The other day, my family and I went to a town fair. It all seemed lovely and well placed. The sun was illuminating the grass. Then it happened. My little sister saw a Tombola. You know, one of those hexagon 3D shapes that rotate with balls with numbers inside. They said to find a ball with a '2' on it and win a prize (One of those really colorful toy things). We picked out a ball. It was a '1'. We picked out 3 more balls and they were all '1'. Then we looks inside the hexagon and guess what we found. Every single ball was a '1'. No '2's.
I triumphantly claimed 'shenanigans' and pointed to the stall owner. People rushed in, also pointing at the stall owner and claiming shenanigans.
Ah, that was a fun day.
Saturday, 30 July 2011
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
People that hate Pacman!
My close friends will know that I am a great 8-bit fanatic and because of this, I hate it when people hate a retro arcade game. Yes, I am talking to you call of duty lovers that think gaming was born from the very brow of Direct X 10. Let me tell you a story that changed my life and will hopefully change yours.
The retro bible.
Pacman 1-12:10
And pacman said unto thee, "Giveth thy arcade machine so thee can showeth thy high resolution crysis players that retro games are the best and I, Pacman, shall one day return and smite all thee that are 3rd prestige or higher!"
Space Invaders 16-22:17
And so a bolt of lightning came down from the sky and struck the vector images out of their hands and down from the sky descended a single Tetris block followed by 5 rows of space invaders.
Back to reality. Pacman is by far the king of all games. I mean come on, who doesn't like being yellow, running around in the dark, avoiding ghosts and eating pills that add to your score. I sure do! Seriously though, how can you hate pacman? He's such a cool yellow circle with a mouth! My sentances are starting to become gramatically incorrect with the amount of exclamation marks I'm using. So let's move on.
Without appreciating classic arcade games, how can you appreciate modern games? 8-bit games teach us so much! Especially the chiptune music (also known as keygen music)!
And if you think that 8-bit is worthless, then Pacman and I going to hunt you down and replace your xbox with an original gameboy!
And so concludes my rant about how awesome 8-bit games are.
The retro bible.
Pacman 1-12:10
And pacman said unto thee, "Giveth thy arcade machine so thee can showeth thy high resolution crysis players that retro games are the best and I, Pacman, shall one day return and smite all thee that are 3rd prestige or higher!"
Space Invaders 16-22:17
And so a bolt of lightning came down from the sky and struck the vector images out of their hands and down from the sky descended a single Tetris block followed by 5 rows of space invaders.
Back to reality. Pacman is by far the king of all games. I mean come on, who doesn't like being yellow, running around in the dark, avoiding ghosts and eating pills that add to your score. I sure do! Seriously though, how can you hate pacman? He's such a cool yellow circle with a mouth! My sentances are starting to become gramatically incorrect with the amount of exclamation marks I'm using. So let's move on.
Without appreciating classic arcade games, how can you appreciate modern games? 8-bit games teach us so much! Especially the chiptune music (also known as keygen music)!
And if you think that 8-bit is worthless, then Pacman and I going to hunt you down and replace your xbox with an original gameboy!
And so concludes my rant about how awesome 8-bit games are.
Claw Crane Machines
Yes, we've all seen these before. A machine where you use the mechanical claw to pick up the toy at the bottom. And yes, we all know they are rigged to make 1 in 100 go's work. I was unfortunately subject to one of these machines. I decided to attempt to win it.
So there i was. I placed the first coin into the machine, feeling positive that would win this prize. The claw made a mechanical sound. I moved the analog stick up. The claw moved up. I moved the analog stick right. The claw moved right. I pressed the button in the center of the stick and the claw moved down, opening it's 3 prongs. When it came down, it grabbed the toy and started lifting it up. Once it had gone mid way, it started moving left and back to the 'prize box' where it drops the prize for you to take it. Well, the prize reached the prize box to drop the prize. I started jumping around overjoyed at the fact I had won the toy. I turned back to the machine to witness the dropping of the toy. It dropped it. The head of the toy got caught on the side of the box. The toy dropped on the side of the box and back into the place where all the other prizes were.
It was about now I raged...
Somewhere in the world a police alarm went off.
"Uh oh, red alert again. He's on another rage."
Maybe another day I'll win one of those.
So there i was. I placed the first coin into the machine, feeling positive that would win this prize. The claw made a mechanical sound. I moved the analog stick up. The claw moved up. I moved the analog stick right. The claw moved right. I pressed the button in the center of the stick and the claw moved down, opening it's 3 prongs. When it came down, it grabbed the toy and started lifting it up. Once it had gone mid way, it started moving left and back to the 'prize box' where it drops the prize for you to take it. Well, the prize reached the prize box to drop the prize. I started jumping around overjoyed at the fact I had won the toy. I turned back to the machine to witness the dropping of the toy. It dropped it. The head of the toy got caught on the side of the box. The toy dropped on the side of the box and back into the place where all the other prizes were.
It was about now I raged...
Somewhere in the world a police alarm went off.
"Uh oh, red alert again. He's on another rage."
Maybe another day I'll win one of those.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Project 2
*Cough Cough*
Awkward Silence...
Let's start on a positive note about this film. It made the first film look like something from the paranormal activity franchise (Which i will talk about in a later rant)! Book of Shadows did not follow the original style of the first film. The first film was eery and made you scared because it was filmed on a classic video camera so sometimes you couldn't tell what was going on. The acting was amazing (especially from Heather Donahue) and the shaky camera work gave it that extra touch of realism.
Now onto the sequel. You probably know by now that i hate most sequels because they ruin the first film. This is no exception for Blair Witch 2. The director, Joe Burlinger (Not one of the directors from the original) decided to make BW2 into a classic styled horror film. Only problem being, it had a different atmosphere from the first one... and a bad one at that! I think the thing that first grabbed my attention to this film probably being terrible was the trailer. Yes, the trailer. They added heavy metal music. How's that for supporting my argument with their awful atmosphere?
To contradict what i just said, the trailer was the only thing that made gave the film a little bit of hope. It was really well put together to only show the best bits of the film. Unfortunately, you kind of get that feeling when watching it.
Sound effects: Terrible.
Music: No!
Acting: As wooden as a tree.
In fact, this film was so terrible that I couldn't sell it to my local DVD shop. They wouldn't take it. I tried giving it to them, they still wouldn't take it. I asked them why they wouldn't take this film. They replied,
"Everything about this film ruins the first one!" (Seems like everybody thinks this film is terrible
In the end I left the store. I went to my local field, and used the disc as a replacement for the disc in clay pigeon shooting. Although i had to collect the litter because the forest ranger didn't want to animals to put it back together and realism how terrible this film is. Of course, the ranger was Joe Burlinger (The director).
Ah that was a fun day...
Anyway, to the people that have seen this film, what did you think? And how did you dispose of the DVD?
Awkward Silence...
Let's start on a positive note about this film. It made the first film look like something from the paranormal activity franchise (Which i will talk about in a later rant)! Book of Shadows did not follow the original style of the first film. The first film was eery and made you scared because it was filmed on a classic video camera so sometimes you couldn't tell what was going on. The acting was amazing (especially from Heather Donahue) and the shaky camera work gave it that extra touch of realism.
Now onto the sequel. You probably know by now that i hate most sequels because they ruin the first film. This is no exception for Blair Witch 2. The director, Joe Burlinger (Not one of the directors from the original) decided to make BW2 into a classic styled horror film. Only problem being, it had a different atmosphere from the first one... and a bad one at that! I think the thing that first grabbed my attention to this film probably being terrible was the trailer. Yes, the trailer. They added heavy metal music. How's that for supporting my argument with their awful atmosphere?
To contradict what i just said, the trailer was the only thing that made gave the film a little bit of hope. It was really well put together to only show the best bits of the film. Unfortunately, you kind of get that feeling when watching it.
Sound effects: Terrible.
Music: No!
Acting: As wooden as a tree.
In fact, this film was so terrible that I couldn't sell it to my local DVD shop. They wouldn't take it. I tried giving it to them, they still wouldn't take it. I asked them why they wouldn't take this film. They replied,
"Everything about this film ruins the first one!" (Seems like everybody thinks this film is terrible
In the end I left the store. I went to my local field, and used the disc as a replacement for the disc in clay pigeon shooting. Although i had to collect the litter because the forest ranger didn't want to animals to put it back together and realism how terrible this film is. Of course, the ranger was Joe Burlinger (The director).
Ah that was a fun day...
Anyway, to the people that have seen this film, what did you think? And how did you dispose of the DVD?
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
MSN Rant: Using Emoticons For Letters.
I'm not sure if any of you have anyone added on your instant messenger that uses emoticons for every letter, but I decided to rant about this because it sure as hell annoys me!
So let me set the scene:
It's 9:00 AM and I'm ready for a new day. I start up my laptop, the warm sun from the window on the back of my neck. I sign into MSN to see if anyone wants to meet up. Suddenly someone I know but didn't know I had added started talking to me. I saw the flashing orange bar at the bottom. I clicked on it and instantly regretted it. The screen was filled with codes and pictures.
"What be these strange hieroglyphs?" I cry out, the confusion striking me hard.
I tried to make sense of it all.
The first picture was of a bear hugging a heart with an I in it. I guessed that meant 'I'
The second picture was an angry man that looked like he was shouting at the sky. I didn't understand to i delved deeper into this mystery. I dared to right click and click 'Add'. It turns out, the person had set it to 'Want'
Eventually time passed and I had finished decoding the phrase! It said:
I want a new phone because my old one is broken.
Then my mind started being imaginative.
I shouted out loud!
"I HAVE CRACKED THE CODE!" Suddenly loads of people rushed in cheering and singing songs about Max and the Catastrophic code. They lifted me up and carried me outside. A man waited outside in a sports car eyed me. The crowd behind me put me down and stayed quiet.
"You may have broken the code, but the next emoticon trouble will be solved by me," he said calmly as he drove off.
Anyway, back to reality, trying to figure out emoticon codes is like being in a matrix film. Maybe somebody will read this blog and be inspired to not be as annoying and remove those annoying little .gif files from their computers. In fact, I'm going to give you a guide to remove them:
1. Go into an MSN conversation.
2. Click the button in the top right corner (below the X).
3. It will come up with a drop down menu. Go on:
Tools > Emoticons
Now highlight those annoying emoticons and click 'Remove'.
4. Congratulations, you are now a less annoying person!
In all seriousness, it's probably one of the most annoying things anyone can do on MSN.
Well, I'd better end my rant quickly so there we go.
Hope you enjoyed the post! Feel free to comment.
So let me set the scene:
It's 9:00 AM and I'm ready for a new day. I start up my laptop, the warm sun from the window on the back of my neck. I sign into MSN to see if anyone wants to meet up. Suddenly someone I know but didn't know I had added started talking to me. I saw the flashing orange bar at the bottom. I clicked on it and instantly regretted it. The screen was filled with codes and pictures.
"What be these strange hieroglyphs?" I cry out, the confusion striking me hard.
I tried to make sense of it all.
The first picture was of a bear hugging a heart with an I in it. I guessed that meant 'I'
The second picture was an angry man that looked like he was shouting at the sky. I didn't understand to i delved deeper into this mystery. I dared to right click and click 'Add'. It turns out, the person had set it to 'Want'
Eventually time passed and I had finished decoding the phrase! It said:
I want a new phone because my old one is broken.
Then my mind started being imaginative.
I shouted out loud!
"I HAVE CRACKED THE CODE!" Suddenly loads of people rushed in cheering and singing songs about Max and the Catastrophic code. They lifted me up and carried me outside. A man waited outside in a sports car eyed me. The crowd behind me put me down and stayed quiet.
"You may have broken the code, but the next emoticon trouble will be solved by me," he said calmly as he drove off.
Anyway, back to reality, trying to figure out emoticon codes is like being in a matrix film. Maybe somebody will read this blog and be inspired to not be as annoying and remove those annoying little .gif files from their computers. In fact, I'm going to give you a guide to remove them:
1. Go into an MSN conversation.
2. Click the button in the top right corner (below the X).
3. It will come up with a drop down menu. Go on:
Tools > Emoticons
Now highlight those annoying emoticons and click 'Remove'.
4. Congratulations, you are now a less annoying person!
In all seriousness, it's probably one of the most annoying things anyone can do on MSN.
Well, I'd better end my rant quickly so there we go.
Hope you enjoyed the post! Feel free to comment.
YouTube Rant: Thumbs Up Comments
If you watch YouTube videos often, the chances are that you've read a thumbs up comment. They're the annoying comments that people make where they ask for thumbs up in stupid ways so they can be in the 'highest rated comments' section.
An example:
Thumbs up if you like chicken!
I preferred it when highest rated comments had just been made and the ones with the highest amount of thumbs up were ones that actually made sense and were actually related. I'm wondering if these annoying unrelated highest rated comments bother anyone else.
Do any of you feel bothered by the thumbs up comments?
An example:
Thumbs up if you like chicken!
I preferred it when highest rated comments had just been made and the ones with the highest amount of thumbs up were ones that actually made sense and were actually related. I'm wondering if these annoying unrelated highest rated comments bother anyone else.
Do any of you feel bothered by the thumbs up comments?
YouTube Rant: People that don't read the description!
Most of us have experienced what I call 'YouTube Idiots'. They're those people that when you're on a video for a game or a program, they comment something like: "Wheres da dwnlode link faag!!!". Even though the download link is clearly listed in the description.
Yes, I am one of those sad people that writes paragraph after paragraph in a single comment and gets replies from people that don't understand my use of adjectives. Don't ask me why I bother and before you ask, I don't have that much time on my hands and luckily I can type fast.
Have any of you seen these 'YouTube Idiot' comments before?
Yes, I am one of those sad people that writes paragraph after paragraph in a single comment and gets replies from people that don't understand my use of adjectives. Don't ask me why I bother and before you ask, I don't have that much time on my hands and luckily I can type fast.
Have any of you seen these 'YouTube Idiot' comments before?
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