So it is Friday night and I am here in Taipei for one more night before heading back to the land of Australia and wanted to share some of my amazing experiences from Computex 2014!
I arrived on Monday night after spending 19 hours travelling and headed straight to my hotel in central Taipei. By this time I was relatively exhausted from travelling and knew I would have to be up early as Computex began the next morning.
Taipei is incredibly humid at the moment which I did not come prepared... [Read More]
For the love of eSports
All I want to do is light the fire.
All I want to do is light the fire.
The reason I was drawn to StarCraft as a community and eSports as an entity surpassed the gaming aspect and drove straight into the heart of what I always saw - a place where outcasts the world over were accepted and celebrated for what they contributed to a game they love.
As I reflect of my almost twenty six years living in the country I have grown up in my last 13 hours here will be a blur of packing and making sure I have everything organised, all plans set in stone.
At 6am I will fly out of Auckland International en route to Sydney to make myself a new home, life and career for the foreseeable future.
Recently I was lucky enough to land the job of my dreams, working for MSi as their Australian Marketing Manager. I decided to leave University and move... [Read More]
Its SC2SEA's favourite kiddo's birthday and I have compiled some of his more sfw quotes and BM. His name is forever misspelled, he is a constant source of entertainment and possibly one of the most #dedicated players in SEA. Happy Birthday Mack, you really are one of the best people in this community ♥
Ok so I have spammed it on Facebook and Twitter, but I will be in Melbourne for the weekend if anyone wants to hangs out brussell sprouts~!
I will be at The Mantra Tullamarine for the entirety of the weekend, I can't really leave but will have some downtime perhaps during the day/night andddd there will be heaps of cool CS:GO shizzles happening so come down if you want to say hi, catch up or abuse me!
For the last year myself and my wonderful flatmates (Tom and Ces) have been living in a shitty apartment by the train tracks which was basically our only option of a house at the time.
We have finally found an amazing house which we move into on the 15th of February, but until then we are stuck with the joys of open homes, landlords, paperwork yadda yadda yadda.
This afternoon was the first of the open homes planned by the estate... [Read More]
ACL Melbourne was incredible. I am sure people have certain expectations when experiencing an event like ACL Pro for the first time. Coming from New Zealand I had my expectations exceedingly evaporated and my mind incredibly blown.
Walking into Moonee Valley Racecourse on Saturday I was anxious to live what I had been watching on the live stream from the two previous events (Gold Coast and Sydney) I was expecting good things, yet I got so much more.
So today Fourby, Fenner and I started new hardcore characters.
Fenner started a DH and I started a barb, but then I died at level three because I fanged it too hard into mobs after removing my shield and being a badass duel wielding ************ like I am.
So then Fourby joined in and said he wanted to play a DH too, but Fenner said "no we will die we need a melee person" so I volunteered to play a barb again (even though clearly I am too hardcore for a barb)
[3:48:45 PM] Mack 'IrisPetraeus' Smith: hihihihihihihihhihihihi
[3:48:51 PM] Mack 'IrisPetraeus' Smith: i missed mlg so im sad
[3:52:31 PM] Mack 'IrisPetraeus' Smith: wait wtf
[3:52:37 PM] Mack 'IrisPetraeus' Smith: slayers alicia in finals....
[3:52:44 PM] Mack 'IrisPetraeus' Smith: are u ******* kidding me
[4:03:30 PM] Alicia: ?
[4:10:06 PM] Mack 'IrisPetraeus' Smith: shes fuckign bad
[4:10:21 PM] Mack 'IrisPetraeus' Smith: at least i thought she was
[4:11:18 PM] Alicia: ?
[4:11:27... [Read More]
Hmmmm so instead of doing the mountains of homework I need to do I thought I would take some time to talk about boobs.
Recently chatbox was shocked as a member of the site revealed he is infact "not a tits man" even nirvAnA was dismayed at this revelation and much protest from the chatters ensued.
Now even as a straight female I think boobs are pretty awesome.
Forget the fact that they provide nourishment to babies and you got to suck of them when you first entered the world, but they... [Read More]
On Sunday 15th of April there was a tournament at Midcity Internet Cafe in Auckland.
On the day we managed to get a picture of some of the New Zealand SC2SEA posters who were at
the tournament.
Unfortunately Futureboy had gone home for the day, IrisCrimson was for some reason
not in the photo and others such has JazBas, Spartaz, Trusty, DeeSam and Arma were absent from the tournament. Alas, here is the best picture that was taken on the day.
So this time around I decided to just do three of the more recent minimat conversations that I have found to be amusing and made some pictures to go with them, enjoy
[8:03:45 PM] Brendan Ferguson: OK minimat explain to us what you think game of thrones is about
[8:03:53 PM] Alicia: oh dear god [8:03:54 PM] matt hall: art with dead bodies
[8:03:55 PM] Nicolas Russo: LOL [8:04:01 PM] matt hall: im only 3 min 17 sec in
[8:04:04 PM] matt hall: to the first episode
[8:08:11 PM] matt
So let it be noted that during this search for Minimats computer building issues I had to edit a lot of redundant or inappropriate text out of the skype conversation, what remains is a glimpse at Minimats journey through building his new PC.
Be aware there is some obscene language which I have hidden under spoiler tags, and have done my best to format this excessive amount of screwing up and talking about it on skype, but prepare yourselves, this was quite the exercise of Minimats brain and... [Read More]
So we have all heard his thoughts, which as retarded as they are he has actually THOUGHT about. Now I bring you, 'Shit that Minimat says with NO THOUGHT.' (Keep in mind I may have to make a few of these blogs to capture all his best lines from chatbox and skype; Not even finished one month yet..)
Sometimes I wonder if he is just this amazing troll bringing laughs and joy into our lives, then I realise he's not and wonder if he is okay.
Minimat has begun embarking in his Tafe studies, but... [Read More]
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