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Speedrun champion

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:07:48 GMT

Endril and I just got #1 in world at Splash Woman (by a full 3 seconds)

News you can Use

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:06:18 GMT

Megaman 9 is out, I just finished downloading it

EDIT

I HAVE NOW PLAYED IT and it is the best in the series.

I can't beat [the final boss] though. I used 4 E-tanks and 1 M-tank and I still couldn't beat him. But it takes less than an hour to get there so I'm not too discouraged, I'll just need to try harder. And hey, if I beat him I'll probably get a good time on the leaderboards since last I checked the times ranged from 40 minutes to an hour 40 heavily leaning on the top end and I got to [the boss] in like 50 minutes and gave up (last time) at like 1:10 so if I beat him I'll probably have slot #5...

This weekend

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:56:59 GMT

This weekend I watched the first 31 episodes of Touch, read the first two books of Amber, played the first disc of Metal Gear Solid, broke my new shoes, and didn't get a job.

EDIT I just found out that a game I thought was canceled 2 years ago is actually being released on the 11th, and a demo went up yesterday.

Moving / Gencon

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:31:06 GMT

So I got back from Gencon just now. It was pretty good.

Also I moved so I'm in a different apartment and half my stuff is in storage. I'll get it back sometime this week.

Today on: EXALTED

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:54:14 GMT

Three Solars and a Sidereal limit break within 15 minutes of one another.

Hilarity ensues.

Discussions with Endril, volume XLIX

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:21:03 GMT

In an RPG, do you want to level up, or do you want to be as powerful as you wanted to be from the beginning?

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:28:06 GMT

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:21:26 GMT

The bracelet I've been wearing for 7 and a half years broke.

Today at Gamestop..

Sat, 03 May 2008 21:41:32 GMT

So endril and I went shopping today. We got some neat stuff - No More Heroes, Draglade, Honey+Clover, Initial D, you know.

At Gamestop, there was some guy who was trying to convince everyone in the store to stop buying games forever. He was a piracy advocate who was actively trying to get the people who wanted to buy DS games to instead download them off the internet, because "even $20 is too much, I only make $8 an hour" and "the CEOs of those companies make billions of dollars a year already" and "I already bought the hardware for the system so that's support enough right?". He was bewildered at the fact that most companies lose money on hardware, didn't understand economies of scale, didn't understand small publishers with limited print runs like Atlus, didn't understand the economics of game development, etc. We argued for like an hour before he got fed up and left.

ATTN: Capcom, RE: 5 Island Adventure

Thu, 01 May 2008 02:52:25 GMT

Hey Capcom, are you the one who makes the explosions?

Minireview: LOVE MY LIFE

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:12:38 GMT

This is a really good movie, though the gratuitous sex scene at the end really doesn't belong (OK, it does, but does it need to be so long?)
Highly recommended, A++, would watch again

IN OTHER NEWS

I applied for about 7 jobs but I doubt I'll get any of them. Oh well.

I've been rereading Romance of the Three Kingdoms and also watching the TV series and also been taking extensive notes on characters, events and places... because I'm going to run a Three Kingdoms game in Weapons of the Gods. Of course it won't have all the same characters and I don't expect the plot to stay even remotely similar (since I'm giving the players a lot of freedom) but I hope I can do justice to the source material.

So my laptop is dead.

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:30:09 GMT

It has a problem that is very fixable but to fix it also requires complete disassembly of the entire laptop because I need to get to the motherboard. The AC power jack thing is soldered onto the motherboard, see, and normal wear and tear will eventualy break that solder connection. So the solution is to open the whole laptop up, get to it, and either replace it with something that won't break from wear and tear or re-solder it and have that last for another 2-5 years like this laptop has already done. Total repair cost is something like $2.50 plus the difficulty of complete disassembly so I'll probably have to do it but I really really don't want to. In the meantime I can very occasionaly use battery power to have a few minutes of time online but that's all.

This just in

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:22:11 GMT

Load time: Confirmed for Brawl

Today on Tenhou...

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:54:36 GMT

Long live Gary Gygax

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:01:50 GMT

The D&D co-creator and driving force behind early role-playing, Gary Gygax, died this morning in his home.

He will be remembered forever for his contributions to the hobby.

Long live Gygax.

TSUMO

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:00:52 GMT

So this was an exciting week.

I watched all of Akagi on reccomendation and it was so addicting that I finished all 26 episoes (the last 7 of which I watched twice) within 48 hours. Coincidentally I've begun to play Mahjong. It's fun.

Also the power was out for a day. And my computer got an eeeevil virus (my... second ever?) that knocked it out of commission for 2 or 3 days and it's still recovering.

I still need to turn in my homework from forever ago. I had started it again just before the power went out and was otherwise occupied all week (what with, not having a computer for most of it). But tomorrow is another day.

Speaking of Mahjong it is fun. I want to make a Mahjong program just to see if I can, and an AI for it that's actually good. In the meantime I'll on my SFC / on Tenhou / with friends in meatspace.

Reminisce the futurepast

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:17:27 GMT

When did varous events happen in my lifetime? Milestones of my development.

I got an NES (Mario/Duck Hunt) I don't even know, almost from before I remember. One of my earliest memories is buying Metrid and Zelda 2. We rented games every Thursday and I played quite a bit of the NES library as it came out. I remember Megaman 4 coming out, and that was early 1992 (I had bought 1 after playing 3). I also read about Final Fantasy II in Nintendo Power (and recogised the name, the first Final Fantasy (released 1990) being my favorite game to rent at the time), and that must have been 1991. I bought Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.. FF3 wasn't out so it's before 1994. Secret of Mana wasn't out either so that means it was during 1993 I got SNES (SMW/All-Stars, on two carts). I got SNES because I'd played Zelda 3 and it was amazing. Sometime after that I got a Gameboy (Zelda 4 pack-in), 1993 or 1994 but long before the Play It Loud campaign. I got FF3 and Secret of Mana at around the same time, before the release of Chrono Trigger but long after both FF3 and SoM were sold out of stores (so few were made..) so they were hard to track down. At around this time I used BBSes (games like LoRD) and played modem games (DooM sure but a bunch of others too). But I didn't use the internet until after FF3 came out, and didn't use it at home until the PSX-Saturn system war began (N64 was still Ultra 64 and was practicaly vaporware at the time). That was,,,, 1995. Summer of 1996 (because Ice Age was new-ish and Mirage wasn't out yet) I saw some boy at summer camp who was carrying around a binder with "Magic" written on it and so I and a friend cornered him and got him to tell us what that was about - and it turned out to be Magic the Gathering of course, so we forced him to teach us. I taught Magic to my older brother and from there got introduced into the Evansville Gamers Guild where I played my first tabletop RPGs....... but that wasn't my introduction to RPGs, I played PBEM games and freeform chat RP on the internet, and I actually hung out on the White-Wolf online chat long before I'd played Mage tabletop. In those days I also met people on the internet by interest-searching them on ICQ and using the "free-for-chat" mode. In 1995 I watched Sailormoon on television.. and a bunch of other stuff but Sailormoon is the important one because from its bizzare (non)-ending in 1996 I found on the internet a much larger series, bought quasi-legal fansubs, and discovered the wonder of anime (of course I had seen a lot of anime before but I didn't think about it as any different from any other media before then).

All this before 1997 (when I got Yoshi's Island, started getting heavy into RPGs, and began my long spiral into otaku subculture - reading lots and lots of fanfiction and the like). Then 1998 I got a PSX, FFT and SotN, and, eventually, Xenogears, and then both Megaman 8 and Megaman X4, which sparked the re-emergence of my childhood joy of playing the early Megaman games and X1 and turned me full-force into a Rockman fan. And in 1999 I got into emulation with the Pokemon TCG on Gameboy (in Japanese) which led to me buying Pokemon Yellow the day it came out (but I was disappointed to learn that the RPG was much less fun). And of course, on December 31, 1999, I met someone who changed my life forever.

12-17-2k7

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:43:13 GMT

Happy Rockman's 20th anniversary everyone!

Contra 4

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:46:07 GMT

Contra 4 is the best and greatest in modern old-school gaming. It is completely awesome and wonderful. And it is so deliciously delightfully impossible. Also the music (by the legendary virt) is awesome too.

I really want to like post scans of the manual because seriously the manual alone would sell this game to everyone ever. It is so incredibly obviously a labor of love and there is no doubt in my mind that the team who put this game together has not, to a person, played the Contra series for at least 50 hours each.

Some plans

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:25:26 GMT

So here's what I need to do soon:

-Post "Ulgans with uzis?" on the WW forums
-Help develop Neo Explorers A
-Compose a theme song for DAIHUGER: CHOU RETSUZAN DENSETSU (roughly, "Big Huger: The Legend of Super Violent Slasher")
-Get a new email address (I'm still looking for a good, non-taken name)
-Get the use of someone's phone number
-Get a job

HUGER
MORE HUGER
GREAT HUGER
ULTIMATE HUGER
FINAL HUGER
INFINITE HUGER
INFINITE HUGER PLUS MODE
INFINITE HELL FUSION HUGER

Edit: Also, this is the best captcha image ever:

So

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:06:24 GMT

It's hotter in Evil than in Florida

Basically I saw some manatees and dolphins, got eaten by mosquitos, had strange and vivid dreams every single night (most memorable: a dream in which I was late for some important deadline, so I went back in time to meet it, but my short-range time travel malfunctioned, and every time I went to sleep I'd wake up two days earlier), did some research into the 11 Great Houses (and have therefore ideas for leader traits, leaders, civilizations, civics, wonders, units, etc.. just no tech tree), and read American Gods.

Now I need to take a shower, renew my driver's license, and go back to Btown.

It's a time

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:47:51 GMT

I am going to Florida now for a week or something I don't know.

I decided to start playing Civilization IV. And I decided to also make a Dragonblooded mod of it. It will suck but it will be my mod of it.

A few days ago was Heather's birthday, yay. I didn't get her anything because I'm a bad person. On the same day I got into a huge fight with a good friend of mine and now we're not talking anymore. It's kind of depressed me all week but it's too late to do anything about it now.

Now watching

Tue, 15 May 2007 05:00:19 GMT

This is the stuff I plan on watching within the next month or two (some of which I've seen before but want to see again). Bolded titles are titles people want to watch, with who's watching and how much has been watched afterwards.

Marmalade Boy (57/76)
Sailormoon R (A,E) (13/29)
Sailormoon S (A,E) (0/38)
Magic Knight Rayearth (0/20)
Magic Knight Rayearth 2 (0/29)
Cardcaptor Sakura (Clow Book) (A,E,Z) (27/35)
Cardcaptor Sakura: the Movie
Cardcaptor Sakura (Sakura Book) (A,E,Z) (0/35)
The Big O (Z,A,B) (13/13)
The Big O II (Z,A,B) (0/13)
G-Gundam (0/49)
R.O.D. the TV (A,E,Z,N) (16/26)
X TV (0/24)
Koi Kaze (0/13)
Sukisho (0/13)
Final Fantasy Unlimited (A,Z) (0/25)
Rumiko Takahashi Anthology (2/13)
Super GALs (N) (5/52)
Lovely Complex (14/?)
Lucky Star (A,E) (14/24)
Ouran High School Host Club (0/26)
Honey + Clover (E,B) (0/26)
Honey + Clover II (A,E,B) (0/12)
Manabi Straight (E) (12/12)
Azumanga Daioh (5/26)
~~Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (44/44)~~
King of Braves, GaoGaiGar (1/49)

Total episode count: 209/722, plus 14/however long LabuCon is, plus 0/3 movies (BSSMR, BSSMS, CCS)
Estimated total time: 89.2/300+ hours

If you want to see any of it comment or tell me so I can watch the stuff noone else wants to see while noone's around (and organise watching stuff people want to see).

I do to .

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:43:33 GMT

Class find ok. So I do now:
1. Lucretius paper
~~2. Morpologie~~
~~3. Genderi neu paper~~
~~4. Cogsci cogling paper~~

Find test:
~~1. Morpologie m 8~~
~~2.*Japonai m 12~~
~~3. Folklo m 14,5~~
~~4. Koreo t 10~~
~~5.*Cogsci r~~

EDIT: Uo! Ton Rennfaire, I lott. Ta all go ok.

Dream

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:21:35 GMT

no 1 of is
- move and lost of al
- loc computer In cabled gone
no 2 of is
- travel
- clothes
- techno of phone
no 3 of is
- Capcom athletic
- "CAPCOM Electric Jam Masters" -> Pojo.com -> space technology
- ac live of magazine cover
- skeleton girl
- anima_mecanique undead EGL witch, time control
- shinmatsuz master immortal swordsman, rival of 1311 fights again
- epic swordfight with awesome music