I just spend three days playing Endless Ocean on Wii.
I actually almost cried when I took the first dive.
I simply love it! I've had an aquarium of my own and have thought getting myself a salt water aquarium. Okay, the surroundings get a bit boring, since everything keeps the same, just a bit variation with layout. The bottom texture starts to annoy after ten-thirteen hours.
The fish are great! There's a lot of variation of species and they've also included some amazing fish (& some mammals, amphibians etc) and even a sea cucumber (my favorite!)..
I've found some of the species, like, a gazillion times and some species won't show up even if I dive the locations day and night and night and day, so, after going through the whole game I still have 40+ species unfound.
And I really don't get the Polar bear. Baby animals that come on the deck of the boat are a major plus! I just love the penguins!
Only thing that really bothers me is the partner thing. First, you can't have all the dolphins as partners (choosing is difficult) and having a wild thing as a partner (pet) to train is NOT OKAY in real life. It keeps amazing me how the dolphins seem to really like humans in real life.
Well, come to think of it, petting fish that live out on the reef is not okay in real life either, but I suppose Endless Ocean is better to learn of the marine life than going out there really. Besides, petting Red stingrays isn't probably smart in real life.
The soundtrack is great for diving. It's soft, flowing and Haley Westenra (Lucy, anyone?) has a very, very beautiful voice. I don't like that kind of music, but surprisingly that didn't annoy me.
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Tuesday
Save A Tree
Please leave your Christmas trees to the forests. Earth needs all the trees and your few days having a "real" tree doesn't make it any better.
Buy a eco friendly "plastic" lookalike tree and feel better for at least trying to make a difference.
I have had the same "plastic" tree for ten years and it still looks rather nice.
SAVE A TREE, don't buy/cut real ones!
Buy a eco friendly "plastic" lookalike tree and feel better for at least trying to make a difference.
I have had the same "plastic" tree for ten years and it still looks rather nice.
SAVE A TREE, don't buy/cut real ones!
Thursday
Down With The Sickness & Time Warp
You should try this game:
Zombies!!!
Also:
The Time Warp guys should see how the bee flies. Really.
Zombies!!!
Also:
The Time Warp guys should see how the bee flies. Really.
Monday
Missed The Geminides & A Few Words About Mansion/Garden
So, I've been waiting another year for the Geminides meteor shower to arrive. And the weather HAD to suck, of course, so I missed the maximum. I'm not angry, just furious.
The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff: RIP-OFF! Do NOT waste your money on it. You'll get a few decent plants, but: They won't match seasons -> will not wilt in winter. The rest of it is bull. No trees (WTF?), just a few indoor plants and useless, ugly items, such as a weird horse-type statue. I found only a few usable items, the windows and doors were mostly ugly (recolors needed!) and the Apartment Life "bugfix" f*cked up my game because I use a lot of annoyance-removing hacks and these hacks were broken because eAxis decided to break everything - again.
I've had a day of disappointments today. Well, yesterday.
The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff: RIP-OFF! Do NOT waste your money on it. You'll get a few decent plants, but: They won't match seasons -> will not wilt in winter. The rest of it is bull. No trees (WTF?), just a few indoor plants and useless, ugly items, such as a weird horse-type statue. I found only a few usable items, the windows and doors were mostly ugly (recolors needed!) and the Apartment Life "bugfix" f*cked up my game because I use a lot of annoyance-removing hacks and these hacks were broken because eAxis decided to break everything - again.
I've had a day of disappointments today. Well, yesterday.
Sunday
The Day The Earth Stood Still
I just love one-face-Keanu. Though in DESS it was justified, he is an alien and everything, I believe he's overbotoxed himself.
I had to whisper: "Wake up, Neo" at a certain point in the movie...
The movie: I thought I liked the movie until we got to the part where the Disney shit started, you know the *sob* I miss dad *sob* me too *sob shit*. Only US flag waving could have made the film worse. I hated the kid (Will Smith: Your kid is terrible, do him a favor and quit pushing him towards film career, he'll be in rehab in less than ten years anyway) from the get-go and when he called the authorties on Kleetus whereabouts, I was past anger. Made me realize why I hate kids and their way of thinking.. The graveyard (over-sappy shit) scene made me frustrated and I wanted to leave the theater, but thought I might was well let J finish it, though he wasn't pleased either. I'm sorry but this movie was sort of, like Disney meets Neo. The Disney part was the I-thought-you-thought-broken-relationship between the step mom and the annoying brat. I kept hoping the woman would give a good bitch slap to the boy and ditch him. How cruel of me.
One good thing: I almost cried when the spheres started gathering animals, saving the ones who weren't to blame. Another good thing: I almost cried when the woman understands Kleetu is here to save life on earth but not humans. We would deserve it. A disease that would wipe most of the population. Interstellar intervention. Anything that would give us a lesson...
The thing is.. I don't think we'd learn.
I'd give two stars to DESS, but only because I happen to like Keanu and I liked the two emotion spikes. That's it.
I had to whisper: "Wake up, Neo" at a certain point in the movie...
The movie: I thought I liked the movie until we got to the part where the Disney shit started, you know the *sob* I miss dad *sob* me too *sob shit*. Only US flag waving could have made the film worse. I hated the kid (Will Smith: Your kid is terrible, do him a favor and quit pushing him towards film career, he'll be in rehab in less than ten years anyway) from the get-go and when he called the authorties on Kleetus whereabouts, I was past anger. Made me realize why I hate kids and their way of thinking.. The graveyard (over-sappy shit) scene made me frustrated and I wanted to leave the theater, but thought I might was well let J finish it, though he wasn't pleased either. I'm sorry but this movie was sort of, like Disney meets Neo. The Disney part was the I-thought-you-thought-broken-relationship between the step mom and the annoying brat. I kept hoping the woman would give a good bitch slap to the boy and ditch him. How cruel of me.
One good thing: I almost cried when the spheres started gathering animals, saving the ones who weren't to blame. Another good thing: I almost cried when the woman understands Kleetu is here to save life on earth but not humans. We would deserve it. A disease that would wipe most of the population. Interstellar intervention. Anything that would give us a lesson...
The thing is.. I don't think we'd learn.
I'd give two stars to DESS, but only because I happen to like Keanu and I liked the two emotion spikes. That's it.
Monday
Next Year
When you're making your new years' resolutions, resolute this:
I Will Not Kill A Bee
We need bees. Really. Stop killing them.
I Will Not Kill A Bee
We need bees. Really. Stop killing them.
Saturday
Nature Trail
We went for a little walk in "the nature", the little park in our town.. The park is left completely in it's natural state, so our adventure there included a lot of cold, wet stuff to sink our feet in..
A few images of runt trees. The fungus is very beautiful. These kind of forests are very important to ecosystem, but there are not much left because of the government run arboriculture.
We also heard a lot of birds. Surely we heard (and saw) tree creepers, european greenfinches, common chaffinches, black-billed magpies, a few hooded crows trying to hit squirrel nests, willow warblers, a lesser spotted woodpecker, a flock of canada geese (or something like that) flying over us and various tits and starlings..
A pretty good day bird-wise. I actually felt a bit sad there, remembering our little angel-bird :(
A few images of runt trees. The fungus is very beautiful. These kind of forests are very important to ecosystem, but there are not much left because of the government run arboriculture.
We also heard a lot of birds. Surely we heard (and saw) tree creepers, european greenfinches, common chaffinches, black-billed magpies, a few hooded crows trying to hit squirrel nests, willow warblers, a lesser spotted woodpecker, a flock of canada geese (or something like that) flying over us and various tits and starlings..
A pretty good day bird-wise. I actually felt a bit sad there, remembering our little angel-bird :(
Monday
Stupid, Stupid People!
Water can be purified and saltwater de-salted -and the ice down south can be melted, but even the poorest countries must understand that the fish and the billion little things need the water in the ocean and taking(/ messing with) their water might end up destroying the whole little planet and the animals (including us).
Oh, and STOP EATING FISH! Poor things. Sushi for example is very fashionable now but the poor tuna is almost extinct. I blame Island, Faroe Islands, Japan, US and Canada! Norweigans, at least, are doing SOMETHING to not take all the fish.. Well, do not stop eating fish, it's good for your health, but eat only the fish that are not half-extinct. If you eat less fish some fishermen might go unemployed, but that's the governments job to do...
And a message to our friends in the BIG countries, especially in North America: Don't drive those feckin' cars to everywhere! You CAN actually walk to the grocery. You need so much oil because everyone has to have a car (and if you don't, it's so uncool) and you need to drive everywhere. I know it's a long way from the suburbs to the nearest K-Mart, but walking actually makes you feel good. Half of your fat people would not be so fat if they'd have to walk somewhere occasionally. When I stayed in the US and even in (the great country I admire) Canada everyone looked at me like I was nutty because I wanted to walk the three kilometers to downtown or when I wanted to walk to the park to go jogging. Who the hell drives to the park to go jogging anyway?! They thought I was nutty because I chose to walk to the cafeteria instead of driving to the other side of the campus. I blame the marketing campaigns in the early 50's when they were like "Get a car, the ultimate freedom in the free country"..
Oh, and about the free country of US?... You can't teach any religion in schools because it might offend someone. What happened to the learning thing? You don't have to teach religion in a way they do in sunday schools, but in a more philosophical way. I'm not a religious person and my home wasn't a religious one, but my home country apparently teaches religion in such a way that I found it quite interesting. Why can't you take the religion - stuff as in learning other cultures. Suing everyones ass for everything. You spill coffee on you in McDonalds' and they have to pay you for YOU being an idiot. The neighbors I had in the US were so afraid of saying or doing anything because they were afraid they'd get sued. One guy was so afraid of going to work because one of his mates got fired because he said "It's okay to think and read the manual" when a woman asked a very stupid question. And what about his friend who got fired because he refused to take a hint about working overtime without pay!
... and what about the free speech? I'd probably get sued by publishing this if the US could really monitor what's in the Internet.
And a message to the governments of the greatest oil-consuming countries: START PROMOTING CARPOOLS, PUBLIC TRANSPORT and monitor the ad-campaigns. A family of four DOES NOT need a SUV, they can do well with a sedan. A family of nine, NEEDS a SUV. A family of three DOES NOT. A car doesn't have to be V8 and consume 12 litres per 100 km (2,5 gallons per 62 miles) (and don't blame me for miscalculation, i use the metric system) ..
Even in my own country, looking at the traffic in the morning, many cars have only one passenger, the driver. Because our country doesn't promote it, people are selfish(they don't want to get up 10 minutes earlier to get the buddy who works in the next cubicle) and they are always buying bigger, expensive cars because they can afford an expensive car. Multiple cars in the same family is just overexaggerating.
Let me explain the point of today's whine:
I knew a family of four:
The Dad worked and his commute was about 16 kilometers.
The Older son was at school 3 kilometers from the house.
The Younger son was at school 5 kilometers from the house.
The Mom had her evening classes 2 kilometers from the house.
The swimming hall was 4 kilometers away.
The mall was 6 kilometers away.
The nearest supermarket was 3 kilometers away.
The grandparents lived 3 kilometers away.
The church was 2 kilometers away.
Dad drove a SUV. The mother was a stay-at-home-mom who worked part-timely for a writer or something, so she did her work by e-mail. She drove a SUV. Their older son was almost 18. He had a car because his school approved student parking and it would have been uncool if he didn't have a car of his own. He drove everywhere, even to his best friends' house which was as far as about 100 meters. They drove to the grandparents. They drove to the church. They drove everywhere. They had bikes and inliners but they were rarely used.
Mom stayed at home most of the day, until dinner. After dinner (when dad had come home) she drove to her evening class, in her own car. I walked the same distance every day. Dad came straight home for work and drove the son to his practice but didn't drive his car other than go to his own things on Sunday. They did their shopping every other day, together, Dad driving Mom's car. The family was saving money for a fourth car for the youngest, who "had" to take the school bus. They were something like upper middle class, they had a lot of loan, one for the house, one for the cars and the mother always had to calculate what they can eat. Mom had to visit doctor every month because of her heart and they'd have to pay that bill too and the younger son had asthma.
They were given this advise:
Have only two cars. Mom and sons share the other car since dad is the "bacon bringer".
Turn of the lights when not needed. Turn of the TV, not leave it on standby.
Don't bathe. Take a shower of 15 minutes and turn of the shower when applying shampoo and stuff. Fill up the washing machine (they actually had been washing a few tightie-whities at a time). Stop buying cola, granola bars etc.
The son started to walk to his friends house. The family went shopping every Saturday, plan the week ahead and buy food for the whole week. Mom started to walk or bike to the classes when the son needed the car and she walked or biked to the grocery to get milk and stuff to fill up. Mom lost 24 pounds. Her heart (of course) was doing much better. The youngest son started swimming so his asthma got better.. They were all less stressed. The kids' grades went from C to B+. Mom and Dad were doing much better since mom lost weight, dad had more time to her and to himself, they weren't as tired as they used to and they didn't have to be worrying about the money all the time since they saved in:
Petrol
Insurance
Electricity
Food
Medical expenses
All car related stuff
Rates
They paid what was left of their loans that year.. because of the 15k they got by selling moms SUV and the 10k Mom's mom had left her in her will and the 5k they had saved for the youngsters' car, the 30k in the College fund and the 5k they saved in a year for doing a life-style check-up. The sons started working part time, their pay wasn't big, but they agreed to spending their money to their own needs and stop asking from their parents. Mom&Dad calculated that without loans burdening them they could save the younger kids' college fund wholly by the time it was time for him to apply and they could easily take a loan for the older kids' college.
Sadly I haven't had contact with them for a long time now and I don't know if they took the "American way" again.. But I'm pretty sure that their lives were worse because they had too many cars :) If you happen to be reading this, don't get offended. I used this is an example of how your new way should be an example to all the "western countries". It's funny that I forgot the advise I gave you - until last Friday when I thought of you...
Oh, and STOP EATING FISH! Poor things. Sushi for example is very fashionable now but the poor tuna is almost extinct. I blame Island, Faroe Islands, Japan, US and Canada! Norweigans, at least, are doing SOMETHING to not take all the fish.. Well, do not stop eating fish, it's good for your health, but eat only the fish that are not half-extinct. If you eat less fish some fishermen might go unemployed, but that's the governments job to do...
And a message to our friends in the BIG countries, especially in North America: Don't drive those feckin' cars to everywhere! You CAN actually walk to the grocery. You need so much oil because everyone has to have a car (and if you don't, it's so uncool) and you need to drive everywhere. I know it's a long way from the suburbs to the nearest K-Mart, but walking actually makes you feel good. Half of your fat people would not be so fat if they'd have to walk somewhere occasionally. When I stayed in the US and even in (the great country I admire) Canada everyone looked at me like I was nutty because I wanted to walk the three kilometers to downtown or when I wanted to walk to the park to go jogging. Who the hell drives to the park to go jogging anyway?! They thought I was nutty because I chose to walk to the cafeteria instead of driving to the other side of the campus. I blame the marketing campaigns in the early 50's when they were like "Get a car, the ultimate freedom in the free country"..
Oh, and about the free country of US?... You can't teach any religion in schools because it might offend someone. What happened to the learning thing? You don't have to teach religion in a way they do in sunday schools, but in a more philosophical way. I'm not a religious person and my home wasn't a religious one, but my home country apparently teaches religion in such a way that I found it quite interesting. Why can't you take the religion - stuff as in learning other cultures. Suing everyones ass for everything. You spill coffee on you in McDonalds' and they have to pay you for YOU being an idiot. The neighbors I had in the US were so afraid of saying or doing anything because they were afraid they'd get sued. One guy was so afraid of going to work because one of his mates got fired because he said "It's okay to think and read the manual" when a woman asked a very stupid question. And what about his friend who got fired because he refused to take a hint about working overtime without pay!
... and what about the free speech? I'd probably get sued by publishing this if the US could really monitor what's in the Internet.
And a message to the governments of the greatest oil-consuming countries: START PROMOTING CARPOOLS, PUBLIC TRANSPORT and monitor the ad-campaigns. A family of four DOES NOT need a SUV, they can do well with a sedan. A family of nine, NEEDS a SUV. A family of three DOES NOT. A car doesn't have to be V8 and consume 12 litres per 100 km (2,5 gallons per 62 miles) (and don't blame me for miscalculation, i use the metric system) ..
Even in my own country, looking at the traffic in the morning, many cars have only one passenger, the driver. Because our country doesn't promote it, people are selfish(they don't want to get up 10 minutes earlier to get the buddy who works in the next cubicle) and they are always buying bigger, expensive cars because they can afford an expensive car. Multiple cars in the same family is just overexaggerating.
Let me explain the point of today's whine:
I knew a family of four:
The Dad worked and his commute was about 16 kilometers.
The Older son was at school 3 kilometers from the house.
The Younger son was at school 5 kilometers from the house.
The Mom had her evening classes 2 kilometers from the house.
The swimming hall was 4 kilometers away.
The mall was 6 kilometers away.
The nearest supermarket was 3 kilometers away.
The grandparents lived 3 kilometers away.
The church was 2 kilometers away.
Dad drove a SUV. The mother was a stay-at-home-mom who worked part-timely for a writer or something, so she did her work by e-mail. She drove a SUV. Their older son was almost 18. He had a car because his school approved student parking and it would have been uncool if he didn't have a car of his own. He drove everywhere, even to his best friends' house which was as far as about 100 meters. They drove to the grandparents. They drove to the church. They drove everywhere. They had bikes and inliners but they were rarely used.
Mom stayed at home most of the day, until dinner. After dinner (when dad had come home) she drove to her evening class, in her own car. I walked the same distance every day. Dad came straight home for work and drove the son to his practice but didn't drive his car other than go to his own things on Sunday. They did their shopping every other day, together, Dad driving Mom's car. The family was saving money for a fourth car for the youngest, who "had" to take the school bus. They were something like upper middle class, they had a lot of loan, one for the house, one for the cars and the mother always had to calculate what they can eat. Mom had to visit doctor every month because of her heart and they'd have to pay that bill too and the younger son had asthma.
They were given this advise:
Have only two cars. Mom and sons share the other car since dad is the "bacon bringer".
Turn of the lights when not needed. Turn of the TV, not leave it on standby.
Don't bathe. Take a shower of 15 minutes and turn of the shower when applying shampoo and stuff. Fill up the washing machine (they actually had been washing a few tightie-whities at a time). Stop buying cola, granola bars etc.
The son started to walk to his friends house. The family went shopping every Saturday, plan the week ahead and buy food for the whole week. Mom started to walk or bike to the classes when the son needed the car and she walked or biked to the grocery to get milk and stuff to fill up. Mom lost 24 pounds. Her heart (of course) was doing much better. The youngest son started swimming so his asthma got better.. They were all less stressed. The kids' grades went from C to B+. Mom and Dad were doing much better since mom lost weight, dad had more time to her and to himself, they weren't as tired as they used to and they didn't have to be worrying about the money all the time since they saved in:
Petrol
Insurance
Electricity
Food
Medical expenses
All car related stuff
Rates
They paid what was left of their loans that year.. because of the 15k they got by selling moms SUV and the 10k Mom's mom had left her in her will and the 5k they had saved for the youngsters' car, the 30k in the College fund and the 5k they saved in a year for doing a life-style check-up. The sons started working part time, their pay wasn't big, but they agreed to spending their money to their own needs and stop asking from their parents. Mom&Dad calculated that without loans burdening them they could save the younger kids' college fund wholly by the time it was time for him to apply and they could easily take a loan for the older kids' college.
Sadly I haven't had contact with them for a long time now and I don't know if they took the "American way" again.. But I'm pretty sure that their lives were worse because they had too many cars :) If you happen to be reading this, don't get offended. I used this is an example of how your new way should be an example to all the "western countries". It's funny that I forgot the advise I gave you - until last Friday when I thought of you...
Good Morning, New Orleans
It's funny how the nature is always the culprit.
Last year it was the tsunami in Asia, in 2005, it's Katarina in the USA. You can't help it, really, and those events will repeat themselves year after year. I know this will hurt many people and some may say I'm being heartless, but this is the truth: nature has a right to do that. It was here long before us and will stay here after we are gone. We are a product, which went terribly wrong and now the nature fixing it.
I know I might be thinking differently if it happened here, but I do think that a) we deserve it - all of us and b) it's good for our little planet. I want you to think some things the other way this time... What if Hitler didn't destroy half of the jewish population in Europe? That would mean - what - two times the destroyed amount of people walking on earth. What if there was a cure for AIDS and it was available for everyone? Think that each woman in some of the countries will give birth to two to nine children. What if all those children survived and made more children? This is harsh, I know, but I think of it as a nature's way of trying to cope with it's mistakes.
And that's what we are, dear fellow people, mistakes. I'm glad to announce the whole new world library, the Internet, that I'm glad of nature's response to our irresponsibility - to my irresponsibility. I took a two -hour bath three days ago. I didn't presort my garbage yesterday. Katrina killed maybe thousands of people and destroyed one of the most beautiful cities in the world. You went to work alone in your car. And so did your neighbor. The tsunami last year took people.
I wonder if anyone else sees the pattern here.
No matter how smart monkeys we are, no matter how much money we have or where we live, nature WILL find its way to show us we are really nothing but a bulk of meat useless to other species than bugs that eventually will own us. Make a cure and there will be bacteria twice as dangerous.
Some of you have probably seen the movie The Day After Tomorrow?
You should. Definitely.
Last year it was the tsunami in Asia, in 2005, it's Katarina in the USA. You can't help it, really, and those events will repeat themselves year after year. I know this will hurt many people and some may say I'm being heartless, but this is the truth: nature has a right to do that. It was here long before us and will stay here after we are gone. We are a product, which went terribly wrong and now the nature fixing it.
I know I might be thinking differently if it happened here, but I do think that a) we deserve it - all of us and b) it's good for our little planet. I want you to think some things the other way this time... What if Hitler didn't destroy half of the jewish population in Europe? That would mean - what - two times the destroyed amount of people walking on earth. What if there was a cure for AIDS and it was available for everyone? Think that each woman in some of the countries will give birth to two to nine children. What if all those children survived and made more children? This is harsh, I know, but I think of it as a nature's way of trying to cope with it's mistakes.
And that's what we are, dear fellow people, mistakes. I'm glad to announce the whole new world library, the Internet, that I'm glad of nature's response to our irresponsibility - to my irresponsibility. I took a two -hour bath three days ago. I didn't presort my garbage yesterday. Katrina killed maybe thousands of people and destroyed one of the most beautiful cities in the world. You went to work alone in your car. And so did your neighbor. The tsunami last year took people.
I wonder if anyone else sees the pattern here.
No matter how smart monkeys we are, no matter how much money we have or where we live, nature WILL find its way to show us we are really nothing but a bulk of meat useless to other species than bugs that eventually will own us. Make a cure and there will be bacteria twice as dangerous.
Some of you have probably seen the movie The Day After Tomorrow?
You should. Definitely.
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