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It's been very uneventfull scince my last post, so watch this...

random funny signs 

Be entertained!!!!!!!!!!

Hi

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Not Cheating

I am doing a co-op blog with my one follower, Max. I know, I know, but I'm not cheating on you guys. So, here is the url...nerdifyme.blogspot.com

News Time!

This week has been full of newsworthy topics. For example, CRCT is over, and Max and I are doing a co-op blog! Hooray!!!! I think, though, the biggest thing on everyone's mind is, Osama bin Laden is dead. I'm not glad that Pres. Obama and those Seals killed him, I'm happy that we can now live more comfterably at night knowing we hit those terrorists were it hurts! Do you think today should be a holiday? Does the big B.O. have the 2012 election in the bag? Tell me what you think in the comments.

Finals

This week I have to take my 6th grade finals, or the Criterion-Referenced Compatability Test. (I know right!?) If I was still in Texas I would take the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skill. I wont post much except for this weekend...and today. Oh, and about my clan, I'll be postponing it for awhile until I can work on it more. Also, I'm still playing the Gears 3 beta, and if you want to play, send me a message.

R.A.H.

The tittle of this post is a reference to a new clan I will probably create; I have high hopes for it. It stands for "Religious (or Recreational) Achievement Hunters". It is just a name now, but I'm working on it. I don't know who will want to join, but I still have good expectations. Just so you know, I don't have too high of hopes for it, but feelings are good.

I Need Asistance

I am trying to make some YouTube videos, so I need your help. If anyone knows how to make a Machinima and/or how to port it onto Youtube, please tell me how. If you want to make a Machinima with me, hit me up! My X-box Live gamertag is kewljelani. If you know how to make a live-action, first-person, or parkour/war type videos, hit me up also! I want to make games, movies, and any other media when I choose my profession, so I want to start now. Thanks for your time. Remember to contact me if you've got the urge to make some vids with me!

Beta Bussiness

The Gears of War 3 Beta is here!!!! Well, If you preordered Bulletstorm like I did, then you would've gotten the Beta yesterday. Anyway, I'll be playing it most of the time I play games and will be lookin forward to anyone who wants to join me, soooo, I'll give you my gamertag. My gamertag is kewljelani. If you aren't one of the people who's destiny is to be able to pronounce my gamertag correctly, than you'll probaly wat o look at this when you are sending a message or friend request. I'll be trying not to be a total n00b, but you won't have to go easy on me.

Rated "GPO" for Gears Players Only (You'll unerstand ths more if you do)

Hey, I've noticed something in Gears 2. Have you ever noticed that when a Carmine gets blown up by a grenade, sometimes his helmet breaks and you can see part of his head? I've discovered that his head bits ook like Kim's head bits. If you've seen Kim you'll probably realize he wears the same armor as the Carmines without the helmet. I won't call this "lazy" character design, but it isn't very orgional. Epic should step it up in Gears 3 because everyone's favorite non-Cole Train bad ass, Clayton Carmine, looks A LOT like Cole. (He even has that non-black guy tan.) (Not prejeduce, I'm African American too.) So, what do you thnk?

Spring Break Event FINALE!!!!

I don't really have anything to say that is important, so...here...

video--> secret video

Don't worry. It's not pornography or a trojan. It's just a funny Machinima music video. If you don't know what Machinima is, I'll tell you. Machinima is a youtube channel that uses video games to make music, movies, and newscasts. Also, YOU the people of society can create them. How's THAT for user created content?

Spring Break Stuff Pt.3

For this installment I am going to share with you, my faith. I am a Christian. I go to North Point Community Church and accepted Jesus Christ as as the son of God and Holy Savior last summer. I went to a teen church called Xtreme, (now named Transit) and my small group and I went on an anual 6th grade trip called Bootcamp. There, we stayed on a campsite complete with wooden cabins and a messhall. On Friday and Saturday night, there were huge concerts. There were a few songs sung in that style every day in church, but this was 100% bigger. The Friday concert was the most special to me. That night I was with two of my friends, Chase and David. We were standing in the middle of the room far from the stage. Eventualy, Chase and David fell asleep on the floor and people made a circle around us for the two to have space to sleep. At one point, a song was playing called "Our God is Greater" I held my arms up to be respectfull and blend in with the crowd. In the middle of the song, I started crying and realised that Jesus was my savior. I sobbed through the whole song, and after, I felt reborn. When the song ended, I woke my friends up and joined my group to go back to the cabin. The next night, I rushed in to get in the front row right smack dap in front of the stage. That trip really changed me and made me realize that being a Christian is more about just going to Church. So, I encourage you, if you have a religion, whether it being Judism to Buhdism, or Christianity to Hinduism, to just go out and do the best you can at being the best Hindu, best Jew, best anything you can be. Even if you don't have a religion, it's okay for you to speak your mind. You can protest to people, and tell them there is no God, if that is what you belive. All I'm saying is, stick with what you belive, never let go, and don't change unless it's YOUR choice.

Spring Break Palooza Pt.2

Gears of War 2 Review

For the next part of my Spring Break series, I'll review Gears 2.  Just to get it over with, I WAS JUST ABLE TO BUY THE GAME. Now, lets get into it. First, we'll discuss single player. The campaign in Gears of War 2 is great. I was just astounded (or even moreso) at the story, characters, and gameplay. The story was very well thought out and really engaging. I liked how, in the start, you could choose Marcus' personality; to some extent. It throws you in with a choice to train Carmine (do the toutorial), or tell him to take point without any training (don't do toutorial). I love the difference in playstile of the levels. At one point you're on a giant transport shooting mortars to drilling underground and locating Carmine in a labrynthian hollow. The change of mobility is amazing. Epic uses the, "Anything You can do I can do Better" phrase for their idea of comandeering locust mounts, like a Reaver. The only thing I would like to add, (and this is not a gripe), is when you are forced  to choose which path you are going to take in combat, it would be nice to be able to choose the character you are paired up with for the time being. The finale is a sort-of cliffhanger, leaving the player to think, "Where do they go from here?" The cast is a colorfull bunch, and my favorite is Cole Train. He is like Grayson Hunt in Bulletstorm with his intercom speech, insulting the queen with a slew of curses is pretty manly. I'll describe the other characters in one word: Marcus-Christian Bale in tights, Dom-Liam Neeson, Baird-Every character when they don't perform an active reload correctly, Carmine-Johnny Depp as a pirate, Hoffman-Thor, Anya-Cortana. The gameplay is pretty good, but at some points in the game I felt like I forgot how to play except for shooting and chainsawing. Multiplayer is a blast to play, but sometimes people who are level 100 play with or against you in games when you yourself are only a newbie. I wish the ranked matches were filtered better. Most people in multiplayer rely is shotguns and luck. Once, I was playing a game called "wingman" where you have one teammate and are both the same character. My teammate and I were one of  the last teams alive until someone from the other team killed my teammate at the same time he got killed. I was all alone in there, so I pulled out my shotgun and hoped for the best. I leaned out of my cover and blind-fired at him and got the kill. That was the only time it happened, and it hasn't come around again ever scince. Overall I think Gears is, in a word, great. One last fact. My dad loves the game, he was the first to notice it looked like a comic book. Gears of War 2 gets a 4/5

Promises

Wasn't that short like I promised. Eh? Eh?..................

Spring Break Epicness pt.1

Bulletstorm Review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  The game that revolutionized the online score-board and punched online multiplayer in the face, Bulletstorm, is a prommising game. There are several gameplay types in this game, but they can be classified into two categories; Single-player and multi-player. All though very foul mouthed and crazy,(and trust me, IT IS), you'll be surprised to hear this, it actually has a story driven campaign! The story is rich with twists and action. You'll be on the edge of your seat with the frantic gameplay, and satisfied with yourself as every encounter is ended with an uplifting slew of swears and compliments. The enemies are fun to kill, stupid, point-sacks, but that's just it, they're stupid. Sometimes they just stand around and let you extract the skillpoints from them and drink the sweet, sweet neon point juice. As the predicessor to annother series, Gears of War, it is like that in one way more than any other;gore. Most of the skillshots in this game are gory and having something to do with dismemberment. Now onto the multi-player. For me, the multi-player isn't all that great. It's about co-op, but the gameplay is so frantic that you barely perform any skillshots with eachother. Now, even though I've mentioned them throughout the review, lets talk about skillshots. Skillshots aren't just some points on an online learderboard, theyr'e essential to your survival. Skillpoints are what you need to buy ammo and weapons from dropshops, or pod-like things that let you exchange skillpoints for metal throwing things that are also metal and have cool names................................The only problem with that system, is that when the dropshops have new things you don't get a heads-up. For instance, there is this hard skillshot called "French Revolution" which requires you to decapitate at least 3 enemies with a charged flail. There is a level that is perfect for it, but either you can't buy it, or it's not there.

So, for me, Bulletstorm is a single-player game. It gets a 4/5. I'll make more reviews this week.

Start of a new week

I don't really feel like blogging just because it's Monday, so I'll tell you the stuff I have for Friday!!!!! I will work on two reviews and tell you a not so secret secret, also to actualy DO something coresponding to the seccond "R" word in my blog's title, I will do.....................SOMETHING..................maybe...............

Give Em' Props

I've noticed that in Valve's new game, Portal 2, there is an unnoticed and unpraised character model in the game. Have you noticed that the tall robot in multi-player looks female? I think this is very good for character development of relationships. What I mean is, the two look like a couple, like married. They need to work together to solve each puzzle and communicate amongst themselves. Valve gets major props for doing this and factoring this in. Nice job guys! You can see for yourself in this video: portal 2 tv spot 
Some other relationships are: Gordan Freeman and Alex from Half-Life and the Companion Cube and Shel from Portal.

On a different note; I think I forgot to add Skate 3 to my game reviews list.
Thanks for reading.

I'm still alive!!!!!!!!!!!

As the title states, I'm not dead; I've just been gonee for awhile. Not gone on a trip, more like just taking a break from blogger. Anyway, here's my line-up for my next few posts.

Game Reviews of:
Bulletstorm
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Halo: Reach
Gears of War 2

Thats pretty much all I can think of now.
Thanks! :D

Knowlege

Things are going well. I won a prize to the concession stand at school and found out how to make ameture first-person videos with my iPhone. I'd tell you about more awesome things, but I'll just make you watch an awesome series of youtube machinimas.
I'll give you eppisode 1-3

Ep. 1
Ep. 2
Ep. 3

Here ya' go.

The series is called Sanity Not Included and it's funny and awesome.

Gamefly

I just signed up for Gamefly and it's awesome! Check it out.

http://gamefly.tellapal.com/a/clk/tKtCN

It's really cool,

Awesome

Sorry I havn't posted in a while...I have some awesome news though. Da-dadadaaaa! Bulletstorm, church, and upkeep. Yah, I know; just stay with me. First, the fps from the creators of Gears of War, Bulletstorm, has been out and it's awesome!!!! I'm almost done, and will be posting a review on it. Don't worry, I'll compress it down this time. Second, I just came back from Walking Wisely Weekend, or W3. It is a church camp that happens yearly. It was awesome. The concert was incredible, the host house was great, and the whole thing was epic. At one pint durring a song, I was covered in 50 pounds of streamers.(Exageration if it wasn't obvious) I can't wait until the next church activity. So, yeah; no more doom and gloom for this fellow. Also, yesterday I turned 12! Now I'm more mature, and starting my rebelious phase...LULZ!

Ughhh

My old post got erased so I will give you an over view........................vidoe games...........thank you.

Love.............sucks

It's Valentines Day. Whoop-de-fother-mucking-do!!!! I'd rather be spending this Valentines Day with Max and my probably would-be Middle School crush Susie. Yes, I admit I would want to embarrass my butt of presenting her with a super corny Valentine than not getting or giving one out at this school because I'm the new guy. Max, you sure as heck need to tell everyone that. As you may tell, I'm.........mad. Period. I'll post now on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. A church camp is coming up so I'll be way more cheery close to then. Sorry.

...

I haven't posted in about a week, so I'll just say that I am not feeling so good. I can't go on an Epcot trip at my middle school for punching a bully, John Hern, who started the fight, had been bullying me since the beginning of the school year, and was a stupid jerk. Yes. I'm talking to you John. I genuinely HATE you. Thanks for making me miserable beyond compare, not just for that, but for EVERYTHING. This wouldn't have happened if I hadn't moved from Texas. I don't like Texas for McDonald's, obesity, or racism. (NO FREAKING DUH!!!!) As you can see I'm freaking PEEVED. thanks for reading sorry for dumping my personal crap on you. Thank God I have some experience with this.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just got in touch with my old friend Max!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CLAPS AND SNAPS FOR FRIENDSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, thanks for reading! This isn't a popular blog so I respect u guys for reading.

E-mail

Here's my e-mail.
jtjelani@gmail.com
Hope you contact me!

Giving back

Well, here's your promised gift for reading that long review. There will be more reviews, but I'll try to make them shorter. Here it is! ->http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/what_we_call_the_news
Also, http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/hes_barack_obama
And, http://monkeyflipping.com/
The first 2 are from jibjab.com, and the last one is Max's website. Max is my old friend form Texas. Hope you enjoy.

Game Reviews! :)

I forgot to tell you, I'm sort-of a video-game fanatic, but it's not unhealthy. Lets start this blog off with a game review! :D

Tron: Evolution
Now remember, this is all my opinion.
Tron: Evolution is a needed and unneeded chapter in the Tron series. The story isn't very deep, but is good nonetheless. Some problems with it are, you need both the media to understand it. In the beginning, you start out as a program named Anon, or Anonymous, in the User Plaza. The first objective is to walk over to a door. In the next cut-scene, you walk over to Tron and Quara. The game thinks you all ready know all of the characters. After some talking you have to chase Quara down a weirdly made maze of platforming type corridors. At one point you see some regular programs just walking around, socialising. That made me think, if every program and user practiced digital, sci-fi parcour, why couldn't they fight evil people also? Which brings me to my next subject, the antagonist(s). IT'S NOT RIGHT TO PUT IN A RANDOM BAD-GUY FOR NO REASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The guy's name is Abraxus, and he has a cape and a hood. AND. HE'S. GREEN. THANK YOU DISNEY FOR RUINING MY FAVORITE COLOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The idea of him being a "virus" is eh. I like the concept of the regular programs getting infected with that virus, but the way Clu, the MAIN bad guy, turned Tron into one of his, should have been how the programs got infected or at least the infection could be wiped out at the end. BUT NO! They have to put in a meaningless bad guy in. Now for gameplay. The controls are pretty simple, but even though you move the camera and aim with A joy stick the camera is still wonky, and moves to fast and slippery. Sometimes you can't see yourself or your target, which causes confusion and frustration. The different disk powers are creative. Some powers are Heavy, the first power you get, Bomb, which is a disk that throws people into the air higher than other disks, Infection, this disk does continuous damage to enemies and if they die infected they'll blow up, (I actually don't know what the last disk was called) and finally, Static, this power makes enemies go in slow-mo. You knew I would talk about this. Vehicles. The lightcycle is very well made in the controls, looks, and awesomeness, but the thing it doesn't do well is manual transformation. You can never turn in to a lightcycle on your own, there is always a highway or road that you have to drive. Even there you should be able to turn it off and on just in that section. Lighttanks have a great feeling of "Lumbering, epic, gun-totting, turtle". I say turtle because IT IS SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW also, if you don't like to readjust your tanks all the time because they are horribly horrible, then the lighttank is not for you. Order now!!!!......or not......Is there another vehicle? No. No lightfliers. So. Story, gameplay, and, I'll just do one more, online play. All in all it is good, not the best, but good. Sometimes, you can't connect to one of thousands of games 1 a category. Also, it's hard to tell when a match will start, and there is a class mode like C.o.D (which sucks) that does worse than the original. The combat is fluid and fun like the campaign, but as an added and unappreciated bonus, you get four energy squares instead of three! These let you do special attacks like the ground slam. Also, you can't choose your color in any games, and when I choose Clu I can't play as him, I'm always a regular program. Well, that's all. I'll give this game a 4 out of 5. Thank you for reading this. I'll make it up to you by uploading a funny video in my next post. Thanks.

WAZZUP!....................

Hi, this is my first post so...I'll just give you the lowdown. My name is Joshua and I currently reside in Atlanta, Georgia. My home town is Chicago, Illinois, but I really felt at home when I lived in Huston, Texas. Some of my friends from there are Max Lin, who has a blog called monkeyflipping,(Check it out, here-> http://www.monkeyflipping.blogspot.com/ ) Cade Diester, who is cool like me,(or better) Miler Atkinson, who is, in a word, an extremist,(no offense?) Vishnu Selvekumar, who is the most awesome Indian  guy I know, and many more. O.K., so, lets get more into it. I'm a 12 year old, 5' 5", nerdy, black male. I have a huge belief and faith in God and I am a Christian. The title, "Randomness & Religion" is exactly what im about, more or less. I have a HUGE faith in God, and was influenced by my friends to be myself...which is random and excentric. So, there you have it, me in an avacado pit.