Holiday Cheer

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, tis the season for a combination of being lack of time, and laziness. I'll try and get something up after new years. Hope you guys are having as good of a Christmas/New Years/Winter Break as I am. Peace out guys.

Commentary Ideas for when I have the Ability

So I have been thinking about what I would talk about for when I do my Dark Souls gameplay-commentary playthrough, and I have discovered this is hard. Anyways here is what I got so far:

• What keeps you gaming
• What drives you and your life
• Keeping things fresh
• Life outside of Gaming
• Staying Social
• Staying Sane (joke title meant to be light-hearted like the rest)
• Responsibility
• Free time
• How to be Adventurous. A quick guide with a not-so-adventurous guy.

That's what I got so far, you guys are welcome to leave comments or concerns or idea or whatever is on your mind in the comments below. I check on the blog daily so I'll see it sooner or later. Peace out guys

Some Feelsy Thoughts On Time.

As those of you who read this blog know I have semi-recently taken up meditation and would like to share something I discovered during the time I spent meditating a day or two ago.

Whether or not we like it, tragedy happens. For me I would say I had dealt with the tragedy that happened in my life fairly poorly, but I did it because it was what I needed to do, and if I get more comfortable with writing on this blog I will probably share that with you guys eventually. Anyways, after whatever happened, happens time carries on without us. We tend to slow down, mourn, take time to reconcile what we have done, what we could have done better, if we could have prevented it, etc. All that is completely necessary, but the problem is it takes time we don't have. So, time, being the cool guy/girl, it is, tries to stop for us. Unfortunately, it can't, that would cause problems I would rather not know about, but what it does do for us, is slow down a little. Nothing noticeable until you take time to look back, but it does give us a little time to sit back, enjoy what we still have, do what we can to help out those who are going through the same stuff, and most importantly, put the pieces of our own little humpty-dumpty project back together.

Time carries on, whether we are watching it or not. But if we really need it too, it slows down just enough for us to catch up. Later guys.

Channel Plans Part One (possibly of many)

So, as I said in a past post, I have recently gotten really interested in video game oriented entertainment for the masses. To put it simply: YouTube. However I don't really know what games I would play, how I would manage the videos/school relationship, and the kind of videos I would be making. From what I have noticed, game play commentaries have kind of fallen out of the "spot light," so to speak, on YouTube, but those are what got me into doing this as a "career" path. More specifically, MuzzaFuzza's channel. However, I do think I would enjoy doing Let's Plays, but I don't think I would like them as much. Also, I am not that good at talking on the fly. Especially if I'm not talking to anyone but myself. I suppose I could do the Let's Plays on multiplayer games like; League of Legends, Borderlands, etc. Only problem is I'm not sure my buddies want to be on YouTube. I am definately going to do some kind of Let's play on Dark Souls 2 when it comes out, and I'll probably do a commentary type deal on Dark Souls 1 before the second drops next year. Let me know what you guys think, and if you have commentary ideas leave 'em below. Later guys.

Something Kinda Crappy.

UPDATE: Issue has been resolved, this is kinda irrelevant now but I figure I should leave it up.

By "kinda crappy," I meant the crappiest of crappy. So I wake up to my girlfriend, Alex, asking about The Hobbit part II and I told her I would go see it with her tonight, just like we planned (a year ago). Shortly followed by my best friend texting me saying "You're going to see the Hobbit with me, not Alex." Now a lot of time, this would be fine, Alex understand that I need time to spend with my best friend. However, I can't won't be doing that this time simply because I am not just going with Alex, and it was planned that I go see these movies with her over a year ago. After I tell him this he gets pissed. I offer for him to come with me, her, and my family, since Alex and I wouldn't be going alone. But, he says he doesn't want to go with the four of us because "the LoTR is our thing" and  "there will never be another thing that just bro's can do." Normally I would think he's just having a bad day or something and let this breeze by, but he is doing making me feel like I'm the worst friend ever and it sucks. I don't really know what to do, but I'm standing by my word. Hope I'm not crazy, but if I was it would be way to late for that to change. Time to go try and figure out if I'm a horrible human being. Later guys.

Quick Side Note. December 11th, 2013.

For those of you that click the "Read More" button at the bottom, there is always going to be a little picture I added. Not really important but y'all probably didn't know dat. Later guys.

Some Not So Important Thoughts

As of today I have decided when the opportunity presents itself, by which I mean when I get the equipment I need, I shall be starting a YouTube channel and putting for as much effort into it as possible whilst still keeping up in school, Boy Scouts, and my social life. Meaning I shall be taking video production classes at school, trying to start series' of games I haven't played yet, coming up with a topic list for commentaries, etc. I love games, and I want to do something with that for my life, because it is one of the few passions I have. This will be a good experience to have to decide if I want to try video production, or game design for a goal in life. Hopefully it goes well, and I don't end up a dead beat. But with enough determination and consistency it is almost impossible to fail your goals right? RIGHT? Let's hope so. Peace out guys. Time to go relax and catch up with my best bud.

That Gamer's Post

Sup guys, just got done with Boy Scouts (which is pretty much the end of my day on Tuesdays) and I got some cool stuff going on today. As of today I will be the troop guide for my troop, which means (to all those not in Boy Scouts) I will be the one in charge of making sure the new Scouts know what's up, and can handle themselves when they head out into the woods without their older Scouts/Leaders to watch over them. I'm pretty happy about it because that's pretty much the reason I have stayed in Boy Scouts thus far. Other than that I had a pretty chilled out day with milady, and I showed her The Matrix for the first time. We didn't really watch it... but I still showed it to her and that's what matters right? But since it is the end of my day I shall retire to my study and go show some newbs what's up on League of Legends with my bro's. Peace out readers :-P

End of Quarter Wrap Up

After much procrastination, laziness, studying, sleeping (a little to much), and gaming a lotta to much this year's fall quarter is finally over. Math was annoying but simple, ASL was fun but time consuming, and unfortunately I had to withdraw from Poli-Sci. But, overall this quarter has probably been one of my favorites. Finally broke out of the shell I make for myself whenever I get to a new school, and made a bunch a buddies. Spent a bit to much time playing Magic, and talking about video games with 'em on occasion, but overall this quarter has been awesome. Can't imagine what I'm going to take next. Don't really know what I want to take. I'm thinking about taking sociology or psychology, they have been interesting me a lot more since I started meditating. I'm pretty excited for ASL II though, the first one was super fun so it'll be nice to hang out with my buddies from the first class again. If I have learned one thing from this quarter though, it's that I am a much better student when I'm relaxed about school. Spending time worrying about it seems to mess me up. Anywhooo off to go slice some fools up in Skyrim :-P Later guys.

Things That Matter (other than matter)

As a 17 year old man, what I find important is often far from important. Either way it doesn't matter, the things I care about are fairly simple; Family, my best friends (I have 3), my girlfriend (been together for 2+ years), snowboarding, playing video games (I find it therapeutic), meditation as a source self reflection, and after starting it I actually like blogging so this will probably be fairly permanent. I'm sure those will eventually change as things in my life change like getting a job, or, God forbid, get dumped. However, after having 3-4 near death experiences, and a experience I am pretty sure was death, the one thing that doesn't change in my life is that I stopped living for others. Before those things happened I was fairly certain that I needed to spend my life improving the lives of others, and not worrying about my own happiness or needs. Needless to say it kind of messed me up, which lead to therapy and a whole bunch of complicated stuff you guys don't need to hear about. But after taking up meditation, most of that bad stuff that came out of being completely self negligent has passed and I'm back to being the guy I wanted to grow up to be. So as a result I would have to say that the people you love are always important, but letting them take control of your life is probably one of the biggest mistakes of mine. I might have thought myself a hero, but heroes don't last.

That Gamer's Background

Where to begin? Probably should start at the beginning, I started playing games when I was 2 or 3 years old, basically as soon as I learned how to hold it and push buttons from watching my Dad play 007: Golden Eye, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Over the years my tastes in games have changed similarly to my other tastes, they have gone from mystical adventure games such as; Zelda, Portal, Oblivion, Mario, etc. to game that are more aggressive and "mature" like; Gears of War, Halo, Call of Duty, etc.. However, currently my taste has gone more on the lines of indie games like; Terraria, Risk of Rain, Rogue Legacy, Garry's Mod, etc. although Zelda probably won't get pulled from my Number One game slot.