It’s all in the game
One last post on the verge of another month. Lately I have been very busy with another hobby of mine: online gaming. I play this game called Soldier of Fortune II “Double Helix” rather vigorously. That’s why I haven’t been writing or posting a lot in my Blog.
Playing games is a way of escaping reality I guess. Things are not going so well at work at the moment and releasing the stress by killing some people (virtually of course) is one way of dealing with it.
The reality is that the company I’m working for at the moment is in deep financial trouble. We work a lot for advertising agencies and it doesn’t come as a surprise that they haven’t been spending a lot of money lately. In all reality we can say that the Dutch economy (as many others) is in trouble.
Because of that my company is going to restructure and in the same process they are merging with another firm. In fact it’s the 3rd time they reorganize in one calendar year. For me personally it’s the fourth time in one year after leaving Lost Boys in January 2002. On June 26th the people that will be fired will hear so. Since I have a 6 month contract (after having a year contract) they can simply not extend my contract and that is not the same as firing me; that means I will not get any unemployment benefits. A scary thought.
But back to SOF2 as it is called. Since the end of 2002 I’m playing this game rather fanatically and I also joined what is called a ‘clan’. Basically a clan is just a group of people that play online games (as opposed to the Klu Klux Klan whore are just a bunch of raving idiots). My clan is called Cool & Temper and our ‘tag’ (yes, I admit it either sounds childish or it sounds like being in a gang in downtown South Central LA) is *[C&T]*. People are supposed to put their tag in front of their name so people can see you’re a clansman.
I must say I rather enjoy it and you also meet a lot of people (mostly in the virtual world). I even bought a PC recently (a HP Vectra VL600) and converted it into a SOF2 clanserver so now we can play on our own server. All in all a pretty cool way of spending some time. Especially since I always like to tinker around with PC’s.
Well I guess we’ll meet again in June. Stay tuned!