I do feel a little lazy whenever I just write a little shout out rather than an actual post, and I did have a full post planned for today, but then I found out about this amazing blogger named Laci Green. She keeps both a regular blog on her website and a vlog on YouTube. Here videos are often very insightful and very educated comments on society and bad things people have to do due to social pressures. She covers a broad range of subjects giving advice to people in regards to all parts of their lives. I've posted my favourite of her videos below: (the title may be silly, but trust me, it's good)
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One day, during my days in Regis Primary School, I was happily digging about in some dirt around a tree. It's entirely possible that either my friend George Moore, or my friend Davey Hamlen (or indeed both) were with me at the time, and it seems likely that they were, but I seem to remember myself being alone.
So there I was, happily digging up the dirt with a stick and then I realised something: there was an ants' nest there. It was quite fascinating really, to see all of those hundreds of them scurrying about the place in such a frantic and quick way. However, as you most likely know, when an ants' nest is under attack, the ants will attack the attacker. As such, within a short amount of time, I found my legs to be absolutely covered in ants. As you can imagine, I kind of wanted to get the ants off of my legs rather quickly, ants are bitey after all. As such, I walked off away from the nest and the tree and approached one of the teachers/dinner ladies (it could have been either, but I think it was a dinner lady) who were out on the playground making sure we were all behaving. "Hello, Miss," I said as I arrived beside her. "Hello, Adam, what do you want?" "Well, my legs are covered in ants so... Could you get them off?" "Ahh! Ants! I'm allergic to them, get away from me!" and so she ran away. As such I was left in a rather sticky and ant covered situation. To be honest, I can't remember how exactly I got the ants off of my legs, but now, nine years later, they're gone, so I imagine that somebody helped me get rid of them, I just can't remember who or how. Ever since then I have to say that I've always found ants to be very interesting creatures, interesting, but at the same time utterly terrifying. Today I'm just going to share with you an excellent short film a friend of mine made. As the title suggests it features only one man and is also silent (aside from music) and humorous, enjoyable little romp and I hope you will like it. Also, as an added note, it’s all filmed at the Bath Spa University, so you get a little view of how nice it is there. Just yesterday I finished playing this game and I have to say, I loved it all the way through. This game seems to get a lot of negative criticism from fans of the Banjo-Kazooie series; they say things like "Ah, Nuts and Bolts has ruined the series forever!", "Rare is a terrible company nowadays" and "Grr, this game ruined my childhood!" but frankly, this objections seem ridiculous to me. I think one of the main problems people have with this game, is that it isn't on a Nintendo console. A lot of fans of the game company Rare, are also big fans of Nintendo, as such, when Nintendo sold Rare to Microsoft, fans were very unhappy that their games would only be appearing on Microsoft's consoles. It seems to me that people have probably seen trailers of this game, seen that it looks different and then immediately concluded that it is terrible without ever having played it. The fans probably just like to convince themselves that it's bad so that they don't feel like they're missing out. Another thing people hate about this game is the fact that most of the characters have been redesigned. There're no drastic redesigns, but all of the characters look a little bit different. Seeing as the first two games in the series were made for the Nintendo 64 and this one was made for the Xbox 360, it's quite obvious that things are going to look different. The gameplay is quite drastically different from the gameplay in Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, and this is another thing which people seem to hate. I must admit, when I found out that the game would be more veered towards using vehicles than to regular platforming (like the first two) I was a little sceptical and I worried that this game might actually turn out to be awful. However, the vehicle side of this game is fun! You have to do missions to proceed in the game and they're given to you by a variety of characters from the past two Banjo console games and a few new ones too. These missions vary dramatically in terms of difficulty and content and for all of them you'll need to use the vehicle best suited to the task. For some missions you're given a vehicle to use, but for about 90% of them you choose your own. There are lots of vehicles that you can buy from the character Humba Wumba, but you can also build your own. Let me give you an example of something which might happen in the game: you start a mission which is just a basic race around the map so you choose one of the cars you've bought and start the race. Unfortunately, it seems that all of the other cars are much faster than yours and you're not likely to win. As such, you take the car to the workshop, attach a couple of plane jets, or something, to it, and then you can go much faster than all of the other cars! The gameplay is just very fun, and while it is different, it's still just as fun as the other two. Plus, I want to add, that the difference between gameplay in this is no greater to the difference between the gameplay in Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Galaxy, and the Mario series isn't criticised very often for it's changes. Plus, this game is full of funny dialogue, beautiful graphics and scenery, lovely orchestrated music and hundreds of references to old Rare games. This is just an all-round good game. You get the nostalgia due to the similarities to old games, but at the same time it's doing something new and daring. I'd give it 9.5/10 (I do not own the copyright of the screenshot.)
Just to clarify before I start, this entry isn't going to be an attack on online gaming. I like online gaming; in fact, I just spent the last hour or so playing Mario Kart 7 online. Today's entry is more about the relationship between the internet and video games.
Now, when I think back to the video games of my childhood, they all seemed to present to me with their own worlds which were just as large and mysterious as the real world. The example I'll use is the game Pokémon Red. When I got Pokémon Red, everybody had the game. A time came when I had finished the game’s story and I was just trying to complete the Pokédex by catching all 151 Pokémon. What most people who had the game wondered was how exactly they were supposed to catch Mew (the elusive 151st Pokémon). I had the game guide but, despite showing screenshots of Mew, it said that there was no way to catch it. Obviously I, and everybody else, jumped to the conclusion that it was just trying to mislead us and that there was some super-secret way to find him. So many rumours about the game floated around: that you could catch an extremely strange Pokémon called Missingno by doing an elaborate sequence of events, that you could get infinite Master Balls, that there was a way to travel underwater, that there was a way to get into the garden of a character named Bill and that Mew was there and so many others. Because some of these were true, including some of the very bizarre ones, everybody was left with the hope that there were ways to find Mew and to visit the alleged underwater cities. The game seemed so big, there were so many huge mysteries and everybody believed that there was more to be discovered, even after they'd done everything. We all hoped that eventually we'd find something new ourselves, and be the first to do so. Today, however, nothing quite so wonderful can happen. People have hacked the game and torn it open in order to show the exact limitations of what you can do, comprehensive YouTube videos show just exactly what can and can't be done and all rumours are confirmed or debunked very quickly. Everybody knows now that you could only catch Mew by using an obscure glitch or by attending Pokémon events. With the advent of widespread internet usage, video games have lost the mystery that they used to have. Video games today are no better or worse than they were in the past (in my opinion) but the reason we seem to get slightly less enjoyment out of them as we get older is that they've lost the mystery that they had in the pre-internet age. I think it's time I came clean about the Trusty Water Blog. All of the 'anecdotes' on here are entirely fictitous, all I've done is created a character who goes by the same name as I do and put him into all kinds of situations which can arise in everyday life, only to have fun writing the 'humorous' results. In real life, for those of you who don't know me in real life, I'm nothing like the 'Adam Randall' of this blog. Have you read the entries about nightclubs? Yeah, well I do go to nightclubs, quite regularly too, but all I do there is drink lots of alcohol and dance around on the dance floor. Plus, I enjoy using ChatRoulette quite often, but I have to tell you, I've not objected once to any young females who take off their clothes...
Furthermore, all of the more 'philosophical' entries on here are stolen from other people. It's not hard to find original ideas on the internet in obscure places. After I find them, I just reword them in my own way and post them up on here. The last entry 'Did Karl Marx Derail History?' for example, was taken from an A level essay; there's a website which features students past answers to essay questions and this was just a random idea of an A level student. Having told you this, I don't feel I can continue to update this blog. As such, this will be the last entry. It's been fun, but this has to come to an end. Thanks for taking the time to read this blog, and I apologise for ever having lied to you. Oh, and by the way, have you noticed today's date? :D |
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