August 07, 2016
Uploads
In this entry, I'll be discussing the four
videos that are currently being uploaded at the time of this writing:
Trans-Canada
Trail: North of Regional Road 28,
Asphalt 8:
Five Fantastic Fly-throughs! (Normal Version), Asphalt
8: Five Fantastic Fly-throughs! (Spiceaphone Version) and
ChromaSphere:
An LOL of a Demonstration! Yep,
that's right; for a change I'm typing up the entries before
the videos are officially posted on YouTube. The reason behind this
is that these videos were supposed to be uploaded between
the 1st
and 5th
of August, but because I slacked off heavily
and didn't end up typing, nor uploading anything within that time
frame, I've decided to do both today, so that way I won't feel so
clustered and loaded coming the following week. No, nobody is forcing
me or hounding me to upload X amount of videos by a certain time, but
I don't feel proud about chronic slacking, procrastination and
deadline skipping, so that's why I felt like I had to do this. Now on
with the videos!
Ohhhh, at last! I
finally trekked this place and got it filmed! I don't think I
mentioned this yet, but I originally intended to actually come to
this part of the trail before filming the strip directly north of the
strip south of Highway #2, but decided against it due to schedule
conflict. Besides, it kind of made more sense to start from the south
and make my way north, rather than to jump from the south one week,
fly north and then fly back to the centre. Not a big deal, but
whatever. So what was the trail itself like? Well, getting here was
quite an adventure itself! Lots of gravel sidewalks, construction
areas and all
uneven grass patches can
make it a challenge to walk as of August 2016, depending on where
you're coming from.
Unlike the strips to the south the were minutes away from one
another, this one is located at Regional Road 28 (should probably
just say Rossland) to the north and is close to Riverside to the
south. So wait a sec... Didn't the central part terminate at
Riverside? Yes it did. It sounds like it's close, but if you take a
look at the map, you'll see that it's not that far, until when you
realize that there are no safe crosswalks at the Riverside and
Rossland intersection, so unless you're feeling brave or stupid,
you'll have to trek out to Church and Rossland.... from Riverside....
which is going to feel like forever. This strip is by far the easiest
to trek of the three, as it's entirely paved with asphalt and is
surrounded
with a beautiful field, with
a lot of
wild flowers, which you can see plenty of in the video. And let's not
forget to mention the transmission towers! So, does this make the
northern
strip the
most boring of three? Not in my opinion. Sure, it doesn't offer any
challenges or any “wow factors”, but it's pleasantly scenic and
great for cyclists who don't feel like damaging their tires, and long
enough to give you a good walk, but it's
not so long that it'll
leave you completely exhausted. Unless
you're out of shape of course.
Oh, another thing: you can also access it from the intersection north
of Church and Hurst, but I probably wouldn't recommend it accessing
if from
there, unless you live on Hurst Drive due to the undeveloped nature
of that portion. Well, Riverside and Rossland is currently
“undeveloped” too, but at least it's being worked on
and will be fixed soon.
In
this episode of Asphalt 8, I tackle the Great Wall with a Lykan
HyperSport, Tokyo with the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, Venice with
the Pagani Huayra, the Alps with the Bugatti Veyron and Barcelona
with the RUF RT 12 S. It was originally supposed to be 6 tracks, so I
originally named the video Asphalt
8: Half a Dozen Tours,
until I realized it was only 5... Why? Playing the Venice track
successfully with no wrecks was
soooooooooooooooooo time consuming, that by the time I got it right,
there wasn't any time left during the day to film a 6th
track. Excuses? Maybe, but there are many other things that had to be
done, so I couldn't afford to fork out too much time to a game. Now
that that's aside, there was originally supposed to be only one video
entirely dedicated to special effects, but I figured that it makes
sense to also do a normal one,
so the idea of that has lead to two videos: a normal version with
narrations and a jazzed up version titled Spiceaphone,
completely under special effects with about 4 or 5 of Moon Hooch's
excitable saxophone dance songs. The songs used are the following not
necessarily in order: Alien
Invasion,
Red
Sky,
That's
What They Say
and The
Thought.
I wanted to cover as many tracks as I could within the day to see how
they look under the threshold special effect. Anyone watching my
videos can easily tell how much I love to employ special effects in
nearly all of my videos, whether they be gaming or the vast outdoors.
This turned out to be awesome! I think Venice is my favourite track
under this effect, but certainly not to play on! Ironic. The hardest
track that nearly made me want to quit and rage down the street, made
me the happiest after tossing the special effect in. Crazy! This just
goes to show that sometimes when you really feel like quitting, and
feel as though you'll just never succeed, don't. Keep
going and remind yourself that there's a reward at the end of the
road. In this case, awesome footage and over 4,000 Asphalt
8
credits.
ChromaSphere
is a complete 3D action and arcade game with puzzle elements made for
the BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 10 devices. Using the
accelerometer and gyro, steer the sphere to the end of the level
within the bronze, silver and gold times to win medals. Let me repeat
that for myself: steer the sphere to the end of the level within
the bronze, silver and gold times to win medals!!! Gosh,
this is why you really need to read things in order to succeed and go
far! Reading would've done wonders for me, but I didn't remotely
consider it at the time, so I went ahead and made a horse of myself
while demonstrating the game. Not good! But you know what?
It was still lots of good fun! Along a list of other games, I may
consider redoing it with better gameplay footage, but won't make
any promises.
The game has amazing graphics, loads and runs smoothly on BlackBerry
10 devices and is overall a highly entertaining game, so if you own a
BlackBerry device give it a shot! I think it's also available on
Android and maybe iOS and Windows Mobile 10, but I'm not 100%
certain.
Edit:
It
is available on all mobile platforms, except Windows 10 Mobile it
seems. Kind of odd.
This
video belongs to Joseph Criniti,
and man is it odd/interesting! The sight of a Lamborghini is
generally rare in most places, but to see one towing goats is twice
as odd! I actually saw and heard a black Lamborghini last week, but
it certainly wasn't towing goats, or anything for the matter! Most
people buy these cars pretty much to show off their wealth and
status, as well all know how impractical they are, but this guy
wanted to do more his? Some say that it may have just been fashion
statement, but one commenter interestingly (and likely jokingly)
states: “When your Range Rover has a flat battery and you gotta
take the goats to the vet" Hilarious! So
if
you're rich and your luxurious SUV or truck fails, just use a high
performance car with enough horsepower and towing capabilities to get
the job done! Lamborghini Urus, could that be you? Or what about you,
Ferrari GTC4 Lusso?
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