North Grand Forest (DEFUNCT POST)

Guuzaka                                                                                                          2020-07-06

North Grand Forest (DEFUNCT POST)

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Last revised: 2022-07-12

I have long stopped playing this demented game and have not touched anything from Gameloft since!

Current Intake

February 07, 2021 - February 14, 2021

Valentine's Season

About North Grand Forest

North Grand Forest, spelled in-game as "NorthGrandForest", is a hyper-exclusive iOS Asphalt 9: Legends club that I created back in January or February 2019. 🌲🌳😎🌲🌳

Important Bits

Club Name: NorthGrandForest

Club Leader: Guuzaka

Club Tag: #9abd5

Club Location: Canada

Club Language: English

Club Motto: The forest where many things happen

Hyper-exclusive

I only "open" the club 3 times a year to invites. 😲 I do not publicly announce these ahead of time. 🤫 Why do I make it like this? 🤔 The reason it is hyper-exclusive in the first place is to only allow people that truly want to be apart of this club. 🦜 Not just someone looking for any club in hopes of winning big rewards quickly. 🐗

In fact, this club is not even a "big rewards" club at the moment, so you would be disappointed anyway. 😢 If you are a committed player like myself, then it could turn into a big rewards club fairly soon. 🤑

Requirements

While I do not have any particular set numbers, I do expect people to be active and do their best to contribute as much as they healthily can. 🥕🍎🥦 If I find that you just sit like a bump on a log, you will be removed when the Season finishes. 😨 And remember, because North Grand Forest locks after an intake period is over, this means that once you leave, there is no coming back until another intake period. 😱

Also, no toxicity. No swearing, threatning, abuse, lying, trolling and so forth. Read here for a more detailed post on what I expect from comments/chats.

My Club Or That Guy's Club Is Better Than Yours!

That's nice. 🙄 Well, guess what? You absolutely do not have join, if the hyper-exclusive intake is a turn-off to you. In fact, please do not even think about joining if you are a toxic person. You will be booted in no time!

How Do I Keep Notified Of Intakes?

I announce them on my Twitter @OfficialGuuzaka and sometimes Instagram @guuzaka.

Comment Section Rules (DEFUNCT POST)

Guuzaka                                                                                                          2020-07-06

Comment Section Rules (DEFUNCT POST)

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Last revised: 2022-07-12

NOTICE!

As of of July 12, 2022, this post has been amalgamated under the Guuzaka-Atazaka Frequently Asked Questions. As such, this post will no longer be updated! Read no further!

Obey Or Be Thrown Into The Bay

Any comments that fail to follow these rules will be deleted, or given a warning in some cases. ⚠ In more serious cases, the commenter may be blocked or even reported. 👀 These rules not only apply to the YouTube channel of Guuzaka, but all other social media accounts pertained to this brand. ▶ Your comments are a privilege, not a right. ◀

1. No hate speech.

Do not express any hatred to human beings based on skin colour, race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, veteran status or other. 👊👊🏻👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿 We are all Homo sapiens sapiens. 🩸 Regardless of whether or not you prefer light skin, dark skin, or are a passionate believer of a certain religion, you absolutely cannot express hate in my comment sections.

2. No spam, bots, or advertising.

This is a major pet peeve of mine! 🙄 No spammy comments, bot accounts, advertising, or self-advertising is allowed. This would also include follow4follow, which also really ticks me off. 😑

3. No personal attacks.

Do not prey on people in my comment sections. 🦈🚫 This also includes threatening other people. Remember, if you result to personal attacks in an argument, it means that you lost the argument. 😳 You were not mature enough to keep the discussion constructive and classy. So if you claim to be all smart and convincing, then actually act like it! 😑

4. Stay on topic.

If a video, Tweet, or Instagram post is about Lake Ontario for example, keep it pertained to Lake Ontario. 🌊 This might sound like common sense, but if you ask anyone who dealt with comment sections for a long time, they will tell you that they have lost track of how many times a conversation has gone from ants to zippers. 🐜➡🤐

5. Do not post anyone’s personal information.

Names*, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail address, and other forms of sensitive information is a major no-no. 🔒

*Names are a bit of a grey area. If you are obviously talking about an individual who is publicly known, then that is different. If you watch a video, and make a comment stating that you, John and Mary were at a certain place where I was at a time, then I will usually leave the comment alone. If you were to post their full names, that would almost certainly result in it getting deleted. 🗑️

6. No swearing.

While profanity is already filtered out by my blacklist, sometimes there are exceptions where it does not catch it. 🤬 In such an event, I will delete the profanity. This also applies to other languages as well. How will I know what is a swear word or not from another language? You will find out once I get to #9. 🤐

7. No Trolling.

Do not say something for the sake of getting a reaction. Instead, take your time to do something more meaningful and positive. 🕊 Comment sections need not be a sewage lagoon. 🚫👹💩

8. No Lying.

This not only includes lying on people, but also posting blatantly false information about something or someone. Such acts may get you into legal trouble depending on the severity of the false information, and how far it went. 🤥

9. Post in English. 

If a foreign comment can be easily and accurately translated in Google, I will leave it alone. Granted, it does not break any of these rules here. Even then, you are strongly advised to post in English, as this is after all, an English-speaking channel. Foreign languages that cannot be translated, or are poorly translated, will be deleted. It is not worth the risk of what potential nastiness someone could be saying that you, or I, may not know. 😨 This leads to the next rule: unintelligible posts. 🥴

10. No unintelligible posts.

Comments that are nonsensical, garbled, jibberish, poorly translated, or that cannot be deciphered, will be deleted. 😵 Not only are comments like this an eyesore, but are uncalled for. 👺

Guuzaka: Explanation And COPPA

Guuzaka                                                                                                          2020-07-06

Guuzaka: Explanation And COPPA

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Last revised: 2020-07-06

Aside from rebrandings, intros, or outros, and other little things here and there, Guuzaka has remained largely unchanged. 👀 However, between 2010 and the present, a lot has changed both inside and outside of YouTube. Therefore, I would like to take this blog post as not only an opportunity to explain things, but to also serve as a reference to legal things like the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA).

"You are on Guuzaka. 😶 The 5 major pillars of this brand are the outdoors, mobile games, products, music, and commentary-discussion videos."

Pretty self-explanatory. Lets you know that you are on the official Guuzaka channel and that the main categories of videos I like to make are outdoors, mobile games, products, music, and commentary-discussion videos. 💬📱🌳🎵📦

"However, Guuzaka is by no means a mass appeal brand. It can be rather strange, different, complicated or controversial at times."

My channel is the way I want it to be. 😤 It is not intended to be enjoyable to the general population. 👾 This is not to say that it is straight up vulgar and shocking. It is not. 😌 But at the same time, I do not try to win the mass approval of everyone's tastes. As such, sometimes commentary may be political, religious, strange, not to your tastes, or oh-so-variable! 🌈

 I upload videos that I like. If you like, cool. If you do not like, you are strongly advised to move on without any drama or nonsense of the sort.

As explained above, I upload what I want to upload. That said, if you did manage to like a particular video, then great. 😎 If you did not like a particular video or this channel as whole, just move on without being rude, stupid, or dramatic. 😑 You would be surprised at how easy it is to actually do that: leave peacefully and respectfully. 🕊

Important! Even though some of the videos are rated "E" Guuzaka is NOT catered to children.

This is extremely important. So important, that I actually had plans to create a video entirely on this subject since February. 😶 Well, we all know how that went: did not happen at all. 😣 While July is a good 5 months apart from February, it is better to discuss it now than never.

You see, a lot of the videos on my channel seem to be rated E, right? 🤔 And you also see that there are a lot of outdoor videos of schools when they are closed. 🏫 This must mean that this channel is obviously catered to children, right? 🤡🎈 

Absolutely wrong! 😲 In fact, none of the videos on my channels are catered specifically to people under 13. 😐 The rated E simply means that it is safe enough for people of all ages to watch. The general recommended age for my videos is 13+. As explained earlier, commentary (as well as edits 😏) may vary a lot in my videos, which can cause a video that you might expect to be rated E, get stamped with a rated 13+ or higher.

That said, you will notice that all of my videos before November 2019, do not have age ratings. What are viewers supposed to do in this situation? 🤨 You have to use a combination of personal judgement, as well as the fact that Guuzakan videos are generally recommended for an audience of 13+. If at any point a video made you feel uncomfortable because the topics of the commentary were too mature, immediately stop watching it and seek a channel that caters to children, or is at least always rated E. 😉

Canada Day 2020

Guuzaka                                                                                                          2020-07-01

Canada Day 2020

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Happy Canada Day 2020! 😶🍁❤️️ Well, there are no fireworks this year... ⚰ That means there will be no lake videos where I walk around the coast of Lake Ontario until the fireworks start. ⚰ Who can we blame? COVID-19. 😨 Does that mean Canada Day has to suck? 🥱Absolutely not! Who said you cannot go for a walk, play games, instruments or something? 🤔 While the fireworks are really cool, and it truly sucks that they are cancelled, there is more to a celebration than that. Oh yes, speaking of "Canada Day" I would like to take the opportunity to share my opinion on something: #UnsettlingCanadaDay and #CANCELCANADADAY.

Canada Day Is Racist? I Do Not Think So.

It is that time of the year again where some people will resist Canada Day. Why? According to people against Canada Day, celebrating this day is apparently celebrating colonialism, abuse, murder, robbery, rape and the list goes on. 🥴 If you're like "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!" Then yeah, that's what some people really say. Just search those hashtags on Twitter if you think I am kidding. 😨

So ok, let's be 100% real without hiding a thing: yes, what we now call Canada was indeed colonized by White Europeans who did mistreat the Indigenous peoples that have lived here long before they did. That is why we speak English and French as the official languages, as opposed to Cree and Inuktitut -- the two most populous Indigenous languages in Canada. That is also why the population is predominantly White Europeans, particularly from the British Isles, as well as France.

However, Canada has since changed a lot. Is there still room for improvement? Absolutely. Is systemic racism still an issue? Yes it is, and it really needs to stop. Does anybody in 2020 celebrate Canada Day by hunting for Indigenous and beating them? I am pretty sure 99.99% of the population does not. If you ask any Canadian how they celebrate Canada Day, this is what they will say:

A) I watched television

B) I sat in my leather chair

C) I went outdoors

D) Barbecue

E) I wore a maple leaf

F) I watched fireworks (2020 exempt)

and other harmless things. Well, not everyone does harmless things per se, but most people do. So to have sum it up: nothing wrong with having harmless fun, but it is also important that we do not mistreat the people who have lived here before settles arrived. In fact, it is important that we do not mistreat anyone. Let us live in peace and appreciate the racial diversity we have in this country. Choose peace. Say no to racism. Have a fun Canada Day. 🍁