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Time: some time in the morning

Place: Hostel J , Thapar University

Scene I:

I woke up to the alarm i had put up the previous night (and still didn't notice the time ,funny). After performing my chores i plugged in my earphones and headed for college. On my way i noticed that there was no one on the road (well a pretty usual thing) but even at the campus i saw no body then i started to panic. The whole college had turn into some sort of deserted place (like some place which was recently nuked) with everything in its place. I took out my phone and it showed all the network bars so i started calling up people and as i was doing this strangely “Bulls on Parade”(a friend of mine) showed up and he  explained his part of the story which was pretty much the same(strangely this friend of mine never shows up in college on usual days).

Scene II:

Bulls on Parade and I were somewhere in a building and we were not on the ground floor  because it was on fire  . We took the stairs and suddenly there was an Earthquake and the stairs ahead of us shattered. We did panic but after a while we calmed down and there was silence, the only sound we could hear was that of the  flames from the ground floor. After a while there was another sound, a familiar sound . We started moving towards the source and soon after we discovered that the source was a girl ( a familiar face) . Let her name be Tara( i  cant disclose the name) and i had a crush on her a long time back.  She was stuck somewhere and there was a huge gap in the floor between us. The only way to get her out of there was to make her jump. We calmed her down and asked her to jump ( she didn’t have a athletic built and the gap was pretty huge) and she agreed to do so. The Plan was simple –one of us had to catch her, for a moment there was complete silence and then Bulls on Parade counted till 3 and she jumped and fell into my arms. I must say it was  like some bollywood movie  scene and we had  eye contact for a while.

Scene III:

I was roaming around the streets of Patiala looking for people and friends ( the phone was still with me but for no particular reason i didn't use it) . The place was deserted but everything was in its place. I somehow got to lay hands on a Audi Q7  and it had a superb feel to it. The Audi was loaded with barrels of diesel , loads of edible stuff .I was on my way to a Armoury shop to pick up some weapons for safety purposes and as i reached there i grabbed a rifle , pistol and loads of ammo.I did practice shooting some place i don't remember.  Somewhere on my way back to college to look for some more people “FiR3eBoLt!” ( another friend of mine ) called  up and i was so elated to hear his voice , he told  me his whereabouts and i reached there. We then decided to locate our other friends and suddenly the phone started ringing

Ring ring ring and i am in my bed

I realize that it was a dream(much inspired by the movies ) . I was controlling it at some places like the Q7,weapons etc but the friends and the crush which appeared  in the dream were beyond my control. I wanted to post this dream as soon as i woke up in the noon but i had some prior engagements so didn’t get time.Strangely i remember a lot abt this dream....

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”- Henry David Thoreau

Life a game or vice versa?? continued...

well imperial age was where i last left the post
Post Imperial age
At the age of 16 my gaming decreased by drastic proportions due to preparations for exams like AIEEE , IIT-JEE  etc.. marking the silence before the storm
After getting into college i got my laptop and with the nvidia power i first played Counter Strike which is the most played first person shooter game on the internet and local networks in hostels.I played it in my first year of college and my favorite gun was M4a1 (Maverick from where the blog derives its name) so u can see how much i liked it .

Call of Duty :Modern Warfare I
a game with  superb single player story and  brilliant multi player scenarios, a game which has become a part of my life ,a game which i play online with my closest pals and wish to play it for a long long time

After Call of Duty 4 single player came Crysis a mammoth game with likewise graphic requirements , still managed to complete the game , although in my opinion it has a slow start but as we move forward in the game it starts meeting up your expectations and has a beautiful ending.

After this came Call of Duty :World at War based on World War II . The game has a great story line and i enjoyed the game a lot
In between came Need For Speed : Undercover which i dint like that much and it was more of a disappointment but as they say dawn after night
Assassins Creed was launched by Ubisoft and with its unique story and game play it became a instant hit and i must say is one of the top members of my favorite games list.
The weapons, the ancient Rome and solid story line and a superb game play are some of the game highlights.

Call of Duty :Modern Warfare 2 sequel to Modern Warfare I is also a nice game but has a very small campaign and it just came and passed by.
Assassins Creed II a sequel to Creed I came in 2010 and it proved to be even better than its predecessor and kept me busy for a few days in summer 2010

By the end of 2010 came Call of Duty :Black Ops which is not as good as any of the predecessors but still it is Call of Duty so had to play it.
Splinter Cell : Conviction based on the life of secret agent Sam Fisher a fictional character has a unique game play and one of the finest game play , great use of stealth and perfect executions ,in all a superb game.

and the last but not the least is Need for Speed : Hot Pursuit 2 an amazing game, great details and mind blowing sound effects and races, became my favorite time pass during the semester exams.

Few games i am looking forward to lay my hands on in the year 2011 are Crysis II and Ghost Recon
This was my gaming life summed up in a few words and while writing this post many memories came up.

Life a game or vice versa??

This post is dedicated to a very close friend of mine "fir3bolt".
i have  divided this post into different time zones as per the level of games(graphic quality wise)




Dark Age
It was 97-98 when i guess i played my first computer game dave and following it were zool,Prince and Wolf 3d
on my cousins computer.

Feudal Age
Around 1999 when my uncle bought a computer(the first computer in the house) and i got a chance to lay hands on that beautiful machine, there was this excitement  and even 9 years later when i got my laptop there was the same excitement.On that machine i played Road Rash,Duke Nukem 3d.
Road Rash has a unique style to it, even the graphics now may seem to be crappy but i played that game extensively and it was addictive.
.

Castle Age
Hidden and Dangerous was a revolutionary game that altogether changed my gaming style, i started spending hours on gaming and that too without any breaks in between , started skipping my meals so as to complete the missions.This game is based on World War II and is a third person shooter game , it is the most extensive and difficult game i have ever played and definitely stands somewhere in the top of my favorite game list.

How can i forget Hitman again a third person shooter game which had an amazing story line, tactical missions and pretty decent graphics.I remember how i used to play this game with my brother , we used to make strategy to assassinate our targets. This was one hell of a game

Imperial Age
Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun and Command and Conquer  Red Alert 2 both of them strategy games which i played at my cousins place . Me and my brother used to spend 4 to 5 hours every sunday on these games. Apart from these two Age of Empires, Age of Mythology were also there which also consumed lot of my time :D.

Around 2002 Sony Play Station was becoming quiet common and being a gamer it did grab my attention and the result was me spending my pocket money on the gaming shop sort of thing popularly known as "MAMA ki Dukaan"
Among the games i played were Smack Down, Crash Bandicoot  etc.
It was around 2005 when i got my desktop and gaming still continued.
Max Payne 2 with its revolutionary style( the time thingy) did fascinate me and kept me engrossed in gaming.
Need For Speed underground, hot pursuit 1 and NFS II were the racing games that i came across and these game i must say were really nice.


i feel this post has become to lengthy and i am too tired


To be continued....

The post that expired long back

Well i heard somewhere "initiating is the most difficult part" finally here i am blogging.
The act have multiple reasons but we can leave it for some other day

maverick.NET
seems like a geeky name well can be attributed to a part of my personality, i managed to assemble a image
as u can see above.
This image explains the name
Maverick m4a1 used to be my favorite weapon when i played Counter Strike(most played LAN game)
if u notice the image carefully there is a maroon logo sort of thing... its Maverick Meerkat (Linux Ubuntu version 10.10) , successor of the OS i installed recently (for learning point of view)
the white plane and maverick written in bold is from the movie Top Gun , which was amongst the first movie i saw on a PC
and the right top corner is an ad of Ford indicating my interest in cars
and the most important of all taking the dictionary meaning of the word "maverick" which defines me

well i guess this is enough for the first post.