08/12/16
August
12, 2016 Uploads
Once
again, I'm typing up the entries for my videos while they are being
uploaded, so that a new week doesn't creep up on me and have me
forced to finish last week's homework. Not a fun position to be in!
Anyway, I should probably stop mentioning that, and head onwards with
my videos uploaded on the date mentioned in the title: Highway
Life,
Asphalt
8: The Unfamiliar Roads,
Flippy
Bird 3D: Your Polygonal Protagonist
and My
African Knight.
In
this video I went out to Regional Road #29 to film cars speeding by
on the Highway of Heroes, or what most Ontarians just simply call the
401. I've been inspired to do it for over what may be a month or
possibly two, so I finally got it done last weekend. Originally, I
was actually thinking about filming from Whites Road or even Brock,
but ended up choosing Liverpool because it had more scenery to it.
Take note of the pedestrian bridge, the train station and high rise
buildings. These are just a few of the interesting things to see at
this particular interchange. As mentioned in the video, I filmed the
first five minutes in 720p @30fps, while the last five minutes
resumes to regular 1080p, which ended up looking better in my
opinion. There
were some honkings that also occurred, and it didn't really look as
if anyone was doing something of disapproval on the road, so it had
me curious as to whether or not some drivers were aware of someone
filming from above or not. I highly doubt that's actually the case,
but maybe they did notice, and perhaps wanted me to notice (or not
notice!) them as well? Who knows for sure. You shouldn't have your
eyes up towards the sky while driving, so let's just dismiss this
non-sensical assumption and assume that they were honking at donkey
drivers.
Boy!
Racing on 6 unfamiliar tracks in perfection sure ain't easy, but I
got it done. In this episode I race in Iceland with a Lamborghini
Sesto Elemento, Iceland Reverse with a Dodge Challenger SRT8, The
London Eye with a Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4, French Guiana with
Koenigsegg Agera R, French Guiana Reverse with the Ferrari LaFerrari,
and finally Nevada Reverse with the Audi RS 4 Avant. Even though I
mentioned it in the description and annotation already, I need to
stress it like a repetitive robot once again: that car I called a
“Lexus” is not a Lexus! It was an Infiniti FX50 (also known as
the Infiniti QX70)! I don't know why I didn't use my eyes, but oh
well. It's fun and important to race on tracks you don't race on very
often, because it helps to sharpen your skills and even challenge
your brain when you take on unfamiliar tracks. This was very apparent
in Nevada Reverse and French Guiana... You of course didn't see it
happen on camera, but the amount of painfully stupid mistakes I made
was unreal! You'd think it'd be Iceland, because you hear me
complaining about it the most, and I still do rank it to be harder,
but those two got me in some very special, unexpected ways. After
racing on them I no longer consider them to be hard, but it certainly
reminded me of why it's important to play on variety of tracks more
often, rather than only choosing the quickest, highest paying tracks
most of the time. If only Season 8 offered at least one of each
track, before offering repetitions, but it's too bad it doesn't....
After the month ends, I plan to max out my remaining Class S cars and
maybe some Class C and B cars, so I can play on more tracks in a
quicker, easier, more exciting fashion. To conclude the Asphalt 8
ramblings, I should rank the tracks from least to most difficult:
Iceland Reverse (Class C Elimination), The London Eye (Class B
Elimination), Nevada Reverse (Audi Vs Alfa Romeo), French Guiana
(Koenigsegg Classic) French Guiana Reverse (Class A Classic) and
Iceland (Lamborghini Classic Season 8).
Another
Flappy Bird spin-off! Woohoo! Flippy Bird 3D offers an extremely
close concept to Flappy Bird, but in 3D! So this means that you tap
the screen and must avoid falling or hitting yourself on gates. As I
thoroughly explained in the description and the video itself, this
game offers amazing full qwerty support, so if you're rocking a
BlackBerry Q5, Q10, Classic, Passport or Porsche Design 9'883, cough
up and 99¢ and give it a shot! I believe that because the BlackBerry
Priv is a qwerty phone, it should work on it too, but I can't say so
with 100% certainty. This spin-off isn't hard in my opinion because
the character doesn't drop super fast, nor do they rebound to
ridiculous heights, so it shouldn’t be too hard to get past a few
concrete gates. On top of that, you can also grab golden squares that
will sometimes appear near the top of the screen to shrink your
purple bird, and make passing even easier. It's only a temporary
effect, so be careful and cautious! The inspirational story
behind this game is pretty neat: the developer was inspired by the
original flappy bird and wanted to create something for BlackBerry
10, since at the time there were no good, native flappy spin-offs, so
he stepped in to fill that void! It's always nice to see a developer
show some love to underappreciated platforms like BlackBerry 10 and
Windows 10 Mobile. Speaking of platforms, this game is available on
all four major platforms in their respective shops: BlackBerry World,
Windows Store,
Google Play
and iTunes.
Again, not too often you see something like that. Most of the time
it's just Android and iOS, and occasionally Windows. You can checkout
FileArchiveHaven's Flippy Bird 3D Sales Trends from March 2014 here.
My
African Knight
With
a name like that, you would likely assume that this is an adventurous
role-playing game, but that was not the case.... All it was, was just
a fancy game of tic-tac-toe with a beautiful beach backdrop and nice
music – until I
turned
it into a dramatic, serious event with my narrations! No longer is it
about peacefully playing tic-tac-toe at the beach in Africa, but I
embarked on a perilous journey in order to save my African princess
from the brutal King Polomashwashe in Lesotho! Going through those
deserts, forests and such wasn't easy, but it had to be done! Each
tic-tac-toe game you saw was actually a concealed, savage, brutal
fight with my enemies! And boy, they were very skillful too! They
unfortunately got me so many times, that it came down to the point
where I eventually made a final, desperate, risky move that resulted
in my downfall... you saw the sad, emotional, ending so I need not
say more...
Who
are we kidding?! When the camera stopped rolling I got right back up,
and KO'ed that monster! I kept travelling through Africa while
defeating many enemies and bothersome animals, until I eventually
found King Polomashwashe and annihilated him! I then rescued my
princess and we lived happily ever after! Hakuna matata! Now for some
details about this game: it comes from developer HecaWorld unLIMITED
and was actually a boardgame played in Africa. At that time, the
developer said that it was often drawn on paper and played with
friends and families as way to pass time. You place your seed on the
board and move it accordingly when it's your turn. Read more about it
here.
Not
meeting my deadlines complaint
I
think I'll go back to typing after
the videos are uploaded, so that way I can link everything straight
away, but in order to make this happen without straying into a new
week with last week's old work, I must try to have things done by
Wednesday or maybe Thursday at latest. This means that I'll need to
record the videos, edit them, upload them, annotate and card them
accordingly, discuss them and then post it on social media within a
more timely fashion. I already explained here
that
nobody's pushing, forcing or holding a gun to my head, but I believe
that if it weren't for constant personal procrastination and chronic
slacking, that I'd be in a much better position with my personal
deadlines. Of course, I don't have to upload videos every week, but
when I do, I'd like to follow a better schedule. Despite what you see
in my outdoor videos, I actually value quality greatly,
hence why I'd rather complete the process a little late and have
things done in the best quality I can, than to rush it and do things
half-baked. Ideally I'm going to aim to do it all: Quality,
consistency and timeliness. All
I need to do is believe in myself. It
isn't even just about videos. Being consistent, timely and hard
working extends to a lot of things in life.
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