Dark Dragon
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Saturday, 23 July 2011
100th Post! Reviews and Holiday stuff
Hello citizens of the free world, how y'all doing? =P
Saw two films today; True Grit and Paul. Haven't had the luck of seeing the new Harry Potter film like Mcdogface has (my brother was going to see it with his girlfriend so we couldn't see it without spoiling it for him; turns out they went to see Cars 2... It wouldn't spoil it for him if he'd been reading the book too!"
So a quick review for both films;
True Grit
An awesome film; not one to watch if you're squeamish about a few lost fingers. The main character's a girl called Maddy, who talks really fast all the time and isn't afraid to get her own way. At the beginning of the film she talks about her father dying, and then she's in the town to pick up the body, and 'sort out her father's business'. By this she means getting the money back from some horses belonging to her Dad and sorting out a bounty hunter to get the killer.
A guy called Rooster (His name's Rueben Cogley or something, but throughout the film he's called Marshal, 'cuz he's a Marshal) who is pretty awesome until near the end helps her, and so does this Texan Ranger Arsehole called Le Beef or something (don't like that guy)
The film is funny, awesome, and you have to pay attention 'cuz everyone has fast cowboy accents.
Paul
You must see this film! The picture here is of Paul doing a 'Predator' impression, while he explains how his camouflage works. The film is about two nerds from Britain going around America to see great things like The Black Postbox and Area 51 (Don't know what those are? Well you have a life, well done! I don't and I'm proud!) and then they meet Paul, an alien who's "Not dangerous, just a bit... rude". The film contains strong language (name a film I like which doesn't!) and strong laughter, and a surprisingly good plot; I'm a bit of a spoilsport for guessing the end before it happens, but this film leaves you in the dark, and makes you laugh a lot more because of that (anyone who's seen the final stand off will know that I'm bigging-up the funny ending).
And Finally
Welcome back Mcdogface! Haven't been able to contact him (Been saying "Hello?" Over and over again on various chat websites; I'm annoying that way) and if you can't be bothered to scroll down then could anyone reading this please find out a cheap, preferably free, way of recording stuff on the Xbox for vlogs (and Mcdogface? Need the youtube password, ta)
Also; holidays are great!
Hoo-Rah!
Dark Dragon
P.S 'spect to the two people who voted for me!
Saw two films today; True Grit and Paul. Haven't had the luck of seeing the new Harry Potter film like Mcdogface has (my brother was going to see it with his girlfriend so we couldn't see it without spoiling it for him; turns out they went to see Cars 2... It wouldn't spoil it for him if he'd been reading the book too!"
So a quick review for both films;
True Grit
A guy called Rooster (His name's Rueben Cogley or something, but throughout the film he's called Marshal, 'cuz he's a Marshal) who is pretty awesome until near the end helps her, and so does this Texan Ranger Arsehole called Le Beef or something (don't like that guy)
The film is funny, awesome, and you have to pay attention 'cuz everyone has fast cowboy accents.
Paul
And Finally
Welcome back Mcdogface! Haven't been able to contact him (Been saying "Hello?" Over and over again on various chat websites; I'm annoying that way) and if you can't be bothered to scroll down then could anyone reading this please find out a cheap, preferably free, way of recording stuff on the Xbox for vlogs (and Mcdogface? Need the youtube password, ta)
Also; holidays are great!
Hoo-Rah!
Dark Dragon
P.S 'spect to the two people who voted for me!
Friday, 22 July 2011
Any Ideas?
Does anyone know how to record the Xbox 360, with no cost
whatsoever? I need to know for future vlogs.
Any help would be much appreciated,
-McDogFace
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Sorry for the lateness...
Sorry, for not posting for a while I am just trying to sort my social life out (In my case actually get one!)
I will try to post as much as possible, but, you know (Okay, you probably won't but I'll continue). I saw the new Harry Potter film last night, I'm sorry to say I found quite alot of it funny (If your dirty minded you will see the hilariousness of Harry going around waving his wand about and shouting expelliarmus!) :-)
Going to clean my mind,
McDogFace
I will try to post as much as possible, but, you know (Okay, you probably won't but I'll continue). I saw the new Harry Potter film last night, I'm sorry to say I found quite alot of it funny (If your dirty minded you will see the hilariousness of Harry going around waving his wand about and shouting expelliarmus!) :-)
Going to clean my mind,
McDogFace
Summer Holidays
In the beginning God said "Let there be light, gasses, chemicals and blobs of gravity to mulsh stuff together."
A few days later he said "This organizing the movement of atoms takes too much work; let there be holidays!"
And so we had holidays.
Like now.
We are free; brothers and sisters of humanity and chavv kind alike, let us rejoice, for the end of enslavement is upon us, let us throw off the shackles of uniform and become one with the casual attire; retreat from the rules of conforming; rise!
Rise and announce;
A few days later he said "This organizing the movement of atoms takes too much work; let there be holidays!"
And so we had holidays.
Like now.
We are free; brothers and sisters of humanity and chavv kind alike, let us rejoice, for the end of enslavement is upon us, let us throw off the shackles of uniform and become one with the casual attire; retreat from the rules of conforming; rise!
Rise and announce;
"Freedom!
For the kingdom of chill is here!"
- Holy scriptures from the Holy Book of Random Stuff
Dark Dragon
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Do what you want... Not what you have to.
Here I am, charging my laptop and listing to a playlist I call 'an hour of internet surfing music'. On this playlist is a song by the Hoosiers called 'Live by The Ocean.' In this song the words 'do what you want not what you have to'. This, of course might not be good advice; you have to breathe and stuff, but then again most of us want to breathe... I hope. But then there is a matter of duty and stuff; doing your job so that society doesn't collapse. As a kid I have no duty. Yeah, I go to school when I'm so tired I fell asleep in registration (Mcdogface has been ill, so he couldn't try to keep me awake), but I still want to go to school, so usually I'm doing what I want to and need to.
So, readers, is the piece of advice 'do what you want not what you have to' good or bad? Comment please! The page is so barren; only a friend of mine and my brother have commented, ever.
It aint that hard. No names or nothing; just a few words.
Anyhow, I've made the first vlog; but forgotten our Youtube channel password. Durghhhhhhh.
From a very happy person who finally got a vote at the top;
Dark Dragon
P.S Moment of silence for Mcdogface's absence.
So, readers, is the piece of advice 'do what you want not what you have to' good or bad? Comment please! The page is so barren; only a friend of mine and my brother have commented, ever.
It aint that hard. No names or nothing; just a few words.
Anyhow, I've made the first vlog; but forgotten our Youtube channel password. Durghhhhhhh.
From a very happy person who finally got a vote at the top;
Dark Dragon
P.S Moment of silence for Mcdogface's absence.
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Youtube, Probability, Harry Potter
Hello everyone, another Blogg by Dark Dragon, sorry we haven't been blogging in a short while...
Youtube
I've been working on the first Vlog, then deleting it, then working on it again. To be honest; I'm camera shy and don't have much to say so the Vlog will be kinda shite. But I do have a pet snake. So whatever it is, as long as Snakey is in there it will be awesome.
Also, Youtube is an interesting thing. There is much to be seen on youtube, such as Vlogs done by people like Toby Turner (Tobuscus!) and Cory Williams (Otherwise known as 'Mr. Safety', his youtube channel is 'smpfilms' and he also owns 'themeankitty' and made the Mean Kitty song about his cat, Sparta) who are good at documenting their life over the internet.
There must be millions of Vlogs and millions of Bloggs out there; hundreds upon thousands of people telling their stories and hoping to God that someone in the wide world is listening... Or hoping that NO ONE is listening, and using the internet as a diary, and kind of daring themselves to reveal more about themselves to the world.
Kinda thoughtful stuff eh? Makes you wander...
Loads of people watch Youtube every day, and I think you can watch youtube in any language. It's up with Google and Facebook. Vlogs, funnies, music videos, its a mystery why the internet doesn't explode with information. Our channel has only added two small videos to it, but there are some that add hundreds.
Two examples are the Yogscast and Roosterteeth.
Roosterteeth aren't actually youtube-based, but they add any new videos from the website to the youtube, and are the creators of RT Shorts, the Drunk Tank Podcast and the wonderful Red vs Blue . The Podcast is like a Vlog and a News program all rolled into one funny video, while RT Shorts are just short films and Red Vs Blue is a series.
The Yogscast have made a few series, their current one is 'Shadow of Israphel' which I have just watched episode 25 of. Shadow of Israphel and Red Vs Blue are both highly addictive and entertaining, and they grab your attention more than most programs on the television.
Why?
Because, unlike television programs, you can watch them in your own time. Mcdogface has one of those iPhone gadgets and can usually watch the latest Red Vs Blue way before I can. Also, the unlimitedness of the internet means that the series can keep on going, when a normal program on the television usually stops after a few episodes because they only run part-way through the year.
Another thing? They are based on games. Shadow of Israphel and Red vs Blue are based on Minecraft and Halo respectively. In games we get to control certain elements, and come to associate the character we control as a kind of friend, and when we see Honeydew set fire to a pixelated boat and laugh like a maniac, we can think "Yeah, I've set fire to things on Minecraft before! But never set fire to a boat as awesome as that to gather a map fragment for an epic quest" and appreciate the video more.
I recommend both series.
Probability
I'm doing GCSE RE at school. I don't believe in any kind of God, but at our school RE is awesome because it is basically philosophy. At the minute we are doing a topic about 'Believing in God' and for the last few days we have been learning about William Paley's theory about design.
The theory goes that every man-made object LOOKS man-made. Strait edges, regular curves, material crafted in ways it wouldn't normally go in the wild, and generally the complexity of these items. Paley noticed this and then looked at the complexity of the human body, particularly the eye, and noticed that we too must have been designed, and that designer is God.
However, the eye only became complex because of evolution.
"Ah," says one of the people who like Paley's theory, "But evolution couldn't have been random, because look where it ended up! Cells can't possibly mutate in such random ways."
Actually, they can. We spent today's two lessons finding out about improbable things.
One thing we did was watch one of Derren Brown's specials, a program called 'The System', in which Derren mucks about with probability to create a system which ensured that someone would always bet on the right horse at the races.
In this program he proved that you could toss a coin and get 10 heads in a row. He later revealed that he had been tossing the same coin for nine hours until he got 10 heads, because the rules of probability would mean it would be extremely unlikely that he DIDN'T get 10 heads eventually.
As for the system which ensured that you always picked the right horse... That was luck. Although I wont explain why and how the scheme worked in case anyone reading this feels intrigued to go and watch the episode now (it will be on the 4OD website somewhere).
When I was in year 9 and RE was compulsory we also did the Word Generator test. There was a random letter generator that would make random combinations of 3 letter words.
On the 69th try the word 'sex' came up. In a class full of giggly year 9s.
So Paley's theory could be wrong, because if a word generator could do a word like that out of randomness then a bacteria could get a nice backbone and steadily evolve towards humanity. (Yes, I know that there is no such thing as a bacteria with a backbone, and the first creature with a backbone was a pikaia, but I can't think of a good example at the moment)
Harry Potter
The time is nigh, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 is coming! The world is going to be watching it with baited breath, those who haven't read the books will be dying to know how it ends, and those who have read the books are wandering why there was a dragon in the trailer!
I'm reading through the seven books again, and have just started the Half Blood Prince. I'll never finish in time!
Well, I think I'll end this blog entry here, neatly linking that end of the blog to the start with a Youtube video; Tobuscus's Literal Trailer of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows;
From
Dark Dragon
Youtube
I've been working on the first Vlog, then deleting it, then working on it again. To be honest; I'm camera shy and don't have much to say so the Vlog will be kinda shite. But I do have a pet snake. So whatever it is, as long as Snakey is in there it will be awesome.
 |
| This is Snakey being held up to the camera by my Mum. ^_^ |
There must be millions of Vlogs and millions of Bloggs out there; hundreds upon thousands of people telling their stories and hoping to God that someone in the wide world is listening... Or hoping that NO ONE is listening, and using the internet as a diary, and kind of daring themselves to reveal more about themselves to the world.
Kinda thoughtful stuff eh? Makes you wander...
Loads of people watch Youtube every day, and I think you can watch youtube in any language. It's up with Google and Facebook. Vlogs, funnies, music videos, its a mystery why the internet doesn't explode with information. Our channel has only added two small videos to it, but there are some that add hundreds.
Two examples are the Yogscast and Roosterteeth.
Roosterteeth aren't actually youtube-based, but they add any new videos from the website to the youtube, and are the creators of RT Shorts, the Drunk Tank Podcast and the wonderful Red vs Blue . The Podcast is like a Vlog and a News program all rolled into one funny video, while RT Shorts are just short films and Red Vs Blue is a series.
The Yogscast have made a few series, their current one is 'Shadow of Israphel' which I have just watched episode 25 of. Shadow of Israphel and Red Vs Blue are both highly addictive and entertaining, and they grab your attention more than most programs on the television.
Why?
Because, unlike television programs, you can watch them in your own time. Mcdogface has one of those iPhone gadgets and can usually watch the latest Red Vs Blue way before I can. Also, the unlimitedness of the internet means that the series can keep on going, when a normal program on the television usually stops after a few episodes because they only run part-way through the year.
Another thing? They are based on games. Shadow of Israphel and Red vs Blue are based on Minecraft and Halo respectively. In games we get to control certain elements, and come to associate the character we control as a kind of friend, and when we see Honeydew set fire to a pixelated boat and laugh like a maniac, we can think "Yeah, I've set fire to things on Minecraft before! But never set fire to a boat as awesome as that to gather a map fragment for an epic quest" and appreciate the video more.
I recommend both series.
Probability
I'm doing GCSE RE at school. I don't believe in any kind of God, but at our school RE is awesome because it is basically philosophy. At the minute we are doing a topic about 'Believing in God' and for the last few days we have been learning about William Paley's theory about design.
The theory goes that every man-made object LOOKS man-made. Strait edges, regular curves, material crafted in ways it wouldn't normally go in the wild, and generally the complexity of these items. Paley noticed this and then looked at the complexity of the human body, particularly the eye, and noticed that we too must have been designed, and that designer is God.
However, the eye only became complex because of evolution.
"Ah," says one of the people who like Paley's theory, "But evolution couldn't have been random, because look where it ended up! Cells can't possibly mutate in such random ways."
Actually, they can. We spent today's two lessons finding out about improbable things.
One thing we did was watch one of Derren Brown's specials, a program called 'The System', in which Derren mucks about with probability to create a system which ensured that someone would always bet on the right horse at the races.
In this program he proved that you could toss a coin and get 10 heads in a row. He later revealed that he had been tossing the same coin for nine hours until he got 10 heads, because the rules of probability would mean it would be extremely unlikely that he DIDN'T get 10 heads eventually.
As for the system which ensured that you always picked the right horse... That was luck. Although I wont explain why and how the scheme worked in case anyone reading this feels intrigued to go and watch the episode now (it will be on the 4OD website somewhere).
When I was in year 9 and RE was compulsory we also did the Word Generator test. There was a random letter generator that would make random combinations of 3 letter words.
On the 69th try the word 'sex' came up. In a class full of giggly year 9s.
So Paley's theory could be wrong, because if a word generator could do a word like that out of randomness then a bacteria could get a nice backbone and steadily evolve towards humanity. (Yes, I know that there is no such thing as a bacteria with a backbone, and the first creature with a backbone was a pikaia, but I can't think of a good example at the moment)
Harry Potter
The time is nigh, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 is coming! The world is going to be watching it with baited breath, those who haven't read the books will be dying to know how it ends, and those who have read the books are wandering why there was a dragon in the trailer!
I'm reading through the seven books again, and have just started the Half Blood Prince. I'll never finish in time!
Well, I think I'll end this blog entry here, neatly linking that end of the blog to the start with a Youtube video; Tobuscus's Literal Trailer of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows;
From
Dark Dragon
Saturday, 9 July 2011
An apology
Sorry about the absence of Blogging; been busy. Normal service will resume when we're bothered.
Dark Dragon
Dark Dragon
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Monday, 4 July 2011
New PC
I got a new PC today so things should be faster.
I saw Dark Dragons snake today, and even for a manly man like me *puffs up chest* i must admit that it is indeed cute.
-McDogFace
I saw Dark Dragons snake today, and even for a manly man like me *puffs up chest* i must admit that it is indeed cute.
-McDogFace
Saturday, 2 July 2011
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