Game Review - osu!

Okay so I recently came across this game. It's a rhythm game were you have to click circles at the right time according to the beat of the song. At first glance you'd just think its another rhythm game there's already enough out there. But this ones different because the songs used, called beatmaps, are made by other users. Also it has a login system and ranking system so you can keep score as you go along. Because of the user generated beatmaps you can never be short of new songs to try out. It updates itself when there are new updates. The best thing about it, it's totally free. Of course you get extra benifits if you donate to the project such as direct downloading and other things, but you don't have to. If you want to try this game out for yourself, and I recomend it fully go to this site.

http://osu.ppy.sh/

Movie Review - Fast and Furious

I recently saw the new Fast and Furious movie and I must say I loved it. Most of the cars were American Muscle which was pure awesome.

Story: For those who don't know the movie takes place before Tokyo Drift. The story is very straight forward with some little twists added in but lets face it. It's no Saw (first and second, not so much the rest). Who wants to be confused by all that story anyway, this is a movie about fast cars.

The action was awesome and they added a nice dose of humour in. All in all my verdict is it was a brilliant movie and I would have no qualms about getting the DVD.

Political Compass Test

This is a lot of blog posts in one day. But there's a lot of stuff I want to say. I recently took a political compass test which not only shows left or right but also Authoritarian and Libertarian. This is where I am on the scale.

Swine Flu

Well Swine Flu seems to be the talk at the moment so I thought I would put my two cents in. It has made it to New Zealand, and the media are having a field day. I was watching the news today (yesterday) and they had statistics up. Their statistics for New Zealand cases were 136 suspected cases and 401 people under quarantine and taking Tamiflu who had contact with people suspected to have it. The thing is they failed to mention is the numbers of probable and confirmed cases of Swine Flu. 4 confirmed and 12 probable. Doesn't seem like much does it? Because it's not.

Living In NZ

I live in New Zealand obviously. I have always lived here; actually I’ve never left the place. So I’m going to share the upsides and the downsides of living in New Zealand. I should know them... I’ve lived here for 18 years.

Let’s start with the downsides, bad first. That way I finish feeling good about my country.

The problem with living in New Zealand is we get almost everything last, from movies to new products. I could be talking about an episode of a program from America. A typical conversation between me and an American:

Me: “Hey, did you see that new episode of Mythbusters where goes on to describe the show”

American: “That was four episodes ago man, what do you live under a rock?”

The funny thing is, I sort of do live under a rock. A rather big one at that, it’s so big it has a name. It’s called Earth.

I mean the only things we get first are daylight and anything Peter Jackson spits out! Not dissing Peter Jackson or anything like that, but let’s face it. We can only brag about the Lord of the Rings for so long before no-one really cares anymore, and what’s the point of being a day ahead of America if we still get everything last? Honestly we don’t even get Flight of the Concords first, and they come from New Zealand! Of course our TV companies are a bunch of stinges that didn’t fund them. Bet they’re feeling crap right about now.

Depending of the reception of this I’ll keep going on the pros and cons of NZ in future posts.

First Post

This is my first blog ever.

Well my name is Aaron Adams. Red Horizon Design isn't really a company or anything, just my trade mark.

This blog will be where I post writings, what I'm doing. Whatever really. I will post my opinions on current events from time to time and all that. But mostly this will be used to share my stories, art and videos.

I figure I might as well post something here so I leave you will a couple pictures that I recently finished. I cartoonise photos with Photoshop.