Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Semester Final

2) Choose one of your posts. (Your favorite? Your least favorite? The one that surprises you the most when you reread it? Any one you want to pick.) Analyze it in detail, with quotes etc. And link to it, of course!

My last blog post, about Rumble Fighter and other random things, has been the strangest blog post all year I have written. It can be found here. I wrote about Rumble Fighter and about my sophomore research project. I wrote about who I used to play Rumble Fighter with, and why my friends quit on the game...five to be exact. I only play with five of my friends now.
Team games can hold up to 8 people, 4 versus 4 people. I usually play in Glacier Cove, one of my favorite maps. It's fun because it's a map where I can fight decently and also edge people if I want. There are two little islands in the map, and I run there when I'm almost dead. It's easier to edger people on the island.
I meant to write "It's easier to edge people on the island." I guess I forgot to proofread that part. I also would have to edit "...where I can decently fight and edge people if I want." Little grammar mistakes can ruin a whole essay. Glacier Cove is definitely one of my favorite maps. I like to fight people, and sometimes ram them off the edge for fun. This part of my blog is perfect (to me), besides the grammar errors. It's all that I wanted to talk about for regular maps. I can't put this information in a better way.

What I forgot to mention that there is two other modes besides regular screens. There are moving screens, and boss mode games. Moving screen games feature a regular map, but the screen moves upward, or downwards. Rumble Fighter has not released a new moving screen since last year. I guess it takes a while to make because the screen has to move, twice as big as a regular screen, and they have to get rid of glitches. Boss mode games are exactly what they are. You fight some enemies, and eventually you get to the boss and defeat it. Boss mode games only allow up to three people to fight.

8) How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?

Having a blog really improved my writing this year. It made me want to write every week because it does not require a pen or pencil. I hate actual writing, I prefer to type on a keyboard. Typing also allows me to write faster than writing on a piece of paper. Writing makes my hand hurt if I write too much...especially in math and chemistry. From years of writing, I have developed a bump on my ring finger on my right hand. Hopefully one day this bump will go away. This year in Mr. Sutherland's class, has been a very fun year for English. Last year, I had Mr. Martin. He made us write in-class essays, and I got really low scores on them. I transferred out of his class because of the grades, and I ended up with Ms. Baranyi.

Summer has always been important to me. It's the time where I don't have to write ANYTHING. Well, this year I have two assignments for APUSH and APES, but I get to type it up. I love to type because I get to correct and fix my mistakes with the touch of a single button...the Backspace button <----. With a pencil, I would have to erase with an eraser. To erase with a pen is not possible, I'd have to cross it out. Computers are also eco-friendly, it doesn't use any paper, and computers are recyclable. I may end up keep writing on my blog just for fun every once in a while. It's a lot more fun writing on a blog than using Microsoft Word.

Every week on blogger.com, I have written a blog for the past year. I love writing on blogger because it's fun. I would prefer a word count on blogger though instead of going to Google Documents or Microsoft Word to count the words. Having a minimum of 500 words per blog post, made me write even more than usual. I liked the 300 word blog at first, but then it just became too easy for me to write. In my opinion, we should have moved up 50 words per quarter instead of jumping by 200 words. It was hard at first for the first 500 word blog, but then it became easier for me to write.

10) Where do you get your ideas for blog post topics? What inspires you to write?

This semester, I got my ideas for blog posts from my head. It's usually about whatever is on my mind on that day. For example, one day I was thinking about video games, and I decided to make it into two parts because it was too long. My blog about video games can be found here. I could even write a blog about a video game character. I like not knowing what I will be able to write about because it makes me think about what I have written already, and what I can write about later. I made a list of things I could write about so if I didn't know what I should write about, I could just use the list. This list included World War 2, and computers. The list used to be longer, but I wrote about them, some including Witch Hunts.

Blogging has made me think of ideas of what to write about. It made me go deep inside my mind, things I like to watch like Spongebob Squarepants and Phineas and Ferb, or random things like time. I wrote that blog because I was waiting for lunch, and there was about an hour left.

Whenever I don't have anything on my mind to blog about, I blog my quickwrites. I've only used one which can be found here. I usually have a topic in mind every single week. I always finish my blogs on time in the lab.

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