A Cat Named Derp, Everyday I'm Shovelin'

Hey guys, I have two new episodes of Quantum Conundrum for you, just cause I'm so far ahead of myself with recording them. I really love this game. I really hope you're all enjoying them. Please don't hesitate to like/favorite them (and subscribe to me if you haven't). I really appreciate the feedback if you can give it. (Even if it's just a comment.) I love hearing that you guys like what I do. Thanks! Here's the videos. :)




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Gettin' Heavy

Hey everyone! Here's the third installment of my Quantum Conundrum playthrough! This time I discover a whole new dimension where everything is heavy! I hope you all like it.



Also, the Minecraft parkour video I did with Noah and Brendan, STILL hasn't finished processing. I'm assuming it's because it's such a long video. YouTube might be a bit backed up as well. I'll post it as soon as it'd done. That might take another day though. Haha.

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Quantum Con-tinued and some Hardcore Parkour

Hey guys, I hope your're all enjoying my first Quantum Conundrum video. I recorded it all in one play session, so there won't be any video length differences or anything that you may have requested. I have decided to make my videos typically 22 minutes long. I think that's a good medium that won't be too short or too long and boring. I will try and make the occasional hour long video though if you guys want it, or if I'm doing something special. Anyway, enjoy part two in all of it's HD glory. :)

I get to meet this little guy! 

Yesterday, I also did a Minecraft parkour map with my friends, Brendan (Nasku501), and Noah (Dontshoot). It's called Rumble In The Jungle. I hope you all like that as well. The video is a bit long (around 45 minutes) so you might have to watch it in sessions if it's too long for you to sit through at once. I hope that's alright with you guys.

Let me know how I'm doing with all this, and have a great night.

Happy Gaming

EDIT 7/14: The Minecraft video still hasn't finished processing. I'll make a new post with it, and link to it here, once it is view-able. Sorry about the wait. Thanks for understanding!

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FRAPpy Summer: A Quantum Conundrum

Hey everyone!

Sorry it's been so super long since I last posted. I literally haven't really done anything so far this summer, so it's 100% my fault haha. Anyway, I got FRAPS today (like I've been promising to do FOREVER.) I also bought the new game, Quantum Conundrum. I guess it was made by the same development director or something as Portal, so it's really cool. It's a puzzle-y fancy shmancy physics type game, and so far I've had a great time.

Enjoy the new high-quality videos from now on, (HD WOO!) and don't forget to like/fav/subscribe! I really appreciate all your support.

Here is part 1! (I actually recorded 3 parts today in one play session, just because it was so addicting, and then I found out on YouTube, they're letting me upload videos that are [I'm assuming] as long as I want, so no more 15 minute limit! Let me know in the comments how long you think my average play session should be, and if you'd mind longer videos [forty five minutes/ hour?] Anyway, enjoy it!



Thanks!

Happy Gaming

P.S. Also please let me know if there's a schedule idea you have for my videos (ie. Mon, Wed, Fri? Every Saturday? etc) Thanks! :)

May The Brick Force Be With You

Hey guys,
No, I'm not leaving the Blogosphere. I've just been super lazy and busy I guess. I'm hoping to get more videos and content out there as we get closer to my AP Bio exam in a few weeks. School has been taking up a lot of my time lately and I apologize. I have tried filming in the past few weeks, but Hypercam has been glitchy. (I do plan on buying FRAPS sometime soon.) I digress.

I'm back, and hopefully won't leave for 5 months any time soon. The other day, I started playing a new MMO called Brick Force. Maybe you've heard of it, maybe not. It's like MineCraft in that everything is made of blocks, but it is an FPS, so it's like Team Fortress 2 in that respect. It's a great combination of the two and I recommend it to anyone who plays either.

I made a video of me playing the tutorial and also a montage of some funny clips of my gameplay afterwords.


I hope you all enjoy it! (You can access the montage through an annotation at the end of the tutorial, or in the video description.)



Also, before I sign off for now, please follow me on Twitter (@1Mudkip88). I'd really appreciate it because I try to keep that updated, and love to hear feedback from my fans. Thanks so much! (Happy May The 4th to all the Star Wars fans out there!)



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New Year's Resolution

Hello hello!
Getting out of the posting hiatus, and will post some stuffs this weekend. I promise I'm gonna be doing more. New Year's Resolution. Haha. Enjoy this new Binding of Isaac video. (Watch the rest if you haven't seen them!)



Hope you all had a great week back at school!

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Starting Bit.Trip Runner, and More Playthroughs To Come!

Hey guys. Just wanted to post a quick update to let you all know that I'm starting a Bit.Trip Runner playthrough. Here's the first episode that I filmed on Sunday.



Recently I bought the Super Meat Boy Anniversary Pack (Including Super Meat Boy, Aquaria, Bit.Trip Runner, Bit.Trip Beat, VVVVVV, World of Goo, Gish, Machinarium, Braid, Half Life 2, and Half Life 2: Lost Coast.) I plan on doing playthroughs of Aquaria, Bit.Trip Runner (obviously) Bit.Trip Beat, VVVVVV, Gish, Machinarium, and Braid (once it gives me a resolution option, because right now I can't see the game to play it.)


The reason I'm not doing ones for Super Meat Boy, Half Life 2, and World of Goo is because I've already started them and you wouldn't be getting my honest reactions to the games. That's just how it is. Also, it'd take me a year to do Meat Boy. I'm super bad at it. (Well, not worse than average. I just get super frustrated with it. I'm getting an XBOX controller for the PC, so that should help a lot.)


So yeah, that's about it for today. I'll be doing a Thanksgiving Flash Friday this week, so if you have any game ideas for that, post it in the comments. Thanks guys!

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Flash Friday: Bouncy Mouse and Gravity Duck

Hey, so today was a Double Flash Friday because I've just been super duper lazy lately. But, what are you gonna do? I'm a teenager and that's just how I am. Haha. So here's the video. I hope you all like it.




If you have any game suggestions for Flash Friday or a playthrough, just pop it in the comments. I'll also try to upload some SkyBlock tonight. For reals.

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More MineCraft Videos, and Might As Well Subscribe

Oh, hey there. Here's the three videos that haven't been posted here. You might as well subscribe to me on YouTube if you haven't already, because I'm bound to forget to post these here. (Be warned, the first one in this post has some language so 13+. Thanks)









Enjoy them. 


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New Beginnings

Hey guys, so obviously, posting over the summer didn't go so well, as I was very busy with summer reading, and working on a packet for AP Biology, which I was recommended for this year.

Anyway, I'm hopefully going to be getting into a better schedule with this whole thing, by releasing videos along with a blog post every Saturday.

I still plan on keeping this blog W101 themed, but with a few other things thrown in, such as MineCraft. Hopefully a lot of you play it as well, so this won't be too boring for you guys. If you don't know about MineCraft, you definitely should buy it well it's still in Beta (1.7.3 currently. 1.8 is coming soon.) It's one of my favorite games, so I think you all would like it too.

Here's the first video, not only of MineCraft, but of many different games to come.

Enjoy.

I hope you all had a great summer and enjoy the school year as much as I plan to.

Happy Gaming

Samantha Learns To Garden

Hi guys, I'm going to try and crank out a post everyday this week because it's February break!

Today, Samantha wanted to learn how to garden. I helped her out with making a video and here it is.


Hi everyone! This is really exciting getting my very own post on Blaze's blog! I'm here today to show you a cool new video that Blaze helped me make. It's of me learning how to garden! It was so much fun! I hope you all enjoy it!




(Note: The audio and video get out of sync gradually through the video. So for the YouTube upload, the audio is replaced with music of Samantha's choice. Thank you.)

I hope you all learned something from that video. Gardening is SO much fun!

Thanks guys!

Love, 

Samantha

Thanks, Sam! I hope this will help you guys who skipped through the tutorial, or just need a quick refresher on how to garden in the game.

Tomorrow's post will be about a change in the game that has some mixed feelings.

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Facebook (Part 1) and Ketchup

Ok, so a few of you know about a page that was created on Facebook about Jason Willowheart. The title of the page was explicit so I will not repeat it. The reason I found out about this page was because it was suggested to me. Now, I of course reported the page and it was taken down, and myself, Jason, and the creator of the page worked things out, but this leads me to a big issue.

Treat others the way you want to be treated.

Yeah, I know it's a cheesy thing to say, but it's true. Don't do things that you wouldn't want done to you. We need to do our best to keep this world a nice place. Now,m I don't want to get all crazy guru-esque on you guys, but I just wanted to throw that out there.


I know I haven't been porting a lot, but like I say on Twitter on occasion "High School Isn't A Musical." Midterms are coming up (For those who don't know what those are, they're big tests halfway through the year that test your knowledge of all that you've learned so far in the class that year.) and I've been busy studying and whatnot.


When I first started this blog, my goal was to post every single day like Friendly. Now, I broke that way back in August. (Not including skipped-a-day posts.) I really want to try getting back into my blogging groove, but it's difficult, and I really appreciate all of your support.


Anyway, back to today's topic. I've been getting really frustrated with all the application requests and posts on my wall with inappropriate things, so I decided to go through my friends list and weed out those who I don't know. So, I made a list of all those that I've removed. So, here is the first of many to come. Now if you are on this list and do actually read my blog or know me, then just post a comment letting me know that. Thank you. Here it is:

• Aaron Sandmask
• Abdullah Al-shkanbeh
• Adam Mythhunter
• Alex Checkerez
• Alex Drake
• Alexander Moonwraith
• Alexis Sungrove
• Alicia Hellgirl
• Alistar Soulslayer
• Alyssa Blood
• Alyssa Mistbreath
• Amanda Moonhorn
• Amanda Willowheart
• Amber Dark
• Amy Soulwielder
• Angel Winterspear
• Angela Louie
• Anna Icegem
• Anthony Blade
• Anthony Nevergiveup Fortney
• Anthony Nguyen
• Ariel Abraham
• Artur Mooneyes
• Ashley Aaron Raether
• Autumn Dark
• Blaze Firesword
• Blaze Shadowhorn
• Blaze Starbreaker
• Brenna Burgess
• Brian Cofradia
• Bridger Skye
• Caleb Legendblood
• Cameron Ironblade

 Ok, again, if you are on that list and know me and read my blog, then just post a comment and I'll be happy to add you back. Thanks.


And now for the ketchup. Not many of you have commented on my Music Video Post. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then after this you finish this post go read that one. In short, I'm having a contest for my Wizard101 music video. All the details are in that post. Yeah, I'm pushing the link. Mainly because I've only had one entry. Not good. The contest will end on February 1st so, just make a comment saying you'd like to enter with your e-mail / central username / or some way for me to contact you to let you know if you win. Thank you.


Also I have a cool thread sent by Isaiah Boomcaster (one of my devoted readers) from The Central (Wizard101Central.com) with all the best Level 60 gear. Here it is. That's going to be really helpful. Thanks Isaiah! Also, he sent me the link to his blog. He's just starting out, so give him a good ol' follow. He really loves Wizard101, so I'm sure it will be a fantastic blog!


That's all for today, and be sure to enter the contest...here. ;D Thanks.

Happy Gaming 

Music Video Contest

Hey everyone. That's right. It's time to put out all those details about my contest.

As many of you know, I'm going to be creating a Wizard101 music video to celebrate the release of Celestia. You have decided we will use the song "Saltwater Room" by Owl City. I will be using the 'Ocean Eyes' version.

"Blaze, how do I enter?"

Simple, Inquiring Reader ,


How Do I Enter:

All you have to do is post a comment on this post (or any of my posts in the future up until the contest is closed.) with your name and some way for me to contact you if you are chosen to be in the video. (Wizard101 Central Username, e-mail, diary of a wizard, etc)


I will be using Random.Org to choose the winners, so there is no controversy about if it's bias or not. If there is a smaller number of people that enter, I might do small auditions.


Requirements:
My only requirement is that you know the words to the song. YOU DO NOT NEED ACCESS TO CELESTIA TO BE IN THE VIDEO. This way anyone can be in the video.


Parts:
Male Singer
Female Singer
10 Dancers (5 of each if possible.)

Ok, that's pretty much everything. Here's the song, so you guys can practice some more. ;) 





The lyrics to the song are in the video description.


Thanks guys. Please pass this post on to your friends if you think they'd like to enter.


Happy Gaming

Merry Christmas, Gardening, and [Music Video] Preview (CONTEST PART 1)

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been blogging for a long time. I wasn't allowed to use my computer.

Anyway. I'm here to let you all know that I missed you very much and to get all my blogging needs out of my system after being bottled up for about two weeks. :)

While I was gone, the gardening feature went live. Now, before I give you all the info on how to garden and whatnot, I just want to rant a little.

One of the many reasons I like love Wizard101 is because it's not one of those games that you have to go one every single day  and get your stupid daily bonuses or what have you. Putting this feature into the game is just going to turn Wizard101 into just another 'Webkinz.' (Not that Webkinz wasn't a ton of fun for about a year in 4th grade. It just got really old really fast.) I just don't want that to happen to Wizard101. It doesn't deserve to go in the Gaming Graveyard and be put in the same category as.... x shudder x Neopets.

I understand that you don't HAVE to have a garden, but I mean it's cool and another way to interact with our housing.

"But, Blaze. How could we make gardening a better feature and not have Wizard101 be a 'Boring Everday' kind of game?"

Well, my Inquiring Reader, simple. Just create an option so that the timer for your plants' needs only runs while you are logged onto the game. That way, our plants don't die while we sleep, or have to go to school, do homework, etc.


So, after that, here's your newsletter on the 'Feature Which Shall Not Be Named.'

Hello everyone! Professor Moolinda Wu here and I'm excited to tell you all about a new feature in the Spiral: Gardening! To get started on your path to a greener thumb, come visit me in my classroom in Ravenwood if you are level 12 or higher.

Students at Ravenwood can plant and grow amazing plants in their Dorms and Castles! Wizards of all schools can garden, so my hope is that every student will learn the joy of shepherding new life!

A plant's journey of life begins as a seed. There are many types of seeds, each with a different destiny. With enough energy, you can prepare soil of your choice in your Castle (if you have one) or a planter in your dorm. Then you can place the seed into the readied soil. After a time, it will begin to grow. You can shepherd its growth through spells and other means of caring for it, creating an environment for it to thrive.

After you've planted your seed, it starts to grow, from seed to seedling, young plant, mature plant to elder. You can use a number of helpful spells to usher it along as it grows, keeping it healthy and happy. Once you have planted a seedling, either in a plot or in a pot, it cannot be moved.

  This is a seedling, the youngest phase of life for a plant. You will need Energy to plant a seed in a planter or the ground. After a seed is planted, you can use plant growth spells on it to help it flourish. Plants require some things to thrive and survive: water, sunshine, pollination, magic and even music.

  This is a young plant, in its next stage of life after seedling. You can observe your plant's growth visually and you can move your cursor over your plant to Inspect it. This provides you with information about your plant's health and needs. You can also affect your plant by using some simple spells: The Plow spell allows you to remove a plant or dirt pile, if you wish to do so. The Revive spell allows you to transform a dead plant into a new seedling, ready to grow once more.
  This is a mature plant, in the fullness of its growth. When a plant becomes mature, it can be harvested. You can harvest a plant by interacting with it. Each type of plant yields a different harvest: reagents, pet snacks, gold, treasure cards, or more seeds! You can harvest from a plant as long as it's in its mature stage of life. When a plant is in its mature stage that doesn’t mean that you can harvest it right away or that it’s continually harvestable. It means that once every day or so it will be harvestable so long as it’s in that mature state.

  This is an elder plant, the final stage of a plant's life cycle. Many plants won't reach this stage! An elder plant can be harvested one final time, with much greater possible rewards. Once an elder plant is harvested, it disappears and cannot be revived.


I'm sad to say that gardening isn't all nurturing and happiness. Plants can be endangered by some very real threats.

  This plant is wilting. It will die before too long if it is not taken care of. Plants can die if their needs are not met, if they are in surrounded by things they dislike, or if they are killed by pests. Plants have likes and dislikes, things that encourage or discourage their growth. A plant's likes are things it enjoyes being near. These can include other types of plants or gardening items. A plant will flourish if it is near things that it likes, while things it dislikes will cause it to become unhealthy. An important part of gardening is learning how to arrange your plants, and create a healthy garden for them.

  This plant is dead. Now all that can be done is to plow it over, or to revive it. The greatest threat to plants are pests. Pests can infest a plant and hinder its growth. If pests are not eliminated, eventually the plant will begin to wilt and die. When a plant is infested by pests, it cannot be harvested. To eliminate pests, you must use pest fighting spells. To eliminate a pest, the spell must be of high enough rank. You can purchase pest fighting spells from vendors throughout the Spiral, or even win them as treasures. It's a sorry state to see plants doing so poorly, but it's important to know what risks there are when gardening.

"But, Blaze. How do I garden?"


Let's find out.

Where do I get Seeds?
You can get seeds from gardening vendors throughout the Spiral. Farley is the gardening vendor in Wizard City's Golem Court, look for his cousins Marley, Charley and Harley in other worlds. You can also earn seeds as rewards through defeating enemies in magic duels, or get them in other ways.

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How do I Plant?
  To prepare an area for planting outdoors in your Castle, you must cast a soil preparation spell. Soil preparation spells cost Energy. To garden in your dorm room or an indoor space in your Castle, you must buy a planter from the gardening vendor. There are different sizes and types of plants, but some types of plants cannot be planted indoors.

When you're ready to plant a seed in prepared soil or a planter, you must select the seed from your Gardening panel then select the location. This places the chosen seed into the soil or planter, where it can begin to grow.

Plants require attention to grow in the form of plant growing spells. All plants have needs that must be met, and plant growing spells fulfill those needs for a period of time. Plants needs include water, sunlight, pollination, music and magic. Plant growing spells cost Energy to cast, and are cast through the garden interface in your home.

  Plants have likes & dislikes, conditions that can help them grow or hinder their development. A plant will grow faster if it is surrouned by things it likes, and it will grow slower if it is surrounded by things it dislikes.  You can learn what a plant likes or dislikes by using the Inspect spell on it.

 

Plants go through several stages as they grow, from seed to seedling to young plant to mature plant to elder plant. Once a plant is mature, you can harvest it by interacting with it. A plant can be harvested repeatedly until it reaches the elder stage. Harvesting yields rewards such as reagents, pet snacks, gold, treasure cards or other seeds. When a plant reaches the elder stage, it can be harvested only one more time. This harvest will yield the greatest rewards. After this, the elder plant will disappear.

Gardening Tools
  Utility spells are useful for many aspects of gardening. The plow spell removes a targeted plant or dirt pile. The Inspect spell lets you look at a targeted plant's characteristics and progress. The Revive spell lets you turn a plant that has died into a young plant of the same type. 

  Pests
Plants can sometimes suffer from pests. Pests are annoying critters that will cause it to wilt and die if they are not dealt with. To get rid of pests, you will need to cast the appropriate pest fighting spell. Different types of pests require different types of spells. Pests are ranked and require spells equal to or greater than their rank.
  If you have a high enough gardening rank, you can cast pest prevention spells to keep pests away from your garden. You can buy pest fighting and pest prevention spells from certain trainers throughout the Spiral, you can buy them at the Crown shop or you can earn them through treasure rewards.  Each plant differs by how easy they are to garden, how long they take to grow and mature and how long they live.

As you continue to garden you will earn gardening experience through successfully harvesting plants. There are 10 ranks of gardening:

1. Novice
2. Neophyte
3. Apprentice
4. Initiate
5. Intermediate
6. Journeyman
7. Expert
8. Adept
9. Master
10. Grandmaster

The types of seeds you can plant may be restricted, requiring a minimum gardening rank. Additionally, some kinds of gardening equipment and spells require minimum gardening rank to use.\

"Is that all that's been added to Wizard101, Blaze?"

No, my friends! there's more!

Celestian Furniture
Yes you read that correctly! Celestian Furniture has come to the Spiral, as well as recipes for furniture from our newest underwater world!

Keyboard Shortcuts
The Keyboard Shortcut to enable/disable the Quest Tracker has changed from T to CTRL-T. This should prevent many young Wizards from accidentally disabling their Quest Tracker when attempting to chat.

Menu Chat
New phrases have been added to Menu Chat, including a quick 'You're Welcome' for our very polite Wizards!

No Trade Items
No Trade and No Auction stats have been removed from many Celestia items.

Pets
Zombie pets will no longer be stuck swimming.
The Myth Imp pet spell is now properly casting to dispel both Life and Death spells.
The Seraph pet's card will no longer show damage to all enemies.
Pets with 'May Cast Trap' will no longer be casting those traps on their owners!

Energy
Since your Energy is shared by both Pets and Gardening, Max Energy has been increased. Energy now begins at 40 at level 1, and increases by 1 at each even-numbered level.
References to Pet Energy are now just "Energy".

Quests
The Final Countdown quest can now be completed by a solo player. There is no longer a timer to activate the power crystals and there is also no longer a timer for the two set of creatures that trigger the doors to be opened that are right before Malistaire's room.

Crowns Shop
When an item is on sale in the Crowns Shop, you will now see both the full price with a strikethrough and the sale price, so you can see how much you are saving.

Polymorphs
Players should no longer see their names change when they use a Polymorph spell.

Treasure Cards
Polymorph Treasure Cards now have level requirements and will not be received as rewards for duels.

Spells
Mildred Farseer has something interesting for you!
Helping Hands will now heal on the first round, and resurrect fallen players.

Travel
Mounts can now be used in the Spiral Chambers of Marleybone and MooShu.

Recipes
Equipment, furniture, pet snack, treasure card and transmute recipes have been added to Celestia!

Furniture
Heavy Dining Table can be placed in more locations now.

Reagents
Sandstone and Sunstone can now be found on bosses in The Solar District and the Trial of the Spheres.  

The one of those that excites me most is the 'Helping Hand' spell change. As all my fellow sorcerers out there know, when you cast the spell, it would heal the next round, not on the round casted. Also, you were able to cast on fallen players, but since it healed the next round, it would disappear before then and do nothing. But, now with this update, I'll finally be able to heal a significant amount without treasures or amulets. (I do have an amulet with a Seraph and Satyr on it. Just can't equip it yet. It's level 56, and I'm like 52.) So that's really cool.

Polymorphs. We won't get to see Arlen as [Can't remember. Need to check picture] anymore.

[PICTURE HERE!]

Celestian furniture! Huge deal with that! So pumped! I can make the main room of my house a sick Celestian room now! I love it. 

Level requirements for polymorphs! So awesome! Now we don't have to deal with those crazy kids running around PvP with 9 billion health. (I've never actually seen that happen, I'm just assuming it did.)

'The Final Countdown' can now be solo-ed. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I mean, a huge part of the "Malistaire's Lair" event of the game was getting together with your friends and banning together to fight this huge powerful wizard boss. But, now that it's not required. I don't know if that takes away some of the significance of that battle. I mean, sure, it will be a huge challenge to solo and I'm sure some players were itching for that to be possible, but I'm not sure. Let me know what you guys think.

Oh, before I forget. I can't post any pictures yet, so just be patient. I got a new computer for Christmas and all my files haven't been transferred over yet, so I can't really post any of the pictures that I have locked up in the Picture Vault, just yet.

And by one vote. The song choice for my Wizard101 Celestia music video will be:

[Drumroll Troll]

The Saltwater Room by Owl City.

Great choice, everyone.

Here's the runners up and the song:


Under The Sea - The Little Mermaid - 2 votes
Umbrella Beach - Owl City - 2 votes
Everything Is Not What It Seems - Selena Gomez - 1 vote
Magical - Selena Gomez - 1 vote
Magic Carpet Ride - KSM - 1 vote
Magic - Selena Gomez - 1 vote


The following songs received no votes:


Part of Your World (Little Mermaid) - Miley Cyrus
Part of Your World (Little Mermaid) - Jessica Simpson
Part of Your World (Little Mermaid) - Skye Sweetnam
Bottom of The Ocean - Miley Cyrus
Magic - Honor Society
Magic - Meaghan Martin
Strange Magic - Steve Rushton
Disappear - Selena Gomez
You Can Do Magic - Drew Seeley
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Mitchell Musso
Some Call It Magic - Raven Symoné






I will be using the 'Ocean Eyes' version, just because that's the one that I have. (If you guys would rather me use the 'Maybe I'm Dreaming' version, just let me know, and I can do that instead.)

I will be needing two singers for the video. (And a few dancers. About 5.) I'll get 3 understudies for dancing / singing because as we all know, time gets in the way 99% of the time.

So. If you want to enter in the contest. Just post a comment in this post. and the next post I will make which will be all about the video. Thanks. :)

(As always, click to make the pictures bigger.)

Happy Gaming

AwesomeSauce Type #2: Ketchup

Disclaimer: Music Belongs To Selena Gomez


Oh my gosh, it feels so good to get back to blogging. I REALLY hated being off. I just felt like it wasn't something I wanted to do. But, now that I'm back in the post editor, it feels right again. :)


So, let's ketchup err catch up. ;D


New Celestia Reveal. (13)

You'll have to click on it to see it, but there is a little turtle next to our little Angler Fish Prince. So now it looks like there will be 5 more reveals left (provided that no more shadows are added. [which there probably will be because Morganthe hasn't been spotted here yet.]) I predict that next to the Prince there will be a young seahorse, next to Barnacle Bill there will be another Crab similar to the one next to our Marleybone Mechanics. In the center will 99.99% be Thurston Plunkett as he was mentioned in our pre-quest. Next to our robot, will most likely be another (maybe female) (It's not a bucket-head type thing. Zoom in and you can see that's just a cylindrical object in the background. The head shape is nearly the same as the first robot.)
And on the far left? Probably another Sea Pirate type NPC.


Alright, next piece of business. I was in yet another car crash. Before you get all crazy, it was just a small one. My mom had just picked me up from school and we were about to take a left onto our street, when another car was about to drive past from the other lane, so we had to stop and wait a second for it to pass. During this time, the car behind us slams into the back of our car. Guess who? Two seniors from the high school (we live very close to the high school.) Turns out the kid hadn't had his license long enough to have a passenger in the car with him, so he got a ticket for that, and another ticket for following us too closely. (You have to have your license for a certain amount of time before you're allowed to have passengers in your car.) The front of his car was smashed in a bit on one corner and a large plastic piece that went over the bumper came off. The back of our car's bumper was chipped pretty badly and the paint was scratched on both cars. The bumper of our car goes around from the back of both tires so it's going to cost at least $2500 my mom guesses. (She's actually going tonight to get an estimate from the car dealer.) We were both fine, it was just frightening to hear the big THUD noise again.


Next, our Monthly polls.

I was very happy to see that there was a significant amount more of voters. :D


Here's August's:


Is Blaze posting enough?


and September's:


What are you most excited for in Celestia?


Here's Drumroll Troll with the results. Take it away, bud!

x drumroll x


Thank you. :)


Here we go.


Is Blaze Posting Enough?

• Of course, stupid poll! He was just in a car crash and he's in high school now! Give him a break! - 66% (8 votes)
• He's doing fine - 25% (3 votes)
• I honestly don't care - 8% (1 vote)
• No way! We need a post every day! - 0% (No votes)

Well, it;s great to know that you don't care how often I post, just that I make posts because you love them. :)

Next poll.

What are you most excited for in Celestia?

• More Insider Info From Blaze - 76% (10 votes)
• New Spells - 69% (9 votes)
• New Story - 61% (8 votes)
• New Areas - 53% (7 votes)
• New Teachers - 46% (6 votes)
• New Enemies / Bosses - 46% - (6 votes)

That's awesome! I love how you like my stuff the most! XD

It's just amazing that from a few votes a month it's gone up to 56 votes on just one poll! It really makes me happy to see how many people like my blog.

This month's poll:

Would you like to star in a Wizard101 music video by Blaze?

• Of course! Blaze is awesome!
• Maybe.
• No thanks...

Yeah, that's right. As some of you know, I got a hypercam. This means that I can film whatever is on my computer screen. Which brings me to my next topic. My walkthrough of the Selena Gomez Questline.

I don't have video of me doing the entire quest due to technical issues (my computer froze and had to be shut off, and I lost the video in progress. So here is where I started when my computer came back on.)


(Sorry about the title, idk why "To Be Continued" is on top of it.) I apologize for the lag, my computer isn't used to having a camera and W101 running yet. ;D

And here is the second part of my quest.

So, I plan on making a Wizard101 music video. It'd be quite a large project like the Photoshoots that the community has had in the past (Petnome etc.) I would love to have a ton of my viewers in it so maybe we can have a contest. (After the poll of course.)

Again, next topic.

Monthly Housing Items. Instead of having a picture every month, I figured, why not show you all in a video. So, along with my dad's monthly posts (that he will re-start on Saturday) I will post a video of the item in my house. I hope that helps you out and you will enjoy it.

Next! I have a picture sitting in my folders from a while ago (June 6th to be exact) if any of you recall, that was one of the hottest days of the Summer. On that day, KingsIsle released this picture on it's Twitter page. I was meaning to show it to you, but somehow it slipped my mind. Here it is.

The KingsIsle staff decided instead of staying inside, to go tubing along with their friends from the Spiral. YOu can see a Mander, a Gobbler, and even a Skeletal Pirate! (Arhhar-shabawa!)

Last, but certainly not least. We now have our good friend, Bruce

err, Mr. Shark Mount, available in the game. Just like every other mount, he's available for sale in the Crowns Shop. I'm not sure if you can rent him from Zeke or if you can only use him in water. I don't have one, and haven't really researched it much, yet. Just thought I'd let you all know about this, (I know many of you were very excited about this one ;D)

I believe that's all for today. I hope you enjoyed this very very long post. I'm going to try to post more often, now that I'm more used to the new schedule of the school year. Thank you.

Happy Gaming

Lack of E-Mails

Greetings, loved ones. Let's take a journey.

This post has absolutely nothing to do with that song. I just wanted to start it that way because this song is on repeat on my ipod right now.

But, what today's post is about, is the lack of e-mails that I've recieved on my new e-mail address. I figured you'd all be flocking to your outboxes to send me all sorts of questions about the game. I was sadly mistaken. I have recieved 0 e-mails for blazesilverfist@gmail.com. (Except for the much appreciated support from my mom. ♥ U!) Nope, not even from Emily. Now, I understand all of us are very busy, but a little encouragement / congratulations would be very loved.

Which is why I'm making this post. I got an e-mail today from my mom, with a very creative idea. Instead of waiting for all of you to think of what to say, and come to me, I'm going to ask you guys a question for you to answer for me. A Weekly Question, you could say (except I'm only doing it this once. Just to get you guys started.

What's your favorite part of my blog?

Just e-mail me with your answer and any questions that you have about in-game situations. (Ie. Spells, pets, items, bosses, whatever.) PLEASE don't hesitate to click that link. (I'll say it once again. blazesilverfist@gmail.com. Ok, everyone?) Please please please. Send me an e-mail.

And after you hit that handy dandy send button. You get to watch this. I was on YouTube searching for that link^ And this came up in my recommended videos. Check out this mad skill.



Pretty awesomesauce right? Definitely.

Make sure to e-mail me. (blazesilverfist@gmail.com)

Happy Gaming

Power Nova

Yeeeha! I did the last spell quest in the game (At least until Celestia... I'll make my new spell list tomorrow ;D) Two days ago I leveled up thanks to the Fabulous:

LILI MA!!!!

x hold for applause x

w00t! "I LOVE YOU LILI... x mumbles x even though your a dirty good for nothing traitor..."

So here's my current stats:

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about 50% Power Pip!

So, I ported home and got the Tutorial Tip (Everytime I say "tutorial tip" I hear it in Gamma's voice, per the tip for n00bs. If you said that in Gamma's Voice you get +25 Brownie Points!)

I'm not going to post all my screenshot of the questline, but along the way I met what looks like what a death troll spell would look like:

You can't tell from this picture, but he had glowing read eyes...spooky!

Of course, I easily pulled the rug from under him!

(You can see the red eyes there^)

So I got the Harmonious Crystal from the Necropolis, and moved on to fight the Plague Oni, and put his essence into the crystal because he can have a deadly disease, but not die. (PERFECT BALANCE! [yes, that is a flash game...])

I had some intense help from my good buddy, Eric Hawkdreamer, and Talon SpiritThief (Angel DragonGem [not the one from YouTube] is his life wizard, which is where I met him. So, I still call him Angel ;D)

Of course we pulled the rug from under Ideyoshi, as well.

Then, with a bruised tailbone, he turned into the Plague Oni.

Of course, we got a picture together before the battle.

So, Eric and I "Oni Vs Oni" 'ed this guy:

ONI WINS!

I filled up my crystal with the plague,

and then stopped over at Jared's to have it set. (He did a fabulous job btw!)

Oh Blaze, you shouldn't have...

Then, Good Ol' Alhazred made me smash the "One In A Million" piece of jewlery in front of the Krokosphinx because I "have to give something to get something of equal value" or something along those lines.

Then, Our Lady Judgement came and granted me the Power Nova spell. Alhazred rewarded me with the "Master of Balance" badge and a nifty Hydra pet, Princess Roxy.

Here's a nice picture of me with my new badge and Roxy equipped:

Sorry this is such a lengthy post, but I'm just really excited about finally becoming a Master of Balance. Yeah, the n00bs will be flooding me with friend requests, but that's why it's a privacy option.

I have to go now, we're going out with David's family for Mother's Day.

Happy Gaming

Harriet, When are you posting?

Fast foreward to about 00:32

That's what most of you want to ask me. ;D

I've just been really busy lately, and I hate it. XD

So yesterday I went with my friends to the library to hang out and "do homework" Ok, you got me, there wasn't too much homework-ing going on. But, we had fun. Yes, I could've been a diligent blogger and posted there, but to be honest it slipped my mind.

I hope you're all having a fun week. I know I am. On Monday, I hid in my friend, Kaleigh's, locker. It was hilarious. (Yes, my friends, Dana, Melissa, and Saadiya [We call her "Soap", "Saad-bob", and "Saadaas" sometimes. Long story, maybe someday I'll explain it.] were outside her locker making sure I was ok in there. It's surprisingly roomy in there. (No, kids don't try this at home.) When she opened the locker she didn't even notice I was in there until she tried putting her stuff in and it would fit. Then of course, she screamed and jumped back 20 feet.

I think that's all the exciting things to talk about for today.

Happy Gaming

How To Train Your Dragon

Hey, so today at 12:00, Philly and I went to the movie theater with my mom to go see How To Train Your Dragon. It was a great movie. I'm over at David's house right now, trying to explain to Philly what the "plot" of my blog is. Rofl. Such a n00b.

He, like David, finds Wizard101 stupid. He even tried it. He was a fire wizard, and apparently after 5 minutes he got "bored."

x sigh x

Ten year-olds. You can never please them.

x shrug x

So anyway, the movie was fantastic! I really enjoyed it. If you haven't seen it yet, you definitely should right away.

So, the pet of the day is good ol' Flappy. (The lightning bat, for all those who don't follow Friendly's blog. x grumble grumble x) Yeah, poor Friendly doesn't have any lightning bats. I wish I had one that I could let him BS (Bazaar Snipe XD.)

So, I probably won't be able to go on Wiz101 today. As, I'll probably be staying at David's till 11:00 once again. So much for getting a good sleep tonight. Oh, well.

My mom says I should get one because she says that I sound really sick, but I feel perfectly fine.

Also, this morning, while getting ready to go pick up Philly, from David's house, this song from Alice In Wonderland, was stuck in my head. It's called "How D'ye Do And Shake Hands." You can fast foreward to around 00:38. That's where the song begins. The video also include the story of The Walrus and The Carpenter. (That's my favorite part of the entire movie.)



Cause that's manners. Maybe tomorrow I can play Button Button Who's Got The Button with Alyssa, and Emily. That would be fun! :D

Yeah, this song was stuck in my head because yesterday I was playing on my other wizards (I'll introdce them tomorrow ;D) and one of them, Samantha, is very nice, and Alyssa was introducing me to some of her friends, so I started singing this wonderful song. XD

Have a nice day and:

Happy Gaming

Dancing Snowmen

Hey, guys. The first thing your thinking right now is "Hey, where's the tutorial?". Well, I haven't finished it yet, and today I want to talk about what we did on W101 yesterday. It was pretty funny.

Me, Christopher Thunderhunter, Nicholas Fireblade, Emily, and Alyssa were, you could call it roleplaying I suppose. Me, Chris, and Nick were using the Evil Snowman transformation, and Alyssa was dressed like a cardinal and Emily was in her life-ish outfit. So I was Jack Frost, Chris was Frosty, Nick was St. Nick, Emily was Lady Spring, and Alyssa was Robin the Cardinal! XD

The snowmen had to run from Lady Spring so she wouldn't melt us. We definitely had an awesome time doing that around Ravenwood.

Here's some pics I took.

We definitely had some pretty funny jokes in there. We had to avoid the fire school or else we would melt. Emily got a little angry cause we wouldn't stop pretending we were snowmen, so I said she had frostbite. That didn't help much, so we offered her some ice cream. XD

My favorite part was when we all started doing the Wizard Wiggle, as Leesha from over at Ravenwood Radio would call it. (Hitting left and right over and over, makes it look like your dancing.) I wasn't able to get a screen of it, cause I was too busy dancing. :D

Which brings me to my next topic: Dancing.

Don't you all think the game would be so much more fun if there were different dances for each school?

Friendly was talking about this yesterday. He posted some videos of how different MMO's handle the /dance feature.

My favorite was Guild Wars. Each class has a different dance. (And obviously different for each gender)

Here's the amazing video he posted of the Guild Wars /dances.

My favorite is the Male Ritualist /dance.

I had to leave pretty early last night because I was going over a friend's house for dinner.

I have a pretty awesomesauce screenshot right here, from when I left:

The best part of this screen is Alyssa off to the side saying XD.

No, Emily and I aren't dating I:

We're just really close friends.

No, seriously.

Ok, so anyway. Let me know in the comments, how you think the dance feature could be improved, and what your favorite transformation is.

(The tutorial will be posted on Monday, because tomorrow has a special easter surprise.)

Happy Gaming