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kakashi gaiden liveblogging

just saving screenshots & taking notes like i'm in an 8 credit class i can't afford to fail

(tumblr allows max 30 images in one post so it's been cut a bit)

oh no he’s cute

minato is sitting there just listening to kakashi’s tirade

TINY RIN!

when your pre-teen not-son quotes the rulebook

kakashi’s teeth are deserving of their own sound effect; self-control indeed!

just say “i’m uchiha obito”. or shut up. you’re delusional, baby obitobito you need a terrible makeover by an elderly relative

anyone told you it’s trauma related? or are you just squinting really hard and hoping?

i have no idea what wee wee means but it’s very close to wheeze

how dare you interrupt their argument for some pointless mission

kusagakure = land of freaky flora (& fungi)? hashirama’s experimental ground?

no more arguing. get fucked sensei. CHIDORI!

fun details:

obito: 2 bum bags

kakashi: 2 bum bags + tanto harness. is one of those bags that med pack gift from rin?

rin: backpack

minato: backpack

big stick-finger-in-socket energy

puppy got the zoomies!!!

shortcut to mushrooms (goes through)

QUESTION! …aren’t shadow clones (doppelgangers here) supposed to be a konoha special? (if not a forbidden technique? or are mass shadow clones the taboo?)

OBITO FAIL! love rin’s expression of despair here

bby kakashi is so cute… he’s been scolded by his sensei… minato: dust can’t get into your eyes when you’re wearing goggles. it’s fine to speak of self-control, but you must be strong at heart, not just in words. like dude, shut up, that’s a kakashi-level bullying comeback.

is it a choice to hide obito’s eyes here?

“it was five years ago, on a top secret mission…” i sense another TIMELINE disturbance. CINEMA SINS! arrest this guy! kakashi genin 5 -> chunin 6 -> sakumo’s suicide some time later (implied by order of events in kakashi’s birthday column) -> kakashi currently 11 years old or more minato: unfortunately, a great deal of damage resulted. in the end, both the land of fire and his peers blamed him for everything. CINEMA SINS! how was this mission “top secret” if everybody and their aunt knew about it? FANON! “sakumo was blamed for the third shinobi war” nope

she’s so tiny!!! “she has found a new master.” shut the fuck up you pervert

and now he’s back to laws. oh boy. and you were so right earlier. now you’re just giving obito speech material.

OBITO WIN! KAKASHI FAIL! the idiot boy is going for the [combat] dialogue option!

kakashi: if you give in to your fleeting emotions, and fail an important mission… you’ll regret it later. does obito have a lot of “fleeting emotions”? kakashi: but like i told you yesterday… better nothing, than a useless burden. a shinobi needs tools suitable to the mission at hand. emotion is just a useless burden. i don’t know if he read it in danzo’s root handbook or if this is just A Fact. emotions are not needed if you’re just a tool armed with tools. how will tears help you when you’re bleeding out? how dare you be human, obititio

of course kakashi doesn’t truly believe this. obito keeps asking if he’s for real, kakashi is making sad faces and flashbacking to his father.

obito: sure, in a ninja’s world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders… are lower than garbage. however… those who do not care for and support their fellows… are even lower than that! if i’m scum… the rules are no good to me! and if breaking them makes me the wrong kind of shinobi… i’ll crush all the so-called shinobi!! anyone wants to convince me that obito is happy with konoha (and the whole system)???

242: Chronicle 4: The Crybaby Ninja (it’s embarrassing that you immediately know it's obito)

flash to minato

“there are probably at least fifty on the enemy side. by comparison, the four of us are all that’s left on our end.” iwagakure sent 1000 shinobi, konoha numbers unknown. now its 50 vs 5 (4+minato). minato isn’t even throwing his own kunai FANON! “minato massacred 1000 enemy shinobi alone” he wishes

obito (to himself): okay… let’s go! invisible enemy: where are we going?

my boy is glowing!!!

white light blade and silver hair! he’s here and now he’s there! KAKASHI WIN! the iwa guy really looked at this tiny gremlin and went “white fang???”

first time in years he’s talked about his father!!!

243: Chronicle 5: A Gift

iwa jonin i can’t be bothered to look up: remember, you’re standing in the palm of your enemy now… a fun way to say you can control rocks and they are in a cave

OBITO WIN! not for long tho

obito: i was the only one… who didn’t… give you a gift… i didn’t know… what was proper… but… i do now… he actually thought about kakashi’s jonin gift!!! obito: i’m about to… die. but i’ll… become your eye… and we’ll see what happens… in the future…

244: Chronicle 6: Sharingan Hero

hole.

kakashi: rin… obito… he loved you… you were his only one… he gave his life to protect you. rin: then… kakashi! you should know how i feel about you… kakashi brought up confessing, rin was just staying on topic. btw obito “gave his life” to protect kakashi, not rin. just a reminder

let her look at stars

(narration) the third great ninja war. with the sacrifice of many nameless shinobi, the protracted war finally came to a close. it its wake, it also left legends… the stories of great heroes, to be told and retold for generations to come. the battle of kannabi bridge. that day, two heroes were born in konohagakure, each with his own sharingan. one found his name engraved on the memorial stone… the other came to be known as kakashi of the sharingan. in time, the tales of his bravery spanned all borders, and beyond.

CINEMA SINS! obito wears goggles (on his forehead) after he awakens the sharingan. when they go to the cave where rin is held he doesn’t have them on. are they in kakashi’s bum bag?

THE END.

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LANDSCAPE AND TERRITORY 

Research related to my Major Project

All the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.

‘The soft colours of the Northumbrian landscape’

‘a bleak urban landscape’

An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.

‘the government was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory’

‘sorties into territory’

Georges Avetisjans - ‘Homeland. The longest village in the country’

Concept of home planned as  a book (sold on the photograd website) The artist is Latvian with Greek and Armenian background. The work is a composition of archival material, as well as landscape, portraits and text. His work is interested in history and ethnography.  Mixture of fiction and reality, with a sense of nostalgia.

  Dawin Meckel - ‘Lubicon Cree’

Paul Seawright - ‘They dropped like flakes, They dropped like stars’

The work presents the American landscape as a form of battlefield, where 20 military veterans a day commit suicide nationwide. According to new data from the Department of Veterans Affairs — In 2014, the latest year available, more than 7,400 veterans took their own lives. In many units more soldiers are lost to suicide after they return home from war than were lost in the field.

‘Volunteer’

Volunteer is a survey of sorts, photographs from today's fraying, centre less post 9-11 North American cities. Each photograph made at the location of a military recruiting station, where a different battle is being fought – to find young men and women to volunteer for service in Afghanistan. Starting in Texas, the highest recruiting state in the US, Seawright visited over 500 military recruitment offices in fifteen states.

Yakov Israel ‘The Quest For The Man On The White Donkey’ (2011)

‘Legitimacy of Landscape’ (2002-2015)

Everything he shoots its on 10x8 and hand printed for exhibitions. He photographs borders and places around the Palestine. 

Anastasia Khoroshilova - ‘Granizi’ (Borders)

‘Starie Novosti’ (Old News)

‘Die Übrigen’

Bleda Y Rosa - ‘Campos De Battalla’ Landscape marked by history

‘Origins’ 

Looking at different sciences and anthropological theories on the human development 

Paul Graham - ‘Trouble Land (1987)’

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/mar/02/paul-graham-shimmer-possibility

Alejandro Cartagena - ‘Ciudad’ Exploration of a city with a modernist approach, finding the beauty on the construction of the city, in the composition of a photograph

‘Landscape as Burocracy’ 

Landscape as bureaucracy is an exploration of the underlying structures surrounding the dream of owning a house in XXI century México. For the past 3 years he documented several aspects of this constructed dream. The natural landscape to become an urban and suburban space. 

‘Suburbia Mexicana’ 

It is a five part project that revolves around the representation of the current mexican suburban sprawl with a focus on the metropolitan area of Monterrey (mam). 

This first part of the project (Fragmented Cities) sheds light on the implemented neo-liberal economic strategies made by the mexican government since 2001 that have pushed urban growth out of the regulation of the metropolitan urban plan. 

Lost Rivers

The Other Distance

Urban Holes

People of Suburbia (3 years later)

This has created contradicting policies that have let construction firms build more than 300,000 new houses around the 9 cities of the mam. In 2008, the national housing commission (infonavit) marked Monterrey’s metro area as first place in the issuing of home loans and for the first time in mexican history, the commission has issued 497,000 loans towards buying houses in all of México. consequently, this demand has granted a green light to developers to urbanize in ways where profit is sought out for over the well being of the community, with roadways, parks and proper public transport systems standing far from becoming a reality. Amazingly even in the financial and mortgage crisis being lived in most of the world, the commission just announced in June that they will position another 500,000 loans for housing in 2009. After photographing these landscapes for the past 3 years i have now returned to many of the finished housing complexes and learned of many misfortunes the new inhabitants are facing, the ecological impact and the increasing distance being formed between the well-urbanized City and these new fragmented cities in the peripheries; a new chaotic ambient to which México is growing into.

The different aspects of Suburbia mexicana propose alternate narratives, which depict a global issue from a local perspective. i feel that my commitment as a photographer is not to denounce our need for a household, but rather to point out the struggle we face following the ideals of a capitalistic system while striving for fairer cities in which to live.

Dan Holdsworth - ‘Transmission: New Remote Hearth Views’ (2012)

Holdsworth appropriates topographical data to document the ideologically and politically loaded spaces of the American West in an entirely new way. He uses a digitally rendered laser scan of the earth appropriated from United States Geological Survey data, a ‘terrain model’ used to measure climate and land change – to measure man’s effect on the earth. Belying his empirical methodology is the fact that each of these terrains has a rich and conflicting cultural legacy.

Steve Macleod - ‘Hala’

Series photographed in the Arabic peninsula. He photographed areas where the army was being trained. Shot with large format camera, following the colour therapy chart. The landscape is based on how he felt, the mental state he felt during the day. The camera is mirrorless, the light passes through and bounce through the bellow. He splashed the inside of the bellow with a certain colour that the light with effect. It is a mediated landscape.  

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Eight of the Greatest Google Algorithm Updates of 2018

A standard wrestle for website positioning consultants is maintaining with Google’s ever-changing search algorithms. Yearly, there’s a slew of updates that drive organizations throughout industries to ditch their playbooks and return to the drafting board. A few of these modifications are seen coming from a mile away, whereas others seemingly emerge out of nowhere and ship website positioning consultants right into a panic.

2018 was no exception to the continual refinement of Google’s rating algorithm. In truth, Google’s Dan Sullivan claimed “We do some sort of targeted replace practically every day.”

The remainder of this put up will focus on eight of the highlights of Google’s algorithm updates all through 2018.

Let’s focus on.

1. Confirmed Picture Search Replace (February 15th)

The Picture Search Replace was one which definitely raised some eyebrows, each on the enterprise aspect and the consumer aspect. This modification did away with the longstanding “Search by Picture” and “View Picture” buttons on Google searches. Submit-February 15th, 2018, customers can’t view pictures with out navigating to the web site they dwell on. Based on Google SearchLiaison, the intention is so “customers can see pictures within the context of the webpages they’re on.”

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Usually talking, this replace was met with applause from site owners, as they might see an improve in internet visitors from picture searches. On the consumer aspect, many noticed this transformation as a petty roadblock to viewing pictures.

The reasoning behind this Google replace will not be clear. Some assume it has to do with a authorized spat with Getty Pictures…

2. “Brackets” Core Replace (March 8th)

Google updates generally occur in waves – or the results are felt in waves. The “Brackets” Core Replace was an ideal instance of this. Some organizations noticed modifications of their search rankings as early as March 4th, whereas most felt the results on March 8th and all through the continuing weeks. Within the wake of a Core replace, the primary implication sometimes signifies that it’s time for a corporation inside a sure business(s) to rethink their content material technique.

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The query revolves across the specifics of making content material to abide by Google’s new guidelines. Google’s John Mueller gave a proof of this replace and talked about that the first focus of this transformation was extra about content material relevance than strictly high quality.

When creating content material, organizations ought to deal with enhancing their E-A-T Rating and make sure the hyperlinks they construct are in good context with their messaging.

3. Zero-End result SERP (March 14th)

The Zero-End result SERP replace didn’t make gigantic waves throughout the net, nor did it ship website positioning specialists right into a panic. The aim of this replace was merely to assist searchers rapidly reply black and white questions. “Black and white questions” discuss with ones associated to calculations, climate, time, and many others.

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These solutions are offered on Information Playing cards within the “Zero” place above all the opposite search outcomes.

4. Cell-First Index Roll-Out (March 26th)

The net has been transferring in the direction of cell for a number of years. In truth, being as how cell searches have outnumbered desktop searches for practically 4 years now, some thought of the Cell-First Index Roll-Out to be overdue.

The massive change of this replace is that cell variations of internet sites will now be listed first over desktop variations (because the identify implies) by the Google bots. So, site owners must prioritize the performance of their cell websites and guarantee they run seamlessly.

Now, a standard false impression of this replace is there can be massive modifications to how cell content material ranks. Quite the opposite, Google has gone on report stating that the modifications deal with indexing, not rating. Here’s what they stated on the Site owners Weblog:

“Cell-first indexing is about how we collect content material, not about how content material is ranked. Content material gathered by mobile-first indexing has no rating benefit over cell content material that’s not but gathered this manner or desktop content material. Furthermore, should you solely have desktop content material, you’ll proceed to be represented in our index.”

5. Snippet Size Drop (Could 13th)

This was one other one in all Google’s eyebrow-raising updates of 2018. The factor that made the Snippet Size Drop replace peculiar was the truth that Google elevated the snippet size simply 5 months prior.

Now, snippets on desktop searches are restricted to roughly 160 characters (down from round 300). On cell, the character restrict is now within the ballpark of 130. The rationale behind this replace will not be fully clear – like most Google updates. Nonetheless, Google has suggested site owners to not panic about this transformation or focus an excessive amount of of their power on snippets, as they’re chosen for a variety of causes and never all the time taken from Meta descriptions.

6. Video Carousels (June 14th)

The addition of video carousels in Google searches is additional proof that the net is evolving to develop into extra video-centric. This modification signifies that searchers at the moment are handled to a variety of video outcomes per their question – most of them being from YouTube, which Google has owned since 2006.

This replace changed video thumbnails with carousels below the primary end result within the search rankings. Not each single question goes to offer you movies, nonetheless. These carousels are sometimes triggered by phrases like how you can, high ____, greatest suggestions for ­­­­___.

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7. Cell Pace Replace (July 9th)

2018 was definitely 12 months for cell. The Cell Pace Replace of the summer time positioned a giant emphasis on the loading occasions of cell web sites when figuring out rankings of cell searches.

Being as how cell is all the fashion today, many would assume that this replace was the grim reaper for sluggish cell websites the world over. Fortunately, this replace appeared like extra of a warning shot from Google, because the overwhelming majority of impacted websites had absolutely the slowest loading occasions primarily based on a small handful of queries.

Whatever the small impact, this replace ought to mild a fireplace below site owners to be proactive and guarantee their cell variations aren’t slowed down with sluggish pace.

8. Medic Core Replace (August 1st)

The Medic Core Replace was a doozy. The ripple impact of this August 1st replace despatched website positioning consultants the world over right into a mass scramble to select up the items of shattered rankings. Probably the most distinguished takeaway from this algorithm change was that organizations in Your Cash Your Life industries paid the largest worth.

Your Cash Your Life (YMYL) organizations discuss with these in well being, finance, health, regulation, and so forth. The aim of this replace was to make sure that searchers had been paired with probably the most related and credible data as doable. In spite of everything, well being recommendation from a non-reputable supply might be probably harmful.

So, transferring ahead, these organizations must focus their content material recreation on enhancing E-A-T Rating, backing claims with accredited analysis, ensuring their content material platform is secure for customers, and many others. To be taught extra about this replace, E2M interviewed Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz in this podcast! Test it out to get some extra solutions!

Good luck!

There isn’t any doubt that we’ll see our justifiable share of algorithm modifications within the coming 12 months. That being stated, it is best to all the time maintain the concept behind your thoughts that your rankings may take successful at any second. Now, as a way to combat this paranoia, it is advisable to have a powerful technique and protocol in place to rapidly adapt to algorithm modifications. Better of luck in 2019 and past!

Visitor writer: Jaykishan Panchal is the website positioning and Content material Supervisor at E2M Options a full-service digital company.

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Noble X — Episode 17: Brothers

By Mike Vinopal

SEVERAL TRIALS IN, the Johnny Appleseed of Weed slides into the revolving door. He has handed out quite a few gifts today to strangers on the street. Love buds and lottery tickets. Stepping on the escalator, he visualizes the positive vibrations he is creating, many ripples of positive charges emanating outward from the souls connected today, looking out over the seething mass of shoppers. Perhaps he has done enough good today. He is extremely riled up and reminds himself that the longer he carries on, the greater the risk. Checking his phone, he smiles. It’s almost time to meet Thomas. He steps off, turns around and hops right back on, going down, calling his brother.

Being brothers, Thomas and John know each other extremely well. They’ve helped each other through every imaginable trial and tribulation. Thomas has been feeling increasingly uneasy about his brother and how different he has been this past week. He had a bad feeling last night when John couldn’t stop ranting and raving, but had allowed himself instead to be swept up in the energy of the group. There was no denying that they all felt inspired spending this time together. But once he’d returned home, he had felt bad about encouraging John, about not saying anything. Something just didn’t feel right. But all he can think to do is to keep close to John, to keep an eye on him. He isn’t currently hurting anyone.

“Hey buddy, I’m here.” Thomas tells him he’ll be right up. Meeting in the lobby, Thomas approaches John with a surprised look on his face. “You good? Looking a little crazy, dude,” gesturing at the mismatched ensemble. John just smiles, rubbing his beard, letting a couple giggles slip out. Thomas shakes his head a little, allowing himself to laugh too. John looks ridiculous. “C’mon,” Thomas says as he pats John on the back, stepping outside into the slush, and lighting a cigarette. John bums one, lights it, and takes a deep draw, exhaling through his nose like a dragon, as the sun melts the snow on the buildings around them. Thomas walks to the intersection and points around the corner at the loading dock where they would load up the lights. “Meet you there in ten,” Thomas says, stomping out his cigarette and ducking back inside. John flicks his into the street as he walks around the block to get his car. 

Pulling up ten minutes later with his hazards on, John parks and hops out to help load the lights. With the lights loaded, they both hop in the car and head back toward Lake Shore Drive. As they drive, Thomas pushes the hazards button on the dash. John turns them back on. “Why are you driving with your hazards on?”

Carefully merging into the flow of traffic, John states simply as if talking about the weather, “I am slightly a hazard right now. I know that I’m not well and I want to communicate non-verbally to the other drivers on the road that I am a hazard.” 

Thomas is stunned by this. At a loss of what to say in response, he utters, “Do you want me to drive?”

John shakes his head. “It’s all good. I’m going the exact posted speed limit,” indicating his use of the cruise control. Thomas is both bewildered and intrigued.

Back at John’s apartment, they unload the lights and set them up. The stage is set with time to spare. John reaches into his pockets at the same time, producing both a love bud in his left hand and a scratch-off lottery ticket in his right. “Here you go, bro. I hope you win. And if you do, just make sure you do something good with it. And the bud, well that’s for love.” He tells Thomas about what he was doing before he picked up the lights. Thomas isn’t sure if John is serious or not. John notes this reaction and decides to move on, quickly changing the subject, “Let’s prep some snacks for the party, eh?”

Thomas agrees, trying to come off as casual. He is on high alert though. He will watch his brother closely tonight. Maybe Colin and Anthony will have some ideas, he thinks to himself helplessly.

✶

THEY ARRIVE A COUPLE HOURS LATER, Anthony with loads of beer and Colin with loads of cheap wine to share with the party guests, as planned. Snacks are set out. The projector, still in place from the previous night, is switched on. All Captains accounted for, except for the founder of the Noble Experiment, Paul. He will arrive later. Standing in the kitchen, watching the hypnotic projection Colin has created, John hands out clipboards to all of them with a stack of Post-its and a pen tucked in the top.

“Document all the absurdities, the memorable quotations, musings, sparks. Draw pictures. Make books of them. Whatever you feel. Cover the walls if you must."

The doorbell rings and the first of the musicians set to perform begin arriving. The weather has turned again. Roger Silvan brushes a slight dusting of snow off of his shoulders and his guitar case as he enters. He has brought his girlfriend Molly. John welcomes them with big hugs, immediately offering to take their coats, to get them drinks, to have some snacks, all in blur of words and gestures, disappearing to drop their coats on the bed in the guest room. As he passes the red duffle on the floor, he bends down, clicks the bike light twice to blinking mode, and heads to the kitchen to get his guests drinks. 

Moments later, the duo of Kelly and Kristen arrive. John swirls around again, same welcome, same hugs, coats, and drinks. People begin settling in, imbibing. Soon party guests will begin to arrive for the performances. There is so much excitement, building in the air like so much static electricity, and they all wait for the clock to strike seven.

Stay tuned for Episode 18.

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Links to previous episodes:

Noble X — Episode 1: Cowardice & Heartbreak

Noble X — Episode 2: New Month's Eve

Noble X — Episode 3: Racing

Noble X — Episode 4: Redlining

Noble X — Episode 5: Tracks

Noble X — Episode 6: Filters Off 

Noble X — Episode 7: Testing 

Noble X — Episode 8: More Trials

Noble X — Episode 9: Mind Games

Noble X — Episode 10: Captains

Noble X — Episode 11: Internet Famous

Noble X — Episode 12: Evidence Mounts

Noble X — Episode 13: Suits & Supplies

Noble X — Episode 14: Reflections

Noble X — Episode 15: Dress Rehearsal

Noble X — Episode 16: Hazards

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Mastery Journal Entry -GDF

How well did you utilize your time in this course?

What have you learned / achieved in this course?How does the material you learned in this course relate to your thesis / Capstone Project?What steps have you taken in your capstone adviser process this month, and what was the outcome of that interaction?Are you ready to move on to the next phase of the approval process?

I have to say that this class was a fun class.  I really liked the idea of being able to produce a game.  I am a full time teacher, and this month was an extremely busy month for me.  I felt that I utilized my time alright, but it was split between my high school classes where I teach as well.  I would have liked to be more successful with my first game, as it was my first try at creating a 3d environment using bullet physics.  However, since I couldn’t find much documentation not written in Java, I spent most of my time just trying to get things set up to work.  I was unable to develop any of the hardware components that I wanted to do in that game.  This left me with having to implement all of the components in my second game.  It seems to be that every time I have a big project Android Studio fails me, and crashes.  This time for the last game, I had to completely rebuild my project over again, as it would not longer work after I did the test integration.  the game would just not compile with no sensical dexm errors.  After I got it working again, I was able to implement the rest of my pieces, but had a hard time using the libgdx framework to get the contact listener to work how I wanted it to.  I ended up having to code around it, and manually check for positions.  In the end, I got different maps to load when a player was at a warp location and the device was rotated in real space.  I would have liked to get the Google Play Services to work to do the GPS and the multiplayer components, but when I loaded the library like the developer instructions mentioned they broke my code unless I also downloaded all of their sample codes.  Their GameUtils library just would not run as a library, and had to be removed.  I would like to implement them in the future, but as I have no more time to do it they will have to wait.  2 weeks for a game with 4 frameworks is not much time when most of the stuff that has to be implemented is the first that I have ever seen or work with.

     I have still learned a lot from this course.  Most of it revolves around better organization of code is key, and to rapidly prototype.  I have figured out how to use the accelerometer and compass for controls and would like to use them in my capstone project.  Box2d and libgdx is the framework that I want to use as well for my capstone project as I am growing more and more familiar with it.  I am strictly trying to stay in only Java development as these tools will help me get there.  I also implemented a Tiled map editor which I will definitely use as it sped up the time creating box2d elements for collision detection.

     I have contacted my potential project advisor, but I have still not gotten a go ahead.  I have waited over a month to get contacted back, and ended up writing a new two game ideas.  I did get feedback on that, but they want to see something using the components that I want to implement.  I believe that my second game shows a lot of this as it is using the map editor, libgdx, and box2d to implement the game.  

   I want a go ahead so I can start planning on which game to create.  I am fine with either one, but feel that I am needlessly spinning my wheels until I get a go ahead to submit.