I could use your help with school...

If you come to my blog every so often, you may have noticed a new button on the top right, under my banner. It goes to my BegsList fundraiser page. Putting it simply, I need about $500 (AUD) to pay my school fees. The goal is set to $360 because I'm assuming that all donations are in American (USD). The money that I need, when converted is about $358 USD, hence why I've set it where I have.

If you want to know more about what exactly is going on, I have written why I'm asking for this money in more detail on the fundraiser site. This ends on the 15th September, because that's when I need to pay by, if I don't pay by then, or if I can't get an extension, I'm going to have to drop out. I would really appreciate it if you could donate even just $5, any money that I can get would help so much. I can possibly pay up to $150 (AUD) if I stretch out my budget so much more. But again, I'd still need about $350 AUD to pay.

You can either click HERE or on the button, both will get you there. Thank you so much!

Shower Thoughts: 10:13 pm - 28/08/2015

Just out of the shower. I clicked on a video on YouTube to watch: By The Fire with Jay – Haunted UtahDiner uploaded by LadyLocksLife and I started to watch it, got about 44seconds in and I decided it was probably best for me to have a shower first. I left the video page open so the video could load a bit.

I started thinking in the shower 2 things. 1: One of the things that LadyLocksLife uploads and I enjoy is when her subscribers post paranormal experiences and she picks a few and reads them aloud in a video. I like those videos. I started to think about paranormal experience and what I think about them. To me, if someone thinks they’ve had a paranormal experience, then sure, I believe them. However, to me, my brain likes science. I think there is always a logical explanation to everything.  If the lights flicker, it’s because of a slight electricity thing, power goes out at a curtain point, pure coincidence. Hit a cold spot, again, I think there has to be a logical explanation to it. I’m not going to argue with someone about their paranormal experience, there is not point, but if I’m there and something happens, there is a logical explanation that isn’t a ghost, that’s the last thing on my list. I do like these stories, and shows like Ghost Whisper and movies about Ouija boards and ghost boxes and all, but to me they aren’t real.

Second, why do we always think of things we want to share or important things in the shower? Do I wish I could record a video or a voice memo or write this down IN the shower whilst I’m having the thought? Yes, yes I do want that, but I can’t. It’s kind of annoying and the paragraph above would have been better but I had to wait until I had finished and got to my laptop to type this out. I’m naked for Christ sake, come on. I want my thoughts out in the shower, whilst I’m having them so they are still fresh, but no… Time to get dressed.

GAME REVIEW - Drive Any Track

Drive Any Track is a game on Steam that I happen to come across yesterday and haven't been able to stop playing. I bought it on sale for $5.99UDS [$14.99USD original], I'm very glad that I bought it for the price I did. It overall is a great game and I love it.

It's currently still in Early Access but from what I've seen and played, again, I'm loving it so much. It looks beautiful and plays great. It's easy to pick up and really anyone can play.

I can only assume that most players may be playing with a controller, which I am. If you decide to as well, you really only need the control stick to drive, A to select and use a boost, and X to drift. It took me a while to figure out that pressing X will let you drift, I knew you could be again, it took me a bit to figure that out.

I've included some screen shots of a couple of the tracks that I've done on the right and as you can see, the game does look super amazing. You have a choice of cars and the tracks that you can race in, just wow.
But the main point of the game, if you want to say it like that, is to go into your own, personal music library and your music tracks, become your race tracks!

I've been the first person to 'create' race tracks, because I've been the first player to race with a certain song, for example, I picked the song Werewolves by Short Stack [WATCH IT HERE] and I was the first player to select and race that song, so I was marked the 'creator' of the track and was rewarded 100 coins for creating a new track.

You may wonder, "But MySmilie, how mayny race tracks in the game are there?" Well kind reader, how many songs on file are there that we can access? That's how many race tracks there are!

Is there anything I would change or add. Yeah, of course! I wouldn't mind the ramps  being a bit more different from the barriers, just to make it easier to tell they are ramps. That is the only thing I would change, but I would like it if there were stats with the different vehicles, to make them more different from each other, other then just they way they look. I wouldn't mind if different cars were different weights (light, medium or heavy), different handling and drifting stats and maybe acceleration? That could just be me but I think that would be an interesting option, again, just to make the cars more different from each other. I also think the $15 price tag is a bit high, I did buy it on special, yes, but do think the creaters should consider lowering the price a bit, possibly to $9.99. But no lower then that, unless it's on special! :P

But again, overall, the game in amazing and I'm loving it so far. I can't wait to see what else they add and to see what else they do with it. I highly do recommend buying it when you get the chance.
I'll be uploading a few tracks I've recorded myself racing, onto YouTube over the next couple of days so if you want to watch that, head on over to my YouTube Channel!

Blog Every Day in August : 8 August 2015

So, turns out my life is as boring as I thought it was. Yay for me. Sorry about doing this every day, I wanted to try and do it every day apart from Tuesdays, mainly because after class my brain is just mush and I can't do anything.

Today, I've picked up dog shit, cleaned my shoes, played Age Of Empires II and watched Gilmore Girls on Netflix. It's been a really slow day today. I've given my sister about 8 pokemon cards, because she is trying to have a card for every pokemon, and I had double so, that's done happily.

Umm.. Yesterday I bought Sper Mario Bros 3 and played a little bit of it.

I'm really sorry, I haven't been paying attention over the last few days. I'll try and pay attention tomorrow!

Blog Every Day in August : 5 August 2015

I'll start by saying I had class yesterday, when I finished, my brain was moosh, nothing really happened apart from buying a box of Mountain Dew for half price. Good thing I did as well since it's not on special anymore.

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Today is the 5th and I have no recollection on what has happened. I woke up around 10 to 10:30 in the morning, had water, played Animal Crossing: New Leaf and I've been on Youtube.
Yesterday I paid a bit off my Target Christmas layby, I'm buying a Nintendo WiiU and a couple games. I'm ignoring the fact that the new Nintendo console is coming out next year, I'm hoping IF it does, WiiU games will be sold cheaply and quickly at that time of the new console so I will hopefully get some cheap games. I also have ZombiU sitting on the shelf (I hear Zombi is being released on other platforms soon!) but on layby I have Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, Mario Kart 8 and Mario Party 10, Splatoon is coming pre-installed on the console. I'm also getting a Rabbids game but when I get the console, I'm selling the bonus game (The bundle with the game was $20 cheaper then JUST the console).
Also at Target, I put a couple more things on layby, a windows tablet, a wireless keyboard and 2 amiibo, Bowser Jr, because I need 2, and Captain Olimer, because why not.

I got 2 new Jordana eyeliners, a QuickLiner Eyes in 01 Black and EasyLiner for Eyes in Purple Fusion, which is a smoky, slightly metallic, purple. Both are retractile pencils and I kind of can't wait to use them!

This evening I bought a new on Steam Oozi: Earth Adventure. I recorded myself playing the first 2 levels and I quickly figured out that I can no longer play children's platforms; or I'm just not use to playing them on PC. Either way, the first 2 levels have been recorded, I'm about to edit them and upload them, queuing the second one to be uploaded in a couple days.

Links:

Oozi: Earth Adventure
As of writing this blog post, the game is on sale for $1.24USD, regular price is $4.99USD. It's a platformer, easy and fun. I bought it on Steam and the link will take you to the Steam site if you would like to look into the game.

YouTube - MySmilie
This is my Youtube channel. I will be uploading the intro and first two levels up soon, so if you'd like to have a look and possible subscribe, feel free too!


UPDATE:
Watching the footage back, turns out it didn't record my game so I guess I can't edit and upload my game footage. :(

Blog Every Day in August | 3 August 2015

So today I woke up about 9:50am, I turned on my phone's Wifi and checked my email. I go out of bed, soon enough and went out to the living room. I played Animal Crossing: New Leaf for a bit and watched The Shining. I also helped my sister organize her Pokemon cards.

My sister and I both collect pokemon cards. She organizes them into number order of the pokedex and sets energy and trainers aside. I collect differently. I pick a set, right now it's X&Y: Furious Fists, and I collect the set, booster pack by booster pack, organize them into card number until I have the whole set. I'm about half way at least by now.
I've also decided today that I'm going to also, collect the X&Y Base Set. I started to sort out the few that I have into my folder and I also added numbers into the spaces that need cards. As you may have noticed to the right of this paragraph.

But sorting these cards out, both hers and mine took enough time but it was fun whilst it lasted. I have 3 more booster packs on the way, 2 Furious Fists and 1 Base Set. I'm hoping they arrive by the end of the week. Hopefully. I think my most expensive card right now is Dragonite EX from Furious Fists.

When I had finished, I got on my laptop and went on YouTube like I always do in the morning. When I finished, over to Netflix to continue to watch Gilmore Girls.

I haven't done much apart from that today, so I guess a short(?) post from me today. Tomorrow, I have class and it's also payday. I'm hoping my money will come in before I have to head to class, so I can buy myself lunch from the store, which will probably be a muffin again, maybe some orange juice as well.

VEDA? Why not BEDA? Day 2

So, I went on YouTube today, as I do in the late morning, and I see 2 people participating in VEDA: Vlog Every Day in August. On of these people was Dodie, on her second channel, DoddleVloggle. She announced she would be participating so she'd have a project to do so she wouldn't go insane.

I was thinking, I should do it too. My problem is that my life is boring as hell and I don't do anything. Also, I think I'm terrible on camera. I did try and start recording however, my first attempt did not go well. The camera I wanted to use, decided it no longer wanted to record video, it'll take pictures happily but it won't video. Good thing it was intended to take photos! So, I also took my phone outside with me to start and it felt weird.. Mainly because I didn't know what to take about.

I came back inside, took out my camera which was intended to record video, and I started recording. Then again, I didn't know what to talk about so... That was fun. Quickly after turning off my camera, I thought, why not write a blog instead?! So I think that's what I'm going to be doing.

So this will be me doing BEDA: Blog Every Day in August. Welcome~! I may write a better post later today as my entry, however I think this is good enough.