Monday, April 30, 2012

Random Post of the Month 2


    Hello, well this is the real random Post of the Month, and I hope to make less lengthy than the other one, so let’s start generating ideas. Well, in fact there is something I want to develop and I will put it a little bit different than other posts. So this is the title of the Random Post of the Month 2:
“Our Child’s Day and the inner child within us”
    Heheheh, this is not too random as you can expect, but did you really expect I would talk about children’s day? If you are not accustomed to a Mexican celebration, expectation is random. There’re a lot of dates around the world celebrating children’s day. The other date I know is May 5th, Child’s Day in Japan. But this Child’s Day is special for us. Let me explain:
    Children’s Day in Mexico is celebrated today, April 30th, and the day after is our Labor Day celebration, so if children’s Day is celebrated on Monday, it’s more probable classes will suspend for that day, and also the day after. So two days of no classes! Also there’s a School Celebration in Elementary Schools. So it is like the Golden Week in Japan, probably…, but for children.
    I remember celebrating that day with my classmates at School, and we had a lot of fun doing it. The thing they are celebrating your day is awesome, maybe because of the playing, maybe because of no classes, maybe because of the presents, maybe because it is just another special day you have.  It is a special day for children, and they should be enjoying this day too.
    Of course, what would happen to those who are not children anymore (teenagers, young adults, other people…) ? Well, even if children’s day is for children, we have a thing called: remembering our inner child. It is very common that April is the month of the children, in our country it looks like most of the commercials have a childish tone, because of this day. And it is very common that we that are not children anymore remember the days when we were children and play with our toys and games.
    In the terms of social media, it is common that people put as their main photo a picture of them when they were children. It’s kind of cute, to make a point towards our child and think about life a little bit differently than yesterday.
    I have a deep appreciation with my inner child; the one who has no fears to do anything risky, as long as adults don’t scold him because of those actions; the one who can talk to anybody and doesn’t think of what would happen next, that event, being ignored by them or doing things that he doesn’t like it making him cry, but even still he kept trying. That inner child who is kept away when weird situations happen around the body he is into, but released again when the adversity is over. That inner child that comes to you and can have a little play, without sophisticated and memory-based conversations; you don’t need to be nervous to talk to him, because he just wants to play with you.
    My inner child is well established, and when we celebrate this day, I would always see him and play with him a little bit, of course that’s in my mind, maybe at morning or before sleeping, a moment of meditation, the time I have to remember my childhood….
    And there are most of us of the Nerdy Kind, who, even if we are not children, our actions can seem a little childish, with our games and stuff, Pokemon Cards and other things. That’s not that bad, in fact, that’s cool to have time to spend, if we have time, but we can’t deny our actions and our hobbies, but who cares about it?  It’s our personality, our mature topics we might talk, but our childish actions we can do too. I hope you have understood that part, heheheh.
    So, if you have time, even if Child’s Day in your country is not this day, remember your childhood days, the good ones, it’s cool to remember, and it’s cool to act as if no mind can stop our objectives in life. Because your inner child can have our knowledge and our mature important decisions, but that child can help us think there are no limits to make our goals happen.

[By this, I would end a year of posting *yay*, around 60 posts, that's good for a year, in about 4 hours, "A Nerd's Adventure" 's first anniversary. There are a lot of things to do from here...]

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Random Post of the Month 1


Hello there, so I have a random post in debt to this post…, so I’ll make one, while hearing good music. Sometimes nostalgia, when well used, can transport you to good moments of poetry and metaphorical romanticism, heheh, that when it comes to music. Slow but energetic music like rock and pop music. That kind of music can be relaxing or powerful depending on the context you are hearing. Heheheh, random post is random. Oh, I don’t know if you want me to talk nonsense, I don’t know if I’m going to find a good drawing to this, but there are times random posts won’t necessary have a decent drawing, I can use this space to tell you I’m on my way on getting drawings on recent posts if the content of the post is worth the drawing, there are around 40 out of 50 posts. I haven’t finished yet, but I find new strategies on fast and decent drawing. I’m no expert on drawing, but I do my good shading and background so the picture can be appreciable to you. Of course, the power of school is too powerful I have to attend that first…. Don’t worry, I’m kind of an organized guy, or at least a wannabe organized one. I just want to get initiative to make things happen. My looping ideas can be weird and I can be lost in time at times, I can get distracted by little things, and my mind makes an untruthful development towards it that ends in a dead end, obviously.
I can generate a lot of ideas, but most of them are not able to get out of my mouth. I don’t know if I can write better than I speak, no, I know. There is a great difference between talking and writing. I can say I’m bad at speaking, my ideas can’t be generated that fast, I’m a little slow putting words in my mouth, because of the relative pressure of the other one who will hear my dialog. Instead I can be good at writing, because I can thing the things better before I post it, send it, of whatever word that implies the message is well received by the other person. I can express my opinion better in that way, because I can analyze the things better and make a good opinion about it. Making opinions out of impressions are not appropriate, because once you said it, possibilities it can be your opinion increases, even if you haven’t thought about it. So why I’m shy? Because I can get overwhelmed by others and their fast-pace daily life, they all want fast responses, as we were fiber cable who can send messages to New York to London as fast as you can think of your favorite food.
Ok a story implying shyness: Once there was a boy, let’s call him Connor Winchester, teenager, tall and white, black hair, usually is dressed in dark-colored T-shirt and jeans and red shoes. Other accessories are for your choice. So Connor was walking with his mom at the park and of course it was a normal Saturday, a lot of kids and teens playing, one with the see-saw, and others playing soccer, football, volleyball, other sports. Connor was seeing all of this, and his mom was happy to have some time to spend with his son. She had brought her ball of basketball. Connor and his mother were to a basketball court, and play some fast-paced game. I know a game where you need to get to certain points to win, and they use only half of the court. They were playing, normal as always. Connor was having fun and he looked happy to make a good competition with his mom in this game. But then another ball passed by and of course you have to deliver to the one who dropped away that ball. Connor got the ball and when he stood up in front of him appeared a young woman, as tall as him, another teenager, blond and long hair, same skin, purple T-shirt and shorts used for sports, and a sports’ shoes.  She thanked Connor for the delivery, he smiled, but no words were heard from him. She then invited to play a basketball match, her team was only 4 and they need another one to play with another team. Although he accepted the invitation, he was a little shy a girl about her age was talking to him. His mom saw it and said it was ok to go play. The moment Connor heard that from his mom, his face went red. The girl giggled a bit, and Connor went redder, but they went to another basketball courts. He feels a little shy about the girl, but he feels awesomeness because somebody invited him to play. Later on, when the match was finished, Connor returned to her mom, who was playing to other people. The girl of last time followed him, and thanked him for the match. He appreciated that so much, but there was something that he can’t get a word to her. So was his effort he blushed again… and give her again a smile. She said he was a cute guy, and also said her name: Amy Richards, from the school of the suburbs. Even if she was in another school (he goes to the school of the city), Amy told Connor they should meet again on the park next week. Connor liked the idea. So, even if he couldn’t get some words to her, he got a new friend he can play here. His mom was pleased his son can make new friends. So Connor and his mom returned home, Connor hoping to meet her again, and making the proposal not to be shy towards her, even if it was his shyness what make that Amy put her attention to him
Heheheh, what you can do with an hour of writing, I like to write while thinking. Maybe this story can be better told, but as a good draft it’s good.
[How can one random post can have more than a thousand words…!?]

Friday, April 27, 2012

Time for some Adventure!


    This thing of fast forward posts is amazing in some way. I don’t know how to explain it well, it just I’m doing some base development for future activities, in which I can increase my position of expression. This time I’ll do a new post about a cartoon, and it’s Adventure Time.
    When I first knew about that cartoon, was because some people were drawing him, in DeviantArt, and I thought he was cool, awesome, a little cute, why not?, and very energetic. Then I had the chance to see him on TV, when we could get Cartoon Network on cable, heheheh, I only wish it appears on normal TV, or even so, I would desire new cartoons also can be on Normal TV, but that’s not gonna happen too fast…
    Anyway, another cartoon I liked, in fact, this is one of my recent likes; I started to like the cartoon when I first saw it. It has peculiar things for a comical cartoon, mostly because the characters and the ambiance and the simple-like drawing are so special. It has action, it has adventure, it has weird things, and it has video-game like music too! It seems that when I got very interested on 8-bit music, this cartoon appears offering a little bit of that music, which it is great, because it looks a lot like a videogame.
    In fact, it is kind of a videogame: you have your main character and your trusty pal having fun when they need to, going on adventure at lots of places, and meet a lot of people who are in trouble and save them from them. Fighting monsters, saving princesses, having fun at your free time and living the good way, and also gaining experience, and visioning to becoming a great hero. All of this, adding a little bit of cute, and child-like events.
    So, we have a Finn the Human, a normal boy with a spirit of an adventurer, and Jake the Dog, the Human’s best Friend, has a lot of abilities, which includes a flexible body. Medieval times are a good place to position characters in need of adventure, but because it is more like a videogame, different kinds of kingdoms appear in this universe, which they called the “Land of Ooo"
    Because it is a recent like that I found, I can’t explain a lot about it, just I wanna say, by the episodes I have seen, that this has a lot of impression to lots of people, specially fanatics of adventure, medieval times (which it can derivate or extend from a Nerdy Activity, I think…), videogames and role-playing games. I should continue on looking at those episodes, and give a more reliable opinion about it.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

You can't deny SpongeBob's Epic Randomness


    Ok, so continuing on my fast forward state of posts, heheh…, this.

    When I thought of making a post about SpongeBob, I was considering how cool the program is, maybe because it’s kind of entertaining and simple. But there is indeed something more than random events and unnoticeable misfortune of the main character, and even a careless behavior of those situations. It is obvious that I like the show because somewhat it makes me laugh at comical situations. Maybe it is because its events are too random and because those occurs underwater, resembling personifications with aquatic animals. Maybe I can’t care less if they treat some characters in an unusual way.
    The thing with SpongeBob, it is simple, dumb, and silly, and also with a lot of variations because of the ambiance of the events. Starting with the main character SpongeBob SquarePants, a yellow sponge, awfully optimistic and unconscious of the behavior of other characters or even his own behavior. He just loves his life under the sea, no matter what things happen to him. They put the character as he is happy most of the time, but at the same time he might exaggerate all what he does. With his friend Patrick Star, they can do unimaginable things.
    It’s kinda tough to explain a little about some episodes, but they start normal and develop weird ideas that end in a funny situation, which ends with a random thing. In the episodes they enter the house of SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward, the Krabby Patty restaurant, Sandy’s House, some buildings in the city, the Jellyfish Fields, Plankton’s restaurant, and some other stores. Even if doesn’t seem to have a story development, the essence of the episodes is to make you smile and laugh on dialogs and random things.
    Why SpongeBob is awesome? Because he’s happy most of the time, even if his happiness can be bothersome to other characters. His characterization seems to personalize someone who has a work; he might be a young adult around 20s? I just guess…, but his personality is like a boy who likes to play and be happy. In fact the activities of SpongeBob might be the ones a geek or nerd has, like Jellyfish Catching, although that hobby is difficult to relate to a human activity, maybe like a sport? His friend is the same, and other characters have a little more mature personality. That impression that I have about the character of SpongeBob is one of the things I can obtain when I relate it with normal life.
    A weird thing is when other people talk to the main character with an offensive tone or a mean intention and he may not care about it. Or he cannot interpret the tone of the message or it’s just the way he see the other characters. Even if careless, and even if the dramatic event is not present (mostly the events are comical), the showing of those events were in order to not make a direct meaning, or SpongeBob just attenuate the situation by his behavior, and results in a not dramatic event. He makes comical situations like those. That’s why I don’t feel sad about him, because even with that, he is happy by nature, and because it’s a sponge, not a person.
    Of course, confront of the situation in real life would result in a not comical event. Comical events showed in the cartoon are unrealistic; it becomes more unrealistic because they are not real-like people. Those kinds of events, and not showing dramatic events, are what a comical cartoon can make an enjoyable one. It’s kind of weird, but it is. Why it is enjoyable?  Dialog and events, people-like animals and comical situations.
    Well, there are certain episodes in which so much insistence of a character is far from plausible even into the ambiance under the sea. All the time with the same behavior and lacking a little of purposes…. But overall a lot of episodes are just funny.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

A Nerd in the Actual World

   Hello there, I should take this blog into consideration and try to make updates a little faster, just to apply new attributions and in order to feel well for the next things to come *super yay*. My motivations are always in a way I can express myself clearly and without any misunderstandings, but also applying a little bit of metaphorical expressions of a specific idea. That’s the way I like to tell who I am, and who I want to be.
   Let’s say I like who I am, and I like the things I do, and I like the experiences I’m having in this life, whatever things they come to me, good and bad things, they are enjoyable, as long as it lets me to continue on this world,  heheh. As I always say: they are situations in which the expression of a Title of the Blog becomes unique. I can feel to write something according to the Title obviously, but applying to a thing or two of recent experiences towards that.
   Ok, that’s enough for an introduction. Let’s go for the Attribution of the Title. Nerdy things, I have once used the word ‘Nerd’ as part of a Title of one Post. But why Nerd? Why StndNerdBoy11? I think I would explain with detail each of the question in other posts. I can tell for now that the choice of the Nickname was because my personality was more of a Socially Inept Person, whose social experience wasn’t as good as many others, and based on the main Definition of the Word, I thought that Nickname was appropriate, also because I do a lot of activities related to the Nerd Kind….
    Now, Nerd in the Actual World…, there has been an increasing number of people who is into the Nerdy Stuff, you know, Videogames of most types and Trading Card Games, Comic Books and Role-playing, Super Heroes and Characters’ Figures, a little bit of Math and Science Issues, and a little bit of LAN Parties, Computer and Tech Issues, and a little bit of appearance stuff. Maybe because of a lot of series on the TV, and also because of the Internet, new Technologies like Smart Phones and Tablets and cool Tech Gears and Accessories. It shouldn’t be surprising…, but of course one thing is declaring the Statement and another thing is doing activities related to the Statement in a daily basis.
   Again, we are dealing within the essence of a Stereotype, so if we move a little bit sideways we could get into offensive arguments. I try to be calm about it, because it’s not my intension to hurt, and also because I’m into trying to view different points. On that line of arguments, depending on the use of the word, we could use it without hurting anyone. Of course whatever thing we don’t know of the person we are taking might be offensive in a certain percentage; talking about things that person finds offensive is common, because we didn’t know that to the person. So we are using the word assuming the person can be open with the word stating it might not be offensive if we use it well, in the terms of the activities of the Nerdy Stuff. And of course it has many words related to ‘nerd’.
     Applying all of this to myself, first at all, when I knew the meaning of the word [Nerd], I could relate to the things that happened on experience. There was a time where that word was so sounded in my mind, because others who occasionally used it, and because of the Media Imposition using it on its normal Exaggerating Motion, that eventually the word went deeper in my mind. I did my research into see how people use it, on different places, and how they give different meanings depending on the situation; how they use it just to justify useless Media…, and how to use it to state a more outstanding position.
   Seems that here I’ll justify the first question a little bit: Why Nerd? Because of Social Attribution, that means, because others just called me that.  Within that I have developed a series of ideas revolving [Nerd]. In a certain way I can’t acclaim myself nerd, because I don’t want to be specifically the Stereotype, because the word as it is resembles an element of a list of Stereotypes. I have only used the Nickname because of the position it can give me to increase my Expression.
    I could say there is a variety of people who follow Nerdy Things, and it can be a pleasure to meet them, so to know and share a lot of things.

"A Nerd in the Actual World is someone who can overcome from its definition, experiences he had and talents obtained, so he can apply them to all kinds of Nerdy Stuff and be part of groups of the Nerdy Kind"

[The "Nerdy Kind" includes all activities mentioned above,  that the person does  as its time-consuming but enjoyable hobbies]

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Feeling lonely...?


    I don’t know why things happen like a way you didn’t desire. Trying to be as good enough so people can notice me a little bit is kind of difficult. But when you get into those ideas, you get confused if what you are doing is right or enough to convince people….
    Sure the events happen to make a new post on this blog, when the proper inspiration comes to me, I can write something useful. So, I guess I should start by trying to get my ideas into proper arguments.
    I feel loneliness often, not only in School, but also in my house. I’m always trying to make a proper approach to people and say a bunch of words, but then I feel I don’t have enough inspiration on what to talk to them, and so the dialog finishes. I feel weird when this happens, when people tend not to show interest on you with their talking, I feel like it, or I believe I do so. I see people and they have an invincible barrier I cannot pass easily. There are in their business and that’s when I say that it’s not good to meddle into peoples’ conversations…. Maybe that’s one of the things I cannot overcome, because I think I’m bothering only, because I know I have nothing to share about the topic they were talking….
    Also, they have their own lives and they know each other since a long time (or a very significant short time…?) I think I just got a little bit how to get the other person interesting. Just have to be talking to him most of the time, or have common ideas you share with him, and then you will get along better. Getting friends are not my kind, especially when the time-space moments are so unstable. I said Internet was the answer, but that I need support to maintain that idea. That’s why I haven’t done much lately….
    But the main thing I fear is to show to an inappropriate person all my personality of who I am. I post things and other things I think it could be funny to everyone, but it doesn’t get the proper attention…, I can’t show everything, just the things that I like. The thing is the way that person reacts, why if it is a person you want to meet the most, and the reaction of him is not what you have expected? Maybe being too careful is being doubtful at the same time. I can make a proper access if it is not my time-space, but I can rely to the Internet to have the connection of meeting, just I need to prove I’m not a strange person….
    Also, I can’t put my efforts to maintain a strong emotion, occurred when someone scolds at me, screams and yells and says harsh things to me. I won’t know how to act to those situations, and then I may cry about it, because of the mean things they have said…. Maybe I need to be scolded more, so my tears fall easier and not get too important about it, maybe that way I can learn to tolerate those kind of events, because I just got the luck to not getting scolded by my actions (because of course they are good, and I would do everything in order to not getting scolded….)
    If I get scolded, I feel weird, and then I can think in a lot of events involving that person and making a lot of situations, trying to make an idea of what would happen if I act in one way or another. Maybe I should act fiercely and yell at him also, maybe I can tell him in what things he was wrong, or maybe I should act in a way it could express my discomfort of the situation. But when I see the person next morning, my supposed nuisance disappears, so my expressions of response are useless.
    Maybe I should tell him, in an assertive way of saying the things, telling my feeling towards it, without any change of the situation at all, because in a way we are involved in that, so each should take its own responsibility. Waiting so I cannot release my instinctive feeling, that it’s usually strong, in order to say it when I can get my ideas in order.

“I feel that my personality need friends I can rely on, but I’m not sure if it’s only because I see it from others…”


    I can’t tell if I’m an introvert that is dependent, in need of people, or an extrovert that needs its daily social communication. I say it is the first statement, because I can spend I day not talking with a lot of people, and I don’t get too desperate if I don’t talk to anyone, I can handle my loneliness well, heheh.
    But I know it’s good to have friends, so I’m doing a more reliable effort to maintain that idea of talking to people and learn from them, experiences and all.  So, Introversion doesn’t mean you don’t feel the ambiance when people gather to talk each other, neither does mean you don’t feel the need to talk to someone if it is really important to do so.  People are social, Introverts or Extroverts, we need each other, just don’t leave behind someone who wants to talk to you at least 5 minutes of your time. Maybe it’s difficult in that part, because you may not handle all of the connections of friendship at the same time, but you can make the effort to make someone happy. Maybe you need happiness too, but as someone says, “Sometimes the person who tries to keep everyone happy is the loneliest person”…, trying to make everyone not to argue each other with nonsense, but it takes the risk of not being into a proper group.
    When time comes, don't be surprised if I suddenly start talking about things you understand, and other awesome things, just I'm only testing if I can get into higher positions of expression..., and have a good talking with interesting people!

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The game in a world of Fantasy


    Hello, I’m here again! Just to make a good writing post and to express the things I like the most, and other related things.  This time, I’m in a weird mood, lately, but I was on my journey on programming games and getting the main idea of the structure of them. One of the most interesting game-types to make is a Role-Playing Game (RPG), I’m supposed to do one RPG typical of a Final Fantasy-themed game.

    So the adventure of making a RPG, it is basically the structure of the logical sequence of the maps, of the battle, experience and other important things to consider. The players, the enemies, and then items, weapons, upgrade equipment and a bunch of skills. I started making the sprite, and then try to move into a tiled map.  It’s not too easy to make tiled maps, and you need a lot of time to make them. Hopefully I had some resources I had from a previous game. This works if you know what you are doing.

    Trying to make a game in a different structure is kind of interesting and also stressful. Because when you get to work you might notice some things you had on your previous game won’t appear on the new one. So you need to make the methods that can replace the old ones. Maybe the most useful thing is if you have a good structure of your code, it shouldn’t be long making modifications.

    It is really awesome that when you are testing your game you see your code is really working as you expected. But when you need to expand your code, you need of course a more structured approach in code design in order to make the right things of the game. There are so many events, so many effects and so many instructions of a single loop of a game.

    For example: you are in the middle of the map, over world or a dungeon. When you walk for a while you get to find an enemy battle, and then you command your characters to do certain attacks and skills. When you have finished selecting you attack and then the enemy attacks, depending either on speed or on the fast you have selected your commands. But those things are happening almost instantly you may not realize a bunch of events were made on those commands.

    A more structured sequence would be: when you find the enemy or if it were a random encounter, a transition from the map to the battle screen is made. And then the sprites of the enemies and players approach into battle. Then you gain control of the battle menu and select your options, and then the sequence of attacks, stating first the name of the attack, then the effect of the attack, and then the damage calculation of the attack. Into those there’re more considerations, if the player dodged the attack or if the player have reflected the attack, or if the player blocked the attack by source of magic (Hold, or Stone or a frozen state).

    There are a lot of things you need to establish or program if you want to make an RPG game. It’s tough, but in the end you’ll get a good result of a game, if things are well made.

    I wanted to remember how wonderful was to play those kind of RPG games by playing Final Fantasy, its structured battle system is cool, if you know how to employ your characters, you will get more into the game. Each of the characters has a specific job with specific skills that made a complement of the other characters. The one who attacks with a sword, and axe or a bow and arrow, the one who makes cool magic spells, the one who can give support when giving life to others, the one who has special abilities, and the one who is especially fast to rush attacks. If you can’t do a proper strategy on those characters, enemy attacks will get into you. The thing on Final Fantasy (the SNES ones) is that the enemies can throw very powerful attacks you can lose the game quickly. If you use the support well and also if you have good items, you can advance.

    Of course making those kinds of structured games is a tough challenge, you’ll need a good team to make good ideas and make the proper structure in order to make a very good game.
    I remember a friend playing one of those games…, it’s kind of difficult to play it, and you can lose if you are not careful (of course if you don’t have enough EXP). I should be experiencing again those kinds of games. They say it may be the same by each new game, but there is the good thing when you get an encounter and you can beat the enemies and you are happy about it. And in a more difficult gameplay, it is the amazement when you get the strategy to beat certain kind of enemies.

"Now I'm stuck. I don't know what's next..."
"Heheh, your mind is playing with you. Leave it as it is, make another project and try to expand your classes..."
"It's kind of boring, trying to modify your classes in order to be a more structured one."
"But this will help on future implementations, you know it!"
"Yeah I know, I need enough feedback to continue..."
"Promotion! Promotion! Cool RPG Making with cool characters and a cool map and cool enemies!"
"Heheheh... that's a lot of promotion..."
"In fact, you are to make a promotion post about your position, in a HIGHER value that the above."
"Oh."
"Oh? You said you won't be affected by your normal Personality but you are still depending on it, your position of the nick needs more than your wimpy and shy boy inside you."
"I know...!, but it seems that my time is short"
"That's why you have a watch with you. NOW is the time you can make structured scheduling."
"Yeah..., that's right! I have TIME in my hands! I can be doing things in a planned way so I can fulfill my activities!!"
"And witting is one of those."
"And I have finished another post."
[Now for another activity, heheheh (and thanks for the Nerdy Part for being part of the promotion for awesome things)]