reeking of greek geekiness

i don't put silly paranormal flavors in the explanation of coincidences, coincidences are just what they are: COINCIDENCES, in my case at the moment 2006 has been heaping cool greek coincidental stuffs at me, i've posted earlier about how i came across with a dirt cheap pre-owned paperback of Steven Pressfield's mighty Gates Of Fire, a novel about the 300 Spartan warriors who delayed the quarter million Persian hordes' advance to the heartland of 480BC Greece, Pressfield's deft and erudite narrative is so "literarilistic" (my own coinage) that i spit traces of grit, blood and spears' splinters everytime i put down the book momentarily to rest not from eye strain but from the battle fatigue i myself suffer just by reading the detailed account of the carnage;

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and then there was this casual pc gamer haunting my place who graciously lent me his hi-res scans of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300, i was a comics geek back in the 80's and my youthful awe and passion for the illustrated novellas are rekindled after going through the issue # 1 (there are 6 issues in all), Awesome, Brilliant, Captivating.. (you may complete this ABC..), it is better drawn than Sin City (my opinion) and it is also destined to become a hit flick in 2007 (it's shooting with live actors [Gerard Butler as King Leonidas, yeyz!!!] has been done ages ago but the process of CGI hocus pocus keeps the fans in rapt and paroxysmal waiting);

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and finally, Iron Lore (through THQ) released Titan Quest, a Diablo II clone of a game that for a couple of weeks now has me falling into a relapse of anemia, the game is idiotic and simplistic (by default, it only requires you to move the pointer across the monitor screen and left-click the mouse in varying intensities of frenzy), what arrested me is the epic premise of the storyline: the character you will build and develop (in an addicting and fun way of points allocation, item and accesory blending, skills and masteries management, etc., - like i said, it's an action RPG Diablo II clone) will hack, slash and spellcast his or her way from the polises of Greece to the cavernous dungeons under the Great Pyramids of Egypt and through the Silk Road to Mongolia and the Great Wall of China, all this in an effort to stop a trio of Telkines hellbent on freeing the Titan Typhon, and i won't try to tell about its graphical beauty because something meant to be seen must not be desecrated by written or spoken words (suffice it to say that my 128MB/128-bit GEForce FX 5900 could only run the game at a satisfactory frame rate after i begrudgingly set some video parameters like anti-aliasing, filtering, shadows and reflections to medium level in 800 x 600 dpi resolution (the cost of my dream video card replacement is equivalent to a complete high-end pc unit itself), i have not been into RPG before because i lacked the patience in character management, i played Final Fantasy X when it came out for the Playstation 2 in 2002 because i was simply intrigued by the advent of real-time voice overs in an RPG game, Titan Quest routed the last of my inhibitions and hang-ups toward the RPG genre and i am now happily left-clicking the mouse all through the night, guzzling coffee and losing red blood cells, hoping to finally kill level 42 Typhon (who has now irreverently holed himself up in Mount Olympus) when i finally get my character equipped with hard-to-find anti-elemental and anti-stun equipment or add-ons

an unupdated shot of my Battle Mage character G0m0Lz, i affectionately
call my wife Gomolz when she is not in those moods where she responds
by hurling either a CPU unit or a PC monitor at me

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life is easier than a video game, using cheat codes is simply lame

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