Edit: By me telling you, the reader, to ignore this, you have become all the more inquisitive. This post is really just me trying to make a point out of a point-less area. A friend of mine on League was being a douche and I told him to screw off. Simple as that. I'd just delete the entire post, but my intention with this blog is to show how I mature through a critical age. I hear that the teenage years are pretty whacky and I am currently living in them. Don't take this post seriously though, please. However, despite all of that, I think this lesson is valid and understandable even if the example is a bit derpy and it may seem a bit harsh. It can end up being useful in some scenarios, but there are plenty of others where it is bad advice. Try to be nice to your friends, but still tell them when they're doing the wrong thing.
Without further ado, here is the original post:
Look, I'm a teenager. That means I'm probably a bit full of myself. But I think my point is still valid here. People can be nice if you're nice to them, but, to quote an anonymous person, "The person who is nice to you but not nice to the waiter is not a nice person." And people don't change easily. It's one thing to try to help them out, it's another thing to devote your life to coercing that person to be nicer.
I lost a friend today on League of Legends. He used to be pretty nice, gave me tips on how to play my main, Diana, better. But for the past month he's gotten worse and worse. Multiple times he's been a bit rude to other players. I gave him a few more chances, but sometimes these things don't work out. Today he was toxically flaming another player on our team, pretty badly too. I told him to lighten up or it's over and we aren't playing together. His response was unfriending me.
Used to I wouldn't say a word about something like him flaming a teammate, and just go along with it. That's not happening anymore. I pick my friends and who I want to hang out with. As much as I love the moral of My Little Pony to make friends and be nice, you can't remain silent. Your friends aren't your friends if they tell you what to do. Your friends treat you as an equal, and they're nice and help you out if you're in a sticky situation. Sometimes you just can't be friends with someone, and you've got to feel OK with that.
Now look, if a friend of yours is mean or someone else to you one day, then chill. We all have our good and bad days, and some people have really really bad days. Give them time to get their act together, and try to help them out if they'll accept it. But if that friend is being consistantly rude to you and just people in general for more than a couple weeks, then tell them the truth, they're being a douche. Give it to them straight. If they somehow magically realize how rude they've been and you see an improvement in their behavior over the course of the next few days/weeks/months, then cut them some slack. If they continue acting like that, then just walk away. Don't think that because you're working with them on your science fair project, or you have the same lunch hour as them or even share half of your classes with them that you have to be friends.
TL;DR (Too lazy; didn't read), pick your friends wisely, and don't feel like you have to be friends with someone. Be friends with who you want to be friends with.
And, as always, have a wonderful day.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Starcraft Maps
One of the many things I enjoy doing is making Starcraft maps. Here are pictures of all my completed maps:
Acid Marsh
Cold Front
Dunelands
Dusklands
Flora Lab 42
Overlands
Primal Surge
Rugged Grounds
Terrazine Harvests
Warp District
I would highly suggest looking at the full-sized version of these. I will deffinitely take criticism on how to improve my mapmaking but I will not change the maps I've already made. I will only implement these changes into new maps.
Thoughts on the Bronydom
So, as you may be able to tell by my OC's below, I am a brony. Not a hardcore brony or anything, but I do enjoy watching the show My Little Pony. This first paragraph is a summary of what the rest of this post will be. The next paragraph will be about what a Brony is. The third paragraph will be about me being a brony, how I became a brony, and that sort. The beginning of the new paragraphs will have indentations, and the subsections to make the huge paragraphs seem less terrifying will not.
So, me being a brony. I am not going to be formal here and just speak my mind. Also, do not expect perfect grammar here. If I do have spotless grammar, then yay me, if not, then don't be dissapointed. Additionally, I may reuse openers to sentences. Since this is just me speaking my mind I will probably say the word "however" a lot. Sorry in advance if repetition bothers you.
A little bit of backstory beforehand, when I was younger I didn't understand the huge boundry between boys and girls. The two genders were so polarized in elementary school, especially in first and second grade. Honestly, I tended to side with the girls. In my opinion, girls and women are often more fun to talk to. Since I am a guy, I can kind of predict what most guys will say to me when it comes to advice. Obviously I enjoy talking to guys too, but girls are very good to talk to. They give me a lot of perspective since they are so different from me.
I remember several times I would play a Powerpuff Girls minigame on Cartoon Network, secretly loving it but never telling ANYONE about it. I both was happy and was embarrased by the fact that I enjoyed hanging out with girls more than guys. And before you ask, I am not gay. Though I have wondered at times about my sexual orientation, I am very certain that I am either straight or bisexual, probably straight.
Some time I recall in the school year of 2012 (August 2011 - May 2012), I first heard about the brony fandom from a Youtuber I watch who dispises bronies. I dismissed it and thought that it was just some kind of stupid internet thing. Later, in late Spring or early Summer 2012, a brony on a Minecraft server I like called Cobaltium convinced me to watch an episode. I downloaded the first two episodes and watched them. They seemed boring and girlish to me, and once again I dismissed it.
However, once the school year started back up again, I was FINALLY convinced to watch another episode of My Little Pony. The open-minded part of me won over. I watched Episode 13 of Season 2, and it convinced me to watch the next one. Just something about the writing and animation of the show convinced me to watch another episode. So I did. Then another, then another. Then I had watched all of Season 2. After that, I went back and watched all of Season 1. However, I still don't consider myself to have been a brony at that point. I loved the show, every bit of it, but thats all I did. I didn't get on any forums, I didn't look at the memes, and I didn't read any of the comics.
I went through Season 3 and loved it too. It kept me alive during the second semester of school. However, I was a bit dissapointed to find it was only a half season. This half season was perfect, as it made me so eager to see the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls movie when it came out, even if I didn't expect much of a movie that turned my favorite ponies into humans. Then EG came out in summer of 2013. When I finished watching that movie, my life changed. That movie was flawed, for certain, but at that point I became a brony. I started looking at the pony memes on Cheezburger. But even then I wasn't a huge brony, I was only looking at the Cheezburger memes. Then I went to Summerscape. I had gone to Summerscape before and loved it, but my experiences at Summerscape is for another post. At Summerscape, I encountered quite a few bronies. They basically amplified my brony side by about 50. I became a MUCH bigger fan.
When I returned from Summerscape, I bookmarked Equestria Daily, began roleplaying on Legends of Equestria, subscribed to several people who analyzed the world of MLP, and rewatched many of the noteworthy episodes. I also created three new OC's, which you can see the pictures of below. Their stories and personalities are on Legends of Equestria, my username is Zedd. I am not the musician though, sorry. Anyways, upon returning to school I began making friends with some of the bronies at my high school.
That leads me up to now, about a month into school and writing on my blog about bronies. I am a brony, for certain. There are many little stories I could discuss about what I've done because I'm a brony and what would've happened if I wasn't, but I probably won't post them, and if I do it will be later, probably much later.
(Update on October 29: Still very much into the fandom, but I'm not on LoE anymore. I have been interacting with fellow bronies and making my eyes love my brain from all the beautiful DeviantArt with ponies in it.)
For starters, a "brony" is a fan of the show My Little Pony. Brony is a universal term for both genders, but some female bronies prefer to be called "pegasisters". Bronies are mostly male, primarily in the age range of 20-35, and pretty normal people. The only real difference between them and your average joe is a brony is self-confident enough to be open that they enjoy watching a show with the demographic of young girls. Bronies are NOT perverts and pedophiles, nor are they manchildren who need to grow up.
I am a bit young compared to most bronies, which to be honest (and maybe a bit arrogant or cocky) I think is a sign that I am pretty mature and self-confident, especially for my age group which is normally filled with hormonal young men and women who are unsure of what to do when it comes to many things. I want to keep this paragraph short, as there are many articles and other sources that describe the bronydom more effectively and thoroughly.
I am a bit young compared to most bronies, which to be honest (and maybe a bit arrogant or cocky) I think is a sign that I am pretty mature and self-confident, especially for my age group which is normally filled with hormonal young men and women who are unsure of what to do when it comes to many things. I want to keep this paragraph short, as there are many articles and other sources that describe the bronydom more effectively and thoroughly.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brony
So, me being a brony. I am not going to be formal here and just speak my mind. Also, do not expect perfect grammar here. If I do have spotless grammar, then yay me, if not, then don't be dissapointed. Additionally, I may reuse openers to sentences. Since this is just me speaking my mind I will probably say the word "however" a lot. Sorry in advance if repetition bothers you.
A little bit of backstory beforehand, when I was younger I didn't understand the huge boundry between boys and girls. The two genders were so polarized in elementary school, especially in first and second grade. Honestly, I tended to side with the girls. In my opinion, girls and women are often more fun to talk to. Since I am a guy, I can kind of predict what most guys will say to me when it comes to advice. Obviously I enjoy talking to guys too, but girls are very good to talk to. They give me a lot of perspective since they are so different from me.
I remember several times I would play a Powerpuff Girls minigame on Cartoon Network, secretly loving it but never telling ANYONE about it. I both was happy and was embarrased by the fact that I enjoyed hanging out with girls more than guys. And before you ask, I am not gay. Though I have wondered at times about my sexual orientation, I am very certain that I am either straight or bisexual, probably straight.
Some time I recall in the school year of 2012 (August 2011 - May 2012), I first heard about the brony fandom from a Youtuber I watch who dispises bronies. I dismissed it and thought that it was just some kind of stupid internet thing. Later, in late Spring or early Summer 2012, a brony on a Minecraft server I like called Cobaltium convinced me to watch an episode. I downloaded the first two episodes and watched them. They seemed boring and girlish to me, and once again I dismissed it.
However, once the school year started back up again, I was FINALLY convinced to watch another episode of My Little Pony. The open-minded part of me won over. I watched Episode 13 of Season 2, and it convinced me to watch the next one. Just something about the writing and animation of the show convinced me to watch another episode. So I did. Then another, then another. Then I had watched all of Season 2. After that, I went back and watched all of Season 1. However, I still don't consider myself to have been a brony at that point. I loved the show, every bit of it, but thats all I did. I didn't get on any forums, I didn't look at the memes, and I didn't read any of the comics.
I went through Season 3 and loved it too. It kept me alive during the second semester of school. However, I was a bit dissapointed to find it was only a half season. This half season was perfect, as it made me so eager to see the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls movie when it came out, even if I didn't expect much of a movie that turned my favorite ponies into humans. Then EG came out in summer of 2013. When I finished watching that movie, my life changed. That movie was flawed, for certain, but at that point I became a brony. I started looking at the pony memes on Cheezburger. But even then I wasn't a huge brony, I was only looking at the Cheezburger memes. Then I went to Summerscape. I had gone to Summerscape before and loved it, but my experiences at Summerscape is for another post. At Summerscape, I encountered quite a few bronies. They basically amplified my brony side by about 50. I became a MUCH bigger fan.
When I returned from Summerscape, I bookmarked Equestria Daily, began roleplaying on Legends of Equestria, subscribed to several people who analyzed the world of MLP, and rewatched many of the noteworthy episodes. I also created three new OC's, which you can see the pictures of below. Their stories and personalities are on Legends of Equestria, my username is Zedd. I am not the musician though, sorry. Anyways, upon returning to school I began making friends with some of the bronies at my high school.
That leads me up to now, about a month into school and writing on my blog about bronies. I am a brony, for certain. There are many little stories I could discuss about what I've done because I'm a brony and what would've happened if I wasn't, but I probably won't post them, and if I do it will be later, probably much later.
(Update on October 29: Still very much into the fandom, but I'm not on LoE anymore. I have been interacting with fellow bronies and making my eyes love my brain from all the beautiful DeviantArt with ponies in it.)
Thank you very much for reading, and have a wonderful day.
Friday, September 13, 2013
I Sometimes Think I'm Rude
I have been given new information that suggests that this post is actually a very common though process among people my age and a little bit older, despite it possibly not being entirely true. However, here is the original post:
As most people who know me know, I can get rather hotheaded, excited, or annoying at times. I can't give an explanation other than "hormones". However, I am sorry for all of my misbehaviors. I know, I know, we all make mistakes, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't feel bad about them. I love typing, texting, or chatting with someone. By talking to them in real life, I can say something insensitive or rude on accident and I can't take it back. By typing, I can edit/remove my comment, or proofread what I'm typing before hitting "enter". I say so many insensitive things and I always feel awful afterwords, but the number of rude, insensitive, or downright ignorant things I say on the computer are greatly reduced.
As most people who know me know, I can get rather hotheaded, excited, or annoying at times. I can't give an explanation other than "hormones". However, I am sorry for all of my misbehaviors. I know, I know, we all make mistakes, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't feel bad about them. I love typing, texting, or chatting with someone. By talking to them in real life, I can say something insensitive or rude on accident and I can't take it back. By typing, I can edit/remove my comment, or proofread what I'm typing before hitting "enter". I say so many insensitive things and I always feel awful afterwords, but the number of rude, insensitive, or downright ignorant things I say on the computer are greatly reduced.
Anyways, this is just an apology for all the things that I have said and will say.
[Edit: I do say insensitive things on the internet too, just not quite as frequently.]
[Edit: I do say insensitive things on the internet too, just not quite as frequently.]
Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful day!
Ponies
My OC's. That is all. Just didn't want to lump them with all my other artwork since they serve a separate function in theory.
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