Well, as you can tell, I haven't been keeping up with my blogz. The mental stress I have from the long, after hours work has been getting to me. This job started back in July/Aug. and for the most part, I basically set aside most of my social life so I can actually have time to relax. By the end of this weekend this damn job will be done. I will miss the extra money on my paychecks though lol, but I will have my life back.
This next year is already starting to look amazingly awesome. I will be getting a raise at work, and I will be getting my daughter not every other weekend but every week for the week. Along with that and because I will have my daughter with me the same amount of time as her mother, I now don't have to pay child support. (Obviously I now have to pay more for food and extras for my daughter, duh...lol) Only if I was able to move sooner then when my lease is up in June. I do love living with my sister, her husband and their 2, soon to be 3 kids, but I need my own place. I need to get my personal life on the go in the direction I need and want. This past 1 1/2 years living with them has showed me a lot of things I need to adjust in my own life to make mine and my daughters life even better. Plus I bet my sister is starting to get sick of me...lol But I know she still loves me....for now...lol
I'm gonna set aside at least one day a week for now to start doing my blogz again. I'm not sure what day yet, but I will make sure I stick to it. Then I'll slowly over the next year work on trying to do maybe 3-5 blogz a week. I'm not gonna go by my original schedule that I posted near the beginning of my blogz. That was just a waste of a blog post. I still have to do my review of Rage, and Dead Island. And a couple other ones but those will be the first two I do. And I will be doing another one for Skyrim when I have more of the game beat. That may not be until mid January to late February. And hopefully by then I will have a side project ready to release to the public. I did make a short comment about it in SeasonedGamers.com but that's all the info I will release for it. I might even go back to the post and delete that part so no one can steal my idea. I will release that in a link to a pdf that I will posted on my lockbox.
Anyways, I got my after hours work to do now. I better get on it. The sooner I start, the sooner I get home to spend time with my daughter before she goes to bed.
And on a parting note I'd like to say,
"Happy Thanksgiving to all the Americans out there or like we call it here in Canada, Thursday." lol
~ JB
Friday, November 25, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Skyrim....my first 10-15 hours
Well, I know I'm slacking but if I try to do this everyday, it feels like a job and the fun is sucked out of it. So I'm resorting to posting when I have something to post. That may lead to more post in a day or maybe one post a week...who knows. But if I do multiple posts in a day, then they would probably be smaller ones.
Anyways to the blog....
I have to say that I FUCKIN LOVE THIS GAME. This is by far the best Elder Scrolls game out there. If you are a RPG fan, you have to get this game. The dragon fights are fun and hard but doable, and I haven't changed the difficulty I play on yet. I have left it on Adept. (def. very skilled; proficient; expert).
If you have never played any of the Elder Scrolls games this is the one to try first. Not because its new, only because this is how they set up creating your character. You pick your race, your name and BAM your playing the game after the opening sequence. The 2 others that I've played were Morrowind and Oblivion. Those you need to pick your star sign to add bonus to your attributes and then you have to pick your major attribute. If you know what your doing, go at it but if you don't, you wouldn't know how to pick what attributes that would help you level up. Just say you want to be an archer mage assassin but if you pick attributes in the other games to work with those but you end up playing like an archer two-handed weapon expert bass-ass so the attributes now won't work the way you want with leveling up. So you have to do one of two things, just continue playing or start over. With Skyrim, you don't need to worry about that. Your character levels up with the style of how you play.
One of the things I thought was pretty cool what they did was that there are now kids in the game. Not of all ages, just probably around 10-13. The dragon fights are pretty random. There are some that are scripted to happen to go with the storyline but when you fight them, they are still random on how they attack. A lot of people are saying ,`This is how Oblivion should have been.` Well, I think not. Oblivion was still amazing for its day. Skyrim is Skyrim.
Some things I've learned from playing in this game are, if you don't want a village to attack you, don't shoot a chicken walking in the streets, dragons have ADD in some fights, using whirlwind sprint when over-encumbered gets you where your going a lot quicker, and save often.
I am maybe 15-20 hours into the game and I've only killed 5 dragons. And I'm not that far into the game. I've read on SeasonedGamers.com that a couple people are already done the main storyline and one guy has killed at least 19 dragons since he posted last. I'm falling behind. :(
Now its time to get up, hide some of my daughters toy glass diamonds and make a treasure map before I have to pick her up from school. And I'll be sliding in Skyrim or Halo: CEA in between.
~ JB
Anyways to the blog....
I have to say that I FUCKIN LOVE THIS GAME. This is by far the best Elder Scrolls game out there. If you are a RPG fan, you have to get this game. The dragon fights are fun and hard but doable, and I haven't changed the difficulty I play on yet. I have left it on Adept. (def. very skilled; proficient; expert).
If you have never played any of the Elder Scrolls games this is the one to try first. Not because its new, only because this is how they set up creating your character. You pick your race, your name and BAM your playing the game after the opening sequence. The 2 others that I've played were Morrowind and Oblivion. Those you need to pick your star sign to add bonus to your attributes and then you have to pick your major attribute. If you know what your doing, go at it but if you don't, you wouldn't know how to pick what attributes that would help you level up. Just say you want to be an archer mage assassin but if you pick attributes in the other games to work with those but you end up playing like an archer two-handed weapon expert bass-ass so the attributes now won't work the way you want with leveling up. So you have to do one of two things, just continue playing or start over. With Skyrim, you don't need to worry about that. Your character levels up with the style of how you play.
One of the things I thought was pretty cool what they did was that there are now kids in the game. Not of all ages, just probably around 10-13. The dragon fights are pretty random. There are some that are scripted to happen to go with the storyline but when you fight them, they are still random on how they attack. A lot of people are saying ,`This is how Oblivion should have been.` Well, I think not. Oblivion was still amazing for its day. Skyrim is Skyrim.
Some things I've learned from playing in this game are, if you don't want a village to attack you, don't shoot a chicken walking in the streets, dragons have ADD in some fights, using whirlwind sprint when over-encumbered gets you where your going a lot quicker, and save often.
I am maybe 15-20 hours into the game and I've only killed 5 dragons. And I'm not that far into the game. I've read on SeasonedGamers.com that a couple people are already done the main storyline and one guy has killed at least 19 dragons since he posted last. I'm falling behind. :(
Now its time to get up, hide some of my daughters toy glass diamonds and make a treasure map before I have to pick her up from school. And I'll be sliding in Skyrim or Halo: CEA in between.
~ JB
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
My life living in The Elder Scrolls
As many of you know, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be coming out this Friday, 11:11:11. So why not blog about my life inside this amazing game series.
That's what it is though, a life inside a video game. No not like The Sims, but in a place long ago, in a universe where magic is alive and everywhere. I have only played the 3rd (Morrowind) and 4th game (Oblivion) of the series. I destroyed Morrowind, but I didn't put much time in Oblivion. Why, just didn't have time and Halo: Reach controlled most of my XBox 360 life. Time well wasted. lol.
One of my best friends Matt called me up years and years ago about this game he bought. (Morrowind) He first told me when he first played the game, he spent maybe an hour in it, turned it off and thought `why did I buy they crap.` About a week or two later, like a good gamer, he gave it another shot. Never give any game only one try. Give it 2 or even 4 tries before giving up, you may find you like it after the 2nd or 3rd try. Anyways, after he game it another go, he loved the game and we spent a good hour or two on the phone talking about it. He was explaining everything he's seen and done in the game and all the features it had. He then said that he has to bring it over for me to try it.
Later that weekend he brought it over and I tried it. It was a little much to take in at first but once I understood how this game was I fell in rpg love lol.
It took me about 6 months before I picked up my own copy. I got the game of the year edition so I could have more stuff to do. I don't remember how many hours I spent in it but the days in the game was over 700.
The 2 crazy things that stand out in my mind from Morrowind was my first character, I just randomly roamed and I ended up near the ghost gate and I kept getting killed by these really strong guys. So the only way I could get out was to use the scroll that added 1000 points to your acrobatics. I pointed my character toward the shortest distance to water and jumped. Everything was going good. On my decent all I could see was water. Then something slowly appeared, an island. Out of all the area I was going to land I landed on the only island around. The island was also the size of a freakin bed. Seriously wtf..?
The other thing was that on day 666 was when my character turned into a warewolf. I didn't plan that to happen it just did. I thought it was pretty interesting.
Now for Oblivion. I played many hours into that but I never went too far in the story line. At one time I was borrowing my brother-in-laws XBox 360 while he has my Wii. I had my buddy's Oblivion game but I didn't have the system long enough to beat it.
About 16-18 months ago I got my first XBox 360 and I had to start over. Soon after I got Halo: Reach and like I stated above, that sucked up all my time lol. Then many other games got in the way and I just didn't make time for Oblivion. I still plan to play and beat it one day but with Skyrim now here. I might not.
Today is 11-11-11. And I picked up my collectors edition at lunch. The reason I didn't go to the midnight release was that I worked the 2 previous days doing 12hr shifts then Thursday morning I had to get up at 530am to get my daughter to daycare in time an then me to work. And I'm currently working a 12hr shift today so I have to still wait to pop this game in.
I destroyed Morrowind, barely touched Oblivion and now I have Skyrim which I plan to play the shit outta. lol And to get in the mood more, and thanks to my awesome boss, I made a 3' x 4' map of Tamriel, the continent that The Elder Scrolls take place on. If you follow me on Twitter, I posted a picture of me with it on there.
"When I die, my friends will be at my funeral, my good friends will cry at my funeral, but my best friends will change my Facebook status to 'Chillin with Jesus'."
~ JB
That's what it is though, a life inside a video game. No not like The Sims, but in a place long ago, in a universe where magic is alive and everywhere. I have only played the 3rd (Morrowind) and 4th game (Oblivion) of the series. I destroyed Morrowind, but I didn't put much time in Oblivion. Why, just didn't have time and Halo: Reach controlled most of my XBox 360 life. Time well wasted. lol.
One of my best friends Matt called me up years and years ago about this game he bought. (Morrowind) He first told me when he first played the game, he spent maybe an hour in it, turned it off and thought `why did I buy they crap.` About a week or two later, like a good gamer, he gave it another shot. Never give any game only one try. Give it 2 or even 4 tries before giving up, you may find you like it after the 2nd or 3rd try. Anyways, after he game it another go, he loved the game and we spent a good hour or two on the phone talking about it. He was explaining everything he's seen and done in the game and all the features it had. He then said that he has to bring it over for me to try it.
Later that weekend he brought it over and I tried it. It was a little much to take in at first but once I understood how this game was I fell in rpg love lol.
It took me about 6 months before I picked up my own copy. I got the game of the year edition so I could have more stuff to do. I don't remember how many hours I spent in it but the days in the game was over 700.
The 2 crazy things that stand out in my mind from Morrowind was my first character, I just randomly roamed and I ended up near the ghost gate and I kept getting killed by these really strong guys. So the only way I could get out was to use the scroll that added 1000 points to your acrobatics. I pointed my character toward the shortest distance to water and jumped. Everything was going good. On my decent all I could see was water. Then something slowly appeared, an island. Out of all the area I was going to land I landed on the only island around. The island was also the size of a freakin bed. Seriously wtf..?
The other thing was that on day 666 was when my character turned into a warewolf. I didn't plan that to happen it just did. I thought it was pretty interesting.
Now for Oblivion. I played many hours into that but I never went too far in the story line. At one time I was borrowing my brother-in-laws XBox 360 while he has my Wii. I had my buddy's Oblivion game but I didn't have the system long enough to beat it.
About 16-18 months ago I got my first XBox 360 and I had to start over. Soon after I got Halo: Reach and like I stated above, that sucked up all my time lol. Then many other games got in the way and I just didn't make time for Oblivion. I still plan to play and beat it one day but with Skyrim now here. I might not.
Today is 11-11-11. And I picked up my collectors edition at lunch. The reason I didn't go to the midnight release was that I worked the 2 previous days doing 12hr shifts then Thursday morning I had to get up at 530am to get my daughter to daycare in time an then me to work. And I'm currently working a 12hr shift today so I have to still wait to pop this game in.
I destroyed Morrowind, barely touched Oblivion and now I have Skyrim which I plan to play the shit outta. lol And to get in the mood more, and thanks to my awesome boss, I made a 3' x 4' map of Tamriel, the continent that The Elder Scrolls take place on. If you follow me on Twitter, I posted a picture of me with it on there.
"When I die, my friends will be at my funeral, my good friends will cry at my funeral, but my best friends will change my Facebook status to 'Chillin with Jesus'."
~ JB
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
SeasonedGamers.com We are not a community, we are a family.
I first wanted to write this specific blog on the 7 year anniversary of when Seasoned Gamers started but that day came and went without me even cluing in that it was near. I did get an email from SG saying happy anniversary, you've been here 7 years, or something like that and that didn't even click in and I signed up on the first day. I'm actually the 2nd longest active member of the site. The only one there longer is JAMO who created the website.
What is SG all about? Well, like the title of this blog states, we are a family, not a community. That is actually partially true. Yes we are a community. We have currently 1,016 members. But the heart and soul of SG is in the group of Moderators, Administrators and overly active members of the site. We are what makes SG what it is, a family like atmosphere. If you look in any family, your own, your friends or whoever, you see a close, loving relationship that is full of helpful hands, great conversations, great friends and the occasional insults we joke about with each other.
I have not had the opportunity...sorry, let me re-phrase that. I have not had the privilege to meet anyone in person who is a member of SG but I have talked with them on the forums, XBL, text messages and on one occasion, on the phone. We do have a yearly meet up called the Spring Fling that many of us "SG Family" members go but all have been in the USofA and me living in Canada and without a passport, I cannot go. I do check out what other SGer's who go have to say after the event and I look at all the pictures and I can tell that it's a blast.
The site started initially in the XBox forums specifically in the Halo sub-forum when a couple people started talking about finding a forum we can all go to that is for adults. No kids allowed. So after a month or two of discussion, and the nice moderators at the XBox forums for not deleting an off topic thread in the Halo forum, JAMO posted about him getting started with making a forum we can all go to.
I made sure to check the link he provided almost every 2-5 minutes. Finally it worked and I signed in as member 04. Member 01 was the initial SG account, 02 was JAMO, 03 was some person who never posted and ended up getting his account deleted, then myself. Since then, there have been over a thousand people sign up and hundreds of accounts being deleted due to inactivity of finding out they are under the minimum age requirement.
In the past 7 years, SGers have helped with giving stuff to other SGers in need such as, XBox 360's, games, plane tickets, gifts, and the list goes on. I have not been part of this helpful side of things due to financial situations but if the opportunity ever arises again, and I am able to help, I'll be jumping in with both feet.
We have yearly leagues in Halo, CoD, Racing, Golf, L4D and others. We also hold our own Olympics every 2 years. We have many online meetups throughout the week that you can find any member of SG in. You will find someone to help you out with anything from gaming problems, network problems or any and everyday stuff.
So many things have went on in SG that there was always someone there to lend some kind words of advice, have someone pray for others, and even give best wishes to many things. We have dealt with at least one death of a member, RIP NextLevel360, we have been there when a member, Dadflash and his wife went to China to pick up their new baby girl, we've helped people with getting threw divorces, helped with giving advice on raising children and even shared funny stories that has happened to us and our own family. We've also had members of SG meet up in Afghanistan, and Iraq for a quick meet up when they had down time.
I am proud to say that I am a member of the best online community I have found online. There are not many people or places I can call my family or even a home but SG is one of those places. I will forever be a member of this community no matter how old I get.
And like the Seasoned Gamers tag line says; "Fun. Friends. Family. HOME." No words can be truer.
~ JB
What is SG all about? Well, like the title of this blog states, we are a family, not a community. That is actually partially true. Yes we are a community. We have currently 1,016 members. But the heart and soul of SG is in the group of Moderators, Administrators and overly active members of the site. We are what makes SG what it is, a family like atmosphere. If you look in any family, your own, your friends or whoever, you see a close, loving relationship that is full of helpful hands, great conversations, great friends and the occasional insults we joke about with each other.
I have not had the opportunity...sorry, let me re-phrase that. I have not had the privilege to meet anyone in person who is a member of SG but I have talked with them on the forums, XBL, text messages and on one occasion, on the phone. We do have a yearly meet up called the Spring Fling that many of us "SG Family" members go but all have been in the USofA and me living in Canada and without a passport, I cannot go. I do check out what other SGer's who go have to say after the event and I look at all the pictures and I can tell that it's a blast.
The site started initially in the XBox forums specifically in the Halo sub-forum when a couple people started talking about finding a forum we can all go to that is for adults. No kids allowed. So after a month or two of discussion, and the nice moderators at the XBox forums for not deleting an off topic thread in the Halo forum, JAMO posted about him getting started with making a forum we can all go to.
I made sure to check the link he provided almost every 2-5 minutes. Finally it worked and I signed in as member 04. Member 01 was the initial SG account, 02 was JAMO, 03 was some person who never posted and ended up getting his account deleted, then myself. Since then, there have been over a thousand people sign up and hundreds of accounts being deleted due to inactivity of finding out they are under the minimum age requirement.
In the past 7 years, SGers have helped with giving stuff to other SGers in need such as, XBox 360's, games, plane tickets, gifts, and the list goes on. I have not been part of this helpful side of things due to financial situations but if the opportunity ever arises again, and I am able to help, I'll be jumping in with both feet.
We have yearly leagues in Halo, CoD, Racing, Golf, L4D and others. We also hold our own Olympics every 2 years. We have many online meetups throughout the week that you can find any member of SG in. You will find someone to help you out with anything from gaming problems, network problems or any and everyday stuff.
So many things have went on in SG that there was always someone there to lend some kind words of advice, have someone pray for others, and even give best wishes to many things. We have dealt with at least one death of a member, RIP NextLevel360, we have been there when a member, Dadflash and his wife went to China to pick up their new baby girl, we've helped people with getting threw divorces, helped with giving advice on raising children and even shared funny stories that has happened to us and our own family. We've also had members of SG meet up in Afghanistan, and Iraq for a quick meet up when they had down time.
I am proud to say that I am a member of the best online community I have found online. There are not many people or places I can call my family or even a home but SG is one of those places. I will forever be a member of this community no matter how old I get.
And like the Seasoned Gamers tag line says; "Fun. Friends. Family. HOME." No words can be truer.
~ JB
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Horror Movie Blazing Review: See No Evil
Well, its the first of November and my Horror Movie Quote Contest is at an end. Will I do more movie reviews? Probably. When? Don't know. Whenever I feel like it. I actually had fun doing these. Watched a few movies that I wanted to see but never got around to it. And I seen movies I never knew existed.
Well, here is the movie review.
See No Evil...at first when I started to watch it and I seen the WWE logo my first thought was, `If WWE has any say in producing the movie, its going to suck hard....and not in a good way.`
The movie starts off with 2 police officers checking out a house with loud church like music playing and the occasional scream from a female. The enter the house and find a women who looks terrified sitting alone in a room. When they approach her, they see that her eyes have been pulled out. The killer appears as his ax slams down on one of the officers. The other officer shots toward the killer as the killer swings down toward him and chops off his arm. And the killer gets away.
The movie centers around a group of adolescent prisoners on a weekend pass to help clean a hotel so they can get time off of their sentences. Everything seems normal. Scary old hotel that's being redone to be a historical place. They are shown around the place by the one officer who was in the opening scene and a women. They were given rules of where not to go and what they are not allowed to do.
After they finish doing their first night of cleaning, 2 guys wonder off to look for a hidden safe that was said to be left in the hotel years ago when it caught fire. Two other girls end up staying in their rooms to relax and the other four, two guys and two girls head off to the top floors, where they are not suppose to go, so they can have a little `fun`. This is when the story starts ramping up.
One by one the adolescents are captured one by one. All being killed except for one. The reason she didn't get killed or had her eyes torn out was because she had religious tattoo's on her that made the killer (Kane) not want to harm her. Every person Kane killed, he tore out their eyes. (I cannot remember the killers name in the movie so I'm just calling him by his WWE name. I could look it up but I don't want to. Lazy and stuff.)
Throughout the movie, you see flash backs of Kane as an adolescent locked in a dog cage and his mother yelling at him with religious things and about seeing the evil in people. At one flash back younger Kane brought home a girl. He was sitting in a corner, and the girl was tied to the bed. Most likely by his mother. Again she was saying religious stuff and telling him to see the evil or something inside her. She then pulls the women's eye out to show her son and said something along the lines of him looking to see the evil in her in her detached eye. This lead to Kane pulling out everyone's eyes he has killed.
In the end, you find out that the women who wanted to have the hotel restored was actually Kane's mother who tricked the police officer and the prisoners to come there so she can get revenge on the officer. The prisoners were just bonuses. At the end, Kane get angry with his mother and tosses her onto a spike on the wall and killing her, ending her verbal abuse to her son...but the damage has already been done long ago.
I'm not gonna let anyone know who all makes it out of the building alive, or even if any do. I gave enough info on the movie that will either have you want to watch it or have you think that its not worth your time. I personally was impressed with the overall acting in it. Kane did an excellent job doing his part and same with the younger actors. The odd time you did see some amateur acting in it but that's just from inexperienced actors.
I give this movie a solid 7 flames outta 10. I would have gave it less but I was surprised with how the movie ended up even though it was a WWE movie.
btw, the only unanswered questions I had was the amount of piercings I've had total if I kept them all in...and the total was 16.
Until next time. Goodbye, have fun, drink Pepsi.
~ JB
Well, here is the movie review.
See No Evil...at first when I started to watch it and I seen the WWE logo my first thought was, `If WWE has any say in producing the movie, its going to suck hard....and not in a good way.`
The movie starts off with 2 police officers checking out a house with loud church like music playing and the occasional scream from a female. The enter the house and find a women who looks terrified sitting alone in a room. When they approach her, they see that her eyes have been pulled out. The killer appears as his ax slams down on one of the officers. The other officer shots toward the killer as the killer swings down toward him and chops off his arm. And the killer gets away.
The movie centers around a group of adolescent prisoners on a weekend pass to help clean a hotel so they can get time off of their sentences. Everything seems normal. Scary old hotel that's being redone to be a historical place. They are shown around the place by the one officer who was in the opening scene and a women. They were given rules of where not to go and what they are not allowed to do.
After they finish doing their first night of cleaning, 2 guys wonder off to look for a hidden safe that was said to be left in the hotel years ago when it caught fire. Two other girls end up staying in their rooms to relax and the other four, two guys and two girls head off to the top floors, where they are not suppose to go, so they can have a little `fun`. This is when the story starts ramping up.
One by one the adolescents are captured one by one. All being killed except for one. The reason she didn't get killed or had her eyes torn out was because she had religious tattoo's on her that made the killer (Kane) not want to harm her. Every person Kane killed, he tore out their eyes. (I cannot remember the killers name in the movie so I'm just calling him by his WWE name. I could look it up but I don't want to. Lazy and stuff.)
Throughout the movie, you see flash backs of Kane as an adolescent locked in a dog cage and his mother yelling at him with religious things and about seeing the evil in people. At one flash back younger Kane brought home a girl. He was sitting in a corner, and the girl was tied to the bed. Most likely by his mother. Again she was saying religious stuff and telling him to see the evil or something inside her. She then pulls the women's eye out to show her son and said something along the lines of him looking to see the evil in her in her detached eye. This lead to Kane pulling out everyone's eyes he has killed.
In the end, you find out that the women who wanted to have the hotel restored was actually Kane's mother who tricked the police officer and the prisoners to come there so she can get revenge on the officer. The prisoners were just bonuses. At the end, Kane get angry with his mother and tosses her onto a spike on the wall and killing her, ending her verbal abuse to her son...but the damage has already been done long ago.
I'm not gonna let anyone know who all makes it out of the building alive, or even if any do. I gave enough info on the movie that will either have you want to watch it or have you think that its not worth your time. I personally was impressed with the overall acting in it. Kane did an excellent job doing his part and same with the younger actors. The odd time you did see some amateur acting in it but that's just from inexperienced actors.
I give this movie a solid 7 flames outta 10. I would have gave it less but I was surprised with how the movie ended up even though it was a WWE movie.
And Congrats to Mycaelus for winning the Horror Movie Quote Contest with a commanding lead of 40 pts. 2nd place was Potatoehead89 with 13 pts and 3rd was shearsnshutters with 10 pts.
Thanks you all for participating and stay tuned for possible more contests in the future. Maybe post Christmas time. I will be contacting Mycaelus for details of prizes and so forth.
btw, the only unanswered questions I had was the amount of piercings I've had total if I kept them all in...and the total was 16.
Until next time. Goodbye, have fun, drink Pepsi.
~ JB
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