Drawing

There are many fascinating things in drawing. If you take an empty piece of paper in front of you it is totally up to you what you can create in that paper, and I think that is one of the best thing in drawing. You can draw whatever you want, and only the sky is limit. To be honest, even the sky is not a limit. Your mind can wander even higher than the sky all the way to the unkown and only your imagination can be a barrier for that.

When looking that paper you can inside in your mind first sketch the scene or the thing you want to draw. If you want to be professinal drawer there are many things you have to think while making the drawing such as the overall scene in that picture, where is the light source and are there more than one, what is the perspective, and if you are making the cartoon you might think what exact moment you want to capture from that scene, what is the ultimate point in that scene that points out the most important information for the viewer that you want to tell them in that point.

Sometimes it might be distressing to think all of those things as I have sometimes felt, but fear not my son, when (notice the word "when") you learn to be better you automatically start to think those questions and answer them almost imperceptibly in your subconscious.

Like in any other thing you learn to do it by actually doing it. The same thing applies to drawing as well. If you draw a lot, you will learn to draw and the more you draw the more your drawing skills develope. For example in just a one year I dramatically leveled up my drawing skills. Good tip is to always put a day, month and year somewhere in your drawing so you can later on easily watch how much you have progressed. It is very rewarding to see it.

I'm myself self-taught drawer, and you can really get amazed how much you can learn by watching youtube video tutorials of drawing and talking to the professional drawers from all around the world and ask them questions via internet. If you want to learn to draw, just grab a pen and start practising. Go to the internet to seek information, because it's all there if you just now how to find it.

What is a good company like in the video game branch (my opinion)

I have been thinking of going to work as a graphic designer or similar in a game company, but after hearing some employee stories of that very same job I have experienced a lack of excitement of going to be a graphic designer. Those stories are alarming stories of nowadays typical worklife which is very hectic and usually the main goal of corporations is to make money, and for those companiens making the money is even more important prioritery than the corporation workers health.

Game companies usually works like this: They have a idea for the game or maybe they have done it already. Next thing they have to do is to find a publisher who would publish their game to the whole world. Here comes the problem; those publishers have usually big word power of what kind of game it should be meaning that they can order which things game developers have to remove from their game, so they are censoring the games. Even the more concerning thing is that if that publisher says that you have to make that video game completely done in one month, then those developers must get the game done in time or else they have to pay big amount of cash for every day the game isn't ready until it's finished. Because of this, nowadays it's usual that when a game company releases their game, it's usually not completely finished and there are many bugs and errors in it.

Because of some of those bad publishers, some game developers want to do video games without them telling to you what to do and when to do it, so they decide to be indie game developer. Indie game developer means that developer is making games independently without publishers and usually makes games with couple other guys or completely alone in their own houses. There is a term for that which is "bedroom coder". There are other options besides working with publisher in order to get some visibitily to your game, Steam Greenlight-program is one very good option. Sometimes a whole video game company can be indie. One big advantage being indie game developer is that you can make video games without anyone censoring it, and only your imagination and skills are the limit that you can do. There is no one slowing you down but yourself, and you make the games whenever you like.

You might wonder why I have told all of this, but believe me when I say that all of this relates to the subject. I'd like to remind before we go any further that this is my personal opinion and view of how to be good video game company.

I am seriously planning on setting up a video game company some day, and I have already made clear in my mind that what are the most important prioritys in it. Like I said in the first chapter usually nowadays in video game companys (and others as well) main goal is to make money one way or another without paying attention to the worker. In my own game company my number one priority will be making and keeping the workplace's atmosphere good, and making sure that employees have good time. I think that is very important goal to achieve, because the company's employees are the heart of the company and if they aren't feeling well the company isn't either. I am completely sure that when employees are treated well it surely will show in their motivation towards their work and they will be making their tasks better. That's not the reason though I would like to take care of my companys employees, I just want to offer a job for those positive and great people where they are treated well and their well-being is the number one piority, because nowadays that is a rare phenomenon I believe.

I don't want to set up my own video game company and be the leader in it because I'd like to have power and maybe some day big salary, the reason for it is that as long I myself lead the company nobody can change the companys top priority of employees well-being to an other priority such as making much money as possible and forgetting employees.

When I will recruit employees to my company it plays a very important role that what kind of persons those people are. I have very little help from a employee who, for example, might be quite good at making graphics, but he/she is very negative person who poisons the atmosphere in the company and is trying to make co-workers feel miserable. Because of those people I'd like to build my own company and make sure that at least in my company there will be no employees like that. I would more definitely hire a person who might not be the most best drawer but he/she haves huge motivation and excitement to learn, and is positive person who respects the other employees like the else crew does.That is my ideal employee. I genuinely believe that one can learn anything if he/she wants to, but in order to do so they have to have the excitement and motivation.

Bottled water vs. tap water

Bottled water is collected from natural springs or it can be just purified tap water. In countries where there isn’t clean enough tap water, bottled water is used instead. In the last few decades bottled water consumption has grown exponentially; mainly in countries where clean tap water is available. For example, in the United States, where bottled water consumption is one fourth of the global consumption, a bottle of water costs about $3, while the equivalent amount of tap water costs only one cent. In my opinion, something doesn’t add up here.

So what is this new trend? Why is bottled water so popular? You might say that it’s convenient to carry a bottle of water with you, but isn’t it more convenient to carry a bottle filled up with tap water with nearly no cost at all, and you wouldn’t have to buy another bottle every time you finish one. Here we see another issue with this. When people buy new bottles all the time, a lot of plastic will go to waste if the bottles aren’t recycled.

In Finland bottled water hasn’t become so popular and I think it never will, because we have so clean tap water here.

Blueberry

This may come as a shock when I tell you that there isn’t even a single blueberry growing in the forests of Finland. Those “blue berries” that we see are actually called bilberries. Both of those species are included in the same family but their Latin names are different, making them two different species. The Latin name for blueberry is Vaccinium cyanococcus and for the bilberry it’s Vaccinium myrtillus.

The actual blueberries can be found in North-America and in some parts of Europe and Asia. Bilberries grow predominantly in Europe but also in Northern Asia, Western Canada, and the Western United States.

There is a lot of confusion between the two berries since they are really similar. The easiest way to tell which one is which is to look the colour of the berry’s flesh. Bilberries are dark on the inside while blueberries are light or translucent.

Squirrel

Squirrel is a type of small rodent. There are many different species of squirrels. Some are ground squirrels and others tree squirrels, and there are even flying squirrels. Squirrels are very common in all over the world, although there are many squirrel species that aren’t found in every continent, for example, the Siberian flying squirrels. Australia is the only continent where squirrels are brought by people.

You can imagine that ground squirrels and tree squirrels are very different animals. Tree squirrels obviously have a smaller size in order to be able to climb trees efficiently. Those types of squirrels usually eat nuts and other things growing in trees. Ground squirrels eat pretty much the same, but the nuts they eat grow on the ground. Squirrels are known to eat vegetation, too, and even insects and some birds if they’re short on other food.

Squirrels can be tamed quite easily, and there are some people that have pet squirrels. On the other hand, squirrel meat is considered to be a delicacy in some countries. People should still be careful when eating a squirrel, at least one captured in an urban environment, because they might be contaminated with pollution.

Melting glaciers

One of the most substantial things that climate change causes is the melting of the world’s glaciers. Climate change increases the temperature in the areas where glaciers are located, and that will lead to the melting of the glaciers. Glaciologists have studied this matter since 1850, so it has been around for quite a while now. Most of the melting is industrialism’s fault. Obviously there are all kinds of problems that will occur because of this situation.

First thing that would happen if the melting continues on its path is the rise of sea level. Ice is water in solid state so when it melts it will turn to water and thus mix into the sea and raise sea level. The consequences of this are massive. Even though we would barely see a minor change in sea level, the people who live in low areas could lose their homes if the water came that high. These kinds of areas are found, for instance, in the Netherlands which is a very densely populated country. Millions of people would be in danger, and even today some of them struggle to keep their properties dry.

There are a lot of glaciers that have already retreated significant amounts and some glaciers have vanished completely. It’s estimated that if all the ice from polar areas were to melt, sea level would rise up to 70 meters.

Downloading stuff from the Internet

The Internet is a vast system. You could say that nearly everything can be found there. With just a few clicks you could download almost all the digital content you can possibly imagine with no cost at all. That truly sounds tempting, but is it the right thing to do?

I suppose the majority of people have downloaded something from the Internet and could probably even admit to that. People don’t see what’s wrong with downloading. They just think that they get free stuff and everybody’s happy. But it’s not that kind of win-win situation. People who have made the content lose because they aren’t getting any money if the content is downloaded from the Internet instead of purchased from stores. But I don’t think that is the main reason why some people wouldn’t download or at least would be discreet about it. Downloading from the Internet is illegal and that’s why they won’t do it.

What I think is weird is the authorities’ reaction to all this. They are well aware about this happening but it seems that they don’t really do much about it. However, they have bigger things to worry, off course.