Saturday, September 23, 2023

Learning bit by bytes

Bits and bytes are the holding blocks for binary and how a computer is able to read the given numbers. Bits and bytes are slightly difficult to practice or apply without overlapping with binary since bits and bytes is just how binary is stored and read. But a unique way of how I remember how binary fits into bytes is by putting both hands up closed facing toward you with your thumb hold your other finger down, lift your remaining fingers in any order since bytes are stored in 8ths each finger represents one bit in a byte or your hand. For example if you wanted to do 10010110 on your left hand you lift up your index and pinky and on the right you lift your middle and ring finger so one finger raised is a 1 and any still down are 0.

Sunday, September 3, 2023

An introduction to my some of my hobbies

My hobbies seem basic at least to me and my group of friends, we love to collect trading cards mainly Yu-gi-oh, and now recently Pokémon. Yu-gi-oh is the game that started my fascination in collecting cards from loving the show as a kid and seeing the booster packs and pre-built decks in the store's Yu-gi-oh has always stood out to me. By the time that I started middle school some of my friends came over to visit and found some of my old cards, and them asking me if I know how to play and if I could show them how to play. After that I gave them some cards to each of my friends and we all built off what we had and started to get competitive with each other just sending hours play over and over again just to see who can win the most out every set we played.

Another one of my hobbies is playing video games but a certain type of game one of my favorite are Fighting games or know as the FGC (the Fighting Game Community). I'm the only one of my friend group to really enjoy playing fighting games. The main reason the I love fighting games are the complexity of the movement and spacing to have a combo connect or landing frame 1 links in the faster paced games. On the other side the slower games like Street Fighter can be very complex, not only do you have to know how your character works and how their specials work but also predict every single thing that your opponent will do, makes fighting games some of the most entertainment games to play and watch.