Three Apps That You Will Highly Enjoy!

Party In My Dorm

Party in My Dorm is a role playing game that is developed by ATA (A Thinking Ape) and its a game I’ve been playing ever since I was in 6th grade. Basically, in the game, you are a college student who’s trying to succeed.

Originally, it was supposed to be a player vs. player game but it eventually evolved into a party game. The concept is really simple, you party and you get rewards– if you take the game on its face value. The game actually is very strategical, and it would really eat you alive if you’re not cunning.

The game features a ‘hunt’ that usually lasts for three weeks. During this time, there would be a thing we call a ‘potd’ or party of the day which basically is a category of a party that gives ‘drops’. Drops are basically items you collect in to qualify to get rewards and other items that you can get exclusively only for that certain hunt.

The game also features ‘collectibles’ which are items that you collect in order to create other items. This is where the game becomes more interesting because you don’t just only wait for them to be dropped as a reward from parties but you can actually trade your other items with other people in order to create the items you want.

Although the game is a role playing game by category on the app store, I think of it more of like a simulation of real life.

Its like a simulation of real for me because I’ve been playing it for a long time. The first time I played the game years ago, it only has a ‘campus chat’ where all players can chat and a ‘club chat’ where only you and the people you party with can chat, but now there is a ‘pub chat’ where chats are unregulated.

I think of the campus chat feature more of like a world market, because this is where all legal players advertise the items that are up for trade with other items and I think of the pub chat as the black market because people would be selling items there for non-game stuff (like load or real money) which is against the game rules but nobody really cares since pub chat is inaccessible by the moderators.

Speaking of moderators, they’re like the police force of the game. Kinda like the same in real life because these moderators are also just players who make sure that other players follow the game rules but they don’t really know what the developer’s plans are. Really kind of just like the police force in real life.

I’ve also seen players create currency on their own! The first time I played the game, we would just trade our items to what we think is its value. But now, there is a standard currency for trading and this standard didn’t came from the developers, but the players themselves! There’s a certain item in the game, a chibi, which has become the standard of currency or of exchange and the value of it fluctuates sometimes, and nobody knows who decided that these chibis should be the currency, its just something that we progressed to over time.

The game itself is also very aesthetic. You can really see that the developers put a lot of effort in the game because after every hunt, not more than 24 hours later, they would start another and the theme, items, and rules are always superb.

Here are some examples of their graphics:

Aren’t they beautiful? These are just the avatars, the developers also release a new set of furniture, items, collectibles, and rules every hunt!

I really admire the dedication that the developers have towards the game!

I highly recommend this game, and if you ever play this game, add me. My username is erlee.

The game is available on Android and IOS.

Spotify

My favorite music streaming app. It is very easy to navigate and with million of songs available, it has almost all of my favorite songs! (except for barbie music)

What makes this app my favorite is because its really easy to use and I can use the app in my phone to play music in my laptop which is very convenient for me. Also, it makes downloading music in your phone really easy, you just tap the one button and it will automatically download.

Of course, downloading music is only available on premium accounts and premium accounts need to be paid monthly. What I love about Spotify though, apart from the premium account being totally worth its price tag, is that if you’re a student, you are entitled for a discount! Their premium accounts are also student friendly.

You can also listen to podcasts and download them so you can listen to them offline and let me tell you, they have a really good collection of it. I especially love listening to ‘Debatable’ by Nina and Kyle.

All in all, Spotify is a really good app, but will I use other app aside from this? Yes. Although Spotify has a wide range of music collection available for everybody, it doesn’t have all the music I love.

Sweatcoin

This is the only lifestyle app I actually stuck to. Its not exactly a training app but what it does is it pays you to walk outside.

Although I haven’t actually got a payout from this app (since their minimum requirement for a cash out is kind off hard to reach and I’m not exactly the most active person out there) they have an option where you can donate you accumulated sum to a charity and there’s no minimum cap for it. Basically, even if you’ve only earned a peso in their app, you can already donate to charity and I really loved this feature so much!

Blog #3: Please Be Careful With Thy Ports

With the rising popularity of charging stations in public areas it also raises the question of security. Although it is very convenient, is it really safe for use?

As someone who travels a lot, I find charging stations really helpful, and never really wondered how safe it is. Since always, the first thing that you notice is the convenience it brings and when you’re in that state of delight you never really bother about its safety.

With that in mind, I guess it would be better if companies put warning signs on their stations. I think doing that benefits both parties (the management and the user) because it raises awareness for the users and it would hold the management less accountable if any mishap did happen because they did warn people.

Personally, I will still keep on using public charging kiosks/stations because as I have said, it is really convenient for me. But I guess it wouldn’t hurt to be careful and have another cable for charging in public. One can never be too careful, anyway.

Curling

The origin of curling traces back to 16th century Scotland, where the sport was played on frozen ponds and lochs. The first recorded match took place around 1541: a Scottish notary recorded a challenge between a monk at Paisley Abbey and a relative of the abbott. Scottish immigrants spread the sport to North America: the first Canadian curling club opened in Montreal in 1807, and the first American club appeared in Pontiac, Mich. in 1828. The Royal Caledonian Curling Club in Scotland, the so-called “mother club” of curling, wrote the first official curling rules in 1838.

Curling first appeared as a medal sport at the 1924 Olympics in Chamonix, France. Only the men held a tournament, and Great Britain won gold (the entire team was Scottish). Curling made five appearances as an Olympic demonstration sport — in Lake Placid in 1932, Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936, Innsbruck in 1964, Calgary in 1988 and Albertville in 1992 — before the sport was added to the Olympic program in Nagano in 1998. Since 1998, Canada has won three Olympic golds in curling on the men’s side — including the last three — while Switzerland and Norway each won one. Both Canada and Sweden have earned two women’s gold medals in curling; Great Britain won the women’s gold in 2002.

source: https://time.com/5092825/curling-sport-terms-rules-history/

MagneTECHNOLOGY

I am very much like every typical centennial (generation z) teenager who is addicted to technology. At this day and age, it’s rare to see a teenager not owning a gadget. We all have some kind of technology with us. So today, I’m going to give you a glimpse of how are utilized technology in my daily life.

Actually, the first thing I do when I wake up is check my phone. It has become a habit for me. Just like how old people would catch up with the events happening around them by listening to the radio or reading the newspaper in the morning, scrolling through my phone is how I catch up with the world. Of course, I’ve been trying to avoid doing that but it’s hard to control it when it’s your phone that wakes you up in the morning. Sometimes, I think that the reason why phones have the alarm feature is so it’s the first thing we pick up when we wake up.

As you see probably notice, this blog site is heavily influenced with anime and if that hasn’t gave it away yet, I am addicted to anime. Being an Otaku (anime addict), I don’t think it would be a surprise if I say that I watch a massive amount of anime. During the days when I was still in summer vacation, watching 30 episodes in one day is an easy feat for me. That’s about 12 hours of screen time in one day. That also means that that’s me sitting or laying on my bed for 12 hours and staring at a laptop or a cell phone screen nonstop.
Although I have tried to control that habit because I am now in college. During schooldays, finishing five episodes in a day is already a miracle for me. I know it’s still a lot but it’s the best I can do now. I am still trying to gradually transition my habit of watching anime to weekends only because it’s not that easy to immediately change my routine.
At night, before I go to bed, I would scroll through all my social media accounts but not really looking for anything particular and just simply skimming through. This is how I would always end my day. Before finally closing my eyes, the last thing that I would do is check if my phone is charging and not if I locked my windows more if I locked my door. Until quite recently, I haven’t pictured my technological habits as something so destructive. Although as I am writing this now, I am having a clear picture of how terrible my current routine is.

I’ve been trying to cut down my screen time recently by deleting apps in my phone that I used the most and just keeping them in my laptop. I know it is neither the wisest nor the most efficient move since I am not completed deleting them. But since my phone is very accessible to me, it is a good idea to keep these apps that that keeps me addicted away from arm’s length. It is also not easy to immediately cut off those things that I become accustomed to so I am trying to slowly ease them out of my system.