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Of Diablo 3 and Laziness

27 May

This showed up last week.

Contrary to popular opinion, I didn’t immediately tear of the packaging and install it on  my PC to play. No. Rather I finished off Max Payne 3 first, indulged in some of its multiplayer hijinks, and wrote a post about it.

Then I ran myself sore playing football and watched 2 seasons of Seinfeld. Which got me wondering if I’m in some sort of weird trip of denying myself fun. Reason being:

1. Haven’t had a drink in a month. And I don’t feel the need to. I think.

2. The cats at home don’t quiver in my presence any more.

3.  My sister is happier. A direct result of me not trolling her.

4. I’m not having as much pizza as I should (read: every time possible).

Anyway, here I am, close to a week after I got Diablo 3 and am about to fire it up. Here’s hoping it lives up to the hype.

7 ways to tell monsoon’s arrived

4 Aug

Something I wrote for T3 India. Now here and unedited for your viewing pleasure:

Soaked clothes, floods and insane traffic: yes, it’s India’s rainy season. For further proof, scan tabloids for the word “deluge”, broadsheets for yet more articles about preventing malaria, and these tell-tale techy revealers…

1. The New Booze Invasion

With the rains comes bars trying to grab your attention with new variations of your usual poison. Do you go for a sugarcane-infused lager or take a chance on the banana beer? And what’s that fancy neon green thingamajig that it’s being dispensed from all about? One thing’s for sure: one pint later you’ll be back on Kingfisher. Unless you had to fortitude of ordering one with another free during happy hours, which means you will end up with a hangover that makes The Hangover 2 seem like a good idea.

2. Fair-Weather Walkers

The first word of rain has summer couch-potatoes everywhere grow legs and reach for their porous raincoats and squeaky rubber slippers. And before you know it they’re blocking up every square inch of walking space wherever possible with their best Fred Alastaire Singing In The Rain persona gladly risking possible death and disease for some mindless fun. Until they realise that their spiffy new iPhones (bought on EMIs no less) much like their mood, the gutters and most of the country, are heavily waterlogged.

3. Social Network Updates

Halfway through your fifth planning meeting of the day you steal a glimpse at Facebook, only to see that half of your acquaintances are ranting about how bad the weather is and the rest getting supremely emo over how it’s the greatest thing since the iPad. This season is clearly Dr. Jekyll to some and Mr. Hyde to others but all parts fun if you’re the sort who lives vicariously.

4. The Big Bollywood Item Number

Blaring from every possible radio or computer with a pair of speakers you pass is a horribly compelling mix of the cheesiest, borderline pornographic lyrics, some kind of novelty instrument – Irish flutes and circus kazoos perhaps – and a scantily clad formerly famous film actor exhorting you to umm…do something, if her gyrations didn’t render you temporarily deaf.

5. Municipal Corporation Madness

Another year since the epic floods of 2005 and you’ll still find your local civic administration drumming up Pulitzer Prize winning excuses as to why you won’t be able to step out of your flat due to them not being able to cover up a pothole and clean the drains. Problematic if you don’t want to drown when you need to make an emergency run to the drug store for aspirin. You know, in the event that you’ve to succumb to drunkenness as detailed in point number 1.

6. Aquaphobia

Symptoms include draping belongings in layers of plastic bags and possessing enough raincoats and umbrellas to keep a small country dry. If they could they’d laminate themselves. We recommend in investing in plastic companies and a good shrink for your pals.

…And We’re Back!

15 Nov

Your PC, Right Now- Slackerninja’s Freestyle Dojo announces Slackerninja’s return. With the fury of a thousand uppity John Cleese’s melting down in classic Fawlty Towers rage everyone’s favorite slacker and ninja makes his much awaited return to the blogosphere after a much needed hiatus due to a wide range of issues that he needed to tackle namely work woes, women, alcohol and all the trappings that usually lead to the downfall of up and coming artists. Also, lack of time to blog and an overdose of micro-blogging aka Twitter.

Since he’s put these problems behind him he will be back regularly with a lot of venom and vigor than expected from a jaded six year blogger who’s seen it all from rick rolls to flame wars and even the occasional civil conversation. Internet drama aside he’s had an eventful year with a job switch, more games than you can shake a stick at, realizations about the company he keeps and enough liquor to make Lindsay Lohan, Amy Winehouse and the entire cast of Jersey Shore appear sober (yes, that much).

“Yes he’s back and he’s got a lot to say. In fact at the moment he’s prepping new material for the upcoming 7th season and he’s asked me to read out this statement to all you fans:

We’re no strangers to love

You know the rules and so do I

A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of

You wouldn’t get this from any other guy

I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling

Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We’ve know each other for so long

Your heart’s been aching

But you’re too shy to say it

Inside we both know what’s been going on

We know the game and we’re gonna play it

And if you ask me how I’m feeling

Don’t tell me you’re too blind to see

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

He also asked me to say,”You got rickrolled!”…sonofa..” were the last words Rishi Alwani said as he burst into an almost cataclysmic rage and entered a state of catatonic shock.

Slackerninja’s new season begins now and welcomes all and sundry. Geeks, gamers, hot women preferred.

About SLACKERNINJA

SLACKERNINJA’s Freestyle Dojo and Parallel Universe is a leading developer, publisher and manufacturer of internet trolling, geekery and failed attempts at comedy, writing and awesome. Slackerninja’s likes include video games, anime, movies, almost every kind of music and ranting.The latest information about SLACKERNINJA can be found on the web at http://www.slackerninja.com. SLACKERNINJA is a publicly traded person based in Mumbai with subsidiary offices on twitter (@slackerninja) and facebook (facebook.com/slackerninja). SLACKERNINJA CORPORATION is traded on the internet under the ticker symbol AWESOME. Details of the products published by SLACKERNINJA can be found at http://www.slackerninja.com.

Character Representation

23 Feb

Work could be a fire-breathing dragon, except spewing shit out instead. Women can end up being evil enough to give Skeletor, Hitler and Lucifer an inferiority complex and the best friends you have would never take the advice they so sorely need doing their best Anne Frank impersonation in the process.

However even when everything is a glorified clusterfuck of historical figures and mythological beasts you can always come home, pop-in some sweet music, kick back a few vodka-cranberries and the world is suddenly a better place. Which it always was. You just realized that things have never changed.

Just people.

Now Listening To: A Red Season Shade – Ghosts & Clouds

Men without Women? Yeah seen it.

19 Oct

It was one of those nights where you felt the need to grab a drink, play some Jenga and have some conversation. So when the sisterbot, Trosseau Lady and myself made our way to Bootlegger’s we were greeted by a site that was anything but that. Instead we were greeted to a scene right out of a Roman orgy minus the women.

You read that right, men grinding with other men, men throwing (imaginary) notes at other men as if they were at a dance bar, men forcing other men to get up and dance with them and if i saw right, dirty dancing even.

Now that i come to think of it, 9 days after the alcohol of that night had drained itself from my body (replaced with ice cream, vodka and whiskey), they weren’t men. No they weren’t men at all.Try boys.

Yes, boys, probably first timers at a night club. The sort who’re just fresh out of school. In this case probably a school where any term related to the female species was met with immediate expulsion and solid spanking by some emo-male teacher who was hit by his mom, molested by his uncle and has a high pitch voice.

While Trosseau Lady and the sisterbot were ogling with ardent curiousity, yours truly was busy connecting his face to his palm in abject disgust wondering if this would be the fate of men if women ceased to exist.  For those few hours it did seem like it (present company included*).

Did i forget to mention a faux ramp walk, sliding across the floors and general douche baggery that would fit in with a gay bar, which Bootlegger’s is certainly not. Maybe the management was under the Elton John/George Michael/ Bobby Darling Defense Force?

Either way, it’s going to be a cold day in hell before i go back to Bootlegger’s. Unless i start exhibiting tendencies towards chick flicks, sip on pink drinks with umbrellas, walk crooked and proclaim Brokeback Mountain to be my favorite movie. Till then i’ll be having my alcohol elsewhere.

Oh and for those precious few women who aren’t prone to ogling as if they were examining some new species of baboons or rhesus monkeys, you have, on behalf of heterosexual side of man kind, my sincerest apologies.

*yes i really meant that, after all what do you expect when you're with a gal
who's about to get hitched and your sister as well?
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