The Technological Trap

. Today, kids look less forward to getting together with their friends, and more towards getting together with their phone, TV, or computers. Its now really easy to just sit at home and play games, or watch movies for eight hours. You don't have to go outside anymore and see the beauty of nature, you can simply look up beautiful nature on your phone and find really pretty views around the world.

More and more kids are having less and less friends, and now, they don't even need them. Some kids literally don't have any friends, and don't even realize what they are missing, because all the social interaction they need is the television screen, and seeing the main characters of a show have a relationship. Some shows even make people not want to have friends, and human interactions because of how crazy and stupid people are (Jersey Shore). Some people just don't want anything to do with that part of life, so they would rather just watch crazy things happen to other people, or other people do daring things, and not risk anything themselves, they would rather just let other people do it and watch, while they laugh at, or with the characters of the show, or game.

Another thing that has come out of new technology is relationships and friendships online. People who play online may talk to other people playing the same game as them, find out they have some things in common, and end up becoming friends, or even in a relationship. Even if you have known somebody for a year, do you really known them. It is not the same as a long distance relationship because you have never seen them before. I'm not saying this because I'm a shallow person, and saying "what if they were ugly the whole time, and you didn't even know". A lot of you men and woman have been abducted, or murdered because they had online friend ships of relationships, and when they finally went to meet up, one of them was not who they said they were, and on of them never comes back home. Or even on a less dramatic scale, what if somebody is completely nice over the screen, or letter, and then you see them in person and they are a complete slob, and you are a clean freak. It will hinder how well you will get along with each other. Body language can go a long way too, what if they were ignoring you the whole time online, and you couldn't notice because you couldn't see if they were doing something else while you were talking to them, maybe they don't know as much about you as you know about them.

(523)

Dumming Down

We dumbed down the the simplest, stupidest games ever created, why? When you have nothing to do, when youre in between assignments. Most would check social media like twitter, instagram, reddit, etc. But there is a limited amount to see on these. one you have seen everything new since the last time you checked, there is not much to do. So what do you do once you have seen all of the content on social media? You look for fun and random phone games to play.

It is suprising looking back on my two years of high school how simple, stupid, and silly the games I have played on my phone are. But it's just not me being an oddball of society, being an introverted freak staring into my phone screen throughout the day, It's everyone. Some games are understandable, like angry birds, a game that tests your knowledge of phisics. But some are just plain stupid, like cookie clickers, and angry bird and crossy road.

I look back and wonder, how in the heck was everyone so intreagued by this simplistic, elementary game. For example, in cookie clicker all you do is endlessly tap a screen, just so that you can get enough upgrades to tap the screen for more imaginary currency. And once you reach the highest level of the game. It taps the screen for you just so you can get the imaginary currency to upgrade further and have it tap the screen for you for even more! And you repeat this process until the game dies out of popularity, and another game like flappy bird becomes the most popular game in the school.

I wonder what makes us want to play these games. Weather we just have to get to the top of the mountain because we have nothing better to do. Or if we just want to be able to show it to people to show them how great you are. 

(347)

Hulu, so Unappreciated

People don’t even consider Hulu, thinking it’s just a worse version of Netflix, or don’t even know what it is. I think that Hulu should be thought of as equal to Netflix. Each have their own advantages and disadvantages, and that the two are complimentary to each other.

          

 Neither Netflix of Hulu have great movie selection, but that is not what most people look for when streaming, most people who stream watch series, such as Parks and Rec, The Walking Dead, Supernatural, and many other popular shows. Netflix, has all of these, and all of the past seasons, but they do not show the most recent episodes, if you want to watch the latest episodes, and not rely on the specific time that it gives you on cable T.V., you need Hulu. For some shows Hulu does not show all of the episodes or every season, but they show the newest episodes the night they appear on television, so you can keep up with everyone else watching on television.

           

Perhaps the biggest reason Hulu is looked down upon is that it plays ads, a huge reason people prefer to stream shows instead of watch Cable is that it doesn’t play ads, and that is why it costs $8 a month to now show them. Hulu is the same price, so people think it’s silly that it still plays ads, but if it didn’t play ads, the monthly cost would shoot through the roof. It costs more to get episodes right as they come out, so Hulu has to play ads to keep their prices low. It’s a small price to pay, think about what you would rather have. Would you rather sit through a few minutes of ads every episode? Or would you rather wait over a year for the new season to come out on Netflix.

           

I am not arguing that Hulu should be picked over Netflix 100% of the time. But Hulu should be considered by everyone who loves streaming. Many people who watch Netflix have finished many series… or so they think. On Hulu, Parks and Rec, Arrow, The flash, are all a season ahead of Netflix, if you were to get Hulu, you could get an extra season of many of your favorite shows. Netflix should not be considered superior to Hulu, but equal. Both should be considered, and I would personally suggest getting both. 

(407)

The Reason cramming all my work right now

I'll just do it right when I get home, it sounds like a good plan, but then when I get home I feel like I deserve some rest after a long day of school. I've been sitting in a chair doing work for 8 hours, I owe it to myself to relax, I work a long, hard, day, and I deserve this. Then after its about 8 O'clock already because I have wasted my night eating, playing games, and watching TV. And I procrastinate more, and most can probably relate with the Sunday struggle. But I take it even further, I love smart lunch, and I talked in a blog a few weeks ago about how I utilize smart lunch, and how I utilize it very well, and how everyone should. And I do utilize it, but I don't work on tonight homework, I work on yesterdays homework, in fact, that's what i'm doing right now, writing this blog.

I know its hard, but if you can, just try not to be like me, don't get behind, If i simply sat down for one night and just do work for one or two hours instead of procrastinating, I would no longer be behind, I would be able to eat at smart lunch, and I would not have as much anxiety about getting done my school work, just do your homework right when you get home, I myself don't do it very often, and I am trying to get better at it, even though I probably won't do it tonight even though I am telling myself right now to do it. But if you are better than me, if you have the self discipline to force yourself to just do it. You will love yourself, you will have a less stressful life, and you will be a happier person, not to mention you will have far better grades, and probably be smarter than me.

Don't let this happen to you, because it escalates, it gets worse and worse, and your grades will suffer as mine have. It is a terrible habit, and if you can break, it. You will be far better in school, and you will be more responsible as you enter senior year, college, and even your future job.

(398)

Rito Games, Pls Halp

League is looked down upon because of its incredibly hard and long learning curve. It takes so long to even be good enough to not die every 5 seconds, it is a very hard game to learn, and it is a huge turn off. There is little to no "noob friendly" gameplay. You simply have to go through the grind, and deal with adversity, until you are eventually good enough to compete. Once you go through that adversity, everything become easy, and you start having fun games all the time.

There are over 100 different champions and many abilities and different builds for each champion. There is a lot of knowledge about the game that you need in able to be good, and able to adapt in different situations. This is all a part of the learning curve.

Remember, everyone wants to be great, but they don't do what they need to do in order to do to be great. If you want to have fun, put in a little bit of work, and it will be the funnest game that you have ever played. League of Legends is one of the biggest games on the internet, and is still growing at record rates, its not growing for now reason at all. It is because it is a great game, and not to mention. 

Riot has done little to help out its new people. Riot needs to integrate some sort of new user friendly game. They are growing at a very fast rate, but I know of many people who have simply given up on the game because it is simply to hard. If they put in a noob friendly game mode, or matched new players with new players. They would definately have a much higher growth rate, and would be more profitable for them. But they also need to push the fact that their game is free. that is something that almost nobody knows about league. But its one of the most important parts of the game, and easiest way to convince people to get it.

(337)

Why ADC is the most fun Roll

Yet another League of Legends roll, to set it up for those of you who don't understand the game. There are 5 positions, there is top lane, witch is usually a tank of some sorts, sits in the lane all game, playing farming simulator, these people are usually chronically depressed and bored. There is the jungle, where you kill neutral monster camps and attempt to aid your lanes, and get them ahead. Mid lane is the roll where most people love to go because mages usually have many skillshots, and when you make good plays, you are praised by your team. Support helps the ADC and the Team throughout the game. Then there is the best roll ADC of attack damage carry.

ADC's are very squishy and are easy to kill, but they also deal massive amounts of damage, and have the potential to carry games extremely hard. The reason  the role is so fun is that it is simply a very exiting game all throughout. In the beginnign of the game in all other lanes it is a boring farm simulator that gets very boring, and very repetitive. In bot lane, it is a constant 2v2, and you are constantly clashing with the other side. That combined with cs'sing provides a unique challenge that no other lane has. ADC's are also very easy to kill. So you must always be playing smart. You must have knowledge of all enemy champions locations, gap closing abilities, and be able to predict when it is safe to go in, or when you need to run. You are constantly the target of the fight. And it requires a massive amount of mechanical ability to be able to stay alive, as well as pumping out damage throughout the fight.

ADC's are late game monsters, and have an all around exiting game, making them the best role to play in league of legends in my opinion, it can be frustrating, and is very hard to master, but like all other things in league of legends, once you master it. It is extremely fun to play.
(385(

Super Fun, or Perhaps Annoying

Friends can be bad influences, but they can also be hilarious, fun, and very encouraging at the same time. Nobody is perfect, but that is what makes people people. and that is what makes us all love each other. Friends understand that a simple pranks are just for fun, not targeting or picking on each other

Prank wars are fun to do with your friends, but should not be taken too far, doing anything that would cause actual damage to property should never be attempted, only harmless, and maybe annoying things, such as tee-peeing, saran wrapping your friends car, and forking their yard.

For those of you who don't know a whole lot about pranking, tee-peeing is when you get a whole bunch of toilet paper, and throw it all over their yard, and maybe house, get it tangled in their tree, this is probably the most severe prank you can do without damaging physical property, saran wrapping somebody's car is simple, you get a couple hundred feet of saran wrap, wrap it around their car, over the windshield, door handle, side mirrors, all over the place so it is just really hard, and annoying to take off, and if you friend is silly enough to leave their car doors unlocked, take a bottle of perfume or axe deodorant with you, and spray it all over the inside of their car, to make it smell terrible. Saran wrapping is my personal favorite prank. The third, and least common is forking, It has to be around this time of year (10/4/2015) because the forks that you stick into the ground have to get stuck. What you do for forking is get a whole bunch of plastic party forks, and simply stick them all over in the ground, when they wake up in the morning, then will not be able to pull them up, and there will be a bunch of forks, and broken forks sticking out of their lawn.

All three of these are very fun to do. Although they may seem mean, you are supposed to do them to you friends, with your Friends, you should not do this to random people, and especially not to teachers. and also remember that all of these are harmless, no physical damage should be done, and it should only be done if you do something wrong.
(401)