Total Conversion Mod's

As per the presentation in class on Tuesday made me reflect on a a mod I used to play back in my middle school days. THe modding community is a very niche group as well, work very long and hard on there games, especially for no pay. Just the satisfaction that they will get from them, and others, playing their game.

Heres a trailer for Battlefield 1942, an original game by Electronic Arts(EA).


Now here is a Total Modification of the game, with a new theme, the Iraq War. This drew a very large audience.


Desert Combat ended up winning FilePlanet's Best New Mod of 2004 for Desert Combat Final, FilePlanet's Best Mod of 2004, GameSpy's 2003 PC Modification of the Year, FilePlanet's Best New Mod for 2002.
THere were also 17 other mods of this game ranging from Star Wars, to Vietnam. The Vietnam game was also very succesful and EA developped Battlefield: Vietnam. As you can see this was almost a decade ago and the modding community is still very much apart of the PC online gaming commmunity as well as beginning to become of the console systems as well.

Blogger David Portnoy Profile: Is This Really Boston's Next Media Mogul?

Barstoolsports.com Owner David Portnoy

One of my favorite blogs, barstoolsports.com(Motto: "By The Common Man for the Common Man") owner is just an average guy from Massachusetts who created a blog a few years ago mainly focused around funny but weird issues in American society, New England professional sports teams, and girls.
As his blog has grown so has his followers. This enabled blogger Dave Portnoy to eventually create a shop for his blog with funny t-shirts of relevant sports teams that many people will actually buy and wear to events. Barstool sports has also events and theme'd parties at bars in Boston or New York City.
Through the years,Portnoy has created an empire of blogs dedicated to his ideals. Since they started originally in Boston, it has ventured to the likes of New York and now there is a barstool blog for women called stool-la-la.
It is interesting to see the background of a normal man like Portnoy with a similar education as ours take a blog so far to create a vast revenue stream and to be recognized anywhere he goes.
Maybe the next great blogger will come from our New Media class....who knows.

The Kid From Brooklyn

One of the only Vlogs I've truly ever followed is the likes of an old man called "The Kid From Brooklyn". His Vlogs consist mostly of ranting, screaming, cursing, and some racism of an old man kind of questioning why the world is changing through different little stories and examples. I saw one and thought it was very funny because he reminded me a lot of my Grandfather, and have been subscribed ever since. It has many conventions of a Vlog, since hes always in the same room, wearing the same hat, same glasses, screaming the tagline at the end, "THINK ABOUT ITTTT"

Enjoy...
Warning: If you are offended by foul language, this video isn't for you.