Hello people's. Today I'm writing about a movie. Here it goes.
The movie I'm talking about is called Jupiter Ascending. Jupiter Ascending is an action sci fi movie about a girl born on earth who learns that her genes are the exact genetic duplicate to a ridiculously wealthy human from the real birthplace of humans, Orin. These industrialist human overlords own entire solar systems and plant the human race onto planets and let them grow in population until it becomes too much for the planet. Once that is done they "harvest" the planet, that is to say kill everybody on it and use their organic material to prolong their own lives. Jupiter Jones was born with the exact same genes in the exact same order as one of these humans that had lived previously and this genetic "copy" had been included in her will as the heir to a massive inheritance including Earth.
The movie was very good. I'm not gonna spoil any more of the plot but it's very in depth and the universes is actually very complex. I would definitely watch a sequel.
Bye.
- By Ashton
The Grey Jack Frost
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Eddings theories
Hello peoples. Today I'm talking more about the series I was going to write. Here it goes.
So this series is going to bring together the fantasy worlds that David Eddings wrote about. Last time I wrote about my theory on how the separate continents in his universes could possibly be together on a single planet. After I wrote that I got out all of his books and made a very long map with all of the continents on them, some of them are my own creation because not every series included places both north and south of the equator or were wide enough. When it was done I taped them together and curled it around to make somewhat of a globe. This was when I realized that with the world being so wide it would either have to be donut shaped with flat wide poles or regularly shaped with ice covering around half of the entire globe. I decided to have it globe shaped and when you went a few miles into the southern ice continent or a few miles into the northern ice you encounter very strange, cold, barren landscapes. These landscapes are the physical repercussions on this world for all the earth shattering events that took place like Klæl being banished from this world, Nahgharash being forced into nothing and nowhere, Cyradis making her choice, etc. The enormous forces battling for control over all of reality on this world had the power to take these repercussions and move them to the unpopulated poles.
Now for snore complex theory. Now I've already decided that the two final opposing forces are going to be Nothing and Substance. Contrary to the beliefs of almost every religion on this fictional planet the very first thing that existed was Nothing. And then all of a sudden Substance was born and took the shape of the first planet and made it it's heart. So while the forces of Nothing and Substance pulled and strained against one other 2 "races" of entities were born on the first planet. The first race were the destinies the largest and most powerful destinies had futures for the entire universe and smaller ones contained the smallest of events like a man sneezing on a certain day. And all of these destinies conflicted each other and they warred constantly over the fate of the universe and fought too with the substance and the nothing for control. The second race were the creators. Everything alive has the ability to create, humans are at the bottom because they can create the least, above them are gods that have enormous power to create based on how many believe in them, among other factors, and above them are spirits that created and destroyed entire solar systems and fought amongst themselves. Most of these forces eventually realized that the Nothing was the most evil force and joined together to put the Nothing into a sleep. But now through the vast amounts of power being released on this world, and forcing Nahgharash into the Nothing, it is waking on this world.
- By Ashton
So this series is going to bring together the fantasy worlds that David Eddings wrote about. Last time I wrote about my theory on how the separate continents in his universes could possibly be together on a single planet. After I wrote that I got out all of his books and made a very long map with all of the continents on them, some of them are my own creation because not every series included places both north and south of the equator or were wide enough. When it was done I taped them together and curled it around to make somewhat of a globe. This was when I realized that with the world being so wide it would either have to be donut shaped with flat wide poles or regularly shaped with ice covering around half of the entire globe. I decided to have it globe shaped and when you went a few miles into the southern ice continent or a few miles into the northern ice you encounter very strange, cold, barren landscapes. These landscapes are the physical repercussions on this world for all the earth shattering events that took place like Klæl being banished from this world, Nahgharash being forced into nothing and nowhere, Cyradis making her choice, etc. The enormous forces battling for control over all of reality on this world had the power to take these repercussions and move them to the unpopulated poles.
Now for snore complex theory. Now I've already decided that the two final opposing forces are going to be Nothing and Substance. Contrary to the beliefs of almost every religion on this fictional planet the very first thing that existed was Nothing. And then all of a sudden Substance was born and took the shape of the first planet and made it it's heart. So while the forces of Nothing and Substance pulled and strained against one other 2 "races" of entities were born on the first planet. The first race were the destinies the largest and most powerful destinies had futures for the entire universe and smaller ones contained the smallest of events like a man sneezing on a certain day. And all of these destinies conflicted each other and they warred constantly over the fate of the universe and fought too with the substance and the nothing for control. The second race were the creators. Everything alive has the ability to create, humans are at the bottom because they can create the least, above them are gods that have enormous power to create based on how many believe in them, among other factors, and above them are spirits that created and destroyed entire solar systems and fought amongst themselves. Most of these forces eventually realized that the Nothing was the most evil force and joined together to put the Nothing into a sleep. But now through the vast amounts of power being released on this world, and forcing Nahgharash into the Nothing, it is waking on this world.
- By Ashton
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Horror story ideas
Hello peoples. Today I'm just talking about some ideas that I have had for horror stories. Here it goes.
1. Lesson one. There is no devil and that is a horrible thing. There is no Devil or worst part of Hell concept, what scares us most is the concept of unknown and infinity, hell is infinite in size and possibilities and there is no "most powerful entity" only ones we may possibly find to be worse and worse.
3. It's broken mind. A man driven to complete and utter insanity in a hospital bed due to a horrible accident which has completely mangled his body to the point where he must venture into his own mind to bring himself back to sanity and kill himself in order to not release his insanity upon the earth. The end. Also the number 11. End the book with this "my (crossed out and replaced with our broken mind.)"
Have some kind of entity and a concept because that's what scares.
4. THE MASTER OF SLEEP. A man who's learn to do incredible and supernatural things through the power of sleep and dreams.
6. Shades of insanity, every single human sees everything through their own shade like an unlimited amount of unlimited amount of combinations of different glass shades an weaves their thoughts with different threads of different material of different color on different spools. When you go insane it gives you more of these of often darker and worse shades of the ones you have making it possible to force yourself in an out of insanity and potentially creating entirely new ones based off yours or the others you posses.
7. In the future where it is discovered that hell literally lies under the surface and a police force has to defend earth from what lays under it. Many scary cave scenes.
8. Son or daughter with unusual past and unusual parents possible mental disturbance is involved in something that elevates him or her to an Übermensch state, conflict with their parents leading to supposed climax and breaking of parts of the persons mind, they escape a high level security due to new and supernatural powers like feeling no pain and your brain doesn't let you hold back, for instance him squeezing his jaw shut so hard in order to break his teeth to make them sharper, limb stuck pulls away with no reaction, ect.
9. A man biologically and supernaturally turning into something slowly "a werewolf story"
So there were some of my ideas for horror. Bye.
- By Ashton
1. Lesson one. There is no devil and that is a horrible thing. There is no Devil or worst part of Hell concept, what scares us most is the concept of unknown and infinity, hell is infinite in size and possibilities and there is no "most powerful entity" only ones we may possibly find to be worse and worse.
3. It's broken mind. A man driven to complete and utter insanity in a hospital bed due to a horrible accident which has completely mangled his body to the point where he must venture into his own mind to bring himself back to sanity and kill himself in order to not release his insanity upon the earth. The end. Also the number 11. End the book with this "my (crossed out and replaced with our broken mind.)"
Have some kind of entity and a concept because that's what scares.
4. THE MASTER OF SLEEP. A man who's learn to do incredible and supernatural things through the power of sleep and dreams.
6. Shades of insanity, every single human sees everything through their own shade like an unlimited amount of unlimited amount of combinations of different glass shades an weaves their thoughts with different threads of different material of different color on different spools. When you go insane it gives you more of these of often darker and worse shades of the ones you have making it possible to force yourself in an out of insanity and potentially creating entirely new ones based off yours or the others you posses.
7. In the future where it is discovered that hell literally lies under the surface and a police force has to defend earth from what lays under it. Many scary cave scenes.
8. Son or daughter with unusual past and unusual parents possible mental disturbance is involved in something that elevates him or her to an Übermensch state, conflict with their parents leading to supposed climax and breaking of parts of the persons mind, they escape a high level security due to new and supernatural powers like feeling no pain and your brain doesn't let you hold back, for instance him squeezing his jaw shut so hard in order to break his teeth to make them sharper, limb stuck pulls away with no reaction, ect.
9. A man biologically and supernaturally turning into something slowly "a werewolf story"
So there were some of my ideas for horror. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, January 25, 2015
3 iOS games
Hello people's. Today I'm gonna be talking about some more ios games. Here it goes.
My first review is of the recent expansion of the popular puzzle game Monument Valley. So if you've played Monument Valley you know that your character, the princess, has stolen "sacred geometrical objects" from strange, impossible, landscapes that look like M. C. Escher drawings. When she stole these objects it reduced the population of beautiful, intelligent, multicolored, birds into mindless, flightless Ravens. So the princess has returned to these landscapes, these monuments, to put the sacred geometry back in its rightful place and restore the glory of the bird people. On her way the human queen of this civilization, untouched by the effects of the misplaced geometry, scolds the "thieving princess" and demanding that she return the objects. Along her way she is also helped by a living monument dubbed totem because he appears as a four block tall totem pole. Eventually the princess returns all 10 of the objects and after the final one is returned the Ravens burst into color once again and fly off into the sky. Shortly after a crown descends from the sky and onto the princesses head and shows her true form, a gleaming white dove, implying that she was the princess of the ravens all along. The expansion Forgotten Shores does not have a very unique storyline it just implies that the princess forgot to return 8 objects or that this takes place before the final event in the original game. However the expansion is even better than the original game, in that the monuments are even more beautiful and enchanting and the puzzles are more challenging, intuitive, and fun than the originals were.
SPOILERS
At the end of the final level the floating square that is the environment in level 10 of the original appears above the princess and totem which may indicate that this takes place between level 9 and level 10 of the original.
END SPOILERS.
The second game is another intriguing puzzle game called HOOK. HOOK has no storyline it is just a relaxing, minimal puzzle game. In HOOK the goal for each level is to remove all of the thick black lines without bumping into another. To remove one you tap a black circle that will run a "current" along skinny black "wires" and if the thick black line is not obstructed it will disappear. You cannot remove a black line if it has another black line over it or if it would bump into a curved black line while its retracting. The game has fifty levels so far and another mechanics to make it interesting like circles you can tap to change the direction of the wires and signals that whenever activated will activate it's correspondent. The game was independently developed by Maciej Targoni and I implore you to download and support his/her game. They have promised to create more levels if the game is well received and I want more.
The final game is called Reaper: Tale of a Pale Swordsman. Reaper is a 2D action side scroller. The story is rather rich for an iOS game. Your origins are not known you are just a rather pale fellow dressed in black with a large sword. One day you come out of the mountains to the east and find yourself in the middle of a battle between two opposing factions. On one side is the Wilderlings, the tribal natives to this land they are well versed in magic and primitive weapons. On the other side is the invading force, the imperial army with guns and war machines of bronze. Both sides constantly hire you to do jobs and attack you for seemingly no reason. Pretty soon elves appear, animals start going crazy, and demons start to appear. Demons are said to be an omen that things are about to change.. Reaper is an amazing game and may be my favorite on this list. The combat is fluid and almost never gets old. The story is rich and there are many companions that you'll meet on your adventure. I highly recommend buying Reaper: The Pale Swordsman especially if you like sidescrollers.
So there are 3 great iOS games. Bye.
- By Ashton
My first review is of the recent expansion of the popular puzzle game Monument Valley. So if you've played Monument Valley you know that your character, the princess, has stolen "sacred geometrical objects" from strange, impossible, landscapes that look like M. C. Escher drawings. When she stole these objects it reduced the population of beautiful, intelligent, multicolored, birds into mindless, flightless Ravens. So the princess has returned to these landscapes, these monuments, to put the sacred geometry back in its rightful place and restore the glory of the bird people. On her way the human queen of this civilization, untouched by the effects of the misplaced geometry, scolds the "thieving princess" and demanding that she return the objects. Along her way she is also helped by a living monument dubbed totem because he appears as a four block tall totem pole. Eventually the princess returns all 10 of the objects and after the final one is returned the Ravens burst into color once again and fly off into the sky. Shortly after a crown descends from the sky and onto the princesses head and shows her true form, a gleaming white dove, implying that she was the princess of the ravens all along. The expansion Forgotten Shores does not have a very unique storyline it just implies that the princess forgot to return 8 objects or that this takes place before the final event in the original game. However the expansion is even better than the original game, in that the monuments are even more beautiful and enchanting and the puzzles are more challenging, intuitive, and fun than the originals were.
SPOILERS
At the end of the final level the floating square that is the environment in level 10 of the original appears above the princess and totem which may indicate that this takes place between level 9 and level 10 of the original.
END SPOILERS.
The second game is another intriguing puzzle game called HOOK. HOOK has no storyline it is just a relaxing, minimal puzzle game. In HOOK the goal for each level is to remove all of the thick black lines without bumping into another. To remove one you tap a black circle that will run a "current" along skinny black "wires" and if the thick black line is not obstructed it will disappear. You cannot remove a black line if it has another black line over it or if it would bump into a curved black line while its retracting. The game has fifty levels so far and another mechanics to make it interesting like circles you can tap to change the direction of the wires and signals that whenever activated will activate it's correspondent. The game was independently developed by Maciej Targoni and I implore you to download and support his/her game. They have promised to create more levels if the game is well received and I want more.
The final game is called Reaper: Tale of a Pale Swordsman. Reaper is a 2D action side scroller. The story is rather rich for an iOS game. Your origins are not known you are just a rather pale fellow dressed in black with a large sword. One day you come out of the mountains to the east and find yourself in the middle of a battle between two opposing factions. On one side is the Wilderlings, the tribal natives to this land they are well versed in magic and primitive weapons. On the other side is the invading force, the imperial army with guns and war machines of bronze. Both sides constantly hire you to do jobs and attack you for seemingly no reason. Pretty soon elves appear, animals start going crazy, and demons start to appear. Demons are said to be an omen that things are about to change.. Reaper is an amazing game and may be my favorite on this list. The combat is fluid and almost never gets old. The story is rich and there are many companions that you'll meet on your adventure. I highly recommend buying Reaper: The Pale Swordsman especially if you like sidescrollers.
So there are 3 great iOS games. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, January 18, 2015
David Eddings Universe Theory
Hello people's. It's time for some more David Eddings. Here it goes.
So Eddings wrote four fantasy universes before his death in 2009. Recently I finished the third, The Redemption of Althalus. Now as I was reading this third fantasy universe I realized that although occasionally the characters have hinted to knowing that the world is round they have never contemplated the idea of sailing the other way from the west coast of their continent to the east coast to the other, it's just always been from east coast to west coast. Now it would seem obvious that the human characters would just think that the ocean between the west and east coasts would be wider and also unexplored compared the regular route. Even if the humans didn't think about traveling the other direction you would think that all of the gods in these books would know this. However, in most of these series at one point or another through some kind of magic, characters have not "noticed" something important or have only had that important thing come to them through a trigger, for instance in The Mallorean when Garion is looking through The Secrets to find actual prophecy he doesn't have to actually read the words, he just has to turn pages until the correct words jump at him and he notices them and in the same series a splotch on a piece of paper magically irritates people so much that they don't look at it and realize that it's actually many words over top of each other. Also in the Elenium the goddess Aphrael will sometimes cause people to not notice her and the party she is with, she's not actually invisible she has just forced those people to not notice them. This got me thinking about the potential that these four universes are not separate; the land that the characters inhabit just lay in the oceans that for some reason the characters never bothered to try and cross. The being that put this magic on all of the mortals and gods would be something of boundless power exceeding all of the gods, Bhelliom and Klæl, and even the two battling destinies in The Belgariad/Mallorean. This gave me the idea that once every group of characters had completed their original purpose, for the Garion books defeat the dark destiny, for the Sparhawk books defeating Klæl etc., that the mental barriers would be dropped and all of the sudden the magically inclined characters would "hear" the new kinds of magic and new gods suddenly available to them and they would all be part of a final grand battle.
So that's my idea that joins all of David Eddings' fantasy universes. Bye.
- By Ashton
So Eddings wrote four fantasy universes before his death in 2009. Recently I finished the third, The Redemption of Althalus. Now as I was reading this third fantasy universe I realized that although occasionally the characters have hinted to knowing that the world is round they have never contemplated the idea of sailing the other way from the west coast of their continent to the east coast to the other, it's just always been from east coast to west coast. Now it would seem obvious that the human characters would just think that the ocean between the west and east coasts would be wider and also unexplored compared the regular route. Even if the humans didn't think about traveling the other direction you would think that all of the gods in these books would know this. However, in most of these series at one point or another through some kind of magic, characters have not "noticed" something important or have only had that important thing come to them through a trigger, for instance in The Mallorean when Garion is looking through The Secrets to find actual prophecy he doesn't have to actually read the words, he just has to turn pages until the correct words jump at him and he notices them and in the same series a splotch on a piece of paper magically irritates people so much that they don't look at it and realize that it's actually many words over top of each other. Also in the Elenium the goddess Aphrael will sometimes cause people to not notice her and the party she is with, she's not actually invisible she has just forced those people to not notice them. This got me thinking about the potential that these four universes are not separate; the land that the characters inhabit just lay in the oceans that for some reason the characters never bothered to try and cross. The being that put this magic on all of the mortals and gods would be something of boundless power exceeding all of the gods, Bhelliom and Klæl, and even the two battling destinies in The Belgariad/Mallorean. This gave me the idea that once every group of characters had completed their original purpose, for the Garion books defeat the dark destiny, for the Sparhawk books defeating Klæl etc., that the mental barriers would be dropped and all of the sudden the magically inclined characters would "hear" the new kinds of magic and new gods suddenly available to them and they would all be part of a final grand battle.
So that's my idea that joins all of David Eddings' fantasy universes. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, January 11, 2015
X-Wing
Hello people's. Today I'm writing about a miniatures game. Here it goes.
The game is called X-wing after the fighters from Star Wars. The game is played with miniature ships with a small base under it with some of its stats on them. Every game is played with one side as the rebels (good guys) and one side as the imperials (bad guys). First you build your team of ships using a point system. It's recommended to play 100 point games but you can play with as many points as you want it just has to be equal for both players.
You can manage your points by adding ships, upgrades, or pilots. For instance a regular x-wing fighter will be worth much less than an x-wing fighter piloted by Luke Skywalker with proton torpedoes and R2-D2 on it. Once you have an equal amount of points on both teams you set up your ships on opposite sides of the playing space. The playing space should be around 3 feet by 3 feet for an 100 point game. The company makes maps for the game but any flat surface will do. Use the range marker that comes with the game and you can place your ships any where in the first section of it while it is touching your side of the board.
The game is played simultaneously so the first step is to take your maneuver dials and decide where you want your ships to move by turning the dial, once you've done that you lay it face down so your moves are secret. Once both players have done that you take the ship with the lowest pilot skill and place the movement template indicated by your dial in front of your ship and place your ship at the end of it. After you've moved you take an action; most actions will help you in combat rolls but some don't like barrel roll which lets you move once to either side. After every ship has moved and taken an action from lowest to highest pilot skill the combat begins starting with the highest pilot skill. To shoot at an enemy they have to be within range and your front arc, use the range stick to determine if it's a viable shot. The closer the ship is the easier it will be to hit. If the shot is good than you roll Attack dice and your opponent rolls defense dice. The outcome will determine how much damage is done to the ship if any and after all combat is done the next turn begins. In most games you win if all of your enemies ships are destroyed.
So that was X-wing it is an amazing miniatures game. My favorite parts about it is that you don't have to paint them which is a huge chunk of money and maintenance there and it's relatively uncomplicated for a miniatures game. I definitely recommend X-wing if you are a fan of these games or Star Wars. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Christmas party
Hello people's. Today I'm talking about a Christmas party I went to yesterday. Yes, I am aware that it's after New Years. Here it goes.
So yesterday me and my family went down to Virginia and stopped at the mall. There we ate and shopped some and I got a Joker shirt from Spencer's. Afterwards we went to my mom's parents' house. When we got there we opened our presents that our grandparents had gotten us. I got 2 pairs of Jeans that actually fit me which I was very happy about and 3 shirts. I also was very happy to get a 1 book fantasy epic by David Eddings called The Redemption of Althalus, and a 4 book series by him called The Dreamers. My best present might have been a PS3 game called Dragon Age 3 Inquisition that also came with a 50$ Playstation network gift card for some other games I wanted. I started reading The Redemption of Althalus and it's very nice to get back into an Eddings fantasy book. I haven't yet tried out Dragon Age Inquisition but I plan to today and I am very excited about it. After we had opened our presents we watched a movie and had snacks before the rest of the guests got here. The guests that came were uncle Chris, Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Jessica, and my cousin Brittany and her baby son Ramsey. Shortly after they got here we had dinner. For dinner was dinner rolls, asparagus, corn, rice, and delicious roast beef. It all tasted amazing. When dinner was over we went in the living room and talked and exchanged some more gifts and then eventually we had to leave.
So that was the Christmas party I went to. Bye.
- By Ashton
So yesterday me and my family went down to Virginia and stopped at the mall. There we ate and shopped some and I got a Joker shirt from Spencer's. Afterwards we went to my mom's parents' house. When we got there we opened our presents that our grandparents had gotten us. I got 2 pairs of Jeans that actually fit me which I was very happy about and 3 shirts. I also was very happy to get a 1 book fantasy epic by David Eddings called The Redemption of Althalus, and a 4 book series by him called The Dreamers. My best present might have been a PS3 game called Dragon Age 3 Inquisition that also came with a 50$ Playstation network gift card for some other games I wanted. I started reading The Redemption of Althalus and it's very nice to get back into an Eddings fantasy book. I haven't yet tried out Dragon Age Inquisition but I plan to today and I am very excited about it. After we had opened our presents we watched a movie and had snacks before the rest of the guests got here. The guests that came were uncle Chris, Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Jessica, and my cousin Brittany and her baby son Ramsey. Shortly after they got here we had dinner. For dinner was dinner rolls, asparagus, corn, rice, and delicious roast beef. It all tasted amazing. When dinner was over we went in the living room and talked and exchanged some more gifts and then eventually we had to leave.
So that was the Christmas party I went to. Bye.
- By Ashton
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