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It’s hard to game with other people these days, even if everyone involved has got the moola to spend.

As any local gamer who doesn’t live under a rock would know, Xbox Live has just been launched in Singapore, and inevitably that means that I’ve got a craving to frag some local ass.

So I got my starter kit soon after the launch, borrowed a couple of games from a friend, and started passing some hot lead around doggy(fight)-style in Crimson Skies (CS). At first, it was good. Thanks to a couple of local forums, I have been able to find a number of CS players whom I’ve had great games with, while it lasted.

That is to say, it didn’t last. A short stint, if you would. The chapter ended merely several days after its introduction paragraph - I found that the number of Crimson Skies players in my Friends’ list were gradually dropping, to the extent that it wasn’t interesting anymore. I reckon it was either because the more hardcore Crimson Skies players had other commitments to attend to, or they’ve got other games to play. With my blood boiling, and adrenaline still pumping, I needed another outlet to let off steam. After doing some homework, the realisation that Rainbow Six 3 is the solution to my sorrows set in… or so I thought.

So here I am, back home after grabbing a copy of Rainbow Six 3, supposedly one of the more popular multiplayer FPS on the Xbox. Without hesitation, I jumped the multiplayer gun as soon as the wrapper could be torn open. There were a couple of RS3 players online in my Friends’ list, and I seeked to join them… which I did… after 10 minutes of waiting for the game to patch itself. T___T ‘What a bitch to patch!’ I thought to myself. Boy, if only I had knew what was in store for me.

‘Fair enough,’ I thought, and proceeded to make myself a cup of tea (I don’t drink coffee) and some garden pasta during my wait. Eventually, it was time to get on with the show, and I joined a game with the local jockeys. One match was all I played - one particularly unexciting match for this gung-ho Rambo was shot down before he could even get his groove on - before the jokers decided to change the map.

It took the big black box 2 whole minutes to load the new playing map before it realised that it did not have the map downloaded yet. Bloody hell!

Of course, I could join an Ang Moh’s (that’s ‘foreigner’ in some Chinese dialect, for those of you international readers out there) game that did not require the additional content, but really, why would I want my ass handed to me on a golden platter by some f**k-spewing blondie who has had 6 months worth of experience in handing asses out online?

That brings me to the reason why I’m writing this blog entry in the first place. I really should be out there attempting to score some local asses (pun UNintended). Instead, I’m stuck writing this piece of ranting with absolutely colourful language while waiting for Rainbow Six 3 to download 1634 blocks of multiplayer mission data. I have no idea how many megabytes that translates to, but apparently it’s not MP3-small - the bugger’s taking an extremely long time. To top it all off, in order to make sure I won’t be dropped out of a game simply because any extra downloadable content was not found, I have to download SEVEN such freaking missions. Seven times 30 minutes = I have a lot of time to proofread this blog entry.

Hopefully by then the local players would still be online. If not, then all the wait was for naught.

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Did’ja know.. that the word ‘ass’ was used 4 times throughout the whole 637-worded article written above?

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