I’m going to start blogging by adding on as we go along, but I may choose to separate it a different way later on.
6/16 (first day!)
I’ve decided to write about anything. So here goes. Today I wired up some old speakers that have been lying around in my room. I hooked them up to an old disc/radio thingamabobber and fashioned a really good antenna out of a paperclip. It’s pretty rad and I’m proud of it. I feel a great need to do the typing course I have set out to do because my typing is super strange. I don’t rest my hands on the home row, but rather I have my left hand on the typical WASD and my pinkie doesn’t leave the shift key. Ever. My pinkie on the right hand is always next to the enter. And my left hand ring finger never really does anything. So my weird use of 3 fingers on left and 2 fingers on right typing is slow and I may miss keys sometimes; the backspace is well used (delete key, whatever).
6/17
I had a cool idea to get an audio recorder and keep a log throughout the day. Kinda like a blog/audio/diary thing (pretty much got the idea from watching steven universe as peridot does this). On another note, I’ve been doing some minecraft mods with Graywolf lately and that’s been fun.
6/18
I used this tutorial to get some vocals out of a song using the program audacity. This will be very helpful if I want to include vocals other than Mr. Skocko.
Short Story
It was a clear day in Kentucky and the sun was just getting warm this morning. The pristine white walls of the hospital glistened and the trees outside swayed. The blinds were all the way up, just like grandpa liked it. He lay in the hospital bed, surrounded by close family. His 8 year old grandson sat by his bed. Grandpa admired this youthful child, with his blue eyes and baby fat still on his face. He was so proud of his daughter. Her and her busy husband were bringing up a beautiful family. His daughter was mom 24/7, and Grandpa had his suspicions that her job was harder than her husband, who worked a cushy office job in a high position. Grandpa gestured to his grandson, Fredrick, and he drew in close to hear. “Son, listen up now. You must remember, whatever happens; church will still be on Sunday.” He paused briefly, “Go see your mother now.” The usually playful and energetic boy slid off the hospital bed and hugged his mother. His eyes were closed and his mother fought back tears. Grandpa drew in a shallow breath and all was calm. The sun lit up the room, bouncing off the mountain of flowers next to the bedside. It was exactly how Grandpa wanted it, but no words were needed to be spoken out loud. The crowd gradually dispersed in respectful silence.
6/19
BigTank got me into doing D&D so I drew some inspiration and made a dwarven song. I got some nice samples from MrAuralization and Benboncan.
Sounds used: Anvil and Pickaxe
https://kiwi6.com/tracks/widget/blinimuuoo
I also played more Minecraft so I made a short song out of those sounds. I’m a huge nerd.
https://kiwi6.com/tracks/widget/nvfvyc1gh6
I was having a contest between my friend Jordan and I to see who makes the best minecraft sound music. Here’s his song he made.
https://kiwi6.com/tracks/widget/onuh0a70tm
6/22
So I have been busy at my friends house for 2 days, fixing his computer and stuff. It was a very hard task because it had some bios problems. And reinstalling windows didn’t fix those. So I downloaded a boot repair disk and burned it to a CD. Windows stuff, I know. Anyway I got this email from one of my favorite small video game-making crew, called crows-crows-crows. They made a new twine game and I have to say it was pretty good. Makes me look differently at twine. Suggest it to any Twiner in the MacLab and they will be inspired to do great things like this.
6/23
Type type type… Finished all the letters and now I moved onto games. I like how old-school these games are… Only 90’s kids would know. (Can I say that if I was born in 1999?) I did a test and my base line is 30 words per min, and we hope to work up from there as I get more familiar with the placement.
Later at night my internet has been suffering for some reason, but I have google! It’s really the only thing that works, so I guess I have to either go play real games or read a book. Reading a book sounds fun, I’ve read a good handful of free ones from bookbub and am collecting still more.
6/24
I read a book for the whole day. It was a long book. I woke up unusually early, about six o’clock. (Did I mention I sleep from 10-10?) So I picked up an online book that drew my interest. Whoever reads this might not exactly be interested in my taste, but after that warning I’ll still post the link. And here’s to say I kept coming back to my computer with the chapters open, that was my day. So after reading the entire book, I was tired and my emotions were frayed to say the least. It was an emotional rollercoaster of a book and I ended up liking it for reasons I didn’t initially come to expect.
6/25
I went to the beach and got sunburnt. Now it finally feels like summer.
6/26
Today is a day that I will boot up my creative cloud and see what I make of it.
Let me come back and edit this. This edit was made on 6/30 (see down below). Ok this was one of these days I failed to blog because I was working so much. (unlike 6/25, that one was a legit break day) I wrote down early in the morning to make my goal to work on creative cloud. Easy enough goal, I updated the blog and after a couple of minutes poking around on cloud, got distracted. But that distraction was the beginning of what I did next day. I explored the FIMfiction website, and it really helped me prepare for the monster hurdle I was going to attempt the next day. I am still conquering that challenge, and I am sorry the blogging quality wasn’t that good. Again, see 6/30 for more detail. Catch you in the next post, dearest reader!
6/27
I was writing a book today, because I got inspired to make an account on that website. I’ve always wanted to write, and be an author. It’s a great thing for me that I’m writing, and it’s very fun that it’s about something I like. Here is the book in progress, it won’t go live until it passes moderation (for a sneak peek, use the password “The Magic Word”). It’s so fun, I can’t even tell you. Dreams are becoming a reality. Maybe I will end up being an author like I’ve always wanted. I also added a Q&A section, so you might want to check that out after reading what I have so far.
6/28
Copyright. I figured out exactly where I personally draw the line. Believe me, I am a strong supporter of intellectual property. Just watch this video to see the struggle and fumbles this amazing animator went through. He had full rights to get rid of the knock-offs until his video was at the top. They were making money off of his idea, and that would of been dreadful for him. No, where I draw the line is at the fanbase. If your a show, book, movie, or what-have-you, do not punish your fans for liking your content. Your fans are literally the only thing keeping you going (unless you’re simply a drug money launderer) and if they make content based off of your ideas, they are increasing your popularity. Simple as that. If someone remixes a song you have in your show (I’m talking about me on this one…) they aren’t making that money instead of you. That animator knocking off videos was in the right because they were waking money instead of him. But a fan making content based off of a big companies idea, and it circulates on the internet, that big company is going to look a lot better. This is all in my opinion, maybe I was in the wrong, and I can’t possibly refute it wasn’t copyright. I learned a lesson, but I learned where copyright should be used more conservatively, and that’s when the company would benefit from the material created. Don’t shoot down your fans. You have the power to, I don’t disagree with that. For your own good, let the fans work their magic and provide you with a growing fanbase.
Sidenote: I’m not just an eccentric, there is a phenomenon of bronies that have a cool story. I linked you to the IMBd on the first one, but I personally watched the movie on netflix. The second link is from youtube… But quiet lengthy.
6/29
Hm. Yea this story is absorbing my time. It’s so worth it though. I haven’t played video games since starting this story, so it’s not like I’m wasting my summer away. Just doing something else. Not exactly MacLab like I wanted, but I’m going to continue making stories through school. Like I said, this could grow into a career, if not just a really fun hobby. I’m creating the pictures (that go along with the story) with a free windows program called paint.net. (You don’t have to be a brony to read my story, I explain things pretty well [I think]. Please do tell me if something is wrong. I’d like to think I’m flawless at grammar, but I’ve corrected so many of my mistakes that I bet I missed one.)
6/30
I popped by to the MacLab and checked the always-present 411. Hm ok sure let’s see what’s in store for us. I thrive to get ahead because summer is just a hold massive load of time that could be spent doing things.
AND OH SHOOT I got recognized in the MacLab. I honestly have been blogging without thinking that anyone’s watching.
Food for Thought: A thought-provoking Twine game… The Temple of No! (download the source to find the map to creating your own)
Ayye Mr. Skocko was probably wondering when I would notice. I posted that game on 6/22 🙂 Read my story [Shameless plug] I’m addicted to it. I think about it all the time. I swear, sometimes it’s like reading a book that someone else is creating in-front of my eyes. Sure I go back and check for grammatical errors (I’m seriously verging on OCD here with the amount of time spent correcting and re-reading) but, honestly, when a major plot twist occurs, I freak myself out with it. I react as if I didn’t expect it, even though I’m the one writing it. My brain is laying down the train tracks as the train is moving. At least that’s what it feels like. Also making the visuals is a HUGE moral boost. It took me SO long to layer a 6 pony hug. (I’m such a softie for that “little girl” stuff. Don’t judge) But all that meticulous work, posing each pony, lining up the cutie marks to their respective flanks, putting limbs behind others, IT WAS WORTH IT. Gosh darn-it these little ponies bring me more happiness than a 3 scoop sundae with chocolate and caramel poured over sprinkles and crushed up Oreo’s. Mmm sundae.
I should really blog more. All those days that are very punctuated and to-the-point wasn’t because I didn’t do much, no it was the exact opposite. I was so busy working that my blog-quality suffered. Somedays I missed because of how caught up I got in working that I had to write about it the next day and both days suffered. Sorry about that, my one and only blog reader. (You know who you are) I know you love to be entertained by my blogging, so I’ll remind myself to stop neglecting the content.
Quick Rant from me trying to tab my paragraphs
Oh I despise blogger. Oh I have become so accustomed to the FIMfiction websites clean design, easy (simplistic and global) formatting options, and the fact that it actually allows me to use the tab button; coming here and typing on this is really just rubbing me the wrong way. Fun fact: that bold “Food for Thought” doesn’t look like that from tab button. It’s like that because of this thing called “quote” that google blogger thought they would add. It’s actually an indent, and if the text were extended it would not reach the left edge again like everything else does. It would stay indented, so I still have yet to find the tab button. Hope is all but lost at this point.
Speaking of blogger, it’s not much but my personal account is where I host the pictures for my stories. (all pictures are hosted out in the open so don’t look at it in-case of spoilers) The only thing blogger is good at is google’s hosting. That’s also the only reason we are using it instead of WordPress, and I get that. And heeeeey, look at this post today. A little time spent away from my story and I have a decent post for the first time this summer. Ok I gtg. I really can’t help it. I have to get back there. I’m addicted. 🙂
(I’m consistently making a new chapter ever single day [Four days in a row now] and so far every chapter is longer than the last. And every released chapter is virtually free of grammatical errors. That’s dedication.)
Oh, and the MacLab is changing, so I’m going to also change my username
7/1
Welcome to next month! Or if you are a Steven Universe fan like me, also known as the summer of Steven! I’m excited for the hiatus to end, at least temporarily. Hey so I wanted to talk about something I found yesterday night, something that even kept me from my story (Surprising right??). So I watched a video about one of my youtuber’s view on ASMR. Now I didn’t know what that was, but I clicked on the video anyway. So ASMR is this audiophile thing, a tingly sensation from… a trigger. Something like that. And a trigger can be any sound that makes you feel good. Me being the audiophile, regardless of my youtuber’s negative comments on this (he explained it well though), I went and checked it out myself. I would call myself an audiophile because I have only 1 hour of the 24 hour day that I don’t listen to music. Serious. That’s when I’m swimming at the YMCA. (I don’t have the underwater bluetooth headphones cuz they are expensive). So during the night I listen to electronic music, because I wake up a lot during the night. Waking up to music, and my favorite songs especially, is a pleasant experience. It also lets me go back to sleep sooner, sometimes the song won’t even finish! I also like classical music, mostly when reading books. But dubstep and electronic music is my favorite type, and usually that’s what I listen to constantly.
I would also claim I am an audiophile because I have a surround sound set up in a tiny basement room, (set up by yours truely) and it is AMAZING. Also I set up my own speakers next to my bed, along with a really old player (also set up by me). But it works and it’s mine so I use it. Binaural music and soundscapes are one of my favorite experiences (or what you call that left-right headphone/speaker stuff). Soundscapes are what I’ve been getting into and I want to create some. Shout out to Garrett Dejour, my garage-band ambience man. You and me, me and you, we should create some ambience songs together. You’re the expert in this, and fellow audiophile like myself. Something Binaural and Soundscape-y.
7/2
Today I discovered a cool new show called We Bare Bears. I like it a lot! Not much to document today because I had Mason over. I’m putting my book on the shelf for now, because I will be gone for vacation. So 5 chapters is a little teaser because I think I’m going to keep writing this story. It was set up to have a big story-line that I can definitely shape into a good, lengthy read.
7/3
Not something soundscape-y; I will make that some other time. But here’s this. Ok to be honest I have to stop talking to my friend Jordan about music. I showed him my stuff, and he actually knows music theory. But he has a very abrasive way of talking (for the most part, I like his straight-forward way of thinking and talking) but it’s not that encouraging to listen to what his take on this is. I have an ear for music that I like, so I’m going to make songs that sound good to me. I’m sure it’s good to hear a second opinion, but I’m for sure not going to talk to Jordan about it anymore. I like Jordan, and I don’t doubt him… But I will make music how I want to hear it. Trying really hard not to get discouraged right now. Deep breath.
7/4
Happy… Y’now. Anyway, it was a lazy day today. Played dungeons and dragons, finished a book (Quantum Tangle), watched cartoons. It was nice. Went out to lunch with family for the holiday. Then more family came over for dinner. I stayed as antisocial as possible, cuz that’s what teenagers do. Actually am typing this right now while my family is talking and whatnot amongst themselves. I’m not too interested in the political conversations that tend to happen. My mom doesn’t like the arguing or talk about the ever-depressing news. Can’t blame her, I’d never watch the news.
I celebrate happy things, and I’m fine with that. Sunshine and rainbows is where it’s at. Sure depressing and sad things happen, and I acknowledge their existence. I don’t tend to mull over the bad longer than the few seconds I get told about it. I like to think I have a springy personality. Not much gets me down. I don’t ignore bad events, but just leave it to the bigger being I believe in. “Leave it to God.” A simple motto that I heard from a simple person. If there was something they didn’t understand or worried about, they just left it to God. That’s nice.
Also a interesting side-note, I can write sad things really easy. See my short story from 6/18. I also made a super depressing poem. See this page and open up the buttons at the bottom (Starting with Humpty Dumpty). I guess it’s a different ball-game if your the one who made it up. And I created those randomly without too much fore-thought. They kinda just went a sad route when I was writing them, even though I didn’t feel sad. Which I hope doesn’t happen to my little gem of a story, Stellar.
Ah so much happiness derived from that story, I’m writing it for me as much as I am writing it for the internet. I tell a lot of people about it. I guess I’m hoping they can experience what I was experiencing when writing it. It’s also really fun to tell people I’m a brony. It’s that little aspect of my life that makes me different than the usual lot. And if the people I talk to relates, that’s even better. It would be instantly a common-ground. And the brony fandom is extremely welcoming, because we all come from diverse backgrounds. So I would feel safer opening up to a brony (or someone who watches [like, passionate about] any kind of cartoons for that matter) about myself. Because it’s just honestly easier to be myself with like-minds.
It’s a peculiar phenomenon. I can see someone with a personality like me… Wait. This thing… This show is so prominent in my life, it could be that my personality was shaped into what it is because of that little show. The more I turn this idea over in my head the more I realize this could be true. I’m kindof shocked. I guess all I have to say is thanks. I mean, I’ve never been more sure of myself for who I am. It may of shaped me into who I am, but the fact that I’m proud of who I am right now makes it all the more wonderful. I want to be how I am. I can’t remember what I was really like before 7th grade (7th grade was when I was introduced).
Let me interrupt myself real quick. I was typing all this brony stuff when I picked up the fortune cookie paper from yesterday. I always read them, but I forgot to read this one, and left it by my computer desk. Ok, the story is, I picked it up and read “Big changes are going to happen” or something lame like that. But I instantly tore it up, said, “No.” and threw it in the fireplace. So now I’m here with a little self-reflection. This was so impulsive I surprised myself with it. Why did I react like that? I have to admit now that yes, I am afraid of change. But what’s funny is that I’m constantly aware of that I am changing. (Gah my dualism is another story all together, doublethink kinda stuff goes on) Not only that I wish that I would forever be like I am, at the same time I have deep conversations with my texting-buddies that result in my changing my opinions and views on things. So the inevitability of change is almost feared by me, but I also seek out change. I confuse myself sometimes (Trust me, if I lost you at all with this one, you might not even want to read my dualistic nature, it’s confusing… unless you happened to of understood 1984, then you have a chance at least).
Where was I? Ah, bronies. Who here understands them? I’m sure everyone is aware of their presence, it’s not hard to hear of these anomalies of society when they are so darn loud about it. I sure understand them, but I was quick to pick up this fandom. So I might not be the best to talk to, I’m biased about this. So my question was what would I have been like if I didn’t get forced to watch this show at my friend’s birthday party? I would be far from cynical, I at least know that. I would probably be less open-minded. I was raised in a very conservative family, so I’m still to this day confused about my views. I hold my family’s views with as much worth as I hold my friend’s. And yet they are opposing (back to dualism, doublethink, what you will call it). So without my different point of view, I would probably be more like my brothers. At the moment, I’m quite the opposite. I would think I’m the black sheep of the family. And I enjoy that difference. I will work on being more me at school (I say that every school-year, and that said, I have been progressing every year too). I’m haunted by what society expects of me, and I hate to conform to it. It’s sad that I continue to fall into the ruts that people would expect me to travel. That’s just humans I guess.
7/5
Today I went to aquatica and had a blast. What was this dualism you were talking about? Let me show you what my church says about my faith development.
Stage 3- Synthetic-Conventional (Approximately ages 12- adulthood)Usually begins in adolescents, when teens developing brains can begin to think abstractly and allows the individual to incorporate multiple points of view. This state is characterized by conformity to authority and the religious development of a personal identity. They take ideas from family, media, peers, and the faith community into consideration, although they cannot evaluate their faith. They rely on support from others to support their decisions. Generally, conflicts with their beliefs are ignored at this stage due to the fear of threat from inconsistencies.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. The last sentence is exactly why I feel like this dualism. I believe what my church says, and I believe what I learn in school. At the same time. Mostly, in science they are contradictory. But I can wrap my mind around both, and I haven’t approached upon the conflicts between. As of the moment, I believe both. Just the same that I believe my LBGT+ supporter friends as I do believe the bible. Again, conflicting, but also I don’t really figure out what I have my opinion about, because I do see from all the multiple points of view.
And speaking about abstract thinking, I was exercising at the Y and my mind wandered when I was swimming. I achieved a really good understanding of doublethink, because I was able to simultaneously convince myself that time was passing extremely fast, and it was also passing so slow that I could study every detail about it. I kept mulling over these inconceivable yet strangely conceivable ideas.
7/6
I don’t remember what I did today. I’ll link you to a small edit of what copy-written work I would have posted. I don’t feel too bad for getting my copy written work removed, cuz it was a just-for-fun song that I made. But it did open my eyes to the copy-writing monsters. Anyone but the fans, c’mon you should know better. It’s not too bad for me, cuz I don’t have to deal with this stuff too much as long as I make my own work. Which once and a while I would enjoy playing around with music I’m a fan of, but sadly it might be copy written, so apparently I can’t touch it. Bummer.
7/7
I went to the beach today for the whole day. This is a quality blog post… (It’s not even a post, it’s just a subsection, Dan. Geeze)
To make this section less lame, I’ll make this area for my mental notes. Well, electronic notes. My new and improved profile info is here, and I’ll update it as I go along.
Ice Bear
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7/8
I made one quick song (pleasingly simplistic) but I have to pack today. I’m leaving for a week on vacation. No connection at all to the internet, Cya!
What is my blog now? Me writing about random things I guess. If you enjoy reading my train of though, please leave a comment in the— wait I removed that. Umm I guess I could put back the comment section, although My website wouldn’t feel like a website anymore… (Want your lame blogger to be as cool as mine? See my Tutorial page… It’s no longer on the Nav Bar so I could save room. But the Nav Hub on my homepage shows every page in my blog. The tutorial shows you how to remove lame things like subscription, comments, and other blogger atrocities. And it even shows you how to add cooler things, like a scroll back to top button, helpful on massive pages like this.) So I guess just email me at 308683@guhsd.net and I will get around to you. Yes, I will check my school email over the summer break. I’m weird; I like school.
Also I would feel like my blog would be a lot less cringy if I left out all the weird details about myself. But my thoughtful reader already gets cringe-worthy emails about my opinions and things. I’m changing as I go along, so some of those opinions may not apply any longer. But I’m an open book so I keep saying my opinions out loud. (Another funny thing about being so open is that once I say things out loud I change my opinion on them later, because I didn’t like how they sounded to my own ears. Reading my opinions back also makes me cringe at myself. I’ve said cringe too much in this blog already. Unacceptable.)
Goodbye for a week! Hope to talk to you all via email or something. I dunno. I’m just a kid who blogs about his life. I was thinking about getting a tape recorder like Peridot has. So keeping an audio-log instead of just a blog. That might be cool. I might be able to find out more about myself if I talk more. (that’s how I find stuff out about myself. I end up saying them with no idea how I came to that conclusion, but I guess that’s how my opinions form. Cuz I’m a special child.)
Last note before I go pack… (I really need to go pack) — Cuz is now an acceptable word on this blog. I am usually a stickler for grammar, but cuz is ok because it makes me feel like I am actually talking to someone. Help with the flow. Ok I know I said bye 3 times already but now I really have to stop procrastinating on packing my bags. I’ll miss you internet.
P.S. Finished packing (I’m a really light packer) and I hit 2000 Pageviews! Last time I wrote in my weekly documentation that I hit 1000, and those were mostly all me. But it’s still a milestone, cuz I’m keeping this blog forever! I won’t be deleting any pages, but I will just archive them in my Nav Hub. So the summer page will go away once school starts, but you will still have access to it.
P.P.S. I don’t really know why you’re supposed to add P’s to the P.S.’s… but see what happens when I actually sit down for a couple of minutes? (I’m joking, hours) I actually make another good blog post. Now my blog breaks the 4th wall a lot so it might be awkward to read. But I hope you still have fun with my ramblings. I’ll work on making my stuff more coherent. (Who am I kidding, raw blogging like this will always be confusing.)
7/9 – 7/13
I am at camp ceder glen being a counselor for little elementary kids. Enjoy the power while you can, because I will be returning as a camper in a couple of weeks.
P.S. Blogger or my web browser or whatever thinks I’m from the UK. Spell-check wants to change favorite to favourite and counselor to counsellor. I read enough books that most of these spellings are growing on me, and I sometimes purposely add the u in “colour” cuz it looks nice.
7/13
I am back. And tired. Being a counselor for first-to-third graders is draining. The ten kids that me and my friend were in charge of had a lot of energy. I did it though, and everyone went home happy. We had a good time, and I’m pretty sure I will be able to do it next year. OK so CTE has not contacted me yet to tell me the TBA times so I am going to camp in 2 weeks so I hope that our times do not overlap. It will be CTE program’s fault if I’m not able to come, because I have to lock in my camp application for the 24th’s week-long retreat. Being a camper will be really fun because I don’t have to worry about little kids running everywhere. It was like being a parent of 10 little kids but I didn’t go crazy so that’s nice. Also making my camp nickname be Ice Bear was the best idea. All the kids knew me from the show and I pretended to really be him and talk about the show with them.
Best Moment?
The very start when the kids were coming, the first 2 showed up on time. Before I even introduced myself they were talking to each other, saying, “Hey you wanna be friends?” And the mom’s laughed and said to me, “Well that was easy.” Later when choosing their beds, they both got bunks on the top and across from each other, so they could talk. So cute.
Now I’m thinking, why can’t older people do this? But it was a very nice start to my stay at camp as a counselor.
Proudest Moment?
When a kid had a hard time going to sleep, I told him my trick I’ve been using since 4th grade. I told him, “Close your eyes and pretend you are just waking up. Live a whole day in a day-dream, where anything can happen. Maybe you can fly, maybe you are a jedi. When that whole day is over and you go to sleep in the dream, you will go to sleep in real life.”
And the next day he told me that it helps him go to sleep faster than ever. I’m so proud that I can share my well-used trick and have it work for him too. I still use it to this day, every single night.
7/14
What’s the coolest thing you can think of right now? Pokemon GO. I just recently got it working on my mom’s phone (my phone is too old) because I heard my youth group is getting together and everyone is walking around and catching pokemon together. This is honestly the coolest thing ever, and I could blog about pokemon for the rest of the summer and still not capture how cool this game is. Is that stretching it? No. An idea so innovative, it gets people to go outside and walk. You are motivated to go out and see monuments around you. You actually need to walk up to 10 km to unlock a pokemon. There is no solid way around it, past attaching your phone to something that happens to move under 18 km/h.
So not only a game that inspires you to see monuments, it also wants you to walk and get fitter. How can this be better? Oh yea, that’s right, you actually see the pokemon through your phones camera. Whatever you are looking at, the app shows you the footage your camera is taking, and also edits in the pokemon you want to catch. That’s getting pretty immersive.
So why do I think this is the best thing ever? It’s opening up the floodgates for future games. We are breaching on new territory, and as a roleplayer this is territory I like very much. Immersion is something I am starting to require from games that I devote time to. If I can’t be the character in the game, I don’t think it is something I would spend time on. I’m talking about skipping the meaningless clicker games and doing something worth my while, like creating stories for my characters and acting like I am actually them when playing.
So how would I play this game? Well we are in the 21st century so I don’t mind driving around and looking for pokemon. In pokemon world you might not be able to do that (Mr. WalkingAroundInCirclesThroughGrass) but this is taking the pokemon realm to the physical realm and century. So I would use my car to drive to spots and use lures and such. And if I do meet a pokemon trainer in real life I will probably talk to them like I am an actual pokemon trainer too. (I swear if I get into this enough I will cosplay no joke.) That way I can assume the role of my pokemon trainer.
7/15
I want a Loop table. This video was a crazy invention by one of my favorite youtubers. I would so play this game!
Anyway back to Stellar. I like how I released a chapter a day, so I’m going to make 5 more chapters and then release them one-by-one each day. These chapters will be different, because I’m going to put it into first person narrative. It’s like I prepped them as a 3rd person narrator for the first 5 chapters, and now we are really going to dive into the story as Stella. I want to work on conveying her thoughts as much as possible. Also it is going to be written in a field diary that Twilight gave her for her adventures. Pretty neat, huh? Oh and big change is the pictures will now be graphite drawings (using Adobe Illustrator in the Cloud). Not only it gives the reader a nice feel for the diary, it also will be combining my MacLab experience into this story. If I do say so myself, that’s a ZIM win. Writing is what I do well, Drawing ponies is what I want to do, and using Illustrator is what Skocko wants me to get good at. If Skocko agrees, that hits the mark right in the middle of the circles.
(Do I need to convince you that it’s worthwhile art? I have hundreds of evidence, all made from fans using Photoshop and Illustrator. I’m quite sure on Skocko’s position about drawing ponies, but I also know how much talent manifests from a dedicated pony-artist. They can get really good at drawing, and all the while enjoy doing it. I believe it’s good practice with the program. I guarantee you I will learn about art and the use of it when doing this.)
In creating this new drawing-style, I used a tutorial to help guide me in making pencil brushes in Illustrator. I also forgot how to add new brushes so I quickly googled it.
7/16
Give me a break. I came across this article when browsing the web. See, this kind of stuff was predicted in 1984 (I talk about that book a lot huh). The reason they invented newspeak was to limit the people’s thoughts. Every good math teacher I had knew there were multiple ways of coming across an answer, some less systematic than others. So I’m not saying that common core is meaning wrong, no they are just teaching it the wrong way (a good point is that the teacher was the one making it incorrect, not common core). I know that how I multiply things by 5 is divide the number by 2 and then multiply it by ten. E.G. 3×5=15; I would do 3÷2=1.5 in my head and then move the decimal point. More steps you say? No I did it faster this way then memorization, because it was more simple to do on bigger problems. 123÷2= 61.5; so 123×5=615
Well, dungeons and dragons is today with Hunter, Forest, (Hunter’s bro and MacLab coder) Rudy and Haidar. My neighbor Ben joined in as well.
7/17
Today was a day.
7/18
Yesterday’s blog was boring. Today I spent more than an hour at my church foothills and collected pokemon. It has 4 stops and a gym (well 3 stops but the Lutheran Church is next door and has a stop so I got that too). I got 150 pokeballs, and tomorrow is the day we go out as a youthgroup to collect pokemon and all that. Very fun, very exercise-healthy. (Am I the only one that thinks the sterotypes will switch? “Oh you go outside? You must be a nerd and play those video-game things that make you walk around.”) I also continued making songs and I have been exploring some beats that do not lay down on the 4 bar measures. I have been seeing some cool rhythms using 3rds and even 7ths.
Here is everything I have started over the summer. Up to this point. Please forgive me for not developing each one fully. Yes, they are missing instruments or leads or drums idk. But that’s something I do, is practice with each and every song thing stuff. I find what I like, and if that means a project will be paused, then so be it. again, apologies. Maybe one that has potential I will develop more.
7/19
Today I dedicated to pokemon go. I went around with my friends, getting pokestops and lures and pokemon. It was a lot of fun and we got some exercise. I doubled my pokemon from 30 and leveled up to 7. Later, I went out and saw Ghostbusters with a friend who works at the theater (that means free tickets, yay!)
7/20
Well I drove my grandma around for a long part of the day. I have a car, a license, and I’m off on summer break so I am the easiest chauffeur option. It has it’s moments, like getting candy and stuff. Instead of wasting time today, I want to work on… Something. I dunno what. Maybe my book? Just don’t click on youtube, or that will be what I do for the rest of the day. NO YOUTUBE IT STEALS MY TIME!
Didn’t get much done before my friend from long time contacted me and said he works at Regal. That means free movies so of course I agreed. We saw (girl) Ghostbusters.
7/21
Well today is a Thursday and that’s when my youth group goes to the beach. I got a little crispy, little sun burnt from forgetting to reapply. Afterwards I went to the drive-ins with my mom. It was nice to cool off in the night because it is getting HOT this time in summer. I saw the Secret Life of Pets and Tarzan. I liked both very much.
7/22
I saw yet another movie, star trek. I liked it because I don’t know too much about star trek (my friend was a die-hard fan and the movie didn’t settle with him too well). I think I made it to all the movies I’ve wanted to watch this summer season! Well, there is that insurgency movie about end of world that I might see. But with camp approaching after D&D saturday, I will be taking a break from the movies and electronics. I’m having such summer fun!
7/23
D&D with the gang! I also want to talk about what I would want my career to be in this entry. I am aiming to be a teacher of the computernessess. Meaning I would like to be a high-school teacher and teach something like computer science, or be a digital arts teacher 😉 because then I would really enjoy teaching. Maybe when I’m in college I find a area where I really enjoy, so that might change. But as of now I’m very interested in computers and all that. I still have yet to hear back from CIT or what thing Mr. Skocko wanted me to be. I’m honored to be in that student role of whatever meetings they go to and stuff. I did write on the entry for it for them to contact me when they get dates for stuff, but I’ve heard nothing so far.
Oh and I bought this to set up my computer speakers the right way. Yes internal sound is good nowadays, but getting an external amp like this reduces all electrical interference. That makes the sound quality so much better, and this dodad has so many ports I can hook up both computers to my one sound system. Switching from one pc to the other is just a few switches on this doohicky.
I got really into making this song and I’m very glad how it turned out. Super chill, I usually have faster beats and stuff. But it really has it’s place, and I enjoyed making it. I found this video and used this download for samples. I also made this song. Busy day but all so much fun! I think I know where I’m heading with this music now. For a while I wasn’t creating fully formed songs, but I think they are beginning to really take on some potential. It’s like I was narrowing down how I wanted to approach song creation. I will have to develop these further when I get back from camp. Talk to you later!
7/24 – 7/30
I’m at camp! This time I am a camper and won’t have to worry about being responsible for little kids. Yes! This summer has been just great, a pretty good balance with working on computers and getting away for a relaxing time.
7/30
Well I did it! I got home and made the second SkockStep. It’s great how it sounds like Skocko is telling me what to do (apparently from a handheld radio, I don’t know, do you like the effect?). I wonder if Skocko’s videos are still up from last year. I have a few words I wrote down when listening to the 411 and never got around to stealing them… I mean, sampling them. Skocko is CC0 and I respect that. I might make the song longer, but 1 minute is all I finished today. Songs take a while, and I’m very glad I played around with all those incomplete songs to get a better feel for music creation.
Oh it’s sure great to be home! Camp was amazing and I’m a better person from that life-changing experience, but I never knew how tired I was until I was driving home. While up there I got some good ideas for my books. I wish I loved and knew the stars like Stella. We don’t see the stars like you can in the mountains. All the light pollution prevents us from seeing the massive expanse in all its glory. The milky way was clearly visible, and I was stunned that it was so beautiful. We don’t find ourselves looking at the stars too often, but we should sometimes. I could feel afloat in the massive universe when I took it into perspective.
I got my DAC shipped from amazon when I was gone. It is perfect for my 2 computer set up, because I can switch from DAC mode on my gaming (built) pc, to AUX mode on my mom’s pc. So both of us may use the really good speakers. It is also really nice because it acts as an external soundcard, and that removes the electrical interference in the pc. The sound quality is better for just about everything. It is also an amplifier if I ever get high-quality headphones. I am rolling in audiophile-style (ooo that rhymed). I don’t know if I am enjoying music so much more because of this card or because I was gone for a week. A combination of both possibly.
Hold Up
Hey Skocko can I own up to something? You know how I told you I haven’t been working in LMMS and I moved to FL studio? Well I wasn’t lying when I said the plugins weren’t free, but I never mentioned that I use them anyway. My friend gave me a download link (trustable friend, that’s why I used it) and only recently did I scroll these plugins and notice my FL studio has them all. I feel bad. That is not something our school could use, for the price is so much. There is probably a year plan for every plugin and the program that image-line sells, but I still think that it would be more that our budget. I also am torn if I should continue using this program. I don’t pirate things often, and do understand implications of this. Please email me because I don’t know what to do. I really do love using this program.
Moralities with digital media is hard, because it is all so abstract. The program can be endlessly replicated and downloaded, but should be bought because it cost to make it. I know that piracy hurts economy, but how does a learning student place themselves? I use school instruments for education which was funded by tax dollars. Virtually free for me because I am not a tax-payer, but my parents are though. I don’t know if it is right to use this program if I don’t own it, but I don’t own a lot of things. I guess it doesn’t matter that it fell into my hands from a friend, it’s still not his either. I want to have my real-life moralities in the digital world. It’s just a little too easy to convince myself that the one’s and zero’s of the computer don’t have any ramifications in the real world. I am at an impasse, so please do consider my position and my intention when responding.
*sigh* I really do like this program. I have gotten quite good with it. I never really talked about the program I use. I like the way it works, and learn a new thing every time I open it. It’s such a shame that nothing I was working with was free like I believed it to be so. I want to be just as good on the internet like I am in real life. I will not pass it off as “just bytes.” I have watched enough videos to pretty much know how the internet community has it’s own economy. The pirates are… Well exactly that. Instead of surfing real life seas and plundering, they are surfing the web and undermining massive companies. I am sure that stealing from a store is just as bad as stealing from the internet. I know how it works, and don’t want to be a part of it. On the other hand, pursuing my dream of being a producer is a very, very alluring option. I am so tempted to brush it off and keep doing what I love. It is the pea under the mattress (That would make me the princess ^.^).
7/13
Starting my early-start on the MacLab. I have done a lot since summer started, and now it feels like we are bringing it back to MacLab. I really really love working on my own like this at home. It’s very freeing, even if I have to avoid time-wasters like youtube (Pokemon GO is probably the most healthy time waster). Also having music while working is so invigorating! I loved the music-with-guild perk and am set on achieving that soon as possible. But that also interests me with this new honor mechanic. It’s an honor boost on store items now. Interesting. Does that raise the stakes of loot deduction too? Apparently no veterans know of the new mechanic, so I’m excited to look for clues until I figure out what is new in this year.
Got to My Digital Profile quest (yay the second one), and that means I am revamping my blog. I am archiving my old tabs, meaning I will put the in the NAV hub on the homepage. They will still be here and accessible.
Making music late at night. This is a cool tutorial. I really want that kinda sound on a song I am doing right now. Oh I just got Skocko’s reply. Yea, FL studio is a windows program. Can’t have it in MacLab. I don’t really know what else to say. I know right from wrong, and I want to be legit with this program. I have 2 real options. Buy it. Or don’t buy it. The second option has some fine print. If I don’t buy it, I need to choose if I want to continue working with this program or if I want to give up on it.
What do I do? Should I…
A. Delete it because I am an honest person
B. Work with it openly and most likely pin the blame on my friend and his interesting choice of gifts
C. Lie about deleting it and continue working with it at home
D. Keep it on my pc but don’t touch it because I feel bad
And what do teachers tell you to do if you don’t know the answer on multiple choice questions?
Just choose C.
I don’t know what I am actually choosing at the moment, the above was a joke about education system blah blah. I am a religious person and I will pray about it in the meantime.
Am I a terrible person? Well since I’m already being brutally honest let’s just get the blaming over with. I have uTorrent, because it is actually useful for non-illegal things too. You wag a finger and say, “Where is that?” There is plenty, such as downloading a fan-made song database. It was 40 gigabytes large and there is no way normal people could host that type of bandwidth. So they make it a Torrent, and let peers and seeders do all the work. I wanted the songs (none are purchasable because it is all fan-made) so I got uTorrent. (I admit it was a few thousand songs of brony music. Told you we were a big fanbase. All really talented artists too.) Then somedays after, I was texting my friend about music and that I work with garage band. He apologized that I had to work with that (apparently he doesn’t think it’s good) and sent me a link through email. I clicked on it and uTorrent gave me FL studio. I started working with it (about the end of school year) and loved it. Weeks come to pass and then I google FL studio. It was not the free program I initially thought and came into this crisis.
Well I don’t know how more open and honest I can be. I don’t know what do decide to do just yet. In the large scheme of things, I doubt this matters. If you think it matters, please do convince me. And for whatever I choose, I can promise you I will respect the internet better. I promise you all not to be a scandal, internet thief, whatever. And I’m not just saying that. All this time I blog the truth, however real it gets. You must know this. You don’t have to worry about me being a bad person.
I am too conflicted. I need to make a decision what to do. Maybe this can be treated as a trial of FL studio. I will keep it until I have enough money to buy the real thing. Is that reasonable?
8/1
Today is D&D! I made this before going…
Real Talk
I am a goody-2-shoes. I don’t do drugs, I don’t drink alcohol, and I don’t chew or smoke tobacco. I make pacts with my close friends never to do things things, and we hold each other responsible. If I ever do drink, it won’t be excessive. It would be very rare that I drink at all. I am so sure of this because it’s something I’ve always despised and never want to be a part of it. My brother does all 3 of those things and I see how it hurts his relationship with his family. He goes to parties. He wrecks other people’s houses. I never want to do that to my mom or dad. They love him, but I know it hurts. I’m crying right now because I never want me to be like that. I promise to never do bad things because I would hate to see the looks on my parents faces.
And I don’t stop there. I actively seek the lord in all that I do. I go to youthgroup, go to church, go to camp. All of these things help restore me and assure my moralities are in check. I recently got a sign at camp that I will be a pastor. The pastor at the camp that Sunday got a premonition that 2 counselors would approach him and say they were going to be a pastor. (This was 7/9, when I was a counselor.) 2 weeks later, when I was a camper, I found out it was only 1 of my friends who approached him. I kept getting signals, and very strong ones sometimes. I didn’t accept or make myself see it right away. But now I know I am the second. The lord told my pastor that 2 of us would approach him. I know now that I am supposed to teach the bible, learn the bible, and most of all follow the bible. I am going to be a pastor.
8/2
I am going to work with my youthgroup to help pay off my camp. I came home and made this sprite really quickly actually. This is another thing I would like to do in the MacLab, it is so fun. It’s kinda like those alive picture frames in harry potter or something. Cool.
8/3
Checking out new 411. Pretty cool. I made my gravatar for the new year.
So simple I could draw him in my sleep. Didn’t take me naught but 15 minutes to draw.
Update: 8/5 I got to the Choices, Choices quest (it was created today) in the POD and I totally forgot I can’t use this as a profile image. This character is Cartoon Network’s. Welp back to the drawing board. Just a little slip-up on my part, no harm done. I’ll be sure to be more thoughtful of these things in the future. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Workshops now have a definitive time so it will be really fun to go see the new classroom early. 🙂
8/4
I went to the beach today with the youthgroup. School = even closer now. Yay! Am I the only one excited? I’ll take that as a yes hahaha. I’m used to being one of the few who enjoy school. Not saying I don’t enjoy summer, I don’t want it to end I’m having so much fun. But change is inevitable and I am ok with school starting up. I actually don’t know when we get our calendars so yea that’s something I should look into. Nothing on Valhalla webpage but then again I might be blind. I opened up the modernization/construction tab and wow I’m excited to see this next Friday. Yay.
I’m checking out the pod quests and like I said before I can’t say my period yet, even if I know my computer. But I think I can continue with the next quest and leave this one undone.
Going to see a movie with Hunter. Suicide squad cuz I like action movies too.
Audio
When my computer first starts, I pop open pandora. If your interested in audio size I’ll inform you that streaming pandora is in the low (63kpbs) bit rates. How do I know? (Other than just looking it up and trusting them, I wanted to find out for myself) So I used my handy dandy inspect element, went to networking, and sorted it by size. The largest (1.5mb) was the mp4 file which I opened in a new tab and saved to my desktop. I went to properties to see the quality I was getting. It came out to 63 kbps which sounds little but even with mp4 lossy compression it isn’t that noticeable on my headphones (but is on my computer speakers). I deleted the file afterwards, I just wanted to test the quality. The music I have offline on my desktop was all pulled from youtubers (trust me, I looked and they don’t sell their music, I just gave them more views and subscribed to them) and runs at 128 kbps. That is good, but then files are more in the 3.5mb range. So having a few thousand of those adds up to 20gbs on a hard drive. Not too bad considering it’s offline and not streaming over bandwidth after downloading.
Why am I talking about this? Well I’m learning all this stuff so I’d like to document my learning. Then we get to the stuff I pull from sound cloud websites (they have free download links) and that stuff is nearing 240-320 kbps. Bigger files again. Then I have songs I get from nerd websites. They got .aiff lossless compression. Leme tell you these files are huge. I only have a select few songs in this format because I like my diskspace (I have 2 terabytes but whatever). They sound great on my rig. All this means is that higher bit rates doesn’t always mean better. The lesson learned here is that you want a balance. Save you disk space because mp3 & mp4 compression is trying to do you a favor. Aiff files have high bit rates simply because they max out on compression to retain everything. Is it better to have bigger files? From what all my research I have been doing, the simple answer is not necessarily.
Mp3 and mp4a’s are trying to help you. There is a reason that mp3’s are here to stay. They are so darn effective at what they do. Their quality is still good considering their small size. I stream pandora because it simply takes nothing to run. I start streaming sites like soundcloud and my bandwidth suffers. Maybe an increase in quality is noticeable with my set up, but not worth it in the long run. I mentioned before that I stream almost non-stop. Pandora is so effective I use it in MacLab off of my phone 3g. You say but that hurts my data plan. No, I have tracked its usage and with a 2 period class 5 days a week it barely touches my data. In a month’s data usage it clocks in at a meek 50-100mb of data, tops. Youtube can achieve that in one session of watching on cellular.
And if you are not into streaming at home or something, downloading music is a healthy alternative. One and done and the choosing is easier. I do enjoy pandora being my dj cuz at this point it knows what I want. Oh and you hate songs being chosen too often by steaming sites? Well too bad, I love it. I don’t get worn out of my songs on pandora. Rather the repetition makes me like the song more.
What can the MacLab learn from this? Streaming isn’t always bad. Pandora has it handled with the best compression the audio world can handle. Maybe I am stretching it out a bit. But the purpose of this post was not to convince you to let us stream pandora, but rather to show you what I learned. We may or may not apply it to MacLab. You can have 10-15 students streaming pandora or 1 student downloading a pexels photo every 5 minutes and it would be the same usage. Now that I am confident I know what I am talking about (writing about this made me learn so much more. I kept going back and correcting myself when I researched farther), it is time to research more indepth about what bits and hertz matter to music. I have a notion about what they mean already, but I want to learn more.
8/5
I found this artist and creator EarMonk when researching bit depth and sample rate. He helped me locate my audio files info, and also explained what they mean in this article. He has on his resources page a lot of stuff to help beginners like me! He has classes that help with eq and sight reading music and much more stuff for me to check out. He also gave me some sounds to work with over CC0 license. This guy is awesome.
I used his waves recording to make this song. I have wanted to make a song like that since I heard this beautiful song. My song came out really good. Very simple but powerful. I like it. I usually like to be way more fancy, but just like in design sometimes you need minimalism for quality productions.
I write to DJT♥ (creator of the song that inspired me) because he helps me make music and gives me tips. On this particular song he said “its a nice attempt, with potential, but for me its lacking quite a few things. 1. Song structure. A song isnt normally just throw some stuff together, you generally want a progression to things, you want sounds to show up and drums to carry and all this other stuff. I’d start by trying to mimic some more basic things. focus on really trying to really nail one thing in particular, like get your progressions down, and stick to simpler melodies and sounds. Try and recreate things that YOU like, and try to break down the way your favourite songs actually sound. You’ll start to notice patterns taht you can mimic with your own sounds, and thatll make the process a lot easier. A lot of the time people will try and tell you that you need to focus on making what you want to make, but really you need to make what you want to HEAR. The things you listen to is, what you want your music to sound like. So listen more and more and try and pick apart the songs. Watch tutorials, see how others do the same things you do. But really, just keep having fun and trying. Things only get better with time and effort”
Choices, Choices quest was made today so I’m gunna create a fully original picture for my gravatar haha. I haven’t drawn as much this summer. I mostly worked with music production and stuff.
My warrior kitty goes way back. Her battle axe was a gift on her birthday. This gravatar is nice, and it’s my original character that I made up. No she isn’t a polar bear and her name isn’t Ice Bear but whatever. We’re cool. Her name is Rowen. It didn’t take too long to make her either. Around half an hour and that’s because cloud is glitchy and kind of annoying to work with. It’s not too fancy but I’m sure I’ll return to making a new photo of the warrior princess.
Now I am able to progress in the quest Choices, Choices because I have my own work displayed. It’s nice to do quests right. Specially cuz stage 4 showed me that nice fail loot if I weren’t honest.
8/6
I spent most of the morning working by moving things into storage for a fellow member of the church. I have been neglecting my book which I wish to get back to reading. It is called Stray by Andrea K Host. Finished it. I got it free from bookbub. I have so many sci-fi books stockpiled up from bookbub.
After that I decided it has been a while since I touched any video game this summer so I played undertale. It has not been spoiled for me and I have to say it is quite the experience. Totally gunna play through it a second time (once I’m finished with the first, of course). But I wanna see different endings and such.
This type of game makes me really wanna make a sprite 2d game. On one hand, I’ve always loved sprites. On the other hand, I really want to make a story in game format. Oh wait, that means this is the perfect option for me!
Don’t read my thoughts on the game if you haven’t played it. Wouldn’t make sense to you anyway.
My thoughts on the game. I loved Toreil and didn’t want to fight her, that dinosaur kid is awesome and I’m glad I’m friends with him, and I love that scientist and her quarky, otaku ways (Otaku=stays inside all day and obsesses over anime/videogames [and in this case, the human] and reads comics and stuff). And the talking flower freaks me out and I swear he lies every time he talks (not to be confused with echo-flowers, I like those [or are they the same thing 0.o conspiracy theory from sans])
8/7
As writing this I am listening to the song White Noise/Red Meat. I have always like this song but only recently saw its album was “dada life”. Now I respect dada and their strange ways, so I checked out the music video. Just as weird as I thought it would be. Something about dada understands me though. I already have talked about how I look at the world differently (somewhere in my 2015-2016 weekly documentation) so dada kinda strikes me. It’s very easy to say dada is weird but I would argue it’s not that different from all of us.
RANT
Weekly Documentation: Wow he is slamming the new students with everything we built up to from the previous year. Please reference my documentation and notice how it built up from nothing to a fully-fledged winner. Hey Skocko it’s totally ok to try and see how students hold up with the full scale documentation but I have a feeling scaring children will produce more flatliners this year. Or they will see this class is not for them and decide to take the easy way out (hint: a new elective). Am I over-judging this? I don’t think I am because I am an optimist and I still don’t have faith in students following the full requirements. Sure, veterans will do fine, no skin off their back. But students who are fresh to the class will not know how to form beautiful documentation if they haven’t gone through the baby steps. Seeing my early weeks on my crackleshack website, my baby steps were very, very tiny. But Mr. Skocko converted me (with a lot of work, mind you) into a believer of the documentation.
Documentation. I loved following the guildlines last year. They helped me form the massive sprawling paragraphs. But now, after completing an entire summer of unrestricted, unweighted documentation, I also know that I can build just as good documentation with a very simple format. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Skocko™ format, and I will return to it as I return to school. But babysteps can’t feel so condensed and limited. When Skocko stresses creativity and open paths in some aspects of MacLab, and then crams down on conformity with weekly documentation (TO THE FREAKING MINUTE OF COMPLETION) It kinda sends mixed signals to beginners. Documentation was always a hamper to my work when I spend all of friday doing it. I loved doing it, and it guided me for next week and my goal progress, but NEW students aren’t me. They won’t get it. They can read (re)imagine over and over and not have a clue about what this class means to me. Because they need do experience this class build up, not slam down in all it’s massive glory.
Bite sized pieces, please. You let your students call you out, and this is a really big one. I know that there is no underlying plan to this documentation craziness. Last years building up worked. And hunters and healers™ on the 4th week??? Way to stress out the newbs, Skocko. I feel right in saying CALM THE FALAFEL DOWN!!!!
I’ll give that a minute to sink in.
…
Ok now on a totally different topic,
Hey look at this
Don’t let me forget. I want to make a website for the whole school so people can donate straight to their sports. Waterpolo last year had to use a fundraiser to fix our score board, but me being the common sense guy, I asked how much the fundraiser took from donations. Yes you heard me. The fundraiser emailed people to donate to waterpolo and then directly took from their donations. Donations. And they used an email bot. Congrats, you know how to spam, so we will pay you to do it for us. (This is why viruses work so well)
Highway robbery. Like stealing candy from a baby.
Story is, this BUTT (would use stronger language but I don’t make a habit of cussing) called SnapRaise takes 20% (yes I just said 20 mother fudging percent) from every donation that aunt and uncle make to little timmy’s science club and all that. Screw them! I know how to use paypal! Let me make a website! Have your students use their OWN social media (which has many more followers than SnapBitch) to send the messages to fund raise. We know how to use social media! We have hundreds of followers so aunt Kathrine and uncle Todd see every post we make. All the students need to do is state which sport or club for auntie to donate to and then link to my website. Over on my website it will have every club that signed up with me and a DIRECT paypal account. Donations are received by paypal and 100 Muther Facking Percentages go to the sport.
You’re going to go to hell SnapRaise. Die in a pit of burning gasoline.
8/8
Monday. Wow. So close to the thing we call school. Anyway I followed this tutorial because I wanted to make my retelling of undertale more interesting like with audio and reference pictures. I’m just recounting my experience so of course it’s going to have spoilers and the music from the game. Don’t click on if haven’t played and all that. And if you don’t care that it gets spoiled I really wanna convince you not to. Because I never thought I’d care for the game but still didn’t spoil it for myself. A few months later, I finally played it and I am so glad I didn’t spoil it. Up to you.
It’s really fun making this redition of the story. Gives me some good closure. I’m glad I put it into twine format because I actually branched off and told 2 stories of what happened. Both aren’t what really happened, but just what happened in my head as I played the game. You can go play the game and get your own head story outa it. It’s much more fun if you just go with your gut and believe what you want to. Even if the game straight up tells you what the real thing is, I still would be like, nah that’s not my story, and keep playing. Oh I’m staying up sooo late writing this *kinda sarcasm but kinda not*. It’s 10:50 *gasp* Yea I am not a night owl, I go to bed right at 10 even over the summer. So yep this is as late as I go. Goodnight!
8/9
So Tuesday is a thing now. More working on undertale story.
8/10
Listened to TED talks failure is an option and that reminded my of my old DemonPony Trial & Error logo. Seems like a very good way of doing things.
8/11
Was at the beach all day. From 9 to 9.
8/12
MacLab work party! School’s getting closer…
8/13
Worked at the MacLab all day… I can taste the new school year (cept I haven’t gotten anything ready yet…)
8/14
End of summer parties today.
Ahh then end of the summer blog… I really liked blogging like this. Time to return to the Skocko format™. It will be fun. Cya next year with another summer blog!
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