About Me + My Story
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This is still a work in progress.
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About Me - Introduction
When I first started doing my website, things were kind of chaotic. And I just threw absolutely anything out there. I had two different websites. One platform had a better URL, and the other platform had an easier and more intuitive user interface. And I got it all out there as quickly as possible. I just put anything and everything online as quickly as possible. Even if it was disorganised. And I was in a fair bit of pain, and badly sleep deprived. It was horrible. I wasn’t able to do a very good job of making my website feel organised and sensible.
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Also, I deliberately made my website chaotic and messy. It helped me to shield my thoughts, and maybe fly beneath the radar a little better. I feel like it helped me to stay safer. And maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t. I sometimes act silly, so that people hurt me less, and take me less seriously, and also it keeps me sane.
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Also, I found it really difficult to engage in normal conversation with them. They are actually extremely bad at communication and conversation. And they are so strange with their use of words that it became almost impossible for us to understand one another. And they tried to do an experiment in “brainwashing” where they blank my thoughts, so that they replace them with something else. But all this did was prevent me from “having my own words” in my head, and make conversation with them difficult. I mean that literally, they just blasted all of the words straight out of my head! Which made thinking and conversation both very difficult. Bottom line, is that it very difficult to talk to them because they are bad at conversation.
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But now I would like to write up a better story. One that suits the situation a little better.
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And so now we can talk about “me, myself and I.”
Let us talk about my life, my interests and hobbies, my personality, my story, and some of my recent history. And my health, and some of the problems they have caused me.
Ps: I often just prattle on a bit during the day, I keep up a bit of patter, sometimes just in a jokey way. A lot of this is just talking to myself. Or I day-dream, and create fantasy scenarios in my mind. Or I brainstorm, and come up with new ideas, most of them nonsense, but some of them are really clever. And then I get quote mined to oblivion. A lot of what you hear from me is just quote mined.
I also immerse myself in my memories and reveries, just to keep myself sane. These also are quote mined.
And sometimes I allow the voices in my head to take part in my day dreams, and answer them back in a deliberately absurd, ridiculous and humorous manner. I just talk nonsense, to buy time and keep myself sane.
Those three points explain why sometimes I come across as sounding unhinged.
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What do I want most?
I want to have my health back.
How do I want to get it back?
I need 6-12 months to rehabilitate myself fully. My limbs, legs, arms, hips, shoulders, chest, back, everything. It will take time, and it will take lots of work.
I will need 6-12 months without any electromagnetic interference with my nervous system. No tightening of my muscles, no control over my body, no harm, no harassment, no interruptions to my peace and quiet. That is, a total moratorium on the use of electromagnetic nerve splicing technology on my body for twelve months. I want twelve months.
That is what I want. And that is what I have wanted for a long time.
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For rehabilitation:
I think I might try walking, air squats, body weight lunges, calf raises, star jumps, jump rope, and bush walks. To begin with.
And then later I’ll probably do some stuff with light dumbbells, wall push ups and I’ll get some gymnastics rings to do some easy ring rows. Maybe some elastic band or resistance band stuff. (With dumbbells? Just bicep curls, deltoid raises, dumbbell shoulder press.)
And that’s about enough for a year. I’ll focus heavily on these sorts of things. I will also need to do some hamstring stretches. Probably seated hamstrings stretches.
Maybe some high knee marching once I’m feeling properly well and healthy. I’ll skip out on abdominal exercises to begin with. But eventually get back to doing planks, side planks, crunches and possibly sit ups. Although I suspect that some of these may be difficulty given the issues with my left shoulder.
At first I’ll have to mostly do walking and relaxation techniques, and some “mind-body” stuff, as well as hip-hinge squats, until I can do any of the other stuff.
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I would also like to be able to go for normal walks in the forest, to breathe and take in the air. This will help me to relearn how to modulate my nervous system. And calm the body/nerves down.
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When will I be finished rehabilitating?
I’ll let people know when I’m finished.
I won’t know until I get in there exactly what needs to be done.
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Quick Biography:
I was born in Wellington Hospital in 1988 to Paul and Tedge Solt.
We moved to Taupo in 1989.
I was a genius who showed early signs of extremely high intelligence.
I went to school at Lake Taupo Christian School. I started there shortly before my fifth birthday. At age ten, I decided that I didn’t like that school, and complained. I thought the school was stupid - they put me in remedial maths. I knew that I was a genius.
My parents shifted me to Taupo Intermediate, where I was placed into the “gifted class”. I went to that school for one year (form one). It was probably the best year of school that I had, or at least my favourite. It was a great school, and a good class.
A year later we shifted to Napier, Hawkes Bay. I went to Taradale Intermediate for one year.
Tomoe Takahashi came to live with us for 10 months, as an exchange student.
My parents split up just before I started high school (age thirteen). My father moved to Paraparaumu (aka Kapiti). It is a town 45 minutes drive from Wellington City, the capital of New Zealand. I went to Taradale High School.
I spent two years at Taradale high school. It’s a nice school, and it’s in a nice town with nice weather. I played a lot of Morrowind and the sims at around this time. And was first introduced to half life one death match, quake three arena and halo 1. I played hockey and went to a Muay Thai class taught by a massive guy who competed in the K1 (and his wife). My dream in life at the time was to own a battlebot, create video games on the half life one engine, and become an inventor. School in Taradale was okay, and life there was fine, but I wanted to live with my father. I eventually got permission, and shifted to Paraparaumu to live with my father (it took two years before my parents gave me permission to move to Paraparaumu, I had always wanted to live with my father).
Once I was there, I went to Paraparaumu college. Also, shortly after arrival, he announced that he and Tomoe were an item (she had returned to New Zealand to go to law school in Wellington, while living with our family in Paraparaumu, Kapiti). I wasn’t happy about that.
School in Paraparaumu was fine. Not really, they placed me in mainstream classes even though I was highly intelligent, which slowed me down. It was an administrative hiccup, I think pushed by my father (complicated issue). But I got bumped up to the right level in maths the next year. And life in Paraparaumu was good. I played a lot of video games, I went to youth group (I was extremely religious), I arranged gaming nights for my me and my friends at the internet cafe, or console gaming get togethers at my place on the weekend, or overnight lans at my home. I got decent marks at school. Amanda and I were friends starting at age 15, when I first arrived in Paraparaumu. I played a lot of halo two and natural selection in Paraparaumu, but also a fair thwack of day of defeat and counterstrike (both counterstrike source and counterstrike 1.6). I got fit, I boxed (one of the instructors won the 1984 welterweight title and won the Australian games - I think!), jumped rope, did pushups, borrowed someone barbell and bench, bought dumbbells and even joined a gym for the first time halfway through my final year of high school. Contrary to what you might have been told by the psychic CCP muppets and their local friends, I wasn’t a cripple-gimp!
After I finished my final exams (I studied hard, and did well. For example, I was top of mathematics in my school), I went overseas to visit my aunty and mother, and became very sick on that holiday. I begged to be allowed to rest, or return home in that holiday, but they wouldn’t let me. I was as sick as a dog. I didn’t know it at the time, but it was all (mostly) caused by satellites and cell towers.
I came back to New Zealand, and was still unwell. Amanda and I were together by then. We got married a while later. I was studying accounting and finance in university. She believed me when I said that I had health problems. Other people didn’t believe me.
After we got married, we ended up living in a studio apartment in 7-10 Hanson Street (Drummond Road apartments). In Newtown, aka mt cook. It was nice and tidy but too noisy. We had construction right beside us, and road works on Adelaide Road until midnight each night (grinding and resurfacing). It was our home for about 8 months. I was really unwell at the time. I hated it so much. I had no life other than study, games and feeling unwell. I wasn’t sleeping very well, and was always exhausted. It was so noisy. But it was our home, and we were married. I found a tutoring job via my university for three hours a week tutoring a high school student (Ambika). I was also cleaning houses and an office to try to make ends meet.
Someone kept playing “pranks” on us, by shifting our car to new locations to hide it, using road works as an excuse. I think it was someone from the council. My uncle Andy was on the council, so it may have been someone linked to him. Then someone set our car on fire (arson), and we decided that city living wasn’t for us. It was the last straw.
We moved back to Paraparaumu shortly before the end of our second year of university.
I finished up my second year of university living in Weka Road.
I was unwell the whole time through university, and had to drop out eventually. I would have liked to have passed. Amanda stuck by me even though I had to drop out.
I dropped out after two years of university, due to poor health.
My life kind of stalled out, but I had to find a way to keep busy. So I did a lot of reading, and some self education. But I still played a fair bit of video games.
I tried to go back to university twice, but I couldn’t quite pull it off. I was too unwell. I had some lessons in the “Alexander Technique” which provided some relief from the symptoms, but didn’t solve the underlying problems.
The main social event of the week for me back then was the after church lunch at my place, after which we would either play settlers of Catan, Bang! Or play Guitar
Hero. We also got into some of the old Warcraft Three: Frozen Throne mods back then, such as Battleships. Battleships is like DotA, but actually fun (that is a joke, by the way, haha. DotA is fun too.).
Then I just got worse and worse? My health continued to worsen. I’ll talk about that in detail.
As for travel, we went to Vanuatu once, and Rarotonga once. We went to Surfers Paradise for our honeymoon (a wedding present from Amanda’s uncle and aunty). I was really unwell in Rarotonga. That trip was horrible, even though Rarotonga is a lovely place. Vanuatu is beautiful by the way, it’s a nice place and well worth visiting.
In 2013, Amanda and I moved to a new house at 17 Princeton Road. By then I was pretty unwell. I couldn’t lay down on my side to read a book, nor could I lay down normally to sleep on my back. And by then I had to shower no more frequently than every third day, because showering was exhausting. That’s right, even by 2013 I wasn’t showering more often than every third day. Which is unfortunate, because I think every second day is about the limit. To read, I had to stand at my chest of drawers to read a book. And stand up. It took me ages to realise that I could do that (stand and read). For ages I thought I couldn’t read anymore. It is really hard to live when the muscles of your torso are screwed up, and you don’t know why, or way to do about it, or do with yourself. It’s impossible. Without knowledge of exactly what is wrong, or how it works, it is really hard.
I’ll leave my story there for now. The really bad bit happens in 2017 (I can’t remember the exact date). But things were already extremely bad by then. I hadn’t been in full time study since 2008. By 2014 I had been out of work/study for 6 years. It was a disaster.
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More about me
In my life, I loved video games, especially first person shooters*, books**, reading. I liked studying and getting good marks. I like socialising over cards, board games and video games. Or just socialising over food. I always liked music***, mostly rock when I was young. I liked some sports and martial arts (although, mega pedantic point!!! Boxing and judo are better described as “combat sports” to me, not martial arts. It’s an important distinction to me, I’d just call them sports). I was a Christian (I was a massively over the top, true believer who believed literally everything about literally everything). And I’m a fanatic about education. I always knew I was a genius. I liked my parents when I was young, especially my father. I cared about Amanda, but it turns out she was completely false. My whole life from the age of 18 onwards was heavily affected by the whole health thing. To a certain extent, it felt to me like my whole life was over at the age of 18. It wasn’t, of course. But it felt like my whole life was over by the age of 18-20 simply because my health was so poor.
But that gets us only up to about the year 2013. That will have to do for a quick “biography”.
Ummm. Let’s get onto the main topics after the footnotes. Main topics come after the foot notes.
Footnotes:
*First person shooters: I liked stuff like Halo 2, Counterstrike 1.6, Counterstrike Source, Day of Defeat (one), Natural Selection (one). I also liked Quake 3 Arena (which has now been updated and turned into quake live), and Unreal Tournament 2004.
Other games I liked are Morrowind, RuneScape, Red Alert one and two, Age of Empires Two and The Sims (with all expansions). I played a lot of these games.
Games were my life!!!!
My favourites were Halo Two, Natural Selection and Morrowind.
Note: Natural Selection is an online first person shooter which you play against other players. It is team vs team. It is kind of like Halo 2, but on the PC. If you are a gamer, it is also kind of like Quake Three Arena in the way that it feels. Not quite, but there are similarities. You love around the arena/map quickly. It also feels a little bit like playing cs 1.6 or tfc, because it comes from the same game engine (they’re all half life one modifications). It includes some RTS elements. You’ll have to google it. There’s an appendix at the bottom of the page.
**books, I like non fiction most of all. I read a lot of non fiction, because I like to learn about how stuff works. I made a very strong effort to learn from non fiction books. Especially books about economics, criminology, business, science, physics, engineering and technology. I also like comedy and fantasy. In my life, I liked Terry Pratchett, Harry Potter, Douglas Adams, Swallows and Amazons. That’s not an exhaustive list, and I’ll change it sometime.
***As for other media: I like stuff like… Monty Python and the search for the holy grail, scrubs, the Simpsons, black books, Anchorman, ong bak, kung fu movies like rush hour or Shanghai noon, action/adventure movies like the matrix, equilibrium, the count of Monte Christo. I loved movies like Beverly Hills Ninja and I loved Star Wars. I’m a star wars fan, not a Trekkie (never once have I seen an entire episode of Star Trek). I loved Shrek, even as a teenager. Also, I love parodies like Galaxy Quest, Hot Shots! one and two, Space Balls, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, Austin Powers, Hot Fuzz, Kung Fu Hustle, Life of Brian, Mars Attacks, Mystery Men and Office Space. I also love almost everything I have seen starring Adam Sandler: Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Mr Deeds, Little Nicky. And I liked Jim Carey, Liar Liar, Ace Ventura one and two, the Truman Show. Batman and Robin 1997 was the best Batman movie. I liked it as a child. And Batman is supposed to be cheesy. I also loved X-men one and two as a child, unironically. I liked the 6th day and total recall with Schwarzenegger. Online, I liked parodies like “potter puppet pals” and “dragon ball z abridged”. And also, I grew up watching videos and animations on newgrounds. I loved also love Pink Floyd, Queen, Deep Purple and (much to my shame, I even like Robbie Williams, my father did too, he’s actually really good. Or he was, before he lost his writer and his voice wore out [losing his voice is not a slight, it happens!]). Since becoming unwell, I have developed a love of junky music, to go along with my love of junk food and sweets. But I need to wean myself off of that. I really liked Supertramp and Guns and Roses, and Linda like Velvet Revolver. I also like Electric Light Orchestra, The Exies, Muse* and Weezer* (*slightly shady people). I also started listening to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts because I couldn’t do much once I started getting sick. Tech podcasts were good. I used to listen to things like “this week in tech”, I even ended up listening to garbage that I wasn’t interested in, like “Mac break weekly” (ahahaha) because I was sick, and just needed to rest. Don’t worry too much about the details in that list of media.
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I will now start working on various topics that might make it into the final version of “about me”.
Aspirations:
When I was young, I told my mother that I wanted to be a “mad scientist” and an inventor. And that I wanted to build things.
When I got older, I fell in love with games, and decided that I wanted to become a professional video game designer. But then found that the industry was no good. I ended up doing accounting and finance, because the skills were transferable across different areas and locations, and because I didn’t like the look of careers in engineering and science. I figured that with a commerce background I could do the things I wanted with invention, innovation, creating new things and perhaps video games.
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Day Dreaming:
I have a hobby where I like to come up with new ideas for policing and economics. And also for new product solutions for problems that people didn’t even know that they had. It is a hobby and a compulsion. I also like coming up with exciting and interesting ideas for social policy.
I speak in circles and I equivocate a lot. I do this out loud, and I do it in person. And I’m very absent minded, and I take a while to get to the point. It’s one of my defining characteristics. It’s an “eccentric genius” thing. I also have (or had) a pretty decent sense of humour, and could make people laugh (especially before losing my health at age 18), and my humour involves a lot of puns, irony and sarcasm. I do these things out loud, but I also do them in my head, as part of my “habits of mind”. Which means that I’m pretty much incompatible with the systems of mind reading.
Also, I like to clearly define things, according to my own standards, inside my own head and sometimes out loud. It is an important part of maintaining what I call “mental hygiene”, and mental clarity. It’s very important. It’s a trait that exists in many intelligent people, but not all. It’s sort of linked to the genius thing. These sorts of things can be mediated by conversation though. Also, I am in two minds about everything. All of these things make me pretty much incompatible with their systems of mind reading and their games.
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Main story should start about here…
I would like to tell people a little bit about myself, and then quickly tell my story of my life as well as the story of my health being destroyed. After that, I would like to add some more details and also flesh out the main story. And then add any additional stories, or additional statements that need to be made. I will focus on some of my hobbies first.
Here are my planned headings. They are what I want to end up writing about.
Interests, hobbies, and pastimes, and what I enjoyed as a child
Movies, TV shows, video games, books and other media and content that I like
Education, formal, informal and self-directed, or otherwise; and a discussion of opinions on education
Sports plus martial arts page
General fitness page, talking about fitness
Values: religion (Christianity), philosophy (Ayn Rand, Stoicism, Epistemology, King Solomon, Voltaire), economics (Friedman, Keynes, Mises), politics (the standard, chris trotter, notpc, thebfd, kiwiblog).
Aspirations, when I was young, and now as well
*I actually read the whole of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises. Twice.
Stories: general life and health == this is the important one
General life stories, two parts
Story of my health
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Additional photos: life story
Extra/additional stories
Further explanations
Other statements
Expand on my life story/stories a bit.
Killing my kitten, Cupcake
Killing grandpa
Killing grandma
Tomoe Takahashi’s grooming and exploitation
Falsely accusing Papa of molesting his daughter, putting him on antipsychotics
A quick history of “games” in my Khandallah apartment (the ground floor studio that I used to live in back in 2023 and late 2024
My relationship with Amanda (we were married, I cared about her very much, she’s a garbage human being, and thoroughly vile; quite possibly insane)
The Alexander Technique
Doctors and my many attempts to get help with my health (including referrals to Wellington hospital to see a cardiologist, neurologist, sleep specialist, and another doctor in the out patient clinic).
Yoga and tai chi: I tried a bunch of both
My fitness throughout life
Golden rule, do unto others etc
Digestion and massive harm
Paul and his idea that he should damage my gut, starting at age 8 years old.
Topic: “I just wanted to get away from these people” - that is a really important one
That is the end of the planned headings.
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Here are a few stories from the past. I haven’t yet sorted out the main stories and topics. But all the same, here are a few.
Here are one or two topics, but it’s all still a work in progress.
I told them that for ethical reasons, I didn’t want to be a member of a collective or group that bullies, torments, tortures and destroys people. But they were unwilling to allow me to not be a part of their set of people. And more importantly, they were unwilling to have a normal conversation about it! If we had been able to have a normal conversation about whether I was willing to join with people who are deliberately cruel and nasty, I would have said no to joining or being a part of them. Why? The principle of “love your neighbour as you love yourself, and do unto others as you would have them do to you”. And also, I said that if everything falls apart that “I’m not on their side”, because I find their way of life to be reprehensible, and I also don’t want to be falsely lumped in with them if the plebs rise up.
And also I tried to find a way to “settle amongst them” that is, could I have a quiet niche that is aafe and boring. And doesn’t cause me any harm. Like, may I have just one or two women, and be left alone to study, improve my mind, and become an inventor. I tried to give them an out! I tried to say, “I can settle amongst you instead of fighting you. It might be dangerous if I actually fight you! It could upset the apple cart”. I said that I could tolerate living amongst them and sleeping with their women, even through I’d prefer not to. I said that I have massive ethical problems with being a part of their set. I’m in two minds about everything.
Way back when… for example on the bus to Franz Josef. I told them again and again that I didn’t want anything to do with them or what they were doing. I wanted no part of it. But they ignored me. They pretended that everything I said was nonsense. I tried to tell them in a hundred different ways that I didn’t want to be a part of them, a part of this, a supporter of the satellite thing, that I don’t want to be a hive mind guy, and I tried many times to have a conversation about moving up the women and the money. And that insist wanted a chance to get fully healthy. But they refuse to acknowledge that I even am trying to starting a conversation. It’s like living with a dumb cow who is using the silent treatment. It’s petty. They’re just playing silly buggers, Chinese whispers (aka telephone). And it’s one thing when it’s a silly nation acting silly in the 19th century. But they’re a nuclear power??? They’re supposed to be better than. This by now.
I just wanted my health back.
I still just want my health back.
Why did I fight for the harem of ten million and the billion dollars? Simple. It is because they told me that the magic wand (ie my health), the women (harem), the money (a billion dollars) and my ability to roam the world on my own two feet were a package deal.
I tried to tell them that they could keep the women and the money, and that I just wanted to have my health back and the freedom to walk around under my own steam. But they wouldn’t listen to me.
I kept on telling them that I wanted a conversation: here is one of the potential topics: “I just want my health back and the freedom to walk around town in my own two feet, so as far as I’m concerned you can take your harem and your so called money and shove em up your arse”. But we weren’t able to have that conversation.
I just wanted my health back.
I still just want my health back!
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At another point of time I was trying to quit doing any games with them. 18 months ago.
I was stuck at home, unable to so much as go to the supermarket to buy a loaf of bread or bottle of milk. I couldn’t even go to the petrol station to buy a stick of gum. I couldn’t roam the world on my own two feet, free to come and go as I please. I wasn’t healthy. To be healthy you have to have decent mobility, and be able to get from place to place.
They said that I was basically obliged to fight for a harem before I could roam the world in peace. I said can I have just one woman. They said you need a harem. I said, can I have just two women? Just two girlfriends. They said you have to have a harem, be use we can’t trust you roaming around otherwise. And so I was obliged to fight for a harem, even though what I most wanted was to have my health back, and to have the ability to come and go as I pleased.
They were very, very afraid that I ought escape and “blab” about what had happened to me.
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More stories about social life and health:
2013-2017 I had basically no social life. I couldn’t have a normal social life. I couldn’t have friends to visit to play board games or a couple of hands of cards, and I couldn’t have a decent conversation for like 45 minutes either, even on the phone. This was because of my health issues. I was very isolated. In 2014, I don’t think I had any normal social visits with or from friends. Furthermore, even going out on dates with Amanda was hard (we tried to go out for dates to have cake and tea every so often), but it caused me to have symptoms. It made me unwell. This was because of issues with my back/posture. I understand that according to the values of the fae (aka philosopher-kings) it is considered “politically incorrect” to discuss this issue (posture issues), but it’s true. Posture and breathing aren’t just about “muscle”. Even if their ideology requires that they pretend it is.
What do they know anyway?, they used to prefer Lysenko to Mendel, and strongly discouraged the study of basic economics and sociology in universities (hi USSR and Maoist China). And they killed Semmelweis, and killed Ehrlich, and they killed Pilates (he died of his injuries after they set his gym-studio on fire; he had been disappointed by his attempts to get the medical profession to recognise the value and importance of his work). They also encourage low quality thinking via men such as LaLanne, Banting, Jones (sort of) and others. Also, the body-building gurus are proponents of a “vanity based” way of life, and are also not to be trusted, even though the “bad advice” they push is of a different kind.
I’m bad at multi tasking
And I have never seen a rugby game all the way through from start to finish. Not once.
I have never seen a basketball game or an American football game all the way through. And I have never once seen an entire soccer game from start to finish (other than kids soccer - I played, but NEVER once have I seen a game ahahahaha). Even when I boxed, I didn’t watch boxing. I saw the K1 once only, in TV. I don’t watch sportsball. I have however observed and watched video games online, as a spectator sport. I might watch a gymnastics routine if the olympics are on. I’m not a sports watcher, and I don’t watch car racing or like cars. And golf looks boring and lame too, both to watch and to play (no offence meant, but everyone has their preferences).
As for fitness, I got fit when I was young. And it was fine. I also “got abs” (hahaha I was a little bit vain about that ) and it’s kind of like, who cares! Having a six pack is overrated. Maintaining a normal weight and health is nice, but a six pack is overrated (and actually really easy when you are young).
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Pictures of me in Hanson Street after I got married.
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At my wedding in 19th January, 2008.
Below is Amanda and I on our honeymoon. And then a get together with family friends.
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That’s all folks!!!!
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Quick Appendix:
Here is a quick digression about natural selection because it’s an old game.
You’ve got aliens and marines in an old hulking spaceship. Aliens have infested it, marines want to kill the aliens. Possibly it’s an asteroid mining ship or something. The story doesn’t matter at all. It’s just aliens versus marines. And it’s a first person shooter combined with a real time strategy. Two teams fight it out, build buildings, extract resources, destroy one another’s bases and attack one another. There is stealth and speed; ambushes and frontal attacks. It’s fairly quick, kind of like quake. A lot of the movement speed is very high. And the pace of gameplay can be fairly swift, and it can be quite unforgiving. It’s a goldsrc game. It’s great. It’s a game of skill and reflexes, with tactics and strategy. A lot of the skill is in movement, evasion and dodging. This is because the aliens usually have to attack in melee and the marines attack at range. That’s what makes the game fun. There is also a lot of fun to be had by building defences and laying siege to locations. Learning to play the individual alien life forms takes a bit of time and effort, especially fade and lerk (the shock trooper and the flying support creature). And playing marines and commander takes a bit of work too. If you’re new to commander, the team will often vote you out of the “command chair”. You can veto the commander by voting. The aliens have no commander, and spend their resources individually however they choose. There are some skills to learn when it comes movement style (like bunny hopping), and some finesse to develop in navigation.
Anyway, dinner just arrived!
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This is a stolen segment:
“What is the game natural selection like? Is it like counterstrike?
Yes, the video game Natural Selection 1 is often compared to Counter-Strike, but it's a hybrid that adds deep Real-Time Strategy (RTS) elements, blending fast-paced FPS action (like CS) with strategic team command, where one player acts as a top-down commander building bases and upgrading tech for their team, creating a unique mix of FPS skill and RTS tactics. It is very similar to quake in some ways. Or similar to Halo 2. Think of it as Counter-Strike meets Starcraft, requiring both twitch shooting and strategic thinking for success, unlike pure CS where everyone is a soldier. Kind of like counterstrike meets StarCraft meets halo 2.
Due to the strategical and tactical depth, the game is also extremely good for competitive play.”
^ I just stole that segment from online. It’s not in my words.
It is like counterstrike, except that it is in space, and has a team of marines fighting against aliens.
My favourite game natural selection is technically a “modification” built for the original half life engine. Counter strike, team fortress classic and day of defeat were all “modifications” built for the half life one engine. Natural selection is fairly similar to these three games. Next, the engine for the original half life game was actually built upon the underlying engine for the game “quake”. The gameplay for Natural selection is fairly similar to quake three deathmatch in some ways. I took a look at a few online games, and I think that the pacing is not dissimilar to something like call of duty black ops, or battlefield 6. But I’ve never played those games. It’s an old game that was built as a modification using the Half Life One engine, kind of like “Team Fortress Classic”. It came out of the same half life modification milieu as Counterstrike, team fortress classic, firearms half-life, day of defeat and the specialists. It was really popular for a while, but didn’t have a commercial release. You can probably just google it.
Video Games, especially Natural Selection
Here’s a good video showing off the gameplay of natural selection. Some of the image and video quality leaves a little bit to be desired, but it’s the best one I can find. It’s good enough on its own. It’s similar to Quake, Halo 2, or Counterstrike 1.6, in fact both CS 1.6 and Natural Selection are both modifications built on the Half-life One game engine, which itself was built on the goldsrc quake engine, which itself was built from a heavily modified version of ID software’s Quake engine. I have played quake one, and it has the same “feel” to it as half life one engine games.
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Here is a “random assortment” of video clips for people who are highly interested in video games and want examples of what sort of games I used to play.
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The standard of play on ordinary public servers in Australia/NZ was roughly as good as the best of those videos, but the videos are useful for providing a demo of game mechanics, graphics, sound effects and some gameplay. I had a lot of trouble finding good clips. I was playing at a slightly different era to some of those guys.
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Back in high school, I was playing Natural Selection, Half-life one deathmatch, counter strike, quake three arena (now updated and rebranded to “quake live”), day of defeat, halo 2, Morrowind, Diablo 2, The Sims and a bit of DotA. I wasn’t chasing girls. People like Siobhan and Brynn think that ought to have been chasing them. But it was all in their head! They were actually offended. They were genuinely offended!! But I just played games. I didn’t even notice!! I was just playing games and going to youth group! Ahhhhhhh. And I loved watching movies with my brother and dad. And I loved playing cards with my brother and Dad, and occasionally Glynn Periam (my father’s second cousin). And I loved playing video games with Matthew Solt (my brother) our boarders and the other guys who came over. And I loved watching movies with people like Uncle Jonathan and Glynn Periam (they were just family friends, like cousins or second cousins) when they came over. Or I liked socialising with people like Dad and his employees, such as Mike Hocking, Jamie Houston, Andrew London or Ian. I preferred spending time with adults when I was young. Or I was spending time with Max Macfarlane and Aaron Oldcorn, Jesse Orchard and Nathan Thatcher. I was spending time with the walkers (Paul, David, Brett and Sue) or sometimes the MacKenzie’s, or the Jacks/Hansens, or whomever. And I played a lot of video games. And I was hanging out in the garage with Daniel and Taras practising bench press, or going to the gym with Jesse Orchard.
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