Vancouver in 10

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Fuck it, I'm bored at work, I'm posting again.

So I'm leaving next Friday, to Vancouver in fact (if you couldn't fucking guess), the only place where people are extremely surprised when I say I'm half Asian. (Also the home of Hastings street, the sketchiest place in Canada).

I don't believe I've mentionned this to the blagosphere before, but I play badminton because I'm a huge faggot and, as I mentionned, half Asian. I like to believe I've gotten pretty good at it too. I've played competitively since around 2005 and have competed at events like the Arctic Winter Games, Canda Winter Games, and the Western Canada Summer Games. But I don't want this to be just some post about me bragging about my sport, OH WAIT THAT WAS EXACTLY MY INTENTION.

First off, let's clear something up. Badminton is one of the most intense sports a person can play. No shut the fuck up for a second I'm serious.

• Badminton is the fastest racquet sport in existance. Period. But.. but what about ping po- NO. Fuck ping pong. Get the fuck out
• Badminton is an extremely physically and mentally demanding sport. Let's compare badminton to tennis for a second. Tennis is more of a marathon than anything, and as much respect as I have for tennis players it's basically a waiting game of running back and forth. Badminton on the other hand feels like straight up sprinting for 30-60 minutes at a time. Full on bursts of speed in any direction at the same time you're trying to outsmart your opponent. It's pretty fucking intense
• Now I don't know why, but badminton has never really become popular in North America for some reason. It's literally one of the most watched sports in most of Asia and Europe. But for some fucking reason it's not as popular as motherfucking tennis, that's fucking bullshit. Go look up some high level badminton games on the Youtube for a second and tell me that's not better than watching that fucking horse Serena Williams grunt on a field of grass for three hours. I would watch the shit out of badminton if is was on any sports network ever.

So yeah, I'm going to Vancouver to play badminton for about a week. Well actually less playing and more straight up training. I'll be working with one of Canada's best coaches, Calvin Holoboff, whom I actually feel really fucking lucky to have met. He's coached world class players all over the world. He coached Anna Rice the year she went to the Olympics, but no one is going to know who Anna Rice is because no one fucking knows badminton.

Oh and here's a fun fact: The world's fastest badminton smash is logged at 421Km/H, almost double the fastest recorded tennis serve. Fuck you tennis.

-T

An android game console? Foolish you say?

I THINK NOT. 

Look at it. LOOK AT IT.

A fully hackable and open gaming console being developed for TVs. $99 gets you the console that also comes with a full developers kit that allows you to create and publish your own games. As I've said the console will run a version of android and everything will be completely hackable. 

The best part? 

"Any developer will be able to publish games, and all games will be free to play."

Interesting indeed. We'll see how the Ouya stacks up to the big name next gen consoles Orbis, Durango, and Wii-U.

And another thing..

If you couldn't tell by my previous post, I'm a fan of PC gaming. Unfortunately, however, I haven't been able to play much, partly broke, partly Iqaluit, but that's all going to change in a few months!

I'm building a brand spankin' new gaming computer, and here's my build:

ASUS Z77 Motherboard
Intel I-7 3770k Ivy Bridge CPU
Zotac GTX 680 GPU
OCZ ModXTreme 700W PS
16Gb of Corsair Vengeance RAM
Standard 1TB HDD and Blu-Ray Drive

Also might throw in a soundcard depending on the type of audio setup I want.

So yeah, there it is. Very excited to actually be able to game, and more updates about games and such will be up on this blog once this beast is put together.

Thanks for your time faggots
-T