Hayden’s Blog

I haven’t posted here in awhile, so I’ve got quite a few things that I need to write about. First and foremost…

Ken Saltrick
Funny thing about Ken is that I used to like him, and my friend Nolan did not. Now the tables have turned. Nolan likes Ken, but I do not. There are a few reasons why I dislike Ken, but right now I’ll just bring up the highlights.

Ken is somewhat of a drama queen. We’ll be sitting and talking, someone will make a joke directed at Ken, and the scene will be set. He’ll start saying things somewhat like

They’re just words to you, but you don’t know how they make me feel!

or

You don’t know what it’s been like lately,

which brings me to another one of my highlights.

Ken likes to make excuses. When he has an outburst (such as the example above), it’s often followed up with an excuse later on.

Sorry guys, I was pissy last night because I had a hard time with my girlfriend

or something of the like. He doesn’t seem to understand that the world and all the things that exist on it do not (or should not) take that much responsibility for his behavior. Of course there are special cases, but he uses excuses like these way too often.

Another thing that annoys me about Ken is that he loves to whine. This somewhat integrates with my first highlight, but it’s independent enough to warrant it’s own category.
Whenever something goes slightly wrong in the world of Ken, he whines. A lot. For example, a long time (maybe a few weeks) ago, Ken, Hayden, Nathan and I were playing Tribes 2 Construction. Hayden decided to whip out the ELF gun (which has been removed from the server since then) and began killing everybody continuously and instantly. You see, this version of the Electron Flux Whip gun auto-locks on to people within maybe 30-50 meters of you, and kills you almost instantaneously. So Nathan and I decided to deal with it, and started to set up defenses against it (by now it was turning into somewhat of a game). Ken, however, sat and whined.

Oh my god, Hayden, that’s so cheap, stop it!

I hope you die in a fire!

Stop or I’m going to quit, I’m serious!

Which brings me to yet another one of my Ken Saltrick highlights.

Rage-Quitting. Ken loves to practice this (not so) popular game strategy. He even makes fun of himself sometimes for doing it. Throughout my lovely time spent with Ken, I’ve witnessed many a rage-quit, from Starcraft to Tribes 2 to Skype itself. He does it all the time, and it’s annoying of course, as it should be if someone decides to quit a game right before it’s over. It’s childish, annoying, and a poor decision.

And now for a perfect example, interweaving all of these characteristics into one little nutshell for you readers to enjoy.
Last night, I was talking with Ken, Hayden, and Daemien in a Skype conversation whilst playing a little of my favorite game, Tribes 2. Ken and Daemien are playing a game of Supreme Commander, myself overhearing their conversation. Ken is obviously getting massacred by Daemien from what I can hear, and decide I’m going to contribute to the action.

Sounds like Daemien’s owning you up, Ken.

Hayden and myself start to give him comments like this one, and all of a sudden he explodes. It was quite a silent explosion, actually, as he muted his microphone for some reason and was talking to Daemien purely through text-chat. Daemien gave us the gist of things, and it kind of went like this.

I hate this game, I’m so horrible at it. I’m probably going to uninstall it.
(artist’s interpretation)

I laugh, warn the silent Ken that if he’s not going to talk then I’m going to kick him from the conversation. A few minutes later, I do just that. I’m not so surprised to find that a few minutes later, he has blocked my Skype name. I block his, just in case he comes back and whines some more. Daemien ends up blocking him as well, and a few minutes later Hayden receives some messages from Kenneth.

I’m uninstalling Skype.

Was the gist of things from what I heard. Of course I didn’t mind, but Hayden seemed somewhat worried.

The next day I was told that Ken claimed that he was just

Pissy last night

and that he didn’t really mean anything.

Yeah, right.

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