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Friday, May 29, 2020

Designer Bubble

The pictures on the last slide are unfinished

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Literacy (Similar to last weeks) T2W6

Go to slide 10 for my explanation



Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Reading By Making Inferences T2W6

Geometry 3D Shapes

This term we have been learning about geometry and we have just started to learn 3D after we finished learning 2d




Thursday, May 14, 2020

Thursday, May 7, 2020

T2W4 Explanation Writing; The Pokemon Card Economy




The Pokemon Card Economy


Introduction

Pokemon, a world with lots of wonders, and in the world of Pokemon Cards
pretty near to infinite possibilities. Classic card collectors, GX/EX hunters,
Mint geeks, the world of Pokemon Cards has many stereotypes and this
explanation will help you determine what stereotype you will be,
from Gambling addicts to craze followers.

The Rating system
When you buy a Pokemon card booster pack you accumulate excitement or
uncertainty on what’s inside the pack. When most amateurs (or expert)
pokemon card collectors open a pack they shuffle the last four cards from
the back (for Sun And Moon series every series has a different
combination) to the front so you go from least valuable to most, three of
those four cards at the backs are uncommon cards, you can tell uncommon
cards by the diamond at the bottom of the card. Uncommons have a
common value of twenty cents (that is if anyone will buy it). then in front
of those three cards are six common cards, you can tell common cards by
the circle at the bottom of the card. Common cards are Commonly worth
ten cents (once again that is if anyone will buy it). And finally two
“Mystery Cards” “The first mystery card” could be any rarity
(except for holo, or GX) how you can tell that it is the first
“Mystery Card” is that it is a ‘reverse holo’ (a ‘reverse holo’ is a card that
has a shiny foil around the whole card except for the pokemon’s picture).
The second “mystery Card” is usually a normal rare you can tell by the black
star at the bottom of the card if your lucky maybe a valuable GX, or ‘holo’.


‘Holo’s’ Are like ‘Reverse Holos’ except for only the pokemon’s picture has
a foil the rest of the card is normal. But the GX is a lot easier to tell
because the whole card is not only smooth (at the front) but also the
whole card has a foil, another way to tell if it’s a GX is at the bottom
of the card there is a silver star. A silver star means it is an
Ultra Rare card, the reason why the silver star is not called the
GX Star is that before GX’s you could get EX’s that also have a
silver star, and also the silver star may be on any normal card,
even though it may be a normal card it is still valuable having a
silver star indicating it is an Ultra Rare.

Demand
Demand is a confusing thing.  Demand is controlled by the collectors that
buy the cards. The collectors usually buy the card on the rarity of it,
in hopes that in the future the value of the card will increase dramatically.
So when the collectors want a card the value of it rases, but sometimes
the hype weres of and the value decreases, a good example are EX’s.
EX’s were all the craze when they were new, but Pokemon stopped making
them and started making GX’s, suddenly everyone wanted GX’s instead of
EX’s. but if you want a good card that will keep its value You’ll want to go
for a pokemon based in a fandom, for example, one of the most loved
Pokemon (in the most expensive stereotype of Pokemon Card collectors)
is Charizard, in fact when the first Charizard GX Rainbow rare came out
the demand was already so high for that pokemon that it instantly became
the most expensive pokemon of the set at (now) a whopping average value
of two hundred and fifty NZ dollars.

Mint Value
Easily the hardest part to get through in pokemon card collecting for
amateurs is mint condition cards. Through my experience of trading with
other kids is that they do not treat their cards well (on average).
Mint card rating is something some collectors wish don’t exist because
sometimes even one small chip will affect your 1-10 mint card rating by
a large amount. But sometimes it’s not the card it is the packaging because
old pokemon card booster packs are a lot of the time worth more than the
cards inside it. But there is a trick if you don’t want to lose money by
buying packs, pro collectors usually use gram scales to weigh the card if it
has a foil card in it. But sometimes holos will trick you on what weight it is,
but you just have to take a chance and find the heaviest pack you can find,
even if it just has a difference of just a milligram.


Language Economy
The language economy is on our (English) side. With different languages,
there is a different demand, rarity, and value. The more card collectors
speaking that language the higher the Demand is, make the value higher.
And luckily more card collectors speak English than any other language.
A big part of pokemon card per head language is the
“Rare Per Head system” because every language has a similar amount of
production, so the wider known the language the more the cards have to
be spread out between everyone.


But if there are fewer people speaking that language the more cramped
the cards are spread. Essentially what you want is a wider spread language
so more people have more cards. Think of it like this, you’re the pokemon
company that makes the same amount of cards for every language,
now if there are fewer heads that speak a language you’ll have to throw
away hundreds of your cards since there are fewer people to buy them,
so instead of wasting them, you’ll have to give the buyers more bang for
there buck by putting more cards in their packs, that’ll give the buyers a
higher chance of finding a rare, now the idea of a rare is that the harder
it is to find it the more money it’s worth, and since those buyers are
getting more bang for their buck, they have a higher chance of finding a
rare making that rare less rare.





The Cards You Want

So what cards would you like as your investment? Well you’re probably
thinking that two hundred and fifty dollar Charizard from earlier, but
that’s only one of many types of Pokemon Cards That are super valuable.
There are a lot more like the 24 karat Pikachu, or the 1999 1st edition
holo shadowless Charizard, but what I recommend doing is buy a new rare
pokemon card that has a pokemon on it that die-hard fans love, and get
that because the value will increase over time.

Literacy T2W4

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Perseverance In exceptional Kiwis T2W4 Task 2

My Fast Vehicle

The body of my fast vehicle Will be based on a Ripsaw but the Tracks will be in the vehicle. The shell will be made of an exterior layer being a titanium carbon infuse, a mid-layer being kevlar and interior layer being Carbon fiber, making the tank light and tough, the skeleton will be made with thick steel carbon infusion (so will the exoskeleton), and it'll have an armored van type room behind the driver's seat that is fully dependent on solar power from the roof, in that room, it will have luxury orange trim on both the seats and interior, it will also have a tv screen, and an Xbox Series X with four controllers, the room will also have four seats and a fridge with a built-in soda stream maker. Every seat will have a built-in phone on the armrest, they will also have removable tablets. The room will have its own unlimited wifi. A VR headset has the option of coming out of the headrest on two of the seats, when you put on the headset it will turn on and access a fully automatic turret on either side of the vehicle. The room also has a feature for when you press a button on the Xbox a screen will appear on the tv where you can access features of the tank from that screen, including: thermal vision, night vision, release excess engine oil from the rear, EM projectile, the onboard ECU, led interior coloring and driving controls where you can drive the vehicle (that feature can also be on the tablets). at the driver's seat, you have an automatic flappy paddle transmission, a futuristic style steering wheel and a touchscreen where you can access all the rooms, and vehicles features (just in case you don't trust anyone back there), and it also has all the basic features like radio, etc.

The vehicle has three engines the main one being a 7-litre twin-turbo petrol W8 (two V4's side by side) with a reprogrammable ECU, the second engine is a basic hydrogen engine that you can activate independently, or to complement the speed of the W8 with the flick of a fighter jet style switch, and finally the third engine is an air compression (air Powerd) engine, how it basically works is it uses an electric crankshaft (like any engine) but instead of using it for combustion, it uses it to compress air. the air will be sent to the driveshaft to boost the power of the vehicle, but a fraction of the air by a flick of the switch will go towards boosting the output of the twin turbocharger on the W8. When you want to drag race the vehicle you can activate all engine options, and not only that but you can turn the W8 into a two-stroke for a faster off the line time but then after it's gained optimum speed it'll switch back to four-stroke for constant acceleration. In a rear compartment, it has a 500-litre petrol tank and another 500-litre tank storing hydrogen for long trips.
https://www.themilliardaire.com/en/high-tech/ripsaw-ev2-tank-dont-ever-get-unnoticed-driving-your-own-luxury-tank-18015/

Perseverance In Exceptional Kiwis T2W4 Task 1

No, I would not like to live in a tiny house

The tiny house is a good idea but It just isn't for me. I guess it's a good Idea being portable, but motorhomes Were invented for that. Plus it doesn't have a garage for my car. though I am (kind of) a minimalist, I just can't see myself in those houses.

https://www.insider.com/dissapointing-photos-tiny-house-living-2019-10

Monday, May 4, 2020