Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty (WoL), Starcraft 2: Heart of The Swarm (HotS), and soon to be Starcraft 2: Legacy of the void (LotV, originally Prophecy of the void -changed due to the public dislike of the word prophecy because it sounded religious -AND THATS EXACTLY THE POINT OF IT!!!- PotV) is my favourite RTS-Real-Time-Strategy- trilogy!

The mechanics of the game are vast and yet easy to handle, the graphics are stunning, the story is really well thought out, and actions that are made within one part of the game's story affects the other (ex: I chose to save Tosh instead of choosing Nova in wings of liberty and it affected my heart of the swarm dialogue and storyline as upon finding Jim Raynor -the main character for Wings of Liberty- takes him hostage and executes him on Tarsonis -the Dominions home-planet- *spoiler alert: they don't actually execute him!*).

In the game series so far I have finished Wings of liberty and saved Kerrigan, am Currently playing as Kerrigan in Heart of the swarm, and have just started the Swarm Host evolution mission
 
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Captain Jim Raynor is one of three main character in the game Starcraft.

Picture courtesy of Wikipedia

designed by Chris Metzen, James Phinney and voiced by Voice actor Robert Clotworthy Raynor is the protagonist in Starcraft 2: WoL and is based on a character with the same name from the 1991 film Rush.
Aside from James "Jim" Eugene Raynor's laid back character and sarcastic sense of humor he is described as a true hero, an honorable man and a decent human being.

in the 1998 game Starcraft 64 James is first seen trying to protect a colony on the fringe planet Mar Sara (pronounced: m-are s-are-ah) from an advancing apocalyptic infestation force known as the Zerg. As Raynor battles the Zerg to the best of his abilities the marshal soon finds out that he has been abandoned by the confederacy, the governing and promised protector of  the terran race, to oblivion only to to saved by The Sons of Korhal (pronounced: core-hall), a rebel force that saves him and the colony from utter destruction.

Completely and thoroughly disgusted with the confederacy Raynor and his militia join up with the Sons of Korhal lead by Arcturus Mengsk.
While with the Sons of Korhal Jim meets a terran ghost (Ghost, the name and profession given to gifted snipers with psionic abilities) named Sarah Louise Kerrigan, Mengsk's second in command, who he falls in love with.

In a nasty turn of events Mensk Betrays his second in command by planting a device known as a psi emitter on the planet where she is stationed to lure the zerg to the Terran owned, but Protoss occupied planet Tarsonis (pronounced: Tar-sone-iss) abhorring and appalled by Mengsk's decision Jim Raynor deserts the Sons of Korhal Hijacking the ship and crew on the Hyperion, Mengsk's flagship.

After the defeat of the Terran confederacy Arcturus Mengsk crowned himself emperor of the newly formed Terran dominion, a government equally corrupt as its predecessor. Sickened by Mengsk Raynor forms a new rebel group calling themselves the Raynor's Raiders. Plagued by low morale and smashed by the propaganda being unloaded by Mengsk Raynor fights back against new Terran dominion.


Sarah Kerrigan a Terran ghost is the former second in command for the Sons of Korhal and the current

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Leader of the Zerg swarm.

Kerrigan is also created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney and voiced by Glynnis Talken for the starcraft 64 and the starcraft 64 pc remaster series and Tricia Helfer who voiced her for the starcraft WoL, HotS and to possibly voice for LotV.
Kerrigans human features as well as a bit of her infested features where influenced by Samwise Didier and Glen Rane as well as greek mythology.
Sarah Loise Kerrigan is first seen in the game Starcraft 64 when James Eugene Raynor joins up with the Sons of Korhal who she later falls in love with.

During the Brood war -a war against Zerg- She attends a mission to destroy the planet Tarsonis by planting a psi emitter to lure the Zerg. Unaware of a Protoss occupancy Sarah finds herself abandoned by the Sons of Korhal and with no choice but to rely on the Protoss' help, but to no avail, she is captured by the Zerg and mutated by the transplant of Zerg DNA from the Overmind into the Queen of Blades!


Zeratul, a 635 year old Protoss born in 1865 he holds the rank Prelate and is a member of the Nerazim

(Dark Templar).
Zeratul is a "dark warrior who champions the light", he has a strong hatred toward the Protoss conclave who banished his people to the darkened void-world Shakuras, But put his hatred to the side during the brood war and proffered a helping hand to the Khala following Protoss who recently lost their homeworld Aiur to the Zerg.

Zeratul is seen as "a dark and tragic character, having carried many terrible personal burdens." (Zeratul is unintentionally the destroyer of the Protoss homeworld Aiur--After killing the Zerg cerabrate Zasz he linked with the Overmind's mind unwittingly and learned many things but at the same time the Overmind stole the location of Aiur.--Later in the game he unknowingly is manipulated and lured into being forced to dishonour himself by killing the Protoss Matriarch Raszagal creating a strong sense of lost and guilt in him even though she thanked him. [Raszagal before her death was under the mind control of the Queen of Blades, Raszagal is a young Protoss Dark Templar female who defied the Khala -a psionic bond between Protoss-])

 WINGS OF LIBERTY INTRO CINEMATIC

HEART OF THE SWARM INTRO CINEMATIC

English quick-write #2 - Most terrifying evil fictional species

I checked the writing prompts site to find this one and as soon as I saw it I immediately thought of Starcraft's Zerg faction. The Zerg are an alien insectiod race that "evolve" by consuming their enemies and gaining their "essence", they destroy everything in their path and infest everything until they are the only ones left.

 There is a myriad of horrible creatures that if were suddenly turned real would cause devastation, horror, and a lot of people in "code brown!", take a look...

English quick-write #1 - Robots

whenever I think about robots I think about the multitude of movies and games that I have seen and played over my life, and the first ones to pop to mind are Transformers the original 1980s series and the starcraft games. To be more specific, when I think of Transformers I think of Megatron and Optimus prime, when I think of Starcraft I think of the Terran faction and their extensive robotic personal such as the Thor and the viking!

Reading survey for english 2013

Q: what kind of books do you like to read?, why do you like them?

Personally I like to read action/adventure/mystery books that are intertwined
with a mushy love story.
I am not exactly your stereotypical guy as I do prefer the "mushies" over the
actions! I'm not exactly sure why I enjoy the books I do, whether it is because
I'm a hopeless romantic or just prefer them I don't know, whatever the reason
may be, those are the books I enjoy reading!

Q: When you read what happens inside your mind?

When reading, my mind enters a new stage of awareness, I get engulfed in what
I read sometime to the point where all else around me fades away and my imagination
and logical reasoning take over.
"I read and I enter a new universe"-Sound director at Lucas Arts (name unknown),
when reading I see what they see, feel what they feel, know what the know, however,
I also reason and think on what is happening at the same time!

Q: Besides books, what other kind of reading material do you enjoy?

Other than books I enjoy reading multiple virtual materials, I have sat hour after
hour reading information about objects, space, and even video games!
Mass effect, an absolutely beautiful story, the game has an interactive story-line
that puts it into an entirely new category with no other the the legendary Final
Fantasy games, playing Mass Effect 1 through 3 is more like watching a movie than
it is playing a game!
... Sorry I ended up gushing about the game... again.

Q: how have you changed since last I taught you?

Since last taught I would like to believe I've changed a bit, at least in my work
ethics.
Over the summer I worked many a day, and in turn, gained a new-found respect for
teachers, paras, school and the like.
Looking back at how I treated work and teacher I realize how much of a pain in the
neck I was, and I realized that the only reason I've made it this far is due to the
kindness of those who taught me.
I have made it a personal goal to be better than I was in previous years!

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Q: Do you have a smart phone with internet access?, tell me about it.

No I do not have the luxury of owning a smart phone, or any other phone for that
matter, however I do have a laptop that was gifted to me.

Q: Do you have access to a laptop/tablet/ipad/ipod touch that you could bring on a
daily basis?, tell me about it.

I do not have a tablet, ipad, ipod, or any other device other than a gifted laptop.
My laptop is 360GB HP with 4GB of ram an ATI Raedon 6310 HD graphics card and running
windows 8 with Ethernet and WiFi connection capabilities!

Q: Do you have an E-reader or any other device you can e read on? tell me about it.

My laptop has access to both apps for E-reading and internet for other types of
information gathering and reading.

Q: Do you have a twitter feed? tell me about it.

No I do not, I tried once and never got the hang of it, too confusing and takes
more time out of my life to maintain than is available.

Q: Do you have a blog? tell me about it.

I do have a blog as during holidays and weekends I have time to maintain them
although I deleted most due to very little material.

Q: Discuss your interest in using these/learning about these forms of technology in
the course.

I am interested in how I can get more use out of my new laptop and the different
techniques used in class but other than that I don't really have any other interests!