That was the year that was

As Year 2 of the blog club draws to a close, we finish our sixth trimester in the blogging business. It was mostly a new crew this year, many sixth graders, and a rotating cast of characters that featured a bunch of seventh graders and others now busy working on the school musical.

Some of our bloggers there on the last day have been with us since the start: Miles T and Detox Pig were at the very first meeting, and Crossbow Pig (hiding behind the computer, above) likes to boast about naming our blog in the first place. New faces like PixelCupcake, subsonicpupet8, PLASMATACO, CandyBooks, and AlexPander:D have changed the shape of our blogging. And for our final installment, we even got posts from frequent attendees but infrequent posters harryswife, banditbiersack, and Batman. 

As Miles T pointed out in his farewell post, we lost most of our eighth graders a while ago, which means he'll be our only casualty next year. Hopefully that means a lot of returning champions to continue bringing the awesome to the official student blog of the Rindge Ave Upper Campus. Have a great summer, and see you next year!

Thoughts On State Tests

So today our grade had the math state test o-o

Here's some of my opinions on the state testing system c:

So we all know that the state test comes once a year (for each subject). And people make kind of a HUGE deal out of it. I don't know about you, but these tests bring a lot of stress, and worry to me. I've always thought that the reason people don't do as well as they could on the state test is because of all the stress. We all worry about testing in some way, it's more extreme for some than others. I personally hate the state tests. They scare me, because they're so big and "important" to teachers. I think that it would be a lot less stressful for students if we just did various smaller tests across the school year, instead of one giant one. Having one giant uber-important test once every school year makes it harder for students to score well. For example, maybe on those two days you weren't feeling too well, and then oops you failed the test and you get held back. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. Say if you had a bunch of smaller, less important tests throughout the year, and averaged out the results, I think it would be a much more efficient and accurate way to test. And, as a side note, today is last day of blog club for the year :c But I really did like blog club, I'll definitely join next year c:

impossible things:

1) you cannot count your hair

2) you cannot wash your eyes with soap

3) you cannot breathe with your tongue out of your mouth

put your tongue back in fool....

4) you are reading this

4 1/2) you are human

6) you cannot say the letter p without separating your lips

7) you just tried it 

8) you are laughing at yourself

9) you skipped number 5

10) you checked for number 5

11) you laughed at this because your crazy

12) you realized that there is more than 10 facts

13) bye friend ^.^

from, me

goodbye foreeeeeveeeeer <3

Last Post Merr

Errrr mahh gawwdddd
Last blog club today
Blog club is so awesome and I'll miss it
But
Since I'm in 6th grade...
*Dramatic Pause*
I"LL BE HERE NEXT YEAR
Maybe
If I don't have other stuff
etc etc etc
 But I seriously love this club
I love Tuesdays because of blog club
And singing after this yey
Anyways
Goodbye blog club, you will be missed
Last (maybe) post
~PixelCupcake

The Year In Review and A Farewell to a Blog Veteran

So, today the news came in that this was the final blog meeting of the year. I guess I should take this to say that, well, I think that this year, more so than last year, I have absolutely nothing to apologize for. Nope. Nothing.
Anyway, this year, I wrote a few game reviews. You might not like 'em, but it's what I'm going to do next year again! I might do some other sort of review type thingy when I run out of games to play.
But, I don't think that's what needs to be talked about here.
What DOES need to be talked about is that one of our members, Miles T, is leaving this year. He is going to move up in the ranks to high school. His posts, thoughtful and humorous, shall be missed.
At the end of next year, I will be leaving too. So will my fellow Pig, DetoxPig. I look towards the future with bright eyes, an optimistic soul, and a brain full of positive thoughts.
Good luck on your next journey, Miles T. I wish you well.

Peace Out,
-CrossbowPig

A Review of: Tank Trouble (last post of the year)

Tank Trouble is a one to three player deathmatch game in which there are multiple items that you can pick up to enhance your ability to win. The map changes every time someone wins or when everyone loses, and it is completely random, no one knows where they will spawn or what map it will be. This makes the game very interesting and enjoyable. Shots bounce off of walls, which adds an element of strategy to the game.

There are five items in the game: rockets, grenades, chaingun, laser, and death ray. They all have special properties and can be used strategically to take out your enemies in funny or just awesome ways. Let's start off with rockets. Rockets home in on the nearest tank (which could be you) after around a one second activation period. Rockets can be outran if you have enough skills and can switch targets if you run by another person. Grenades explode into small shrapnel that blow up any tank it touches, but goes away after hitting a wall. They explode either after hitting a player, not hitting anything for too long, or if the person who shot it hits the shoot button again, which can be used to take out multiple targets without putting yourself at risk. Chaingun shoots tons of small shots, and also has a wide spread, which can end up in you hitting yourself. You can also move and turn while shooting. Laser bounces off walls, and shows where your shot will go, well at least only about 1/4 of it. That can also end up in you hitting yourself. Death ray is by far the best item. It peirces through walls, and if your aim is slightly off, it will curve and hit your enemies, but it takes about half a second to charge, which can be used by your enemies to shoot you if they are close enough.

The controls of this game are all on the keyboard and mouse, so three players can get a little cramped. Overall, this game is very fun and is very competitive.

Our score is an 8/10. The game is very fun, but it has its flaws, and can be frustrating at times, overall great though.



This is also the last blog club of the year, and one of our senior members Miles T. is leaving and going to the high school. He has his own blog, Miles on the MBTA: http://milesonthembta.blogspot.com/
He will be missed.

Thank you for staying with us for most of the year, and I hope you have a good rest of your year!



                                                      -Detox Pig

Last Post From Me...Ever

This is, according to Mr. Tobin's surprise attack, the last blog club of the year. This means that it's the last blog club for me...ever. That is, I'm going to the Rindge next year. I remember when the blog started, with some students having ambitious ideas abtaout making video series ("serieses?"), and others just wanting to make posters. I settled on writing Albert Howard comics, but this year I mostly did reviews. Sorry, Albert.

The blog club was where I first heard the song Thrift Shop (perhaps not actually a good thing). The blog club was where I made new friends. And the blog club was what inspired me to start my own blog, which you should totally read. Originally there were a lot of people in my grade working for the blog, so I knew a lot of people. But they slowly filtered out every trimester, until it was just me. I was (and am) the only 8th grader in the whole blog. And you know what? I don't care at all. Goodbye, everyone. Peace out and stuff.

Nothing like a generic cap and gown picture (image source).

Cool Animated Gifs

Happy final blog club!!!

Commando 3

Commando 3 is the type of games where you are a super soldier that takes a gazillion bullets and grenades to kill but takes 1 bullet to kill a regular bad guy soldier. It's a great 2D scroller shooter game and their is a large variety of guns to use such as pistol, Ak-47, uzi, tazer, knife, and a couple more. The bosses vary from hard to easy.

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There are many different enemies such as heavy, regular, commander, sniper, pyro, grenader, and bosses.

I would rate it a nine out of ten mainly because it can be challenging and intense. Also, I like fighting the bosses, which includes a gigantic elephant with missile launchers and a karate master that can chi blast you. The regular soldiers are "like tomatoes to me, too soft, everytime I see 'em, I got to pick 'em off." ~ dunkey

last post (summary about nouk, note to future nouk, new husband kell)

OMG ONG its the last blog lub  i meant club lol lub lub lub lub lub

over the year i have changed aaaalallooooooot (yep ~t)
ok so #1 i have blueish green hair which im dying orange nd red in a few weeks ^-^
# 2 MY bf is keelllliinnnn quuuuiiiiinnnn\///
#3 i liek bands now and not one direction
#4 i do kung fu
#5 ive had many injuries this year
#6 im exciting :DDD

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Dear future anouk,
I want you to answer these questions.
Whos your best friend?
Whats your favorite color?
Fave food?
Fave teacher?
DO you play sports?
are you labely?


swgugeifwergwedvass d llovas
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OK SO IM MARRYING THIS GUY NAMED KELLIN QUINN huehuhueuhuehuhuheuhuheueh the end

Last Blog Post

Hello. According to Mr. Tobin's surprising news, today is the last blog club of the year.

NOOOOO!!! That is not good. Anyways. Yeah. Just blogging to say goodbye for the year. Yeah. Bye, see you next year. 

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I'm fangirling this week about DARK DOT

So, we start of with a game you probably never heard before. Dark Dot. Doesn't ring a bell? Thought so. So Dark Dot is where a "dot" wants to CONQUER THE WORLD NOBODY STOPPING ME HEY! (That's actually a song) anyhow, you fight with these things called Darklets to the very end and after that EVIL LAUGH MODE!!!!! He conquers that part of the realm and the game keeps going. Pretty nice huh? Here's a little more info. Announced September & released October 2011, there was a game. Created by the Singapore MIT Gambit Game Lab, this iPad exclusive game was called Dark Dot. It was a 2D shooter that was free on the App Store---with a twist. Players could draw and use any formation they dreamed of, as long as it was a shape that connected. You played as these cute little characters called Darklets, who were led by their leader, the Darkest of Terrors, in a conquest to take over the world. However, there was one thing that plagued him---everywhere he went, he was called a “Dot”.   But not to criticize Gambit, BUT THE GAME IT TOO FREAKING SHORT AND ENDS WITH A "JUST YOU WAIT!" (spoiler alert) I BEEN WAITING FOR 3 YEARS NOW GAMBIT, 3 YEARS AND YET TO BE STILL ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT WAITING. But, I digress. Its been taken out of everywhere and I'm probably the only one that still  has a working copy of it. If you play the games a few times, then you can unlock all levels and in 15 min. Bye!  (The picture below is the final boss the Cyclone king.)and that Happy guy in the pic. is the Darkest of Terrors. Also seen here is the cover of the app, and the Darkest of Terrors shown him.

So Bad It's Good: Foodfight!

Foodfight (one word) was originally going to be released in 2003, but someone stole the footage. Why someone would steal footage of this awful movie is beyond me, but it cropped up again in 2011 when it was put on auction. It was bought by "Threshold Entertainment," which I certainly have never heard of, and released in 2012.

The concept is actually kinda cool. The Marketropolis Market is a regular supermarket by day, but it becomes a huge city at night. It's populated by many brands including Mr. Clean, Mrs. Butterworth, and a version of the Cap'n Crunch guy. There's a lot of product placement in the movie, incidentally.

The movie starts out with Dex Dogtective (voiced, of all people, by Charlie Sheen) fighting a fat cat burglar named... Fat Cat Burglar... on a blimp. After knocking off some of the ugliest hamsters ever, he then pops the blimp, sending Fat Cat Burglar to his doom, yet Dex somehow survives. Fat Cat Burglar never appears again, though the hamsters unfortunately do.

Then Dex proposes to his girlfriend, Sunshine, while his annoying "sidekick" Dan Daredevil sky-writes a picture of Dex proposing... for some reason. But in order to draw the ring Dan has to do the loop-da-loop, something which "he's never pulled off before." The plane blows up in midair somehow, and Sunshine goes off to see if he's okay. She ends up disappearing.

I wouldn't miss her. She's scary!

The movie flashes forward six months, to when the flailiest guy ever pushes for "Brand X" to be stocked in the market. The owner agrees for some reason, and "Lady X" comes into the city. She attempts to... seduce Dex (this is a kid's movie), but he refuses. Soon Dan disappears, and Lady X captures Dex, too. He and Dan are put into a dryer, but they escape ("Socks! That's it! Socks always escape the dryer!"). Then they travel to the owner's computer to get Brand X recalled, as it contains addictive elements according to a big-nosed scientist. While this is happening, there's a great scene where the Brand X people are trying to get the population of the city to sing their jingle ("Brand X, Brand X, it's simple and plain"), but the people sing the French national anthem instead. Okay...

Why would the store owner ever trust this guy?

There's one scene where this scientist sneezes. It's not pretty.

Unfortunately, a guy working for Brand X turns off the power before the recall email gets sent. The next half hour (a third of the movie) is just a big fight. I won't give anymore away, should you decide to watch this trash.

So, this movie apparently cost $65 million to create. I have no idea where that money went, because if you haven't noticed from the screenshots, the animation is awful. It may be from 2003, but Toy Story was made in 1995 and its animation was pretty good.

Also, this movie is full of non-kid-friendly content. Many of the movie's quotes can't be written here ("I think I wet myself... it feels kinda nice"), as it's full of sexual jokes, racist jokes, and anti-Semitic jokes. There's also a weasel that dabbles in the black market. And there are fart jokes, too.

I would say this is worth watching just for the awful animation. You can find the full movie on YouTube. Finally, here are some of the other screenshots I took.

The creepiest person ever.

Or maybe this one. She's in the process of farting in this picture.

The guy that starts the French national anthem.

What is wrong with this guy's face?

The weasel.

"Duh... who's Benjamin Franklin?" Actual quote.

The girlfriend once again.

A Review of: Electricman 2

Electricman 2 is a 2D stick fighting game where you can change your character to the way you like it with the choice of six different colors and eight characters for your name. You can choose from three different difficulties, easy, normal, and pro. Easy is EXTREMELY easy, and is only recommended if you have never played a fighting game EVER before. This is because the enemies have very little health and come in twos and threes.
Normal is recommended if you haven't played the game before, and pro is recommended if you have beaten the game on normal. The game starts with a short tutorial that shows you how to use your moves and to get used to the controls. It then starts off with the actual game. It is played in a tournament style, so you get to fight a little less every round. There are about 6 different groups that get harder as you go, but the hardest is the Tech Team. The Tech Team has a medium amount of health and run away to regenerate some of what they took. This is one example of the unique enemies you fight in Electricman 2. Some fight in numbers, some dodge, some have loads of health, and some have a balance of all of those, which makes the game very interesting. If you can get by every round, you get to the final boss, Death.

Death is a combo of ten minions and one main boss. The minions have almost no health and are easy to kill, but don't stop moving, because they can easily defeat you if only a couple trap you. The main boss has a medium amount of health, dodges, and can regenerate pretty quickly. If you can actually get to Death, it's not that hard, which is a disappointment. The ending is also disappointing, as all that happens is your character dances around and it says, "Congratulations, you won the tournament!"

Overall, our average score is 7.75/10. A fun game, but not outstanding. Decent replayability, as you can try many different strategies to win.




                                          Thanks for reading! -Detox Pig

The Fault in Our Stars Review thing

Don't say I didn't warn you

When you read The Fault in Our Stars

two things will happen.

1. All the TFiOS jokes and comics will suddenly make sense 

2. You. Will. Cry..... So. Hard.

Well those things happened to me.
If you didn't cry, you're either heartless or really strong.
I cried. ;-; Sadness

Still love the book
And you have to read it.......
NOW

If the movie changed ANYTHING
I will be so mad. Beyond madness
But yeah

Okay byee
PixelCupcake

Weird game corruptions & glitches

So, this is just a list of game glitches and corruptions in various video games.

The first is from the Sims, and it's called the "Demon Baby".

When a baby is born in the Sims, it can sometimes stretch and warp like this. Eeeeewwwwwww.

The second one is from Rocky on the PS2, and this is supposed to be Clubber Lang.

This is caused by a rare 3D plane glitch, which affects most of the game when it happens.

Number three is in Mario 64, and this extremely rare corruption affects most of the game. So you have a comparison, here's the original:

And here's the corrupted version:

Apparently, his nose is gone, his mouth is inside out, his mustache is stretched, his cheeks resemble those of a chipmunk, his eyes are missing the whites and are floating in midair, and his ears look like sideways bunny ears. Wow.

And finally, I have a creepy Legend of Zelda texture corruption that (I'm pretty sure) only affects Link's face. I'm not clear on what Zelda game this is from, but I think it's "Twilight Princess" (which sounds like a Disney movie). Anyway, here's the glitch.

This would never intentionally be in a Zelda game. Apparently, he has bright red eyes with white pupils, and a giant static-like smile. Gross and creepy.

How in the whole wide world are you supposed to defeat the computer in Hexagon?

And now we enter with the tune of I can't defeat Air man. Really, I can't defeat the computer in Hexagon! As I would guess you guys never heard of the game Hexagon so.... Hexagon is a game that you play with a computer or another player. So, I'm a champion playing against others but then, I CAN'T DEFEAT THIS RANDOM CPU I TRY TO STRATEGIZE AS FAST AS I CAN (I'm not as good as my brother in parodies....). Any way, is there a glitch to make the computer NOT figure out your next move and have back up? Oh right, more about the game. So, it's ruby vs. pearl. The board is in a shape of a Hexagon and you try to ¨zap¨  the other opponent to get them on your side. When the board is filled whoever has the most of their side wins. That's all!