Okay, so you all know what a fan of Ronda Rousey I am. In Women's Mixed Martial Arts, she is the UFC champ. She is an astonishingly admirable lady, brimming with confidence and wit. Some people call her arrogant, but then some people call ME arrogant, and we all know that's not true. Well, it's sort of true. Okay, it's true, but why be humble and boring when you can be arrogant and entertaining?
I am enough of a fan, in fact, that I sought out her signed gloves and won them at auction. Here they are, beside a pair of boxing gloves owned by THE greatest martial artist, certainly in living memory, one Mister Bruce Lee.
On Twitter, I follow two people. Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano. The fact that both people are very pretty women who can fight is a complete coincidence, I assure you. It's because of Twitter, however, that I heard about a project that Ronda's mum and sister are behind— something called Spirt Lake: The Game.
Spirit Lake, essentially, combines adventure video gaming with learning maths (or, as you Americans say, math), in an effort to make learning fun. Originally developed with Native American students in mind, they've realised that the Dakota (Sioux) angle— incorporating historically accurate aspects of tribal life and culture— appeals to people and schools right across America. And you get to fire arrows! At wolves! While you learn to count! What's not to love??
And if this works like they hope it will, this could be the beginning of something huge. This could revolutionise teaching, and learning— not just in America but across the world— and it could be just the thing that's needed to help struggling students make that singular, all-important leap. This could change people's lives.
So I heard about this, and the Kickstarter campaign they were running to fund the next stage of development, and I figured I may as well send some money over to help them along. After all, the better kids do in school, the longer they stay in school, and the longer they stay in school, the more chance they have of stumbling across my books, right? Right.
As a reward for helping out, they have given me the chance to actually BECOME a character in this game. But I couldn't possibly accept. The fact is, I am amazing. I am awesome. If I were to make a cameo appearance in ANY game, I would make every other aspect of the game pale in comparison. And I couldn't do that to all their hard work. So I asked Ronda's mum if it'd be okay if I could hold a mini-competition HERE, not only for my Ameriminions but for ALL my Minions, and the winner of THAT would get the chance to become a character. If you win, the animators will create an avatar using your name and likeness and as if by magic— you will be INSIDE a video game.
It'll be like Tron only... y'know... you probably won't die.
Probably.
And even though the game is only planned for release in America (right now), the competition is open to anyone of any age and nationality. So here's what you have to do. You have to tell me why YOU would be the most awesome video game character EVER. Once we reach the 5000 comment limit and the Comments Section closes, I shall collect all the entries, stick the names in a hat, and randomly pick the winner.
And yes, entering more than once, with DIFFERENT reasons, gives you a better chance of winning.
There. Bet when you opened up this Blog today you had no idea this was coming at you.
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Bye and Death im up for a while so if you wanna collab
Okay so sis gave me details
Basically there was a BOOM and the prinipal yelled to get out and they got everyone out but two classes were still in the building so my sister helped open a window and get them out the fire department had 7 trucks there and there werent any flames it was just burnt. The smell was of like tar first laid and they dont know what else. There are 2 classrooms severly damaged and mostly water damage to others. There isnt a cooking room or chemistry lab so nobody knows WHAT set the explosion
Oh wow 0.0
Yeah it is isnt it?
I'd have been terrified if that were my school...
There werent injuries but as i said nobody knows what it was
Well that's good :)
Yeah its just freaky i mean it was out of nowhere i mean the first reaction was intruder so my sister locked the door and had the kids in the corner
They're 7th grade btw
Freaky...
And sure!!! (With the collab)
This shall be fun xD
Indeed
Hi!
You okay?
Erm... Ish?
I just had some ice cream, so I'm better than I was twenty minutes ago, at any rate.
Hello Death.
Back. Sorry about that...
hia, whats up bloggians
i am bored... waiting to go to movies tonight
im going to wear a hat, just because hats are cool, and, if i quote skuldugery, "people that wear hats are natural leaders."
wbd
Hi Snow...
het fabi, whats up
you type like your sick, are u sick?? if so, i order u to get better
:D I AM BORED and as such, i am in the mood to order people about
The ceiling? Also pine cones. Pine cones are up. And above the pine cones, the clouds are up, and even more up is the sky.
u forgot about space and the moon and the stars...
I type like I'm sick? What's that supposed to mean?
[dodges question]
Do I need to list every single upward object?
You forgot the international space station.
And Mars, and asteroids and potentially extraterrestrials.
:D i really dont know what that means, i just asked my friend the same question...
yesh, yesh there are aliens... pfft, no! im not an alien, why would u think that...?
My sis is a Martian. Fact. And she and Mom both admit it. [nods]
i am a clone of doctor who... remember that ep where he got cloned and it came out as a girl, the name they called her is MY name, soo...
Why would I think you're an alien? You're a penguin. Otherwise how could you be the penguin queen? [blinks innocently]
i am epic [nods]
Right, right.
[doesn't watch Doctor Who]
sorry, just my whole grade gave me a huge ego boost yesterday by saying i am the best writer in da grade
Hey, good for you.
oh mer gerd! u dont know what your missing!! i pity you, i really do...
thanks :D i love my school
any way, whats up in other peoples lives
I can't make myself watch TV of any kind, it just doesn't work. And believe me, people tell me every =||=|~|~|||-|==||==|= day.
I have no idea. Presumably also the sky and the dawn and the sun and the international space station and all the stuff we mentioned before.
Dia duit, Skulduggery pleasant is é uamhnach.
... i feel so sad for you
:D
[nods] yep, thats whats is always up, i knew it
Bonjour, Skulduggery pleasant est incroyable.
Skulduggery Pleasant is very awesome!
Yeah, sure.
Well, unless you're standing on your head. You aren't standing on your head, are you?
i just asked my friend [after i did a manic laugh] where she got the idea that i was evil, and she said, and i quote "finding nemo"...
Bonjour, Esther.
Skulduggery Pleasant est amusant, aussi.
Guten tag, Skulduggery Pleasant ist erstaunlich. (and no, i am not standing on my head, partly because if i was on my head i wouldn't be standing, in would my crumpled on the floor)
Good to know! Sorry, that question was directed at Snow, because we were discussing what is up.
Anyway, hello and apologies for being unclear.
XD i can type in Chinese WITHOUT GOOGLE TRANSLATE
我 是 珍妮
I'm trying to work out how many languages i can say "Skulduggery Pleasant is awesome" in, so far three but i might know a fourth
no fabi, i am not standing on my head, i am sitting on my panda
Hello Jane
... my name isnt jane...
Snow- For the record, I didn't use Google Translate either.
Esther- Cool! I only speak English and some French! Unless you count pig-Latin and/or various codes.
So then the sky and all that is up for you! Yay!
Hola, Skulduggery Pleasant es increible
i drew a face on an apple
i drew a face on an apple
y did that send twice...? i must go now!! BYEEE!!
Lonleysnow AWAY
lonelysnow: i don't speak Chinese so i had to use translate, it came out saying: "I am Jane"
Blah, I think I did that wrong...
Anyway, bye Snow!
pourquoi cherchons-nous des robots? (i put robots instead of droids cause i don't know it either)
Take two:
Ce ne sont pas les [droids] que vous recherchez.
That looks better!
Before the verbs were disagreeing!
Of course, it could still be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, it says "These are not the droids you're looking for]
Hey, the author just removed a comment, does that mean he's on?
I was attempting to quote Star Wars in French, that's all!
or at least i says a comment was deleted by "the autho"
No, that means the author of the comment, i.e. Snow, not Derek Landy, unfortunately. I mean, he could still be on, but that doesn't mean anything it. If it said "blog administrator" that would definitely mean Derek, but it doesn't, so...
awww! I almost got excited then
Or, actually, that was my comment I deleted, not Snow's!
Anyway, yeah...
I have to go, sorry! It's getting late and I need to sleep now!
Bye Esther! Nice meeting you!
I'm going to try swedish, don't quote me on this: Halla, Skulduggery Pleasant ar fantastik
Another reason why I should be in a video game:
My maths teacher once said something that I found amusing. A link between SP and maths!
Y=1/x
yx=1
x=1/y
When my teacher had written these down she said that the hyperbolas had three names.
And I cracked up,
Way too much,
And everyone just looked at me.
*Swears violently*
I'm first in Footy tipping... AGAIN!!!!!!
WHAT THE HELL?! I DIDN'T EVEN ENTER ANYTHING! HOW DOES IT KEEP SAYING I HAVE TIPS IN??!!
Now, now Death.
That's no need to swear violently.
Winning is a GOOD thing.
I dedicate this page to a very special person. She’s helped me so much even though she doesn’t know me other than over the internet. She is one of the kindest, most amazing, most fantastic people I have ever met.
Aretha really deserves an award. She has pulled my back from the edge – yes, that edge – and has made me feel heaps better even if I’ve been mean to her. She doesn’t care; she just wants to help whoever she can and whenever she can. I don’t know how she does it. She helps me carry the weight of the world that has been pushing me down for quite a while now. I’m really not used to people helping me. I’m used to people saying, “Oh, okay” and “Hmm… Oh, sorry.” Aretha goes one step further, like our school motto; Semper Ulterius, which means ‘always further’ in Latin.
Ari (heh… Not Maximum Ride ‘Ari’ (just started reading the books…)) has put a smile on my face whenever I thought the muscles in my face to allow that were gone, she’s made me see the sun when I thought the sun had disappeared. She is a great caring friend and sister.
So… I dedicate this page to Aretha Tesla for always being there for me, for being a great friend and for always knowing what to say. For being the best sister I could dream of.
Not when it's me. And footy. And when I didn't enter any tips all season. And I'm beating my obsessed teacher.
Still be happy you're winning!
You might win something at the end of the season.
Um... I'm the loner, the "Vampire Girl". People will say I have precognition... Then I'd be even more vampire-y. And then I'd get it hung on me more.. I don't parasitically want that... Seeing as that is getting me depressed as it is.
*Is very still and quiet*
I am now scared (insert bad word here --->)-less... I was speaking to myself, narrating what my next MC chapter will contain, and then the clothes horse, which I had packed away five minutes earlier, shuddered when I said the word "torment".
' "I know what your life holds," Diablo had muttered and grinned. "Pain, agony," he speared another prawn. "Torment-" '
And then this...
' Death's dark side, Judipour, was waiting. No one liked it. Even Serpine was afraid of it and when psychopaths are scared of something, it's usually pretty freaky; or a little white bunny rabbit. But, the thing is, Death didn't look anything like a white bunny, except her white skin, that was where the similarities ended. Oh, and that she wasn't a bunny because bunnies are bloody freaky. Tormenting. '
Is it normal to be eating lettuce/leaves while Chicken Smoothie-y?
Well, it's salad mix...
Hi! I'm Miss teatime in my school play! But she will look weird with a huge cast on her arm.
Its beauty and the beast
STUPID CAST ON MY ARM! Why did I think "Can I do this?" I broke my arm! argh I'm soo stupid! 6 WEEKS!
Sorry I'm talking too much... but I missed a day of school and got a milkshake.... thats ok!
Anyone on?
Guess not! I'm sooo lonely and I can't play my ps3 and it just came back from the factory!
*frowns* I just read when the last person was on...... well I'm having a full blown conversation with myself!
When the next person comes on... have you seen sherlock the show?
Nope
Thank god a human!
Human?! WHERE?!
*Hides*
You should see it.. he's like Skulduggery but isn't a skeleton and his sidekick is not a teenage girl
*Pokes cast on arm* I hate this stupid trees. NEVER CLIMB A TREE EVER! I want to cut down every tree in the world but then we won't have air hmm..... I'M GOING TO RIP PAPER LATER
Hi To be continued no offence but I hate when I hear that word on the tv.
Not word sentence!
Wat colours ur cast I really wanna break my right arm cause then every1 can sign it nd don't hav 2 go 2 skool
I broke my left wrist in grade 1... IT GOT SO ITCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well its very plain its white because it was a choice of disney princesses or ben 10 so I just went for the white
I broke my wrist when I was in junior infants I don't know if thats the same as grade 1 or what
U should hav stuck a pen down it
My friends signed my cast and my teacher gave me no homework because its my right arm I broke and I'm right handed but I never told her I could write if I wanted to so that explains why I'm typing
Yay r u from Ireland every1ns talking abt grades nd I'm so confused
Why would I stick a pen down my cast?
I'M FROM IRELAND! MUNSTER!!!!!!!!!!!! CORK THE TRUE CAPITOL AS MY GRANDAD SAYS.
Soz meant 2 say tat 2 death cause if it waz itchy
Why they say that I don't know?
Oh *blushes* but that is a good idea if this does get itchy but then I'll have a pen stuck up in my cast. I know you hold the pen while you scratch but trust me I will get it stuck up there
Dublin was meant 2 be the Capitol and is
I am so clumsy like once my teacher walked in and found me bear hugging the christmas tree on the ground. I knocked it and went down with it
Soz I keep txtin at the wrong time there's sum thing wrong with the refreshing the page button
No like people from Cork says that Cork is the true Capitol I don't know why but I do know Dublin is the Capitol I'm not thick! Unlike some girls in my class but hey people have different brains
Hee
hee what does that mean. Or is it hehe?
Uurgh I no Wat u mean gtg Soz bi
Hehe
*Shakes head* My cast is really uncomfortable argh!
Am I the only Aussie...?
*Sighs*
Bye!
Tat waz meant 4 when u fell on the Christmas tree
Aussie cool my uncle is in Australia like most Irish people. You must be fed up with them
I thought you just left? -To be continued
I'm staying if anyone is wandering I was saying bye to to be continued should have phrased that properly
I'm so awkward and chatty
*looks at cast* I HATE YOU! CAST! I CAN'T WALK INTO A ROOM WITHOUT KNOCKING YOU AGAINST A DOOR ARGH!
Hmm....
gtg
Hey Ais
i'm distant
Hi Death
Sorry for poofing I was eating brunch.
All my lettuce is gone... I ate it all...
I'm sad now...
*sends virtual lettuce to Death* here have mine
Not that I actually have any lettuce but yeah.......
LETTUCE!!!!!!!
*Digs into lettuce*
I hate lettuce... I don't know why I love it... That makes no sense, does it? I knew it...
Sorry I poofed.... Chicken Smoothie is epic...
Nope it makes no sense :)
yhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuyhuhuyhyhuuyyuyuhuhyjuyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyhjrt55try6y76y 677 b676676 7 b6 y67 767 y6 6y7
(That was my head hitting the keyboard and then my nose was hitting the space bar)
Sorry... I keep forgetting I'm here...
It's grand Death.
The Eurovision is on tonight. I might get to see the end of it. My family are going to see some show thingy.
Gtg Gaelic Football match.
Another reason why I should be in a video game:
I can do some maths!
1<40
10% of 100 is 10
79>59
9+9=18
I'm just going to talk to myself for a whole until the next page.
So how are you Duck?
HELLO!
I have arrived!
*waits for everyone to fall to floor sobbing with happiness and relief*
Well I'm just grand Duck, simplely grand!
And how about you?
Dpo
Ooh
OH
Wbd. :(
I have to learn my German before Monday. And then my French before Friday. -_-
Uno!
NOOO :(
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
STAR!!!!!
*does not fall to floor sobbing with happiness and relef*
*laughs*
I'll think up a good ded. :)
Sometime.
OH HEY. *has idea*
Meh, I'll carry out my idea once my German is (maybe very) partially learnt. :)
Missed it by that much Zaff!
@Duck: HOW DARE YOU! THIS IS BLASPHEMY, I TELL YOU! *shakes fist*
(That's okay. :))
You can't even listen to music whilst learning German. Like wth. D:
What's your idea Star!
TELL ME!!! German can wait!!!
OH, MY GOSH.
I JUST REALISED.
MY HAND IS /CLEAN/. O_O
THERE IS NO INK ON IT WHATSOEVER>
O_O
. . . Thisisscaryakay.
IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE MY HAND! *freaks*
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! *bites it*
Ow.
*stares at hand* *glares at hand*
HOW DARE YOU NOT LOOK LIKE MY HAND.
*hides it behind back where I can't see it* *remembers I need it to write with* *decides to use leaky pen that will leak ink all over me*
Remember that there is such thing as ink poisoning.
So be careful. Don't put any ink on cuts or bruises.
Have to go now.
SEE YOU LATER!!!
*rubs ink on hand* THAT'S BETTER. :)
I'm not telling you, Duck! :) It'll ruin the surprise for both you and any odd stalker people who read the comments (like meeeeeeeeeee)!
It's not that great an idea, tbh. :)
:( FOURS DUCK!
*looks guiltily at chewed skin around fingernails that happend to be all inky* Uhhhhhh. No cuts. Yeahhhhhhh.
It's only a proper cut if there's blood involved, though, I think. *frowns*
Hullo.
@Star: My hands are constantly covered in ink and chewed-ness, and it's hasn't killed /me/ yet (I hope o.O). :P
HI TAIA! *hugs*
Well, I have experienced my veins in my hands, forearms and wrists (generally wrists) hurting, and I'm not sure if that's ink poisoning or not, but it only hurts, so. :P
The only tangible sign I've seen of ink having damamged me is that the skin on my left hand is slightly thinner and stretchier, but yes. :)
Wbd, btw. Meine Freunde sind mir wichtig. :/
The German had no relevance to the conversation other than that I'm learning my German so am distant, but yes.
Currently, I have "I love poo" repeated right up my arms in permanent marker, because people just see me as a collective notebook. :P
*nods* I get that in hands and wrists, too. It also itches, some of the time. :/
Okay. :/ Ich denke, dass meine Freunde sehr wichtig sind, auch.
I also have to learn German. (As is turned out my German teacher lied, and the C/A is actually next week. -.-)
I mean, I have to learn my German essay/task/speaking/written/controlled assessment/thing, rather than just learning German language. :P ^^
I have to learn my German assessment thing, but yours will be longer and more complex because I am in yearnNine. I mean, when we were writing our French assessments yesterday, my French teacher was writing things we should put in to make it a good assessment on the board and repeatedly remarking that you put nothing more in for GCSE so this was a GCSE-standard piece of work, but my French teacher is much better at teaching us stuff than my German teacher, so I don't know as much complex stuff in German, so I am unsure that my German assessment is GCSE-level, and yeah, plus btw, this is unrelated but I just noticed -well I didn't, I noticed a bit before, but - THIS IS ONE LONG SENTENCE. O_O
But yours'll be longer anyway. Yeah. Mmh.
And, people can be idiots. :)
I draw/write on my hands a lot. :) I would't let anyone else near them though. :P I'd be scared they'd be harmed (I kno, it makes no sense), plus it'd tickle too much. :)
ANd now apparently I must go down and play Monopoly. -_-
Sorry.
Fours!
*frowns*
I meant to hug you back. Why didn't I do that?
*hugs back* HI! :P
Hm, Well, my written one's supposed to be 250 words minimum, 300 maximum. So I need to shorten it, first.
For the spoken assessment it's gotta last three minutes, but it's like, "Try to leave some parts out, so you can answer some questions at the end." So I don't really know about that. :P
I don't think I'm going to enjoy the spoken one at all. The conversation-type-thing wasn't so bad, but this one's, like, a presentation. :/
I don't LET people write on me, they just do. You get used to it, though. :P
Awh, Bye! Have fun with Monopoly~
Hey guys.
Have to go now. Bye!
Hello? [hugs]
HELLO!
[sings]
And the cold, cold wind, it blows me away
The feeling all over is a black, black day
But I know that I'll see you again
And I know that you're near me.
Hi Star, hi Tbc.
[hugs]
Oh... Bye...
Hi
That game was SO ARGUMENTITIVE. -_-
My sister always gets the reds (Strand, Trafalger Square, Fleet Street) every game.
This game, me and brother didn't want her too, because she always has them, it gets broing, and she annoys us just for the sake of annoying us so we were getting her back.
So she had one red, I had one, and my brother had one.
She was desperately trying to swap with us.
I also had an orange (the oranges are Bow Street, Malborough Street and Vine Street), and my brother had an orange, so I swapped my red for his orange and got some money in return.
My sister was then trying to get the reds off him.
She whispered to me that she'd give me a pink (the pinks are Whitechapel, Pall Mall and Northumberl'd Ave) if I got the reds off him, beacuse I had a pink, she had a pink and my brother had a pink. She did a similar whispered offer with my dad.
Then my sister wanted to trade with my brother, and said she'd give him a pink for a red. He said a pink and £100. She said no. He said either £100 or all the other money she had (that was about £16). She said no. They were arguing and arguing about the amount of money, so we decided to have a five-minute break and have them argue whilst we went to the toilet or whatever.
When we came back, they'd decided my sister would trade a yellow (yellows are Leichester Square, Piccadily and Coventry Street) with my mum and get money off her, because my mum had the other two yellows, and then she'd give the money with the pink to my brother. Then she did that and my brother handed her the red and she was like no, I want two reds.
He was like NO, you said one red!
She was like, that was before with the other deal, for this amount of money I want two reds.
And they argued for a bit, and she kept raising the amount of money she would give, and he was like NO. She even said she'd give £1000.
Okay, then somewhere along the line my bro mortgaged Strand.
And every turn they kept having a go at each other and it got very wearisome.
And then my brother said, alright, I'll give you two reds for £1000.
And my sister said no, I want £700.
And he said, I'll give ou £890 as the mortgage is £110.
And she said no, £700.
And then they argued.
And then he unmortgaged it and said right, now it's unmortgaged, I need £1000.
And they kept arguing.
And he said, I'll give you £800.
And she was like no.
And then more arguing.
And then he sad okay, £700.
And she said no, I want £600.
And we were all like, I thought you WANTED the reds!
And he was like, you said £700!
And she said no, beacuse she's a devious little demon and was playing tactics; she knew she could get a better deal if she kpet arguing.
And he said £1000.
And she said £600.
And they argued and argued until he said OKAY, £600!
And then they did the deal.
And they kpet arguing and arguing afterwards about how the other one ahd been mean and unreasonable.
And they wonder why we never want to play Monopoly. XD
And at the end of the game, my dad won and my sister had a load of mortgaged reds and no money.
So that got her very far, didn't it?
HI!
Wbd, msd.
Hi! Anyone here?
HI RHYDIAN!
Wbd, msd. :)
Or maybe not too distant.
Hi Star! How are you?
I'm okay. :)
How're you?
I'm fine.
Have I missed anything while I wasn't here?
That's good. Well, better than bad, and bad is bad, so not bad is good.
BUBBLES!
No that I know of. *frowns, thinking*
Nope, not that I know of.
Er, did I poof? Sorry. :P
I'll still be distant, though. Chemistry past paper time.
Speaking of which, I just read the question 'Suggest a reason for this trend', and wrote as my answer, "Because it's cool."
I think I need to revise that part a little better. xD
The Name Of The Doctor.
I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that the episode should have been called;
The Mystery Of Clara
And now my Saturday is nearly over. *sobs*
That's okay, Sunday is still here. :)
We should have longer weekends
Have you heard from Luce? I skimmed through previous comments and I didn't see anything. She seemed really hurt last time...It's lonelier than before
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