Okay, it's practically nothing, but thanks to everyone who reads the stuff I'm putting. I'm convincing myself it's worth it, and hopefully it'll be paying off soon :)
The funny thing is that most people couldn't give a damn about what I have to say in real life, so 100 views is good, considering that.
Please also try and get your friends to read this as well - I'm not good at getting views but it'd be really cool if people started viewing this more often and commenting on what I'm putting. I generally am quite rejected by most, and I hope that by doing this blog, people might listen to what I have to say...
Again, thanks for keeping up with this, if you're a regular viewer :)
Monday 28 February 2011
Modern Warfare 3 countdown site (findmakarov.com)
So, people have found a MW3 countdown, they think. Activision denies all knowledge of this site being legitimate, but I'm actually thinking it is real.
It comes out on the exact same day as the PS3/PC launch of Map Pack 1 on Black Ops - I believe that, given Infinity Ward's past performance with undermining Treyarch (e.g. the trailer for MW2 coming out on the same day as W@W Map Pack 3's trailer or something) so it seems to be a bit plausible...
Oh well, we'll all find out on Wednesday. To be perfectly honest, I really hope it is a Modern Warfare 3 reveal - as good as the cold war may have been as a setting, Black Ops made it really quite boring, and built the entire game on an outdated engine, otherwise it would have been pretty good.
It comes out on the exact same day as the PS3/PC launch of Map Pack 1 on Black Ops - I believe that, given Infinity Ward's past performance with undermining Treyarch (e.g. the trailer for MW2 coming out on the same day as W@W Map Pack 3's trailer or something) so it seems to be a bit plausible...
Oh well, we'll all find out on Wednesday. To be perfectly honest, I really hope it is a Modern Warfare 3 reveal - as good as the cold war may have been as a setting, Black Ops made it really quite boring, and built the entire game on an outdated engine, otherwise it would have been pretty good.
Friday 25 February 2011
Under reconstruction...
Imma fixin' ma blog and shtuff.
Bear with me, it'll look cool when it's done...
Bear with me, it'll look cool when it's done...
2012 - The actual end of the world? Nope.
2012 - The metaphorical end of the world? Possibly.
Look, we're in a massive recession, and there's so much stuff going off at the moment in the world, that it's likely something drastic will happen. Like WW2 - that changed people's lives, and the entire world pretty much, in how it works and stuff.
Which leads me to wonder, the mayans have supposedly predicted a lot of things, and they've been true, in a fashion such as the "web covering the world"/internet prediction. It's not exact, but it's pretty accurate in terms of the representation - Prehaps the 2012 theory is that something world-changing will happen, AKA - the end of the world as we know it.
What this is, I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure it's not the actual end of the world, as in Earth, Kaboom, Oh noes - I think it'll be something like there'll be a massive shift in the economies, or at least that's what I hope - the only other thing that could be considered as a possibility is World War 3, which would be the end of the world...
Look, we're in a massive recession, and there's so much stuff going off at the moment in the world, that it's likely something drastic will happen. Like WW2 - that changed people's lives, and the entire world pretty much, in how it works and stuff.
Which leads me to wonder, the mayans have supposedly predicted a lot of things, and they've been true, in a fashion such as the "web covering the world"/internet prediction. It's not exact, but it's pretty accurate in terms of the representation - Prehaps the 2012 theory is that something world-changing will happen, AKA - the end of the world as we know it.
What this is, I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure it's not the actual end of the world, as in Earth, Kaboom, Oh noes - I think it'll be something like there'll be a massive shift in the economies, or at least that's what I hope - the only other thing that could be considered as a possibility is World War 3, which would be the end of the world...
Thursday 24 February 2011
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Alright, so I am posting today. Big deal.
The Government. What can't it do?
A lot of things, it seems. Cameron, and his sidekick Clegg have royally messed up the entire way the UK works, or will have by the end of their reign of terror.
Alright, so we're getting rid of our debts, by cutting education funding, Police funding, NHS funding. You know, that sort of stuff.
But let's look at that closer - Education doesn't have enough funding, people can't read or write. NHS doesn't have enough funding, people can't get treatment for potentially life threatening illnesses. Police funding is insufficent, well - that would potentially lead to understaffing, an increase of crime, all sorts.
Will the UK be a nice place to live if Cameron gets his way? Probably not. May I remind you that Thatcher was the last conservative to get control of the Government, and look what happened then. There's a million different reasons to not vote the Conservatives, and to be really honest, I'm pretty ashamed of the British public voting them in. Labour got a tough time over it, but did you really think that the Conservatives could do better?
I was actually pro Lib-dems before Clegg jumped ship and lost all credibility for his party. But now I support Labour. Yes, it looked like they messed up but to be quite honest, it's what we were left with. The conservatives would have failed in the same way, but if they were in then they'd have only made sure that the rich were richer and the poor had nothing.
Also, this was up yesterday. Meeting deadlines is easy.
If you want as well, just ask me to go on about this a bit more, there's inifinite crap I can say about the government behind their backs :P
A lot of things, it seems. Cameron, and his sidekick Clegg have royally messed up the entire way the UK works, or will have by the end of their reign of terror.
Alright, so we're getting rid of our debts, by cutting education funding, Police funding, NHS funding. You know, that sort of stuff.
But let's look at that closer - Education doesn't have enough funding, people can't read or write. NHS doesn't have enough funding, people can't get treatment for potentially life threatening illnesses. Police funding is insufficent, well - that would potentially lead to understaffing, an increase of crime, all sorts.
Will the UK be a nice place to live if Cameron gets his way? Probably not. May I remind you that Thatcher was the last conservative to get control of the Government, and look what happened then. There's a million different reasons to not vote the Conservatives, and to be really honest, I'm pretty ashamed of the British public voting them in. Labour got a tough time over it, but did you really think that the Conservatives could do better?
I was actually pro Lib-dems before Clegg jumped ship and lost all credibility for his party. But now I support Labour. Yes, it looked like they messed up but to be quite honest, it's what we were left with. The conservatives would have failed in the same way, but if they were in then they'd have only made sure that the rich were richer and the poor had nothing.
Also, this was up yesterday. Meeting deadlines is easy.
If you want as well, just ask me to go on about this a bit more, there's inifinite crap I can say about the government behind their backs :P
Saturday 19 February 2011
Change of plan
I'm downgrading to one post every other day. I've not got that many page views (62 in two months is pretty poor, I think for a website I'm putting a lot into) and so I've decided it's not worth using all my material when I've got very few viewers.
That said, if I get that figure up to prehaps 100 a month, I might start with the once-a-day thing again. I'm finding it difficult to come up with stuff that's entertaining to read at the moment, so it's probably for the best...
That said, if I get that figure up to prehaps 100 a month, I might start with the once-a-day thing again. I'm finding it difficult to come up with stuff that's entertaining to read at the moment, so it's probably for the best...
Friday 18 February 2011
Something a bit different
So yeah, guitar covers, yay or nay?
I've done a few anyways, but I'd just like to know what you'd all think to me doing a few of them.
Another short update again. Sorry about that, but the History dept. at my school were trolling - It was a day off today, but they brought me back for a session they said would run from 9 until 11. Try 9 until around half 2.
And so I went without lunch for a while which was not good. And to make matters worse, they sold out of Veggie patties at Subway.
[angry face]
I've done a few anyways, but I'd just like to know what you'd all think to me doing a few of them.
Another short update again. Sorry about that, but the History dept. at my school were trolling - It was a day off today, but they brought me back for a session they said would run from 9 until 11. Try 9 until around half 2.
And so I went without lunch for a while which was not good. And to make matters worse, they sold out of Veggie patties at Subway.
[angry face]
Thursday 17 February 2011
Black Ops is a waste of money.
Seriously, if you're thinking about it - do not buy this piece of shit.
Treyarch have sucked all the fun out of the game, and the sniper rifles don't work at all. And there's hackers and spawn campers already.
Fix your shit, treyarch.
Treyarch have sucked all the fun out of the game, and the sniper rifles don't work at all. And there's hackers and spawn campers already.
Fix your shit, treyarch.
Wednesday 16 February 2011
Playthroughs incoming!
So I've got a Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction playthrough coming up. I'll link when possible.
stay tuned :D
stay tuned :D
Tuesday 15 February 2011
Holy invasion of privacy, BADMAN! What did I do to deserve this?!
Title is irrelevent. It's actually a PSP game, with a lulzy name.
Anyways, another short update because School has literally turned into a sweatshop, having only just applied for college and I've now got 40% of my music GCSE that I've barely started due in erm... Tomorrow.
Aw yeah, look at me being a badass.
But yeah, I've been playing some Racing games lately, like burnout and stuff because Call of Duty and FPSes in general are getting to be pretty damn boring...
But yeah, I might have some camera filmed live commentaries at some point - I'd rather use a capture card but I can't afford one... At least until I buy a HDPVR, that is.
Anyways, another short update because School has literally turned into a sweatshop, having only just applied for college and I've now got 40% of my music GCSE that I've barely started due in erm... Tomorrow.
Aw yeah, look at me being a badass.
But yeah, I've been playing some Racing games lately, like burnout and stuff because Call of Duty and FPSes in general are getting to be pretty damn boring...
But yeah, I might have some camera filmed live commentaries at some point - I'd rather use a capture card but I can't afford one... At least until I buy a HDPVR, that is.
Monday 14 February 2011
Valentines day sucks for us.
Yeah, being single on Valentines day is a huge kick in the teeth. At least I didn't have to spend money buying anything, and so could put more money in my 3DS fund...
But anyways, I might do a bit more on that at a later date, because I have realised that some people do actually show some sort of affection through valentines day - and I'm not going to be bitter just because nobody's ever been like that with me, but shit happens, right?
What I'm going to say about today is the music business. Over industrialised to shit.
What I mean by that is if you keep track on current chart artists, you'll see that they churn out similar songs like there's no tommorrow, and so as a result, they earn a hell of a lot of money because of the gullible people that continuously buy this stuff in the form of a single, or itunes download. This means that for 20 songs at say 50p each, they'll get a tenner off you, for the same number of songs that might be on a £7 album.
Of course, all these numbers are arbitrary, but the point still stands - stop buying this crap! Support the proper artists, like Muse or Iron Maiden, who do one album like every 2-6 years, not months!
You'll notice you get more for your money, and you'll see that the songs are far better as well. It really does pain me to see that people don't support these bands as much, because they're so much better and more refined.
Anyways, I'm off for tonight, because I'm all sad that nobody sent me a valentines card.
In fact, I have no idea why I've never been anything other than single. That is something that really does baffle me... Still, on a lighter note, I'm off to play Pokemon cards and whatnot.
But anyways, I might do a bit more on that at a later date, because I have realised that some people do actually show some sort of affection through valentines day - and I'm not going to be bitter just because nobody's ever been like that with me, but shit happens, right?
What I'm going to say about today is the music business. Over industrialised to shit.
What I mean by that is if you keep track on current chart artists, you'll see that they churn out similar songs like there's no tommorrow, and so as a result, they earn a hell of a lot of money because of the gullible people that continuously buy this stuff in the form of a single, or itunes download. This means that for 20 songs at say 50p each, they'll get a tenner off you, for the same number of songs that might be on a £7 album.
Of course, all these numbers are arbitrary, but the point still stands - stop buying this crap! Support the proper artists, like Muse or Iron Maiden, who do one album like every 2-6 years, not months!
You'll notice you get more for your money, and you'll see that the songs are far better as well. It really does pain me to see that people don't support these bands as much, because they're so much better and more refined.
Anyways, I'm off for tonight, because I'm all sad that nobody sent me a valentines card.
In fact, I have no idea why I've never been anything other than single. That is something that really does baffle me... Still, on a lighter note, I'm off to play Pokemon cards and whatnot.
Sunday 13 February 2011
Updates
So, I'm doing gameplays and the odd machinima. Nothing really new here, I'm just trying to build tension for tomorrow's update on why Valentines day is such BS.
You'll have to visit tomorrow for that, but what I'd like to know is what sort of games you'd like to see some commentaries for.
I've got all but the PC, and mainly stuff like FPSes, but I'd like to do some games like Ratchet and Clank, or something along those lines...
You'll have to visit tomorrow for that, but what I'd like to know is what sort of games you'd like to see some commentaries for.
I've got all but the PC, and mainly stuff like FPSes, but I'd like to do some games like Ratchet and Clank, or something along those lines...
Saturday 12 February 2011
Well, funny story...
I was going to surprise you all today with another video, but as it turns out, i'm having some problems with well, videoing the thing.
It was going to be a pokemon ruby gameplay (I.E. from the start to the end of the Elite 4) but i have no idea how to capture it without looking like a complete tool by filming my DS.
I've been encouraged by a few people to use Roms for it, but I'm a bit dubious because I don't know the legality of them, even though I own 2 copies of Pokemon Ruby...
Still, I'll have that up soon - sorry about that :S
It was going to be a pokemon ruby gameplay (I.E. from the start to the end of the Elite 4) but i have no idea how to capture it without looking like a complete tool by filming my DS.
I've been encouraged by a few people to use Roms for it, but I'm a bit dubious because I don't know the legality of them, even though I own 2 copies of Pokemon Ruby...
Still, I'll have that up soon - sorry about that :S
Friday 11 February 2011
New Video!
No text updates today (saving it for the 14th. Brace yourselves...) but here's a video, a couple of days early
Hitler hates Call of Duty
Enjoy :D
Hitler hates Call of Duty
Enjoy :D
Thursday 10 February 2011
Why games are being run into the ground
Profits.
People like Microsoft and Activision who buy up all the best franchises, plug craploads of money into them and expect there to be a new one released every 3 months. And worst of all, we - the consumers - buy this shit. I'm sorry, yearly franchises such as Call of Duty are quite bad, since you only just get into the game and then suddenly there's a new one, but the real offenders are the Guitar Hero 'track packs' for full retail price.
If we didn't give Activision our money over poorly made games, we wouldn't get them - they'd be forced to actually take time and effort making these games, and we wouldn't have the half hearted efforts that we play day in and day out.
And as much as I'd hate to see it, Halo's likely going to end up this way as well, with Reach coming out last year, and another instalment due for this winter. But we'll still buy it because it has 'Halo' on the front, regardless of the game's actual quality.
Something needs to be done, or we'll have no more lasting franchises, just one off games coming out every other month that attempt to grab as much of our money as possible, and there'll be no decent games out, thus spelling the end for gaming as we know it.
People like Microsoft and Activision who buy up all the best franchises, plug craploads of money into them and expect there to be a new one released every 3 months. And worst of all, we - the consumers - buy this shit. I'm sorry, yearly franchises such as Call of Duty are quite bad, since you only just get into the game and then suddenly there's a new one, but the real offenders are the Guitar Hero 'track packs' for full retail price.
If we didn't give Activision our money over poorly made games, we wouldn't get them - they'd be forced to actually take time and effort making these games, and we wouldn't have the half hearted efforts that we play day in and day out.
And as much as I'd hate to see it, Halo's likely going to end up this way as well, with Reach coming out last year, and another instalment due for this winter. But we'll still buy it because it has 'Halo' on the front, regardless of the game's actual quality.
Something needs to be done, or we'll have no more lasting franchises, just one off games coming out every other month that attempt to grab as much of our money as possible, and there'll be no decent games out, thus spelling the end for gaming as we know it.
Wednesday 9 February 2011
The impossible... is easy.
One of my friends was talking today about the possibility of Touch-Holographic Iphone (as in, you can touch the hologram) and this all pretty cool, but also pretty far off.
Or is it? Rewind 50 years ago, before colour was invented and you'd have been mad to think that by the early 2000's, we'd have High definition 3D TV's, mobile communication devices in the form of phones, the internet and almost Photo-realistic games consoles, to name but a few. And that made me think - If they progressed from that to where we are now, where could we be in another 50 years' time?
We've gotten motion controlling and sensing videogames, 3D Tv's, even (Apparently) Honda have invented a hat that can drive your car through thought, and that's some pretty radical stuff there. Imagine this sort of technology matured over the next half a decade, and we could have some really crazy stuff. It wouldn't surprise me at all if everything became thought controlled, or something along those lines.
It'd certainly be pretty cool...
Or is it? Rewind 50 years ago, before colour was invented and you'd have been mad to think that by the early 2000's, we'd have High definition 3D TV's, mobile communication devices in the form of phones, the internet and almost Photo-realistic games consoles, to name but a few. And that made me think - If they progressed from that to where we are now, where could we be in another 50 years' time?
We've gotten motion controlling and sensing videogames, 3D Tv's, even (Apparently) Honda have invented a hat that can drive your car through thought, and that's some pretty radical stuff there. Imagine this sort of technology matured over the next half a decade, and we could have some really crazy stuff. It wouldn't surprise me at all if everything became thought controlled, or something along those lines.
It'd certainly be pretty cool...
Tuesday 8 February 2011
I miss the good old days...
You know, when all the good stuff was out. From when I was quite young, I remember Pokemon was all the rage. If you had a Level 75 Charizard, people bowed down to you and worshipped you because you were a fearless bastard. People took their gameboys and Link Cables (Thank God wireless was invented) to school and battled every spare minute they had.
Star wars was also huge - I remember especially the Lego kits that I still have, funnily enough. You could get some really crazy stuff, and I really wish I'd have gotten the Podracers (Lego, take a hint already) from Episode 1 because they were brilliant lego kits and they remind me of The Phantom Menace. Whilst it wasn't the best film ever, it had that 'something' that was present in a lot of things from when I was young that things today just don't have.
I think that's why everything seems so much better when you've got your sepia-tone glasses on, you remember things being so much better than they were. Beyblades, for example, were freaking amazing. They were simple spinning tops that you battled with, but if you had a good one you were a complete badass. You'd win matches, and walk around the playground as though you owned the place. And then there was the TV series, which you had to follow religiously in order to have any sort of respect. The same went for YuGiOh cards, as well.
Videogames were even a lot better in the late 90's/early 2k's - I remember stuff such as the Ratchet and Clank trilogy, Halo 1 and 2, Pokemon - All of these are among my favourite game series', but the one's I've said are my favourites, and are games I used to play a lot growing up. Is it a sign everything's becoming too profit driven and products are all 'me too' to try and push sales?
I definitely think so. Screw you, big businesses.
Star wars was also huge - I remember especially the Lego kits that I still have, funnily enough. You could get some really crazy stuff, and I really wish I'd have gotten the Podracers (Lego, take a hint already) from Episode 1 because they were brilliant lego kits and they remind me of The Phantom Menace. Whilst it wasn't the best film ever, it had that 'something' that was present in a lot of things from when I was young that things today just don't have.
I think that's why everything seems so much better when you've got your sepia-tone glasses on, you remember things being so much better than they were. Beyblades, for example, were freaking amazing. They were simple spinning tops that you battled with, but if you had a good one you were a complete badass. You'd win matches, and walk around the playground as though you owned the place. And then there was the TV series, which you had to follow religiously in order to have any sort of respect. The same went for YuGiOh cards, as well.
Videogames were even a lot better in the late 90's/early 2k's - I remember stuff such as the Ratchet and Clank trilogy, Halo 1 and 2, Pokemon - All of these are among my favourite game series', but the one's I've said are my favourites, and are games I used to play a lot growing up. Is it a sign everything's becoming too profit driven and products are all 'me too' to try and push sales?
I definitely think so. Screw you, big businesses.
Rambo Granny pwns 4 robbers!
Alright, it wasn't exactly the most organised anti-crime operation, but that 70 year old woman had a lot of courage. I have no doubt at all that there are other cases in the world like this regularly, albeit not caught on camera or are just by 'normal' people. What I mean by 'normal' are sort of young/middle aged people who hekp in situations like this.
And I'm glad in a way that this has been brought to light - I doubt many people would look at 4 thugs, each with some form of weapon, attacking someone, or a shop and think to intervene because it'd be just too dangerous. We might all say that we could, but would we if that situation ever arose? Would be be able to make a snap decision to disregard our own safety for others?
I think the answer for most people is no, but for those people who say 'Yes' and have helped intervene in crimes such as this, I salute you. People like that make criminals feel unsafe - imagine if you were attempting a bank theft and every single person in the bank was an undercover police officer, ready to stop crime at an instant. You'd not do it if you knew, and people doing stuff like this might actually lower crime rates substantially.
It's an unusually serious post for me today, but it's something I think is a relatively important point to consider, especially in the big scheme of things...
And I'm glad in a way that this has been brought to light - I doubt many people would look at 4 thugs, each with some form of weapon, attacking someone, or a shop and think to intervene because it'd be just too dangerous. We might all say that we could, but would we if that situation ever arose? Would be be able to make a snap decision to disregard our own safety for others?
I think the answer for most people is no, but for those people who say 'Yes' and have helped intervene in crimes such as this, I salute you. People like that make criminals feel unsafe - imagine if you were attempting a bank theft and every single person in the bank was an undercover police officer, ready to stop crime at an instant. You'd not do it if you knew, and people doing stuff like this might actually lower crime rates substantially.
It's an unusually serious post for me today, but it's something I think is a relatively important point to consider, especially in the big scheme of things...
Monday 7 February 2011
Suddenly Zombies. Zombies Everywhere.
It's inevitable. Some point in the future, we will be overrun by hordes of cranium hungry corpses. This day, the zombie apocalypse (dubbed Z-Day by some) has already been predicted by the Mayans, Greek Mythology and Dolphins - it is therefore going to happen in the foreseeable future, and so should be prepared for.
And it's no secret that I already have a zombie plan. If you've seen Red vs Blue, you'll know they talk about their plans for when the zombie apocalypse happens, since it's an inevitable scenario. The zombies will appear seemingly out of nowhere, and before you know it, oh bother, they've eaten your brains.
To prevent this from ever happening, you need to devise your own Zombie plan. I'm not telling anyone mine quite yet, as anyone could hear it, turn into one of the undead, knowing about my plan and sabotage it. Let's just say it involves a jeep, a shotgun and an orbital ion cannon.
But anyways, the truth is that this is such a probable scenario, since there are so many accounts of it, and so preparation is in order. Hide your kids, hide your wife - that sort of stuff. It might also be as bad a time as when the world ended in the year 2000, because that was predicted to happen as well. Oh wait-
Yeah, the world's not going to end in 2012. Stop worrying yourselves over it.
And it's no secret that I already have a zombie plan. If you've seen Red vs Blue, you'll know they talk about their plans for when the zombie apocalypse happens, since it's an inevitable scenario. The zombies will appear seemingly out of nowhere, and before you know it, oh bother, they've eaten your brains.
To prevent this from ever happening, you need to devise your own Zombie plan. I'm not telling anyone mine quite yet, as anyone could hear it, turn into one of the undead, knowing about my plan and sabotage it. Let's just say it involves a jeep, a shotgun and an orbital ion cannon.
But anyways, the truth is that this is such a probable scenario, since there are so many accounts of it, and so preparation is in order. Hide your kids, hide your wife - that sort of stuff. It might also be as bad a time as when the world ended in the year 2000, because that was predicted to happen as well. Oh wait-
Yeah, the world's not going to end in 2012. Stop worrying yourselves over it.
Sunday 6 February 2011
Master plan phase 1 complete!
Ok, this isn't a plan to take over the world. I'm sorry guys, but I just don't have the spare time to do stuff like that.
Onto SRS BSNS, if you've been following me over the past few days, you'll know I've been having confidence problems and that I was getting it sorted. Well, I did today and for the first time in ages I feel great!It turns out that the root of it all was stress from school/people - once that was removed then I could actually feel myself becoming more positive. It's really weird, but it helped.
What I was going to use this post to do was give you all an update on what was going down in the next few months. I'm going to be doing a few machinima projects between now and the Summer, more likely towards the later ends of it because of exams and shizzle. It's only a short post today, for which I apologise but it's Sunday - I've got to have a break some day :P
Onto SRS BSNS, if you've been following me over the past few days, you'll know I've been having confidence problems and that I was getting it sorted. Well, I did today and for the first time in ages I feel great!It turns out that the root of it all was stress from school/people - once that was removed then I could actually feel myself becoming more positive. It's really weird, but it helped.
What I was going to use this post to do was give you all an update on what was going down in the next few months. I'm going to be doing a few machinima projects between now and the Summer, more likely towards the later ends of it because of exams and shizzle. It's only a short post today, for which I apologise but it's Sunday - I've got to have a break some day :P
Saturday 5 February 2011
If all has gone to plan...
It's Saturday now, right?
Greetings from last Thursday. Assuming this has worked - I have discovered the secret of time travel and am brining you information from the past...that you probably knew already. Because it happened like 2 days ago.
Anyhow, these last few days, I've been playing my guitar an awful lot. This is because it makes you look super awesome to girls and everyone will worship you as though you were a god.
Well, I exaggerated a bit - people just go "Nice" and then move on to showing off their pimped out HTC Desire phones (which is something else I don't understand, but I'll probably rant at that tomorrow) and worst of all they've all got (C)Rap on them and this makes me die a little inside.
Is it because the guitar is a dying instrument? I mean, Lemmy (Motorhead Bassist/Singer) once said that if you even held a guitar, you were automatically awesome, but nowadays it seems that everyone and their nan buys a guitar, learns a powerchord or two then claims they can play it. Which is why the Jonas Brothers think they're rock gods (They can play 3, which is 200% more than the average newbie guitarist)
I'm not claiming to be the worlds greatest guitarist - That honor is shared between Buckethead, Eddie Van Halen and Slash - but I'm not what you'd call bad at playing the thing. In about a Year and a Half I've gone from "H0W do3s Pl3h Sm0ak3 0N T3h W4T4r?" to Grade 5/6 ish so I'm half decent at it. One reason I can't play fast (I've always said) is because I have no strength in my hand because I am a walking skeleton. Seriously.
But I can play stuff like Muse songs, or Helicopter which are more fun to play than challenging. Supermassive Black Hole in particular - It's easy as heck to play, and it's more fun when you've got the drums going as well with it, or the bass or something. Which is one reason I'm pretty depressed about not having a band. Backing tracks are alright, but no match for a real band...
Anyways, I'd hate to end this on a downer, so Pandas.
Greetings from last Thursday. Assuming this has worked - I have discovered the secret of time travel and am brining you information from the past...that you probably knew already. Because it happened like 2 days ago.
Anyhow, these last few days, I've been playing my guitar an awful lot. This is because it makes you look super awesome to girls and everyone will worship you as though you were a god.
Well, I exaggerated a bit - people just go "Nice" and then move on to showing off their pimped out HTC Desire phones (which is something else I don't understand, but I'll probably rant at that tomorrow) and worst of all they've all got (C)Rap on them and this makes me die a little inside.
Is it because the guitar is a dying instrument? I mean, Lemmy (Motorhead Bassist/Singer) once said that if you even held a guitar, you were automatically awesome, but nowadays it seems that everyone and their nan buys a guitar, learns a powerchord or two then claims they can play it. Which is why the Jonas Brothers think they're rock gods (They can play 3, which is 200% more than the average newbie guitarist)
I'm not claiming to be the worlds greatest guitarist - That honor is shared between Buckethead, Eddie Van Halen and Slash - but I'm not what you'd call bad at playing the thing. In about a Year and a Half I've gone from "H0W do3s Pl3h Sm0ak3 0N T3h W4T4r?" to Grade 5/6 ish so I'm half decent at it. One reason I can't play fast (I've always said) is because I have no strength in my hand because I am a walking skeleton. Seriously.
But I can play stuff like Muse songs, or Helicopter which are more fun to play than challenging. Supermassive Black Hole in particular - It's easy as heck to play, and it's more fun when you've got the drums going as well with it, or the bass or something. Which is one reason I'm pretty depressed about not having a band. Backing tracks are alright, but no match for a real band...
Anyways, I'd hate to end this on a downer, so Pandas.
Friday 4 February 2011
Do you see what I did there?
If you're a regular viewer of my blog, you might have spotted a recurring theme. Mainly that I'm so pissed off with everything, and you would be correct. Mostly, anyways - I don't hate everything but the reason for this all of a sudden is that our school prom is coming up at the end of this year and to be quite fair, I'm really not looking forward to it.
And I'll tell you exactly why - I'm a loner. I'm uncool and the friends I do have either aren't going to the prom or are going with their other friends/ Girlfriends/Boyfriends/Pet Chimp and I'm not. What you're probably saying now is "What? But Matt, you're so awesome, you play guitar and are an awesome individual, why can't you find anyone to go with?!" (Well, you weren't - that's what I hoped you'd all say!) and the major reason for this is my lack of any sort of confidence.
It's this lack of confidence that means I actually can't ask the girl I like out to the prom, which is not fun at all. I know some people think they have confidence issues when they're in public, but mine's this horrible mix of no confidence and hideous paranoia. Every time someone looks at me, I think they're thinking how ugly I am, or how stupid I look, or something along those lines. I sit at the back of classrooms so that I'm not convinced people are watching me and judging me behind my back.
They most likely don't, but that's what I think. It's not fun, and I'm actively trying to get rid of all this, but now you know the reason I'm so negative about everything. Rest assured, if I do get 'cured' then I'll still be as critical as ever, just not confined to a computer - this is the only place I can speak my mind without getting really in-confident and shizzle.
Note: This is from yesterday, I'm starting to use the scheduling feature because I might not be able to update every single day...
And I'll tell you exactly why - I'm a loner. I'm uncool and the friends I do have either aren't going to the prom or are going with their other friends/ Girlfriends/Boyfriends/Pet Chimp and I'm not. What you're probably saying now is "What? But Matt, you're so awesome, you play guitar and are an awesome individual, why can't you find anyone to go with?!" (Well, you weren't - that's what I hoped you'd all say!) and the major reason for this is my lack of any sort of confidence.
It's this lack of confidence that means I actually can't ask the girl I like out to the prom, which is not fun at all. I know some people think they have confidence issues when they're in public, but mine's this horrible mix of no confidence and hideous paranoia. Every time someone looks at me, I think they're thinking how ugly I am, or how stupid I look, or something along those lines. I sit at the back of classrooms so that I'm not convinced people are watching me and judging me behind my back.
They most likely don't, but that's what I think. It's not fun, and I'm actively trying to get rid of all this, but now you know the reason I'm so negative about everything. Rest assured, if I do get 'cured' then I'll still be as critical as ever, just not confined to a computer - this is the only place I can speak my mind without getting really in-confident and shizzle.
Note: This is from yesterday, I'm starting to use the scheduling feature because I might not be able to update every single day...
Thursday 3 February 2011
[Rage]
Bad times, bad times.
So, I was going to have a rant about something but I decided to leave that until Valentines day. I don't hate St. Valentine (That's why it's (st.) valentine's day, right?) but I really think his day's really bad for many reasons, mostly because it's a huge kick in the teeth for all us single people - I might look like a troll with a disfigured face, but it doesn't mean I don't have feelings.
Anyways, I'm leaving that for now. What I wanted to rage at today is the sheer stupidity of people. I have Facebook, like the average person nowadays and I also have formspring and the amount of abuse I get from it, and the indirect attacks on other people is pretty ridiculous, really. Likewise on Youtube - I got the very first video of the Plasma Repeater glitch up, and there was a guy claiming his video was up first. Despite the fact that mine was clearly stated to be uploaded on the 14th, whereas his was on the 19th. He decided to spam an hack my account after this, hence the shift from CorruptedGaming to PhantomArcade.
But my real point is that it's pretty damn ridiculous, why are people this idiotic? There's many, many example of this, but I've experienced idiotic behaviour from others that many times that I could write a series of novels on it. One time was when this really idiotic woman in Gamestation decided that she wanted to buy DJ hero for her family, so she walked in front of me, purposely catching me with the box and telling her husband and son to stand in front of me also. I was having none of it, and walked to the counter and the amount of abuse I got was insane. She was swearing, threw the DJ hero box down a few time, threatened me once - I'm pretty sure she got thrown out afterwards but is it really that hard to queue up?! I can't understand why everyone always has to be first with everything.
That applies with loads of things, traffic is one of them, when people cut you up just to get one place ahead. They'll be, at best 5 seconds ahead of you, but oh no, it's really important that they push in. What annoys me even more are the bastards that drive down the wrong lane, and then stop and wait to turn into a congested lane to get to a certain place, like shopping centres, or football stadiums and shizzle. People like that should be left, and if you're reading this and ever find yourself in this situation, NEVER let them push in.
Arrogant bastards...
Also, whilst I've just thought of doing a video version of one of these rants, weekly or monthly or something - What do you all think? Let me know in the comments or something. Thanks :)
So, I was going to have a rant about something but I decided to leave that until Valentines day. I don't hate St. Valentine (That's why it's (st.) valentine's day, right?) but I really think his day's really bad for many reasons, mostly because it's a huge kick in the teeth for all us single people - I might look like a troll with a disfigured face, but it doesn't mean I don't have feelings.
Anyways, I'm leaving that for now. What I wanted to rage at today is the sheer stupidity of people. I have Facebook, like the average person nowadays and I also have formspring and the amount of abuse I get from it, and the indirect attacks on other people is pretty ridiculous, really. Likewise on Youtube - I got the very first video of the Plasma Repeater glitch up, and there was a guy claiming his video was up first. Despite the fact that mine was clearly stated to be uploaded on the 14th, whereas his was on the 19th. He decided to spam an hack my account after this, hence the shift from CorruptedGaming to PhantomArcade.
But my real point is that it's pretty damn ridiculous, why are people this idiotic? There's many, many example of this, but I've experienced idiotic behaviour from others that many times that I could write a series of novels on it. One time was when this really idiotic woman in Gamestation decided that she wanted to buy DJ hero for her family, so she walked in front of me, purposely catching me with the box and telling her husband and son to stand in front of me also. I was having none of it, and walked to the counter and the amount of abuse I got was insane. She was swearing, threw the DJ hero box down a few time, threatened me once - I'm pretty sure she got thrown out afterwards but is it really that hard to queue up?! I can't understand why everyone always has to be first with everything.
That applies with loads of things, traffic is one of them, when people cut you up just to get one place ahead. They'll be, at best 5 seconds ahead of you, but oh no, it's really important that they push in. What annoys me even more are the bastards that drive down the wrong lane, and then stop and wait to turn into a congested lane to get to a certain place, like shopping centres, or football stadiums and shizzle. People like that should be left, and if you're reading this and ever find yourself in this situation, NEVER let them push in.
Arrogant bastards...
Also, whilst I've just thought of doing a video version of one of these rants, weekly or monthly or something - What do you all think? Let me know in the comments or something. Thanks :)
Wednesday 2 February 2011
Music makes the world go round
Particularly in Games. Ascension came out this week, and with it the new Easter Egg song ("What, they're putting one into every map now?!") which I have to say kicks ass in every possible way.
It's not to everyone's taste, but why don't more games have this sort of music in there? There's a lot of people who like rock and metal, and they always seem to go well with games in montages, so why aren't they in the game usually?
There's games such as Halo that have somewhat orchestral music but with Halo that fits perfectly (and it also has one of my favourite scores of anything out there, at present).
All I don't want is for more games to go with the typical overrated pop tunes and rap shite that seems to be increasingly popular (To think this is all coming from the same race that created Metal, Rock and Pendulum*...)
Again, I'm keeping it short because my Physics teacher has decided to set us a shedload of work for tomorrow, and this is not fun. I'm dropping the subject ASAP...
*Pendulum kick so much ass that they deserve to have their own genre.
It's not to everyone's taste, but why don't more games have this sort of music in there? There's a lot of people who like rock and metal, and they always seem to go well with games in montages, so why aren't they in the game usually?
There's games such as Halo that have somewhat orchestral music but with Halo that fits perfectly (and it also has one of my favourite scores of anything out there, at present).
All I don't want is for more games to go with the typical overrated pop tunes and rap shite that seems to be increasingly popular (To think this is all coming from the same race that created Metal, Rock and Pendulum*...)
Again, I'm keeping it short because my Physics teacher has decided to set us a shedload of work for tomorrow, and this is not fun. I'm dropping the subject ASAP...
*Pendulum kick so much ass that they deserve to have their own genre.
Tuesday 1 February 2011
Youtube - Go watch some videos for great justice.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PhantomArcade
I know this is a really cheap way to fill my one post a day quota, but still - please go watch my videos on Youtube because I've got some Machinima on the way, and a few live commentaries.
Thanks :)
I know this is a really cheap way to fill my one post a day quota, but still - please go watch my videos on Youtube because I've got some Machinima on the way, and a few live commentaries.
Thanks :)
Black Ops: Ascension Map Pack is out [or should be]
Just testing the schedule feature. Also, nobody cares about the multiplayer maps - Zombies all the way.
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