ICCG 2008

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Just came back from APIIT ICCG 2008 after a long hiatus. Many things have changed.. even the exam hall.

But the banners and ribbon remains. Damn..

I’m a slightly disappointed that the goodie bags are smaller, and most disappointed that there’s nothing there to buy this year. After last year’s ‘winter’ most sponsors know better to set up stalls here to con us of our money by selling their wares with higher markup than Low Yat.

There are some 10 PS3’s with Fifa running for pros that are ‘too good’ for the death match upstairs to warm their hands with, sharing casual jokes with other pros and their daddy and mummy.

I feel bad for the parents that are here for a look-see before enrolling their kids into an award winning institution to get a shock that all we do is play games together with the lecturers.

 

^ Wonder where did they get those plasmas from.

 

Codemaster Studios (Malaysia) were here today to give a talk on their new games, basically saying that they’re proud to unleash their new money maker GRiD on our primitive minds all for RM59.90 (serious!).

I have no clue what GRiD stands for but it’s a racing game so go figure. It is still some points off from being realistic (compared with my drive home on the MRR2) but it’s close enough. One dead giveaway you are not going to die in that crash is their overzealous use of HDR means everything including the driver’s pinkie finger glows amber with an unreal aura. Oblivion would be ashamed.

 

Special for this weekend, students from my prestigious MSC certified Award Winning University College is nothing more than professional lame ass drivers on a dirt track. I am still wondering where the hell they get the plasmas from!

 

The college is printing money I presume cause instead of corporate plain maroon carpets we now get them imported from Iraq! Persian carpets! OMG!!!

 

Call of Duty 4 is one of the games on play. What a shame that our humble benevolent students fare better as professional mercenaries with skills catering to getting head shots than to getting their heads washed. Damn.. some people don’t bathe before they come over.. must be training their double-tap quick kill the whole night, carpal tunnel syndrome be damned.

 

Somehow I find the above picture better than the first. My accidental flash fired while taking a screenshot but it is eerily better looking this way. Photoshop yay!

I also got Aaron on film forcefully taking a picture of his hostage. See how he had tied his victim to a chair..

;)

 

Being absent from college for such a long time, I didn’t notice the consumerism had taken over the place. Imagine an ad in college basically giving the finger to lecturers saying their lectures are so boring that students would rather eat in front of their face than to learn what they had to offer..

 

Then face reality. . .

I took some shots of the ribbons for fun, as usual, they are my pathetic atempt to get some creative photography off the runway but there still seems to be something lacking about it, maybe I need to clone those ‘extras’ on the opposite side away and correct the colours a bit to give it more omph.

^ Those 2 drops on the cloth? They’re bird droppings. Enjoy your meal.

 

I didn’t take much picture of the competition in play cause they’re all the same, bunch of sweaty arm chair generals showing their stupidity by shouting at the avatar their right hand is controlling with their equally laughable wireless mouse.

The rest of the event is quite boring once the main competition starts. Sorry but I didn’t see any pretty h-sapiens of the opposite gender so no pictures for you.