ANGRY MARINES!!!!!!

Haha, i like this! They are purported to be the missing 2nd or 11th chapter of the 1st founding, but of course none of this is Canon! Still, nice to have SPEHS MAREENSSS! without some form of control! Your know what their Battle Barges are called? "Litany of Litany's Litany" and "MAXIMUM FUCK", How more awesome can it get?

An Exerpt :

"The aspiring Champion of Khorne called out to the Angry Marines before him just as they prepared to charge his host of daemons and World Eaters.

"Can you not see the similarities between your battle prowess and ours? Khorne fills you with his wrath in battle, but you do not take time even to notice. Join us, and together we can destroy all within our path! Sink deeper into your anger with the full blessings of the Blood God!"

The assembled Angry Marines took pause, and considered the words of the World Eater Champion. Chaplain Brusiarch then stepped from the front ranks of the Angry Marines' line, turned, and backhanded the closest Angry Marine. The yellow-clad Battle-Brothers then turned their gaze to meet his.

Brusiarch gestured towards the aspiring Champion of Chaos, pointing to the bolt pistol that the Champion wielded in his left hand. The Chaplain shouted to his brother Marines, "YOU DON'T LISTEN TO FAGGOTS, YOU COCKSICKLES, YOU FUCKING KILL THEM!!!"

The previously backhanded Space Marine then stood up, his faceplate shattered from the force of the blow, and shouted the battle cry of the Angry Marines, "ALWAYS ANGRY!!! ALL THE TIME!!!"

The Angry Marines then realized their folly at listening -- even if only for a moment -- to an insufferable faggot. He dared consider himself as angry as they were but armed himself not with a second chainsword or power fist, but a pussified bolt pistol??

The next few seconds witnessed the roar of Cocknocker jump packs, the whoosh of battle brothers being launched at the daemonic host from the Predator Angrinator's, and Brother Chaplain Brusiarch's battle cry of "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-," as he charged the World Eaters' line.

Chaos was fucked."

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It's that time of year!

Gosh, kinda realised it's been almost a week since i last posted. Been too engrossed in this game called Battlefield 3, admittedly, i was about to get rid of it, as i felt that the SP portion of the game sucked.... but then i tried playing the MP portion, and man, this was where all the fun was at, although it's starting to get repetitive now! :p Still fun tho'

Way too many games released recently, well, was in camp for 2 weeks, and it was killer reading about all the new releases out there! Haven't even started on Batman and ICO collection yet, and there's still Uncharted 3 to get! Frack! :p

Picked up the collector's ed of Deus Ex : Human revolution too; there's supposed to be an Adam Jensen figure inside, but have yet to see it. The game is supposed to be good.. until it gets to the boss bits. :p

Ace Combat Assault Horizon.... haiz, such a letdown. :( Not the Ace Combat i like. The graphics are good and all, soundtrack.. ok so far, with some heavy metal bits thrown in... but this DFM thing, i understand about making the genre more accessible, but having everything so scripted and restricting does not make the game fun. Having played the game since AC2, and the PSP iterations, this does NOT qualify as a combat/flight simulation at all. Definately shooter on rails with some God Of War QT events. Seriously Bandai/Namco, WTF? >:(

On a last note, weather's been crazy, mostly rainy. Was pouring whole of last night too. Tonight is kinda warm again. Hopefully it gets cooler as we go into December! :D

10th ICT Day 8 & 9

Woke up late on day 8, cos we slept reallll late the night before... there was nothing much for us to do really, the main event of the day was the MR "Dinner" in the night. So much so we were called to clean the company's SAR21's just to kill time. In between the visits to Emart and the Canteen, it was soon after lunch, which was followed by the normal NSman survey thing, and also the presentation of certificates of appreciation to those who had MR'ed.

The performance in the nite for the MR "dinner" ( It was actually more like finger food, and there wasn't enough to go around, sad ), was by MDC.... man, they actually DO have some hot chicks wearing too short skirts on top of the usual ahguas. Singapore Idle Sezari Sezali was there to sing emo songs too... most got bored by this, and left for the mess.

The last day was a blur of things, as it was only half a day, and the RSM wanted to outpro us by 1.30pm. There was IPPT that morning (amazing, seeing how in my 10 year cycle i've NEVER seen IPPT conducted on the last day!), and i got up early just to soak in the last few hours of camp.

It was a bittersweet feeling waiting to be outpro'ed; thinking how you'd never experience the quiet of the bunk and the corridors, the smell of cigarette's wafting into the bunk. You feel a bit sentimental after having spent the last good portion of your life with these same few people. Many of us have dropped out, but the core group is always there for each other, cheering each other on in the dreary confines of the camp.

Will i miss ICT? I'd say for certain reasons yes. :) There cameraderie will always be there for those of us who toiled in the mud, rain and sun of Simpang.

10 Year Service Medal

This is what you get for serving the Imperium of Man for 10 years, a watch, a.... oh wait wrong universe. :p

After serving 10 years of in camp training (7 High key is compulsory with 10 years in total), this is what you get; a limited edition HAMILTON watch with the SAF logo on the watchface. A medal and a lapel pin... your rank and name will also be etched on the back of the watch and medal...

Huh, best thing was S1 screwed up my astep, apparently i was supposed to be in C Coy, but i've been serving D Coy all this time... well, that's the SAF for you!

Games and storytelling

What makes a good/compelling story that would want you to actually play through the single player portion of a game? The trend recently seems to be games being about 5-8 hrs long for the SP portion of the game. Couple of games played recently had me thinking about this.

Most recent would of course be Battlefield 3; whereas the previous versions had a relatively interesting SP portion, the SP campaign for BF3 seemed to be tagged on to the Multiplayer portion of the game. Every other clichè used in other games also are present here, flashforwards, jumping in different characters shoes, plot twists etc.... PLUS making a game more difficult does NOT mean making the AI snipers! Shame on you lazy programmers. Not to mention infinite spawning enemies, and portions of the game where you can't advance unless your squad mates go ahead first. (how nice of them to remind you about this during the loading screen).

On the other hand, you have a game like Gears of War 3 (should have been called 'Emo steroid warriors with big guns 3'), granted this universe has very rich/deep storyline, there must be a line drawn before everything gets too convoluted; seriously i'm playing it now just to get it over with.

It's not that the graphics are not good, although the gameplay mechanics are a bit tiresome already. It's just that the gameplay is too linear, and adding in the dearth of fetch this and fetch that missions, plus a dragggggyyy story, the whole game seems so much longer than it should be.

So what makes a good game? I believe one that gives you a sense of deep satisfaction when you complete it, and which you'd care to go back to replay it all over again.

10th ICT Day 7

The 10km route march was to commence at 8pm in the nite, we were to leave camp at 6pm and reach Simpang by 7pm; not too great an idea, since it was at peak traffic period AND it was raining cats and dogs!

We got there slightly after 7pm, and got into order for a 'rehersal' for the stand down parade that was to occur after the march. It was still drizzling pretty heavy, so we were all standing in the rain, getting soaking wet even before the darn march started. :p

Once we went off though, the pace was not too bad. Worse thing about the whole affair was that the terrain kinda sucked; walking on gravel and mud when it's raining ain't fun. Luckily there were breaks every 2.5km walked. It kinda brought back memories trudging in the dead of the nite through simpang. I can remember VERY well the few times we were there doing defense excercises. No fun!

Definately a sigh of relief for the last few clicks; feet were beginning to kill me, and super uncomfortable from the wet uniform. After a break waiting for the other companies to come back ( D Coy led the way! ), we had the 'symbolic' ceremony for the unit to stand down. It was "Survivor" like as the CO put out a tiki-torch flame (The tribe has spoken!) after which our OC had the presence of mind the get us out of there ASAP rather than stay back for 'light refreshments'.

By time we got back to camp, it was almost 1am. There we sat in the loading bay cleaning our drenched SAR21's while other platoon's sent in their arms and went back to the comfort of their bunks... some things don't change after 10 years...

Anyway, after all that hoohah, we were back up in bunk and clean by 2am... we actually ordered Macs... supposed to come in a 3am but it came in at 4am... what can i say? :P

10th ICT Day 6

First task of the day was a Bn group photo by a Lobo SP coy poseur with a Canon DSLR with L Lens.... shiok man, i want his vocation. :p After was a Matador TH session followed by some BM and lunch. Think i was pretty hungry as i ate most of the chicken rice they served in the cookhouse. :P

Afternoon was spent in the audit for the perviously cancelled safety briefing, after which was the usual NSMAN Feedback session... at least now they're using the clickers to get feedback instead of the pencil/form method!

Lunch was early cos most of the Bn was let off for nite's off today; gonna book in tomolo morning!