No Sojourner memes please

I'm the kind of agent who does not pay too much attention to backstory (admittedly you are not really hardcore if you don't know at least the back-story basics.) Or memes. But I am obsessed with the game. As I've hinted I was addicted to Minecraft in the past, where my ign is zaphodikus obviously, but I've not logged in again since I picked up agent level 2. Curious to know what your obsession with ingress is - my main obsession is the video making, then the walking, and lastly the pub visits.

#1 The video making obsession comes from the huge number of screen recordings I made in Minecraft. Minecraft is really great for telling stories. Here is an example of a Star Trek Minecraft battle enactment. Kringeworthy, because my Star Trek knowledge is really pretty pants. So please do rip me off.

#2 The walking. Yes my average is around 20 kms a week. I have reached 40 kms in a week, but I generally aim to reach 30 as often as possible. This blog is thus a key part of my Ingress walking journey. Why, well around the time I got hooked on Minecraft I had a knee cartilage tear, this kind hurt like hell just to climb stairs - and every house in the UK has stairs. Probably because nobody in the UK knows how to design houses properly, but that's another matter altogether and has been a failure for so long that Brits just get on with it now. I had some knee surgery, which helped a little, but had become couch-bound in the meantime. This led to cabin fever and grumpiness; until I discovered ingress. The beauty of ingressing is that it takes your mind off the pain in your knees long enough for you to start getting fit. Getting fit improves your mood, and pretty soon the inflamation in the cartiliage is treatable with a bit of anti-inflamatory and glucosamine tabs, which builds cartialige, but you have to take a lot of it. Hence some people get a bit miffed with me walking fast when I go smashing or 8-rolling, I don't pause to glyph too often - but that's once again another thing to talk about later. But no I do not walk that much, I'm still trying to get the onyx trekker. I think you need to walk about 40kms a week to get that badge, and often I just have to give my knees a break and I fade out for a week to recover.

#3 Pubs. We don't have nearly as many pubs back in South Africa; well not ones you can walk into and then walk out of alive or not in scarred in some way scarred or other. I am not a drinker by any measure, and have a terrible constitution saving roll. But I do know how to cheat the dehydration effects. Drink a lot of water at high speed when you slip off to the loo. The pubs in Britain are a brilliant installation and should be saved at all costs! That and the curries. Without pubs Britain would be a shambles, I'm sure of it - the walls have ears.