5 All Over Again

Being five years old again was a hard thing to try to reconnect with. The only things I really remember from my youth were:
1. Cartoons - Mostly X - Men, the good X - Men cartoon and old Hanna Barbera Cartoons
2. Playing games in school - Tag, cops 'n' robbers, Duck Duck Goose. Kid Shit.
3. Playing Arcade Games - X - Men arcade game. Based off this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2q5SYPbwFk
4. Art time in class - Usually ended up with more on me than on paper.

All I really did was play games and people that remembered back then said that I was a bad ass kid that always tried to hurt people. The said I use to throw cans at people for no reason and once I chased my uncle around the house with a knife or a pair of scissors. Another story was that I poured a whole bottle of cologne on a tv and messed it up permanently.

I made things that related to me back then which were:
1. A necklace of paperclips - back then we always used to chain them together to see how long we could make it before we got bored and took a nap.
2. Handcuffs - These symbolized being caught and having to stay still when playing tag and other games.
3. Claws - this reminded me of the old X - Men Cartoon and always having to be stuck using Wolverine in the Arcade game. Stupid Wolverine.

Class Memories - Sound

The main point of this project was to see if you could make some with with all of your senses, except vision. This was hard because we had to be able to visualize something without seeing it. After this project I learned that sound plays a gigantic part in anything you do really. Without sound, there really is not any feeling or emotion put into a project. Sound gives your mind cues on how you are suppose to feel during certain event. Sound can trigger a memory or thought as much as seeing something can.

Without sound, we might as well be stuck in the stone ages.

I Can't See Clearly Now!!

When I work on assignments for school or for something else, I usually play music in my background to keep my mind at ease and focused, but today, my music actually started to paint a picture while I was working. All the songs I that I listened to today painted a picture of what happened to me and my friends when I was a kid.

"It was a good day" by Ice Cube was the first song that fired up on my computer. Listening to the lyrics of the song, it brought back up memories of getting up and going through the day wondering if something bad was going to happen to me or any of my friends. Usually wake up and go hang out with friends and do stuff that we shouldn't do, but we did anyway. We'd play ball for a long time, go shoot dice or play cards or something. Usually around night they would go to clubs or parties. I was always hesitant about going because shit always seems to happen when stupid people are drunk or high and the police would always show up. One time I went with them, a fight broke out between a couple of dudes and escalated into a guy getting jumped out in the streets. He got hit over the head with a bottle and he was knocked out after that. Then somebody stomped his head and then the police storm over. As soon as everybody heard sirens, Everybody got out of dodge as quickly as they could. We all thought that nothing bad would happen to us, but the more I hung out with them, the more I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen.

Just listening to music, I was filled with memories that were good and bad during my childhood.

SURPRISE!!!!!

When I saw what we had to do for this blog entry, it took me a while to figure what would be a good thing that's surprising. As I was hanging out with friends a couple of days ago, we played some money matches in a game called Marvel vs. Capcom 3. As I was playing and watching others play, things were going great as I had his team down to one person left against my team of three. He tried to pick and pop me until he gained his five bars for his bullshit, but I was able to get the opening I needed, but it was too late. My last hit gave him the fifth bar that lead to my destruction. My money life changed before my eyes.

This girl right here:


How can girl go from being such a nice caring person, to this:


She starts flying around throwing fireballs and shit all over the place. One character dies, I prep myself for my next guy coming in, but before I knew what hit me, flaming birds got me before I could block and now I'm bouncing all over the screen until my second guy is dead. They start to lay down traps and I'm sitting here looking confused about what's gonna happen next, my guy comes in, she teleports behind me as the traps go off, all I think is that I'm fucked.

My face changed so many ways, so quickly.

I went from:


To this:


To finally this as I realized that I just lost $50 bucks:


As I'm sitting there afterwards seeing my buddy run through everybody, matches ending with my buddy and Phoenix giving everybody a look like


I went home later to rest, but I started to look at matches of pro players playing and literally if Dark Phoenix comes out to play, you know you're fucked after that.

Here are some examples of that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2W5AUmFqDY

This is game already goes from a two - player game to a one - player game if you're playing somebody who actually knows what they are doing. I've seen people who literally made it that if they touch you once, you might as well put the controller down cause it's a wrap for you trying to come back.

There are so many examples of her ruining peoples' days, but we still come back and fight the psychotic bitch to this day. People have made ways to instantly kill her as soon as she turns, but those ways are so specific, you might as well just to kill her before she has her five bars.

This game is so full of surprises, it's sickening sometimes. I've had it where I'll dominate somebody and then it all goes awry and vice versa. That's why I love it, I've never seen such a big swing in matches like I see in MVC3 and the crowds love it.