I've been getting back into my gig reviewing, for Brumlive.com
Head over now and look for my name, there should be a few recently.
Any advice on writing - please send it my way, I'm no Shakespeare!
24/02/2011
18/02/2011
Some people hate me...
Awesome, so why are they nice to me in person?
I don't hang out with people I don't like, and I don't have reason to complain about these people. As far as I know, I've done nothing wrong, except maybe pulling a girl they wanted!
Also, there's some people that think I drink :S Sober for 7 years, but apparently faking...
Idiots
I don't hang out with people I don't like, and I don't have reason to complain about these people. As far as I know, I've done nothing wrong, except maybe pulling a girl they wanted!
Also, there's some people that think I drink :S Sober for 7 years, but apparently faking...
Idiots
18/01/2011
Games!
I've been reading quite a lot the last couple days, mostly about the psychology of computer games. It's a field I've found fascinating, and today I met a subject I feel quite strongly. Inspiration here and here
Game difficulty!
Now, one thing should be made clear - I am not good at video games! I am a casual gamer! Despite playing them so much through my teenage years, I only ever finished a couple of games, 007 Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, on my N64, oh, and Lylat Wars, but never the hardest route.
I owned lots more, but I never had the patience to get all the stars, or the skill to get the best time.
And since then the only games I've actually completed are Call Of Duty, and Dragon Age. I got bored of Oblivion twice before finishing it.
I rarely find a game that engages me enough to actually pull me in make me want to play, I'll happily buy a game, and let it sit there for months, I don't know why. I need something that is immediate enough to get me involved before I get bored of plot crap, but enough depth to make me take the next step.
Dead Space plays well, but the 'scary' atmosphere just annoyed me, and the seemingly endless tasks of go here, get that, put that there, bored me, and with no real plot I doubt I'll ever play the game again. To top it off, I found out that I'm only on chapter two of eleven or something! I cannot be arsed to wade through a game, especially with so far to go.
Dead Rising pissed me off pretty early, my players level wasn't high enough to beat any of the bosses, and I stubbornly refused to restart and go through all those quests again. In the end, I relented, blasted through the first quest with ease, and found the game quite fun, it even has enough plot to keep me happy. My gripe here is the length - I'd be quite happy to have finished it already!
All the Final Fantasy games bore me now, before I even reach any action. Although IX did draw me in well enough for a good few run-throughs.
I guess what I'm trying to say, is I'm picky, anything that pisses me off gets binned, anything that bores me get's binned.
So, I need mildly involving plot, lots of rewards, nothing too challenging, and breathers and of course - genuinely fun gameplay!
Damn, I'm a game bitch!
Game difficulty!
Now, one thing should be made clear - I am not good at video games! I am a casual gamer! Despite playing them so much through my teenage years, I only ever finished a couple of games, 007 Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, on my N64, oh, and Lylat Wars, but never the hardest route.
I owned lots more, but I never had the patience to get all the stars, or the skill to get the best time.
And since then the only games I've actually completed are Call Of Duty, and Dragon Age. I got bored of Oblivion twice before finishing it.
I rarely find a game that engages me enough to actually pull me in make me want to play, I'll happily buy a game, and let it sit there for months, I don't know why. I need something that is immediate enough to get me involved before I get bored of plot crap, but enough depth to make me take the next step.
Dead Space plays well, but the 'scary' atmosphere just annoyed me, and the seemingly endless tasks of go here, get that, put that there, bored me, and with no real plot I doubt I'll ever play the game again. To top it off, I found out that I'm only on chapter two of eleven or something! I cannot be arsed to wade through a game, especially with so far to go.
Dead Rising pissed me off pretty early, my players level wasn't high enough to beat any of the bosses, and I stubbornly refused to restart and go through all those quests again. In the end, I relented, blasted through the first quest with ease, and found the game quite fun, it even has enough plot to keep me happy. My gripe here is the length - I'd be quite happy to have finished it already!
All the Final Fantasy games bore me now, before I even reach any action. Although IX did draw me in well enough for a good few run-throughs.
I guess what I'm trying to say, is I'm picky, anything that pisses me off gets binned, anything that bores me get's binned.
So, I need mildly involving plot, lots of rewards, nothing too challenging, and breathers and of course - genuinely fun gameplay!
Damn, I'm a game bitch!
15/01/2011
Tattoos
I keep thinking of great ideas, but forgetting them again! so here's a little list...
Left forearm - "I Am All You've Ever Wanted" lyric from Brand New, because I love this band, and I love the arrogance of it, I kinda suits me as I'm sure a lot of people would agree.
Left Elbow - need to finish off the sun, and add a load more little bits to fill all those gaps - I want it quite dark in the end
Left Stomach - I need a filler for my sign, a dystopian/ruined city ideally
Chest - another quote on the left side to match the first, then them both put into scrolls, then between them an old style clock, but with numbers replaced with compass points, the hands pointing to 10 past 12. More to be added to this eventually, but that's all I know for now
Right arm - a sleeve design by Alex CF based around his wildemere comic series.
Back - lyrics from another song in the bottom left, then at the very bottom a city scape, possibly New York, with reflections in the water, the shore line being about the level of where my trousers normally sit. The reflection will show the darker side of the city though, with dark shit going down n tingz
Left calf - a page from DMZ my favourite comic series by Brian Wood.
That would leave me pretty covered, although I do want knuckles, hands and neck tats as well, just not sure what yet!
Left forearm - "I Am All You've Ever Wanted" lyric from Brand New, because I love this band, and I love the arrogance of it, I kinda suits me as I'm sure a lot of people would agree.
Left Elbow - need to finish off the sun, and add a load more little bits to fill all those gaps - I want it quite dark in the end
Left Stomach - I need a filler for my sign, a dystopian/ruined city ideally
Chest - another quote on the left side to match the first, then them both put into scrolls, then between them an old style clock, but with numbers replaced with compass points, the hands pointing to 10 past 12. More to be added to this eventually, but that's all I know for now
Right arm - a sleeve design by Alex CF based around his wildemere comic series.
Back - lyrics from another song in the bottom left, then at the very bottom a city scape, possibly New York, with reflections in the water, the shore line being about the level of where my trousers normally sit. The reflection will show the darker side of the city though, with dark shit going down n tingz
Left calf - a page from DMZ my favourite comic series by Brian Wood.
That would leave me pretty covered, although I do want knuckles, hands and neck tats as well, just not sure what yet!
02/12/2010
It's that time again
Where I hate everything and everyone I know :)
I'm just wound up because I let myself get fucked over by some people very close to me.
I've been working myself up today, and I don't know why. I fight this shit all the time, and try not to let it get in the way. I also try not to let it become a burden on other people, but right now if I wasn't writing this I'd probably be punching something.
I'll get over it, and move on like always - everyone has shit, and mine ain't that bad really, I'll deal with it. Tomorrow you fuckers won't have a clue.
Fuck this city.
I'm just wound up because I let myself get fucked over by some people very close to me.
I've been working myself up today, and I don't know why. I fight this shit all the time, and try not to let it get in the way. I also try not to let it become a burden on other people, but right now if I wasn't writing this I'd probably be punching something.
I'll get over it, and move on like always - everyone has shit, and mine ain't that bad really, I'll deal with it. Tomorrow you fuckers won't have a clue.
Fuck this city.
11/11/2010
Goals...
I got an email a week or two ago from a man called Neil Strauss. He wrote my favourite book ‘The Game’ and quite a few others, which are also awesome.
It was an email about time managment and goals, and while I have now read it about 3 times, I thought I should actually write down some of my responces.
If you want a copy of the original I’d be happy to forward it to you.
1. My time is worth about £5.50 an hour. That’s my hourly wage, and the average of what I worked last year. Not much, but I am a student, so if we include the costs of that I get nearly £20 an hour :D
2. To do lists - time to start using the windows sidebar again, with a big old list of shit I need to do!
3. link what I do to my goals. Uni - getting a degree, working - earning money for my boarding course, music - to make me happy!
4. People who suck up my time… not too many of them thankfully!
5. Turn off phone and email when working. I NEED to do this!
6. Remove facebook/tumblr from my view, so I don’t keep checking!
7. Exercise everyday - increase focus
8. Log time usage
9. Limit internet use
10. Do the big things first, not the easiest.
11. Goals: To play in kick-ass bands as much as I can, be involved with music, and experience as much as I can as often as I can. Gigs, albums, promotion, management, and playing bass. To finish my degree and get a 2:1 at least. To leave the UK and complete a snowboard instructor course abroad, then become an instructor and snowboard everyday. To travel as much as possible and see as much as this world has to offer me before I die.
It was an email about time managment and goals, and while I have now read it about 3 times, I thought I should actually write down some of my responces.
If you want a copy of the original I’d be happy to forward it to you.
1. My time is worth about £5.50 an hour. That’s my hourly wage, and the average of what I worked last year. Not much, but I am a student, so if we include the costs of that I get nearly £20 an hour :D
2. To do lists - time to start using the windows sidebar again, with a big old list of shit I need to do!
3. link what I do to my goals. Uni - getting a degree, working - earning money for my boarding course, music - to make me happy!
4. People who suck up my time… not too many of them thankfully!
5. Turn off phone and email when working. I NEED to do this!
6. Remove facebook/tumblr from my view, so I don’t keep checking!
7. Exercise everyday - increase focus
8. Log time usage
9. Limit internet use
10. Do the big things first, not the easiest.
11. Goals: To play in kick-ass bands as much as I can, be involved with music, and experience as much as I can as often as I can. Gigs, albums, promotion, management, and playing bass. To finish my degree and get a 2:1 at least. To leave the UK and complete a snowboard instructor course abroad, then become an instructor and snowboard everyday. To travel as much as possible and see as much as this world has to offer me before I die.
05/10/2010
Go Google Yourself
Last week I was talking with a few guys on my uni course, nice guys, (check out Jamies music project Seams) and up came the topic of googling yourself. It's a pretty vain thing to do, but when you're running a business, or a band, or anything that people might be looking for, it's good to be on Google! Jamie is the 3rd one down when you type in 'seams'.
My band, A City Within are 2nd down with their name, just below the BBC, so that's good new there.
But when I type in my name, it takes a little while! Ben Duff finds me part way down the second page, with my defunct bebo account. My facebook/myspace/tumblr/blog are no-where to be seen in the first 5 pages, although the bands facebook page makes an appearance.
I guess this is due to my nickname Terra, and my online username terrorvision101, so lets try those.
Terra duff is a great sucess! The top 5 sites all link to my profiles, with two sub-domains which both are related to me. It wanders into Hillary Duff a little further down. The same goes for Terrorvision101, monopolising the first page.
So, I guess if you really want to get on google, chose a stupid name!
Have fun with it ;)
My band, A City Within are 2nd down with their name, just below the BBC, so that's good new there.
But when I type in my name, it takes a little while! Ben Duff finds me part way down the second page, with my defunct bebo account. My facebook/myspace/tumblr/blog are no-where to be seen in the first 5 pages, although the bands facebook page makes an appearance.
I guess this is due to my nickname Terra, and my online username terrorvision101, so lets try those.
Terra duff is a great sucess! The top 5 sites all link to my profiles, with two sub-domains which both are related to me. It wanders into Hillary Duff a little further down. The same goes for Terrorvision101, monopolising the first page.
So, I guess if you really want to get on google, chose a stupid name!
Have fun with it ;)
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