A Deathly Scream in the Evil Cabin in the Woods

So, I love horror films, right? Right. Well, just a day or two ago, we watched the film The Cabin in the Woods in my Media class. I don't know whether I liked it or not. The part of me that is obsessed with horror films loved all of the references, but the part of me that appreciates horror films doesn't like what they did with the film. They obviously tried to re-write the horror formula, much like Scream, except they took a very different root, and I'm not sure whether I like the root they took. Now, I'm not making this post to review the film, I'm just throwing that out there. As I write this post, I'm in the process of doing my Media Homework, and whilst doing it I remembered Cabin. So, I decided to look for a list of all of the references to horror films. There are so many, I feel like a Link in a Pot Store (That's Pot, not Pot), like when I looked for all of the video game references in Wreck-it-Ralph. Now, this all seems normal, but the reason I'm suddenly making this post is that for some reason, I don't know why, but in the search for references I found my train of thought had brought me to a rather unfamiliar station. I've only just realised how one scene in particular greatly disturbs me. I don't know why it's this one scene in particular when there are so many others that it could be. I feel weird just thinking about it. It's the scene with the unicorn. When it gallops down the hallway when all of the monsters have broken free. When the sweet music plays as it impales a man against a wall with its horn. To me it's one of the most horrific scenes in the film. It's possibly the magical third scene. The third scene out of every horror film I have ever seen which I would not like to watch again. This scene doesn't make me want to vomit in disgust like the other two. This scene just upsets me. That's all. It almost brings a tear to my eye. I can't even...




That film is weird. I don't think I like it. I like the Evil Dead references and the Hellraiser-esque guy, but that's it.

Ear today, gone tomorrow

Hey, it's me again. Listen, I have something wrong with my ear. I've been in pain since Saturday. Yesterday at my last day of work at the shop which shall not be named, I was in agony because they aren't allowed to keep painkillers in case someone takes an overdose which is fair enough. But today I'm skipping college and going to the doctor's in the afternoon. Why am I telling you this? Because I've decided to use this precious time to make my Channel Trailer on YouTube. I need to think really hard as to what it's going to be, so wish me luck.

It's me again.

I just read a statistic saying that 95% of blogs are abandoned after 120 days. I didn't want the statistic to apply to mine, so here I am again. It may be worth mentioning that in the time I've been away from this blog, I've successfully applied for a job, went for the interview for this job, got the job, then about 2 months later (today) got fired from the job. I'm not in a good mood. What else? Well, that's the only thing worth mentioning, I think. But it's not all bad, I mean, I got a nice wedge of money from the job, I now don't have to worry about buying a costume for the New Year, I can now catch up on sleep, I have more time to get homework done, and I don't have to fill in this Bronze work booklet any more.
I sure am looking forward to next week when the new series of The Big Bang Theory starts. What's that? I live in the UK? I can't watch it on the TV because it won't come out until next year for me? Well, you see, that's why I use Cucirca. Ahhh... That's right Sam, look for the positives. What else has happened? I bought Pikmin 3? I pre-ordered the metal-case, special edition thing version of Batman: Arkham Origins? I went on my first Helicopter ride? I discovered that the amazing-looking LEGO Movie comes out 3 days after my birthday? I bought my very first album? I purchased the first of what will hopefully be many items from Edmund McMillen's online store? Yes to all! I should buy something to try and get my mood up. A game. One which I have been wanting to play for a while. I shall have a think.
Well, it was nice to see you again. Perhaps the next time I will see you will be next year, when I go to Comic-Con again, or perhaps before that, if I get something nice for Christmas. Well, I definitely think we shall meet again.
Ta ta.

It's been a while

Like the subtle Scary Movie reference there? No? OK. Well, not a lot has happened in the past almost 2 weeks. I must confess, the only reason I haven't been on here is because I've recently got back into Animal Crossing. NOT NEW LEAF. Let's go to the City (City Folk, for you yanks). Queen Ruse let me play on her copy of New Leaf, and I just feel the game is better played on a big TV screen, so you can see all of your lovely village. I also don't particularly like the idea of Main Street, it just seems like they've taken the idea of the City from LgtC, and added the Museum and Shops to it. It just doesn't appeal to me all that much. I also really, REALLY don't like the taller character models. Having spent months playing on LgtC, and a few weeks on WW (when NerdE let me borrow it a couple of years ago), I'm used to the shorter, stubbier characters. It suits the game more, in my opinion. Yes, the taller characters allow for more customisation, but it doesn't look good when you're running along, they look so... Odd. Anyway, I digress, I'm here to post a reminder for myself: BRAID. After watching Caddicarus' Top 10 Most Depressing Games, I really want to see the ending. REALLY BAD. So, because I'm stuck I'll watch some walkthrough videos and then play it. Oh, I know, kill me, but you know what? It doesn't matter, it won't take away from my experience, and you watching won't see the tutorial video... My video is in a way a tutorial video so it matters even less. Anyway, I've been editing Episode 2 of NDTY, in the past 2 days I've done... 6 minutes. It's taking....SOOOO LONG. I have no idea why. I think I'm trying to add too much, I'm putting too much on my plate, maybe. Or, I think the more likely reason is the software I'm using. That's right, Windows Movie Maker... For God's sake, it's so bad. The slightly older version of it was so much better. I need something good, that won't take me SO SODDING LONG. I JUST WANT TO GET THIS ONE DONE. But guess what? This Pokemon one is only about 20 minutes long. The other 2 we recorded are......... OVER TWICE AS LONG. Oh. My. Jesus. But we need to start somewhere, and actually thinking about it, I think the way I've done it, I can get away with using less pictures for the other 2. So far what I've done for Ep 2 is great, but I need to pace myself for the others. Anyway, I'm tired so I'll see you next time.

Happy Father's Day!

Although it's just another festivity created by card and gift manufacturers to coincide with Mother's Day. Still, I won for the very first time in a table tennis match against my dad. I get to go home early from college tomorrow! Last night me and NerdE recorded 3, yes, 3 episodes of NDTY so I have some serious editing to do, I'm thinking of making them look better overall, I think the thumbnails for these 3 look better, I've almost completely redone the subscribe screen, and I'm thinking of making some small changes to the images I use in the video, such as for NerdE's mood, I'll give the little NerdE head eyebrows and a mouth to relate to the emotion, and I have some great ideas in general. I want our future NDTYs to be a lot more professional in the way that we deliver the content. In other words, I'm seriously considering we script future episodes, but I'm loving the way we end each episode at the moment; we just see what happens, in the next episode I leave the conversation to play Mega Man... Which is awesome by the way. I bought it yesterday, and I only played it today, it's so good but it's SOOOOOOO hard. I'm trying the Slash Man stage (I think he's called Slash Man, I'm not sure, the one with the boomerang), and I can do pretty much all of it, the only thing that really gets me is the flying blue enemies with the huge grins... they're so tricky! Speaking about Mega Man, how about E3 this year? Pretty good, huh? I'm so glad in NDTY Episode 1 I managed to correctly predict Mega Man as a playable character... I'm so happy he and Villager are in it. Something scary happened that day. Well, 2 Twists of Fate happened that day. One was the fact the college was closed... on the day of Nintendo's E3 reveals... what a treat... the other was that, while I was waiting for Nintendo to upload their videos, I got a sudden urge to play Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City (Animal Crossing: City Folk for you yanks) again (I'm still playing it now, I'm playing it every day!). Then... at what was it 3 O'Clock? They release the announcement trailer for Super Smash Bros for Wii U/3DS... and the Animal Crossing Villager is confirmed as a playable character... what does this mean? Are these signs that I will one day take over the Animal Crossing/Super Smash Bros departments at Nintendo? Or something equally God-like? I'm left here questioning, but I need to go now as I'm so tired and I have college tomorrow... But only for a half day LOL!

The Great Collapse

Just noticed how much that Macmillan Cancer Support advert with the people falling over in slow motion reminds me of the ATC 70th Anniversary event at Norwich. SO MANY Cadets fainted, it was ridiculous... not the amount of time they got us to stand at ease, but the number of weak cadets there were there. About 12 kids had to sit down, about 6 or 7 fainted, one cadet who was just behind me even fell backwards, down a step onto some concrete. It was terrifying, there was a huge thud, I heard people behind me running up to him, and an ambulance turned up. He was fine, but I didn't know if he smashed his head on the ground or if they were going to stop the whole thing. Yeah, the people in the cancer advert falling in slow motion reminds me of when I would see people collapsing in my peripheral vision on that day.

Um...

I have no idea what to say. So much has changed in the past day or two. Not necessarily big changes, but changes that have effected the way I think and look at life. It may seem a bit weird and unusual for someone like me to say something like that, but it's the truth. I found out today from the newspaper that my idol Stephen Fry tried to commit suicide last year. I don't know what I would have done if he had succeeded. God. Wow. Apparently he took an overdose of some pills and lots of vodka, but all that happened was vomiting so bad it broke four of his ribs followed by a black out. I say 'all', it must have been horrible for him. I don't want to talk about this any more.
Another factor is the conversations I was having with my Grandma yesterday, basically we were talking about how much she had changed in the last 40 or so years. That got me thinking of course about age and, ultimately got me thinking about death. I don't like to talk about the death of a family member, but since my Granddad's passing last year I have been thinking a lot about death. It may sound bad, but I think of it as a simple thought exercise. What actually happens after death? It's such a deep question. We don't know. We can't know. We can never know, until we ourselves die. It's almost unbearable sometimes when I think about it too much. But I'm far too sane to drive myself to suicide. According to my Year 6 teacher I was a very curious person, but I don't think I will ever be THAT curious.
Anyway, positive things... positive things... I managed to get NerdE into Zelda today. SCORE! Another Lozer, as I call them. I don't, I just made up that word just now, but I can start calling people who play Zelda 'Lozers'. Yes, I will. Aren't many positive things. I don't think I'm going to get used to these people changing the guttering on our house. Every morning for the past 3 days... SO MUCH NOISE. They'll be here for 2 weeks. Eurgh. I just remembered a positive thing, 2 days ago LUIGI'S MANSION 2 CAME! WOOP! It's really good, but the two stand on their own. They both have their strong points, but I think the first one wins just because it was completely different at the time. I think the second one would have been better if it had been released earlier. 12 years ago Luigi's Mansion was released. 12 years. Think about that.
Yeah, this sentence doesn't really belong here but I've just noticed I've got all these days mixed up. It doesn't help that I post these in the wee hours because it's really confusing me when stuff happens. I should write these earlier in the day, or at least before midnight. Anyway I'm doing some gardening tomorrow, I'm doing the same activity which was the reason for that strange post a few weeks ago titled 'Hurt...Hurt...'. Wish me luck. That actually reminds me: The marks on my arm that Tyrone gave me have peeled off. They've gone. They've left some kind of scar, like when you peel off a blister but they've basically gone now. Yay.

I've given it week...

And nothing's happened. Well, not nothing, but hardly anything. I wanted to leave it so that in the next post I would have a lot to talk about, but that hardly worked. Well, on Thursday, so 30th May, I bought lots of stuff to keep me occupied during the week Study Leave I have. Note: I'm not doing work because I have finished all of my exams, I finished them the day before I went to Comic Con, so I have no work to do. Anyway, I bought 3 films: the first 3 X-Men films. I bought Bioshock for PC which I have played a bit of, and I do really like it. I've left it quite a while before I've started playing that franchise, haven't I? I bought the prequel to one of my favourite games: Arkham Asylum. I've left it quite a while to finally play that haven't I? I completed the story yesterday, and I finished all of the Riddler Challenges and Spirit of Arkham things today. So that's done. But today I bought Harley Quinn's Revenge for Arkham City, to keep the Batman fires burning. One the same day I bought those things I FINALLY ordered Luigi's Mansion 2 on eBay. I've left it TOO LONG to get that game, my desktop wallpaper is of that game for cripes sake. I got a message yesterday saying the guy has posted it first class, so I should get that in a couple of days. Can't wait!

The main reason I've suddenly come out with a post to say almost nothing is because I've recently (about 15 minutes ago) seen a YouTube video that's really annoyed me. A Toby Turner video. He annoys me anyway, but this one in particular. He's started playing VVVVVV. I walkthrough that game on YouTube... That's my game... But it's motivated me to finish playing it before him. It won't work though because I like to mix up what I upload, I don't like two consecutive videos that belong in the same Playlist. But it's a goal, he might not even do any more... He will, but a man can dream...

One more thing, NerdE doesn't know it yet, but I've decide the next episode of NDTY will be Sonic Lost World. It'll be interesting because he doesn't like Sonic. Till next time!

We're back

Back to the old grind. I miss Comic Con. I'm still in awe. I'm really looking forward to next year, purely because of how amazingly easily and quickly I found the Awesomeness. Is it sad? Should I move on? Or should I try and contain this feeling and just think about it whenever I'm on my own at college? College. I'm in college. Sitting here listening to Rhett and Link's Graduation Song, I've only just realised that I only have one year of education left before I could move out of the house, get married, and get a job. Life is scary. I don't like it. Why is it that things like education fly by, and the things like next year's Comic Con take forever to roll toward you? The things you want (Christmas, Birthdays) seem a lifetime away, but the things you don't want (PE lessons, CO's Parade (only Air Cadets will get that)) come as regularly as a bowel movement. And yet, time flies when you're having fun. It doesn't make sense. And what's it all for anyway? It's like what Final Destination taught me: Our choices in life. All of them. They just determine how we're going to die. Then what happens? No one knows. No one can know. Unless they die. Seems pointless, we just live to die, why should we bother with the life part in the first place? But why is it that some people's life choices mean that when they die, they have a huge effect on other people's lives? That's how you know you've lived your life, when when you die, you have an impact. But how is that impact going to help you when you're dead? Life's scary. Life's complicated. I'm only 17 years old and I'm questioning what the purpose of life is. Something that Stephen Hawking explored in the second episode of his brilliant 'Stephen Hawking's Grand Design' mini-series. One of the best series on TV. Completely changed the way I look at life. Completely opened me up to all kinds of theories. Only lasted for 3 episodes. I'm only 17 years old. I'm scared to know what's going to happen to me. I'm scared to know what it'll be like to move out, learn how to drive... graduate.

Con UPDATE #2!

(Possibly) Best. Day. Ever. Where do I start? Oh, it was so fun. I was slightly worried meeting Three Bewb Smirnoff, as I always am when meeting anyone new, but he's a great guy. He can draw so well, and on the train there he did some amazing charactertures of The Asian Kid and NerdE, and then me at the end of the day. When we were in London, getting to the MCM was a nightmare thanks to Animamagica being a complete control freak, but when we were there. Wow. Standing in the line, we saw thousands of people. Me and NerdE exchanged ideas of who we wanted to see. I wanted to see a PSY, specifically a PSY in the blue tuxedo from Gangnam Style, and I did; I wanted to see a Nova, and I didn't but I did see a Moon Knight and that more than made up for it, I saw him twice, both times I yelled "MOON KNIGHT!" at him and both times he ignored me, but the girl he was with giggled at me both times. I saw a Skull Kid and Moon paired costume. That was a massive highlight, as was the Judge Dredd, the Hetalia meet-up and the Pedo Bear. There were actually two Pedo Bears but one got kicked out, apparently. Hmm... What annoyed me were the number of Pikachu onesies, Monkey D Luffys and Deadpools. Although there were playable demos of the new Deadpool and One Piece games there so the Luffys and Deadpools were fair enough, but I was really pissed off at the number of Pikachus. I would have got some autographs if I knew who any of the people there were. I thought we were going to see the voice of Commander Shepard from Mass Effect: Mark Meer, but it turns out he was at the Manchester MCM, not the London one. I was going to get an autograph from him, and give it to Elfman. Actually, me saying I didn't know any of them is a bit of a lie, I do know who TomSka is but I don't particularly like asdf movie. I know, kill me, blah blah. Moving on, the Hetalia meet-up was great I managed to find a Sweden, and actually all of the other Nordics, we had loads of photos taken of us in the different groups. Me and NerdE found a Belarus and Ukraine for his Russia, and we hung around with them. They were great people. Actually, everyone at the meet-up was great, a great little community. I keep saying 'great', but that is just how the day was; great. I didn't buy a heck of a lot, in fact it truth be told, it wasn't as hideously expensive as I thought it would be... apart from the food. A bottle of water? £1.90 ($2.88) A salad sandwich? £4.75 ($4.75) Unbelievable. And the Japanese imports were expensive as well, but that's kind of a given. I bought an Essential Man-Thing from the official Marvel stall, just £5 ($7.59)! The Essentials were all on sale! Ha! I also got a Shy Guy plushy, from a stall that had loads, LOADS of Mario plushies, and a Portal 2 T-Shirt which I'm wearing now, it's got the two portals, blue at the top, orange at the bottom, Propulsion Gel falling from the blue portal, Repulsion Gel coming up from the orange portal, and in the middle a Companion Cube, the gels splatting everywhere on impact with it. It's a very nice design. And I'm so glad it fits. On the train back, before we had even decided if we were going to go back next year, me and NerdE were deciding who we should cosplay as. We've now decided we are going next year, and we are going as a pair costume: Ness and Jeff from Earthbound. I've already found this: Awesomeness. BRING IT ON, 2014!!!

Con UPDATE #1!

Don't know why I said that, there'll only be 2, one now and one when I get back. Anywho, I've just packed my costume, money, extra bits of equipment, and I'm now ready to go. Just need to set my alarm, then next I wake I will be off into the morn! You know when NerdE's coming to pick me up? 4:15...AM! WOO! I'm actually quite excited, and extremely nervous at the same time. God...When next we speak in about 12 hours, I will have officially been to Comic Con. I want to buy so much stuff! I've managed to save up lots of money for the occasion. This is going to be so fun! I can now officially reveal who I'm going as: Finland from Hetalia. Strange choice, I know, but I love him. NerdE's going as Russia, Animamagica is going as Prussia and The Asian Kid was going to go as Hong Kong, but due to certain changes she can't go in cosplay any more. But it's still going to be a great day, one I will definitely not regret. Here I come, London!

More Pain!?

Well, yesterday was fun, I got some extra money, found out about Season 3 of ERB and got invited to do some voice acting by my friend Shogun. Here's a link to the trailer. I don't know why I'm putting it here, as no one will see it, but I'm spreading the word none the less.

So, today I had my hair cut. Nothing special except for the fact I had to walk there. 1 hour and 20 minutes it took to get there. Same back. My feet hurt now. But at least my hair doesn't poke out the sides of my wig, so I'm all ready for Comic Con in 2 day's time! Bring it on! Maths exam tomorrow. I'm definitely not ready for it; I'm definitely not looking forward to it. Sigh...

Nope

Nothing to do. Nothing to say. Oh well. My life these next three weeks will be pretty meaningless unless I buy something to pass the time. Yeah, I'll do that, right after I listen to Tay Zonday singing the Skyrim theme again.

Getting back on the horse

So, I think I've now managed to earn back all the money I lost when me and NerdE had our little escapade in Yarmouth. I now like mowing the lawn even more, I used to hate it but now I find it quite relaxing. Yesterday me and Animamagica went to NerdE's house to style our wigs for Comic Con. I've discovered that even though me and NerdE spent exactly the same amount of money on our wigs, and even though the boxes are exactly the same, the only difference being the colour of the wigs, mine is of considerably poorer quality than his. You can see my hair underneath if you look at the back of my head. Might not seem like a problem (especially since I'll be wearing a hat), but then I have quite dark hair and the wig is blonde. So I need a bald cap now. Great. But on a completely unrelated plus side, I have realised something for my One Shots: the first one was a PS1 game...so I can do any game from any console. I know it's a series I created, so I should have really thought of that earlier, but better late than never. I'm thinking about doing a Sega arcade game. Yes, slightly influenced by the fact my brother bought a Sega arcade games book, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of Alex Kidd or Space Harrier, is there? Another update: the marks on my wrist that Tyrone gave me are still there, yesterday they went a bit blistery, they have done today as well. I think if they're there for another week I'll go to the doctor, but I think the red is starting to fade and they're definitely not as swollen so that's something, right? Anyway, I'm going to watch the rest of Britain's got more Talent, then have a Skyrim session, so bye for now.

HexaGONE!

Just finished recording, editing and saving One Shots Episode 2: Super Hexagon! Wow, that was fun. My videos that I've recorded ever since I started this blog have been a lot more enjoyable for me. Also, for this one I took a more professional approach. The introduction where I give a bit of history about the game in this episode was scripted, so I talk a lot more fluently and it all seems just nicer in general. I found out some interesting trivia about the game, and in the process managed to plug one of my videos in my own video :D What's more is I've found the Super Hexagon EP, which I'm seriously considering downloading, even though it only contains 3 songs and the total play time of it is less than 10 minutes, the music is really, really good. I could play Beat Hazard with Super Hexagon music!
The problem now is finding a game for the next One Shots. I have plenty of games, but I don't know which would be good for just one play through. I'll need to have another think. Next Walkthrough will be that Super Meat Boy that NerdE still hasn't uploaded yet. It's been about 2 weeks. What's wrong with him?

Learning is fun

Just had a Maths exam, well, I use the term 'just' quite loosely, I actually had it 5 hours ago...WHAT!? Has the time really gone by THAT quickly? Wow...wow...wow...makes you think, doesn't it? I've only got 2 more hours here then I'm done...year one of college...finished...Well, I've got one more exam next Friday, but we have study leave on Monday. The whole first year done...in 2 hours. We come back on June 10th, then we start our second year work. So, to reiterate, the title of this post should be 'Learning WAS fun'. 2 hours...what should I do to celebrate? I've already spent some time with a friend who I haven't really talked to a lot this year, Elfman. He's gone home so I think I'll go to the canteen to see some of my other friends. Wow, 2 hours...GASP! I won't be seeing Ruse King next year! He's not staying for another year! I need to say goodbye to him...AND Meridian! She might be going to New Zealand next year. Oh, God! All these people leaving me! My life ever since year 4 has been cursed with some of my closest friends leaving so soon! This isn't a great place to be in mentally right now, seeing as I've got a lot...A LOT of Game Design work to do that I'm coming in on Monday to finish.

Well, let me be the first to say, it's been a good run. I'm not leaving this blog, oh no, I mean a good first year, I've met lots of new people, I've rekindled my friendship with some people. It's been good. I'll remember it as it was: good, successful, irreplaceable.

Help+

I downloaded Love+ just now, and yes, I also installed Hostile Waters, and there's a very interesting piece of trivia about the cinematics that I will definitely use in the episode I do of it. Anyway, I've played some Love+ but there are two problems: First the music, there is none, I get the death sound effects and jump pad sound effects, but there's no music, and I know there should be because the download included the soundtrack. Second, the visuals. I know it's in the style of REALLY old games, we're talking like Atari here, but it's really low resolution. This is the first time I'm asking someone to use the interactive comments, so please will someone answer my cry for help!

Oh God, I dunno...Happy Birthday!

Film Studies exam went well, don't really want to say too much either way, really. I need to do something else for the channel, after VVVVVV's done, I'm left with just Meat Boy and Bit.Trip (I'm not counting One Shots because I see it as a spin-off). So, I think I'm going to do Closure because that's a hoot and a half, and I'm thinking about Love+ as well, a cheapy game from my favourite online store. At some point I'll do Time Fcuk Chapter 2, that's a given, but I'll leave it for a bit because I've completed the main game. So, tonight I need to install Hostile Waters (I know, I haven't even done that yet), buy Love+ and play Closure. ONLY THEN can I go on Skype with my friends and play League.

Anyway, Happy Birthday, mum! I got her a card that says she's the 'best mummy in the world', I thought she'd find that................................................. I've just remembered I left the price sticker on it. Well, at least it wasn't one of those horribly cheap ones, it was 99p ($1.51). Yeah, it's all better, Sam, you can make up for it when you go to the garden centre with her at the weekend to buy her her gift. Yeah. Anyway, Sam, stop blogging you have Game Design work to do. But first I think I'll wait for NerdE to text me back with his location so I can say hi to him. I'm just sort of trying to type as much as I can now, without actually saying anything. Last night's dream was weird, I dreamed I broke my legs (I've actually had another dream where I broke my legs as well, but that was a massive futuristic tank thing's fault), and a woman fell from somewhere above me onto a pane of glass above me, and I saw her arms all bent and disfigured. That's all I can remember. Yeah, I have weird dreams, my dream journal was supposed to prove it, but in all the time I've written in it, I haven't had any truly weird dreams, like the one with the serial killer bus driver. That was horrible! I'm now terrified of the colour red.

Skrim!

So, Film Studies exam today. It's gonna be fun on the bun! Seriously, I think I'm gonna be fine, it's my maths exams coming up that I think the problems lie. So, last night I went on the Wii U and PS3 because I hadn't in a while and I'd forgotten how fun it was to mess up my dad's TV time with the TV remote option for the Wii U GamePad. Super Mario World is awesome on the GamePad! The controls are perfect! And I got it discounted because I owned it on the Wii Virtual Console! Yay! I've got to get Megaman at some point. Mega Man? How is it spelled? With or without the space? Oh well, Skyrim is epic. Although I didn't manage to do a lot, I started last night's play session in the Soul Cairn and I finished last night's play session in the Soul Cairn. I only played for about half an hour. I have no idea what I'm going to do tonight, more Skyrim probably, I know it's not that important but I like to have a plan, even if I'm not going to stick with it, like yesterday, yes I uploaded VVVVVV Part V, but I didn't play this Hostile Waters. Actually, apparently VVVVVV hasn't finished processing yet, I'll have to look at that when I get home. I knew I should have looked at it this morning!

привет!

It's come to my attention that most of my page views are coming from Russia! That's not weird at all! To celebrate I've learned most of the Russian Epic Rap Battle of History. Unfortunately I don't know all of Rasputin's bits or some of Lenin's bits, but I will eventually, it could be my favourite one.

Anyway, today I had my first exam for these two weeks, Media Studies. The extract question wasn't bad, but it was the one area that our teacher told us not to study. That kinda could have gone better than it should have. But then I completely romped the essay question. I'm looking forward to getting a solid B. That's literally everything that's happened today apart from my brother going to Paris for 4 days, but that's his news not mine. I hope he brings me back a present. Oh yeah, I've decided tomorrow I'm going to upload my VVVVVV whether NerdE's uploaded my Super Meat Boy or not, and after some revision for my Film Studies exam on Wednesday I'll record this new Hostile Waters thing, I'll play a bit then decide whether it should be a One Shot or not. Also, we're scrapping the Pokemon X and Y NDTY, instead we're going to re-imagine it, I'm doing Nintendo games, NerdE's doing everything else, we're thinking about doing Batman: Arkham Origins.

Hurt...Hurt...

Arms...Pain...Never again...

Hurray! No more apologies!

Yup, I've decided to stop apologising whenever I miss a day doing this. Instead I'll do it whenever something happens to me, and you know what? I learnt something today. Me and NerdE went to Great Yarmouth to pick up our wigs for Comic-Con. My mum dropped us off there, and the road the shop is on is (in the Summer months) always filled with various cheapy shops and a few stalls. One of them was a pretty average carnival game stand. The man running it offered us each a ticket for a free go. Now, I'm not blaming NerdE for what happened next, but if I had been on my own, I would have just said "no, thanks" and sailed right past him. Anyway, NerdE said, before I said "no thanks", "yeah, alright then". So we had a go on this game. We had these hollowed out blocks of wood, imagine a cuboid with an opposite pair of longer sides missing. The game was to place 9 Ping-Pong balls into the wooden holder, then launch them forwards. The balls then fell into differently numbered slots. The numbers were then added up, and you would find that number on a grid. The numbers on the grid were 5 different colours: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Black. Red means instant win, you could either chose one of the big cuddly toys or £50 cash ($76.77), Blue means next game free, yellow and green mean lose, and black adds a £25 bonus ($38.39), but the bonus can only be applied if you go on to win. And there's a limit to the number of bonuses, you can get anything up to £200 ($307.08). Now, that's the game and I won't spare the details, but basically it ended with us needing a 33, a blue number or a red number to win £300 ($460.62) (that's the maximum bonus plus the £50 ($76.77) prizes), we could definitely have won it, but then we ran out of money. We only just had enough left over for the wigs and I had to borrow some money off my brother for lunch. We won't be returning there again... and my lesson today is that I will never do anything like that again, I spent about £60 ($92.12) trying to win that massive prize, and what did it get me? Lots of regret. I earned all of that money doing my gardening jobs and such, in case I haven't mentioned it before, that's my main source of income. Anyway, I don't want a gambling problem when I'm older, the odds are grotesquely in favour of the owners of the game/casino... not only that but it's a stupid thing to get into anyway, there's so much better stuff I could be doing with my time. Which reminds me, in the marvelous tradition of Sheep, I bought a game for 10p today (15c)! It's called Hostile Waters and I have no idea what to do in it! So that'll be fun to play! Also, the wig means I'm now set for Comic-Con! Bring on 25th May!

Wow, another apology?

Nope. I don't apologise. I didn't post yesterday because I was doing another VVVVVV. Good god that game's fun, and I really like this episode I've just done. The day after NerdE uploads my newest Super Meat Boy, I will bring to the world the glory of Episode V of VVVVVV. There's only a couple of episodes of it left before I've completed the game, which saddens me, and means I need to find something else to play. I want it to be Portal, but that might be a bit too mainstream. I play indie games. I think Closure could be a good choice. Or LIMBO's a nice short game, maybe I'll do that. MORE THOUGHT IS REQUIRED!!! I'll record the next One Shots tonight, I'd better prepare myself for some really intense gameplay of Super Hexagon. I'm not really looking forward to it. I'm so bad at it. But I have completed the first level, so that's 1/6 right? My cousin's completed the whole thing. HOW!?!?!? It's the hardest thing I've ever seen!

Sorry

I didn't do anything yesterday. I forgot. Oh well, let's move on. I can't remember anything happening yesterday anyway. But a nice lot of stuff happened today. Me and NerdE on the bus to college were making fun of our friend Elfman's hair. It looks like a pastry, it really does. It would look at home on a shelf next to some croissants in a quaint french bakery. If he went to Africa, not only would they think he's carrying some food on his head to bring back to his family, but they would try to eat it themselves. Was that offensive? I didn't mean it to be...sorry.
NerdE went home at lunch...AGAIN...I'm worried for that boy, he's such a hypochondriac, he's dangerously hypochondriac...there was NOTHING wrong with him, he just didn't want to go to his Environmental Science lesson. In case you didn't pick up from the start of this paragraph: he goes home at lunch 'ill' a lot.
On the bus home I sat with Elfman and his annoying little friend who I shall call...Tyrone. It was fine at first, Tyrone kept asking us 'would you rather...?' and 'what would you do if...?' questions. It was funny at first until he put the plastic bag on my head. He didn't let me take it off, but he did give me eye and mouth holes. He then tried to give me deodorant burns, but it didn't work because he was doing it on my legs and I was wearing jeans. So instead on my arm he gave me three 'inhaler' burns with his asthma inhaler, you can guess he pushed the mouth end hard into my arm and kept pushing the button. They're still there, quite red and swollen...oh, and Elfman wrote the infamous Chinese Proverb 'I AM HAPPY COCK' on my hand.
All was not lost, however, as when I got home, my jacket had arrived..yay...and it actually fits! YAY! Now I just need my wig and Comic-Con, here we come!

Sheep!

It was Bank Holiday Monday today in the UK, so we got the day off! Woo! So, I went to NerdE's and made a new Super Meat Boy video. It was actually quite fun, normally I'm worried because I have no idea what I'm going to do, but today was good. We played some Magic: The Gathering, I'm now fully getting to grips with my Simic deck, he's quite good at showing me the ropes there. I can see Magic as being something that I could really get into. But the highlight of the day was definitely a new game that NerdE's starting to play on his channel: SHEEP. He bought it ages ago for just 15p (that's 23c) but he only started playing it today. It's an amazing game, I highly recommend watching the video when he upload it just to have a look at the game, because it seems like it could be a really difficult game to find, and as far as I'm aware, there aren't any other people on YouTube who play it. So definitely have a look.

LEGO!

So today we went to Southwold, it's a seaside town that we live about 35 miles away from. For some reason my brother wanted to go there for his birthday day out. It's a very upper class place, very expensive goods for sale, lots of stuff that no one wants anymore that's had a fresh coat of matte paint and being sold as 'vintage'. It's been about 2 or 3 years since I last went. They have a great pier, with an attraction called the 'Under the Pier Show' which has a lot of machines (kind of like arcade machines) which have all been made by one man in his shed, and they're all different and really clever. There's one like a photo booth which takes pictures of different emotions, there's one which puts you into the eyes of a fly by using lots of mirrors, and there's a brilliant one where you use a zimmer frame to walk across a busy road to get to the bingo. That was fun, like usual, but not as fun as what happened when we went to the shops. When we went to Southwold when I was younger, we'd always go to the Post Office, because it's quite a big Post Office that sells lots of toys and things, but there was one item in particular this time. I was looking at the LEGO, and noticed a new breed of LEGO set: Marvel Super Heroes. Now, I knew a new LEGO Marvel game was on the way, but I had no idea they would release sets based on Marvel. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! It was a LEGO Spider-Man set, and on the side I noticed...right there in aerial combat with Beetle..Nova. You know what this means? Nova HAS TO BE in the game coming up...haha...

Potato!

It's that time again. Today went quite well, I got some money and some exercise, two things which I rarely seem to get any of. I'm uploading Bit.Trip Runner Part 3 as I type, I've rekindled my love for Rhett & Link which never really went away, I just stopped watching their videos for a couple of months. I've just watched their first Mythical Show. By God there were some absolute gems in there, I'm very much looking forward to the second one which I'll be watching tomorrow. Something else new and exciting which I watched today was the most recent episode of The Big Bang Theory (new to America, not the UK), the one with Professor Proton. By God that was definitely the best one in a long time. Especially the bit with the potato (I don't want to give too much away). Funny...potato...kind of reminds me of...Portal... Any-who, Monday I'm going round NerdE's house so I'll have a new Super Meat Boy up then.

Is this late or early?

Well, that was a raging success. Tonight started out great, we had a FANTASTIC meal out for my brother's birthday at an Indian place we hadn't been to before. The service was amazing and the food was sooooooo good. We even left a tip. That's a big deal in England. No one leaves tips, basically. But we had such a nice time we gave them £5, that's $7.78. It may not seem that huge, but trust me, that's a big tip here. I also managed to find the time to try that new mode in League of Legends, what is it? All random, all mid or something like that? I got Quinn, she seems like a good champion but I had never played as her before so I sucked. Our whole team sucked, we lost. So to make up for it we played a custom bot game and got a nice lot of kills, I was Blitz of course. Didn't manage to edit that Bit.Trip, though. Still, tomorrow's a new day...well, technically it is tomorrow, but we can let that slide. Should I watch that new Big Bang Theory before hitting the hay? No, I'll save it for tomorrow, something to look forward to. One last thing, new Super Meat Boy coming soon, as in 2 days time. Chau!

OH WAIT! I JUST REMEMBERED! I WON THE BID! WOOP WOOP! Hopefully this one won't be too small...

Happy Birthday

It's my brother's birthday today, he got a PSVita. Which is fine, it's his, I didn't pay for it, I don't really intend on playing on it, unless I really want to play on Katamari...which was my present to him. See what I did there? The card I got him had jelly beans on it and now I kind of want some jelly beans, the cookies at this college are nice, but you can only eat two until they become a bit tasteless. Talking about cookies is reminding me of cake which is reminding me of Portal. I want to play Portal again, either one is fine. No! I played Portal 2 for ages yesterday getting achievements, tonight me and NerdE need to re-record NDTY Episode 2, then I need to finish editing my next Bit.Trip, it must be done! Work before play! Like the Germans!

The Man

So, I've been thinking. Actually I've been thinking about this particular thing for months now. I've noticed how Marvel Comics have been releasing a lot of Movies/Games recently. So I was thinking that maybe they should stop, have a think and instead of just making something to get lots of money (HA!) they maybe should release something that the old school fans would enjoy. I know this is just me talking, and this isn't exactly a sales pitch, but I thought that maybe a good idea would be to release some games in conjunction to the third phase of Marvel movies. The third phase is focusing on characters that aren't as popular as the Hulks and Iron Mans that we know and love today. It's kicking off with Ant-Man. And I've been thinking for a while about a game in a similar graphical style to the Shank games based on Nova. The Man called Nova (Richard Rider, not this Sam Alexander...15 years old for crying out loud! Nova is a teenager, yes, but he becomes a man, 15 year old's can't be men, no matter how hard they try...Sam Alexander...BAH!). I want it now. I'm probably only mentioning this because of the prospect of a Nova movie, but still, I can dream, can't I? I would make this game myself, I have it all planned out on a Word document, I'm just worried that 1: it would suck, because I have next to no experience and 2: Copyright infringement. Still, it would be nice.

OK

Everything's going OK. I've uploaded One Shots, I recorded a new Bit.Trip last night, my favourite online store is now selling a Time Fcuk T-Shirt, I'm not winning in the bid, but at least I know that so I can increase my bid. Everything's OK. Still need to finish my Maths though, then after that I have more Maths. Fun. Oh God, I've just realised I need to do my Media as well. Well, I'd better get started...but when am I going to find the time to find my brother a birthday card?

Success!

I've finished One Shots Episode 1! It's saving as I type! It took longer than it should have...a lot longer, but at least that's one thing out of the way. What video should I do next? One Shots Episode 2? Braid? Closure? Cave Story? LIMBO? Or a new episode of VVVVVV or Bit.Trip Runner? Well, it doesn't matter too much because I need to finish my Maths homework, and go on Skype with Team 2012. By the way, Team 2012 is the collective name of my little group of friends that I go on Skype with/play League of Legends with. Anyway, the video's finished saving now so that's it for tonight.

Looking Good

Got my jacket for Comic-con that I bought off eBay yesterday. It doesn't fit, it's too small, so I'm sending it back. It's a real shame because of how fat I am. It's so hard to find one that would potentially fit me. I have managed to find another, but I have to bid on it and I'm running out of time. I'm not even sure if it will fit, it's probably the biggest one I would be able to find on eBay, but even if it does fit, it's probably going to be quite tight. I'm currently the highest bidder, but if this one is too small, I have no idea what to do... I should probably stop worrying about it for now. I'll just go and play Magic. That's right, I want to start playing a trading card game. I'm going to build a Simic deck. Yeah, I'm going to go now, I'm sitting here watching all of my friends walk past, do I'm going to catch up with them. Hopefully I'll finish editing One Shots tonight, so that's something to look forward to.

Well, that was a hoot

Princess Anne came to the college today. I was one of the students selected to represent Games Design, along with two other students. We (as well as some Media students) were all in a computer room together, she came in, we stood there for a while, I worried about whether I had my fly up or not, then when we sat back down we watched a Cyber Bullying thing that the Media students made. That was fun. She then came to talk to us Games students. I use the term "us" loosely because she didn't in fact talk to all of us, just one of us. This was probably because I apparently had to use a computer slightly separate to the other two, because my work was saved on THAT computer, and I couldn't use another. Anyway, she talked to this student, she looked at the other student's work, she completely ignored me, and put this Media student on the spot then left. There were about 12 other students that she just completely blanked. Now, I'm not blaming her Royal Highness; she was on a tight schedule. In fact there isn't really anyone I can blame for basically wasting our time. In fact I don't know what my point is, so I'll make one. I'm glad they chose Princess Anne. The other choice was Stephen Fry. STEPHEN FRY. I LOVE STEPHEN FRY. You may be asking yourselves: "But Sam, if you love him, why are you glad he wasn't there?" Well, if that exact series of events had happened, but with Stephen Fry instead of Princess Anne, I would not be able to live anymore. I would not have spoken to him. He would have blanked me. I would be so... unhappy... anyway... back to editing One Shots...

Bad News...

The episode of NDTY I said I was going to edit tonight? Turns out we never recorded it. This means less work for me, but I still have this bloody One Shot to do which I'm having some trouble with, and we now need to think up something for a new NDTY fairly soon. Instead I think I'll record a new video. I think I'll start a new game, like Cave Story or Braid or Closure or something like that. I need some time to think...

Confession (contains Spoilers)

I'm going to be honest with everyone who happens to find this. I haven't been as loyal to my videos as I should be. My excuse is college work, but I'm not actually doing any of that, with the exception of Maths. My last video was published 2 months ago. In that two months I have recorded one more video for a new series I'm starting called One Shots. It remains unedited. I have also been meaning to edit the next episode of Nintendo Direct to You (which is what NDTY means), again there is no particular reason as to why I haven't done this. I write this whilst on a free peiod at college. Tonight, I'm going to finish my Maths homework as soon as I get in, have my dinner and start editing NDTY Episode 2 - Pokemon X and Y. Just a heads up to anyone who wants to watch it: some of the facts may be a bit out dated. By the end of the week I want both of the previously mentioned videos to be finished. May I add that I want to do this despite it being my brother's birthday on Friday. This weekend I'm going to finish the videos, record about 3 more and then get to work on my next piece for Deviant Art. You, who may or may not be reading this, may be asking yourself why I'm writing this. The reason is to motivate me. I see this as a kind of diary. I've always been meaning to write a diary. Let's see how this turns out.