Today was a very sad day for anyone who likes Sci-Fi tv shows and or movies. The death of a legend. Leonard Nimoy, a man who played such iconic characters as Spock and Dr. William Bell in the TV series Fringe. Has passed away. My heart sank when I learned of his death. He was such a great man in general. His acting was one of a kind.
I really don't know what else to say. His impact on the world was one of a kind. Even he couldn't of known. The outcome of what he did as an actor. Yet all I really can say is Rest in peace Mr. Nimoy.
Live long and Prosper
Uriel Locke
Friday, February 27, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
What is a Gamer??
This is a hard question to answer. Over the years games have changed and grown into their own.The short answer is anyone who plays video games. The longer answer is harder to describe. Since there are millions of game types and gaming playforms out there today. For instance all the games on moblie phones today. Yes some of them are a money grab. Yet if you spend more than 5 minutes playing any one of or a few of these mobile video games a day. You are a gamer.
Some may say that a gamer is a child, a person who hasn't matured out of their teen or late childhood years. Some may say being a gamer, or playing games is an addiction. Well I am here to tell you otherwise. Being a gamer I have grown up. I have my own place, I pay my own bills, and I have a Fiancée.
Many people picture a gamer as a person who lets everything else in their life fall apart except gaming. When a gamer gets mentioned many people think of the guy from the South Park World of Warcraft episode. Yet that isn't true at all. In order to be a gamer you have to have the money to support it. Look at the price of a gaming computer, console or anything that comes with those. (Monitors, TV's, controllers, gaming set ups) All these things cost money.
None of the ideas about what a gamer is, is really true. As a gamer myself I have spent hundreds of dollars on just games alone. On my whole set up that is upwards of at least 2 thousand dollars.
Gamers aren't lazy, fat, depressed individuals. We are the kid, working at the local grocery store, the guy working fast food, the car dealer. We are the working people.
As gamers, we don't live just one life. We live many. We are the secret agent, the one person army, the racer, the general leading our armies into battle, we are everything, and anything we want to be.
Uriel Locke
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Some may say that a gamer is a child, a person who hasn't matured out of their teen or late childhood years. Some may say being a gamer, or playing games is an addiction. Well I am here to tell you otherwise. Being a gamer I have grown up. I have my own place, I pay my own bills, and I have a Fiancée.
Many people picture a gamer as a person who lets everything else in their life fall apart except gaming. When a gamer gets mentioned many people think of the guy from the South Park World of Warcraft episode. Yet that isn't true at all. In order to be a gamer you have to have the money to support it. Look at the price of a gaming computer, console or anything that comes with those. (Monitors, TV's, controllers, gaming set ups) All these things cost money.
None of the ideas about what a gamer is, is really true. As a gamer myself I have spent hundreds of dollars on just games alone. On my whole set up that is upwards of at least 2 thousand dollars.
Gamers aren't lazy, fat, depressed individuals. We are the kid, working at the local grocery store, the guy working fast food, the car dealer. We are the working people.
As gamers, we don't live just one life. We live many. We are the secret agent, the one person army, the racer, the general leading our armies into battle, we are everything, and anything we want to be.
Uriel Locke
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Sunday, February 22, 2015
Game Changers
Over the years there have been games that have done things, so well or so different from the mainstream that they shook the gaming world to its core. Over the years these games have had clones, spin offs, sequels and much more. These games have inspired gamers, and game developers alike to try new things and reach for things in gaming that have never been done before.
Many of these games have shook the gaming industry to its core. These games have made the gamer actually think about repercussions in the game that may adversely effect the character. These games broke the mold of what genres of games there are. Among many other things, such as graphics, story, character development, and setting.
The way I see it a video game is an interactive book. Something that you can actually feel in a sense. Many of these games could also go on a list of the greatest games ever made. Or a top ten list.
Here is a list of games that I think were game changers.
1. Street Fighter and Street Fighter 2 (It was one of the first console fighting game)
2. Metal Gear Solid. (One of the first Stealth action games)
3. Wolfenstein 3D (The pioneer of the FPS)
4. Grand Theft Auto 3 (One of the first open world sandbox games)
5. Super Mario Bros. (The Nintendo juggernaught)
6. Sid Meier's Civilization (The RTS)
7. Gears of War (Gritty game play and an amazing cover system)
8. Shenmue (What can I say...)
9. Metroid (First female action hero)
10. League of Legends or LoL (The Moba for the masses)
11. Minecraft (You can build anything)
12. Diablo (The game that made the Action RPG what it is today)
13. Halo 2 (Console gaming online)
14. Tomb Raider (Female, third-person shooter)
15. Final Fantasy 7 (Put the JRPG in western markets)
16. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Modern day shooter when everyone else was making WW2 games still)
17.StarCraft (Three races)
18.Tetris (The handheld beast)
19.World of Warcraft or WoW (The MMO for the masses)
20. Spacewar! (The first video game)
Now mind you these games don't go in any specific order. Nor are these games picked by critics. These are all my personal opinion. Seeing how these twenty games have changed the industry and reshaped what we think about video games. I can't wait to see what games will do next. (Also I had to cut out some of my favorite games to keep this list at twenty. So don't freak out that Half-Life isn't on this list. I know there are thousands of other games that have helped reshape the industry these are just the first twenty that came to me of the top of my head.)
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Many of these games have shook the gaming industry to its core. These games have made the gamer actually think about repercussions in the game that may adversely effect the character. These games broke the mold of what genres of games there are. Among many other things, such as graphics, story, character development, and setting.
The way I see it a video game is an interactive book. Something that you can actually feel in a sense. Many of these games could also go on a list of the greatest games ever made. Or a top ten list.
Here is a list of games that I think were game changers.
1. Street Fighter and Street Fighter 2 (It was one of the first console fighting game)
2. Metal Gear Solid. (One of the first Stealth action games)
3. Wolfenstein 3D (The pioneer of the FPS)
4. Grand Theft Auto 3 (One of the first open world sandbox games)
5. Super Mario Bros. (The Nintendo juggernaught)
6. Sid Meier's Civilization (The RTS)
7. Gears of War (Gritty game play and an amazing cover system)
8. Shenmue (What can I say...)
9. Metroid (First female action hero)
10. League of Legends or LoL (The Moba for the masses)
11. Minecraft (You can build anything)
12. Diablo (The game that made the Action RPG what it is today)
13. Halo 2 (Console gaming online)
14. Tomb Raider (Female, third-person shooter)
15. Final Fantasy 7 (Put the JRPG in western markets)
16. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Modern day shooter when everyone else was making WW2 games still)
17.StarCraft (Three races)
18.Tetris (The handheld beast)
19.World of Warcraft or WoW (The MMO for the masses)
20. Spacewar! (The first video game)
Now mind you these games don't go in any specific order. Nor are these games picked by critics. These are all my personal opinion. Seeing how these twenty games have changed the industry and reshaped what we think about video games. I can't wait to see what games will do next. (Also I had to cut out some of my favorite games to keep this list at twenty. So don't freak out that Half-Life isn't on this list. I know there are thousands of other games that have helped reshape the industry these are just the first twenty that came to me of the top of my head.)
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Friday, February 20, 2015
Gaming in Reflection (for my Uncle)
This is a post that I find hard to do. Yet, I know it needs to be done. Today would have been my Uncle's birthday if he were still alive today. He ended up passing away last year. I look back at the time I spent with him as a child, and I realize. That I owe a lot of who I am to him.
This isn't just for me though. This isn't just to get the views or to get everyones heart strings moving. This is for all the right reasons. I remember a time back before I really knew what Science Fiction was. Or before I knew the heart ache of lossing someone you love. Back when all life was really about was having fun.
On holidays my family would go to southern California to visit with the rest of the family. I loved going to see my mom's family. Just so I could spend hours doing nothing. I would end up sneaking away from the adults in the living room and off into the den my grandmother and grandfather had. I would always end up catching my Uncle either sleeping or watching an old VHS tape of some sort. (Now that I am older. I know he was only pretending to be asleep) I would run in and tackle him or sit next to him and watch movies with him. Some of my fondest memories of him were when we would just sit in the den and watch Star Trek. I honestly think that this was the begining of my love for Sci-Fi.
Over the years though I got older and my interests changed. Yet I still had a love for Sci-Fi. He and I would chat about all sorts of things. One Christmas we stayed at his house and he was talking to me about video games. I had played games on the NES and the SNES at this point. Yet he was talking about computer games. He even let me play a few. It was the first time I had ever played with a mouse and keyboard. I had no idea what I was doing. Yet I was winning and it felt good to run around and shoot Demons from hell. The game was a little title called DOOM. It was one of the first times I had ever touched a real computer game. Which changed the way I saw computers. (My parents were out with the rest of the family and he let me play. My mom would have never let me play it.) Yet there I was looking at graphics that made all the other games I had played before look like crap.
I was in awe of what was happening in my life and in video games. I was instantly attracted and engaged in these games. Which helped shape my future. He and I would discuss and talk about games off and on up until his death last year. Through his influences though my life has been shaped differently than it normally would have. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be interested in computers and technology. He got me interested in programming, Sci-Fi, computer gaming, the internet, WoW, and a ton of other things that I can't even remember right now.
So I have to say that you all should hold your loved ones close. Always willing to listen and learn when you are younger, because you may never have a chance to learn these things again. The little things can help shape your future in ways you will never understand.
Most of all I would like to thank my Uncle for helping make me the nerd I am today. R.I.P.
Uriel Locke
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This isn't just for me though. This isn't just to get the views or to get everyones heart strings moving. This is for all the right reasons. I remember a time back before I really knew what Science Fiction was. Or before I knew the heart ache of lossing someone you love. Back when all life was really about was having fun.
On holidays my family would go to southern California to visit with the rest of the family. I loved going to see my mom's family. Just so I could spend hours doing nothing. I would end up sneaking away from the adults in the living room and off into the den my grandmother and grandfather had. I would always end up catching my Uncle either sleeping or watching an old VHS tape of some sort. (Now that I am older. I know he was only pretending to be asleep) I would run in and tackle him or sit next to him and watch movies with him. Some of my fondest memories of him were when we would just sit in the den and watch Star Trek. I honestly think that this was the begining of my love for Sci-Fi.
Over the years though I got older and my interests changed. Yet I still had a love for Sci-Fi. He and I would chat about all sorts of things. One Christmas we stayed at his house and he was talking to me about video games. I had played games on the NES and the SNES at this point. Yet he was talking about computer games. He even let me play a few. It was the first time I had ever played with a mouse and keyboard. I had no idea what I was doing. Yet I was winning and it felt good to run around and shoot Demons from hell. The game was a little title called DOOM. It was one of the first times I had ever touched a real computer game. Which changed the way I saw computers. (My parents were out with the rest of the family and he let me play. My mom would have never let me play it.) Yet there I was looking at graphics that made all the other games I had played before look like crap.
I was in awe of what was happening in my life and in video games. I was instantly attracted and engaged in these games. Which helped shape my future. He and I would discuss and talk about games off and on up until his death last year. Through his influences though my life has been shaped differently than it normally would have. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be interested in computers and technology. He got me interested in programming, Sci-Fi, computer gaming, the internet, WoW, and a ton of other things that I can't even remember right now.
So I have to say that you all should hold your loved ones close. Always willing to listen and learn when you are younger, because you may never have a chance to learn these things again. The little things can help shape your future in ways you will never understand.
Most of all I would like to thank my Uncle for helping make me the nerd I am today. R.I.P.
Uriel Locke
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Times, they are a changing
As I sit here, and look back on my childhood. I realize I have come so far. I have grown and matured. Yet I also look at my favorite hobby. Which happens to be gaming. In the span of twenty years I have seen video games change drastically. I watched as they went from sixteen bit to thirty-two bit. I have watched them go from a purely single player experiences to what we know now as MMO's. I also watched as every thing changed when programmers began to render things in three dimensions. That being said though. Has the video game industry actually grown to keep up with the aging gamer? Has the industry tried to reach out to other age groups or has it just stuck with the basic eleven to twenty year old male?
To answer any of those questions, you have to look back at where gaming started. Gaming had humble beginnings in 1958. With a game that was like tennis, or what we know today as pong. The two player aspect of this game made it a huge innovation and a leap forward in technology.
As time went on though gaming has changed in many ways. We had the Magnavox Oddyssey and the Atari 2600. To what we now have. Such as the Xbox One and the Sony Playstation 4. The graphics may have changed but the purpose is still the same. To entertain people and to have them happy with the product. To keep them coming back for more. It's all about branding and the ability to get the best games on the platform.
With these changes though have come separation between gamers. Some prefer gaming on a specific console or computer. Where others only play on the opposite. This division has caused many games to be exclusive to specific platforms. Which makes it harder to be a gamer. The price tag for a console now is in the hundreds of dollars where as gaming on a PC can very from the same amount as a console to thousands of dollars just to be able to play the latest games.
We went from having games that were a single genre which was sports, to what we have today. Now we have multiple MMO's, RPG's, and FPS's in genres such as fantasy, horror, survival, puzzle, strategy, battle arenas, and any number of combinations of those. Games aren't just a single genre anymore. For example, World of Warcraft, (or WOW) has fantasy, the massively-multi-player aspect, and RPG leveling. Compared to Pong, which was just a tennis game, with points, with no character levels.
With so many new games, and genres available now, gamers can be anyone. The industry as a whole is reaching out to the kids next door, your brother, the 87 year old grandmother down the street. You name a person, and there is probably a game out that they would be interested in playing.
That being said though since anyone can be a gamer. It does deter some gamers from playing on all platforms. Not everyone has the money to buy a new console every seven to ten years. That is also one of the many things causing the separation of gamers as a whole. The price tag to continue being able to play the latest games. Or the ability to buy the new console or PC.
Looking back at how much games have changed in the past twenty years, how much will they change in the next twenty years?
In the comments below let me know what you think. What would you like to see happen in the gaming industry?
To answer any of those questions, you have to look back at where gaming started. Gaming had humble beginnings in 1958. With a game that was like tennis, or what we know today as pong. The two player aspect of this game made it a huge innovation and a leap forward in technology.
As time went on though gaming has changed in many ways. We had the Magnavox Oddyssey and the Atari 2600. To what we now have. Such as the Xbox One and the Sony Playstation 4. The graphics may have changed but the purpose is still the same. To entertain people and to have them happy with the product. To keep them coming back for more. It's all about branding and the ability to get the best games on the platform.
With these changes though have come separation between gamers. Some prefer gaming on a specific console or computer. Where others only play on the opposite. This division has caused many games to be exclusive to specific platforms. Which makes it harder to be a gamer. The price tag for a console now is in the hundreds of dollars where as gaming on a PC can very from the same amount as a console to thousands of dollars just to be able to play the latest games.
We went from having games that were a single genre which was sports, to what we have today. Now we have multiple MMO's, RPG's, and FPS's in genres such as fantasy, horror, survival, puzzle, strategy, battle arenas, and any number of combinations of those. Games aren't just a single genre anymore. For example, World of Warcraft, (or WOW) has fantasy, the massively-multi-player aspect, and RPG leveling. Compared to Pong, which was just a tennis game, with points, with no character levels.
With so many new games, and genres available now, gamers can be anyone. The industry as a whole is reaching out to the kids next door, your brother, the 87 year old grandmother down the street. You name a person, and there is probably a game out that they would be interested in playing.
That being said though since anyone can be a gamer. It does deter some gamers from playing on all platforms. Not everyone has the money to buy a new console every seven to ten years. That is also one of the many things causing the separation of gamers as a whole. The price tag to continue being able to play the latest games. Or the ability to buy the new console or PC.
Looking back at how much games have changed in the past twenty years, how much will they change in the next twenty years?
In the comments below let me know what you think. What would you like to see happen in the gaming industry?
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Gaming Issues Today
A lot has changed over the years in the gaming industry. It went from being, a lone ranger type of thing with game cartriges. Where a few people or even one person could work on a game and have it out in a decent amount of time. Then it grew and wento to discs where everything was three dimensinal. (The N64 being the odd man out there) Yet a lot in gaming has stayed the same.
This post is about some of the things that I find to be slightly annoying and well hurtful to the gaming industry as a whole. Lets rewind time back to fifteen years ago. A lot has changed in fifteen years. For computer gamers Steam wasn't even a thing. Now that being stated Steam has created a new way to buy, play and download games. I have to say that thanks to steam I have a huge gaming library on my computer. Yet that being said, there are some issues I have with what Steam has been doing lately.
Early Access being one of the major issues I have with the gaming industry as a whole right now. As a gamer I love being able to be one of the first people to get my hands on a new video game even if it isn't finished. (Beta) Then Early Access was launched. Then in March of 2013 Steam/ Valve launched Early Access. Which means that for a bit of money you can get into a game on the Alpha level. Which means you have all the major issues where the game doesn't work or can just die on you randomly.
Now I remember playing the demo discs from the Playstation as a kid which was awesome it would get me interested in a game or make me just say "Eh it's alright" Yet now with computer gaming I have to pay double if not triple the amount you had to pay for the Playstation magazine which you got the demo disc in. Not that long ago I was looking at a game on Early Access it was Planetary Annihlation. The game was going for a hundred dollars in Early Access... I understand that the developers need help funding things sometimes. Yet why would I shell out a hundred dollars for a game that is thrity bucks now... Or worse yet. I am guilty of this one. Paying twenty bucks for a free to play game...
This isn't to say that Early Access is a bad thing. It can be a good thing. Yet when it seems more like a cash grab than a Alpha test.. Which it is supposed to be. In the case of H1Z1 (which I spent twenty bucks on...) It is a free to play game. It also is being made by SOE or rather was. SOE (Sony Online Entertainment) was recently bought out by a company in New York. The new company name is Daybreak or something like that. Then the mass layoffs of some of the biggest names in the company? Really people? Who is to say that any of these games will actually launch. Look at how long the Beta has been for SMITE.
I have to say that as (being a PC gamer primarily) that I can't log into Steam without having every other game that shows up in my que be an Early Access game. Which I find slightly saddening. Look at the industry. Is this the way gaming is going to go? Is this the future? Are we paying for nothing?
I look at all the games I have Alpha, and Beta tested. Which is a lot mind you. I have tested just about every MMO to come out in the last 5 years. Mind you many of those I was in the Closed Beta and went into the Open Beta for. Yet now we have to pay to play the Beta tests? Why is that? Well I can somewhat understand supporting the company making it.
Look at Star Citizen, and their 72 million dollar funding they have gotten since they launched their Kickstarter. That in itself is another issue I have. Kickstarter is crowdfunding. Which can be cool but when the person doesn't deliver well there is an issue. Heck some guy wanted to make better mayo for potato salad... Come on people. Yes I realize that if I were to ever make a game I would more than likely have to be crowdfunded as well. Yet I have seen so many games either not make their goal, or just drop off the face of the planet.
I feel that these two things can end up breaking the gaming industry as a whole if let loose on the general public. You wouldn't pay for half a burger at McDonald's? So why would you pay for half a game?
I want to know what you all think. Let me know if you agree or have a different opinoin on these two subjects.
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Friday, February 13, 2015
Sensationalism in the Video Game Media
I would like to start this off by saying. I have been a gamer for the better part of my life. I am 27 years old. I have watched consoles rise and fall. Companies come and go. I have watched as the idea of video game media, reviews and journalism has become something of it's own.
That being said. I have to say as a gamer I try to stay away from a lot of the drama. I try to avoid specific topics. Yet now that I myself am working on being a gaming journalist. (so to speak) I can't keep my mouth shut any longer. These topics need to be discussed. The main topic that I have an issue with. Is sensationalism in the gaming media, journalism, and within the development community as a whole.
As a gamer I am tired of hearing how we as gamers were promise something, that never makes it into the game. I am looking at you Peter Molyneux. Yes you have made some great games over the years but come on. Telling us that Fable would be this and that when it wasn't... Or that Fable 2 would be even better and you would make good on all the promises from Fable one only to flip flop again... Really?? Then this whole issue with Godus. I am tired of being promised things only to have them not even be a part of the game. Time and time again other companies have done this as well. Just to use it as a selling point. To make money for them and leave those who are their bread and butter out to dry. It is heinous, for these people to use their consumers like that. If something isn't going to be in the game then don't and I repeat DON'T tell us it will be.
Now moving forward with this, I believe another issue the gaming media has is something that everything in our world is having issues with as well. That something is Feminism. Now hear me out. I am not against it at all. In fact I fully support woman in every thing they do. Yet I have to wonder about some of these approaches that are being used. Singling out specific sections of a game only to prove your point... This is journalism people not politics. We don't chicken pick. This isn't sunday school and we aren't children. Anita Sarkeesian has some valid points. Yet she also seems to be just taking things and using them to her motivation. (I am not bashing her or anyone else in this post. I am just using these people as examples.) Games are like movies, radio, and even books. They are open to interpretation. Then again when those games are turned into a form of sensationalism to meet someones motivations it, destroys the gaming media as a whole. It makes us look like children having a peeing contest. Who can have the biggest story? Who can get the most views or responses?
This last year we saw so many sensationalistic view points about lost air planes, weather, and Kim Kardashian. Do we really need to make the same sort of stories out of video games. Do we really need to create drama just so people can get hyped or not hyped over a game? Do we really need any of this crap? The real answer is no. If the game is good you will tell your friends, who will tell there friends and so on and so forth. We don't need Superbowl ads to tell us to get this game. We don't need those in marketing to tell us this game will be awesome. We will find out for ourselves, we will get hyped ourselves if we like it enough. Before big corprate gaming there was the small close knit group of gamers. Who were just that... Gamers. Gamer has become an insult from many of the major media outlets who say they review games or are promoting games. When you bash those you are saying you are working for. (in a sense) Then what the hell are you doing in this form of journalism or media promotion anyway.
I personally (Gamer me) can't stand reading articles about how gamers are dead or are dying... We are the ones who helped make gaming what it is today. If it wasn't for us the jock next-door, your girlfriend, or your grandma. Wouldn't be playing video games. I think that we should spend less time creating drama or causing sensationalistic stories about how this is a damsel in distress and just enjoy what we have. Gaming has come so far and it still has so much farther to go as a medium. Yet when we create these stories or chicken pick the plot or desensatise those who play the games. All it really becomes is a market for children throwing temper tantrums because they can't have a candybar from the store. (Reviewer Me) I hate that we have to be so dramatic. I don't understand how something as great as gaming can be redused to a damsel in distress or a promise that wasn't ever kept. I can blame the media for starting a lot of it. Yet I also have to take the blame myself, because I am a gamer as well. When people who love gaming say things like gamergate needs to go. Then they get death threats, phonecalls, and emails. What has the world come to. Or when an awesome twitch streamer gets swatted... What are we all thinking?! How did it come to this?
What, have we stooped so low as to be a reality tv series. We were once a group of friends. We were even close enough to be a family. Yet now we are more devided than ever before. MoBa players bash MMO players. FPS players go off on each other. I was in a game the other day with a group of people I call my friends. Only to be met by insults and hatespeech in the remarks. Yes I understand some friendly insults. Yet why would you go off on a person you call your friend when they have to go to bed? I thought as I grew up so would others. I thought that as I became more mature so would gamers. Yet after that night, I felt ashamed. Ashamed to look at what we all have become.
I remember going to a local internet cafe type place, and helping teach kids how to play some of my favorite games. I even ended up teaching my three younger brothers how to play video games there. Yet here we are over a decade later and, I am ashamed. I am ashamed because we aren't that close knit group anymore. We aren't fighting for a common goal of defeating Hitler or the Devil. We are devided and trying to conquer the world. In every RPG you need a team. A team to face all the monsters and bad guys with. To save the world form something or another. That group is always a group of the least likely people to save the world. Well ladies and gentlmen as gamers we are that group and we are failing on every single fight I see us come up agianst.
We have done nothing but prove we aren't ready to be taken seriously as a medium. We only have so many pheonix downs people, and we are running out. We need to stand up and be counted as gamers who are ready to take the next step. To be mature enough to admit we messed up and to help reshape an industry that has prided itself on the masogonistic point of view. The sensationalistic view points of the media. The exagerations of those who promise us things but never give them to us. We need to the media, and the coperations accountable. Most of all though we as gamers need to hold ourselves accountable. We aren't children anymore. We are young adults, adults, grandparents, children, parents and so much more. Yet most of all we are GAMERS. So we should act as such.
UrielLocke
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Ladies and Gentlemen
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have to thank you all for what you have helped me see. I have to thank you all for what you have helped me accomplish in the span of ten months. I have seen my YouTube channel grow from a small amount of video views and subscribers to double the subscribers and if not quadrupole my video views.
Now that being said. I am planning on taking the gaming world by storm. I plan on being the next big YouTuber. I also plan to review and rate as many games as I can get my hands on. I know that, some may say that I am biting off more than I can chew. Yet I know that even if I take this bite with a full stomach I will be able to chew it and swallow it. I have the dedication and the drive to do this. I may have lost my way a bit during the last ten months but I am back on track and I will be hitting this harder than ever before. I will be posting on my blog twice a week. I will also be pumping out videos every Saturday and Sunday. Along with Streaming on my twitch channel every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday.
The reason for this schedule is to not only hold myself accountable but to also keep everyone up to date on what I am doing. I want to do this right and this is the only way I know how. I have been dreaming of being a full time gamer since I was a kid. I have come this far and I don't plan on giving up on a dream I have had for so long. Maybe this dream will change a bit, or maybe just maybe it will grow into something with a life of it's own.
So this post being my first post on this new schedule I would like to say thank you to all who read this. I also would like to thank all of those who are willing to share it. I don't just do this because I have some dream of being famous or rich. No I do this because it is something I enjoy. I do it because I find it fun. Not because I want it to be my job. Right now it isn't paying the bills my day job is.
Yet if as I said this dream takes on a life of it's own I wouldn't be against making it more than it is right now. I also know that I am not like other YouTubers. I am not a Pewdiepie or a Markapliar. I am me, and I am not willing to give up who I am just for views or for fame. I hold myself accountable for every review, lets play, and remark about a game. I am not paid by any of the companies that make games I will be reviewing. I have busted my tail to get to where I am at with Machinima. To be honest I am surprised I got in. ( If I am wrong about something feel free to point it out. If I don't know all the facts about something, let me know. I am not here to give gaming a bad name. If anything I am here to try and give it a better one.)
Sincerely,
Now that being said. I am planning on taking the gaming world by storm. I plan on being the next big YouTuber. I also plan to review and rate as many games as I can get my hands on. I know that, some may say that I am biting off more than I can chew. Yet I know that even if I take this bite with a full stomach I will be able to chew it and swallow it. I have the dedication and the drive to do this. I may have lost my way a bit during the last ten months but I am back on track and I will be hitting this harder than ever before. I will be posting on my blog twice a week. I will also be pumping out videos every Saturday and Sunday. Along with Streaming on my twitch channel every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday.
The reason for this schedule is to not only hold myself accountable but to also keep everyone up to date on what I am doing. I want to do this right and this is the only way I know how. I have been dreaming of being a full time gamer since I was a kid. I have come this far and I don't plan on giving up on a dream I have had for so long. Maybe this dream will change a bit, or maybe just maybe it will grow into something with a life of it's own.
So this post being my first post on this new schedule I would like to say thank you to all who read this. I also would like to thank all of those who are willing to share it. I don't just do this because I have some dream of being famous or rich. No I do this because it is something I enjoy. I do it because I find it fun. Not because I want it to be my job. Right now it isn't paying the bills my day job is.
Yet if as I said this dream takes on a life of it's own I wouldn't be against making it more than it is right now. I also know that I am not like other YouTubers. I am not a Pewdiepie or a Markapliar. I am me, and I am not willing to give up who I am just for views or for fame. I hold myself accountable for every review, lets play, and remark about a game. I am not paid by any of the companies that make games I will be reviewing. I have busted my tail to get to where I am at with Machinima. To be honest I am surprised I got in. ( If I am wrong about something feel free to point it out. If I don't know all the facts about something, let me know. I am not here to give gaming a bad name. If anything I am here to try and give it a better one.)
Sincerely,
Uriel Locke
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