Tiny Hand

2012/12/22

Craycray like RayRay

I recently finished the game "Fahrenheit - Indigo Prophecy" and there was one little thing that particularly caught my eye...
While playing the game, you need to do quick-time events and decide what you wanna do. Each decicion and each action has influence on something called "mental health", which is illustrated by a bar at the right bottom corner of the screen. It looks something like this:
The evil, malicious side of me treated the main characters like sh*t just to see how that little - let's call him RayRay - gets on his knees and loses his mind. I don't know why but no matter which game I play, I end up ill-treating and sometimes killing the main character and/or civilians. Just for the funzies... But at some point, I looked at poor RayRay and I thought to myself, "Damn, dude, you are a sad, little man trapped inside a small, blue box and you can't do anything about it. I feel your pain, Ray, I feel it..."
And just as Ray is influenced by decisions and incidents, I, too, am very sensitive about what happens to me. Some actions increase my mental health just as they do with Ray's, and some may get me blue or bat-shit crayray.
Although I seem very confident and cheerful on the outside, some things really get to me. In the case of the main character of Fahrenheit, Lucas, taking a piss increases your mental health by +5, while getting caught by the police costs you -30. My scale looks a bit different...

1) Everything's fine.
Christmas stress.. train delay.. it's f*cking cold..
 
2) Some worries.
 unsuccessful date.. more Christmas stress.. family issues.. skin problems..realizing that I've wasted another year..
3) Argh, OMG.
sleeping problems.. awkward ex.. too much candy ("God, I got FAT!").. thinking about death, world hunger and the distorted perception of beauty of our generation..
4) OH HAI, PINK SQUIRREL! WANNA BE MY FRIEEEEEEND!?! *o*


Right now I'm somewhere inbetween 2) and 3). Maybe more 3) but tending towards 2). Let's see how it changes in 2013!

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~music time~


Port Isla - Sinking Ship

YACHT - Second Summer
(Coolest/Cutest/Weirdest. Video. Ever. -> click here!)

Mando Diao - Good Morning Herr Horst (RAC MIX)

The Static Jacks - Into The Sun (RAC Maury MIX)

Kate Boy - In Your Eyes
(Trust me, this song gets better and more and more intense by the second! Just listen to it for a few times and you'll know what I mean!)
 




That's it for this year, I guess. Enjoy the holidays and have a happy new year! :)
Greetings
~Maximiwax'*

2012/12/01

Confessions / Guilty Pleasures: Hip-Hop

Remember the poll I did a few weeks ago? The one I mentioned in the last posts, too? Yeah, that one. One of the things you could choose was "Guilty Pleasures - Hip-Hop", because I noticed that - despite my general aversion to hip-hop and rap music - there ARE some songs in my itunes that could be considered as hip-hop-ish. And then I thought about 'guilty pleasures' in general and things that I do on a regular basis, but which should be avoided in order to life a healthy life / be normal.
These are some of those things (that I can recall right now) :


1. FROZEN NUTELLA
Try it! put a jar of Nutella in the freezer. If it's full, let it freeze for an hour. If it's half-full, let it freeze for ~40minutes. and then use a long spoon to pick out huge, cold blocks of the yummy Nutella. Your waistline may hate you for it, but your tongue will experience the ultimate 'foodgasm'! ;)

2. DAILY GRACE + YU-GI-OH!
I found her, the beautiful, humorous, amazing Grace Helbig, while looking through my recommendations on YouTube. I guess she popped up because I watched several Jenna Marbles videos and other YouTubers who typically live in LA.
I instantly fell in love with her wit, her unbelievably bad puns and her awkwardness.
Also, I've been searching for some random-ass game to play in the background while I was doing my homework or when I was watching videos or movies. So I remembered how I used to play a free-trial version of this Yu-Gi-Oh! game from 1996 and I downloaded and installed it. It's f*cking addicting! And somehow, both complement each other by not using too much of my brain at the same time. A match made in heaven!
This is what my desktop looks like between 11:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m.:
(I lost the game after taking the screenshot...)
3. GLEE
I started watching Glee because of my sister and maybe my ex, too. Both of them were talking about how great this show was and then I watched the first episode... And I was hooked. 
Up to this day, I try to start every episode thinking "Nah, how predictable! They ruined the song! Can this get any worse??" ... This lasts, like, 30 seconds. I still love this show as much as I used to at the beginning, no matter how bad some of the episodes were. Gleeks UNITE!!

4. DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS SAID? - JUST GIGGLE IT OUT!
All you hear is some mumbling, but you're expected to give some kind of reaction. And because "What did you just say?" might implicate that you did not listen to this person, you just giggle... Or do a little "mh-hmmm" while raising your voice. The weird part is that IT WORKS EVERY TIME! It somehow became part of my regular way of communicating with others, because it just happens so. damn. often..
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Another thing that I noticed is that I kind of like some hip-hop songs - not the rapping, basically just the background music. You may know this situation: A song starts and you think "Yeah, that's my jaaaaaam!" - and then a weird, manly voice kicks in with rapid, sexist lyrics and you're like "aaawwww maaaaaan! The beginning was so good! :/ "

Well, I found some songs that I like despite the rapping. Or maybe because of it.... I don't know. Just listen to it and you'll know what I mean. (Attention: some of them might represent hip-hop only in the broadest sense. But they're still hip-hop ;] )

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~music time~

OutKast - Ms. Jackson (Jean Tonique Remix)

Wiley - Numbers In Action (Watch the amazing video HERE)

Just Jack - Writer's Block

Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers

Kid Cudi - 50 Ways To Make A Record
Azealia Banks - Liquorice





That's it for now... Maybe you share one of my 'guilty pleasures', who knows? ;)
Have a great weekend, guys!
Greetings
~Maximiwax'*