A great game that I discovered a week ago is Gunman Clive. It originally started as an ios game and was very popular. It slowly made its way to Android and it has done pretty well. Its a great smooth game that is well worth the 2 dollars you'll have to drop to get it. It starts off as a quest to get your girl back from bandits and leads you around the beautiful 3D sketch world. Its a very long game but well worth the time and effort. Truth be told I haven't finished it but I will conquer it one day. The animation reminds me of games like Vietiful joe and borderlands. Great game. Its available for both iOS and android and should be on everyone's phone as it is sure to be liked by the hardcore gamer and casual gamer alike.
here's the link: Android and iOS
And here is my video review
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Review of the Marvels comic app on the android play store
So not too long ago Marvel revamped their android comic app and I have fallen in love with it. I was never a huge collector of comics as a kid because my parents didn't believe in allowances but in recent years comics have grown on me. Luckily the android app applies to everyone wheter they love comics or are new to them. When you first open the app you are presented with a well organized store. Sections include story arcs, and a whole section for those who are new to comics. Marvel has been on a role lately with keeping up with the times and you can really tell that they spent a lot of time and money on this app. It is buttery smooth and very fast. Other categories in the store include featured, just added, popular and free. The free section actually surprised me with the quality of the comics in this section. One the gems hidden in there is the first original avengers which made me very happy.
The thing that surprised me the most was the features while reading the comics. You can try to read the comic in overview but if you double tap on the panels you switch to a panel by panel scrolling method that is genius. If you don't believe me just try it out yourself. You'll be required to create a marvel account but there are plenty of free comics that make it worth it.
Here's my video review if you don't feel like reading.
The thing that surprised me the most was the features while reading the comics. You can try to read the comic in overview but if you double tap on the panels you switch to a panel by panel scrolling method that is genius. If you don't believe me just try it out yourself. You'll be required to create a marvel account but there are plenty of free comics that make it worth it.
Here's my video review if you don't feel like reading.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Sweet cover by Noah
So I've never heard of this guy until today but he does some good covers on youtube. Here is the link for his newest cover of LMFAO sexy and I know it. Great stuff thought I would share. His voice blows me away and I wish a genie would come and offer me a voice like that.
Jurassic Park. Movie or Book?
So its one in the morning and I made the mistake of drinking a coca cola at nine and caffeine screws me up. I think its time to post my thoughts on Jurassic park book vs. movie. I know I'm a little late on the bandwagon but JP was one of the most influential movies for my childhood. Other then it being terrifying for an 8 year old it came a point in my life where the desire of my heart was to dig up dinosaur bones. Recently I got hired as a part time janitor at a medical building after hours. Luckily nobody cares if I have earphones in my ears the entire night and I've been trying to catch up on the books I have always wanted to read. I've read other Micheal Critchton novels like timeline and prey but jurassic park was always too long for me. So I got it in audio book from audible and decided to dive in.
First off lets talk about the movie. Yeah its a spoiler alert here but I figure everyone has seen the movie and since its been a few years I'll try and refresh your memory. The basic plot is that a dinosaur expert named Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) visits the brain child of an eccentric billionaire (John Hammond, Richard Attenborough) whose dream is to ressurect the dinosaurs no matter the consequences. Dr. Grant and his assistant (Dr. Ellie Sattler, Laura Dern) along with Hammond's lawyer, a mathematician who specializes in chaos theory (Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum), and 2 grand kids of Hammonds travel to the island to inspect and give the stamp of approval to the theme park. During the tour a computer programmer (Dennis Nedry,Wayne Knight) messes with the security system in an attempt to steal some dino embryos and make some quick cash with them. Unfortunetly for the tourists the system goes down right when Dr Grant, the lawyer, malcom, and the kids reach the most dangerous part of the tour near the T-Rex cage. Combine that with a storm and you get some of the best CGI dinosaur attacks money can buy in 1993. We all know the classic scene of the T-Rex attacking the cars and then heading to the lou to eat the lawyer. Malcolm runs off and Dr Grant and the kids attempt to make it back to the visitor's center, meeting many different dinosaurs and an electric fence along the way. Dr Sattler and other employees (including a young Samuel 'effin L. Jackson) of the park attempt to get the park back to working order by rebooting the system. Eventually they have to venture out into the park to turn the security systems back on. Dr. Grant and the kids make it back to the lodge and the kids go into the kitchen (because kids love food) and Dr Grant heads out and catches up with his assistant. After the kids avoid the raptors in the kitchen everybody heads to the control room to turn the system security back on. Just at the moment when you think they are safe the raptors get in and the group is cornered in the lobby. Lucky for them our old friend T-Rex comes barging in and scares the raptors away. Having just escaped death ten times in the last few hours they are saved by the mainland sending a chopper. Out of the 8 or 9 that entered the island only Dr grant, Hammond, Malcolm, Sattler, and the 2 kids make it just in the nick of time to the chopper and safely head off the island.
Surprisingly the movie was very accurate to the book for a large portion. It actually blew me away how close the movie was to the book. The main difference I found was the motivation of the group on the island. In the movie it was more centered on survival after the security systems go out. The book focuses more upon Mallcoms chaos theory and the implications that cloning dinosaurs causes. The book also paints a better picture of just how crazy Hammond really is. The movie painted the picture of the billionare as a gentle grand-father figure who blew his whole fortune on building the best theme park ever. In the book it is ultimetly hammonds narrow mindedness that leads the the destruction of the island. One of the many ways this happens is that one of the safeguards to keeping the population of the dinos under control fails and leads to the dinos being able to mate and produce offspring in the wild. The main geneticist made sure that every dino in the park was female to stop them from bredding. The problem that occurs is that they use some amphibian DNA to complete the fragmented dino DNA and as everybody knows amphibians sometimes switch genders spontaneously. It's Hammonds ignorance that lets this go undetected for years by believing that everything is taken care of. Although the action sequences involving the dinos in the movie were revolutionary for the time and even now seem realistic, if Spielberg would have include some of the other experiences Dr Grant and the kids encounter it would have been super epic. The biggest difference between the behavior of the T-Rex in the movie and the book is the latter seems to be obsessed with Dr Grant. It follows them all through the island seemingly addicted to trying to eat them. After escaping the rex in the cars the group comes to a river and find a raft in a maintance shed. It seems like all thier troubles are over until they come across thier enemy asleep on the shore. Tensions are high as they attempt to sneak by only to be thwarted by the little girls cough. What follows is an epic chase where we learn that T-Rex can swim. Like any epic river chase should end they come to a waterfall with our good buddy T-Rex waiting for the group to topple over. The group goes down the waterfall and finds a hidden maintenance shed and are saved only by pure luck when the tranquilizer put into the T-Rex an hour ago takes effect at the right moment. There are many other awesome experiences they have including an encounter with pterodactyl and those nasty poison spitting dinos. Just imagine how much more awesome it would have been... But then again it would have been at least another hour tacked onto the movie not to mention the millions of dollars to shoot those scenes. I won't spoil the ending of the book for you but I'll just say that only 4 make it off the island. So that's my analysis. Yeah that's about it. Overall a great book and surprisingly accurate movie. It would sure be cool to have one of those baby dinos though... Wonder how much that would cost?
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First off lets talk about the movie. Yeah its a spoiler alert here but I figure everyone has seen the movie and since its been a few years I'll try and refresh your memory. The basic plot is that a dinosaur expert named Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) visits the brain child of an eccentric billionaire (John Hammond, Richard Attenborough) whose dream is to ressurect the dinosaurs no matter the consequences. Dr. Grant and his assistant (Dr. Ellie Sattler, Laura Dern) along with Hammond's lawyer, a mathematician who specializes in chaos theory (Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum), and 2 grand kids of Hammonds travel to the island to inspect and give the stamp of approval to the theme park. During the tour a computer programmer (Dennis Nedry,Wayne Knight) messes with the security system in an attempt to steal some dino embryos and make some quick cash with them. Unfortunetly for the tourists the system goes down right when Dr Grant, the lawyer, malcom, and the kids reach the most dangerous part of the tour near the T-Rex cage. Combine that with a storm and you get some of the best CGI dinosaur attacks money can buy in 1993. We all know the classic scene of the T-Rex attacking the cars and then heading to the lou to eat the lawyer. Malcolm runs off and Dr Grant and the kids attempt to make it back to the visitor's center, meeting many different dinosaurs and an electric fence along the way. Dr Sattler and other employees (including a young Samuel 'effin L. Jackson) of the park attempt to get the park back to working order by rebooting the system. Eventually they have to venture out into the park to turn the security systems back on. Dr. Grant and the kids make it back to the lodge and the kids go into the kitchen (because kids love food) and Dr Grant heads out and catches up with his assistant. After the kids avoid the raptors in the kitchen everybody heads to the control room to turn the system security back on. Just at the moment when you think they are safe the raptors get in and the group is cornered in the lobby. Lucky for them our old friend T-Rex comes barging in and scares the raptors away. Having just escaped death ten times in the last few hours they are saved by the mainland sending a chopper. Out of the 8 or 9 that entered the island only Dr grant, Hammond, Malcolm, Sattler, and the 2 kids make it just in the nick of time to the chopper and safely head off the island.
Surprisingly the movie was very accurate to the book for a large portion. It actually blew me away how close the movie was to the book. The main difference I found was the motivation of the group on the island. In the movie it was more centered on survival after the security systems go out. The book focuses more upon Mallcoms chaos theory and the implications that cloning dinosaurs causes. The book also paints a better picture of just how crazy Hammond really is. The movie painted the picture of the billionare as a gentle grand-father figure who blew his whole fortune on building the best theme park ever. In the book it is ultimetly hammonds narrow mindedness that leads the the destruction of the island. One of the many ways this happens is that one of the safeguards to keeping the population of the dinos under control fails and leads to the dinos being able to mate and produce offspring in the wild. The main geneticist made sure that every dino in the park was female to stop them from bredding. The problem that occurs is that they use some amphibian DNA to complete the fragmented dino DNA and as everybody knows amphibians sometimes switch genders spontaneously. It's Hammonds ignorance that lets this go undetected for years by believing that everything is taken care of. Although the action sequences involving the dinos in the movie were revolutionary for the time and even now seem realistic, if Spielberg would have include some of the other experiences Dr Grant and the kids encounter it would have been super epic. The biggest difference between the behavior of the T-Rex in the movie and the book is the latter seems to be obsessed with Dr Grant. It follows them all through the island seemingly addicted to trying to eat them. After escaping the rex in the cars the group comes to a river and find a raft in a maintance shed. It seems like all thier troubles are over until they come across thier enemy asleep on the shore. Tensions are high as they attempt to sneak by only to be thwarted by the little girls cough. What follows is an epic chase where we learn that T-Rex can swim. Like any epic river chase should end they come to a waterfall with our good buddy T-Rex waiting for the group to topple over. The group goes down the waterfall and finds a hidden maintenance shed and are saved only by pure luck when the tranquilizer put into the T-Rex an hour ago takes effect at the right moment. There are many other awesome experiences they have including an encounter with pterodactyl and those nasty poison spitting dinos. Just imagine how much more awesome it would have been... But then again it would have been at least another hour tacked onto the movie not to mention the millions of dollars to shoot those scenes. I won't spoil the ending of the book for you but I'll just say that only 4 make it off the island. So that's my analysis. Yeah that's about it. Overall a great book and surprisingly accurate movie. It would sure be cool to have one of those baby dinos though... Wonder how much that would cost?
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
St. Louis is officially the coolest place to live now
So this morning I was reading the news online and came across this. Yeah that's right St. Louis is the new record keeper of the largest chess piece in the world. There are so many fun things here in st Louis and many of them are free. It has always been my dream to make a life size chess set. Seriously its number one on my bucket list and has been for a few years. I love chess but not many people ever want to play with me more then once. I hardly ever use a strategy and I try never to repeat any patterns which bugs a lot of people. Currently I'm working on building a vertical chess set like this one. Yeah I love chess.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
My new favorite wallpaper
It express a certain beauty and innocence. Even though I am allergic to cats I still like cat pictures which is a dangerous interest when I go on reddit. So many hours lost...
Finally started a blog. Lets see if I can keep this up
Well I'm pretty sure I am a super late comer when it comes to blogs but I have so much rattling in my brain that I need to talk. It kind of feels like shouting into a ravine you know is empty but hey if it kills time and helps me make money I might as well try it out. First a little about myself. I'm currently 22 years old and live in Arnold, MO (near St. Louis) and I am currently in college working on a degree in computer science in network management. I am an active and avid member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (yes the Mormons) but I don't want this blog to be about that. Of course it is a huge part of my life but its more a part of me then a topic for discussion. It's going to be hard to list all of my interests but essentially I'm a movie addict and certified nerd or geek whatever you want to call it. I guess you'll find out more about me by the stuff I post here.
Anywho Portal 2 just finished downloading on steam so I must attend to it. I love their mid week sales.
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Anywho Portal 2 just finished downloading on steam so I must attend to it. I love their mid week sales.
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