Lets Play!

Come October, the buzzword starts to go around. Game releases, LAN parties, hardware launches, cutting edge technology and a lot more. I realise I haven't written for a while now cos' I've been busy living, working and testing new technology (per-se). Now recently I did a lot of market research on a lot of subjects (Graphics Cards, Mother Boards, Gaming Technology, DirectX10, Windows Vista, etc.). I bought some decent hardware, played the hell out of some of the most hyped titles ever and briefly tried out the new Windows Vista (codename-Longhorn). Now writing about all this is a waste of time, cos' anyone (and everyone) has already covered what there is to cover about all of this. So I will just waste a little time in posting images of what I have been into. So don't expect fancy write-ups, cos' there would only be (gripping and intense for people with heightened sense of understanding) images. A picture is worth a thousand words and wastes 1/1000th of the time you would spend reading about <insert what you like reading 'here'>.

CYA !

Sterling Commerce e-Gaming

It was one hell of a night. It was about valour, guts and glory. It was about the ability to strike and the inability to survive. Strategy and brute force. Focus and skill. It was Sterling Commerce's e-Gaming Finale. Here is the review of the gala event.

Initially the thought of having a gaming tournament in a professional environment was odd. A tourney in office? Are you kiddin' me? It'll be a flop! Anyone and everyone doubted the ability of professional hands dealing with gaming events, be it playing or organising. There were a lot of talks that people might not be much interested. The league round of knock-out games in Counter-Strike, Quake3 and NFS Underground 2 were played in a small room with 15 spectators and 8 participants at a time. Ventus, Lamina and Terra came out victorious. Now was the time for the final event. The grand finale to decide the 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions. I walked into the cafeteria thinking about the task at hand and the setup was a shock to me. An absolute sitter.

The event's final was being under-estimated by everyone. It was a huge setup. Big LCD TVs, huge projector setup for the audience, WCG style sitting arrangement; that is all that is required to make it a gaming experience of a lifetime. I had the honor of playing from the side of Terra in CS and Q3. There were spectators, there were servers and there was energy. A lot of it.

The night started out with Ventus vs. Terra. Quake and Counter-Strike were assumed to be in ventus's pockets as they had players like fandoo, So!id and BlackDeath. Even Killer from Ventus did more than what was expected. Terra was crushed after a fighting start in both games. Then came NFS, Terra won the races back to back. They also won against Lamina. Terra came out victorious in NFS thanks to Mukha, Chandan, Shishir and RKT. Now the pressure was off Terra's back when they were to play Lamina in CS and Q3. Supposedly, Terra took it a bit too easy and lost both the games in Nail Biting finishes to Lamina. The scores were 10-9 in CS and 8-6 in Quake3. Call it luck or whatever you wanna call it, but the second favorite team (terra) landed up in the 3rd spot. Lamina's spirits were high and they had to play the undefeatable Ventus. Lamina made a good start in both CS and Quake3 thanks to Fubu and HappyFeet, but Ventus gathered their strength and crushed Lamina as convincingly as they could.

It was a night of rocking gaming. The players in all teams did well and surpassed expectations by a long margin. The Final standings were Ventus-1, Lamina-2 and Terra-3. The gameplay of So!id(CS), BlackDeath(Q3) and Chandan(NFS) were mind-boggling. Fubu and company did well too. Kudos to everyone involved in making the evening an adrenaline packed journey into the OtherWorld. The atmosphere, the energy and the professional handling of the event made it one hell of a show, the first in its kind. In the end a very special Thanks to Rajesh Chandolia for making it all possible. Keep rocking dude. :) And yeah! The sound was BOSE. Game ON!

The seating for the audience with LCD Screens on sides and a projected screen in front.

The Players practising.

More practise right before the start.

Solid in action.

BlackDeath in action.

You

Who are you? You are a figment of my imagination but very real indeed. You are someone in pain. Going through hard times. I have good news and bad news for you. The bad news is that times are gonna get harder. The good news ... read on.

I heard a piece of music today. It reminds me of you. It was called 'Elin Shore'. I heard it again and again. Again and again I heard it. As if I was trying to hold something made of thin air; but not ready to give up on it. I heard it so many times that it got etched in my mind. It was a piece from a long lost documentary I did during my farewell days in college. I believe in the power that this little piece of sound possesses. It brings things back. Gives hope. It has to be heard to be believed. The set has nothing to do with love or emotion, its just so simple and serene that its empowering. Listening to it makes you want to listen to it over and over again.

I saw you today, seemed like something was amiss. Seemed like something was not where it should have been. Seemed like you were trying to reach out to something, but not someone. I saw the constant struggle in your eyes. I wish I could tell you how easy it was to handle it. Words like trouble, struggle, pain, frustration, etc should have no place in your mind. I dont claim to have seen everything in life, I'm too young for that. I dont claim I have seen the worst of times, I am too ignorant. I dont say I know a lot, I am simple. I am oblivious to almost everything but you. Through your eyes I have seen a thing or two. Through your mind I have learnt a lesson or two.

The best gift you have given me, is yet not known to you. I want to bestow it upon you now. But I cant find the means to. From you I have learnt how to keep it cool. From you I have learnt how hard life can be. From you I have known how to be above the quicksand of life under any circumstance. I know you have problems. Everyone has problems. What makes someone appear happy to us is the way they handle those problems within their own self. Some people break down. Some never bend. I know this for a fact, that people which I know of, never break. They never quit. I dont let them. In my vocab the words 'Quit' and 'Cannot' dont exist. I know from first hand experience (and trust me it is pretty good) that ANYTHING can be done in ANY amount of time. Now this line can be misinterpreted, and is, in most cases. It simply means that the human capability extends far beyond the stretches of our imaginations. There have been times I have accomplished impossible feats. The me you see now believes that any one who has the right frame of mind can accomplish anything they set their eyes on; and TIME doesnt come as a factor at all. Not only me, I know people close to you who have done this. Set a goal, achieve it. Set another one, achieve it. Set another ... fail ... try again, achieve it. Walk the line and see how everything falls into place. Life is a constant struggle, anyone who has seen enough of it, would vouch for this fact. Rich or poor, Smart of silly, Young or old. Anyone who has seen enough, will tell you the same thing.

Lets talk about someone who believes in the concept of a perfect life. Smart people are hard to find; but impossible to find are the smart ones who believe that one day their life would be perfect. Life is never perfect, all it can offer you are perfect moments. Thats it. People who dont play, dont win. People who dont run, never reach distances. People who dont swim, never cross oceans. People who dont believe in themselves, never achieve. The best thing that life can offer you is someone to be by your side while you try and achieve what you have set out to. This is the way of life. People can have different strides, big or small, but the destination is the same. I trust one should take each day as it comes, while setting goals and achieving them. Suppose you want a square ABCD to be drawn on a piece of a paper. Firstly, you gotta imagine it (dreams/ambition). Secondly, you gotta pick up the pen (determination). Then you gotta make four points (A, B, C and D which is the effort). Then you got to join them with straight equal lines (putting things into perspective). There you go, you have your square. Since you drew it, its yours to keep and no one can take it away. Some tasks are a tad bit difficult than the foolish example I have given. Some things have a million factors attached. But in the end, everything follows the same route. We should always be grateful that we have come a far way. We should always believe in things that we have accomplished to fuel the fire that would run us into a many wonderful things that we will accomplish. Focus, effort and commitment to your dreams are the ONLY things that can help us get where we want to go. Self belief can get rid of frustration. Focus can take care of failures. Effort can take care of everything else.

Faults. A lot of faults is probably what I am made up of. Maybe I sum up into a big mistake. But what I am not, is a quitter. But I have learnt to keep stress away. Mental stress specially. A very famous quote on life is Dont hate the players, hate the game. Thinking that someday you would be there, will never take you there. Deeds will. I believe there is always a way. I believe there is always a little something more I would want to write. But keeping it till here, I wish you well in everything you try to do. Just remember, anything and everything can be done. Everything has its faults, every situation has a loophole. Everything that appears good has a tremendous amount of effort and will-power backing it up. Things just dont work, people like you and me have to make em' work.

Fire

No smoke without you, my fire.
After you left,
your cigarette glowed on in my ashtray
and sent up a long thread of such quiet grey
I smiled to wonder who would believe its signal
of so much love. One cigarette
in the non-smoker's tray.
As the last spire
trembles up, a sudden draught
blows it winding into my face.
Is it smell, is it taste?
You are here again, and I am drunk on your tobacco lips.
Out with the light.
Let the smoke lie back in the dark.
Till I hear the very ash
sigh down among the flowers of brass
I'll breathe, and long past midnight, your last kiss.

by Edwin Morgan

The New Orkut ???

Just as I was done throwing sh*t in the face of Orkut it has rekindled my desire to beat the hell out of people responsible for the latest disaster they have managed to accomplish. People call it a new Theme, a new kinda Look, a Wow inspiring change! I call it shit ... take a look.


Now I am a big preacher in favor of change, but there are certain basic problems with this new design. Hi orkut! Certain things I hate about you are ...

1. If the image captions are too long, so long sucker! They wont show completely.
2. The color scheme looks as if someone took a crystal clear dump over the old theme.
3. The new font colors are not even 10% as good as the old one.
4. The text doesnt look as good as the old style.
5. The buttons look as if designed by an infant, could'nt google come up with better sleeker and retro button designs.
6. The black and white images, which used to look Very Cool on the old design, now look like portraits of grannies sick and tired of knitting.
7. The colors in the colored snaps look duller and shittier due to the super bright (halogen) backgound color (Tide wala white). I mean it has been a sincere effort to blind us into believing that change is good. I say FcK oFF ... wake up, all colors are washed out.
8. Now whats up with the curvy edges of all on-screen elements, I think the developers tried to make it baby-safe, with no sharp edges.
9. I hate bubbles ... and everything here looks like I'm looking at the old orkut through a semi gelatinous bubble.
10. The new look 'per-se' makes me feel as if it has been designed because all the orkut users were dumb and did'nt know what they were doing. Assholes!
11. Orkut was most definitely totally jealous of the way Facebook looks. So the super brainy geeks at google sat down and thought of how to counter that jealousy. Suddenly the brainiest of them all stood up and screamed, Lets rip off their design, make a few changes and launch a new orkut! Everyone clapped.
12. Another one spoke, But wouldn't it be too obvious that we are jealous of Facebook? How about adding a new feature, suppose, we add the 'ScrapBook' button on the top of the page again ...; Everyone clapped again.
13. And ... Another geek spoke, Yeah! and to cover it all up we'll over publicise the Scrapbook button on the top of the page so that no one notices the changes we've made in design. We can pass this junk off as not just a theme change, but a functional overhaul. Clapping followed.
14. Then some f*ck-bag suggest the worst of it all, We can slide in the new design to the users slowly, group by group. Everyone nodded. Their plan was to make us feel that "Google is God, when Google decides and starts doing something, it is inevitable. We will have to wait for the inevitable to fall on our heads flat."
15. Everything is smaller.
16. It all looks like a chubby high school chick who is high on marijuana and has a lot of make-up on.
17. What is this Add Photo crap in the scrapbooks anyways? Who needs it? Couldnt you have added a better functionality? Like 'delete all scraps'. Or maybe a new button 'Delete my Profile' on the top of the page.
18. There is only one good point with this design; you can edit your photo album more easily now (hint: upload photo section on top); but the new design is so sucky that I dont even wanna login anymore.
19. Fonts have been made bigger, but the place-holders for the same text has been made smaller. And why does every box look like a shady grey calamity? Moronic.
20. I thought they would give us a 'Theme Selector' functionality. Suckers! Think of how cool that would be, users choosing their own themes (like blog templates).

But thats all just my own opinion, just cos' I'm sick of people asking me, Did you see the new Orkut? Wow! Aint it great!. NO! ITS NOT GREAT. I HATE IT. I'LL DELETE MY ACCOUNT AND EVERYONE WILL THEN CRY THEIR EYES OUT. Yeah Right!

Orkut ???

This hole is as deep as holes can get. This site was started with good intentions I'm sure. It still serves the purpose of 'connecting people' like no other portal. Its definitely the most famous and the most used portal in the world (citation needed). It was taken over by Google at a point in its lifetime, and has been buzzing and improving from then on ... but don't take the word 'improvement' here in the social sense, its just the technical aspect I'm talking about. The looks, the features, the functionality have improved over the time, no doubts, but ... that is not what I'm gonna write about here today.

What do we find in all public forums? We find people. All kinds of people. Now thats also not what I'm gonna write about. I'm gonna write about a certain type of people found on Orkut (or in general any public forum) and will step by step try and describe their sub types. So welcome to Orkut.

So if you are a girl reading this post, you will probably relate with it much faster. If you are a guy reading it, no issues, you'll understand eventually.

See being on Orkut for so long (almost a veteran now) I have noticed that there has been a certain segment of people (profiles) who (which) are on a continuous hunt for Girls on Orkut day in and day out. Their motives may be anything, from the depths of perverseness to the heights of innocence. They might just want to add you to their list of Online Friends to make it look cool, or they just might want to hunt you down and sleep with you. This post is not about the motive, its just about the type. And this post is not just about Orkut (mostly), its about most of the internet portals with similar functionality. This post intends to mock such profiles just for the heck of it, and, for their sheer profanity or 'The Ocean of Dumb' they swim in. The basic types of profiles of Hunters include the following ...

Type 1 : Ass Wipes
Such are the kinds whose profiles scream out loud, See, I'm totally interested in sex and sexual topics. Kindly refrain from normal conversations. I might get offended. And yeah, I don't have balls to make a normal profile and I am an ugly looking retard in real life. They usually have a display picture of highly explicit sexual nature. Flashing genitals and/or display of breasts being the most common. If you notice closely they have all kinds of Ugly communities added to their already messed up shit they claim to call a profile (Yeah Right!). Mostly their scraps to the real world would be sexual in nature, so no prizes for guessing that. The best part is their scrapbooks. You notice there normal people (guys) who are so downright dumb that only a slight glimpse of a display picture of revealing nature is enough for them to scrap back saying Will you be my friend? I mean what has gone wrong with the 90% guy population of this country. I mean GUYS! THOSE ARE NOT REAL GIRLS! Are you so dumb that you cant tell a fake profile from a normal one. Such desperate fucks need to be shot dead, literally.

Type 2: The Punk Faggot
This one is very very tricky. Usually has a very Punk display picture of a very very good looking and well dressed male. Mostly picked up from anime circles or fashion websites. Some of these fuck-ups also choose to put up pictures about darkness, death and paranoid looking shyte. This is a common practice amongst the non-Hunters and hence makes detecting a hunter very very difficult. They scrap (target) girls from metropolitan cities only. Period. They act mushy, they act girly, they act emotional. Lines like Dont listen to what random people say about me ... I'm a nice guy! Yeah right asshole, if you are so nice why are you justifying your bowels to eternity. Detecting this one is very easy if you know what you're looking for. They have huge number of good looking(mostly fake) girls on their list, a lot of foreigners and a plethora of just 'copy-paste' scraps. They are it. Their testimonials cry out loud, I'm the one who believes in fairies. Go drown yourself you faggot! These fucks really irritate me when they actually 'are' hunters and they write English as if they have a smoldering hot lead pipe in their asses. I hp U fKs doN MnD m3 moCK!nG yoo!

Type 3: The Mushy Pigs
Their sole aim in life is to get a girl sentimental. They might not have the weight to chase you down and date you. They just want to play mind-games and later tell tales of their internet valor over coffee. They usually have a display picture depicting a flying bird, a burning candle, drops falling into water, crying portraits. These kinds are harmless but are irritating to the core. Their approach is totally cliche and these are the ones with lines like ... Hey! I really like your profile, can we be friends? I wanna know more about you, etc. Now they pretend to be really really good friends. They paste (s)craps of how important friendship is and all. Just ignore. Do not bother about them. The only fuck up is that mostly all regular 'not-so-smart' girls (sorry) end up chatting with these guys and crying on their pillows at night cos' He did not come online today! Have I done something wrong? So I suggest, anyone without a DP = IGNORE! Notice how these guys try and act personal and interested and overtly friendly.

Type 4: The Regular Lets Try
These are the folks who are actually capable of having a life outside Orkut. Just that in their free time they keep scrapping here and there trying their luck. They usually reside in the smaller towns. So they just harmlessly send out friend requests. Once they are ignored by a girl, they don't mind. But boy do they aim high! These guys put up their washed out pictures (mostly original) and are completely harmless. Their only fault can be that they are not your type. They usually make friends on the internet from their own small towns and are happy fooling around with friends. My 10 cents on - Completely Harmless. They are NOT hunters, but they are not NON-HUNTERS either. Phew! This is the transition kind. Hardest to explain. Some of the non-hunters also indulge in such kind of things for the sake of Time Pass. So this category actually doesn't belong here; but still its here. It has no permanent membership. The only effect they have is just the one extra click you have to do on NO / DELETE / IGNORE. And yeah, I forgot, these are the ones with all the FRANDSHEEP requests.

So that broadly categorizes most of the Hunters. As for the NON-HUNTERS. Lemme give you a few pointers as to how to detect them. They show sparks of wit, humor, attitude, smarts, etc when in conversations. They are truly there to talk to their friends and friends alone.

Now there are a few other categories also, but I'm tired. Will try to elaborate later. And yeah, I know this one sounds a bit on the lines of maddox but I have an explanation for that too. Just like we all ride cycles just the way Lance Armstrong does (doesn't mean we have been inspired by him), there was no other way to mock fuckers other than that of Maddox.

Max Payne : That Old Familiar Feeling

I am Max Payne. My Wife and Daughter were murdered. It had something to do with the designer drug 'V'. I transferred from the NYPD to the DEA, went undercover to find their killers. I got too close. I was framed for murder. With nothing to lose, I went after the Mafia during the worst winter storm in a century.

I can recall myself thinking - Firing a gun is a binary choice. You either pull the trigger or you don't. As surely as the bullet rips through the victim's flesh, organ and bone, it shatters the image of the man who presses the trigger. Einstein was right. Time is relative to the observer. When you're looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down, your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second.

I trusted her like a blind man. Everyone that denied that trust became an enemy within my wreck of a mind. "It's up ahead, see you there." I pointed to the panic room door. Alfred Woden was behind that door. Revenge had made my senses numb. The blood I had spilled along the way had made my hands rusty. Woden was the only cure to the disease I had cultivated. Seeing Woden die was my only desire.

"Dead end. Damn it!" I tried the door out of the main hall.

I had met Mona Sax in a gothic nightclub, Ragnarock. She was a hired killer. We were after the same man, her sister's sadistic husband. I was drawn to her for all the wrong reasons. "Here, let me." She briskly moved around the room and revealed a secret passage. She crawled inside and to disappear in the mist of elegance she had left behind. Mona knew a secret way to open the door. She knew. I heard her faint voice, "This way".

Mona knew the manor. She was working for Woden. Vlad had told me the truth. I had not believed him when I should have. "Mona, wait. Stop!" I cried out in her direction and followed her inside the secret passageway she had opened. It was dark. It was misty. It smelled of deceit. This is love, I thought to myself.

Whack! Something heavy landed on my head from behind. It felt like a hundred explosions inside my head. It was only moments before I felt a cold trickle down the back of my head. It was my blood. I knelt and touched my head. It was cold and dark. The only light was from the passageway I had just come in through. "Aghh!". She had tried to break open the butt of her gun with my head.

This is Love. When someone drags you from the wreckage when you have given in, ready to just lie there and die. I turned back and looked through my barely open eyes. "I told you not to come here. It's my job to clear up this mess and you're a part of it. Throw away your guns." Mona was standing behind me, pointing her gun at me. Waiting to make the binary choice. Talking. Looking beautiful. I dropped my guns.

This is love. Amidst the fading light I noticed that a security camera was watching us. When someone, no matter what the cost, shows you there is hope, a choice, that you can put down your gun. I felt her arm twitch. I felt her eyes move. She was about to shoot me. End it.

"See? I can't do it. You're a bastard, Max." She dropped her gun. She came over and stood by me. The pain in my head had now made a statement. It was making itself felt. I thought to myself, This is love. Love hurts.

I heard a loud bang. Blam! It was a pistol shot. "Ah!". It was a familiar voice. The voice that had guided me here. The voice I had learned to love. The voice of Mona Sax. I saw her chiseled frame drooping. She instantly fell down. I broke her fall. I looked to the doorway. I saw Vlad. Vladimir Lem. There was a look of disappointment in his face. His voice was heavy, "I was so looking forward to you two killing each other. You can't have everything." The blood from her bullet wound had spread around me on the floor. I was sitting in the middle of that puddle, holding her throbbing act in my lap. Holding her tight. This is Love. I had been here before, ground zero.

Vlad heaved a sigh and said, "Max, you are making me look incompetent by refusing to die." Right then a wheelchair appeared from the darkness. It was Woden. "Stop! I am sorry. Enough!", he said. A bomb went off in my head, the bullet lodged in my brain moved a fatal microscopic distance. I clenched my fists, no one knew what was about to happen. Only one thing was sure. As sure as the sunset. Vlad will have to pay for this.

Max Payne : Essentials

Introduction

I wanted to write something about Gaming, but dramatic. I remember from my old gaming days, two games specifically had hit me in my nuts. I absolutely went agape on the story and the presentation. These were Max Payne and Max Payne 2 : The Fall of Max Payne. Specially the second game left me craving for more. The story was beautifully presented and the noir style of presentation was unique and gripping. I played the games over and over again. It was like watching a movie. I even managed to get it included in a Literature course in my curriculum thanks to Dr. Suchitra Mathur (who was generous enough to understand and soak in the detective fiction aspect of it). The part of the game that I absolutely cherished was the dramatics. Everything in the game had a meaning and was touching in its entirety.

Now when I was over and done researching the game again and again for its social puns, humanitarian aspects, the trust factor and the twisted world that it created, I moved on with my life. Many other games came and went, none having an impact as deep as Max Payne did. The characters were true and justified. Driven by reason and emotion. I was thinking of the most dramatic moment in gaming history and all I could think of was Max Payne comes close to being shot in the back by Mona Sax. I then came to the conclusion that the game had been missing a lot of details. By details I imply the stories people need to know to bring out everything that the game wanted us to feel and even more. Hence I decided to commence this chain of Short Stories (my own) from the scenes in Max Payne. I chose to name the collection as Max Payne : Essentials. I hope you guys enjoy them and that they leaves a mark on your mind, standing true to its original inspiration - Max Payne. This construct is dedicated to none other than the love of my life ... Chara.

Things I Could Have Written About

I have always been full of ideas for this blog. Funny ones, Smart ones, Silly ones, etc. Lately I have been getting a lot of bright ideas but I am unable to find the material within my mind to populate the thoughts. I cant write unless and until I have already cross-checked the entire idea inside my head at least twice. Now as we all have to move on, I decided too. No issues if I cant populate the skeletal ideas into fleshy topics, what I decided to do was populating this idea with bullshit. I could have written about a lot of things if I had seen The Light. Here are a few wanna-be subjects.

I could have written about how to have a nice day, about how to fuck it up, about hippies, about traffic, about rains, about bi-sexuality, about lift system in my ex-office, about music, about my brand new phone (read. cool), about SMS forwards, about people who send SMS forwards, about abbreviated bullshit, about the movies I just saw, about troubles in social congregation, about a certain kind of buiscuit, about my new job role, about 'I am a BuM', about video games and their role in a developing society, about the way black folks dress, about advantages of low-waist jeans, about the union of man and water, about caring, about dogs, about affection, about politicians, about the railways, about rail-road accidents, about how I felt when Savage Garden broke up, about matchboxes in North India, about shitty keyboards and what they do to us, about buying a new PC, about ordering food vs. cooking it, about hazards of drunken driving, etc. phew!

These ideas populated my mind in the past 3 weeks. I tried hard to structure them into articles, but, I guess they werent 'matter' enough for me to waste my time or effort. I use the word 'matter' here loosely. What I mean is the quality was not top notch. I gotta do a few things about this blog too. Namely, hit counter, better effects, adding videos, adding stuff that doesnt matter, start a biography chapter Numero Uno. Right now all I could come up was this ...

;)

Speed Delivery Of Nightmares

It was a lovely afternoon. I was crossing the road in front of my house. The road was wide and a cool wind was kissing my forehead. Frivolity was at its best as I saw the happy kids jumping around the pavement trying to play some kind of a variant to good old soccer. Leaves were hustling and the birds were singing a soothing song. There was no traffic on the road and I decided to cross it, keeping in mind that I had to 'look to the left and then look to the right before crossing'. I took a carefree step, as carefree as it could be, like an eagle. As I was soaring across the road I noticed a spot of a vehicle far away towards the right side. I have enough time I thought to myself. Thank you God, for this wonderful...

WOOOOOOOOSHHH !!! SCREEEEECHHH !!! WHHHRRRRR .... WOOOOSHHH !!!

"God-damn-it! What was that!" I exclaimed. Something blazing fast had just crossed my path, turned me around and was on its way now. Twisting my senses and turning my world upside down. I gathered courage to somehow just try and catch a glimpse of my destroyer from amidst the smoke he had left behind. You wont believe what had hit me. What I saw was ... this.

It seems like either someone is always very hungry or it has just become a trend now. Speedy scooters thrown out of control due to a Huge Box attached to their arse. What is in the boxes? Pizzas (Another instrument of physical destruction). Had it been an ambulance, I would have just got up and smiled on. It was a fuckin' Pizza Delivery Boy, driving at a speed of 70-80 kmph as if someone would die if they don't get their pizzas in time. I mean this needs to be brought to public notice. Right away.

As it is the pizza people just deliver within a diameter of 5kms, so that ensures that the farthest they will have to go would be no more than 2.5 kms. Now let us analyze the time taken in making and delivering a pizza.

Receive the order - 1 Min.
Send it to the chef - 1 Min.
Cooking the pizza and packing it - 5-10 Mins.
Taking it to the scooter - 2 Mins.
9-14 Mins in TOTAL.

Now what does that mean? That means that after promising you a delivery within 30 mins they still have another 16-21 Mins just to deliver it. Now in the worst case suppose they have just 15 Mins left. Now pay attention; Even at the snail slow speed of 10kmph on their scooters they can still make it in time. Aint that the way it should be. Now on a weekday afternoon in a residential area they are supposed to calm down and deliver it in time, WITHOUT KILLING ANYONE! I mean life is valuable folks. Pizza delivering is not more important than some one's life, even if you gotta give a few Pizza's for free trying to save a life, its always ok.

Now the trajectory of the delivery guy that had almost hit me was interesting. Here is a diagrammatic view of the complete incident in its entirety.

Now notice the path that the Pizza Guy took. The whole episode near me lasted probably just a fraction of a second. He scooted over the speed breaker, as if it had been there to give him a boost. As if he believed he was the Ghost Rider. I mean they came quite close to that concept when they had Spiderman deliver pizza in the second movie. He failed to deliver on time, and seems like the world has taken it to their hearts. I mean what they should understand is that its no race. The quality of your pizza or the character of the person delivering it has nothing to do with the fact how fast you deliver it. Both are mutually independent concepts.

To lay it down its not the delivery people's fault afterall. Its their bosses. They breathe down their neck 24x7 and threaten to cut their throats in their sleep if the pizza doesnt get delivered on time. I mean c'mon, anyways its bad for health, and now you get it faster too. I know how to google. I mean check out this beautiful collage I made, myself.

Is it soothing? NO! Is it disturbing? YES! Why is it disturbing? Cos' the guy is running with pizza packages, the pizza delivery guys are being mocked as if they were donkeys, pizza is for the poor, your kid is being kidnapped by your cat on his own bicycle. This is the kind of bull shit internet offers when you search for pizza delivery. Now deep down, all this can be linked to a conspiracy theory, where all internet users are being brain washed into eating more and more of pizza; so that the Pizza Corporations (up yours you schmucks!) can earn more and more money. And trust me the pizza's are expensive. Really expensive. So my recommendation is to stop eating Pizza's unless and until they find a new way to deliver it.

Now since half of the world doesnt give a shit about this HAZARD posed to humanity by the concept of speed pizza delivery. Maybe one day they will see what it means to be stranded in the middle of the road with a 'pizza chariot of fire' to test them. I have been there. I know.

Almost all parts of this account are fictitious except the fact that Pizza Delivery Personnel are bad at handling two wheelers and are speed demons and that one of them just dodged me by an inch. This article has been exaggerated for your pleasure.

Thirty Reasons To Live

30 GAMES YOU MUST PLAY BEFORE YOU DIE

Cough cough! No more of Ogre for some time. I have two very serious issues to write on before my Ogre Series resumes. Firstly, how rashly the pizza delivery guys ride and secondly, Games. Now all of us have itchy trigger fingers, for some its usually hidden and for others its visible when they are near anything that can be used to play games (PC, PSP, PS2, Xbox, Mobile Phones, etc. Even the cranky old LCD screen laden single game units.). How can you tell? I'll tell you how? Consider somebody saying lines like, Do you have a console? How much is the RAM in your system? What Graphics Card do you have? On-board graphics, HUH! Whats the resolution in your phone LCD? Color depth? Refresh rate? nVIDIA... sigh! Whats your clan name? I owned *some name* last night, Chuckles! Whats your System CPU Clock? Is your rig Overclocked? Heard of AlienWare? Laptops, hahahahahaha! Now the only reason one would laugh at a cutting edge laptop is that 'the one' in question here is a Gamer! This is the breed. They appear just like all of us, normal folks. Walking-talking normally and no one would suspect. But deep down within them lies an animal, which breaks free when it finds its shrine. No one can control it when it is controlling an in game character. Blood Thirsty is the only word that describes the gaming mania I'm discussing here. I'm not even going close to GEEKS who keep playing games all their lives, I'm talking about the toughest category, those who manage a life and yet manage to game away their idle time.

Now since I've mentioned such gamers have a life ... They cant play all the games that come out. They gotta choose and choose very very wisely. Now this is where I will try and do the same for at least 50% of my brothers in arms (the other 50% have the opposite choice in games). So here I lay down a list; 20 games *I believe* one must play before he dies, and 10 more if he plans to die a little late. So without further delay, presenting ... The top 30.

Note: The following list is in no particular order and is purely my own. So dont fret, dont cry ... boo hoo hoo! XYZ game is not in the list etc. If you want a game included, make your own list! Some games in the ranking have multiple titles in them, so dont say I didnt warn you.

Resident Evil
Resident Evil Biohazard (Nemesis), Resident Evil 4

People say you dont own RE titles, they own you. Enough said. The leader in survival horror genre. Welcome the grand daddy of Horror Games. Everytime you play, you are hooked. I specifically chose 3 and 4 because, 3 is the best the old style RE could have gotten, and 4 is a new era in itself. Probably the best game to hit the PS2/GC.

Prince Of Persia
The Sands of Time, Warrior Within, The Two Thrones

If you have not played one of these, you dont know what action games are like. Puzzles, action, music, effects, graphics, etc. A gripping story and superb ambience with the new Free Form Fighting system make it an amazing experience. The gameplay is 10/10. And the Prince model makes you wanna be him, in your dreams!!! All 3 games in the series carry equal weight but are very very different in the look and feel. Handling is perfectly consistent.

Silent Hill
Silent Hill, Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill 4 The Room

Talk of survival horror and someone may say Resident evil... Suddenly the door creaks open and a strange looking character comes in, "I have been to a world which you cannot imagine in your worst nightmares ... Its called SILENT HILL." Imagine yourself in a place where walls are rotting with blood spilled all over the place. Everything is in a mess, rusty and downright filthy. Throw in some heavy mechanical thunder and the uneasy chatter of your radio. Mix gently some of the scariest and nasty looking monsters ever conceived in a game and make them scream in the dark behind you. Adding to that is limited visibilty via a torch which incidently attracts these monstrocities. And last but not the least, have no clue what the fuck you are into. That's silent hill. Gripping. Scary. Uneasy. This game will surely give you restless dreams, and trust me you would just have a lead pipe in your hand when the creatures attack.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell 3, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Splinter Cell Double Agent

If James Bond had been a real character, he would not have been this guy. I wonder how come a movie was never made on this one. Maybe Microsoft is holding onto it too tightly. Stealth redefined. Path breaking effects. Smart & Open ended gameplay. Truly a marvel. I remember playing & finishing all these games in one or two sittings flat. Its not too difficult, not too easy, simply addictive. You wanna feel the sense of danger and responsibility in a game. This is it. Real life missions, no magic, no superpowers, just gut and strategy. Must play if you are patient enough to let an enemy look for you everywhere and then strike. Stealth Action Redefined.

Clive Barker's Undying

This has to be one of the unexpected ones in the list. No one ever heard of it. No one ever knew it existed. No one bothered to look for it. It was not too successful. Wanna know why? The story is totally gripping and complex. The scares will make kids shit their pants. The monsters are too scary. Maybe the government conspired against the certain success this one was headed for. The game takes place at a war veterans mansion and the moor behind it. Setting is superb. He is the only survivor of his family and his whole cadre of ancestors are now haunting him. In comes our protagonist a mystic detective and a friend of the owner. The mystery and story unravells at a perfect pace. Graphics are not too good, but the story is worth it all. Monsters are innovative and battles are realistic. Half of the enemies cant even hit you, they are just there to scare you and effect your decisions within the game. Brilliant. Do not play alone.

God Of War
God of War, God of War II

"I am the God of War, none shall defy me." This is what Kratos chants in perfect timing when he tears through his enemies. A race to become the King of Olympus. Its full of adrenaline. Treachery, Deceit and Malice are in this game. Power and only power is what makes you superior. No room for mercy and a wonderful bloodbath. Superior gameplay based roughly on the Prince of Persia. Brilliant enemies and even more creative ways of killing them. This game has probably the best gameplay in a game ever. Imagine taking on a 100 foot God single handedly with confidence. Thats what GOW offers. Expert gameplay and superb grunts of the characters. They have paid excellent attention to detail in a very superficial way. Brilliant to accomplish. You would give anything to be Kratos for a day. But just for a day! Action at its best. Great arsenal of weapons. Superb environments. One word - satisfying.

Unreal Tournament
2003, 2004 and 2007

Now this is one shooter you wouldnt wanna miss. Great graphics, mindless action, superb online modes, great maps, good model and vehicular designs. Yes, VEHICULAR! It has vehicles, tanks, jeeps, aircrafts, etc. Great aint it? Wait till you play it online with a bunch of friends. It is mindless, addictive, super paced fun. Adrenaline pumping action fun. Fun fun, not okay type fun. Mind it.

Half Life
One and Two

No game rankings are ever ever ever complete without mentioning this FPS Classic. It is an FPS and it is a Classic. Seriously, you wouldnt have played a better FPS ever. Nothing great about it. Just that I upgraded my system first time HL1 came out and then did it again when HL2 was about to hit the shack. It makes you work towards it. Simplicity is beautiful. No nonsense gaming experience is what HL is all about. Strange settings lead to stranger accidents. A nuclear lab invaded by aliens. A smart scientist and his weapons. The gameplay and the catchy name "Freeman". This is one game that is tremendously popular because of its nasty simple story and fun gameplay. Its not just an FPS. Its a legend. I cant write it down whats special about it, you gotta play it once and it'll all make sense. One game you will miss when its over.

Devil May Cry 3

Style. Style. Style. These three words best describe what DMC3 has to offer. Dante has style. Vergil has style. The girl has style. Environments have style. Cutscenes have style. Enemies have style. Action has style. Camera angles have style. Bonuses have style. The game even rewards you with STYLE POINTS for everything you do. The best part of this baby are the weapons. Imagine a Guitar as a weapon. Imagine Agni and Rudra as weapons. Ebony and Ivory are the names of ... any guesses? Guns. Its fucking crazy how cool this game gets with time. Level design is brilliant, music rocks and it has those funny moments too. What else do you want? This game gives you everything except Food. So go and get it, bring some pop-corn too. BTW, its an action game on the lines of PoP and GoW. Expect as much fun in this if not more.

Blood / The Chosen
Blood, Blood Two The Chosen

The tag line says, Second Cut Is The Deepest. I disagree, the first cut was as bloody scary and deep as the second one was. Now here for the first time I talk of Legacy shooters. The developers called their multiplayer mode as Bloodbath, the maps included places like entering the mouth of a monster. The walls at places are alive. Smashing sound effects for a game that came out in the 90's. This is one beauty that has amazing appeal. The title couldnt have been more apt, blood is something you are bound to notice in this game. Heads rolling, bodies blown away in a splash of bodily fluids. Hoards of monsters. All panic and screams. True gore and scares. This one is a gem. If you have an MSDOS pc still, download this and play it thru. You wont regret it. Ever. Both the games are fascinating and bloody full of blood.

Call Of Duty
The Call of Duty, United Offensive, Call Of Duty 2

Now if you ever wanted to be a soldier, here's your chance. Mind it, you are no hero, nothing special. Just a soldier. People around you are as good as you, you have your allies and your enemies. You have a terrain to fight in. You have the small role to play which every soldier plays to contribute to the big picture. Realistic aint it? Wait till you are irritated by some bunker based gunner while you are trying to climb a hillock with your platoon. Bloody real is what this game is. Some missions are impossible to play. Weapons are all based on REAL weapons from the World War 2. Missions and locales are all real too. The game follows history. Nothing personal ever. The best part is the noise of gunfire and blasts around you. And if an artillery shell explodes near you, you will FEEL it. Seriously. Try it out. The most realistic war game ever. Call Of Duty.

Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider Revelation, Tomb Raider Legends

This is a case similar to the RE series trend. Initially tomb raider broke grounds by giving the gamer a new kind of experience with 3rd person games. Then it became boring. Very Very boring. Then came out TR Revelation. This game was till then the best game in the series. It killed off Lara Croft. Then after a long array of silly pieces came out Legend. This spoke of Lara's secret adventures. This was where things got really interesting. All new moves, new engine, new gameplay, new switching system and superbly realistic. TR Legend is what TR should have been all along. Legend's gameplay is fast, weapons are real, moves are killer and voice acting and environments are impeccable. TR is all about a relic hunting hot chick who faces deadly traps and seriously tough puzzles along the way. This one is one of my favourites when it comes to 3rd person adventure games.

Wolfenstein
Wolf 3D, Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Whoa! This was my reaction when the first game of the series hit the market. The first (pseudo)FPS ever to hit the PC way back when Windows 3.1 was getting famous, was Wolf 3D. I remember it as my First FPS ever. This is one game who is the big daddy of all FPSs, just because it was the first. Then came Return To Castle Wolf. Nearly 15 years after the first. Based on quake engine the gameplay was, in one word, Dramatic. As dramatic as the precursor. These two games are two landmarks. You cant miss the fact that Call Of Duty actually looks like the second game. And also the fact that the first game helped create franchise like Doom and Quake. So this is a daddy game. Treat it with respect!

Grand Theft Auto
GTA III, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas

Imagine what all can you do in a big USA city. Ride bikes, snatch cars and drive away, pester the police, fly planes, fly helicopters, use tow-trucks, run around shooting people, enter and exit shops, buy guns, buy clothes, goto night clubs, rob banks, casino heists, killings, drugs, scams, bribe, goto a hospital, spy on someone, be a taxi driver, be a cop/vigilante, do good, do bad, drown, explode, become fat, work out in a gym, stay lean, play with bicycles, avenge the death of gang members, become a crime lord, date around, impress girls, have sex, etc. The list is endless and the story is wicked. This is one game that is Grand and has Freedom. This game can anyday be called Freedom-Land or something, or maybe, Do You Have Balls? One hell of a trip. Its a never ending game. Missions might end, the game will not. Earn, Learn, Roll, Drive by. Presenting a game with enough meat to keep you chewing for months. Grand Theft Auto. Plain Wicked. This one caused a stir.

Serious Sam
Serious Sam, Serious Sam The Second Encounter, Serious Sam II

LOL. This is one funny game. There's just one good guy, that is, SS. Rest all things moving need to be killed. You will get ammunition like anything. So many many many bullets to you that you can make a castle out of bullets. Now there is a reason behind this. Ever tried counting enemies in a game. In Serious Sam dont even try! Huge environments can host as many as 200 enemies running towards you, all at once. Enemy design and sounds are funny and dangerous. They usually die in one shot. Some dont. But I have known gamers who shit their pants seeing 200 enemies running towards them screaming. This game has that funny element too. Closer to a wicked comic book than real life. Sam's dialogues are keepers. Amazing weaponry add to your advantage. Just one suggestion, DONT PANIC! You will come out of it alive.

QUAKE
Quake, Quake 2, Quake 2 Ground Zero, Quake 3, Quake 4

Now this is one franchise that has probably given us the best Game Engine in two decades. Quake is something you just cannot miss. ID Soft launched Quake and it became an instant hit. Then this was followed by another series of hit Quake Games. Quake is a shooter. Set in a different world. Quake 1 - Earth/Castles, Quake 2 - Alien Planet, Quake 3 - Prisoners of War on the alien planet, Quake 4 - Earth/Alien Planet. This series has spawned more than 100 similar games on its own engine. This engine is probably the most widely used engine for FPS. The game Quake3Arena is downright the best/second-best Multiplayer Over LAN one can play. Its addictive, to an extent that I know people who claim that they LIVE in the arena itself. My college had a fetish for Quake3. Mods, effects, totally customisable engine makes this baby a top notch game. One of the most famous FPSs EVER! Go Play!

Need For Speed
Need For Speed Underground, Hot Pursuit, Underground 2, Most Wanted, CARBON

We ALL, I mean all of us, have a thing for the racing genre. Gamer or non-Gamer, we all love to drive expensive cars around. Anyone at least a little bit into cars, MUST have heard of Need For Speed. This series has produced more than 12 Games from its belt and all have been successful. This is the most widely accepted and acclaimed racing game series ever. The cars are true to life, great graphics and good gameplay. The game concentrates on the major portion, racing. Least digressing racing game of all time. Enjoy this one with both hands free. Do a wheelie. Yay!

Max Payne
Max Payne, The Fall Of Max Payne

Its a sad story, its a love story, its a story of betrayal, its gripping. This game introduced a never before seen Bullet Time Effect. The dive mechanism and the second installment introduced Upgraded Bullet Time Effects and realistic physics. Now your enemies never fall the same way twice, ever! Slow motion is superbly integrated in this franchise. Never since MP2 has a game used Bullet Time so comprehensively. Not even the Matrix Games. The characters and the story are very very well made. The comic based cutscenes are superb with impeccable voice acting. This game in its true sense is NOIR. Its story will keep you hooked and the gameplay will make you play segments over and over again just to see that beautiful scene again. Smashing, Dramatic and Addictive.

Doom
Doom, Doom 3

Now this is it. I dont have much liking for DOOM3 but the original doom is a trend setter. This was probably one of the first good, non-pseudo FPSs. Amazing sense of an FPS to achieve, for a DOS based game. Redefined action. Simply put this game is the daddy of action FPS games. Now whats special about doom 3 is that it brings the best of rigs to their knees when it comes to gameplay. So many effects and textures cramped into one game, that it almost starts bleeding out of your nose. Whatever you do, this game at MAX settings will show you that the rig you have is worthless. Thats what doom engine is about. The doom 3 engine is a benchmark king. Has replaced the old quake3 engine used. Doom 3 is actually not quite scary also but worth a play anyday. Dont miss this one. Specially the ending.

Counter Strike Condition Zero

Now I dont even feel the need to write about this one. Guess why does it exist? Because gamers were bored of Single Player games and Quake3Arena. Secondly, it is programmed on the HALF LIFE engine. Finally, this is THE BEST multiplayer game ever! Its a tactical FPS, tactics are yours to make. Strategy in an FPS is the core. MUST PLAY!

Final Fantasy
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 phew!

This is what people call the first RPG ever! So many games, all so successful, true to the cult. This is one game where you can roam around a world, solve mysteries, talk to people, gain powers, and fight! Fighting system is Third Person turn based. Smashing game and awesome stories. Huge fan following. Its RTS + RPG + Action + Adventure. Phew! Play it if you have a lot of time, but do play it for sometime, you'll know why people like it.

Metal Gear Solid
MGS, MGS Snake Eater, MGS Sons of Liberty

Ohh man! This is just like Splinter Cell. But splinter cell was an MGS wanna-be. This is one hell-o-va game. Brilliant stories, rocking gameplay with no scope for mistakes. One bad run, you're cooked. Stealth action adventure with dramatic endings. This is one game that every japanese gamer has sworn by. Its your turn now. I have played 2 MGS games and they are rocking. Superb effects, great gameplay. MUST PLAY! DO find time to pick the new one up. You will love it, I know it.

FIFA
Pick anything with FIFA written on it.

Now who doesnt like good clean fun football. This is the most comprehensive football game ever. Starting from FIFA Original to FIFA Now its been surprising people again and again. You will never run out of tricks in Game Development. Thats the clear message. Toss the ball around. Score. Start doing dives. Passing. Control the ball better. Wicked ass cutscenes. Get a strength and agility meter. Get dexterity meter. Real life crowd. Varying commentary. Etc Etc Etc. They kept adding more fun features to a gripping game. Simply Sexy. Play it and play it with friends again.

Manhunt

Now when the world was sick of not having any variety to third person action games, MANHUNT came. It showed people what downright filthy a game can get. Gore, beheadings, brutal kills, ruthless escapes, superb locales, merciless animations. I mean wow! Who cares if the game isnt fit for kids. It was high time we had 'grown-up' games too. This is one such example. Hear the hacksaw cut through the bone when you take an enemy out. This is simply as good as gore can get. Behold as there are no guns (some are there). You will have to kill people by hand using means even God couldnt think of. I mean this is one game that will keep you hooked and will make you go Yuck! from time to time. Play this beauty and you will be a tad closer to basic animalistic nature of the homo sapiens. Enjoy! And did I say everyone else will be Hunting you ...

Age of Empires
Age Of Empires, Age Of Kings, Age Of Empires III

This is one hell of a strategy game if you know what I mean. Strategy at its best. Freedom extreme and innovation galore. Superb landscapes. Awesome variety. Nice gameplay. The second version revamped the firsts short comings in the department of content. Now you can start from absolute powerty to make yourself into the king of an empire. Then came AOE3. This gave us a 3D view of the AOE world and added Creatures you can control to battle the rival empire with your alliances. This is amazing when it comes to strategy and is definitely among the top games if not Numero Uno in its league.

DOS Classics
Tetris, PAC MAN, Prince

I remember sneaking out of class during my 6th standard to run to my computer lab with MS DOS on a disk. Pop it in and boot. Start PACMAN or Prince and play for hours at an end. These DOS games made me a gamer. These are the ones everyone loved when they discovered that DOS is just more about Text. Tetris I heard is the worlds most commonly played game. PAC MAN comes in second. Prince is my favourite cos' it gave us Prince of Persia. So all in all these 3 games just deserve a place in the rankings based on the fact that even today in the era of Graphics, they make you twist in your chair trying to dogde a monster or jump across a ridge or simply fit falling pieces together. So when we talk of gameplay, they rule. They are simple. They own the world.

Warcraft
Warcraft 3, Frozen Throne, DOTA, World Of Warcraft

I mean wow. People initially said this was an AOE clone. Now no one plays AOE anymore. Warcraft combined the action elements (much needed), a 3D world and strategy, flawlessly. This is one game you will just play for the heck of it. Its so good looking and splendid. Then came World Of Warcraft. The world became crazy. Even Southpark made one full episode using its engine. MMORPG's were redefined. Online game fanatics got a life. People went gaga over it and it became super duper successful. One hell of a game. If your rig cant play WoW, dont bother, play DOTA expansion. Addictive as hell. This game gives you a variety that nothing else can.

CONTRA / Mario Bros

This is where every gamer of my generation began unravelling the great mystery behind E-Sports. We all were kids. We all loved 8 bit consoles. Nintendo changed our lives. And then seemingly after a while every household in the country having a TV had this baby roaring. Everyone started playing MARIO and CONTRA on 8 bit machines. Save the princess from the deadly cluthes of a dragon that spits random fireballs. Eat mushrooms to gain powers. Smash walls for money. Addictive. Run around naked with a huge gun in your hand. Blast everything in your way, Rambo style. Gain new weaponry and dodge awesome traps. Kills great enemies and save the day, not knowing what for. Ruthless. You gotta play these two. Just Gotta!

Mine Sweeper

Instant Classic. This is one game found in every Windows PC since forever. Bundled with Windows, this is one hell of a brain twister and time killer. Everyone, gamer or not gamer has played this game just because it has always been there. You will never run out of games to play with this one in your list. Its free. Its fun. Its challenging. Everyone plays it. So you should play it too. Beware, the mines kill you instantly. Just kidding!

Burnout
Revenge, Takedown

This is one game that mocks the presence of Need Of Speed on the planet. You want speed, it gives it to you. You want sexd out cars with NOS, it gives you that too. You want destruction, it offers you that. You want revenge, it gives you a chance. You want style, trust me this is one of the most stylized games in Battle Racing on the road. The concept of a 'Takedown' is simple to understand, once you get it right, you will be the king of the road. The game will swallow you into it, until there are no more races left. Crash, Destroy, Takedown. This is one racing game that just aint about speed and winning. The sheer adrenaline of crashing an opponent is bliss.

Ogre The Seventh

Presenting Part1 of the Next 3 Ogres dubbed as the 3rd Trilogy by the 2nd Adaptation Author.

Phew ! Confusing aint it ?

Here are the links to the people who have missed the STORYSO FAR

Episode I Episode II Episode III Episode IV Episode V Episode VI

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