As many youtubers are now aware, youtube has removed its group feature from the website. Prior to the removal of its groups, youtube made the following statement which I will paraphrase:
"We will build new group features more thoroughly integrated into YouTube and decided to detach the existing YouTube Groups to avoid confusion among the community and make way for the new product, whatever that product may be. We believe that all group members are important members of the YouTube community and hope that all existing members will beta test these new features when they are released. Groups are going away December 1, 2010. Thanks for supporting this feature and we hope to replace it soon."
In my own words, I've been a fan of youtube groups since I created my youtube gaming channel ("terrencej18") a few years ago. Groups are a way for average youtube users to get noticed by other youtubers while making new friends and gaining insight on their videos. It's hard to get noticed when there's millions of youtube users and everyone is making videos of various types. Unless you're "Fred", "Smosh", "Ray William Johnson", "Schmoyoho", or a few other big-time youtube partners/music artists, the possibility that someone will find your video is second to none. In other words, the chance of "becoming famous" as people put it on youtube is very small, especially if no one is creating content to stand out.
For example, everyday, I receive requests and messages from different youtube users about "checking out my music track" or something of that nature. For the most part, they all have similar beats and they all talk about the same thing; either "women", "money", "vehicles", or "guns". Eventually, people will stop looking at these music pages as they are becoming more repetitive, just like the actual music industry were 90% of the music artists are using "auto-tune" to enhance their voices in their songs. Getting back on subject though, youtube groups were away for the average youtube user to communicate with individuals that share a common interest without having to search videos and track that person's channel just to add him/her as a friend. For instance, I am a hardcore gaming fan, so I would join gaming groups and communicate with fellow gamers that share a common interest while making new friends on youtube, but that can't happen anymore.
The primary reason I think that the groups were shutdown was due to the "sub4sub" groups and "porn" groups that were being created on youtube. I've done sub4sub before on my channel and I still do it because I know that there was no way in hell my channel views, video upload views, or subscribers would have not substantially increased within three months without joining a few sub4sub groups. Some youtubers talk down "sub4sub" groups but there are several youtube partners that would have never became youtube partners (individual or full-account) without joining sub4sub groups including myself. I'm not a full account youtube partner yet, but I have gotten several videos under the individual partner program [ad-revenue sharing] because of sub4sub groups and posting topics inviting people to watch my videos, while telling them to rate, comment, and subscribe.
The second reason I think the groups were shutdown was because of the increase in "porn" groups, in which some of the porn groups had thumbnails of explicit porn images, however, the porn videos posted to these groups were private and could only be seen by whoever the owner of the private porn video sends that video to if they request to watch it from the group.
As a fellow youtuber, I am quite disappointed that youtube or "google" has shutdown the group feature of youtube. It would be nice if they would give an approximate date of these "alleged" new group features that's coming soon to youtube. It wouldn't surprise me if we don't even see any "Group" features until the year 2015, but then again, shutting down groups is not going to stop "sub4sub", not by a long shot because the youtubers that sub4sub can create videos and start the sub4sub legacy over again, which I am 100% for.
Thank you for reading my post.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Gaming on the Intel X3100 Video Card – Compatible Games Part 2
I'm back again with a new review and blog about more compatible PC games for the Intel X3100 video card. As long as you have a dual core processor at 2.00GHz or higher, you should be able to play these games below with little or no problem at all:
1) Halo Combat Evolved (Decals, shadows, etc = OFF; textures/particles = "LOW"; Resolution = 1024x768)
2) Toy Story 3 - (Resolution = 1280x800; Graphics = "HIGH")
3) Street Racing Syndicate - (Resolution = 1024x768; Everything = low/medium)
4) Fable The Lost Chapters - (Resolution = 1024x768x32; Graphics = Lowest, V-Sync=ON)
5) Microsoft Train Simulator - (Default settings)
6) Call of Duty 1 - (Default settings and resolution)
7) The Incredibles - (Default graphic settings and resolution)
8) Spiderman Friend or Foe - (Resolution = 1024x768; quality = medium)
9) Portal PC Game - (Resolution = 1024x768; graphic settings = low)
10) The Simpsons Hit and Run PC - (Default graphic settings & resolution)
11) WWE RAW - Ultimate Impact - (Resolution = 1024x768; graphics = medium/high)
12) Cocoto Kart Racer - (Default settings / resolution)
13) NBA LIVE 08 - (Default graphic settings)
14) Spider-Man 2 PC - (Default graphic settings)
15) Rallisport Challenge - (Default graphic settings)
I hope this new list of games will be helpful to anyone that owns an Intel video card. Part 3 will be coming soon once I test more PC games on the X3100 video card.
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1) Halo Combat Evolved (Decals, shadows, etc = OFF; textures/particles = "LOW"; Resolution = 1024x768)
2) Toy Story 3 - (Resolution = 1280x800; Graphics = "HIGH")
3) Street Racing Syndicate - (Resolution = 1024x768; Everything = low/medium)
4) Fable The Lost Chapters - (Resolution = 1024x768x32; Graphics = Lowest, V-Sync=ON)
5) Microsoft Train Simulator - (Default settings)
6) Call of Duty 1 - (Default settings and resolution)
7) The Incredibles - (Default graphic settings and resolution)
8) Spiderman Friend or Foe - (Resolution = 1024x768; quality = medium)
9) Portal PC Game - (Resolution = 1024x768; graphic settings = low)
10) The Simpsons Hit and Run PC - (Default graphic settings & resolution)
11) WWE RAW - Ultimate Impact - (Resolution = 1024x768; graphics = medium/high)
12) Cocoto Kart Racer - (Default settings / resolution)
13) NBA LIVE 08 - (Default graphic settings)
14) Spider-Man 2 PC - (Default graphic settings)
15) Rallisport Challenge - (Default graphic settings)
I hope this new list of games will be helpful to anyone that owns an Intel video card. Part 3 will be coming soon once I test more PC games on the X3100 video card.
Feel free to comment. If you need any PC gaming accessories, feel free to check out the GameShark gaming store to purchase your gaming accessories needed to enjoy your PC games.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Cheating in Relationships - My Thoughts/Opinions
This is for males and females, so I'm not taking a definite side regarding gender. I feel that there is no justified reason to "Cheat" on your lover, spouse, girlfriend/boyfriend or whatever because cheating is cheating and there's no way around it. If anyone disagrees with me and feels that cheating is justified and okay, please don't hesitate to comment this post so we can have a nice discussion.
In my opinion, I feel that cheating is cheating and it can't be defined otherwise. If you cheat on a final exam, and get caught, can you say that it wasn't cheating? If you cheat on an exam and don't get caught, is it still cheating? You're doing the same action, but with different results. In this case, it's cheating, because you're focusing on someone's else paper instead of your own to gain personal benefit from it. This situation is similar to the situation of relationships. If you're sleeping around with someone else instead of your own spouse or better-half, that's for your own personal gain and it's cheating, no other way to say it.
My definition of "cheating" course is: "the sole attempt to trick one's spouse or lover into believing that one is faithful enough to receive their lover's trust by illustrating that they can be "faithful", although they've contradicted themselves by cheating".
If one feels that they lost that "special connection" or just doesn't love the person they're with, I would rather tell the person how I feel and separate from them than just living with them and showing no affection as if you're complete strangers living together. Now if there are children involved, that's a different story because children deserve to have both of their parents when growing up, however children can sense negativity in the atmosphere and if you and your lover can't settle your differences while living together, it can effect the children as well. In that situation, either the lovers need to put their differences aside for the kids or just separate to keep their kids from that negative atmosphere.
Many people also tend to use or try to find loop holes when referring to cheating or something of that nature. I often hear people say some things like this:
"It's not cheating if you don't get caught" - what the hell is it then? Of course that's cheating. If you go to a store and steal a big screen TV and if you don't get caught, it's still illegal regardless because there are laws that make that action illegal. Although there aren't laws regarding relationships, there are laws regarding marriage and can result in a breach of contract if one or the other spouse cheats on the other. If you cheat on your spouse and do not get caught, it's still cheating regardless. If you weren't ready to commit to a relationship, then why in the world would you be in one in the first place?
"It's not cheating if your lover does it to you first" - I'm going be a little more understandable here, but it's still cheating on both parts. First of all, if it was me, I would have rather called off the relationship for one because if they cared about me enough and was faithful enough in the first place, then we wouldn't be having this conversation about cheating now would we? Otherwise, they would have stayed committed and never cheated in the first place and for the person who goes and cheat after their lover has cheated, it's still cheating because you're still in a "RELATIONSHIP" = commitment with that person.
"I wasn't getting "any pleasure" from him or her, so I had to find it else where" - I'm a little more understanding here, but if you felt that way, you should have brought it to their attention because the fact of the matter is, you still were in a "committed" or whatever relationship when that happened and although I understand where somebody would come from on this one, it's still cheating regardless of the situation.
So, there you have it people, that's just a brief thought of what I thought cheating was and how I felt about it, I could have written an entire sermon on this, but again, it's only an opinion, so don't get all bent out of shape if u didn't agree with anything I said because it's only an opinion.
If anyone likes this and agrees with me about this, comment on it and let me know what u think about it too!!!
Like I said earlier, if anyone disagrees with me and feels that cheating is justified and okay, please don't hesitate to comment this note so we can talk about the situation.
Thank you for reading.
In my opinion, I feel that cheating is cheating and it can't be defined otherwise. If you cheat on a final exam, and get caught, can you say that it wasn't cheating? If you cheat on an exam and don't get caught, is it still cheating? You're doing the same action, but with different results. In this case, it's cheating, because you're focusing on someone's else paper instead of your own to gain personal benefit from it. This situation is similar to the situation of relationships. If you're sleeping around with someone else instead of your own spouse or better-half, that's for your own personal gain and it's cheating, no other way to say it.
My definition of "cheating" course is: "the sole attempt to trick one's spouse or lover into believing that one is faithful enough to receive their lover's trust by illustrating that they can be "faithful", although they've contradicted themselves by cheating".
If one feels that they lost that "special connection" or just doesn't love the person they're with, I would rather tell the person how I feel and separate from them than just living with them and showing no affection as if you're complete strangers living together. Now if there are children involved, that's a different story because children deserve to have both of their parents when growing up, however children can sense negativity in the atmosphere and if you and your lover can't settle your differences while living together, it can effect the children as well. In that situation, either the lovers need to put their differences aside for the kids or just separate to keep their kids from that negative atmosphere.
Many people also tend to use or try to find loop holes when referring to cheating or something of that nature. I often hear people say some things like this:
"It's not cheating if you don't get caught" - what the hell is it then? Of course that's cheating. If you go to a store and steal a big screen TV and if you don't get caught, it's still illegal regardless because there are laws that make that action illegal. Although there aren't laws regarding relationships, there are laws regarding marriage and can result in a breach of contract if one or the other spouse cheats on the other. If you cheat on your spouse and do not get caught, it's still cheating regardless. If you weren't ready to commit to a relationship, then why in the world would you be in one in the first place?
"It's not cheating if your lover does it to you first" - I'm going be a little more understandable here, but it's still cheating on both parts. First of all, if it was me, I would have rather called off the relationship for one because if they cared about me enough and was faithful enough in the first place, then we wouldn't be having this conversation about cheating now would we? Otherwise, they would have stayed committed and never cheated in the first place and for the person who goes and cheat after their lover has cheated, it's still cheating because you're still in a "RELATIONSHIP" = commitment with that person.
"I wasn't getting "any pleasure" from him or her, so I had to find it else where" - I'm a little more understanding here, but if you felt that way, you should have brought it to their attention because the fact of the matter is, you still were in a "committed" or whatever relationship when that happened and although I understand where somebody would come from on this one, it's still cheating regardless of the situation.
So, there you have it people, that's just a brief thought of what I thought cheating was and how I felt about it, I could have written an entire sermon on this, but again, it's only an opinion, so don't get all bent out of shape if u didn't agree with anything I said because it's only an opinion.
If anyone likes this and agrees with me about this, comment on it and let me know what u think about it too!!!
Like I said earlier, if anyone disagrees with me and feels that cheating is justified and okay, please don't hesitate to comment this note so we can talk about the situation.
Thank you for reading.
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