What was with those last view posts? Well I happen to be a deep person...
Not really, but perhaps I'm more than meets the eye; and since you people can't see me, you at a big disadvantage. But now let's talk about more nerdy things.
No depth here but TMK (a site that now updates just as much as me!) recently posted a Japanese to English comparison of the game Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. Now, always love to see the differences between Japanese and English versions of games. Often there's a difference in translation, censorship, and/or copyright. TMK has a couple of these comparisons and I strongly recommend them. But to the main point.
In every single comparison except for M&L:PiT, the Japanese game was either harder or on par with the English version. I should think Mario fans should be familiar with Nintendo's "toning down" of games for us Americans. The most notable example is that Super Mario Brothers 2 was never officially released in the states till its recent appearance on the Wii virtual console (yes I do realize that it was in Super Mario All-Stars, but that doesn't count because it was called "Lost Levels" not to mention the graphics were different and there were minor changes to prevent known glitches). This is not the only example and if you need more go to TMK. Now, as I was saying, the recent M&L:PiT comparison shows that the Japanese version is actually easier! Many of the bosses have lower HP, when enemies heal it typically not as much as in the US version, as well as other things.
Now this isn't big news, but I thought I should share this and ask, "What up wit dat*."
*(Disclaimer: I do not approve of urban language or any major grammatical/spelling errors unless it is used to make fun of people who use said errors like water; thus please do not get angry at this quote. Additionally, if you are offended by this disclaimer you should go to/pay attention in school.)
And "wit dat"
I'm Out
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Complements
I've recently started an SAT course to help up my scores before I take the test. After the second day (after I received the scores from my practice test) I have been given the largest sum of compliments I think I have ever received. My score is already above average (around the 81 percentile) and they say that the mistakes I made are not too difficult to mend, thus meaning that I can easily do better. With the Huntington program (which is where my SAT preparation is occurring) I am also taking a speed reading coarse. Normally the goal for most students is to be able to read 300 words per minuet. On Monday I ran out of lessons (because they told me not to start at the beginning [presumably, because the first lessons are intended for lower grades]) and when I asked what I should do next time, they looked at my progress and proclaimed me a prodigy, due to the fact that I was at 500 words per minuet. They told me they had never seen someone get so fast so quickly. My vocabulary has been praised as being above average, and my ACT scores were higher than my SAT score despite my leaving many questions blank.
At this point it probably seems like I'm just trying to point out my good points in order to boost my ego (which is probably big enough as is). On the contrary I'm trying to display a slight bit of humility. My point is that I don't think I deserve most of these compliments. I got to 500 wpm, but honestly, I've been reading a rather long book (Ivanhoe) as well as some poetry for school and I'm barely reading at 200. The speed reading forces you to read that fast and while I can read that fast, my comprehension of what I read is nearly 0 at that speed. I've also never thought that I had a very expansive vocabulary, and maybe I just have smart friends, but I usually viewed my vocabulary as rather minuscule (for right here at least I was specifically picking larger words, but I am being serious).
It all makes me realize that I'm home-schooled. I have a number of friends in the same boat. I also have friends in public/private/non-home-schooled, but these are friends from scouts, work, etc. I should also mention that I am perhaps the most non-athletic male currently alive. I'm healthy, strong, but I have a major contempt for most sports. I could give my psychological conjectures as to why I think that sports are a major turn-off for me, but that's not important right now. I think my problem is that my whole life I have been taught to compare myself to the best, which is why in sports I view myself as low-grade compared to most, but academically I compare myself to the smartest people I know and (no offense anywhere) most of them are home-schooled. I just now have come to the realization that colleges and employers don't compare you to Einstein. I compare myself to the best, thus my hope of ever being great is low, but a college merely compares you to the other people who have applied. One does not have to be the best merely better than most. Perhaps my instinct of comparison to the best, would make some depressive, but it just gives me the mindset that if I want to get anywhere, I have to do better. My point is that the people I view as "the best" are only a small percentage of those whom I'm competing against for colleges and job opportunities. So as long as I'm close I'm good enough.
I'm not going to change my view on competition, after all if my current view has gotten me this far, why change it only to never improve myself? I'm merely offering my observations to those who may benefit from it.
I'm Out
At this point it probably seems like I'm just trying to point out my good points in order to boost my ego (which is probably big enough as is). On the contrary I'm trying to display a slight bit of humility. My point is that I don't think I deserve most of these compliments. I got to 500 wpm, but honestly, I've been reading a rather long book (Ivanhoe) as well as some poetry for school and I'm barely reading at 200. The speed reading forces you to read that fast and while I can read that fast, my comprehension of what I read is nearly 0 at that speed. I've also never thought that I had a very expansive vocabulary, and maybe I just have smart friends, but I usually viewed my vocabulary as rather minuscule (for right here at least I was specifically picking larger words, but I am being serious).
It all makes me realize that I'm home-schooled. I have a number of friends in the same boat. I also have friends in public/private/non-home-schooled, but these are friends from scouts, work, etc. I should also mention that I am perhaps the most non-athletic male currently alive. I'm healthy, strong, but I have a major contempt for most sports. I could give my psychological conjectures as to why I think that sports are a major turn-off for me, but that's not important right now. I think my problem is that my whole life I have been taught to compare myself to the best, which is why in sports I view myself as low-grade compared to most, but academically I compare myself to the smartest people I know and (no offense anywhere) most of them are home-schooled. I just now have come to the realization that colleges and employers don't compare you to Einstein. I compare myself to the best, thus my hope of ever being great is low, but a college merely compares you to the other people who have applied. One does not have to be the best merely better than most. Perhaps my instinct of comparison to the best, would make some depressive, but it just gives me the mindset that if I want to get anywhere, I have to do better. My point is that the people I view as "the best" are only a small percentage of those whom I'm competing against for colleges and job opportunities. So as long as I'm close I'm good enough.
I'm not going to change my view on competition, after all if my current view has gotten me this far, why change it only to never improve myself? I'm merely offering my observations to those who may benefit from it.
I'm Out
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