Dezbee's Blog

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Long time Google Maps lurker, first time GeoGuessr player

For anyone who knows me, they know that I love learning about countries. Their flags, capital cities, languages, everything. It's literally my second favorite love behind math.

I was also surprised that I had never played GeoGuessr regularly. I created my account on July 11, and after a few free daily challenges (and played in a 100-player multigame with a streamer), I took the next step towards a subscription.

This is my 4th day playing this and I already love it. Sure, I gotta know the meta, but I think I got the basics down, like direction of the sun, the languages, the driving directions, etc.

I'll be spending my free time learning and playing the game so I can figure out where these places are, but I think so far I'm getting it.

Friday, August 22, 2025

Mega Victreebel

I'm playing Pokémon Legends Z-A this fall, so I want to show you the newest Mega Pokémon that was revealed yesterday.

Source: serebii.net

This is Mega Victreebel. Although it keeps its original Grass/Poison typing, the main characteristics of this new Mega sound dangerous (especially if you have never played the game)

It keeps the acid inside it by wrapping one of its vines around the throat to close its mouth, but even that's not really enough.

I don't know if I will have Victreebel on my team, but as the launch date gets closer, I really need to start thinking about what Pokémon I want to have on my team.

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Can Bingo be this intense?

Apparently, yes, if you're playing Bloxy Bingo on Roblox

Ladies and gentlemen (and nb's), meet my new favorite Roblox game Bloxy Bingo.

For context, I joined Roblox on June 11, 2025 (at the ripe old age of 36, how have I not done this earlier) and so far, I have played Squid Game (Ink, Hide and Seek, etc), Dress to Impress, and Math Murder. They're all great games.

But this past week, I started playing Bloxy Bingo out of boredom and so far, I managed to win every stage of the American Bingo, as well as one of the stages of the British Bingo. That is crazy considering there are 80 people to a server at one time, even crazier that I just started playing.

However, the intensity comes in when there is one or two numbers left and someone else calls bingo first, you're playing with at least 4 cards, and even if you find yourself surrounded by other players. That last part hasn't happened to me yet.

If you have Roblox and want to play Bloxy Bingo, go for it. If you don't have it and want to play it, download Roblox and go for it. By the end of this, you too will have a love and hate relationship with Bingo

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Reviving this blog after 16 years

Chat, it's been 16 years since I updated this blog. My previous posts were about news and other things from the perspective of a 20-year-old college student. Now, at 36, my priorities have changed. I'm still a bit of a news junkie, but I have since fallen in love with Eurovision, reignited my love for Pokemon (it never went away, chat, it just laid dormant), I graduated college and started working, and I'm currently exploring the possibility of streaming and making content. I hope you join me on this ride as I lay my thoughts and opinions on topics at hand

Friday, June 19, 2009

A Friday Look at Things

It's Friday. It's Juneteenth (June 19). It's #followfriday on Twitter. It's TGIF (unless you live in a country where it's SATURDAY!!!) Anyway, for the past week, I've been updating a friend of mine about goings-on at CNN (including stuff about Errol Barnett and Michael Holmes). I think we're both admiring CNN anchors... more than we should right?

You might've noticed that my twitter avatar and the avatars of my friends on twitter have turned green. Well, that's because since Friday June 12, Iranians were in the news for, you guessed it, the elections. Last Friday, Iranians voted in the 2009 presidential election. There were 4 candidates, but the two major ones were Mahmoud Ahmed-not-yab (can't spell his name at the top of my head. Not bothering to google it either) and Mir Hossein Moussavi. Ahmed-not-yab (they told me it's Ahmadinejad) was officially declared the winner on June 13, and the rest is history. Moussavi supporters were protesting to no end, declaring the color green for the candidate, and that's how we are going green on twitter (and we're not talking environment here) If you have twitter, go here: http://www.helpiranelection.com and your avatar will be green in one shot.

Another thing about the Iranian elections is the media restrictions. I was watching CNN (partly because it's my favorite channel and mostly because they got great reporters) and they got restrictions. First, it was 'international reporters cannot go to rallies' and then Reza Sayah (who I'm liking more and more) only had to do one live report a day (don't know if any other network is having this problem too). Well, that's why CNN got Octavia Nasr, Errol Barnett, Christiane Amanpour, Ivan Watson (looking good in Atlanta) and, yes, Reza Sayah, and the so-called 'Iran Desk', but I know they've used it for different stuff in the same matter and scale. If Reza can only do one a day, team coverage is a must. Go CNN!

And local news here say that they got the autopsy of little Orlando girl Caylee Anthony, and I'm guessing it's gruesome. Will check it out later, though.

And it's almost summer (unless you live in places like New Zealand, Australia, most of Indonesia, South Africa, South America, and the like) so crank up your AC. If you live in places I just mentioned... crank up your heater.

That's my Friday look at things. Wait for my rant when it comes.

Also follw me at @dezbee2008 on twitter.