Gamer's Spot

Hi girls and guys!

Today I am going to talk about a really fun online game for your computer, Flyff! It is an online game that comes from Korea (which means the graphics are really awesome!). It’s also really great because it’s free! If you plan on downloading this game, I suggest using the down loader from Big Download because it works the best.

World Map

There are a lot of continents that you can go to in Flyff, so you’re not always on the same continent as you were before. When you first make your character, they always start out on Flaris. I would say that once you reach level 20, you should then fly to the continent that has medium-level monsters so you can get more experience that is called Saint Morning. You should train in Saint Morning until you are around level 45 (The Continent of Garden of Rhisis would be a good place to train if you’re around level 30 too) and then you should fly to Darkon 1 to do your training up until level 60. After you do the job change quest and once your about level 75, you should do the rest of your training in Darkon 3, where there are really high level monsters where you would get a lot of experience.

In Flyff, when you make your account you can have more than 1 character on your account. You can have 24 characters in total, 3 on each server. When you start playing a new character, you start out as a Vagrant. Every person who makes a character always starts out as a Vagrant until you reach level 15. Once your level 15, you can do the job change quest so that you have a new job (I did the Mercenary job quest on my first person). There are four jobs that you can choose from, and once you reach level 60 on your character, you can do the second job change quest. Here are the classes and what they are good at.

Acrobat

Acrobats in Flyff are the people who use ranged weapons, such as bows and amazingly they can also use yoyos. The bows don’t exactly do as much damage as the yoyos, and you have to but A LOT of arrows if you plan on being an acrobat who uses bows. If you are going to use yoyos, I suggest that you use most of your skill points on Strength because it makes the yoyo do more damage. Acrobats mainly use their skill points on Strength, Stamina or Dexterity because they have no need of Intelligence.

Jester

If you are an Acrobat, at level 60 you can choose to become a Jester. The Jester uses the yoyo to do their ranged attacks. They have quite a bit of good skills because they can enchant their yoyo to inflict poison damage, fire damage or something called Enchant Blood (I’m not quite sure what it is). If you are an Acrobat who is going to be a jester, use all of your stat points on Strength and Stamina because Dexterity increases the striking power of the bow.

Ranger

If you are an Acrobat, at level 60 you can choose to become a Ranger. The Ranger uses the bow to perform their attacks. They will need a lot of arrows too because you can’t use the bow without any arrows. Rangers aren’t particularly strong unless they have full Dexterity so they can hit high. You are still going to want to have a bit of Stamina so your defence is really good.

Mercenary

In Flyff, the Mercenary is the character who uses swords. Although a sword might sound good to you, think carefully about whether or not you would pick a Mercenary as your job because they hit very low unless they have a lot of Strength, and even when their Strength is really good they still don’t hit as high as you would want them to. A Mercenary would mainly want Strength with a bit of Stamina so you have some defence.

Blade

If you are a Mercenary, at level 60 you can choose to become a Blade. Blades are your basic assassins, Hitting very fast and quite high. The best thing about the Blade is that they can double wield, which means you can wield two swords when you’re a Blade. Although Blades hit quite fast, I would recommend getting at least 30 Dexterity so they hit even faster than they already do. Blades also have very high defence, which makes them a very good class.

Knight

If you are a Mercenary, at level 60 you can choose to become a Knight. Knights have the highest defence out of every class in the game, which makes them very hard to hit. The bad thing about Knights is that they can only wield two-handed weapons, which means they attack very slowly. Knights also hit high too, but since they hit so slowly I don’t really think you would want to be a Knight.

Magician

In Flyff, the Magician is probably one of the best classes, considering how high they hit when they are a very low level (The Magician is my personal favorite class in the game because they can hit 1200 when they are level 25, meaning that they kill most monsters in 4-8 hits.). Magicians have slightly low defence, so I suggest buying items that will get your defence up like a Plug Earring or something. Magicians use Intelligence so they can hit higher, and both of their second jobs will probably need to have full Intelligence to hit really high.

Elementor

If you are a Magician, at level 60 you can choose to become an Elementor. Elementors are a very good class because they use spells that have different elements to their advantage. Say if you are killing a monster that has an element of fire, you could just use your water-type spells so you are hitting more effectively on them. The Elementor is really good, but their armour looks slightly like a graduating student’s robe and hat.

Psykeeper

If you are a Magician, at level 60 you can choose to become a Psykeeper (Which I plan to do once I’m level 60). Psykeepers use slightly evil or dark spells to kill their enemies. The Psykeeper has really cool armour, and they can hit probably between 20000-50000 once they are the highest level, which means that they pretty much hit the highest in the game, along with the Elementor hitting probably about the same.

Assist

In Flyff, the Assist is the character that can heal, revive and buff other characters (Buffs can do a number of things, from getting you better defence to making you hit an additional 40 damage). Assists can either use a Stick or a Knuckle to attack with. If you’re an Assist, you should put most of your stat points on intelligence so that your buffs last longer.

Billposter

If you are an Assist, at level 60 you can choose to become a Billposter. Billposters are one the most self-efficient classes in the game because they can still use buffs, but since they use Knuckles they are still very good at attacking. The Billposter’s skill moves mainly consist of AoE attacks (Area of Effect, which means they can hit multiple enemies with these attacks at once). AoE moves are really good if you are being attacked by 2 or more monsters so you can kill them faster. A Billposter will probably want to have a balance between Strength, Stamina and Intelligence, or just go full Intelligence and some Strength, or have around 90 Intelligence and full Strength.

Ringmaster

If you are an Assist, at level 60 you can choose to become a Ringmaster. Ringmasters are an essential character to have if you are training with your friends at monsters that are a higher level than you because the Ringmaster’s skills are mainly all buffs. If you are a Ringmaster, I suggest getting full intelligence so that your buffs last long, and than some Stamina so you have good defence and health (Stamina puts up your defence as well as your health).

Pets

You can have a variety of pets in the game. To obtain a pet, you will first need an egg. Eggs can drop from all monsters that are level 20 and up. You could also just buy a pet from some one’s shop in the game. If you get an egg, you are going to need a lot of pet feed to get it’s experience up. Once you get an egg, talk to the Pet Tamer NPC in any city to start the quest that you can hatch your egg from. You must get your egg’s experience to 99.99%, and than talk to the Pet Tamer. The Pet Tamer will then hatch your egg, and you can discover what kind of pet your egg was holding. From an egg, you can get a: Babari Lion, White Tiger, Old Fox, Rabbit, Unicorn, Griffin or a Dragon. Your pet has ranks, and as you get your pet up to higher ranks, you will discover that the bonus it gives you will become larger, and it’s color will change. Their are ranks: D, C, B, A and S. Rank S is the best rank, and once your pet is rank S, it’s true color will be revealed. Your pet has lives once you get it. If your pet runs out of lives, you will have to revive it. You can’t revive a rank D or a rank C pet, so if your rank D or rank C pet runs out of lives, there will be no way to revive it. If you are going to buy a pet, don’t buy the one that sounds the coolest to you because certain pets go better with certain classes because of the bonus it will give you. What I mean by that is that if you are a Magician, the only pet that you would really want would either be a Unicorn or an Old Fox, which means that a Magician has no need of a Dragon because of it’s bonus. Pay close attention to what the bonus of your pet is so that you can make sure that your pet is a good pet for the class that you have chosen.

You are probably wondering why this game is called Flyff. If you are, it is called that because once you reach level 20, you can buy a board or a broom and fly around to your destination, using the WASD keys to move around your board or broom, henceforth, Fly For Fun.

Once you reach level 120, you can then start the Master Quest. The Master Quest is very hard because your level gets put back to 60, and then you have to get it back to level 120 with 99.99% experience so you can then start the Hero Quest. Once you have finished the Hero Quest, you will no longer see your displayed level. Instead, it will just say you’re a Hero.

I think that this is a really great game, and since it’s online, it just adds even more to the fun. If you would like more information on this game, you should visit the Flyff Wiki. I am giving this game a 10/10.
 

I want to be a logger or a video game designer!

But, I would like to do both because I enjoy video games, and logging makes a lot of money (but there might not be any more trees left on the planet!). As you can see, video games are a passion for me. I would like to try to make my own one day, and I already have a few ideas…

I would want to design a MMORPG (Massive-Multi Player-Online-Role-Playing-Game) because I like MMORPGs a lot. I also like games where you have to kill aliens (like Halo 3 for example). Or, maybe I could try to design a MMORPG that involves shooting aliens because a MMORPG like that would be awesome! It would be a game where you can fly around on your little awesomeness space ship to other planets where strange creature things live that you can kill with your gun!

Logging is quite fun too, but most people would blame loggers for global warming. If no people would log the trees, there wouldn’t be any toilet paper left on the world, and that wouldn’t be the greatest thing…

Loggers also make a lot of money, according to my dad’s old logger friend. my dad said that he would make nearly $500 a day from logging. I can’t seem how it can get you that much money though.

Maybe I could design a game where your job is to cut down virtual trees! I think that that would be funny, but probably not very fun. I guess I could do that so that people could get a taste of logging if they couldn’t do it yourselves. Maybe that would be a fun game after all…

What do you wanna be when you grow up? Do you think a virtual logging game would be fun, or lame? Leave a comment telling me if you think that a virtual logging game would be good or not (or you could say what you wanna be when you grow up)!

Back on the Log Train by: Claire L. Evans

Look at that picture. Doesn’t it look strange, weird or cool? Well, I think it’s all 3 of those. Do you think you know what it is? If you can’t tell, it is a picture of a computer screen that I took during the Glocal Project. The Glocal Project is a software run by the Arts Umbrella. With this software you can take pictures with web cams and then give them effects, make their borders smaller and give them a random size (like I have with this picture). Arts Umbrella is for art where they teach you things about art and photography.

We have 2 people here that are teaching us about art who came from Arts Umbrella and they are Josh and Francesca (Josh works there and Francesca is a volunteer visiting Canada from Germany). Josh taught us ho to use the software and how to move the pictures from the shared drive into our own folders.

We have taken probably over 1500 pictures in the 2 weeks they have been here, and tomorrow we are going to have an art show at Mark Isfeld (the high school that is pretty much right beside our school). Me and my friend Mitchell worked together on two posters. One of them just has a whole bunch of random pictures, and the other one has pictures of voki things and neon stuff (I like the one with the voki things and neon stuff more than the the other one).

My favorite picture that I have took is the one above. I pointed the webcam at the computer screen and I changed around the size of the pictures on it and I took it. I have many other blue ones like this. It is my favorite picture because I like the shade of blue that is on it. I can’t remember what the glowing orange dots were. Sometimes when you take a picture of the computer screen, it will keep showing the screen over and over again. It looks really cool.

Hi!

I won the Student Blogging Competition for my post Cool Globes!?. I’m glad I won, but that wasn’t even the post that I entered. I entered my post called How Blogging Has Connected Me To A Global Audience.

I can get a 12 month subscription to Edublogs, but I’m not sure if I’m going to use it or not. I’m probably going to give it to one of my readers or classmates. I can also get a badge to show that I won, but I’m not quite sure how to get it on my blog. I’m going to have to try to do that sometime… Or I might ask Ms. Smith to help me do it, because I’m really not sure how myself. A lot of other people won, and some of my classmates won too like Nicholas and Sam( or SpiderSam!).

Here are the other people who won: Makaya06, THS Lit 10, C-O Connections Blog, Read, Write and Knit, Taking It Further, Sacred Heart BLOGATHON!, English Social Studies Blog, Tara’s Blog and New and Fascinating English Blog.

I would like to thank Ms. Waters for organizing all of the blogging competitions, all of the people who entered the competition and Ms. Smith for being such a great teacher and letting us have blogs! Keep up the great posts everybody!

What is it like in a Canadian Courtroom?

A long path leads you to the front doors of the courthouse. Once you step through these doors, you are in the security check room. Once you have been checked and you don’t have any metal on you, you can then proceed into the main courtroom. You would probably see a lot of people in the room, and you would hear the Judge or the Crown Prosecutor asking questions to a witness. You would feel like you have entered a room of law, but that is probably because you just did.

Who works there?

• Crown Prosecutor- They are a lawyer who works for the province/territory. They represent the society, working closely with the witnesses making sure that they give all of the evidence.
• Judge- If there is no jury, the Judge will have to make the final decisions about the accused. They have to believe the Crown Prosecutor to make sure that the evidence is correct.
• Court Clerk- The Court Clerk is like an assistant to the judge. The Court Clerk reads the charges if the Judge finds the accused guilty. They also ask the witnesses to swear on the bible or to make an oath to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
• Investigating Officer- They are the police officer who investigated the crime and the evidence and knows about the case. They make sure the Crown has the right information.
• The accused- They are charged with committing the crime. In Canada, they have the right to hear what the witness says. They have the right to remain silent, letting the Defense Counsel do the talking, Another right in Canada is that the accused is innocent until proven guilty.

How we make the court fair

In a Canadian courtroom, we try to make it as fair as possible. Most courts have wheelchair access so people with disabilities can still come in as a witness or a crowd member. Anyone on the jury also can’t know or be related to the accused because that might influence whether you say they are guilty or not. You also can’t have read about the crime in the newspaper because you may have already got an opinion on whether they should be guilty or not.

Ever since April came around, I have been hearing a frog(s) croaking in my backyard, usually sometime around night. I heard it last night and it kept me up until almost midnight (I was very tired in the morning!). I don’t know much about frogs, but the frog that I have been hearing must be very loud because I can hear it through my closed window. I think that there are a couple of frogs who come by my backyard at night because I can tell that there is more than one.

Frogs are amphibians, which means that they are cold blooded, and that they hatch in water and have gills, but once they become older they have air breathing lungs. Frogs are relatives of newts, toads and salamanders. Salamanders and newts are a little bit like lizards, but not exactly all that alike because lizards have scales and aren’t born in water, and newts and salamanders have smooth skin, just like most other amphibians do. Frogs and toads are also quite alike but then again, they aren’t exactly the same because a toad usually has bumpy skin and it looks like they have warts on them, while frogs are really smooth skinned and don’t have any warts on them.

I wish that I had a pet frog because I think that they are really cool animals (at least until they start croaking when you are trying to sleep!). I would also like to have a newt or a salamander as a pet too because they are really cool. I would get them a really big tank where they can have some water, but still have some land in it.

Do you have a pet frog, a newt or a salamander? Would you like to have one as a pet?

red eye tree frog 2 by: eyesplash Mikul

I believe that a hero can have many meanings, but a true hero is born a hero.

I think that a hero doesn’t have to be known everywhere. I think that only a few people have to know them to think they are a hero. I believe that a hero does good for the other people around them and try to get others to do their best. They find a way to inspire other people to try to be somebody’s hero. They also look out for other people and try to set a good example of being a good hero. I think that a hero can be anybody that you know, like a parent, a sibling, a friend or any other kind of relative. My personal hero is my grandpa for being such a great person and having a good life.

Who is your personal hero? Do you have one? Leave a comment telling me who your personal hero is and I will try to comment back to you as soon as I can!

 Superman by: Dunechaser