As you know by now, It's official Playstation 4 will be available. Not only that, but it won't be next year. It will be this year during the holidays. My guess is that it will be soon before black Friday. Unfortunately I did not hear the official pricing on the stream. Rumor has it that the costs will be $429 and $529 depending on which package. What that includes will likely be hard drive space or maybe in even included peripherals.
The new controller will include all the same that was on the Dual Shock 3, but in addition will have a share button for sharing videos of your gaming with your friends online. A touch pad will be at the top center. Also a light bar to indicate which player you are. This light bar will also be used with another peripheral that is a new enhanced camera, that looks much like Microsoft's Kinect.
Again you will be able to share footage of your games with your friends. There will be more emphasis on community, you could say. Your Playstation 2 and 3 back library can be accessible through the cloud. My understanding is that with today's high speed internet, it will be much like playing OnLive, a service which feeds you video, while your console does little work. This is Sony's answer to backwards compatibility. You WILL be able to play all your old games in this fashion.
The games they showed were quite impressive to say the least. First of all just to show it's capabilities, the rendering allows for full expression and high textures to give a more realistic feel and be much more the quality of a CG movie you might see. The games that I am most interested in are inFamous: Second Son and Watch Dogs. I'm a big fan of the inFamous series, so this game is a must for me, so I guess that even though there wasn't much in the way of gameplay to be shown, I might be biased here. Watch Dogs is great. I want to say it may be a little like Grand Theft Auto on a grand scale with Sci-Fi. You hack into anything, people's phones, cameras, ATMs, and any known grid that runs just about anything in the city.
I hope this wets everyone's appetites for E3 this year. I will try and save what I can for a PS4, but it is likely that I'll stay away from it for quite some time as there are still plenty of games on the PS3 and shortages will be likely, if not inevitable. That and I'm saving to move out within the next 6 to 9 months. Peace!
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
"Bully" A Documentary...My Thoughts
When I got only a little ways into the film I saw Alex's story and that made me angry and I felt all the stuff that happened to me come back and seeing all that he went through, I felt even more. There's no question that this is a problem. Now I was mostly verbally abused in High School, but that's bad, no matter how you look at it. The simple answer to many people is to ignore it and move on. But how does it feel to have to hang out with the "loser crowd?" How does it feel to hang with others that are being bullied just the same over and over. Sure getting together helps and I felt for them just as much, but that group sense isn't enough. The bullying had to stop. And also unlike Alex I lashed out and was referred to as "psycho," Because of it. Alex just pretended to laugh and enjoy it, just because he wanted friends. And it wasn't just verbal. it was physical for him. Stabbed with pencils, punched, and choked. The bullying on him escalated enough for the film makers to show his family and finally have them know and get into the picture.
It feels sickening to watch much of this go on. So one problem that the school goes through, because of this bullying is that they could be seen as bad for letting this go on, of course in this movie, it was for them to show the world and get some help with this problem. The school took the right step. Here's some other things that can happen. In the movie there was a father talking about his son that was only 11 when he committed suicide. A black athletic girl was bullied so much that she took her mother's gun onto the bus. No lives were taken and no shots were made, but she held the students hostage. Pointed the gun at many of the students that picked on her. She threatened and yet at many of them. "You made me do this," is what she says. One thing that doesn't really come into play in this movie are lawsuits. I've heard school staff being sued for their irresponsibility in taking care of these problems. Suicides, bullies beating, school shootings, and lawsuits. I'm sure no school wants these, but when a parent puts their kids in the care of others, they expect them to take care of them. The schools, by not doing anything, invite these things into their buildings. Then they sometimes punish. Hypocrisy is what I call this.
I was on GetGlue.com and made the comment on my situation. I'm on medications such as Xanax. I have been out of school. I learned to forgive, but forgiveness doesn't just start at one day and you move on. Forgiveness is an everyday thing. The feelings and thoughts come back all the time. I may even have to forgive it all over again. Forgiveness is an everyday thing. You don't just do it one time and it's over.
Now I don't have kids of my own, so you'd think that It's over for me, but I relive it. I don't do this on purpose. I wish I had that kind of control. Maybe someday I will have a son or daughter. I don't want this to happen to them and if it did, you better believe all hell will break loose.
I would love the opportunity to share my experiences. I would be open to anything to help kids get through this today. Though I do have some crowd fear and such and being single. These things would make it hard to get into helping kids. But I feel so angry or empathetic that I wish I could do something.
From the movie, Alex is in a new school. He has friends. He gets along well. He even seems more outgoing. The change in him was great. What do you think made the difference in his mood and has behavior? The atmosphere and the fact that he's not being bullied and has friends. For a brighter future, we must end the bully epidemic.
It feels sickening to watch much of this go on. So one problem that the school goes through, because of this bullying is that they could be seen as bad for letting this go on, of course in this movie, it was for them to show the world and get some help with this problem. The school took the right step. Here's some other things that can happen. In the movie there was a father talking about his son that was only 11 when he committed suicide. A black athletic girl was bullied so much that she took her mother's gun onto the bus. No lives were taken and no shots were made, but she held the students hostage. Pointed the gun at many of the students that picked on her. She threatened and yet at many of them. "You made me do this," is what she says. One thing that doesn't really come into play in this movie are lawsuits. I've heard school staff being sued for their irresponsibility in taking care of these problems. Suicides, bullies beating, school shootings, and lawsuits. I'm sure no school wants these, but when a parent puts their kids in the care of others, they expect them to take care of them. The schools, by not doing anything, invite these things into their buildings. Then they sometimes punish. Hypocrisy is what I call this.
I was on GetGlue.com and made the comment on my situation. I'm on medications such as Xanax. I have been out of school. I learned to forgive, but forgiveness doesn't just start at one day and you move on. Forgiveness is an everyday thing. The feelings and thoughts come back all the time. I may even have to forgive it all over again. Forgiveness is an everyday thing. You don't just do it one time and it's over.
Now I don't have kids of my own, so you'd think that It's over for me, but I relive it. I don't do this on purpose. I wish I had that kind of control. Maybe someday I will have a son or daughter. I don't want this to happen to them and if it did, you better believe all hell will break loose.
I would love the opportunity to share my experiences. I would be open to anything to help kids get through this today. Though I do have some crowd fear and such and being single. These things would make it hard to get into helping kids. But I feel so angry or empathetic that I wish I could do something.
From the movie, Alex is in a new school. He has friends. He gets along well. He even seems more outgoing. The change in him was great. What do you think made the difference in his mood and has behavior? The atmosphere and the fact that he's not being bullied and has friends. For a brighter future, we must end the bully epidemic.
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