Tabula Rasa
With the launch of Tabula Rasa last week there has been a big take up of the game among my fellow clan mates over at Khaos Clan (even after my less that flattering review).
The game has a total of 4 servers at the moment, 3 in the US and one in the EU. At peak times the EU server shows as being under a 'very high' load. As you can imagine it can be laggy at times, although generally the game runs smoothly. Well, except for the memory leaks.
On starting the game up, the ingame display shows memory usage at around 60% after 2 to 30 hours of gameplay that figure is near 95% to 99%. At which time it's worth quiting out of the game before it crashes. The problem is even after quiting my computers memory usage shows at around 400MB out of 2GB in have installed, so it's not all rosey at the moment.
But it seems that WoW with guns is the future, even if the future has a User-interface that sucks big time.
No iPhone thanks
Well it seems the iPhone is a big hit, after a month or so of continued hype, It came and went.
Yes it look impressive and is slick and stylish, but to me the whole item just screams accident waiting to happen.
OK so I'm not the carefulist of owners when I comes down to devices. It's safe to say that each of my phones i've purchase have encountered 'parking bruises' within the first week.
It generally tends to get worse from there.
For me to be interested in a brand new phone, it would need to be combined with a G-Shock and be heavy duty, something simple and easy to use, but that could with-stand being owned by me for a week.
Religion Vs Schools
This week you may have read about a Sikh girl that was excluded from school for wearing a religious bangle. I can understand that wearing all that Mr. T-esque bling to school would be completely over the top, but surely this is different?. So where is a line to be drawn when it comes to religious artefacts and stamping out individualism?
There's always someone taking it one step further and I found this story from the US, where a pupil is given detention for hugging a friend.
The schools policy as set out in their handbook reads:
“Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved.”
It's poor taste to have friends! You should be a loner and live in a virtual bubble avoiding all human contact.
Makes you wonder what a culture like that will do to the children in the long run, oh wait, maybe it's this, this or this.
Both of these stories are great examples of society gone mad while trying to iron out imperfections with our youth.
