Tuesday, November 12, 2019

November 12th Entry: October 2019 Uploads

Guuzaka                                                                                                          2019-11-12


November 12th Entry: October 2019 Uploads

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Looks like I'm on a role with getting the separate blog posts for the September and October 2019 uploads done today! ๐Ÿฑ‍๐Ÿ What are you waiting for? Read, laugh, frown, watch, shop, and/or comment!



These are the following products I unboxed in this video:



So now that I have had a lot of time to use these extensively, I can tell you which one I like the most: the Sony On-Ear Headphones. Why? Because On-Ear Headphone feel so much better and more comfortable to work with than In-Ear Headphones. ๐ŸŽง In terms of audio quality, I have not noticed a major difference between these headphones. The Sony On-Ear Headphones obviously  beats the In-Ear Headphones, but not by a long margin. All of these headphones don't just "do the job"; they actually do it well. Are they studio-grade headphones? Of course not! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚ But they are not low-quality dung either, despite their price tags. Longevity? So far, so good, but time will tell at some point into 2020 and beyond! ๐ŸŒ 


Wow. As I write this entry, there is snow on the ground and it is below 0°C. ๐Ÿฅถ Makes me miss summer so bad! ๐Ÿ˜ญ Oh well. Warm weather will return in 7 months. ๐Ÿ˜จ Um, hold on.... 7 months.... That's deep... that's long.... Oh, right! Canada is within the Arctic circle after all, so even the Southern regions take forever to get to 25°C+ weather. At least they can though, because there are parts of the country that cannot even see 12°C in July! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ Ever heard of Ellesmere Island? You know, the Canadian north pole? ๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿพ Yeah, that's who I'm talking about! 

Anyways! This was my first visit to this park. ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŒž The footage from the Nokia Lumia 1520 turned out gorgeous as expected.  I liked it so much, that I went back another weekend to collect stones from the coastal area. ๐Ÿค“


The BlackBerry Passport version of this video focuses more on walking eastward along Rotary Park's coast. Because I did not bring long rubber boots that day, I did not go as far as I could. The BlackBerry Passport's camera does not win any photography rewards. However, there are some scenes of this video that turned out exceptionally good. ๐ŸŒžParticularly the part where I stooped down to showcase a stream flowing out into the Lake, while water was flowing over the rocks. ๐Ÿ˜ Wow, that was beautiful! And oddly enough, out of the three smartphones that I recorded with that day, as of November 12, 2019, the BlackBerry Passport's version has the most views. ๐Ÿคจ Clearly, there can only be two things to explain this:

1) The BlackBerry 10 community enjoys seeing videos produced from a phone that many consider "obsolete" 

2) Perhaps viewers prefer higher frame rates over resolution? ๐Ÿค” I personally prefer 4K, but to each their own.

Who knows for sure, but keep watching the videos! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ 


You see, this is why shooting in 4K is my default choice whenever a smartphone is capable of doing so: the sheer amount of details it captures is amazing! ๐Ÿ” And when you use something that already has a good camera like an iPhone, it makes the video even better. ๐ŸŽ So, um, I guess I should talk about those butterflies, right?๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ˜ง Honestly, I'm not sure if they're drowning, dying, or both. ๐Ÿ˜ถ While sad, it was an interesting site to see them right on the coastline. Why they would even hang out on the beach in the first place, is something I still cannot figure out. ❓ If there were plants and flowers right in the middle of the sand, then that would explain it. There was not, so ------ ¯\_(ใƒ„)_/¯


The following items were unboxed in this video:

Now I know exactly what you're thinking: ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿคฏ! Right? Well, here are the simplified names: 
  • Tofun Electronics Accessories Bag 
  • Locking Krendr D-Rings
  • Geekria EJB61
  • 90 Pieces of PandaHall Elite Clasps
Ahh, soooooo much easier on the eyes, eh? ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐ŸŒด๐ŸŒŠ So! Out of all of these things, which one have I used the most? The Geekria EJB61. ๐ŸŽง Why? Because I like to use my headphone jack! You know, the thing that most smartphone makers insisted on getting rid of, so they can force consumers into that wireless dung? ๐Ÿคก Yeah, that useful little hole. With the combination of a Gimars carabiner, you can attach it to all sorts of things: your jeans, backpack, purse, satchel, and many more. Some of things, it's obviously better off going inside them, but at least you know the option to hold it outside exists. 



The sole product unboxed in this video is a small box that contains 10 Gimars carabiners. Not a ton more to say about that, other than I use these more than I use the locking carabiners. That may change, though. ✴


Harmonic singing, Pagani Huayra BC, and multiplayer. That is this video in a nutshell. ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽฎ But the question is Why?! Who would ever sing like this while playing a racing game?! ๐Ÿคฏ Really, who else? Is this not the channel where "all sorts of things" happen? Yes, yes it is. ๐Ÿ•ถ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ“ฑ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ


I am torn between whether or not this should get an entry entirely on its own. ๐Ÿค” Yes, I think it wholly deserves to be a separate topic. The nature of it is very serious. Having it jumbled within a this blog entry of other topics, would be too distracting for a matter like this. Stay tuned for that post. ๐Ÿ˜⚠ 

Since the King Of The Fall Update has come upon us, there are some things that have changed, others that have not. Asphalt 9: Legends is not as pay-to-win as it was, ever since they improved the garage system. It now allows us to get epic import parts for many past Unleashed vehicles. And their blueprints, too. ๐Ÿ Still, there are many nagging issues such as knockdowns in multiplayer, unhealthy multiplayer league requirements in the World Series, the inability to choose the epic import parts at the end of the season, multiplayer latency and/or hacking, inability to choose between 60 FPS and 30  FPS -- ok, pretty much everything I mentioned in the video is still relevant. ๐Ÿ˜• Not good! I appreciate the frequent car hunts, and ease of getting past unleashed vehicles, but even this is still not good enough, especially when you look at how bad the unfixed problems are. Will Gameloft change? ๐Ÿค” Time will tell, but it is certainly possible. 


Let's get this out of the way: the D-ring carabiner is not very useful, due to its small opening. So what I did, was I took two pliers: one to hold, one to open, and took off the tiny ring. I fitted it with a larger D-ring from my PandaHall Elite set, then put a Gimars D-ring carabiner onto it. ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ Totally worth the upgrade. Now, attaching my Geekria EJB6906 onto things is WAAAYYYY easier! ✅ As for the Geekria case itself, I love it. It looks and feel great. If you are wondering why I have two, I'll tell you:

1) One is used to hold my Audio Technica SonicFuel In-Ear Headphones that I use for outside of the house.

2) The other is used for the indoors, where it holds my Skullcandy Ink'd+ In-Ear Sound Isolating Headphones

So now you know. 

This picture was taken before fitting a larger D-Ring onto them. I have not taken a picture of the upgrade yet, but should probably do so at some point.


My oh my! ๐Ÿคฏ Another noise session with throat singing?! YES! ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽต๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒŠ This time, even more of it! ๐Ÿ‘€ "Is every episode going to have it?" No, but prepared for the unexpected! ๐Ÿ‘พ Fun fact: most of the rocks in that video came from the coastlines of Ajax, Whitby, and possibly Oshawa. ๐Ÿค“ Why do you care to know that? BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU DO! ๐Ÿคช Stop freakin' lying so much just to look cool, when it's making you look dumber than Dummer LeDumDum! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜


So as I mentioned in the previous entry, I wanted to get the entry for the September-October 2019 uploads done first. I initially had plans to have everything under one blog post. ๐Ÿคฏ Thankfully, I quickly scrapped that idea. ๐Ÿ˜Œ It's not good to have too many videos and topics jumbled into one entry. It's chaotic. ๐Ÿ˜ต As for the November uploads, I'll likely begin editing them later this week, or early next week. You can expect to see them close to the end of the month. There are two more posts I need to cover for this week: the warning post and "Link Link". While you know what to expect for the warning post, you do not know what "Link Link" is all about. It sounds like it suggests that Nintendo character, but nope! Nothing to do with him at all! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚ Stay tuned to find out soon! In fact, since the latter three entries are overdue, I'll put all the links to them in a single Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr post, as opposed to giving them a separate post each. 






November 12th Entry: September 2019 Uploads

Guuzaka                                                                                                          2019-11-12

November 12th Entry: September 2019 Uploads

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You thought I would just cancel the blog post for those videos, eh? ๐Ÿค” Well, no! ๐Ÿฑ‍๐Ÿ I have not! I figured that it just wouldn't feel right to start working on the November 2019 videos, without first doing a blog post on the videos uploaded within the September-October 2019 period. So! Let's dive right into them! ๐ŸŒŠ


It has been a while since I have last recorded it, so I do not remember the specifics and highlights of this video. ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ˜ถ What I obviously do remember is the fact that the focus is on Multiplayer and more "interesting" things. ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ This is likely to do with the previous episode, Asphalt 9: Legends  - Koenigsegg Pay-To-Winsko being underwhelming. ๐Ÿฅฑ And if it isn't obvious enough, no, I did not win the pay-to-win McLaren Senna. ๐Ÿ˜‘


What inspired me to film some BlackBerry 10 Gaming videos? The desire to play something different on something different. ๐Ÿช As you can tell from most of my gaming uploads, it predominately consists of Asphalt 9: Legends from iOS. So I decided to do something different: play and record a few games on the BlackBerry Passport. ๐ŸŽฎ To start it off, I played a classical game of snake. Eat as many fruit as you can, without running into your tail. Simple, fun, and classical. ๐Ÿ


As mentioned within the video description, this game's title is not as interesting or nostalgic as it would suggest. ๐Ÿ˜’ It just a brick-breaker game with nostalgic gaming consoles formed from the bricks. ๐Ÿงฑ Think Nintendo Entertainment System, Gameboy AdvanceZX Spectrum and the like. On a more positive note, it is colourful and plays smoothly. ๐ŸŽฎ



Oh, this game, this game, this GAME! ๐Ÿ˜ How I love the soundtrack of this game! ๐ŸŽต๐Ÿ˜Ž๐ŸŽต The music does not play inside the levels (anymore? ๐Ÿคจ), but that does not effect how interesting it is. You play as a green serpent, who has to clear various levels to move onto the next. Collect power-ups, dodge enemies, move rocks around, grab keys as needed, and so on. Sounds fun, eh? ๐Ÿ˜€ Because it certainly is! ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘‘๐ŸŽฎ


Whoa! What's up with the harmonic singing?! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜จ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿคฃ Yes, those faces ever-so-accurately describe how you must have felt when you listened to this wild-as-an-animal episode! ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿฆ”๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿฟ๐ŸฆŽ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿข๐Ÿ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฆฆ Not only did it feature 4 large rocks from Lake Ontario, but was filmed in an alternate room. Not sure how much that effected the acoustics, but it is good to switch it up now and then. ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต



The October 2019 uploads shall be done upon the completion of this one! ๐Ÿ˜Ž The What's Next & Other Topics section of that blog post will provide more details about what's going on with November 2019 and future! ๐ŸŒ 



Friday, November 1, 2019

November 1st Entry: Guuzaka 2019 - 2020 Is Here

Guuzaka                                                                                                          2019-11-01

November 1st Entry: Guuzaka 2019 - 2020 Is Here

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Did you see that Tweet yesterday? ๐Ÿ˜ฒ Oh, I'm sure you did! Have you seen much of the changes yet? ๐Ÿ‘€ No, you almost certainly have not! Were you expecting this to happen? I highly doubt it! ๐Ÿคฏ The last time time such a major change took place on the channel was when it transitioned from ATA1201058 to GuuzakaTube back in 2016. That change brought numerous differences beyond just simply a name change. It brought true brand identity, quality, and oh so many more! ๐ŸŒ  For this entry, I'll be exploring the differences with GuuzakaTube and Guuzaka.

Category & Style
As the new channel intro mentions, the Guuzakan style of videos has not changed. You may breathe a sigh of relief. ๐Ÿ˜Œ If you're not relieved, then you are clearly on the wrong channel. ๐Ÿ˜ The exit is this way. You still here? ๐Ÿคจ Good! ๐Ÿ˜Ž Let's move onto the next point!

Cosmetics & Logo
This. This is where the bulk of the changes took place for the 3rd year of Guuzaka. Gone are the Deal With It Sunglasses! For the coming new decade, it was time to come up with something more original, so I went ahead and created something else. You will see the new logo, and name across all of my social media anchors. ๐Ÿ‘‍๐Ÿ—จ Including this very blog I am typing this entry on. Oh, I think that brings us to the next point. ๐Ÿ“

Blog Changes
This too, is another major, major, major change! ⛰ For the last 9 years (wow, time flies! ✈) the blog had the following URL: http://atayoutubediscussions.blogspot.ca/

A quick click on that link will show you that it is broken because it moved, right? Well, yes! I changed the URL, username, avatar and the blog name. The blog has long moved away from just solely being about my YouTube uploads. The ATA brand, as you already read in the first paragraph, has been obsolete for 3 years now. Therefore, this clean up was necessary for the coming new decade. It is high time that the blog properly reflects what it truly is, the brand behind it, and the 2019 changes. 

The new URL is https://thewordsofguuzaka.blogspot.com/ properly reflecting the new name given to it today: The Words Of Guuzaka. ๐Ÿ—จ๐Ÿ“ HTTPS will be greatly appreciated by anyone who cares about security. ๐Ÿ”‘

Watermark & Slightly More Advanced Edits
All videos published from this day and onward until an unspecified point, will feature the new watermark. As you may or may not have noticed, ever since Windows Movie Maker started being too problematic with publishing lengthy 4K videos, I have since used ShotCut. As a result, this allowed me to toss images, corrections, adjust video audio so that it does not overpower voice-overs, and more, on top of my videos. This is thanks to the use of multiple tracks. Something I would have never been able to experience the benefits of, had I stubbornly stuck with the outdated Windows Movie Maker. ๐Ÿ˜ต

How Are You Feeling?
2020 will be here in 61 days. A brand new decade. Just the thought of that is sure to bring an assortment of emotions. Now these changes: how do you feel about the more pronounced identity of Guuzaka? Indifferent? Love the new logo? Hate the new logo? Missed the ATA traces for some reason? Comment and share your thoughts on the coming new era! ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿช๐ŸŒ