Superheros, I love the mythology behind them and the larger than life characters they are and how they bring excitement and fantasy to an otherwise mudane, dreary and quite cynical world.
Anything involving superheroes will pique my curiosity and of course that includes films, games and all sorts. One of the more intriguing questions for superhero fans is Marvel or DC? I know some that like Marvel, I know some that like DC.
Sometimes I wish I wasn’t such a dick. There are moments where time slows down and you can see the options presented to you and you know every single one of these options is…going to have a major effect.
Sometimes I wish I wasn’t such a dick.
Woo, the MCM expo was pretty cool, I made a point of making sure I was attending things I wanted to attend and not do what I did last time which was just wander around aimlessly I mean it's fun to wander aimlessly at these sort of events as there is always wacky stuff going on and that.
So the solution to that was to get a timetable and actually know what events were going to happen and plan the day around events I wanted to go to. Surprising for someone that adores video games I actually didn't play that many games there. It wasn't so much to do with the lack of decent games or anything like that as I still managed to play the soon to be released Deadpool game but it was then when I playing it, I was like...yeah I can't be bothered with this.
So now I’m on holiday, woo. I’d be a little bit more excited but it’s just doesn’t feel right at least not right now. I’ve got such much stuff to do during this holiday, so many things to sort out and I’m also going to the MCM Expo this weekend so that’s going to be exciting times, I’m still a little bit unsure who I’m going with so that kind of sucks because I’m not sure who’s going, what day they’re going so it might be a case that I’ll be attending the majority of it or at least one day by myself again but it’ll still be fun regardless.
Today I’m not really in the greatest of moods simply because it’s the funeral of a close neighbour and a close friend of the family and yeah it was kind of depressing seeing my mum and sister get ready to go to the funeral because it’s going to be a sad event and I just know that as I sit here recording this they’ll come back in tears they’ll be crying and I’ll just won’t know what to say, what to do or anything like that.
Ahhh I think that match sums up our season really, good spells and the potential is there but ultimately if a little bit more application and effort is shown by certain people then we would do so much better.
The final score today was 3-3 and also of note is how I finally scored after however many games it was but as always I forget about those goals as quickly as I score them and focus on the chances I missed.
I wanted to win but it was apparent from the kickoff that not everyone shared my sentiments as the attitude of some players in the squad is poor. Next year that has got to stop, as I said in my last Samba Magician video I know what I'll be doing to improve myself and that's the attitude a lot of people don't seem to take. They seem to think they are faultless and blameless but it's often the ones who think that aren't really.
Extreme Rules predictions
So Extreme Rules is fast approaching and pretty soon the pay per view that follows the granddaddy of them all will be upon us.
Let's have a look at the match card and allow me to present to you my views on it. This is in no particular order so with that being said let's start off with the pre-show
The next generation of consoles already started with the Wii-U but let's face it, I hardly care about the Wii-U, it's not like the Wii before it where I was intrigued by it and that I had to purchase it as it'd be the only way to play the latest Super Smash Brothers and that was all I really wanted to play at the time.
I didn't get the Wii at release date but a bit afterwards but well in advance of the Super Smash Brothers Brawl release date just so I was ready and prepared for when it came out. I do not feel this with the Wii-U, maybe part of it is because there isn't an actual release date for the Wii-U edition of the popular franchise but I feel a large part is due to the fact that for me the Wii-U is extremely underwhelming and doesn't really have any real stand out reason for me to go and purchase one right now. Sure, it has Zombi U which does actually look interesting to me and I played a bit at Eurogamer and it's worth a look at but I really don't want to be getting a console again just for one real game again, I want it to already have a plethora of great titles and must have games, something that personally I feel the Wii-U fails at.
Trying to work out how to do this WWE Extreme Rules predictions video seeing as Dean is going to be involved but thinking about whether we should play WWE 13 in the background or something. Hmm what to do, what to do.
A hat trick was scored and it was ruthless, no mercy was given, it was the sort of hat trick that people could do nothing except for applaud. Oh yes, it was that good!
...Just a shame that the hat trick was scored by the other team...and to tell the truth I have no idea whether they actually scored 4 goals or 5 goals or whether someone else actually got their hat trick as well.
Yeah, we lost...badly
I also heard after the match that this was actually our worst ever defeat and boy were we setting records when they scored 15 goals past us with no response whatsoever.
Wait what...There was a prequel comic which explained a lot of the events that took place before the game? Why was I not informed of this, I would have loved to have read it and got a heck of a lot more background information on the game and what was happening but hey...it sure as hell did not affect my enjoyment of the game whatsoever.
I recently bought myself Injustice: Gods Among Us which is a beat 'em up, a fighting game on a 2D plane in the mold of Mortal Kombat and personally asides Tekken and Super Smash Brothers I'm not really what you would call a fighting game enthusiast, I mean sure I got Marvel vs Capcom 3 but that was mainly because IT'S FREAKING MARVEL, why wouldn't I want to play as the likes of Iron Man, Magneto, Deadpool and FRICKING CAPCOM who had Christopher Redfield, Tron Bonne and Viewtiful Joe so I was always going to get it but hoooo boy, beginner friendly? I think NOT! It might have just been me but it also didn't help that the story wasn't that brilliant or that memorable.
I notice that I don't really know a single person that actually enjoys fighting games and perhaps that's due to the complexity of the games and things such as juggles, turtling, tech rolls, frame data, recovery frames and general advanced stuff like that, I think it can make it very overwhelming and not fun to play especially when you get matched up against someone that does know all about it and it becomes a bit of a mismatched competition.
I also think that fights can sometimes just not be aesthetically pleasing especially when you watch experts against each other, there are certain exceptions like if you've ever seen the ending of Daigo’s Ken massive comeback vs Justin Wong’s Chun-Li because that right there, that was a thing of beauty and understand the difficulty of what he did but for the most part the fights aren't that exciting and just resort to people dashing, cancelling and repeating the same few moves over and over when you’d want a little more variety and it just looks...like more of a game and less of an actual fight.
I don’t get this with Injustice, the moves and cinematic during fights make it feel like it's a proper superhero battle, the transitions between levels in stages all adds to the experience and makes it feel a lot more engaging as do the super moves that each character has, I especially love the whole over the top feel that they have to it especially Doomsday’s and Aquaman’s supermove, the clash battles also add to it as well but they do feel a bit gimmicky and I could do without it, I don’t remember ever initiating one, it was always the computer that forced one.
The story in itself was quite interesting and involves an alternate dimension which instantly gives you the reason why Batman is fighting the likes of Superman, Flash and Nightwing and similiar confrontations like that. Superman is pretty much running the alternate dimension with an iron fist after a major casualty and it does bring up some questions like what happens when the strongest entity isn't fighting for "your side" anymore. You do see some pretty interesting stuff and decisions taken by some of the characters especially Superman, I would have like to have seen how this world is viewed in the eyes of ordinary civilians but I suppose that’s something that can’t really be done in a game such as this without making the story mode feel long and dragged out.
There are a bunch of other modes like a S.T.A.R.S Labs mode which is like a challenge mode where you fight with certain stipulations which seems fun, I haven't really gotten that far into that yet but I enjoyed Super Smash Brother’s Melee’s challenge mode especially Super Mario 128 so I imagine I’ll enjoy the S.T.A.R.S Labs a great deal. There's a battle mode where you can do the classic fighting game formula and fight random 8 superheroes or villains before fighting the big bad in Superman and of course everyone comes with their own ending.
Finally there is multiplayer including online which I guess is very important to a lot of people but to me? Not really. Mainly because when it comes to fighting games, they require precision timing and being in exact positions to pull of successful combos and you missing a punch which keeps your opponent juggled for to you to do you next combo could make the difference between winning and losing and getting a good control on the match I feel is impossible due to the lag that this game has. The only fighting game I’ve ever been able to play online is Tekken because I don't suffer too badly from lag there, even Brawl online was woeful, so asides me going to local tournaments or playing local multiplayer and the likes there isn't really a way of me getting better at this because the AI are extremely limited in fighting games and just come across as being cheap which ruins the fun.
All in all I found this game to be very fun and enjoyable especially learning about superheroes and villains that I didn't know too much about before like Shazam, that being said...Deathstroke...eurgh...I have problems against that guy what with his guns and him being impossible to approach normally. I definitely enjoyed this and I’d put it in the 80 to 90 out of hundred bracket if I were to do ratings and that but I don’t. Still, great game.
That’s about it for my Injustice review the next game I shall be playing is going to be Tomb Raider as in the 2013 edition but until then this is the Silver Assassin signing out, over and out.
I never liked Call of Duty, mainly because I felt I was no good at first person shooters, reason being is that I personally preferred the slow calculated approach and working as a team which Left 4 Dead certainly promoted whereas games like Call of Duty, there was nothing but an influx of lone wolves. In playing Black Ops 2 at times I was like "alright guys you've shown you're awesome by getting a 31-3 kill death ratio now can you please help us capture some flags, pick up tags, set the bomb whatever or however it is you actually win the game?"
Don't get it misconstrued as I am not one of those people that say “I only play the objective which makes me better than you even though my KDR is 13-29, it's your fault we lost” because I personally believe that a good team needs a mixture of people playing the objective and people that are slayers.
So professional wrestling eh? Yeah I watch that.
I started watching wrestling probably a tiny bit before the whole Attitude era but I can't say I would remember a lot of it. What I'd used to do was watch WCW on Friday night on TNT I think it was with my dad until bed time and then record the rest and watch the Saturday morning before going to Saturday school or when I wasn't going there before WWF as it was called back then came on Sky.
I used to watch these religiously and would never miss a show, I never watched the PPV as we could never afford to buy them so I relied on those still images you'd get the Smackdown/Raw after and I'd work out what happened from that.
The journey to Milton Keynes for the English Deaf Football final against Birmingham was tiring...but it was worth it, question, why was it worth it? Answer: Because of this. Yes ladies and gentlemen the Samba Magician is now a two time back to back EDF Champion. And this comes a week after getting this runners up medal after being beat 7-0 in that final but let's reflect on the positive stuff
I like to think that feeling extremely hyped up for the match and woooo, that was crazy, I like to think that that contributed to that first 45 minutes where myself and the rest of the team went in hard.
Anime and manga is also something that interests me greatly, again a lot of this is probably due to the fact that I watched a fair few as a child, you know the regular ones like Pokémon...oh Pokémon, still love it to bits now, probably the games more than the actual show or anything but still.
Then you had your Dragonball Z which was huge, I think everybody must have watched that at some point. Goku was probably the most popular character but since I tend to have an aversion to main characters he was anything but that to myself. Oh noo no noooo, my favourite back then was Trunks or to be more accurate Future Trunks, guy had a badass sword when he entered the scene and pretty much took down Frieza in one go, something that Goku and the prince of Saiyans Vegeta himself couldn't do, speaking of Vegeta now I'd probably say he is my favourite now, maybe I'll go into more later but moving on.
It took a while but I've finally gotten round to doing this video blog and I wanted to do this because it was something I wanted to just try my hand at.
I've always had many different interests and have always wanted to try new things as I get bored a fair bit and wanted to experience many things. I guess right now this video log was what I really wanted to do.
My name is Jason and as I mentioned earlier I have many different interests such as football, video games, manga, wrestling, music, all sorts so this really is what this will be about, everything and anything. So then, one thing that I wanted to mention was that this would my view and opinions on things and that's really why you'd be watching this as that's one thing that kind of stopped me from doing this in the past as I didn't really like saying stuff unless it was worth saying and that for a lot of things I always felt that there are better sources of knowledge on a particular subject so if you want the best information on a particular topic then you’re better off getting it from someone who is more in the know as all you’d get from me is opinion.
Quite frankly this is still how I feel but I'm not going to let that stop me from doing all this because it'll help me in more ways than one. I wanted to have somewhere to record my experiences so that I can look back on a later date and then see how much I've progressed...or regressed if that's the case. I do this with my personal blog that I have...oh yeah for those that don't know I have a personal blog called ‘While I'm Sane’. While it hasn't really been updated as of late, maybe I should get back to doing that too...anyway my point was I was looking back through some of the posts I made in the 2010 to 2011 years and I see them and I think 'man, those were some pretty dark posts' I was in a really dark place then. And to be fair I was, I can remember an instance where I would have thrown myself out the window and the drop would have been huge but I suppose I caught myself when I realised that the window didn't open wide enough. And don't get me started about the times I would drift off when I was about to cross the road and I'd see a huge lorry or bus coming and just...think...or when a train was coming.
Anyway I didn't mean to take this depressing turn, all I really wanted to say is that when you look back at those times and then reflect on yourself now you'll realise how much you've changed your mentality and attitude and that’s why I do this “diary” as it helps to better yourself by not repeating the mistakes of my past.
Anyway, for those that know me and are watching this maybe you'll find out something about me that you never knew before, who knows.
So this is my first video in which I hope explains what I am trying to do and why I'm doing all this. Hopefully you'll be there for my next upload but in the meantime this is Jason signing off so take care.
So I finally got one done, sorry about the quality but I just wanted to get one out just at least get started.
Really need to stop putting off doing these vlogs or podcasts, I should just go for it
Ahh 2012 is now done and dusted and we move onto 2013 and as usual I had my favourite picks from the year that past and this year is no exception.
This is my top 50 songs of this year, this was somewhat difficult for me to do as I wasn’t doing a “best” list but rather a “favourite” one. Some songs were going to clearly get the position they got while others I suppose were just unlucky to come out so late in the year.
I look forward to the audio delights of 2013
50- Ali Bomaye- Game ft Rick Ross and 2 Chainz
49- Battle Cry- Obie Trice ft Adrian Rezza
48- Lamborghini Angels- Lupe Fiasco
47- Carry On (Her Letter To Him)- Ne-Yo
46- Down Out- Big K.R.I.T
45- She Is- Ne-Yo ft Tim McGraw
44- Handwriting- Big K.R.I.T
43- Sixteen- Rick Ross ft Andre 3000
42- Strange Fruition- Lupe Fiasco ft Casey Benjamin
41- Hanging On- Ellie Goulding
40- Always Shine- Robert Glasper Experiment ft Lupe Fiasco and Bilal
39- Mercy- G.O.O.D Music (Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T, 2 Chainz)
38- His Pain II- BJ The Chicago Kid ft Kendrick Lamar
37- Swimming Pools (Drank)- Kendrick Lamar
36- Boobie Miles- Big K.R.I.T
35- Can’t Get Right- Game ft K Roosevelt
34- See No Evil- Game ft Kendrick Lamar and Tank
33- Money On The Floor- Big K.R.I.T ft 8Ball, MJG and 2 Chainz
32- Climb On Board- Labrinth
31- Adorn- Miguel
30- Poetic Justic- Kendrick Lamar ft Drake
29- Money Trees- Kendrick Lamar ft Jay Rock
28- Up In Flames- Labrinth ft Devlin and Tinchy Stryder
27- Pyramids- Frank Ocean
26- Hands On The Wheel- Schoolboy Q ft A$AP Rocky
25- Cracks In Mr Perfect- Ne-Yo
24- Super Rich Kids- Frank Ocean ft Earl Sweatshirt
23- Pineal Gland- Ab-Soul
22- Bad Religion- Frank Ocean
21- The Book Of Soul- Ab-Soul
20- Bom Bom- Sam And The Womp
19- We Are Young- Fun ft Janelle Monáe
18- No Squares- Curren$y ft Wiz Khalifa
17- Alone- JMSN
16- Reagan- Killer Mike
15- Capitol- Curren$y ft 2 Chainz
14- Rich Dad, Poor Dad- Big K.R.I.T
13- Druggys Wit Hoes Again- Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul
12- Call Me Maybe- Carly Rae Jepsen
11- Untitled- Killer Mike ft Scar
10- Form Follows Function- Lupe Fiasco
7- Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe- Kendrick Lamar
6- Thinkin’ About You- Frank Ocean
5- Sing About Me- Kendrick Lamar
4- This Is What Makes Us Girls- Lana Del Rey
3- Off To The Races- Lana Del Ray
2- Sweet Life- Frank Ocean
1- Born To Die- Lana Del Rey
