet , next month our local provider is starting service here) so unless comcast can get use the internet we won't have internet till july 10th. Of course i'll use the library's highspeed once and a while. I Just wanted to let everyone who's been waiting for me to come on xbox live (zach) i won't be able to for a while. I Just wanted to update on the life.

 

We live in the country, if you couldn't already tell. it's an awesome house we have 2.5 acres. I'm getting a job and I can't wait till I do so I can finaly buy stuff that I need (gears of war, a guitar, more Robert Jorden books) I can't wait also till I get highspeed so my 360 can finaly soar the open skys of the heaven named Xbox Live. OH don't forget Halo 2 so I can play with Zach/ Joe/Derrick/Mat all fun stuff, you guys need 360s... also I have a new phone but I am in know knowledge of its numerical value. Well I figured i'd just catch you guys and gals up. Untill I get dsl or cable (or i'm at the library x.x) I'm out.

P.S. (I saw a couple of coyote eating a deer)

Hai folks! I'm currently leasurly leaning back in a massive citadel watching Cartoon Network on a 90 inch flatscreen. It's fantastic! I'm happy and i'm enjoying my fancy room and my pool and workout room, with my own private room card, cute checkin girls and eating out every meal! It's awesome... Well this computer IS public and it has no speakers so I must return to the room. Just another quick update on the Nickles Relocation. I'll probably post another in a day or so, i'm staying at the Hampton uptown and my room number is 424. So if anyone wants to come up and hang out, enjoy  the pool or workout room, free tea and coffee and i'm slightly rich now, so i'll treat for pizza (deffenently not now since I just ate.) But hey we can watch HBO in all of its cussing and gorey goodness! That is my mom wil probably  be there so we will just end up going to the pool or workout room which has a TV anywho. I'm off now if I leave the hampton I MIGHT or MIGHT NOT have a computre' so don't expect me on or nuffins. Well Night and may the peace be kept over the Water oath.Ja'chin Nare Hyur Tadurn.

 

-V