Two days ago I got a game called ''Cooking Fever.'' It is very hard. It requires speed,and timing. I'm already at level 8. I got to level 8 in one night.
Here's how you play. You need to make food. Then drag it to the people who ordered it. If you wait to long the food will burn.Then the people get mad and leave. Like I said it is a hard game.I am going to play after dinner. After my job. Ashleigh
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Today's post is actually inspired by YouTube! My procrastination actually paid off for once! Yesterday, I took an EXTREMELY long hike with my boyfriend and dog to pay a friend of our's a visit and we were out essentially all day hiking about. I fell asleep at 8:30, woke up at 7:30 and have essentially been in bed since with very sore legs. With nothing much else to do, I replied to a few emails and watched some YouTube. I was watching a playthrough for a game called Fran Bow. It's and Alice In Wonderland-esq game, and I enjoyed it very much.
It was a 2D horror game with a very dark and intellectual plot. Most of the tasks to be accomplished were by puzzle solving and using logic, and by progressing with dialogue. The dialogue was fantastic and some of what was said truly made me think... and I hope that it makes you readers think too. Below are some of the best quotes plucked from the game. "Death is nothing more than the absence of love. Once you can’t feel love, you die… even if your body still walks." "I still don't know many things, but one thing I do know- between guilt and fear, I chose happiness." "You can’t blame those who are ignorant, but you can’t let ignorance decide. Life will teach you, even through pain and tears." "Be curious, and you'll always be amazed." "Don't be afraid. We always fall. And after the pain... we will always rise." These are unfortunately not all of the quotes that I can remember from the gameplay. I remember there being numerous others, but as I can't directly remember and wouldn't want to incorrectly quote this amazing game I'm going to leave this post here. I'd go back through the videos but there was roughly 7 hours worth of gameplay to watch. In any case, I'd recommend checking out the playthrough of this game. I found that alone to be quite interesting and if I had the correct account, I'd probably buy and play the game myself. Very intriguing. - Maddie I play Wizard 101 almost every day. Grandma watches me play sometimes. My Daddy
plays with me at night too. Wizard 101 is fun to play, but I cannot play it until I finish my school work. Ashleigh There are lots of games on my iPad. Learning With Homer helps me to read. It helps me
with numbers and tells me stories also. I like to take pictures and make videos with my iPad too. My iPad is very useful! Ashleigh Just yesterday, my friend and I were having a discussion about a first-person game that came out recently called The Static Speaks My Name. We've both played it, and while the game starts out rather normally, by the end it has painted a very dark tale. You start the game in outer space, and have to make your way over to a cloudy orb. Upon entering it, you begin the game by waking up and rolling out of bed at 3:22 AM. You're given the objective to go to the bathroom. Normal, right? You are then told to go to the kitchen and get breakfast. Another easy task.
However, upon exiting the bedroom, it is clear automatically that something is very, very wrong. The windows and doors are all boarded shut, there is a wall of static TV's along one wall, and multiple copies of the same pictured are plastered all over the walls. There is a room with notes that are obsessing over the origin of the picture, and every single inch of wallspace in that room is covered by the picture. Upon looking in the fridge, there is nothing, and you are forced to eat live shrimp from a tank in your room. Your next prompt is to clean the microwave. After wiping up a red stain in the microwave, leaving it spotless; you are given another command to talk to people online. You can go to the computer and talk with a chat bot, but if you're observant you will notice a note that is lying on the desk next to the monitor. If you read it, you can see that it is clearly a suicide note, addressed to the character you are playing as' mother. Your next goal is a strange one: "Decide what to do with the man in the cage." If you've been following the small clues left throughout the game, you know that in your town, a painter has been missing. You also know that your character has been obsessively trying to figure out the meaning behind a painting. ALSO, you know there is a hidden room behind a bookshelf that was made to conceal the room from everyone but yourself. Taking keys from a peg by the door, you go down the hallway, behind the bookcase-door, and into a vault-like room where there is a man in a cage with a bowl of shrimp sitting in front of him. There is also an easel with a copy of the painting on it and artist's supplies littering the floor. At this point, your only option is to unlock the cage. When you do so, you are given a final objective- go to your room and let your body rest. I initially assumed this meant to go back to bed and sleep, but upon trying to interact, I couldn't. After stumbling aimlessly around the house for 25 minutes trying to find the solution, I finally opened the door to the close in the bedroom- a door that had previously been un-openable. Inside there was a noose and chair- and yes... the only option was to use the noose. You couldn't save the character. You had no other choice. After this, you are brought back into space and must choose another dust cloud, but instead of continuing into another level, you are left with a "Thanks for playing" text and the ending credits. So what was the point of this post? Well, my friend and I were talking and she said she had overheard two 5th graders on her bus talking about the game, oblivious to what it actually meant. This led to us discussing how influential video games can be to younger children- especially if they don't realize what they are actually doing in the game. What would happen if a child actually tried this, not knowing the outcome? Just because they saw it in a game? The game is meant to bring light to suicide and help prevent it, but if you have big YouTubers (who appeal to a mainly younger audience) playing these games and then making jokes about it... how are you helping the problem? Children look up to these people and are so easily influenced... if you're going to make a YouTube video about the game, at LEAST make a disclaimer at the end of the video saying what it is actually about... for those who do not know. Maddie Ever hear the phrase "Life's a game!"? It really is. No matter what you decide to do in life, there is competition and more importantly decisions to be made. Although not every decision leads to a life or death situation, some do. And any decision you make could change the course of your life. When I was younger, I had a friend who left a job at UPS to go work for a small fog light manufacturer with an office in New Jersey. The job didn't pay well, but when the company decided to open a plant in Georgia and close their New Jersey office, he decided to move with the job to Georgia. At the time I couldn't understand his decision. The company was a German manufacturer, so he was essentially moving from one satellite office to another...for the same low pay.
What I had failed to see was that he was moving to get a jump start on a new life. Without a college education, Jersey holds little appeal for a manual laborer without a lot of drive. Your pay is low, while your taxes and cost of living are high. To make matters worse, the type of house you can buy while making less than $50,000 a year are appallingly small and old. In hindsight, my friend was moving to improve his prospects in life. Regardless how much he made, his cost of living dropped dramatically, and he got a chance to create a new life for himself where no one knew him. Essentially, he could move down there and be whoever he wanted to be. No one would question his actions if his style of dress changed or if how he acted changed. In essence he took a chance to start over. Well played dude! Have you ever ran into someone you knew in high school or some other time frame in your life who didn't seem to change at all? How sad. I have met a number of people like that. They live in the past. They say hello and the first thing out of their mouth is "hey, do you remember that time...(and add your own stupid story)". When I run into someone I haven't seen in a while, I like to find out how they are doing now...not what drunken foolishness they did twenty years ago. Living in the past is a bad life move. There is so much out there to see and do. No need to relive the past over and over again. Yet we all do it. For myself, I think of my dead wife often. Nothing I can do can bring her back. By thinking of her, I sometimes feel like I hold myself back from meeting new people. No, I am not talking about getting married again. At this point, I have no desire to.At the same time, I do like to meet new people and do fun things. By living in the past, I sometimes feel like I steal from the present and limit my future. Like it or not, life is a game. Everything you do can make it a happy game, or a sad game. A healthy game or a deadly one. Not moving forward with your life is similar to skipping a turn. Life is very short. The best advice I can give you...or myself, is to not skip any turns. Life if for the living! Take some chances to improve your situation. To my daughters: Smile at the boy you like! Have a kind word for everyone. Avoid people you don't like...even if, and especially if you don't know why you don't like them. Life is a game, play smart and be happy. I like to play games. I play Wizard 101. I play it with Maddie and Daddy.I like to visit the online houses.
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