Lets talk about Slenderman…

Read this article first 

You read it? Great! So these girls became obsessed with the Slenderman mythos and killed a girl and this is regarded as something so very new a fresh its shocking. Wrong, things like this happen all the time; turn on the news after a new Call of Duty game or Grand Theft Auto and you will hear the same thing. “Two teens rob a gas station and GTA:V is to blame”, “A school shooting and just the night before the shooter played Call of Duty: Ghosts”, or “teen suicide pact linked to Dungeons and Dragons”. Now all those are paraphrased headlines but lets face it…this kind of finger pointing happens to much. However I do have the answer to all these problems…it the parents. 

Now I am not a parent myself nor am I even remotely close to being a father but I can say without reserve its the parents fault. You don’t see many shooters in there 30’s or 40’s being linked to violent video games or in the case of the girls creepy stories no different than campfire tales. What you will see is kids no older than myself (23 at time of writing) who are being stupid because of a lack of parental roles. Often kids like this will manifest signs of this psychological trauma which an hands on parent would see well before escalation. I know that in my house I manifest these problems firstly I would have been given a whipping so bad that sitting would be non-optional. 

We live in a hands off buddy cop parenting world. Now looking back I can say with full happiness that growing up my parents were the hardass “I am not your friend I am your parent” style. I thank them for being that way because if I had the buddy parents kids have now I would be causing trouble. Kids now need this parenting style because kids have plenty of friends, yet only have two parents. Lets take these two girls for instance. Where was the parents monitoring there internet usage? Where was the parents talking to them about what they see online? Where was the parents of all the children when one girl is stabbed and the others standing over her body? Now I have read a lot of these creepy stories online and I think this sounds like the beginning of a great one. Two girls lead a third into the woods to sacrifice her to some dark entity? Lets think about this…at age 12 I was worried about beating Donkey Kong and catching a Tauros in the Safari Zone on my copy of Pokémon Blue…not sacrificing a child to slenderman. 

Now you may argue “But Doug these are different times kids grow up faster than when you was growing up”…I agree but its up to the parents to talk to there kids and its there fault really. Kids are bombarded on their television networks ( looking at you Disney, Nick, and Cartoon Network) with these teenagers who are role models to impressionable kids. Who put this on? Unless they put twelve year old kids on the board of directors I’ll assume its men and women in their 40’s. Who lets kids have unfettered internet on their phones and laptops? Unless a kid magically gets $200+ for any of these devices, attains a drivers license, and is supernaturally low key at the store about buying devices I’ll just assume its the parents. I’m not saying that kids should not be held responsible for their actions but what I will say is this (and pardon my mild language)

“parents need to get their heads out of their sphincters and realize that their kids are their responsibility. Parents should lead and train their kids to be responsible and aware of consequences. Without this instruction the children will continue to be destructive dumbasses who take no responsibility and the parents will be idiots responsible for the monsters that  roam our streets. ~Doug H.

 

Quote me on that seriously. I get tired of looking at my generation and the ones just a few years younger and feeling a sorrow for these kids while feeling terrified for the future. These kids are the stars of creepy stories, problem is we are the Dr. Frankensteins that created them. We gave this monstrous generation life by letting television, movies, games, and the internet raise them; our creation has attained freedom and is terrorizing the world. 

I have no life

Its true I really don’t have a life; I go to work, I go to church, and I come home and settle in to play games. However I don’t have but one life I have many. I have been the savior of the galaxy preventing the reapers from dominating the worlds, I have been a young man saving the princess with the aid of a blue fairy, I am a cold gangster on the streets of Las Santos. I get a constant ribbing of enjoying my game time at work a lot, maybe its because I talk about it a lot or rather I express my joy when I beat a boss or I get to play D&D with my brother and one of my best friends. Lately this joking doesn’t feel like joking anymore it feels like I am being harassed because I am me and thats not fitting in with the stereotypic norm. Yes it hurts, I am saddened when I share my conquests of Eorzea or my cool campaign hook that I know my players will find amazing and all I get is a look and told “You need to find a woman Doug”

“You need to find a woman” words that cut deep. Once upon a time I was engaged and then after a year of betrothal and 2 of dating I was told “I want to get my bachelors degree before I get married”…she didn’t have her associates degree yet. So I was put in a position I had to chose; Option A “stick it out and grow more and more distant slowly resenting this time gap” or Option B “Abscond and hope it was a good move”. Obviously as you see I chose B…not because it felt good or right but because it wasn’t fair to myself or her to play happy until it got to a point of worse damage. Now I bet your wondering why I bring this up. I bring this up to say “If I wanted a woman I’d have one”  but thats not what I want. I want a woman who will get just as fired up about Friday Night Magic as I do, a woman who plays games with me and called me a scrub when I can’t get the jumping puzzle just right, a woman who laughs when I as the DM roll a 1 on a villians attack. But that still doesn’t the question “Why bring this up”

“Why bring this up”? thats an interesting question. Its because I am me I can’t be anyone else really. I get fired up when I customize the perfect armor to fight Yunalesca, I get attached to my units in Fire Emblem, I am sorrowful when I look at my D&D notes and see campaigns unfinished. But by being me I get told I don’t have a life, or I need to find a wife. The other day this questions was posed of me “How does it feel to see all your friends married”…I live in a world where we all think going to the midnight premiere of Spiderman 2 or arguing about the upcoming Superman and Batman film is geeky. However I’m under all that I am a geek by nature so when that question was asked of me I knew my answer…I’m proud because you know what? My friends are all geeks! My brother texts me daily talking about D&D and my old roomie and best friend can kick my butt at Magic. So why am I proud? Because both have found the love of their life. So you know I may not have my partner in crime yet but I know one day that I will look back at those questions posed to me and can say “I am happy with my life knowing that instead of chasing girls or partying it up or wallowing in my room saddened by my life state, but rather I developed my own interests and my own hobbies”.

So yes I don’t have a life, I have many. I have many lives that I love and wouldn’t trade it for the world, I have married friends who I get to help rekindle their geeky sides when they are worn down by work and married life. So go ahead mock me now for my life, because I can tell you based on psychology that when a person mocks another for a facet of their life that the one hurling the insults is quietly uncomfortable in their own life.

“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the    f–kyou were gonna do anyway.”

― Robert Downey Jr.

Now obviously I edited it for content but that quote is great…why? Because thats what I have to do when I get a ribbing from coworkers when I talk about my Miqo’te Archer/Botanist/Carpenter/Leatherworker on Midgardsormr. Now could I easily stop talking about it at work? You betcha but why should I?! Why should I edit my personality or my hobbies or my passion to fit the mold they have set up for me? Now to get some context I work in a coffee packager and distributer and as such there is a lot of times where we are sweeping or cleaning when we don’t have orders. I bring that up to mention that I’m not bringing up my conquests when we are hectic and crazy but rather when there is time to talk…So back to the point on hand. If they can talk about their goings on and how they are doing this or that with their evening or weekend or with their significant other when I truly could care less…why can’t I share the same information. I realize they could care less about my goings on but problem is I don’t snark back when they talk about their happenings…they do.

So is this really the age of the geek? Is this time frame a safe haven for geeks to come out and play? I’d say no the problem is that its gotten worse. Going to see the newest Marvel film? Thats normal and expected. Going to hang out at your house and grind for candles of Life to battle Yunalesca? You need a girl.

In conclusion…don’t let others tell you that your love for the forgotten realms is stupid, don’t let them tell you that your quest to beat Sin is childish, or that your quest to Diamond league is asinine.

 

“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

― C.S. Lewis

*Drops Mic*

I’m out

A new Realm

Well folks I got sucked into FFXIV… yup I decided that I needed a new MMO in my life and I know I like WoW but it is a lot of pressure choosing horde or alliance. I also have played Guild Wars and its sequel but I needed a game I could play on my PS3; so naturally I went for FFXIV. Well I love it I really do. I started as an archer because I always like playing support roles in games, I think later down the road I will spec into a bard.

Now I want to talk about my character a little; I play as a Miqo’te keeper of the moon.

catboy baby

yup I play a sexah cat boy…which I mean is pretty awesome when you realize that I play a support character. In my head-canon the Miquote are the folks in the back slinging spells and arrows! I play on the Midgardsormr server which seems pretty empty but I do love running around shooting arrows and being awesome then suddenly a person on Magitech armor runs by. Seeing those high leveled players running by make me envy their armor.

 

Now I’m going to add more later but I wanted to relate my server info in case you wanted to join me on my journey!

Let’s talk about sexualization

Ok so being as I’m on Reddit far to much than I care to talk about I have seen a interesting trend…Feminism complaining about women in video games being so sexualized they are nothing more than walking secondary sexual traits. I remember when the issue was “Does video games make us violent” but that thought is for another time I just would like to talk about the over sexualization of women in video games (and yes it is my opinion if you do not agree please by all means do a blog post and link me to it. I support your right to hold your own opinion).

Ok so the problem now is that women in videogames are oversexualized right? Wrong video games follow trends and market numbers so its not the progenitor of this trend..but who is? Clearly its got to be movies right? Wrong again my friends! Real talk here the only reason there is a new romantic comedy every six months and that because people go see them. So once again movies follow the market to new feeding grounds so to speak so where is the problem? To answer that question I would like to share a true story with you.

Long ago I made some new friends and so as all 18-20 year olds I added them to facebook; a few of these friends were girls ages 16-18. Well during the year they was sweet kind girls who loved Jesus and always quoted scripture. Then came the summer purge…Something clicked around July when temperatures rose they suddenly started shedding layers of clothing and posing in nothing more than tiny bathing suits for selfies. I did not want to see that so I started removing them and then something curious started to happen. I started getting messages asking why I unfriended them. I replied telling them that as a guy who wants to stay above board before marriage I don’t want to see my friends half naked and have that rattling around in my head. Immediately I was called a pervert for looking at the pictures and that they was just being free to express themselves. Needless to say I was confused..how was I the perv for going on a public website seeing what can be qualified as soft-core pornographic images and deciding that I did not want to see that?

Well if you are versed in some ideas of social movements and changes in society you know I am going to draw a line pointing towards the feminist movement. Now I would like to say I support social equality for women; if a woman does hard work at her job she deserves pay reflecting that. However the Bible does say that Men are leaders in the church and in families…so with those grounds laid out I can say I support this idea of equality. Unfortunately this idea of being equal has been run past the endzone and into the parking lot. This idea of being equal is being generally driven to the point where its now Women are dominant and should express themselves however they want. There is a segment of the feminist movement that supports pornography saying “its empowering a woman to express her sexual nature”…ok lets flip the script a little lets say that its men saying something similar “Pornography empowers a man, he is expressing his sexual nature” sounds awful doesn’t it? So narrowing the laser before I pretty much burn down the world by losing the point, the feminist movement is accepting the idea of sexualizing women because they are empowered. So using trickle down logic we see these images, little girls feel unaccepted in their normal bodies so seek to become these hyper sexual beings. So with these little girls all grown up we have little boys who are attracted to these hyper sexual girls and they seek after that. Which makes this new set of societal extremes now normal which causes a resurgence of hyper sexualized girls…which tracing down the logic you have Mtv’s 16 and pregnant and I can’t go to the mall without seeing half naked 14 year old girls…awesome. So thats now the societal norm..

Bringing us back to the trending market! With this new oversexualized society the trends follow. Movies now have to have a oversexualized woman in it just to broadcast that “this woman is the love interest/token female/ or swimsuit model astrophysicst?” Which goes to video games and translates to nothing more that a walking set of secondary sexual traits. But here is the hitch in the system now guys are being screamed at for being a conscript to this societal norm and made to feel like the perverts for simply playing a video game. Now I have never played a videogame where I seen a female character half dressed and been like “OMG SO HAWT” no I roll my eyes and sigh at my society. Perhaps its because I see women as more than mounds of flesh that have to reveal themselves to be seen as sexy.

So in conclusion I have some advice:

Women: I don’t want to see your goodies save those for your future husband he will thank you enough. You are more than a living epitome of male approval; pick up a book, study hard, and show your beauty through your brain and heart and not your bikini tan.

Guys: Seriously we support this societal norm of girls being half naked all the time. I can’t take it anymore I see these guys going after the “sexy” girl and then get hurt because every other guy is chasing her and they can’t compete anymore. How about we flip the script and seek after smart, witty, funny, adventurous women who make our lives more exciting because they are fun around. I promise you that you won’t have to wonder what they are doing when you’re not around…I know I’ve been there and done that.

Society: Stop just stop I can’t take it anymore, I don’t want to be in a world where I can’t walk on the street with my head held high. Everytime I go out I see half naked girls to advertise lipstick or some other irrelevant to nudity product. You want to show that we are more than cavemen and cavewomen? Then stop seeking after sex, food, and sleep. Stop prizing the sex and prize the marriage it is held in, stop selling the hurt of abstinence and sell the glory of looking your wife/husband in the eye and saying “in this hellish world where society has taken a bite out of every piece of me I have saved something for you and only you”, stop telling me that I’m the problem because I don’t fall for your lying statistics instead tell me that I am the new societal norm that me and my fellow men and women will not raise our future settled on sex and the party life but on a foundation of steel and glory that is found where Scriptures starts and ends in “well done my faithful servant” Society if you want to truly be enlightened stop selling  yourself short to feel loved instead open up a book and let actual love pour off the cross.

Top ten games of 2014 I’m looking forward to!

So I love video games ( release your held breath now) and this year is a huge year for video games. Since the release of the Xbox One and the PS4 I would say we stand on the edge of awesome games released this year. So for this post i want to reveal my top ten games to be released this year.

• Final Fantasy X/X2

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA” ~Tidus

Chances are if you played the original PS2 release of Final Fantasy X you just imagined that horrible voice acted scene where for some reason or another Tidus and Yuna end up laughing…badly…no really its just horrid to listen to. Now I will be one to admit I never fully beat this game I did however use an action replay to get unlimited keyspheres and spheres to fully upgrade everyone on their spheregrid.. I’m really looking forward to this release since to be honest I think I will get its plot more. FFX was an incredibly detailed game that I didn’t fully grasp back in the day and now I get to see it in HD. Included with FFX is FFX2 or as I like to call it Tidus’ Angels…seriously no explanation could do it justice. This was another game I never got into but I know it was pretty cool…I mean who wouldn’t want a JRPG where the characters wear ridiculous outfits that are literally stupidly impossible and improbable for adventures. So go to your local store on March the 18th to download this gem! I have mine pre-ordered for the PS3 and I look forward to getting this game and going absolutely nuts. On a side note I do want to mention that Monika Lee a cosplayer from SyFy’s Heroes of Cosplay did a phenomenal job with her Yuna cosplay

 

On a side-side note I hope to meet Monika Lee at the Marble City Comicon here in Knoxville, TN!

• Kingdom Hearts 3

Listen if you don’t know what Kingdom Hearts is or why KH3 will be a big deal just turn off your computer go play outside. http://youtu.be/x3LD-3tHgoU look just watch this video and if you don’t get chills down your spine I really worry about you. But seriously as a guy who has played Kingdom Hearts back in the day when I heard about KH3 being released I was pretty much acting like Robert Downey Jr. had come into my work and bought everyone shawarma. Needless to say I will be finding a way to play this masterpiece (I don’t really need but one kidney right?) Not much is known about this game but from what I can see there would be no sense in holding back this game after 2014

• Titanfall

This game looks amazing and plot twist is I won’t be playing it…I own a PS3 not a Xbox 360 or ONE. I wish I could afford all the new systems but alas I made my choice and honestly I don’t regret it. So I can’t tell you a lot besides that it looks amazing but I tell you what go to the Art of Scriptology blog and demand James does a review of it when he gets it (Art of Scriptology 

• Watch Dogs

I have this game preordered…I have had it preordered for a very long time. When this game was announced I watched the trailer and was immediately sucked into this games concept. It revolves around a hacker that has a device that literally can hack any technology. Now I try to avoid watching trailers and reading to much on these things because I’m the guy who avoided all Mass Effect/Bioshock/Tomb Raider/Gears of War spoilers. From what I can see its set in what looks to be a GTA style world that has a sandbox design that i’m sure you can get lost in. Again there is no release date but I know that it will be this year for sure.

• Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark

You know what? The last two Transformers games were amazing! This game looks pretty cool I mean I do play video games to have fun. Now what could be more fun than playing as Grimlock the robot Dinosaur wrecking stuff? Nothing its simple mindless fun that I enjoy time and again. Thats really all I have to say on the issue you get to play as a robot dinosaur from an alien planet…let that sink in and tell it to your inner 10 year old and watch them bounce around like a chimp snorting pixie sticks.

• Dying Light

Think Dead Island meets the film pitch black…now minus out the blind aliens and add in zombies that mutate at night. Interested yet? Ok imagine a game that involves a lot of parkour/free running and then put it on a tropical island, add in a zombie plague that does nothing to deviate from standard zombie outbreaks…now when night falls this all changes. At night the zombies mutate into dangerous predators that are dangerous beyond compare! I don’t know all the mechanics of the game yet and look forward to reading more about it but it actually looks really awesome.

• Destiny

From the makers of Halo comes a game that will pretty much be to online games as Planetside is. Bungie is making this gem a MMO style game that is an FPS that you can play with friends. This pretty much is what could be gleaned from any college campus in the early millenia

Dude…like what if we could all be master chief on different worlds playing and taking down bigger and badder guys ~Pretty much any sane college student

I personally liked all the Halo games (minus Wars and 4) and when I seen that Bungie was revisiting their old FPS stomping grounds I knew that magic would be made.

• Dark Souls 2

Maybe I prefer to have my face bludgeoned in spit on and told you did better this time but you still suck…or maybe I want a game that tests the bonds of my blood vessels. The original game literally prompted me to develop new words that the guys making South Park would giggle at. I’m serious I thought that no way could Dark Souls be thaaaaaaaat hard…ya no I was wrong I played it for four hours and still never beat the first boss! The first boss!!!!! in the modern era four hours on a game may actually be close to the midpoint! Its like getting punched in the face but it feels great when you finally do down that first boss and you feel like a boss.

• Super Smash Bros 4

Finally! Seriously if you wanted to make anybodies day just remind yourself that you have less than 9 months and you could be playing a new SSB game. This time Megaman, Lil Joe, and the Wii Fit trainer will be playable! Finally the blue bomber gets some play time! There isn’t much to say about this game coming out except it will be amazing!

La Revanche Du Jedi (Why Bioshock Infinite is an amazing game)

Ok so seriously half the only reason I know that phrase is you guess it Bioshock Infinite. Now I’m not going to give you a ground breaking post on how awesome this game is… that should have been about a year ago instead I’m going to give you the top 5 joys I have found from playing this game. So without further ado here is my top five ways Bioshock Infinite is awesome to me.

5. Science is Sexy

Ok so I popped in BI and immediately was struck by the beauty of this steampunk-ish world, then it hit me all this is possible because of some kind of science! I love the idea that this fantasy world is only possible because of a scientific breakthrough that breaks physics. Now I recall the first bioshock game being in the ocean but I don’t recall how you can build or sink a city underwater…(Must investigate) but Columbia I could see happening somehow in physics. Right now I know of a way that they are able to quantum levitate a superconductive material.   (http://youtu.be/VyOtIsnG71U). So when Columbia is floating I think “Holy Carbuncle that is closer to being true than in any other era of time”

4. This is a Rorschach test

Ok so this point will be kinda controversial because I will be using the terminology they use in the game. This game gets a bad wrap for being racist against African Americans, Chinese, and Native American…this game calls them Negros, Chinamen, or Injuns. I get it thats pretty racist I personally wouldn’t want that in a game,but wait it kinda is! This game paints a pretty solid picture that all religious (Specifically Christian) people are racists and even beyond that fact is that all White people are pretty racist. So the main villain is Zachary Hale Comstock…a rich, white, racist, and as such this game does a fair point of making that all the white people in this game are racists. However I am not offended because I don’t see that fact..I see this game making the point that Comstock is an ass and the other people want to live in a floating city. Lets see live on earth or cloud city? But I say all this to remind you that this game is a video game not your moral compass. I don’t see this game as racist because for a fact I am NOT racist, however I would suggest that if you see racism beyond the telling of the storyline then I would ask yourself if you are racist? I know several guys who have played this game and as far as I know none think its racist…because they aren’t racists. I say all this to say not all religious people are racists and not all racists are religious. I am an Evangelical Christian who works in the church and I never once tried to start a city under the first church of ‘Merica circa 1893. I know it sounds inflammatory but I want to make the point that this game makes you look and examine this game and remember this is a video game. I seen this and realized this was facet of the game…Make Columbia bright and beautiful while juxtaposing it to a horrid concept of this man’s vision of a perfect world. I don’t see Comstock as a religious man I see him as a idealizing jackass that uses fear and oppression to create his idea of a better world…Is that any different from what businesses do? or modern governments? Look at insurance commercials they usually feature either a mother with children or a teen driver getting in a wreck…then steps on their sales associate telling you about how amazing their insurance is. This plays on your fears of someone you love getting in a wreck. Comstock isn’t religious he just uses the terms and conditions to suit his own need.

3. ITS NOT BIOSHOCK 1 or 2

I liked the first two games in the series…I love this entry into the series. Its because Infinite isn’t set in a cold dark enviroment that seems better fitting the dead space series. I understand Rapture was half destroyed but come on it didn’t seem well built in the first place. Columbia on the other hand is bright and vibrant! I enjoy searching the city for the Voxophones, whereas in the first two games I felt like I was being punished by searching in the dark to listen to a sound clip I couldn’t appreciate because I was terrified of running into Big Daddies. Don’t get me wrong I liked the first two games they seemed to make a case against Human hubris, but Infinite tells a story that continues to puzzle you. I am just getting to the big twist at Finkerton and I’m like noooooo what? So plot twist time! This game kicks the palette up to 13, tells a story that goes beyond rich people can be real jerks, and that you are a lie. This game makes it known that you are a BA dude who can summon killer crows with one hand and handle a crank mini gun with the other.

2. Creepy Twins!

I’m a twin but I’ve never done the whole stand next to my brother and make everyone question reality. The Lutece twins are like less creepy twins then the kids from the Shining. I first seen them and I’m like cool twins that are actually kinda cool. However the more I’ve played the more i’m like are these two really people at all? Am I really playing a video game about multiple realities? Is their a universe where Booker is playing the Playstation of a video game of me? But no these two kids fill the trope of frustrating twins who manage to be cool without really doing anything. Seriously they appear, say some mr Miyagi deep stuff, and batman the heck out of there (now I know how Commissioner Gordon feels!)

1. and Finally we have the damsel in distress who isn’t in distress

I hate escort missions…every game that has an escort mission I have hated that mission more than I hate most species of wasps. I’m not gonna lie when I read the synopsis of Infinite I was like NOOOOOPE one giant escort mission no thank you. However Elizabeth can’t die via random enemies, she helps you out by giving you health, ammo, salts, and money. She is like a wingman i’ve always wanted. Plus she points out things in the world I missed..I think she saved me like 10-15 lockpicks. In summary Elizabeth is the best system this game could have; I feel like i’m protecting her but in most cases she protects me from dying.

So thats my top 5 reasons why I have given a chunk of my life to Bioshock Infinite. OH and in reference to the post title just play the game then google it, you’ll chuckle at the results.

Cool App for the blind

Ok So as many of you know I am into really cool ways to merge technology with simple problems. Now usually it makes the process more complicated and more convoluted than necessary right? However today I want to write a cool piece on a really awesome app called TapTapSee. This app takes what most people take for granted and makes it accessible for those who don’t have it…that’s right its sight.

Now this app does what scifi writers have been trying to do, it marries technology with a simple facet of life. Users of the app only have to point their smartphone or device at an object and double tap the screen. I downloaded it and played with it by pointing it at a collector’s box of League of Legends. Now i was expecting it to say “computer game” no i was wrong it said “Computer game, League of Legends, Collector’s box” I promptly flipped out because it specified everything about this object. So I would recommend this app for anyone with any kind of seeing impairment because this app rocks.  But then I got to thinking….what other ideas could a person come up with on a device that would leave the hands free? If you’re thinking Google glass needs to create an app like this to the point where it measures distance to objects and basically uses the internal camera to determine routes to which it would navigate.

Imagine a person being able to get proximity alerts on vehicles crossing the street, distance till the street, and directions toward an object. The problem being how to manage where your hands are in coordination with the device in order to direct the user to how their hands should be. For this solution I point to the handheld video game system…the Nintendo 3DS!  One of the downloadable games in the Pokemon family of games is the Pokedex Pro 3d.  This game allows you to use a QR code to create 3d models of pokemon, and the camera tracks the QR code and if the code moves so does the Pokemon. This relates back to the Google Glass app because if this app came a qr code wristband for each hand it would be able to track in real time where the hand was so as to direct the user where their hands should be. Now I know I can’t be the first person to think this us because this is to simple and to beautiful to be my design. However if it does turn out that it is a novel idea and it comes out in 6 months I know one of two things are true: 1. I’m a prophet or 2. I am a genius and need to point out that my genius needs to be compensated for solving a problem with simple solutions.

So on that note geeks I bid thee a fair day! So remember, Tap to see, See to Believe, and Believe that Sephiroth was a jerk who killed your love…oh and ask What the Geekery!

My full thoughts on Peter Capaldi

Ladies and Gentlemen this is the newest Doctor

Peter Capaldi is no stranger to the acting field and astonishingly enough he has appeared on Doctor Who before in the Fires of Pompeii episode. However I just want to reveal my opinion on this the newest Doctor.

Honestly I don’t think they made a smart choice in picking Capaldi, the last few Doctors have been young guys who appeal to younger generations. This guy is old enough to be my dad and it would be creepy if he asked you to go into his magic blue box. I know they needed a new face for the show but come on this guy? If you show me that picture you know what I thought? Why is the crazy government dude from Transformers or better yet why is Tony Montana playing the generally gentle Doctor? My Doctor is a younger guy who looks funny, acts crazy, and is awesome. Now maybe this is because I was introduced to the newer Doctors and have only seen the Doctor as a younger guy who looks like a bloke you could run into at the pub, but this guy? No he looks like he is generally in bed by ten and up by 6 he looks like can’t keep up with Oswin or even better yet how about his wife? I know she is pretty much run the gambit but his wife is a younger woman who is rowdy and crazy! Now I will give him a chance and really no matter my opinion of him I will still watch Doctor Who, afterall its still Doctor Who. Its a lot like pizza even when its not the best its still awesome cause its pizza.

Now that you know my bad lets hear the good of this guy. Clearly Capaldi could be the one to forge Clara as a more mature woman who resets the Doctor to the proper timeline. So far she has been the quintessential naive young woman travelling with the Doctor but I think with Capaldi she could become an amazing character that is mature and helps the Doctor remember who he really is, I can see now a storyline where she admits she was in love with Matt Smith’s version of the Doctor. However this new Doctor is like her Father and she respects him and doesn’t know what to do with these feeling for him. Now everytime she sees a funny young man she thinks maybe the Doctor didn’t regenerate and leave her; I can see her growing to resent the Doctor, because her Mother died and left her and then the Doctor dies therby leaving her alone despite the Doctor being right there. With these few ideas I think Capaldi could be a father figure for Clara and maybe we could see the return of having a male and an unrelated female companion to balance out the Doctor’s personality.

See while I hold a disinterest in Capaldi being the Doctor, but that may be because I’m scared. I’m scared that this Doctor will be different, and lets face it its not the face of the Doctor that matters its the heart of the man. I know that there may be some backlash for Capaldi but folks lets just relax and learn to love this Doctor like we did for Matt Smith and David Tennant. We didn’t immediately love them we grew to love them, we learned that these guys were our heroes…not because they was perfect but because they wasn’t.

So Folks in lieu of my normal sign off phrase I shall say “Allonsy and Geronimo fellow Whovians”

Doctor…Who? (SPOILERS)

Ok so I write this right now as I watch the live reveal of the twelfth doctor, right now they are doing the panel with Peter Davison, Daniel Roche, and Liza and I am seriously about to have a bloody heart attack. I am so excited yet slightly scared because I don’t know who it is and its killing me.  I have been a fan of Doctor who from the early Eccleston years and I’ve pretty much been obsessed with it ever since. David Tennant was amazing and I really liked his attitude and his storylines. However Matt Smith’s episodes blew my mind, Steven Moffat is an amazing writer and director. Now I just gotta sit and wait to see Doctor number 12.  So here is my vote for the doctor is Ben Whishaw which many people will know as Q from the newest James Bond film titled Skyfall. His look is a mixture of Tennant and Smith, plus if he kept that scruffy beard we would have the first doctor with facial hair.  I could see this flirty and antagonist relationship between him and Coleman’s incarnation of Oswin. It would be a really good.

 

The new doctor is officially….Peter Capaldi! Ok never seen this coming and now I will be looking up his IMDb page and having to watch all his stuff to get a grasp of his acting ability. But for now I cannot judge because I do not know who he really is and don’t want to judge.

So Capaldi good luck with working on my favorite television show and with dealing with all the fan hatred because you not Matt Smith/David Tennant/ or whomever they want you to be! Can’t wait to see your series man

Throwback Thursday: Final Fantasy 6

Final Fantasy 6 was released in 1994 and came to America as Final Fantasy 3 for the SNES here in America (it should be noted if you call it Final Fantasy 3 that you are backwards and missed so many great games between). In the Final Fantasy series I would say FF6 is my all time favorite, it had so memorable characters in it from the rogue thief…errr treasure hunter Locke, the witch Terra, and of course the gambler Setzer. Overall FF6 had 14 characters that were all playable and all important to the plot. Combine with the music and the artwork, FF6 is an amazing game; it had a romantic trio between General Celes, Locke, and Terra…but wait King Edgar is hinted to have a thing with Terra. It has airships to, I can’t tell you how much I thought this would be a thing in the future when I was growing up. I wanted to be an airship captain back in the day and I was sorely disappointed (I also wanted to be a Veritech pilot and thought quicksand would be a bigger problem but I digress). So let’s go over some of the great aspects about this game I adore…

The Music

Nobuo Uematsu really outdid himself with the score for this game, seriously everytime I get a get a tiny niblet of this soundtrack I instantly know where it was in the game and am thrown back to my youth. Every scrap of music this game has is a classic seriously if you haven’t heard it I would recommend going to YouTube and just listen to it…If you can find an orchestrated cover of it that will be worth your time to listen to as well. Every character has there own theme which makes it very operatic in a sense because when dramatic tension arises you feel it, then when a character swoops in to save the day it makes you at ease.

The World

Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Ito both did phenominal jobs at writing the script and the world out to a grand scheme, the world has depth and heart to it. Seriously this world has more depth in it that I would dare say some of the more modern FF games lack. I care about the world and all its inhabitants, the game has a few side stories that makes you love the world.

Overall this game is literally my favorite game of the series, thats not saying I hate all the others but its just my favorite. If you have a favorite Final Fantasy game let me know in the comments or emailing me at whatthegeekery@gmail.com! So kill the dragons, Avenge Doma, and Learn your rages folks!