I am still around

I am still around, but I just haven't been updating my blog.
I probably won't be updating it at all, because of college, work, and I'm creating a business called (no logo) Downloads. http://www.nologodownloads.com

I don't know if I will ever update this blog again, but I at least wanted to give a closure if there was anyone that was wondering.

TV Turnoff Week is now Mental Detox Week

I will be completely off the Internet next week, because Mental Detox Week is between April 21st and April 27th.

Find out more here:
http://www.adbusters.org

It has been a while since I blogged, and I'm still not going to blog much on here, but I have four blogs to manage.

Have a nice day!

The Monster Rancher on DVD petition now has 250 signatures!
I can't wait until Digiview Entertainment finds out about it!

3-23-08 (Cloverfield Spoof)

The first official trailer for the movie Colderfield has been uploaded to a number of video sites (curiously ones that give money back to the content owners).

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1172168/3_23_08_cloverfield_spoof/

That's the one I like the most, because I get money after 20,000 views instead of having to have people click on links to get me cash.

Make sure to spread the video (if you think it's good)!

At its current state, the movie is about half of the way through editing. I only have to add a couple of the "flashback" scenes, the credits, and just clean it up.
Surprisingly, to edit down the film (1:45 to 1:14) took about five hours, while the trailer (including making the various images and converting it to MP4) took about three.
I'm guessing that I have about ten hours of work left, which means that I have fifteen to twenty.

I'm hoping to get a second trailer (that's a spoof on the second Cloverfield trailer) up on the internet on Friday night or Saturday morning.
Look for the movie on 3-23-08.


Online Videos by Veoh.com

I'm still here! AmishGramish.tv

I'm still going to post information in this blog, but not as much as in AmishGramish.tv, because that's a higher priority because I can make moneys off it and I spent actual dollars on it...
Anyways, AmishGramish.tv is just a website about the crazy things my friends and I do and the AMVs that I make.

I hope that anyone who reads this blog would go and visit my other site!

Shalom!, Update, and Waffles 001!!!!

Shalom everyone!
I just want to tell you all that I am going to start posting here a lot more often because I'm going to take college classes next semester and I'll have more free time!!!! (a little more, but at least I'll have that!)
I'm going on a cruise between Saturday and Saturday, to Jamaica, Mexico, and another place! (It's on Carnival, so I hope it's good)
And I've decided to keep track of all the times that I see people talking about waffles on TV!
Okay, so the first one I'm keeping track of is 30 Rock, where in the episode aired on Nov. 15th, Somebody to Love, Tina Fey walks in and asks her roommate "Are you making waffles?" and she ends up getting into a strange conversation with some of co-workers about the waffles.
I'll upload the video within three months.

Yeah... I won't be on much...

If anyone reads any of these blog posts, I won't be on very much for a while...
Why, you ask?
Well, I got a job at the Best Buy in Fargo as a cashier, so if you see an amish looking guy, just make sure to ask them if they are Amish Gramish.

I also have Assassin's Creed on the PS3 (WOOT!!!!) now, and I'm going to be playing a lot more games than I usually do, because Haze is coming out soon and I need to beat a lot of other games I already have and/or will get.

Well, blog to you later!

P.S.
I am active on www.gametrailers.com now, so if anyone joins, make sure to say that AmishGramish sent you! That's where I'm on a lot of the time...

GameTrailers.com Marketplace - Free Games and More!

GameTrailers.com now has this thing where you can earn points just by going online and watching videos, reading blogs, writing blogs, etc.
You also can get 500 points for referring people, and this is why I'm here!

You can just go to http://www.gametrailers.com/register.php?ref_id=1126047 and register, and where it says to put the person's name who referred you, place AmishGramish in the spot. You have to click on the button below and select the name or it won't work.
So remember, type AmishGramish and press the button!

Any help would be very, very appreciated!

You can get free games and more by just going online and reading and watching things!!!!
This is sure an amazing world where we can, at MetaCafe.com, earn money for posting our own videos, and at GameTrailers.com, earn money for watching videos, posting videos, and reading articles!

The Official PlayStation Magazine is BACK!!!!!!!!

Future US has picked up the rights to publish the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, thusly called: PlayStation: The Official Magazine.

I'm hoping that either they just re-name PSM, and keep all the staff members, or they can just make two PlayStation magazines, but that wouldn't be good business.

Here's to the new official U.S. PlayStation magazine!

I'm Back!!!!

My old laptop's motherboard fried, mostly because I ripped it apart, a little...
Well, it took me three weeks, but I finally got a really good laptop for the money.

And now, I'm going to be working on my AMVs, this blog, and a lot of other things that I can basically do only on a computer.

I was using my PS3 and PSP to go online, but there's a lot that I can't do with those...

Well, I'm going to try to be online a lot more often now, and do more than just doing random, worthless tasks...

Well, I'm also going to trade on Forex with monopoly money a lot more, so I can actually get a decent amount of money earned each week/day, so it'll be worth it when I am trading actual cash.

I'm going to try to update my blog at least once a week now, because I am actually getting a lot of people visiting my blog.

Well, talk to you all later!

(dot) .hack//TOMORROW is now up on Vimeo.com

A couple weeks ago, I stumbled upon this little website called Vimeo.com. It's a video website, that's relatively unknown. It seems a lot better than YouTube, but it's just a lot smaller, and YouTube has become too much of a behemoth.
Well, here it is:




(dot) .hack//TOMORROW from Amish Gramish and Vimeo.

Highlander: Search for Vengeance

Here's a trailer for the new anime based off the Highlander series (SWEET!!!!!) called "Highlander: Search for Vengeance."

AMV is now on MetaCafe!

They Might Be Final, Here Comes The Fantasy! - Amazing videos are here

MetaCafe and Veoh have a lot better resolution than YouTube, which is why I am partly annoyed by YouTube.

Well, my video has an average of about 2.8 on these sites, and I didn't think it would be that highly rated... Well, when I fine tune it,it apparently will get an even higher score!?!?!?!?
But that'll be within the next year or two.

And the best thing about MetaCafe is if any video that the poster made gets over 20,000 views, the people who made the videos get PAID!!!!
A lot of money has already been shelled out, and there's a lot more where that came from!

How game developers and musicians can get more $$$$$$$$

One very simple way for video game developers and musicians and their respective companies can get a lot of money is if you take a game like, let's say LittleBigPlanet, and you let people upload their own levels to let other people download them.
But what they could do with these games is sell people songs (that may or may not be played only on that game, i.e. also put on the console for unlimited playback) and let them use these songs during the levels. One element that would probably make this a little popular or more popular is if the gamers were allowed to use certain songs at certain points, or even certain portions of songs at certain points in the game.

Something like this can be done for a lot of different games.

This would be replacing the soundtrack, if it even had any.

It costed about $250K to have a full song in a game back in 2005, which is why most games either feature songs that are re-made by another company or the songs are cut in half, but if the songs weren't put in the game, and were made available for download, game developers might be able to let us have full songs (at our dime) without being charged the full 250K. In order to do so, they would probably make a deal with the music companies that would probably have a minimum price paid to the music companies and would have a set amount of royalties per song sold.

The world of downloadable video game console content is going to go through a lot of changes in the next 10-20 years until it finds a stable point, kind of like what just happened with the internet. I.e., it doesn't have many new things that pop up every year.

Well, I think the price of games will drop to $50 by the end of 2008, and the microtransactions will make up more and more of the amount spent on games. I also think the price of microtransactions will drop, i.e. SingStar, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Dance Dance Revolution, and all other song games that will (probably) have songs for download will see the prices drop to about $1 to $1.50 each. They currently cost a little more than $2 on Guitar Hero 2 for the Xbox 360.

And for those who say that portable consoles (the PSP and DS) will rule the industry by 2010, just shut your faces up!
The home consoles will always be in control, because most people who play games on home consoles don't buy handhelds (and that won't change much, either). And also, the game software for home consoles will always be larger than portables. The games/360 ratio is over 5 per 360 right now, and neither the PSP or DS has more than 4 games per console. (The PSP and DS were released before the 360 came out).

Something crazy

I am just amazed that the video I posted has over 4,000 views and I have two subscribers!?!?!?!?

I don't even know why anyone would subscribe when I only have one (true) video.

Well, I just have to say thanks to everyone who has watched my video and who will watch my video and who has and will subscribe to me on YouTube!

Two to three weeks...

I haven't worked on my AMV for the past two days, and I won't be able to work on it much tomorrow, if I even get to work on it.
I won't be able to work on it this weekend, unless if I move the (very) large computer to another house.
So, I might have a couple days to work on it this weeks (three to four hours each day) and I might get more days of work on it next week, so it will probably be a couple weeks until I have completed it.

AMV Partly Done

My AMV is partly done!!!
I have 1 minute 4 seconds of my AMV completed so far, and there's only 3 minutes left!!!
I have spent about 3 1/2 hours working on it, and it looks like it will be about 12-15 hours of work left!!!

Good times, or not...

(the 3 1/2 hours doesn't include the 8 hours spent finding programs to convert and edit the files)

Working on NEW VIDEO!!!!

I am working on a new video now!!!

I spent about eight hours working on ripping DVDs onto my computer and converting them to a file that my trial version of Sony Vegas (I'm too poor for $90...) can use.

I finally found one, but each episode takes up almost 6 GB of space.

Well, I have about 30 seconds of the 4 minute AMV done, and I will (hopefully) get it done this weekend!