February 28th Entry
For some reason, but I don't know why, it feels like I haven't put up a blog post in forever. I know, the last post was put up 10 days ago, but still. Perhaps it's the fact that I failed to put up a post during the February 19-23 weekday period? Yeah, I think that's the reason why. Anyways! It's time to discuss the latest uploads! 😄🎮
The title does a fine job at telling you exactly what to expect in this video: me checking my inventory on camera, and attempting to assemble the BMW M2 Special Edition. Do I succeed? Nope! Well, not at the time of that recording at least. I have since unlocked the car from a long time, and I can tell you that it's great! It it indeed the new Class B King, so if you managed to win it during the Fall Out Boy event, it was worth it. The BMW M2 Special Edition is great for those time-limited events, multiplayer and has a high paying track in Season 9, Rooftop Raceway Munich. How is my inventory? It looks fine for the most part, though I did have some suspicions with a few of the parts. 🤔
The link above will take you to the video on the channel, as they usually do. If you wanted to read the article the video dealt with, read it here. Don't feel like reading it and would rather remain on this page for the summary? Ok, here you go: transparency and education. She wants YouTube to be a more transparent, friendly, educational, exciting place for 2018. That's great, but how are creators supposed to be excited for 2018 when they keep tightening the rules on what's advertiser friendly and what isn't? Oh, and we're certainly not going to let the complete AdSense demonetization of all channels with less than 4000 watch hours and 1000 subscribers go unmentioned. Removing AdSense from all less established people over the bots, spammers and bad actors is unbelievably wrong! Are they going to change this and grandfather in the good creators? Highly doubt it, but they really need to. Otherwise, this idea of getting many creators excited for 2018 is just going to be a fantasy dream for them. 😑
So the colours and lighting in this video are pretty bad. 😰 But you know what? I wanted to have more Windows 10 Mobile gaming videos on the channel, other than Asphalt 8 and the now defunct (on Windows Phone only) Subway Surfers. So this video and the other one I'm about to discuss, are my efforts for more smartphone gaming diversity. Now because this game is just about firing matching eggs to break them, with only two modes, there's not a ton I can write about this. In other words it's a simple time-passer, but can get boring quickly.
The last time I played a pinball game, was back in October 2016 on BlackBerry 10. 😱 Wow indeed. So when I saw this flashy game sitting around, I decided to give it a go and record it. There are 4 flashy tracks to choose from, but two of them require you to pay to get full-time access to them. 😒 But hey, at least you have a chance to temporarily play on them. The tracks are Carnival, Space Frontier, Wild West and Treasure Hunter. The latter two are the ones that require you to pay. Is this a good game? Yes, it plays smoothly and the graphics are great. But with a name that has "deluxe" and "reloaded" in it, one would hope that it would at least have 6 themes to choose from.
Did you survive the 1st episode of this madness? Who knows. You know you, so only you can tell me, but what if you're a liar or bragger? 🤣 Anyways! The series continues, so what's different about this one? Not a ton, aside from the fact that I attempt to play more sheet music. At one of the parts, I also hummed the same pitch the instrument would produce to create a fusional harmony effect. Have I made up my mind whether I would only do acoustic instruments and leave out electronic ones? Yes, I'll stick with acoustic instruments.
So while there were some videos uploaded onto my channel a few days ago, no new videos have been made from a few days ago. This means that no videos are being edited and uploaded at this time. Of course, it's only Tuesday (time of that writing) so I could film/record something if I really wanted to. Will I? Unfortunately, no. 😕 So no new uploads for this week. Maybe next week.
Now on a gaming related note, it looks like the long-time, popular smartphone racing game, Asphalt 8, is FINALLY seeing it's successor! 😱 Asphalt 9: Legends. Yep, about time. The graphics look good and all, but will it truly be as addictive as it's predecessor? Time will tell. I've seen a lot of people complaining about how they're too heavily invested in Asphalt 8, and how they don't like some of the mechanics. There's also a number of people claiming that it's just a hyped mix mash of Asphalt 8, Asphalt Xtreme and Asphalt Street Storm. 😵 So yeah, as you can tell there are a lot of varying opinions on this game. Will I give it a shot? Of course! That is, if they actually release it on Windows 10 Mobile. 😬 From the looks of it, it might just be iOS and Android only. I believe Windows 10 PC is supposed to get it, but only iOS and Android are guaranteed at this point. 😓 Guess I'm going to really have to try and get a Samsung Galaxy Note 8/9 or iPhone Plus this year. Not just for the sake of Asphalt 9, because that would just be stupid, but because they're admittedly superior to the BlackBerry Q10 and Nokia Lumia 1520. Then again, my BlackBerry Q10 has a headphone jack, microSD card slot, HDMI port and removable battery. Things that none of the 2016-2018 iPhones have! 😝 Therefore, in terms of hardware presence, this makes older devices like the "lowly" BlackBerry Q10 actually superior in those areas.🤗
Yes, and while we're talking about smartphones, have you seen the new Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus? How about the Vivo X20 Plus UD? Interesting aren't they? The S9 Plus is pretty much a Note 8 without its stylus! 🤣 The Note 8's presence of two cameras and a stylus is what made it stand out from the S8 Plus, so what's it going to do to be different this year? 😬 Hopefully be offered with 512GB of storage... Maybe a higher resolution camera other than 12 megapixels could also help. That's if, Samsung actually cares about making the Samsung Galaxy Note series different from the S series. Since 2016, it seems like the differences between the two series keeps getting smaller. Not good in my opinion.😕
Is there anything else I should discuss before closing this? No, I don't think I have anything else I would like to talk about. I'd normally include a nice image of the sort below my final words, but as you can see, Blogger is not cooperating with me! 😖
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