It’s the end of the holidays and I still have no regrets. I am happy.

I hope the first day of school would be an nice day.

EDIT: Unfortunately it wasn’t (for obvious reasons) and when I got home, my cat gave me a nice “present” on the carpet which stunk up the whole house. And for no apparent reason, I have decided to blame Raymond for this.

As mentioned in the previous post, I play a lot of games during the holidays and Team Fortress 2 is currently my favorite and most played game.

Before I go any further, I think I should explain what the game is:
Team Fortress 2 is a cartoonish, “first-person” shooter game. The game consists of 2 teams and 9 different character classes on each team (ranging from the low health but fast-moving “scout” to the slow-moving but high health “heavy”) which have to complete an objective within a set time limit such as capturing key locations, destroying the enemy’s base with a comically oversize bomb, strapped to a small cart or wiping out the enemy team. Team Fortress 2 is an online multiplayer game (hence the word “Team” in the title).

However, most of the time when I play, most people don’t play as a team, they usually go their own separate ways and attack any enemies that gets in the way (which is completely fine because it’s fun watching a group of “heavies” getting backstabbed and killed by a single spy because they/other teammates didn’t inform each other that a spy is loose behind their lines), they’ll sometimes try to complete the objective (and if they are lucky, there would be other teammates who would also be trying complete the objective, thus creating the illusion of teamwork or giving the the enemy something else to shoot at). But every now and then, I usually come across a good team who actually does coordinate their attacks, which allows them to “steam roll” (defeating the opposing team in a short amount of time) all over the opposing team. Which is fun when you are on the winning team but not so fun for the loosing team.

Also there are a fair amount of kids (10-14 years old) who always try to act tough but end up getting mocked and made fun of over the voice chat, which sometimes ends up being more entertaining then the actual game itself.

The holidays are great. I don’t have to do anything for 2 weeks which means that I’ll be wasting most of my holidays doing trivial things or playing games until dawn and end up feeling that I’ve wasted my holidays for not doing something more constructive when school starts.

So far, I’ve slept in for 12 hours every day of the holidays (and if I keep it up, half of my holidays would be gone) and I haven’t done anything useful or constructive (except for posting in this blog). Fortunately for me, I have no regrets yet but I have a really bad feeling that the feeling would kick in on the first day of school.

This post is to let you know that this blog is going to be about my opinions on stuff and and things i find interesting.

I promise to try and keep this as clean as possible.

To get things started, I’d like to talk about the new web filter, which is in its testing phases.
Links: #1 #2
Honestly speaking, I think this whole thing is a waste of money and time mostly because it’s going to fail horribly because people are going to find ways around it (proxies, VPN, Tor, encryption, etc.) and most people, except for stupid parents who can’t look after their kids or people who are offended by everything, would not want it.

I also think that Senator Conroy (the guy in charge of this filter) would look like a total idiot when the whole thing falls apart on launch day. I almost feel sorry for him. ALMOST.