Peterdea
Terrorhawk
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2006
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
So as to leave the old thread as it is, and not to add anything to what is basically an LPF time capsule I decided a new journal on here is necessary. If nothing else, I might as well keep active on this site by actually using the journal sub forum by posting what I'm up to and why I'm doing what I'm doing. So here goes nothing.
17/02/2015
As it stands right now I'm keeping somewhat busy with a handful of things. Things such as building a Fighting Game Community in my home town, being a big part of the already established scene in Melbourne, looking for work anywhere I can find it and trying to re-establish some old friendships I lost as I distanced myself from my home town over the past couple of years. Basically, all of this, plus the small things I do every now and then are keeping me busy enough to stop me from having too much time to sink into the deep depressions I clearly suffered during the original Petopia and beyond.
Through all the time I'm spending keeping busy, I've only managed to meet roughly 10 people interested in playing fighting games around me. That's not such a bad number, except that people who play these games aren't even close to as social as your standard FPS player. Its a real effort to get them to just come out and hang out around a console and punch each other to death. I'm primarily a Smash Bros player (Melee elitist), so that's causing even more troubles for the numbers. If you have one SF player, one Tekken player, one Smash 4 player, one Melee player and a Skull Girls player you don't really have the tools to get very far. That's basically what I'm working with right now.
But there is some hope. Due to the release of Smash 4 there is a local gaming store attempting to build a team of players to beat out the other stores in nearby towns. Through that I've been able to meet two or three Smash 4 players who seem to have some interest in it, as well as one player who I may be able to get into Melee by showing him how much more skilful and technical the game actually is. But whether or not that happens, all I want to do is make sure out store wins the interstore competition by a significant amount... Which basically relies on my brother agreeing to come out and play.
There is much less of a numbers problem in Melbourne. As a part of Couch Warriors (who are known for putting on Fighting game events every month), I have been helping put together an event that runs every year called Battle Arena Melbourne. This is going to be the biggest tournament the city has ever seen, maybe even the country... Its looking to be massive, though I can't go into full detail yet as there is a bunch of stuff that is even blurry to me. But we've had meeting to discuss who is doing what and how things will run on the day and I'm confident as hell that its going to be a successful event.
There was another major tournament in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago that I worked called Shadowloo Showdown. Aside from a few little issues on the day, and a ridiculous lack of sleep, things went well enough. There was some behind the scenes stuff that had me regretting working at the event at all, but I went ahead and did it anyway, just so that all the Smash players could have a good time. Hell, I don't really get to play very much any more, I basically do the desk work. I don't mind too much, and I get the feeling I'll be the main organizer in the future as the rest of the TO team get better and better at the games they play.
Looking for work in this town is not easy. I could apply for 100 jobs in a month and the chance that I'll get informed that I was unsuccessful is only slightly higher than the chance I'll get an interview. In other words, I am reaching a point where I may have to leave this place altogether and find somewhere new to live just to make sure I can find any kind of job. Its not that I mind having to move or anything, its just a lot of effort to go through just on the chance that I might end up getting something out of it. I did have a job at a school here, but the government basically saw to it that I was no longer needed with their budget cuts. With that said I might actually have a similar job at the same school open to me around June or July if things go well, but that's not guaranteed by any means.
That leaves me just sitting here hoping for the best, or considering going back to school, which has been offered to me by a bunch of organizations. But I really do what to avoid going back to school if I can. I finished a double course mid last year and while I had a great time during that, I'm just not feeling like being stuck studying something I don't even know if I want to do. Yeah. A lot to think about.
At least I got some friends though right? Actually hung out with a bunch of them on the weekend and played through Diablo 2 from start to finish (Normal difficulty only since it takes so long to do). Was good to get to spend time with them again, and I would like to go ahead and do it again soon. Would be awesome to start a stream as well, as we pass a different game every week or two. Only thing about that being, I'm generally the only one who sucks at games compared to them who actually have skill at these things. Would be good to know of more games we can play though, since we co-op games generally. Four players or more... Any suggestions? Doesn't even matter what kind of game it is, or how good or bad its considered to be. We can try to play and pass anything if we put time and effort into it, and if necessary a handful of beer and whiskey.
Either way, its good to reconnect huh?
Anyway, super long post for a super new journal. So to conclude, a tl;dr!
tl;dr: I still play Melee, nobody here plays it, people in Melbourne do. I don't have a job. I played Diablo 2 the other day.
17/02/2015
As it stands right now I'm keeping somewhat busy with a handful of things. Things such as building a Fighting Game Community in my home town, being a big part of the already established scene in Melbourne, looking for work anywhere I can find it and trying to re-establish some old friendships I lost as I distanced myself from my home town over the past couple of years. Basically, all of this, plus the small things I do every now and then are keeping me busy enough to stop me from having too much time to sink into the deep depressions I clearly suffered during the original Petopia and beyond.
Through all the time I'm spending keeping busy, I've only managed to meet roughly 10 people interested in playing fighting games around me. That's not such a bad number, except that people who play these games aren't even close to as social as your standard FPS player. Its a real effort to get them to just come out and hang out around a console and punch each other to death. I'm primarily a Smash Bros player (Melee elitist), so that's causing even more troubles for the numbers. If you have one SF player, one Tekken player, one Smash 4 player, one Melee player and a Skull Girls player you don't really have the tools to get very far. That's basically what I'm working with right now.
But there is some hope. Due to the release of Smash 4 there is a local gaming store attempting to build a team of players to beat out the other stores in nearby towns. Through that I've been able to meet two or three Smash 4 players who seem to have some interest in it, as well as one player who I may be able to get into Melee by showing him how much more skilful and technical the game actually is. But whether or not that happens, all I want to do is make sure out store wins the interstore competition by a significant amount... Which basically relies on my brother agreeing to come out and play.
There is much less of a numbers problem in Melbourne. As a part of Couch Warriors (who are known for putting on Fighting game events every month), I have been helping put together an event that runs every year called Battle Arena Melbourne. This is going to be the biggest tournament the city has ever seen, maybe even the country... Its looking to be massive, though I can't go into full detail yet as there is a bunch of stuff that is even blurry to me. But we've had meeting to discuss who is doing what and how things will run on the day and I'm confident as hell that its going to be a successful event.
There was another major tournament in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago that I worked called Shadowloo Showdown. Aside from a few little issues on the day, and a ridiculous lack of sleep, things went well enough. There was some behind the scenes stuff that had me regretting working at the event at all, but I went ahead and did it anyway, just so that all the Smash players could have a good time. Hell, I don't really get to play very much any more, I basically do the desk work. I don't mind too much, and I get the feeling I'll be the main organizer in the future as the rest of the TO team get better and better at the games they play.
Looking for work in this town is not easy. I could apply for 100 jobs in a month and the chance that I'll get informed that I was unsuccessful is only slightly higher than the chance I'll get an interview. In other words, I am reaching a point where I may have to leave this place altogether and find somewhere new to live just to make sure I can find any kind of job. Its not that I mind having to move or anything, its just a lot of effort to go through just on the chance that I might end up getting something out of it. I did have a job at a school here, but the government basically saw to it that I was no longer needed with their budget cuts. With that said I might actually have a similar job at the same school open to me around June or July if things go well, but that's not guaranteed by any means.
That leaves me just sitting here hoping for the best, or considering going back to school, which has been offered to me by a bunch of organizations. But I really do what to avoid going back to school if I can. I finished a double course mid last year and while I had a great time during that, I'm just not feeling like being stuck studying something I don't even know if I want to do. Yeah. A lot to think about.
At least I got some friends though right? Actually hung out with a bunch of them on the weekend and played through Diablo 2 from start to finish (Normal difficulty only since it takes so long to do). Was good to get to spend time with them again, and I would like to go ahead and do it again soon. Would be awesome to start a stream as well, as we pass a different game every week or two. Only thing about that being, I'm generally the only one who sucks at games compared to them who actually have skill at these things. Would be good to know of more games we can play though, since we co-op games generally. Four players or more... Any suggestions? Doesn't even matter what kind of game it is, or how good or bad its considered to be. We can try to play and pass anything if we put time and effort into it, and if necessary a handful of beer and whiskey.
Either way, its good to reconnect huh?
Anyway, super long post for a super new journal. So to conclude, a tl;dr!
tl;dr: I still play Melee, nobody here plays it, people in Melbourne do. I don't have a job. I played Diablo 2 the other day.
You always did didn't you? 