Games and other nerdy stuff!

First interview - Hellspawn!

2012-08-03T10:16:00.004+02:00

Hey everyone! I got time for one interview before I left today so here it is! Last post until probably sunday evening/night. I hope you enjoyed it even though it came up late. Remember that the new url will soon be artsnerdyblog.blogspot.com - don't forget! I'll change it very very soon.

The interview was with Hellspawn. I was really nervous and also tired so it wasn't as good as the first interview :/
It was really cool walking away with him, I felt so important hahaha, and then just all the way he said hi to like everyone and I was like, does he know everybody? We kinda "met" James 2GD and I thought he was rather short but he was the freaking tallest man I've ever met. I was a bit stunned but he asked me if I had a lighter, I didn't unfortunately.

Are you happy with how WCS has played out until now? I mean all the way from SM until today?
I think it's been great, I'm satisfied, I like to have all the four nordic countries here. Most people has been happy too and it's fun to see so many people coming even before the show. We sold a lot of tickets even though it seems like there's not so many people here since many of them decided to be in the bar instead of being at the floor so it looks like we are few on the stream even though we're really not.

In the two last days your twitter has been bombed with tweets and retweets about WCS, is it because you've been feeling superhyped or is it always like that for you?
Well, of course I tweet about what I work with. For me it's mostly retweets because I work so hard with this and I don't have much time to tweet unless I'm on the subway where I have time to think. But it's of course for marketing too, "spread the word" so to say.

You told me before that you were nervous before the event really started, that must have started to go away now at least?
It's not really that I'm nervous but we've had little knowledge of how the event was going to end up like until the beginning week. We've been doing more work than usual and that's because DreamHack summer was so recently ago. When we do all the festivals they're so big that we need time and energy to work with them which makes it hard to jump into a new project again. Even though we worked with this in the spring we mostly worked with it after DH summer. It's intense and that we also didn't know much about how the event would be is also a factor. Working with Blizzard was new, it worked out very well, but we didn't know much about how they wanted to work either, but I'm still satisfied with that.

Have you been cheering for anyone that isn't from Sweden? Any Danish, Norwegian or Finnish person?
As the person that arrange the event I don't really cheer for any specific player. I just want it to be good games, have a good audience and also have satisfied players. I like seeing if there's any up set to, like with Norway today...

You enjoy watching all the players instead?
Yes, and it's also interesting to see everyone here even though we has e-sports SM and "NärCon" this event feels more prestige filled so everyone's here. To see who takes it home for Sweden will also be nice to see of course.

The European finals for WCS will also be held here in Sweden. It's already big to have only the Nordic nationals, how big will it be when all of Europe will have their attention on just Sweden?
I definitely think that all of Europe and the whole e-sport world have gotten to understand that Sweden have had good players since a long time back but mostly everyone has noted what we do here with DreamHack. I think they see how good things are going for us. To have the European finals in "Globen" with Blizzards support though is just like I dream. Like my colleague, Tomas, said "I don't even know what the next step for us is", it just feels awesome, I think the event will be great and everything's on top. It's going to be a hard month, the week after that we're hosting DreamHack Eizo open Valencia so there's going to be one day of rest, one day of flying, maybe one day at the beach and then just keep working.

Talk about a busy schedule!
Yeah, at the least!

Great, thanks!
Thank you too.

You can follow Hellspawn at https://twitter.com/Hellspawnlord

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Week-end

2012-08-02T23:12:00.001+02:00

So I won't be able to blog this week-end either... I'm so sorry for this week. I will totally start blogging daily again from next week forward as it used to be.

In the meanwhile I still want people to remember that the blog will change name, not place just name, to artsnerdyblog.blogspot.com because I think it's easier to remember! Write it down! The phone, the fridge, the hand, on a paper, anything's good!

Finally!

2012-08-02T00:09:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone! It's been very lonely not blogging at all in like a week! From one post a day to nothing. Jesus, can't live without this blog it seems. And I also finally fixed my phone, finally, so now I'm just throwing this up here (which was supposed to get on the blog on sunday night -__-'') and then I'll see if I can manage to stay up and put one of the interviews up at least! I'm sorry for walking fast and having a very shaky video x__x

I also suck at this shit with video stuff and.. yeah.. o.O I say um all the time aso aso but practise makes perfect :D

Enjoy!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Edit: Will not be able to anything else today. It's already 00:10 and the internet is screwed up. My sisters internet is not to recomend

Phone problems

2012-07-30T01:25:00.002+02:00

Hey everyone!
Having problems with my phone but will update about WCS asap... just gonna need to fix things with the phone and it's really hard cuz I bought a worthless phone...

It's in the middle of the night and I can't sleep and I've been trying to solve my phone problem for ages. I have all the interviews but... well... I just need to fix this. I'm sorry if things happen toooo late for it to be exciting but that's the way it has to be. Hold on and it'll come up... this is so not the way I wanted things to be :(

Can say I will change url soon from nordutavrank7 to artsnerdyblog. Hopefully people will remember that easier so write it down on your phone, refrigerator or on your hand or what ever so that you will remember it. artsnerdyblog.blogspot.com!! The change will happen soon so be sure to write it down, ok? Thanks, I don't wanna loose you guys, you keep me going!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

The weekend

2012-07-27T23:07:00.002+02:00

Hey everyone!

Because of busy friday-sunday there won't be much blogging this weekend, just wanted to let you know. Can't blog from the phone either, it's fucked up. But I'll try to keep you updated via twitter instead so follow https://twitter.com/KlaraJoelsson if interested in that.
Otherwise, talk to you as soon as possible

Have a great weekend

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Prometheus

2012-07-26T12:15:00.003+02:00

Hey everyone!

I'm really starting to get nervous and excited for WCS right now. I'm trying to prepare myself both with questions for the interview but also like trying to calm my mind... but I really suck at that and have no idea how to do that so I don't know how it's going to go lolol.

While speaking of movies anyway...

I'v also seen Ice Age 4, hurray! It seems to be the only child-animated-kind-of-film that anyone likes. I always have to cope with no's just cuz ppl don't want to see "kids"-films... why not? They're awesome.

But I've also seen Prometheus at the cinema a while ago and I had some thoughts on that one...

I guess it was a quite good film though the story wasn't astonishing.

I had no idea what it was about when I entered the cinema but was interested in Noomi Rapace, I really like her acting. So arriving there I realise it's classed as not only action and sci-fi but also horror... and I kinda die when I see horror...

It didn't feel so much as horror though. It was a bit scary but to call it a horrormovie... even I would disagree.
But I didn't come here to talk about horror, I wanted to talk about what the movie was inspired by.
Obviously a lot of things are taken from in every movie these days. According to myself it seemed to be inspired by, well aliens obviously, but the fact that aliens would have helped and created us from the beginning is something rather new to me and as from what I have read too that's the only thing to read about. But something peculiar struck me after a little while into the moive.

This is bloody StarCraft!

*SPOLIER*
By some reason it really felt like it.
What felt was alike was that they (terran) come to this planet away from the earth and discover what they thought were some creatures that created them but apparently there are some slimy weird things that just attack them and they have to fight them (zerg). Then when some have died and some have survived there's only one person left there to fight them all (Sarah Kerrigan) but instead of becoming the queen of blades she makes it.
I don't know, it might be more of a bad interpretation of a coincidence than actually a bit alike but I just found it funny sitting in the middle of the film and then like "OMG, this is just like Starcraft!" ^-^v
*END OF SPOLIER*

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Batman, a fox and... carwashing?

2012-07-25T23:30:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!

Today I was a little to busy blogging. I spend a lot of time with my boyfriend after not seeing each other in one day! Yeah, amazing, but we hung out and went down town and then I went to work. But, Klara, you end work at 9 pm. I sure do, but at 9 pm something aaaaawesome, maybe even legendary, was about to happen. At 9 pm Batman - the dark knight rises had it's first night in the movies and I was there. Yup, 5 minutes after it begun (didn't matter since there's commercial about 10 mins anyway...) I was there, sitting in my seat, waiting for the shit to go down... and it did.
What an amazing film it was. Really, I wanna spoil it all right now but I'll give you some time to watch it yourselves and then I can spoil it to the ones that would like. That way more people would enjoy the post. So just wanted to give an update on that.

Also, there were a few cool things that happened to me today that I wanted to share but apparently, I just realised right now trying to upload it, the bastards that "fixed" my phone apparently did a lousy job cause it's still broken. Still no pictures, still nothing I can upload on the computer, great. Anyway, what happened was that in the car-wash the steering wheel starting steering itself which looked kinda cool but... I guess it doesn't sound as cool haha...

When we got home from the movies we also saw the cutest little fox right in the neighbourhood and foxes are the most amazing little creatures to wander on this earth. I took pictures of it and filmed it as well in my excitement (people should not hear me when I'm around a fox, I become wicked really, love them!) but now I can't show them to anyone and can't see it for myself either. Whaaat the up the fucks? So mad right now, but yeah, that's the story of the day.

Look forward to Batman!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

GOT

2012-07-24T10:16:00.001+02:00

Hey everyone!

Finally the time has come for us! Hallelujah!
The season 2 of game of thrones has finally released all episodes a little while ago. I always watch them together with my boyfriend and he insisted on not watching them until all of them were out because it gets so annoying when you sit and wait anxiously for the next episode to come and it just takes a whooole freaking weeek! So we have finally started watching the wonderful season 2!
I think we've gotten in about 2-4 episodes or something... and now we're not watching them anyway! Gosh, we could have started watching when the 5th episode and we would still not be done hahaha.
I need to nag my boyfriend on this!!

For those of you that haven't seen Game of thrones I really recommend that series! Really, watch it, it's a really, really, well made series. It's really cool and stuff so check it out!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

People that have problems with gaming

2012-07-23T15:13:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!

I never understood people that have problems with a gamer/nerd. They have their interests but I never complain on them because of it. Just because someone can't understand why I like something doesn't mean they have to complain about it. I especially, actually, get hurt when people say "Oh, I didn't think girls would ever like to play games". Why not? It's just a regular interest like any other. Sure, I'm pale cause I don't get out as often as others but I'm a freaking ginger, I'm supposed to be pale!! (Best excuse ever to be pale lolol).

If anyone came up to me and said "All day long I fix my garden and on the evening I go out drinking. The next day I go shopping for clothes" I could laugh in their faces and say that they have a worthless life filled with boring things but I won't and you know why? Cause I don't care what other people do on their free time as long as it doesn't hurt them and makes them happy whether it's gardening, making food or watching television all day.

Coming home and playing games/blogging about them/watching others play/hanging in that community is just an interest I like and I really can't see the problem. Some say it's addicting but you can be addicted to most things and if you feel addicted to something you should stop that. People in my class are annoyed that their boyfriends are addicted to games but instead they are addicted to smoking. I'm not addicted to games, I just like them. If someone is addicted to shopping/food/smoking/gaming/gambling they should stop but addiction and games don't belong together from my point of view.

There are so many things about me but games. My boyfriend, friends, school/trying to have good grades, working, working out and similar but games are a part of who I am like anything else and as fast as I stand up for that people put me down and say "see, games make you aggressive" while other people defending their interest stand up for what they do.

There is a possibility to earn money in the gaming field as a progamer, caster or anything like that. The good thing about that is that it's a new genre where people can have jobs. If someone can play football and earn money you should be able to earn it on playing games too. I don't see any problem with anyone earning money from anything that doesn't hurt anyone. People have told me that you should be able to earn money just by being on facebook in that case too and hell yeah, if someone could sponsor another person to write good things about a company or what ever then why not?! But the problem is their's no one interested in that, yet at least. Cause people don't understand that free time activities like football, handball or any other sport is also based on having sponsors, just like in e-sport, but apparently it's only a problem when it comes to e-sport.

So no, I really don't understand the problem with gaming and I stand for that opinion. You can look at me and say I'm a nerd, that just makes me glad, cause it's true damn it!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

The tiniest update ever made

2012-07-22T00:30:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone! Just wanted to be a little wise today ("Learn lots. Don't judge. Laugh for no reason. Be nice. Seek happiness." - Sean "Day9" Plott) and just remind everyone that it's still possible, in case you missed it, to follow my blog via mail. Just scroll down to the bottom of the site and enter your mail.

And oh, if anyone would ever like to mail me for some reason o.O Artsnerdyblog@hotmail.com :)

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Modigs - melodies with no purpose

2012-07-21T16:37:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone! I've been posting "Modigs" here before and here he is again, yes, he's back. I know this isn't really nerdy in any way but... here's a song anyway! Art's song of the day! *stealing Day9's concept with purpose hahaha*

It's just really beautiful

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Decision of the day

2012-07-20T20:27:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone! I made a great decision today...
I've gotten tweets about making interviews for my blog on WCS since I'll be going. I thought about it for a while and I will find it a great challenge to walk up to someone and just interview them... o.o much easier to say "Hi, I'm from the press" than "Hi, I'm no one" hahaha but! I have decided to try to make at least one interview on someone! And now that it's official I feel like I need to do it and that's why I had to put it out there. So there you go! After next saturday there'll be at least one interview on this blog with someone on WCS and if there isn't you will decide my punishment, so behold, either have a great interview to watch or decide my punishment, both are great so what are you waiting for. Start with the thoughts on the punishment already, or it will be too late! ;)

Spyro

2012-07-19T14:56:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone! I guess you wouldn't know this about me but actually I'm kinda... obsessed with having things installed on my computer that I don't use in any way or alike. Having that said I now have a problem... my disk is so full that I can't actually download Spryo any further... anyone with any common sense knows how little space that old game would take but I really need clear my hard drive before doing anything else. Buying all those games on Steam prolly took up some place... hm.. too bad. But I'll just clear it out and I should have it on my computer any day.

Gnbth
Bye guys!

More "other crap"

2012-07-18T06:30:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone! For those of you living in Sweden I'd be sad if you didn't know who Ina Bäckström was. Those of you outside of Sweden are excused unless you love DreamHack but really, all swedes should know her. Ina is a cool girl that interviews and films with the crew of SVT (Big swedish TV-channel) and she always gives good interviews. She made a great one with ThorZaIN recently after him changing to EG but that's fully in swedish so nevermind that. What I was going to say was that she has started to follow me! Ina Bäckström! Wow, I feel so honoroed :)

I'm starting to think that I should change the name of the blog, should I? Maybe nordutavrank7 might be hard to remember if you're not from Sweden or is it more confusing if I'd change? Pleeeease give comments??

Too bad ThorZaIN lost against JYP in GSL yesterday... Did you see it? Atleast he managed to take a map. He should sleep and take care until WCS now :)

Gnbth
Bye guys!

The matter of journalism... and other crap

2012-07-17T23:03:00.001+02:00

Hey everyone! Random fact: In my mail today I had 1337 new mails. It's a sign that I'm awesome but also that I totally need to clear my inbox....

The pic? Oh, it's just a screenshot from one (Alice:Madness returns) of like 5 games that I've bought on steam for the sale!! W00p, I love the flash and daily sales jeeeesus! When it has ended in the 23rd I will tell you about which games I bought and why.

The matter of journalism now... I was thinking about it earlier. I got a tweet (https://twitter.com/KlaraJoelsson) asking me to interview someone at WCS in Sweden which I'm attending. First I thought "Oh no, I have no idea how to do such a thing" but on second thought I was like "Cool, yeah!" but really, I have no idea how do do such a thing! That's where I also stopped to think on where you can call someone a journalist? I'm not a journalist since I only write about things I do, not news, but if I did, would I be? If someone asks me to do an interview with someone well known at a big event and that keeps happening... am I a journalist? Media can be so hard do describe now when you have internet, it's like everyone's a journalist! I wish I was anyways, then I could just go up to someone and say "Hi, I'm from the press, can I interview you for my blog?" ... coool...
So yeah also, I'm going to WCS next saturday which is going to be great. You get to try out Heart of the swarm which I look forward to like hell. Watching only our own swedes play's going to be awesome too! I don't know how I should solve the "interview"-part though...

Gnbth
Bye guys!

HarryILoveYouPotter

2012-07-16T23:01:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone! OK so some news has been going on with J.K Rowling, obviously, and since I'm being a freeeak on Harry Potter I've been updated on her and the Potter world so there are a few things that I'd like to dedicate this post to but I will dedicate it only to the new book that J.K Rowling announced a feeew months ago. I guess I just never thought of writing about it!
It's called "Harry Potter and the casual vacancy". It's about Harry getting in to...

...no I'm just kidding, it's not going to be about Harry Potter but it's still called "The casual vacancy". As a Harry Potter fan it never matters whether I'd like the book or not because if I say I love it everyone will say that I love it just because it's J.K Rowling and if it's the opposite everyone will say it's because I will never like anything she writes since I just love Harry Potter. That fact annoys me so I will just describe the book in a objective way!

"Little, Brown Book Group described the plot on their website: 'When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?'"

THERE! There you go with the objective way of it. So do you like it? Do you?! I DON'T anyway!
OK so yeah I totally dislike it and you can say what ever you like about it, I've heard it all already. But tell me what you thought about it anyway. Trash it, crash it or just simply love it. I'd would be nice to hear to get your point of view!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Getting my phone back

2012-07-12T23:19:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone! Tomorrow I'm finally getting my phone back. I'm going to celebrate that with telling you about my favourite apps that I've missed! Put your smartphones close, soon you'll have some good apps in there.

Pic-randomness?

2012-07-11T15:30:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!

I found someone that had gone to the same school/class as IdrA and found a picture on him in his like... school-pictues-book? Or what ever that's called...
By some reason I didn't like putting the picture on the blog because it felt like it would be private to IdrA but since it's already on this site you should check him out there anyways

http://i.imgur.com/y42Gu.jpg

What a cute kid? When did he grow up to the man he is today...? Just kidding

So when I watched Day9 before, like weeks ago before his vacation, he had to show a picture that he thought of. It was so cute that I had to share that picture with you guys too!

Day laughed so hard at it as always and it was so preeetty it deserved a spot here.

So while still going on pictures here comes a confession!
The person beneath here is someone from Sailor moon. First of that's embarrassing because I'm watching Sailor moon. Second reason why... well, the guy is suuuperhandsome and evil which is so typical, why did I have to find him hot?? His personality is crap but he looks great so here it is.....

He has pink hair for gods sake... -____-
Now don't judge me, I'm usually not like this hahah ^o^

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Accomplishments

2012-07-10T22:39:00.002+02:00

Hey everyone! Sorry for posting less right now, bare with me

I thought that it was a long time ago that I posted anything about my accomplishments and how they're doing!
These're the ones I have left:

1. Become top 50 silver in Starcraft (been working very bad on this one, still not getting anywhere really...)
3. Listen to all Harry Potter books, actively (currently at book no three, azkaban, and it takes a while to get through them I can tell you :))
5. Watch the complete first season of pokemon, actively (44 episodes left but there're a lot of freaking episodes, I'm about half in!)

(The less nerdyones:
6. Go on a bus-date, with anyone (Nothing nerdy in this one
7. Write a shortstory on at least 3 200 words.
8. Buy something totally useless for more than 25 SEK.
9. Run 13 kilometers.
Working on these too!)

2. Get atleast 150 visits on my blog 19/12 2012 (Which were pretty much a piece of cake... o.O reallt thought it would be harder to get it)
(Not nerdy: 10. Write a nice message to someone I used to dislike 17/1 2012 Was fun to get a happy respons from that person)
4. Compete in 5 gaming- or nerdrelated competitions, not only Starcraft tournaments (tried to win an iMac, entered "lessthanthree", blow a kiss - win stuff from Emma Watson, win a wand - Harry Potter obviously :D, The big bang theory - win a plushie) 12/3 2012

Still have halft the year left and I'm trying to make it. I will make it!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

The best song in teh world!

2012-07-05T20:00:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!

Still love it so listen to it lolol!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Online game

2012-07-05T15:28:00.001+02:00

Hey everyone! I found a funny, creative game on armorgames.com that I wanted to share with you. I didn't get it at first but then I found it really innovative and kept going. Gets really tricky after a while. Try it!

http://armorgames.com/play/5910/continuity

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Pictures!

2012-07-01T17:00:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!

I've been holding on for so long to show you videos and pictures I've taken with my phone. Unfortenately they won't appear here. My phone is still on repair and won't come back until like a week or something. Hopefully all pictures are left otherwise I'll just have to take new ones and have something else to show you!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Spyro

2012-07-01T14:00:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!

Since yes is still leading over no in the poll I'm continuing to search for Spyro everywhere. I still haven't gotten a hold of it but I want you to know I'm still trying to find it! ;)

Gnbth
Bye guys!

Follow me by email!

2012-07-01T12:50:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!

Something that I find annoying is when you're on a site you really like and you have to bookmark it, and then it's gone within all 500 bookmarks, then you have to remember the site by yourself anyway and things just feel bad. I don't want anyone here to feel like that and that's why you can follow my blog by email. Just scroll down to the bottom and enter you mail!

Since I know how many people's visiting my blog each month I'm not afraid to say that there must be one or two that's here at least 5 times a week and I think you would at least enjoy the "follow by mail"-feature.

Please subscribe!

Gnbth
Bye guys!

HuskyStarcraft

2012-06-30T17:57:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!

Husky, who is a StarCraft caster for those of you who didn't know (also a member of Nerd Alert and youtube-video-maker/uploader), has started to play Pokemon blue and uploading it to youtube. It's really funny to watch since Pokemon is so great but also it's funnier than playing yourselves with the commentary he gives.
He started a while ago so if you're interested in watching there'll be more episodes than the one here below! Watch him if you like this one, he's funny!

Gnbth
Bye guys!