#THE NEW ZEALAND STORY

[traceofexistence]

what is the most bizarre video game/music you were listening while playing combination

for me

The New Zealand Story

(playing on computer from that mame something archive)

while listening to Crazy Town first album

and somehow moving a little bird around while listening to numetal made sense

[joonboree]

I had New Zealand Story on the commodore 64 the one I had played from a cassette tape. I wouldn't have believed such a thing was possible if I hadn't seen it. I remember talking to someone about it and they hated that it would take a long time to load but I didn't remember that part lol.

The main thing I remember from this game is that scary whale boss. It was all big, pink covered in ice and moved erratically across the screen.

I drew this for my video games drawtober last month.

[thesplintering]

Taito’s “The New Zealand Story” Joins the Arcade Archives on PS4, Nintendo Switch

Taito’s “The New Zealand Story” Joins the Arcade Archives on PS4, Nintendo Switch | #retrogaming #NintendoSwitch #RetroGames #PlayStation #retrogames

[crabussy]

one of my favourite memories ever is going swimming in my undies in the dead of winter beneath a waterfall in the middle of a forest (I couldn't feel my legs at ALL) and having a small longfin eel tentatively swim up to me. upon me sticking my hand out for her to explore, she rubbed her head up against my hand and let me pet her like some kind of slippery long cat. wet wriggly beast I miss you so much.. we were best friends for one fleeting moment... I hope you find a cave so deep and comfortable that all the other eels are seething with envy

[i-am-dulaman]

Why I hate Golf

This is the Takapuna Golf Course in Auckland, New Zealand.

It is in the middle of Auckland's north shore suburbs.

According to their website, they are one of the most popular golf courses in Aotearoa and have an annual visitor count of 60,000 people. They don't clarify if that is individual unique visitors or recounts, but lets be generous and say its unique visitors. 60,000, not bad.

This is Eden Park Stadium (the little square on the right) and oh look there's another golf course on the left there, ignore that one for now.

(the above two images are at the same scale)

Eden park has a capacity of 50,000 people. Ed Sheeran was here earlier this year and sold out the two nights he performed. That's 100,000 people in a weekend all in that little red square. 60,000 in a year no longer seems so great.

60,000 people per year is also only 160 people per day. 160 visitors to a golf course that is 470,000 square meters in area. Now the average property size in Auckland is 500 square meters. So the golf course takes up the area of 940 houses.

940 homes worth of land for 160 people.

And that is Auckland housing sizes. Auckland is horribly designed and very spread out. Let's instead look at Barcelona, considered one of the most well designed cities in the world.

This is Takapuna golf course side by side with Barcelona

(The scale is as close to being equal as I could get them, I don't have ArcGIS data for Barcelona so had to use google maps)

Each red square overlaid on Takapuna Golf Course is exactly 133m in height/width, the same size as each city block in Barcelona, road width included.

There are 23 Barcelona blocks worth of space in Takapuna Golf Course with room to spare. About 640 people live in each Barcelona block, that's 15000 people.

15000 peoples worth of homes and living spaces, sacrificed so 160 people can play golf in a day.

Now this is just one golf course in a big city, what's 15,000 people to a city of 1.6 million, who cares right?

Here is a wider shot of Auckland City.

Those red dots? They're golf courses.

There are 16 golf courses inside the metropolitan area of Auckland City (4 not pictured as Auckland is too spread out to get one clean screenshot). Keep in mind these are not rural golf courses out in the country, these are right beside housing developments and shopping malls. And for the record I could not find a single golf course in the Barcelona metropolitan area, you had to go out into the country before finding one.

So lets multiply that 15,000 people by 16 golf courses?

240,000 people.

With Auckland City's golf courses you could house 240,000 people comfortably with some good urban planning.

That is why I hate golf.

[ignitedminds27]

45 Days to send Liam with love and happiness.

To all the fellow Directioners from around the world who are reposting and liking the memorial services of their country and others. I'm so happy to see you all. Especially some of them are old fan accounts on Tumblr, and yes, I recognize y'all. It's like back to 1D time and it feels nostalgic seeing y'all.

It's sad that instead of One Direction Reunion we are connecting at this sad and tragic hour of loss but, for the love we all share for our boys and today for our beloved Liam❤️ I would humbly request fellow Directioners to share your stories about the first you saw or heard the 1D song, been to their concert, met them, they replied to your tweet, also waging war on Twitter for the boys, running hashtags like #ProtectLiam. Everything.

Tells us what Liam means to you and what the band means to you. I know that not everyone is verbally expressive about their emotions, so please don't hesitate to share your love the way you express it usually: through art, poetry, photo collage, video, etc.

I said the Tumblr memorial will be on October 20, but where I come from, in my culture, it is said that the soul of the deceased stays with their loved ones and visits people who love them for 45 days. That means Liam is right here with us, seeing all the love all of us are pouring. It also means he can see us cry and mourn him. My question to Directioners all over the world is, are we going to send him off with tears and sadness? Are we really going to send the man who wanted to make others smile and be happy with our tears and despair? Or are we going to send him with happy memories and love that he so very deserves?

If you are like me who chooses to send him with happiness and love do share your love for him here too because there are many Directioners on Tumblr who are lovers and are currently going through this pain alone with their own set of personal struggles. Liam wouldn't like any single person to worsen their condition because of him.

ONE DIRECTION AND DIRECTIONERS ARE ONE FAMILY. We got each other's back and so do we have this responsibility to our fellow Directioners who are in the same boat as us.

ONE BAND, ONE DREAM, ONE DIRECTION.

Do It For Liam

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

[quirky-vg]

From: The New Zealand Story

[shipwreckedcomedy]

We’re so excited to share that #HeadlessSeries has been nominated for six awards at the New Zealand Web Fest!

Our nominations are all in the international webseries category:

⭐️ Best Editing

⭐️ Best Cinematography

⭐️ Best Ensemble

⭐️ Best Writing

⭐️ Best Directing

⭐️ Best Webseries

Thanks so much to New Zealand Web Fest for the nominations!! We’re honored! 💀

[heavenbarnes]

unsure if you’ve seen in the news lately but two drag queens are taking brian tamaki and his piece of shit “church” to court for defamation after he and his supporters staged a hate campaign against the drag queens for their rainbow story time:

they’ve set up a givealittle to raise funds for their legal costs needed to cover the court case:

not only does this bring awareness to the good work the LGBTQ+ community are doing for our country, this should also teach those rat bastards that freedom of speech ≠ freedom of consequence and their hate campaigns are not stronger than aotearoa’s love for our community

[celluloidrainbow]

MANI'S STORY (2002) dir. John Keir The life of intersex activist Mani Bruce Mitchell. Assigned male at birth, at the age of one they were taken off to specialists who reassigned them as female. Renamed Margaret, the rural New Zealand community where they lived held a meeting to discuss the decision and to encourage everyone to keep the family's secret. At eight, without explanation, they were given the surgery that "feminised" them. This documentary charts their discovery of the truth, choosing to own their sense of self as neither male nor female, and follows their journey to Milwaukee to present a paper with fellow activist David Vandertie. (link in title)

[doggernaut]

Working at the beachfront snack shack isn't the most glamorous job, but at least Eric has a great view of the hot surfing instructor to help him pass the time.

It's too bad the hot surfing instructor is kind of a jerk.

Or, Eric Bittle is an overworked snack shack employee making minimum wage, and Jack Zimmermann's job is beach.

on ao3

[thegirlwholovesliterature]

September’s chill breathes life into their shared delight. / A season of celebration that deepens my night. / Their birthdays collide in a month I dread, / Each joyful post a dagger to what we once had. / The calendar turns, and with it, I see— / Their new beginning while my heart bleeds silently. / In the soft, cruel glow of autumn’s descent, / I am haunted by memories and a love that’s spent.

- Excerpt from a story that I no longer share #7 // Will you think about me on that day? Or will someone else get your attention like always? // krupapatelreads on instagram

[damianmian]

Day 6 OCtober: Past

These two are the characters currently knitting souls for the multiverse. I haven’t figured out their name as of yet. The one to the left is the child of god, and the other is gods creation. God is not our god, more like a creator. He is the creator of their world. They are the creators of my multiverse.

Basic premise behind them is that god created a world for his wife filled with wonderful things, and filled with humans. Humans killed his wife and as punishment he removes their will. His child visits earth against gods wishes (simple teenage rebellion), befriends a girl and vows to show her what love is. This leads to an ever changing plot that sometimes involves Pandora’s box, the Apple, or whatever religious symbolism I’m into that week. TLDR is that humans gain sentience. Gods creation falls in love with gods child. They try to run away but in the end they’re captured.

So now all they have to do is create universes and knit souls in the prison god hold them in. Watching their creations get destroyed for all eternity by an angry god. Sometimes I’ll add a side plot that the souls get taken for some sort of civil war. Nothing is particularly concrete yet.

[leveloneandup]

The epitome of passion and heart and all the best parts of this game.

[braodrickpatrick-1]

Chapter Two Everlasting Love

I Love d You before I M e t You Pg. 28 JOURNAL ENTRY “MONTH OF MAY.” We dance the night away and kissed for hours. Shots after shots, round after round living in the midnight moment amongst the stars. But time itself seemed to have passed its curfew. You asked me to drive us back home, so I grab the car keys. Here we go driving into the midnight breeze. It was an hour drive back to the city as I looked over as saw you fast asleep, for only the heavens itself could create such a thing. My head started to pound as I tried to remain focus on the road, but then I felt a taste of blood kiss my lips as my eyes started to close while driving into the midnight mist. Boom! It’s an accident. Love, we had an accident

SIGHT OF LOVE

They say falling in love is a choice. Then why does it feel as if the laws of free will doesn’t apply at the sight of you? My heart forever tangle within your reach. and pulled at the thought of you. Yet I am forever woven within the fabrics of your heaven. As for love itself is written in the heavens amongst the stars.

I Loved You before I Met You: A Love Story by Braodrick Patrick 

About the Book: A girl discovers her lover's journal, a journal she promised to never read, and quickly finds that it is filled with his poetic thoughts regarding their love story. This book is written in a collection of poems and storytelling about two teenagers who fall in love at first sight. But sometimes love doesn't last forever as one of them soon learns that their cancer has returned and a battle that was thought to have been won is far from over. Could this be the end of love at first sight or is this the beginning of a true love story? Sometimes love itself is written in the heavens amongst the stars.

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