Kadhir's Blog

It's here. It's finally here. Avengers: Infinity War releases today. Its been 10 years since the first Iron Man movie which reshaped the superhero genre and opened the doorway for a new and unique way of storytelling: Shared Universe. The post credit scene in Iron Man is a significant one and only few knew at that time to wait for these post credit scenes at the end of the movie. The moment Nick fury stepped out of the shadows and told Tony “ I'm here to talk to you about the Avengers initiative”, I knew its going to be a hell of a ride and they didn't dissapoint. 18 movies [few missteps in the way] but still they were unshakable. The end is near : Now after 10 years, we are here at the culmination of 10 years of Marvel. "The end is near" is the best and the most suitable tagline for Marvel Cinematic Universe right now. Or not. Let me rephrase that. It is the perfect tagline for the first 10 years of MCU. Because end is only the beginning, the begi...

Being a musician myself, I can say that music is not just an art form. Its more than that. It is considered as the most effective way of communication. You couldn't memorize a line or paragraph but you could remember the words of hundreds of songs. Why is that? Its as if you are being pulled into a different dimension, a reality where you could explore and understand yourself better. Music plays with your emotion and connects with you like no other means of communication. We teach Rhymes to small kids instead of skipping straight to paragraph writing or something like that. Its because Music has the power to penetrate deep into your mind and plant an idea or words (Like Inception, I know right?!).   It enraptures you and immediately puts you in some kind of emotional trance. Music plays an very important role in shaping our physical and mental health. Its widely being ignored or under rated as a means of therapy. It affects your brain in ways that you don...

Today's world is a competitive arena. So only the person with good skills (soft and hard skills )   survive .  In order to be a man of value, one needs to develop their hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills are in the technical side like math, programming and other subject related stuff. It is easily quantifiable. But soft skills are harder to get and it depends on personal traits and character and other emotional characteristics. If you ask someone to define soft skills, chances are you will be gettting a similar but obscure answers. Soft skills are what you call “Behavioral skills” i.e, the ability to interact with others in an effective and constructive way. Most students focus more on gaining knowledge and uploading every bit of information into their brain but they totally leave behind other important skills which will decide their career. You can be technically strong in a subject or a topic but if you lack soft skills like communication skills, ...

I have been learning 3D modelling using Maya and I found that there is an Open Source Software just like it: Blender. Since Maya is proprietary software, I just used the free trial and then abandoned it after the trial ended. Blender has almost the same features as Maya or any other 3D modelling software as far as I know. For those of you who don't know what an open source software is, its a free software where we can create and modify the source code, fix bugs and contribute something of value to that software. Linux is a well-known example for open source software. So why it is important to use open source software? I'll tell you why. The First and foremost reason is Security. Now, I'm not saying open source software is more secure than the closed software. But it can be checked and verified by the user before using. Since the source code is open to the public, anyone can view and edit the source code and fix any bugs. While bugs in proprietary software take weeks o...

The title will seem a little surprising to you. Who would have thought that they could earn money just by playing video games? Well, I'm here to say that you can. There are lot of ways to earn money by playing video games. Some require a lot of work and time, some don't. The most conventional way is YouTube and Twitch. Gamers post their game plays on youtube. Once they hit enough viewers and started to get a lot of traffic, google puts advertisements on their videos and their video gets monetized. They Earn money through the advertisements. Twitch is a popular video game streaming websites where players live stream their game plays. They earn money though donations and subscription. Many of them write blogs about the games and also about latest news and trends in the gaming world. Like YouTube, Once they get enough traffic, google puts ads on their post and the blogger earns money through that. CS:GO allows you to trade and sell skins for real-world money. While the...

The Loot Box Craze: The craze for loot boxes started with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare although it wasn't the first game to introduce that. And That was the last Call of Duty I played too. After realizing that they are putting more focus on supply drops than fixing the fundamental problems in the game, I refused to buy or play any other call of duty after that. Supply Drops in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Now here were are in 2017, that loot box system is in almost every game. From Single-player games like Middle-earth: Shadow of War to popular racing franchise Need for speed  's new game NFS payback, its everywhere. For those who don't know what loot boxes or microtransactions are, its a system ,mostly followed in free-to-play mobile games or free-to-play games in general, where players can buy virtual items in game which would be a good revenue source for the developers to make it better on regular basis. But it works well for that particular genre o...