After about three months of not doing so.
Granted it is not the longest I have been away from my audience, but I feel bad just the same. So an update is in order.
I am in my junior year at university, and am now taking classes to satisfy my writing minor, like the one I stated above. I am also participating in the school's newspaper, which was published this week with my first article! Go check it out if you are on campus. Also in my life, I have acquired an Avermedia Live Gamer Capture Card Portable. This handy gadget allows me to capture game play and post it on YouTube or stream on Twitch. So check out my profile and watch as I will hopefully be streaming a bit this weekend as I work my way through FarCry 3.
In other news, I am now living in an on campus apartment, so for the first time I have my own room to sleep in. I share the apartment with three other guys, and so far it has worked out great. I also am going to pursue a career in environmental law, so LSAT here I come!
But today I really wanted to talk about writing. As many of my dedicated followers know, I do not post very frequently. This is due to me not getting around to it, and I am sorry for that. This semester, I really want to buckle down on some things, and hopefully some of you can help me out. I plan on practicing the LSAT on weekends so I can be accepted to law school. I am also going to be cracking down on studying to raise my GPA (you're welcome mom and dad). And I plan on spending more time blogging. Hopefully these updates will occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays every week. If you have something you want me to talk about, I encourage you to comment below.
Now on to something a little more light hearted.
I am addicted to Rooster Teeth's RWBY series. It is a fantastic series of four girls training to become monster hunters and protect the kingdom they live in. It is in it's second volume, and the episodes are only fifteen minutes at most. Check it out here and be sure to hit up new episodes premiering Thursdays at 7.
I have also never gone in depth with what is now my favorite video game series ever. I know that is a bold claim, but bear with me.
Mass Effect is epic. I cannot get enough of it. If you haven't explored the galaxy and universe created by BioWare, check it out. And start with number one. I know many people say you can skip ahead to the second installment of the trilogy, but you lose significant story and build, as well as not being able to ease into the universe. It also allows one to appreciate where the series had came from and what happened to it in the consecutive games. My favorite game of the series is definitely the second one. It includes better control over your character, Commander Shepard, and has simplified many UI functions from the first Mass Effect. However, the first game has the best story of the series. The plot is winding and allows one to explore the galaxy with new eyes, and interactions lead to different systems and quests.
Why am I bringing this up? Because I do a lot of talk about gaming here, or movies, and an insight into what I like to play puts a little bit of faith into me.
So Mass Effect would be my favorite series, but what about and individual game? That would be Battlefield 3. I sank so many hours into that game's online, and I do not regret a minute of it. The UI is very blue (distracting for the newcomers), but navigable and quickly adaptable. I think I almost broke my Back button on the controller because I spammed it so much. The weapons feel real and sound authentic, not the carbon copy feeling I get when I play Call of Duty. And you get to control vehicles, which means you can roll up in a tank on a position, or fly overhead in a helicopter or jet.
The other great part of Battlefield is the team work. Two summers ago I teamed up with some friends in a squad. We talked strategy during the entire match, and complemented eachother's game styles perfectly. I got more fun out of playing with people who communicated in a team than I every got by myself. Our favorite gamemode was Rush, a plant the bomb objective. I won't brag about how well we did or didn't do, but I am very happy of our results.
Another game that I said I would be talking about is Civilization V. If at all possible, go get the game for your PC or Mac. Civ is a turn based strategy game in which you build an empire in the world. There are real-world civilizations to play as, each with their own modifiers, but you are in control of what will happen. Want to make American a Communist government, go ahead. Denmark is now a dictatorship with a nuclear military? Fantastic.
In the game, you collect resources that are to be used for military build up or to keep citizens in your country happy. Games last until unless a condition of victory is met, if one does not play with a limiting amount of turns. I am really enjoying playing as the English right now, and they have major modifiers through the middle and industrial ages. I have played as the Russians before, who have more variability through the entire game (stone age to modern age), but their build up of resources and cities has slowed me down in some games. And avoid Gandhi. The Indians have a rapid expansion modifier, making them crank out settler units and new cities constantly. Plus Gandhi NEVER likes your civilization, and usually turns everyone against you.
That about wraps it up this week. As usual, please comment below, check out my Facebook page.
Until next time.
But today I really wanted to talk about writing. As many of my dedicated followers know, I do not post very frequently. This is due to me not getting around to it, and I am sorry for that. This semester, I really want to buckle down on some things, and hopefully some of you can help me out. I plan on practicing the LSAT on weekends so I can be accepted to law school. I am also going to be cracking down on studying to raise my GPA (you're welcome mom and dad). And I plan on spending more time blogging. Hopefully these updates will occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays every week. If you have something you want me to talk about, I encourage you to comment below.
Now on to something a little more light hearted.
I am addicted to Rooster Teeth's RWBY series. It is a fantastic series of four girls training to become monster hunters and protect the kingdom they live in. It is in it's second volume, and the episodes are only fifteen minutes at most. Check it out here and be sure to hit up new episodes premiering Thursdays at 7.
I have also never gone in depth with what is now my favorite video game series ever. I know that is a bold claim, but bear with me.
Mass Effect is epic. I cannot get enough of it. If you haven't explored the galaxy and universe created by BioWare, check it out. And start with number one. I know many people say you can skip ahead to the second installment of the trilogy, but you lose significant story and build, as well as not being able to ease into the universe. It also allows one to appreciate where the series had came from and what happened to it in the consecutive games. My favorite game of the series is definitely the second one. It includes better control over your character, Commander Shepard, and has simplified many UI functions from the first Mass Effect. However, the first game has the best story of the series. The plot is winding and allows one to explore the galaxy with new eyes, and interactions lead to different systems and quests.
Why am I bringing this up? Because I do a lot of talk about gaming here, or movies, and an insight into what I like to play puts a little bit of faith into me.
So Mass Effect would be my favorite series, but what about and individual game? That would be Battlefield 3. I sank so many hours into that game's online, and I do not regret a minute of it. The UI is very blue (distracting for the newcomers), but navigable and quickly adaptable. I think I almost broke my Back button on the controller because I spammed it so much. The weapons feel real and sound authentic, not the carbon copy feeling I get when I play Call of Duty. And you get to control vehicles, which means you can roll up in a tank on a position, or fly overhead in a helicopter or jet.
The other great part of Battlefield is the team work. Two summers ago I teamed up with some friends in a squad. We talked strategy during the entire match, and complemented eachother's game styles perfectly. I got more fun out of playing with people who communicated in a team than I every got by myself. Our favorite gamemode was Rush, a plant the bomb objective. I won't brag about how well we did or didn't do, but I am very happy of our results.
Another game that I said I would be talking about is Civilization V. If at all possible, go get the game for your PC or Mac. Civ is a turn based strategy game in which you build an empire in the world. There are real-world civilizations to play as, each with their own modifiers, but you are in control of what will happen. Want to make American a Communist government, go ahead. Denmark is now a dictatorship with a nuclear military? Fantastic.
In the game, you collect resources that are to be used for military build up or to keep citizens in your country happy. Games last until unless a condition of victory is met, if one does not play with a limiting amount of turns. I am really enjoying playing as the English right now, and they have major modifiers through the middle and industrial ages. I have played as the Russians before, who have more variability through the entire game (stone age to modern age), but their build up of resources and cities has slowed me down in some games. And avoid Gandhi. The Indians have a rapid expansion modifier, making them crank out settler units and new cities constantly. Plus Gandhi NEVER likes your civilization, and usually turns everyone against you.
That about wraps it up this week. As usual, please comment below, check out my Facebook page.
Until next time.
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