Gaming Mom

    Thought that would get your attention! Well you all know you idolize or follow someone in gaming, wether it be console games or PC, browser paid or free, think to yourself “Wow, wouldn’t it be cool if I could meet So and So?”  For years I have worked for some of these so called gods of the games on a lower level and it always amused me their status to these simple peasant gamer addicts *sarcasm*

I will name a name here, Kings of Chaos.  In its hay-day it was World War III all wrapped up in a text/turn based browser based game.  The community was filled with 500k or so hackers, villains and God like players.  You know the ones whom are ranked 10 and higher.  I will admit I used to be this way with certain people in this game.  One of them became my arch enemy as a matter of fact for a while.  Then I became one of the demi gods, the hated and loathed, which was cool.  But the makers and creators of the game, they were a mysterious bunch of tech nerds from high school (now MIT)

They would come into mirc and their presence would set off a wave of excitement, and everyone would join the main mirc channel, with the numbers growing into the 100’s for the channel.  Everyone was buzzing with “Hi Rocco!” and “OMG AMAN IS HERE!” lol It was a site to watch, these humble gaming creatures pawing over .. kids in high school that made a game, each wanting them to devote just that bit of time to acknowledge their presence in chat. They rarely did talk to anyone, only chatting with the ~ or & or sometimes % in the IRC based network *sigh* how we all wish  *rolls eyes*

When I did some admining for one of these demi gods for his recruiter, even though I was hated, it upped me to a different level of god-likeness. Was amusing how the people whom had actually posted death threats to me at one time were now actually kissing my ass, and why? Because I was an extension of the demi god, not the main guys but a guy whom had made his status so Godlike in this game, and I was the next best thing.  But, I would talk to people, admins of KOC made themselves so unreachable that to see them in IRC or chatting with the commoner was like OMG, HE SPOKE TO ME! But it got to the point that they made themselves too unreachable.  The fans, whom idolized them, started to hate them.  Why? Maybe they realized they were mere mortals! Just some kids in school whom happened to create a project for school that turned into a huge game.

I was recently reading a blog I follow now, and it is someone whom I had known of and somewhat followed his work in a sense, but not the games he worked for as they really are not my notch group of games.  But the guy has a great mind.   I read through his blog and wasn’t until today that I caught a part of what he said when re-reading a post of his;

“All of us small guys were totally planning on filling in those gaps that Blizzard left lying around in their quest design, and what the hell?  They know about them and they’re fixing them?  We’re doomed!! “

-quote Dusty Monk  from his blog http://ofcourseillplayit.com/

I laughed, and thought “Wow, he IS a big guy” How humbling it was to me as  he feels he is a small guy.  When I mentioned his name to some others I chat with, they did the usual OMFG reaction, and I said, “Yea, he is a decent guy, not all Godlike with himself, he actually talks to the little people”  It was said in sarcasm as we all have been in the realm of Godlike admins and their “I rule here attitude”

I really don’t know if this blog tonight is going anywhere.  It was nice to meet someone I had followed performance wise and find out he puts his pants on like me, jumps into them