Inside Panda's Head

Thanks to Page, I have become addicted to a facebook game called Castle Wars. It resembles the Mafia Wars and Vampires games, but it is more in depth, in my opinion. You go on quests and battle massive monsters for experience, money and items. You gather your army so that you can take more soldiers and equipment into battle. I recently joined a group on facebook to instantly get a massive army on there. I went from 2 army members to nearly 40 in 20 minutes.

I find this game very fun and a good waste of time. You should definitely give it a try if you have facebook.

Panda out.

So, I was looking up Guns and Roses videos a couple weeks ago and I found a guitarist by the name of Buckethead. As some of you may know, he was the lead guitarist for Guns and Roses from 2000-2004. Instantly, I fell in love with his music. From the technoish sounding songs like Jump Man and Spidercrawl to the slow, melodic songs like Padmasana, Too Many Humans and Big Sur Moon, the emotion in his riffs is amazing.

Each and every time I search his music, I find songs I have never heard. He is simply amazing and I am writing this while listening to "Coma". Below is a link to my Buckethead Playlist.

The Amazing Bucket

I felt I would start out my blog with an entry on a game I have been playing quite often lately. I have found that it is quite addictive and hard to let go of.

In this game, you begin with no money and one degree. Your starting jobs are either "Pizza Restaurant", "Local 7/11", "Bar/Nightclub", and your chosen degree job. These are "Nurse at a local hospital", "Mechanic at a local vehicle yard", "Work at a local bank" and "Mortician assistant". The first three jobs are basic and lead you nowhere. However, it is thought that by working these three jobs, you can obtain the four secret jobs "Pimp", "Whore", "Street Fighting" and "Joy Ride." The other jobs, you gain depending on your degree. If you own every degree, you get all of them.

Upon "ranking up" you gain the next level of you career. Nurse leads to Doctor, Doctor to Surgeon and Surgeon to Hospital Director. That is so with each of the careers. You also have careers that you do not have to get a degree for. You train for them. These are the Army, Police Department, Customs Official and Fire Department. You rank up through these the same way. Each time you rank up, you are more than likely to get a new job you can do. There is also the position of Mayor. You have to pay $1,000,000 to run for mayor and you have to achieve at least 2 votes to be elected.

 That is the gist of the legit life on mafia matrix. There is also a criminal side. You can do aggravated crimes to get gangster experience and rank up through that. The gangster earns are "Shoplift", "Steal Cheques", "Drag Racing", "Hacking" and "Scams." There are many different aggravated crimes and I do not wish to list them all. The first couple are Pickpocketing, Mugging and Grand Theft Auto. Once you get every degree, you also unlock Hacking.  In the criminal career, you can reach the rank of Boss and Don which are family leaders, you can then go further and become a Godfather of your city. Then, taking one step further, you can reach Capo Di Tutti Capi, The Boss of Bosses. In Mafia Matrix, you can go to jail and rank up from "Bitch" to "Lifer". Jail gives you gangster experience.

That is a rough explanation of the criminal life in mafia matrix. Next up is random things, basically. In the game, you can own businesses. At the top of most careers, you own the business that each career works out of. You can also own private businesses like the gym, clothing shop, weapon shop, dog pound, vehicle yard, etc. You get the point. You can own dogs and use them in fights or to attack people. You can whack people, beat them on the head with a baseball bat and put them in the hospital and even shoot out their kneecaps so that they can't work for a bit.

This is just a rough explanation of the game and I hope it gets anyone that reads this interest in trying it. It really is worth the time it takes to create a character. Give it a try!

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