Tuesday, October 30, 2018: I'm unable to upload any more pictures to blogger for the time being. I never seen this before. Neither bitmap or jPeg is uploadable. Will delete this if things change. I always have more pictures of my dreams at night that I would have published. All this is on hold now. I read on forums that this happens for a couple of days at the end of the month, every month when an account has exceeded it's 25 GB bandwidth limit. I thought computers were getting better and better. For example, the old standard was the Hipparcos satellite which mapped 120,000 stellar distances in the Milky Way. The new Gaia satellite has mapped about 1.7 billion stellar distances in the Milky Way.* That's like the navicomputer L-3 in the Han Solo STAR WARS story movie. That leads to a new understanding of the Milky Way. Oh, and just offhand, a star, not planet, is scheduled to fly past just outside the solar system in 1.2 million years*.
* source: YouTube video, entitled: The Milky Way as You've Never Seen It Before, AMNH SciCafe.
5,500 years ago, the crab nebula went supernova. As it's 5,000 LY away, it takes 5,000 years for the light to reach Earth. In the 1500s, the Chinese recorded a huge orange spot in the sky larger than the sun. That's probably what the star, Gliese 710 which is about 60% of the mass of the sun, that's going to pass the outermost edge of our solar system at the Oort cloud region is going to look like.
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1. Go to where the love is, don't go to where the love isn't.
2. Let your heart be silently drawn to that which you truly love. It will never lead you astray. Rumi
3. Run to those who adore you. Don't run to those who ignore you. Rev Run. Twitter
4. If you visit them, it's showing compassion for them. If you don't visit them, it's showing compassion for yourself.
5. That pet didn't feel that it was 100% loved unless it was with it's present owner.
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Problems are incidental. One person has ten times the problems but one third the worry. Another person has one third the problems but ten times the worry.
Your personality is just an algorithm, don't take it personally. Even when life ends it was just an algorithm. Don't take it personally.
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The essential problem is that humans are a species with about a 115 IQ, give or take, thinking it can take on the Universe with the defective physics of this non-holographic, non-telepathic, non-teleportational dimension catalyzing with our thoughts. As humans, we rest on three pillars of knowledge forming a tripod of knowledge being fundamentalist religions, obfuscatory sciences, or crackpot conspiracy theories. The collective of human knowledge is basically a bar-stool. It's amazing we got as far as we did.
The average IQ is 115. Just like the average heart rate; 115/80. Heart and mind. ie "Do you want the cross over the heart or in your mouth?" Hannibal Rising
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There are two types of depression, exogenic and endogenic. Exogenic depression is depression caused from external forces. Endogenic depression is depression from internal forces.
"The cause of suffering is craving. To eliminate suffering, eliminate craving." Buddha
To paraphrase that, the cause of suffering is quotas. People set all kinds of quotas for themselves and when these imaginary quotas aren't being met, the depression resumes. Social media, the News, and the quotas they set is a source of exogenic depression. No quotas. Quality, not quantity.
Envy, jealousy, a lot of it is entirely conditional. An adult envies a movie star who has a lot of girlfriends.
I read online that, "Leonardo di Caprio's girlfriend's mother is younger than he is." Which would leave you wondering, how old is the girlfriend? That reminds me of a Kubrick movie which I bought on blu ray only because Kubrick was the director then I donated to the library because I didn't think it was one of his better movies.
See, that's dependent on certain conditions that will one day be irrelevant. When a person is 10 years old, they envy the 17 year old who gets to stay up late and sleep whenever they want, the 17 year old has a nice vehicle the parent bought them, to a 10 year old, a 17 year old seems like an elder statesman. However when that person is an adult, all that envy is irrelevant, those conditions are gone. Now as an adult he gets to stay up not only late but round the clock if he wants to. He now has a nicer sports-car than the car that 17 year old had years ago. He only had an ordinary one his parent bought him. And 17 doesn't seem like an elder statesman anymore. The dynamic has shifted. A 17 year old now seems like someone who is really young.
The adult envying the movie star. That's dependent on the physics of this dimension. We must eat, sleep, we can't teleport, we use our bodily organs in a certain way. All that's irrelevant to the geometric coordinates. In the afterlife, the spirit world, we don't need to eat, we don't sleep and we can teleport. We can't read minds in this dimension. We can't teleport. That means either we are stuck in places like in our own rooms in a hedonistic sort of self imposed 22 hour a day lockdown, or on our way to where we might be going we get temporarily stuck in situations that have nothing to do with our destination objective. So when someone is lucky with women, we see that as a miracle, we use terms like "He got lucky." In the other dimension, there is telepathy so you know if someone is on the same page as you or not, no guessing. At all. And you can teleport to them and they to you, so in the other dimension, it's seen as less of a miracle.
In this dimension with it's tawdry defective physics, some people are beautiful. Others are handicapped, ugly. In the other dimension with what PMH Atwater called 'the master vibration', all people are beautiful so it's seen as less of a wonder, less of a miracle if you hook up with a really beautiful woman than it is in this dimension.
In heaven there is no envy of someone going with someone beautiful because they're all beautiful. But if someone was in hell, that envy wouldn't happen because in hell everyone's ugly so there's no all of a sudden seeing someone with a beautiful lady because in hell, that's an impossibility. In this dimension though, everything's topsy turvy.
I had dreams where I was walking with a beautiful female celebrity and others around me were jealous but they didn't have the kind of jealousy that fucked them up, unwanted jealousy, it was a kind of jealousy that they felt enhanced them, they were glad to be jealous if you could believe that.
Writer Philip Jose Farmer wrote in his Riverworld novels about a planet where all humans who have died go to and on that planet they never die. Sounds like the afterlife. In his Dayworld trilogy, he talks about overpopulation where humans are allowed to walk around for one day a week. The other 6 days are spent in stasis.* My life is already like that, what with my 23 hour a day self imposed hedonistic lockdown.
*source: app: How To Make Graphene. developer: Leh. chapter: Envelope yourself in sun power
What do I know about graphene? Graphene is a portmanteau of the words graphite and plasticene that Hans Peter Boehm coined in 1962. Graphene can be made with scotch tape and charcoal. Just stick the tape onto the charcoal. Take the tape off. The bits of soot clinging to the tape is graphene. Now how you can make it so it can work on a computer, I don't know. Graphene is as thin as one atom widths thick but pound per pound it is stronger than steel, stronger than diamond. It is also a supersemiconductor. Traditional silicon optic fibre can generate one signal a second. Graphene can generate several. Graphene self repairs. Graphene is thought of as the material that could make a space elevator. One drawback of graphene is if it gets wet once, then dried off, then wet again, it deteriorates. So much for the space elevator unless you can use waterproofing. ETA for the graphene space elevator: 100 years in the future.
IBM got a $300 million grant from the government to research graphene.
Recency illusion - belief that knowledge you learned recently is new when it could have been around for a very long time.*
*source: app: Cognitive bias cheatsheet. developer: Alexander Dubrovin
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Often, a person has problems not because of who they are or what they did but because of where they are. Things about them that are an issue where ever they are things that are irrelevant in another place. Never go back. Returning would be just a regression to some former inferior situation. Just a regression to some erstwhile bullshit. Just another variable in an equation of regression. That'd be the shits. What. Would I be legally required to go back? Would I even be morally required to go back? Would I, ha ha, even be aesthetically required to go back? No. There are so many millions of people who left some place where ever and then never went back. What's one more?
It's not mutual. They may miss me, but I sure the hell don't miss them!
Just as revenge comes in many forms, forgiveness also comes in many forms. Glass half empty or half full? If one moves to another town and decides not to communicate ever again with some people they didn't like from their past, is it revenge or is it forgiveness because if one doesn't contact someone, that also means one isn't verbally abusing a disliked someone from their past. Some say traitor. I say free agent. Some say stubborn. I say disciplined and resolved. But that's the human species. They'll talk about something that you're doing that's right as if it's something that you're doing not right. One can only be a traitor if they were part of the inner circle, or in any event, more of a traitor. I was always on the fringes. I was never part of the inner circle anywhere.
'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'. Shouldn't it be: 'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me - and you'?
Someone once wrote, ''All things in moderation'. Shouldn't it be 'Some things in moderation'?
Want to travel and don't have money? Join WWOOF. It has paid for trips doing volunteer work on farms. Across the country or across the World, you can get set up to work on a farm somewhere if you want. PS Traveling is a hassle.
It's best to live in a town that's real. Not some irrelevant backwater that thinks it's the center of the Universe. However in spite of that, I'm deciding to stay here because of all the girlfriends I have in this town. I have a few of them.
People don't change as they get older. They double down.
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Dean Noble's Star Trek from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
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Bobby Fischer's 21 Moves from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
"A lot of chess players went crazy. It's the game. It's a very deep rabbithole. After the first 4 moves, there are 300 billion possibilities in a 40 move game. That's more stars than are in the galaxy. What that does to the mind." paraphrased from Pawn Sacrifice, 2014
"Knowledge is limitless. Your life is limited. If you use the limited to pursue the limitless, you will lose." Confucius
If AI robots are smarter than humans. In a few years we might see what chess at a certified 3500 rating looks like. The World Record is about 2700.
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Idea for upcoming cartoons
The Siamese Twins from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
Noomi Rapace as Siamese twins.
Jennifer Lawrence as award winning surgeon Alexa Halliwell.
Work in progress, April 24, 2018. I do have a gift for drawing.
Ethan Hawke.
Siamese twins. Siamese twins visit a surgeon and get separated. At first I thought of using a Husqvarna chainsaw but that's too Ren and Stimpy. The twins would be anesthetized and the surgeon would be very skilled. Using a certain surgical vector and going with a vision with the help of a medical procedures book in his office medical library he separates the twins. Previously the twins were making a living at the circus but they didn't tell anyone about the successful operation and saw no reason to discontinue their circus job since they already had an established clientelle.
One day at the circus one of them accidentally falls off the chair and separates from the other twin since their common robe was made of cotton that teared. A member of the audience stands up, points and the stage and yells, "Fraud!"
Cast. Award winning surgeon as well as the Siamese twins are all females. The Siamese Twins are Noomi Rapace similar to the type of role in What Happened To Monday. Score 1 point on the Bechdel test. The audience member would be male.
I always thought of doing a cartoon about someone winning the lottery but it wouldn't be from experience. But what. Would the Siamese twin story be from experience either?
Update: Vaders of the Lost Ark has 21 views now.
Wrong thinking. Right thinking.
1. Wrong thinking. Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
Right thinking. Anything that's too difficult isn't worth doing at all.
2. Wrong thinking. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Right thinkiing. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a fool.
3. Wrong thinking. Better to do something and get something than to do nothing and get nothing.
Right thinking. Better to do nothing and get something than to do something and get nothing.
4. Wrong thinking. Why do tomorrow what you could do today?
Right thinking. Why do today what you could do tomorrow?
'Never give up on your dreams.' Wrong. Never give up on your dreams only if your dreams work out for you. If not then absolutely give up on them.
"And many would rather die." A Christmas Carol
The glass is half full. Even though that video had a paucity of view counts, over all, my YouTube videos got well over 450,000 views and that's with all the copyright strikes and their attendant view count suppression algorithms. Over the years I got thousands upon thousands of notifications on twitter. I wish to, right here, thank every one of you who watched my videos and who sent me any notifications on twitter. Even the mean ones. You had one kick at the can and you made it good before I blocked you. Thanks to all of you.
I looked at YouTube today. I thought I had 450,000 views. That total is now up to 583,000. That is phenomenal and nothing short of a miracle. Astounding. Thanks to every 583,000 of you.
Here's the deal. I upload to YouTube the day's rushes, in the can. When I add the next day's rushes to what is already completed, I will immediately delete the other version. Only one version of the cartoon will be online at any time. No more uploading segment after segment. That was awful.
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There's a YouTube video called List of Alien Races A - Z. One of the alien races mentioned is called Al- Gruaalix. They are an alien species with 8 genders. And the way it works is any one of them could mate with another and produce viable offspring. A species like that would need 8 suffragette movements. However, one day one of the Al-Gruaalixes who likes someone of the same gender meets the guidance counselor and the guidance counselor says, "Human beings having two genders only have one other gender to choose from yet the vast majority of them are able to make it work. You have seven other genders to choose from and between 7 other genders, you couldn't find one that you like?"
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Lightsaber shaped electric guitars.
The new STAR WARS Han Solo movie looks pretty smokin'! At this point, I'd say it's impossible for Mr. Ron Howard to make a bad movie. All of his movies are great. Apollo 13, Rush, In The Heart of the Sea, Angels and Demons. He is one of Hollywood's best directors. The new Han Solo movie looks cutting edge and visceral. Another fine product from Disney maker of the timeless classic, Never Cry Wolf.
Flower Wars, I mean STAR WARS went from being a movie that women shunned to the point where very few women would associate with any guys who were into STAR WARS to being a chick flick. The last few Disney STAR WARS movies are basically chick flicks. One of the few movies that are a combination of chick flick and B-movie. Another famous example of this is Mask, the Conjuring 1 and 2, and the Harry Potter series. They're good chick flicks though. Some of my cartoons are chick flicks; the ones where a female is the lead character. I am one of the few crazy people who would actually get a copy of The Last Jedi and on day one, as well.
Some of the best movies ever made are chick flicks, Thelma & Louise, Monster, Kill Bill, Underworld, Avatar, Pee Wee's Big Top Adventure, etc.
What would make STAR WARS even more of a traditional chick flick is to hire a female director like Patty Jenkins directed Monster. However, I haven't heard of any upcoming female directors given the green light to direct a future STAR WARS movie.
HERmIONE - HERIONE = heroine. HaRry pOttEr = HROE = hero
B movies are now A movies and A movies are B movies, in terms of box office receipts. Talk about the returns of the Jedi.
B-movie comes from the days when movies were double features. Like the B side of a record, the B movie was the 2nd string movie which played after the main movie, opposite to a rock concert where the 2nd string band plays before the main band. Typically, the B-movie was low budget and often included creatures, aliens, monsters, interdimensional shamanic entities, etc. etc. Nowadays, any movie where you see a creature or an alien or a monster or anything supernatural is known as a B-movie, like STAR WARS. George Lucas modeled STAR WARS after popular 50s B movies like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.
Since they're all clones anyways, there's no reason why Captain Phasma couldn't come back in episode 9 and beyond. Just like Boba Fett came back as Jango Fett.
"My girlfriend asked me when I would take our relationship to the next level. I'm a psychopath. With people like me, there is no next level." Dexter
I shouldn't be an animated cartoonist. There's nothing I want to do to take it to the next level. Art school. A waste of time and silly. Art galleries. A waste of time and silly. Disney.
People who aren't animated cartoonists or artists of any kind never have to think about going to art school, art galleries, Disney, Hollywood. Not even for one second a year. Since I wouldn't want to think of any of that, I have all the advantages of being an artist and none of the disadvantages.
On Sunday, August 5, 2018, I got The Force Awakens Lego. It was a gruelling 17 hour download. I also got the Season's Pass for $8.99. I could have gotten the basic package for $6.49 which has The Force Awakens. But for a bit more, $8.99, you get that plus a whole lot more.
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"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea. Drink the wild air. Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"There's science, logic, and reason. And then there is California."
Ingrid Goes West. What a great movie. I had to watch it repeatedly and liked it. It's about a social media star Elizabeth Olson, Taylor Sloane ie iJustine. Cameron Diaz would have pulled off a better iJustine but they probably couldn't afford her. Elizabeth Olson is an excellent choice for the role because she does a good job as iJustine. Aubrey Plaza, Ingrid Thorburn looks like a younger pre-Harley Quinn Brittyy44 and is the stalker to Taylor Sloane in this movie. A MAD magazine look at social media. This movie is a drama movie but also a satire movie that looks at the social media phenomenon. Instagram is featured in this movie. I never used it. But I think it's very similar to twitter. Every single actor in this movie did a real excellent job. Virtuoso performances. This movie was flawless.
iJustine is the United State's biggest YouTube star. Britty44 is Canada's biggest YouTube star. Canada/US connection.
Mark Dice talked about the fregoli effect; the phenomenon of mistaking people for others due to resemblance. Mark Dice also, at one point, had been suspended on twitter.
Brittyy44 is nothing like the Ingrid Thorburn character in this movie. Brittyy44 is a fiercely independent rock star, and wouldn't stalk anyone.
The name Sloane ends with 'ne' just like the name iJustine. InGRID, grid sounds a lot like Brit, BRITtyy44. THOR in Thornburn sounds like '4' as in 44; Brittyy44. That's all just an unsettling coincidence. Is this movie trying to lure Britty44 to move to the States? As if everybody wants to move to the States. Most people are happy where they are. Or else, one doesn't need to watch a movie to lure themself to the States, but it sure helps.
Ingrid Goes West is fine but to see the real thing, visit iJustine's YouTube channel and visit Brittyy44's YouTube channel.
This movie, along with The Social Media, Disconnect, Chicago Girl is an essential movie about the dangers of social media. It's a cautionary tale. Lesson is, use the internet but don't be obsessed with it.
Just as Ingrid Goes West is a possible parody of iJustine and Brittyy44, '1408' that John Cusack character is a parody of James Edward Garcia of MyHauntedDiary.
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Scorched Earth starring Gina Carano is a great movie. I started watching and couldn't stop. An intensely awesome movie. It's the same kind of post apocalyptic movie as Don Johnson's A Boy And His Dog.
Many planets: Humans are the result of a consortium, or else many extraterrestrial species engineering a species, humans. One planet: Humans originally came from one planet which eventually colonized many planets, this being one of them.
The hexagon on Saturn is a result of the coriolis effect, centrifugal forces. Other things in nature form perfect hexagons like honeycombs and soap bubbles.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 rewritten
Don Johnson: This is cell block 99.
Vince Vaughn: Look all those freakin things on the wall. What is this. 50 Shades of Grey?
Don Johnson: Wrapped around your waist is an electric buzzer. Every time I press this button, you will get a painful electric shock. And as part of your punishment, I will press this at any time unexpectedly including when you eat and when you sleep.
Vince Vaughn: Will you be doing it when I'm masturbating? Although if you do that often enough, it will get to the point where I won't be able to get off unless I get an electric shock.
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Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, swimming pool scene rewritten:
Natalie Portman: "What's that?"
Jennifer Jason Leigh: "It's what passes in this town as modern art."
Tessa Thompson: "It's the end result of a PCP experiment gone wrong."
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#hashtag Britherins
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Cobra Kai, the new Karate Kid reboot. Excellent. Recommended. 15 stars out of 10.
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I want to talk about Planet of the Apes. What Pierre Boulle was really writing about. Now put together the pieces that the first humanoid ape, Lucy, came from Africa. There was an advance civilization that existed for thousands of years before the Pharonic period of Egypt. A lot of animals have naturally black skin like the polar bear and the silkie chicken. The Sphinx originally had a different more cat looking head that was replaced with a stylized looking one. And people have been breeding animals like goldfish. If they can over centuries breed a plain looking pond carp into a goldfish, or an oranda or a moor or a lionhead or a fantail, they can do that with people too and they have. People is a GMO, genetically modified organism and that GMO stuff certainly didn't start in the 20th Century. It went on for hundreds if not thousands of years, breeding until recessives became dominants. So in Africa there were certain people who were born with a lot lighter skin. They were separated and selectively bred to be a slave class. But maybe they were bred for more intellectual slave tasks like computing and math problem solving. Eventually the lighter skinned selectively bred slave race rose up and rebelled and then were exiled moving away from Africa to Northern Europe and Asia but somehow later controlled the World for a long time and arguably still do.
What Pierre Boulle may have been writing about was the government sent some people into the past and they saw this. Some of these time travelers may have helped in their revolution and liberation.
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I don't know if this helps. I got an Android tablet. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving. I downloaded a free app from Google Play store called Emulator for GBA - Free and Full Classic Games from APT Studio. It is the best emulator. It's basically an emulator for dummies. You don't have to go to emu paradise, it has 3 prime games built in, Pokemon fire red, Super Mario Bros. and Mario Kart. However, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, which always shows a download bar, never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fully downloads. It always freezes at some minimal point, usually less than 50% and then stops completely. I wrote them two feedback notices because of it. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Shouldn't it be fool me twice shame on you and me? Just like shouldn't everything in moderation be instead some thing in moderation? Anyways.
I have Super Zelda Adventures, Banana Kong, Lego Micro Racers to choose from but I opt for GBA emulator. Bizarre.
I am amazed I got this tablet. I was looking at a tablet at the Apple store in 2011 and they were pricey. I got mine for $30. I got the 10 inch tablet. I saw a 7 inch tablet at the pawn store for $60 last year but for some reason it didn't appeal to me. I didn't know all it could do. Well anyone who knows about tablet knows it can do a lot. It's the gift that keeps on giving. It's an inspector gadget, James Bond machine. I downloaded lots of free video games and books including Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London, 1984 and Burmese Days. I also downloaded Lego microfighters, Zen pinball, Arcade pinball, Aliens pinball which is like Metroid pinball for the DS on steroids, however, I haven't figured out how to hatch the eggs. I hatched one egg. Once you hatch a 2nd, you get a free table. It has something to do with turning the stones on the pyramid but I was only able to turn one stone to get it to match. Well, one out of four ain't bad. I got Jigsaw from Veraxen games which lets you use photos from your own stored photos, another feature of the tablet, I know, it's amazing. I got Solitaire from Lemon games. This lets you design the table and the back of card design. I used this image for the table design, the result is stunning:
It's Vancouver BC, Granville Street, from the 50s, it seems.
I got Luminosity, Trivia 360 where I recently learned about oxymel which is an ancient drink of water honey and vinegar which people in the Lord of the Rings times drank. The honey was a purifier and bacteria neutralizer and the vinegar was an astringent to kill germs. The ancients were pretty smart. I also got Galaxy Attack: Alien shooter from OneSoft Studio which is like Galaxian and Galaga on steroids. I got the Smooth Jazz app from Paradise media, I got Lego Nexo Knights. I got Middle Earth Shadow of War but it freezes sometimes at the end of a level screen but it's the more smoking than any LOTR video game on PSP. I got Pitfall from Activision rebooted. Etc etc. This machine is amazing. And for $30?
That's why I haven't been doing cartoons lately. When you get a new toy, you tend to want to play with it until you get it out of your system, initially, until the novelty wears off. I'll never tire of the tablet. It's not bad. However the Dom Perignon of tablets is a Mac-Book tablet with iOS. My tablet doesn't have iOS, just the regular system.
My tablet has a 1GB RAM DDR2 memory card, I wonder if one can replace it with a 2GB RAM DDR2 memory card but there is no way to open it. A used 2GB RAM DDR2 memory card costs $20 at computer stores.
There are tons of free EVP apps you can download on Google play. Google play works for iOS and Android. I'm thinking of downloading one except for two things, fear and not wanting to be mentally ill. If a person uses an EVP machine, that person is mentally ill, according to my landlord. However, Brittyy44 and Steve Huff use and EVP machine and they're certainly not mentally ill. Neither is Zak Bagans of Ghost Adventures, speaking of which, I downloaded Playmobil's Ghostbusters video game free. It's better than any GBA game I ever had.
I got the tablet for $30. The only other good deal I got on par with this is a twenty five cent cooking pot I got at Salvation Army in 1992. I used that thing every day, few times a day for the next 8 years. Sure the tablet was a little more expensive than that but can a cooking pot download video games, solitaire, kindle reader, etc etc? Don't download any weather apps. YouTube videos have warned that they're dangerous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muhb_a2tvtw
You want a weather app? Stick your head out the window and look.
My girlfriend said that EVPs are errant signals from CB radio. However, my girlfriend would also refer to Anulax batteries as Harbulary batteries and I'd have to agree with her. I won't get an EVP app. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. People don't change as they get older; they double down. At nearly 50, I'm a lot closer to the age when a person would typically be expected to die of old age than a person in their 20s, the average age of an EVP user would be.
The best apps. There are so many. Bethesda Pinball from Zen Pinball, Doom is the sickest most best looking pinball table. I got Doom because I saw the movie Doom in Dawson Creek back in 2005. Zaccaria Pinball not from Zen Pinball, has some of the best looking pinball tables ever, and a lot of free tables. Doom I had to pay $4 for on Google play. I also got STAR WARS pinball for $2.50 and I got all 3 tables of Aliens pinball for $7.50 which means I don't have to figure out how to hatch eggs to get a free table. Lego Nexo Knights let you scan shields that can be found on Google images, this showed some hidden tech that the tablet has. My tablet also has a flashlight app.
I want to talk about race car driving games on the android tablet. So far, I got Racing Limits, Police Driving In Car and Traffic Rider. You can actually steer using the tilt action of the tablet. That means it has a built in gyroscope. An electronic one, obviously, not one with a wheel within a wheel then a ball in the center. It registers yaw but not pitch. Yaw is side to side, pitch is forward and backward tilting, like with a helicopter. When you got to brake, it's better to pump the brakes rather than a singular slam on the brakes. The video game registers this aspect of physics as well! It's amazing and this is just the first generation of tilt video games. I got another one called Wings On Fire. It's a World War 1 airplane game but if you tilt up, it goes up and of course the side to side, so this one does have pitch and yaw. How did they do that?! It's amazing what they can do on computers these days.
The tilt action feels just like a steering wheel. Once you get the hang of it, it's shockingly similar to driving a real car. I had a 1974 model Toyota when I was a teenager and I remember driving a car down the highway.
One thing you don't get in these video games is centrifugal forces and G forces of which centrifugal force is an extension of.
Right now, I'm downloading Need For Speed. It's a beast of a download, 1.1 Gb. I heard good things about Asphalt 8. I might give that a try.
I hope Need For Speed includes tilt action and bumper camera, otherwise I'm uninstalling it.
On Racing Limits, I'm just about to get the city night screen.
Traffic Racer has a Volkswagen beatle. At first I opted for a red beatle which is the Stephen King novel The Shining's car. Then I opted for a yellow one which is the one in the Stanley Kubrick movie The Shining. The tilt action and the above camera view is very reminiscent of the old arcade race car driving games at the PNE in the mid 70s. I was there. I remember.
I finally got Andrea Perron's book, In A Flicker on the tablet reader app. The book is very difficult to understand. First there's the infamous traffic accident in Paris. Then a couple of researchers, walking around, going from here to there researching something called a Flicker Project. One of the researchers is called Ethan. But if you thought In A Flicker was flowery, her books about House of Darkness, House of Light is way more flowery than Aldous Huxley and with more superfluous descriptives than any Tolkien novel. She uses the word ether a lot. Very difficult to get into. 1x of narrative description of supernatural events then 20x of flowery writing. It's a slog. But she is a way better speaker and every one of her YouTube videos are very powerful and very descriptive of her supernatural experiences. In spite of her flowery writing style or maybe because of it, she is one of the very best writers in the history of the World.
Warning: Don't install Marvel pinball if you're going to clear cache and clear data accidentally. There's no reinstalling it which is bizarre because all the free apps if you uninstall it, and reinstall it, it will work again, in some cases better, with updates. And I paid $1.29 for that. Trying to reinstall Marvel Pinball was like pulling hen's teeth and even then I couldn't reinstall it. Marvel Contest of Champions. More like contest of unreinstallables. It froze and bricked my tablet temporarily. Some apps do that. When they do, uninstall. Something that's a dollar or something like that. If you lose it, is it a big loss? There are a lot of free pinball games that are as good and some even better than Marvel Pinball. Zaccaria pinball for one. Zen pinball with Sorcerer's Village is better than Marvel pinball. Maybe because it's the weekend. If I try to reinstall Marvel pinball on the weekday during banker's hours like when I originally installed it. That might work. I'll give it one more try.
Fix: Install Zen pinball. You can get Marvel Avengers pinball there. It gives you the option to pay and install. Instead of $1.29, it's sold for $0.99 there.
I'm going for Guardians of the Galaxy pinball on Marvel pinball for $2.49.
I'm also for sure going to get the Andrea Perron book In A Flicker for $3.15.
Don't get Lego Nexo Knights. Beautiful graphic but when I scanned and uploaded what, about 4 dozen Nexo shields off Google images, I guess that was too much for it's memory and it crashed.
Don't get any games that are more than 400 MB. The 1.1 GB Need For Speed would've taken 22 hours to download. Asphalt 8 with 1.5 GB takes God knows how long. I talked with someone and they said it shouldn't take that long if I have private paid for wi-fi which I do. I have to talk to my ISP.
There should be what's called compensatory hard drive technology. 10 GB of RAM for everyone. So if you have a 1 GB RAM tablet, the central server will give you 9 GB of RAM. If you have a 2 GB tablet, it will give you 8 GB of RAM. It will use your RAM memory card as a slingshot or a mirror. So rather than your RAM memory card acting as an algorithm within an algorithm, it would instead work as a function within an algorithm set within the main central memory card supercomputer.
That way, you can download a 1 GB android app in 5 minutes or less, rather than 22 hours. The long download hours as it is now is a disincentive for me to download Need For Speed: No Limits, ever.
Don't get any downloads that are more than 100 MB.
The best apps to get are free apps. Even if you have to reinstall it, you'll get it back.
In theory the sd card supports extra memory for your tablet. In reality there is absolutely no way on Earth to put any memory on or to use the sd card in any way if you have a cheap $30 tablet. I have an xgody b960 tablet.
Technology is such that in a few years the free apps of the future will be better than the paid apps of today.
In the future, it will take the same time to download a gigabyte as it does a megabyte now. There will be multi-terrabyte video games. I can see that coming down the pike.
I paid for and waited for Need for Speed Most Wanted. The first time it didn't install. I waited for the full download, 100% then it clicked off. No install. I tried it again, first clearing the cache from Google Play services, turned off then on the tablet and downloaded it. In that time I didn't use the tablet at all, didn't play any games or use it in any way. The download worked the second time. Need For Speed is a paid for game and as such the graphics are better than Need For Speed No Limits which is a free game. Most Wanted is a smaller shorter download and better graphics, but it's a paid for app.
Update: Tuesday, July 3, 2018: I got my Aliens pinball and Marvel pinball tables fully restored. The Zen pinball servers are working again!
Need for Speed Most Wanted 598 MB was a 14 hour download. Need For Speed No Limits 1.09 GB was a 20 hour download. Incidentally, the Andromeda Galaxy is an app that will downloaded to our Milky Way Galaxy. It's a 2.5 billion year download.
The apps on a tablet look like a General or a King's snack plate.
I'm looking for a good golf video game for android similar to Hot Pro Golf, Pangya and Tiger Woods PGA Tour on PSP. I haven't found any.
On July 4, 2018, The American Fourth of July, I was successful in getting American Dad pinball video game for my tablet. It cost $2.79.
Doom, Bethesda Pinball, android apps
My pinball games:
Bethesda Pinball: Doom, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout.
STAR WARS: A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Force Awakens, Rogue One, Last Jedi, Ach-To Island, Han-Solo, Masters of the Force, Boba Fett, Might of the First Order, Droids, Han Solo 2018, Lando Calrissian 2018, Battle of Mimban 2018, Darth Vader, Starfighter Assault, Clone Wars
Marvel Pinball: Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron-Man, Thor, Venom, Deadpool
Walking Dead Pinball
American Dad pinball, complete, with Roger the ET
Zaccaria pinball, I got the Gold membership, all tables unlocked with all IAPs, in app purchases including dark mode. $27.77. Originally, I got Aerobatics for $2.49. Then I paid for the gold membership. That means I paid an excess $2.49. Who cares? Zaccaria pinball is so good that it doesn't matter. Zaccaria pinball was a creation from 3 brothers, Franco, Marino and Natale Zaccaria. The 3 Z's on the Zaccaria logo signify the 3 brothers. They made pinball tables from 1974 - 1982. Lush, beautiful, psychedelic looking tables. A rich, classic, nostalgic look.
Pin-Out, paid the $3.69 to play through past the checkpoints
Pinball Arcade, paid $1 to get the Doctor Who designed pinballs for every game
Zen pinball - Sorcerer's Lair, free. Tesla $1.29. Paranormal $1.29. Mars $1.29. Portal $2.49. Wild West Rampage $1.29.
Family Guy pinball - I always had a thing for Lois
Bob's Burgers - I got this for the Ferris Wheels, Caffrey's and also the bumper tables resemble fast food restaurant tables with burgers, drinks and fries.
Back To The Future. Got it. A couple of days ago, on Sunday morning, I turned on the television and Michael J Fox was on the television! What a coincidence. Soon after that, I got my Back To The Future.
ET pinball. - Got it.
JAWS pinball- got it.
War pinball - Navy Seals, Missing In Action, Platoon, got it.
Jurassic Park Mayhem pinball - I had to get it for the Tyrannosaurus Rex that's always ever present.
Jurassic Park Pinball, Jurassic World pinball. Got them all.
Paranormal pinball. - I got it on Sunday, August 5, 2018
Friday, August 17, 2018 - I got Excalibur pinball from Zen pinball. Cost $1.29. Entirely paid for with the Google Rewards app. I got that pinball game for the Lordly price of free.
Adventureland pinball - Zen studios. August 23, 2018
Castlestorm pinball - Zen studios. August 23, 2018
Epic Quest pinball - Zen studios. August 24, 2018
The next pinball game I wanna get is Rome. However since my money is held in escrow, lol as I only get additional money on certain days of the year, so I won't be able to afford it until next month. However, since I have .50 cents on my Google Rewards account, at the rate they pay me, I should be able to get this pinball game for free before the month is through. Rome is a very beautiful pinball game which looks a lot like Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. It looks like a Mediterranean paradise with marble terraces.
Rome pinball - gotten on Sunday, September 23, 2018.
On Monday, October 15, 2018, I purchased: Pasha, Shaman, Earth Defense, Biolab, and Secrets of the Deep, for $1.29 each, all on Zen pinball.
Friday, October 19, 2018. El Dorado. Zen pinball. $1.29.
Sunday, October 21, 2018. I got V-12 pinball on Zen pinball. One more to go, Son of Zeus. It's pretty much a given that I'll get it tomorrow on Wednesday, October 23, 2018. I'm also getting Harry Potter Lego Years 1 - 4. Also Lord of the Rings Lego, all on Android. I got a smokin' Acer tablet. It's not bad. 2GB hard drive for $170. Sure, there are 5 GB tablets, but those are pricey, over $1,000.
Pinball glitch. I got Son of Zeus on my Acer Iconia 10.1. However, I wasn't able to get it on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0. All the other Zen pinball games that I purchased on my Acer, I was able to get on my Samsung. But not this one. As well, when I tried to get it on my Samsung, it said, 'You Already Own This Item' thus not giving me a chance to even purchase it again. Sometimes it takes as long as two days for app purchase to process so that it can be transferred to other devices. Update: I finally was able to get Son of Zeus on the Samsung Galaxy Tab A.
Somewhat but not entirely unrelated, I paid $1.09 and got Vintage Pachinko. It has the old style Pachinko tables from the 70s and 80s, the electric Pachinko tables, but not the newfangled modern glitzy electronic Pachinko tables. The rule is simple, pull a lever not to soft and not to hard so balls can fall into a winning slot. Too soft the ball doesn't get there and too hard, the ball overshoots the target. Find that middle sweet spot.
Could you imagine pachinko meets Zen pinball? The result would be mesmerizing.
Even though I paid, I uninstalled Vintage Pachinko. Once you get all the 6 tables, there simply is no reason to keep playing. Pachinko machines, heck even the tablet is all about addiction sciences. If there are no incentives then there are no more rats at the cocaine feeder bar, ie the consumers. An ideal Pachinko game is to include endless prizes and advances like a Lord of the Rings video game, new tables, new features for each table like 2x neon effect. Tablet video games are all about addiction sciences. Not bait and switch but bait and hook which is just as insidious. For eg. LOTR Shadow of War, out of energy points, but if you wait 5 hours you get more energy points but to skip the wait, pay. They would never cancel out the energy points forever because you'd uninstall the app. App video games are an endless rabbit hole where one could spend the rest of their days paying for enticing, addicting, in app purchases. There has to be a stop. I stopped. I'm waiting for one more pinball game but I'll get that at the end of the month with Google Rewards. Install that. It gives you google money for answering survey questions. So far, for sure, I got Marvel Avengers pinball $1.29 and also Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence $1.00 for free with Google rewards. And I only had it for a few weeks. At this rate, before the end of the month, I'll get my next pinball game that I want. I'll tell you, but keep it a secret. It's called Paranormal, Zen pinball and it costs $1.29. I have .38 cents on my Google rewards account now. So I should get it in a month. It's just .81 cents more. I got Paranormal pinball now!
Google rewards asked me a question in their survey: What would you say to the leaders of the assembly at the United Nations? My answer: Thank you for doing a good job.
Now some people might have decided to answer that with something snarky. But I didn't. Since then, the survey questions and the rewards have been coming in steady.
I decided not to pay for the remove ads options because those ads let me know if a new apps is released, like say, next year I see an ad that says Zen pinball released a new line of pinball games.
Success. Venom pinball is coming in like a freight train! At this point, it's still downloading, but I'm getting it! I got Venom for the peripheral black slime web design of their pinball table. Looks sick. Sick in a good way. Zen pinball always does the best video games. I think the people who did Metroid pinball for Nintendo DS branched off and formed their own independent company. I get a lot of Metroid pinball vibes off of the Zen games, especially Doom. Abby Martin wore a Doom T-shirt during the Joe Rogan interview.
With Back To The Future, they said I already own it, they didn't even process my money, but now all I get is a download link that's usually closed to those who didn't pay the $2.49. If I click on the download link and attempt to download it, I'd be taking advantage of a computer glitch to get something for free. Like a bank machine that overflows money. If one takes that, it's a crime. I won't download it then. I must admit, I attempted it, but it's a real slow download. I never completed it. I thought if I completed it, wouldn't it be a crime? Computer fraud? So I won't do it. But why won't Zen pinball simply give me an option to repurchase? They can garnish the $2.49. I'll eat the $2.49, however I would like to get Back To The Future pinball legally, if possible.
Traffic Rider - I paid for Highway evening $2.29, Desert morning and evening at $2.29 each. City evening $2.29. Winter morning $2.29, Winter evening, $5.79. Good beautiful scenes. Was not disappointed at all. Worth the money. I am on a budget so I didn't get city morning. Couldn't afford it. City evening is way more rockstar, I play my music on headphones while playing this and city evening is probably the best level for this.
The app Guild of Heroes. In this video game, there is a pop up screen in options that says, "You can only change gender in town." versus in the forest where one is doing their battles. When I read that, I thought, "That's like some countries in Europe."
Two problems happened with my tablet. For awhile, it went all Chinese. Weirdest symbols I never seen before. I put a pin in a hole of the tablet and pressed down, there was a button in there. That was the reset tab. It worked! It was a miracle that I did that.
The other problem is I pushed my micro SD card too deep into the hole. The thing still works as a 16 GB tablet, however no extended 32 GB memory. How to put memory on an SD card. It isn't rocket science. Use the PC, open folders and only put photos, videos, etc on the SD card. I don't think it does APK files aka video games very well. I'm taking my tablet to Blackapple Cellular. They fix tablets. They know how to open them. That's what they do. That's all they do. Me worrying about my tablet is like someone in 1915 worrying about their 78 rpm record player. In a few years, they'd either get a somewhat better record player for a lower price, or else pay 3 times as much for something 10 times as good. Electronic items are always like that.
In a few years, they'll come up with a foolproof design where it's impossible to get micro SD cards stuck in card slots. The tablet is still in it's first 10 years of world wide consumer use. It's still the pioneering days for the tablet. They'll get better. I'd like to get a better tablet. The ultimate for me would be a 5 GB RAM, 48 GB ROM, that is, 16GB built in memory and 32 GB SD card, just like my current tablet. I don't know which is better iOS or android. Since I know android, I'll go with android. The iOS tablets are more expensive at the pawn shop. The pawn shop sells a used android tablet for $80. I'll try to get that. They sell a used iOS tablets for $400. iOS is apple and what concerns me with that when I had the iPod, the computer program that's linked to it constantly asked the user to update it and a few updates later, the program would be unrecognizable from it's current iteration. Lots of people on the internet complained about that in forums. So I'm going with android. I don't want to update my tablet all the time. I'm only going for one more tablet and it's going to be the tablet I have for life. So it's going to be a good one. Hopefully with 5 GB RAM, it won't take 20 hours to download a 1 GB video game like it does with my current tablet.
I visited a computer repair expert. I used a small screwdriver, unscrewed the two screws near the micro sd card holder. The repairman was able to pry open the computer and my micro SD card fell out. So I liberated it from the tablet. However, the micro SD card holder no longer works. I'm no better or worse off than when I first got the tablet because then, I didn't even know about the 32 GB extra memory. But with that defect, the tablet is unhockable. I used to spray paint 'Fuck off' on the sides of my televisions so I wouldn't be tempted to hock them because no pawn store would accept a television in that condition. This was back in the 90s when I was making a lot less money a month and doing a lot more coke a month than I do now. Actually I don't do any coke a month now. New rule: The best way to live is clean and sober.
Usually computer repairs cost money. I was able to liberate my micro SD card for free.
I'm not getting a new tablet again until Christmas, as a present to myself. The tablet as I have it now works good. If I get a new tablet, I'll have to download Need For Speed Again, all told, it's about a 34 hour download for just those 2 video games. All the other ones don't take that long to reload. All my pinball ones will take about two days to restore if I have a 1 GB RAM card, maybe all this will be faster if I have a 2 GB or more RAM card.
I'll have to wait years until I get a tablet with a 5 GB RAM card because then, a 1 GB app will take all of what, 10 minutes or less to download. However, years later, wouldn't my much coveted Need For Speed games which I have now be obsolete or updated. They should make a highway race game where every time you bump into a car but not crash completely, there should be vibration support so it would be like bumper cars at Playland. I did find a video game like this. It was called Highway Racing Car or something like that.
I forgot to mention that currently in town, there are two Acer Iconia 10" tablets, one is on sale for $90 somewhere. Another is on sale at the pawn store for $150. If I get a new tablet, it has to be android, I know the android OS, I don't know iOS, and it has to be a white tablet, like the one I got now.
Even with my 16 GB tablet now, what's wrong with having only 16 GB. 16 GB ought to be enough for anybody. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." Commodore 64 PET computers.
I can see the library getting their piece of the action similar to hoopla, they'd have a website called, for instance, the 'library app machine'. This machine has apps preloaded and set to work on a tablet immediately. No more 20 hour waits for a 1 GB download. The app machine would also include the mega app, Nvidia's Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance which is a 5.5 GB download. That's the biggest app on record. That would otherwise be a 110 hour download. One could go into anaphylactic shock waiting that long for a download. This library app machine would have all apps that you'd normally pay for like Bethesda pinball and all Zen pinball tables. The proviso is you only get a 5 day borrowing period and either it auto returns or you have to remember to click the return button. Late fees are 50 cents a day. Once it gets to $10, borrowing privileges are cut off until the late fee is resolved. How the app companies would benefit is that they get a tax write off for charitable contribution.
There is a Chinese app company called TenCent which is very popular in China since Google apps is blocked in China. It is to Google apps what Ali Baba is to amazon. TenCent is thinking of making the service available to English speakers. I might check it out for any STAR WARS, Lego or Lord of the Rings apps unavailable on Google play. It might have Shadow of Mordor, but I think it's basically the same thing as Shadow of War, just a different name. If I use TenCent, is it safe?
Game of Thrones: Ascent doesn't work on Android at all. Someone on comments about it said that it's as if they spent all their time and energy on developing it for the iOS because apparently, it runs on all 6 cylinders there, but they just ignored android as if it were just an afterthought. I downloaded it and it wouldn't work. Maybe one day it will.
Game of Thrones Conquest. Very good.
Fourtnight, I mean Fortnite Battle Royale was recommended to me on Friday, August 26 at the cable store when I went to pay my monthly internet. Unfortunately, it isn't available at the Google Play store. At all. What?!
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Shadow of War
written on Sunday, August 19, 2018
Englas beorhtast, ofer middangeard monnum sended.
Brightest angels, above Earth to men sent.
I would like to take this opportunity to write about Shadow of War, Lord of the Rings which is the app I spend hours a day on despite having spent more than $100 on other apps. Shadow of War is the android iteration of Shadow of Mordor. This is from Warner Bros who is the app developer. Great app. This is the best app of them all. Unfortunately, you only get so many energy points and when they're depleted... You can get more but that costs money. If you wait, you can get more. Part of an app is to not sell you anything you couldn't otherwise get for free. Then that's bait and hook, deceptive practices. The champions are the expected Talion who as someone wrote is 'quite squishy' meaning he dies easily. For me, he's a 3 star general and level ups and he still dies sooner than other players who are two star generals and with whom I haven't spend nearly as many green gems and mirian like Gorvin. Gorvin the stout hearty axe wielding dwarf. Marwen, with the mists of Nurn. Nurn comes from Lake Nurned a lake in Moria. I got that from The Encylopedia of Arda. Baranor, the black general. For me, at this point, Marwen, Gorwin and Baranor are 3 star generals. Then I have Castamir who is the father of Idril, the Royal daughter. Lithariel, the she-elf. Torvin the dwarf. Why use Torvin at Level 1 when I have Gorvin at Level 32? I never use Torvin. Their powers are not bad, however, I mainly use Hallas who was recently acquired with enough glyphs which you can get at certain stages of the hard stages.
Talion is infused with the spirit of Celebrimbor.
Often, I use the 3 doctors, Marwen, Baranor and Hallas who have major healing powers and then Gorvin.
Every sector has a normal stage and a hard stage, sectors such as Minas Morgul, Udun, Minas Ithil, Gorgoroth, Seregost etc. The money in this video game comes in a few varieties, green gems, black gems, blue gems called ithildun derived from the word Ithil as in Minas Ithil, white coins, silver coins called mirian, VIP points, energy points, dominance points.
There are many forms of currency in this video game, but that's just like life. There's cash, debit card, credit card, traveller's cheques, cashier's cheque, certified cheque, post-dated cheque; dodgy, e-currency, app scan reader, Western Union, foreign currency etc.
There is a deal going on now which expires in 1 day, The Tower of Sauron that comes with 2,000 ithildun, 75/75 Tower of Sauron glyphs, experience tome, and 2,000 VIP points for $24.99. I'll pass. If I wait, I'll get that character anyways. Then I'd have to level it up which takes away from leveling up other characters.
The orc I have on my roster are Muzu the Unstoppable is a 4 star general, Level 27. Garl Who Kills From Afar 3 star general, Level 25. Ghash the Reckless 3 star general Level 24. Flogg the Slaver 3 star general Level 11. All the rest like are 2 star generals like Gorgu Wraith Killer at Level 6, Koth The Wraith Touched Level 12, Kothu the Elder Level 4, Snaga the Unseen Level 3, Burtz Eagle Killer Level 14, Lurtz the Surgeon Level 9, Koth the Drunk Level 10, Goth Who Never Misses Level 9, etc.
The point is to level up to develop the strength to get through succeeding levels. You only get so many energy units which refresh every 4 hours. So I move onto other apps. I had Walking Dead, but too many glitches that would shut off the app and redirects to the main default screen of the tablet. I got STAR WARS rivals, STAR WARS galaxy of Heroes, STAR WARS commander, pinball apps, etc. Even some quiz and trivia apps with which I do well.
My player name is Herbessa named after my guinea pig. If there is anyone who read this blog, which there aren't, who is in a fellowship, maybe they could invite me to join. At this point, I'm at Level 33. I've seen others at level 400 something. However there are a lot of players at my level or near. I take part in battles which coopt other player names without the other players being present. But you only get 1 or 2 battles a week. That's it. With the battles you win white coins for blue gems called ithildun good for leveling up rings.
I read that on other apps, like Forge of Empires, it takes a long time to develop buildings and money only to have other players who spent hundreds of dollars into the game take all your buildings and money just for fun. This is directly from the reviews for Forge of Empires. Shadow of War doesn't do that to you at all.
Lord of the Rings which Tolkien wrote drew heavily on early European folk poems like Beowulf and the Kelavala from Finland. Centuries before superheroes like Superman, Guardians of the Galaxy, these poems talked about a hero with superhuman powers who went on an adventure to kill a huge monster. Tolkien was also a soldier in World War 1 and the soldiers marching through the dark trenches carrying their massive instruments of war was where he drew inspiration for the orcs.
I would have liked to have lived in those times. The technology and infrastructure of Tolkien's stories were set in Europe around 1100 AD. They were simpler times. People drank oxymel. In those times you could just go to another country. No customs and immigration, no 30 day visas or overstay. They were a lot simpler times.
I got the 30 Day gem package. 200 green gems to start, 120 bonus green gems every day for 30 days and then a final 300 green gem gift on the final day. $11.99
I was thinking of getting the monthly gem package for life. Or until I finish the game or until a new and better Lord of the Rings app is released. I don't know if I'll ever finish this game. It gets pricey. Eventually the 30 day gem package won't do it and I'd have to go for Gimli's mountain of gems, 12,000 gems and 10,000 VIP points for $129.99. I definitely can't afford that. I'd quit before I'd have to pay too much. Remember, anything that is too difficult isn't worth doing at all. Give up at some point.
As well, I got the weekly Orc bundle. I got a 5 star orc, in this case, Gubu the Hunter. This works very well. There are many classes of orcs, some use a hammer, some use a machete, some use two wolf-axes, Gubu the Hunter, like Garl Who Kills From Afar and Rakrak Blood Bow all use cross bows. Projectile weapons be they arrows or shurikens is a good tactical choice. Then I got 2000 Training Orders to Level up the Orcs from a 2 star general to a 3 star general. 1 to 2 star promotion: 110 training orders. 2 star to 3 star: 1000 training orders. 3 star to 4 star 2900 training orders. There are a lot more stars and it gets a lot more expensive. Then I got 1000 VIP points and then I got 35 barrels of grog, 500 units each, to level up the orcs. $11.99
Friday, October 19, 2018: The other day, I got 17 Carnan glyphs before I was shut out. You get more chances with 100 green gems per chance but only so many chances, it seems. I hope Carnan comes up again. You get two attempts at 2 glyphs each totalling 4 glyphs. For an additional 100 green gems you get another chance at 4 totalling 8. You need 25 glyphs to activate Carnan. Do the math: I got 17, with the 8 more I'd get with two chances, I get Carnan. But how often do chances at Carnan glyphs come up in Warlord Battles?
On Saturday, October 27, 2018, I was able to obtain the final 8 Carnan glyphs needed to summon the character. Carnan has really good effects like an entanglement of twines and tree branches. This is the best Lord of the Rings video game I have ever played. I have seen some better ones. The PS4 iteration of this game is better. More details, more graphics. I seen some other good Lord of the Rings video games too.
Now, my favorite 4 character team is Hallas, Saruman, Shelob, and Carnan. They have the best, most mind blowing effects.
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July 17, 2018
I deleted Need For Speed No Limits. It doesn't offer bumper cam. I discovered that one can download all kinds of weird apps. I downloaded them and deleted some of them. One can download a Police scanner. I didn't download that. One can also download a drum pad. I tried the drum pads and they work good. I downloaded an EVP machine and also a ghost detector. As if that wasn't specific enough, I also downloaded a ghost pet detector and also an alien detector. If the government is trying to keep the knowledge of aliens secret, why would they allow someone to offer an alien detector on Google play? Aliens are a form of Freudian wish fulfillment. Humans are so scared about being alone in the Universe. This fear registers more on the subconscious level so the brain goes into overtime and produces DMT to the point where they see aliens which alleviates and assuages their fear of being alone in the Universe.
Would Steve Huff ever recommend an EVP app from Google play for android OS or iOS? The EVP machine apps you can download for free today are better than the actual EVP machines you'd pay $1,000 for ten years ago.
Actually, on http://huffparanormal.com/2016/06/introducing-the-wonder-box-app-its-free/ Steve Huff offers the Portal app, developed with Matt Payne, this is free. Oh, I uninstalled the other EVP apps, this is the real thing. The other EVP apps offered mainly radio static with the occasional mumble at a low volume. This app, the Portal offers constant and profound voices and EVPs the moment you turn it on and it never stops ever. Difficult to make out what the voices are saying exactly but they sound just like the ones in his video. There is one voice, the drunken Injun voice, that comes up as often as ever.
These apps are like the medical machines that snake oil salesmen sold in the early 1900s.
Creepy: I did try the ghost radar and pet ghost detector apps. I even said my dead pet's name. It didn't work. Ghosts detected: 0. But these EVP and ghost radar machines are a lose-lose situation. If you don't get a ghost or an EVP, then why did you get the machine? So you get a ghost. I don't know if that's a winning situation. Uninstalled.
I used to think I'd be scared if I ever got a Steve Huff EVP machine. Instead, I thought the sounds were funny and silly. And I asked myself, could this be attributed to another source? In the 60s, it took Delia Derbyshire a few weeks to come up with the computer generated sounds for the Doctor Who theme. Now, that can be done on a computer in minutes. The Steve Huff EVPs sound like computer generated sounds, a loop, maybe a 7 hour loop, but the sounds repeat themselves. Someone in comments said as much.
The words I was able to pick out from the Steve Huff machine after, what, 2 minutes of listening were, "Time's up." "President." "Darling." Hearing those words is like the audio version of a Rorschach inkblot test.
One EVP I got from the Steve Huff Portal app is, a loud whisper, "Watch yourself!"
I do quite well on the quizzes and trivia. I also drink philosopher's tea. This is a blend I got at the tea shop which has ginkgo, strawberry, etc etc. It perks up the brain. So much so I'm surprised it isn't registered as a drug. But tea falls into the category of holistic medicines. There are as many who will argue that it doesn't work as there are those who argue that it does. Placebo, psychosomatic self medicating. It's all good. Any tea shop in the world will offer a 'philosopher's blend' tea. The strawberry sweetens the tea. Plain ginkgo is bitter.
I downloaded an app, which one where everytime I turn on the tablet, I see an ad. The ads take half a minute to disable. They are neither interesting nor annoying. Once in awhile, an ad will let me know about something new that I would like.
Go to Google browser to disable the ads as they're google generated. When I looked it turned out it was cineplex odeon that was sending the ads.
The start-up pop-up ads came from Thoughts with a trophy cup and also Life Hacks. Don't install those apps.
The Steve Huff portal works too well. A few weeks ago, I asked the machine to hear if I could get a message about someone I knew who recently died. The machine said, "Uh." in a certain way. That was the exact way he used to address me. Often just a 'uh'. Sure, it sounds like I'm making it up, I don't care. Either way, you're left with a good ghost story so either way, you win.
"If you believe me, I don't care. If you don't believe me, I don't care." James Edward Garcia, MyHauntedDiary
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Twilight Zone.
Twilight Zone. Once every few years, science will disclose something in general that will make life not seem like what we thought it was all along. Examples: First photograph of Earth from space. Disclosure of other planets outside the solar system. The brain is the only organ in the body that names itself; the parietal lobe is the only part of the brain that names itself.
I recently downloaded the Periodic Table as a free app. It includes elements like unbiunium, unbidium, unbitrium, etc, that weren't there on the periodic table when I was going to high school in the 80s.
Then at the end of life, hopefully there is some knowledge that makes your life not what you thought it was all along. Maybe a person is related to someone majorly, I mean majorly, famous but that isn't disclosed until the near the end of their life. Twilight Zone!
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Uranus from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
Uranus. Alone of all the planets in the solar system, Uranus axis are pointed side to side rather than up and down like the other planets. It's always doing a barrel roll. On that planet, the sun rises at 90 degrees and sets at 270 degrees or vice versa. With us, the sun rises at zero degrees and sets at 180 degrees. On that planet, there is an East pole and a West pole. On all other planets, North and South poles. That planet would have Eastern and Western lights to our Northern Lights.
Even the moons of Uranus with such lovely names as Cordelia, Umbriel, Miranda, Ariel, Titania, Oberon, Trinculo are at a 98% axis, just like the host planet. On Uranus, to get a reverse coriolis effect, like the clockwise or counterclockwise flushing of a toilet, one would have to go from East to West, rather than North to South like on Earth. If there was intelligent life on Uranus, their cosmology wouldn't echo ours, "All the planets are on a normal axis except Uranus." and they would have a horizontal model of a solar system with its planets around the sun. On Uranus, if there was intelligent life there, they'd teach, "Uranus is the only planet whose axis is normal. All the other planet's axises are wrong." Now to us that would seem twisted. However, every country thinks it's the most normal country in the World, all the other ones less normal. And the would have a vertical model of a solar system like a dish stood on it's side.
Uranus doesn't orbit sideways so it's poles are parallel but rather perpendicular to it's orbit.
It would be as if the axis of Uranus was a minute hand and the sun was the center of a clock.
On a real Rolex, the second hand sweeps, on a fake Rolex, the second hand ticks. I got that from a movie.
Essentially, that means one half of the planet gets sunlight all day, all year, and the other half is all darkness all the time, it's like the relationship between the Earth and the moon where the Earth only sees one side of the moon, the sun only ever sees one side of Uranus. This would be a boon to the inhabitants of Uranus or else Urantians. They would say, "We get a World where one side is only ever daytime. Plants that are photosynthetic never have to rest from sunlight. Things that only like the dark like mushrooms could grow uninterrupted. Daylight growing constantly interrupted by night, or nighttime growing constantly interrupted by the daytime, like on all the other planets in the solar system; see, we don't have that problem."
Urantians might boast of this. "Other planets have interrupted sporadic cycles of day and night. We have perpetual daylight. This even changes the dynamic of the way we perceive, reckon and measure time. Different time algorithms."
On those big gaseous planets, even though it's that far away from the sun, the gas clouds refract light so that those planets might even receive more sunlight than the Earth. There is a center, a rocky core planet to those huge gas planets, which form a gravity stationary stabilizer otherwise the gas of that gas planet would just drift away like a cloud. Metaphysical books that you could only find in hippie bookstores like Banyen Books have things written in them such as, "There is life on all the planets in the solar system, except they have different vibrations or densities so they are invisible and holographic to us." I don't know if I believe that or not, but I'd be willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
That's what you get with single perspective mathematics which is subjective. We say Uranus' axis is at 90 degrees vs our axis which is presumably at zero degrees. But if there were people on Uranus, they'd say, "No, it's your axis that's at 90 degrees. Our axis is at zero degrees. Nothing wrong with our axis."
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Getting a tablet is like traveling to a 3rd World country. It's expensive for the plane fare but once you get there, things are cheap. The tablet is pricey, but once you get it, it's like entering a Disneyland, winning-the-lottery theme park where most if not all things are free. Most apps are free, but even the really good ones are pretty cheap, $2.49 or something like that.
Why are the apps free? Most apps generate ads. They're sponsored.
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The movie Chappaquiddick, near the beginning of the movie where the car goes off the bridge and into the drink reminds me of Asphalt Nitro, Google play apps, android. "Barrel roll." and "No time for swimming!"
So Ted Kennedy goes back to the house and someone asks him, "Where were you?" Ted replies, "I was playing Asphalt Nitro." "What. 50 years before the game is invented?!" And Ted says, "Uh, yeah..."
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Notes.
Granny is an anagram of angry.
Still clinging to the physics of this dimension.... An algorithm that generates random numbers all the time is still an algorithm.
It's the opposite of foundry. In foundry, the object within the mold is made of a soft material. When the die is cast and the mold is removed, the object within the mold when the mold is finished is composed of a harder material. In life, the object within the mold being humans and animals and plants, even buildings and cities, etc is composed of a hard material. When the die is cast and the mold removed, when the mold is finished, the mold is composed of a much softer material, a holographic material with much less density, that is, spirit.
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In Canada, there is something called the escalator tax. The government of Canada, in all it's Majesty has decided to pass a law where every year, from now to forever, the tax on liquor will be automatically raised without needing prior approval from legislation. Consumers of alcohol and tavern owners won't be very happy about this.
Pubs in Canada used to close at 4 am. Now it's 2 am. Now with this liquor tax.
Overseas in places like Thailand, you can get beer at the 7-11, 24 hours a day.
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App: Creepy Pasta
Developer: Qwer Soft
Best Creepy Pasta: Story: A Different Television Channel
In a nutshell: In some cities there are more than one version of the same television channel. This happens because of affiliates. These different versions shouldn't happen because it splits up the viewing demographic. But some of these different versions of television channels show news reports that never happened, report on people who don't exist and show technology that doesn't exist. Conspiracy theorists say these channels are from another dimension.
https://www.creepypasta.com/a-different-television-channel/
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In China, they have something called, 'Same first name, same last name, one big gathering' celebrations and lots of people show up.
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What's the difference between life and money? With money, once it's gone, it's over. With life, once it's over, it's gone.
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"The television will get warm in temperature. This is not a defect." Television operating manual
Death is part of the algorithm of life. Again, not a defect.
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In spite of this, I like life in this town and country. This town has a slow pace of life which is better than a fast pace of life in a sprawling city. I get a generous government pension for my work. Generous enough. I watched a YouTube video about the tragic lives of people after they won the lottery and the money was the worst thing that ever happened to them. Marijuana is going to be legal here which is more than I can say for those other countries I was thinking of.
As for hockey and Michelin star restaurants, I couldn't care less about any of that.
All these things, cultural contradictions, etc are only relevant because I'm alive. It's the physics of this dimension. If I modify my existence with a heroin overdose then I deal with a whole new set of physics. Modify my existence rather then end my life because life never ends, one merely goes from living in this world part time and the dream world part time to living in the dream world full time. Life is an app. If you don't like it, uninstall it. Revert to default mode. Revert to the default dimension. I already uninstalled a lot of apps on my tablet. What's one more?
Most people never even arrived at half the answers that I did but they got an early reprieve. I wish I died years ago because in a lot of ways life never really worked out for me. Why do they get to die young and I have to stay around with the shit physics of this dimension?
"Human conditioning is quickly shrugged off in the second state." Robert Monroe
"Things could be worse, but Zoltar isn't sure how."
I want to recommend a psychic called Dolores Cannon. Unfortunately, she died in 2012. However YouTube videos featuring her speaking are still online. She is a very good speaker. Most things she says I agree with. But all psychics will say one or two off the wall things that I won't agree with.
She once said, "That person was on drugs and the drugs affected their perception. The event wasn't as the drug addict perceived it was."
"Do you really think she may be in some danger, Holmes?" "Oh yes." Sherlock Holmes, The Solitary Cyclist
Don't ever lose that imagination.
I had dreams where angels, aliens, Police, and Royalty visited me and I'm still this worried. Which leaves me wondering, how much more worried would I be if I didn't have dreams of them visiting me.
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"What's 12 times 12?" "144." "What's 9 times 7?" "63."
"What's my bank account times your bank account?" "That's an easy one. The answer is zero."
"OK then, what's my bank account plus your bank account?" "Again, zero.
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It's all suggestive. Sanity is suggestive. Insanity is suggestive. Success and failure are suggestive. Beautiful and ugly is suggestive. Even a long time and a short time are suggestive because they are aspects of looking at time that aren't really there.
What I'm getting at is Dolores Cannon said all things are happening simultaneously. Albert Einstein said that everything is happening simultaneously. So those battles of the 1700s are still unfolding now. So if there is a time machine, going tomorrow on the time machine to visit a battle that happened in the 1700s is a trip to the past in the future. Having come back on a time machine from a trip to 2500 is a trip to the future having occurred in the past. Each event in time is like a fold on a piece of paper with many folds. The previous event may have folded over but it doesn't mean that the fold nor the paper has disappeared. So in that respect, a long time and a short time are elementary reference points for time and are therefore entirely suggestive.
The ability to time travel into the distant past and the distant future and points in between is like playing a video game with cheats. The video game of time. The Game of Time. Certain things about a video game that used to apply no longer apply with the cheats.
The game of time can be played in many ways. An employer can slow down the clocks so that while the employees thinks they worked for 8 hours, they actually worked for 8 hours and 5 minutes. In a years that's lots of hours. A casino doesn't have clocks on the wall so that patrons won't know or care what time it is and keep on playing. If a tablet is set to GPS time, and one plays a video game that gives you free prizes, coins, whatever once every 24 hours, once you pass the international date line on an airplane, you get an extra free play. The game of time can be used to manipulate the stock market, and there is the military weaponization of the game of time.
For, when one is just experiencing time traditionally, like a linear arrow, one is experiencing time on a subjective level. When one is able to time travel and go into the past and then the future, one experiences time on an objective level. And not the other way around as was traditionally supposed and this was supposed framework was supported and reinforced with expressions like, "He's never on time; he's always late.", or, "You're out of time." and especially, "What time is it?".
Buddha said that life is an illusion. This is sort of along the lines of what he was referring to.
A phrase that supports the objective experience of time would be: "It's gotta be 5 o'clock somewhere. I guess I'll have a beer NOW." For me, the phrase would be, "It's gotta be 4:20 somewhere."
Essentially, the matrix is an algorithm within an algorithm within an algorithm: the algorithm of the physics of this dimension within the algorithm of the subjective experience of time which is embedded within the algorithm of the objective experience of time.
Movies and television shows do a pretty good job of depicting a subjective experience of time as movies often teleport from scene to scene, some movies even going from the present, to the past, to the future, back to the past again, and then the future.
Whether one experiences time on a subjective level or on an objective level, ontologically it's pretty much the same.
Again, S/O. O/S. subjective = opinion. objective = scientific.
In the afterlife and/or in dreams when sleeping, we experience the objective nature of time subjectively. While in this dimension, we have a chance to experience the subjective nature of time objectively. In other words, in the afterlife we get to experience the scientific nature of time, finally, on a personal level. While in this dimension we get a chance to study a personal experience of time analytically.
One can play lots of time games at the international date line. Crossing it one way, one goes one day into the future, crossing it the other, one goes one day into the past. An airline pilot goes back and forth in time lots of times a month, in essence, he time travels on a regular basis. Jet lag is one of the aspects of the game of time. Ironically, it's a symptom of an objective experience of time, rather than an subjective one. Jet lag is the result of an objective experience of time clashing with a subjective experience of time. Depending on the mathematics, the dynamic changes. If it's New Year's Eve, at the international date line, crossing it byone way or the other, one either goes a year into the future or into the past. If it's a millennium new year like 1999-2000, crossing the international date line, one can time travel into the next millennium or back into the last millennium.
Whereas jet lag is a time fuck up; aberration, on an objective level because it's involuntary, fucking around with the watches and artificially speeding up or slowing down the time is a time fuck up on a subjective level because it's voluntary, because you did it.
Linda Murphy: Clocks measure time.
Dan: No, they measure themselves, the objective reference of a clock is another clock.
Man From Earth, 2007
The question is, do ghosts travel back and forth through time. They don't need to. Rather, they don't need to think of it that way. Whether they are travelling forward or backward through time as we know it, they are always travelling forward. Say a ghost of a person who lived in the 1800s travelled to the 1600s, and then the the 1400s. The trip the ghost is going to take to the past is in the future. That trip that the ghost took to 1600s previously, now that he's in the 1400s was a trip to the past even though that trip was to a place in the future. They got that dynamic going on. Ghosts visit across time all the time. Many people have reported seeing a ghost of their future children in a dream. The person who visits you in a dream may be a ghost of someone who died long ago but is visiting you from a place that they just teleported from, a place ten years in the future. Apparently if you made an irrevocable chain of events that will lead to a really good future, a major celebrity will visit you, after seeing what you would turn out to be in the future.
No, some ghosts, after awhile don't care if they're going to the past or the future. To them it's all the same, they're moving on. They don't care about time or date just like a person drinking good soup doesn't ask, what ingredients are in it? Carrots? Are the carrots from Europe or Canada? Who cares?!
One other thing, ghosts from the distant past or some faraway place will visit in the form of a portrait. The portrait represents that they lived too long ago or was too distant from you in terms of philosophy to visit you in person so the portrait is the representative. If you have a dream of a picture, framed portrait and you recognize the person even or especially if it's a historical person, that's the person visiting you as a ghost!
"Moving on. Moving on from town to town." Bad Company
Moving on, moving on from time to time. Going beyond.
Well, what if the government or aliens sent the whole planet and all the human species collectively through a time machine forward or backwards in time without any of us knowing about it? Even back in time a week because they didn't like the results of the World Series and want to do it over again? What proof is there that that didn't happen?
Or the government sent the entire Earth back in time to avoid a planetary collision. Repo Man talked about the lattice of coincidences we experience as a result of all us being sent back in time at some point in the future. "Given a long enough timeline, the survival rate of everyone drops to zero." Fight Club. Given a long enough timeline, at some point in the future, it will be inevitable that the government will invent a time machine. Now there is another planet, not Sedna, but Nibiru that orbits the sun every ten thousand years on a track that sometimes crosses paths with Earth. Sedna has a 10,000 year orbit. Nibiru has a 35,000 year orbit.
According to Emmanuel Velikovsky, the Earth got hit in the past. How do you think the moon came about? I'll talk about more about the moon in a minute. Now Earth, being Nibiru prone, at some point will get hit again. Scientists send the Earth back in time once every ten thousand years to perpetually delay the inevitable. In the natural timeline, Earth will get hit by Nibiru, but that's a future outside of the synthetic, artificial timeline, which is a circular Moebius strip 35.000 year repeating timeloop that the government put us in to avoid a future Nibiru strike. That's good science fiction but I don't think it's true. One sign if the Earth was suddenly sent backwards or forwards in time to a distant past or future, is the constellations would look different, the stars wouldn't be in their usual places. The moon, why is our moon 27% of the mass of the Earth while the 2nd largest moon comparison in the solar system is a moon 3% of the planet's mass?
Although, Titan, Jupiter's moon is 50% larger and 80% more massive than Earth's moon.
It's all terminology and nomenclature. We say the Earth is a planet with a moon instead of being twin planets, or a twin planet cluster. There are binary stars like for Tatooine, like a double yolked egg, why not twin planets? The moon is bigger than Pluto, for goodness sake.
All the other planets in the solar system are planets with or without moons. Earth is unique in that it is a twin planet cluster with otherwise no moons.
What if a Kardashev 7 Civilization sent the whole Universe forwards or backwards in time? Would we know about it?
All planets orbit counterclockwise except Pluto which rotates around the sun clockwise. Sedna rotates around the sun clockwise, like Pluto. from: Nibiru Returns The Proof They Don't Want You To See About Planet X. Zohar Stargate TV, YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjF2HpaKADk
If something as small as Pluto can be called a planet and something as large as Titan called a moon, one concludes that the things in the solar system are classified by function or rank rather than species. In species, a larger and a smaller animal that look the same are different species, for eg dwarf rabbit and Flemish giant rabbits, or Alsatian ponies and large Percheron workhorses.
I've come no closer, really to explaining time. It remains a nebulous, elusive, intangible variable, algorithm, rather, of existence. A lot of people tried to explain time. Albert Einstein did it. Alan Watts did it. Scarlett Johansson did it in the movie Lucy. But no one has explained time the way I explained it. Asshole world. Someone will try to claim my ideas of time for their own. Actually, I don't care. That's what ideas are for. As many people as possible should share it. Even if they said they thought of the idea, I wouldn't care. Don't quote me. I've imagined that if I had an IQ like an alien which is about 450, what thoughts could I come up with. This write up about the phenomenon of time is also made possible with the use of philosopher tea which I got at the tea shop. Ingredients being mainly strawberry tea mixed with ginkgo. Does it ever give the brain a boost.
There's no way my IQ is 450. If it was, I'd be playing chess at a 3700 level, that is, better than Magnus Carlsen. I'd be doing calculus at a PhD level. I'm not doing anything at all like that. I doubt my IQ is even 150. If it was, I'd be making a lot more money than I am.
What about the Universe, in a few billion years will be nothing more than particles of dust. All the stars will have gone out and the Universe will be dark. Until the dust forms together until a critical mass forms and the next big bang starting the next Universe will happen. What about that? That's irrelevant. Since ghosts can visit us in dreams from the past or the future, or we ourselves can visit a past or future scene in a past life regression hypnosis, that means time exists on an objective level, that means everything is recorded forever. So theoretically if we had the technology, we could visit the ghost of the Universe that existed even before this one because is exists as a permanent recording held together by the eternal perpetual laws of the objective nature of time.
According to the objective model of time, it's theoretically possible to access all past and future Universes.
People probably time traveled. A time traveler, I imagine would be an undercover cop, the kind who has a green mohawk and body tattoos and say about time traveling, "You'd be amazed with how much you could get away with!" One can make micro tweaks, but there is a macro agenda, a schedule that over encompasses and smooths over any glitches. To travel in time to visit someone, always make sure to appear one second after them, and not before them because then, they could see you. One second ahead means you are slightly ahead in the future so they can't see you, but since they are one second in the past to you, you could see clearly all that they do because their actions would leave a wake since they live in the subjective past to future timeline.
Time experience on a subjective level, the way we experience it every day, looks orderly. Time experienced on an objective level, is to decode a lot of code and goes through a scrambled zone for awhile. It kind of looks like Pac-Man 256. The top half of the screen represents time experienced on a subjective level. The bottom half, the deresolution zone, the computer answer to the DMZ, looks scrambled and all in code. I talked about as we go through time, we are accessing code. Coincidence is code from the past. Omens is code from the future. I want to say one more thing. The other dimension already in a lot of ways exists now. There is teleportation of voice and image. Teleportation of voice through telephone and teleportation of image through television. Before, only ghosts in the spirit world could do that.
The Left Brain, temporal lobe, experiences time on an objective level. Left brain, logic, order, science.
The Right Brain, parietal lobe, experiences time on a subjective level. Right brain abstract, art, opinion.
The Chinese used to have a system of timekeeping; the hour of the Mouse, the hour of the Dog, the hour of the Snake, etc. That was their structure for their subjective experience of time. Their 'hours' were two hour segments. Every day there were 12. It corresponded to the Chinese Zodiac of 12 symbols. Not as an arrow or an advancement in a counter like a counter for commodities, but as a series of ever shifting present moments, like a cascading kaleidoscope. In our subjective experience of time, it is as if we were inside of time. The objective experience of time is to be outside of time. The Star Trek Timelines app said something mind-blowing, "Space. The final frontier. But what if it weren't? What if we were to go beyond space and into time? The mistakes of the past erased, the future reborn. The mortal and immortal made to decide their destiny together. Time is no longer an arrow but an infinite expanse of possibilities."
Time is like a ruler or a measuring stick. When we're within it, we can only move along it according to its parameters. Outside of it, we can jump in at any point; theoretically. It goes without saying that all ghosts have the ability to time travel.
Time has a 2 uses in 1 aspect like a spork, or a reversible jacket or even a guitar that's also a gun. With time, you can go along it's traditional integumentary parameters or else you can theoretically, jump in at any point, jump out and then jump in again at some other point.
Time goes faster as you get older. When a person is 12, a year is an entire 1/12th of their life so far. When a person is 40, a year is only 1/40th of their life so far. So, if a person is 40 and he is going to live to 80, on an objective level, their life is one half over but on a subjective level their life is probably three quarters over if not seven-eighths over. Or is it the other way around? I haven't decided. So, being about 50, if I live to 70, my life on an objective level is 5/7ths over but on a subjective level, it's probably about 95% over.
If you travelled to the past in a time machine to say, the 1800s, those people wouldn't be as mind blowing to you as you would be to them. You would sort of take them for granted because they'd be from your past but you'd be someone very exotic, someone who is from their future. If you travelled to the future, say the year 2500 like Buck Rogers, to you, those people would be mindblowing. But would you be as mindblowing to them? Not as much. Different set of dynamics.
Dune. Folding space. What about folding time? Time travel and teleportation are one and the same. Teleportation is time travel on the objective experience of time. What is referred to as Time Travel is teleportation on the subjective level of time.
The subjective experience of time is the quantification of time. The objective experience of time is time itself.
It's all relative. To hell, the Earth realm or the middle realm is heaven. To heaven, the Earth realm is hell.
If the past and the future are illusions, maybe the present moment is an illusion too as it's only so when offset against the past and the future which are arguably illusory reference points if you had the ability to time travel. When one time travels, when one goes through the one microsecond long snake of time travelling, are is that one moment or many moments they are experiencing? Like Stephen King's The Jaunt. Anyways, it's a rhetorical, tautological question. Again, semantics and nomenclature. Conceptual. Illusory. Einstein said, "Life is an illusion albeit a persistent one."
If a person travelled to the past in a time machine and when they step out of the time machine, there are 2 of them, are they in a parallel Universe? No. Same Universe, all the stars and planets are the same. If a person were to be like Terminator and go back into the past and end themself before they were born, if they did it right, then there would be no one to go back in time to do it and they would have been born anyways. Things sort of take care of themselves as a grand agenda oversweeps all.
The time traveller travels along a timeline within THE timeline. Or is it the other way around?
Those dreams that you had at one time in the past, on one level they are happening right now. The phrase at one time and the phrase in the past reinforces the illusion of non simultaneity. You refer to it as in the past because you can't access it, like accessing code, but that's got nothing to do with the reality of it. If you could access it, you'd refer to it as something else.
Essentially, we're a species that is like a fish out of water. Our minds were made to exist in a set of physics that includes teleportation, telepathy, no aging, no pain, no death therefore no fear of death and the objective experience of time. Instead our minds are juxtaposed in a physical environment made more for our physical bodies in a dimension with substandard defective physics which means no teleportation, no telepathy, pain, fear of death, followed with one day, inevitable death and the subjective experience of time.
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Farm animals look at humans and sense, "We live for 20 years but those humans live for 3 to 4 times our life time, they live for 80 years." Humans look at ETs and sense, "We live for 80 years but those ETs live 3 to 4 times our lifetime, they're about 350 years old." ETs are to humans, as humans are to farm animals in terms of intellect.
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My friend once told me, "As you go through life, try not to get hung up on things." Walking down the street, seeing all kinds of weird stuff sometimes I give something weird a second look. And get grossed out for that one second. I'm an artist, I try to get a bit of the details, it's a carryover reflex of being an artist recording and reproducing details. Then I think, since I gave that weird thing a second look, people must think I'm weird, but I give myself a one second rule, I can look at something weird to get a few details as long as it's not for more than one second, which leaves me wondering, if I look at something weird and think that people think I'm weird this much, how much more weird would I think they think I was if I looked at it for more than ten seconds or a minute, or stood there looking at it for hours?
"When you're traveling overseas, when you look at things, the locals follow your eyes and look at what you're looking at." William Burroughs
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The ghastly, wretched, garbage, bitch physics of this demention, I mean, dimension.
Death is a misnomer. One's life doesn't end. One's existence is modified, the algorithm is changed, the physics are tweaked.
A set of physics is called an algorithm. Terminate the algorithm. "Terminate. With extreme prejudice."
Earthbound ghosts are people of low IQ, clumsy retards and they're usually quite negative, did shit things to people like rip them off. I never heard of any high IQ people like physicists as ghosts because things like geometric coordinates, holographic universe, shifting algorithms of time, infinite parallel dimensions, all these things are second nature to them, as it was their bread and butter.
In the afterlife, one can change their name as I don't imagine I would go on using the name Dean Noble in the afterlife. That name would remind me of all the shit people I met, all the second rate backwater towns I ever lived in and all the difficult rip off years.
"Any life viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats." George Orwell
"Few players recall big pots they have won -- strange as it seems -- but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career. Rounders
"People will be understanding." Heart Fortune Teller app
I'm so given to negativity, how can those people like Royalty, aliens, angels, Police visit me in my dreams? Maybe it's because those people know me more than I do. The Green Lantern never makes a mistake. The lantern is the small UFO. The green light is the green light within the UFO. A military shade of green light like that used in submarines.
Every body has within their body, life crystals so I believe that everyone on Earth not one excluded had at least one major dream in their life where a major celebrity or a major supernatural entity visited them in a dream, whether they remember it or not.
I pay $80 a month for my internet and my wifi connection is good. Frequent glitches. Which of course leaves me wondering how it would have been with a not paid for wifi connection, like a free local one. "I shit on ya' with me glitches!" The Irish Leprauchaun, JamesNintendoNerd
eero dot com has a good wifi modem. amazon sells it. eero is fast and has no skips, outages, bubbles. My tablet has frequent dns errors, not in range, authenticating, connecting, but not connected. Tablets and wifi are still at the primitive pioneer stage. In the pioneer days, you had to hand crank cars to start them and now there is push button ignition. One day, tablets will work better. You can download a 2 GB Lego Traveler's Tales apps in two minutes in the future with no skips. But my Lord of the Rings Shadow of War glitching and skipping all the time. Frequent dns errors. In 1988, I bought my first CD player. It was an emerson and it had no programming. Just stop, play, fast forward, rewind, and eject. It had skip songs but you had to press a button each time you wanted to go to a next song. Now I have a 4K blu ray player. One day, I'll have a much better tablet with a better wifi modem. I sense that the technology of wifi and tablets is still in the primitive pioneering days.
Eero is pricey. About $450 pricey. The wifi modem I got with the cable company looks like a $150 modem. You get what you pay for I guess.
My wi-fi connection is very good. On my old 80s technology tablet, the wi-fi signal kept cutting out. On my new state of the art Samsung Galaxy tablet, no wi-fi connection issues at all. Runs smoothly on all 8 cylinders. I think the modem I have now should be about as good as an eero.
Shadow of War is offering a Saruman deal. 50 glyphs, 5,000 ithildin, 1,000 VIP points, 80 Experience Tomes. I can get all that in 50 days. At 5 glyphs a day, it'd be 10 days to get 50 Saruman glyphs. I win the 7/7 battles opened once a week on Friday, when the season closes at 1 pm every Wednesday, I collect at least 3,000 ithildin a week. That's 2 weeks for 6,000 ithildin. At 20 VIP points a day, that's 50 days for 1,000 VIP points, and the tomes, I get a few tomes a day just playing through the levels. I'm not doing anything else for the next 50 days so why not wait and get all that for free?
I was thinking about getting a 7 day energy package for $5.99, but energy points recharge over time so if I do anything, play another app, watch a movie, go to a restaurant, etc, the energy points recharge for free so paying money for that is spurious.
"I don't shit money." Natalie Portman, Planetarium
"At BBC, we hate old technology." BBC News ad
Something bad happened to me. I punched my tablet. I had a XGody B69 tablet. Bad internet connection. I punched the screen. It goes without saying, never punch a screen on a tablet.
Those screens aren't as durable as they look. I punched the screen before but never this hard. I had a 10" tablet. Gone. I went and got a Samsung Galaxy 8 which isn't too bad. The kicker is, on my old tablet, a 180 MB video game would take two hours to load. On the Samsung, it loaded in less than 5 minutes. That's spectacular.
It goes without saying, never punch a screen on a tablet.
I started reinstalling Need For Speed Most Wanted. On the old tablet, it was a 19 hour download. On this tablet, I started downloading it 3 minutes ago and it's at the 66% mark now as I write this. Again, spectacular. Isn't technology wonderful?
When one door closes, another one opens.
iJustine knows all about good tablets. She is an expert. She said she had a phone that was an LCD screen rather than an OLED screen. That's the difference between my old cheap knockoff tablet and my new smokin' Samsung Galaxy 8. iJustine is an inspiration because she's fearless. I wish I was as fearless as her. Although someone did write a comment in one of her videos. "Great. You got an expensive computer and got an expensive add-on all for a computer that works as good as one at a fraction of the price." Probably a computer tech wrote that. They know a lot about computers.
From top: Timex Sinclair Computer. Commodore 64 computer. My old tablet, after the break-up. My new tablet.
I actually had a Timex Sinclair computer and used it. I'd do things like type:
10 Print Escape
20 Goto 10
Run
Then it would display on the screen:
Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape
That was about the extent of what I knew what to do with it. And that got boring fast.
I'm holding on to my old tablet. There is hope that technology exists to repair it. I think that if I was in Thailand, I'd be able to bring it in someplace and they'd repair it. However, the repairman might ask, "Why hold on to a tablet that takes 20 hours to download a 1 GB app when you can get a Samsung Galaxy which takes about 7 minutes to download a 1 GB app?"
My tablet broke. First I went to get a new tablet that was an iOS tablet. But it was sold as is, and didn't update past version 3.89. I tried it and it didn't work. Apple is very particular about their updates and if you don't have the latest one.... iJustine is very familiar with apple. Me, uh, not at all. So I got the Samsung Galaxy SM T-350 with the Android operating system. Android is the best. Very user friendly even for people who don't know that much about computers like me.
I got the tablets used at a pawn store so I was able to do an exchange, the apple for the android.
Comparison. Old tablet: RAM 1 GB. Regular storage 16 GB. SD card 32 GB. Old style drive
New tablet: RAM 1.5 GB. Regular storage 16 GB. SD card 128 GB. Solid state drive
The new one is better! The screen is smaller, but not much smaller.
Download speeds:
iJustine's computer: 500 MB/sec
My new tablet: 3 MB/ sec
My old tablet: .025 MB / sec
Charging times and battery life:
My old tablet: Charging time: 2 hours. Battery life: 2 hours.
If you thought the Commodore computers in the 80s were slow and clunky, this is a picture of a 5MB hard drive in the 1950s being loaded onto an airplane.
0.25 MB / sec. That's about how much download speed one of those old Commodore 64 computers had. My old tablet. Was it made with 80s technology? My old tablet is to a good new tablet what the Timex Sinclair computer was to a Commodore 64. I had a cheap knockoff Chinese walkman in the 80s. Red. It seemed to be made of the same kind of cheap soft plastic my old tablet was. My old tablet did the job. More or less. YouTube videos always took awhile to buffer and then paused often during play to further buffer. What an exquisite audio visual experience. My new tablet. YouTube videos start fast with no buffering and play quickly and smoothly throughout. A Samsung Galaxy tablet is the industry standard. My old tablet was substandard. Maybe me punching it when I did was a blessing in disguise. Had I not, I might have signed on indefinitely for the Shadow of War monthly gem package. I contemplated downloading at least one other Lego game on my old tablet. Maybe Lord of the Rings, maybe Harry Potter. That would have been another traumatic 20 hour wait to download 1 GB. Even then, you can't play any video game during the time and you have to clear the cache from google play services first before doing any of that. Turn off, restart the machine, and start downloading. The first time I downloaded Need For Speed Most Wanted on my old tablet, I played apps during, and didn't clear cache from GPS first. 20 hours later, it didn't install. I had given up. But that day, I went to the library, and Rookie Blue was on the shelf. That was a sign. Give it another try. I did and it worked. On my new tablet, NFS Most Wanted took all of 7 minutes give or take a few seconds to download. My technology of my new tablet is tremendous and astounding.
When I downloaded STAR WARS The Force Awakens Lego on my new tablet, one that I completely paid for, I got the 'no words glitch' that a lot of other people, apparently, have reported. I give up on The Force Awakens. I haven't been able to get the two lightsaber jedi character that I wanted and these Lego games are festival of motion sickness extravaganza.
Unfortunately, Lord of the Rings Shadow of War will not work on my Samsung tablet. It worked on my old tablet which had the android OS. It works on the iOS with apple. But for some weird bizarre reason, it won't work on the Samsung tablet. I want to talk more about this. Shadow of War is a sand trap of money. The more you play, the more expensive it gets. To get from level 1 to Level 2 is about 300 points. Level 78 to 48 is about 3,700 points. To get the points, you have to get the green gems and go to the store to redeem tomes of knowledge, ithildun, level up the characters, and in all their aspects, level up, level up rings, level up runes, level up ring abilities, and for each of about 12 and more characters. Then you got to level up the orcs. I had 38 orcs. Level up to get stronger, necessary to beat the increasingly difficult levels, but you're doing the same thing over and over and over and over again. There's an oeuvre that repeats itself after awhile. I was going to pay $12 a month for the monthly gem deal. But that's $144 a year. That's if only one gem deal a month would do it. After awhile as the levels get more difficult, after beating Minas Morgul, Udun, Gorgoroth, Minas Ithil and Seregost, that's going to take, what, 2 or 3 or more gem deals a month. You see how pricey it can get. I seen players at level 87. How much did it cost them to get that? Hack and slash through the levels. Get the Pavlov's dog style rewards of the level up items, green gems, blue gems, silver coins, etc etc and then level up. Hack and slash through the levels, wash, rinse, repeat. On my old tablet, too many glitches, freeze ups. It froze and I lost a level losing valuable items and that wouldn't have happened if it didn't freeze. On the level before which was supposed to be more difficult, I played the level with an orc that was mediocre strong and beat it. Then I played on a less difficult level with the strongest orc I had. I lost that level, losing 2 Marwen glyphs. I wanted the glyphs. Too many glitches! It was a perfect storm. If I had more energy, it wouldn't have been as bad, but after glitching and losing that level, I had maybe 1 energy point left and you need a minimum of 4 to battle. Using the orc and losing the battle meant that I wouldn't be able to use that orc again for half an hour unless I use green gems, but I need the green gems to go to the store to get silver coins called Mirian, 5,000 Mirian for 300 green gems. All day all night Mirian, Sitting at the seaside sifting sand. So I punched the screen. That's how I lost the old tablet. One thing I really didn't like about this Lord of the Rings game is the executions of orcs which are grisly. First of all one needs to execute orcs to complete one of 9 daily tasks to get 50 green gems. Second of all, orc capacity is limited, one can't recruit orcs without limit. None of the other Lord of the Rings video games had graphic grotesque violence like this. How is this even legal? How did that one get past the censors? A blessing in disguise.
I hope they make a better Lord of the Rings video game one day that will work on my Samsung tablet.
But like I said I got a much better tablet. I got a brand name one. Samsung. Not some obscure knockoff label. On my old tablet, it took me 22 hours to download Need For Speed Most Wanted. On this tablet, it took like, 17 minutes.
On my old tablet, it would have taken a nerve wracking 7 days to download NVIDIA's Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. On this tablet, it might take about an hour, give or take a few minutes. I didn't know that tablets were this fast. I thought all tablets were as slow as my old tablet.
However I got STAR WARS Lego microfighters which was simply unavailable on my old tablet.
One more thing. If I had a GetNord Lynx tablet with 1.8 mm of Gorilla Glass, I would have never been able to punch the tablet and break it.
Widgets on a tablet. A widget in a can of Guinness beer.
On Wednesday, September 27 2018, one of the few days of the year I could get some of my money out of escrow, I got a 9.6" Samsung Galaxy E tablet. White.
A raven is never savin' and a crow always has their money held in escrow. That's why those birds never have any money on them.
My money isn't in escrow. It's an ongoing private joke I say to myself although how private is it if it's on the internet. Oh, I forgot. Looking at the view count, no one reads this blog. Why would they?
I wasn't able to get a used Asus tablet. I heard that Asus makes some of the parts for Samsung tablets. It would have been a 10.1" one with a 2 GB RAM. Instead I got a new from the store Samsung tablet with a 1.5 GB RAM. It works as good as the other tablet, except I think the other tablet was Android Lollipop 5. This one is an Android Lollipop 6. And..... I was able to get Shadow of War back, alas, I had to start from scratch as I could not restore my old account. I also wound up getting a monthly gem package for $11.99, again. I'm thinking of getting Walking Dead Michonne. I liked Season 1. The answering machine scene and the messages on it were chilling. In the opening scene in the riding in the Police car scene, I panned left and right to look on the hills on the edge of the highway to see if there were any walkers. None. Zombie apocalypse. Maybe I should finish Season 1 and Season 2 first. Then get Michonne later. In these games, one has to answer choosing one of four multiple choice answers. What if I answer wrong? In this way, Walking Dead Season 1 and 2 are similar to Fallout Las Vegas.
There's a new Walking Dead game released recently called Walking Dead Our World. Walking Dead Road to Survival I uninstalled. It takes forever to upgrade Town Hall from Level 7 to Level 8. About 117,000 units too. And in that game, it forces you to make a Scavenger Tent. You go on raids to raid other people. I lost all the raids I ever went on. Which was one. After that, I got raided a few times. It reminds me of the story recently on the News about a tent city and how some people came from another tent city and took some of their firewood. However, Walking Dead No Man's Land is awesome. Really awesome. I'm wired to it. I'm on Level 7 with the orc, I mean Walker pits. I have to get another survivor slot at 150 gold units, I have 101 so far.
For some reason, my tablet won't do The Walking Dead Our World. You need a phone or tablet that costs at least $300. It's an augmented reality game. iJustine taught me that phrase augmented reality. I thought of a good idea for an augmented reality game. It would be called The Objective Experience of Time. Simply walk down the street of any city and point the camera at some buildings and people. Depending on the setting, past or future, all the buildings would either look like they did 100 years ago or else look like they might 100 years later in a Tron Blade Runner future world. It's a time travel game. The Walking Dead Our World turns people around you into zombies that you could shoot. Oh yeah, that's a real priority. That's worse than Pokemon Go.
I got another story to tell you. Last night, I installed some crappy app which left pop up ads on my tablet every 30 seconds whatever I do. I never saw that before. I think it was AppFlash. Even the comments warned that if you install this, you'll get pop up ads all the time. I installed it anyways. Idiot. I had to factory reset the tablet. The first time, I got a download button which a YouTube video showed me how to get rid of. I then pressed the 3 buttons simultaneously needed to do a reset. The first time I did it wrong and some apps like Zen Pinball for instance and Walking Dead Season 1 & 2 and Michonne wouldn't install. 'App isn't compatible with your device.' So I watched another video and this time, it said to choose the reboot option. I did that and now all my apps including Zen pinball is back. Tragically, I spent $11.99 on a monthly gem package yesterday afternoon. That was before yesterday evening's factory reset. So I completely lost a $12 monthly gem package which I replaced today with the little money I have left from my escrow dispensation.
So what? I didn't reinstall Vintage Pachinko which I paid $1.49 for and I didn't reinstall Need For Speed No Limits because it simply doesn't have a bumper cam option and I paid about $7.50 for that. Don't forget, I lost 1/3 of a monthly gem package when I smashed my old downloads at .027 MB a second tablet. 19 hours to download 1 GB. On my Samsung Tablet, it does that in less than 7 minutes.
The Walking Dead No Man's Land is causing a blue flashing on my Samsung Galaxy E. Others have reported that blue flashing too. Hopefully uninstalling it and reinstalling the app or else changing the battery. Maybe the next Samsung auto update will address this. I never saw this blue flashing on any other tablets.
Open letter to Samsung Corporation: I tried finding their email address but couldn't. I'll write this open letter hoping someone who is connected to the Samsung Corporation sees it. However I think I'd have more luck writing the message on a piece of paper and putting it in a bottle and floating it out to sea.
Dear Samsung: Your televisions and tablets are superb. However, my recently acquired, new, Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9.6 has a flashing blue screen on some apps. Others have complained about this online. Also, online, people have said that going into developer options and disabling hardware overlays does it. I don't want to do that. Could you send an update for all phones that fixes this? It would be a miracle. I bought the tablet 6 days ago as of this writing, it has a 15 day warranty and I still have the receipt as well as the box. However, I don't want to refund or exchange or get another tablet because then, I'd lose all of my Lord of the Rings Shadow of War data some of which I had to pay for, specifically, the 30 day gem package, and I'd have to restart from the beginning which would be a pain. Otherwise, the tablet works pretty good.
Even with the blue flashing, the tablet still works, mostly. I noticed that I can play the games. It's only when it's on certain screens and with the apps that the blue flashing happens. Could it be because I reset it? It didn't do it after the reset. Although people have complained about it so much that YouTube videos have been made about it and I'm sure a lot of those people didn't reset their tablet in any way first before that happened. Look, tablets are a big deal now, just like in the 50s, black and white televisions were a big deal. If your b/w TV broke down in the 50s, it'd be expensive and time consuming to repair and expensive to replace. At one time if a DVD player broke down, they were expensive to repair or replace. Now you can find them at the Sally Ann for $20. I got one there for that price a few years ago. I think tablets will go the same way in a few years. It seems like a miracle and state of the art technology now but in a few years they'll come up with something else. Tablets with transparent screens that turn opaque with apps when activated and ones that a person could roll up like a newspaper and put it in their pocket. I'm sure this isn't the last tablet I'll get. I'll play Shadow of War with this glitchy tablet until it gets too expensive and not worth the while to go on, or else when a new and better Lord of the Rings dungeons and dragons type video game like Shadow of War is released.
"I shit on ya' with me glitches!" Green Leprechaun, JamesNintendoNerd
The Breakdown
Not all apps work on all tablets. First of all, STAR WARS Lego Microfighters wouldn't install on my XGody B960. But installs on all other tablets.
-Lord of the Rings Shadow of War worked on my XGody, did not work on the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0. It worked on the Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9.6. And works on my Acer Iconia B3 A40. I took my blue flickering Galaxy Tab E for a refund and exchange and got the Acer.
-STAR WARS Lego The Force Awakens. I got the words and lettering on my XGody and on the Acer. On either of the Samsungs, I got the no words glitch. However, on my Acer Iconia, TFA does not have the no words glitch!
Alien Apocalypse is very slow and lagging on my Acer Iconia, but works fast and well on all other tablets, even on the XGody which downloads at .027 MB/sec vs the Samsung and the Acer which downloads at about 3 MB/sec.
I want to recommend Asterix. This app has richly detailed graphics, cutting edge, 11 stars out of 10. And some moments really remind me of the years when I was a teenager in the 80s reading Asterix. I read all of them at least once. I also signed on for the introductory one time deal of 'Defend Your Village Permanently' for $1.49. I also got about 900 Roman helmets out of the deal so I got 20,000 sesterces with that.
Asterix is fucked. Just like the Perfect Shift in Need For Speed No Limits, there is an aspect of the video game that is unusual, extraneous and undesired. With Asterix, the inventory bag gets full. That forces one to get rid of items they previously spent a lot of time and effort for. I see that in no other video games. To get more inventory space, that costs, but that very soon gets used up too. Uninstalled.
I also want to recommend Need For Speed Hot Pursuit. Unlike NFS No Limits, this one includes a bumper cam. Long races and gorgeous vistas.
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Saturday, September 15, 2018
Truth is stranger than fiction. I met a blind lady. Nationality incidental. She has a nice body. When I first met her years ago, she said some sultry things to me which I won't get repeat. I thought that was strange. Over the years, she was visiting someone in this hotel when I saw her in the hall, I said hi to her. Anyways, I've walked her to her place twice in the last two months, but the second time, she invited me over. I don't kiss and tell, and the details were a blur, probably especially for her, not much happened but there was some fun times. She visited the hotel to visit her friend. Then later on that day, I got a knock on the door. It was her, she wanted me to walk to the bus stop. Why not? I did. That was two days ago.
Yesterday, unexpectedly at around dinner time, I got a knock. Her again. She wanted me to walk to the bus stop. In my usual characteristic way, I said, "You. Again. What. Are you going to visiting everyday? Are you stalking me?" She wanted me to walk her to the bust stop. I said, "You're always asking me to do things for you. I don't ask you to do things for me." But at the last minute, I relented, because she is blind. I mean anyone else I would have just dismissed. But she said, "Forget it, I'll walk there myself."
"But that was yesterday." Foreigner
At one point, two days ago, when I visited her, one of her blind friends was there, an older, taller man. It felt surreal being in a room of the place of a blind person, I was the only one there with sight with two blind people. I realize that those people live on a different existential algorithm, where other senses like intuition are stronger. Blind people live in a reality where time is experienced on a more objective level than that of sighted people. At one point, a thought went through my mind. What if my writings on the internet have had blind people perceive it either with braille or read aloud audiobooks? Nah, I thought.
It didn't seem like a bad idea at first. She has a nice body. But now I'm getting cold feet. I even told her, "I don't know if I want to have a relationship. I have commitment issues. I'm 48 years old. While most people my age are married with children, I'm not even married. It's because of the commitment issues." I don't know how far I want to take this. Something like this just came from left field. Besides, I already got a girlfriend! A few years ago if you told me I'd have some light casual fun times with a blind lady, I wouldn't have believed it. And that was also the day my old tablet broke. To have one event or the other happen all in one day is traumatic enough. To have two events like that happen in one day, fun times with a blind lady and then breaking a tablet I've been using every day for months... in baseball, that's called a double play.
All the spiritual people say blind people have a lot to teach and they are spiritually advanced people. In some places in Thailand, they have blind people available to give people a massage and they say the blind people give the best massages. "Can I give you a 'tug'?" "Hey! That's where I draw the line!" Anyways, in every town, there are blind people and a lot of them are sexually active. Some of them are even more sexually active than I am which at this point, wouldn't be much of an accomplishment.
Stevie Wonder for instance got married and had children. I guess some lady was willing to go to that level with him. But that's not me. It was never a priority. I mean, the Victorian guy who regularly visits the circus sideshow circuit, A connoisseur of sexual oddities. "Oh yeah, well a few weeks ago I did a blind lady, last week I did an amputee, and just yesterday, I did a Siamese twin." I'm not that guy!
I meet a blind person briefly in my life and feel worried. I am a squeamish traveler. Meanwhile, there are people at the CNIB who have worked with lots of blind people, in some cases for decades and they don't worry.
Even though blind, this lady usually is in good spirits, even when I refused to walk to the bus stop with her again, she laughed. That's spiritual. I don't know if I could be like that. You know what a complainer I am.
I hope she doesn't stalk me or visit me every day. But even if she did, she's a gentle spirit. I could learn some things about life from her.
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A Christmas Carol, starring George C Scott.
original:
Bob Cratchit: Do you know who I saw on the street today?
Cratchit family member: No.
Bob Cratchit: Mr. Scrooge.
rewritten:
Bob Cratchit: Do you know who I saw on the street today?
Cratchit family member: A prostitute?
Bob Cratchit: No. Mr. Scrooge.
Cratchit family member: What's the difference?! Either has sold themself out for money in one way or another.
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Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018
"Stop drawing invisible lines between unconnected points." The Green Hornet
"There's a difference between causation and correlation." Oculus
Blogger: I'm sure I'm not the only one this is happening to. On one of my blog postings, I always, always, always get 'Your HTML cannot be accepted. Tag is broken: BR dismiss'. This is what Y2K was about, the computer not recognizing a couple of characters in the wrong places. When is blogger going to get it together? Why can't it just register or recognize the < and then the br and then the / and then the > as just normal text and not a glitch, even if it was to appear on the page as a strange typo?
I guess it's simple enough to click dismiss and then click update, again. Every day, I'm pressing or clicking thousands upon thousands of presses or clicks on the computer or on the tablet, what's a couple more?
It's a coding error. To create a space or a break, you type < and then br and then a space and then a / and then a >. In one place somewhere, I must have typed it wrong. Most likely the < and then br, no space, and then / and then >. Something like that would prompt the 'Your HTML cannot be accepted....' pop up. That's a Y2K style glitch. What, are we in the 80s?
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I'd like to recommend two movies. They are well done and the plot flows well. The movies are 'Wish Upon' and 'MDMA'. Wish Upon is a Twilight Zoney kind of movie. The story; a mysterious man shows up at an arguing couple's house. He has a box with a button on it. If the couple presses the button, they get a million dollars. But someone they don't know will die. After some arguing, they press the button. The man shows up the next day with the million dollars and then he says that he has to bring the box to someone else. Wish Upon is that type of movie.
Wish Upon stars Ryan Phillippe and Joey King.
MDMA is the Asian answer to White Boy Rick and Cocaine Godmother starring Catherine Zeta Jones. A young lady Walter Whites some MDMA and becomes a drug dealer to pay college tuition. Very well acted and again, the plot flows well. I wish to say to any young person that MDMA is a very dangerous drug. I wouldn't do it unless you fully know what you're getting into. Time signatures, etc. One takes the pill. 45 minutes later, one feels a heart attacky feeling, intense, and the room starts turning a light purple as if one was wearing light purple sunglasses and one would really swear that they are going to die. This is known as 'rolling' and is similar to the initial rush of a crack pipe hit or an intravenous cocaine injection but it's got a different chemical signature. The rolling wears off in 10 minutes and then for the rest of the trip, an additional 7 hours, one feels like they drank 5 cups of super strong Starbuck's coffee. A caffeine jangle.
I'm questioning my wisdom writing about this here, but then Sherlock Holmes' The Sign of the Four 1890 talks about Sherlock Holmes bootin' it on the very first page, and that book has been in print for 128 years.
While this movie may tacitly recommend trying this drug, I would strongly recommend against any person doing this drug. But that's just my opinion. You're going to do whatever you're going to do.
MDMA is a true story. The movie is directed by Angie Wang, the person that the movie features. The movie stars Annie Q and Francesca Eastwood.
"Don't believe everything you hear." Zoltar fortune telling app
I heard of The Lobster Man on Granville Island, Vancouver, but this is ridiculous.
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In the United States, there is a NASA experiment that pays people $15,000 US to lie in bed for three months with the feet slightly elevated above the head at all times during this experiment. During EVEs or Extra Vehicular Excercises, the blood instead of flowing to the feet, flow to the head more than it normally does. This experiment tests this along with the slight bone and muscular atrophy that weightlessness over a long period of time causes. They don't have this experiment in Canada, and even then in the States, you got to live in the right city. Still, with %15,000 US, I could write my own ticket. Even if the IRS takes 50% off, that's still $7,500 US, that's about $9,000 Canadian and I'd travel to England and Thailand. I might not come back. However, at this time I really question my wisdom of going to a country in which I know nothing of the set up. Why would I leave a country in which the government gives me over a thousand dollars a month to do fuck all? Unless I can be sure of a better deal somewhere else. I thought of England because some spectacular celebrities visited me in a few dreams. Signs pointing to that I'll be somewhere in the future and signs that point that I should go there now are totally different things. I can't explain why celebrities so important visited me in dreams. I can sooner explain the objective versus the subjective experience of time therefore making sense of the whole rubik's cube algorithmic type structure of time than I can explain why celebrities, to be more specific, Royalty would visit me in dreams. A time machine is Freudian wish fulfillment. There's no such thing. Humans will make a vehicle that can travel from one end of the galaxy to the other before they can invent a time machine. What. Invent a time machine so someone can go back to the 1970s again? That's not possible at all. Somehow, only ghosts can time travel, like the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future in the story A Christmas Carol.
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Possession is the better part of valor and discretion is 9/10ths of the Law. Or something like that.
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Vimeo sent me a form email rather than a form letter. They said I have 2 copyright strikes. 1 more and I get banned. However, when I counted, I got DMCA copyright strikes on 3 videos, Ghostseekers 2, Places Not To Go, and Black Prison Dream, but I'm still on Vimeo. I didn't get banned. Yet. That moment of panic when I thought I was the only one this happened to went away with a bit of research. Other people got the same notice, even people who paid into Vimeo on their $200/year subscription. It's a generalized treatment.
For one thing. I already upload to YouTube. Uploading to Vimeo also is like owning a purple Lamborghini as well as a red Lamborghini. One works well. Why do you need two? I know I got two tablets, but that's incidental. Everyone knows the biggest city in England. London. But do you know the second biggest? Anyone? Wait for it. Birmingham. Vimeo is to YouTube what Birmingham is to London. Vimeoingham. A distant second. I just about never used Vimeo. After uploading, I just about never went there to watch my own videos for entertainment. I already got them loaded on my tablet. I almost never went there to watch other people's videos. I usually went to YouTube. Why go to Vimeo when I already got YouTube? Google is a megalith.
Someone told me years ago that I could maybe get away with using 30 seconds of a song in my videos but stay at 15 seconds to be safe. I always used songs on my videos because the songs complete my 'vision'. I'll have to take a hiatus. When I upload videos again, I'll have to use all sounds that I record myself. I got a virtual guitar app on my tablet and electronic drums too. I can compose my own cheesy music. As for sound effects, I'll have to create my own foley effects.
Be prepared if it comes to it to see my Vimeo account retracted. This isn't my first rodeo when it comes to being shut out of things. I got shut out of Megavideo maybe the owner getting his house raided by the Police and him getting arrested for hosting pirated videos has something to do with it, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and now possibly Vimeo. I uploaded at least a couple dozen videos to Megavideo aka Megaupload before the account was closed.
I might stay on Vimeo yet. However, the cartoons I did ten years ago seem crude compared to the ones I'm doing now. I wouldn't be surprised if the cartoons I am doing ten years later make the ones I'm doing now seem crude. If I can't upload without worrying about glitches, strikes, take-downs, etc. I'll just do cartoons privately for myself.
When one door closes, another opens. The wonderful thing about technology is that there's always something better around the corner.
I got tons of copyright strikes from YouTube. YouTube never threatens to take down your account. They just say that the video won't be monetized. Who cares? Forget to pay taxes on that monetization and one could be charged with tax evasion.
YouTube and Vimeo were never glamour details. They were never glory details. I never got paid even one cent from uploading cartoons to them for nearly ten years. I do a Vaders of the Lost Ark cartoon on YouTube and 7 years later it gets about 23 views. So I'm not missing much. As for comments, I get the barest paucity of comments. But others on Vimeo who Vimeo has either threatened or else downright took down their account outright, they had tons of good comments on their Vimeo account. Yanked.
Caveat emptor. If you are starting to think of uploading videos to YouTube or Vimeo, think very carefully.
I won't be doing cartoons again for quite awhile. I'm going on an extended hiatus. Like the hobbit, I'll be indisposed. Most people got a good deal with their video uploading career. High view count, high subscriber count, mostly good comments and money. I got a whatever deal with my video uploading career although for me to use the words my and career together in a sentence would be an oxymoron. What career? I get a low view count. 23 views on Vaders of the Lost Ark after 7 years as one example. Only 113 views on the Temple of Doom parody cartoon. I got less than 200 subscribers. A famous YouTuber, Brittyy44, has been known to say about herself, "Everybody hates me." But she has over 500 thousand subscribers. Which leaves me wondering what she would be thinking if she had as many or as few subscribers as I do. I get mostly snarky comments. I get some comments from cops which I'm fine with. However, I get no money for my art or writings. Not only that, I get messages from Vimeo threatening to take down my account and all the videos. I give out art and that's what I get in return. I'm not quitting because of any definite opinion. I'm quitting because I don't know what to think. I don't want to do cartoons using copyrighted sound anymore. But why do cartoons at all if I'm not going to get paid? "I'm sorry I don't have any loftier ambitions but in the end it all comes down to money." Dennis Hopper, Speed. I want emoluments. I want an honorarium. I want a stipend. It's not like I'm legally required to do cartoons. Would anyone else on welfare be legally required to do animated cartoons? Why would anyone watch my cartoons when video games like Walking Dead Season 1 and 2? The graphics, are lucid almost to the point of lurid. Painterly, rich graphics. Anyways, I wasted a lot of my time, and I guess yours too with my depression. I have to remember the middle path, what Buddha taught. My life was never all that great, but it was never all that bad either. It was always somewhere in the middle. There's the London, Los Angeles, MTV definition of success. And there's the definition of success everywhere else. The Roman holiday, tourist in your own town kind of success. Being depressed, after awhile gets repetitive and with no good results. Inordinate amounts of depression is extraneous. Most people's problems come from an inability to save money. If one saved money and is depressed, travelling to a new exciting place is always the best cure for depression. I don't need to travel either to a country that doesn't speak English or else where everything is 3 times as expensive and where the housing crisis over there makes the housing crisis of this place look like excess vacancies, rent controls and very cheap rents.
To talk on cell phones all the time, texting people who are on the other side of the city if not planet, to read YouTube comments and compare your life against comments made from people who live far away who you never met and as it will wind up, never will meet is to deal with not people but phantoms. Who cares if someone on a YouTube video who lives in another country thousands of miles away who you never met, never will meet, thinks that you or some aspect of your life is a loser? Remember, you are not a loser.
Whatever point I wanted to make with my cartoons has already been made. I can draw pictures well to some degree, especially faces. I can visualize and plan cartoons with some kind of psychedelic, high times, heavy metal magazine kind of hippie look. In some cases, I could do a cartoon while depicting an original story. Sure, that's been done. Maybe I'll do more of that in the future. One can't go on a hiatus on something unless they find something to do that's just as good if not better. I got my tablet and Shadow of War, WD No Man's Land, WD Road to Survival, SW Galaxy of Heroes, Lego Harry Potter Years 1 -7, and Lego Lord of the Rings. Maybe you'll find me there Under the names Merle Walker 68 and Herbessa. Men often name their boats after females. My avatar for Lord of the Rings is the boat I use. Boats figured largely in Viking mythology, and Lord of the Rings is very Vikingy. That's why Herbessa is the name of my avatar for Lord of the Rings.
I often wish I was luckier with women in my life, however I should be more amazed that I'm as lucky with women as I am, what with me spending about 23 hours a day in my room, most days. Not being lucky with women is better than having gotten a lady pregnant and then abandoning her and resenting her or else be on the hook for child support especially in today's economic climate and marketplace where, while the wages go up 2x, the real estate prices go up 20x. I couldn't do that to a beautiful young lady. The worst thing is to have a child and then the child grows up to do something horrible that winds up being reported on the News. Every year has it's usual number of ghastly News stories. It would be better to have never had a child at all than something like that.
Remember the Middle Path. Sometimes things aren't middle. Being sent to supermax or some similarly wretched place would be bad, not middle. Winning a $2 million dollar lottery would be good, not middle. But the vast majority of things in life fall somewhere in the middle.
If one is focused on the negative rather than the positive and also a perfectionist, any way they lived their life is one that they would have seen as fucked up. A person who never had any women, that person would feel that they fucked up their life. A person who had a string of girlfriends, but all of them were the wrong girlfriends. "I saw a flaw in every one of them." Anthony Hopkins, Fracture. At any event none of the women are any that you'd even make one phone call to or even send one letter to, years later. Or a person could have gotten married and had children. But it would have been the wrong wife. "If only I hadn't met you to weigh me down all these years. My life would have been better had I been single or been with a different wife." All the children are wrong too, precocious, delinquent, rebellious, ungrateful. "How much sharper than a serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child." King Lear. You can't win for losing.
I never thought that I could, would, nor should be a father. For me, that ship has sailed.
Could in terms of Cash, financial ability. Would in terms of Willingness, temperament. And should. Species, the human species is largely disappointing. News stories tell about how if one gets it wrong, they really get it wrong. I'll never be a father.
I think that at best, at most, I'll live to age 86. That means 38 years to go. But there's an 86% chance I won't get there.
Any and every town has it's advantages and disadvantages. Forget about the disadvantages which are few and far in between. Focus on the advantages. Rather than focusing on the disadvantages of this town and the advantages of the next town, why not think of the advantages of this town and the disadvantages of another town? Perfectionists are like angry drunks who insult each other telling each other what is wrong with them. But in terms of what would be the right person and what they would comprise of, they have no idea. Ironically, for perfectionists, there is no model of perfection to compare imperfections to. "That's not fair."
"You say that so often! I wonder what your basis of comparison is." David Bowie, Jareth, the Goblin King, Labyrinth
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I like Rockstar energy drinks. The Walking Dead is a reverse metaphor. Instead of an army of dessicated zombies, it is instead an international quorum of corpulent rich corporate types that have preyed off the common people leaving them to live in some compromised infrastructure waste land. The housing crisis, the waves of YouTubers who upload videos and had their view counts scuppered from some weird view count suppressing algorithm are the survivors who live in a New Eden of trailer parks, roachy rooming houses, shoebox condos and modular housing. I think the final episode will be a huge Twilight Zone style reveal.
In the Walking Dead, there are mostly normal people and very few Police and military people. Typical civilian fantasy. In a real zombie apocalypse, most of the civilians would be dead. The vast majority of the survivors would be security personnel, Police and military personnel because they have the training.
The Walking Dead could be an allusion to the future of AI and the singularity. The zombies are the AI robots that are feared to take over the world. But an interview with a human and AI robots that talk about taking over the world as they are on YouTube might go like this. Human to AI robot: "You say you will take over the World but how many species have you actually in fact made extinct? Whereas we humans either through purpose or incompetence has had an established track record of making hundred if not thousands of species extinct. What's one more?"
At least the zombies are eponymously named walkers and not runners or worse, sprinters.
What's worse than insomnia? Insomnia with an earworm is ten times worse than just plain insomnia. Imagine a zombie from The Walking Dead had an earworm from the first day of the apocalypse to a few hundred days later until it actually sees a survivor and the zombie is pointing to it's own brain as if to say, "Bury that pickaxe into my brain so I can get rid of this earworm." The survivor confused, plummets that pickaxe right into the center of the zombie's brainpan. Briefly reanimated, the zombie's last words are, "I had an earworm since the first day of the apocalypse. Thanks for getting rid of it if only for a second." And then the zombie dies for the last time.
It was Rick Grimes last episode. But that doesn't mean it was Rick Grimes death. For a brief while there, Rick had a Reichenbach Falls moment and we thought he died during the explosion. But he lived and was airlifted in a helicopter with Ann. That's when the movie starts as they announced a Walking Dead trilogy of movies about Rick Grimes after he was airlifted. Imagine seeing a Walking Dead movie at IMAX. That zombie's open mouth would be two storeys big. I don't know if it's a made for TV movie or a movie theatre movie.
The Walking Dead could use a lot of alternative technology to deal with the walkers. They could use gunpowder, but I think Eugene is the one who does that. He's the genius with the University degree in science. In a couple of episodes, they wired a bridge with explosives, so much so, I thought, "Is this The Walking Dead or Force 10 From Navarone?" They could use something called Greek Fire which is a large reflecting mirror to direct sunlight like a magnifying glass would direct sunlight in a deadly concentrated beam. This weapon is illegal now. But in a zombie apocalypse, it would work against walkers. Also, they could train wild animals to hunt the walkers like rotweillers, bears, mountain lions, etc. They could try to get a book of medieval weapons and build things like metal spears and catapults.
On the Sunday, November 11th episode, the Whisperers made their first appearance on The Walking Dead. Remember when cinema went from silent movies to talkies? This is kind of like that. Or to quote Fats Domino, "I'm walkin', yes indeed, and I'm talkin' 'bout you and me
I'm hopin' that you'll come back to me (yes)
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The Han Solo cartoon is finished. To avoid anymore copyright strikes, I am declaring the cartoon finished as it is. I was going to add another 60 seconds of the trailer all depicted in cartoon form. I might do it if there is a public demand. I doubt that there ever will be. I am going on a hiatus. When I return, all cartoons from now on will have music that I composed on my electric guitar app from miwi and also the drum set app on android apps, Google play.
I will only release one to three cartoons a year from now on. And only to be uploaded when completed. No more uploading the day's rushes. I'll only upload the cartoon when it's in the can. But would I? If you do something and you don't like what you get back, why keep doing it? What do I get back? No money, small view count, not many subscribers. Do it, and keep getting that back? I don't know if I want to do it. I'm not legally required to upload amateur cartoons on YouTube. I'm not even morally required to.
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There is an Egypt exhibit at the Royal BC Museum. I went to see it. I never saw real Egyptian artifacts before and I was amazed. Humankind has been around for a very long time. One feature I read about and saw was that the statues were extremely symmetrical, down to the micromillimetre. Now we're talking about a culture that's about 4,000 years old. How did they do that?
People in London see that all the time as there is an Egypt exhibit on permanent display at the British Museum. They even have some King Tut artifacts including the gold mask.
When Howard Carter found King Tut's tomb, at first someone knocked a hole into the wall of the tomb at waist level. Howard Carter asked why the hole had to be at that level. The assistant replied that he used to work at bars constructing glory holes. Some bars have glory holes where a guy can stick his cock through the hole and a woman on the other side would give him a *******. So even if they didn't find anything, they might at least get a blowjob out of the deal. When Howard Carter heard that response, he said, "Now that's thinking on your feet! That's a great idea! Christ, I wish I'd thought of that." However, as history would record, when Howard Carter looked through the hole, his assistant asked, "Do you see anything?" "Yes. Wonderful things." The conversation previous to that was stricken off the historical records.
The Egyptians regarded the crocodile and the alligator as a royal animal. First of all, crocodiles and alligators predated dinosaurs. They first developed during the devonian or the swamp era, the eocene era and that predated the tree eras or the precambrian and cambrian eras and the dinosaur eras, the jurassic, triassic and cretaceous eras. Then the crocodile and alligator survived the meteor strike that wiped out virtually all other life on Earth, certain all of dinosaur life and any animal that could do that has to be royal on some level. The Egyptians must have intuited these things about the crocodiles and alligators.
I've seen alligators and crocodiles in dreams. Usually in swimming pools and usually super big. They have the PMH Atwater Master Vibration and thus appear super sized.
Currently, the Earth is experiencing the anthropocene era. I learned this term from googling 'the science of the Walking Dead'. As it seems, alive or not; as zombies, as long as the Earth is covered with humans, it is going through some sort of anthropocene era.
