Derrius' Blog

[Title]: Trapped The main protagonist, [male freshman high-schooler], gets out of school and immediately wants to find something to do. He decides to go downtown and discovers that a new arcade has recently opened up. He enters the arcade and finds that it is completely empty, however, all of the machines are still operating. He is immediately drawn to this old-school beat-em up arcade cabinet. Right as he presses start he is sucked into the game.  In the game the protagonist is confronted by the game master (GM), who tells him the rules of the game. The GM informs him that he is to proceed through four stages and the boss stage to win the game. He has only 3 "continues" and if he is to use them all up without winning the game, his soul will be forever trapped in the game.  By the fourth stage the protagonist has used up all of his continues. Once he reaches the boss stage, through determination and willpower, he defeats the final boss despite the odds being

In the article "Everyone is altered," by Josh Dickey he writes about the alterations made to not just still images, but Hollywood film and television shows as well. I, myself, was not aware of all the effects and changes that went into these moving picture films. I thought these types of alterations were only possible with still images. It is interesting that people would go this far to capture an idealistic vision in their head. It sort of shows the great amount of passion they have to accurately depict their artistic vision, and/or how much greatly they focus on physical appearance.