I...Cant...Believe...It...!
Summary:
While I was doing my normal browse of the internet today, I was shocked to find the release of a new website coming out 6pm PST. Kotaku and CNET NEWS were two of the few articles I found reporting this, however because of nudity I decided not to include the Kotaku link and chose to stick with the CNET one.
Regardless of that, this new website, GameCrush is a "service" that provides female gamers to men, for a cost of course.
Significance:
Now, I wasn't going to post another blog post today, but when I saw this, it was a too good story to save for later. Basically this is an online soft core prostitution service for gamers. I personally think of myself as a gamer, however I would never waste $8.50/hour trying to "satisfy" myself by playing online with a girl, that I don't even see.
This "service" is SOOO wrong in SOOO many ways. Kotaku even has some sample pictures of some of the prostitutes, I mean girls, that will be apart of this.
People already see gamers as overweight fat guys in their 20-30's still living with their parents with little to no social life. However, setting up a prostitution service for them to meet girls and play with them online is both an insult to gamers and females everywhere.
This issue is going to be a serious feminist issue. As it is women are still mistreated over the world, and video games has always been an issue with parents and the government. Putting both these topics together is just asking to start a flame war and unnecessary press coverage.
Also, you would have to be one desperate lonely guy to use this service. If you were to fall under that category, you are most likely a pedophile, sex-offender, or a rapist.
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Existentialism Assignment: Development Stage- Continued
On my last Blog post I discussed the main outline about the flow of the movie. I have recently been trying to download a good video editing software to edit and add effects to the movie. I have also been thinking of creating our own soundtrack this way we are not restricted to some other song. For now we will probably be using Adobe Premier and After Effects. For the soundtrack I was planning on using Fl Studio, that is if we have enough time.
That being said, I have found an underground artist that has good upbeat music that almost relates to the mood of our movie. Outasight.
Also I have been thinking about some of the tests in the middle of the movie that I mentioned in my last post.
- Its the time for his school's prom, everyone is getting their dates and more importantly everyone is getting their friends name together for which table they are sitting at, unfortunately the main character is on no-one's list. At this time he feels more lonely
- It is the main characters birthday and his mom is asking him what he wants to do for his birthday and if he wants her to get out of the house so he can have a party, however he has no one in mind to invite.
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After much collaboration we (Awrco, Josh, Neeraj and I) have made a change to the movie. We have decided to add another main character. Now instead of having one character having a "dilemma ". We have two characters going through the same dilemma.
Existentialism Assignment: Development Stage
At the moment Awrco, Josh, Neeraj and I are in the Development state of creating our existentialism movie. We have a general idea of what we what to convey and we have a solid beginning and end. However the bulk of our movie, the middle, is still being generated.
For now, our movie is about a 17 year old guy attending his last year of high school as he realises he has no true friends.
The beginning of the movie will start off with the main character in a snippet of a video log (Vlog) where he says "life sucks". The movie then goes on with a flashy intro that fades in where there is a mini-montage of the places we will be filming where the movie title will be shown.
The middle consists of several parts:
Part 1: After the intro. The main character is entering his school as he waves hello and says "hi" and "whats up" to several people. At this point he seems like a normal fairly popular person. The scene continues with the main character in the social hub of his school, the cafeteria. At this point he approaches several groups and sits down for a while trying to make conversation with them however he just makes things very awkward. At this point he gives up and walks out of the halls and roams around the school aimlessly trying to keep himself busy. He runs into a sporty group of friends where he does not fit in there either, as well as the drama, art and music groups.
Part 2: This part will consist of the creation of the vlogs that will be shown in small snippets throughout the movie. At the beginning of the vlog, the main character will be an amateur at making the video logs, constantly fidgeting and not being able to relay any personal info towards the vlog. As the movie progresses and the main character is put through several issues/tests/situations that force him to become more personal with the vlogs. This is the turning point in the movie where the main character realizes that he is lonely.
The tests and situations that were previously mentioned are still under construction.
The end of the movie will be the full vlog where we replay the snippets we showed during the movie and the vlog comes together and the viewers fully get why the main character thinks that his life sucks. He starts ranting about how his life has changed and he becomes really angry and suicidal. The vlog ends where he says life sucks, the scene fades and the date says 1992-2010.
Social Network Movie?
Topic: Facebook Movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/
Summary:
Mark Zuckerberg, the world's youngest self-made businessmen worth over a billion dollars, and one of the founders of Facebook and one of Time magazine's: The World's Most Influential People of 2008. Facebook has become so popular that the story of its founding is going to become a major motion picture directed by David Fincher.
The movie is going to feature actors such as, Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark Zuckerberg and Justin Timberlake playing Sean Parker, another co-founder of Facebook.
Significance:
Earlier I had made a blog post about "Social Networks Taking Over" where I said that I wouldn't be surprised if they made a movie about one. Sure enough, two weeks later I found out that my prediction was correct. As it currently stands, Facebook has over 400 million active users having more than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week. Its safe to say that the social network'd are not going to get any more unpopular.
I find that this "facebook movie" tells us a few things about our society.
1.) It shows how our society is now accepting Facebook as something seroius enough to broadcast.
2.) Study's have shown that people are becoming less physically social and more virtually social.
3.) Our society is becoming engorged in the internet
4.) Finally, it shows the perfect example of the "American Dream". A few young collage kids working on a simple program that went public only to make them billionaires. This isn't the first time it has happened, this story is also related to the founding of Google.
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