Humble Bundle, Things Galore

I haven’t posted in awhile. I have had tons of stuff (still do, for that matter).

Did my AP exam for psychology. Feel as though I did pretty well. I’m pretty sure I got a 4 or a 5, just not sure which one. AP exam for English is coming up on Wednesday next week. The Reading End of Course Exam and the Writing EOC exam are the two days before it, so I’m going to have a lot of English next week.

Rough Draft of our paper in AP English is due next Thursday.

Still have yet to Conference with Mr. Nelson for our paper that was supposed to be due at the end of last quarter. I’m not sure if he’s forgotten about me or what, so I’m going to go talk to him sometime in the very near future.

Have an annoying H. Chem project for a Final instead of a normal final.

AP psych feels over since we’ve taken the AP exam, but we still actually have stuff to do.

Anyway, in more exciting news, got the Brandon Sanderson Humble Bundle thingy. Payed/Donated/Whatever you want to call it $15.01. Only one cent over the minimum to get all the things, cause I’m a poor High School student that is going to get a Switch sometime.

I finished White Sand pretty quickly. It was decent.

I’m trying to get the Graphic Audio things onto my phone, so I can listen to it easier, but am having very little success.

Track is basically over. Tomorrow is the last ‘official’ practice that I actually have to go to. Still debating on whether I’m going to go next week. Not going on Monday due to Tennis practice, but might go the other days.

School is wrapping up. Not sure what I’m going to do with my life when it is over. Probably going to hang out with friends this summer than I have any other.

Need to do good on my English Final to keep my semester grade at an ‘A’, but due to some lame people, we’re not doing an official final, instead it’s just a vocab test and a paper. Last time I got an 89% on the final, so it would have been nice just to have a normal one, but we’ll see how I do on this paper. I really don’t like it. Scared I might get a ‘B’ in the class. It would be the first ‘B’ for a class I would have ever received. I’ve only ever gotten ‘A’s, so this is a little weird.

Newest Board Game list

Finally getting around to this blogpost, should have done this awhile ago. Writing this in A.P. English. Currently, we’re supposed to be ‘being productive’ with the obvious choice being to read our book assignment. I consider this being decently productive, so I don’t really feel guilty. (forgot to post it until today, however)

Anyway, talking about random parts of the list. Caverna came up as #1, which was interesting. I didn’t expect it to be that when I started playing it, but it is reeeeaaaalllly gooood. I still have yet to play with more than two players, but it is still this good. I really want to play with more, though, so I know what it’s like.

Seafall was fantastic. It didn’t automatically jump to number one like Pandemic: Legacy did when we finished that for a couple reasons. The main being the rules were confusing. We had so many misunderstandings. Ripping up cards we shouldn’t have (and then later realizing that we were actually correct in ripping it up in the first place), enmity being kinda confusing etc.

I added Codenames: Pictures because we are currently in position of it (and still kept Kingsburg up even though we’re not).

7 Wonders: Duel continues to drop for no apparent reason.

Ashes still holds a strong position even though I rarely play it. The community and meta and such keep me engaged, however. New expansions have been (kind of) revealed with previews starting up sometime.

Hearthstone is pretty high up there. I don’t play it as much as I want, but I do watch a lot of it on youtube, soooo…

Fresco, I feel, could be up with Alhambra and them, but with no real group to play it with (I should try and get the Jamiesons to play it sometime) and not liking the two player variant that much leaves it in an unfortunate position.

Almost forgot to mention Viticulture, which barely missed the position for number 1. My first impressions of all the games told me that it would, eventually, reign king, but Caverna stepped in as being super crazy awesome.

The past few times I’ve forgotten to add pictures of how much ripped up stuff Seafall and Pandemic: Legacy created, but here they are for your viewing pleasure:

 Except for the fact that I can't seem to find the Pandemic stuff. Eric, if you happen to know where it is, or have it, send it to me please.

Anyway, this blog post took a shorter amount of time to write than expected.
Changing the list so it goes by 5s instead of 1s to make it easier to update it.

Minority

Guess I’m leaving the board game post off for another week cause I feel like it. Anyway (or anyways, don’t really know what to put anymore after a friend said they preferred just saying ‘anyway’ when I hadn’t even really noticed that they were interchangeable (basically, interchangeable, anyway. (see there I’m pretty sure you could only use ‘anyway’ and not ‘anyways’ but maybe I’m wrong))), today’s topic is how I feel like I’m in this cool minority. Not because of my religion, or gender identity, or race or etc. etc., but instead because of what my hobbies/interests are.

I’m talking about a few specific topics being: Great grades, Anime, Board Games, Tennis, and twenty one pilots.

Obviously there many people in each of these categories individually, but having them together makes me feel as though I’m part of a select few.

Let’s start off with Board Games, for example. As the people who read this blog know, you will be very hard-pressed to find someone who knows and plays board games other than the Monopoly etc.

Same with Anime. I’ve been kind of surprised by the amount of people in my various classes who aren’t into anime. I expected more. Sure, I’ve found, like, two, which, granted, is still two more than board game players, but is still not a lot. (I’m pretty sure those 5 commas in a row are correct).

Tennis is obviously in a similar boat. Sure more people know about it, but still, not a lot of people play it, or give it the respect that I feel it deserves.

Twenty one pilots (beginning of a sentence, so I guess it’s fine to have twenty capitalized) is definitely the most known/respect/renown thing out of these, but how deep it is is still kind of obscure. A lot of people know twenty one pilots due to their smash three songs (Ride, Heathens, and, of course, Stressed Out), but how many of those people know about their other albums (AKA not Blurryface (so Vessel, Regional at Best, Self-Titled, and, if you count it, No Phun Intended)) or their hidden gems that aren’t even in an album (AKA, one of the best songs ever created Coconut Sharks In The Water  or the things they sometimes do that aren’t, you know, music (a prime example being What’s Your Story).

And of course, the final thing is having straight A’s. Which isn’t really a thing you know about or do, but more of just ‘have’. So it’s in a slightly different area, but it still applies to me, so it counts.

Anyway, point being, I know/have all of these things. A thing that I think very, very, very few other people also have.

And I feel as though there is a similar thing between them. The fact that you (referring to the general populous of the world) don’t know about them. That if you don’t like it or, at the very least, respect it, then it’s because you’re ignorant.

You don’t like board games? Well, what board games have you played? Only Monopoly, Risk, and very few others? Yea, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

You don’t like anime? Well, what anime have you watched? Only Naruto and Sword Art Online? Yea, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

You don’t like tennis? Well, have you ever played tennis? No? Yea, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

You don’t like twenty one pilots? Well, have you listened to any of their songs? Only Stressed Out, Ride, and Heathens? Yea, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Not bashing on any of those games, anime, or songs (well, except Monopoly, I’ll always bash on Monopoly) it’s just that that is a very, very small sample size of all that you could be getting. Ex. A person doesn’t like board games because they’re long and boring. They are making an opinion off the fact that Monopoly and Risk are usually long and boring (of which I tend to agree). However, they are spreading it to all board games.

The same analogy/idea could be spread to the other topics as well.

Don't feel like rereading the post again for mistakes, so I'm posting it.

Got this in the mail today

Too bad we don't have the console yet. It might be a while before it gets in stock :(
Was tempted to lick the cartridge (look it up), but have decided against it, maybe...

Classes, things, stuff etc.

Sitting in Chemistry writing this. I’m already done with the Brain builder and Lab (finished the lab the other day in class and thought the Brain Builder was homework). Don’t really know what exactly to write about. I have ideas for some posts I just don’t have an urge to do them right now. One is on updating my board game list. I think I’ve got the list pretty much updated now I just have to make a post about it and change the list itself. Should have probably done that early since it is now already March into the year (excited for March Madness btw!). It will probably be my next post. The other post that I need to do is Anime pt 2. Watched several anime since I’ve last fully talked about it. Also, have some interesting statistics on the amount I’ve watched.
My schedule next year for school is going to be pretty rough. Said that about this year (which, for the record, hasn’t been nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be), but next year seems a lot scarier. If the A.P. classes get enough students I’m planning on taking: A.P. Physics, A.P. Stats, Honors Pre-Calculus, Video Production III, and, the main cause of my future problems, A.P. US History. Video Production doesn’t really have homework, so I’m fine there. I’m hoping that it will be similar in A.P. Physics. I hope that my mathy mind can tackle Honors Pre-Calculus and A.P. Stats (although A.P. Stats, I’ve heard, isn’t exactly a ‘mathy’ class). So with those mostly out of they way it will leave me with the workload that A.P. US History puts on its students. Homework from the other classes still exists, though, so it won’t be my only source of homework. I’ll still have a decent amount from the other classes.
Need to catch up on some reading. I need to read Ranger’s Apprentice since I told a friend I would. Need to catch up on some Brandon Sanderson. Need to read Snapshot, Edgedancer, and finish Mistborn: Secret History. Excited to read them, but they’ll probably have to wait until Summer.
Need a haircut in the near future, hopefully sometime this week/weekend.
Yep.
That’s about all, I think (I swear, I use that phrase so much more since I’ve read Mistborn. Go Sazed!).