Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Bear blog


Here are somethings to expect in the near future. A blog about bears, a review on Halo 4, an actual review of vanilla WoW and of course something random to entertain us both. I love bears, and as any bear lover would I have my bear license. No this is not a license to hunt a bear it is a license to be a certified bear. The only thing you can really do with the license is tell people your a bear. So now that you know how I feel about bears I will tell you a bit about them. Bears are bashful creatures, they never go to a party without a mask. If you see a bear without a mask at a party he's either the prime minster of Russia, or having some family issues. Bears are independent and prefer dealing with their problems alone so be sure not to ask if a bear is okay because he will have you square dancing by the end of the night. If there is one thing bears love more than square dancing  it's trees. In Winnie the Poo you can see Poo-bear enjoying his honey. This is false bears simply love the trees honey is contained in. If you want to go talk to a bear that is up in a tree be sure he is wearing sunglasses first. Bears wear sunglasses because it's bright at the top of trees and they enjoy looking at the scenery. If the bear does not have sunglasses offer him some other wise he may become clinically depressed. This is the fate of most bears as people do not often offer bears sunglasses. You have to be aware of more animated bears because they are unpredictable and often dangerous at times. When you encounter an animated bear do not play dead. They will most likely think your sleeping and wait for you to wake up. The only thing you can do is make eye contact and walk away slowly. If you go too fast the bear will be angry so be sure to be polite when making an escape. Thats all on bears for today. Just be mindful, and remember that bears are not a toy.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Kangaroo Urban Camo

Just like this little guy wants to be a snowman.
Woot two years in a row champions. I thought I'd let you know but that is not what todays topic is... well I'm not sure does it really matter? Has it ever really mattered before? On a related note when is Dream Theater's next album out? Probably 2013? I don't know. On another related note when is Animals as Leaders next album out? As you have guessed I hate waiting for new albums. I'm a drummer and I do lots of covers of songs and I have a few favourites I play and practice quite a lot. I'm always open to new material that goes somewhere. That's why I love progressional metal. It most often has a purpose and a destination within the song, and if it doesn't then the album will most likely take you on a journey. I just love when songs and albums tell a story using lyrical ambiguousness, changing keys, time signatures, and genres of playing. Enough about my life tell me about yours. Whats that? You don't want to? Well fine. I'm kind of addicted to WoW now... On the bright side it's free because it's a private server, but it's still kind of time consuming. Scratch that extremely time consuming. I just can't stop and the worst part of it is that I keep making new characters so I never get anywhere. I feel like this can be related to life. Let me take you on a bit of a stretch but a believable one. More often than not people are good at a lot of things. People enjoy doing many different things because of variety, and it appeals to different aspects of their lives and personalities. For example I act, play musical instruments, play football, and also enjoy working with computers. None of these things are even close to related to each other, and yet I like them all. Now imagine if you will if I had focused on a single thing for this example we will use drumming. I would without a doubt be at least 3x better on drums and I'm not half bad as it is so thats a pretty large number. What I'm trying to get at here is that it's nice to do a whole lot of things you like, but if you can focus on one earlier in life you might just make a career out of it in your future. There would honestly be no better feeling than doing what you love because you worked hard at it, and stayed focused as a viable job opportunity. So just remember be who you want to be even if it means letting some of the things you like go. That just means you will have a higher chance of doing what you love instead. Thanks.

Monday, November 5, 2012

An adventure for the ages

Haven't done anything random for awhile so stop gabbing about the oysters and let's get cracking jack.
That's right he's as excited as you will be when I start flooding your mind with nothingness, according to auto correct that's a word sweetness, that's also a word. Alright as Jack stares into you soul I will tell you a story and every time I say partay in the story you just look at him and feel the magnitude of his raw vigour. Okay here we go.
Jack the man Johnson was heading to a partay. He had never been to a partay before because he wasn't cool but ever since he made friends with Bob "jamaicanmecrazy" Sanders, he got a little more popular. He's been able to go to more social events. So he jumped in Bob's swag mobile and headed for the partay!
They pulled up to the partay and it was beautiful he hadn't see so much hustle and bustle in one place before every one was jamming to the jive beat of nickelback and smoking their beers.
Jack shed a single tear as he was overwhelmed by the righteousness of the party, and let the music consume him he began his dance thrusting through the air as beads of sweat glistened in the dark sky with the fire ablaze. The glowing pulse of the flames began a tribal beat and they danced until the moonlight dissipated. Jack woke up beside a bottle of club soda and a box of half eaten tootsie rolls. He threw his head down in silence and disappointment it had all been a dream. He got up from his desk and as he turned to his fridge to eat the big pink cookie he had saved for later, he heard a honk from outside. And who could that honk belong to but our good friend Bob "jamaicanmecrazy" sanders, and his swag mobile. Paul "ugandabekiddingme" turner was in the back seat urging jack to hurry up. Jack really was going to a partay! but the real partay! was inside him all along...

My Review of NS2

There is no introduction...

This weekend I obtained a new game from the steam store. This game is called Natural Selection 2.
I've played about 4 hours of it and I can say other than some obvious balancing that needs to be done it's and excellent concept for a game, and a lot of fun to play. The premise of the game is that two opposing forces battle it out in a variety of  indoor facilities typically with a lot of twists, turns and tight spaces. Humans use guns from a first person perspective, and the Kharaa have a variety of different species to play from large rhino like  creatures to flying spike shooting creatures also from a first person perspective. What really makes the game interesting though is that one person from each team plays from a real time strategy point of view. It's basically a birds eye view in which you manage infrastructure, and the soldiers who are fighting. Only this time the soldiers, and aliens are real people. Which puts two very different kinds of games together. From what I've seen and the effort I assume will be applied to updating and making the game better, I give this game a current 7.5/10 but as I expect it will be a 9/10 by the time it's polished. The only thing that takes away from this game for me is the obvious rip off of Starcraft, and the current connection issues I'm experiencing with the servers I've been joining. Other wise check it out, it's 25$ on steam, or 75$ for a four pack of the game for you and your friends. Enjoy.

Friday, November 2, 2012

Not actually on a quest for goat roast

Following the rules I have laid down for myself, I will now attempt to seriously blog about a game I have recently played. I had mentioned before that I played vanilla World of Warcraft not too long ago. What I haven't mentioned is yesterday I started playing on a private Cataclysm server (it's an expansion for WoW). My reason for this sometimes easier is better... yes, I know what you're thinking and my rant still applies, however there are some cases when you just have to trust the game developers to have made a more interesting experience for you. For example I've been playing vanilla for about 4 days now and I'm level 13, I played Cataclysm for an hour and reached level 6, and had much more money than my higher level character, but there's a reason for this. Blizzard (The game company) has decided that nobody wants to stay a low purposeless level so they rush you through it but they keep a good story throughout it. In conclusion sometimes games can being easier, doesn't mean they are less fun, the story just has too be good, and you have to feel like you're in control. Finally the reason original WoW is so hard is because of all the inconveniences that blizzard hasn't worked out yet. Thanks.

An interesting halloween story

I you haven't already figured it out typically the titles have absolutely nothing to do with the subjects. I've decided that one of the things I'm going to do on this blog is review some of the games that have recently come into my possession. Yes thats right I'm talking about video games. I hate that word for them so I will call them interactive adventures. The video games I will be review will be from a wide range of genres and levels of difficulty. You don't have to worry too much about that because when I don't have any material to write about I'll throw in the odd random blog about nothing, that will most likely get the teacher mad at me for using poor grammar. Oh well that's how it goes. On a related note happy belated halloween. Not going to happen if you thought for even a second that I was actually going to write about the aforementioned subject you are a nice person. Oh cool my filter is working now I won't hurt anybodies feeling. Rejoice young ones for my picture of the day is following this sentence.


                                                       Heres a duck, because why not?