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Thoughts Whilst Doing The Washing Up - [WARNING: Video Post]
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My Top 5 and Worst 5 League of Legends Champion Ultimates
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Sackboy's LittleBigAdventure to Menorca
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Hello you're reading a bio about by Nick R P Green, no internet pseudonyms here, what you see is what you get, writing in the bio section of my blog and today I'm going be talking about... me.

Sound familiar? Probably not, but if you've watched any of the videos I've been releasing, you'll know that that is my opening. My name is Nicholas Robert Pierce Green (Nick R P Green or NickRPGreen most commonly, please feel free to just call me Nick), a Theatre Graduate of Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, and currently the president of the university's Gaming Society (Lancaster University Gaming Society (LUGS)).

I've been playing video games since my parents bought a NES second hand from a friend, which I would guess is about 15 years ago (I'm now 22), and I've grown up with them ever since. Shortly after the NES came a second hand Megadrive, then quite a few years later, a borrowed PS1 and then finally, a brand new PS2, quickly confirming Metal Gear Solid as my favourite game franchise ever made. After starting college in Chesterfield, Derbyshire (I lived in Sheffield, South Yorkshire with my parents) and starting work at a Thorntons store in Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre, my first ever Xmas pay came in which resulted in my first ever console purchase (rather than my parents buying one), my PlayStation 3. Finally, after one year of University, I bought my brother's Xbox 360 off him as he was upgrading to an 360 S, and 2 and half years of being around and living with hardcore PC gamers, my first proper gaming PC from which I am writing now.

So as you can see, my gaming history is quite open, I've had a lot of experience, with lots of devices and with that has come a lot of fun and particularly at University, a lot of friendship. Joining the University's gaming society was probably the second best thing I ever did at University (the first being making out with the cute girl from the other corridor in a night club, resulting in what has now been a one and half year fun, loving relationship. She even plays League of Legends as well!). If I could give one piece of advice to anyone going to university, particularly one like Lancaster where it is campus based with a college system, is to get involved with societies and your college. It's the best way to make friends and find people who enjoy doing things that you do, gaming in particular. My closest friends, and two of my current house mates, I met through LUGS, and I wouldn't trade them in for the world.

My interests in gaming are very broad, as you can probably tell by my collection of hardware. I tend to play a lot of shooters, Gears of War, Team Fortess, Halo, Borderlands 2 and Gotham City Imposters are my regulars at the moment, but my top game right now is League of Legends. I do also delve into most genre's, enjoying such things as Elder Scrolls, Sonic, Dungeon Defenders, Minecraft, Blur and Magic the Gathering (though in real life trading cards, I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh! man). And with an interest in so many areas, I've grown a great interest in the gaming world and gaming journalism. My first regular viewing was the fantastically worded Zero Punctuation by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, who teaches us that even the greatest game in the world has its flaws, and talking about it really really fast is the funniest way to tell the world. Escapist also allowed me fall in love with such shows as Doomsday Arcade and There Will Be Brawl, which made me laugh, cry, reminisce and drink (drinking games, with friends, on gaming videos, is hilarious fun!) Regular viewing now consists of TotalBiscuit's Mailbox, Jim Sterling's Jimquisition, Rooster Teeth (particularly Game Fails), cjszero01 and MiloSaysRelax (who admittedly, is one of my house mates!)

I decided I wanted to start getting into games journalism, as I realised it was something I was very much interested in. TotalBiscuit and cjszero01 have been very big influences on my work, you'll see a lot of similarities with their videos and mine. As a Theatre Graduate, and a hopeful actor, I've always enjoyed working with live performance, and video editing has been a past hobby, editing compilations, home movies as well as camera, writing and editing work as part of my university course. So it seemed natural to follow in the footsteps of my inspirations. I don't have the best equipment, or the best software, but hey, we all have to start somewhere right? Now that I've graduated and am on the job search, I hope that these videos will give me the chance to continue to express my thoughts and opinions, as well as give me a better excuse to my girlfriend for sitting in front of a computer screen all day!

So that pretty much all I can say about me and gaming. If you haven't managed to catch any of my videos yet, check out my YouTube channel amongst the links below, or just have a look at my blog posts for links. And please comment on them! I'm always on the look out for some useful constructive criticism. In my opinion, practice and criticism are the two best ways of learning!

And so, to close as I began: Thanks for reading, and I'll see you next time!

Nick R P Green


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Next episode of Thoughts Whilst Doing the Washing Up. In this week's episode I talk a little bit about the things that are going on with me right now, including what the Lancaster University Gaming Society is up to today, and their recent purchases and how I've been hosting and will be hosting again on the University's radio. In addition, I discuss briefly the PlayStation 4 announcement, my experience of finally seeing Wreck-It-Ralph at the cinema (fantastic film!) and my testing of the new League of Legends champions Quinn and Valor.

There's also some washing up, including a glass thats stuck to the surface its on, a fair few mugs, cups and plates, and a very stubborn aftermath of chicken that won't remove itself from the baking tray! Here comes the iron wool!

Enjoy.










Told I was back didn't I. So here's another attempt at a hopeful regular video series entitled "Thoughts Whilst Washing Up". Whilst I need to make and upload new video content, I also need to get the washing up done, so why not combine the two into a glorious mix of gaming suds (damn, I shudda called it that). Unlike my other vids, this one is completely unscripted, so its a little rough around the edges, but hopefully that'll improve with practice. Also, this one's a little long, I allow myself one full load of washing up, so intent to get quicker on my cleaning in future!

In today's chore, I discuss the downfall of THQ, the Chelsea ball boy controversy, League of Legends' newest champion as well as Riot's decision to ban three more pro-players, my love for Taric and his Armor of the Fifth Age Skin, my opinions on the direction Nintendo is taking and why I want no part in it and my feelings about the Metal Gear Rising Revengance demo amongst a couple of little things.

For those more interested in stains than games (eh, eh?!) I go through several plates, a fair bit of cutlery, a couple of bowls and a very mucky mug caked with hard on hot chocolate! Glorious!










Hi Destructoid! Don't know if anyone will remember me, but a while back (five months since my last post), I started promoting my YouTube blogs through Destructoid. I had a couple of Sonic ones, a couple of League of Legends ones as well as a silly one about Sackboy going on holiday to Menorca. Well, if anyone does remember, you may (or may not) be happy to know that I'm back! This video is basically a recap of why I've been away for nearly half a year, so if you're looking for hot gaming talk, you might wanna skip this one, but if you're interested in community talk then you might enjoy.

As I had a few complaints about videos in the past on here, I've taken to writing the warning in the title that this is a video post, though I am very pleased to see that Destructoid finally got round to sorting out YouTube embedding! Thanks Destructoid!










Yes, you read that correctly. I have done a top/worst five list of something that isn't new, particularly newsworthy, has already been discussed in numerous forms, thousands of times over on the internet already. But I've done it anyway. Why? Because after four months of League of Legends (and unfortunately the community that goes with it), I've discovered that I pretty much know most things to know about each LoL champion, and as the League is pretty much a daily occurrence for me, it would seem odd if I didn't talk, discuss and promote thought and arguments over something I find very important. And I do have good reasons and explanations for all of my choices, maybe it's something you never thought of, or maybe it makes you think of something I hadn't thought of. So whether or not you agree, disagree, don't see the point in, or have to shout so loud that even the summoners over on the Crystal Scar can hear you rant about a possibly pointless video, at least I've provoked something, and I'd be very interested to hear people's responses to this. Great way of learning, great way of getting some friendly (hopefully) interaction with the LoL community, cause that's pretty rare whilst on the field on battle. Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/cbAtwmsucoQ
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Hi Destructoid



Little bit of a gamble with this one, not sure what the reaction's gonna be, could be good, could be terrible, but basically, I took a holiday to Menorca with my girlfriend and my Sackboy plushie, and when we got home, Sackboy sabotaged my video editing software and put this video on my YouTube channel, hoping people would like it. It's got all the photos from him from the holiday and he talks about how he liked the hotel and free drinks, how bored he got at the beach, all the zoo animals he liked (and didn't like) and how much he (but not someone else) enjoyed the flying!

I promised him I'd actually let him make another one if people like it, so please let me know, or he'll just keep badgering me constantly about it. Seriously, he's asking me right now whether I've written this post.

Video link: http://youtu.be/U4JDWRCXZr4

Enjoy it, and I'm guessing I'll probably see you on Failtoid! We shall wait and see!

Nick R P Green
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http://youtu.be/cHQCanmXVYY

There's one thing about League of Legends that really annoys the hell out of me, and after a quick discussion about the game itself, you can be more sure than Darius will be op that'll I'll shout about it in some form or the other! Rawr!!

Apologies for the video quality in this one, I recorded LoL in half-sized 1080p to save on hard drive space, and then had to stretch it to hit 720p, which resulted in this. In future, I think I'll just record in 1080p full, and let my hard drive suffer.

Until video embedding is fixed, you'll have to link through to the YouTube video with the above link. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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