Each new decade brings renewed optimism as well as renewed cynicism. One cancels out the other.
Saturday, January 4, 2020.
I am really into some apps I installed. June's Journey is very very good. Pearl's Peril is basically a rip off of this. Also I am really into match 3 apps these days. Gems of War is profoundly good and punk rock beautiful as well, it evokes the bourgeouise warmth of playing Chinese checkers with the solid colored marbles. Legendary Game of Heroes is viscerally addictive once I discovered the diagonal moves option, and the graphics of this app are searing in their intensity. Lily's Garden is a lot like Mahki and Super Mahki from Touchmaster on Nintendo DS. Good memories. Wizard of Oz match 3 is good because Glinda looks so lifelike and beautiful and sexy. She looks hot. I want to now talk about Empires and Puzzles vs Myth Wars. E&P came first and is the alpha version. MW is an 85% ripoff and more or less copy and paste plagiarism of E&P. I've seen comments like this a few times: "This game is a complete ripoff, copy, creepy plagiarism of this other game." To which the app dev would reply, "Although we used the essential elements of that game, we added enhancements and additions unique to our platform." However, I installed Myth Wars first.
Just like a noodle dish can have hundreds of variations served at different restaurants, all of them amazingly good, these match 3 games have so many variations. And Mahki games too. Lilly's Garden is a Mahki game. All others are Match 3.
Empires and Puzzles and/or Myth Wars.
Gems of War
Legendary Game of Heroes
Marvel Puzzle Quest.
Disney Frozen Match 3
The apps I mentioned above should be in the Hall of Fame.
Gunspell and Gunspell 2. Highly recommended! I paid .99 cents for the Halloween special. Good but I can't seem to transfer the prizes inbound on Halloween level to regular level on Gunspell.
Jewels of Rome. It ranks as among the best.
I don't have a 2020 calendar. Trick. I use last year's calendar. Pick a month that starts on the same day as today, keeping in mind 30 days have September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31 except for February, etc. In this case, May 2019 works as a sublimated January 2020 calendar for me until I get a 2020 wall calendar.
Clockwork brain. Earn coins to get a set of 12 prizes. Once you get the prizes you still accumulate coins. For what? Talk about an embarrassment of riches.
"It's bamboo for the money. Wicker for the show. Malacca to get ready. And rattan to go." 80s ad
The forest fires in Australia are awful. I thought there was HAARP chemtrails which controls the weather. Why don't they use that? I heard years ago that forest fires are natural and create a cycle. There's no rain, it's too hot. A forest fire starts and creates rainclouds. Overcrowded forests compete for sunlight and large trees, the canopy block sunlight to the ground that smaller trees need. Some types of vociferous trees actually need forest fires. There are two types of pine cones. Annual pine cones and serotinous pine cones which like popcorn, need high temperatures to propagate their seeds. Forest fires are feast or famine. Once there's a forest fire in one area and that forest is burned out, there are nomforest fires in that region again for awhile. The burned out forest is then compost or humus or loam in the soil for a new generation of forest. The conspiratorially minded could think that the forest fires are a convenient way to clear cut land that if lumber jacks and tree fellers did it with their patchwork forest logging making ugly square swathes in an otherwise complete forest, that gets some people even angrier than they would be at a forest fire. This clear cutting makes way for future cities. These planners are thinking decades ahead. Population growth. In a few years, the places where the forest fires were will become cities. I hope that Australia is able to get through their forest fires. My thoughts are with them. Every year here in British Columbia, we get our like clockwork annual clusterfuck of forest fires. Milankovitch cycle, global warming, sure. But haven't there been forest fires for thousands if not millions of years? There were forest fires on this planet before there were dinosaurs let alone humans.
Heat, oxygen and fuel form the fire cycle. Get rid of one of those things and you get rid of the fire. Or else fuel, weather and topography.
Fire burns upslope during the day and downhill at night as heated air currents rise and fall accordingly.
There are three types of forest fires, ground, surface, and crown fires. There are 3 types of crown fires, passive; one tree, active; a group of trees, and independent; rarest of all with no accompanying ground or surface fire.
Sometimes firefighters start small forest fires in strategic areas ironically in order to prevent potential larger overall forest fires in the future. This is called controlled burns or prescribed fires.
Forest fires grow in units called chains. One chain is 66 feet. 80 chains is a mile. 10 square chains forms a hectare.
Yesterday, I got a nautilus from the United States. I won it on the Bottled Mimosa challenge after getting 10,000 bottled mimosas with just two days to spare. What an Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, got from the United States yesterday was an air strike resulting in death. I never heard of him before yesterday. That's the way it is over there. Every other month some top military general gets killed. This is just another specific example 2hich illustrates the general case. Last month, Al-Baghdadi, a top military cleric leader got done in. They vow revenge against the United States military but that's more aspirational than operational. Another Benghazi? In the contrefois contretemps tete a tete of war, all's fair. That kind of military incendiary back and forth internecine warfare is now the default state of that region. We have the welfare state while they have the warfare state.
"Take it easy, big deal. They blow you up today, you can blow them up tomorrow. It's just business." Benicio del Toro, The Last Jedi
As it turned out, they did blow them up tomorrow. I'm wondering if AI was responsible for the downing of the 737 in Iran that killed 63 Iranian Canadians. Yeah, AI was responsible; Aggravated Iranians. Collateral damage. Something like that would have had to have been sanctioned at the highest level. What level? The head of state? What happens next? Are we to be called to active duty? Would they also draft underweight malnourished strung out junkies and tweakers? The military has a good eye for picking out tweakers and junkies and weeding them out. Even if a junkie were drafted, he might wind up doing KP but would he be an Officer like in An Officer and a Gentleman? An officer makes 6 figures a year. Is a malnourished tweaker officer material?
Now Iran is in CYA mode. Cover Your Ass. Plausible deniability all around. What mistake? Did an AI algorithm mistake that passenger plane for a military plane?
From G5, there is an app called New York Homicide Squad. It is a great hidden objects with some match 3 app. One of the best in creation. One scene in that app, the forensics lab. From the window with the Venetian blinds fully drawn, one can see a shadowy silhouette pass the window from left to right. That could be another employee or that could be a shadow figure of the dead and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what Homicide detectives actually see from time to time considering their line of work. Spooky.
RIP Neil Peart of Rush. Most professional drummers are at level 10/10. Neil Peart was at a level 12. Too complex drumming patterns for me to even attempt and I do play the drums to some level of proficiency. But not at Neil Peart levels! Great drummer.
The Who, a trio band, Keith Moon the drummer died. Just like Rush, a trio band, Neil Peart the drummer died.
Highly recommended apps: 1. Swamp Attack 2. Pirate Mystery Island 3. Jane Wilde shooter
More good apps. 1. Zombie West. 2. Bounty Hunter Miss Jane 3. Mad Bullets 4. Zombie Annhilator 5. Dream Defense 6. Dreams Defender
I very extremely recommend Paper Train. It is a running game very much like Spider-Man Unlimited from Gameloft that got cancelled. Paper Train has gritty edgy hand drawn comic book graphics. I like games like that. Mad Bullets is over the top next level in terms of graphics. Mindblowing. Intense. Sheer perfection. A million stars out of ten.
Shooting Elite. Another pure winner.
With Ducks, aiming is automatic. You just got to get a bead on it. With Shooting Elite, firing is automatic.
Swamp Attack, Pirate Island Mystery, Dreams Defence also has those hot sleek grungy comic book graphics as well. These free app video games look a million times better than the arcade games that cost money to play in the 80s.
I tried to install Spider-Man Unlimited apk from uptodown but I chickened out. There are lots of warnings not to install apps from unknown sources but Reddit she uptodown is safe since they use virustool to screen their apps. Still, it would be a bare bones edition with no support from Gameloft. That means no daily log in bonuses to give an extra edge. I uninstalled Swamp Attack and Pirate Island for this reason. No daily log in bonuses.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020. Spider-man Unlimited from Gameloft has returned. Back and better than ever before.
Paper Train, the graphics don't look like they were drawn on a computer. They look like they were very extremely well drawn on a piece of paper set to motion. That's how good it is. No more Atari 2600 8 bit graphics that were considered cutting edge at the time. I think in time, I will find more games like Paper Train. Running and with good graphics. Paper Train where all you have to do is to swipe left or right is simpler than Spider-Man Unlimited where you have to do a whole slew of things.
Clone Evolution is a scaled down Borderlands iteration. Graphics is well, on the Borderlands level of excellent. I get interesting characters like Aung San Suu Kyi, Bruce Lee, Leonardo da Vinci and Scarlett Johanssen as a News reporter. However, level up all characters at the end of almost every round including training and then level up all equipment etc. Non skill RPG auto fights. Mindless. Just world building and endless levelling up. Uninstalled but very recommended for people who like auto PvP RPGs. And for people who like excellent top notch graphics on par with Borderlands.
I'd like to take this opportunity to highly recommend AFK Arena, beautiful coffee table book artful graphics. AFK Arena has a mauler hero named Antandra, and the way she says "Hey!" reminds me of one of my aunts. I think she used to say that.
And Castle Bane which was probably developed in another galaxy. I've never. Ever. Seen graphics as good as this. What words? Lucid. Searing. Visceral. Stunning. Spectacular. Mesmerizing. If you don't download this app, you're fucking up to quote what someone said about Pacific Rim. If you have a 4K TV and you don't get Pacific Rim on blu ray, you're fucking up.
There is a slight language barrier because Castle Bane was spoken entirely in Korean, a language I don't know a word of, but it did have English subtitles so in that way it was like watching Parasite again.
Very honourable mention goes to Warhammer 40,000. The set up unique, original, cutting edge and mind blowing. Like Left To Survive, the Pay to Play curve was reached in less than a day so I uninstalled them. I should give Warhammer and Left To Survive another chance. Sometimes I discover new things I didn't see before to get more coins, credits, energy, etc.
Parasite is a very good movie. It takes awhile to start but once it does it doesn't let go. There are surprises throughout and you never know what will happen next. The movie is about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The rich stay rich, the poor stay poor and there really is no hope in life. What an inspiring message and however, the performance is worth seeing.
Windows 7 is over. That's what my computer had. The clock doesn't work. Resetting it from manual to automatic, even deleting passwords and then services ----> windows time ----> Log On ------> entering NTAUTHORITY/LocalArea and windows.time service and then click update, all that doesn't work. The computer is half bricked. I bought the computer in 2008. The computer was made in 2006. This is 2020. This is like in 1980 still having a black and white TV bought in 1968 but made in 1966. Most people I knew in 1980 had a 70s mid-70s model or newer TV. I was thinking of getting a new computer but at this point it's redundant. I mainly use tablets. I only go on the computer one day a week. Some weeks zero days a week. The computer is good for copying and pasting and deleting large paragraphs. It's the painless way to do it. On the tablet I have to backspace each letter to delete a paragraph. As for copying and pasting a paragraph on the tablet, forget it. Also the computer is good for casting on a big screen TV. I can already cast YouTube on my TV for free thanks to my Blu Ray machine. It does that. As for casting Tubi.tv or any other website to my TV, I'd either have to use Google Chromecast at $60 a unit or maybe my tablet itself has a built in function for that which I'll have to learn. So maybe or not I'll be getting a new computer this year. My computer had windows movie Maker but Google play Android has lots of video editing apps I'm sure. That involves yet another learning curve hopefully not too steep. My computer is bliatz. The clock doesn't work. The News mentioned getting a CVE-ESE patch for Windows 7 but I don't know how to do that. Also as a treat for me, I got a new Windows 7 Ultimate for my computer installs from a technician. The clock still doesn't work. Maybe a solution to this will present itself one day. Those computers often auto download updates. It's happened before. Often the updates are installed and running even before I turn the computer on. How wonderful is that? Maybe I should get a 2nd hand computer from the pawn store. WalMart computers start at $800 before taxes. Pricey! Sometimes the local Buy&Sell website has good deals for computers.
Maybe Microsoft could still provide some marginal nominal provisional support for Windows 7. But is there such a thing? With Microsoft is all or nothing at all. With them, it's in for a penny, in for a pound.
See, a computer clock is just like any digital alarm clock. If I keep my computer plunged in, the clock keeps time well. If I unplug it, not so much. Keeping it plugged in and the computer clock works with no problem.
My cartoons are not perfect as I'd like them to be. In the comics book world, there is pencils, inkist, coloring, word balloons and dialogue writer. Each of these people are experts. My cartoons, the characters and objects lack a thick outline around them. Most top level edgy grungy artful comic illustrations have this. Sometimes quite conspicuously. I have to remember this.
Most people learn this at animation school in the first month. With me it's taken over ten years to realize this. I'm self taught. I somewhat knew this years ago but this didn't become important to me until now.
Wednesday,January 22, 2020. Oh my God. This morning I was quoting Month Python. "The struggle between capitalist and proletariat is a what struggle? Karl Marx?" "It I a political struggle. A political struggle." The person who portrayed Karl Marx was Terry Jones who died this morning. Yesterday afternoon I was thinking of Eric Idle. I met him once in Gastown. I didn't say anything a the time. I was starstruck and at a loss for words. I regret that. I should have said something. Anyways, Terry Jones died this morning. I found that out not ten minutes after I quoted that Monty Python skit out loud. RIP He was one of the greatest Brtish actors of the 20th Century. All of the cast of Monty Python are. Terry's dead.
Vancouver British properties to remove racist language, "No person of African or Asiatic descent should reside here except servants." What can you say? More backwater history from a backwater country. I'm Asian but that doesn't bother me at all because if I had a million dollars I'd be out of here so fast and I'd never return. That means nothing to me at all. Don't put yourself out on my account, don't do me any fucking favours. That would only mean something to someone who has a million dollars and then actually want to live there.
I wouldn't recommend any Asians come to North America. They do it in some strange personal bid for self advancement. Going to from a country where you're one of the majority to going to a country where you're a visible minority. Would that also be self advancement? If I had any chance at all, I'd move to Thailand and never come back.
A lot of famous celebrities who all of a sudden choose to live in Vancouver don't know Vancouver like I do. In Bangkok, walking down the street, coasting along normally, all of a sudden, pleasant surprise. In Vancouver, walking down the street, coasting along normally, all of a sudden, unpleasant surprise, time and time again. In Vancouver the bad things stay with you for quite a run of a time. Trouble settles in and just stays for an extended period of time. Vancouver seems to be one weird cruel and unusual punishment after another, the downtown Eastside squalorous and moribund open air drug market, the picaresque picayune seedy murderous scene that is Oppenheimer tent city. Hyper airhead frenzy. Civic mismanagement. Incompetence. Vancouver is a very difficult city. Tough town. Bad luck. Unlucky. That's Vancouver for you. Why? James G Frazier in his book The Golden Bough talked about the two forms of homeopathic magic or folk magic, being sympathetic magic and contagious magic. In Thailand, the homeopathic magic is developed to a Brahmanistic level. They don't quite got that in Vancouver. Vancouver is ignorant of that. Or else whatever magic there is cursed. Vancouver is kvetched. In a lot of ways it really is substandard. Inferior magic. Montreal has the Goliath, Le Monster. Toronto has the Cyclone and the Mountain. What does Vancouver have? Wooden roller coaster? And then the 50 year old hockey team that has never won the Championship in its 50 year life? That's disgusting. But Vancouver insists on still sinking money into that white elephant year after year.
Bangkok: normal, normal, normal. Vancouver: trouble, trouble, trouble.
Don't ever lose that imagination. The above is true - to an extent. I had lots and lots of good things happen to me in Vancouver. On two occasions I went to a food line and got an entire rack of lamb. I had some weird things happen to me in Thailand as well. Some unsettling things. "That's life!" Tommy Wiseau
As for the roller coaster, don't worry about it. As Shakespeare said, "One swallow doth not a summer make." In other words, a roller coaster does not a city make. As for the hockey team, Shakespeare also said something along those lines, "The first thing we do is kill the pettifoggers."
Vancouver is a good city and has sweet geomagnetic vibes if you're sensitive to them. Lei lines or dragon lines of magnetism under the Earth can create good feelings. That's quantum physics!
There's lots to do in Vancouver. Vancouver is a lot of small towns strung together and funky theme park towns at that, each with their own palladiums of extravaganza. The infrastructure is at least on par with contemporary modern standards and in some cases even TRON future city space age futuristic. Vancouver is a very good city. 5 stars.
It's better to have no money but be fully ready and willing to leave if any opportunity at all presents itself than to have a million dollars but not be willing to leave at all.
I've thought as much about giving up on life altogether. The grim wretched ghastly inferior physics of this dimension and a human species and whatever cultures are derived from such physics. Life needs me more than I need life.
I came up with a lot of good answers. I feel that this should earn me an early reprieve. My friends in the past, their lives were just as hopeless as mine but at least some of them got an early reprieve. Again, life needs me more than I need life. That's if it even does need me, and why would it? I give up on life.
I currently reside in a dimension where the physics are defective and so as a result I have a mind that is defective and then I wonder why my life isn't working out. Maybe I'm in the wrong town. Wrong country. Maybe, maybe not.
I installed a new app called Kung Fu Clicker. Playing it sober is intense enough. I couldn't imagine playing it on speed. The thing is, it was surreal enough when I was awarded billions of "dollars" ie fictional in app currency. But then I was getting trillions, quadrillions, now I'm getting sextillions of dollars. Anyone who plays this app would get that same standard surreal treatment. In what parallel universe am I getting sextillions of dollars? The whole thing is outlandish and preposterous. Aside from that, this game is curiously addictive. It's kind of like Bruce Lee's Game of Death in which enemies ascend a multi level pagoda.
And that was only after playing for less than one day. The next day, today, I checked and saw that I'm up to a septillion dollars. That's a thousand sextillion. I think that if anyone plays this long enough, they'll get a googol dollars which is one followed by a hundred zeros. Talk about an embarrassment of riches. Well this is better than having my money held in escrow.
"Socialism will never work in America because most Americans don't see themselves as poor but as temporarily inconvenience millionaires." F Scott Fitzgerald
So far Kung Fu Clicker has mad me feel like a temporarily inconvenienced septillionaire, ha ha.
