Top 10 favorite games

Everybody needs games, because if people don’t play, then people get mad, bored, and then start to do bad stuff, and like a saying says “ Ocius is the mother of all sins.”. This list is about my favorite top 10 games, and includes both video games, and board games.Dear reader, if your parents have told you that video games are bad for you or they are going to cook your brain, or stuff like that, I can say with all the freedom of the world that such arguments ARE BULLSHIT!. There is no scientific evidence that proves this, in fact science demonstrates the opposite, for example it has been demonstrated that video games improve brain capacities, besides, video games are a form of art because it tells you stories in the game, they have a plot and you need actor to play the voices in the game. Position 1 is my Favorite game.

10.- Chess

Classic game, for people who actually are clever, and one of the few sports that heavy and unfit people can play. The game itself is epic because it recreates a battle between two armies. It is so epic that once during the cold war, an American player, and a Soviet Player were playing the final match in a chess world cup. the American won.

9.- Risk

Like chess, but the difference is that the board is a world map. It was based on the Napoleonic era, so the game figures look like soldiers from 1800’s.  The objective of the game is to lead your armies and become the next Napoleon (not Napoleon Dynamite) and conquer the world. Easy, right?

8.- Uno

The classic card game (for non-gamblers) to play after a semester exam in class, and also to break up friendships as well. You have 7 cards and you have to get rid of all of them first, but if you have one left you have to say “Uno” or you have to grab seven more.

Friends? That is the last thing you have when you play Uno...

7.-Mario Kart DS

Mario -who has decided to stop looking for the d̶u̶m̶b̶ Princess Peach who has been kidnapped by Bowser more times than Liam Neeson's daughter in the Taken franchise- now plays karts race. In this game, you drive a kart and like in all race games, you have to make it first to the goal to win, but is not that easy, because the other players are such an <insert rated R word here> , and they will throw at you bananas, turtle shells, lightings, ink, bullets, and other stuff to win the race in a u̶n̶honorable way. Dear reader, if you choose to play Mario Kart DS (start playing Mario Kart version for DS or newer, the older version’s graphics are crap), choose Yoshi, he is the most complete racer.

6.- Scrabble

Always that I play scrabble, I play it in Spanish because it is the only version that I have. In scrabble you grab seven letter from a bag and try to form words, and according to the letter you use you get points, and the winner is the one who has more points, you can form any word you want, but unspoken rules t̶h̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶n̶ say that “Thou shall not use the f-word, s-word, a-word, p-word, c-word, d-word”, and the rules of the game say that you cannot form Proper names such Alejandro, Microsoft, Mcallen, etc. You get the idea.

5.- Clue

The game in which you play to be Sherlock. You have to solve a murder case about who killed a millionaire and with what weapon where. I have The Simpsons version, so you have to find who killed Mr.Burns and with what weapon (poisoned doughnut, Saxophone, etc). Like chess, and most games from Parker Brothers, this game is so epic and you will have a great time with it.

Oh my Gosh! I need that version of clue! Imagine Dwight K. Shrute looking for the murderer of Toby Flenderson. That is what I call creativity.

6. Conker's Bad Fur Day

A video game for Nintendo 64 and Xbox. It is about a red squirrel named Conker who tries to find his way to his home with his girlfriend after a night at the bar, but gets lost and gets into many ordeals to save his life and find his way back to home, like in a greek epic, but also like in a greek epic, it has a lot of gore and dark humor, so it is rated M for Mature audiences, and kids should not play it b̶u̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶h̶o̶n̶e̶s̶t̶,̶ ̶t̶o̶d̶a̶y̶'̶s̶ ̶k̶i̶d̶s̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶n̶a̶p̶r̶o̶p̶i̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶w̶a̶t̶c̶h̶ ̶i̶n̶n̶a̶p̶r̶o̶p̶i̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶v̶i̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶i̶n̶n̶a̶p̶r̶o̶p̶i̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶,̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶e̶s̶?̶.

5.- Mario Party (Nintendo 64)

Another mario game. A kind of board game in which if you win minigames you advance in the board, and you win if you collect so many stars. Enjoyable, although like in Mario Kart, the opponent will do anything possible to win, even if it means to steal your stars, have you eaten by Bowser, roll over you by a train, etc. Make sure to play Mario Party 3 or newer, older versions are bad.

Look at them, trying to save their lives from falling in the lava by running on the top of balls. Like SAW, but for children.

3.- Frontline Commando D-day

Dear reader, if you are a history fan like me, and admire Captain America, then you will love this game. This games is a mobile game in which you are an American Soldier during World War II, and your first battle is in Normandy in the D-day. Your mission is to advance in France and defeat the Nazis as you advance. Exciting!

2.- Monopoly

The most popular game from Parker Brother which is the most effective weapon to destroy friendships and families since the Great Depression. The game is about how fast can you be the next Bill Gates or the next Prince of Saudi Arabia, and is by buying properties, railroads, services, and by putting hotels and houses on your properties, so when your rival falls in your property he can go to bankrupt. A fun game (to my taste) which also teaches you a lesson: do your taxes, and if you want to be billionaire you have to become a douche (like Macbeth).

Mr. Uncle Pennybags, who some speculate that is based on J.P. Morgan, who is properly rocking the Monopoly mustache.

1.- Minecraft

Without any doubt, Minecraft has well deserved the position number 1. It is the most exciting, epic, and entertaining game that I have never seen. The reason on why I love Minecraft is because I like scouting outdoors and exploring my surroundings like an explorer, and whenever I do that I feel like a Spanish (or should I say Mexican) Conquistador or like Eric the Red when he arrived to Vinland (North America). Unfortunately, because of a̶n̶ ̶e̶v̶i̶l̶ ̶i̶n̶v̶e̶n̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ homework ,I don’t have the time to do these things so I stay at home, but with Minecraft I can explore forests, deserts, oceans, caves, mines, mountains, and a lot of biomes and you can even build your own buildings and make a city with your own hands brick by brick, raise cattle, breed cattle, domesticate wolves, build railroads, make bombs and make them blow and nobody gets hurt(if that is your thing) and start your own hormone-free organic farm. 
There there is also survival mode in which you have to make an intelligent use of your resources, and survive in your little world(is not that little, in fact it is infinite in the PC and Xbox versions) against zombie attacks, skeleton archers, creepers (which are some sort of plant with legs according to science) that explode, Endermen (A version of Slenderman), bad wolves, and zombie pigmen (Biped zombies with humanoid body and pig head). Minecraft is also educational, because it teaches you about using your resources wisely and not to waste it, making out of you a better person for the planet, plus I remember that one day, I had to take the AP Environmental Science, and I had a question that asked about the layers of the ground, so I remembered from Minecraft that on the top most part of the soill is dirt, then solidified sand, and then the bedrock. There was another question about about how to get minerals out from the ore (such gold from gold ore), and I remembered that in Minecraft I have to clean the ore by heating it, so I put it as an aswer and I got a three on the AP (which is good). Also some people especulate that Minecraft also helps you to improve your SAT scores, but there is no proof yet. Also there are some codes called mods that you can install in the program and you can do an infinity of possibilities such mine Uranium, install electricity in your buildings, build a ship, launch nukes, have a shotgun, etc. I love this game because you can many things that are dangerous for people, but the beauty is that nobody gets hurt (like in The Simpson's episode in which Homer creates an alternative universe in which everything is made of legos, and "nobody gets hurt", according to Ned Flanders).

A nuke in TNTs

Ship built by me.

King Tando’s palace in the capital city of Trolledo, in the Tandolish Kingdom. I built the palace, Trolledo’s buildings and the Tandolish Kingdom by myself brick by brick. The part that is on the very top of the palace is a pool, and the water that runs from below the palace is a waterfall.

Top 10 T.V. Shows

Guess what, dear reader? Lists are back because of popular demand! Apparently, Ms. Hudler loved so much The Rant List and assigned us to write Top 10 lists of whatever stuff. In this entry, I am going to write about my Top 10 favorite T.V. Shows that I watched during High School. Most of these series were aired during my senior year, however there is one from the 90’s (therefore, it has primitive special effects). Position number one is my favorite T.V. Show.

10.- Sherlock

This british T.V. Show (which actually is a mini series) aired by the BBC is about the detective Sherlock Holmes, but it has a modern twist. In contrast with the movie Sherlock Holmes (Tony Stark as Sherlock Holmes), in Sherlock, Mr. Holmes has a laptop and phone, Dr. Watson instead of writing Mr. Holmes’s  adventures on paper, he now has a blog; Scotland Yard uses more modern methods, and Irene Adler (in contrast with the book, in which she manipulates men) is a Dominatrix (I am not kidding, watch the first episode of Season 2). Sherlock is so popular, that even Dr. Who made a cameo in a Sherlock episode (or was the other way around?) I like this show because I love to hear the british accent, and it is quite interesting of what would Sherlock Holmes do to solve cases in these days.

BBC’s Sherlock in the Point of View of an Otaku.

9.- The Simpsons

The Simpsons have been on the air for more than 25 years. If this show is not in the air by when my grandchildren read this blog, this show was a cartoon starred by an American family (with yellow skin) and they made a satire criticizing the Government, Corporations, and Human s̶t̶u̶p̶i̶d̶i̶t̶y̶ nature.Homer is the dad, and is a very (extremely) dumb character, and is my favorite character because besides all the stupid things that he does, he says truth about the society, Homer represents the irresponsible and uneducated worker who only got a High School diploma and is in charge of the security of the Nuclear Plant (Oh, no!). The mom is Marge, who is the mom who works in the house does the chores. Then there is the son Bart, who is a troublemaker at school, and always does disaster, and does not have respect for Homer (who ends up choking Bart)Bart tell us about society that tyoday’s kids don’t care about their parents and do whatever they want. Lisa is the sister who is liberal, conservationist (of nature), smart, and Buddhist, she is the least stupid person in all the city of Springfield, and is a motif of Bart contrasting the naughtiness of Bart and the nerdiness of Lisa. because in Springfield time is relative, Maggie (the baby) is still a baby since season 1.
The only episode in which she grew up was in which the local scientist (Dr. Flyn or something like that) shows Bart and Lisa their future using some sort of time machine. The simpson show us how the police is incompetent, the education system is crap, the government is bought by the wealthy, and the ecological disasters in the US (represented by the Nuclear Plant).
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8.- The Big Bang Theory.

Another sitcom. Is about a group of nerds and geeks that are good friends and hang out together. I like it because of the references to pop culture, such Marvel, DC, Stephen Hawking, etc. Not political satire, but social satire.

7.- Once Upon a Time

Disney, the giant corporation on entertainment, finds another way to make money, and is by using all the characters in the Fairy Tales movies and Mulan (Mulan is not a fairy tale) and put them together in a single fictional universe in a T.V. Show. The plot is that in a far far away land, the characters of fairy tales were living together happy in there, but then Snow White’s evil stepmother curses that world and sends them to another reality in which the characters don’t remember about their past in the other reality. In this new Reality that takes place in the fictional Maine town of Storybrooke, Jiminy Cricket is a psychiatrist, Snow White a schoolteacher, Little Red Riding Hood is a hot waitress, Snow White’s stepmother is the mayor, the Huntsman is the police chief, and Mulan is an Asian who like girls. Disney also added Elsa from Frozen.

6.- Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.

Aired during 1990’s, and didn’t survived to see the 2000’s. It is about a highschool girl named Buffy, and is the chosen one to be the slayer to exterminate the Vampires and the forces of Darkness. Often, the Vampires and the Forces of Darkness attack at her school and actually kill people there and throw the bodies in school, but the amazing thing about this is that the police department rarely investigates the crimes and leave the hard work to Buffy. Because it is from the nineties, it has primitive special effects such masks, costumes, make up, etc, but what can you expect from the 90’s?

5.- Blue Bloods

A cop T.V. Show, but before you ask what is so different of this show from other cop shows is that in this show the characters (in the fictional universe) are related between them and all of them are involved in the greatest Police Department of all the US (NYPD) or in the justice part of the government. The grandpa was a former police commissionerate, then the father is the current police commissionerate, then the son is a detective, the sister is the district attorney, and the brother of them is a regular police officer. They often quote Theodore Roosevelt and FDR.

4.- Parks and Recreations

Another sitcom and political satire. It is formatted in the same way as The Office. It is about Leslie Knope, the subsecretary of the department of Parks and Recreations of the fictitious city of Pawnee, Indiana, and the great ideas that they have to improve Pawnee’s parks, but they are often stopped by the item #72 of The Rant List (Bureaucracy if you are too lazy to look it up).

3.- Arrow

DC comic’s superhero Green Arrow is taken to  T.V.Show. Oliver queen is the son of the wealthy family of Starling city named Queen (the Queen Family), owner of Queen Incorporated. One day Oliver goes with his dad on vacation on a yacht, and the yact sinks in a storm, then Oliver arrives to the Chinese Island of Lian Yu (which means Purgatory), and he learns the art of throwing arrows with a bow. Then he returns to Starling city and becomes the local vigilante. It’s like Marvel’s Hawkeye, but in DC comics.

2.- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Disney strikes again and uses the Marvel’s Characters (because Disney bought the characters of Marvel Comics) and produces The Avengers, Captain America, Thor, Ironman, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc. All of this movies are related in the same fictional universe called “Marvel’s Cinematic Universe”. But what is amazing about this universe is that the show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is also inside this universe and plays a big part in the plot of this universe. S.H.I.E.L.D. is a fictional government intelligence agency that seeks the world security. In this show elements that appear in The Avengers,  and other Marvel movies are mentioned, for example, in an episode the agents of SHIELD need to find a weapon from Asgard that allows warriors to have super strength and fight with rage, then in another episode it is revealed the technology that HYDRA in World War II in Captain America: The first avenger. It is creative. Directed by Joss Whedon, the director of The Avengers and Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.

1.- The Office

It is about an office of the fictional corporation Dunder Mifflin, a paper maker, in the non-fictional city of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The boss, Michael Scott (starred by Steve Carell), thinks that he is the best boss in the world and treats his employees like friends, but sometimes  (which is frequently) mess things up (like John Fields!). It used to be a british T.V. show of the BBC, but then NBC took the idea.