Pinterest

Ok, first of all, is it pronounced Pin-ter-est, Pin-trest or Pine-trest? because for the longest time I had been typing Pinetrest into my browser and nothing but error messages came up.

Anyway, pintrest is...well, I don't know what it really is, but it's really cool, and basically people upload pictures of things and you can save, or pin them, if you like. I really like this site because this is what I've always done in the first place: google pictures of hairstyles, outfits, or whatever pieces of art, and saved them. So here I am, joining the pintrest crusade, because I'm really bored with tumblr and I don't have enough friends to use instagram.

Moar complaining about college....

And here is why:

When I was in high school I had dreams of what I wanted to do, but unfortunately you have to be smart to do them. By the time I had reached senior year I had become an expert in procrastination and slacked off until the very end. Why? it wasn't because I was lazy, it was because I felt like it was pointless, and I was right. Here are several reasons I think college blows:

• Fate. I am not supposed to be there. When I finished HS I actually got into college, but due to financial issues and other circumstances I couldn't attend. So when I moved out to Arizona, I had plans to get a job and go to a community college to start off. Well so much for community college, who kept saying that I needed to fax some papers back and forth for me to qualify for financial aid, so many times that I actually missed the semester and was not able to attend. I had given up on going until last summer when I moved back to Georgia, and there were several colleges I wanted to go to, but I had no money, no car, and I am one of those unlucky few who actually have to support myself, so I couldn't go to a college I actually wanted. Instead, I ended up settling for a wannabe university. I couldn't go because I didn't have a car. Ok, so now I have a car, but I can't get the right classes because I'm a retard in mathmatics, ok, so that doesn't matter, I can just take regular classes and math0099, no big, then I have to attend an ALL DAY session of bear essentials, but wait, my financial aid hasn't kicked in...fast forward to 2 days later, your financial aid has been "rewarded", and now that you have a car, and almost in college, you can't go because you owe $ 25,000 and the only way you wont owe all that money is to take out loans or become a full time student= 4 classes. Well, it's too late to take out any loans! so you gotta take those classes. So now we go to school, ok, let's have some more things happen to us like: computer crashing, traffic, no time because of work, not having a macbook, and the ultimate CAR BATTERY FAILURE.

•  My math class doesn't even count towards my GPA which means that I don't even need to be there, and it's not even a class, everything is online, so I can do the work at home, right? WRONG, your browser does not have the supported plugins to access this page.

• Remember the part about me being stupid? well remember this kiddies, if you are good in math, you can become anything and everything and become whatever you want, but if you are good at things that I am good at, such as nothing, there are no options for you. My major is digital media: I wanted to work in video gaming and/or animation and all that stuff, but I am constantly reminded that the job market is hard, and I probably wont find a job in my major, which will lead to me working retail for the rest of my life.

• I wanted to be around people my own age. I don't have any friends. So the original plan was, get a room on campus, meet friends, don't be lonely, right? Nah...my financial aid didn't pay for loans, so I am just a regular ol' commuter. And I'm still socially stunted, I don't know how to make friends anymore, and I'm not charismatic either, so I've just always avoided people.

• I have been offered another job. There are bills to pay, things I have to do but can't afford it, I am contemplating the offer on this second job, but on my days off I use at least an hour to finish my homework and projects, if I take this second job, I will be exhausted to no extent, which will lead to my return to the ER, and another hospital bill that I can't afford to pay, but probably COULD if I took this second job..

• WTFlectures? It doesn't feel like I'm in school, it feels like I'm in some sort of rehab facility. The assignments in my classes consist of questions like "how do you feel about that? what do you think about that? what does this picture make you think?" Here is a little known fact about me: I have no opinion on things I don't feel strongly about, but that answer wont do me any justice, will it?

• The people. These people suck. 

• Commuting. To get to school from my house takes 30 minutes of a hectic drive. There's traffic and either ridiculously slow drivers, ridiculously aggressive drivers, and ridiculous amounts of police. I can never find a place to park, so I started parking out by the dorms, but walking to and from my car by the dorms felt like walking by a large group of winos downtown. So now I park on the gravel lot in the front of the school which feel like hell on my tires. Also, I don't have air conditioning, so when I get to my classes I smell like a rotting bag of ham.

It seems like I'm complaining, and I feel like I'm just being pissy, since I DID suffer two years of thinking that I wouldn't get anywhere in life unless I went to college, but I am starting to think that all these things happening to me were probably signs, telling me not to go. I seem ungrateful for everything that has happened to me, I know, but overall, I am feeling a huge sense of discouragement and let-down, so I'm really contemplating on whether I did the right thing or not. People say it will pay-off in the long run, but I think it's gonna end up being a LOOONNNG run. And yet I still go...

My Borderlands 2 Review and Guilt.

First things first, I am not a FPS type of gal. I doln't care about COD and all its avengers, I really don't understand Halo, and I'm just not too fond of anything else that resembles a scenario of which "this is what it would be like if you were drafted into the military!"

In some cases, I am willing to put my motives aside and try one of these FPS games, because they have a sort of significant back-story behind them. One example would be Fallout 3, which has a plot so engrossing that it should be made into a feature-length film.

Borderlands 2 is also one of these games. At first, I wasn't too sure about trying this game. Even though the cover art is what made me interested in the first place, the whole idea of playing a FPS made me hesitate, but when I read the plotline on wikipedia,  I figured, ehh what the hell. Here is the plot copypasta'd from wiki:

Five years have passed since the events of Borderlands, when vault hunters exposed the secrets of the Eridian Vault. A man called Handsome Jack has taken credit for the vault hunters' actions and claimed the wealth of the Vault, allowing him to take over the Hyperion Corporation and effectively gain dominion over Pandora. Promising to clean the lawless planet up, Handsome Jack embarks on a campaign to exterminate Pandora's existing colonist population and industrialize the planet. The main symbol of Handsome Jack's rule is a massive supply base built in the shape of an "H" on Pandora's moon. The base is always visible, and can deploy Hyperion forces to any point on Pandora. Borderlands 2 begins with the player fighting to the death to win a priceless cache of loot in a gladiatorial tournament run by Handsome Jack for his personal amusement. The player succeeds and gains notoriety, but Handsome Jack sees this as a threat to his popularity with the people. At the tournament's end he denies the reward and leaves the player for dead in a tundra. The mysterious Guardian Angel from the first game then contacts the player and explains that Handsome Jack must be killed, directing the player to rescue the four original vault hunters from Hyperion's clutches to accomplish this. Although Jack's full intentions are unknown, part of his plan involves finding an ancient evil named "The Warrior" that is located somewhere on Pandora.

 
See? interesting, huh? In the beginning, I wasn't really looking forward to playing this game (since I had already bought it, I felt obligated to play it), but I figured, hey, if it doesn't work out, I can always return it, right?


Wrong. This game isn't going anywhere. People claim that this game is addictive, and I'll tell you why: When I first began the game, I breezed through the first few parts so fast that I became confident in my abilities to conquer any enemy at any cost. At one point I became so engrossed in the game that I started yelling "come at me, bro!" to my television screen. Now here is where you realize that the game has got you. At one point I died, and instead of re-spawning near where I left off, somehow I re-spawned all the way on the other side of the town. For at least 3 minutes I felt like I was being jadded, and wondering why I was transported into a vast wasteland instead of where my save point was, only to find out that I WAS near my save point, but the camera was angled to make me think that I was supposed to go in the opposite direction. HAHA funny, ok, I see what you did there. Even though I WAS mad, I had realized that if I weren't so damn into this game at the moment, I would have just shut off my Xbox and went to bed.
This game isn't without its faults, though; the boss fights are too much for tv. Borderlands 2 is clearly not a game welcoming to newcomers. The boss fights are really difficult and are time consuming, please be expected to die at lease 10 times during this round. I find that cowering in a corner and waiting until the enemy comes to you easier than running into combat head-on. The enemies in this game are brutal, and they level up every time you level up. The amount of violence and hostility in this game is so epic it makes the wasteland in the Fallout series look like the fucking garden of Eden.

Overall, I really, really like this game, a little more than I should, because like I said before, I don't play FPS, they SUCK, and normally they lack plotline, but this game is better than most FPS in my opinion. Yeah there's enemies, and there's parts where you wont know what the hell is going on, but the game wont let you down, there are marker points on your map, a cute little robot named claptrap whom I will defend at all costs, and GUNNNSSS, loads and loads of guns.

Now here is the guilt. I kinda gave up on Borderlands 1. I did. As I played through several days of Skyrim, Borderlands just sat there collecting dust, because I had played through it and found myself frustrated at the fact that it just seemed to throw you into the game, whereas Borderlands 2 eases you into it. I recommend this game for anyone

AC3 Prep

In a few days, I will start the Assassins Creed 3 prep. What's that? well it's when a game comes out, you play each sequel in order until you get to the last one, then right as you get to the ending, save it, and wait for the next installment in the series to come out. Once it comes out, you continue where you left off on the last game, and THEN start the new game.

Here's what I did last year:
in honor of Assassins Creed Revelations, I played and beat AC1 and AC2, played halfway through brotherhood and once I got near the ending I saved it, waited until ACR came out, then after I got home, I continued where I left off with Brotherhood, and once I got to the ending, I was able to pick up where I left off by starting revelations.

Well, this year Assassins Creed 3 is coming out, and again, I will be playing through AC 1, 2, Brotherhood, respectively. Once I get to Revelations, I will save the game near the ending, and once I get the game on October 30th, I will pick up where I left off on Revelations, and then start AC3. Best remedy for cliffhangers ever.

Hipsters.

the Hipster is probably the counter-culture of this generation, or maybe cybergoth, IDK, but what people DON'T know is that there are many different types of hipsters:

(NOTE: These are just my observations)

The American hipster represent those young adults straight out of college (or in college) who give off the impression that they have no money, no food, and barely any central air conditioning, which is why they tend to dress in a very contradictory fashion: sweaters, sweatshirts, hoodies, with rolled up jeans, or crop-tops with winter ugg boots. Even though they give off the impression that they don't care, they really do care; they care about the trust fund money that they are currently spending on that one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, the money they are spending on shirts of horses from urban outfitters, and the money that it takes to be ironic. Yes sir, the American hipster is all about irony: caring about looking like you don't care.

British hipsters have a sort of elegance about them. Due to the unfortunate geographical location, the weather is normally depicted as partly cloudy, partly cloudy, partly cloudy...so this hipster knows that they need to look stylish but stay at a reasonable body temperature as well, so most of these outfits consist of leggings under shorts, big blazers, throwbacks to the new wave subcultures, and a look reminiscent of a character from the nutcracker, this hipster, while successfully appearing stylish, also fails to match. This hipster is all about being quirky: cute, fun, and lacking the ability to match clothes like a 6 year old picking out their own outfits for the first time.

The Japanese hipsters' look is reminiscent of their favorite tv show, band, lifestyle, cartoon characters, etc. While this may not be the hipster look we are all used to, this look, for Japanese society, does give off the impression that they aren't putting forth that much effort into their appearances. This look is often heavily copied.

Due to the ridiculous temperature, (chilly in the morning, hot in the day, moist at night), this Georgia hipster is prepared to face any type of weather. The Georgia hipster is most likely an out-of-townee, coming here to attend art college and eat at local sandwich shops in newly gentrified neighborhoods. The Georgia hipster normally gets their clothing from unknown boutiques, attends many shows of local indie rockers, and has a disdain for college football. This hipster can be described as beatnik: the only reason they exist is because of the rising art scene.

Lets play a game: can you guess which is which??

Oh they're everywhere...