Showing posts with label call of duty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label call of duty. Show all posts

Thursday, May 30, 2013

PlayStation 4, Facebook, Privacy Concerns, new Player Profile

Screen shot of the future Play Station Player's Profile showing the player's actual name. SONY 2013

It's been now 3 months since we got that first taste of Play Station 4 and since Microsoft announced the controversial XBOX One. For once, Play Station learned from it mistakes gearing a presentation to warm up the gamer's interests.
Play Station 3 under the slogan "it just does it all" was introduced to us as an entertainment machine that plays games. The presentation of Play Station 4 minus the console was geared to attract us toward the console. It will come with one controller, one headset, Playstation Move dual camera and Mic. All that sound sweet, but there's a new way of playing that worries us those who grew playing the NES, the old school gamers, and specially those parents of the PS3, XBOX 360 and WII generation and is matter of safety and privacy.

PRIVACY CONCERNS

For Once, playstation was the first to unveil a player's profile linked to Facebook together with full name and  picture. Let's see a real life event. Marty004872 has connected his PS4 account to Marty Stewart. He jumps into a Call of Duty Ghosts lobby and get into a shouting match with some guy. This some guy quit the game and jump to the computer and make a search on Marty Stewart a 17yo man. Unfortunately Marty has his father in Facebook. The angry gamer now googles George Stewart and returns an address for the subject. Marty is unaware he has a target on his head.
The event above doesn't represent a real family but may be a real event in the future. Guys like Marty and myself have created fancy names to hide our real self. Connecting our real names to our gamer tags is not the way to go. Let's add more to this issue. I posted a video on Youtube then onto my facebook a MW3 sniping massacre 10 Kills no death. While on YouTUBE I received views and likes, on Facebook it was ignored. NOT EVERYBODY IN FACEBOOK CARES WHAT I DO IN GAMING.
So what should Play Station do? Let's no deny that the new player profile looks futuristic and they should keep it. However, there has to be a little tweek done to the player's profile. When the player decide to connect Facebook, first the player should create a page for the gamer tag. In this case Marty004872 should create a Facebook page under the same name. PS4 should make a tweak to the software, add a drop box where would ask "Connect as:" now Mr Stewart can pick to connect the page to PS4 and still maintain his privacy. Would be nice if Sony worked with Facebook about socializing. Let's say Marty004872 add Xcalibur007828 to his Playstation friends, the next time Marty logs in to the facebook page for Marty00472, Xcalibur007828 should appear as suggested pages to follow. Just like the pages we follow. When Marty Stewart is connected as Marty Stewart this page is not suggested but is suggested when he's Marty00472. I think is a great way to keep gamers connected, busy looking at friends' achievements and postings. OF COURSE that the current feature of showing the Facebook friends who play certain games and are on Facebook should port toward PS4. Currently if you play Black Ops 2 or Modern Warfare 3 you can see who in facebook plays the game. It would only show you the person's gamer tag.

If you agree with the views expressed in this article don't hesitate to tweet it to @sony or @playstation as well as send the link to playstation facebook and youtube page. It will be greatly appreciated

Let me know your opinion on this matter and other future gaming matters.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

How clear do we see our internet needs? (Clear internet review)

Clear wireless connection speed in Brooklyn NY

In this world of high traffic of information is good to know that there are many choices out there. However, we have to be very careful with what we get into.

This month I went through the unfortunate event of losing my internet connection entirely. I was looking for other options and this company definitely called my attention. Their modem is super small which allow me to hold it in one hand and nobody even notice that I'm carrying an internet modem with me. Something else that called my attention was the fact that it was $49.99. Ok I understand, it's somewhat regular to expensive price for internet in the USA. In the case of Clear Wireless it was expensive. At this stage of Technology DSL the fastest internet introduced after the death of 56KB/s Dial up is currently 14.99/mo to 30.00 a month. It's still pretty decent speed compared to some services. So what can you expect of $49.99? the best internet possible.
IMW-C910W Clear hotspot limited edition
I like to always look at all sides of stuff and so let's take a look at the good and the bad of having Clear Wireless internet services.
PROS

  • The modem is super small it fits perfectly on pockets, bag or similar packaging
  • Ease of acquisition. I got mine out of the supermarket down the street, it available almost everywhere you can pretty much shop it with your bread. Watch out, don't eat it with your bread.
  • Ease to sign up I didn't even show an ID 
  • No contract so I can quit any time which I actually did
  • Take it on the road. Since it uses 4G signal, this device can be taken on the road, let's say you have low data plan on your cellphone and you still need a GPS system which you don't have on your car but your cellphone do, this is a great tool to take on the road
  • Flat rate just like any regular internet
  • Good for web browsing

CONS
I felt cheated I was promised I could game online games like call of duty for example. I was promised somewhere I read about 7MB/s download speed. I barely made it past 2MB/s and that was in New York City. The picture above showing the speed was taken when I was using nothing but my computer. I was told I could plug up to 8 devices on this internet, I plugged my computer and some sites were loading at some decent speed, I decided to watch Netflix at the same time on my playstation. I saw the system reloading the movie for better quality. I ended up watching the movie in Standard definition despite being HD, then I decided to give my cellphone data plan a break by switching to WiFi mode. At this point I am amazed to see how slow google is actually loading. If you want to test how slow your connection is, just try to load google.com the simplest website in the world which is pretty much a blank screen with couple of buttons. By the time my girlfriend plugged in her Nook tablet, I lost connection or couldn't connect to the server in many cases.
I called customer support and the service was extremely horrible, I ended up super upset and hanging up the phone on the guy's face literally.
After so much bad service, I couldn't believe that 15 days after officially started my internet plan I got a survey which I filled up with honest answers including I'm not recommending this service to my friends and family. I went as far as to say that this technology would be loved in 2001 making Clear the best internet provider in the planet but not in 2013.
Horrible for video streaming: I pretty much stopped all activities on youtube including uploading videos. It took me 1 hour and a half to upload a 5 minutes video to youtube.
When I was done with them I couldn't find a cancel button, I had to call them again. This time thankfully some very sweet young lady answered the phone. Instead of me saying I'm done, I'm out, maybe 5 minutes and that's it. I went 15 minutes into this conversation I felt I was smoothly being pushed into keeping the service despite having a faster internet at home. I basically told her my new service provider, my speeds and OH yeah since she got me a little pissed with that, I compared my new speed with the old speed.
Optimun Online my new-old provider. Notice the speed jump
Remember I told you I took the speed check with the hotspot from Clear and my computer only? Well this one is more unfair I had 2 cellphones, my PS3 and the computer plugged to the wireless and a smart TV to the wired connection. I am not the sole user of this I don't know who else was connected. I am not promoting Optimum online, you can get very similar speeds with Time Warner Cable (in New York, check with your provider to see what they can offer) However this isn't even the fastest yes I have internet faster than 62% of USA but there's a group that is faster that's Verizon Fios customers, also even faster as fast as 1GB/s is Google Fiber (available only in Kansas as of now) Google Fiber cost about $70/mo and 120/mo with TV. I have a cheaper, when unbundled is about U$54.99/mo. Ok I was paying $49.99/mo, Wasn't I supposed to get at least 9MB/s down per 1.00MB/s up and justify the missing speed on the fact that I can take this internet to the road?
Another lesson I learned during internet downtime which was actually caused for a faulty wireless router is that  wireless routers get old, they are not intended to be used by our children and grandchildren (supposing you are 16-30 with not kids yet) I have the very same service from last month and last month when I ran the speed test I was getting 7MB/s downstream per 0.95MB/s upstream. The router in use was a 10 years old WRT54GL from Linksys and I didn't know the wireless modems had a top speed which was reached. I'm now using a Netgear N600 which actually has a top wireless speed of 300MB/s so don't cheat yourself away of speed you are paying for, make sure you know what's your router's speed, specially when is at least 5 years old.

In conclusion, Clear has a lot to improve on if they mean to compete and or be relevant in this advanced world. Youtube, and many others video sites are very popular for any person with access to the internet and if they can't get what they want, there would be more blogs about this popping up every single minute. Be very careful what you pick, invest your money wisely.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Modern Warfare 3 Broken again?



It's being one more year, one more Call Of Duty have been released. Black Ops 2 is out to a great month, yet Modern Warfare 3 find ways to still surprise. During one of my gameplays the system went crazy giving me 15999XP per kill on Kill Confirmed instead of the usual 50XP. As you can appreciate in the video below, there's nothing special about the gameplay in fact I was checking at the scoreboard too much which caused me to be standing like an idiot in the middle of a fight yet a regular kill was worth 15999XP. That happened this November 19th. The video is not high quality it was recorded with a Galaxy S 3 cellphone rather than a game capture device but you can definitely appreciate how broken MW3 is about to get. After the game I contacted Infinity Ward via twitter. This is the beauty of our times you can even contact the president directly if you like. I explained the issue and I didn't have the problem after that. My stats were reset as they were before playing that game, the loss was taken off my records and I was put back to Prestige 12 level 40. Oh, I went way back in time and played Black Ops and it seemed like it was the game that was released this year. It ran smoothly and no glitch. Two years ago when Black Ops was released, MW2 was unplayable. I entered a game at level 27 no prestige. Found a lobby full of invincible people, people walking on imaginary ladders, flying around, no custom class just switch gun and is all the guns of the game, camping outside the map's walls. Played that game and when I was done with a ridiculous 5-17 I got promoted to the last prestige and last level. Never again played modern warfare 2. This year, MW3 seem to start giving problems.


Many of you reading don't care because U$60.00 is like change to your pockets, but correct me if I'm wrong. The game is rated M-17 meaning only people over 17 should play it, yet 14-16yo are predominant as well as those between 17-40. Let's focus on those 14-16yo kids. They go to school all year then work all summer long to get their Play Station, or Xbox or which ever console they prefer. Young people tend to go overboard. So instead of $60.00 they pay $120 for the Elite version. that's a lot of money specially when you worked your summer with a boss you possibly didn't like that much then end up disappointed because your game don't work a year later. Come on Infinity Ward. It gets worse for others. Most Modern Warfare 3 lobbies are full of holiday shoppers again around ages 14-19 they got their MW3, possibly Black Ops during Christmas and are anxious to get Black Ops 2 this Christmas. The only game they have now is MW3 and they get this crappy issue. It's it fair? Leave me your opinion below and visit my new YouTube Channel coming HD pretty soon. Thanks for your time.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Victor On: Super Bowl parade, What is a hero?


The official first video vlog is finally here. See me play Team Death match on modern warfare 3. I talk about the parade, how do I feel about the parade, who deserve a parade. One I completely left out of the list was the special squad behind the death of osama bin laden. Even if they cover their head they deserve their parade. Also inmediate family members of those who lost their life on United 93. I hope you enjoy it, please leave your opionion. Favorite and like this video and pass it to your friends. Also be the first to receive the video by subscribing to my channel as well as to this your victor space blog.

See you next time

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Thank you a thousand times

This special edition video comes with a thank you note to all of you for your overwhelming support on my latest entry. I have to thank also everyone (one that was jenn) on this matter before this entry was even posted. This has definitely inspired me to bring you more I still will have my two blog entries and also a video vlog. Maybe me talking to you about certain topic, or just me making a videogame commentary. We will have a lot of fun ahead and I will do my best to bring more and better content.
Enjoy the video. Please note, my first language is Spanish not English so there will be a heavy accent, at the time of the recording superbowl was on. Actually the halftime show and I often looked away. This is recorded with the laptop's microphone so don't expect high quality when the speaker (me) was looking away most of the time is innapropriate but I had to thank you guys for all the support offered to "Bullying a Society of Insecurity" I would love to see your comments I really like to know what all of you think. I'm becoming some sort of outspoken person I wasn't that way all the time and I want to see what you guys think about the topic.
See you shortly.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Is too cool a problem, or nerdy is the problem?

Excerpts from a comment thread in my brother's facebook page.
Hello dear audience and welcome to a brand new entry of Victor's Space blog. You know once again I'm featuring a real person into this blog. Trivia: Sylvanna Garcia becomes the first person no on my friend list to be featured in the blog, I came in touch with this comment accidentally I was intended to post a comment or two but got out of hand. I didn't prep her so I look cool if that's what you ask :D. This was funny, everybody knows of Facebook newest feature "closest friends" for those who still get e mails from facebook which I think is the smartest way to do so you stay in touch with your people. My brother posted this picture. Here comes the funny part, after standing in the line three hours and a half just a few days ago 11/7 (game out on midnight) we made it home to play a first match of Modern Warfare 3, everything is cool two playstations three guys all excited. Next day one of the systems break down (thank you SONY) so my brother decides to put one copy of modern warfare up for sale on facebook, Sylvana (the person featured here) comments on the fact that she's a newbie and she's having problems with her tv, a friend of my brother jump in for help. The whole point is no talks of my brother ever selling the game. Poor guy he was asking "what about the game?" but we were having a three ways conversation under his picture including that fine comment from Sylvanna to protect her privacy, some information provided on that comment was censored. Well entering the topic.
If you are up to date with this blog and saw my previous entry, you can surely assume I was kinda geeky in school, you are actually right, and thanks to that, I had a tough life relationship-wise in school. Since I can remember I always remember that my number one task in school was go and study, I didn't care what outfit was hot, I didn't even cared if my toes were coming out of my shoes. Main goal was number one wake up, two just wear something as long as it covers my body, three perform good in school. I also played little league baseball for a while I did ok I wasn't an elite player but I did far better in school. I wanted to be a profesional ball player and play for my favorite team The Mets, I had and still have a lot of passion for the game. But my grandfather saw in me that I could do better with my brain, my grades in school were more impressive than my baseball stats. I continued to go to school. I would just go to school all about business not about outfit or what is good out there. I didn't feel the need to impress nobody. Turns out that I did make friends really good friends but I also got leeches. If you recently got out of school and was one of those students that always did good you probably had some of those. You see in school academically there are these kind of people "Nerd (library rat)" the kind that is fashion backward, is all business no play. Other type they want to perform good in school, look somewhat presentable (that was me), "I don't care" the kind of students that don't work hard, they know that they are slow but don't seek help neither. If you wasn't none of these. I'm sorry no offense but you was probably a leech the kind who go to school, care about getting out of that jail but wont work hard enough, seek to become popular, graduate... Hey test tomorrow sit behind the nerd. "hey nerd you are my friend" yeah they remember your name and last name. I had many of those back in school. Last but not least is aggravated leech or hallway rats. The kind who cut classes, participate in all physical education classes even if they don't belong there, often bully others. The only reason these go to school is to meet with pals, show off the newest phone dad got them, listen to music outside school, smoke, or have sex.. That last one almost everybody do (not me), and again copy from the nerds. This not only applies to school.
You see, the way we grow in school is not only a personality we leave behind, is a personality we carry on through life dragging either prosperity or defeat. I don't even will mention to look around for bullies because I'm pretty sure that if you look at the news you would learn of several bullies right away. I wont even waste time talking about those is a very negative topic to talk about.
One very important thing to highlight on the above comment is that I did struggled big time. I was either too committed to my work, or just too slow to understand any life in school outside the classroom. As a teenager is a hard life, teenagers are the most judgmental people in the word. If you are a bad boy/girl chances are you become popular and others may find you interesting, datable. Completely the opposite of the geek and nerds the one too submerged in the book, afraid of breaking rules. Gez I knew people in high school too scared to leave for fire drills they though was mass class cutting. But people mature and the reality hits, there's no more trips to the principal's, security, dean's office. Outside school life bad boy/girl have these destination ranging from good to worse police precinct (dunking donuts) just kidding about dunking donuts but if you need a cop real quick check there first lol (I may get some enemies for this lol), seriously is the precinct, jail, or the graveyard, Would you like that path?. I'm writing one more entry coming in December where I state that back in high school I realized I was very popular I wasn't a wild child. However I was well known by teachers and students alike. Coming soon: "what does it takes to be popular" I'm also touching the senseless seniors vs freshman rivalry. Check it out this December.  
If you are at work, take a look at some of your co-workers you will see some and I please you be one of these. On top of every work, craving more work, researching. Well the whole point is making things happen at work super busy and only socialize when the work is over, or after 5PM. I used to work with this young woman Joy P. F. I so wanted to bring her over to my business she was a very hardworking young woman, very sociable, smart and fun. I look at her and she definitely give me the impression of nerd (hard woking student) when she was in school. All she would talk about was about work, she would sit there at her desk and talk nothing during work, if she stood from there was during break (this time she would escape from work wont take break with co-workers neither) and if she talked to me it was small talk then what she needed from me for work related matters. That's why I wanted her to work in the business because this woman is business no kidding around. Once I approached her to talk about joining the business to what she responded "after work please" followed by a smile. Here's is the problem, she leaves at 4:30 I leave at 5:00 so that meeting never took place.
Then there's the leeches those who spend 3 hours of 8 near the water cooler talking about everything but work, family, Monday night football etc. Those who spend a week doing the same project that you could have finished in just two days. These are called leeches because they don't bring much to the plate they bring a little or nothing for which they drain the environment causing serious damages to the workplace, society, etc. Thanks to that the hard worker have to load up more work in order to keep the company running. If you are in that group and that's why you are reading this because you are bored of browsing the internet and well let see what's up in blogger. First bookmark this blog, and step it up it is not fair using others, earning an easy check, many people are in need of some work. The difference between a hard worker and a hardly working person is that the hard worker is always hungry always think can bring more and haven't done enough yet.
Leeches are the most dangerous group because they damage the environment in other ways. They are very low efficiency team compared to the nerds. In the middle there are a bunch of other groups because they don't have an identity they can either be motivated to work harder, or be completely distracted by a leech moron. Pardon the vocabulary but I had to say it... Now I feel better.
Not only in the work place this applies everywhere. Let me tell you, if you are taking away from an environment and not bringing nothing in exchange, you are being a leech. Whether is your workplace, your community *(taking social security when you could have been working), or your home if you are not putting nothing you are a leech. Is your house? well you are the father of the house, you work and bring 70% to 100% of the income but you never spend time with your children, your wife don't remember the last kiss you are still being a leech because the man don't live of bread only. I have to admit I have been quite a leech myself sometimes at home and let me tell you, it's not that comfortable actually is very self-destructive. Let me tell you one more mistake some men do is tell the woman "baby stay home I would go out and make our money" now I'm gonna tell you the mistake some women make is listen to "baby stay home I would go out and make our money" and actually pay attention to that. My woman should be the queen of the house I would love to go out and make all of the money, here's the problem, something happen to the king, the queen can't defend the castle because she's used to have her feet up. I wont tell my wife go to work or come stay home. I just let her be. You see, naturally if you are a good person, hardworking, good hardworking people will look for you. If I tell her go to work she may think I want to live off her, if I tell her don't work I may destroy her wings. I would motivate her to work hard, I would motivate her to find some enjoyment some alternate activity besides work, home, kids. Here's where you will sure understand the king and queen analogy. I am a human being I'm meant to break down at times I'm supposed to get sick, Victor Space wont have the same writer forever one day I have to die. If so that happens and I was the only provider for "my castle" who will then keep the castle running. Can't be my wife because I got her so used to never work that now she's lazy and very weak. On the other side of the coin if something were to happen to me, my woman is already a worker, she will be motivated to work harder just to "keep the castle running".
One big mistake society have done with women is that they have been designated as the weak. Did you know that lioness are the ones that hunt while the lion stays taking care of the cubs? the only time the lion hunt is when the lioness is either sick or pregnant. Well well the king of the jungle seems to be the woman in our society. True, women are sensitive, not as strong and tall as most men but that doesn't mean that they can't do a thing. On a previous entry I was talking about how people condition their bodies toward weakness see the link in the bottom.
My point in this entry is: you can't never get what you want unless you go for it against any odds, against all obstacles life put you through. Hey life will throw dust in your eyes just to see how fast you are willing to get it off your face and keep running after your goal, I promise you that someday you will be kneeling on the floor begging for mercy, wishing you was never born, crying "why me?" "why things don't work out for me" that day, is the defining day, depending how you respond, your lifestyle would depend on that. What? Don't believe me? think about a homeless person, now think of guys like Donald Trump. If you read Trump 101 a really good book from Trump himself he actually told a friend "see that homeless guy right there? that guy has more money than me." One difference is that the homeless guy didn't know how to respond to that key moment, Donald Trump decided to battle, he decided his life was a special gift and he better make his time here worthwhile. If you are bulling, riding on someone else's back you are wasting a precious gift. That gift is called life, you are wasting an opportunity and you may also be ruining someone else's chances. You know, what I heard about bullies? just the most insecure people in the world, they probably struggle with something, have been told anything that make them feel bad about themselves and the only way to reasure themselves they are not that bad, is go and bully on someone. Unfortunately the likely victim is the group known as nerd, geek etc people that keep excercising the brain. So there you go, a giant body with a brain the size of a bean facing a hyper active body held by a body the size of a bean. In a physical battle obviously the nerd know can't win, the win will come years later when the nerd is the CEO of a company and don't hire the bully because lack of work ethic and obviously a past. Instead of bullying around Go out there and make a difference with your life, always remember that you have one life to live, unlike call of duty you don't respawn, when you are gone, you are gone.


Here's bonus material, review that other entry from this blog. Don't forget to vote this and that other entry and leave your comments, questions and suggestions here and or on that entry as well. Hope you like it if you already read it, read it again let me know what you think. Some other bonus material, this entry was intended to be called "the givers and takers of society." I went with a more catchy name something more general. Tell me what you think of the name selection


Disability: Is it Mental or truly a physical affliction?


Thanks for reading and I see you all soon

Sunday, September 11, 2011

September 11

Just a typical morning in new york before september 11, 2001


This entry is a bit nostalgic. Ten Years ago at this same hour many people suffered. I know I have readers in the countries that may not see United States with good eyes, I have readers in the entire world. I want you to start thinking if all actions taken by both sides are correct.
Ten years ago many people left for work leaving family behind and promising to come back, leaving pregnant women, dropping kids at school. many others just took a flight that never landed, others like me were looking for school and got forced to walk many miles on foot, many others went to rescue others and never came back, in the best cases they suffered visible and invisible injuries that may never heal, we all got hurt that day.
While many others decided over the lives of thousands of people. WHY? because these under attack had a different color of skin, believed in a different method of politics, had a different religious view. If you think they deserved what they got, I would like you to think for a moment how would your family feel if one morning you left and never came back.
You know what's that really make me mad? Religion was supposed to be a set of teachings from whatever God you follow, it was supposed to guide society to be better. Yet because we follow different religious some say Gehovah is the lord, others say Allah is the lord, some say is Buddha. At the end of the day doesn't matter who was the lord, whoever the lord was, was somebody good guiding the society to be better. We don't know who the lord truly was. What if all of us are right and God in reality were many of them just that they decided to divide what they were to govern. I mean you are the head of your household but you can't be the head household at your brother's house. What if that's the case? what if in the end there's Allah, Buddha, Muhammad, Jehovah all of them.
They all would like us all to behave well. How would they feel about today? today their children went to war against each other ten years ago. I think is time we take a good look at each other and start to cooperate with each other doesn't matter what religion we follow. After September 2011 I attended a great High School in New York with people from many religions, many of those are readers of this blog, they are my friends or aquaintances, Ironically many of them came to the United States running from the war US vs their country. This is why my facebook, myspace, tagged, hi5, google profile is blank on 'religious view' and politic because politics and religions are the disgrace of the world.
Today you are sitting here reading, lucky you and lucky me who typed this for you to read. What I want you to know is that you have a gift that's is life, what do you do with it? that rests for you to learn, just go and make a difference with your life. God gave you a new chance to live, go take full advantage of it. What if your life were to end suddenly? you never know, and you never know how would it end. Ten years ago, there thousands lost didn't know how was going to end, these in wars despite being in a war didn't know when, where, how but it happened.

Let's do something more productive with our lives besides hating each other. We only have one life we can't screw it up and get a new chance like in the videogames, we don't respawn like in Call of Duty.

Just remember this, we all have a "built date" we all know when was it. But we all also have an expiration date but we don't know when it is. Even those hospitalized with horrible injuries after 9/11 didn't know when was their expiration date. What would you do before that date approaches?