February 17th Entry: Month of Festivities?
Let's see, Black History Month, Valentine's Day, Fall Out Boy Update, Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games and the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro 2018?! WOW! 😱 February 2018 sure is a festive month this year! While some of those events obviously do not happen annually in February, it's both crazy and interesting to see how so many events are taking place in February this year. Oh, and let's not forget the 2018 Canadian International Autoshow! Yeah. This is just a handful of potentially many events going on around the world this month. Will I have anything to do with any of these events? Unfortunately, no. 😒 Well, there is an obvious exception to one of them: Fall Out Boy update! I wanted to see the Canadian International Autoshow, but it won't happen this time around. Anyways! Let us discuss the latest uploads now!
Despite all the cool things happening this month, things aren't so particularly hot this month for Smaller YouTubers, such as myself. As we should all hopefully know by now, in 3 more days, on February 20, 2018, all channels with less than 4000 hours and 1000 subscribers, will no longer have monetary advertisements displayed on their videos. 😖 Gosh YouTube, why do you like to screw and hurt your creators so much? Whether it be Adpocalypses, poor communication, this platform is particularly punishing towards the smaller channels and less famous. "If YouTube 'sucks' so much, why do people keep using it?" some people might ask. Well, there's really no other website that gives it good competition. Whether you make videos part-time, full-time, casually or whatever, YouTube is currently the most recognized and established video sharing website. Yes, there are websites like DailyMotion, Vimeo and whatever, but they just aren't as good in terms of analytics, popularity and advertisement revenue. To hear my full opinion and all the other details that have not been listed here in regards to this matter, click on the link above the "dead" GuuzakaTube picture.
Yes, that's right: Episode #1 so you know what that means? There will be more of these to come! 😃😄😀😨😱😠 You may have various feelings about this series, but don't worry because you do not have to listen to them. Well, I honestly do not know how the public feels about the series, because I just uploaded the video today, and it only sits at 1 view at the time of this typing. So, what is the point of this session? Well, the title kind of gives it away already, but if you've actually come out here and bothered to read this, it's because you wanted more details and additional information about this video. Ok, so here we go! This series is about me just casually playing instruments and recording the audio with often minimal, if any at all, editing. Now despite there being "casual" in the title, I do attempt to play sheet music and scales during the sessions. However, I also talk, laugh, and screw up! 🤣 And that gets kept in too. Now for the time being, I'm doing it with acoustic instruments, which happens to currently be my trusty tenor recorder. I've thought about also recording music produced on a keyboard as well, but not 100% sure if I want to do that. Maybe it'll be just left for outros, intros and commentary background music. We'll see.
You know the details already: released February 08, 2018 for iOS and Android users, while it was released on the 13th for Windows PC and Windows Phone users. Unlike the Hot Wheels Update which was virtually bug-free, this Update had a number of issues that caused it to be delayed for Windows users. Why does Gameloft use the Android and iOS users as their guinea pigs, rather than thoroughly testing it themselves? Well, I suspect that they rush the updates a little too much sometimes, which results in poor quality. Anyways! How am I enjoying the update? The Fall Out Boy presentation looks nice, but I am generally disappointed with the update for the following reasons:
1. The new cars. While some of them are really good-looking, there are two "special editions", more dumb bikes and no cool, real-world production cars.
2. The Audi R8 e-tron Special Edition is a token-upgrade car, and it's research event only gives you 10 days to do 50 hard tests! No thank you! I've learned my lesson hard from the BMW Hommage R&D. You do not enter R&D tests without thousands of tokens to spare! Speaking of that, I'll touch on this soon.😖
3. The Daily Rewards no longer just gives out 20 tokens. What?! Why would they do this?! 😠
4. Of all the new songs to add to the game, why'd they have to pick Fall Out Boy? Mind you, I neither hate nor like this band, but would it hurt to add classical music? I know many will disagree with that BIG TIME, but many would also appreciate this, especially for those painful Research and Development tests!🤗
So there you have it. This is why I'm largely displeased with the update. That said, I really do like the looks of the BMW M2 Special, Audi R8 e-tron Special Edition and the Buick Riviera concept. Too bad the Audi is out of my playing league.... 😳 And even though the electric cars added to this update were no Tesla Model X, Jaguar I-pace or Faraday Future FF91, I appreciate the fact they not only added one, but two electric cars. The other one I didn't mention is called the Vanda Dendrobium. I also LOVE the fact they've increased the number of exclusive deals AND you can now sometimes get previously tokens-exclusive deals with credits! Yes!
BMW Hommage & Renault Trezor
Ok, so it's super obvious that I won the Renault Trezor, and have been using it for time. You've seen me race with it in some videos, and have seen it in numerous screens shots. But for the BMW Hommage? 😭 It was a CRUSHING defeat that has left me smitten with sorrow! 😭 Ok, so I did not cry nor did I destroy my precious Nokia Lumia 1520, but I was indeed ticked off about going through 50 tests, using up all my tokens, dedicating all that time, only to get nothing, but a huge belch in the face from that BMW pig car! Grrrr, the stings and pains! 😠 It doesn't help that the latest update is also centered around a BMW car, to help remind me of the fact that I lost the opportunity to win a better BMW. Test #50 was just too damn hard. I had everything on that car maxed, everything pro'ed, expect in one area, full nitro starter, tuning kit activated and double tank and still lost. 😵 Even when I did not crash, and used 21 keys, and too many tokens to count, I still fell 1-7 seconds behind that God-Level AI...😡 But despite the crushing loss, I managed to learn a lot from this event:
#1 Don't stress so much over a stupid car that isn't even real
#2 Just because others make something look easy, that doesn't mean it is
#3 Never attempt to do hard R&D's without at least 5000 tokens!
#4 Research the tests thoroughly and know what you're getting yourself into
#5 Don't be so negative; be positive
So there you have it for this lengthy Asphalt 8 section! 😅
Quite a bit I'd like to discuss here: The additional descriptions icons, my recent drawing, The Fate of GuuzakaTube, Kiloo's Attitude towards Windows 10 Mobile and How Dead is Windows Phone?
I know, I know. Some of you might roll your eyes, or be like "What the hell?", but I've added more icons to my video description. This is to give you more quick details about the video! 😁 So let's go over both new and old!
🎥 This has been on my video descriptions for quite some time. It tells you when the video was originally recorded/produced. It may also tell you the duration of editing for videos like commentaries
✈ New! This one tells you when the video was originally uploaded.
🎬📱 An older pair of icons that I use to tell you which camera I used to record the video. It's usually either my Lumia or BlackBerry, but beware of surprises!
🎮 This icon tells you which smartphone I've played the game on. As you all know, I only record and upload smartphone games.
🎙️ New! This tells you which microphone I used to record the audio in the video.
🎷 New! This icon tells you which instruments I used to make any occurring music in the video. This will typically be a fipple flute or electronic keyboard.
😎 This icon tells you which elements in the video I own. Yes, I give credit where it's due, unlike other YouTubers who are infamous for using music or artwork, without permission or at least linking back to the original creator! 😰
🛒 This icon let's you know that you're in the "market" section of the video description. And yes, the links are entirely affiliated there, as disclosed by law.
There, now everything has been transparently explained, so you no longer need to be like 💀☠😵🤢🤮 whenever you scroll to deep into my video descriptions!🤣
Despite drawing sometimes, I rarely post on DeviantArt. This time around, I oddly felt like posting a doodle on the site, so there it is. Fabulous? No, but I don't care! 😁
If you still haven't seen the video on this yet, I highly recommend that you do. That way, you can get the full scope on what's going, and what I plan to do from that date and onward. Long story short: I am not axing the channel...............😐
Ok, so there's no way you're going to be able to read that, so I highly recommend that you click on the link above this image. Alright, so if you've read some of my blog posts from earlier this year, specifically this one, you'll know why I stopped playing Subway Surfers. For a while, I thought that the company was never going to mention it, but it turns out that they finally did respond to someone about this matter. 😒 Still, I think that they could have done a much better job at informing Windows 10 Mobile users about this, rather than leaving it up to someone to ask on Twitter. The best thing they could have done, would be to openly have a text pop up in the game to let them now that it was the last update. They can also post it openly on YouTube or their website or something. Why am I making a fuss about it? Because it's one of the most widely downloaded games on mobile platforms, which is why I feel that they need to be more public and transparent about releasing updates. As I already mentioned in the post about my discontinuation with this game, I'm glad I never spent real money on it. But for those that did, it's very insulting and is a rip-off to them. Like how Gameloft has given Windows Mobile users an opportunity to transfer progress to a supported platform, I hope that Kiloo will do this too. Not sure if it's possible or not, because I've never looked into it.
There are four major smartphone operating systems: iOS, Android, Windows 10 Mobile and BlackBerry 10. iOS and Android are thriving in terms of everything: hardware and software support. The latter two on the other hand, are virtually dead!💀 However, even though Microsoft dragged its feet for a long time in regards to the Windows Phone situation, they finally came out with the news back in October 2017: no new development, but will continue to push out security fixes and patches for their smartphones. Sad, but better than nothing. BlackBerry on the other hand... Oh dear... They took even longer to come out with the news! Not only did they take forever, but they do not even issue monthly patches and security fixes, despite claiming so called support! 😫 And to make matters even harsher, they have the worse application support of all platforms! Even Windows 10 Mobile which was bad, fared a bit better. While many developers have given up on those two, BlackBerry 10 is definitely the worse of the worse in this matter! So! How dead is Windows Phone? Well, it's a dead body in a coffin. The coffin gets polished and checked on once a month. BlackBerry 10 is like a dead body in a coffin that will maybe get checked on or polished once every other year. 😵 Depending on your sense of humour, you may find this really funny, revolting, or straight up sad. But considering that 99% of the 2018 population is using an iPhone or Android device of the sort, most people will not care.
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Wrap Up
So that does it for this blog post! In terms of what's coming next for videos, I don't know. Possibly a game(s) and commentary(ies). Thanks for reading.
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