Tuesday, December 27, 2016

2016 Boxing Day Uploads

GuuzakaTube                                                                                                                              12.26.16

2016 Boxing Day Uploads

Wow, Christmas day has passed quite quickly it seems! But it was a good, busy day. No LG V20's or Tesla Model X's under the Christmas tree for me, but thankfully, I didn't expect to see such things, nor did I get my hopes up high, so it's all good. Now as you can see, I've got 9 videos to talk about for this entry! That's right; 9! But why?! What gives? Why so many videos this time? Well, you'll just have to read on to find the answer to those questions. For this entry I'm discussing Altona Forest Winter Visit, Asphalt 8: Shelby Cavern Misery!, Flappy Cock: The Haphazard Flying Rooster!, Dodge Challenger GT All Wheel Drive [Reading & Commentary], Alfa Romeo Stelvio [Reading and Commentary], Sleeping In Ikea Phenomena [Commentary & Reaction], Neon Blitz: Get The Lights Up Quickly Yo!, O'neill Collegiate Vocational Institute & Simcoe Wandering and Saint Gregory's Catholic Church & Valleyview Gardens. WOW! That's 3 outdoor videos, 3 gaming videos and commentary videos! Hey wait, I've now just realized that I've just done a trio of videos for each category that represents the main types of content you find on my channel. Pretty cool, but also very laborious and time consuming! Thankfully and sensibly, these videos obviously weren't all done in a day, as you can tell from the video descriptions from each. Instead, they were filmed between December 17, 2016December 25, 2016. Yep, I did some filming on Christmas day, because I really felt like it, but that does not mean that I sacrificed family time for YouTube time! Not at all! I was only out for about 60-90 minutes, because I really felt like going out, and while I was out, I felt like filming some subjects. That's all, now let's dive into it!

It's been a while since I visited a forest while there was snow on the ground, so this time around I decided to go Altona to film some scenic, wintery beauty of nature. I was a bit concerned and annoyed about the fact that it was precipitating wet snow that day, thinking that it would interfere with filming, but thankfully it didn't. Unfortunately, something else did – the cold! First time it shut off, but the video was saved because it showed the “turning off device” message. Then it rebooted with no warning after filming the 3rd segment, which meant that the MP4 file was present in the phone, but corrupted and unable to read… It was after that, that I became seriously frustrated, very unmotivated and scared to film again with this thing, because I just don't know when it will randomly do this! There are options for fixing corrupted MP4 files, but they tend to be very weird, fraudulent, not work at all, or are prohibitively expensive. “What am I going to do about this?” This was the question that kept popping up in regards to the ever frustrating situation with my phone's painful instability. Should I just forget about outdoor shoots and focus on commentary and games? Didn't want to do that, so for now I just take the risk and now what to expect. After getting over it later that week, I decided to crank it out with the videos to make up for the “slow down” even though I didn't have to, but just felt like it. That is the reason behind the record breaking amount of videos in the batch of uploads: to show that I'm not going to let some stupid, garbage, ancient, poorly updated-neglected-by-company phone ruin my desire to create videos. Especially outdoor videos. It'll only be a matter of time before I finally get a secondary device so I'll no longer have to deal with the anxiety of this garbage, 200-year old BlackBerry Q10. I remember ranting about this sometime back, and reminding people that BlackBerry 10 devices aren't garbage, and the importance of keeping them up to date and servicing them. However, if you do plan to get a BlackBerry 10 device, do yourself a favour and buy a BlackBerry Passport Silver Edition brand new! It's the sturdiest, biggest, baddest and most powerful of the BlackBerry 10 bunch. If you do decide to buy used, make damn sure that the seller provides a very honest, transparent history about the device and any potential problems! The same advice can be applied to just about any phone, really. Anyways! So it's unfortunate that I didn't make it to the other end of Altona, but it was nonetheless a satisfying place to visit. The woman taking pictures, the families and their dogs says a lot about it.


So in this episode, I was in French Guiana, The Great Wall, Iceland Reverse and Barcelona. As you can tell from the title, the Iceland segment was the focus for this episode. Why? Because I drove hilariously bad while I was in the cave with the Ford Shelby GT500! Seriously, I don't know why I struggled like that, but thankfully, I didn't crash and made light of the situation by taking inspiration of it and putting it in the title. Initially, the French Guiana race was going to be a silent segment, because I hated my commentary and found it too awkward and lame, but ended up leaving it in for some reason and nixed the idea. Not sure why, but I guess it wasn't as bad as I initially thought. The Great Wall segment in season 8 was done more so for profitability than practice. What? Gotta keep it honest! Some of the races just don't pay too well, especially those outside of season 8, so I tried to keep that in mind in order to gain decent profit during this episode. The episode concludes with a segment in Barcelona, while racing with the McLaren P1. It was a good, fast race, but wish I made more successful barrel rolls.


Boy! Finding this game wasn't easy! I don't know why the APK was pulled from most app stores, so I had to go digging for it! As a result, this nearly made me go for the more readily available Padak: Flappy Cock, but didn't want to “give in” so I resorted to finding the game I wanted. This should be common sense, but don't ever download games from shady sources, as you risk installing infected apps and nasty malware! Thankfully, that wasn't the case with this app according to BlackBerry Guardian, but still, be careful! So, was the hassle and effort worth it? Meh, not really. It is not a terribly exciting game at all, and it's kind of weird and laggy. Like I commented on the video, I probably would have been better off playing the more readily available and maintained, Padak Flappy Cock, as opposed to this particular Flappy Cock. So go with Padak Flappy Cock if you're looking for a Flappy Spin-off involving a “heroic” cock.


Yes. Yes. YES! It's about time we see an all-wheel drive American muscle car! Finally! Some people must be so revolted at the idea of such a vehicle, that doesn't even offer a V8 at the moment, but you know what? I welcome it. You know what I would welcome even more? An all-electric, all-wheel drive muscle car! I proudly declared that in the video and will proudly do so here, because I do not care! Muscle cars just aren't the rear-wheel drive only, big V8, gas guzzling, poor handling, affordable, straight-liner cars of the 1960s and 70s anymore, neither should we expect them to be. If they stay like that forever, they'll eventually lose out and fail to keep up with the competition. That's the reality here which is why they've changed quite a bit now, but still largely maintain the idea of a two-door, American, mostly V8, long hooded, aggressively styled car, but with enough modern touches to make them relevant. Now if Dodge made an all-wheel drive Hellcat Challenger they'll be on fire! Or better yet, if they bring the Viper back with all-wheel drive, then that will truly be some serious business! Who knows, maybe they'll even go ludicrous and make an all-electric, all-wheel drive Viper because the world is starting to realize how insane the acceleration is on electric cars! Wow! Lots of electric talk here, but it's becoming the future, so get ready for it!


Notice how FCA is making more SUVs from brands people believe would never do such a “disgusting” thing? It's because they're adapting and realizing that it has to be done to keep them afloat. The world, especially North Americans, LOVE SUVs! North Americans love SUVs and pickup trucks, so this is why auto makers are putting so much emphasis on these utilitarian cars. I happen to love SUVs and pickups myself, as you'll know from reading earlier entries or watching the immature dealership videos. As beautiful and impressive as the Alfa Romeo Stelvio may seem, I'd go for the Maserati Levante over it. Why? Well, if you just take a look at it, it'll pretty much explain it: more luxurious fascia, gangster, sporty, rough, cool and sinister. That's why – and ohhhhhh, that trident! Gotta love that Maserati trident! But you know what would be even more balls out shocking? A full-size, all-electric Ferrari SUV!!!!!!!!! Hooooo hoooooo hooooooo! That would have the world in a frenzy of overwhelmingly negative and positive emotions! According to the CEO, Sergio Marchionne, he jokingly says that you'd have to shoot him first to ever see an all-electric Ferrari, but you know what? That old Italian man is going to retire soon, so if another guy takes his place, he might just green light a radical Ferrari idea. You never know! It might not be as radical as what I said, but who knows! Could be less subtle or could be even “worse”!


Sleeping Ikea is a bad, dumb, dirty idea! Don't do it! It's not cool or funny! Don't you have work or school or something? I don't know why people have to do such unwelcome things, but alas! It's the world we live in! As I mentioned in the video, sleeping in Ikea creates a problem for safety, financial and sanitary reasons: for safety, you never know if someone could just leap out and harm the workers or shoppers. They could also shoot them if they're armed or cause destruction through other means. For financial, well, that's obvious isn't? Just pack your bags with small to moderate sized goods, and then leave anytime in the night! Also, let's not forget about the possibilities of taking cash from the registers and other areas. And for sanitation… oh boy… well, lots of things: peeing and pooing the beds and furniture, spitting, vomiting, ejaculating, menstruating, copulating and onwards! Just use your imagination here! At the end of the day, do everyone, including yourself, a favour by not sleeping in places where you are not welcome! Go sleep outside in the woods (camping) or something if you feel the need to sleep somewhere other than your home.


For real though, if you don't trace the lines quickly in this flashy, colorful, neon-lit game, you will easily lose! Neon Blitz is a timer game where you must complete and trace the figures of various LED subjects from cats, owls, cups, etc. in order to get them to light up and allow you to move on. You can use and unlock various powerups and earn lots of stars and points by completing a design. Yes, and like I say on the video, if you don't have long, elegant, skinny fingers, I highly recommend that you play this game with a stylus or you will have a very bad time! This game also happens to be available on Android, so luckily for Samsung Galaxy Note and LG Stylus 2 users, they have a stylus conveniently fitted into their phones. This game was probably free on Android (and likely loaded with ads! LOL!), but costs $0.99 CAD in the BlackBerry World. $1 isn't a big deal, and was worth it in my opinion, as it was well built, very colourful and runs buttery smooth. The only thing I didn't like was when the “Get 25 Stars” screen appears. It seemingly didn't allow me to go back, which I found very frustrating, so I had to exit the app whenever that showed up. I had to do this twice during my 15 minute session with this game. Either way, the graphics, colours and gameplay still make this game awesome!


Oh, O'neill! What a characteristic place you were to visit and film! Your castle-like tips, the arches, old charm look, you had it all! It was highly satisfying to walk around and film this place, but what wasn't satisfying was editing time! I hated the audio, so I completed took it out and just fitted it with lovely Christmas music since it is December after all, so why not? Enjoy it! It was a cold, but very sunny day, so that did not stop me from filming. What did give me doubts however, was the fact that my phone has issues with random reboots! If you read the entry above for Altona Forest, I won't bother whining about it again here. THANKFULLY, that did not happen while I was filming this Oshawan high school! I did pray about that, so maybe God answered my prayer? LOL! Now by the time I was finished with this place, but I did not feel like putting the camera down just yet, so I briefly ventured south of the school on Simcoe Street and soon concluded the video there. But wait… there was another tempting looking site nearby – Saint Gregory's Church! You saw the video on the channel, so you know what entry is next!


This church and O'neill were in close proximity of each other, and because I did not feel like putting down the camera for long, I saw this beautiful place and filmed it! Two things I must mention before going on: first, the video fortunately turned out a little blurry from frost and condensation… even with a little wiping, it still failed. It worked over at O'neill, but not sure why it did that for this place? Sucked, but it didn't stop me from filming! The 2nd thing is, like O'neill I hated the audio in this video! In fact, I hated it so much that I muted it altogether when I came around to doing another edit of this video! That's right; I was initially going to upload a version of this video with EXTREMELY poor, choppy, gappy audio and call it “Cringey Video of St. Gregory's Catholic Church & Valleyview Gardens!” No. Just no! Thankfully, the high standards side of me kicked in and told me to either a: scrap the video altogether, or b: redo the video and either mute it or replace it with good music! Well, as you can tell from the presence of the video on YouTube and the existence of this entry, I went for option B. I worked hard to get that video, and took a risk with my crappy phone that didn't give out on me during that segment, so there's no way I was going to just scrap it altogether unless I really had to. Now on with the video! Despite that grand appearance, it didn't take too long to complete a walkaround of Saint Gregory's, so I proceeded to walking down a road called Adelaide. Soon, I saw a sign for a park called Valleyview Gardens and went on to filming that place. It was a nice place to visit, and concluded the video shortly after wandering onto some road out of it. Watch the video to see what wacky thing I did during the trip.


The Lost Video
Whoa, GuuzakaTube! I thought you said that there was only going to be nine things you'd talk about here, not 10!” You must be wondering. Well, there would've been a 10th entry, but unfortunately, the phone finally decided have a fit after filming a GM dealership for a few minutes. And worse, it was the shut off without the warning, so that meant a guaranteed corrupted file…. Lovely! Well, I did get to film O'neill, Saint Gregory's and Valleyviews, all of which were great places to stop by in explore, and in Oshawa so I can't complain too much. I even made sure not to get my hopes up too high, because it would've been too good to be true, to have the doodoo phone successfully film three outdoor videos in a day. Sad, but it's reality. Besides, I've already done a Pickeringian (LOL!) General Motors dealership before, but thought it would've been nice to get an Oshawan one as well. Anyway, happy Boxing Week and don't kill or hurt anyone over materialistic goods!


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