Forget What I Have Said Before

Ok, if you are a frequent reader of my blog (which I hope quite a few people do) you might have read the blog post Where are we going? (click the link to view the post). In it, it says that I don't really want technology to develop as fast as it is. FORGET IT.

On Friday I went to St David's 2. The 4th of July 2006 was the start of demolition for St David's 2. Just over 3 year and the time has come. Stepping in was like stepping into another shopping centre in London and even a Mall in America. Interactive maps to show you where shops are and what shops are on what floor.

The smooth and sleek style of the whole place, the shine from the walls and floors of the place which most likely won't last, but I hope it does. The music throughout the store pumped through me with enthusiasm. The layout and design from the stores seemed the same but made it better as I was in a totally new place. Shops open and loads more to come.

One shop I was loving being in was the brand new Apple shop. Everything new, old and even thing not made by Apple (I was talking about the applications on the iPhone and iTouch). There was about 10 of every type of product to test, even the latest Apple mouse but I hope it's not like how I tested and it was just a fault on the mouse. Up is down, vice a versa and the same with Left and right. It's about 5 times as bigger than the Apple store in the arcade in town.

Also the shop Cult was there. Now, I am wear quite big sizes, to be Pacific XXXL and possibly one size bigger. Now because of this, it is almost impossible to find a clothing in town, the only place which clothes would definitely fit me is High and Mighty down St Mary's Street. I don't really like looking at clothes which don't fit me, but in Cult it was totally different. I don't really give people money or even lead only if the desperate, but my brother didn't have much money and wanted and really nice top. And I said that I would lead him the money, but sadly he didn't get it.

Thats only just two of the shops I saw there, and I am going back in tomorrow. So properly another blog post to come on St David's 2.

R.I.P.W.A.B

If you don't understand the title, Rest In Peace Without A Blog.

I say this as out of my best friends who blog has

given up blogging,

Couldn't give up the time to do it

To busy

Not keen on doing it

Hated it

Couldn't hack it

Basically the whole reason why he joined was really that his friends (not really including me as it was ages before the started after me) had a blog. Well there's nothing like up on the Band Wagon

and jumping off it after a few months, not many post and abusing one of my blog posts.

Face Widget Badged

If you haven't noticed, The last item on my sidebar , take a look at it now go on.....

what you have just seen is a Facbebook Widget. Just like my Xbox Gamer Tag and also my friends PS3 ID at the bottom of my his Blog. It is very reasuring that Facebook is keeping up with the times as this could have been done a while ago. But with one thing with Facebook another usually follows.

I think I am really getting use to these Facebook changes.

Breaking News

Breaking News, actually two bits of breaking news

1. For the first time ever, the sidebar of advertisements on Facebook have actually come into some good use today

2 Apple have a New Mac Book out without any keyboard, just one hugh click wheel in the centre. Amazing I know. Check out this video to have a look at it

P.S. This Video is so unrealistically fake, and sadly looks like it took so much effort to do it

The joys of V+ (and also SKY+)

Me, personally think its great when you discover something new, but it even greater when you discover something and you have a real great laugh doing it.
What I am talking about is TV, but not just TV, Virgin + if you haven't guessed by the title. if you don't know what it is, LOOK IT UP
In my house I have Virgin Media, but also have got a V+ box which pauses, rewinds and records upto 80 hours of TV. What my brother found out though is that it can go in slow motion.

When you use this feature in the right places and times, you can have a great laugh with it. For example, watching You've Been Framed or some otther funny TV show some clips look awasome when going in slow motion, when someone if falling over. I am not exactly sure but I think you can do it with a SKY+ box as well.

From the great laugh me and my brothers have had from it, if you are on SKY or Virgin Media, get a SKY+ box or V+ box. Personally I think Virgin is the best as it offers you more and don't need to pay if it breaks.

Creative Talents.

A couple of years ago when I was in year 10, so.... 2 years ago in my old high school we have a thing called Activities Week where you do one activity for a whole week. Well you do it for 3 days, but I guess they can't call it 3 day Activity or maybe they can, anyway back to the point. They have activities from going Camping over night, touring the city, and things based in school like fashion and the one I did, Animation.

I did these short Animation videos using a Digital Blue Camera taking photos and putting them all together. Doing this takes a lot of patience as the one animation took 2 hours to make. During the "Week" I created 6 animations with my friends and for your pleasure I have uploaded them to this blog post for your viewing pleasure.

Encounter with a Robot.

This was our first idea and I know its a bit shabby but

give me a break.

Discovery Blobs

It's what it says, they are blobs of plasticine and they discover

objects, I think this was the best out of all the animations.

Blobs in Trouble

This is another one of a series of three animations based around

the blobs, shorter than the one above but still good. There is a little

dialogue in there but you need to really listern.

Crime Doesn't Pay

This animation we were kinda forced into doing as our teacher wanted

to see what a paper animations looks like. Not getting our hopes up,

it come out pretty good.

3 Blobs in a Car

This is the final animation about the blobs and also the final one we

did in the week. This is just a quite idea which we came up with.

Again listern out for the dialogue in it.

Techinally Gaming Definition.

This evening, my older brother who isn't or not the biggest gaming fan commented on the PS3 when an Xbox advert was on. He first noted how Microsoft made the Xbox look much smaller than the Xbox Elite (which it is not). After that I then notified him that the PS3 Slim the same size as the Xbox. Then making the funniest comment on the original PS3 I have ever heard.

This is the Quote of the Day from my Brother:

"It doesn't surprise me that the slim is the same size as the Xbox as thePS3 is massive. It's like one whopping great big Fridge which should be inyour kitchen. If someone didn't know What it was they would say 'Shouldn't that be in your kitchen.'"

Guitar Hero World Tour. Wait, thats not new.

Me and the blogger Junkie Emerald Coast (Emyr) went into town on the release date of 11th of September for Guitar Hero 5. I was really undecided whether to get it but as he phoned me I thought, why not. So it all went well, I brought the Xbox GH5 and he brought the PS3 GH5 and I went back to his house and we played it there. After about half an hour. I really wanted to look at it. Opening it, I had a huge shock when I see that buying the Guitar Bundle for GH5 that they only sold me the old guitar from Guitar Hero World Tour.

The following day, I had went back into town to get the new one. I will give you one guess to where I brought GH5 and the idiots behind the desk would sell you a old Guitar,

GAME. I know even though I buy a lot of my games from GAME, they can be really Crap sometimes. That's only the start of the whole story.

Returning the game, it didn't go very well. My mum insisted that she came into GAME with me because they wouldn't listen to a kid. Going into GAME I said they that sold me the old Guitarfor Guitar Hero World Tour. They asked for the receipt which I had and they went back to trade it. Coming back with the same Guitar which I took in and they said that they don't have any of the new Guitars for the Xbox. The whole reason I brought the game with the Guitar is because I wanted the new guitar in GH5 which they didn't give me.

Explaining that I went into town the previous day to buy it with Emyr and he brought his on the PS3 , the only excuse they gave was that they haven't sold the new Guitars with the Xbox which I new was a total lie as I seen EXCLUSIVE Xbox videos with people playing the new guitar. After almost shouting to the top of my voice with my mum also the same, another person who works there came up and asked what was the problem I told him and he said that he could give me the game only for GH5 and give me the rest of the money back which would result in me not having the new guitar which I did want so I kept on arguing about it and finally he the guy who came over half way through (the nicer one) said that they would check the other GAME store and check the stock room again if they have any more.

And Surprise, Surprise they came back with the new one which in 2 minutes. What I think is that the first guy didn't even look for it. Anyway, my ranting a raving is over and I can now give my review on the game.

Guitar Hero 5 gives the gamer a whole lot of new choices. To play with any amount of instruments at one time, even for drums if you have them. Also if you have an Xbox like me or a Nintendo Wii, you can use your Mii which isn't the best with GH5 as the Mii's are rubbish qualityanyway, don't work as good as the Xbox Avatars, and really they are amazing. things available to all console users are that all the songs in the game are all ready unlocked and ready and there to play straight away if you are not a real person who likes the Career Which could be better than what it is.

In the Career you have the basic thing, go through it playing all the songs in the Career while unlocking venues. although another addition to the Career they have put in is challenges to complete while playing the songs. Challenges like, get the highest note streak as you can, hit as many chords as you can etc, and and you get Gold, Platinum or Cristal Disc's depending on who well you do. This isn't the best as if you don't have all the band instruments, you feel rubbish that you haven't really ompleted the challenge. The set list isn't totally the best but the same as World Tour, it has to grow on me.

The graphics are pritty cool. Even though from what I have said about it, it seems that I don't really like it, but I think it is really cool.

The Coner rating I think it deserves a:

8/10

Facing the Truth

Today, going into Game to buy Pure on Xbox I was struck buy 'The Beatles.' Today was the launch of the awaited 'The Beatles Rock Band.' Now I don't think this is very much of it as 1). I am not a Beatles Fan and 2). I Prefer Guitar Hero to Rock Band (and yes there is a difference). Although what did entertain me were the Guitar which were being sold in the Bundles, The Rickbacker 325 and the Grestch Dou Jet Guitars and the Hofner 500/1 Bass Guitar. Very cool and very different.

But then the truth struck me when I caught the bus going home. The Metro Newspaper was next to where I sat and the headline stood out, 'Beatlemania to strike again' and a picture of the game play.

The article was just generally talking about the Beatles history and how they have come so far that they are now in a game. To read the article click on the link,

http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/music/article.html?

Beatlemania_to_strike_again&in_article_id=733265&in_page_id=25

Though the thing which most shocked me and is really true are the quotes which Pink Floyd star Nick Mason and Bill Wyman.

In the article it said that Sir Paul admitted to not playing the game. But then the worst thing that they could say bagging on the game but at the same time is the truth. Summary: Wyman said that "the game simulator makes fewer people dedicated to playing and instrument."

Along side Nick Mason commenting on it saying, "It irritates me having to watch my kids playing the game where if they spent as much time practising the guitar than pressing a few

buttons, they would be damn good by now.

This is technically true as I don't practice playing the Bass Guitar as much I should, but it's about doing something you like doing. And I like Guitar Hero (sort of like Rock Band but not the same).

For their information, Guitar Hero and Rock Band is good because it's easy to pick up and play unlike learning a real Guitar and you can play it with the family or friends without all of you having to learn a instrument.

Buying to Down grade.

Today was seen as the new PS3 Slim release date and did I see it. Adventuring into town today and popping into Game to pre-order the new Guitar Hero 5 game plus guitar, I was shocked by the queue. I changed my plans and just had a look around and intending to leave I was stopped by rain and Thunder.

To not go out in it I then decided to queue. Well the amount of the feelings which went through my body, amusement, shock as I looked down what now seemed the longest tills ever 3 PS3 slims brought at the same time and another straight after. I couldn't close my mouth from how stunned I was.

Even though all these things came over me there is a lot of things that need to be thought about first. Me personally I like the design of the new PS3 slim although I still really like the original PS3 design also, Score 1-1. Getting serious, the Slim has push buttons to switch it on ((not cool)also doesn't help that the colour doesn't go well with the black of the slim). Then only 2 USB ports when the PS3 has 4 and consumers 34% less power and a lot more things

What I want to get to is that what you are paying for is a PS3 which is Slimmer and lighter in weight which I see no point in as you will hardly pick it up, less power, some of the feature of the PS3 the new has less or even none of (USB Ports, no power switch etc).

And the Most important thing is that the PS3 Slim and PS3 are now the same price, really all you are getting is a worse PS3 and that you have been pulled into buying it for it's new look.

Score: PS3 Slim 1 - Original PS3 - Lost Count, so many.