The Raging 20’s

Cyberhawk117/ January 13, 2020/ This Is Serious Stuff/ 0 comments

2020….. well …..we are on day 13 as I write this…and frankly, its already been a bit of a shit show. The Australian bushfire crisis has been a disaster that  has impacted the lives of many of my fellow Australian both directly and indirectly and I hope has been a wake up call to the world. Add that to the impeachment

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I IDIC…Do you IDIC?

Admin/ January 23, 2019/ This Is Serious Stuff/ 0 comments

My earliest memory of Star Trek was sitting on the cold linoleum floor of a family friends farmhouse, nestled amongst acres and acres of tall lush green sugar cane, in regional central Queensland. This was in the early ’80s and I think I would have been 7 or 8,  We had 2 channels, the national public broadcaster, and the local

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Red Dead 2…Just trying to get along in a changing world.

Admin/ January 12, 2019/ Console Gaming, Uncategorized/ 0 comments

1890’s America was a time of social and economic upheaval, the rapid expansion of cities, and manufacturing, as well as technological change. Henry Forde having built his first petrol fuel vehicle, in 1892 with the founding of the ford motor company occurring a decade later, the landscape of America would be forever altered. In Rockstar Game’s latest offering, Red Dead

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CCNA CyberOps, is it any good ?

Cyberhawk117/ May 31, 2018/ This Is Serious Stuff/ 0 comments

  I haven’t been writing much lately, which isn’t a good thing when your trying to build a following, so I thought I’d actually write about one of the things which is taking up a great deal of my spare time at the moment, the Cisco CCNA CyberOps training. Cyber Security is becoming of critical importance  for governments and private

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Destiny 2: It’s the most wonderful time of the year

Admin/ January 7, 2018/ Console Gaming/ 0 comments

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year, with Guardians singing and where sparrows go zinging”…..wait…”queue record scratch”… No. It isn’t. It’s the same old grind man where is the Dawning spirit, where is the fun and frivolity… I mean  there isn’t even enough snow on the ground for robots to make snow angels…what the hell is this fictional world

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L.A. Noire…Gritty Crime and Nice Suits

Cyberhawk117/ January 2, 2018/ Console Gaming/ 0 comments

Rain beat down hard on the window panes of my office…lightning rolled about the clouds off in the distance… I paused a moment to watch, and then returned to pouring myself a couple of fingers of Canadian whiskey… I didn’t have much of a taste for the local rot gut, and my olive supplier had run dry, so a martini

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Enter the dragon….sprite……

Mac/ December 17, 2017/ Kids Gaming/ 1 comments

I first learnt about Scratch at school, it is a programming language  were you code and make projects using a  graphical  interface. It teaches me the logic of programming, or at least that is what dad says.  What I really enjoy about it, is all the fun things that you can make, and all of the varieties of sprites that you can use.

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First thoughts: Battlefront 2 is a beautiful game, despite the controversy.

Randyte/ November 16, 2017/ Console Gaming, The Gaming Grid/ 0 comments

  Star Wars Battlefront 2 is a beautiful game. After my first few hours of gameplay, I think it has a lot going for it. That’s in spite of the controversy around ‘loot boxes’ and progression. Before I share my initial impressions of Battlefront 2, lets address the AT-AT in the room. The loot box controversy This week, Star Wars

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