SK.swe reformed!

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在今年 ESWC swedish qualifier 裡面, 被踢出 NiP 的幾位明星組織了 1911 mix team 報名。雖然最後未能參賽, 卻已經引起廣泛討論, 是否 SK 將要捲土重來? (S for 19th, and K for 11th)

(refer to : http://blog.360.yahoo.com/mingchiaolee?p=177)

Today the rumors are confirmed. SK.swe is back with some old core players. ahl, fisker, vilden, Snajdan, and SpawN.

SK 的官方聲明: http://www.sk-gaming.com/news/5607/
看來 eSports industry 越來越熱鬧了, 不過我在想的是, 當初SK 直接買下的 Titans 現在要怎麼辦呢?

錯帳?

20050627 錯帳

今天看到了相當有趣的大盤指數。據說是富邦營業員聽錯了下單金額, 下錯了單?

不過類似的疑雲倒似乎是美一兩年就出現一次。這是錯帳? 還是揹黑鍋? 天曉得…

You can be Batman, too!

Being Batman, from Forbes

Forbes featured a story about Being Batman. Talks about how you can equip & train urself to fight evil just like Bruce Wayne 😛 Covers everything from Bat suit to Bat car and even material arts training.

“A good place to start would be an internship at the birthplace of kung fu, the Shaolin Temple in Henan, China. One month of training at the prestigious Tagou school costs about $740, including a private room and training with a personal coach.”

“Of course, if you don’t want to lug around all that stuff, you could forgo the armor and just buy yourself a collectors-grade Batman movie costume for about $430. It won’t provide any protection, but at least you’ll look cool. “

Shaolin Temple ? ahahaa

Legal Music Downloads At 35%, Soon To Pass Piracy

Here‘s an slashdot from reuters, mentioning that legal music downloads are reaching 35% of market share, closing the gap with illegal downloads. It also predicts the trend will continue to pass pirate downloads.

Geez, 35%… There are times like this when I can’t imagine how these numbers come up… Am I unplugged from the real world or something ? Are there really so much pay download users? Yeah I know iTunes is hot, but this is way too much…

News on NiP and the Mysterious 1911

NiP 在驚濤駭浪之中, 以新的 lineup 得到了 ESWC qualifier 頭銜, 取得了前往今年法國 ESWC 參賽的機票。然而在這次 Sweden ESWC 過程當中, 原本被踢出 NiP 的 SpawN, ahl, vilden 組了一隊 “1911” 報名參賽, 還找了 Hyper 和原 SSV 的 Snajdan。

就在眾人期待 NiP 和 1911 的正面對決的時候, 1911 在最後關頭放棄參賽。流言指出是因為 NiP 的壓力迫使 SpawN、ahl、vilden 不能參賽。

這裡有 fragbite 對 Snajdan 的專訪:
http://www.fragbite.com/?newsID=8526#eng
以及 NiP 對這件事情的回應 : http://www.nip-gaming.com/index.aspx?newsid=372&page=gamingnews

事實似乎是, SpawN 等三人與 NiP 的合約未滿…

讓我們期待一個月後他們約滿的大展身手吧。

(有趣的是, 很多人在揣測, 1911 是不是 SK 的另一種復活? S for the 19th, K for the 11th? :p)

同學, 你升高一嗎?

今天早上上班經過木柵高工, 不知道今天是不是學校新生什麼活動的日子, 一堆補習班的工讀生在附近發傳單、擺攤位、做問卷。

啊我像往常一樣從旁邊走過去的時候, 突然就一個工讀生像是發現漏網之魚一般, 往我衝過來, 問著:「同學, 你升高一嗎?」同時右手握著原子筆、左手拿著問卷, 臉上的興奮表情似乎說明了即將開張
的喜悅。

我能說什麼? 「….」

$30 不到的自製冷氣?

加拿大有位老兄使用了不到 $30 加幣的材料組成了一個自製的 “冷氣機”。主要構成物是電扇和垃圾筒。That’s right, 垃圾筒 XD

原理看來跟 “涼風扇” 差不多…

Here’s the link: http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~gmilburn/ac/
But the original site is slashdotted, so here’s the mirrordot: http://mirrordot.org/stories/5cb66a4a72a5269bc29e9dd8f982b3da/index.html

Love & Friendship

I came across this blog today and read something like this:

Love can never be so beautiful without friendship… one leads to another and the process is irreversible… the best of lovers are the greatest of friends!!! I like you because you’re my friend, and because you are my friend I care, and because I care, I love you. I don’t love you because you are my friend; I love you because I do! “</p>

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I can’t say it out any louder.

Ingame voicechat 有多重要?

NiP 分家的消息在 eSports 界仍然餘波盪漾。(請參照 http://blog.360.yahoo.com/mingchiaolee?p=161)

今天又看到以色列的 eSrael, 針對這個問題對 HeatoN 作了訪問。(link at http://www.e-srael.org/features.php?id=42)

不過最讓我感受深刻的, 倒是這一段話:

Jeremie: What are the most important attributes you expect from a team mate, beside an outstanding aim of course 🙂 ?

HeatoN: Teamplay / Talk alot, i mean u can be an awesome aimer, who doesnt have any teamplay at all, or never talks ingame and that really brings down the team. A team where everybody shoots good and talks alot gives it total control over the game, and alot of self confidence boost.

mix tp 的時候, 常常有人本來用 mic 相當健談, 但是一開始 tp 馬上安靜無聲。也有人在 pub 本來佔著龜點或是靠撿骨就可以狂殺, 但是跑位不走火線不看, 一到了 tp 馬上讓同伴怎麼死的都不知道。

這種隊友再準有什麼用? 也不過就是砲王而已。準度從來就不是最重要的, 當然準度也絕對是必備條件。但是準度可以練, 光練準度而沒有團隊默契、不肯報給隊友狀態的人, 不改就沒藥救了。

很多人不明白, 其實, 有時候甚至只是哈拉, 都可以幫助隊友增加對遊戲節奏的掌握程度。