I Play Tetris

Yeah, I was playing some Tetris recently and people online were wrong (xkcd reference ftw?) about my Tetris skills, so I made a video about them so yeah. My first youtube video. It was fun to make (and free, as you can see from the top right two tabs if you know what I mean) Upload process overall was easier than I thought (it actually used to confuse me as a kid, but that was when youtube was like two years old max) and yeah here's the video for your viewing pleasures. (I was gonna add music but then... I didn't)

Piracy

Here are my thoughts on piracy. First off, I talked about .9999999999... = 1 earlier. Because it DOES. Here: (click the image to read the stuff, I suck at resizing with HTML because I don't know what size everything is exactly. w00t. Got the resizing down perfectly.)




Saw that on the interwebs (/b/, but I'm breaking the first rule by talking about it so I'll stop). It's so awesome. I asked that to my math teacher in 7th grade and she said "lol idk". It angered me. Math teachers, not knowing the answer to a simple math question? So I Googled it. Take that, Mrs. Gill. Anyways, back on topic. Piracy.

Piracy is fine by me. Well, obviously it's gonna be, because I'm 13 and I've never had anything I've created be pirated before. Seriously, though: here's my view on it. If I have $10 on me and I walk into a store, and I walk out with $10 and a video game, I stole it. It's either that, or I somehow found a free video game or a video game that costs $50 and I found a $50 bill on the floor. So, I walk in with the intent of stealing, and I steal something. That is stealing.

Now, here's a different scenario. I want to watch a show. For argument's sake, we'll say I want to watch Legend of Korra.

1. I'm not torrenting it so I can watch it without commercials. I have a fast forward button on my remote!
2. If it's not on and I don't have it recorded, I wouldn't be able to watch it at the moment anyways.

So, I torrent it. There is a copyright law that I'm breaking, but I don't want to wait half a week to watch a show that is fully available online.

Another scenario? Sure! I want to play a video game. Maybe, Minecraft. (Note: I hate this game, but I've played it. Look at my previous posts.)

1. I torrent it because I don't have $30 on me anyways.
2. I torrent it because even if I did have $30, I would buy something else with it (when I awoke, I spent that on a necklace (brownie points if you got the reference (these are a lot of open parentheses, I'm gonna have to close all of these soon (holy shit ((((())))))))) (by the way, I counted all the parentheses, that's actually the exact amount of parentheses needed for equality, I didn't guess. An unended paren is srs bznss)
3. I don't torrent it with the intent of stealing. If I don't have $30 on me to begin with, then I wouldn't be able to buy it. If my age group is the target age group for minecraft and none of us torrented it, we wouldn't like it. If we didn't like it, we wouldn't buy it.
4. To defend on people torrenting, I think people should just use "free versions" or "free demos" more often. Time-limited vs Feature-limited is another issue that pops up over there, though. Alas, that is a topic for another blog post.

So yeah. I torrent. @ anyone who reads this and has made a movie or game or paid software or something: I'm sorry. (although if you're making paid software, I hate you. Make open-source software and put ads on the site or something!) Chances are, if you've made something and I absolutely needed/wanted it, I've torrented it. Again. I'm sorry. 

 I really need to start signing my blog posts or something, it feels kinda empty down here (especially because I suck at concluding posts).

Minecraft

I never liked Minecraft. It seemed horribly stupid to me that we went from some of the most amazing graphics in the world to a sandbox game that someone could have thought of at the age of 4. "Mommy, I want a game where I can build whatever I want!" My friends love/loved/will love it forever. I refused to pay for it, so I downloaded a crack (I know how seriously agitating this is to the Minecraft community, but honestly if I wasn't going to pay for it anyways, is it really stealing? So I played, I set things on fire, and to me, it's still stupid. It's something I did because I had nothing better to do, and although I would do it again, I like games like League of Legends where there's something exciting going on every second of the game, and it makes your heart beat faster. Those kinds of games are the best.

Also. Note how I said something about "if I wasn't going to pay for it anyways...", because I plan on making a well thought-out elaborate post about piracy (and why I love it!)

My ComputerWhy I love it, why I hate it, etc.

Okay. My computer is pretty cool. It's the first desktop I've ever owned. Previously owned computers:
-Dell Latitude D610 (hand-me-down laptop)
-Macbook Pro (also a hand-me-down laptop).

As for those, I didn't like the Dell, and I loved the Macbook. However, the Macbook wasn't compatible with a lot of the things I wanted to do, and my torrented version of Parallels didn't help much with that. So, we took the desktop in my mother's office, got her a Dell XPS laptop (it's huge!) and put the desktop in my room. It's what I use to type these posts. Here's why owning this Inspiron 545s can be a pain sometimes:

• Slim computer = low profile graphics card only
  
• low profile graphics card? have fun trying to play any game that's NOT league of legends or maplestory
  
• no place to put all my wires (the desk I own is more of a homework-desk, not a computer-desk. there's no hole in the back to put all your wires)
  
• wow there's not as many problems on this list as I thought there would be, but the first one is good enough to be 10 problems
  

so, yeah. That sucks. But, here's some awesome parts about this computer:

• it's a COMPUTER


• it's a desktop; never leaving my room ftw


• 17" Monitors are cool


• not as cool as 23" monitors :(


• over 500GB storage

I've been wanting to build my own computer for my birthday (July 3rd)... we'll see how that goes. I'm hoping to get some amazing parts, like an AMD Radeon 7850, an SSD (if I can afford one), etc.