A queen soaring to new heights (How do you like that Barry! Re-using a title from before! Oh wait...I'm Barry...)

I was on hotmail news today A.K.A. msn news (which will soon be no longer when MSN retires next year, you all know that right? Unless they merge the news section into Skype which is what I predict) after signing into my business email accounts (as Microhard threatens they may be deleted if I dont keep signing in and I really don't want to give them an excuse! So I sign in to my less used email addresses once a month or so, as oppose to my personal one which I am signed in permanently (also a good preventive measure against spyware and keyloggers and hackers etc :P). I took a look at some news and they had one about a reptilian ali- I mean women sometimes dubbed "Queen of England" (apparently she won strictly come dancing or something...) who has made history by being the first ali- er Monarch, I think it was, to sit in on a Cabinet meeting. If you go to MSN you can see the image of her sandwiched between William Hagues unnaturally shiny head and David Cameron's unnaturally shiny ego. But what I found just as interesting was when I clicked to another picture on the slide show, apparently she was the first Monarch (and one of the first people overall surely) to send an email back in 1976, when she visited an Army base as you can see for yourself if you look at the picture to check I'm not making it up. Well I could of doctored the text easily in Paint...oh I don't help myself do I but navigate to the URL and you will see I am telling you the truth...but that doesn't finish it though does it? No. We want to know what the email she sent was do we not? Well I paid some politici- er... I had tea with David Cameron this morning......and coincidentally today I received in my inbox, a copy of her email. (Under the picture)  

A early email sent in 1976 from Queen Elizabeth's visit to an army base and the first Monarch to send an email-

To: Charles Philip Arthur George (He obviously never heard of Surnames!)

" Charles get your arse here now! Camilla's trying to poison me with her cooking again and Philips trying to extract his foot from someone's mouth. How he got it there one does not like to think about but one can only imagine one must of had a mouth as equally as big as ones foot. Well Philip does like to put his foot in it. Now stop stroking your plants and get over here! I don't know how much more I can stand of Camilla's "All you can eat buffet...with a hunger surprise!"

P.S. Your shirt is undone.

P.S.P.S. You are like the son I never had. What I mean is...I wish you were the son I never had!

P.S.P.S.P.S. I'm sorry I never meant it! Sorry..the stress of doing nothing is really taking it's toll on me...so much work. I need a break. Tax payer funded holiday in Greece? See you there right? I'll get the Corgi's quarantined."
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Well..that was insightful...and rude! Cor!.... Any how thanks for reading.. Stay tuned for more random stuff. (One must wonder...how would Charles receive the email without a computer? How would he of seen the email without an email account as he couldn't of had one as she was the first Monarch to send an email..unless Charles had an email account and just never used it to send emails before.) Why am I still writing so seriously as if this is all true when you all know I made that email up (the content, the story is true) ? All will never be revealed in next weeks episode.

Next Week: Read Prince Charles's angry response in full!

Extract;

"Dear mother.... I never realised you would sound so boring in an email! But you did write it after all! I would come home but my Daisies are currently procreating and I must not miss this exciting chapter in the facts of life. I nearly found out what it was all about last week when Coronation street came on but it ended before the exciting stuff happened. Someone keeps telling me flowers breed differently to humans but I'm not fooling for that! They don't call me Charles Xavier for nothing! I've got my biggest magnifying glass out so I don't miss a thing! (And neither will you miss a thing I said with the amount of exclamation marks I've been using!) ..." (Full email coming next week)


If you want to read up more about M.R. Stroke my chrysanthemum's and butter my crumpets while I secretly play Xbox 360 with Alan Sugar at the back of his board room, please check out the Wikipedia link which shall surely back up everything I said as it is such a reliable source. Now enough humour for today. Have a nice day :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales


Please note, no offence is meant with any jokes and whether it seems it or not care is taken to not offend.

If you would like to complain, please email me or write to Gordon Brown's complaint center, who has been dealing with my complaints since his exile in 2010.

Beyblade-soaring to new heights

Well I want to thank everyone who has watched my videos first of all. When I made my Transformers Prime Intro video, it was my highest video ever by views! It soared from 100-200-300..etc.. you have all been so great, thank you! Before long it exceeded 300 which is really amazing...but then suddenly something happened. My video game review of Beyblade V-force that I had uploaded a month before this video, suddenly received a surge in views! It's really strange. I added no new tags or anything as far as I can remember, I guess a lot of people have been searching for Beyblade and it shows it is really popular. So thankyou, here is the link-

http://youtu.be/GlDrr7nDW8k

My Transformers video is resting on 380 views now, which is brilliant and my Beyblade video from my video game review series (I am currently working on a new series!) has settled on 502! At first it was a gradual difference but as you can see by those two figures...my Beyblade video went from having less views than Transformers to gaining a sudden surge and closing a gap slightly then to closing the gap dramatically then suddenly overtaking dramatically! Any amount of views is great and I am pleased all my videos have had views, I found it really interesting though this mystery of a surge of views I still can't work out myself. 

Well the last video I uploaded was a day or two ago, a Christmas video for my online shop (www.our-realm.co.uk) with loads of competitions and fun and games, and I plan to have some more uploaded soon. Please checkout my channel: BarryVP12 if you want and you can let me know how my views are doing as well! :) Do you want to share your Youtube channel? Please comment below.

Thank you for reading.

Barry

I was annoyed to read in the Daily Mail today that the Election T.V. debates are "unlikely to be repeated" according to the Daily Mail, (so most certainly will return that actually means) I liked them to be honest.. According to the Daily Mail though, David Cameron said;

"My reflection on last time was that they did suck all the life out of the campaign",

Top Psychologist Barry Stuart translates into English....

"I really got my arse kicked last year. That was so embarrassing I never got the hang of the whole thing... even Gordon got more points than me.. I am never doing that again. Not even if you give me more botox for my birthday."

(It is currently unconfirmed whether the last sentence was made up by Barry or not, as it does fit his style. Then again he is writing this whole thing..so we may never know the truth.. What a cover up.... How dare you says Barry, now talking to himself. I never worked for the BBC...)

Now why do Tesco stock Cliff Richard's 2012 Calendar but not Avril Lavigne's? Donny Osmond also yields no Calendar results. I bet that isn't even Cliff's chest he keeps showing off, his head looks like it was photoshopped on does it not? No-one has seen Cliff for years in public after all, he and Gordon Brown emigrated to France shortly after the 2010 general election with Gordons family following behind. And before you say, "I bet you are some jealous 70 year old", I am 20 years old (not that it matters) and happy with my chest. I regularly smother baby oil along with assorted vegetables onto my stomach and then re-use them for that days dinner. But why the fascination with Cliff? Do people really buy his Calendar to stare at his chest once a month and wish they had the same? It's been ages since I've heard him sing, I was actually shocked when somebody told me if you listen to the Eastenders theme tune carefully you can hear Cliff (Or Harry webber as he is known in fan-fiction circles..or was it Reg Dwight?) wailing along to the music, that's how long it's been since I heard his voice.

But anyway. You all are wondering what the purpose of this post was and as soon as I figure it out I will let you know, right after Cliff figures out his real name and why he denied my request to cover Mistletoe and Wine at Prince Harry and Kate's wedding. I mean Prince Harry and William. I mean Prince Kate and William. Princess Kate and Prince William I mean. Do I? But we all know the real purpose. Yes it's that time of year again where I must climb out of the cupboard and plug my latest Calendar (sound familiar) so I don't have to draw out my pension. Oh sorry. I found a interview with Cliff Richard and started reading out his confession. But I do have a new calendar out. It is called Eevee and Barry-Time well spent. Available at all good bookshops. So yes. It's unfortunately not available in Britain......

Suddenly there was a blinding flash of light completely unrelated to what I'm talking about so we will now move on and forget about it. Or should it be forget about it and move on? Well don't ask Nick Griffin. He doesn't know much about either.

(Remember, this blog is sometimes spoof sometimes serious, today is spoof and my jokes aren't necessarily aimed at beliefs, sometimes they may be but quite often the joke isn't something I really think is true.)

So how has everyone been recently? Been a lot more scandal recently and for once not Rupert Murdoch's doing

I met Rupert Murdoch in a pub once. I was talking to him about scandal, here is how events unfolded.

Rupert: Look don't talk to me about scandal "Bazza", "BarryVP" "BarryVP12" or "Barry" whatever you call yourself today, you've done your fair share of scandals.

Barry: (cough news of the world cough) I have nothing more to say except thanks for reading out my old nickname, reading out my new nickname, plugging my Youtube channel name, and stating my first name. Good to do business with you.

Rupert: I hear you go under the name M.R. X on one website?

Barry: Well....that's a time traveler version of me..long story..but basically..you know John Titor? I wanted to reviv-

At that moment the pub doors burst open and William Hague came bounding in. His almost bald head gleaming with sunlight which was an incredible feat considering the pub windows were bordered up, light saber in one hand, conservative manifesto in the other, torn, chewed around the edges and missing a few pages, but enough about William Hague, now for the manifesto. Empty as you would expect.

(rest coming later, just eating dinner :P)

William Hague took one long sweep around the room, tongue wagging like a dogs tail as if it had just discovered the nicest treat ever, his big bold eyes searching for someone before eventually settling on a figure in the corner that had now stood up. In one swift movement Tony Blair wielded his sword and  charged at William who side stepped at the last possible second. Tony lunged again which William countered with his knee, something no other human could do, deflecting sword with flesh and bone. Tony tried to strike again and shouted he would try for 10 years if he had to but William replied saying you'll never last 10 years. No-one would put up with you for that long... (for some reason at that moment I coughed again....) Then the doors burst open which was another amazing feat when taking into account that no-one closed them from the first time around. A wild, dangerous creature entered the room. A new enemy had been spotted and William knew he had to work with Tony in order to take down this foe. "Brown" it kept shouting as if it was a Pokemon.

Tony: I'll take care of him, leave it to me.

William: No. Fall back Blair, he is way too powerful!

Tony (ignoring the stolen quote from Transformers Prime along with the reference of teaming up to defeat an enemy even though Hasbro can not claim credit for that, as much as they would like to along with the words "Transformers" and "Prime", Take note Asus) charged at William to prove who was really fit to lead but before his sword could strike at William along with what remained of his dignity (seeing as for reasons beyond me or anyone else present even William, he was suddenly completely naked) the mysterious creature appeared in front of Tony. Feet wide apart much like his stance on many other things. Did that make sense? Ask John Prescott he must be making an appearance soon surely. He walked up to Tony with obvious determination although what he wanted at this point was unknown and William Hague was too busy finding his clothes to really care. After taking one last look around the room he suddenly stared straight at Tony and after a few minutes of waiting, bellowed;

"When is it going to be my turn?"

There was a tremendous roar of laughter, from the left, from the right, from everywhere, this sort of laughter was unseen coming from different directions.

(To gain a full understanding of the humour of this video, as each person will read it different and you can't hear me saying it, although I could record me doing so, you need to imagine it being read by William Hague, also on a particular Youtube video where he mentions Gordon Brown and Tony Blair bidding to become president of Europe, which was a bit of inspiration for my thoughts)

THIS is going to be juicyyyyyyyy!

Says Knockout as he watches Starscream swivel his body. He had always admired the sleak curves and smoothness of Starscreams exterior. Always admired the cunning intellect in that brain of his. Always loved the cowardly and yet sometimes brave nature of Starscream. But what he felt right now could only be explained as "Juicy."

Knockout: STARSCREAM! Wake up!

Starscream sat up immediately looking around anxiously before realising Knockout was standing right before him, his mad eyes frantic with the reflection of some evil scheme.

Knockout: I have something naughty to do! How about you and me get up and do some disco while Megs is sleeping we can even sneak Optimus aboard!

Starscream: Hmmm... alright. I have been itching to try out those new moves Miranda Hart taught me that involve spinning on your breasts for 60 seconds in each cycle.

Knockout: Errr.. Yeah.. er..

Some time later......


Optimus: I heard you called me..

Starscream: Yes we wanted to know (removing his head from between Knockout's legs) if you were up (extracting his left leg from Knockouts mouth) for some (removing his right leg from Megatrons sleeping mouth) dancing.

Optimus: Dancing?

Knockout: Yes. Something Juicy.

Optimus: Juicy?

Knockout: Juicyyyyy.

Optimus: Juicy?

Knockout: Juicyyyy.

Optimus: I don't understand.

Knockout: Juicy

Optimus: Juicy?

Knockout: Juicy.

Optimus: What is Juicy?

Knockout: Juicy.

Starscream: I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

Knockout bows forward

Knockout: ALL HAIL STARSCREAMS JUICINESS

Optimus: By the Allspark....

Starscream: I STILL CAN'T HEAR YOU

(The knockout and Starscream exchange carries on for over an hour)

.......

Optimus: Would you two listen to yourselves! You sound like children.

Starscreams removes his left hand from Knockouts mouth and finishes of one more pirouette before resting both of his hands on his hips and then sliding his hips from side to side a few times with Knockout clapping at the end of each cycle, nodding his head like he had just witnessed an amazing feat, before Starscream became motionless and once again resembled a stern mother who somebody had done something to upset although Optimus could not help but noticed Starscreams body wiggled ever so slightly every few seconds and Starscream could not help but notice Optimus noticed as he muttered something rude every time he noticed.

Starscream lifts one hand up and waves about enthusiastically.

Starscream: Well listen here girlfriend (sliding his body from one side to another again as he spoke) aren't you one to talk. (sliding his body back to it's original position as he finished his sentence)

Optimus: I don't know what you are referring to.. What did I do?

Starscream: Oh don't play dumb with me you moron I kn-

Knockout: Err sorry to interject my liege but he would not need to play dumb if he is a moron? Am I correct?

Starscream!: Don't interrupt Ian Hislop! And no you are not correct you are Knockout, now as I was-

Knockout: Oh I know I'm a Knockout! Just as well these babies were verrryyy expensive.

Optimus: Ahhh.. I told you not to get those implants!

Knockout: 50% discount. What could I do? (shrugs) By the way Starscream, why did your name have an exclamation mark by it before?

Starscream: That's not important Mushroom grower! Now stop interrupting me Pipsqueak!

Knockout: ..Calling me two different names in the same speech. Now that is either bad continuity or a  Knockout.

Starscream: As I was saying....No Ratchet I only take autographs on weekends..sorry. (Ratchet backs away slowly a sad look appearing on his face which turned to fear as he backed into Megatron's body which was sleeping but immediately sprung up clutching both Ratchet's arms with his own and lunging his head round to Ratchet's with a grin and shouting, "HERE'S JOHNNY!!!!") As I was saying you are one to talk Optimus. I have seen your 18 rated videos. Your cam girl videos. You ought to be shamed of your self!

Optimus: While I will never claim to be perfect I think you are a strange one to be judging. Sure we can learn from everyone and not only saints can judge but this advice is hard to swallow from someone who has suddenly planted their head in my mouth and makes a strange squeaking sound as I close my mouth after each word.

Starscream: Ahh Yes.. I will extract myself now.

Megatron still resting on the bed clutching the frozen with fear Ratchet from behind

Megatron: HERE'S JOHNNY!

Ratchet: Someone help me please!

Knockout: This is going to be juicyyyyy.

Starscream: ONE MORE TIME!

Knockout: This is going to be juicyyyy.

Optimus: No he meant the "All hail Starscream" not the endless exchange of odd and some stolen from other media, phrases. Now look what you did.

Megatron: HERE'S JOHNNY!

Ratchet: Someone help me please

Optimus: If you can't beat them...join them. (Swivels his bottom in an anti-clockwise motion Megatron would be proud of if he could see past Ratchets enlarged bottom which Megatron liked to poke in the past)

Starscream: ONE MORE TIME!

Optimus: NO NO NO! (Swivels his bottom)

Knockout: I KNOW THIS IS GOING TO BE JUICY!

Optimus: No there is nothing "Juicy" about any of this."

Starscream: ONE MORE TIME!

Megatron: HERE'S JOHNNY!

Ratchet. SOMEONE please help me!

(Optimus continues his bottom dance)

Knockout: THIS IS GOING TO BE SO JUICY!

A short knock at the door to the lab room they are in on Nemesis before Dreadwing walks in.

Utter silence takes over everyone. Starscreams stops his hand in mid air having been about to command another "ONE MORE TIME." Optimus was halfway through his new dance routine, having stopped mid air the result being his bottom poking out unnaturally from behind him. Megatron's mouth frozen half open about to shout "HERE'S JOHNNY" for the millionth time while still clutching the frozen Ratchet who had at least managed to turn his head along with Megatron to watch as Dreadwing entered the room and surveyed the strange situation before him. What did Dreadwing think exactly as he saw the naked Optimus desperately trying to cover himself up, Megatron clutching  Ratchet in a mad way and Starscream and Knockout doing goodness knows what.

Starscream eventually managed to snap out of the trance from waiting to see what Dreadwing was making of it all and untangled his left breast from around Knockout's legs.

Starscream: We...er...we.. new...dance...routine.... Opti... OPTIMUS! IT WAS HIS FAULT!! (Starscream shouted frantically like he had just formulated some master plan and was desperate to seize it and put it to it's full potential and at the same time began to slither along the floor which everyone just ignored, while he still somehow found a way to speak) Look at me I'm a fishyy! Oh yeah.. IT WAS OPTIMUS! WE WERE ER.. PLOTTING TO TERMINATE HIM AND SUDDENLY OPTIMUS REARED HIS UNWANTED AND RUDE ARSE INTO VIEW AND STARTED SHAKING IT LIKE IT HAD SOME TRIBAL MEANING! AND THEN! AND THEN! AND THEN!

Knockout: And then?

Starscream: SHUTUP KNOCKOUT said Starscream, getting more louder and madder by the minute. AND THEN. AND THEN. AND THEN KNOCKOUT CAME ALONG AND STARTED ALL THIS... ALL THIS... "JUICY BUSINESS". IT WAS THEIR FAULT!

Dreadwing walked slowly towards Starscream who had now stopped slithering on the floor and had come to rest a few inches from Dreadwing's feet making it pointless for Dreadwing to need to "walk" to Starscream and thus giving the clue this was all written on the spur of the moment which has now meant the fourth wall has been broken, something Starscream was quite proud of.

Dreadwing: Look...I only came for some potato chips.. Heard you were having a party..... No biggie... Dreadwing grabs a plate of food and walks out wiggling his bottom every few steps as everyone stared after him.

The door closed.

...............1 minute passed.
2...
3....
4.......
5............
6....................
7..............................
8....................................
9.............................................
10...................................................
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52..........................

Nothing but silence still......

....1 hour....

3...hours..........................


Starscream: Well....

..

Knockout: THIS IS GOING TO BE JUICY!

The chaos starts all over again.

Starscream: ONE MORE TIME! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

Knockout: THIS IS GOING TO BE JUICY!

Megatron: (who was now making odd grunting sounds after each speech) HERE'S JOHNNY!

Ratchet: Help me!

Optimus: Do the groove dance! (Optimus now declares, having given a name to his new dance and performing it every time he mentioned it)

Knockout: THIS IS GOING TO BE JUICY!

Starscream: ONE MORE TIME!

Megatron: HERE'S JOHNNY!

Optimus: DO THE GROOVE DANCE!


And so it went on....for all eternity..

____________________________________________

By Barry. Just something I made up as I went along, referencing dancing from Transformers Prime episode- "Patch" as the main theme.


Nemesis= The name of the Deception warship this scene takes place on keeping in with the episode "Patch" which took place there in the same room.
Try to imagine in their voices, it makes it more fun and listen to a video for a reminder of what each character sounds like if you forget.

Here is a little something I randomly started typing on facebook and posted. I think I might upload to Youtube as well, make a little series out of it even or do competitions for best ones other people can come up with too. Enjoy :)

Here is one letter from my readers,

Dear Barry,

I have enjoyed your column for sometime and have finally braved sharing my problem with you. My problem is you are a moron who has his head up so high in the clouds it is no wonder you still think Margaret Thatcher is Prime minister. I wanted to ask you what I should do about my issues with you. I considered spamming your inbox but felt that a little unprofessional and childish so I thought I would ask for advice from you, if you can find the time to take yourself away from your philanthropy which probably involves feeding yourself chocolate under the pretence you are saving people from becoming overweight, even though a new study suggested chocolate can actually help you lose weight. I would like your assistance in how I can express my disgust for you in complete contrast to my earlier statement declaring how much I loved your column.

Yours Sincerely

John Prescott

Well John,

Let me start by saying I am glad you approached me via letter and not a hand flying 50 MPH before eventually settling on my face. I am glad you are capable of writing, no offence intended but I always saw you as a man of action, not a man of patience capable of waiting the small time it takes from pressing a key and the letter actually appearing on screen, I am impressed. In order to help you with your request please send a self addressed envelope to one of my fellow counsellors, his address is;

123 Irony Street
Contradiction Burrow
London

M.R. Tony Blair.

Or you could visit Tony Blair in person (His office is next door to Gordon Browns Money launderi- sorry Money Lending Centre)

So I hope that helps you with your query! Stay tuned for more letters folks!

My DVD collection. Hey everyone.

I was trying to upload some pictures to show a friend but it wouldn't work, so hopefully if I upload them on here and copy the URL it will work and then you can see them too :)

These are my DVDs in my dvd rack the bottom shelf is all videos (not shown) and the top shelf is DS games, and there are one or two videos next to some Dvds. For some reason the photos are tilted even though I don't remember taking them like that.. Well anyway, here's an insight into what I watch! :)

Don't forget to check out all new competitions and promotions. My WowHd one has been extended because no-one won it last time! Here's another chance! All you have to do is be the first to comment on my previous video and buy something from my shop, however little or much you want to any value (I have things under £2 even) and you get a free £5 voucher! Only the first person to comment, so if you seen no comments on my video, you can win- if your super quick!

Here is the link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yzlFfY71Q8

And if you fancy checking out other retailers and online shops please check out my recommended retailers page that is out of the way and not shoved in your face. No annoying ads or popups just genuine advice and guidance with real scores giving good and bad points of the mentioned retailers on the page so you know it's real honest advice :)

Side post. As I was still typing this an incident happened with our internet, it lost the connection which it's been doing for a while (which is partly why we're switching from Sky to Orange) And instead of doing the usual disconnecting and connecting I tried entrusting windows to fix the problems by running a diagnosis on the connecting because once it actually worked...and guess what! It did again! All hail Windows 7...it can actually fix problems (and not jut cause them) So really, windows 7 has always been my favourite but I had learned it was bundled with the usual glitches and bugs although less I thought but maybe that's because my Laptop is only a year old and some are yet to appear, but they really have gone the extra mile. So this may help you, if you lose your internet connection, perhaps even on another Windows if there is an option, try right clicking on your internet connection down the bottom right hand corner and see if windows can fix your problem. Let me know if you have found windows 7 to be the best of windows or have other windows gone the extra mile for you? Found a windows that comes with a working internet explore installed? Is such a thing possible? Our live correspondent Barry declines to answer.

Stay tuned though... So please comment on anything I wrote..or anything on your mind :)

                                                         SAMSUNG! RUNNING SCAMS?

I'm not one to believe the worst in people and companies are obviously made up of people, no matter policies and whatever you always get a different experience with different staff members and that certainly being true with Samsung. I love their products, which was why I trusted them when I bought a Samsung laptop which I loved and still did. There's nothing wrong with that side- I had no problems at all until a connector inside seemed to of got loose. Well easy you say! It's in warranty get it fixed! Except as much as it hurts me to say...there customer service (or the british Samsung twitter anyway, for some reason I can get hold of the US twitter but UK never responds...) is as bad as Sky's" Yep! That's some awful reward but deserved unless Samsung can suddenly make up for it. I immediately contacted Samsung via their website and filled in all correct details with proof of my purchase and at this time my Laptop was well within warranty. Obviously now it is technically out of warranty but they can't use that as an excuse because my claim was filed before as any british court will acknowledge. It really feels bad to be saying all this about Samsung a company who I have never had issues with before and never expected to. But when they ignore your emails for months with no apology when you chase them up about it...it makes you wonder what's going on.. We're used to bad customer service with companies but when you need a repair your entitled to it's really pathetic when you can't get hold of anyone to talk to like the elusive facebook. Say you have a business deal and a member of facebook team will ring you in a few days. Report an illegal activity or harassment and Facebook has a pre-prepared stupid form to fill in where you can't even explain the problem, how is this legal? I understand things can sometimes take time to chase up, a staff member on twitter said him/herself "A member of our team passed on your problem 4 weeks ago to supervisor" (You can see all my tweets @barryvp and may post some on here) and 4 weeks would probably of been fine...if it was 4 weeks! Before this I waited months only to find out nothing was being done about my claim so as much as I don't wont to believe it....do Samsung purposely drag things out so then they can pounce and say, "sorry, your laptop is out of warranty now"?, if so they surely wont be the only ones. So at this rate it's going to be past christmas before I ever here from them again...sorry IF I ever do. I never like "rushing" companies but when they get sloppy you have to, I filed my first Trading Standards report and have a few other leads that have generated great response from viewers who were curious to what Samsung were up to. I will keep you all updated and on another matter of bad customer service- Sky, where is our £50 cheque? If this carries on, I will demand compensation from Samsung as well, it's not easy keeping in touch with friends, running a business and so on, when your laptop goes of every 10 seconds or with the slightest touch! Well I have a little hope Samsung will wake up still, until then, Take care!

Heyy I'm back again. I've just uploaded a new youtube video for my online shop, www.our-realm.co.uk. Please check it out :)

Also, I've seen a lot of people having Paypal "Donate buttons" on their blogs, interesting idea...so I guess why not. If you like what you read or want to give something anyway, please feel free to donate. But please give thanks in any other way you want as well, nice comments are appreciated as much as anything and make me smile :) But also, as some of you know, I am into comedy and have wrote many scripts for my own sketch's,comedies, serious shows and more, if you want to give something to help fund, hiring halls, advertising, equipment etc then that is very generous too. The aim is also to eventually reach out to people through drama and acting and help them get involved with new things and explore ideas new to them, should be a fun trip! And if you can think of any other ways, like sending me fan mail :P or gifts or anything in the world, I always do really appreciate it. So as I say, give money, any amount if you want, or drop a comment below, your always welcome. Hopefully I'll find time to write a bit more frequently but anyway, how have you all been? Excited about the Wii U? Take care, wherever your from.

Barry Luke Stuart
Barry
Barry VP
Barry Stuart
King Barry 3rd (Fanfiction only)

I have also just updated some of my previous posts as well as correcting some mistakes and neatening up! Please have a re-read through my old posts if you want to see the changes, I added some more thoughts on one of my Anime posts as well.

Well it's been a while since my last blog and yes I haven't forgotten about part 3 of my story! I will get that done as well as all the videos I have still to do including my one on trading cards. I have been working on my shop (www.our-realm.co.uk) and doing some re-structuring as well, due to the limits of Google gadgets paypal button. So now I also make my own paypal buttons directly from paypal's website although the google ones look so much nicer...I'm trying to find a way of combining the two or customising the paypal ones to look better, my HTML skills aren't good at the moment.. I bough just under 2000 pokemon cards of Ebay recently for £20-£30! A great bargain. I split them into piles after sorting through them; some to keep for myself, some to sell on my shop, some to give to my Brother and Sister, and some to win as prizes in Pokemon match's. They were from a mixture of the original sets, base set, 2nd edition, fossil, jungle, gym and neo. There were even about 6 1st edition cards included! So that's what I've been up to recently, as well as becoming acquainted with a young Russian girl via email, it's always nice making penpals. Well the Olympics will be starting very shortly, this will be interesting, I hope you all have had a great day and year so far, I will try to blog a bit more frequently when I can. Please visit my shop to browse or buy or because curiosity got the better of you. The theme is a hobby shop, stocking Trading cards and other things in the future, as well as teddies and other cute and wonderful things hopefully, once profits pick up. It is also a place for me to sell my homemade T-shirt designs, or for you to request your own design. I will also sell T-shirts with no designs, if you just want a plain T-shirt to wear...or maybe to experiment with your own T-shirt designs. Well It's 12:44 and I need to do a lot of things before bed, bye for now.

Bazza.

Voices from the past #001

In a new section for my Blog, I've created a Voices from the past idea utilising googles search by date feature that i'd been using for finding recent news but also recently for fun searching old articles. So today I typed in "Sega E3" (as this years is on) to look for old Sega articles back when they had dreamcast out so I searched between 2000 and 2001 and found this interesting one which gives a good reminder and feel of how things were at the time taking you back roughly a decade when things were very different.

Here is the link and an extract below.
http://news.cnet.com/Sega-strikes-back-at-Sony-with-price-cuts/2100-1040_3-240428.html

Sega today announced a series of initiatives to promote its Dreamcast gaming console, striking back a day after rival Sony made waves with news about its PlayStation 2.
The competition between Sony and Sega heated up today at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in Los Angeles, with Sega announcing a variety of partnerships, an upgraded Web browser and a new discounted pricing plan, all designed to steal some of Sony's momentum with its PlayStation2.
Yesterday at E3, Sony announced initial pricing and the launch date of the U.S. version of the PlayStation 2.
Sega will discount the Dreamcast by $50, for a limited time, bringing the price of the Dreamcast down to $149, compared with $299 for the PlayStation2 when it launches in October.
"We have secured our base of hardcore gamers, and now with the $50 introductory offer and the free SegaNet subscription, Sega Dreamcast will reach a broader installed base of consumers and deliver networked gaming to the masses," said Chris Gilbers, vice president of sales at Sega, in a statement.
As part of its strategy of appealing to nongamers, the company said yesterday it is working with InnoMedia to allow Internet-based telephony over the Dreamcast console and last month unveiled a digital camera that works with the device.
Sega also said last month that it will offer a $200 coupon to customers who sign up for the SegaNet service, in a subsidy model similar to that of many PC makers who give away computers in exchange for long-term service contracts. Some analysts called the move risky but necessary, given Sega's relatively weak cash position compared with consumer electronics giant Sony.
Sega also announced a series of marketing promotions, including sponsorship of Ozzfest 2000, a summer concert tour featuring Ozzy Osbourne. The company also said it has upgraded the browser used in the Dreamcast to include support of more multimedia technology.
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Enjoy

A slightly surreal and slight exaggeration of our neighbours.

Enjoy :)


Neighbours from Hell


Bang Bang goes my window. Meow Meow goes Brenda. Some people are blessed with normal neighbours but not us. It's been going on for a while but escalated dramatically in recent years now with no sane explanation for their antics. If it's not Brenda swimming naked on our roof it's Alan hammering the final nail into his Time machine he has been building out in his shed he purchased a few years ago to conceal it, only thing is it's been "the final nail" for at least 3 years. You could almost survive a whole day without incident. Almost. One day I was having a sip from my 3rd cup of tea of the day, (to give an inclination of the time of day) when I heard howling. No the T.V. was not on and yes they do have a dog. But this wasn't the wild call of a dog nor of any animal or human I ever heard. It was the wild call of Alan. No-one knows what he wants. Not even his poor wife. I'm not sure why I say that and paint the image as her being the long suffering one, when I recall many occassions when I was reading at night trying to wind down and relax and suddenly I would here, " ALAN! GET YOUR ARSE HERE NOW!" in Brenda's extremely loud and authoritive tone that Optimus prime would be proud of. She can seem good natured despite her laugh sounding like a witch cackling and me half expecting her to rocket of on a broomstick. I wish she would. We all do. Well me and her sons or so they admitted through Facebook....
If you don't get woken up to the sound of "Dean" doing his Otter impressions, then it's one of the other boys handing out more expletives than any American cartoon sitcom. I like to compare them to Transformers relationship setups. I used to see Alan as Megatron but now see Brenda as the tyrant she really is, barking orders at everyone and punishing severely anyone who argues back. Should you be fooled by her "sweetness" it will cost you dearly. While Brenda is Megatron you would assume Alan to be Starscream. But I see no evidence that Alan is plotting to get rid of his wife who he adores greatly as I surprisingly discovered last Valentines day when I was woken up to "Uptown Girl" being blasted out of a giant stereo bigger than his ego, and Alan dancing on our roof and flinging his pants at anyone who walked by from his slingshot.
What do they hope to acheive? We have tried to fathom that for quite sometime. I myself have spent countless time in my study posing questions and answering them myself to try to gain a further understanding into their purpose in life and not only that but what species they are. One seems to be a werewolf and one a human. The others undecided/unconfirmed. In a new development it was revealed one has had a child with what we believe was a human which raises many questions as to if the child will be human and what species is this that can cross-breed with humans? Hmmm indeed.
Brenda onced promised to bring round mince pies for me and my girlfriend but accidentely sat on my girlfriend so that was the end of her. I used to like Brenda though, apart from getting rid of my girlfriend for me and setting me free she used to be a good cook. Up until she started trimming Alan's hair for her dumpling surprise recipe. And collected our Rabbits fur for her world famous chewy milk cookie pasta bake. We used to support her no matter what. Even when she came round our house when I had friends over and she picked up a spoon and desperately tried to flick cornflakes down my female guests tops, and when failing casually lifted their tops and bras up to force them there. We explained to my friends Brenda was under a lot of stress and she was acting out of character, despite her regularly appearing on the news for sneaking aboard planes to Africa to steal bananas to sell on to her husband.
Dean is a funny one. A failed mechanic born in Toronoto to a Japanese man named  "Yoshimitsu", he returned to Rush Green Road in 2004 to challenge Brenda for the title of man of the house. After he was defeated, Brenda enslaved him and stopped him from socialising with anyone who didn't possess a howling ability.
The "Other boys", as we call them, are called so because we know not of their names or where they came from and even when they arrived is shrouded in mystery. One weilds a light saber and the other a ego to rival his fathers. Both are dangerous and should not be approached. They seem to be mentally linked to Alan as he can summon them just by nodding his head.
Here is an extract from my diary when we went round their house for christmas dinner once.

"As Brenda slowly rose her head from her plate of mash potato and looked around the room for someone to intimidate, her mad eyes bulging and her face forever imprinted on her plate, I pulled a cracker with Dean and received a screw inside. "These are homemade crackers" said Dean. Apparently he and Alan spent all day gathering loose parts from their garage to use as gifts and got Brenda to dribble on the crackers to keep them sealed.  Chelsey was slowly removing peas from her Orange juice after Brenda insisted on dropping them in despite her protests."

The Olympics. A good idea but has been heavily politicised. While many go homeless, instead of investing in our individuals, promoting our community spirit (what David cameron is allegedly proud of) we spend loads on a ceremony most of us don't care about. Why don't we? I and many have nothing against it. I love running, sport, competition, diversity, teamwork..all things the Olympics are about. But do we need to "show of" to enjoy ourselves? No. And that is why I personally can not wait for the Olympics to end. Each year it got closer it became more obvious what the event was really going to be about. Of course it will still be good. There will be massive cheering, crows gathering, moments etched into peoples minds forever, and I wish I was closer to the action, to experience the thrill and excitement of it all. To hear and see the accomplishments and triumphs being made. But it is hard to enjoy it when it has been corrupted. And in more ways than you might think. I am self-employed but aren't allowed to make any product for my business that has trademark words like Olympics on it or show any of the 2 mascots, which are the best thing about the Olympics. I don't know why everyone hates them so much.. Their bright, colourful and fun. Surely all Olympic participants will be that. Yet it doesn't end there, apart from them cashing in heavily and stopping other business's from sharing profit (which is odd, as if I got to make T-shirts featuring Olympic mascots etc, I would pay more tax, more money for treasury and that's just from one business, from one 19 year old! Imagine big companies!), they are also trying to stop "free speech" They have published guidelines about how you use the word Olympic, incase somehow you put people of from visiting England and they don't get to cash in on their visit, yet people can make their own mind up about the Olympics. This is ridiculous. And I know most of us won't pay the slightest bit of attention to any of the rules that won't stand up in court. Yet if an Olympic official sees this blog they will probably pull me up on it fearing I encourage others to stand up. Well why not. You want us to be proud of who we are? Well I am proud to be me, speaker of truth and real justice. Which brings me to another point. On and on boring politicians go on about Capping imagration, because they only care about themselves. Yet when it comes to the Olympics, the doors are thrown wide open! We then expect the same people we chucked out, ignored, and barred, to come and pay for our Olympics so we can get back double the money we wasted on it. Bottom line, money doesn't buy happiness. I just wish we had real leaders who knew that. I hope that the Olympics get under way safely without incident and many people remember forever the joy of this once in a life time moment! But I do wish one day we would have a real Olympics. The ones from a long time ago... My Olympics.

I wish you all the best, participants, officials, watchers, tourists, travellers, whoever! Enjoy.
I will end by saying thankyou to those who have and are putting in hard work, whatever role you might have, to ensuring the safety and enjoyment of all those involved but I will not put a disclaimer up saying, "The views expressed here are all my own" like officials would like me to. That is common sense and obvious to anyone reading, whether Lex Luthor or a moron. Something many people lack or choose to hide these days....

Well I have been fairly busy with my business (www.our-realm.co.uk) and things. (I do remember I promised to write part 3 to David and Megatron at the seaside, it WILL get done, by the allspark :P)

But my video I posted about previously has had a development. Most companies have come back and re-instated their claims BUT 2 haven't! Yes I know! Really? One of them is WMG as seen in the email below. Wow, WMG have sense and listened to me. If you would like to read what I put in my defence to Youtube I can tell you. So that is something at least, some companies do have sense, and anyway, I'm promoting their material, raising awareness and so many other ways benefiting them, it's absurd. 

Also in other news, I have been busy being mischevious...but not as me this time, but under the guise of Starscream. Yes. I have created a twitter account for Screamer, (@Starscream2012) and also for fun been making spoof pictures, like taking a screenshot of a dating/friendship site called Oasis, and pasting it into paint. Then I used rubber to rub out text I didn't need, inserted my own, then downloaded and pasted some pictures and just like that Starscream is on a dating site :P Let me know what you think. Happy Summer everyone.

Have fun and stay safe. And don't forget to follow Starscream, or me, or touchofyouth, or my Avril fan account, I now have four Twitter accounts! Wow...too many to remember lol :)

Hey everyone. Just to let you know Starscream is on Twitter. I created my own Starscream, so follow @Starscream2012. Others have created their own as well and there are also other characters from Transformers and we had quite a good bit of fun today, as we all speak in character. And you should see this, apparently Paypal can be fun! I sent a message to paypal and they replied twice with a themed reply, and humorous response, I must of found the only friendly person at paypal! check out below.

Well hi everyone, I've just been working on my business and websites lately. Today we watched Transformers Dark of the moon on my Dvd, really good incase you haven't seen it yet, I recommend buying it even if you haven't seen the others or don't know much about Transformers, as it has good messages too that you will understand regardless of your knowledge. Time to get back to work! See you later.

Well the logic of Computers..or Movie maker..or Windows more to the point..is questionable. I made a video ages ago and don't normally have trouble with Movie maker but this time I did, maybe to do with the length or graphical clips (I don't know if because I had lots of music and C.G.I. clips from Transformers Prime, it uses more power, resources etc) but it took me about a week to work out a solution, as in today I suceeded at last, having feared having to do the whole video again. If you experience a similar problem I can try to help you if you let me know, I can explain in whole detail, but basically Movie maker insisted I had missing files or corrupted in my project, they weren't and this was proved by exiting movie maker and loading my project again and it would randomly "decide" which ones were corrupt but regardless, it would never save as movie. So I urge you if you ever get a message about missing files to do check that you haven't deleted files used in your project but if you have checked that do NOT start your project again, you might be having the same issue I had and for some reason movie maker gives this wrong message, maybe because it can't handle all the clips even though it never says but that seems to be the issue. Not mentioning all the failed techniques I tried, today I cut down my movie into 3 parts, and had to make sure music stayed in place while doing so, then clicked the "Save movie" button, where movie maker converts your project into a movie, and 2 out of the 3 clips saved fine after waiting the long time it takes to save movies, which I am now used to having been through the process countless times this week, and for the other one, I just exited and loaded that part again and it saved fine. If your wondering why 3 parts, well I tried 2 of course as it's easier but movie maker failed to save again with the same error message which I will find and put on here in a minute to help others hopefully, and so I then split into 3 parts...and well the rest is history. So then I uploaded all 3 parts to youtube (I know it might not make sense but I had a feeling it might work as all clips from transformers in my vid came from youtube, so I theorised if I put my vid on youtube and uploaded it, then downloaded it again, it would be managable for movie maker, wether in terms of compatiblity or something else..dont know, yes it doesnt make sense because obviously its got the same large (271 clips!) amount of data as before, but it worked..), and downloaded those parts and put the 3 parts into movie maker, to once again combine into one project.. And..it worked. Phew! So Please check out my video if you want, here is the link,

http://youtu.be/B-izauiMmM8

And here is the error code in Movie maker to be wary of- "Sorry, your movie can't be saved. Find any missing files or remove the unusable items from your project, and then try again. Error: 0x87160129"

Again, some will say its codec problems and such and it looked like that way for me and maybe this problem has more than one solution but it might just mean movie maker "cant" handle your project, as in, it can but decides it doesnt want to, so a neat trick can sometimes work and I hope I can save you the hours spent looking for a solution as I spent ages on google and loads of other sites, trying out different things. See you soon :)

Megatron has been busy. In all the excitement of fulfilling all of his committments, he forgot to write a April fools blog. But Megatron says he will right a decent blog someday.

Ok. Now Megatron has done his April fools joke, lets move onto serious and true issues. Eastenders has killed of Heather by having her killed with a Photo frame. What are you going on about? No it's not April fools, it's true. Go and watch it yourself if you don't believe me. You might learn something. About how repetitive and boring some T.V. is. WHAT! Barry you have taken your rudeness to a new level! You have always employed quiet tactics like giving snide comments but now you have openly declared war on Britan's best TV! Britains best T.V. I say? You mean Yes prime minister, now you can learn a LOT from that. I love blogging, making it all up as I go, and just letting it flow. I wish Eastenders Scripts were like that, there was a time when there were no second takes and you could improvise and if you go of track, actors had the skills to get back on track instead of waiting for someone to shout, "Take 2". Like I did now, I thought I had finished talking about Eastenders but it got brought back in and so I tied it all together with relevance and now I'm mentioning again further tieing it all up...or is it more breaking the fourth wall? Not that the internet has such walls, well in different ways and also in same ways. I heard there are plans for a fourth Transformers movie at last, although not to be released for a couple of years. Pokemon Black and white 2 has also made headlines. Yes, instead of a follow up as expected and has been traditional with Pokemon games (and even it's spinoff's at times such as Pokemon mystery dungeon; explorers of time/darkness followed by sky) but there now seems to be a "sequel" of a kind to both seperate games, how exactly this will work and what it means we will find out soon enough, with an obvious Japanese launch way before us, information should start to leak out but be careful of Youtube videos that are fake, ok it will be hard to tell sometimes at the beginning when no confirmed information is known. But if the games have Mewtwo on the front weilding a Light Saber with Vegeta stroking Nappa's bald head....you can be sure someone can not tell the different between dreams and reality...

WELL I CAN DREAM CAN'T I? A Pokemon and Dragonball Z crossover would be awesome... Although I'm not sure how Star wars fits in....more random rambling I presume..

Ok that is all for now. Time for dinner. Pikachu gives his condolenses.


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Be quiet Megatron... No-one was talking to you....

Well more updates have been underway on my shop in all kinds of ways, please let me know what you think for the ones that you can see. Also for video watchers, youtubers and game players and well anyone of course, I've started reviewing some video games on my youtube channel (Barryvp12, or go to my site www.wix.com/barryvp/ourworld and click on the link) starting with Gameboy advance games. Why not go and see and leave a comment below them if you want. That's all for now. Good day everyone,

Signing out. (well not really actually)

Bazza.

Well it's been a long time since my last blogpost. I've finally opened my online shop properly. Check it out @ www.our-realm.co.uk if you want. Obviously product range is very small at the moment but hopefully with sales and time I can grow it. I signed up to Tradedoubler.com a website that connects you with Companies that engage in affiliate programs through Tradedoublers. By placing links for a certain website you earn commission on a sale made through that link, sometimes the method varies slightly and naturally the amount of pay those between companies and nature of services and type of affiliate program. So I made a list of websites that I have shopped at and like as obviously I won't promote immoral, dangerous, unhealthy etc, companies. And customers know that I run a family friendly, ethical business and so anyone affiliated with me must stick to that. So never mind a company checking my website is up to standards, if they aren't I will end the affiliate progrma immediately, which is why I have also asked customers/visitors to report anything to me and the company concerned. So I applied for Tesco straightaway and got accepted which was great, a couple a week later I applied for declined but on the same day "HMV" accepted me so now I have 2 affiliates! And of course I won't plaster my site with adverts, there will be no more than 2 for each company/brand, usually only one and I will only have a limited number of affiliates. If I wanted to earn more money I could do more programs but money isn't my concern, yes it would be nice to make a nice living from my shop but I want a good, friendly business that people come back to me for that unique shopping experience that big companies can not give, if I can do that, I am successful even if bankrupt. More coming soon... Thankyou for reading!

Well yesterday was good for gaming. When my mum and others went out to Argos I asked if they could get some postage scales for me, (for my business, unfortunetly they sold out) and I noticed they had reduced some games and they managed to get Gran Turismo for me for PSP at £10 which I was happy to pay as I love games and I hadn't brought anything for myself for ages so had a fair bit of money,(they had some games under £10 even). It's a great game I recommend and just like the playstation 2 and playstation 3 versions but with wireless multiplayer and 36 tracks and over 800 cars! You start of with a nice yellow mini cooper and I've managed to buy a few other cars from my earnings which are nice but the mini cooper is still one of my favourites so far :) Happy gaming! And look out for Gran Turismo PSP.

That's all for now.

Barry.

Updates.

Breaking gaming news!

I recieved the latest email newsletter from Sony regarding Playstation 3 and PSP Vita and to cut to the news, basically Sony are doing a Nintendo and you will be able to connect your PSP Vita to PS3 Similar to how the Wii U control will connect to the Wii U but Sony's has the advantage of being an actual console and so more advanced in that you could play a 2-player game, you on your PSP Vita and someone on a PS3 and walk outside or anywhere hopefully and continue the game. So will this end the Wii U. Hopefully both will be successful!

 Now it seems she is reading out Pokemon cards in a funny voice, but I'm sure the last one she said was "Low level lotion spray."

Now I've heard my sister say many strange things. But why she said "Curly wee" I'll  never know. ..Yes strange things always seem to go on around here.

A new feature

Headlines you may never see, headlines you want to see, and headlines you never want to see.

Today's

Breaking Spoof News!

BBC 1 and ITV 1 have announced a merger! We know in these tough economic times, all kinds of alliances have been made, including Liberal democrats and Conservatives if you want but we never expected this. More soon.

Europe has collapsed! Details are yet to be announced but Europe has officialy collapsed with no funding or even willpower or desire from members to prop it back on it's feet. David cameron is spearheading urgent talks to start anew, as while many may of wished this none could surely of actually wanted it. All see the purpose of a Europe like force, even opponents like Iran and Afganistan. Now we have an oppurtunity to make a "new Europe" bolder and brave and invite more countries even outside of the "Eurozone." Perhaps Nations like Iran or China could even become a part of it..not one day..but today. As we do have the United nations but we all feel it's role has lessened slightly almost to the point of uselessness, promoting peace and making sure all nations comply yet China wasn't refused membership yet Forces some of it's people to have abortions (murder) their unborn children if they have too many children already. Although of course no-one would doubt the other important roles the UN has, like protecting children in war-torn areas, in conflicts and it's other charitable work. More soon. (That's more news on Europe, not more things The UN is good at, we finished those although we made out there were more.... ok maybe there are more. You know the drill. Email or comment please.)

                                                  Console Predictions


While Rumours of a Playstation 4 and a new Xbox have been surfacing and not surprising as we now know about the Wii U revealed at the last E3 earlier this year in I think June, I am not going to be spreading any rumours haha, but instead I've been thinking about what all of this means and maybe will make some predictions along the way...who knows.. lets start to find out.

Wii U

Nintendo have revealed their Wii U to be the successor to the Nintendo Wii (although in some ways to me it's more like Wii 1.5) so I'd imagine other companies will think about bringing out their own eighth generation console to compete. Although perhaps playstation 3 and Xbox 360 can hold their own against the Wii U? I'd actually imagine so. Their is still a big place for traditional gaming using controllers and the Wii isn't really a promoter of that. But I have heard and fear it may be slightly true that soon or even with the arrival of the Playstation 4, all games will be downloadable only so they won't be stored on physical discs. They did try this with the Psp Go, which didn't seem to do very well and I hope they learned their lesson. We want to buy games from shops! But nintendo as far as I am aware have no plans to scrap purchasing games in this way. Although all 3 main consoles have ways of downloading games, updates etc from their console and/or a shop of some kind which may suggest they are all preparing for the future and the next and final phase is to make all purchase of games done in this manner. Why do I think Nintendo will keep with physical media? I'm not sure really, just a feeling but have you noticed something? The Playstation 3 has smaller cases and consequently manuals than the Playstation 2 (although interestingly before that the playstation 1 had smaller cases than the PS2 so they actually got bigger before getting smaller, but perhaps that's because the playstation 1 was more around the time of CD's and their sized cases and the playstation 2 was of the DVD era and I might be wrong here but Ps2 discs were dvd related?) and I assume this was done by Sony to reduce packaging (under pressure from law, targets to meet etc perhaps) but also costs. Although Microsoft and Nintendo don't seem to be worrying about things like that.... (perhaps the PS3 cost Sony more than they let on...bankrupt Sony...now there's a thought you never thought you'd hear)
Sony's original PSP's of course used UMD's but they were a one of a kind never seen before type of media and also being for a portable console it's natural they would be slightly smaller and thinner although they are a nice size, thin but tall and room for a nice thick manual. (if you live in Europe the reason for the thickness is to accomadate about 300 different languages....now who says we ever discriminate?)

I fear, it may sound very silly but I really think the Wii U will either be a slight disaster or it will be...well not in the Guiness book of records for fastest selling console...but will do relatively well. Perhaps like the 3DS and I don't remember about the Wii but maybe true for that as well, it will take a while for people to actually take notice of it but once they do their sales gain momentum and the rest is history. As long as they don't make Sony's PS3 mistake which they made with the 3DS and sold their new hardware way too expensive. Sure you need to make profits but if no-one can afford it, especially if people are worse off these days, your not going to get any profits. Silly Nintendo. It all depends wether people want what Nintendo is giving, which is another great interactive console! But one that has unique innovative controls and I guess it depends on wether people are ready for that or want more of similar things as it probably will be quite like the Wii to play despite Nintendo wanting to grab "hardcore gamers", we know Nintendo has a reputation as a family friendly company and if I had the mobile number of the President of Nintendo I would tell him to stop trying to change their image...or they may end up with no reputation at all.

But for me, The Choice of Launch games and even perhaps their marketing although slightly less so, will determine the future and success not only of Wii U but of Nintendo itself. I will play all consoles, they all have a great uniqeness about them but I know many who are tied to certain consoles and even companies because of the images both of them have made for themselves or even others have made for them. (through the kinds of games they have which I was hinting about earlier and kind of developer support etc) But Nintendo seem in danger of ruining it all.... I read a statement from a Nintendo President, he might not be president any more but he basically said he realises Nintendo need to branch out to more hard core gamers. No! I said this before when Sony went out and brung out the Playstation Move and Xbox 360 gained the Kinect. (ok they adapted well, I'll give them that, they upgraded their systems to compete with the Wii instead of bringing out a new console and the Kinect and Move do look good but in terms of strategy it's a terrible move) By Nintendo trying to appeal to more gamers.... ok it may sound good..more money..more profits...but no! Nintendo made their image and i'm not sure if they can ever change that but even if they can they'll have to wait till the Wii U to do so. Nintendo are known as the family company and should stick with that, not just because it's a big market but because it's their uniqeness and says exactly what they do best. Halo on the wii? Mario on Playstation 3? Come on. I'm not saying both consoles aren't capable of keeping those games true...well no actually I am. Would we jump up and down in joy if we saw Mario in HD with beautiful, breathtaking, more real than reality water rippling beneath his feet? (and AGAIN, i'm not saying Wii isn't capable of great things, it is) Would we be enthusiastic if a Halo style game was on the Nintendo Wii. Yes and no I guess is my real answer and it's fine if Nintendo want to make some different games or have support from different developers but I am afraid they may do more than that...in a bad way. (Has anyone noticed the classic Dragonball Z setup which defines what I was saying? Dragonball Z games, beat 'em up style (with the exception of dragonball Z budokai Tenkaichi 1/2/3) always appear on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 BUT the adventure style games, like Dragonball: Revenge of King Piccolo and Battle card games like Dragonball Z: Goku Densetsu appear on The Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS) Because that is what they are best at! Play to your strengths and yes in time work on your weakness's if you want to but surely there's enough to be getting on with at the moment. As in the case with Dragonball Z games which are multi-platform we get to experience all kinds of games depending on the console it is on and so we can with all games. So on a similar note, while it seems Video game console developers are trying to give appeal to us with everything they can think of or we can think of, it might not be long until we are actually getting less choice and games even start to look identical, and the consoles that play them do as well and thus no uniqueness anywhere. I hope I am wrong.

Playstation 4

Well it seens a new playstation won't be coming any time soon (can you believe playstation 3 has been out for so many years?!) but you never know. Perhaps they are bluffing and have already finished many prototypes. Maybe they even have warehouses full of consoles all ready to be shipped, lined up like some elite army ready to take on the threat of the Wii U which is set to invade most countries in late 2012. Or perhaps Sony do have consoles ready or concrete plans for one ready but will not act until they see the damage or lack of damage Wii U does to their PS3. Which while may not be true it would make sense. Think about. If you made plans for a console but didn't actually make them, you've not paid anyone to make it yet but you have a design if you really need to and thus you can also adapt/modify that design as you see fit, even steal some ideas of Nintendo's new console if you fancy it.

Xbox 720.

Well at CES Microsoft were keen to say the future of xbox........is Xbox 360! They even had some oh so staged demonstrations of a young girl they roped in and probably didn't even pay, playing with Elmo and friends, showing how certain shows can come into your living room or you can even go into their world. Like you can throw things at Elmo.... Yes....Amazing technology..... No seriously, I'm sure it's fun for children or other people but I did think of a problem. Obviously shows would need to be specially made to be compatible with the interactive features and will vary by show but I listened to the woman with the girl and she made me think of a flaw. She was hinting at the young girl to throw something at Elmo who would catch it on screen. NEEDLESS TO SAY. YOU DO NOT PICK UP ANYTHING! YOU PRETEND TO THROW! Lol I just wanted to stress that point in case people started picking up fruit and throwing it at their T.V. screens hoping it would somehow be absorbed and land majestically in Elmo's beloved Fruit Bowl. (Now that would be awesome technology. Expensive but awesome) So the girl lifted her hands and made a throwing motion and sure enough Elmo caught it. But then the slightly attractive woman said something like "Are you tired? Let's take a break". And so they sat down. Ok your still not getting it are you? Well then after a break they continued. Because they were prompted! Aha! Yep it seems Elmo and friends had been at the Coca-Cola again and wanted the girl to play which nicely brings me to my flaw. You don't get to choose when you stop playing and when you continue, it's all as staged as the whole CES show (who said that). So while it is a good idea, shows need to be designed better (maybe you can pause but they never demonstrated that and I would of thought they would of made a point as they were discussing everthing apart from how shiny a new Xbox is.) because I wondered if that poor girl was getting worn out, I'm sure she has loads of energy..but do you have to see the show through to the end? Ok you can exit the show i'm not denying that but the point is the show was made for a reason, yes it's an interactive show but during the "pauses" it's supposed to become a regular show. So I think this is the danger of mixing interactive elements with shows..aren't shows to watch? I do welcome the idea..but you have to be very careful with it and many adults will just want to watch a show meaning this will be aimed at children more. They could have a feature where you say how interactive you want the show to be, (developers creating different "levels") e.g. one where your jumping up and down nonstop to Elmo and only have a long enough pause to quickly tie your shoelaces, one where you run rampant and then sit down watching funny stuff for 10 minutes and one where you throw random things at Elmo before going back to the sofa every 4 minutes. It is a good idea, and could help keep children and adults together having fun and even keeping fit although not as important has having fun of course and theres nothing better than the great outdoors, but I do think it has it's uses...just a little more thinking on it first please Microsoft and related developers.

Hi. I'm back and I did say I would review individual anime's and I will do that as well still but today I'm going to show you my favourites which I hope you enjoy. Please comment.

The 2 Greatest Anime's of our time or any time (and of cartoons overall) have to be ...wait for it.

Pokemon and Dragonball Z. Now there are a lot of different anime's out there with all kinds of stories and teachings but none are more satisfying or thought provoking than these 2. These being the best examples of cartoons that promote teamwork, (and Strength of individual as well, without appearing to contradict themselves, perhaps saying that either can be accomplished if there's the desire/need and both should be) morals, values, inner Strength and courage, determination (often in Shonen Manga Which Dragonball Manga was) and more.

Pokemon

At the beginning of Pokemon we were thrown into the Pokemon world. We watched T.V. with a young boy who turns out to be called Ash and saw our first Pokemon battle. Proffessor Oak appears to give Ash his first ever pokemon. So we see this young boy at the age of 11, had been due to start his very own journey which we all would love to of joined him on, and watch as he grows along the way and making many friends as he goes. But as Ash was late, one of the 3 Pokemon meant for him had all run out but it seems hinted out it was always meant for him to be with young Pikachu, who Proffessor Oak reluctantly gives to Ash to train and befriend, as Pikachu was very untrusting and reluctant to obey Ash. People here might like to point out this is a flaw in Pokemon, trying to force Pokemon to go along with them and live with them and for them. But it's not too far into the story when Ash asks Pikachu if he wants to leave and to be free and at one point he does but later returns. Ok, you can say if it was real life it wouldn't be "written" for Pikachu to come back but the point is it was shown that Ash was willing to give Pikachu the choice even if it would upset him to part with his friend, he wanted what was best for him and thus there is no confusion about the morals in Pokemon. (The only confusion that exists is what goes on inside the Pokeballs!)

Quotes:

(Mewtwo to Giovanni in Pokemon The first Movie.")


One of the most important things said.


"The human sacrificed himself, to save the Pokemon. I pitted them against each other, but not until they set aside their differences did I see the true power they all share deep inside. I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are." 


"Humans may have created me, but they will never enslave me! This cannot be my destiny!"


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Dragonball


The quest for the Dragonball's was one that took us and Goku and his friends all over the world and even to other planets at times. Goku the main character, driven by innocence and a desire to protect everyone around him never knew much about Dragonball's until a young girl called Bulma bumped into him...which turned into the start of a very long journey. With each new villain to arrive, hero's felt increasingly challenged and thus the pressure was on for them to reach deeper and further to find inner strength and determination to defeat their foes but ultimately, failure or success always depended on their motives. Goku and later Vegeta's was about protecting Earth's inhabitants and thus no matter how powerful enemies were, they always got back up again to fight especially Goku which would give Vegeta another reason to carry on and push himself further, seeing Goku always carrying on, always one step ahead, it drove Vegeta to new heights, to defeat Kakarott, to better him, although later it became a more friendly desire to test one another's strengths. Whereas Goku is driven by innocence and courage as said before, he can be a little niave at times but reinstates the innocent character he is supposed to have always believing the best in people and refusing to see any bad not because he is stupid, but innocent. The difference might be difficult to tell at times, but if your watching it shouldn't be too hard to understand. The basic underlying difference is innocence is innocence, meaning stupidity can come about from all kinds of things, arrogance can be one of them, whereas innocent people really are innocent, whatever it is they believe..they believe it to be true.




Quotes;


(Goku to Goku Junior in the "Dragonball GT: Path to power" Movie.)


"It wasn't the Dragonball that did it. It was your courage and love that opened the right doors."

"Stay pure. That's your armour"

While those two above quotes come from the Dragonball GT anime that isn't based on any original story, Goku is correctly depicted as the innocent, peace loving character he is and so is true to his original design which is why I chose those two quotes, having stuck in my mind. Oh ok, and I also happened to of just watched the movie before starting to write this but there are loads of quotes I could of mentioned.


A Quick Summary of both. Mewtwo like Vegeta goes through a period of change which is told beautifully and gives even more depth to both stories they come from. Vegeta and Mewtwo could perhaps be compared again for similarities in life, Vegeta feeling "owned" by Frieza, living a limited life of fighting and destruction which is his choice but it's the only life he knows and the same could be said for Mewtwo and the earlier bit as well, feeling "indebted", in Mewtwo's case it would be maybe feeling indebted to Giovanni the shadowy gang leader of Team Rocket although maybe more because he doesn't know his way around this world or what there is for him and put his trust in Giovanni who abused that trust immediately and thus Mewtwo realised he didn't need Giovanni or any human he thought believing them all to be the same. Which is like Vegeta as well in that these types of characters never are or were "villains" but the soon to be hero's in later episodes once the story gives you their background and an understanding of why they do the things they do, given that (Goku learning about Vegeta and the sayains history and Ash and friends Learning about Mewtwo's birth) the hero's of the stories learn what we have learned and show a softer side to these characters and realise their approach was wrong and the real villains are out...out in the stars still...... Also Mewtwo may of somehow felt he owed the entire human race somehow and is why he felt inferior to them, a "mere clone", not an original but a copy. Yet he may of had copied D.N.A. but as is apparent from the beginning, Mewtwo is a unique individual all the same and goes on to deliver one of the most important lessons ever said in an Anime, at the end of the movie. And that's probably another similarity, how these former "rogues" often go to become some of the biggest "preachers" of all that they used to despise so much and could also be said to indicate that they were simply teaching the wrong thing before but once that is solved they apply the same amount of strength they used to use for evil as they do for good... What's also interesting is how in reality we are disturbingly getting closer and closer to cloning whole humans. And while that would be wrong, we must be careful with how we treated any clone we pass in the street one day if we ever agreed with what Mewtwo said. We can be against cloning, against making clones. BUT if a clone is created, a human clone, we must treat them the same as any other human, animal, or any other creature, for their are living and our anger must be at scientists, governments etc and not at the innocent clone. Much like the great X-men moral of treating all "Mutants" the same as humans which again can easily be applied to real life because what it really means is treating anyone, regardless of a disability, difference, age, race, gender etc the same. So perhaps not too far from now, we will need to think of Proffessor Xavier, Vegeta and Mewtwo's morals a lot more than we already did.

I will hopefully go into detail on both of those more at some other point and list more anime's and Manga but I just wanted to give you an idea of some thoughts and post this. Thankyou for reading!! All the best.

Barry.


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18/07/2012

Hi, just reading through my old posts something else came to mind which I may of missed before or probably did think but just didn't write on here.

It was the above quote which stirred me;
"The human sacrificed himself, to save the Pokemon. I pitted them against each other, but not until they set aside their differences did I see the true power they all share deep inside. I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
That's what Mewtwo said, but more particularly this bit: " I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."


Vegeta, just like Mewtwo had "Birth rights issues". Something most of us can relate to finding ourselves in life but differently for these two and even though Mewtwo perhaps is contrasting to Vegeta as he didn't feel important at all whereas Vegeta expected everyone to bow to him as he was a Prince. But Mewtwo did feel the world owed him at first perhaps like Vegeta did and so Mewtwo was drawn to act similarly to Mewtwo though interestingly through the exact opposite circumstances to Vegeta, having had a bad birth and feeling unwanted, Vegeta although some of that could be said too, had a better birth but later tried to force people to respect him like Mewtwo and both wiped out those who were deemed "Inferior". As in other words, both had insecurities but learned in time ones birth is irrelevant and you have to fight to make your name stand tall, to become a king or a prince show the world why. No-one will look up at the sound of a name they have never heard,