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Thursday 14 April 2011

My Kinect Adventure!

It's been awhile now but quite a few weeks back I brought an xbox kinect.

[Yes! This is a kinect!]

Why did I buy one? To be honest an xbox live buddy and her YouTube video's made me decide that I wasn't going to be one of these lame asses who bad mouth something when I haven't even gave it ago, so the next day i popped down to my local GAME store and brought one along with dance central and zumba fitness the only two games I wanted on the kinect, after pulling a late shift from work I hurrayed back to test this baby out.

[Test One] - Living within a shared house didn't give me much option on where and when I was going to play the kinect so the first set of my testing happened in the bedroom with the space of 8ft length ways and 4ft width ways so there wasn't much room for moving about. First off I decided to give the face recognition a go to make it so much easier for signing in but that didn't go as well as i had hoped for my avatar just couldn't reach the marked squares due to my lack of space so I decided to try out dance central as i thought it wouldn't need much and I was right I was able to play most of the game until it got to the harder song where the moves were more advanced and needed more space but I was still happy with the fact that I could happily play the kinect within my room if need be.

[Test Two] - It was a Saturday morning so everyone was in bed or chilling in the kitchen so i decided to try out the more active games downstairs in the living room were there was more then enough space to do anything so I started with the face reconigtion and that went off without out a hitch my next action way to get a morning workout so I pulled in my partners mum and smacked zumba fitness in the disc drive and went happily away with a 20 minute workout the only problem I had was with the game as it would detect anything and the next thing you know your a guest and not your signed in profile after a few more workouts and a much more sweaty Korrawi I decided to move on to kinect adventures this time I was pulling in my partner for this one once again had no problems apart from we were tiring out easily and that the game took for ever to set up but was fun once it got going.

In my overall opinion about the kinect it's a good invention even though i haven't tried it out to the best of it's functions as I believe there isn't a game out there at the moment that pushes it to the max and even though many people still say it needs a huge amount of space to play I believe they are wrong the kinect can still be played with a reasonable amount of space as long as the game isn't so active but on the other hand game play is so much better when you have more space to play and move, what I would like to see someone do on the kinect is make a good survival horror game as i would love to see how that plays out but all I can do now is wait and see what Will come next.

Saturday 26 March 2011

Cupcake Loving!

My love for cupcakes has been there since I was born but has faded over the years but it always comes back when a sweet moist one lands on my lips, my love returned back to me on 21st of this month when returning back to my aunts she presented me with two little sweet cups of joy and I just could not resist there charm and cupcake number one was dead within seconds lucky for cupcake number two that lasted till the next day about 15:30pm where he died on my lunch break, I mound for them deeply and with there death came the inspiration for life.

I set myself a task of birthing more of these delicious cuties I love so much, so I headed right to the queen of cooking (my aunt) and asked her for the secret of these little cups of love after a much long conversation I found the genetic code I need and started to plan.


The birthing of cupcakes didn't take place until this evening after a trip to the supermarket for supplies, I had made my mind up I was going to give birth to twenty-four cupcakes twelve would be vanilla with lemon butter cream and the other twelve would have white chocolate drops in, I started mixing the formula and heating the incubator and within twenty minutes I had my first batch but they were naked! I couldn't think about that right now I had to set my sights on the other twelve so I started making the formula again adding the chips then moving them to the incubator while they were baking I set my sights on the clothing for the first twelve mixing the ingredients I soon had the most yummy butter cream ever I picked up the little guys and started dressing them.

Soon enough the other twelve were ready and by this time I had become tired so I decided they should be left as nature birthed them which I soon found out was a fantastic idea when I unleashed my cups of joy out to the living room so they could spread there love and joy to others, in overall thought I'm glad to have birth these little guys they did me proud and I'm thinking of birthing them more often along with many other things.

I will leave you with some picture of my cupcakes.