Back to a Crawl

It's been over 4 months already since my last progress report on my usual video game posts, and for a good reason for a change. For those of you who haven't heard, I've got myself 2 jobs in the past month. So... there really isn't much of a progress to report, honestly. More-so, I'm reporting my lack of progress if anything, which sort of disappoints myself in my lack of ability to manage time as well as I'd like to squeeze in more activities. Regardless, here are some of the things that I HAVE been doing.

How U Mine 4 Fish?

A few days ago, Vicki dragged me to a carnival when I was still tired from work, and had work the next morning as well. You already know how THAT is. But what's more, I found out that she is awfully loose with her money if she knows she has money. That rule also extends to money that isn't her's as well. Why? Because her friend Jamie wanted to play one of the carnival games where you try to throw table tennis balls into jars to win a goldfish, and despite my objections to winning a goldfish that I would have to get a tank, air pump, and filter for to take care of properly, she had me give her a dollar, a grown woman who's older than me and has had a job (albeit a low paying one) for a very long time, just because I would be the one keeping (and ultimately stuck with the responsibilities of) the fish. Well, guess what? I won a fish.

Filling in Schedule Gaps

So I don't understand what it is with most work places requiring at least SOME sort of job experience. I had just recently gotten my job at Benton Express through Infiniti Employment Agency here in Orlando, Florida, but I got another call from Halloween City that I applied at in-store, as they were opening, around the same time I applied at Infiniti. They had me come in for a job interview since they were going to hire more people after having hired their initial few people, and having told them that I have been working at Benton Express for a month, I managed to get myself a job at Halloween City as well, albeit it's still a temporary job.

Dark Summoner A Rank+ Monster Giveaway 1

I have here a couple of A+ Ranked monsters, and a few A Ranks that I'd like to give away. If any of these interests you, just leave a comment with your Player ID and what you're interested in, and I will send you it to you as a gift while supplies last.

Poll - Video Game Elements

It's the middle of October, so here's another poll result. This time being about what elements of video games are deemed the most important.

Which is the most important element in a video game?
Fun Gameplay - 4 votes
Immersive Story - 4 votes
Likeable Protagonist - 1 vote
High Replay Value - 1 vote
Pretty/Realistic Graphics - 0 votes
Proper, Mood-Setting Music - 0 votes
Satisfying Sounds - 0 votes
Lengthy/Long-lasting - 0 votes
Good (Online) Multiplayer - 0 votes
Other - 0 votes

Having a job: A Blessing or a Curse?

It's been about a month since I've started working at Benton Express for Infiniti, and learned quite a lot about myself. I'm definitely hard working, take pride in the quality of work I do, and a good team supporter. It just seems to be the kind of worker I am. However, I have also experienced my limits at a warehousing job at a Ross warehouse, albeit I was horribly unprepared. 

The day before working at the Ross warehouse, I was doing a more strength-based work at Benton, unloading all the boxes from the truck trailer. It is much more physically demanding than the other positions at Benton, and I was feeling a bit sore after that. After I got home, I wanted to rest, but Vicki dragged me out to her usual volunteering at PetSmart, then to a birthday party immediately after. That's pretty much my entire day outside of home, keeping me from doing my daily routines as well as from blogging like I am now. This kind of thing happens nearly every weekend now, which is why my posts have been intermittent lately. 

Amazon App Store

For those of you that uses Android phones, you might want to consider getting the Amazon Appstore App. Amazon Appstore provides an app a day that normally costs money for free.

This will definitely help me check out and review some of the pay apps that are available. It'd be nice if I can do some express reviews so that I can release them while the app is still available for free on Amazon Appstore, but given how my schedule seems too full for me to even make my usual updates on the blog, I don't think it'll happen very often. I'll see what I can do though, for ones that I highly recommend.

Deity Wars - Kujata Leveling

Deity Wars has a good deal of focus on leveling up cards to become successful. However, the resources required in leveling up can be precious at times, so you want to maximize efficiency during Fusion to ensure you reach the max level as desired, with as few gold and Kujata used for them. So I decided to do some research on leveling with Kujata, and share what I've found here.

Deity Wars - Gallery 4: Earth N Rank

Here are some of the cards from Deity Wars; this time of N Rank, Earth cards. Missing cards will be added to this gallery as I get them.

Deity Wars - Gallery 3: Hell N Rank

Here's the next gallery with some of Deity Wars' cards. This time, it's for N Ranked, Hell cards. Again, I believe there are some cards that I may be missing in this category at this time, due to unreleased cards that are reserved for release during events. In the event I come across those cards, I will update the gallery to include them as well.

20k Page Views!

Whoa, that was super quick. It doesn't feel like it's been that long since the site hit 10k page views, which shows how much the site has grown since then. I was planning on getting some artwork for 20k page views, since I saw it coming up, but I certainly didn't make it on time. XD In fact, I was worried about my post count dropping in September due to me having a job now, and a lot of my posts ended up getting delayed until today.

I really don't have much to offer to show my thanks at the moment due to my artist friends being busy lately, but also since I hadn't been able to work on many images as well. I DO have some pictures of Firion however, so enjoy some of the cute positions I've found him in. After all, he DOES want more attention.

As always, thank you for your support, whether if you come here often or just visiting!

Poll - Smartphone Games

It's the start of October, so here's another poll result! A topic that I've been talking about a lot recently.

How do you feel about games on smartphones and other mobile devices?
I like them. - 2 votes
It's cheap entertainment. - 2 votes
Convenient entertainment. - 2 votes
Annoying when they try to include social aspects poorly. - 1 vote
Can be as fun as handheld games. - 1 vote
No opinion (yet) - 1 vote
They're unnecessary/dumb. - 0 votes
No commitment required. - 0 votes
Too casual. - 0 votes

6 voters total

Android 4.1 - Jelly Bean

A few days ago, my smartphone asked me if I wanted to update my Android OS from 4.0, AKA Ice Cream Sandwich, to 4.1 or Jelly Bean. My main concerns with upgrading is always the compatibility issues with software that I use, but I knew that Jelly Bean has been in development for a while already. Being that I was just asked to upgrade by my phone, I assumed that all major compatibility issues has been already ironed out, and offers better benefits for my Galaxy Nexus by upgrading. So I got it to check out what's new.