Why I don't like to read books

 This could come off somewhat ironic since here I am blogging, which contains reading words! lol

I was watching a commercial that said people who read, live multiple lives, while when you don't read, you live one. I disagree, people who watch tv shows, or play video games can also see themselves living those lives as well! I found that comment to be kind of ignorant.

People always tell you that reading is a good thing and while it can be a good thing, I just don't agree with how it's shoved down our throats and how you're perceived as an idiot if you don't like to read! People say, "It's important to read" and how some people get mad at you for not reading books. But I say, just let people live their lives! Reading a book is the same as watching TV, painting, or playing video games, it's a hobby that some people like and others don't! I don't understand why people get so mad if you don't read.

I am not a book reader, you could give me 1 million dollars if I read one book and I would decline. I just don't like books! 

Here are reasons why I am not a book reader.

• I have a short attention span and lose focus easily, It takes me forever to do tasks sometimes because my mind jumps from one thing to the next. I tend to just stop reading things on the internet if they don't grab my attention rather quickly.

• I'm a visual person, I need to see something to want to be interested in it. This is why I love video games and television!

• I also happen to have a very creative imagination and I have a knack for daydreaming rather easily, I don't need books because my mind is one! There are plenty of times where I had to go somewhere and wait for a long time (Example: The DMV). I'd stare at the wall or something because I would just start to daydream about something. (This is also why I have many story ideas I'd like to turn into comics as well)

• I like to read stuff online, I love reading Quora stories and I learn plenty of stuff from the internet.

The 8th son? Are you kidding me? Review

 

The anime starts out where the main character likely dies in a house fire and wakes up as a 5 year old in medieval times. The beginning gave me Drop Dead Diva vibes, where the main character dies in a car crash and ends up in another woman's body, who had also just died. Anyways...

The first three episodes are great, it starts off as a magical fantasy anime where he learns that he has the ability to use magic and he trains with his master on how to use it. He has to be careful though, because if people find out he's a mage, he can overthrow his eldest brother and become the ruler of the land. After the first three episodes, the anime changes themes constantly. One episode comes across as a dating simulator, while another one will be like a fantasy/action anime and then the next one is like a cooking show. It's almost like this show has no idea what it wants to be.

Aside from the fact that he was originally from a technological world like Earth, there is almost nothing referenced about him being from another world. The biggest thing was him translating between yen and this worlds currency amount. There's almost no plot at all, he doesn't really talk about being from another world and there's nothing he's trying to do to at-least figure out how he magically went to another universe. It's barely and iseki anime at all.

He also seems to really like cooking, which is one of the only things that seems to actually stick with the plot-line.

One thing I will say, unlike most "Harem" type anime where all the girls have a crush on the guy. This anime takes it from a medieval perspective where people got married because it was a political statement, none of the girls seem to even be attracted to him and want to marry him for political status. 

One of the weird things about this anime, I found myself assuming certain characters were bad guys, but they were good guys the whole time! It's confusing to me that they made some characters have the evil vibe when introduced, without actually being bad. I kept assuming some characters would backstab the hero, but they never did.

The anime has little to no conflict, there's no re-occuring issue that drives the characters goals aside from them wanting to be adventurers. 

The last four episodes were pretty good, as they finally got to the plot!

Don't be This Guy

A few months ago, I bought a nice Gaming Mouse on Ebay. I didn't open it for a while because....

A. We're currently in a pandemic where the Coronavirus can last on surfaces for days, and even weeks. Me being a germaphobe, I have been leaving items I bought online in my living room for at least two weeks, with no contact whatsoever. The virus only lasts on surfaces for 3-9 days, afterwards I spray it with cleaner, cleaning wipes and hand sanitizer. (I've always been like this. lol). I like to be careful! But this is why I hadn't touched the item for a while, normally I would have tried it out instantly.

B. I'm currently re-decorating my room and don't want to use a new mouse until it's all finished! 

Unfortunately, my mouse broke on me and so I had to use the new one after almost two months had passed.

Much to my dismay, when I opened the package, they gave me the wrong charging cord for the mouse.
For back story, I like to use wireless mouses, and it's a plus if you can plug it into a charging cord instead of wasting batteries. This one had a charging cord!

I looked all over to see if maybe it had two cords for some reason, but I could not find it. I had similar cords, but the mouses design would not allow for them to fit. It needs a micro USB cord, which I did not have. So I had to order one online, and it may take up to a month to get in the mail.

I wasn't going to return it, or ask for a refund, I still got the item so there's no need for it. I just left a neutral review, saying that it didn't have the cord. So what does this ebay seller do? They reply to my review and get nasty with me!!!

Here's a picture of my review, and their rude comment afterwards.

I worked retail for 5 years, I had to be nice to the meanest people on earth! Here you have me just saying it was missing something, and they have to be rude! Not to mention, they're rude to anyone that gives them a bad review! I gave a neutral review, not a negative one! Not only do they scam people into giving you the wrong product, but they have to be a jerk about it! The box was partially opened when I got the item, which means that someone opened it and switched out the cord, I wouldn't be surprised if it was them, and then they just get rude about it.

I just wanted to post this as a reminder, be nice to people, unless they really really deserve it! This person, is being a jerk for no reason! This is not only bad customer service, but it also makes you look bad as well. People aren't going to want to buy from you if you're nasty to your customers, they want to see people going the extra mile to help them out with their grievances.

When you're selling something online, Never be this guy. Always be polite and respectful, and if there is an issue, just explain your side of the story. I'm not saying to apologize if it wasn't your fault, just be nice about it. This person could take some classes in manners.

Overwatch Character Ideas: Powerful abilities, with a price...

If ya'll know me personally, you know that one of my favorite games of all time is Overwatch! I just love the colorful cast of characters, and the fun abilities to use in-game. Although I "Main" characters from each category,  I would probably be classified as a healer main. With Ana, Moira and Brigitte being in my top four most played characters of all time.

(Sombra was my most played character for years, until other characters came out.)

With that in mind, I have plenty of character ideas and would like to make posts on this blog about them from time to time. I thought of an interesting concept for Overwatch characters based off of my other favorite game series, Suikoden.

I think It could be interesting for Overwatch to go the Suikoden IV route and have a character/s with an ability/abilities that does great damage towards the enemy, but also hurts the user. This could lead to some interesting strategies around using the character/s. But in order for it to work, there has to be a give and take. The abilities in question have to be stronger than other attacks in the game, otherwise no one would play them and just play other characters that have high attack without being hurt by their abilities.

For those who aren't familiar with Suikoden IV, the main plot of the game has to do with magic known as the "Rune of Punishment", a magical orb that gives the user immense power, but causes pain and torture to those who bear it. In fact, most of it's spells injure the user in the process of using it.

To get an idea, here is a list of the Rune of Punishment spells.

Eternal Ordeal: -300HP to 1 enemy, -30HP to self.
Double Edged Sword: -150HP to all enemies, -50HP to self.
Voice of Death: Very fatal (1 enemy), 10% fatal (self).
Everlasting Mercy:-500HP (all enemies), +500HP (Allies only, self excluded).

I'm going to take these spells, and turn them into an Overwatch style set of abilities!

First things first

What should the role of this character be?

DPS - It would be good as a DPS character because they could lash out high damage output, and the possibility of hurting/killing themselves would allow for them to really think about how they would use these abilities in their favor.

Tank - The tank role would be good as well as the tank could take lots of damage, and use their abilities more often, where as a squishy could die in two seconds. On the contrary, it could be seen as too overpowered for a high health hero to have!

Healer - If it's for a healer, they could be a high damage/high healing output. Having a healer hurting themselves with their abilities would be counter-productive since a dead healer isn't going to help your team, instead they could have an ability that hurts enemies, and only heals allies. The character in question would have to figure out another way to heal themselves.

What could be an interesting idea, is to split these abilities into three or more characters who would as a bonus, also work really well while on the same team.

What is this painful ability that does amazing damage, while hurting the user? There's plenty of ideas we can come up with!

In this instance, we are going to use the idea of magical lamps, such as a genie in a lamp that grant power to those who discover it!

Here's what I've come up with!

Pachaiappan "Pachai"

 The Challenging Heart

DPS

"Think YOU can defeat me?"

A fisherman's daughter from a small town in Thailand. Her village was attacked by a mysterious group of omnics, her abilities alone weren't enough to stop them, and her village was destroyed. Feeling weak for not being able to save her village, she decides to become stronger, and heard about a powerful item that will help her train to become the hero that she wants to be! This item lies in the heart of the pyramids of Egypt!

She fights with small stick batons that can change in length.

Abilities

Weapon: Baton  - Pachai's main attacks are using a set of close ranged combo attacks with her Batons.

Miasma Orbs - Pachai's basic long range attacks are given to her by the power of the genie; this power allows her to shoot small orbs at enemies at a quick rate, she can also "charge" the ability to shoot bigger, more powerful orbs. Small orbs do 50 hp per damage, medium size do 80, while big ones do 100hp.

Cool-down Abilities

Fisherman's Rage - Pachai revs herself up and increases her damage output by 30%, her defense goes up by 10% for 5 seconds. (This ability does not work on her ultimate, just regular attacks, Batom/Miasma Orbs.)

Block/ Passive Ability - When attacking, Pachai can use a giant fish to block attacks. Once she has blocked 100 damage, a consumable fish will drop on the floor that she, or anyone of her friends can use to eat and restore 50 health.

Blood Dance - Ultimate Ability. With the genies power, Pachai flings giant swords made out of Blood Miasma at enemies. For each time she hits an enemy, she loses 20 Hp, but the enemies suffer 100 damage per hit, it has a small splash effect that will damage nearby enemies by 30hp.
She can potentially lose 100 hp, but do 500 damage + the splash damage on nearby enemies.

This ability does not have a timer, instead she is given 5 swords to fling, and once she's used them up, her Ultimate will start charging again. 

This kit allows her to be somewhat of a "Fighting Game" character, her passive block ability adds to this, as well as gives her extra strategies to gain health so she doesn't die from her ultimate ability.

Blank
The Pained Heart

DPS

"Names are weird, just call me Blank..."

Experiment #97, also known as "Blank". Was once a street cat who was experimented on and tortured to the point of being on the brink of death!
One day, a  mysterious visitor broke all of the animals free, and everyone escaped. This was the opportunity of a lifetime! Blank had a second chance at life and escaped, but what was Blank supposed to do now?  Blank didn't have much to look forward to, with that being said, Blank decided to travel across the world, trying to find purpose in life!

A side effect of the experiments have caused Blank to become anthropomorphic, gaining human like features.  

Abilities

Weapon: Mirror
Mirror of Light- A magic mirror that shoots rays of light. It can be charged for larger, longer beam rays.

Cool-down Abilities

Sunshine - Magic mirror generates 4 balls of energy to heal for 50hp.
(Energy Balls are dropped and anyone could pick up)

Shining Light - Blind an enemy with your mirror, lasts for 3 seconds.

Burning Light - Being tortured your entire life teaches you a few tricks. Decrease damage done towards you by 30% for 5 seconds. For every attack you take, your attack damage is increased by 5% for 2 seconds, each attack adds an extra 2 seconds.

Ray of Terror -Ultimate Ability:  A quick ray of dark miasma appears, anyone hit by this light will lose 50% of their HP, there's a 10% chance the enemy can lose 90% of their hp. Blank loses 70% of their HP when successfully landing an attack on one or more enemies.

Passive Ability -
• Your cat-like reflexes allow you to run 50% faster after falling from a great height. (I may or may not have gotten this idea from my main in Dead By Daylight, Nea Karlsson)
• Stun abilities against you wear off 1 second earlier than when used on other characters.

Jimmi
The Heart of Gold
Tank

A lonely robot looking to make friends. It is often shunned, or scares people due to it's menacing face. While in a pub, a villager makes a joke saying Jimmi should go to Egypt to find a special item that will give Jimmi some "friends". Due to being a robot and not understanding sarcasm, Jimmi happily goes to Egypt in search for friendship! Note: Jimmi cannot talk.

Jimmi uses a long staff with screws at the end.

Abilities
Weapon : Staff - Jimmi swings it's staff around it's body as it's normal attack, as well as Jab attacks, similar to a spear.

Miasma Screw - Thanks to the Genie's magic, Jimmi can shoot magical screws from his staff. Upon impact, the screws shatter into even more pieces, slightly damage enemies in the area.

Cool-down Abilities

Speed Up - By using the tires on it's feet,  Jimmi can increase it's speed by 50%, which will last for 6 seconds. An additional 30 damage is done if Jimmi rams into an enemy. (This part is considered the passive ability)

Screw Loose! - Jimmi throws down a giant screw that decreases nearby allies attack damage by 50%. It lasts for 6 seconds, and can be destroyed.

Miasma Trap - Jimmi places down a long rectangular Miasma trap. If an enemy walks onto it, it causes 100 damage per second, and hurts Jimmi for 50hp. He can place down 4 traps per ult.

Dameer
The Heart of Consciousness

Support+

"Well uh... let's see, this potion will heal your wounds, but this one... this one will put warts on your butt! Well, we don't want that one now do we... eh?"

A kooky scientist from Dubai, he is looking for ingredients to make a cure for his sick child. Upon hearing a rumor of a powerful ingredient said to be lurking in the Egyptian pyramids, he decides to go on an adventure to find out about this "cure all" item!

He fights using potions to heal his friends, and hurt enemies.


Abilities

Health Potion - Dameer throws potions at friends to heal them for 50 hp each. He has to refill his potions after he's thrown 10 of them.(Similar to the Clowns Poison Gas in Dead By Daylight)

Miasma Potion - Dameer throws these potions at foes, they do 15 damage per second, for 3 seconds, the more he throws at a time, the faster the damage accumulates. If he misses, a small dark pool of miasma will appear on the ground for 6 seconds, and do 10 damage per second if the enemy touches it. Unlike the healing potions, he would have to refill his potions quicker, after 5 bottles.

Cool-down Abilities

Splotch Potion - Dameer throws down this special potion, it's a small area effect ability. Dameer's potion let's out an oozing goo that damages enemies that come in contact with it for 50 hp per second, and heals allies 75 hp per second. The ability lasts 5 seconds. Maximum damage is 250 hp, and maximum health generated for everyone is 375 hp.
It also decreases enemy movement speed by 5%. This is the only ability that Dameer can use to heal himself.

This ability could combo with his poison potion, since it would slow down enemies so he could attack them.

Resistance Potion - Small area effect. Allies splashed with this potion will be invulnerable for 3 seconds. (Most characters have an escape ability, this would be Dameer's, except it prevents him from being hurt)

Scientists Knowledge - Passive Ability - Status effect abilities have a 30% chance of not working. (This includes, poison, burn, sleept, stun. etc.) 

Ephemeral Mist - Ultimate ability. Dameer was given this special power from the genie. A large area is covered in a dark mist, it heals allies (except Dameer), and hurts enemies. Dameer throws a special potion that instantly engulfs the selected area into a dark black/purple mist, the mist will have white and yellow lights pulsate through it to heal allies. The mist will shoot dark miasma orbs at any enemy nearby. Enemy movement speed decreased by 10%, while inside the mist. (The orbs will not shoot if they're inside of it)

Healing 200 per second & 100 damage to enemies per second inside the mist, and 50 damage from flying miasma orbs that shoot out from the mist.
The ability lasts for 5 seconds, so it has the possibility to do 800 healing, and 500 damage.

I love summer! But no one else does?

I've always loved Summer, it's always been my favorite season! But I've noticed that everyone I know, and most people on the internet, LOVE WINTER, and HATES SUMMER. The constant hate on summer, is driving me insane! It's bothering me because I have no one that agrees with me, and it just gets annoying after a while.

Everything is alive in the summer!

An example is when I made a post on facebook, about how I wish it could be Summer all the time, one facebook friend told me about how they love cooler weather. In which I told them that I love hot weather, and all of my friends seem to like cold weather, and how it bothers me that all of my friends like winter. In which another friend posted saying how they love cold weather and wanted to trade places with me!  I thought it was annoying because, here I am talking about my love for summer, and these people keep complaining to me about it, and their likeness for cold weather. It saddens me, because I want more people who agree with me, I want my summer/hot weather peeps! I just get more fans of the cold.

I also really dislike that term "At least in the winter, you can put more layers on!". It doesn't matter how many jackets I put on, I'm still going to be cold! Plus, I don't want to walk around wearing 80 jackets, thank you very much. Not to mention, that you can't really cover your face, so that will always be cold, and if you have gloves, you can't hold things properly.
Also, that feeling of being in a warm blanket, and then having to get out into your icy cold room, IS NOT FUN. So no, layers doesn't work. Not to mention, when you put "layers" of clothes on, and you're "Warm" on the inside. You tend to sweat inside of your jackets, while your face, hands, and maybe even feet, are still freezing. That's not a fun feeling!!
During the summer, you can put on the AC, go swimming, or just splash some water on yourself! Especially a cooling fan that sprays water. I like being warm at all times, winter does not provide that.

Everything is dead in the winter

My entire life, I have always enjoyed warm weather. I always loved nature, the flowers blooming, trees, the smell of nature, everything under the sun! On the opposite end of the spectrum, I have always detested winter. I used to like snow, but now I can't stand it. In fact, during some of my school years, I used to get depressed that it was winter! It's known as S.A.D, or Season Affective Disorder. I would just get so dulled out, that it was cold, lifeless outside, and get dark earlier. Fortunately, I got over S.A.D.. but I still hate winter!

For me, 70 degrees Fahrenheit, is the best weather. It's warm, and not too hot, or chilly.  I don't believe I'll ever understand people who enjoy cold weather, I'm cold at 60 degrees Fahrenheit!

Fire Island Beach

My Pros and Cons of Summer

Pros

• It doesn't get dark out, until around 8pm. So you have more things you can do, like hiking!
• Warm outside, don't need a jacket.
• Going Swimming, in a pool, or at the beach! "
• The Beach is the best!

Pool

• Nice fresh air
• The earth and nature is alive, and it's beautiful.
• No waking up in the morning walking around with a blanket around the house, because it's warm out, and not freezing. 
• You can go on hikes in nature, ride your bike and other fun & adventures activities. (Due to my extreme dislike for cold, I refuse to do those things when it's cold out, I just don't like it!)
• Warm weather provokes you to be more activity oriented.
• Barbecue's!
• Short clothing, sandals, shorts, short sleeve shirts, no shirts.
• Trips to the mountains/forest.. etc.
• If you accidentally leave hot food in the car, it will stay warm! 
• If you're into guys, and or girls, you're in luck, because plenty of people will be almost naked to stare at!  (Like this one time, when I was taking the bus, and I got off the stop, and I was walking down the road.. and I saw this beefcake daddy with beautiful muscles just standing by his house and I was staring so hard.. I think he noticed, so I looked away like a bashful school girl!)


Cons

• Taking showers are weird because then you're hot and sweaty again in five minutes and feels like the shower was ruined.
• Mosquito's and other bugs
• When it starts to get colder, but you don't know what it's going to be like outside.. as the weather is very fickle.. and so you can go out and it'll either be sweater weather or not.
• Humidty can be hard to breathe in

My Pros and Cons of Winter

Pros

• It's so cold that you don't want to go outside, so you have an excuse to be a hermit.
• It gets dark earlier, so you can do night things like star gaze, or get freaky in the sheets. (What? I know that's what all "Ya'll" were thinking!)
• No Mosquito's or most other bugs.
• Getting to take lava hot showers! (Cause it's too hot to do in summer, unless you were in a cold pool and go into a Jacuzzi)
• If you're a sexual being with a significant other, you can cuddle with them to keep warm.
• October has the best clouds, just saying.
• If you leave a cold drink in the car, it will stay cold!

Cons

• It's cold outside!
• Because it's cold, the wind makes it even colder, and harsher. (Why does the air hurt my face?)
• Nature is dead, the leaves are all gone from the trees everything is dead, and depressing...
• You have to heat your car up before you go to work or school, because your front windows are always covered with ice, and fog. Might I add, it takes forever for a car to warm up in the winter. But it's very easy for a car to use the AC, in the summer.

"Fun" 20 mins wasted after work, cleaning my car off.

• Waking up, walking around the house with a blanket because it's too cold to do so without one.
• Snow = Obnoxious amount of shoveling, can't walk around freely, might hurt yourself by slipping on ice. I'm the kind of person who leaves for work at the last minute, so when it snows. It takes me 50 years to get the snow off my car, and then I'm late. I don't pay attention to when it's supposed to snow, I hate snow, I don't want to think about it. When it does snow, I'm usually put off guard, and then I'm late...
• An obnoxious amount of snow means you can't get around your house unless you shovel for hours.
• When it starts to get colder, but you don't know what it's going to be like outside, as the weather is very fickle, and so you can go out and it'll either be sweater weather or not.
• It's always cloudy in the winter! Cloudy weather is boring, and depressing.
• Let's not forget when it gets so cold, that you get frostbite!!
• Cold weather makes my skin dry, it cracks, and gets red, and itchy. It's not fun! This only happens to me in the winter.
• Going to the bathroom is a nightmare because the toilet seat is colder than Antarctica!
• Waking up in the morning is a chore, because  I don't want to get out of bed. Once I get out of my blanket, I will be greeted with the cold, and icy feeling of cold weather! It takes me 80% longer to get out of bed on a cold day, than a hot day. Hot/warm days energize me, and I love to get out of bed.
• I like to be free. With that being said, I don't like wearing 80 layers of clothes, I like wearing short sleeve shirts and light pants/shorts. I hate having to wear a bazillion coats, it's restricting. Plus, I can't pull off cute outfits if my shirt is being hidden by a coat.

For people who don't like summer, I recommend getting a cooling fan, that also has a water canister you can spray! It's super fun, and useful! I got mine by O2cool.

Spring & Fall: 

I don't have a problem with fall or spring, I like fall because of Halloween, and I like Spring because the flowers are blooming again. But I don't necessarily have a favorite, but maybe Spring because it means Summer is coming..

Final Thoughts: - In reality, people's likeness for Summer, Winter, Spring, or Fall. Comes down to their bodies resistance to certain weather. I've always noticed that people will talk about how hot it is, and I'm fine. I just have a natural resistance to heat, so it doesn't bother me as much as it does others, and the same could be said about people who like winter. They just have a resistance to cold, and therefore don't mind it.
I've never heard anyone hate fall, but any time someone says they don't like spring, it's because of allergies.