Wednesday, December 31, 2014

My year in reveiw

It's time for something I have never done before I will talk about all the great things I did this year:
  • Heritage Night -  some of you may know that I have been doing a series of events for the game Myst Online. In the events I talk about interesting things that tock place in the games past. It was a lot of fun this year and I think participants had a great time too. I tried to have interesting special guests or re-create what people saw in the past by hacking the game.(which is allowed within certurn guidelines)
  • Saw friends - it is allways a good thing to have some freinds over and this year we did some very fun things. 
  • Camera club scanvindger hunt - This summer I went to a farm for the camera club BBQ. Photographing animals is always fun but this year we had to find all the letters of the alphabet. We had to be very creative with the shoot and so much so the person organizing the photos had trouble knowing what some of them where. I had some very creative shoots. Last year(2013) we had to shoot specific items and I had the most creative photo. I tried to do that again but someone outdid me by finding objects which where shaped like the letter rather then starting with it. Oh well can't win em all :( 
  • 3-way "ghost" chess - I found this four way chess set at a thrift store here in town. I have used it at my birthday parties for the last couple of years. Unfochelty only three friends could attend this year so we made a verryent of the game playable by thee-players dubbed '3-way ghost chess'. There are three players and 1 'ghost', the 'ghost pieces are controlled by the losing player(by material). It was a fascinating game and I will organizing another game of it or 4-way chess next year. However I have a lot of friends who aren't a big fan of chess and for my next birthday party we will do something that includes them as well.
  • Give out candy - At halloween I dressed as Scott Prigram(from the comics) and gave out candy. It was raining(again) so I diden't see as many people as a might have but hay I did see Mario and Sonic :). 
  •  Pathfinder - A couple months ago a new store opened here in town.(the hooded goblin). They have regular games of 'pathfinder' a pen and paper RPG based on the rules of D&D 3.5. It's very fun and now play it regularly. 
  • Crstamss - On December 1st I thought it was going to be a great Cristmass and it was. I went to this Christmas festival on main street, there was a housr-drawn carrage, a drummer, a nutcracker on sticks and a grinch. There was also a Santa(kids cover your eyes) played by my ventures leader Steve Norman. I went to a camra club Cristmass party and had stuffed pork telderline. Finally for Cristmass I got a Steam(video game download service) gift card, McMaster meats gift card, 2 graphic novels, 'Fawlty Towers' on DVD  and a new wallet.
  • 12 Days Of Cristmass scanner hunt - I invented and suggested a scavenger hunt for the club too do. Participants had to capture the 12 days of Christmas in whatever way they could. For example I put French hats on a picture of 3 hens and called it '3 French hens'. This is a lot of fun and next year(2015) I will see the results of everyone's work. 
  • Tonight - my plain for tonight is to watch some Wallace and Grommet DVDs and then turn on CBC for '22 Minutes till midnight' who should have a countdown and probably some prity funny sketches. Oh yes and I've already finished watching 'Fawlty Towers' since it's 'that good'! 
My next post will be in the new year where I will talk about events that will take place in 2015. Hint: I 'ranted' about one of them allready this year.

Oh and freel free to check out this years post, they may be few of them but I think they are interesting none the less. 

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Lara Croft Vs Indinia Jones

I've been playing some Tomb Raider games lately. I thought I could compare Lara Croft to Indiana Jones since I believe that is the character She is based on. 

Lara:
- Is more attractive but less realistic body size. I'm not a fan of this. For one thing it looks silly to see her push around hevy boxes with skinny little arms. (eh + 2 points)

-Gets a grapple which she can use to pull metal objects towards her and pull herself towards metal objects.(depending on how whether She or the object is hever. In other words it's a more realistic hook-shot[from Zelda](+ 10 points)

-Is now owned by Square Enix(+ 5 points)

Indiana:

-Seems much too old for what he's doing. In the game "India Jones and the emperor's tomb" he pants every time he lands are jump or comes out of watter and I feel like he will have a heart attack at any moment.(- 2 points, since he is not that bad in the movies)

-Has a cool hat and jacket(+ 5 points)

-Has a wipe which doubles as a rope. It hardly needs an explanation(+ 10 points)

-It a more likeable character(+ 10 points)

-Is now owned by Disney(-/+ 10 points depending on what they do with him)

India wins!