7.18.16
I
was feeling very tempted to do an entry on some videos, but I decided
that it
would be a better idea to do my videos first, since the videos
themselves do tell you to come visit this place to learn more about
them. The entries quite obviously don't simultaneously get released
as soon as the videos are published, but the least I can do as
attempt to post them in a timely manner, so
here we go! This entry will be covering Asphalt
8 - Ratio Fail!,
How
to play Flappy Bird,
2016
Canada Day Fireworks
and Millennium
Trail.
This
was the first video recorded out of the four, but I didn't get around
to editing it and uploading it until recently, hence why it's being
lumped with this batch. Canada Day this year was a bit on the cooler
side in my area, but still reasonable enough to get out there and
have fun. I didn't leave the house until after 8:00, so that too,
explains the evening coolness. Last year I had somebody warn me about
there being lots of cops down there, but I didn't receive such a
warning this time around. LOL? Depends on the way you interpret it.
You know what? I'm not going lie – that was pretty damn funny!
Seriously, why would I be worried about that unless I was planning to
conduct some mischief? I consider myself good, but maybe he was a
villain? Who
knows for sure! Anyway,
I didn't bother with rides this year, but in
order
to make my footage a little bit more
unique
from 2015, I decided to briefly record a gig with singers, guitars, a
saxophone and violin. If the video annotations didn't make it obvious
enough, the violin and alto saxophone was what really caught my ears
and eyes. Yes, I am an instrumental geek. Would've been cool to see
one of the bigger saxophones like the baritone or bass, but they
weren't present. Or were they? While waiting for the fireworks, I
wondered around for a bit to take pictures of all sorts of stuff, and
when the fireworks did start, I thankfully made it in
time to watch the show. Ah, it was beautiful!
This place caught me by surprise to tell the truth. I was expecting
it to be a short paved trail between to regional two roads, that
would be completed in 10-15 minutes, and boy was I wrong!
As a result, I did not prepare for it very well, so I forgot about
bug spray, didn't bring a bag, and didn't bring a proper sized bottle
of water. Wow! Not very smart of me at all! Despite the surprises
and regrets, I still managed to enjoy the extensive winding networks
of paths and forested areas. There were a lot of branching pathways,
which made it hard to choose at times, but I just went with wherever
I thought would be most interesting. As seen from the video, the
trails I chose eventually led me out to Nash where I then found
something I thought I wouldn’t end up filming: Courtice Secondary
High School. Yep, so this makes it the 2nd
time where I film a high school in one of my outdoor videos. I have
no idea what this school focuses on (some focus on trades, performing
arts etc.), nor do I know anyone from that place, but it was fun to
film it, especially since no one was there. Well, no one within my
proximity I should say, because I did see people on Nash and also
while I was in the forest. Now I don't have a problem with casually
or unintentionally
filming people (I did this on Canada Day), but ya certainly don't
want to go around filming schools while the students are fully out
and about. There
have
been issues in this region
(and of course many other places as well)
where some people have done this with the intentions of being creepy
and perverted, which
has caused police and the news to get involved. Anyone reading this
will probably be like “Duh!” “Common
sense!” or “Do
you really need to mention this?” Well yes, it's important to bring
it up just in case viewers are wondering why my videos are the way
the are. Anyway, Millennium trail is cool! I've seen people wander
into this place quite a bit, so that tells you something: it's a good
place to explore!
Ohhhhhhhhhh,
boy! And now the time finally has come where I must discuss what was
such an immensely popular game: Flappy Bird! In fact, it was so
popular that the developer himself, Dong Nguyen, became concerned
about the health of people and it's addictiveness, so he did the
extreme thing and pulled it from the Google Play store and iOS app
store altogether! Wow! I have no idea if it's back at this point
(probably is), but there are thousands of other spin-offs that have
since popped up to fill the void during
its absence. If you own an
Android device running 5.0 Lollipop or 6.0 Marshmallow, you can play
a lollipop or marshmallow themed spin-off of Flappy Bird by following
a few instructions that involve you going through some settings. Yes,
Google developers have gone to that level to actually do that! So,
for the big question: why did I make this video in 2016 and not
during the times when people needed help most, and when smartphones
were being abused and slaughtered? Well, you're not going to like
this answer, but I don't know. I can remember being disappointed
about not having it on BlackBerry 10, until I discovered how to get
the APK, but I guess it's because I just never really cared to do a
video about it then. This time around I did feel like a doing a video
on it, and decided to add some hilarious narrations and annotations
while I was at it, just to make the video that much more
entertaining. Oh, and I even demonstrated another spin-off: FlappyHerbie Saga: Trolls of the Forest!
This was done both for the sake of amusement, trolling,
and for proving points about weight, rebound height and gate gaps. I
was disappointed about not being able to get super high scores
while filming on either of these games, but with time, patience,
practice and careful following of my golden advice, you can become a
flapping champion! I will also be posting videos of other spin-offs
occasionally, so you can either rejoice, smile and be glad or mourn,
roll your eyes and sulk!
On my Asphalt 8
videos I normally try to play on at least 3 tracks during recording
sessions, but because this one was mostly intended to be a
quick video ratio test, I limited
it to one. There has been no complaints to date about the black bars
that plague my gaming videos, but I don't really like it, so I
thought that I would finally attempt to do something about it and
stretch the ratios to have it full up the screen, but it didn't work.
I tried it in the video editor, no luck. I tried YouTube's editor,
useless! I tried entering a code for stretching, which worked while I
was in the video manager, but failed else where... I uploaded two
versions initially to test things out, but ended up removing them and
decided to edit them the way I usually do. Ugh! I wish my screen
recorder gave me more resolution and ratio options. For now, I guess
I'll just continue to upload
the gaming videos the way they
are, until I find another solution. Now for the content of the video:
as you can tell from watching the first couple of seconds, I play in
Iceland with the iconic Lamborghini Countach. Not the highest paying
race, nor the best car, but it was something a little different, and
the car is nonetheless fun to drive with. And did I say that it
drifts pretty damn well? Seriously! I was able to carefully manoeuvre
the Countach
away from a truck in a certain part of the video and saved myself
from what would have been an annoying, embarrassing wreck! The
Countach
is far from being the fastest in its class, but its good retro looks
and handling has me coming to it now and then.
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