In 1972 Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell asked an engineer named Allan Alcorn to create a simple game people might play in bars for American quarters.
Mr. Alcorn did, and set it up in a local tavern. Soon, though, it broke down.
What went wrong? When Alcorn looked, the answer was clear. Nothing. Players couldn't stop. They had poured in quarters until the machine jammed.
Alcorn had invented ...
Pong.
Pong was one of the worlds first video game to reach mainstream audiences, it has received a cult status and is still played worldwide in many different forms ranging from the original Home Pong console to computer emulators to new versions on the ios platform.
From its beginning the video games industry has only grown in fact since 2005, the industry has grown eight times faster than the US economy. In 2011, the American video game industry says it Recorded $25 billion in sales.
This has led for times to change, recently the US declared that the athlete visa applicable to athletes entering the US to participate in a competition, should also apply to people entering the US for a video game competition, this means that competitors from foreign countries can come in and dominate any American competition. It also shows the beginning of video games as a recognized sport. It also allows the countries competitive scene to expand rapidly.
Call me a optimist but in the future I see an American video game culture similar to that of south korea (the nice one) who make a game called Starcraft a national televised sport who has a massive video game culture in basically all games that come onto the market.
People tend to think of video games a small group of people are misguided and ill informed, it rising form of new media that receives a lot of bad press from the old guard of television and newspapers that are losing ground to newer forms of entertainment.
Links to really interesting article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0318/Video-game-nation-Why-so-many-play
Monday, 29 July 2013
Sunday, 21 July 2013
Poem about a girl (Poem #2)
This is a poem I wrote about a girl its probably the best poem I've ever written.
I spent a long time on it & I think it is pretty good (even though she deserves better) the Poem is currently censored with her name where the brackets saying (Girls name) should be.
Also I have done the same in not disclosing whether her hair is dyed or natural colour & also what colour it is. Hope you enjoy it none the less. :)
I spent a long time on it & I think it is pretty good (even though she deserves better) the Poem is currently censored with her name where the brackets saying (Girls name) should be.
Also I have done the same in not disclosing whether her hair is dyed or natural colour & also what colour it is. Hope you enjoy it none the less. :)
How the church declares saints through Canonization.
Canonization is the process in the catholic church where a
person is declared a saint it is a 4 step process that works somewhat like
this.
1. -Servant Of God- The person is question is declared a "servant
of god" this is a rigorous process that can only begin at least 5 years
after the person has died it involves research into their lives/writings a complete
biography being published and exhumation of their body to check for any discrepancies.
2.- Veneration- Then a person after being declared a servant
of god can be declared "Venerable/Heroic in Virtue" this is where the
person in question has shown heroic virtues. This means the person has shown
the virtues of faith, hope and charity, and the cardinal virtues of prudence,
justice, fortitude and temperance, to a heroic degree. even still at this point
the church makes no statement as to whether the person in question has made an assertion
into heaven.
3.- Beatification- The person then goes though the process of
becoming "Blessed" this is where either the person gave their life
voluntarily for the faith and/or in an act of heroic charity for others, or
that the person had performed at least one miracle in their time. While this
definition of a "miracle" can (and probably had been) exploited it is
meant to show that the person has experienced the true vision of god thus god
has responded to his/her prayers by performing act that cannot be explained through
natural methods.
4.- Saint- "saint" the ultimate honour the church
can bestow this has to include two more miracles after that of beatification
and after the persons death, it shows a complete certainty of the church that
the saint enjoys the Beatific Vision. A feast day is assigned to the saint and
churches may be built in their honour also the faithful may freely and without
restriction celebrate and honour the saint.
The order can be shown by this:
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonized
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_God
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Saturday, 13 July 2013
Part2 No Sleep For Me (The Russian Sleepy Experiment)
Part 2
10:15am till 11:30am Watch you tube videos.
11:30am till 12:01pm Edit a comic then become overwhelmed by
sleepiness.
12:01pm till 12:15pm Collapse on sofa in heap.
12:15pm till 4:30pm
Sleep on sofa experiment comes to a end at this point. (I managed to stay awake
for 22 hours)
4:30pm till 5:00pm usual waking up routine
5:00pm till 5:30pm draw this to a close by finishing to
write about it then posting it to my blog.
Conclusion: we do need sleep as I'm felling pretty darn cranky without having proper amounts of it.
Part1 No Sleep For Me (The Russian Sleepy Experiment)
Codename: The Russian Sleepy Experiment
A test to see whether I actually need sleep or if it is just
a massive waste of time.
The background is I waste a lot of time just in bed &
like my farther I fine waking up in the mornings a hard challenge
Start of day 12.07.13
Woke up at 1:30pm stayed in bed till 2pm listening to mother
nagging dad because she went behind his back to buy something he told her that
he couldn't afford (somehow it was his thought for her buying it).
2:15pm till 3pm Got dressed (usual morning routine) ate
breakfast/lunch forgotten what it was.
3pm till 4:30pm Watched videos online mainly gaming news.
4:30pm till 7:00pm Tweeted saw about the previous Yorkshire
Tea post got excited, gloated online & praised by parents also blogged
about it, set up printer with dad.
7:00pm till 9:00pm Played Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood with
my dad.
9:00pm till 10:30pm read about the Assassin's Creed lore in
great detail.
10:30pm till 11:00pm Couldn't log onto Gmail as it was
updating my inbox so watched videos in the meantime.
11:00pm till 3:00am Played Minecraft in which a Redstone
facility was completed in the wrong place & HEROBRINE *thunderbolt* caused
a one in a billion glitch where we got a copy of an epic map.
3:00am till 3:30am Umm.. internet.
3:30am till 4:30am mainly checking up twitter then when that
was done I looked up some stuff about Alan Whicker mainly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn8Pua5rhj4
& http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhwnsv56m8&feature=youtu.be
4:30am till 6:00am Played Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood with
my dad.
6:00am till 7:30am Decided to start this
"experiment" where I don't go to sleep for anyone who could be
bothered you might have guessed the codename was a play on the Russian sleep
experiment creepypasta if you got the reference then PRAISE!
7:30am till 10:15am Try uploading an image to blogger and
fail :( generally just dick around listen to music & watch a BBC thing on
history of Scotland before finishing part 1 of this!
Friday, 12 July 2013
Yorkshire Tea best free tea!
I just asked a question to Yorkshire Tea on twitter and they are going to send me some tea! Sometimes having the cheek to ask is all you need! :) (Sorry for quality of picture)
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
A comic I made! Comic#1
The best comic also will upload any more that I make and as this is not know but many people I know some more personal/controversial (by this I mean ones I don't want anyone I know seeing) ones I'm working on.
Google AdSense Yes or No
I've recently been considering getting Google Adsence for my
Blog, as I seem to have been getting a greater number of page views than I
expected & I could always use the pennies (TENS of rupees) I've "earned"
to buy Twix bars.
The only questions I have are as to whether I have control
over the ads (I don't particularly want video ads or for dating websites)dreading
the thought of seeing Single Muslim (com) anywhere near my blog.
Yes to AdSense
1.I like the sound of money for something I was going to do
anyway
2.I can chose where to put the ads (at bottom out of the
way)
3. AdSense is already set up to work with Blogger in a supposedly
"Just one click away system"
4. Money
5.MONEY!!! $$££$$££₹₹
No to AdSense
1.Looking into it there appears to be a lot of hatred from
the users of AdSense towards it.
2.Aparently it makes readers leave the site & if they
are here might as well keep them here I mean I have sooo much "interesting"
content
3.Getting approved first is hard
4.For a little guy like me (small IRL as well) the profits
are probably miniscule
5.If I got banned there would be no way for me to ever get
it back
6. hate the mere idea of my words being near some types of
ads *shivers*
7. They seem to be trigger happy with the "ban"
button
8.There appears to be other alternatives that could be
better options
9. I mustn't plagiarise content probably the worst possible
one for me as I would love to share pictures YouTube videos etc. also I can't
write all these posts myself (I didn't come up with this list all on my alone)
I Googled some stuff first and you can find some of the links at the bottom.
10. OIO Publisher seems recommended but I'll be very
cautious in anything before I commit to it (just like a women, job, education
or writing a blog).
Conclusion:
AdSense seems to have its drawbacks I will look into ads in
the future but not right now.
Also as promised in (9.)the links I was talking about.
Links:
http://allbloggingtips.com/2013/03/08/why-i-hate-adsense/
http://www.trickytechs.com/how-to-keep-google-adsense-account-safe/
http://shibashake.hubpages.com/hub/Banned-from-Google-AdSense-Common-Reasons-How
http://allbloggingtips.com/2012/09/20/tips-to-quickly-sell-ad-spaces/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense
http://www.youtube.com/user/InsideAdSense/videos
http://www.oiopublisher.com/
Monday, 8 July 2013
Fun Facts about The Moon, Historical cultural beliefs & Periods!
It used to be widely considered that the phases of the moon
(one cycle being a month) could affect the personality and behaviours of both humans & animals this was dubbed the
"Lunar effect" and is where the word lunatic comes from.
It used to be believed that people became more violent
during a full moon, to the extent that this effect is still reported today. This
is probably observed due to confirmation bias as a full moon is more likely to
be noticed in accordance with an significant event than when there is no moon or
it is in a different phase, the person once noticing the moons phase happening coincidentally
with the event then assumes a link (post hoc ergo propter hoc).
These beliefs were propagated
through stories about supernatural & mythical creatures, even though their existence
seems silly to us they were widely held as fact for example: werewolves shape shift every full moon,
vampires are unaffected even empowered or healed by moon light where as
sunlight is lethally dangerous to them & witches can only cast certain
spells at a full moon.
One of the
main reasons people considered the lunar effect as fact was that the monthly
cycle of the moon would appear to be directly in accordance with women's menstrual
cycles (average of 28 days). This was believed to such an extent that some
authors believed in traditional societies without night lighting women ovulated
with the full moon and menstruated with the new moon one recommending that people
trying to conceive should try on the full moon. Today it is commonly believed
that the moon and human menstrual cycle having similar time scales is purely by
coincidence.
Most mammals
(I can count the number of exceptions on my hands) have some type of fertility
cycle humans & chimpanzees (our most common ancestor) along with a few
other primates are the only ones who exhibit a true menstrual cycle in which
the lining & *awkward cough* blood are released, mammals experience an estrous
cycle in which the lining is reabsorbed (probably to conserve the otherwise
lost proteins but can leave areas less fertile unless fully absorbed) by the
animal, the average duration of a cycle varies per species.
The word "menstruation" can be seen to be derived
from the moon. The terms "menstruation" and "menses" are
derived from the Latin "mensis" (month), which in turn relates to the
Greek "mene" (moon) and to the roots of the English words month and
moon.
No evidence has been found in multiple stringent scientific
tests/analysis of the lunar effect. Most explanations given to try &
theorise the individuals beliefs are based entirely on pseudo-science. One of
the main reasons given is the moon exhibits a tidal force (like the one on our oceans)
on our bodies though these theories faille to see due to the inverse square law
of intensity the gravitation effect of the moon on such a small body of mass
like our bodies is about equal to that of a mosquito landing on our skin.
Another reason given is that positive ions build up closer to a full moon,
however the difference is far less than ions caused by air conditioning or air pollution
and ion build up positive or negative does not effect human behaviour other
than static shocks.
Wow reading this makes me think I should have done an EPQ
hope you enjoyed a dive into some of the random stuff I have in my brain also I
must say thanks to Wikipedia for quite a lot of the stuff I didn't know about
the menstrual cycle (the one bit of GCSE science I didn't want to listen too).
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Women Bishops
I've made my conclusions and found that it is ridiculous that women can be ordained as priests but not bishops. They should also be able to be bishops the consecration of women is already practiced in Australia, Canada & the United States of America, so why not the UK?
Thursday, 4 July 2013
New Blog!
My new unoriginal blog! Now I can record all my deepest most darkest thoughts with no fear that anyone will read it! :)
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