Runescape

This is a picture that I took from a virtual world called Runescape. I'll start by telling you what a virtual world is. A virtual world is where you get to customize your own person called an avatar. There's nothing specific you have to do in a virtual world. It's just basically another life where you choose what you do just like in this life. The last important thing about them is people all over the world with Internet access can get on them. This means you can talk to one of your friends if they have an account and they're playing at the same time as you.
Runescape is a game where you get to design a person from the middle ages. You get to go around the Runescape world doing whatever you want. There are quests that you can do in it. For example, there's a quest called Dragon Slayer. If you want to get a certain strong type of armor for your avatar, you can do this quest so that you are able to buy the armor and wear it. There are people called members. If you pay $5 a month than you can become one. Even though non-members (most people) have plenty of things to do in Runescape, a member can access different places in the Runescape world. They also have over 100 more quests that they're able to finish and thousands of more items that they're able to buy. You also have levels in Runescape. Your combat level is how strong you are. You can get this higher by fighting a lot. They also have lots of other levels like woodcutting (this is what I'm practicing in the picture) If you get your woodcutting level to certain points, you can use better axes and chop down better trees. There are a lot more things that I can talk about about Runescape but I've explained enough. Other virtual worlds are: Club penguin, There, and Second life. None of them are the same. I'm finished describing everything now.
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Windows Movie Maker

This is a program on our computer called Windows movie maker. All it is is a program that takes videos and pictures and puts them together to make a movie. I edited my first stop motion video and put it on You tube. It's not really my first... It's just the first one that I put on the Internet and added titles and credits.... They weren't really credits either. They said: pictures taken by: me myself and I. Movie edited by: me myself and I. Lego's owned by: me myself and I. Everything else you need to know done by: ME MYSELF AND I. After that, I saved it onto my You tube account and named it something like: Crazy Lego pirate.
I only know a few things about Windows movie maker, so I'm trying to learn the rest. After I master stop-motion on this, I'm going to start making videos with lightsaber effects in it like I showed you in one of my posts. But this program doesn't do certain things that I want it to. Like split a non-stop motion video into clips so that I can edit those. But there are two programs that I want to get called: Stop-motion pro and Ulead video studio 11 plus. The next video that I'll probably make today will be putting most of my short stop motions together to make one movie.

Our Destroyed Trampoline

This is a picture of the trampoline that my sister and I got like five years ago. I will start the story now. Five years ago or about five years ago, my big sister and I (we were the only ones born) wanted a trampoline. My dad took us to Sam's Club (that is a store, not a club owned by someone named Sam) and we used our money that we got yearly to buy a trampoline. We constructed it, and soon we had it built. Take away 5 years from this (no nets falling down or leaves all over it.) and you've got what we had. A few years later, all the kids were born and it looked like this. We've tried to fix the net two thousand times but it hasn't worked. Same thing happened with the leaves. Like I said before, "this is basically what happens to cool toys that come to this house.

Our New Stairs

I know this picture isn't very good, so if you can't see it, this is a picture of our new stairs. One day, my dad met a man and he asked if my dad had any work for him to do. My dad said yes, because he did, and he gave the other guy $10 an hour to split our wood. The man was also good with tools and stuff like that, so he also asked if he could fix the stairs because: The stairs had carpet on them like our floor and it gets dirty if someone spills on it. It also had a broken hand railing because we (meaning the kids) used to ride down it and stuff.

The guy ripped out the carpet and took down the railing and wood steps until there was nothing left but those three wooden zigzag things that the stairs lay on top of. Then we went to Lowes (the store) and bought three types of steps. We chose which one was the best, returned the other two and bought five more of the other kind. After that, we bought the last pieces that we needed and cut them with our neighbors power saw or whatever it's called and fitted them into place on the stairs. That night, the man left, but on thanksgiving, my dads friend did the rest. But my dad told everyone not to use the stairs yet because there's something else we need to do before we can walk on them.

That's the story of our steps.

messing with lightsabers

Yesterday afternoon, my little brother and I were digging around the junk in my dads shed. A few minutes later, my little brother said "cool!!!." He said "I found a lightsaber!!" Then I told him " it's not real" and somehow, he turned it on. We brought it into the house and I took a picture of him holding it.

OK, all of that was a lie. Here's what really happened: It was time for break time for my sister and I, so I went to youtube.com. I found this tutorial on how to use a program called Gimp2 that my sister happened to have for taking pictures and making them look like someone is holding a lightsaber.

I took a picture of my brother holding a broom handle. (if you look closely at his hands, you can see the wooden part of the broom.) I put it on Gimp2 (which is actually a free paint program on the computer.) and added the effects to make it look like the broom handle is a lightsaber. I made about 2 billion pictures with these kind of effects including one of me stabbing a barbie with my lightsaber. I'm trying to figure out how I can use these effects in a movie now.

My Brothers Pirate Ship

This is nothing but another big toy that came to our house three days ago. If you can't see it clearly, (Which you probably can) it's a pirate ship. It's also my little brothers who likes big toys with ugly toy people. He got it when my mom took him and my two little sisters down to South Carolina because someone we know was in a bad car accident. He also went shopping when he was there and everyone got their own toy. One of my sisters said that my brother was about to get this remote control robot but he was told that it was too expensive. When he came back here, he told us that he got a pirate ship. Of course, I was playing a computer game and when I turned around, he was holding this huge box with the toy inside. So everyone had very little trouble opening it and it is now his favorite toy. I will give you some details about the pirate ship. First of all, it comes with two ugly guys (see the right of the picture) and some clothes (in between them) so that you can hide their ugliness. It also comes with two blue flags and a pirate flag that you can stick in various places on the ship. It comes with three cannons that shoot red cannonball things. Three golden shield thingies that you can use to decorate different parts of the ship. Finally, it comes with two swords and a treasure chest. The ship itself features: a place at the bottom of the ship where you can store the cannons and a lever that moves them towards those red flaps on the side of the ship. It has billions of places to put the peoples feet, sometimes activating things: There are two places that if you put the people there and twist them, the sails go down. Another one, if you put a person on it and twist them, the anchor falls down and the last one is if you twist the person on it, the plank moves out. The last features of the ship are places on the top, back and front where you can put the flags and places on the sides where you can put the circular decoration things. I've described it the best that I could and like I said in my remote control airplane post, "This is basically what happens to cool toys that come to our house" It's probably going to happen with this too even though it isn't a cool toy.

The Dangerous Book For Boys

This is a picture of a book that i got a few months ago called the Dangerous book for boys. It's a book with all kinds of activities and things for boys and boys only. It shows how to make a bow and arrows and the five knots that every boy should know. It shows about a billion other things to including advice and everything else that I forgot to mention. My sister has a book from the same author called The daring book for girls, but she wouldn't allow me to pose her book next to mine. Hers is not for boys and boys only but vice-versa obviously, and it shows things like how to make ugly hairdos and how to do cartwheels.
This book was introduced (Notice I didn't say shown or given) to me in Africa. My dad came and he told me that when he was at the airport he saw a cool book called blah blah blah and it's about blah blah blah and I already told you everything so I'm gonna stop the conversation now. So when we finally were coming back to America, the first thing my sister wanted to do was get the "Latest and greatest" Harry Potter book. So I said something like "If she can get a book that expensive why can't I?" So my dad told me that I should look for the Dangerous book for boys so I did. What your thinking now is "So you went and found the book and lived happily ever after." But you're wrong. The bookstore owner said that the book was all out so I had to get a different book.
Two or three or four of five or... or.... or..... months later my mom gave us each an "Ology" book. My little sister got Mythology, My big one got Pirateology and etc... etc... Mine was Wizardology but I didn't find it fascinating for many reasons. About two or three or four or five or... or ... or.... Oh forget it. A few days later my mom got me this book (See the title if you haven't already) because I didn't like the Ology one. Then yesterday my older sister bought the Daring book for girls. Then it was Monday again and I had to do my schoolwork then I had to write this post which I'm finished with. Then it's gonna be the future and whatever happens in the future will happen and the rest is hard to explain.

My Game Controller

This is the PC-compatible game controller I got about a week ago. This controller has a USB plug, so I can put it into any computer. I find it a lot easier to use than a keyboard, but for some reason, I want to use a joystick more. Too bad. This works with my game Lego Star Wars 2. I don't know what happens when I try to play Star Wars Battlefront 2 though. Since you use the mouse to change the view in it, you can't really use the game pad. Anyway, the game pad only works until you start or load a game, then I have to use the mouse. I like to use this more than the keyboard and mouse because I can move it wherever I want to without having to change the position of my hands. But I mostly just like the arrangement of the keys and how my hands fit over it. This is one of the reasons why I want an Xbox instead of using the computer. Or maybe a PS3 or something.

Calvin and Hobbes

These are our Calvin and Hobbes comics. They're the coolest comics ever! I don't know how I got into them. But still! This is the whole collection of them that we got one or two years ago but we still have the old ones that we used to read. They were comic books about a third as thick as each of these and had a collection of certain comic strips in them. In this one though, it shows the dates of all the strips and shows the history of Bill Watterson (the creator of the comic) and the creation of the strip. The comic strips are all about this one boy named Calvin who is really bad and his stuffed tiger named Hobbes who is his imaginary friend. He has a whole bunch of "adventures" in his life. An example of one of the comic strips is: Calvin was hammering nails into the coffee table, his mom came in and said: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Calvin looked at the hammer and said: "Is this a trick question?" Everyone in my family loves this comic and most of my friends like it too. Personally, I think it's the best comic strip ever.

The broken remote control airplanes

This is a picture of one of our remote control airplanes. If you haven't noticed already, the two wings on the back that are supposed to be pointed up, are broken. One of the propellers is broken too. This is the story. When my family and I were in Africa, (my dad was still in America.) My uncle sent two RC airplanes to our house here in America. My dad was supposed to bring one to us when he came to Africa, but he didn't. So we came back about 3 months later and The morning after we came back, I found two airplanes in boxes. one was this one, and one was a bi-plane. After I asked permission, my dad said I can open one. So I opened this one because I thought it looked cooler, and I charged it. (These planes don't have wheels so you have to throw them so that they take off.) After many attempts, I got it in the air for two whole seconds. (That's a lot for this airplane.) It was really hard because we don't have big open spaces here and it kept crashing into trees. I figured out that the other one was easier. Since it was a bi-plane, it could make sharper turns. Whenever the bi-plane crashed into something, I could keep it in the air. My top time for the bi-plane was probably at least 1 minute. After about a month, it was time to clean the house. I put the two planes and their controllers on one of our shelves. Someone was stupid enough to put a box full of things on top of that. The bi-planes wings got squashed and practically everything else too. This ones wings got broken along with the propeller.(as I told you before.) The bi-plane eventually got lost and I never heard of it again. This is basically what happens to cool toys that come to this house. The end.

The Coolest Video Game Ever

This is a picture of Star Wars Battlefront 2 A.K.A. the coolest game ever. I got it because I went to my friends house in Washington DC a few months ago and played this game. I thought it was really cool. So two days ago I bought this for PC. It was hidden from all the other games because for some reason, people don't like to put PC games with console games. When I opened it, I figured out why video game boxes are so thick. IT NEEDED FIVE DISKS JUST TO INSTALL IT! So I went home and installed it, which was annoying because it kept saying: please put in disk four so that we can install blah, blah, blah. After that, I started "Testing" it which means playing it until you get used to the controls. This was really hard because have to use THE MOUSE of all things to change the view. I've been trying to figure out how I can use my computer compatible gamepad to play. It works up until you start playing the game. This means I have to keep getting used to the controls because I'm to lazy to get used to them. I wish I could just change from using the mouse to using the gamepad. :(

My Awesome Lego Sets

This is a picture of two of my Star Wars Lego sets. One is called General Grievous Starfighter and the other one is called Naboo Starfighter and Vulture Droid. As you can see they come with three Starfighters (well one's not really a Starfighter.) and four Lego dudes. (One's not really a Lego dude) My favorite one is the Naboo Starfighter so I'll start with that. When I went to Africa I got two Lego sets. One was an awesome Star Wars one and the other was some other 10 buck Lego set both of them were worth about 30 bucks together. As I predicted while I was there, the kids there lost all the pieces for both of the sets. So my Mom promised me another Lego set worth $30 when we came back to America. I chose the Naboo Starfighter. It came with little Anikin, a Naboo Starfighter pilot, R2D2, a Vulture droid and finally, the Naboo Starfighter. It's the biggest Lego set that I've ever owned. Its features are: A shooting torpedo on the Starfighter, movable legs on the Vulture droid and a non opening cockpit which is lame because you have to take the cokpit window off if you want to put someone in. If your wondering what this comes from, it's in Star Wars episode one. Now for General Grievous. This set features a cockpit that slides open UNLIKE the Naboo Starfighter. General Grievous features 4 lightsabers, 4 arms, un-movable legs, a blaster and no cape which I don't understand because every other General Grievous set has a cape for him AND silver lightsaber hilts. This one though, has grey lightsaber hilts. I understand now, if the Lego set has an opening cockpit the company PURPOSELY doesn't put rockets that actually shoot. If the Lego set has a rocket launcher then the company PURPOSELY doesn't have an opening cockpit. I'm starting to realize that the old Star Wars Lego sets were a lot better. But I'm plenty happy with these. I'll probobly modify them anyway.

The Sidewinder

This is a joystick as you can see. And it's the coolest one I've ever seen because this is the only game controller I have except for the keyboard. (I don't have any consoles.) A long time ago in a galaxy not very far away, I was looking in my junk closet (None of the stuff in it was my stuff and I was curious.) and I found an old, unopened paintball gun and I found a big huge box with the picture of a joystick on it. So I bring it down to my Dad and ask him if I can open it because I realized all the stuff in the closet was his anyway. He said yes and I asked him why in the world would he own a joystick and he said because he got this simulation game thing called Flight simulator. So I went and looked back in my room and eventually, I found the game and I brought it downstairs to him. Then I found out that the joystick came with a game called Mechwarriors. So I installed Flight simulator, Mechwarriors and the Sidewinder joystick immidiately and learned how to really fly and airplane with the joystick which was really exiting but I don't know about Mechwarriors. Your a dude in a big robot called a Mechwarrior with guns and rockets and stuff and you have to kill the other Mechwarriors. About a month later, my mom was getting a whole bunch of educational disks before we went to Africa. One of them happened to be a game called Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX. It was this game where you could be a famous trick biker and you try to get as many points as possible by driving the bike. A few days after I installed it I realized that you could drive the bike with the joystick instead of the keyboard. Months later it was time to go to Africa so we left (Without the joystick or the games) for a year and when we came back the computer (THE JOYSTICK COMPUTER!) didn't work because it was old so I tried installing the joystick in other computers but only my Mom's had the right plug because they don't put the kind of plug in computers anymore. So I tried installing it and it didn't work. No point of the Sidewinder any more. I tried installing the trick bike game no point of my favorite game any more. The only game that worked was Mechwarriors. I'm not installing Flight simulator on the computer because there isn't any point of it without the joystick because it's got like fifty keys on the keyboard that I don't understand. This ends the sad sad story of my joystick. :(

Genesis 3D

Sorry this isn't a good picture but I didn't have a stand for the camera or a camera for the computer. Well, this is the game designing download. It's called Genesis 3D. I haven't learned how to use all the tools yet but I know most of them. Basically all this is right now is a rectangular prism with no textures. The three blue boxes represent each of the sides of the box. The one next to the black square is the shape of the top and the bottom of it. The one below the black square is the front and back of it (what you're facing and the wall behind that) and the last square is the other two sides. Now you're wondering what the black square is. all it is is the cube but right now it's just focused on one side. If you change the view you can see that it's a room and not a square. Right now, since it doesn't have any textures, the walls are black. You can add different textures but I don't know if you can add your own. So far I only know how to make a cool room and how to put two rooms together and how to put an already programed game into your room. The game I want to make is with Lego people. I want to use another program to make a virtual image of Lego people and put them into this program using bluetooth or something. But I also need to learn how to add my own textures with this so that I can take a picture of a big Lego wall and put it on here for a texture. I'm going to try to learn the rest of the tutorial asap so that I can try to do this. The website for the tutorial and the download is: http://www.stormthecastle.com/mainpages/videogametutorial/tutorial_videogame2.htm
PS:there is an underscore between tutorial and videogame2, not a space.

Lego minifigs also known (from me) as Lego dudes

As you read in the title, this post is about Lego dudes. This is the box that I put the pieces for my Lego people in which is about an 100th of all my Lego stuff. (honest) Well anyway, the pieces weren't sorted out like they are now when I took the picture so I'll try to give a writers image about it when its sorted. (this won't be good) The middle space in the box shaped like a circle a.k.a. the smallest space about three inches on each side, not very full....(very descriptive huh?).... is where I put the headgear for the Lego dudes meaning hair, hats, helmets you get the point. Okay, one of the spaces that are around the circle space is where I put the legs for the Lego dudes, one is to put their heads in, one is to put their bodies, arms and hands in (since they weren't connected like they're supposed to be.) One is to put the stuff they can hold like shields, bows, crossbows, swords, bazookas, pistols and stuff like that. One is to put stuff they can wear on their bodies like oxygen tanks, life vests and knights armor. The last and final one is where I put extra stuff that might come in handy like skis and that pizza that the chef is holding if you look close enough. This box is very useful because if I'm building a big model and I need Lego people for it, then I don't need to look for two hours (like I did when I was 8 years old and I built a ship) and only find about 5 people. But I don't like this case (and this is why the pieces are all mixed up) because the lid doesn't slant down like the walls separating the spaces do so if you turn it upside down or on it's side, all the pieces will go to another space because there's an empty space letting them get access to all the other spaces. Okay, I wasted all my energy trying to explain this to you. Now let me get back to making my video game (tomorrows issue).

My remote control car

This is my remote control car and its controller that I got a couple of weeks ago for a holiday. I originally wanted a smaller off road type of car but I like this one better. The only reasons I don't like this one is because it can only be driven on flat and hard surfaces and you need to charge the batteries for at least four hours which gives you half an hour of playtime. But this car is cool because It has lights in the front and in the back so you can drive it when it's really dark and that's about the only reason. The other car is $10 less but is a third as big as this and it doesn't have lights. But the reason I wanted it is because it can go off road and if you get the right add-on parts to it, it can go over 200 mph. (Remote control car mph not real mph.) But that's if you get the right gear which is about $20 more. I kept the box to this car because my mom told me if I don't like this car I can trade it in but I don't know whether to keep it or not.