I Might Be Gone For A Few Days

Hurricane Irene is coming right for where I live and I'll probably lose power, so just wanted to let you all know that.

Sea Monkeys!!!

Today I saw something on TV about sea monkeys and I learned their real name, brine shrimp, in science so that inspired today's aquatic themed day. I'm too young to remember having sea monkeys as cheap little pets, but I've heard about them a lot. And I found a picture of monkeys in the sea that made me laugh. I'm terribly afraid of of baboons, because I once saw a special about how they break into cars and once, they stole a baby. I'm saving your mental images by not telling you what they did to that unfortunate baby. On a happier note, I found a fun image for today's star app.

I couldn't find a picture of a real blue sea star that was wide enough to write Star App on, so I just got a clipart blue sea star. But anyway, today's sea star app is Tap Fish 2. The point of the game is to buy fish as eggs and raise them until they mature. They each have a certain time limit which determines when they'll become adults. Once you have an adult fish you can sell it for a profit. I'm not sure how the whole feeding thing will work overnight, but as soon as I wake up I'll give a small report on what happened.

It was hard trying to find a game on Kongregate involving the ocean that was fairly new, so I didn't. I spent most of my day playing Papa's Freezeria until I got to Level 10 and plan on playing more tonight. It's sort of like a DQ blizzard place because you can make flavors such as chocolate peanut butter cup, mint oreo, and other combinations available at Dairy Queen. I'm tired and my rambling is starting to even tire me, so that's it for today.

Busy Stuff Is Over... For Now

The last week has been really busy for me, and I'm glad it's over. But school starts soon, and I'll be pretty busy then. That's where the for now part comes in. So enjoying my relaxation, I had time to try out a bunch of new apps.

Today's star app is Gowalla, the check-in app. It's not the most popular, but is more colorful than the others and more animated. So far I have 50 stamps and 7 pins, which is amazing for an iPod Touch. You can check into any place within a 5 km radius, and that helped me "check-in" to places that I really wasn't at. So I cheated. But Gowalla is still an amazing app and you can download it here. You can't really see the link, so trust me and click on it. There's not a good wiki for it, so I'm going to add that to my to-do list. That's all for my review on Gowalla.

The Kongregate games are going to be regularly posted as of now. Next in the line of the Papa Louie's games by FlipLineStudios is Papa's Freezeria! It's the exact same concept of the other except this time you run an ice cream shop. The game's a little confusing since I'm used to the order ticket style of Papa's Taco Mia, but this was an easy adjustment. My first ice cream sundae wasn't pretty, but I still got a customer star for it! Personally, I'm astounded by how the customers give you such in-depth detail of what ice cream they want, but that detail adds fun to the game. And as of now, there are only two badges, but hopefully they'll add more sometime soon. If you have an account on Kongregate, which I highly reccomend, add me as a friend. My name is none other than zafeyry. This game made me really hungry for some ice cream, and I don't think I'd be able to work in a real ice cream shop without eating some of the stock. That's all for my review on Papa's Freezeria.

Too Young For Blog Bucks

I'm too young to make an account for AdSense, since you have to be 18. That won't put a damper on my blogging, and might even make it better. Without all the ads, I think I might write more and be more creative, so I'll take a crack at that. I decided to make an app scale to rate Star Apps, and I'll feature a page that shows the app's logo, it's rating, and a one word description of it. Here's a picture of the scale, that had to be made smaller so I can fit more pictures. There's still a lot of room until the small picture ends so I'll just fill it up with random stuff. Like the Kiwano, or Horned Melon. There's even a wikiHow on how to eat a kiwano. The fruit looks sort of like an oblong orange with spikes. The inside is green, and looks like a cross between a kiwi and orange inside. I think that little half paragraph was enough to cover the image to the left, to the left.

Today's star app is Crack Your Screen Simulator. This app can be fun to trick people who don't know about the app. And even if they do, if you tap the screen enough times it'll look sort of snowy and glittery. The app doesn't really work for people who already have cracks on their iDevices (aka ME). The app's still fun to use, and since it's free it's a fun download. The only thing that makes it look less like snow is the blue cracks, which are more rare than the silver ones.

I think I might feature a Kongregate game about every day too, because it gives you something fun to do after you read my blog. Today's game is Battle Beavers, which combined my too favorite things. You have to be stupid not to know my two favorite things, beavers and, you guessed it! Twizzlers! No wait, I got twizzlers and maces confused, but Twizzlers can hurt like maces. When you smack somebody with a Twizzler it stings, and makes your skin turn red. In my opinion it's worse than being hit by a mace. DISCLAIMER: ZAFFY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SKIN DAMAGE OR SURGERY DUE TO EXCESSIVE TWIZZLER BEATING.

250!!!

I finally got 250 views and now I'm going to try Google AdSense. This may be permanent or not, I'm not sure yet.

Today's Star App is Seize The Day - To-Do List by Functional Delights LLC. I had a To-Do List app on here before, but that wasn't free, like Seize The Day. This one is also a lot cleaner and easier to use. I didn't even notice there were ads since they're so small and at the bottom of the page. This app is a must have for anyone who's busy and will use their iPhone more than a planner (which is pretty much anybody). This app is especially great since I'm starting school soon, since I can put everything I need on one handy app. That's all for this app.

I also signed up for an account on Kongregate, and there are loads of great games that can entertain you for a while. I found an amazing game called Wonderputt. My favorite level is the one with the ski slopes and penguins, and the transitions between levels are really cool. The controls are also extremely easy, and the company that made the game has a very unique name, Damp Gnat. There's even a level that takes place inside a rocket/airplane, I'm not really sure which one it is. I even found myself trying to blow the ball back onto the lilypad in the lilypad level. Overall I love the game and think it's a good way to waste half an hour. So if you don;t have an account on Kongregate yet, be sure to make one. Maybe even put a reminder on Seize The Day!

It's Raining, It's Pouring, I'm Not Old And I'm Not Snoring!

That title could be a line in an amazing song about rain. So anyway, it's raining outside again today. It was rainy the whole day and it finally cleared up, but now it's night so it doesn't matter. I tried drawing some of the adoptables for my upcoming website, but they turned out terrible. I'll post pictures of the real adoptables once I transfer them from paper to the internet. I'll be sure to work on that for the next few days.

Today's Star App is Coffee World by SMLSD. In Coffee World you own a coffee shop and you can get upgrades on your machines and recipes. I'm too tired to come up with a review that will make the app sound great, so just try the app and download it, and you'll see what I'm talking about. That's it for today, but I'll be back tomorrow!

More Effort!

2 days ago the game was in maintenance so my day was pretty boring, but I'm going to change that. Another thing I'm going to change is my pageviews. I'm nearing 250, and for almost 4 months of doing this, I think I need to get more. My best month was May, where I had 85 pageviews, and the numbers have been declining a lot since then. So far I only have 8 for August. So this is inspiring me to put more effort into my blog, which I need to do. I'm going to start making posts every day and put more time into my blog, because that's the only way to make it better. Taking 20-30 minutes out of my day to focus on my post is something I can definitely do. And more effort led me to thinking about something special I could do, because I sort of lost my roots when I tried to make my blog more about me. I feel like I removed the spine from my blog, because before it was too stiff, and now it's too loose. So I'm adding a Star App, which is just like a daily featured app. If you want to see a list of previous Star Apps, I'll be making a page for it soon. And to prove how much I put effort in today, I even made a new icon for the Star App. I can't upload the Star App logo right now because it hasn't been made yet but tomorrow it might be.

Today's Star App is Shopkick! I don't have an iPhone, so I can't really take full advantage of it, but from checking into the stores everyday for a month, I've made upwards of 150 kickbucks and am almost Level 9. For the selfless shopkicker, you can even donate to charities through Shopkick. There are a total of 33 different charities you can donate to, and once you donate you get a neat little pin type thing for your My Stuff page. Sadly, the app doesn't have a social part, so you're the only one who can see your little pins. There are also badges, which you can get by going into stores, completing fun quests, scanning items, and becoming fans of stores. And if you decide to sign up for Shopkick (which you definitely should) my promo code is currant8399. If you enter this code when you sign up, you get an extra 50 kickbucks and so do I, so it's a win-win.

I was so excited to go into my first dungeon for Dragon Nest, and as soon as I hit the first monster there my computer froze up. So I'm giving up on Dragon Nest and I'm jut going to wait for the next Nexon game to come around. Or maybe I'll wait for a Facebook game from Zynga or Meteor Games. Whichever of these companies publishes a new game first will be sure to have me as a supporter, unless the game is terrible, and I'll become entirely obsessed with it. That's all for tonight, so bye.

Blogging Day

It's raining outside and the weather's pretty dreary, so that forced me to go inside and blog. And today I came across an amazing charity app called Raise The Village. Everything you do in your virtual village contributes to what the charity who runs the app does in the real village. And to prove it isn't fake they even have videos of them delivering things from vaccines to mosquito nets.

There's also something new on my blog, and if you don't notice you should check your sight. I changed the colors of my blog but I can't get rid of the birds in the top right corner. And Dragon Nest worked for me!!!! I'm so excited and can't wait to play. That will have to wait for tomorrow because it's really late.

Non Boring Day

Instead of making this another boring day, I'm making it my non boring day! Dragon Nest still won't even open for me so I decided my computer's too old to run this. I even tried deleting MapleStory and running it on low quality. My computer was only made 5 years ago, but I guess it's older (in computer years) than I thought it was. I guess I'll just wait for the next game Nexon makes. Or I could just play Dragon Nest without the special beta items, which I think I'll do. And this is making me even more excited for the next game Nexon has on their schedule, which I will participate in closed beta, open beta, and the game regularly. I might try Google AdSense to make more money from the blog to possibly fund a new computer. I don't want to sound greedy, but I guess I am. I'm also on the prowl for a new website that I can become addicted to. I'm like a jaguar with a computer. So if anybody has a fun and addicting website, and reads my blog, which is highly unlikely, leave a comment for me.

Back From Vacation!

I'm finally back from vacation! Dragon Nest has given people who were in open beta up until the 2nd were given an R2G hat and people who participated in the closed beta were also given a Pioneer title. Hopefully the game will be working for me and I'll be sure to get all the other limited items. Today's my boring day so that's all.