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Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 Skills

"Cyberpunk 2077's skill system is better in 2.0 because it's more conceptual" is a thought that has been rolling around in my brain and I want to explain what I mean. This post is all character building, no story stuff. For ease of terminology I'm going to call from before 2.0 patch "Original" and afterwards "2.0" regardless of patch numbers. I'll also link both perk trees at the bottom of the post. In my original playthrough and current 2.0 one my character build was a stealthy netrunner who uses pistols, sniper rifles and monowire, so I will be comparing the same build. At time of writing on this replay I only reached early Act 2 and am around Level 18, so I haven't played with all the abilities, but I still want to talk about my feelings so far. Now people have been rightly praising the move away from perks that are boring but seem obligatory; 3 ranks of "Do 3% more pistol damage" that never make you feel stronger but you know you should take and towards actual interesting ones like unlock a dash move. That's definitely a big part of it, but I haven't seen as much talk on changing what attributes skills are under, which I think is the game moving away from I guess what I'd call "realistic" skill grouping under attributes and towards encouraging you to build a character based around a concept. So basically instead of building your character concept around how the perks work, perks are build around character concepts players will want to play. The two examples I am going to use are Monowire and Handguns/Sniper Rifles. Monowire is a super sharp whip augmentation, if you have seen the Edgerunners anime it's what Lucy uses. In fact, I think Lucy plays a part in why monowire has changed. Hell, she's one of the perk images for it.

But what I mean is previously monowire, while cool looking, mechanically didn't have much going for it, it had no unique perks and little reason to use it over swords other than slightly longer range. It also bounced between if it was impacted by Reflexes or Cool attributes. In 2.0 monowire is under the Intelligence tree with your hacking abilities and comes with unique perks that assist in hacking and there's even abilities to add hacks to your monowire attacks. By making monowire a Netrunner tool it becomes more distinct from blades with a reason to use it and adds to the experience of being an awesome Netrunner, to the feeling of playing someone like Lucy. Handguns/Sniper Rifles are my other example. Previously both were under Reflexes attribute with Sniper Rifles bundled with Assault Rifles and Handguns all on their lonesome. Now both are bundled together under the "Cool" attribute which impacts stealth and critical hit damage. Now does using a sniper rifle have more in common with an assault rifle than a pistol? Don't quick reflexes make a good gunslinger? Sure. But both are tools that characters who want to sneak around or score a lucky headshot will use. So it makes sense to put them in Cool. Likewise, in the original version I had to get a lot of Assault Rifle perks to be good at Sniper Rifles. So choosing to branch out and invest in pistols when I was already good at assault rifles, was largely due to my aesthetic preference, rather than making a stronger character. But now by putting them together, it makes weapons that pair naturally in a character idea, pair naturally in skills. All this to say, I think a big reason 2.0 has a better skills system than Original 2077 is because instead of thinking of perks and attributes in an abstract, "What real world attribute makes a real person better with a pistol?" and building character concepts around it, it build the skill system around different concepts people will want to play and encourage them to make them by grouping perks accordingly. The sneaky sniper, aggressive hacker, spry swordsman and tank with big fists and a bigger gun. Cyberpunk 2020 Tabletop did this with "Roles" it's character classes, but I think class based or classless, building your system around the kind of experiences you want players to have and character concepts they'll want to play, encouraging them but still giving room to branch out, makes for a better time. Maybe in real life one guy with a baseball bat can't match bandits with assault rifles. But if you let me play as Captain Baseball Bat Boy, I want to feel like I can. == Here is the Original Perk Tree Here is the 2.0 Perk Tree

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With Far Sector, N.K. Jemisin Gets a Turn in the Green Lantern Sandbox

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We talked to author N.K. Jemisin about diving into the world of Green Lantern, her favorite comic books, and why fanfiction matters.

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A three-time Hugo Award winner for her Broken Earth series, N.K. Jemisin is one of the most exciting and celebrated authors working in speculative fiction today. For the first time ever, Jemisin is working in the comic book medium, collaborating with artist Jamal Campbell on a new Green Lantern story that's part of Gerard Way's revived Young Animal imprint for DC.

The new series is called Far Sector, and it follows Sojourner "Jo" Mullen, a member of the Green Lantern Corps who is the sole protector of the City Enduring, a massive metropolis of 20 billion people countless lightyears from Earth.

read more: N.K. Jemisin's Fifth Season TV Series in Development at TNT

The City Enduring has maintained peace for over 500 years by stripping its citizens of of their ability to feel emotion. Therefore, murder and other forms of violent crime are virtually non-existent... until now.

We had the chance to catch up with Jemisin earlier this month at New York Comic Con. Here's what she had to tell us about diving into the world of Green Lantern...

Den of Geek: What your familiarity with Green Lantern before taking on the project?

Jemisin: Almost none. I watched the Justice League cartoon back in the day that had John Stewart as the main Green Lantern. And I mean I knew that Green Lantern was a popular superhero, but beyond that I really didn't understand very much about it. I knew there had been a movie; I didn't see the movie. I rode the Green Lantern ride at Six Flags. That's about all I knew.

That was the limit of it. So when Gerard Way asked me if I would be willing to write the Green Lantern comic, I said, "Look, I need to do some boning up on the lore and the literature," and so the first thing that they did was send me the big Geoff Johns compilations. I don't know if you've seen them, but it's like this big. All hard cover, and the first few years of the original Green Lantern storylines. Not the original, but of some of the most iconic Green Lantern storylines.

And so I was able to read through those. Of course I was able to jump on the various Wikis that exist out there, and then I began to realize that I was drowning in information, because Green Lantern continuity is like any other comic book continuity: there had been retcons, there are contradictions, and I had to try and find ways to resolve that. So, fortunately, with the the Far Sector comic, because it takes place outside of the normal Lantern system, so far away from Earth and all the other Lanterns. In some ways, I was in an isolated space where I can make things happen.

What kind of freedom did you have? Were there things that you did that they were like, "No, actually this contradicts something that already exists in canon," or did you really have pretty much free range to tell your story?

I mean, yeah, I had free range, but I wanted to fit within canon. I mean, there's no value for me in taking these stories so far away from its fanbase.

So the challenge is to make it fit into the continuity, even if it's not directly related. So,at some point, if this character proves popular, if the book proves popular, at some point, she may want to come back and meet the other Guardians ... the other Lanterns. She may move back to Earth, so I need that to be able to work if I do.

I'm curious if your background and presence as a fanfic author helped you in that process of diving into an already-existing narrative universe?

Yeah, effectively, I was writing fanfic—I love it!—except that I wasn't already a fan of this. So I mean it's professional fanfic, but we've seen that out there before. There's a long history of, effectively, fan works insisting within the literary fiction sphere.

Sherlock Holmes story, for example, or the Cthulhu Mythos, all of that is effectively fanfic. The challenge of it is you read the history, you make sure that you've got the canon down pat, and then once you've got that down pat, then you can riff on it.

So that was the idea.

Tell me about working with Jamal Campbell. What did it look like logistically, in terms of your process?

Well, logistically what it means is I gave him a phone call at the beginning of it and I haven't met him in person. So we're doing everything electronically. I write the scripts, we send the scripts to Jamal, Jamal sends us pages.

That's how it's been working, and then we talk back and forth about ... For example, I wanted to convey in this one particular scene that she feels like she's being disrespected. Can we add a little panel where she looks at a thing and gives it a side eye? Something like that.

Cool, and I don't know how much experience you have collaborating in that way while writing a story.

None. This is my first collaboration.

What's that been like?

I'm loving it, I really am. This is the first time, outside of fan art, this is the first time I've ever seen anyone put my stories or characters or anything that I've created to a visual form. I'm used to being able to see it in my head, but I've never had other people try and see it for me.

And he's got a good eye. He's been able to capture what I've been thinking, for the most part.

This story takes place in a city where people no longer have the ability to feel emotion. There are a lot of mainstream, especially female-centric superhero stories that have been commenting on emotion as power, or trying to do that in ways that I feel haven't been super nuanced or complex. I'm curious about that setting and what, if anything, you wanted to say about the strengths or limitations of emotionality or emotional intelligence.

Well, remember that Jo is a black woman, so there is a different nuance or a different variation on that problem that I feel like black women often have to deal with, which is them being treated as too angry, as if anger is dangerous or problematic in some way.

Even when we aren't angry, we're perceived as angry sometimes, and it gets to be a problem, and so Jo is in some cases going to have to deal with being the only emotional person in the room, and she can't get too emotional in her reactions to what she's seeing and what she's having to deal with.

When she starts working through bureaucracy and she expresses frustration with it, she's not going to be perceived as just an emotional woman. She's going to be perceived as a primitive human being. She's going to be perceived as a poor representation of her species, a poor representation of the Lanterns.

She can't get too emotional, so she's got to be able to solve these problems as the lone person in the room that's allowed to be this way, but also judged for being this way. And there's definitely commentary in it.

You're telling a frontier science fiction story of sorts...

A super high tech space society with near omniscient power. I don't know if that qualifies.

It is a high tech story, but Jo is the only Lantern there. She is the only person, as I said, who has emotions. She has to work with the local cops. She's got to form alliances and relationships with her local community and earn their respect in order to have any real power, cause even one person, no matter how powerful, is not going to be able to solve the problems of 20 billion people unless she gets some buy in from them.

Where there other graphic novels or comics that you looked to during this process?

Well, learning how to write, yes. I read The 2000 A.D. Script Book, which has art rendered pages alongside the script agents so you can see how the writer communicated with the artist or how the writer framed the scene and the artist chose to interpret that scene. So that helped me figure out comic writing format and how to do it.

Of course, I read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, which was really helpful for helping me understand how storytelling changes in this medium. I've been a comics fan for quite some time, ranging across different media. I did superhero comics a lot when I was back in college, but it got super expensive and I was a poor college student, so I quit around that time.

I read a lot of Japanese manga for awhile. Lately, I have read more indie comics, like Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, Monstress by a Sana Takeda and Marjorie Liu. I'm a big fan of Kelly Sue DeConnick's work, so I've read a lot of comics more recently ... I mean I enjoy the format, I enjoy good storytelling in all of its forms, but lately I've been reading more superhero stuff.

I did already bring up fanfiction, but I have been asking the authors I'm talking to, especially after Archive of Our Own's Hugo win this summer, that fanfic has meant to them, if anything, both professionally and personally.

I mean, I'm not going to say I started out as a fanfic writer, cause I didn't, but fanfic helped me, I think, develop in a lot of ways, my storytelling. I've been writing fanfic basically since grad school, when I started writing it for stress relief, and really when I got access to the internet. That was back in the AOL days. I'm dating myself, and I continue to write it to this day.

It's a place, like a playground, where I can go and sort of write things that I feel like writing without having to worry about my professional fiction readers coming to scrutinize what I do, and I'm not going to tell anybody what fanfic write or what pseudonyms I use or any of that.

Yeah. What else are you working on that you can talk about?

Oh, well I've got a new novel coming out next year. It's called The City We Became. It is based on a short summary of mine in which the city of New York comes to life and develops an avatar, a human being, one single person who represents the spirit of the city.

Well, in the book, all of the boroughs come to life too, and so there's an avatar in Brooklyn, an avatar in Manhattan, and they all have basically magic powers that grant them the ability to protect the city, and they're protecting the city from basically Cthulhu.

It's not really Lovecraftian, and it's not really a Lovecraftian story, although I'd say it's in conversation with Lovecraft, but yes, there is a giant eldritch abomination that is not happy with New York right now and is trying its damndest to destroy the city, and that comes out in March.

Green Lantern: Far Sector comes out on November 13th. Find out more about N.K. Jemisin's work here.

Kayti Burt is a staff editor covering books, TV, movies, and fan culture at Den of Geek. Read more of her work here or follow her on Twitter @kaytiburt.

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FUQ

That stands for Frequently Unasked Questions because people rarely ask me any of these so FAQ would be a lie.

Q: Sempai, how do I get you to notice me?! A: Send me a message or ask! I don’t have to be following you to do so! Also, don’t be shy to tell me about some content you think I might enjoy. I basically only follow people who tag descriptively. Generally this means, at minimum, fandom, pairings, and marking explic!t content. I don’t have any triggers, but I do have some strong squicks, and I look to be able to filter those out as well. 

Q: You used to follow me and now you don’t, did I do something wrong? A: Almost certainly not. If you don’t usually tag your Tumblr, that’s probably the reason why I unfollowed, so don’t brood any more than that. I follow a lot of blogs and I rely on people tagging well to help my blacklist keep up by filtering out shows I don’t watch and content I don’t want to see. I’m not angry at you for not tagging--it’s your blog--but if I can’t figure out a filter to keep stuff I don’t want on my dash, I unfollow.

Tumblr also glitches a lot. I have been on both sides of a Tumblr-induced unfollow. If I used to follow you, now I’m not, and you tag well, message me to check in! It’s totally possible I don’t realize that Tumblr made me unfollow you. Fuckin’ Tumblr, man. I’m also always willing to explain an unfollow if you want to know why.

Q: Why did you block me? A: Almost everyone I’ve blocked is because they blocked me first, so uh, check that first of all. If you’re a fairly block-happy person, maybe you don’t even remember doing it. I block anyone who I discover has blocked me. If you no longer wish to block me, you can reach out through another person or perhaps an anon ask to tell me that you want to be cool now and we’ll be cool. Simple as that.

I’ve also preemptively blocked people who expressed an explicit desire not to interact with people who ship my ships or have my opinions. Eg, making or reblogging a post that says “kaka//saku do not interact”. These blocks are my attempt to make YOU comfortable. I respect people’s desires to curate their Tumblr experience. If you think this may be the reason I blocked you and you are ok with me interacting with you, reach out to me through a third party and I’ll unblock.

Another possibility is that you’re a troll who has left me or one of my friends a personal attack, uses slurs, etc. Have you done that? Don’t be like that.

Third possibility is a mistake--I’ve mistaken you for a spam bot, or Tumblr has done something wonky, etc.

Q: I ship your NOTP. Do you hate me? A: Why would I hate you just because you have an incorrect opinion of whether two fictional characters should rub their genitals together? No. I don’t hate you just because you ship my NOTP, and you are completely welcome to follow me, message me, etc.

Q: So Sasu//Saku is fine then right and it’s just a matter of taste? A: Haha no canon ending SS is garbage, let’s not get carried away here, I’m just saying I think you can ship it and still be a good/nice person. Just because I don’t shipper bash doesn’t mean I can’t and won’t point out everything that’s wrong with SS as written in canon. This is called “literary criticism” and “critical engagement with mass media” and is something I won’t apologize for enjoying.

Q: LMAO why do you care so much about a cartoon for teenage boys? A: Two possible answers here. One is that you can ridicule basically any hobby or special interest this way--”why do you care so much about some overpaid men kicking around a ball”, “why do you care so much about two needles and some yarn”, “why do you care so much about a tiny plastic train going around a track”. It’s called entertainment, bitch.

Second answer is, my God! If there’s any segment of society that I don’t want uncritically reading stories that reinforce sexist ideas and give abusers carte blanche, it’s teenage goddamn boys. If my little drop in the ocean makes the slightest difference against that, I don’t consider it wasted time.

Q: I do assholish things like tell people to die for shipping the wrong thing but I ship one of your OTPs. We cool right? A: 🎶 don’t stand, don’t stand so, don’t stand so close to me 🎶

Q: I have a squick or trigger, will you tag it for me? A: I will do my best! Send me a message or ask. You don’t have to explain why you don’t like it.

Q: You have a lot of weird tags, do you have a tagging system? A: I do! It’s a bit complex, but in addition to commentary tags (stuff like “too cute” or “i’m crying in the club rn”), I try to tag descriptively for blacklists.

For original content, I usually post character names in several different forms for the benefit of tag search, eg both “Kakashi” and “Kakashi Hatake” and “Hatake Kakashi”. I also tag with the original artist’s name (if it’s a repost or translation), and “creative commons” or “with permission” depending on whether I was following a usage policy or explicitly got permission from the artist.

For reblogs, I only tag character’s first names, generally.

My meta tag is “naruto analysis”. My typesets tag is “my typesets”. My fanfic tag is “my fanfic”.

I try to tag triggers like “alcohol /” and “blood /” with the slash at the end.

If a piece of art could be interpreted as romantic or platonic, I usually tag with both the character names and the ship name. If it is unmistakably romantic, I only tag the ship name.

Q: You post a lot of stuff and I don’t always come back to Tumblr that often, but I’m really interested in [this character/pairing]. Could you message me when you post original content for that character/pairing? A: I can try! I do this for some people already. Obviously if tons of people want me to do this it won’t work, but right now I’m doing it for less than ten and it works ok. Message me!

Q: Is this a sideblog? Do you run any other blogs? A: It’s Naruto on main here, baby. I have a few other sideblogs. @fineilikefmab is a blog for Fullmetal Alchemist content. @domesticaphrodite is for food, beauty, lifestyle etc and is more of a personal blog. @fineilikesmut (which I can’t tag) is my blog for reblogs that are not SFW.

Q: I found some Chinese art that I want translated! Will you do that? A: Send me the link! I will definitely consider it. Any pairing will be considered except post-699 canon-compliant SS. Right now, I only do typesets for artists who give me permission to modify their work. (I have complex feelings about fair use and abandoned works, but as a matter of priorities, when there are artists who have given me permission whose works haven’t been translated fully, it only makes sense to prioritize them.)

You can also request a character or pairing and I’ll go hunting for content on my own. Some pairings that are very popular among English speakers are not popular among Chinese speakers and vice versa, so obviously my ability to find content depends on that content existing.

Q: I’ve noticed you repost work from Chinese artists. Sometimes you say “with permission” and sometimes you mention something about CC-BY or similar. What is this CC thing? A: Creative Commons is a copyleft movement dedicated to make it easier for people to share their work while retaining aspects of control that are important to them. As opposed to copyright, a CC license makes a work freely sharable and may or may not permit changing the work and using the work for profit. The website LOFTER, by default, does not apply any CC license to artists’ work, but they can opt in to using one, and there are a variety to choose from. Therefore, you can be confident that the artist chose to let people share (with credit) or remix their work.

Q: Can I ask you something about your writing? A: YES PLEASE DO THAT :D :D :D

Q: 我是一位說中文的藝術家，妳願意把我的火影忍者粉絲繪圖翻譯成英語嗎？ A: 我很願意！請給我留言。繁體、簡體都可以啦。

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Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Tumblr 

The blogging site Tumblr was useful during the planning stage as it allowed me to accumulate all my research in one place. This included theories and theorists, audience research, a production log and analyses of music videos and digipaks. The chronological structure of the site allowed for sections to form naturally, showing the progression of our music video from basic research through to evaluation.

The ability to embed videos and images is invaluable as it allowed me to visually punctuate any point I made, whether on my music video or during an analysis. This can be seen in my analysis of Dead End Street by the Kinks or Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd. However, when it came to posting my digipak on my blog, the quality of the image decreased. This was frustrating as I couldn’t work out how to fix it and the image seems to be decent quality before posting. 

I have also had issues with Tumblr because of poor wifi connection. If there isn’t a strong connection, Tumblr has at times taken hours to submit a post or even embed a video. This was especially tricky in the research phase when it came to analysing music videos. At one point the video took so long to load I tried to cancel it to start again and ended up losing the essay I had just written. 

Overall, Tumblr’s layout and accessibility to my whole group is beneficial in organising research and keeping track of progress because of its linear structure, but its technical flaws have been a detriment at times. 

Prezi 

Prezi has enabled me to create an in-depth critique of my own work, in which I was able to break down individual points and section off answers into appropriate and easy-to-navigate sections. It includes many sleek designs for free that presented my work in a succinct and flowing manner and allowed me to provide evidence or visual aid to my points through embedding videos and images into sections.

This program came into most use during my evaluation in which I was able to analyse each of my original media texts in appropriate groups (e.g., discussing the ‘minimalistic style’ in my music video, digipak and magazine cover). My biggest problem with it was that it ran very slow, with each action taking twice the time that it would if running smoothly. This is again most likely because of poor internet connection. The only real drawback was that it was tedious and took longer. 

Mobile Phones

These were beneficial in the traditional sense; I was able to keep in contact with my group whenever I needed them, mostly for help organising filming days during production. We were able to set up a group chat through Facebook and having that easy, reliable communication between everyone meant that we were all ‘in the loop’, receiving the same information and discussing the video as it was being made. 

Mobile phones also came in handy when we needed to take photos of filming days for the production log. This, coupled with the social media access it brings, allowed for easy sharing of pictures and thus, improved blogs.

PCs

The computers at school were what the music video itself was edited on and it caused a lot of trouble. While the extensive storage space on the iDrive is useful, the speed at which post-production had to go because of the poor processing speeds was tragic. 

This was mainly an issue with rendering, which can take up to 3 hours to complete with lots of footage. This forced us to be selective from the get-go with what shots we actually wanted to import and render, which ultimately meant that Premiere Pro didn’t become cluttered and only the best shots made it into the final cut. 

Similarly, the slowness of the PC meant that cutting in time with the beat of the song was more difficult. There were lots of lagging issues that meant we couldn’t tell with any accuracy whether our edits lined up with the beat of the song. It was partially because of the trouble we had with these PCs that resulted in me editing the Directors’ Commentary, Final Focus Group and Animatic on iMovie on my laptop from home.

DSLR Camera

Using a DSLR Camera is a significant technical step-up for me from year 12, where I used a camcorder to film our film opening. Getting used to the digital camera was relatively easy as I never found the need to white-balance or anything like that, something that I would have to do several times every time I used a camcorder.

The primary reason digital cameras are superior is the video quality which far exceeds that of a camcorder. Similarly, using the DSLR meant I was able to use a 35-millimetre lens to create a small field of focus and giving a sense of intimacy and insight into Lola’s life through the slider shots and still shots of alcohol bottles. 

The one problem I ran into with this camera was that creating effective zooms is very difficult as it requires a perfectly smooth manual extension of the lens, something that I couldn’t manage to perfect, resulting in some zooms in the video looking uneven and unprofessional. 

Adobe Premiere Pro

This software was ideal during the post-production process as it was logical and accurate with cuts, transitions and video corrections software, such as colour, lighting and rotation. It was easy to cut to the beat of the song when things were running smoothly as the audio track allowed me to view the frequency of the song and judge confidently where the edits should be. 

The main issue we ran into during post-production was that the tool Warp Stabiliser, used to stabilise shaky footage, was missing from the program, resulting in us having to resort to importing the clips into Adobe After Effects and stabilising it there. This led to complications during our re-edit as some of the clips that had been put through After Effects vanished or stopped working, meaning that we were unable to tighten up a few minor sections of the video.

Adobe Photoshop

This was my first time using photoshop and at first, I found it tricky to get the hang of. I used it for my digipak and magazine cover. My design for the digipak required me to use an Intuos Wacom tablet in order to effectively draw in the black and white block design of the final product. Once I started using photoshop in conjunction with the tablet it became easier and I enjoyed being able to work in layers. 

The lasso tool, magic wand tool and paint bucket tool made the blotting out much quicker and smoother, meaning that I was able to finish the panels for my digipak in two days. The style was to mimic somewhat the style of the original album cover while incorporating a Banksy-inspired graffiti style to appeal to my youth audience. I also utilised the blur tool and added a yellow and red tint to some of my panels to convey a 70s style to the photography. 

Youtube and Facebook

After all the editing and exporting was complete, our final music video for Lola was uploaded to YouTube, where it currently stands at 666 views. YouTube is the most convenient and effective way of publishing video content as it is the leader in the online video market and has almost zero competitive alternatives. It was the best way to get our video online in an easy-to-share format, such as through Facebook. Meg shared Lola through her Facebook account and received lots of positive feedback, encouraging us that the purpose of our video (to show the struggle a person goes through in discovering their gender identity) was conveyed. 

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Online Problems

It’s tough when you have an entity, or an element, where it’s supposed to make your life enjoyable. Proper use is essential to literally control the amount of time you’re gonna spend on it. When I dealt with StarCraft 2, I knew that I was going to have forms of problems, because someone told me that it’s a two year commitment with literally ten thousand hours. I got over the hump, but am saying that now I have no weakness, it’s gotten to be a yoyo, and it’s really play for fun. But the thing with this computer game is that everyone @ battlel.net is trying to knock you over to the loss column. Am saying this as the entity and/or the element computer, because you can’t be blind that this has wreak havoc. There’s really no blaming, because it’s pointless to do so, it’s stupid, and that’s because it’s a market behaviour, no one can go in front of Apple in a busy mall, and say heinous stuff about it. I double checked the validity of this news with a civil war in Facebook, and am talking about internal affair of a civil war. And apparently the founder Mark Zuckerberg has social problems, and the whole company is afraid that he’ll take his matters to Congress. There’s a civil war because Facebook apparently is destroying global community. When I log in into my profile each morning, I really just focus two to three people, sometimes I may have an idea what each person is planning if I see the green, active light on Chat. I don’t know if it’s my business mind, or a lifestyle thing where I just focus on two to three people. I don’t know why, probably because it’s easier than two hundred. I just feel that Facebook is dangerous once it is abused.  It’s just that if you have to have one thousand friends, and five hundred likes on a single post, that to me is a problem. I understand it’s a fine line of judgement, maybe you do really love your friends, and that you have to have some connection on a daily basis. It’s just that if you have to have so much attention... That’s a problem. Because there’s competition here, it’s who has the best stuff from job title to material, “Who’s the hottest?” Obviously we all know that, that’s stupid, and that we all know we should walk away from it. It’s destructive.  Again, when phones were being made, it should’ve stopped at some version, because now it’s being changed into a clothing line, am saying that the flip, the innovation, and release is basically good as a Walmart product. Again you can’t cry to Apple, you can’t go to the mall and yell, “Treason!” Am never gonna solve this problem, because there’s addiction involved, there’s a health problem involved. And I think it’s only proper that Facebook has to have this civil war, let the engineers kill each other with their rulers and calculators. It’s a serious problem, I go to YouTube for hip hop music, and I see some hits/views on this site that’s over one billion. I also have an idea that other things need to be done that’s more important financially, but business can be remodelled where this become the main source of finance. I will follow the civil war. I don’t entirely research what others are going through with social media. I just kinda’ hear hindsight that it’s damaging. I write this because I did give up on society, I knew it was gonna be a problem in terms of people stuck on texting, I find it inhumane to prefer the iPhone than me in a dialogue or conversation. Deep down I know that this can’t be reverse, this is a situation where it’s cancer, I really think it’s good as dead: Stage 4. The reports of this civil war is that it’s destroying society. My only problem is that Mark Zuckerberg will go to Congress to fight for what he wants, and obviously his large sum of money. Am using WordPerfect now, and I upload this using tumblr, am not gonna promote both softwares. Am just disappointed, I wanted this thing where it could add value to individuals, but I didn’t know that it would turn out destructive. The flip became sad instantaneously, because when we have to see something, you have to depend on YouTube, or the search engine. Last night I figured out how to plumb my clogged sink, but the housing here in Solmar has two contractors ready to be submitted with house problems. And that walk of life no longer exists, am glad that I worked it with my own two hands, but that hi-hello type of dialogue is amiss, because I see some of these guys here in this small town, and we could kid around women we may encounter, but it’s a subtitle of YouTube. I could see the modern way, because outside I see the pick up trucks, and that garage doors are open, and that there’s potential activity.  Because it has a system.  Parking tickets were being issued, because that “online” registration for eighteen days maximum for a year is over. Am thinking is there another way? It would be great character not to upload this. Because I don’t like it anymore, that term Civil War alone is not comfortable. Because if Facebook should shut down then where’s the balance of what’s good, and what’s bad? But if you’ve stayed healthy then no harm. I learned that media is a tool, when I did photography my mom suggested right away to have them printed at the photo lab in Walmart, and I adhered and everything, but am like, “Facebook is easier and accessible.” It’s tough because we work hard for our photography. It’s tough when your material is not at the store. Obviously you go about your own discretion, am okay uploading my writing material, at least thus far, I’ve been doing this a long time, and it never bothered me to freely just share it. It’s tough when you’re not potentially being incomed. I understand that I can’t under estimate it, I’ve seen situations when it could’ve been over a million dollars just posting photos on Facebook. I can’t under estimate it, it’d be stupid to say that Facebook is useless, and pointless. It’s just the physical copy.  It’s different when you get it from a store. Obviously it’s digital versus physical.  When all that mp3 file came available, I went about it.  But out of artist support, I’ve gone to HMV and SunRise to buy physical copies. With pictures, I have three cameras, but eventually I went about getting a Van Gogh calendar.  And I went to an art gallery numerous times in Milton, Ontario. I know my work, I love seeing photography from other people. With blu-ray and dvd, I went about that production. What am saying is that, because I have enough albums on my profile. Am saying that I went to Erindale Park and took a picture of the grass and trees. Cool? Again, if a YouTube clip gets over one billion views. I’ll skim through my albums again, I just feel that it’s destroying the front page News Feed, because it’s becoming a waste. I really say it’s tough, because you can publish something by Ayyy, Beee, Ceee. It’s tough because you’re not going to be respected.  And I see that with myself, I know that eventually adriancudal dies. It’s different when you’re published by a book company.  I have here PUBLICAFFAIRS.  I have TOUCHSTONE.  I have Microsoft Press.  I have WILEY. No one’s God in this world, I just feel that growing up there was so much criticisms even for people who made it at the top.  I see this with Donald Trump, Donald Trump is the number one guy now in the world, and people still criticize him. The lack of understanding, the lack of knowledge.  Because we don’t really know his position.  We don’t know how he made it there. And say you make fun of Donald Trump, it’s really far fetch. But what happened with social media was make this commentary true to all kinds of nature, and the sad thing is that viewers believe it by being influenced. Let’s say gun violence is on the rise, what can you do personally to slow it down?  Because it’s easy to tweet and say all kinds of it. Ann Coulter I saw the other day tweet that the wall Trump promised hasn’t had a mile built on the border. It’s like you put down a situation when there’s no concrete evidence over statements.  You put it down, and then more people share the same idea, and ultimately Congress could have the same idea, and this happened literally wit John Mcain, I just feel that he had to vote, and he even promised, for the new health care, and he was the last one to make it a success, and he declined. And that Trump momentum was slowed down, and the thing is Trump’s spending a lot of his money on it. It’s weird, we have a great potential of turning things “Making America Great Again”, but it’s like, “America Stays the Same.” Everyone knows the financial problem. Maybe Trump has to say more of the problem, explain it...  But then at the same time the oval office is saying that jobs are up. There could be computer problems, but then in two months have them all smoothened up.