From black and gloomy to something a tad bit more cheerful and well... happy. Decided that I'm a little too old to always be looking and dressing in dark tones. First step to being happy and zen is ensuring that things around me are equally as happy and zen, thus the change in the colour scheme.
Still trying to figure out something for the banner. Stay tuned for the final tweaks and happy gaming!
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Thursday, 25 July 2013
#NEWKICKS - Battle Camp!
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| If you're on Battle Camp too, look for me! |
So this is actually a pretty old app on the iPhone. The concept and premise of the game is pretty much similar to Pokemon. You have a creature and then eventually have more creatures battling other creatures. There are missions and quests you complete to get more experience, stones that help you evolve and level your creatures up and even get your energy refilled.
Like most MMORP-ish and time-centric games on the iPhone, you have 5 lightning bolt energy thingies that are necessary when battling monsters or even completing quests. And like all games that follow this concept, you can either wait for your energy to be refilled or spend some money on refuelling your energy.
You can also spin a lucky wheel, depending on how much money you're willing to shell out, to try and get some rare, super, ultra or even epic creatures that are of course, a lot more powerful, rare and prettier to look at it. It's the thing that basically drove me and the boyfriend nuts. Because it's all up to chance, you may spend 50 gold coins spinning and end up with more crap creatures than anything of value. The boyfriend had never heard me scream in so much anguish when I kept getting common and (honestly they're not special at all) special creatures.
The fun part of course is battling and completing quests. If you're part of a troop, you get to participate in raids and win trophies and some goodies for the team. There's also a troop pet that everyone helps to sort of look after and level up.
From time to time, the developers come up with global events. The most recent being the awakening of a villain creature known as the Bearzebub. The event lasted 5 days, allowing players to battle Bearzebub and his brother, Ursulot, to get trophies for their troops or light creatures to help with evolving their own creatures.
Trophies are points for a ranking system. The more trophies you have both as an individual and as a troop, the higher up the ranks you are.
This game is addictive. Unfortunately, I got the boyfriend equally addicted to this game. Spent slightly under $100 for gold coins to try and get super/ultra/epic creatures (only managed to get one, boyfriend was lucky enough to win an epic grrr).
The graphics are adorable and pretty and the comments you sometimes see from the NPCs are quite the gem. There are references to other games and other pop culture which is why I find myself sometimes giggling and smiling before I head into battle.
I'd say that Battle Camp has succeeded in being one of the top iPhone games. A lot of people are asking for it to come out on Android too. The only problem I have is that unless I add my boyfriend as a friend on Battle Camp, I can't see him or battle him. We can be in the same place but I guess because we're on different servers (how does that work anyway?), we can't see each other. If that made sense.
You can download it from the App store (link) and have a go at it yourself. Enjoy!
#GAMERHEALTH - Tension Headaches
I used to think that I had migraines. These throbbing sensations in my skull. Each time I moved it jars everything, feels as if someone's giving me a lobotomy. I just hope that it's not some zombie infection that's slowly spreading across my brain. That would suck.
What are tension headaches and if you're like me and been suffering from it the greater portion of your adult life, how can it be solved or cured or prevented?
Tension Headaches
They're basically the most common of headaches (so much for thinking it was something a lot more serious).It can basically start from the base of your neck or near your eye, wears and even other parts of your body. It feels like there's pressure on your head and can happen simultaneously on both sides of the head. So it explains why sometimes I just wish I could knock myself out just so the pain will stop. The pain can vary from mild, moderate and even severe. I have chronic tension headaches which explains why most of my medication always indicates 'for severe pain'. No one ever understands or registers that these tension headaches can be really really painful and sometimes even debilitating.
Causes of a Tension Headache
1. Stress
2. Lack of sleep
3. Uncomfortable and stressful position and/or bad posture
4. Irregular meal times
5. Eyestrain
Treating Tension Headaches
It's easy enough to just get painkillers to stop the pain and it's basically what the doctors will prescribe you anyway. I haven't yet tried massage, it was recommended by some websites. I think some basic stretching of your neck to get the blood circulation really helps. I suppose the only way to treat a tension headache is to do your best to avoid it. The usual things such as not spending too much time on the computer and if you do, remember to take some breaks and do a couple of eye exercises/massages. The strain from your eyes is one of the causes of tension headaches as well.
Not forgetting getting enough sleep, meditating (or learning how to prioritize your schedule so that you don't get overstressed with the crazy amount of work you have to clear), eating proper (not just at the right time but the right food is essential as well) and improving your posture.
Hope this helps. Just recovered from a stupid tension headache that was driving me nuts for the past two days and what can I say? Followed my own advice and I'm happy as a lark right now :)
And uhhh before you think that tension headaches go away as easily as they come, they don't. It still takes awhile and some times, some episodes may last as long as a week before they ease up and go away.
What are tension headaches and if you're like me and been suffering from it the greater portion of your adult life, how can it be solved or cured or prevented?
Tension Headaches
They're basically the most common of headaches (so much for thinking it was something a lot more serious).It can basically start from the base of your neck or near your eye, wears and even other parts of your body. It feels like there's pressure on your head and can happen simultaneously on both sides of the head. So it explains why sometimes I just wish I could knock myself out just so the pain will stop. The pain can vary from mild, moderate and even severe. I have chronic tension headaches which explains why most of my medication always indicates 'for severe pain'. No one ever understands or registers that these tension headaches can be really really painful and sometimes even debilitating.
Causes of a Tension Headache
1. Stress
2. Lack of sleep
3. Uncomfortable and stressful position and/or bad posture
4. Irregular meal times
5. Eyestrain
Treating Tension Headaches
It's easy enough to just get painkillers to stop the pain and it's basically what the doctors will prescribe you anyway. I haven't yet tried massage, it was recommended by some websites. I think some basic stretching of your neck to get the blood circulation really helps. I suppose the only way to treat a tension headache is to do your best to avoid it. The usual things such as not spending too much time on the computer and if you do, remember to take some breaks and do a couple of eye exercises/massages. The strain from your eyes is one of the causes of tension headaches as well.
Not forgetting getting enough sleep, meditating (or learning how to prioritize your schedule so that you don't get overstressed with the crazy amount of work you have to clear), eating proper (not just at the right time but the right food is essential as well) and improving your posture.
Hope this helps. Just recovered from a stupid tension headache that was driving me nuts for the past two days and what can I say? Followed my own advice and I'm happy as a lark right now :)
And uhhh before you think that tension headaches go away as easily as they come, they don't. It still takes awhile and some times, some episodes may last as long as a week before they ease up and go away.
#INPROGRESS - Injustice
Heard a lot of hype about this game. I'm not really one for fighting games. When it comes to it, I'm a button masher and I hate hate hate losing. Then again, who doesn't like losing? I tried out the practice battle first and that one had me confused. The main reason why I'm just so bad at fighting games is because I can never execute the combo moves perfectly. Always a second slow or fast or my fingers just cram up. In the end, button mashing again. This worked really well when I was playing Street Fighter 4 and just mashed around for Ryu to do his combo.
Injustice has got a lot of movie cinematics, all needed and necessary for the player to understand what the hell happened in the story to lead him or her to where all the characters are. Random though, why is it that when anyone goes over to the 'dark side', that they always end up looking goth/emo? If dark circles under the eye were any prerequisite for being part of the dark side, well then, I was there long before anyone else.
Gameplay, I guess you can say it's fairly straightforward. You'll be playing several characters as the storyline progresses. Some are easier to manage and play and some require a fair bit of dying/losing first before you get the hang of their abilities and moves. To date (only about 50% through right now), I kinda like using the Joker and Deathstroke. The Joker is just too hilarious, you gotta love a dude with a sense of humour even in the bleakest of situations, no matter how psychotic he is.
Will this be the turning point of my aversion to fighting games? Who knows. There was the other one I tried - Mortal Kombat vs DC. That, again, spamming random moves. Loved my Sub-Zero and Scorpion. Who doesn't?
Injustice has got a lot of movie cinematics, all needed and necessary for the player to understand what the hell happened in the story to lead him or her to where all the characters are. Random though, why is it that when anyone goes over to the 'dark side', that they always end up looking goth/emo? If dark circles under the eye were any prerequisite for being part of the dark side, well then, I was there long before anyone else.
Gameplay, I guess you can say it's fairly straightforward. You'll be playing several characters as the storyline progresses. Some are easier to manage and play and some require a fair bit of dying/losing first before you get the hang of their abilities and moves. To date (only about 50% through right now), I kinda like using the Joker and Deathstroke. The Joker is just too hilarious, you gotta love a dude with a sense of humour even in the bleakest of situations, no matter how psychotic he is.
Will this be the turning point of my aversion to fighting games? Who knows. There was the other one I tried - Mortal Kombat vs DC. That, again, spamming random moves. Loved my Sub-Zero and Scorpion. Who doesn't?
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
#MUSINGS - To record or not to record
Ok. Confession time, I've always wanted to do a video for this blog. Like do updates and reviews and everything else via video. Not because I'm lazy to blog... ok wait. It is because I can be a tad bit lazy to blog and type and everything else.
I bet you didn't know that about 75% of the entries here were actually done on my phone, hence this laziness.
What's holding me back? Let's just say once bitten, twice shy. I'm not really good in front of a camera. I sound better than I actually look. Does that make sense? Sometimes I find that I ramble just a little too much on the camera and end up digressing and straying really really far away from what I had planned to talk about. Another reason is that I just can't stand editing videos.
I'm a perfectionist. So nothing will ever be right or good or nice. I'm also extremely critical of myself so once again, nothing is ever good enough to get off my Macbook and off to the internets.
But I will attempt. Soon. In due time. There are already a few videos in the works and I've been looking around for a datacard to help record my gameplay on the PS3. All that's left is to overcome this fear and paranoia and just... wing it.
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