Wednesday, 21 November 2012

10 Scariest Video Game Enemies: Part One

So I just read a Cracked article about the 10 Scariest Video Game Enemies and I didn't agree with the list. Now I know this is only because of the writer's (Cyriaque Lamar) own experience with playing games, but I felt strongly enough to write my own list, cus I can! So now, I am going to give you my list of the most terrifying experiences I have had in games.

And the list starts with No.10: The Fake President Boss in Final Fantasy 8!!
Yeah, this guy.

Now, you might not think that this guy looks very scary and alot like American President George Bush, I'm guessing this is who they modelled him on. But after a very tedious section of the game where you have to jump from train to train, avoiding guards and certain death...
...You finally get into the train to 'negotiate' with the President in this scene right here:
And other than that fact that his attack is to gnaw on your head, he doesn't seem too hard to kill or that scary! And then this happens...
Arrggh! He transformed into some dripping sewer monster who is now ten times stronger and ten times more disgusting to look at! This probably scared me so much because I wasn't expecting it at the time and I was about 10 when I played it!

Anyway, now we are onto No. 9: Nemesis from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
You can probably see why he is scary... But it's not just the fact that he is a hideously mutated Zombie, or that he is about 20 times stronger than a regular zombie that makes him so scary. It's that he never gives up on killing you...
The first time you encounter him is in front of the police station and at this point you can choose to fight the monster or run into the police station. When I first played this section I was so scared I couldn't decide what to do and after about 10 seconds, the options box vanishes and you are left to defend yourself. Again I was in my early teens when I played this and it's not like normal zombies are scary enough (they are), but they just had to throw in this ridiculously overpowered dude to slow you down!
Anyway, if you were left to fight for your life outside the police station you eventually got the guy down by relentlessly pummelling him with your hard earned and precious ammo. STARS!!! Phew, you think as you head into the police station ready to ransack the place for more ammo. You wander around taking out a few zombies here and there, feeling quite safe now that all the drama is over... Wait? What did I just hear downstairs??
Oh shit!! Not this guy again!! You think as you frantically get chased out of the police station by a guy who loves leather almost as much as Marilyn Manson. Needless to say, this hulking beast chases you throughout the game, the whole game!! Even when you think you have finally finished him off, he suddenly makes an appearance again and you actually get bored of shooting him after a while.

I felt a little bad for him when he ends up like this near the end of the game:
Well, this is what happens when you create an unstoppable monster that routinely finds himself riddled with bullets and losing limbs, only to grow them back in strange and disgusting ways.

I sighed a sigh of relief when I shot that final bullet into the pulsing mush that was his brain, just for the fact that he wouldn't suffer any more...

Ok then now we are at No. 8: Enderman from Minecraft
This innocent looking guy is probably the scariest enemy in Minecraft. Why? Because of his behaviour! He doesn't just rush at you like the mindless Creepers, Skeletons or Spiders that are also trying to kill you in the game. Oh no, he mocks you as he attempts to steal your soul and your building materials!

Let me explain... You're casually trying to build yourself a nice little house and maybe doing a bit of farming, minding your own business, when you glance over into the distance and spot a little black shape not moving. Oh crap you think, I've spotted him now! You try and look away or run back towards the safety of your house, but you have seen him now, and he won't leave you alone. Because when you glance back at where he was, he suddenly pops into view closer than before and that's when you hear him!
The little freak, doesn't move when you look at him but when you turn away, he can pop up anywhere in the area that you are, ready to beat you to death with that block that he always seems to be carrying! The sounds are scary enough to freak you out in this game without this sneaky little shadow man taking advantage of your blind spots!
Oh well, you can always hide out until morning where the sunlight will eventually finish him off! Bye bye little Enderman!!

Read Part Two for more unexpected frights!

Monday, 24 September 2012

Why don't I care about music anymore?

Hello there, it's me again!! Just thought I'd pop in and have another ramble... So this post is about the fact that I just really don't care about Music anymore. I don't know when this happened, maybe it was a gradual change or maybe something just went pop! one day, who knows? Now i'm not saying that I haven't listened to music for ages because I have, the music that i'm not interested in is all the new popular artists or the artists regularly in the top ten lists. I mean, you can't really get away from new music as it is constantly used for TV adverts and played on the radio. But when I hear a new song now, that everyone seems to love, I just think who the hell is this and why do they sound like shit to me? Now you might be thinking of the episode of South Park where Stan has Asperger's and everything sounds like shit to him. (Nicely visualised by shit actually coming out of people's mouths!) But it's not like that at all! For example, I like certain new songs that I hear but they are never in the top ten lists, or ever would be. If a song has a certain meaning for me then I love it, like when I hear a song that's used in a game i'm playing it means more to me because I have experienced it. And someone who listens to the song without playing the game would be like... hmmm, that's a nice song. When you know that they don't really care at all or think it sounds like crap. Also, if one of my friends recommends a song that I have never heard before, I am more likely to listen to the song and like it. One of my friends recently suggested I listen to Die Antword, a strange band from South Africa. People might look at them and think, what strange looking people and the music, I have to say, is just as strange. But for some reason, I really enjoyed listening to them because they are different and quirky, maybe that's just what I needed, something different! Well, I did really go off pop music after meeting my boyfriend when I was 18, because he was what people would call a "Greebo" so obviously, I got into my rock music (which I still love). But to be fair, during that period in my life the pop music that was coming out was pretty shite! The only recent new artists who I actually like and have their albums are Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga is a weirdo, but people like her, Die Antwood are weirdo's but no one has heard of them... I don't get people's taste! But anyway, I realised that I was a tad out of touch when I was on an old favourite website (for when i'm drunk), Chatroulette. The premise is that you can instantly find someone around the world to chat to, but I have spoken about this before in a nother post. So anyway, I was on there a few nights ago and two guys popped up, one of which looked quite familiar but I didn't know from where... Then he asks me if I know who he is? And I think oh, he must be a popstar/rapper, so I turn to my boyfriend and say "I think I am on Chatroulette with someone famous, but for the life of me, I don't know his name!" That's when said famous person actually tells me "My name's Drake, the rapper? Do you know me?" Like he's looking for recognition or something. I reply with "oh ok." And to be fair I have seen him before on TV or something but I really don't give a shit. Then I'm thinking that he might ask me to show my boobs or something and expect me to do it because he's famous. Then he says "Have you heard my music?" and for the life of me I can't recall any of the songs that he has done which means they are probably shit. I reply with "no" and he and his groupie (rappers have those right?) burst out laughing like i'm the least uncool person in the world. I'm thinking he's not going to stay on much longer because I have been playing World of Warcraft all night on Teamspeak and look like a bag of shit. At this point, he does skip me, which I was expecting. Just thought i'd share this will you all because i'm sure there are people out there who would have loved to speak with Drake on webcam, but unfortunately i'm not one of them. Oh, and if you're like me and don't know who he is, then here is a picture of him to remind you:
Yeah, this guy. So anyway, what I think is probably my problem, which I hate to admit, is that i'm just getting old! 25 next year! I didn't even know who Justin Bieber was for about 3 months, and I'm kind of sorry I did find out! So there we have it, I'm behind my time, send me to the nacker's yard. But maybe someone who reads this will feel exactly the same as me and send me a message and we can talk about how shite new music is these days! Here's hoping...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Now that's a spicy meatball!

Ok so this blog is all about my love of spicy things!! I never liked spice before, a chicken tikka masala was the hottest thing that I could handle!! That was until I met my boyfriend, he turned me on to the world of chilli's. Now I can't cook a Stir-fry, curry or bolognese without turning up the heat! My favourtie chillis are the birds eye chilli's from asda, just little red and green gems that can kick a meal up a notch.

Then you have scotch bonnet chilli's which you can buy from tesco which are scorching hot but taste so lovely!!! Also, Jalapeno chilli's, now lets get this right it's pronounced: Hala-peeno. It isn't hard is it?? The J is silent!!!! Really bugs me when people get it wrong, like chipotle, its pronounced Chip-ot-ley, not Chip-otle!! Wtf people??

Ok rant over... Any way, a show that showcases some amazingly spicy food is Man VS Food, which can be found on Dave or the Good Food Channel. I just love this show, it makes me want to go to America so much! The premise is a normal guy travelling around America savouring the biggest and the best food that America has to offer. This often invloves him taking on some ridiculous eating challenge and winning... most of the time!

But anyway, my favourite spicy meal is pasta, bolognese sauce and spicy meatballs, and now I will attempt to write the recipe for y'all.

Ingredients:

Minced beef or lamb
Ground Cumin
Ground chilli powder (or kashmiri powder)
Onions
Mushrooms
Tinned, chopped Tomatoes
Pasta, spaghetti or any other variety
Cooking oil
Worcestershire Sauce
Tomato Sauce
Bird's eye chillis (or any other chilli)
Chilli Sauce (Any brand but not sweet chilli)
An Egg
Salt and pepper for seasoning
Cheddar cheese to serve

Method:

So first of all you want to make up your meatballs! Mix the minced meat, cumin and chilli powder in a bowl, then add half a diced onion, a whole chopped chilli (or two) and the egg for binding together. Mix it up with your hands!! It feels good! Ok... after mixing these ingredients together, start to roll out your meatballs into well, balls and make them as big or small as you want.

Get a frying pan started on a medium to high heat and another pan for the sauce. To the sauce-making pan add the other half of the onion, diced or thickly sliced depending on your preference and the mushrooms. When the mushrooms and onions are on their way add some salt and pepper for seasoning. Turn on the frying pan to brown your meatballs. Add the meatballs to the frying pan while checking your other pan doesnt burn. Add another chopped chilli into the sauce-pan if you want it hot!!!

Whilst the meatballs are browning, add the whole can of chopped tomatoes into your saucepan and stir. For flavour add a dash of worcestershire sauce, a big blob of tomato sauce (Heinz is best) and as much chilli sauce as you want. Now keep the sauce bubbling at a high temperature so that when the meatballs are nicley brown, they can continue to cook in the sauce.

Put on a big pan of water to boil and add salt to season. Add the pasta when the pan is boiling, then turn down the heat and place a lid on to let the pasta cook. Add the meatballs to the sauce when they are a lovely brown colour, they wont be cooked through at this point but the bubbling sauce should continue to cook them.

Now I usually sit down at this point and have a beer and a ciggie while everything is cooking away. If you want to keep an eye on the food that is cool, but this is my chill time.

Anyway, when everything is cooked, drain the pasta, and don't stir the meatballs too much or they might break and place into a bowl, then add some sauce and meatballs and add cheese to serve!! Viola!! Spicy meatballs and Pasta!

Now for a funny story to break up this post... One night my boyfriend was making a spicy bolognese for us, and he went through most of these recipe steps whilst making up the food. Needless to say, he had just chopped some chillis up and must have forgotten about it because he proceeded to go to the bathroom for a wee...

All I saw was him running in our bedroom, face and shirt soaking wet, gasping in agony and motioning at his crotch! At some point he must have rubbed his eyes with his hands too so that's why his eyes were streaming and he was in pain. I remember him saying: "babe, I am burning up, I need to have a cold shower!" so we bustled him into the shower, stripped naked with the water on the coolest setting... Our housemates at Uni found this hilarious I must say!! And that must have been the craziest chilli experience we have had, although his younger brother did get a chilli seed in his eye at Shanghi Fusion and that was pretty mad!

But that's a story for another time! Hope you enjoyed!! xxx

Monday, 26 March 2012

Hot, Hot, Hot!!

Hello again! It has been a while since I last posted, quite a while actually but I thought I would update with another rambling. The title of this post has to do with the lovely weather that were are experiencing in England at this very moment in time! Its only the first week of spring and it is boiling! Seriously it's like summer is already here! It makes me want a barbeque so bad!!

So I have a few stories about being in lovely hot weather to keep everyone entertained... Ok so family holiday to Weston Super-mare, well my mom, sister, brother, mom's boyfriend and his three kids all packed off to the beach for a day. The only thing was that I was seeing the son of my moms boyfriend too!! (Dodgey gornal relationships!!) Anyhoo... we bought a little dingy to paddle in, you could fit about 2-3 kids in it. So we were having fun with that, as I said lovely hot scorching weather(in england? I know...) when me and my boyfriend at the time decided to sail out on the dingy further than the other little kids, we were about 14-15 and have some fun on our own!!

Bit dodgey tho trying to balance in a dingy that is floating around in the sea not to mention how little space there was!! I was perched on top of the dingy doing... well i'll let you guess, when i spotted my mom and she was squinting right at us trying to see! I ducked right down in the dingy and was like oh shit!! Haha that scared us so bad we both jumped out and swam around a bit to seem like we were acting normal! Haha the memories!

Anyway, another memory I have of a scorching hot day is when I was about 13 and all I had on was a bikini top and a miniskirt (slutty I know!) and I was innocently walking up my street when a lad who was about 16, one of my neighbours, starts chatting me up. Now, he was quite a bit older than me and thinking back it's kind of sick that he would be chatting me up when I was a skinny 13 year old with hardly any boobs so speak of.

So as I was walking to the shops, he keeps following me and telling me how fit I am am, I didn't really like him at all or his family for that matter, when he says he will buy me a drink. So we get a can of pop from somewhere, then we walk back towards our street through the graveyard (seems silly but it was a shortcut!). When we are reaching the end of the graveyard he asks me for my number and I really dont want to give it to him! So I try and make some excuse.

But then suddenly he pushes me over onto the grass and looms above me... his shadow blocking out the harsh sunlight... and I am not liking where this is going at all. He sits down beside me and starts putting his hand up my leg going up my skirt and I am panicking now, he could do anything he wanted with me and there was no one around to stop him.

I had to think fast, so I threw the remainder of my can of pop all over him and ran for my life back home, he didn't follow me thank god but I am so glad that nothing worse happened that day. Anyway, some good memories, some bad, that's life. Now onto something more intellectual...

Seeing as how hot and sunny the weather is outside, I should really get off my laptop and go and enjoy it, and my favourite way of relaxing in the sun is reading a good book with a nice cold drink beside me. The book I am currently reading is the 8th book in a series by Kelley Armstrong. I just love these books! It has everything a girl could want, all female main characters, vampires, warewolves and magic!! If you love all of those things then I recommend this series to you, the first book is called Bitten and the main character is the only female warewolf!! Hope you enjoy reading them and thank you to my friend at work for lending them to me!!

Now I'm off to enjoy the sunshine...

Monday, 14 February 2011

Gay is not a choice!

Hi guys, back again with some random crap spewing from my pro-homosexual head. I am currently watching a show called The World's Worst Place to be Gay? It's set in Uganda, Africa so the laws are pretty hard there anyway, but the attitude of the citezens is ridiculous!

May I direct you to the video on youtube.com : Eat the poo poo! This video might seem silly but there is a message in there that the Africans are spreading about gay people, making them seem disgusting and that they would eat faeces basically. This attitude is disgusting in itself, but tied onto their beliefs and religion.

In this program, some of the africans who were interviewed actually said that homosexuals were as bad or equally as bad as paedofiles! For a start, grown men and women are able to choose who they sleep with and children are not. Children should not be having sex and anyone who takes advantage of their innocence deserves to be put to death, sick bastards! But I digress... My point is that Homosexuality is not a lifestyle choice, as religious sycophants would like to believe, but it is something that you are born with, the same as you are born with green or blue eyes.

Anyhoo... it's not like I am gay or anything but I am open to homosexual relationships, I mean I have done stuff with girls! And it felt good! Lol, i kissed a girl and I liked it!! Ha ha thats just me though dirty bitch!!

But anyway... A jehovas witness came round for a chat the other day and i was interested in what he had to say because I have been into my Richard Dawkins of late, so I thought it deserved a discussion. Well he left me a booklet stating what the bible really teaches, and yes it is a load of bullshit. I dont believe in God or the bible so us talking again would be pointless, unless he wasnt his ass logically and resonably powned on the whole God arguement... Cant wait for him to come back lol.

I am an evolutionist and untill this theory gets disproven (it wont), I will always believe in scientific fact. Bit off topic there, but I guess you guys just want to hear about my lesbian experiences don't you...

Well which one to tell you about... Lol I'm not sharing this time!! Haha

Till next time! Much Love!! xx

Friday, 28 January 2011

Invagination...

*In this blog, I could only wish that I had the eloquence to put forward my ideas as sharply and humorously as Richard Dawkins, but alas I have a small mind and I was raised in Gornal, Dudley, West Midlands, England... You get the drift.

So yeah I have been reading a book called "The Greatest Show On Earth" by Richard Dawkins, which is awesome might I say, but the thing that draws my attention in this book is that so many people are against the whole idea of evolution. I had always grown up believing in evolution and my parents didnt have much stock in religion, in fact I remember my mom not giving a shit about god or anything, so why should i?? I have learnt much over the past week, nothing new that changed my whole perception of the world, I must add, just that my understanding of evolution and everything that surrounds it has grown somewhat.

So I find myself in a very argumentative state of mind; for example, when talking to people on facebook chat, people who I have known for years and are really good friends with, I seem to be aggressive in my manner of asking what they believe in (creationism or evolutionism). Just because it makes me angry to think that some people are so brainwashed into thinking that one God set out our whole beings with a set of blueprints and that we are the ultimate work of this so called God. I mean, humans are so diverse and in no way perfect, so why would a God create people who sometimes turn out faulty: e.g. disabilities, genetic mutations or even murderers. (Many differences are in my last comment but these faults are all faults that a God would not want in his perfect world)

But I digress... The title of this blog represents a new word that I learnt this week and what an interesting thing it means for the whole cell process and how we develop in the womb. The reason I am focusing on this word is because it sounds kind of rude! INVAGINATION! VAG lol, but seriously I never knew how cells behaved whilst reproducing themselves and it is truely amazing. Hopefully people will read this blog and be interested in learning more, even if it's because the word Invagination is funny.

But if not I will tell you a story about my teenage years at school when I was a rowdy teenager, you all want to hear about that right??

So science lessons, yes I played up in science, but come on it is boring, especially how the teacher put forward ideas. If I was a science teacher I could make up loads of interesting stuff that would sound like u were learning anything although u actually were! Well, I loved Biology and Chemistry, but I couldnt tell my friends that! They would think I was a swot! So when I was half listening to the teacher and half playing up I learnt some valuable stuff but also played up rotten.

Like the bunsen burners in the science classrooms! I dont remember what kind of gas came out of those things but we used to huff it!! Lol it would make u so high it was like a 20 cigarette nicotene rush!! Its probably really bad for you but we did it any way!! Also, when there was a substitute teacher and we had to go into the computor room for a lesson, we used to sniff poppers, it gave u a head rush for like a minute then it went away... So sad, wouldnt do that now!

Once in Science, I jumped out of the window just because I was so bored! Although I wasn't really, the class was about genetics (which is really interesting), but people noticed that I was taking an interest in the subject so I had to prove to them that I didnt care!! Crazy times but I think back to how much I could have listened to in science if only the peer presure wasnt there too be cool or a badass, which I was!! haha

Anyway, I ended up with a C in science which is fine for average, which I am, but I could have done much better. But you cant change the past and I do have some awesome memories from school! I'm just glad that my passion for learning about science has been ignited once again, and my "God" am I going to learn as much as I can, just because it interests me!!

Haha hope that the title got you interested! xx

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Shit Films on Shit TV Channels

So hello again, I know it's been a while since I last posted (ages and ages), but just thought I would blabber on again and share some of my innermost thoughts about life, love and everything else.

But first! The time of christmas has been upon us and it was the best christmas ever!! Seriously, tho my one year old nephew just made it!! I love him so much!! Anyhoo... Over Christmas/New Year you tend to watch a lot of christmas movie or just movies that are on TV over the time of christmas, which at the time you are all xmassy 'like yeah!! I love disney movies!' but you have seen them a hundred times and are always the same...

But anyway, lets talk about the shite movie channels at the moment like Si-fi or the horror channel, and they are shit but still I find myself up at one in the morning watching the crap that they call horror movies. Dont get me wrong, they actually have some gems on there, if you can be bothered to sift through the crap like on deadliest catch.... But not everyone has the time.

Most of the time you can guess the films that are going to be a pile of shit with titles like: Monster Crocodile vs. Massive Spider or Meteor Apocalypse, Black Dawn, Titanic 2, Belly of The Beast... you get the drift. But then you find the truly awesome movies that you wouldnt find elsewhere on TV like: Pontypool, Pandorum, Dead Girl and Black Sheep (yes I know its a bit shit but its so bad it's good). Also foreign movies that often surprise you, like french cinema (I thought that everything french was shit???): see martrys.
But often you have to shift through the shit to find the gems, like boyfriends!

I really have no point to this blog, just see the movies that I have mentioned are good and your life will be better for it, well, I can guarantee nothing!!

But anyway, I am just into horror movies since my dad used to make me stay up late and watch them with him when he came home drunk! Like the Omen and some random vampire/zombie movies that scarred me for life!! Well it must'nt have been that bad cus I am a horror movie whore!! Ha ha!

Thats another ramble my me, Lollypop, if u like read my blog more I promise I will update more often, if not go and fuck yourself xxx