Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Anger From Virtual Entertainment

Sometimes, people get angry, its a natural part of people. However, sometimes I can get angry at a computer monitor. What is displayed in the monitor is a video game. In the video game I may be doing poorly, but I am so I the moment I can only think of anger. Not sadness or remorse, full bridal anger! It doesn't mean that my team is losing, its specifically A: When I am doing bad, or B: When one of my teammates is dragging us down with his ineptness at the video game.

This rage is something I have never felt before until I got into playing these games. Maybe because I never took anything to seriously, but when this test of skill shows that I am not good, my fury shows it little ugly head in the form of, table pounding, yelling, and grunts. However, just because there are these moments of anger in video games, usually video games incite me with happiness because it is fun.
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Monday, December 23, 2019

Rank Discrepancies

There is a game called CS:GO, short for Counter Strike: Global Offensive, with a ranking system based upon skill level. One of the subcategories of rank is silver. This level houses the lowest ranks in the game. Unfortunately, there is a problem with these ranks, there is a huge variety of skill level in silver. There could be players that are definitely in silver facing people who couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. This creates a disturbance in the silver ranks. You would think that the people would naturally go to their actual ranks slowly, but more often than not, the good players never escape silver rank.

Now the actual silver ranks are facing against players who are actually in gold nova or in master guardian elite. This doesn't make for a fun experience for the silvers. There are even people called smurfs who are actually a higher rank but play at a lower rank for self gratification of dominating worse players. So basically the rankings for the lower ranks are all mixed up which is very annoying.
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Sunday, December 15, 2019

The Burrito Connoisseur

Well, again, I saw yet another interesting video posted on YouTube. This time it wasn't humans. It also included man's best friend, a dog. Now, what conspires in the 240p  quality video is pure gold. It shows a chubby dog which a man called "Bubba" and Bubba sees the man holding a burrito. Bubba is a little hungry, so what happens when  a hungry dog gets dropped a full burrito right in front of him? Well, of course snatch it from midair, and gulp it down in a second. It was literally a second worth of time.

The man and dog seem so nonchalant about it. It makes it seem like this was their daily routine, buying a big burrito so Bubba can gulf it down in a single second. I like to entertain the idea that the dog was trained to swallow burrito for its entire life judging by Bubba's weighty looking exterior. Whatever the case, one thing still stands, this dog is a national treasure and deserves to be written about in  the history textbooks of the future.

The WORLD ORDER

There is this Japanese music group called WORLD ORDER, they have do something unique in their music videos. When they are dancing to their music, they dance outside, in the public, usually with the public's reaction to them mixed in. Their trade moves are robotic dances, especially a walk where they slow down and then speed up as they travel. In this music video, they get even more people to do the coveted walk. Of course, doing this while garnering the public's attention.

World Order's message is to have a united world where everyone can be together. At the end of this video, we see a flag that says "WE ARE ALL ONE" with a lot of countries flags. In the video, it is also talking about the kind of man Donald Trump is, with the dancing in public aspect still there. It's just a cool thing to see.
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Monday, December 9, 2019

Placing Connotations On Experiences

As I listen to some music without word while reading a book, I get the a sense of dread. Why? Because this music makes me think of my 8th grade summer when reading books for HISP. I use this music because it sounds nice and it has no words and it is a decent length. However, after only listening to this song every time I'm about to read, when i just listen to the song normally, I feel dread and a weight being placed on my shoulders. My breathing gets heavy, I get more sensitive to sound, just things music shouldn't do to you.

I'm afraid that if I change the song, more music will face the same consequences as the first one and I won't be able to listen to them for pleasure, only work.

Sunday, December 8, 2019

The Enticing Morsel

On YouTube, there is an ad for a large gummy bear. This gummy bear is fairly large. How large you ask? 5 pounds large, 9 inches tall and 3 inches wide, this mammoth of a candy will take days to eat. They say it is not only large, it is also delicious, because it is gummy. It was also made in America.

The folks who produced it are Vat19, a company that makes their own ads. They satisfy our psychological need to eat because the gummy is described so tantalizingly. It was stated that it was made in America, so the patriotic would be more inclined to purchase one. Or if you just want one to boast to your friends about your possession of a large bear.
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Monday, December 2, 2019

The Appalling Paul Bro

There was a popular Youtuber called Logan Paul who visited Japan. He made a vlog about his travel and in it he was pretty horrendous.

First, he walked around the city wearing Japanese clothing while also being a huge nuisance to the people of Japan. He was loud and eccentric, bothering every passerby he sees. He also wore a Pikachu costume and threw big pokeballs at people. He was just being a huge annoying person all around.

What really got him in trouble with media is when he visited the Suicide Forest where people, as the name implies, commit suicide because they couldn't handle the pressure. Anyways, Logan here, he decided it would be a good idea to film one of the deceased and commentate about it while still filming it. And he uploaded the video to Youtube. A real dead body of a suicide victim to Youtube, where a majority of his audience are little kids. I just don't really particularly like the guy.
Here is his stupid mug:
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Sunday, December 1, 2019

Third And First Person In Real Life 12/1/2019

As I was perusing YouTube, I stumbled upon am interesting video. It was a video about a stealth video game, one where one would sneak around and remain hidden in order to accomplish an objective. There were two teams, mercs and spies. The mercs had a first person view while the spies had a third person view.

Now the question is, how did they accomplish the viewpoints of the character? Well, they happened to explain their techniques in this video. They simply strapped little Go Pro cameras to there head to simulate a first person view. For the third person view, it gets a little tricky. They had a big flying drone with a camera attached to fly behind and away from them to simulate the third person. It took precision piloting to make the footage stable and pleasurable to view.

In combination with a good story and great action sequences, it was enjoyable to view the simulated game mechanics but in real life.