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12.07.16
December
08, 2016 Uploads
For
quite
some
time now, I've been typing up my
entries while my
videos were in the process of being uploaded to YouTube.
This
time, I'm typing this entry
a day earlier,
or
I should say partially...
I've got six videos to talk about this week, and these are Maranatha
Christian Reformed Church,
Walking
Down Lamb's Road,
Caristrap
Street Capture Fail,
PewDiePie
To Delete Channel at 50,000,000 Subscribers? [Commentary],
Australian
Day Prep Quiz
and Asphalt
8: 100th Video On The Channel.
23 days left till a new year begins. Not sure what that has to do
with my videos, but anyways! Let's discuss these videos.
So,
as you can tell from the video, this video wasn't actually planned,
but when I passed by
this place and saw it looking “nice and empty”, I decided to go
back to it and film it before doing Lambs Road. The
last church that I filmed
“recently” also took place in Bowmanville on
Lambs Road,
but I didn't realize how
close in proximity these two churches were, and the fact that this
2nd
recent church video ended up being shot in Bowmanville as well.
Cool and coincidental! I didn't take very long to cover the
perimeters of the church, but knowing me, I didn't want to end the
video too
soon, so I resorted to wandering around the area surrounding the
church. Mainly
its larger than expected parking lot and an area facing the cemetery.
Speaking of that, I've made numerous comments about it in the video,
stating about my uncertainty of going there, legalities, etc. To this
day, I still haven't really looked into, but at best, I remember
someone saying that there's no “hard rules” in regards to the
matter and that you just have to use your common sense, or ask the
supervisor of the area if you are very uncertain. Now I know y'all
aren't stupid, but by common sense in this situation, it's avoiding
areas that clearly say prohibited entry or no trespassing, refraining
from vandalism and property damage, ray, ray, ray! It's too obvious
so I'll stop here and move onto the next entry – actually no, I
need to
say a couple more things such
as the appearance
of a standing man in the grass! I don't know if my camera's ratio was
large enough to get him in
on the screen, but because I found it so unexpected and eerie, I
steered away from the idea of trying to capture him. Not that I like
to film people to begin with anyways! LOL! After finishing with
Maranatha,
I moved onto the next area I wanted to cover in Bowmanville: Lambs
Road!
I
don't think I mentioned it
from the last time so I'll ask you now: did you know that the day I
filmed the Bowmanville Adventist Church was actually supposed to be
the day when I was supposed to film Lambs Road? Now you know! But
wait, why is that so? Because a military macaw told me not go down
there at that
time – Kidding?! Anyways! So this title is really self-explanatory,
as all I truly did was just film while walking down Lambs Road. What
kind of interesting things did I see? Not much as you can tell from
the video, though the strip south of Lambs at Baseline is kind of
cool because of the houses and the remote loop at the end that
terminates in front of a
barrier to stop you from walking onto the 401 Highway of Heroes. The
phone also shut off after filming for around 14 minutes, which was
such a tick off, but I'm glad that it happened when I got to the end
of the road, as opposed to it
happening halfway or something. Still, I would've preferred for it to
not happen at all, but alas! The old man doesn't want work in the
cold for too long. What a piece of frustrating garbage! Sigh.......
Despite that, I still proceeded to Caristrap, though judging from the
title and video, you will very likely be
able to predict how things went over there.
I
was only able to film this place for about a minute and a
half. The reason? You already know: it's because old man
BlackBerry felt
that he's been out in the cold for long enough,
so he did not want to do anymore filming, or he'd give me a middle
finger, threaten me with his “Turning off device” message and
then fire
his red laser! Wow! What a
stubborn uncooperative old fart! Now I know I'm not the only one with
this issue of having their phone shut off from the cold, as I've
heard complaints from other people using iPhones saying
that they do that sort of thing all the time, but why? I'm almost
certain that I read somewhere on how these phones are supposed to
remain operational in at least -10 °C! No? Or was that just my eyes
fooling me
with such
a
wishful, lusty
number? But seriously though,
they should honestly be able to remain functional in extreme
temperatures, because not everyone lives in places with “normal”
weather year round. I know that most of those “Active”, “Sports”
or “Military” phones like the Samsung Galaxy S7 Active or Kyocera
DuraForce XD for example, claim that they can operate in extreme
temperatures, but main stream phones should be able to, too! After
all, mainstream phones
are in the hands of more people, so smartphone makers need to get
their act together with that, and stop making such stupidly thin,
unibody, non-removable battery phones! Now I know my BlackBerry that
I'm using doesn't fit those 3 descriptions that I just mentioned, but
it's still pretty thin! A
thicker body would've allowed for a bigger better and a little more
weather resistance!
Wow, crazy how this has gone from being about Caristrap to a rant
about how phones should be more weatherproof. On a final note, the
video files on BlackBerry 10 devices seem to save if the phone shuts
off from the cold and displays the “Turning off device” message,
but if it make a static-like click sound and abruptly proceeds to a
black screen, then nothing is saved. Joy.
Pew!
Pew! Pew! PWARSHT! What?! Yeah, I know, but we kind of saw this one
coming, didn't we? How depressed, annoyed, angry and pent-up with
bitter emotions
he's been? Subscriber or not, you hear quite a bit about this man,
because he holds the title to being the most subscribed on YouTube.
How? I honestly don't know because I don't follow this guy, but even
when I do watch a video of his on a rare occasion, he honestly just
seems like most other highly subscribed comedians. The article says
it largely due to the Bro Amy, what ever that's supposed to be, and I
guess the rest of it has to do with his looks? Who knows. Lots of
possibilities, but I'm not really here to discuss all of that.
Admittedly, I still haven't checked sources to confirm whether or not
he's still doing this, so if anyone reads
this and wonders why it's written the way that it is, that's why. So
how serious could he be about this? Well, he said he is
dead serious in a video that he wanted to axe his PewDiePie channel
at protest to the unfair changes in algorithms
that supposedly lowered view counts, subscribers and cost per
impressions, but is this really true? I've heard others complain
about it on Twitter, but YouTube of course claims that they've done a
thorough investigation, and that there are no
truths to the complaints people have complained about. Well of
course! As I say in the video, it's hard to believe whether it's
actually true that they haven't done anything to hurt YouTubers
income, but at the same time, I believe that it may also very well be
the fact that these YouTubers probably just need to accept reality,
which is the fact that people are likely
just naturally unsubscribing from
them. For
these reasons, I've just made my conclusion about it likely being a
blend of both: some changes to algorithms and natural view/subscriber
loss. Another interesting note is how it's been said that he's also
very tired of his PewDiePie persona and would like to start new.
Rebranding himself maybe? Well, I've rebranded my channel for my own
reasons as discussed in this video,
so he has personal
reasons behind his move as well. That's all I'm going to say about
this Swedish man for now, and it'll be interesting to see if he
actually does this at 50,000,000 or not. A lot of people will say
“strong” things these days and not actually do anything. Look at
the elections for instance: so many people swore that they were going
to leave America if Trump won, and when he did, they realized that it
was too much of hassle to leave their beloved country, so they just
had to grudgingly accept it. Well, maybe some people did actually
leave, so I should just specify and say that
no celebrities have actually left to date, though I didn't check so I
could be wrong. Who cares though! Whether they left or not doesn't
interest me, because it's not like they're buying a house for me, nor
would I want them to, lest they try to control me through – Ok!
Just what am I going on about?! Done.
12.12.16 Edit: A little late, but the troll of course didn't end up deleting his channel. He deletes another random channel I (and probably many others) never heard about.
Fun Probably Obvious Fact: PewDiePie and I both started our channels in 2010. April 29 and January 4 respectively.
12.12.16 Edit: A little late, but the troll of course didn't end up deleting his channel. He deletes another random channel I (and probably many others) never heard about.
Fun Probably Obvious Fact: PewDiePie and I both started our channels in 2010. April 29 and January 4 respectively.
Ohhhh,
good ol' land of Oz! Some day, I'd really like to explore you! I've
been wanting to explore this great country (as well as many others)
for quite some time
now. The reason? Oh, I've got so many reasons, so let's just say that
it has to do with the wildlife, variable, but warms landscapes, and
all the awesome cities they have down there. Palm
cockatoos, Leadbeater's
cockatoos, Gang gang cockatoos, budgerigars, cockatiels, carpet
pythons, black headed pythons, kangaroos, kookaburras, wombats,
koalas, blue tongued skinks – WHOA! This entry is supposed to be
about a quiz and here I am fantasizing about all the wildlife that
lives down
there!
Wow! Anyways, so last week I have
expressed about how I wanted to redo those terribly synced quizzes on
Canada and the USA so badly, but I ultimately decided that I'd just
do another quiz on another country: Australia! How well did I perform
on this test? Poorly! LOL! There were too many questions asking about
the
dates of
when
certain events happened, and historical
people, so that caused me to get a 4
out of 15!!! That's
27% out of 100%!!! Whew! Thank goodness that wasn't a school test, or
that would've
been
an abysmal grade! Nonetheless, it was fun doing it and I'm proud to
have a quiz video on the channel with properly synced audio to show
that I'm capable of doing far better!
Boy
oh boy! There
is a ton I have to say for this final entry that
deals with the 100th
video, so prepare your eyes and
mind
for a long
story.
So yesterday (December
07, half of this blog has been typed today, 08)
shortly after I finished editing and processing this video, it saved
to the desktop and I took a break. It was the 6th
and final video of the batch for this week, so I was glad to get it
done. Unfortunately, by the time I came back upstairs my computer's
screen was black and unresponsive, but I could hear the fans and
components revving quite loud. I tried tapping the screen repeatedly,
but it did not wake up. I tried tapping various keys on the keyboard,
but still, no avail. I thought “Alright, probably one of those
annoying forced updates from Microsoft?” So I left it alone for
some time and went on a walk. When I came back, I checked on it and
it was
still doing the same exasperating
foolishness. I then decided to do other things such as some
housekeeping to pass some more time. After a shower, I came back to
it, only to find that it was still completely unresponsive
and making lots of noise. At this point, I was exceedingly annoyed
with it, so I finally decided to just press the power button a few
times, and then long press it to shut it off. I was little worried
that I probably would've
bricked it, but at the same time, I felt that I had to intervene,
because there was absolutely no sign of responsiveness and I did not
want it to overheat and damage internal components. When I turned it
back on, it started up like normal. I thought “Great, it didn't
give in” until when I got to the desktop. There was nothing to be
seen except a single recycling bin! I thought “Oh shoot, this isn't
looking good!” So I probed around to see what was wrong. I was able
to pull up the menu and look at other files. It
seemed like everything that wasn't on the desktop was fine, until
when I touched the recycling bin and saw “XXXX user drive is
corrupted and unreadable” I then froze in great fear and worry.
Dear God, it was at that moment where I knew I messed up. A lot of
things ran through my mind: “What did I do wrong?”
“I shouldn't have done that!” “Why now?!” “Oh, God why?!”
“Why didn't I back up
my files, first day after
I bought that Seagate Portable Drive?”
I then just resorted to restarting my computer. Thankfully,
everything missing from the desktop came back
– WHEW!
That was a freakin' close call! I must've gotten really lucky or
something, because that truly could've just been the end of it, but
thank God it wasn't! The files were arranged messily on the desktop,
but I didn't care that much, as I was just glad to see that
everything was supposedly
fine, with
the exception of two files:
Asphalt 8: 100th Video On The Channel and
a folder where I kept a slew of sound files and images from my
videos
I was making this week.
While I wasn't pleased about that, I was glad that those two were the
only files that had gone corrupt. After probing around various areas
of my computer to look for damage, I later backed up all of my files
onto the Seagate USB 3.0 2TB Backup Plus Portable Drive and then
shortly a USB for extra protection. The speed of both of these
devices had me seriously amazed, especially the Seagate! Seriously,
how did it manage to copy nearly 100GB of files? It wasn't even the
“fast version” and it
managed
to do that while I was watching an HD YouTube video!
Wow, what a speedy beast! I really hope it holds
up well over the long term, because
I love its performance, size and looks. Now due to the series of
events
that took place yesterday, I wasn't able to get this entry up on
the 7th,
because I had to still type up the stuff for the later
videos,
and worse, I had to put the 100th
video together again, or so I thought! It turns out that the system
file scan wasn't 100% useless! This morning when I booted the
computer up, it did another scan and it fixed the folder with the
sound files! YES! Would've been even better if it could've just fixed
the video itself, but alas! Guess I can't have it all... Thankfully,
because I didn't delete the raw original videos from my phone, all I
had to do was transfer a copy again (actually did this as one of the
first things upon booting), clipped the loads and unwanted bits, and
perfectly re-synced the audio. Everything went well, until when I
heard some screechy, horrific, sci-fi noises during the first 45
seconds of the Iceland race in Season 1 with the Tesla and Audi!
Whoa, what could've borked here?! No idea, so I just silenced it out
before rewatching the whole video and publishing it to my computer.
My oh my! Yesterday
and today
has truly been a series of hectic, worrisome, down right annoying
events,
but I am now pleased to say that everything is in order and that the
videos are now on the internet. Now I know this entry had nothing to
do with the gameplay video itself, but you know what? Truth is,
everyone can tell what the video is about by simply watching it. This
place was truly intended to be more of
a
“behind the scenes” or an additional unmentioned details sort of
thing. This not only makes it more interesting for me, but probably
for
anyone else who actually
reads this,
rather than to just simply reiterate what was already openly seen on
the videos.
Should probably try to do a better job at keeping it like that.
