Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Also...

   I got my first mean comment on my Youtube channel ever today with someone calling me fat......so.........that happened..........

New Year's Eveeee

Heeeeeeeeeey there.  Sorry about all the delays recently everyone!  A lot has happened over the past few days, so my posts are a bit backlogged.  With the start of the new year, I hope to catch back up!  Tomorrow, I'll start the year off fresh with a fun new post and then soon after a new Rant Time and that Disney Villains segment I promised!  I hope everyone has a Happy New Year and I'll see you all tomorrow!!!!!

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Lea and Friends Open Packs: Part 6 and December "Anniversary" Loot Crate Opening



 Without Seth, we open some discounted Phantom Forces and a Furious Fist packs!

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Another fabulous Loot Crate!  Happy Holidays!!

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Lea and Friends Open Cards: Part 4 and 5

Dead to me (Part 4-Blastoise EX Tin)


We crack open a Blastoise EX Tin!

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6 and up! (Part 5-Elite Box) 



We crack open a fabulous Mega Lucario Elite Box with Seth!  Remember, 6+

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Shigeru Miyamoto--A Christmas Miracle

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    Can we all take a few minutes to appreciate Shigeru Miyamoto?  For the same reasons I love Disney, I love Miyamoto.  In all his appearances, he is cheerful and happy and looks like he absolutely adores his work.  E3 is never boring or awkward when Miyamoto is on stage.  He's willing to make guest appearances on Youtube channels like Nerdy Nummies and just sit and play the video games he has created or inspired with his adoring fans.  Perhaps in a way, I like to think of him as a modern Walt Disney in terms of their iconic and inspiring creations that some think are childish and silly, but some of us will never grow past because of a sort of whimsy and joy the movies and the games bring us.  The two even shared inspirations, with Miyamoto siting the tale of "Beauty and the Beast" as his inspiration for Donkey Kong and some people believe he used Peter Pan as an influence for Link.  (Mmmmmm Link....)

     Nintendo games are like a trip to Disney in a box at home--they have a sort of magic to them.  They have a soul and a personality and one thing I love is that "Miyamoto, and Nintendo as a whole, do not use focus groups. Instead, Miyamoto figures out if a game is fun for himself. He says that if he enjoys it, others will too."  And the best part is, he's right.  Nintendo games have made me shell out my allowance since the ripe old age of 3 or 4 when I had my Gameboy Color and soon after my continuing line of Nintendo products.  In the case of my favorite series, Assassin's Creed, I was more willing to complete Hyrule Warriors and now smash before even finishing last years entry.  As you all know, I adore AC, but as soon as I see a Nintendo game, I gravitate towards it.  Even really weird and obscure games like Tomodachi Life.  

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     This isn't to say I don't adore other consoles and games, but the magic behind a Nintendo consoles that stems from people with big imaginations.  Now, yes it is true that people see Mario as their "cash cow" as they make more and more of "the same" game, but the thing is, people keep buying them!  People buy the games because they are simple, pure fun.  And, if Nintendo tries to do something new, stuff like this happens.  People want more Mario games and to be honest, the games are getting more gorgeous.  If you don't like Mario games, there are Zelda games which I personally prefer, since I am a story driven person.  I personally can't wait for the new Wii U game, and I hope it is as awesome as well all hope.  Plus, as of Starfox, as you all know I missed out on the early generations of gaming and I've NEVER played a Starfox game in my life (aside from playing as Falco in Smash Bros sometimes), so I hope it'll be fun!  I was a skeptic of Tomodachi Life, but it turned out to be great fun, so I hope some of the more strange and new Nintendo games get the appreciation they deserve.

       I did go off on a tangent, but in short, thanks Shigeru, for always putting that smile of yours on the faces of gamers all across the world.  You make Christmas an adventure every year and you elate your fans with your enthusiasm.  The world needs more passionate, happy people like Miyamoto.  (And also thanks to his fantastic translator, Bill Trinen, who puts up with all of Miyamoto's...ness XD)
 

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Merry Christmas from Lombego Island! *UPDATED*

Me and Z
   Earlier in the year, I bought Tomodachi Life, a really strange and quirky game for the 3DS.  I've been checking in on the game often and I really enjoy it.  The game allows you to create yourself and your friends in the game!  I of course, created myself and Jeremy Z Marlow as well as Jaimi.  I've been tempted before to post some screenshots of this game including weddings and weird events, but there are just so many!  I have a total of 5 couples as seen below (except for 1 because the pictures are weird and cap out at 9 people) and a ton of other islanders.  However, my islanders wish to say a happy holidays to you!  Also, Pikachu's eyes are under her hat...

*UPDATE:*  Also, on a sidenote, ever since a trip to Disney with my family in 6th grade I think, I have thought the world Lombego is the funniest thing ever and have thus named all my Animal Crossing towns and now my Tomodachi Life island "Lombego."  I'm weird.


Voltorb, Pikachu, Jaimi, Z, Hato, Me, Kawaii, and Colbeh
Santas in front
Elves up front

Lea and Friends Open Cards Part 2 and 3


Seth gets to open his Legendary Treasures packs with a little help from us!  Many more to come!

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Bellsprout


Bellsprout

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Monday, December 15, 2014

Rant Time: Snow

   Snow.  A year ago, you would have rejoiced at the thought of winter and the falling flakes that pile in front of you.  This year however, things have changed.  You trudge through the thick sludge in a barely warm enough cloak, your sword dangling in its sheath, nearly scraping against the white mounds of salt.   Your cheeks have turned red and your lips crack like shattered ice over a lake.  Silence.  Only the sound of your own breathing.  Your breath puffs in front of you like the smoke out of a dragon's nostril.  The crunch like cracking bone under your feet.  Your recently wounded body slumping forth, your arm cradled close against your chest as your sturdy leg drags the second like a reanimated corpse.  Snow was once your happiest thought, falling to the tune of carols and merry people's cheers in the town square.  But this year is different.

    Your fellowship has faded like snow in spring.  As the blinding white reflection of the frozen wasteland glares in your eyes, you're forced to remember years gone by.  Grand parties over warm meals of meat and ale, exchanging gifts with close companions, warmed by the smooth red flames of the fire with the slight snapping of embers under the happy voices of a home.  Time.  Everyone says time.  Time mends wounds and pains and tortures, but time is ahead.  Time will never come.

    One companion gathering their things for an endless voyage half way across the world under a new banner, another preparing to sail the salted seas for King and country, another, your closest, disappears into the flurries silent as the night, another, gone with her studies.  All that connects you are thin strings, small lines of silver thread tying you to them through all the journeys.  Some threads have been cut.  Snipped.  Lost in the snow.  The silver shreds shift into invisibility as you walk, lost.  You still feel them, you still try to tug at them to make sure they are still there, but sight is lost.  You try to trudge forward through the thick freeze sticking your stiff steel to the thick, wet soil.  Suddenly, you snag.  You fall.

    You're enveloped by ice. Snow. Steel.  Silence.  Yourself. The threads go still.  Everything is still and even the snow itself seems to stop salting the earth as you hit the layer of powder.  Your mind begins to wander.  Perhaps you should just let yourself be encased, escape into the cold embrace of the endless rain.  Why stand?  Why trudge on to see your companions, knowing that this year will be the last?  The sky grows dark and any attempt to see is useless, leading only to stumbling for sight.  Your extremities begin to numb and you close your eyes.  Why move on when all is lost in endless futility?  Your mind wanders to the Bard.  The Rouge.  All pains of the past piling onto you, thought by thought, flake by flake, pushing down onto the wound on your back, your arm, your leg, your neck.  All your body is broken and your will wavers.  You roll over with an exasperated huff, opening your blood-shot eyes, to stare up into the dark sky, the falling flecks like stars--falling...more like flying.  Your falling.  Deeper into the crust as you fly to the sky.  Up is down, down is up.  Falling is flying.


Silence.






 

     A small tug jerks your eyes open, your eyelashes crusted with sweet dew-like frost.  A tug again.  They wonder where you are.  They worry.  They tug again more sharply.  You try to rustle the energy to rise again, the pain in your wounds lost in numbness.  On your feet.  Onward.  Forward.  A step at a time, forward.

Forward
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http://musclematters.ca/articles/beating-the-winter-blues/

Lea and Friends Open Cards: Part 1



I open my two Furious Fist Blister Packs with Seth and Jaimi!  Many more to come!

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(Obviously, these were from months ago before I broke my arm)

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Can I Just Say Something?

   I want to thank all of my readers for being here for me through thick and thin.  Sure...maybe people aren't really reading my content, but in the times when I most want to cry, I always open my blogger tab and see the 5 or 6 or 10 or 20 views on my blog and I feel comforted and a little happy even in my darkest times.  I know, you guys are probably sick of these sort of vague and weird thanks, but I want you to know you are making my life a little better everyday and in return, I will try my best to get videos and posts up as frequently as I can manage.  Thank you guys <3

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Lots of Videos this way Comes!

  Tonight I hope to upload a bunch of videos to my channel so that I can try to release 1 everyday till Christmas or Christmas eve to tide you over until some more long posts are done!!!  <3  Love you all dear readers

Saturday, December 6, 2014

November "Fight" Loot Crate



Jaimi and Chris help me open the November "Fight" Loot Crate!!  To find out exactly what happened to my arm, check out this post: http://meplusfree.blogspot.com/2014/12/adventures-with-lea-7-my-first-broken.html

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Adventures with Lea #7: My First Broken Bone

  As a kid, a lot of my friends would break bones doing gymnastics or sports etc.  The one I remember most was Nick's younger brother, who I think was named Isaac, who broke an arm in 1st or 2nd grade and became ambidextrous because of it.  Over the years, I've developed a false sense of safety thinking I could never and would never break something.  Hubris.  Hubris killed me.

I'm pretty sure the card was a Chansey...The nurse Pokemon...
   While visiting my cousins in Colorado for Thanksgiving, I was having a fine time until fate decided to smack me upside the head with humility.  On Saturday, as I went to the basement to gather my things--specifically my Wii U--I was being careful to avoid the mattress in front of the TV.  I was not able to see a deadly stack of Pokemon cards just past the corner of the mattress and slipped.  I guess I put my arm under me in a few moments to break my fall and my phone landed right in front of my face.  In inexplicable tears, I called my mother who rushed downstairs with the cavalry.  The family helped me upstairs where I discovered my left arm was in immense pain.  I usually don't get physically hurt, and when I do I'm pretty good at shaking it off, so when my mother saw my apparently pale face, she decided I needed to go the the hospital.   

    We wrapped my arm in an ace bandage after testing if touching anywhere on my arm hurt, which it didn't.  We got an icepack and loaded me into the front seat with a fluffy blanket to give my arm leverage.  20 minutes later, we strolled into the front and gave my name, birth date, etc.  Without having to sit, I was ushered behind the desk to answer a few questions and have my blood pressure taken etc.  Immediately after, I was taken to a room where the doctors commended us on how well we handled the problem with ice and aleve.  My family and I realized that back home, I'd still be in the waiting room, most likely for an hour.  The doctors came in and asked all about what happened and I carefully explained.  I was taken off to X-rays, immediately given 3, and swiftly returned to my room where the nurses had already prepared medicine for me to ease the pain.

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     A while later, we discovered I had a slender break on the radial head-a fancy way of saying I broke the part of my radius bone in my elbow and that means rotating my arm would hurt like Hades.  My arm was wrapped in cotton and then a bandage with a large foamy thing to hold my arm in place and I was given a splint.  Apparently, by not putting it in a cast, it allowed the arm time to swell up.  Fabulous, my arm=a marshmallow in a microwave.  After a few more tips on what to do next, I was ushered out.  I spent a total of an hour and a half there and 20 minutes driving there each way.  The next day was a 10 hour drive home.  

        On the way up, I had been in the very back seats of my mother's Pilot, crunched up like an old tissue.  On the way back home, I was given the passenger seat.  Sadly, I had to stop at nearly every town to get out and walk since I felt like puking the whole ride.  Then, on Monday, I had to go to the doctor in town to get a cast EXCEPT they decided I didn't need a cast because that could cause my elbow to lock up and never move properly again.  Instead, I have to just hold my arm in the sling and INTENTIONALLY move my arm and cause myself pain.  Ow.   At least all the cats in my house and at my cousin's gave me love since they could tell I was sick. So, what do I think of the whole thing?  It's bad but it could have been way worse.  I'm lucky I didn't hurt my wrist or have any other breaks and although being without a cast hurts more, I don't have to cover my arm with a bag to shower and I can get into clothes mostly easily albeit slowly.  So, onto....

Lea's Tips:   
  1. If you get hurt, don't assume nothing is wrong.
    1. I didn't think I'd need to go to the hospital since I was in shock, but try waiting a few minutes and icing where it hurts before you decide whether or not to go.  
  2. See what you can do before you go to the hospital
    1. My family is very used to people being injured and has a pretty spot on sense of what to do in each situation.  If you are not o well versed, we live in the internet age!
      1. Try googling what you think might be wrong or calling family you think has experience
      2. I'd say it's usually a safe bet to try ice and advil/ibuprofen.  
  3. Relax
    1. Try not to panic, since freaking out can actually cause you more pain.  If you have family or friends around, let them do the driving.  Listen to music, play apps on an iphone/tablet, or just do anything to keep your mind off the pain.  
  4. Rest
    1. There is no reason to go to school/work the first day or two after breaking something.  I was lucky to have a really minor breakage, so I can still get around, but everyone deserves a little rest after a break.
    2. Get in contact with your teachers/job
      1. All my teachers have been extremely understanding and have allowed for extensions and help when I need it.
  5. Make a web of connections
    1. It's extremely important to have people who can help you out while you are incapacitated.  If you live in the same town as family, ask if they can help you in whatever way you need.  Otherwise, ask your friends.  Put out a call to arms on facebook or other social media to get the assistance you need.
      1. For example, I don't feel safe driving yet and I had to go ask all my friends and family and eventually my sister's half-brother (long story) offered to drive me to school this morning.  
      2. No shame in asking for help 
  6. Don't get behind on work
    1. Just because you are hurt though, doesn't mean you can allow your work to pile up.  Take your time and do it all in stride, but make sure to at least attempt to keep up!
  7. Do what the doctors say
    1. No matter how much it hurts to have to move my arm, I have to.  I have to take my meds.  I have to wear that itchy sling.  But, if you listen, hopefully it'll all be over soon!

That's it for today guys!!!  Share any stories you have below!  Bye byeeeeeeeee  

Monday, December 1, 2014

I get by with a little help from my friends

  With the help of Jaimi and the Tinker, I was able to open my Lootcrate!  The video wont really be edited because that's pretty difficult even normal, so I'll try to post that tomorrow!  Love you guys!

Broken Arm

No posts for a while sorry guys