Whirling Shadows

Well, I’m a full year older and it’s been ages since I last updated my Blog.

So how do I feel about adding another year to my score (assuming age is a score in life, and life is an endurance challenge)?

Well the precise day itself passed with much fan fair. 8 people said happy birthday, I had dinner with my Kinfolk, where one of my Brothers favourite meals was served, and my Dad’s cake of choice was desert (with no icing  ). I also received 2 presents on the day and 1 congratulatory txt message.

But there was much good about the day as well. My Co-workers treated my to coffee and mini-cheesecakes, I got one of my gifts first thing in the morning and was shaking and examining it and it’s golden wrap all day (which was lots of fun in itself), and I did get some fuss made over me.

Now, I must also confess that I did have a celebration with most of my friends on the Saturday preceding my Birthday and received gifts and congratulations then so it’s not like they forgot, they just made me do the organising.

So I’m older but not over the hill, still filled with the same strange humour and occasionally disturbingness, and it some one else’s Birthday tomorrow (June is a busy Birthday month for me). Thus it really doesn’t seem all that different, save that I’m statistically a better driver now (go figure).

Maybe I’ll update with another post soon, if so, it will be heavily influenced by my gamer / nerd nature and probably be about something many couldn’t care less about.

So until next time,  Blog Out.

Munchkin-ing, Optimisation, Min-Maxing, Cheese, Beardy-ness, it all amounts to the same thing. The customisation of a character to do something so well that it shock those around you and almost no one can compete in that field.

Of course, like everything, there are levels of Cheese that go from “Oh, he’s really dangerous if he does X” to “What do you mean ‘You’re more immortal than a god’ ?” or “Did you say you shoot everyone in the enemy army?”

And there lies the heart of the issue of cheese. Go without it and you’re a master of average-ness who is kinda OK but gets can’t overcome a semi complex riddle and dies the minute a dangerous foe pulls a weapon. Go to much and nothing can touch you except a way overpowered enemy who has incidentally killed your allies already.

The Key to Cheese is in moderation. You specialise in one area but don’t become insanely specialised. It pisses everyone off and becomes boring. Every where you go there is no challenge. Until sooner of later you come across just the right foe who has just the right setup to rip you a new one. Or something engages you in an area that isn’t your forte and you end up grovelling as the feet of someone else. Yeah, in a fight you can smash walls and strike down any boss. Unfortunately this Boss hits a couple powers and now you love them. So now you work for them and kill your one time allies whom have no escape (unless one of them can do the same thing to you again and “reconvert” you).

So why have cheese at all? Because it’s fun to have some cheese. It’s so much fun to get everyone to stand back and shine, showing everyone that in X there is little to no competition.

Now on to why I’m Bloging about this. It’s because I have had an idea that is cheese. However I don’t think it’s game breaking cheese. I think it just makes my character really cool at a couple things.

However the guy in charge is disagreeing with me. He is shocked to the core and believe I’ve made something Game breaking. This has become a point of contention for both of us. I’ll admit in it’s field it’s powerful but it’s hardly game breaking. I can (and have) easily named almost a dozen ways in which to overcome my cheese. I hit lots but the hits are weak. A number of enemies can shrug off the best of what I can dish out regardless of the number of times I hit them. And still he says “That’s the ultimate Cheese”.

It’s nasty in it’s area but I can easily think of things that are far more potent. Hell, I’ll played things more potent and even things which can overpower the Cheese I’ve made in short order in it’s chosen field.

I’m kinda angry and Bloging but I like characters that can excel in their given area. As long as you don’t go too far then I think it’s OK to field a bit of Cheese. I’m made cheese that was sooo cheesy that cheese within close proximity to it were reclassified as not being cheese. This isn’t it.

So anyway, yeah, I want my bit of cheese and Damn it! It’s not that bad!

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