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My adventure on 3rd March
March 3rd, 2010 | 
Author: After two weeks with my girlfriend in Newcastle, England, I`m back home and back to blogging 
I will finally stop torturing myself with my crappy notebook`s graphics card and play Mass Effect 2 like it`s supposed to be played on my gaming rig. Surprisingly though, my newest adventure today was neither on Commander Shepard`s Normandy, nor in a Big Daddy suit for a lovely second visit of Rapture, it was in the kitchen instead.
I came back home just in time for the 3rd of March. Today was Bulgaria`s liberation from Turkey in the Russo-Turkish war in 1877/8 so it`s kind of our most important annual celebration. Of course, I couldn`t miss the opportunity to show off with some amazing University-acquired cooking skillz and backed a home made bread in the form of a sun. It`s a very special bread and even has some cheese inside and let`s face it – who needs bluetooth when you`ve got cheese in your bread?! (clicky on the pic for some high-res crushed walnuts) At least, my mom won`t have to worry anymore since even if I don`t become a physicist, I obviously have baking talents 
Who knew…
By the way, I passed both of my Physics exams and failed Calculus. The conclusion is that a dozen sheets of paper with mathematical Axioms on your toilet`s walls or some similar stupidity won`t do the trick if you lack some basic training. Don`t try it!
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I got Massively Ana1 Examined
Hey, people, I`m back. Did you miss me?
No, I wasn`t abducted by aliens for one of their typical anal-probing tests, although I had to take an “Ana1″ Exam(ination) just two days ago (Ana1 = Analysis 1 = Calculus).
The last two weeks I spent practically living in the library, studying until closing time every evening. In fact, I had to even decorate my bathroom in an interesting way:
Left: "A tiny bit of Calculus theorems while taking a leak"; Right: "Quite a lot of theorems when sitting on the toilet"
So I already took an exam in Experimental Physics 1 and Calculus but Theoretical Physics still awaits me on Friday… So far I`ve been managing to ignore the fact that one of my most anticipated games of the year was released in the mean time, but yesterday as I finally had time to go shopping for groceries I saw IT. Needless to say, I couldn`t resist it!
Of course, I wouldn`t just get myself 50 EUR poorer ($68 for a PC version, can you believe that!!!). So I first finished downloading a pirated version of the game JUST to see if I get good enough framerates on the crappy GeForce 9600M GT of my lappy. After sacrificing the Full HD resolution of which my beautiful 18.4 notebook screen is capable for a crappy 720p it went smoothly enough with ~40FPS. So I rushed back in the supermarket and got an original copy.
Now I just have to wait for my last exam to pass (and the most important day for any girlfriend, of course) in order to dive completely in the Mass Effect universe! I`ve been meaning to write quite a detailed and big piece about this game for some time before its release but I haven`t forgotten it and I`ll get to it and even be able to include my personal impressions when I play through it.
For now, I can just wish lots of fun to all of you, happy owners of an X360 or a PC copy of this amazing title! I will join you very soon.
“Pilot”
Actually the idea first came to me around the beginnig of October. One pleasant evening right before the end of a day-long series of lectures on preliminary mathematics, I was sitting in a hall with about 300 other people seeming exactly as bored to death as I was. It is of no wonder that my thoughts gradually shifted towards other slightly more enjoyable topics and I started thinking about the Half-Life games.
When I got home I installed Steam and redownloaded the Orange Box before even the thought of preparing something for supper crossed my mind.
Basically, I then had a wonderful week of not paying much attention to homework, which seemed like heaven after 2-3 weeks of maths all day long. Both of my room mates catched fire from me, who astonishingly haven’t ever before played neither the game that revolutionized the FPS genre nor its sequels… Yeah, can you believe that?
I realized that since I normally spend more time thinking about The Industry than actually playing I might as well start doing that “aloud”
Anyway, around the end of HL2 Episode 2 I realized that since I normally spend more time thinking about The Industry than actually playing I might as well start doing that “aloud”.
Then the world of university academia struck me with an unbelievable force. No, seriously, we are studying stuff that just last year used to be taught in 3rd Semester and not to freshmen but I don’t want to get side-tracked here.
The point is, I couldn’t find time to buy grocceries, let alone start a blog. I began also putting it off every time when I actually had an hour or two free because I was too tired and didn’t want to do anything other than drink a cold beer and talk to someone about something less.. uh, science-oriented for a change.
Finally, the christmas holiday came, I purchased a hosting plan and put together this barely functional thing you see here in the evening before my flight for home.
Top class iPhone photography with the famous technique "dirty airplane window".
It’s been an extremely pleasant, lazy and a bit too short vacation and I have completed about 1% of my physics and maths homework, that I have to submit the day after tomorrow.
I am actually writing this “Pilot” post in an Airbus A319 airplaneflying to Frankfurt, Germany at about 14k kilometers alltitude. I’m already through with the tedious task of eating the cold sandwitch that approximately 250 Euro ticket gets you and now… oh boy, don’t you just love airplane-coffee.
Now, If you, dear and non-existent at the moment, reader are still among the living after this big and lengthy piece of pure awesomeness that you just read I would like to have the pleasure of officially welcoming you to Bits of Gaming.
I don’t think you can count on finding the following things here (for now!):
- detailed reviews of all new top gaming titles;
- super fresh, first hand news about the gaming industry;
- interviews with the most famous names in our big (multi-billion-dollar) family of geeky (not necessarily) people;
Meaning, this is not intended to be a gaming portal of any kind. Although here you will always be able (if I don’t die of physics-attack soon) to read my honest opinion and commentary (usually just bitching… xD ) about all things Gaming. However I promise you on the immortal soul of my late RRoDed Xbox 360 (R.I.P. 2008-2009) that you will not be bored. I will try my best to entertain you or die trying and my cold, lifeless corpse will rot on the keyboard forever.
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