Injuries,… Again

by Dennis••0•Posted inJournal

About a week and a half ago someone performed a “can opener” on me at training, which only really works on beginners, but regardless it hurts very much. I ended up tapping the guy out, but still, several days later, my neck and left shoulder were still sore.

It’s so bad that for the first few days I had a hard time doing anything but laying down. Sitting or standing ended up getting painful after a few seconds, as tension in my neck turned to pain that flared all the way to my elbow.

Now, ten days later, it’s still painful and I’m taking pain killers in order to be able to work a full day without going crazy, but it’s getting better. Anyway, needed to get that off my chest. Thanks.

Separation of Military and Police

by Dennis••0•Posted inJournal

A quote by Cmdr. William Adama:

There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

Gaming, Hours on Record

by Dennis••0•Posted inGaming

So I just looked at my own Steam profile and looked at the top 25 games I and the amount of hours I spent on them. Shocked, as per usual. Here’s the list, ranked from most to least hours spent on it:

  1. Borderlands 2 – 425 hrs
  2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – 330 hrs
  3. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel – 174 hrs
  4. Mass Effect 2 – 111 hrs
  5. Watch_Dogs – 109 hrs
  6. Mass Effect – 92 hrs
  7. Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut – 140 hrs
  8. Hitman: Absolution – 59 hrs
  9. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days – 54 hrs
  10. XCOM: Enemy Unknown – 54 hrs
  11. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – 50 hrs
  12. Borderlands – 43 hrs
  13. Shadowrun Returns – 34 hrs
  14. Alan Wake – 17.8 hrs
  15. Deus Ex: Human Revolution – The Missing Link – 14.0 hrs
  16. Max Payne 3 – 12.6 hrs
  17. Gabriel Knight – Sins of the Fathers – 11.9 hrs
  18. Hitman: Sniper Challenge – 10.0 hrs
  19. Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut – 5.7 hrs
  20. Tales from the Borderlands – 5.5 hrs
  21. Alan Wake’s American Nightmare – 5.2 hrs
  22. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth – 4.7 hrs
  23. Amnesia: The Dark Descent – 3.9 hrs
  24. Remember Me – 3.1 hrs
  25. SEGA Genesis & Mega Drive Classics – 2.4 hrs

What’s important to note is that this doesn’t include the games that I own on Origin, which are few, only Dragon Age: Inquisition and Mass Effect 3, but both games that I’ve spent quite a bit of time on. Probably about 80 hours each. There’s also a few games that I have in my Steam library that I bought after having played a pirated version. Like Kane & Lynch, the first three Hitman games and the first two Fallout games. I’ve also bought some things on Steam that I had bought physically, like the first two Deus Ex games, System Shock 2 and Fallout 3.

Oh, the total time logged played games on Steam: 1724,2. 72 days.