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Two Thumbs Up for One Ups
Last fall, I went with a friend to the midnight release of Fallout 4. I had never played a Fallout game before, so I wasn’t trying to get the game. I just thought it would be fun to go along and see what this new game was about. I watched him play that night and decided that I should buy it. The game was so much fun. The game tells the story about The Lone Wanderer. He/She survived nuclear fallout in an underground bunker designed for this purpose. The bunkers are called vaults and are made to sustain civilization in the aftermath of a nuclear war. In the specific vault that you enter, some people are cryogenically frozen, including you, your spouse, and your son. After being frozen for many years, you awaken and see your spouse killed and you son kidnapped before being refrozen. When you finally escape the Vault many years later, the search is on. The main objective of the game is to find your son, and there are many side quests to complete as well. When I first played this game, it is safe to say that I was addicted. I put a lot of free time into this game. The only other game I have ever played more is Destiny. There’s something relaxing about playing Fallout 4, and I think that’s what makes it so good. While the main objective is clear, there is no specific order to do things in. Doing missions and roaming around as you please gives a sense of freedom in the game. You can also listen to oldie music (I think the genre is big band?) while you explore the nuclear wasteland full of raiders, ghouls, mutated creatures, super mutants, and death claws (a large dinosaur-like creature). Another wonderful thing about Fallout 4 is the ability to find stuff. Literally anything. You can scavenge almost anything for stuff. Weapons and armor are most important. As you get to a higher level, it is good to look for building materials. With these, you can craft improved weapons, armor, settlements, and power armor. Power armor is a tank-like suit of armor that runs on fusion cores. It greatly increases your ability to survive, but you need to keep a supply of fusion cores handy, which can prove difficult to find. After Fallout has come into my life, I see that Fallout games withstand the test of time. If I’m bored, I can go roam around in Fallout for hours, even though I have completed the game pretty thoroughly. If you restart the game and make different dialogue choices, you can take the side of different factions, which will completely change the end outcome of the game. Not often in this generation does a console game feel like the full package from release. Many games feel like a burger, and the toppings are paid add-ons. Fallout is a burger loaded with cheese, bacon, lettuce, onions and tomatoes, where Fallout’s add-ons are similar to the milkshake and fries. Overall, Fallout is a game that has changed how I think of games today. I give Fallout 4 a 9.5/10 rating.
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Gears of War has been a title that I will always play. It’s easily the one game that makes me mad when I play. It is a third person shooter in which you fight to defeat the locust, a bipedal race that lives underground in the depths of the Earth. The series is best known for dramatic story telling, difficult to play competitive online, and how gory the game is. Gears of War 4 came out fall of 2016, and I purchased it. The campaign portion of the game wasn’t bad. This is the first game in the series to have a new protagonist (J.D. Fenix) instead of the usual Marcus Fenix. They also changed the main enemy of the game. The new enemy is the swarm, which is an evolved form of the locust. The swarm is much less organized than the locust, who had a queen and generals. Another new enemy is a government construction army of DeeBees, which are construction robots that build new cities. They also double as a fighting force. The storyline was good overall. It consists of J.D. Fenix and some friends. They are rebels of the government army and live in rebel camps. While they are running from the government deebees, they encounter a new kind of enemy, the swarm. This is controversial because the locust were thought to be extinct for many years, but have actually been evolving and keeping quiet throughout that time. As J.D. finds a new rebel camp to stay at, he makes fast friends with other rebel inhabitants including a girl named Kait and her mother. As they are ambushed by the swarm, Kait’s mother is taken by the swarm before her eyes. The team then goes on an adventure to save her. Some things that I didn’t like about the Gears of War 4 story was the lack of dramatic moments. Also, the ending seemed almost too soon. The story almost feels anti-climactic and leaves you disappointed. The scale of the adventure also seems small compared to previous installments. The multiplayer better than the last attempt that the Gears of War team created. The multiplayer brings a lot of new elements and combat features that old games lacked. New weapons, maps, and abilities make the game a fresh take on conventional Gears of War multiplayer, but it keeps core elements to stay true to the franchise. It is similar enough to attract long time Gears of War players, but also attracts new players, since prior knowledge of Gears of War stories is not required. Overall, I think the game was well made and is very fun to play. While the story felt lacking at points, I think they did a good job in straying away from the typical Gears of War outline. The multiplayer feels very fluent and has better server connection then previous games. More game modes, events, and maps are added periodically to keep everyone interested. Overall, I give Gears of War 4 for Xbox One an 8/10 rating.
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Standing on the Shoulders #2
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2/13/17 Liveblog It!
1:30pm: Sean won’t let us move the reading schedule back. >:(
1:35pm: We are learning about New Communalists and how they live.
1:43pm: Sean describes what it would be like to get a job in the business world during the post-Fordist business world.
1:46pm: My laptop has low battery. Don’t see any power outlets anywhere near me.
1:47pm: Sean pauses to take a sip of water.
1:51pm: Class changes to discussion over advertisements and the Whole Earth Catalog.
1:53pm: The group around me finishes talking about the question, and then we sit silently and awkwardly.
1:55pm: We learn about the geo-dome structures that people started living in. People outside class are talking loudly.
1:58pm: The Whole Earth Catalog has information within and it is used as a tool to learn skills.
2:00pm: Network Forum - Gathering place to share ideas, beliefs and information
Note: I had been completing several posts, however, I posted them to my original tumblr page by mistake. I copied them over to the correct blog.
Communing with the virtual
I would consider myself to be a part of a certain Instagram community. It is the meme community. Many users on Instagram and twitter take part in these “memes”. A meme is a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users. Often someone will be hungry for some social media validation, and will create a funny picture or joke to get some retweets, likes, or followers. If one of these users gets lucky, or has a good sense of humor (or sometimes and edgy sense of humor) the joke they created will go viral. This is when I consider a joke to be a meme. At this point, the meme will get hundreds of thousands of retweets, and sometime more new memes will branch off from it. These friendly and humorous memes are well accepted. However, after a week or two, twitter or Instagram will be so overloaded with the meme that it has been ruined and no longer holds the comedic value it did when it first emerged. People tend to encourage new memes, but after a while it is discouraged to create new versions of a certain meme. If you look deeper into the meme community, you will start to get into the ironic memes. This is when people take an old overused meme and use it again “ironically” and it may blow up again. Some meme creators are on so many layers of irony now that it takes knowledge of several past memes to understand one of their new memes. At the end of the ironic meme community, you will reach the dark void of memes: edgy memes. These memes will probably be mildly offensive and very mean spirited. Aside from that, there are also meme hybrids that will take some topic (such as a tv show) and apply the concept of a meme to that topic. Overall, the meme community has decent values when you only skim the surface. People are friendly, entertaining to others, and give others credit when it is deserved. Below the surface, you will find people that are usually unaccepting to newly popular memes and tend to discourage. The community of edgy memes has the worst values of them all, often using offensive topics or racist stereotypes ironically (still racist) to gain validation for their content. The meme community plays a big role in our current generation and will continue to be relevant as long as social media is still around.
Digital Time travel
I went back on my twitter to see some posts from 2 years ago and it was a big change from how I post now. The biggest change from then to now was that I hardly post anymore. It was mainly due to me getting in trouble from my parents on twitter. I used to be fairly unconscious about the content I used to post. My dad had made me mow the lawn on the last day of summer before I started junior year and I tweeted about how it made me angry and I was mad at him. He saw it a few months later somehow and I was grounded. He was offended that I was so ungrateful to him and he refused to talk to me for a couple days. After that, I have seldom posted anything. I realized that posting personal things like that can be seen by almost anyone and it was childish of me. Since then, I haven’t cared about posting things. However, I still stay updated and look at Twitter every day. The biggest change between now and then is the way people type. Back then, people would type all lower case or put a space before punctuation ! That particular example always bothered me. Another way people typed was by using a certain letter in a word multiple time, for example: “heeeeyyy”. The amount of e’s used might imply that the person did or didn’t want to talk to someone. In 2017, more people use correct grammar. Many still haven’t came around to using punctuation, as it is often left out of text messages or posts online. Twitter in my Junior year was a means of communicating with people, whereas now it is a place of entertainment. Every day, many new posts from unknown accounts surface to entertain in the form of humor, drama, and cute puppy videos. Twitter has changed greatly in the two years that have gone by and it will continue to change as time goes on.
Standing on the Shoulders
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About me
Hello, it is I, Sam.
I started college as a mechanical engineering major. After a few semesters of having no idea what was going on, I decided to change it up. I am currently an undeclared major but I am going into Finance next semester. I am currently a sophomore here at UNL. Something interesting about me is that I was born in Arkansas. I only lived there until I turned one, so I don’t actually remember it. A hobby of mine is weight lifting. I love going to the gym, because it betters my health and relieves stress. I also have a passion for the fashion world. I really enjoy purchasing new clothes and shoes. I also try to be well dressed any time I go somewhere.