Games, Salmon and the Soul

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2019-10-31T19:44:00.001-07:00

Lets Play Sonic Mania with David Beck! (first level)

2017-08-29T17:06:00.001-07:00

Become more productive: Foods and tips to beat procrastination - Food Th...

2016-09-05T12:39:00.001-07:00

Worlds Top 5 Things To Do With Limes

2016-08-11T17:49:00.001-07:00

Galcon 2: New player gets lucky!

2016-05-09T06:31:00.001-07:00

View through a small window: Entry for the Space Bats Competition

2015-08-18T16:13:00.001-07:00

View through a small window: Entry for the Space Bats Competition: [Regular readers - don't panic! This is an entry for a short story competition hosted over at the Archdruid Report . We will be returni...

2014-05-01T03:44:00.000-07:00

Hello. I posted this ages ago, but I really want a good critique of the short film. Does anybody disagree with anything it says?

Thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOMWzjrRiBg

2013-08-20T04:44:00.001-07:00

The US, and many other places in the world have been sucking workers out of agriculture and putting them into cities for a good 200 years now. Despite record investment; oil production has been falling world wide since 2008. In the long run we need to be putting people back into agriculture; why not legislate to make it easier for young people to return to simpler ways of life whilst developing a new, renewable low carbon kind of organic agriculture? Permaculture, (working with nature instead of against it) Is highly skilled work and should be the basis of all sustainable economies. America's Roosevelt in 1937 said "The Nation That Destroys It's Soils Destroys Itself". Much of the soil is dead and only works because of oil, which, like I said is in decline. That's my solution anyhow!

2 Gryphon's Great-ish Its.: Molesting the molesters.

2012-07-15T12:30:00.001-07:00

2 Gryphon's Great-ish Its.: Molesting the molesters.: In Los Angeles yesterday, an old person yet again accused another old person of molestation sometime around 100 years ago when they were a c...

meditations

2011-05-10T07:45:00.000-07:00

Hello there. Upon meditating today I found some answers to some questions I asked myself; I don't know if they are correct answers but I guess there the best I have. I should stop worrying about what has been and focus on what I want to be. The judgements of others against me should not worry me for its a sign of a petty mind to unfairly judge and condemn others. I have been, shamefully unemployed for nearly a year now; and I'm only sad about the lack of development I have had over that time. True; I have developed in that time however not to my fullest potential due to the lack of a structured environment.

Of course you could view my unfortunate unemployment as my own fault; but I have applied for 100's of jobs. Quite clearly I may have been doing something wrong, but I find it petty that others should overlook me and all my potential due to those errors.

I long for the days, but a fairytale to me, where a person could walk into a business, apply and be accepted for a job on his own merits there and then. Not only do we have to jump through ridicules hoops, reduce ourselves to two sides of A4 and slavishly boast and advertise ourselves at every given opportunity but to be treated with such contempt is undignified. To not even be told if we have the job, Assumed failure; I'm just sick of it.

I'm a graduate with strong skills, a hard working attitude, I'm studious and would give my all to any job offered and yet nobody seems to want me.

I guess there is a group of people somewhere who want me to stay unemployed. I guess it means less competition for them. If the UK really hates people working why does the UK allow such vast amounts of immigration? Is it that they want us to be poor and unhappy consumers and for foreigners to do all the work? I would be fine with this arrangement, pained and anguished at the loss of my own potential if it were not so cruel; I'm not just poor but our home is threatened; We can't afford to buy all the shit you want to sell and stay in our home. I so need to go out and develop my life, please help. Forgive us.

2011-03-11T08:09:00.000-08:00

Rating my University course.

I would give LSBU and my course a 9/10 because all through the course my grades were slowly rising until I ended up with a 2:1. we had a lot of interesting people who came in and taught, we covered so much on a wide verity of subjects, mostly media theory, language, game theories, practical experience in various software and programming tools. I also like that I got to meet a variety of interesting people from all backgrounds taking all sorts of subjects, and we also bad cross course collaboration, like we would sometimes work with the Sonic media students supporting each other’s projects.

Although I loved my course and learned loads I do wonder if I should have taken a more programming orientated computer science course. I feel I have gained an awful lot of skills in valuable transferable subjects I wouldn't have if I had done a ‘nerdier’ course but there are more programming jobs out there.

I also feel other people went into the course with more of an idea of what they wanted to do and they then produced material which went straight into their profiles (material that employers want to see). Although I completed every task and gained a lot of knowledge in the process what I produced wasn't aimed at getting me a job, rather I let my creativity run supreme and made some good innovative stuff.

Again I'll say you get out what you out in, coming from a poor background, having faced family problems and having had legitimate troubles with my early schooling I feel through hard work and determination I have moved through and up on the education ladder. However with my recent spell of unemployment and because a lot of the people around me lack any aspirations, well, I have gotten slightly depressed now that I'm back home.

when I started work at Asda at 16 I pushed myself pretty hard, with a full time college course I was doing a 84 hour week (inc homework) and whilst I was working at Asda (which I hatred) I met quite a few people who has spent their life working in similar jobs, many had been at Asda for 20 years and they told me to get out, to get out whilst I could and try to make something of myself. Now after 2 GNVQ'S, 5 A levels and my degree I dread to contemplate going back. I know it’s selfish of me and I did have friends that work there quite happily but the workers warnings haunt me. I know how easy it is to slip into a routine and watch your life pass before your eyes.

I have thought about moving abroad for work. With Mervin King and the like saying that England will be facing years of increasing poverty and social unrest I just want to escape. The evil former government gave me a £24,000 debt to haunt me. I have never seen such extreme amounts of money. I HATE how they force everyone in the UK to have extreme debts, just for wanting an education or a house to live in. Debt is the most insidious form of slavery, because you can make people work for very little money whilst most of their pay cheque goes to a bank whilst houses in the UK get smaller and crappier and more expensive. We already have the smallest homes in Europe. Another slice of a person’s wage-slavery will go into a pension the worker will likely not get until there 120, and as the miserable Western empire falls as oil and natural resources decline we'll all just have to suffer more ill health and more deaths, whilst war over what is left intensifies like the aging roman empire.

well.... Ok... maybe it’s not all that bad but it feels pretty bad to me, as my family sinks deeper and deeper into debt. I need a job.

View through a small window: Birds and beasts

2011-02-28T02:23:00.004-08:00

View through a small window: Birds and beasts: "We are now up to five chickens: Rocky the Rooster and his consort Mabel have been joined by Dotty, Pearl and Ginger Rogers, in more or less ..."

View through a small window: A warm welcome

2011-02-28T02:23:00.003-08:00

View through a small window: A warm welcome: "Well, it has taken a while, but we are finally here and connected (albeit sporadically) to the Internet. After a three-day drive we arrived..."

View through a small window: And they're under starter's orders...

2011-02-28T02:23:00.002-08:00

View through a small window: And they're under starter's orders...: "After a long and tortuous saga, we have finally managed to exchange contracts on the sale of our UK residence. So after one last family Chri..."

View through a small window: The mysteries of Galician plumbing

2011-02-28T02:23:00.001-08:00

View through a small window: The mysteries of Galician plumbing: "As luck would have it, we had booked a week's holiday to go and visit As Petas before our house in the UK sold. This turned out to be very u..."

View through a small window: It's really happening...

2011-02-28T02:23:00.000-08:00

View through a small window: It's really happening...: "After months of searching, more months of chugging through the Spanish legal system, and even more months of trying to sell a house in the d..."

28 Oct 2010

2010-10-28T14:25:00.000-07:00

Hello there. I'm sorry I have not written in my blog for a while. I guess I'm doing it now because I feel like it. I'm finding getting a job rather hard. I had one dangled in my face with a salary of £45,000 today and was of course taken away.

I just want any job really. I really want to put what I learned at uni to some use.

My dad would blame mass immigration for the fact there's 40 odd people for every job, but that's not the only factor. there's the recession and I do believe the future of the west may be plaged by energy crisis, impoverished food and water reserves, environmental disaster and massive inflation of everything to the point where only the rich could afford electricity in a 100 year or so. Were burning 100's of millions of barrels of oil a day and I don't believe technology will replace it. there's so much faith in society today, faith that money's worth something, faith in technology, faith in progress and it could all be misplaced. Our impoverished grand kids may be disappointed we didn't use our huge industrious powers for something more than entertainment and wars.

Ned flanders does Monster

2010-08-15T11:02:00.000-07:00

2010-05-15T18:44:00.000-07:00

Hello. I'm sorry I have not posted for a while. I thought I would post a little something from my dissertation (that I will now have to largley delete)

Social commentators have remarked that democracy has given us all it can, and with increasing reported cases of depression and anxiety, and as the great works of philosophy and the unknown are replaced by reductionist empirical science the meanings of life seems less attainable than ever before, and it’s this void that is filled with the hedonistic and prideful meanings social and MMO games brings to the lives of so many players. It is the observation of the primary research that these games can fill this void and brings purpose, structure and meaning to the player. The player may feel they can achieve more in one night of WoW than in many years of toil, and it was found that many games meritocratic values and achievement systems are reasons why some social and MMO games are so appealing to the player.

The configurative effect WoW has on the player is not only profound in terms of time management but it is socially normal to spend time out of the game exploring game mechanics, dungeon strategies and upcoming updates, all of which shave become the social norm. In this way games can have a profound configurative effect on the gamer.

salmon and the soul

2010-04-11T04:28:00.000-07:00

Hello. I sit here eating a tin of salmon. I doubt anyone will read this ever, I'm just another lonely soul sending my words in a bottle into a vast digital sea, I just wrote some e-mails to the university's financial departments, they sound pretty pathetic yet they are true and I doubt the people can help me anyhow.

So lonely and feel like nobody cares. I should be working on my dissertation and all, should not be here, typing this.

I'm sure I'll never amount to anything or do anything of note worthiness like most people. I'll just die sooner of later, nothing really matters in the end. I think people seek entertainment to take their minds off their own inevitable end, better to watch TV and not think than to be honest with yourself. I wonder if other mammals feel like me or if this is more of a human thing. Animals know what death is, but I wonder if they know it will happen to them. Why are we here on this planet in this world? It’s all so strange, we really don't know anything about the world that matters for sure, we can only guess. We can shape the universe through our own understanding of it;

Oh well, I should go work...

2010-03-28T17:49:00.000-07:00

Small Men in a row,
cueing at a paper desk . . .
Poster: 'Dwarf Shortage'

Fresh Coffee addict
Buzzing throughout the day time . . .
Lonley winter nights.

Summer heat, clear blue skies
Green trees, Heat wave on the news . . .
Turn up the Aircon!

Water running fast,
over my paws, use some soap
Hot air, Full of Bugs!

Leonard Cohen sings
'like a sleepy morning storm'
beauty before age.

The mouth bites at it,
Juicy, Crunch, green and ripe
Nature's providence

I lift to my lips,
Mans holder of succulence
Ouch! My hand is burnt!

Sitting in a jam
My metalic throne of hate
I scream through my horn!

The moonlight refracts,
on the people in the night
snow burried secrets.

2010-03-28T14:23:00.000-07:00

Fantastic! Finally compleated the Dare to be Digital form! We have such a strong team and its all looking fantastic! Really hope we get to go and make our game! The game will be so amazing!!!

Stay tuned for more information! :O

2010-03-26T18:23:00.000-07:00

Hello,

I'm getting 90 megs connection speed today (In the UK). So, I think I could download about 4500 'Images' in 10 seconds XD, still, The day was good! I handed in a form and got some tasty foods. I brought a hair brush for my hair. Its amazing! 45P

I'm also applying for Dare to be Digital, I really hope we get in, we have the skills and the teams great! we have so many skills and some extremely creative people! hehe I have also been working on my game Spawn!!!! its amazing! :D I love it!!

Ohhhh man can't wait till its done, Less than a month now! Its just getting better and better, Or like the Japanese say, Kai Zen!

anyhow, sorry for my extremely informal language style. I love typing what I'm thinking without worrying about all the rules you must use in a dissertation!! Its freeing to say what I want to.

I also added robotic yoghurt to my milk and its all tasty now!! did you know full fat milk has Less sugar? How odd!

I'm playing Animal collective right now, but earlier I was jamming with Eminem, Dre and Oboe Trice!! Love those Rappers, Eminem is funny man!

with all that milk and the cheese I ate I'm going to have some weird dreams tonight! The song just said "He'll only be your friend if he touches your breast", do you think women like that? they seem so prudish normally. ahh well, Not really sexual animals unless its for a baby.

still, Ohhh man, I'm so messed in the head right now, pretty happy, I'm just making words with my hands like sign language. did you know I can type with my eyes shut, See? :D (That’s when you know you use a PC too much). My mate uses a Mac, crazy. Its so communist, High quality services and a friendly mother program. Windows is totally capitalist because you use Loads of competing programs, like free markets. Windows is by default Craptastic! But it runs lots of shit.

Black man saying "I wana give you my name", do you think he thinks it will get him a woman to love him??