Rant 667 / PTR Just Keeps Dropping.

No matter how hard everyone complains about it, no one can honestly deny that sex sells. Unless you can curb the sex drive of all men, there really isn't much anyone can do to prevent the female form from being exploited. Our larger heads just cannot resist the influence of our little heads.








Interesting. So I was right when I mentioned that speculators from PRC are driving up property prices. Did I say they were from the PRC? Whatever.

This reminds me of how Africanized bees invaded Europe and later, the US. As hybrids, they retained the aggressiveness and other behavioural traits from the African bees. Since they are tougher, spread faster, more aggressive and protect their queens better, they practically replaced the European honey bees wherever they went. The main reason why the latter haven't been driven to extinct is because the former also retained the lack of resistance against low temperatures.

And our situation is kinda like this. Globalisation may mean cheaper workers and larger markets, but nothing is perfect. We can screw with other countries' market, and so can they screw with ours. Except the problem is that since Singaporean have been spoilt by our nice and soft surroundings for so many decades, many of us aren't prepared to deal with the tougher guys who had fought their way, tooth and nail, up the hierarchies in highly corrupt and incredibly competitive environments.

The wealthy speculators from PRC, in this case, are the Africanized bees; we are the European honey bees. Our options are limited. If we can't learn to compete, we're going to have to move to places they can't survive in that we can. Unfortunately, such places probably don't exist.

All hail our Chinese overlords.

T.T

I wonder if we already have MPs born in the PRC. Most likely not, for obvious reasons. So the question is, how long before we do? How long before they throw the "who's going to build your homes" card at us again? I'm not saying they're going to be wrong and neither am I saying they were wrong when they first used it. In fact, they are perfectly right and will still be if it happens again.

It's just sad.

But so were the demises of most nations and kingdoms in history.








So it's going to be dangerous to download torrents of Witcher 2. Fortunately for me, it only mentioned "bigger countries". Furthermore, torrents aren't the only way to download pirated stuff, as I may have mentioned some time ago.







South Korea begins military exercise on an island between the two Koreas. North Korea tells them it doesn't like it. South Korea goes on with it anyway. North Korea fires artillery, killing one and injuring five (?). South Korea fires back. Nobody gives a shit if anyone died up north.

WAR!!

Oh shit no! The real Boxer might get called back!

Oh shit! I missed all the GSL matches today!









Now that I've gotten the hang of casting magic in Risen, I have to say I was wrong about kiting with range. Even though monsters move at the same speed as the player, magic at close range cannot be blocked and pushes them back a little bit. With enough space behind (preferably a long road) a mage can kite and kill any monster.

Risen is the sort of game that doesn't really pull you in, but once you're playing you'll always have something to do next. There's never a time when you have to hunt long for tasks because the quest list is never empty if you take your time to speak to all the NPCs on your way to complete the quests that you have. As such, there never is a good time to stop and leave. However, the game really isn't good enough to make you skip meals to keep playing.

There's just something missing.







Elder Scrolls V, the sequel to Oblivion, is already in the works.