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Supplies are scarce in zombie apocalypse game, DayZ. N


ot often does one hear the legendary phrase ut- tered, “My kingdom for a can opener.” In this game, you find that it is said about


every 10 minutes or so. Such is life after the zombie apocalypse in DayZ. I tend to think of myself as a rather level-headed person: one who can think quickly and logically in the event of a crisis. I found that I was wrong. You log into the game, finding yourself


at most times on the coast of the beauti- ful Russian landscape. Equipped with a f lashlight, a battery, and the clothes on your back. Your first thoughts generally tend to be: “Wow, I set the graphics to low and this game still looks good.” You spend some time admiring the detail of the Arma engine that DayZ is built on, until you are interrupted by a message in the lower left-hand corner that plainly says: “I am feeling thirsty.” Te urgency doesn’t fully manifest itself until you real-


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1. Gets hitched, so to speak 5. Site of golfing's ryder open 10. Battery unit 14. Con ed product 15. Meshed resident 16. Queen of the Nile, for short 17. Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart's writing name 19. Nutrition amts. 20. Half a cheer 21. Most sugary 23. ____ Many words 26. Sporty studebaker 27. Ammuntion holder 32. DDE's command in wwii 33. The end of ___ 34. Furnishes


38. Daffy duck's impediment 40. Ching-ling or mei-ling 42. Usher's selection 43. Cold sorrel dish 45. Finish off


47. Neighbor of md.


48. '90s sitcom about twin girls 51. VW model 54. Unfermented grape juice 55. Davy Jones's locker 58. Artist's brown 62. Writer bontemps 63. A magnet attracts it in a physics experiment


66. Kind of lamp at a luau 67. Japanese maker of watches and calculators


68. Laura Davies's org. 69. Assurance 70. River rising in Yellowstone Park 71. Doesn't fold


DOWN 1. Hall-of-fame coach Ewbank 2. Ticklish muppet 3. Sample record 4. Thomas colleague 5. This makes Pedro's day 6. Fido's find 7. Crowd cheers


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ize that you cannot drink sea water. Ten, still optimistic, you set off to find some drinkable water in a deserted town that you can faintly see down the road. Deserted save for the zombies. DayZ is a test, at times a study of how far


sociopaths will go. When your life in the game depends on


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finding that ever-elusive can opener, you will go quite far. In the course of the several days I have been playing, I have found countless cans of sardines, spaghetti, and beans. All re- quiring that most precious of kitchen utensils. I found a can of tuna once, and thankfully it had a pull tab to open it. Suffice to say until I find a can opener, I will sustain myself on the rotten fruit that is found everywhere, even though it will make me ill. Sadly the game won’t allow me to use the axe


I found to chop open a can. Nor will it allow me to use the hammer. Maybe that other player


coming towards me wearing a gas mask, full military fatigues, and sporting a rifle with a bayonet attached will


have a can opener I can borrow. Ten again, he might be just luring me into a trap. I have heard of such things, rov- ing bands of rogues handcuffing and forcing their captives to fistfight to the death – the victor being executed shortly thereafter, their equipment looted. DayZ isn’t for the faint of heart, and I don’t mean in


terms of the level of graphic blood. Te degradation of moral society is what gets you. Te sheer hopelessness of finding that can opener so you don’t starve to death. Real- izing you can only carry one backpack and you have no room for that canteen you found. Or realizing you are out of shirts to rip into makeshift bandages to stop you from bleeding to death after that last round of boxing against zombies you took part in. And all this from a game that is still in development.


One that has grown out of a mod for another game. One that makes you re-evaluate your zombie apocalypse plan (I know you all have one). Again, it’s on Steam Early Access. It’s still in beta. It’s


under $25. Not that money will have much value in this world. Take my advice: after you get this game, stock up on can openers in the real world. You just never know.


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12. At ___: in any case 13. Song composer of "Goodbye" 18. 1950S opera heartthrob 22. Agatha christie's "___ Under the Sun"


24. Confessor's list 25. Status before an inning ending double play


27. Gibson and brooks 28. Suffix with system 29. "Golly" 30. Irregular, as if gnawed away. 31. Chair repairers 35. Former congressman Gingrich 36. Host letterman


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37. Lead player 39. Two-grade system 41. Sudden rush of air 44. Small flask 46. First of 12 popes with a religious-sounding name 49. Zeno and others 50. Dump emanations 51. Exams for jrs. 52. Hawk's haven


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