My Favorites. With Commentary
New Paltz High School Overview- Every day of the week, rain or shine, I slog to the sanctified halls of learning to be assigned work. Of course I don't write down what the work is, so when I get home, it's on the computer and to the teacher's website we go. Hopefully they've put up the assignment. If not, oh well, time for the other links, starting with:
Nationstates- Have you ever thought that you could run the country so much better than those clowns in power? Or that America sucks why can't we have a country that''s like this? Or just wanted to have the feel of the wheel so to speak? If yes, this is the website for you. If no, you still might want to check it out, it's pretty cool. What Nationstates is is a simulator where you can create your own country. Every day they give you issues to resolve with one of several choices, or you can dismiss the issue. They take the answers to the issues and use them to create a country that represents the decisions you made. You can also customize things like the name, title, religion, capital city, currency, and leader. There is a huge community in both the forums and the regions. The regions are groups of nations with their own chatroom and daily comparative rankings (you can also find these for the world). Overall Nationstates is a great diversion for the politically minded person. However if you are not tempted, my next favorite is another great time-waster.
Kongregate- Run by Gamestop, Kongregate is a huge site with thousands of free flash games. There are probably more hours of gameplay on that site than a person could possibly do in their lifetime. For those community-minded there are chatroom on the side of the game screen, some of which correspond to the game you're playing, some of which don't. My favorite games are the rpgs, or role playing games, with lots of story and text. My very favorite is the Mardek RPG series, which is a weird medevial / sci-fi adventure mess with great dialogue, character development, and plotline, mediocre gameplay, and hours and hours of gameplay. I believe the timer is currently at about 21 hours for me, but of course I'm not playing while writing this, so I can't say exactly. Kongregate has saved me from many a boring afternoon. However, sometimes the game music sucks, or I need a walkthrough for a game. That's when I go to my next favorite.
Youtube- Surprised? Probably not. The biggest free video provider I am personally aware of, Youtube has music, movies, Potter Puppet Pals, economics in sixty seconds videos (which are actually like five minutes each, but Mr. Gill likes them), my dad's sports videos (look up RadXSports), and much much more. Youtube is pretty self-explanitory. And it is actually owned by the last favorite on my list.
Google- This isn't really on my favorites list. I don't need it to be, it's my homepage. Google is so integrated into the web experience it's unbelievable. I write essays on Google docs, I check my email on Gmail, I watch videos on Youtube (as shown above), I use Google translate to translate (although I no longer use it to do my French homework, as French only seems to enter my life when greeting that wonderful English teacher of mine), and to surf the web using the most popular search engine on the internet. Google is the start and finish of every day on the internet.
Nationstates- Have you ever thought that you could run the country so much better than those clowns in power? Or that America sucks why can't we have a country that''s like this? Or just wanted to have the feel of the wheel so to speak? If yes, this is the website for you. If no, you still might want to check it out, it's pretty cool. What Nationstates is is a simulator where you can create your own country. Every day they give you issues to resolve with one of several choices, or you can dismiss the issue. They take the answers to the issues and use them to create a country that represents the decisions you made. You can also customize things like the name, title, religion, capital city, currency, and leader. There is a huge community in both the forums and the regions. The regions are groups of nations with their own chatroom and daily comparative rankings (you can also find these for the world). Overall Nationstates is a great diversion for the politically minded person. However if you are not tempted, my next favorite is another great time-waster.
Kongregate- Run by Gamestop, Kongregate is a huge site with thousands of free flash games. There are probably more hours of gameplay on that site than a person could possibly do in their lifetime. For those community-minded there are chatroom on the side of the game screen, some of which correspond to the game you're playing, some of which don't. My favorite games are the rpgs, or role playing games, with lots of story and text. My very favorite is the Mardek RPG series, which is a weird medevial / sci-fi adventure mess with great dialogue, character development, and plotline, mediocre gameplay, and hours and hours of gameplay. I believe the timer is currently at about 21 hours for me, but of course I'm not playing while writing this, so I can't say exactly. Kongregate has saved me from many a boring afternoon. However, sometimes the game music sucks, or I need a walkthrough for a game. That's when I go to my next favorite.
Youtube- Surprised? Probably not. The biggest free video provider I am personally aware of, Youtube has music, movies, Potter Puppet Pals, economics in sixty seconds videos (which are actually like five minutes each, but Mr. Gill likes them), my dad's sports videos (look up RadXSports), and much much more. Youtube is pretty self-explanitory. And it is actually owned by the last favorite on my list.
Google- This isn't really on my favorites list. I don't need it to be, it's my homepage. Google is so integrated into the web experience it's unbelievable. I write essays on Google docs, I check my email on Gmail, I watch videos on Youtube (as shown above), I use Google translate to translate (although I no longer use it to do my French homework, as French only seems to enter my life when greeting that wonderful English teacher of mine), and to surf the web using the most popular search engine on the internet. Google is the start and finish of every day on the internet.