Warning: Game Review

I have been playing The Elder Scrolls Legend and Hearthstone.
I had been hearing so much about the two games, and did not set out to write about them when I downloaded them. I started out with playing Hearthstone, because the child #1 plays it and really likes it, and thought it would be fun to play with him. I heard how popular is, and people like it. That was the other reason to try it out.
  I played it for a few days, and I have found that I don't like it.
The first thing I noticed off the bat about it was when I downloaded it onto my phone, Registered it, and went into the App for the first time, I was not given any other option with my character but to play the one that was assigned to me randomly. I tried to see if I could change that, and didn't find the options for changing. I would have preferred I being able to go through the character cards and pick the one I liked for my character.
After playing Hearthstone, I thought I would try Elder Scrolls Legend. Upon downloading and going into the App, I really liked that there is a history and back story to the game. When it came time to chose the character, you had a choice to be the races that are in the game, The Elder Scrolls. (Male or Female, as well.) There is a storyline that goes along with the game. The graphics for legend is great, and the voices, music, etc is also recognizable.
Both games are equally fun and have graphics that are fun and enticing. 

There are different types of games, and those who like to play them. I like to play interactive OW-  RPG games. I have tried playing Clash, Elvenar, Gregoplis, and I don't like those games either. I don't like them because I prefer to chose my character, how to attack, if that is what I want to do. The RPG games, and Open World Games of Elders Scrolls allow me to exactly what I like to. 
One of the things that helps play Legend is that knowing a bit of the Elder Scrolls back story and knowing some of the  characters in Elders Scrolls, might help. I assume this is the case with Hearthstone. I can see this is a digital card game that would go really well for lots of gamers. While I love card games, and I really liked all the graphics put into both games, It is not a game for me. If I am going to play a card game, I want the cards in my hand. I felt like that Iwas playing a Pokémon card game, and, I did not like that I had the fate of my character in a deck of digital cards. It was very reminiscent of Dungeons and Dragons, which was f in playing, but, it was not for me. 

Apple and Blogspot

Today this post is brought to you today by the letter "A" and "F"... For Blogspot and Apple not communicating together correctly, making an "F" as in Fail...

I was going to review a couple games today. I have been busy with thinking of things to write, when I tried to come onto my page today using my new iPad Pro (I love you iPad Pro!) when whilst coming on here to write, my blogspot hadn't been communicating well with my iPhone (I stopped using the Blogspot App for the iPhone a year ago,when I tried and tried to write with it) I had a very difficult time getting my settings I wanted, but, as I am typing now, there is no problem. It was just the initial getting the fonts how I want, the size, and the color... I still will not use the App with my iPad. 

 I do wish that Blogspot would communicate better with iPhone and iPad, because there are many times when I would like to blog while I am out and about, and I have moments when I would like to write, but, on my iPhone and going into Safari has been frustrating. Worse, is trying to type and the Blog shuts down. I have a hunch I am not the only one with this conundrum. In fact, when I speak to other bloggers and iPhone techies they have similar frustrations. 

Well, I also want to take the time to write about the iPad now. 

I will review it next.

 

The LGBT Community in Turkey

For the last 15 years, the LGBT community has been holding an annual Gay Pride, or Trans Pride Week, which was more of a festival, where the community started off with a parade, and many singers would perform, people would be able to talk to those in the Community to learn and knock down barriers, and make the community feel like they are more accepted. Last year was the first year they were not allowed to have the Pride Week, because the Government (aka, the de facto President, "President" Erdogan,)said that they were "Perverts". This year he made it completely against the law for any group of the LGBT to do any congregating at all, in fact, he came out with a statement that said something to the effect that because they are perverts. 
This is what I find so disturbingly sad. So, over the last three years, Erdogan has become more of a horrific person than anything else. Let me be perfectly clear. Erdogan is a horrible human being, and doesn't even deserve to have the power he has. Let me be more clear. There was an election last year,  in which a member of another Party leader won by a landslide. This party is called the Kurdish Revolution Democratic Party. In Turkish called the DHKP party. Within a couple of days from the election, in which Erdogan lost, he had thrown in to prison the leader. the man is named Dursun Karatas,(pronounced Karatash,).  Well, this is the problem. For the longest time, Turkey has been the secular region of Asia, and predominantly Muslim, but, it was a place for non Muslim and Muslims alike to visit, and was really safe for the region. They also were supposedly helpful for the region, this is not the case now. What is so disturbing about this is that there is a large LBGT community in Turkey. Many actors, singers, song writers, famous people are Trans, and Homosexual, and they were (are) widely popular, yet they have had to leave Turkey about a year ago because of Erdogan. They will face brutal attacks, no protection from the law, because Erdogan wants to made Turkey into the former Ottoman Empire (!!UGH!!) 
There are layers upon layers to this story, and this is just one of the examples of how dangerous this psychopath is. He attacked the poor by sealing up the mine that fell and had over 300 poor men in it, telling their families that there was nothing he could do and that they were already dead, sealing the said mine with concrete, when the men were alive. Then he started telling the women they had to wear scarves when it was against the law to wear them in Public buildings. Then he systematically started dismantling the Kemal Ataturk's former laws that Mustafa Kemal put into place, then he started attacking groups of people like the LGBT community. They are very vulnerable in Africa, China, India, Central Asia, and now Turkey. There are other groups of people that are also vulnerable. The problem with Governmental Leaders is when they have an angst towards any group of people, the followers of that leader see it as a ticket to attack those groups of people. We see it here in The USA, we see it in all communities and countries all over the world. Turkey is becoming an oppressive society, which is a nightmare.The only solution is to get the crazy psychopathic thug out of power...     

White Washing in Hollywood

Let's talk. 

I mean serious stuff. Something has been deeply on my mind. I must get it out. 

First, let's talk about what whitewashing is. Many people do it and don't even realise it. 

It seems like throughout history it is been socially acceptable. People think this is a black- white issue. in fact, it is not. This is a cultural issue. 

There is a series of movies that Disney has decided to re-do. You know, the Disney Animated movies? They have decided to re-do Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and Mulan is being re-done in an all Chinese cast. Wow, great. Let's not offend the Chinese. This is good, however, Aladdin,very loosely based on 1,001 Nights, which is a tale coming from the Persian Empire and one of the oldest tales, which has Central Asian and Persian influenced backgrounds, has been casted by Guy Richie, who is a big screen and likes the "Go big or go home" action type movies, has casted Will Smith as "The Genie" And Jafar is casted by some White English Dude. Jasmine is casted as an English Born ethnic person with absolutely NO Indian, Persian, Non Central Asian background. 

If I were to revamp this movie, I would use 

Jasmine: Nazanin Boniani

I would have a list of other actors and characters for you. But, This isn't about just Disney whitewashing Every damn movie they do (Yeah, yeah, Walt Disney was a racist, we get it, but really, come on, Disney Studios shouldn't be anymore) 

There are other movies that has done the same. 

Johnny Depp as a Native American in "The Lone Ranger"

Emma Stone as a Hawaiian in "Aloha" We shouldn't expect less from Adam Sandlers though. He made the Polynesians look bad in "50 First Dates"   

In "Argo" Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez, who is half- Mexican. Tony Mendez said that he doesn't consider himself Mexican.

Batman: Liam Neeson as Ra's al Ghul, in the comics he is depicted as an Arab

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Mickey Rooney plays an Asian man

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, a Persian is played by Jake Gyllenhaal, a white actor

Short Circuit had an Indian main character played by Fisher Stevens, a white actor

Star Trek: Into Darkness has a villain named Khan Noon Singh (Indian or Pakistani, right?) played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and in the T.V. series the same villain was played by Ricardo Montalban, of European- Mexican descent. 

What is more shocking is that the movie, "The Social Network", which is supposed to be based on Divya Narendra, of Indian descent, co-founder of ConnectU, was played by Max Minghella, and to make matters worse, there are more and more people who refuse to look into the Indian Community of actors. The director of The Social Network said he looked "All over", naming London, Montreal, and Paris, and could not find anyone with his "Warren Beatty" suave- personality and good looks. REALLY? Hrithik Roshan,Dev Patel, Ameet Chana, Kunal Nyyar, Jay Sean, Upen Patel, Imran Khan, Adam Beach, Aziz Ansari, Kal Penn, Aasif Mandvi... Just off the top of my head... I am sure there's a few hundred more I don't know... 

I think you all get the point. 

Going back to Aladdin, produced by Guy Richie. Will he not slaughter the movie like Disney already did in the animated series? 

I am not holding my breath on that one because I cringed at Aladdin and felt guilty when I bought the video for my kids, knowing it was not culturally acceptable and completely missed the point in the entire movie as far as the stereotypes, and while the actual story line was nice, they couldn't make it at all culturally acceptable.

Why does Hollywood do this? 

Don't get me wrong. I will post about the misconceptions Bollywood has about Americans. But, we get our ideas from the media, right? Humans must beware!