Random Musing

Passing by the smaller, older strip mall up the road from the house tonight I finally noticed the place titled "Laser Tag" was finally closed. When we first moved here I wanted to check it out, but was told that the Laser Tag part of it had closed down years ago and it was just an arcade now. Made me think of this placed called "Q-Zar" we used to go to. It was a Laser Tag place where you wore a vest that had a gun attached to it. The vest was a target and if you got hit 3 or 4 times, you were out and you had to go to a recharge station and recharge. It was a lot of fun, until the cheaters started showing up. Yep it wasn't long after the advent of cheating bastards, usually younger Teens, that all of the Q-Zar's started shutting down. I think there's one still open in Concord, Ca (probably closed by now, but last time I was there it was still open.). These Kids would cheat by hiding in the corner near the recharge station and shooting you out again after you recharged. Basically keeping you from playing the game because you constantly had to go and recharge. So you basically paid 20 bucks for 15 minutes of play to have some punk ass 14 year old ruin your fun. Can you see why they closed down? Apparently these little punks have migrated to the online gaming world. In Gamer Speak they are called "Spawn Campers"....... they basically sit in the section of the game where they know your character is going to "respawn" (basically come back to life after being killed) with the sole purpose of killing you again, and again and again.......now this gets them a high "kill" count, but doesn't achieve anything as far as the game is concerned. Say it's a military game. Your team has to achieve an objective; ie destroy the enemy fuel dump....their team has the same objective. You get big points for achieving this objective in a timely fashion. These "campers" aren't doing their team any good whatsoever. They are also the same little shits that are real brave and mouthy when they are sitting at home in their bedrooms at Mommy and Daddy's house. In real life they are scared of their own shadow, but because of the wonderous anonymity of the internet, they get to be rude, inconsiderate bastards. Kind of why I don't play online multi player games. These same cheating schmucks sometimes ruin a day of Airsoft for me....not anymore though as I have been given Field Marshall status at the Bad Karma field and can remove them from the game if I see them cheating. Ah....bliss.......I love having the power to tell these little punks to get the f**k off the field. Feels good. I know, a random musing but really a minor rant.

Ciao for now.