Fantazzztic!

You registered, downloaded the game and play. You stepped on this virtual world and you hack and slash your foe on the way to the bop bop bop bop bop to the top. Yes you’re right! It’s High School Musical. But did you ask yourself why are you playing or why do you want to be strong? Sounds like the “Purpose Driven Life” in an MMO isn’t it? By human nature we tend to do things for the reason that we want to achieve something. An aim will play a pivotal role to almost everything just like a bullet soaring flying (there are no stars in heaven that we can’t reach, high school musical again!) free until it reaches its target.

At a certain point in living as your character in an online world, every one of us desires to become a “prominent person” in the community. But it’s not east to become one. Not easy there even a case with my brother wherein an insecure gamer who uses  a MULE account just to tarnish his reputation. Knowing that we  laugh and even bonded for some time in-person. If there’s a will there’s a way in order to become that “something” it will be easier if you laid out your plan as soon as you started or even think of starting something.

“No Pain No Gain” as we cannot be successful if you keep on rushing your goals. Take it little by little and you will feel as if you belonged to the cloud nine.

There will be always 5 steps in anything. Let me say that you already reached your goal. Try to ask yourself “Does it worth it”? “Am I happy”? What’s the effect of my virtual success to the real world? “Does it help you in some way?” and so on and so forth.

So let me share you the thing that I’ve learned when I watched a certain romantic comedy movie. Yes pretty bold of me to incorporate the idea on being a gamer.

My 5 Steps to become a Successful Gamer.

Goal Settings- From the word it set your own goal. Example scenario: Do you want to PWNZR all of your friends in PK in-game! Do you want them to feel jealous of you because you can PWNZR them all? If you say YES then let’s stop this foolishness! You didn’t want to do it because of someone right? You’re doing it for your own good!

Jot down the things that you want to achieve. Do you want to be the best and the strongest PK player in-game? Do wish to acquire all the most coveted and the rarest item in-game? Or you want to be prominent and the most popular ala celebrity player in-game? If you say yes! Good because this is the valid reason! Even if you say I just want to enjoy the game it is still a valid reason. Any reason as long as it came for the very bottom of your heart is valid. Remember that you are doing it for yourself right and nothing but YOURSELF! Pretty selfish isn’t it? Keep in mind that the goal must be any reason whether it is good or bad, Positive or Negative but you need to make sure that this is for yourself.

Being a dedicated gamer sometimes deteriorates your healthy or not so healthy lifestyle sometimes you always forgot the effect of too much gaming in your body as I said earlier.

Don’t forget that it also applies in real life. For example you are a fat kid and got dumped by your lovey-dovey so you decided to go on a diet and work out. The question is why do you want to do this? Is it because you got dumped by your girlfriend and as for revenge you want to have an uber-hotness mouth watering body packed with the 6 “package” of wonder so that if the person who dumped you saw you by twist on fate. They will be the one to cry and you want them to regret that they set you free. If your answer is No then let’s stop this but if your answer is simply like “You don’t want to wear extra large size shirts anymore” then let’s do this!

And please make sure that your goal is feasible. We’re not doing the 4th installment of Mission Impossible right?

So when will we do this? Next month? Next Year? NO!

Start Now- The million dollar question will be. “When will you start?” A person who really wants to achieve something should start on the day when he thinks for his aim. Not Later, not on the next day or month or definitely years but start now! As the saying goes “The early bird catches the worm” so hurry do what you can do before it’s too late.

No Shortcuts- To be able to be strong you bought as many PREMIUM ITEMS as you can and grind your way out to a paid dungeon on your way up to the peak level. You already reached the highest level in-game? Are you happy? Do you think you miss something? Yes you indeed miss something and that is the feeling of enjoyment of this game. Playing a game doesn’t mean leveling up all your way it also means socializing and discovering the wonders of the game. Think about it “You are high level” but do you know your “Game”?

Just what it literally means there will be no fast lane or express way on what you’re trying to attain. Even though you achieved the thing you want to accomplish as fast as a lightning you will not be happy in the end. Remember that there will be a different feel in things that is made out of your effort and perseverance. It is wise to do it slowly but surely especially for long term goals. There will be no shortcuts!

Motivate Yourself- Being motivated gives you a soothing aura that makes play the game healthier. How can I be motivated? Simple, back from the start set your goals for your game. By setting your goals by wanting this and that for example I want to be like him/her, and I want to surpass his/her popularity. I want to be like this, that’s the most basic motivation of a certain player. It’s up to you if you want to be a Hard Core player or a casual one. What else you can motivate you?

Explore the game by knowing it epic story. Try to join game events and interact. I do believe that the most popular motivation that the game can give you. Meet new people from the World Wide Web. There are lots of reasons to motivate you. Everybody is unique that’s why we are called “individual” so basically we have our own set or type of things and perspectives that will motivate us. Motivation isn’t about sacrilege; it’s about how you will accomplish your goals that you set. Without Motivation, your gaming will not survive long. In a simple explanation try look up to someone pursue yourself to do this be confident and never stop and last but not the least find your inspiration. Become optimistic and look at the bright side.

Be Happy- As I’ve seen in my favorite MMORPG Granado Espada, there’s a warning that playing for long hours is detrimental to health. ¬¬¬¬

we play the game not to be stress, not to give ourselves a problem but to stress out, so the most important is “Do not let the game affect your mood” the same as “Do not let the GAME play YOU”. Enjoy yourself by making things brighter and looking in a more positive way. You lose today, you may win tomorrow. That’s the cycle. Another important factor is by following your own set of goal, soaring tumbling free willing! (What’s with the Disney citation?). Accomplished Goals makes you happy but it’s up to you, if all the things you’ve done and sacrifice along the way since you start are “Worth it”. Again don’t take the game seriously and don’t let it control you. We’ll some players are really those “ONLINE GAMING SRS BSNS” and we can’t blame them.

Be contented on what you’ve gain as I said in the step 3 “No shortcuts”…

Yo, Dawg, I’m really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but I just got to say that <insert a gaming blogger name here> have the best gaming advice of all time!

Instead of suggesting some events or focusing to a certain “game” today I choose to focus on the whole gaming sphere in general and yes I am a not so adviser but I did my best. Thank you for reading. On a side note you can actually incorporate this advice not with just gaming. From the title itself to “Almost Everything”. This is actually a modified and updated version of my year old blog entry from a blogging contest of a certain MMO.

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After a month of hard work, effort exertion, blood and sweat, headache as well as hand ache, I finally managed to finish the most anticipated Granado Espada Machinima of the year! Yes none other than the MMORPG parody of the hit dance popularized by the Wonder Girls Nobody! I become an inarticulate right so let’s get it on! Presenting the High Quality FULL Version of the Granado Espada Nobody Dance by Wonder Girls Parody! Now back on checking the statistics of my blog views and video views! Do you think I nailed it? Vote now! Aside from that would you netizens help me to spread the word about this! I so want to share this to the intarwebs. Thanks a lot! Acknowlegdements

Oh wait! Allow me to express my sincerest appreciation to all the people whose responsible for making this video possible (rhyming?) directly and indirectly!

To PJ “NineMoons” Punla for becoming a “cheerleader” as well as for her blogging promotions about the video from the start! To Anne Desanggria aka Mudra for supporting me even in the pre-planning, pre-production stages! to Blacksword aka Reimaru aka gay lord for showing his gallantry (LOL) for treating me with Desserts, Japanese Food and Videoke every time i decided to take a break from doing this video ( Isn’t it a man date?), hey fag you said your going to blog about this now where it is?!  If some people are happy to see me showing off my newest brain child, One person is not for the reason that he thinks that I’m taking his computer time and this guy is Falkenhausen aka Nate for always sabotaging my work kidding! Well thanks to him  for buying and borrowing in-game costumes from his friends in-game! To Mena for allowing me to borrow his account even though i didn’t use it technically. To the outgoing community manager Mistress Hrin for blogging about this in advance! Good luck in your MBA dear To JYP Entertainment and the Wonder Girls for bringing us this wonderful song as well as for not removing the audio in my video in youtube in the event that they find some possible copyright infringement whatchamacallit LMAO!~ and to all the people who become a part of this wonderful project. this is officially  the longest in terms of the creation days and the most ambitious machinima movie that i ever made. Till next project!

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Here yeah, Here yeah! The stage is all set for this years machinima of doom, like what you see in the picture and for the record my video editing speed tripled! Probably because of the self set deadline or it’s just that my l33t skill leveled up?

As of now I am working with the camera angles which are really limited in this dance video because of its animated/moving background, but I will try to come up with a solution for that. The lighting and contrast and last but not the least the dance choreography for the last chorus performance for Mimi (Musketeer) and Sunny (Fighter) of course let’s not forget the rap part of Yoobin (Scout).

Anyway the video is really short, around 3:30 seconds so i cant manage to release any video teaser. Not because  it may lessen your excitement to see the video  or maybe because i might unconsciously show some selling points of the video, it’s just that i suck on making teasers! especially in music video genre. Screen shot teaser is an option. If things went well or probably I manage to get things done before Sunday, I might create another short, uber short “special” parody video. Anyway, I hope I can finish this without hassle so that the nobody but choo will take the center stage on Sunday!

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Second day for the final shoot/recording/editing went well. It seems that the chorus part is much easier to do than the introduction dance for the first 29 seconds of the video. This time I decided to use a “static” background rather than a “live video” as a background for the reason that it saves a lot of RAM, Lot’s of RAM = my video editing will be smooth. Now let’s talk about the camera, I just love how my talent for camera angles showed up in this video, there is this part in the video where I imitate a camera angle from an online dancing game called dance battle audition online wherein in the camera seems to shake and slowly focusing to the object.  And for the record I think I used at least 2-4 different camera angles and tricks in the first 29 seconds of the video, I need to since this is a dance music video static camera will surely bored the living organism inside the viewer.

Now let’s head back to the title of this blog post, “My Fantazzztic girls rocks the City of Auch” and basing on that statement the said City will play a role in my dance music video. Among my selected location to shoot the video are the Katovic Snowfield, I’m planning to plant a stage somewhere in this White Plains, Reception Hall. The empty rooms in the Prison De Joaquin and I am trying to location shoot inside the newly opened Chateau de Bourgogne. For a little bit of trivia, did you know that I don’t actually shoot the dance video in the place where they perform the dance in the video? I do think the frequent screenshot with the Katovic Snowfield in the background will explain this. Hopefully!

I finally managed to negotiate with the voice of the new world Mena to lend his account for the shoot, now I can finally have my girls dance wearing the sophisticated Santa costumes. If I can’t still find a summer costumes for musk, scout and fighter I might consider dropping the plan of wearing those. Anyway enjoy the screen shots from the first 29 seconds of the video. The last screen shot shows the rotation changing position dance part.

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