The Woo

This Valentine's Day You Have a Date. . .

2012-02-07T21:35:00.000-05:00

. . .WITH DESTINY!

I don't know, we mentioned Valentine's Day and dates in my class. That crummy joke was all I could think of for the following hour and a half.

It was amazing.

So how have you all been? I know I know, I said something about posting more. Well you should go to my other blog, y'know, the one that I'm being forced to post to for class. Yeah, this whole paragraph is a hyperlink. Got a problem with that?

So go ahead and check that out, follow it and make sure that it behaves while I'm busy being awesome elsewhere. Oh yeah, I'm being awesome elsewhere.

I did this Let's Play that shows how terrible I am at searching for levers a few days ago. I though it went well.

Other stuff:
Well I'm once again in one of those "I can't really talk about that stuff right now" positions. It isn't because I'm trying to build suspense or anything (although that is a bonus) I just don't have anything solid with what I'm working on. It's all some pretty cool stuff, just not quite the reality.

Bottom line is I'm lovin life and have a smile on my face, regardless of how cold it is here. (The wind on Eastern's campus is turrible.) So I'm gonna work on stuff that's awesome and hopefully share it with you awesome people.

Yeah I'm in an "everything is awesome" mood, and that's just awesome.

Have an awesome day/night/morning/evening/afternoon/beforenoon/taco time, I'll be seein ya later.

If you don't enjoy any of the journey toward your dream, you're chasing the wrong dream. I know what my dream is and I know I'm gonna have a great time gettin there.

See ya'll later.

I still haven't learend how to juggle...

2012-01-22T20:33:00.000-05:00

So I have this new blog. . .

NO NO DON'T GET MAD, IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!

I HAD to make this new blog for my digital journalism class, which is both awesome and kind of sucks.

Why it's awesome:
1. A class that is forcing me to blog? I have done a pretty crappy job of maintaining this,but if I have a blog I HAVE to post to for credit, well that's a lot a lot more posts than you would normally be expecting of me.

2. This should improve my already awesome skillz. Yep, did just typed that with a z on purpose.

Why it sucks:
1. I have to be newsy. Yeah, I know that isn't really a word. But it means I have to watch my grammar, put a little less personality out there and blog about stuff that actually seems like a journalism student should blog about. So no posting about video games and memes and YouTube videos. Yikes.

2. I'm being forced to use wordpress. While the design of the site is pretty decent, I've spent about half a year on here an know how to work half of the things. It took me about 5 minutes just to figure how to make a new post on wordpress, that's a little ridiculous.
Also, wordpress has this tendencey to input words slower than I type them. I'm not sure if that's the site or the connection to it, but this means that if I hit backspace 3 times it will look like it only did it one time, then in a couple seconds i will do the other 2 backspaces.

3. I don't get to post here. Sure, I'll be posting more overall, but I still feel a strong connection with
this blog. Plus I have an awesome blog title here, where as the other one is just "Aaron's Journalism Blog" Note: That's how you say 'lame' in three words.

So yeah, it's a bit of bittersweet news. Sorry =(

I'll have a link posted once there is actually a post worth reading up on that blog.
I think I may also post on here every time I write on there, just in case you would rather just check here for both blogs.

I appreciate both you reading and your boundless patience.

You all rock!
THANKS =D

Not to be confused with "sofa"

2012-01-18T17:20:00.001-05:00

Alright, I'm usually all light-hearted and such on here, but there's actually a serious issue that I want to talk about.
*Puts on serious shades*
SOPA.
Oh, and I guess PIPA.
Okay, so I'm assuming that you've already heard about it. If you have, go ahead and skip this next paragraph. If you haven't heard of SOPA (and PIPA) you can read my real quick summary paragraph or read the Wikipedia article (on SOPA - on PIPA), ironically the only articles not blacked out on the English site today.

So SOPA works like this: Say you have a website and you post anything with a picture, words or even a sound that is copyright material. The creator of that material finds it, decides they don't like that you have their stuff and can then tell the U.S. Court to take your site down. There's also the chance of you being arrest. Think like this: No YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, or Facebook. Google would still be around, but they would not be able to link to any sights that have been flagged as having copyright material.

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Back from the Brink

2012-01-06T16:55:00.000-05:00

Well I am back, not so sure what I mean by brink. Maybe this.

Anyways, I'm back, and that's all that matters. I know I left you high and dry. The last post I made, which could barely be called a paragraph, was made way back when I was taking finals.
Excuse #1: Finals
On top of those I had to deal with work, as always, and there were some rather large swim meets towards the end of the semester.
Excuse #2: Work/Swim Meets
But the true problem here is that I was just trying to actually enjoy life a bit more. I had been playing
Xbox A LOT less than usually and I had just been pretty chill.
Excuse #3: Uhm, laziness, I suppose.

So those are my excuses for not posting in the last month of 2011. Take em if you will, either way I'm just gonna keep typing.

So now I'm here, sitting at a table in the house I grew up, all the stuff that needs to be packed sitting around me and I'm starting to leave the fantasyland that is winter break.
It was an incredibly long, restful and much needed break. But it's 2012. Time to get my game on.

So what exactly does 2012 have in store for Aaron Dwenger?

Well lots of real cool s*** (hopefully) and lots more 'productions.'
Between my new laptop and some other equipment I've aquired over break, I have absolutley no excuse not to go forward in the video making process.
So, Allons-y!

I know that I've made a lot of these posts in the past, but lets make this my new year's resolution:
Make some real cool sh*t.
K? Radical.

School is about to pick up in a few short days and I'm not sure if this little blog will lay forgotten again. I'm not going to make any goals, that just feels strained. I'll post either when I think I've let this lay in anguish long enough or whenever something grips me enough that I think it needs to be typed up and shot out in these interwebs.

So I hope all of you had a good holiday, I hope all of you had a chance to catch their breath like I did, because end of the world or not, 2012 is gonna be special. Let's make it ours.

As always, thanks for reading and for being patient. I hope I can make it worth your while.

I'll keep this brief.

2011-12-15T02:58:00.001-05:00

Finals SUUUUUUUUUHHUUUUCK.

That is all.
Hope you all are doing great, I'll get to yah in time.

I Used to be a Blogger, then I Took a Meme to the Knee.

2011-12-10T13:32:00.000-05:00

Oh Skyrim, why do I know so much about you without playing you yet?

Well let me begin with a big 'ol whoopsie on not posting for over a week again.
There were multiple times that I considered making a nice little post, but sayings I've written about 20 papers in the last week alone (counting revisions) I can understand why I wasn't really wanting to type up something for enjoyment.

I'm here now, so I suppose that's the important thing.
What's this, I have videos I've made?
BAM!

AND KERPOW

The first video is something I put together with my friend while we were testing Fraps, the mini-server we set up and then got bored and built a giant tower of Dynamite. We thourougly crashed the server and our hosting company wasn't too happy about it.
Well that is what we pay them for.

The second video also includes my friend Frank doing some very brave voice acting (which was recorded at like 4AM) This video was for my project in my Harry Potter class, as you can tell by the theme. I think it turned out pretty good for how last minute I had to make it.

It feels real good to have content again. Oh yeah baby, I'M BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!

Well not exactly, I'm still working on some stuff that I'm not exactly going to say until it's at least close to being ready, but I am working on stuff.

Besides all of that stuff, it's official time for finals, so I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to ensure my B average. Hooray.

Holidays are coming up and I'm hoping to get a new mic with some Christmas money, so we'll see about that. I'm setting very loose goals for myself, if there aren't any expectations then I can't fail anyone, right?

Sure, that's how life works.

I hope you all are doing well, I'll get all philosophical on you later, I've got places to be.

Peace off home dawg skillet McBiscuitGriddleWrap.

What do you think?

2011-11-30T18:37:00.000-05:00

Hello Blog, how are you today?
I'm actually doing pretty fantastic. I've got good food in my stomach (good tasting, not exactly good for me), an energy at my side, some pretty kickin music playing loud enough to rock to but not loud enough to give me a headache, a night that is clear of normal scheduled events and a world of possibilities.

So yeah, sounds awesome.
Instead of spending all of my time watching some random Minecraft Let's Play, I decided I would make a list of what I wanted to accomplish today. I started forming this list in my head at work (around 8PM) and have been actually writing it as I went along.

My list of things I want to accomplish today are:
(x)Get tasty food
(x)Aquire energy drinks
(x)Make it to every class on time
(x)Take the long way when walking somewhere
(x)Compliment at least 5 girls in the student center, not necessarily attractive
(x)Write a blog post
( )Clean apartment
( )Begin Journalism rewrites
( )Call family
( )Script and record some footage for a class project
( )Beta test game while servers are live
( )Record some footage for let's play/commentary
( )Play a game (other than mincraft) for personal enjoyment
( )Go to sleep before 2AM

So yeah, these are just some of my goals for today. I've accomplished half of them and I got a good feeling for the rest.

SEGUE!!!!

I have no idea how to change topics of "Holy crap I have time to get stuff done!" to "Serious Panda." So I thought a blatant work would work out well. It was nice, wasn't it?

So last night I went to listen to Kwame Kilpatrick talk as it was mandatory for Journalism class. For those of you who have never heard his story: Kwame Kilpatrick is the former mayor of Detroit who gained a lot of media attention, even nation media attention, when he lied about having an affair with his wife.
Now there's a lot of reasons why a person could argue for or against Kilpatrick, I'm going to say that I'm right down the middle. The man made a lot of mistakes, and I can't really respect anyone who cheats on his wife, especially someone who lies about it, but he's also been roasted by the media and put into jail on, as he put it, bull crap charges. (Not a direct quote!)
I found it very hard to respect the man, especially with his history, but I was surprised to find that I did have respect for the message he delivered in this speech. He spoke mainly about making sure that you think critical and that you don't let anyone, including media or friends, make your conclusions for you.
Now this is a message that feel is important as well. People today are so influenced by others opinion, especially here on the internet. I know what you're thinking "This is the internet though, people definitely have opinions, they're thrown in my face daily!"
It's true that the internet is full of people ready to protect their opinion while massacring your own, but how do we know that the opinion actually belongs to them? It is completely possible for them to read what someone else posted and then decide that that's their own opinion.
I've seen it time and time again. "Man I hate this!" "That groups is such bullshit!" "I heard that. . ." It's pretty much high school drama that comes into the real world.
Didn't end well then and I'm positive it won't work now.

I'm fine living in a world where everyone is yelling at each other because we all have our own values and haven't let someone take away the one true freedom we have as human beings.

I guess that was a little preachy, but that's whats been cooking in my head all day.
Main point:
Just do you and you'll do fine.

Well I'll be anticipating your ~~hate mail~~ opinions. Hope you all have a good one!

Mission Acomplished.

2011-11-26T13:44:00.001-05:00

Happy "Oh Thank God That's Over" Saturday!
I hope all of you either scooped up some fantastic deals during Black Friday, or had a good time laughing at the expense of all of the people waiting in the cold for things that you could afford to buy at normal price. You're a jerk.

Just kidding, I'm completely aware that some people 1. Couldn't get out for various reasons 2. Were not old enough to camp out in a line 3. Are completely broke. 4. Don't like Pneumonia.

So whether or not you got out on Black Friday was up to you, but I sure did.
Remember that little issue with me REALLY needing a new computer?
That's no longer an issue.

Yep, this is my first blog post from my fantuckingfastic new laptop. Note: That's an excited "fantuckingfastic," not a sarcastic one.

So yep, all of those hollow promises? Well they may still be hollow, but I'm minus one excuse. It was a pretty big excuse, so content may actually be made.

Well I still have 2.7 billion things to get done before Monday. . .
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

I cannot wait for Christmas break. I get a whole three weeks off, so it'll be just me and you. And everyone else.

Meh.

Well I hope you all have a good holiday weekend and enjoy it, cause you deserve it!

Whelp, I'ma get out of here.

Where It Is Due

2011-11-24T01:54:00.000-05:00

If you're guessing about the title, well...
I'M BRINING THANKSGIVING BACK
YOU DISRESPECTFUL BLOGGERS DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACT
I'M TRYING TO PARODY A SONG THAT I'VE NEVER FULLY HEARD
SO JUST ACCEPT MY THANKS AND ALL THAT

That was. . . special.

I really just wanted to take a moment and thank you for reading my blog.
Let's just take a moment to forget the bad times, the indifferent times and maybe even some of the good times we feel a little guilty for enjoying too much.
Now that all of those are out of your head because I just brought them up. . .
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

I would say that I couldn't do this without you, but this a blog that doesn't really have a following or much fan input. What I will say is that I wouldn't do this if it weren't for you.
The fact that the view count of this page goes up at least a little bit every time I check on it is the reason why I keep writing on it.
I like having a blog, not a glorified journal.

So today is Thanksgiving, a day to eat turkey, be with family and friends and gear up for the Black Friday Brawl. Good luck out there everybody.

Don't get trampled.

Well, I'm gonna go beg somone who is 2nd in line at Best Buy to let me go in with them tomorrow.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Two words missing from the title: Giving Thanks (Just in case your tryptophan impaired minds don't get it)

Nothing hurt but my pride... and my shoulder.

2011-11-22T15:44:00.001-05:00

So hello everyone, how ya'll doin today?
I hope it's good. I never really know.
Well duh.

So yeah. So I like say so a lot so that's uhm so not cool.
Seriously, if you have a gun I'll let you shoot me.
Besides the annoying mannerisms that I make me hate myself, I have another reason to be disappoint with me.

I just finished the last piece of work I have to do before I get off for Thanksgiving break, whoo!
Not really.
This is absolutely the worst I think I've ever done on a paper that I've been in control in. While I can sit here spinning excuse after excuse I know I'm really he only one to blame. This is the first serious assignment we've had where I couldn't just interview a friend, and I pretty much did just that.
I guess I should just take the real bad grade I have coming and use this as a life lesson. Ugh.
Introvert ≠ Good Journalist

So here we are again, me talking where the world can hear me, yet I have to admit one thing that I hate the most about myself:
I am shy.

That's pretty much it. I don't like talking to new people especially "authority figures" such as the business type people I would have had to speak to for this article. I did send out a few emails that if answered could have led somewhere, but that was pretty much set to fail right away.

So here I sit with a story that is not the topic assigned and is a really bad fluff piece.
Maybe I should be a professional fan-fic writer.
Now there's an oxymoron.

Enough beating myself, now I have to call this a passable blog post.
Mostly just because my shoulder is in immense pain.

This Tuesday feels like a Monday.
A really bad Monday.

I'll try to post something less sucky over the break so you don't have to stare at me beating myself up over homeowork for too long.

This blog is my way of venting, so now you know.
Knowledge is half the battle axe. The other half is cocaine.

I don't know, don't do drugs.
Or reindeer.

Yeah, I'm done. Goodbye!

I like trains.

2011-11-14T14:03:00.000-05:00

I'm currently constructing a playlist in iTunes called "The internet is for music." So many musical memes, so little time.
There's like five different variations on Nyan Cat on here.
This video pretty much sums up the playlist:

This resonates with the mix of music and memes that is my core.

IT'S AWSOM!

So yeah, that's a thing.
So how are you all doing?
Besides being buried under homework, studying for exams, work, trying to enjoy some of the new game releases and maintaining a social and family life I'm doing good. Maybe I should take up juggling?

Well there is some hope on the horizon for me, Thanksgiving break is coming so I get a few precious days off. When that happens I will do what I do.
What is that exactly? I have no idea.
This is normally the part where I would promise content, but we all know that when I promise content it rarely comes. Heck, I'm proud of myself for making a post on here just a week after the last one. That is sad.

SOOOO I'm just gonna try to enjoy a break and if a video gets made, a story is written or a parody of mine finally gets produced you will be about the eighth to know.
Don't get upset, there will be at least two people working on it with me plus all of the people who I "test" it on.
It'll be big news if I actually make something that isn't a CoD commentary.
BIG.
NEWS.

Speaking of the news I have A LOT of things to re-type for journalism. I recently discovered that my professor is a copy editor for one of the larger newspapers in this area. FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-
Explains the thorough grading on most of my papers. Tell you the truth I'd rather have harsh professor who knows his stuff compared to an idiot who hands out As.

Although a free A would be nice right about now.

So as I said earlier I was picking up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
My verdict:
I like it. I don't love it, but I like it.
I do have to say I was enjoying Black Ops a lot more, or at least if feels that way. I was better at Black Ops right away at least -_-
Still, the game has only been out for a week and people are still getting used to everything so I can't really evaluate the multilayer right away.
Single player was freakin epic, that's the only thing I came into MW3 with high expectations for and they were met.
Good show ol chaps, good show.

Well that's all I got for now.

Read that as: This is the first time class has been canceled in about a month so I'm gonna go enjoy some freedom.

Read that as: I'm gonna play some video games.

Have a good one ladies and gents.

I'm not proofreading in hopes that Zakk reads this and his brain implodes.

The Modern Combat Evolved Scrolls 3: Anniversary Edition

2011-11-07T19:59:00.000-05:00

Yeah, so that title is pretty much a combination of what all gamers will be preoccupied with over the next few months.
Holy crap I have developed too much of a life for this many games to be released at once.
I don't know if I should be proud of myself for thinking of all the games coming out and feeling sad that I'll be too busy trying to enjoy them AND do good in college or if I should just keep calm and carry o-

I see. Thank you wise Master Googhasersh, your wisdom has once again proved invaluable.

Well yeah, that pretty sums up my future in a nutshell.
If you still can't tell what I'm saying here:
I HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES AS A STUDENT, EMPLOYEE, FRIEND, BROTHER AND SON THAT WILL MAKE PLAYING THESE GAMES DIFFICULT.

Happy?
Yeah, I'm being a bummer again, but I'm trying to get all of you awesome readers to understand why I may just fall off the map like I did in September. I won't be dead, although it may have felt like I've died and gone to heaven.

Well that's my future, so let's take a look at my past.
For once, IT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!
If you don't follow me on Twitter, or even use the energy to look at the little twitter box on the right of the screen then you would not know why this weekend was so awesome. So let me break it down for you.

Oh yes, I'm going to rhyme. And I'm gonna pace it just in time.

Yo let me tell you the story of how
this weekend I went do Detroit and said "Wow"
No, I wasn't looking at a homeless man
fighting a dog for a piece of ham
instead I went with some friends to Youmacon
where a lot of people cosplayed as Pokemon
No seriously, it was quite over done
seeing 79 Pikachu's made it no fun
though I suppose that wasn't quite as bad as Link
seeing the same costume over sure does stink
So I'm pretty sure you're saying my rhymes are bad
but don't worry bro, I ain't even mad
instead I'll go back to my usual blog style
don't worry, I won't break it down like this for a while.
KILL MASAKO!!
Word.

You should know the only word I had to stop and think on was Youmacon. I'm impressed and I just did that. So yeah, Youmacon 2011 was pretty legit. I've never really been to any other conventions before so I can't compare it to anything, but even if it was worse than a lot of the bigger conventions, (which is something some random guy said, not my personal opinion) I still had a freakin blast there.

While this was my first experience in the world of conventions, it was also my first experiences in the world of cosplay. I have never seen so many creative people in one place before, the work that had to have been done by some of these people just blew my mind.
So that's why I felt a tad embarrassed in what I did.

Let me tell you the whole story:
NOTE: This is really long winded and can probably be skipped over if you really don't care about my personal life. I'm guessing you're here because you're bored however, so read on if you like.

Friday- I work starting at 7AM (wakin up in the mornin) and get off at 2:30PM. I go back to my apartment and immediately text my friend asking if he wants to hang out when I get to my home town later that night. Feeling real tired from work I eat something and watch videos on YouTube for a couple hours. Finally, as I'm leaving my apartment at 5PM my friend texts me saying that he was going to head up to Youmacon with some mutual friends. I had wanted to go, however no one else I knew was really going so I didn't make any plans on it. Turns out these guys wanted to enter a Gears 3 tournament there and had to be there by 6, mind you the drive from Detroit is about 30 minutes from my hometown and my hometown is a 40 minute drive from where I go to school.
I made it to my hometown in 30 minutes even with a traffic jam on the freeway and we made it to the convention in 20 minutes.
Then we proceeded to get lost in the building where Youmacon was held because it was the most confusing and comprehensible building that I ever did see. They still got into the tournament and lost right away, but whatever. It was awesome.
After seeing all the cosplayers having a ball I knew by the end of the night that I didn't want to be some random guy in a hoodie at Youmacon. So once I was home for the night the work began.
With a little help from my dad I was able to whip something together in two hours. Mind you we ran out of ink in the process, my dad had already taken the medicine that puts him to sleep and like I said I was up since about 6AM, but at 2AM Saturday morning it was done.
What was I working on?
Well I've already professed my love of minecraft here at least once, but I hope you guys truly understand it after you see this:

I was "Steve Perrson" (left) from minecraft. He is the default "skin" of the player and the face of minecraft whenever the creeper(right) isn't stealing all of the limelight.
You should note that when I ran into this guy he said "I've been sssssearching for you all day."
I pretty much crapped my pants.

Saturday- I of course overslept my alarm. I was supposed to get up at 8A and get ready, stop at the bank, get food and pick two people up. It didn't quit work like that. Instead at 9:35, 10 minutes before we were supposed to meet at someones house my friend calls me. Whoops.
We were an hour late but still made it in time for the TeamFourStar panel. If you don't know who TeamFourStar is, then you should probably click on the link I've just dropped twice now. It will send you to their YouTube page. TeamFourStar are the makers of Dragon Ball Z abridged and are just a team of funny dudes who make me laugh. I can say this confidently, they're just as funny, if not more funny, in person.
Up next was the Little Kuriboh panel. I hadn't actually realized that these two panels were back to back so that was a pleasant surprise. Little Kuriboh is also famous from a YouTube abridged series, however his most popular work is Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged, which is actually the first "abridged" anything that I ever saw.

Note: Can't get YouTube to open for some reason. Just search TeamFourStar/Dragon Ball Z Abridged and Little Kuriboh/CardGamesFTW/Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged if you want to see their work.

So yeah, those two panels alone made my life. Then there was walking around as Steve. Three words on that: Feels good man.
It was reaaally lazy cosplay, but I was the only Steve there so I view it as a success. Not to mention the fact that they sold foam minecraft pickaxes in the dealer room. That's just fate.

Sunday- I slept till like 2PM and it felt go. No, I didn't go to Youmacon at all yesterday. Instead I spent a nice day with my dad and neglecting my dirty apartment to watch the Walking Dead all night. It was a good day.

That's it, that was my weekend. I didn't realize I would go into such depth without going into so much depth. That makes sense, right?
I could go over every encounter I had, talk about the mega man fan panel that I really didn't belong in or even talk about the Halo: Reach tournament that wasn't but I just don't think you'd find that too interesting.

Oh yeah, a little kid who also had a minecraft box head, not Steve, probably his personal skin, challenged me while I was in the game room to a 1v1 in Black Ops.
Didn't have the heart to tell him how much I play.
It was the guiltiest chopper gunner I've ever earned.

You just can't beat Steve.

Well that's it for now. Once I get out of here I'm gonna go wait in line for a ridiculous amount of time for a video game. This pretty much sums up me as a person, doesn't it.
Have a good one folks!

Bloggity Froggity Moo!

2011-10-27T19:48:00.000-04:00

It's like bibbity bobbity boo but blog themed.
Hey, it doesn't have to be funny if its related to the holiday.

Looking back to my old post talking about Halloween I may have jumped the gun a little bit. Figures, when I actually prepare not to post for a while I start posting more frequently.
La dee da.

Now for an update to my whole "Should I be The Engineer for Halloween?" question. I am NOT being the Engineer for Halloween. The suspenders alone would have cost around $40 not to mention a hard hat, wrench, etc. So instead I took the easy way out. The very easy way out. I'm not going to say who I am going to be, however I will drop some mad hints:
1. I wear a hat.
2. I need to shave.
3. I'm video game related.
4. I have a job, but you never see me do it in my game.

That should be good enough. If you can guess it than you will win 15 Internets and I will strongly consider mailing you something.
I would like to quickly point out that the browser said "internets" was spelled incorrectly but "Internets" is right. Ugh.

Well I hope all of you at home are doing alright. Well I suppose you could also be reading this on a laptop or smartphone. Heck, maybe even a school computer.
In that case, I hope all of you are doing alright. I'm just peachy.

Battlefield 3 recently released and I've been playing a good amount of it, when it lets me. You see, the matchmaking in Battlefield 3 is still very very flawed. While most glitches in the game have been taken out it's still a pain in the rump to try to find some friends and party up with them. Its just as hard to find a game that I'll remain connected to in quick match.
I'm hoping that Dice and EA are working on these issues and won't just leave us to fend for ourselves, but I thought they would have been better prepared for this stuff after the beta.
All of these flaws aside, Battlefield 3 is a freakin amazing games, and those moments of awesome team work have been the reason I've woken up in the morning for this week.

For lack of a funnier picture about Battlefield:

Imagine fighting a T-Rex in Battlefield.

I wants.

So there's what I've been up to. Class. Work. Social interactions. Video Games. It's a wonder that people want to hear about my life.

Well I'm assuming people want to hear about my life, but you know what happens when you assume. You're as some e.

Right, that's the saying.

Thanks for reading, goodnight folks!

Dream On

2011-10-22T14:34:00.001-04:00

Before reading I must implore you to start that video, then listen as you read.
It'll be worth it. (It may be loud and if you're in public headphones are recommended)

Haha, I'm listening to the music while I'm typing and I feel like I need to write some sort of epic poem just to do it justice.
This post won't be quite heroic enough to suit that, but I'll try to make it a good one.

God this music is great. What? Oh sorry, maybe typing and listening to this was a bad idea. It's distracting in an awesome sort of way. Moving on!

A single day gap!? Yep, I'm switching things up again by actually posting to this twice in one week. Take a deep breath, it's all gonna be okay.
I was actually reading through some of my old posts before starting this one and I realize that I said I would post daily, then I said that I probably wouldn't, then I promised I would and then I disappeared for the better part of a month. I'm just a train wreck when it comes to a schedule.

To clarify things I'm switching up what I exactly had in mind when I started this blog. My Utopian vision of me reviewing things, posting cool gadgets and being AWSOM was caused by me dreaming too big and going "Yeah I can do this!" instead of actually looking at what I have: outdated equipment, a laptop that consistently crashes and less free time than I've ever had in my life. The fact that I still find time to do all of this is nothing short of amazing, and is probably the reason why I'm averaging at 3 1/2 hours of sleep a night. My banner does not lie.

So here's the reality of the situation: This blog is going to be a lot more like most traditional blogs. I'll say my two cents on issues, talk about some stuff that's important to me and post whenever I can. If that doesn't work for you than please actually say something about it, because I don't know exactly what people want, I just know what I can and can't give.

That's the reality, here's the fantasy. Someday (maybe even soon!) I hope to be all of those things I brought up in that first post. A reviewer, entertainer and general content provider. I hope to be making the best that I can make and the only restriction will be my creativity and how much awesome the internet can handle. (which is quite a bit!)

Until such a day that I can finally be all of those things I see when I close my eyes I'm just gonna work with what I've got, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. If anything I hope this blog could even chronicle me accomplishing all of those things I've ever wanted to accomplish.

For now just know I'll post when I can and I'll do my very best to say things that are entertaining in these posts. I know it's easy to look at the walls of text I post and think "words words words" but I try my hardest to make that into "freakin great story"

I'm gonna keep looking forward here, I've got a good feeling about tomorrow. It's a brand new day.

Dream as if anything is possible, live as if your dream is possible.

While I have the chance I would also like to ask any of you to respond to these posts. Like I stated earlier, I can't make things that people want to see if I don't know what they want. I can usually make a good guess as to the demographic that will find my content interesting, however I'm also just as likely to guess wrong. So please please please respond to whatever I post as you see fit. There is indeed a comment section found at the bottom of each blog post and you don't even need to sign into anything to leave a comment. There is an option to "post as anonymous" and while I may be inviting trolling I'd gladly take 5 troll comments to receive a single constructive comment.
Last post I asked a bunch of questions to try to raise a response out of anyone. So far I haven't gotten a response. While I'm not really surprised I promise (and this one I can keep!) that I don't bite. Like I said, you can post as anonymous so there is nothing to lose!

As always thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed the music. I haven't really poked around DragonstarDT's channel as I was sent this song by a friend and it has become the anthem of most my school papers. I know that Dragonstar mixed this music himself and he did an excellent job of it.

I'll see you all later, hope your weekends going good.

Boo!

2011-10-20T20:02:00.000-04:00

Now that's a title with impact.
Admit it, I scared you.
Go on.
It's easy, just say it with me "That was scary."
See, easy as cake.
Wait, you didn't say it with me?
This isn't Dora the Explorer?
I just admited semi out loud that my own title scared me?
This whole "give the impression that someone is saying this and I'm repeating it in the form a question" thing is getting old?
Oh. . . sorry.

Well as you can tell by the title IT'S ALMOST HALLOWEEN OMGWTFBBQ!!!! (Side note: What in god's name is a "what the f*** barbeque?)

Yeah, it's almost here that spooky season that I love so much. Seriously I can't even wait for it. I mean, I'm not a prankster. I have no plans of egging or tee peeing someone, I've never done that stuff, I just love the whole feel of Halloween. I suppose I've always found that paranormal stuff (spooky is a good way to describe it) really interesting.
So I've been watching those scary movies, re-reading my zombie survival guide and pretty much enjoying the whole ride as usual, but this year I'm kind of drawing to an anticlimax as October 31st approaches. You see, while I am 19 years old and some would consider this pretty much the right time, this is the first year I'm not going trick-or-treating.
I'm going to go ahead and point out that I'm not sad that I'll be missing the free candy. I have a job, if I really want that snickers bar I can just go buy one (and for a fat guy I actually rarely have candy cravings).
No, the thing I'm bummed out about is dressing up and having a good time with friends. I don't know why, but the concept of just dressing up as something you aren't for a night and playing that role seems really refreshing to me. That on top of the fact that I've always had some real kick a** costumes (thanks mom) means that I'm used to the 31st being a day of something different and awesome.
This year Halloween falls on a Monday. Yep, Monday. The start of the week. The day I have four classes and two shifts at work. . . Happy Halloween!
So no going home this Halloween and no celebrating with friends. There are a few parties I was invited to, but I just don't have the time. Nope, instead I get to sit where I sit now *cough* I am not at work! *cough* and make sure EMU's pools are running smoothly.
The only redeeming factor here is that I could still dress up. The place that I work, EMU's Rec/IM, has a "Halloween Potluck" going on all day, which is really just a nicer way of saying Halloween party. So that gives me an excuse to wear my costume into work, and yes the costume would actually be fine to wear while I work.
The costume I had in mind was the Engineer from Team Fortress 2. (see pic below) It seems like a pretty easy costume to pull off: get overalls, a blue shirt, hardhat, goggles, rubber glove and a wrench. I would have to do a bit of work on the shirt but that's it. Oh, and a southern accent, but I'll have that nice and practiced.
So what I want to know is if you all think I should go ahead and prepare this costume and wear it to work/class during the day. I'm guessing more than a few people will get it as I am on a college campus, I just want to know everyone's opinion. If I do go ahead and do it I'm sure there will be pictures available and I'll post some.
If you think I should, just let me know in the comments.
The Engineer:

Another (more awesome) angle:

In other news:
I'm STILL in the process of saving up for that computer. I'm still estimating the earliest I would get it will be around Christmas, until then I can just drool at various websites. As I said before I want to start doing a lot more things when I get it, especially videos. I've already posted a link to my YouTube channel, I'm just wondering now if I should start fresh when I get this new laptop.
My current channel isn't very well known at all, there's only one person who comments on every video I post and it's usually really dumb stuff. While I do have some videos that I've done that I really like I also have some videos I'm iffy about. I post whatever I make up to that thing and there have only been a few "wtf did I post!?" videos that I've actually taken down. Some have also been lost to copyright, such as the bleeped version of "I'm on a Boat", but I doubt those will ever make it back onto YouTube.
So yeah, I guess I'm still trying to decide what my focus is or even if I want a focus. I like machinima, and while it's an absolute pain to make anymore I still jump at the chances to record whenever they appear. Live action skits are like the bread and butter of most YouTube accounts, and I've got some great ideas but not the resources to pull them off. There's also all the stuff I'm making for school, like a commercial I was just assigned to make, no idea what I'm gonna do yet but I really want to make it good. Then there's vlogging.
I've started thinking about vlogging, and trust me if I were prettier I would probably be doing vlogs in place of this blog. Don't get me wrong, I love to write and share ideas in words, that's why I'm writing this blog, however I just don't have too much time. Heck writing out this has taken a good 20 minutes or so and I haven't even put any sources, links and pictures in. I've also had the idea to do a kind of hybrid machinima/vlog (<spell check loves this) where I show gameplay and just talk over it, similar to SeaNanners' approach but I would barely even notice the game except to start and stop talking.
I'm not really sure where I would go. I think I like being the guy who does a little of everything and is even willing to try some new things. Hopefully with this new laptop I won't have to worry about losing the audio halfway through editing or those fantastic crashes where I lose a whole project while it's being finalized. This way I could just try something out and see how I like it and how others react to it. Guess we'll just wait and see.

*takes a breath*

Whew, I don't post to this blog that frequently, but when I do, I don't stop typing.
These are just some of the ideas swimming around in my mind, and as always I thank you all for helping me get them out of my head before they are yet another cause to my insanity.

If you have made it here without skipping anything I applaud you, because I'm about to re-read it to make sure everything actually makes sense and I'm even hesitating. Please if you actually give a crap, leave a comment answering some of these questions:
Do you think I should go ahead and dress up for Halloween?
What would you like to see in a YouTube channel?
Do you think I should start vlogging or even doing that machinilogging thing?
Did this blog not have enough references in it?

As always thank you for reading, I pour my heart and soul into this thing so it's obvious that my heart and soul is a fourth grader who got a D+ in English and has tourrettes.

I hope you all have a great evening.
Happy (11 day early) Halloween!

Mandatory holiday themed lolcat:

With a Panda Hat!

2011-10-07T22:44:00.000-04:00

Hello all!
And by all, I'm probably referring to the 3 or so people who actually follow this blog, but that is alright with me.
(Nah, it's killing me on the inside.)

On an off note: My finger that types the "l" key (ring finger) is really tired. I don't know why, it's only that finger and only when I type an "l". That's wonderful sayings how many words I use have the letter "l" in them. I'm going to kill me. <see!

Back on topic. . . wait, what was the topic.

Oh yes, depressing thoughts!
Wait. That's a terrible topic.
Moving onto something better!

I have an assignment in which I must review a movie for my Journalism class.
Wait, wasn't a key part of this blog supposed to be a review section?
Why yes, I was planning on having a weekly review of games/movies/gadgets and whatever else needs reviewed in the daily life of people on the internet. However, I keep making promises and I keep breaking them SO I will not make any promises henceforth.
However, when I finish this review (I will finish this one because I have to) I will PLAN on putting it up on here. The movie I am reviewing is Thor.(recently...ish released to DVD) It should be noted that this review will probably be a lot more. . . sterile than the one's I would usually write. First of all I'll be using my first person pronouns if I'm doing it for myself (thank you very much!) and I'll throw my own opinion in as well.
Not that the review I turn in for this assignment will be 100% opinion free. That's pretty much impossible with any form of writing that's over a paragraph in length.

So look forward to that... maybe.
Yeah, I'm not too trustworthy of a content provider am I?
For now I'll use the "my equipment really sucks" excuse. I won't have that when I get a new laptop so we can all start blaming me for not posting when that time comes.

Until then I wish you all a fine morrow and blahbity blah.

Yeah, that was classy.

Gonna Keep the Light On

2011-10-04T01:35:00.001-04:00

Yeah, I'm still alive. At least I think so. If this is was being dead feels like then there really is no peace.
I apologize for the HUGE gap between doing anything. I'm pretty sure I promised productions and more posts now that I'm in school but that was a really stupid thing to promise.
It's usually a stupid thing to promise anything. Well maybe marriage.

So yeah, I'm still here and still aware of this little blog. It's not really going anywhere but that's okay for now, cause I've been busy.

So will changes be coming to this tiny little blog that may rock the entire solar system? YES!!!
Will they happen soon? Probably not.

So until then "Keep Calm and Carry On."

There we go, I made some promises that will be hard to keep and referenced/quoted something, quota filled.

See you hopefully sooner than a month,
I have a paper to finish and a small amount of sleep to scavenge.

ktanks

Oh Sandwhich, Where Art Thou?

2011-09-12T14:51:00.001-04:00

Right now the ingredients are in my fridge, but the complete sandwich is only real in my mind. Which doesn't make it real at all.
Then who was fone?

Also, is 'Art' from the title incorrectly capitalized? I mean, "where art thou" is pretty much "where are you," I was just using it to make my lack of sammich overly dramatic. I say "Sandwich, where are you?" and immediately the Scooby Doo theme song comes to mind.
Weird. Hold on, I'll be right back.

Okay, well I just made the sandwich, give me a sec, I'll take a bite and tell you about it.

Best. Sandwich. Ever.

I hope you aren't hungry now, cause I was hungry like a minute ago and it's not fun.

Well so far I see a lot of words on this blog post but I haven't really written anything. I'm amazing at typing out crap for a Journalist major. Although, you should know that I use this blog to type the crap and fluff right out of me. Yep, works like a dream. Well, until it doesn't. Then it doesn't work like a dream. It really doesn't work at all then.

What did I just tell you? Fluff.

So I suppose I should show you something cool since you're already here. Hmmmmm.
Ah yes, as I've been playing Dead Island for the last week (just beat it last night) I think this is appropriate.

I had originally planned on doing a video, then a text review of Dead Island. Alas, my recording equipment failed on me in the middle of production (big surprise there) and I was called into work/ called home to help with some things and didn't get enough time to even copy pasta my notes into a text review.

As it is, I want my first "production" under The Woo or whatever wind up calling it to be something good. Start with the best leg forward and all that.
So that pretty much means I need a new computer before any more progress can be made.

I've already covered that topic multiple times on here, but as this is the one place that I talk and no one replies I'm gonna go ahead and state that A LOT of people have given me their computer opinions. I don't know whether I've said it on here but I'm probably going with a Mac. While many close friends/family were both disapointed and excited by this news I'm just gonna be happy with a computer that'll get what I need done done.

So that's about it. Hopefully a nice long post (fluff or not) will be able to hold you over for a little while. I would say what my plans are for the next post, but every time I've done that so far I haven't been able to do that post.

So don't expect anything and I'll exceed your expectations, deal?

Well, I'm gonna fiinish this delicious sandwich and head to class.
Later!

Thought You Ought to Know

2011-09-08T13:42:00.000-04:00

Well a fine hello to you!
Just wanted to let you all know that I'm still alive.

Yeah, and I'm gonna TRY to work on the first project for the Woo Review.
Yep, a real project.

You should be excited.

I am.

I've missed you.

Cya later!

Oh, btw, blogger has a new format. Not sure how much I like it. It feels so much brighter, a stark contrast to this blog page. Meh.
Edit: I don't like it. For one, it wouldn't let me publish a post. It's a blog sight that won't let me post. DEFEATS THE PURPOSE. Well I'm off to class, ta ta.

You Saved Me Once Again Baby Seal!!!

2011-08-28T17:02:00.000-04:00

If these titles made sense to anyone then they would probably make sense.

Yep, I did it again, I sat here a long time without posting. Is anyone really surprised at this point?
Well maybe he is.

Well, now that I have your attention in some way, shape or form, I'd like to do some shameless promotion of my friends blog. If you've been reading my blogs from the very start then you've already had a link to his blog, if so don't worry about it. His blog is titled Alpha Animated and it follows his. . . 'adventures' through the 'wonderful' world of animation. I'm sure there are plenty of 'grand' tales for you to sink your teeth into there.
Nah, he's actually been having writers block and I'm hoping more of an audience would help him feel at ease with posting to his own blog.
Pssssssst, hey Frank, here's a pro tip: It's your blog, SO WRITE/POST WHATEVER YOU WANT! It's yourspace, y'know that cheap knock off of myspace. Wait, isn't that facebook?
CLICK HERE RIGHT NAO!!!!1!

Well, if you've been Keeping Up With the Kardashians, then I'm sorry for you, but if you've been keeping up with me then you may know that I have school coming up soon. Horra- oh crap.
Well most of the youth of the nation has already started school, so I suppose I can't really complain too much. I've got one more free day with my family at least, then back to school with me.

Truth be told, I'm actually excited for this year. Yeah, the start of Fall Semester means MANY of the projects I wanted to even begin over the summer haven't happened, but that's okay "tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow, you're only a day away!"

Speaking of school and new projects, there is a decision that I have to make soon, a very important decision.
DRUM ROLL PLEASE!
No seriously, drum roll.

I don't think you're doing it.

C'MON!!!!!

PLEASE!?

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!! UHM, ANYWAYS I have to decide. . .

MAC VS PC
(proper reaction)

Well if you didn't drum roll I suppose that's okay, I'll just let you off with a warning this time. Just this one time.
So yeah, I'm looking into a new laptop for school and other projects of mine and I've hit the good ole "Mac vs PC" debate. Ugh.
I'll let you know what I find, but right now I'm really leaning towards an Asus laptop or a MacBook Pro. If there is anyone out there with a HELPFUL SUGGESTION please let me know. Thanks!

Well I suppose I that's it for now, hope you all have a good week.

I must be shovelin off!

Are you still there?

2011-08-21T22:17:00.001-04:00

Yep, here I go again with the Portal quotes. I'll do you all a favor and let that be the only one I post for a while. There are so many other quotable things out there. Like Anchorman, I'm not even mad.

So how have you all been? It's been two whole weeks since my last post, sweet molasses!

I know most of you haven't been checking this blog daily hoping and praying for a post, but do you mind if I just imagine that someone was? I could use that sort of ego boost around now.

So it's been two weeks, and that means two weeks without a YouTuber for you to watch. Well I'm about to break this dry spell.
Before I introduce this YouTuber I should preface that just about all of his stuff is in Minecraft. If you are totally confused what Minecraft is, you can find the good ole wikipedia entry on it here. If you want to see what Minecraft is like from the get-go you should watch the first "let's play" of Minecraft from SeaNanners (not the YouTuber I'm posting) you can watch that here.

Wooh, now that all that stuff is out of the way, I can move onto the YouTuber!
This guy is named CaptainSparklez and he is pretty awesome. I actually found out about Sparklez from SeaNanners, and if you like how the Nanner Man does his stuff then I'm sure you'll enjoy Captain Sparklez.
Besides showing a lot of cool stuff in Minecraft, Captain Sparklez has done stuff in Call of Duty and has done song parodies. The most recent one, which was posted a few days ago, is nothing short of amazing.

For your viewing pleasure, here is "Revenge":

At this point I should point out that my friend is asking me to just go ahead and post. While I'm loving that he likes this blog enough for me to just post it now I SAY NAY!
I do feel like I owe you a bit more for making you all wait for two weeks, so let us continue.

As some of you may know, I absolutely love the zombie mode in Call of Duty. I have always bought new map packs for both World at War and Black Ops right when they release just for the new zombie map that would come with it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Zombies? You were just talking about Minecraft!
I know! Isn't it great how my brain is working faster than I can type! Wait, that's a bad thing.

Okay, so the zombie mode in Call of Duty is this fantastic (personal opinion) mode that has been in every Treyarch made Call of Duty title, starting from World at War when it was known as Nazi Zombies. As there were no Nazis in the cold war, you can see why it has been changed to just Zombie Mode.

The exciting news that I got very recently is that there is going to be a new all zombie map DLC coming to Black Ops August 23rd (Tuesday). This DLC will include the original maps from World at War Nacht der Untoten, Verruckt, Shi No Numa and Der Riese along with a new map simply called "Moon."
While this isn't news to a lot of people because of how long this info has been around, I still find it very noteworthy and I think I should post it on here.
CAUSE THIS IS MY BLOG DANGIT!
Any who, here is the article from oneofswords.com where I got most of my info. The article is a pretty good and includes an interview from Treyarch’s Jimmy Zielinski, who is the creative lead for the zombie modes and overall BAMF.

While I'm probably gonna be exhausted from work (Hurray for shut-down week *rolls eyes*) I'm going to try my best to make a video of some sort for these maps. It'll be the first thing I've made since creating this blog, so that's pretty noteworthy.

As I just said, it's shut down week at my work, and being a pool assistant that means that I have a LOT of manual labor to get through before Fall Semester starts and the pool re-opens. What that also means is that I will be very very very tired for the next couple of weeks. So as always I'll have no idea when I can post again. Usually if my computer is on then I will try to type up a post for you guys, but I have no idea when I'll actually need my computer to be on in the upcoming weeks.

Yeah, that means in the Fall there should be a bounty of posts. Until then, try to conserve me as much as possible.
Or read it in one go, it's up to you.

Well until we meet again, I suppose this is goodbye.
I hope you have a good err. . . amount of time until I post again.

Ta-ta for now!

And seriously, if you're interested at all in Minecraft then now is the time to buy. It's still in "beta" but it's completely playable and it's cheaper while you buy it in beta. All updates are free and once the game is fully released it's yours, but like I said, the time is now!

Did ya miss me?

2011-08-07T23:21:00.000-04:00

Title totally related, I mean, has anyone even been paying attention to this thing?
I installed a chat bar just so that you, the treasured reader, could interact with me.
I don't feel pretty anymore!

It's not really how pretty I feel that's bugging me, it's mostly just that I keep writing this and not a soul seems to be reading it. I was flat out proud of my last post, but no response to it whatsoever.
Heck, one of my close friends who has been following this daily, one of the few who has, had no idea what the Enderman was when I brought it up to him. I had pictures.

Bleh, I'm sorry for all the negativity, it's just, I don't want to be typing to nothing. Time is precious at the moment, so I can't really spend over half an hour making a post with no response to it. I'd like to think that you guys are worth it, but I'm getting to the point of super business.
Let's talk about the future and being busy while I have a moment.

Fall semester is coming, did you bring your coat?
No but really, my new semester for school is drawing nearer and the addition of more classes on top of work means that I'll have a LOT less time to myself than I've been enjoying this summer, even with work.
This of course means that my posting schedule will be as sporadic as ever, I'll hopefully try to be entertaining, if not more with material coming in from my classes.

I have a strong feeling that my fingers are gonna be sore from typing a lot more than just blog posts though.

Back to the present:
I had planned on doing a big ol' post about the Halo series while it was in Bungie's hands along with they're ViDoc "O Brave New World" but as you can see if you click the link, it's kind of an hour long. I don't have that much time.

While I would normally LOVE to spend an hour watching a ViDoc and then turning around and discussing it for another hour, I need sleep. My job is life guarding, which means I need a lot of rest or else I'll fall asleep on duty. Which leads to getting fired. Which leads to no college. Which leads to depression. Which leads to. . . nothin' good.

Man this was kind of depressing. Sorry about that, short of not swearing I'm not gonna use filters when I'm typing this up. What you see is what you get and what you got is me.

Stop looking at me!

Peace out dawgs!

Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.

2011-08-02T05:54:00.002-04:00

Hello there lads and lasses, how are you all doing?

Oh, you want to know about the title? Well I went on a Doctor Who marathon today, err, yesterday. If you don't know who The Doctor is then my advice to you would be to watch an episode whenever you get the chance. It's a little out there with the sci fi and the CGI is a little cheesy but the writing is phenomenal.
So yeah, it's streaming on Netflix if you have a subscription and I'm sure you could find it by other means if you really tried.
I wouldn't, but I'm not you, am I? No seriously, am I? AM I!? I don't even know anymore.

So there has been some news in the wonderful world of Minecraft since I was last alive in the world. (Yes working the swim meet I considered myself quite literally dead to the world, thus my ghost posted that last blog post O.o)
If you are some of the unlucky few who do not find any interest in Minecraft whatsoever, I am sorry that you didn't like Legos as a child, please skip these next few paragraphs until I'm done with this. You'll know you're good when you see another Z

It appears that Notch has decided Minecraft players are getting too much sleep, so he decided to add a new mob which he has called "Enderman."

If any of you know of Slenderman then you are probably shuddering right now. If you don't know of the Slenderman. . . welcome to your newest horror. A quick introduction can be found here.
Notch's blog post talks about his thoughts on developing Enderman, how he basically wanted something a tad more creepy in the game. As you can see from this leaked footage, it is indeed creepy. Like "I'm up at 5 AM when I have class at 9 AM for a good reason" kind of creepy.

Z (That's the cue for any "fuddy-duds" to read on from here)

Believe it or not, I don't have a YouTuber to hand you over to at the moment. I'm sure I could think of someone, but I've given you enough internet movies to watch. Take a break and enjoy your Tuesday, but seriously, look up Doctor Who if you have the time.

Short of class tomorrow, I actually have the day off

So I'm going to enjoy the company of my parents as they are coming up here to visit. Hope you all have a good day, I'm gonna try to take a nap before class.

OHHHH! HOW STUPID AM I TO ALMOST FORGET!? Don't answer that!
As you can see to your right, I have installed a new chat box for this blog. It's not that a blog really needs a chat box, but I would like this to be more than just a one way conversation. So please, feel free to post any (appropriate) thing that's on your mind. I look forward to talking with you!

In the next few days I'm gonna try to lay down some of my thoughts on Bungie and their work on the Halo franchise. For any of you who don't know, Bungie is finally turning over the wheel on the Halo franchise to 343 industries and leaving Halo behind. An official ViDoc will be up Thursday from them, so definitely expect my thoughts then.

Well, I had thought of a way to work this quote into the post better, but you know me, when I get typing, I don't stop, that's why, there, are, so, many, commas. Yep, I'll admit my flaws.
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"We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh."
-The Doctor

Have a great Tuesday everyone, for once I think I will as well.

And now an important word from our sponsor.

2011-07-29T23:41:00.000-04:00

I'M TIRED! That is all.

No but seriously, I feel like I owe you guys a post, even just a few sentences. So here it is, drink it in.

I worked 15 straight hours in the same frickin pool today, please try to see this from my point of view. Oh, and I have to be up in 5 hours to go back for 14 more hours.

GOOD NIGHT!

"So here we are again, it's always such a pleasure..."

2011-07-28T22:54:00.000-04:00

Starting it off strong with a Portal 2 quote. Did you think that was a nice touch? I thought that was a nice touch.

So I'm going to get straight to the point here: I have been setting up for a swim meet all day and my fingers and mind are moving slower than. . . something slow.
See what I mean?

I know in this state I shouldn't even try to blog, I mean, this will probably be less quality than my usual work, but I'll try to trudge through it because I know I won't be able to post anything this weekend. (and even I was surprised to find out that my work had quality!)

So for those of you who don't personally know me, a fact that I haven't really been putting out there is my current employment. I am a lifeguard, for all those who care. So as a lifeguard I get to sit. A lot. And think. A lot. So today I was hopping aboard the darker train of thought and really thinking about the future. Like really really thinking about the future.
For some people, the future isn't that scary at all. They have their path, they know what will happen and eveything will be fine. I feel like I'm at that point in my life where it's like "Okay, what the heck do I do now?" All throughout high school I was told what to do, I had some personal choices to make, but it was basically a set starting and ending point where I chose what streets to take.
Where I'm at now is really different. I know where I am now, and I know where I should try to get to, but everything else is just one big mystery.
I'm going to school to become a journalist because I love to write. I mean, as long as I'm not very very tired (like I am now) I could just sit and write all day. But I don't know where I'll find a job in this field, I don't know if that's gonna bring me total happiness or if I would have been better off going into another field.
I don't like how much "I don't know" is going through my head. I suppose that's life though. We aren't supposed to know everything.

Wow, that went from me trying to share an idea I had into me venting really fast, although I suppose that is another purpose of my blog, to get some of my thoughts out of my head and into the world. If anyone keeps to themselves too much they'll go crazy. Moving on.

What's that? You say you've already watched what you've wanted to from the YouTubers I posted already? Don't fret imaginary audience, I HAVE MOAR!

In all seriousness I've got another person for you to check out. His name is James Warren, or more commonly known by his YouTube channel name: JamesatWar. James got pretty popular in the YouTube community by doing song parodys, but he started vlogging about a year ago and they're actually quite good. So check him out if you've got the time, I doubt you will be disappointed.

Alright, well I'm off to bed. I've gotta get up before the sun tomorrow and work until it goes down. I work 14 hours for the next three days so don't expect any blogs coming from me until Monday at the earliest, and even then don't hold your breath.

I would say that normal programing will return soon, but I've never even had normal programing.

At least I'm consistently inconsistent .

Have a good night and weekend everybody.

Seen Captain America yet?

"Catchphrase!"

2011-07-25T23:26:00.000-04:00

Why hello there! How are you today? I trust you are doing well. At least I hope so. . . This IS kind of a one way conversation. STOP PUTTING ME ON THE SPOT, UGH!

It isn't an official blog unless I go off on a tangent and then yell at you, the reader. Just thought I would get it out of the way. You're welcome.

I had intended to touch on the bombing and shootings in Norway, but to tell you the truth I don't think I need to put such depressing news into my blog at the moment. I do ask that you keep these people in your thoughts and prayers as they try to rebuild and pick up the pieces.

So, I have yet another link to YouTube for all of you. This is not a YouTuber, as I've been posting, but a mini-series. Disclaimer: If you try to take these videos too seriously then you're doing it wrong!
The series is called Dick Figures, as you can deduce from the name it revolves around immature jokes and stick figure animation. Thus why I love it.

I don't have anything else for you today, busy with school and work. As of right now I'm trying to figure out if I want to even make a schedule for what days I post, post every day, or just post when I can. I'm thinking the last one is what I'm gonna stick with now.

I'm gonna try to keep this steady as she goes, but who knows what might happen.
The future is a mystery, yesterday is a history and today is a gift.

Food for thought I suppose.
See ya round.

The Woo Review's Maiden Voyage

2011-07-24T01:36:00.000-04:00

First thing I've discovered tonight: I CAN'T WRITE THIS BLOG WHILE TALKING TO PEOPLE, IT'S REALLY HARD!
Second thing I've discovered tonight: What the heck tumblr is.
Third thing I've discovered tonight: I ain't scared of no ghost. (Which actually means I AM scared of SOME ghosts.)

Wow, none of those three things is what I wanted to talk about tonight. I have the attention span of, ooh something shiny.

So I saw Captain America earlier and OMG IT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME! You should probably note that I'm like a 12 year old child when it comes to super-hero/comic book anything, so I even liked the third X-men movie (though not as much as most other super hero movies.)
Huge biases aside, I thought it was a great movie. While there are terms I learned in my Film Appreciation class that I could probably use right now, such as mise-en-scene, I don't think I want this to become that type of blog.

No, this definitely isn't that type of blog.
What I will say about Captain America is that it's got a good story, some very cool action sequences and, most impressive to me, had comedy throughout the film that the whole audience actually laughed at. Throw in the attractive co-star and the fact that Cap's story will continue in the Avengers movie and you have a hit.
I give Captain America ten shields out of five.

Wait, that doesn't make sense? Yeah, I don't really have a ranking system set up at all, and then again I don't think I should make one. If I review a movie on this blog I think I'm just gonna stick to "I recommend you go see it right now, I recommend you see it with friends, I recommend you see it... on dvd and I recommend you try to avoid this movie as hard as you can."

As for Captain America, as long as you aren't turned off by the sheer amount of American patriotism, I recommend you go see it right now. No seriously, go now. You can finish reading this post later, just go see the dang movie and have a good time.

Speaking of movies, I think that is finally time for a little shameless self promotion. In my last couple posts I linked two of my favorite YouTubers, and now it's time that you see some of the stuff I've done. Yeah, if you don't know me I can already see the question forming in your head:
You make movies?
Hey! Why did I imagine you'd be so surprised by this news? I guess I can forgive you, especially since it never happened.
Well here is my personal YouTube account: aa505
Plain and simple, two letters followed by three numbers. Maybe I'll explain the weird channel name in another post, until then you have some (very very) mediocre home movies and machinima to look over. I plan on making a new account very soon with a professional name for my professional work. While I am proud of (most) the movies I have on the aa505 account, none of it is professional quality and lack of experience, equipment and manpower has always been an issue with movies I've put on that channel.
Still, have a looksee and tell me what you think. I can't get better without knowing what I've done wrong in the past. As I've said before, we live and learn.

I'll talk about myself a bit more in the next post, as short of giving you my name I haven't really said much about me.

Until next time.

By the way, I would like to share my friend Kevin's thoughts on Captain America: "Summary of Captain America: WHOOPASS WHOOPASS HOT ACTRESS MORE WHOOPASS CHRIS EVANS MAKING EVERY GUY IN AMERICA FEEL BAD ABOUT THEMSELVES MORE BADASSERY"
He pretty much nailed it.

And feel free to comment on these posts, I'm always up for a good discussion, especially on improving these things.

Hello again, friend of a friend.

2011-07-23T04:55:00.001-04:00

So it's been a little while. Like a week. Whoops. In my defense, I don't think I ever made an exact promise to post every day, but I'm still disappointed that I let myself go for so long. Hopeuflly I'll do better in the future, as always we live and learn.

So why did you kind of disappear for a week?
Truth be told, I spent most of the week picking up a mess I made, quite literally. You see, last weekend I was working a special event at work, so I was either at work or eating in my apartment and then sleeping. During this time I let my dishes pile up and when I left for my hometown Sunday night I left the dishes there. Upon returning to my apartment Tuesday I was forced out by a swarm of fruit flies.
Yep, fruit flies. Nasty little buggers, quite literally.
After researching ways to get rid of fruit flies (there is literally a website called "howtogetridofstuff.com") I found out the best way to get rid of them is to make a few traps. A few trips to the store later I had all I needed for a Scooby-Doo style home-made trap. A banana in a jar with holes cut in the lid works beautifully. It's bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
I also have a bowl filled with apple cider vinegar and a few drops of dish soap and a couple of fly traps.
So far this has all worked pretty well, and my swarm of fruit flies has been reduced to about three buzzing about here and there. I'm hoping that when I return on Monday morning I won't find another swarm on my hands.

So that's that. For now...

So this week was a combination of both work, class and fruit fly clean up, hopefully that explains my long absence.
In other news, the San Diego Comic Con is going on now, so that's cool.
Wait, you want information on it? Yeah, well you aren't really gonna get that info through me, as I'm not there and haven't been able to follow it because of work.

As a matter of fact, I'm not really a reliable news source at all at the moment with work and all, but I gotta make the money to make this whole thing better. These visions of grandeur in my head are kind of wonderful, but not exactly possible right now. Work in progress is a work in progress.

The last time I made a post I left a link to freddiew's YouTube channel. While I haven't gotten much feedback (or any) I don't know how any of you liked it, but I'm gonna assume that you thought it was good. So this week I'm gonna show you another favorite YouTuber of mine. His name is Adam Montoya, also known famously as SeaNanners.

SeaNanners is a game commenter for Machinima Respawn, but also posts a lot of stuff on his personal channel. While he is a skilled player, his commentaries often cover a lot of philosophical stuff and makes you think (in the good way.) I'm gonna stop babbling on like a school girl with a crush and let you check him out yourself, I doubt you'll be disappointed.

Well, I'll leave you with the Nanner man until I post again, it should not take as long as last time, and once again I apologize for that.

Oh, I almost forgot, I'm going to see Captain America tomorrow, I'll let you know how it is. So far everything I've heard about it has been excellent.
I guess I'll go back to watching Spiderman (the animated series from the 80s or 90s)
Reliving my childhood is fun!

See ya later alligators.

Quick Draw McGraw

2011-07-17T00:45:00.000-04:00

Title mildly unrelated.

Hello everyone, how are you all doing on this fine weekend? I hope your answer was good, it would make one of us.

WOAH, WOAH, WOAH! WAIT A MINUTE!
Pessimism is not to be allowed on this blog, not yet at least. I'm ashamed of myself.

Let's try this again.
I HOPE YOUR WEEKEND IS GOING FANTASTIC BECAUSE MINE IS TOO, AT LEAST IN MY MIND!
There we go, an adequate dose of enthusiasm, optimism and caps lock shouting. Just what the doctor ordered.

Unfortunately I've done it once again, I'm putting up a post past midnight when it's meant for the day. This post is meant to be for Saturday, although I'm not sure if I'm going to have time to make one Sunday, so this may just be a general post for the weekend.
Don't worry, it's not like I'm gonna let you grow bored.

Today, err, tonight, err this morning... whenever this is, I want to show you one of my favorite YouTubers. While some of you may be bracing yourselves for a link to SeaNanners (if you have no idea who that is, I will eventually link him) I'm actually NOT throwing a video game commenter at you... yet.

No, the person who I want you to check out is freddiew (read that as Freddie W) He is a pretty cool guy who shoots a lot of live action stuff, emphasis on the action. Gunplay and action meets comedy in most of his videos and it makes for an excellent mix.

Other than that, I just recommend looking at his other channel which has behind the scenes stuff, he always posts an annotation with a link to that.

I'll leave you in Freddie's capable hands for the weekend, have fun kids.

Starting now I'm gonna be taking suggestions for stuff to put up here. I want this site to be awesome for everyone, so let me know what will increase that awesome level.

k.thx.bai.

DON'T PLAY WITH THE ZOMBIE!!!

2011-07-15T22:02:00.001-04:00

Did that title get your attention? No. Well.. err. You've just thrown me for a loop. I think I love you. Marry me? (<Misspelled to avoid matrimony.)

In all seriousness (yeah, this blog can get serious) this is the second post today. Wait, wut? It turns out that I posted yesterday's post at around 2 in the morning on Friday, but it was meant to be yesterday's (Thursday's) blog post. So you people get more of my rambling. Lucky you.

Yesterday I made a lot of promises that I plan to keep. So lets get the ball rolling with another question I view you people asking:
Why is this blog called 'The Woo?'
Well, a little while ago I got the idea to start a website. A review website. In this website I would review games that I would get either from gamefly or the whole month pass thing from blockbuster. After writing one review I realized that I was not at all in a position to run a website. The website was going to be called "The Woo Review."
Mhm, well, why call it "The Woo Review" then?
Playing 20 questions with yourself is fun. I was going to call the website "The Woo Review" because of my hometown, Woodhaven, which I call 'The Woo.' See, there we go. Now you people can stop being all confused about my blog's namesake. If you weren't confused... well you could have easily skipped this part, no one is making you read this. But I really appreciate it!

Real quickly, if I still have your attention (I know "China wants it's wall back") My friend Frank just started his own blog too. As weird as it is we did not make plans to make a blog with each other, but it happened at the same time. We hang out too much. If you all could check him out, I think you'd like him. He is going through school to be an animator so I'm sure that could give you some insight into something interesting.
GO READ MY FWENDS BLOG, RIGHT NAO!! kthx.

My next blog will cover who the heck I think I am as well as my daring escape from Azkaban.
See you round!

And no, I did not go see Harry Potter 7 1/2 at midnight. Apparently EVERYONE on facebook did though.

First. Blog. Eba.

2011-07-15T02:28:00.001-04:00

"Hello there ladies and gentlemen, hello there ladies and gents, are you ready to rock?" Quotes from rock songs aside, I would like to welcome all of you to the new home of my ramblings. Obviously facebook couldn't contain me, then again, I couldn't really 'blog' on facebook like I can here. I can post links, change things around and make this however I want it. It's b-e-a-utiful!

Here I go already talking about me. I don't want to start this relationship on the wrong foot, so I apologize if it takes me some time to break the first person and go right down to brass tacks. Since this is the very first blog post I've ever posted (OF ALL TIME!) I think I'm gonna lay down some simple plans here, for the sake of both of us. I'll probably begin posting once a day with just my thoughts. Contrary to popular belief, I think enough to have at least one decently sized post a day until I can get my plan up and running. Mind the delays as I don't know when I'll get in "THE ZONE." Trust me, when I get in that zone, you'll be the first to know.

So here are some questions I envision the normal person asking right now:
Why did you decide to make a blog?
Well, I'm currently a journalism major just trying to get through school and I'm trying to just get myself out there. People have been telling me to make a blog for a long time now, I've just never really sat down and done it. Well here I am, let's make some magic happen.
What do you want to do with this blog?
I'm glad I asked me that. What I really want to do is be an outlet for all the cool stuff out there. Kind of like G4 without all the re-runs of Cops. Movies, television, games and even music, I want to cover as much of it as I can. I figure if my experiences and opinion can help someone find something that they love, it'll be worth it.
Sounds like a pretty ambitious plan, you sure you're up to this?
Wow, the questions that I imagine you people asking me show a real lack of confidence in me. They also just may be correct. I'm gonna try, and I mean really really try, to make this thing work. From the get-go I can tell you it's gonna be rocky. Until I can get a routine going and until I can find some sources I feel like I can depend on I will be mostly just putting some personal views on entertainment and current events. For any of you who are willing to stick this out with me I'm gonna try to make it as entertaining as possible.

There are two things that you should definitely know about me. I love to write and I love a good story. Sometimes those two loves bridge together into an orgy of literature and then the magic really happens. If I can get those two things to connect here I know we're gonna be on a sweet ride. I'll explain the blog's name next post. I'll at least have some sort of a plan for it.
"You teach me and I'll teach you."

Oh yeah, my name's Aaron. It's fantastic to meet you.