Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Updates yet again

pooshlmer's servers are trash so I was forced to post information to 4chan, which I never visit.
Anyway, full roster pretty much confirmed.
I find it amusing how every character returns EXCEPT China, they screwed her again just for good measure.
There already seems to be a 1.01 patch.
Anyway the rundown.

Reisen.
Her sprite and portrait seemed designed to look as completely helpless moe as possible.



Komachi looks in pretty damn fine form.
I will definitely give her a try.



Iku Nagae
Midboss.
Kanako with a hat?
No clue really, the one screenshot I saw of her had her doing like a disco dance.
Not my style.


Which leads us to our final boss.
比那名居天予
Hinanawi Tenshi (those of you who know any kanji at all will immediately go wait wtf how the fuck do you get a wi sound and a Tenshi from those characters.
Don't ask me, I have no fucking clue either.
In a word...
CUTE.
Like the peaches hat just makes it cuter.
I had a silly grin when I saw this on VIP.
Did I mention she's also a dragon?


And they are fighting in space it seems.

There's a lot of other screenshots, and it sort of makes me wonder if Tasofro forgot about stages where you CANT SEE JACK.
Yuyuko's snow stage is asking for bans already.
So yeah I'm interested in playing Aya, Patch, Suika, Komachi, and Tenshi right now.
We'll see how the chips fall.

Tohgeki/SWR Updates

Yukari's in, where are her boobs?
Komachi and Reisen are in, Komachi is TALL (and busty, as expected.)
Reisen looks like she's wearing a nurse's outfit.
Suika looks like she's in heat (well she's drunk)
Good luck trying to reach Tasofro's website.

For Tohgeki 3
1st TR reimu, 2nd Tazu remi, 3rd kai suika, 4th kamiG marisa
For PoFV
1st Misumi reimu, 2nd HS reimu, 3rd VX Siki, 4th Pozo Siki
I was proved wrong, it's not a moo sweep, holy shit two sikiekis 3rd and 4th.

SWR updates

Blah blah blah Yuyuko the fat and Remi the bat confirmed for SWR.
Also, unconfirmed Komachi and Reisen from unconfirmed cover.

Million Knights Idolm@ster

I decided on this character the moment I saw her in the trailer, but back then they didn't have a voice actress for her yet.
Anyway, the VA has been announced...and it's Chihaya from Idolmaster.
GGNORE, I have my character.

PATCHU PATCHU PATCHU PATCHU

And just like that, my interest in SWR is up again.
Even if it isn't as good as IaMP it has PATCH.
By the way her weather is something ridiculous like NO MELEE LOL or something as broken.
CAN'T TOUCH THIS B<

Strawberry Haagen Dazs

Sales probably went up 200%.

Youmu and Sakuya announced for Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

AKA everyone knew this shit was coming but we are all refreshing Tasofro's website anyway.
Sakuya's new portrait is sort of...cute.
In a clueless way.
<bellreisa> She looks like she doesn't know if she's serving tea or knives.
Youmu finally uses two swords!
Anyway we're still waiting for new characters besides Ayayaya :V

Tatsunoko vs Capcom

Yeah.
If I see Samurai Pizza Cats vs Ryu I'm playing this game.

Kara no Kyoukai DVD 1 released

It's here.
ISO or RIP torrent pls k thx.
No I am not the clown who bought six freaking copies for the sole purpose of keychains.

Why are you still here?

So it seems like the scum of a housemate has decided to report the entire house as an illegal boarding house in an attempt to bring us all down with him.
The guy had an eviction order at least two to three months ago, why is he still here?
WHY.
I actually looked up the definition of a boarding house and it's renting out a building that's not a hotel to four or more people.
Well he was the last one, and he makes four.
So if he LEAVES, we're no longer an illegal boarding house.
GTFO ALREADY.

By the way the reason he had the initial eviction notice is because he refused to pay rent because the landlord wouldn't sign a paper saying he lived there and he needed that for credit to...pay the rent I guess?
The guy has no car, he doesn't work.
I have no clue what the fuck he does for money.

All I can think of now is that I should have let him die instead of driving him to the hospital that one time.

HEAL ME PLZ!!

Proving once again I can't escape my past.

I was searching the denpa rankings out of extreme boredom to see if any Touhou lulz had cracked the rankings when I saw this title jump out at me.

Too silly to pass up.

RAGE

Because sometimes even I need to make these kinds of posts.
Anyway today fucking sucked.
Sucked sucked sucked.
Ok a while back Sp00ky ordered an Arcana Heart 2 board.
The first one was dead on arrival , and the dealer's representative kept pretending she didn't know English.
So he sent it straight back to EXAMU.
It arrived today...with no cart.
How the hell you promise to upgrade and send back the board but forget the cart.

As for me personally:
Today, random Florida branch manager sends a meeting invite to me at 4:30pm (Near the end of the freaking day) to take control of his computer to fix it...WHEN HIS COMPUTER WAS HAVING NO PROBLEMS.
Then proceeds to have me waste an hour..."diagnosing" a problem-less machine.
Everything is fucking fine, there is no DNS rape like the last time I looked at it.
He's like oh we get disconnects.
Well call me when you get DISCONNECTS, not when your shit works fine.
The only thing worrying me is why I can't access the new router that's supposedly the source of the problems.
So I spend more time until I realize their network down there is of the form:
T1->Router -> Switch -> Wireless Router.
No wonder I can't access the wireless router settings.
Hell no wonder I can't access 192.168.1.1.
That and the guy has the nerve to tell me I should come down to Florida to look at their random ass network because I ask all these questions he can't quite answer.
We're a fucking consulting company for god's sake, why is everyone so technically lacking?
YOU DON'T PAY ME ENOUGH TO GO TO FLORIDA.
Hell you don't even pay my superior enough to do his normal job, he should be making way more with the crap he has to do.
I'm simply amazed he's managed to keep sane for so long.
Of course, mid-fucking call with Florida I get another call from some other managing director who honestly wouldn't get an answer if I had left on time, but just LUCKILY manages to snag me at 5:40pm or so while I'm still in office because of FLORIDALULZ.
So now it's from one call to another.
He asked us to change his email forwarder because he has to use these fucking arcane rules (He doesn't use Exchange, no he has a forwarder set up to his personal account that pops everything and that's how his fucking Outlook is set up) and now it's broken and I basically test and even though he won't admit it it's obvious that his current Outlook settings are not set to view the new mail account he wants to forward to.
So I take the easy option, I just tell him we're reverting back to his old address now.
By now it's like 7:00PM in the office and I finally go home.
Fucking hell.
I should have fought for the 20% raise instead of rolling over for the 10% with no review.

KAMEHAME...ha?

DO YOU HAVE IT? POKEMON!

Wow. Pokemon is serious business.
I might just tag along to the NY one cause of all the fruits I know who will be there.
List of tourney rules here:
http://showdown.pokemon.com/rules/qualifier_rules.xhtml
Prizes:
1. TWO (2) POKÉMON® VIDEO GAME SHOWDOWN CHAMPIONSHIPS GRAND PRIZES: A trip for four to Tokyo, Japan, New York, NY, USA or Oahu, Hawaii, USA. Trip includes round-trip coach air transportation for four (4) from the international airport closest to winner’s residence to their choice of one of the three listed cities. Trip includes 6-day/5-night double occupancy hotel occupancy accommodations for four (in two standard rooms), a Custom Nintendo DS game system, and a POKÉMON® prize pack. Approximate retail value (“ARV”): $10,000

2. TWO (2) POKÉMON® VIDEO GAME SHOWDOWN CHAMPIONSHIPS SECOND PLACE PRIZES: A Custom Nintendo DS game system, and a POKÉMON® prize pack. ARV: $1,250.00.

3. FOUR (4) POKÉMON® VIDEO GAME SHOWDOWN CHAMPIONSHIPS THIRD PLACE PRIZES: A Custom Nintendo DS game system and a POKÉMON® prize pack. ARV: $750.00.

4. EIGHT (8) POKÉMON VIDEO GAME SHOWDOWN CHAMPIONSHIP FOURTH PLACE PRIZES: A Custom Nintendo DS game system and a POKÉMON® prize pack. ARV: $500.00.

5. SIXTY-FOUR (64) SHOWDOWN PARTICIPANT PRIZES: A trip for two to Orlando, Florida to compete in the POKÉMON® Video Game Showdown. Trip includes round-trip coach air transportation for two (2) from the major commercial airport nearest winner’s residence in the U.S. to Orlando, FL on a date specified by Sponsor to coincide with the Video Game Showdown. Winners residing within 200 miles of Orlando will receive ground transportation in lieu of air transportation, without compensation. Includes 4-day/3-night double occupancy hotel accommodations (standard rooms) and transportation to and from an Orlando area destination airport (unless ground transportation has been substituted as set forth above), a POKÉMON® prize pack. ARV: $2,160.00.

6. FOUR (4) SHOWDOWN QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT WINNER PRIZES: A Wii four player prize package consisting of one (1) Nintendo Wii console system, three (3) additional Wii-motes, three (3) additional nunchuck controllers, and one (1) copy of POKÉMON® Battle Revolution. ARV: $450.00

LET'S BIBLE

Annnnnnd the synopsis:

[12:31] <phae|P3> that chick on the left is Jesus btw
[12:31] <phae|P3> lol
[12:32] <phae|P3> Oh, it gets better. The guy is a young fisherman from some Eastern European country who is obsessed with losing his virginity, and because the local girls are too ugly, is intent on raping Jesus. The first thing he does is knock Jesus unconscious and stuff her in a chest.

In the "Can't make this shit up department.

By the way, I think this picture is a hysterically accurate portrayal of Christianity!

MBAA Now

Waiting for a screenshot of actual gameplay pls k thx.
For the time being look at how hot VSion art is.

MBAA Loktest?Exhibition? TOMORROW

セガプライベートショー開催
セガプライベートショー
東京：5月15.16日13:00～17:00
大阪：5月20日13:00～17:00
福岡：5月23日13:00～17:00
出展機種(予想)
・「RAMBO」
・「バーチャファイター5R」
・「ASCOTGARDEN」
・「MELTY BLOOD Actress again」

※完全招待制の為、ご入場には「ご招待券」が必要です

Tokyo, May 15th, May 16th, 1:00pm-5:00pm

NicoNico taking down Nintendo related videos.

We can not let this stand!
They are taking away our KAS playthroughs and autoplays and modded pokeymans!

RIP CPL

Didn't know CPL (aka Cyberathlete Professional League) died about a month back.
Oh well.

[15:36] <fubarduck> someone pointed out an interesting analogy to me
[15:37] <fubarduck> CPL did the same thing as Evo is doing this year, right before it ceased to exist
[15:38] <fubarduck> lose their sponsors
[15:38] <fubarduck> and lower the # of games
[15:38] <fubarduck> and take out a game everyone loves from the lineup
[15:38] <fubarduck> (it was CS 1.6 for CPL)

Immaterial and Missing Power Tutorial

It took them three months or so but it's finally finished.
A tutorial for people who just can't wrap their minds around IaMP.
I have to say it's well done, though bellreisa being dry and informative is something rare.

By the way, my last post was 555 posts, which only dorks will understand.

Million Knights Vermillion Trailer

Looks like NRF is back after imploding from the awfulness of Big Bang Beat, a nice looking fighter with super polish that sucked so much gameplay wise it hurt.
Let's hope their next foray isn't doomed to as much failure.

To Heart 2 X

So yeah I'm playing this for lols now because otherwise I'll feel lost when I start AD.
Maryan is hilarious.
Your second meeting leads to you getting handcuffed, gagged, and thrown in a locker.
Sasara is COLD.
Not just shy, COLD.

Edit:
Ok never mind, Sasara is just shy.
Also, I forgot to say but Yocchi is cool :3

TF2 ChainSaw

So I have this thing now, and I'm beginning to think Valve didn't really test it at all.
Ubering a medic now becomes a hideously powerful option if there is a lack of sentries and both of you know what you are doing.
Basically uber a medic -> he bonesaws four people -> he ubers you before the uber runs out -> you bonesaw four people.
Repeat until they are all dead or run away.
Don't go for other medics or scouts, just go for the slower classes.
Medic has 107% speed so this doesn't hurt either.

I finally found a like minded medic on a /v/ server (lol) to try this out with on Well(CP).
The result was ridiculous.
They had us raped inside the 4th point but could never take it cause we would sit in spawn, a pyro of theirs was outside waiting, we'd set ourselves on fire on purpose, build an uber, then just clear the point with uber chains.
Eventually we pushed them to their final cap and had a sequence where we had nine consecutive ubers or something hideous like that on their final point with a final score of like 79 and 58 points.
Of course this was on a /v/ server, but it bears mentioning because there are some real instances I feel this becomes insanely silly.

The first place that comes to mind of course is Gravel Pit B, on defense, when their entire team has gotten into the point.
The terrible thing is even if the scouts and medics run away, you are almost guaranteed to kill at least one soldier or heavy because of how many ubers you will get from hitting them.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody New Demo

Cheese! :V

Code Geass R2 Episode 4

Actually, this isn't a fucking anime blog.
Instead you get this:

I sees a Cirno.

It's a Cirno figurine!
With the trademark vacant =0 look.
Along with an upside down Reisen.

This post is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Japanese Boy Bands.

Those of you in #IaMP know that a while back I received two emails from YouTube of this sort:

Dear Member:

This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by 株式会社アートバンク claiming that this material is infringing:

東劇 Tohgeki Block H Game 005 松潤(Yuyuko) vs ILR(Suika): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIKZXOJGcpk

Please Note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account. In order to prevent this from happening, please delete any videos to which you do not own the rights, and refrain from uploading additional videos that infringe on the copyrights of others. For more information about YouTube's copyright policy, please read the Copyright Tips guide.

If you elect to send us a counter notice, please go to our Help Center to access the instructions.
Be aware that there may be adverse legal consequences in your country if you make a false or bad faith allegation of copyright infringement by using this process.

Sincerely,
YouTube, Inc.

Anyway, my first reaction, of course, was to rage.
Who the hell is 株式会社アートバンク and what the hell do my recordings of the Tohgeki IaMP tournament have to do with their IP?
I went into #東方萃夢想(jpamp) and asked Honami who these clowns were.
He had no idea either.
Why does the burden of proof fall on me against these tards to file a counterclaim that requires my real address and signature?
I filed the counterclaim immediately anyway:

Section 1
Video links in question:
東劇 Tohgeki Block H Game 010 松潤(Yuyuko) vs
さんくち(Sakuya)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLnobNSIEY

東劇 Tohgeki Block H Game 005 松潤(Yuyuko) vs
ILR(Suika)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIKZXOJGcpk

Section 2
Lots of random personal information you could find on me pretty easily, but don't care to list here anyway.

Section 3
I will accept service of process from the person who
provided YouTube with the original copyright complaint
or an authorized agent of such persons.

Section 4
I have a good faith belief that the material was
removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or
misidentification of the material to be removed or
disabled.

Counter Notice Description
Now that the formalities are out of the way:
I do not see why the burden of proof falls on me to
prove that my videos were not infringing.
Nor do I see why this burden of proof requires me to
reveal my personal information when the accusations
are a prime example of false positives.

Anyone who did two seconds of research or who even
looked at the videos in question could see that the
two videos in question are recorded tournament footage
of the game Immaterial and Missing Power, or
東方萃夢想 in Japanese.
The tournament was called Tohgeki, or 東劇
(http://east-opera.net/tohgeki1/), and it was run by
an individual named Honami (帆波).
I received explicit permission from him to record and
put up the tournament footage.
The game itself was created by Tasogare Frontier
(www.tasofro.net/touhou) and is a fighting game based
off the Touhou Shooting Game
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project ) series,
which was created by ZUN
(http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/).
ZUN gave Tasogare Frontier permission to use his
characters and designs.

In no way is the company named 株式会社アートバンク
(http://www.artbank.co.jp/stockillust/) remotely
involved in this game or series of games in any way.
They seem to be a stock art seller wholly removed from
the category of material they are claiming copyright
on.
One must imagine their busy lawyers searching youtube
for random tags or keywords to send takedown notices
for.
I would like to see what listed elements of the videos
in question violate their copyright.
Attached is a Word version of this email with a scan
of my signature.

Sincerely,
Kevin O'Young

Anyway, it took till today to get a response.
Not only that, I got an apology.

Dear Kevin,


In response to your counter-notification,
株式会社アートバンク has retracted its copyright claim with respect to the following
videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLnobNSIEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIKZXOJGcpk

This content has been restored and your account will not be penalized.
For technical reasons, it may take a day for the videos to be
available again.

Sincerely,


The YouTube Team



Original Message Follows:
------------------------
From: （株）アートバンク
Subject: RE: [C#264237145] YouTube 異議申し立て通知
from:sibladeko to:株式会社アートバンク
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:31:44 +0900

お世話になっております。

以下のリンクがどのような動画であったか確認できませんので、間違いかどうか確かめようがありません。
タイトルに「松潤」と入っていたので、削除通知をしたと思います。
ジャニーズ事務所所属タレント　嵐の松本潤のニックネームが「松潤」ですので。

あと、先方からが記載しているアートバンクのURLは全くの別会社です。
(http://www.artbank.co.jp/stockillust/)
弊社は公式なサイトを持っていません。

ジャニーズ事務所の著作権管理及びWEB制作などを委託されている会社ですので
公には会社の所在なども公表していません。

あと、先日もメールでお問い合わせさせて頂きましたが、
現在削除通知が行なえない状況です。
その件に関して早急にご連絡頂きたいです。

よろしくお願い致します。

*********************************************
角田 悦子（Etsuko Tsunoda）
Mail：tsunoda@art-bank.co.jp
株式会社アートバンク
〒150-0001 渋谷区神宮前2-6-10 パークレーン2F
TEL：03-3423-8611　FAX：03-3423-8612
*********************************************

Anyway, a lot of things are cleared up in the apology.
First off, 株式会社アートバンク does not refer to http://www.artbank.co.jp/stockillust/.
It is, from what I can gather, one of those outsourced monkey firms for a rather famous company.
That's right, the real source of the takedown notices was from Johnny & Associates.
That's right, Tohgeki was taken down for using pirated SMAP music.
Ok no really, the vids targetted were because of one Jun Matsumoto, whose nickname gets shortened to 松潤.
Obviously he did not want his terrible Yuyuko play to be shown online and so he filed the...well no, obviously the monkey firm just googled the shit out of 松潤 and mass filed takedowns on every damn video that matched.
Spray and pray.
So anyway, my vids are restored, and I learned that to get a video taken down on youtube as a company all you have to do is google tags and fire off a notice.

Jones

Right now at number four on niconico is a compilation of all these Boss coffee commercials with Tommy Lee Jones looking completely befuddled.
In all seriousness I am befuddled too as to why they have Tommy Lee Jones.

Real World Disconnect.

I never really understood how you could have casual players of the bishoujo/eroge genre because of the obvious pandering along with the target audience...
Sometimes it can happen though.

(12:49:57 PM) HengzhiZhong: :(
(12:51:41 PM) sibladeko: =/
(12:51:57 PM) HengzhiZhong: i stayed up the nite to play games
(12:52:02 PM) HengzhiZhong: now i feel crappy
(12:52:04 PM) sibladeko: why is that bad :V
(12:52:04 PM) sibladeko: oh
(12:52:06 PM) sibladeko: =/
(12:52:13 PM) HengzhiZhong: and my right arm hurts
(12:52:14 PM) sibladeko: headache pills :V
(12:52:16 PM) sibladeko: what games
(12:52:30 PM) HengzhiZhong: i don't know what they are called
(12:52:41 PM) HengzhiZhong: but basically the player acts as a parent
(12:52:46 PM) HengzhiZhong: and raise a child for 8 years
(12:53:05 PM) HengzhiZhong: then after 8 years, depending on the points, the child has certain endings
(12:53:25 PM) sibladeko: ...computer game?
(12:53:28 PM) HengzhiZhong: yeah
(12:53:33 PM) HengzhiZhong: i have tons of games in that genre
(12:53:46 PM) HengzhiZhong: it's like the sims
(12:53:47 PM) sibladeko: why do you have this
(12:53:51 PM) sibladeko: is it anime styled?
(12:53:55 PM) HengzhiZhong: yeah
(12:54:03 PM) HengzhiZhong: i have them since i was a kid
(12:54:05 PM) sibladeko: is your child a boy or a girl
(12:54:08 PM) HengzhiZhong: it was one of the first games
(12:54:11 PM) HengzhiZhong: girl
(12:54:18 PM) sibladeko: ...
(12:54:21 PM) sibladeko: princess maker?
(12:54:25 PM) HengzhiZhong: yes!
(12:54:26 PM) sibladeko: why do you have this game.
(12:54:32 PM) HengzhiZhong: why not?
(12:54:41 PM) sibladeko: It's rare as hell for one thing.
(12:54:52 PM) HengzhiZhong: yeah
(12:54:55 PM) HengzhiZhong: it's very hard to find
(12:55:07 PM) HengzhiZhong: but i started playing before i play street fighter
(12:55:12 PM) HengzhiZhong: omg, before loderunner
(12:55:22 PM) HengzhiZhong: it's one of the first comp games i played
(12:55:40 PM) HengzhiZhong: the cheats are so hard to find
(12:56:10 PM) HengzhiZhong: how do you know this game?
(12:56:23 PM) sibladeko: cult status
(12:56:28 PM) HengzhiZhong: it's a cult game?
(12:56:30 PM) HengzhiZhong: eh?
(12:56:35 PM) sibladeko: as in it's a game with cult status
(12:56:39 PM) HengzhiZhong: you know, i couldn't get my hands on version 4...
(12:56:45 PM) HengzhiZhong: how come?
(12:56:46 PM) sibladeko: you're also looking at someone pretty well versed in obscure jp crap
(12:56:50 PM) HengzhiZhong: i think it's a classic tho
(12:57:00 PM) HengzhiZhong: at least i like it
(12:57:14 PM) sibladeko: princess maker 2 right?
(12:57:18 PM) HengzhiZhong: yeah
(12:57:20 PM) HengzhiZhong: i like 2
(12:57:23 PM) HengzhiZhong: i don't like 1
(12:57:29 PM) sibladeko: It's sort of just weird cause most people who have the game i'da ssume are sort of otaku wackos or some such XD
(12:57:37 PM) HengzhiZhong: why?
(12:57:43 PM) HengzhiZhong: my uncle bought me this game
(12:57:51 PM) sibladeko: cause it's an anime styled child raising sim that's almost unheard of stateside
(12:57:52 PM) HengzhiZhong: he also bought me lots of porn games... -_-
(12:57:54 PM) sibladeko: ...
(12:58:01 PM) sibladeko: :V
(12:58:04 PM) HengzhiZhong: i don't have a molesty uncle, just a porn game uncle
(12:58:10 PM) sibladeko: V:
(12:58:12 PM) sibladeko: :V
(12:58:17 PM) HengzhiZhong: well... i don't know
(12:58:27 PM) sibladeko: your uncle is otaku wacko
(12:58:33 PM) HengzhiZhong: 3 years ago when i went back to china, i told him to find me some good comp games for girls to play
(12:58:35 PM) HengzhiZhong: i said GIRLS!
(12:58:39 PM) HengzhiZhong: he again bought me porn games
(12:58:42 PM) HengzhiZhong: i am like... okie...
(12:58:50 PM) sibladeko: lmao maybe because they had girls on the front
(12:58:59 PM) HengzhiZhong: so i went to game stores myself
(12:59:03 PM) HengzhiZhong: and asked that question
(12:59:08 PM) HengzhiZhong: the sales person gave me porn games too
(12:59:09 PM) HengzhiZhong: -_-
(12:59:13 PM) sibladeko: AHAHAHAHA
(12:59:20 PM) HengzhiZhong: i was like... dude...
(12:59:24 PM) HengzhiZhong: i said games for girls to play
(12:59:32 PM) HengzhiZhong: not games with girls to play!
(12:59:41 PM) sibladeko: now i am totally curious about what games you own
(12:59:45 PM) sibladeko: :V
(12:59:46 PM) HengzhiZhong: princess maker!
(12:59:50 PM) sibladeko: besides that one lol
(12:59:50 PM) HengzhiZhong: girl wrestling
(12:59:54 PM) HengzhiZhong: i actually like that one too
(12:59:55 PM) HengzhiZhong: -_-
(1:00:08 PM) HengzhiZhong: they are probably made at the same period
(1:00:15 PM) HengzhiZhong: guy chasing after girls games
(1:00:28 PM) HengzhiZhong: i never got anyone except my own sister in those games... -_-
(1:00:36 PM) HengzhiZhong: you know those games, right?
(1:00:41 PM) sibladeko: oh god i'm dying of laughter
(1:00:43 PM) sibladeko: yes i do
(1:00:48 PM) sibladeko: ahahhhhhhhaha
(1:00:53 PM) HengzhiZhong: i never ever got anyone except my own freaking sister
(1:00:55 PM) HengzhiZhong: arrrgh

DreamWorks to make 3D Ghost in the Shell

Probably old on the internets, but it took me by surprise.

Just as planned?

Yeah.
I wonder if the report of arrests was just more smoke cover.

Eirin! Eirin!

Testing the youtube high quality fmt settings along with embed.

Death by blogging?

This article, even with the mention of death and disease and injury, made me laugh more than anything.
I think the line "I have a background in getting punched in the face, so I'm good for this job," was the killer.

Dead Fantasy II

Haha he used Sion's voice samples.
AMAI!
Anyway, requisite praise and awe.

Persona 4 Trailers

Elizabeth really grew out her ha...wait Elizabeth got replaced?
It's Margaret now?
Triccccccks!

Also, lol commu with your little sister obviously not related by blood.
And I already see the ojousama character (blackhair headband girl)

New Valkyrie Profile game headed to the DS

I have no more excuses.
Need a DS.

RIP Gary Gygax

The influence of DnD on gaming today, not just role-playing games, can not be overstated.

Youtube kills "Sort results by date"

Well, it seems that it is now impossible to sort search results by date uploaded.
Instead, you get a pared down menu of "Today, This Week, This Month, All Time."
That's it.

The fuck are you guys doing!?

Edit: Seems like they brought it back.
Least they're not totally stupid.

Still Alive is Coming to Rock Band!

Jonathan Coulton performs "Still Alive" in Rock Band from Joy Stiq on Vimeo.
For every video spam link I put on here I think, "Hey, it's probably been done all over the internets."
Then I think a little more and realize there's always someone who hasn't seen it yet.

Howl's Moving Castle Papercraft

I never had the patience to finish these things.
Amazing work by this guy though.

Howl's Moving Castle from Ben Millett on Vimeo.

Dragon Shadow Spell RESUME!

So after 9 months of not touching this game I come back.
FES really stole my soul and time.
I'm done with anything Persona for a long long while.

Anyway, DSS is good to be back!
Nice to be playing a tactics game again, I always love these things.

Too angry to sleep

"If you set someone's shit on fire, you don't tell them that it was dirty. You say, 'my bad, I set your shit on fire.'"

Arcana Heart 2

First Arcana Heart 2 footage coming out from AOU 2008.

Card Sagas Wars 3rd Trailer

What mugen was made for.
I'm pretty impressed...also his sprite gallery has an insane amount of original work on existing characters.
Liese, Maria, Celes, Sheena, etc. are all there.

Youtube killed the High Quality Video Star

All reports indicate that youtube has implemented anti bitrate hacking measures that the high quality nuts have been abusing lately.
This means no more uncompressed 200mb Team Fortress 2 videos from yours truly.
Also it means I missed out on my one chance to put up an IaMP tournament that didn't look like pure shit.
Such is life.

Frozen Grand Central

Damn I wish I went down to the city that day.

Mabinogi is a little different so far.

New random closed beta Korean MMO.
Yes roll your eyes at this crap again.
Anyway in short: Fighting is hard.
It is fairly easy for even low level monsters to fuck your shit up with the system.
Requires a lot of timing, skill spam fails massively.
Magic seems pretty low tier though, just figuring out how to deal with melee shit is hard (and good enough once you do)
I sort of wonder how a group mechanic plays out.

At the moment it's closed beta, only one town, not much to do, in fact you can say multiple people (including myself) have "beaten" the beta.
There's nothing left to do but learn to play custom music in the square.
That and egg farming.

We'll see how the full game goes.
Least it isn't monthly fees or what not, that kind of pricing model has long failed for me...I want to be able to stop a game, not be penalized for not playing it, and come back whenever I choose.

Team Fortress 2 Test - Hydro

Abusing the multi uploader plus hack to upload a 200mb 30 minute video.

Testing

Out the new computer.
Holy crap this mouse is sensitive.
And this monitor is HUGE.
I feel humbled.

Upgrade

Two things.
I finally ordered all the parts to my new computer early Saturday morning (like 1AM).
Second, I had to work 7pm to 5am Saturday-Sunday on a server upgrade and then drive home in freezing rain/snow/hail mix.

Cockslapping the Mona Lisa would make an excellent band name.

It's been a while since I've found a bitter shell of twisted humor as great as the Escapist's Zero Punctuation.
Starring a Brit living in Australia so named "Yahtzee" after his parents lost a wager in said game; Zero Punctuation is a collection of rather random rambling video game reviews.
It is also awesome.
Unless you're a prude.
Then you'll probably get offended.

DRILL ON WALES!

Note to countries, do not put polls for new national flags on the internet.
Or if you do, do not let foreigners vote on them.
Otherwise you get some funny designs winning.

NEC 2007

I got 7th out of 32.
Not bad at all, considering when you look at the people above me.
Then again I had a comparitively easy bracket:
Lord Knight -> Arlieth(l) -> Capps Indigo -> KenmastersX -> Chibi -> Choco(l)

I knew brandon would do really well, I just didn't know how well.
It was sort of weird, cause like he was one of the first netplayers I ever truly enjoyed playing and respected, that and he's the only CL I ENJOY playing.
We played zero casuals however, mainly cause I was sort of dead tired every time we had a chance.

I took a match off Arly, and I'm sort of annoyed that I lost, even though he's the best Nero in the USA and the best native player on the West Coast (kijea and nerina are exchange students) and I've never fought Nero.
I know that matchup is stupidly in my favor, 236a and teleports all day.

I know Zar really wanted to MM brandon after the tournament, as did Sp00ky.
They were both out for blood after teams the previous day (which ended up as basically brandino fighting Arlieth's team 10 times or something as Lord Knight kept scrubbing out.)

XAQ seemed pretty sad faced the entire day haha, not sure why.
He eliminated sp00ky but lost to Zar (Standard).

Choco is like the first Satsuki I ever played since version PC came out, I took one round with 5C before he ran a train on me and I got utterly confused.
Should have stuck to the plan (play it safe, ring whore all day.)

I still can't beat sphyra's Hisui, our casuals were like 18-1.
He sent Sp00ky to loser's second round.
He's really formulaic, but so am I, and his formula completely shuts down mine.
Not sure why he stopped blocking XAQ's overheads though (Arc's are slower than Warc's!)

There are quite a lot of people below/equal to me in place who would have ended my run really early too.
Zaeler is STILL FUCKING RANDOM.
Fighting Chibi was ugly, as always.
I always forget how to play when I'm against him.
Hnana was raping me in casuals.
bell was being mean on commentary and calling out my moves before I did them.
"YOUR SHIT IS WEAK!"
Sp00ky is a lot lower than he should be.
Dippy is also a lot lower than he should be, but he fought hnana, and I probably had a worse chance than him against 2aaaa Sion.
Finally, Lord Knight continued his scrubouts by losing to me (orz) and then getting eliminated early. :V
He's good, you can have momentum for 3/4ths of the match with Vakiha, but all it takes is 3 combos to die.

Anyway, pretty damn good for my first Major.
Mad slops to Philly for being an overall hole and people getting their stuff stolen all around me. (Hyperhal lost a ps2, ipod, a NGPC!?, and his clothes, Brandon lost his cell, SK lost his PSP, etc etc the list goes on. Myself, I'm a paranoid bastard because of the clowns I live with, so I made out all right.)
Still, definitely coming back next year to this hole.
This tournament honestly revived, or at least injected a shot into our little scene.

Congratulations!

Congrats to Allan and Anna for getting engaged!
And once again I feel old :3

Ar Tonelico II JPN - IPD 05

Ar Tonelico II is looking more and more like Valkyrie Profile.
Which is a good thing...
The first one's gameplay was sort of lacking (the only reason you fought was for the DIVES. Innuendo extreme.)

Obligatory Hatsune Miku post

For those of you who are not completely attuned to Japanese memes and corresponding weirdos, this post is about Hatsune Miku.
Hatsune Miku is the mascot of sorts for Yamaha's voice synthesizer software "Vocaloid."
In short, after a little calibration, she sings for you.
The supposed purpose is to make your own vocals easily without needing a real singer.
She does a passable job, but of course her design is so obviously cute that Japan has fallen into love and started using her to sing their meme songs and video game sound effects.
She's definitely more suited for Japanese above any other language (people have tried English and it fails spectacularly) but this is the first time I've heard her do another language, and an opera at that.
The obligatory Korean German sz said it was undeniably cute (but I'm still curious if her pronunciation was any good.)

Touhou Dango Dai Kekkai

Agh more stupidly cute stuff!
Ironically, the hideous monstrosity before this video is more popular.

Makonyan Dance

One of the best MADs ever, the creator redrew and recolored EVERY INDIVIDUAL FREAKING frame for this opening parody.
I saw the initial statges when they were just line art...
Japan is too crazy.

アイドルマスター 「団結」 IM@S ALLSTARS

THE SONG IS TOO CUTE.
YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE.

The Trouble with Tomboyish Witches

Studio Siesta is making an English? version of their shooter Trouble Witches.
Odd.
Also, Zepy reveals in the post comments that the leader Tsuji of Studio Siesta posted on their own BBS under a fake name on how Touhou was trash and Trouble Witches was arcade quality.
Course board logged IPs, drama llamas, etc.
So he stepped down.

Interesting how SHMUPS creators aren't all one big happy family, you'd think because they're so niche that they all share the same cup.

Clannad #1

Well, it's another game turned anime from team Sad Girl in Snow.
This one's pretty...hm different?
I don't know, again, different mood than Air, different mood than Kanon too I feel.
Lot more down to earth.
Nagisa's father is awesome.

Edit: I just realized that Nagisa's entire family has AHOGES. I wonder if that was intentional, it just makes it even sillier.

THE SEQUEL TO THE NUMBER ONE GOOGLE RESULT FOR "ikusat"

[22:19] <ikusat> so one of my friends is in japan for an exchange program
[22:19] <Aya-Shameimaru> aren't we all
[22:19] <ikusat> friend: there's this taiwanese guy who thinks he's a hotshot at japanese in the program w
[22:19] <ikusat> friend: and he's decent too
[22:19] <ikusat> me: punch him in the face
[22:19] <ikusat> friend: except that all his t are d...
[22:19] <ikusat> me: GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY
[22:19] <ikusat> me: there's a very obvious difference between t and d
[22:19] <ikusat> friend: i actually didn't really believe you until i heard him speak w
[22:19] <ikusat> friend: it was like mata ne
[22:19] <ikusat> friend: and he's like mada ne
[22:19] <ikusat> friend: and i was like lolwut
[22:19] <Aya-Shameimaru> LMAO
[22:19] <Aya-Shameimaru> oh ffs

R.I.P. Robert Jordan

Man, what a downer.
Say what you will about not being able to continue after book #Inserthere, I still planned to resume from where I left off after the final book was written.
Unfortunately, it seems like that won't happen.

.

Certified Software Manager

What I learned at the Certified Software Manager course in Jersey City this Wednesday.

Love Death 2

One of these days that area will sink beneath the waves.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

I was browsing niconico for random Touhou vids and I found one done in a really weird style, so I looked up the parody it was based on...and well then I downloaded and watched the five episodes that were out.
Its category is firmly in the Pani Poni Dash/Azumanga Daioh style of mad random.

SWR CASTER BETA

Tropy and Mauve in #IaMP have hacked iampcaster to work with SWR and have released a beta to both the USA and JP communities.
ATM, there are some issues, (like lol too long Japanese profile names), but it's working for the most part.
Mad props to them for figuring caster out (well not entirely lol, caster is still cursed.)
Yay for open source!

TEXT MIXUP TOO STRONG

So one day in the lands of Melty Blood, random user wondered aloud how some of not-so-random user's quotes would sound in a stuffy British accent.

This is the result.

Post C72

Too many Touhou remix albums.
Sound Holics is really overwhelmingly good.
Yellow Zebra's song 1 and 3 are also very good.
SWR is much more complicated than IAMP

SCARLET WEATHER RHAPSODY

IM AT WORK AND I DONT CARE IM KEYBOARD CRUSHING THIS GAME DOWN!

Comiket 72

Happens this weekend?
Anyway, stuff I'm looking forward to...

Touhou 10, Mountain of Faith
Touhou 10.5 (Yes it's no longer 9.8!), SCARLET WEATHER RHAPSODY AKA IAMP 2
NITRO ROYALE (Wtf, a fighting game with Nitro+ heroines? IGNIS)

Edit: BTW this post will grow longer and longer the more excited I get.

Edit: Comiket is now four hours in. JP are posting screenshots if Hisouten and Mountain of Faith, but so far all files on share have been fake.
I'm not going to repost the screenshots I'm tired.

Bad Idea Department: Maple Story Anime

TV Tokyo has announced that it will start broadcasting an animated series based on MapleStory, the Korean fantasy massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG), on Sunday, October 7 at 8:30 a.m in Japan.

Well now, there are ALL sorts of stupid jokes I could make of this.

[13:14] <SabinJPN> hey guys
[13:14] <SabinJPN> sorry i lost :(
[13:14] <ArlyNoir> hey sabin!
[13:14] <ArlyNoir> naw you did good
[13:14] <Nanaya> how was getting your match stolen from you?
[13:15] <SabinJPN> dude
[13:15] <SabinJPN> i was about to pull off the biggest upset ever
[13:15] <SabinJPN> lol
[13:15] <ArlyNoir> we saw
[13:15] <ArlyNoir> live
[13:15] <sibladeko> dude we saw
[13:15] <SabinJPN> the room at tougeki was going nuts
[13:15] <ArlyNoir> but you know what
[13:15] <Nanaya> yeah
[13:15] <sibladeko> they didn't rape your shit
[13:15] <ArlyNoir> you got mad props for repping
[13:15] <sibladeko> baldy raped every other foreigners shit on the live feed
[13:15] <sibladeko> but yours
[13:15] <ArlyNoir> hahahaha
[13:15] <sibladeko> we got to see it
[13:15] <Nanaya> lol
[13:15] <SabinJPN> because it was hyped up in the tougeki book
[13:15] <SabinJPN> thats why
[13:16] <SabinJPN> and kuni was there adn made sure it was a feature match
[13:16] <ArlyNoir> that's awfully nice of hem
[13:16] <SabinJPN> caue they wanted to see me gat raped they said
[13:16] <ArlyNoir> them
[13:16] <ArlyNoir> wtf
[13:16] <sibladeko> lmao
[13:16] <Nanaya> lol
[13:16] <ArlyNoir> loo
[13:16] <SabinJPN> then i won a round and everyone in the corwd started exploding
[13:16] <ArlyNoir> looool
[13:16] <SabinJPN> lol
[13:16] <Nanaya> the feedback on 2ch was you were a free win if I recall
[13:16] <SabinJPN> yeah they called m ea keyboard crusher
[13:17] <SabinJPN> but afterwards ppl were like yo im sorry
[13:17] <ArlyNoir> fuck the haters
[13:17] <Veteru> keyboard crushers unite ~ ~
[13:17] <ArlyNoir> haha
[13:17] <SabinJPN> and the announce rwas all like "i didnt know they had a arcana cabinet in usa" lol
[13:17] <Nanaya> lol
[13:17] <ArlyNoir> LOL
[13:17] <SabinJPN> then ppl wer elike who do you play with, im like, um, 2 ppl and cpu
[13:17] <SabinJPN> lol
[13:17] <Nanaya> lol
[13:17] <ArlyNoir> damn
[13:17] <Nanaya> that's pretty hardcore dude
[13:17] <ArlyNoir> well you made a jackass out of them :3
[13:17] <SabinJPN> cause seriously hts my comp
[13:17] <SabinJPN> yeah they werent feeling that lol
[13:18] <NerdJosh> ARTTTTTTTTTT
[13:18] <NerdJosh> good shit good shit good shit :D
[13:18] <SabinJPN> is funny too like i lose 20-30 games straigh tin causls, but i guess its only leveling me up
[13:18] <Kumubou> SabinJPN: also I think the enviroment helped you a LOT
[13:18] <SabinJPN> i get smashed by the top players here, but everyone else i can o back and forth with
[13:18] <ArlyNoir> i think if you had a week
[13:18] <Kumubou> oddly enough
[13:18] <ArlyNoir> it would've helped

Good shit Arturo!
You did us proud!

SUPER BATTLE OPERA IS FUCKING AMAZING

OMG OMG OMG OMG
One day left, but it's the day before work, I'm going to be up to like fucking 6am Monday.
WHO CARES!
Have to watch these games (Day 1 was 3d, Day 2 was old school, Day 3 is NEW OTAKU GAMES :V :V :V)

But yeah I have to say, this live feed is making me stupidly excited over games I hate/do not play/don't care about.

Like for 3d, Soul Calibur 3 was tight close, VF5 was bananas (Lion), unfortunately I fell asleep for Tekken at like 6am because of 1. Two cabinet failures. 2. I sleep normally for most of the week. But what I did see of Tekken was just freaking amazing, it's a pity I passed out.

2d old school was god like. All China final in KOF as expected, some guy used an all girl team with NO DAIMON. Seriously fuck Daimon, watching him sucks, his throws and ground pound glitches and whatever. But yeah China is mad high risk reward style, while Japan is still doing Daimon low shorts. By the way the finals, all girl team PERFECTED first round, and the other guy came back with Chris to win. Winner's name was "Xiao Hai," which means little kid in Mandarin, while the other guy's name was "Ching lung." (Something dragon? lol I couldn't read the hanzhi.) But yeah there was a double KO in the semis, it was all really close.

SFAE annoyed me. First, I stopped my record stream feed between the games and couldn't get back on. Second, when I went to check if my stream for KOF was intact, WMP didn't make a new instance and instead SWITCHED OFF MY WATCHING FEED. Then I couldn't get back on and I missed the first and a half games, INCLUDING Team Wolfe (American Team) actually winning one for the foreigners. Team Wolfe actually hit top 8, but during the second match it went to interviews with the freaking baldy. I sort of feel sorry for baldy, but he is the scourge of the live feed. He is the one that interrupts !!!FINALS!!! footage with interviews cause he has to sell the DVDs, even the Japanese don't like him and call him baldy. (HAGE KURUNAAAAAAAAAAAAA) He knows it too, there was a point where he called himself baldy, the forum hate in Japan must be overwhelming. But yeah there was a girl (Chamu) on a team! She played Chun Li and her partner played Guile, they got top 8 also. I think a lot of people were amazed. She was cute too. :3 Anyway though there was someone using ST Bison, we were all amazed. But he scrubbed out and used CE in the end and got owned. Serves him right, fuck CE Bison. Anyway Ohnuki's team won.

3s was amaziing. Period. It reinstalled life in the game. Namely because of all the upsets and because of one man, RX. KO's almost OCVed a team with Yang, and then RIKIMARU's chun li came back and OCVED KO BOSS MOV just like that. Ohnukis team ran into RX. Let me make no exaggeration that RX Urien played like a God. The guy hit so many clutch moments it was madness. Guy was too beastly, it was amazing, every one of his matches had you on your seat. So now favorites are gone.

In quarters or semis, some Chun li destroyed KOKUJINsan (kokujin retired, but this was a tribute team) team's Akuma and Ken, and it came down to the anchor's Yun. Reading the #capcom logs I have is hilarious, right away everything was going poorly for the kid. "Yun is the worst of the 3." "This Yun sucks, what is he doing." "This is like amateur night at the apollo." Anyway, first round ggpo. SECOND round Yun wins with genei jin. Third round...Yun gets SA2ed, down to like 5% life with Chun sitting on a bar. Yun gets combo into Genei Jin... and GOES FOR RESET to bring Chun down to 1%, then dive kick for the win. At this moment the Yun has redeemed himself in lol #capcom's eyes. Second round against Makoto, it's 1:1, and Yun pulls a CLUTCH play again after being super punched into space, this time at 1% life. Final round is Yun mirror, and I have to say I never thought Yun mirror could be interesting at all (run away crouching build meter), but they both went insane. "WHAT IS HAPPENINGGG?" Epic finish.

There's a lot more but it's really hard to put into words, just look at some of the vids on youtube using the tags "tougeki" or "闘劇"

LIVE SBO FEED

mms://eblive.pod2.jp/scvftk
RUSH THAT SHIT DOWN
I have never been so hype for games I don't play than right now.

Idolmaster Your Song

So more random silliness, I was browsing nico and u2b the other day and noticing versions of the god song (Air opening) "Tori no Uta" with the secondary title of "Chihaya version."
Of course this catches my eye, as Chihaya is the only reason I'd get that silly game Idolm@star after all.
Turns out there's an Idolmaster album called "Your Song" of songs not inside the game.
It's a wide range here, with the seiyuu doing stuff from anime openings to enka.
The overall quality is very good! Surprisingly enough.
I probably like it more than what I've heard of Idolmaster so far.
And it's funny because a girl (not an idol) who is like the announcer/stage crew in the game sings a song, and she is really good too.

By the way, Chihaya's VA is probably the best singer in idolmaster, the problem is she is a REAL singer, meaning a lot of the cute sugary crap when sung by her sounds plain awful.
But she's amazing at songs that suit her.

Anyway, Chihaya's Tori no Uta is of course top tier, Haruka's DAISUKI! is stupidly cute, Yayoi's Mojipittan is also stupidly cute (Yayoi's VA is also Lilica in Arcana Heart by the way), and Kotori's (the stage crew person) Yasashisa ni tsutsumaretanara is really really good.

Not dead yet!

So my main computer died on Tuesday, spitting out random ass lsass errors and what not coincidentally after I had left it on all day on share trying to find this stupidly obscure PC-98 Touhou remix album for a clown named White_Knell.
Anyway, lsass errors of the type I was receiving are generally associated with hibernation errors...except I don't play with power options on my desktop at all.
Safe mode would fail and just restart also.
Using the Windows CD, I was not given a repair option for my existing install.
Using recovery mode let me get into the drive, but when I started to chkdsk I'd blue screen.
All in all pretty random ass errors completely unrelated to the problem at hand.

So I let it sit a day.
And then the next day I got something called Hiren's boot CD.
I'm surprised this thing even dares to exist, it's so obviously illegal it's laughable.
Yet the guy hasn't been sued into oblivion yet.
Anyway though, Hiren's RAM loader what not failed magnificently.
I was just using Hiren's because the program I really wanted was Acronis.
Got a copy of just Acronis, installed it on my laptop, made a boot CD, got into my main system, changed partition sizes, and voila.
Let this be a lesson to not let the C:\ drive ever fall below 20kb of space :V

Type Moon Crossover Drama CD

Posting old Zepy's links, one at a time!

Type-moon has announced that they will be selling an audio drama called All Around Type-Moon at the coming summer Comic Market. The audio drama will span for 150 mins over 3 CDs featuring all the characters from the Type-moon universe coming together in a cafe.

The works featured in the audio drama are:
1: Kara no kyoukai
2: Tsukihime
3: Kagetsu Tohya
4: Melty Blood
5: Fate/stay night
6: Fate/hollow ataraxia
7: Tobidase! Toraburu hanafuda douchuuki
8: Fate/Zero

I guess that means they’ve already casted voice actors for the characters from hollow ataraxia and Fate/Zero.

Tactics OL

A commercial for Jeanne D'arc on the PSP which involves workers in an office moving on a tile based tactics map to beat their boss.

Kings of Power 4 Billion %

Well the Aussie (Paul Robertson) behind the pirate baby craziness is at it again with a trailer for his new...uh...thing.

Melty Blood Version B2 PC is OUT!

Melty Blood Version B2 PC is OUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
NYANYANYANYA

Death Lolita?

Cave's new game, thought to be some wacky combination of the Japanese words for "Angel" and other stuff, is now officially named "Death Lolita."


via Insert credit

Musings on poker

I find it sort of funny that poker is the only "tournament sport" where the larger the size of the field the less skill matters in the victory.
Even Magic doesn't follow this rule, though I'm not quite sure how that would hold if there was a 6000+ person Magic tournament.

Passive vs Active Safety

Some random clown (:3) named White_Knell linked an article about a new diet pill.
Reading the guy's blog though linked me to a Malcom Gladwell article, a rather interesting one.
Basically it takes the question of why people like SUVs even when the statistics of death are higher and brings up an interesting point of passive vs active safety.

We're in your routers, hacking your government.

via Metafilter
Since I work in teleco now this is pretty damn interesting to me.
The way these guys made 29 patches to an OS without being detected is hardcore.

HEVAD MAKES FINAL TABLE

RUSH THAT SHIT DOWN.

"CAUSE I'M GOOD SON"

KHANNNN

This vid's actually old, but it captures Hevad perfectly so I couldn't pass on posting it.


Also, latest choice quote (he's still in with 17 people left!

Mad Respect for Khan

Hevad Khan finally played a hand, moving $800,000 into the pot in late position to fold the table. "Thank you," said Khan to the folders, "that was one bet in three orbits. I respect the fact that you respect me."

Hevad in WSOP

I have to say this is one of the funniest profiles I have ever read.
Anyway, a little stuff on Hevad.
Same high school, two years below, he was in Kenny's grade.
Gamer fiend, he basically taught all of us Starcraft (Kenny, Brady, me).
Guy really loved his games, and later it was poker.
He used to be known as DS-Strife for SC way back in the day, but when that went to shit and Testie got accused of hacking and whatnot he wanted a clean break, so his name became sG.Rain.
Seems like he stuck with it, cause his poker name was rainkhan, etc etc etc.
Used to play a lot of just neighborhood games with him.
A while back he quit?graduated (I never really pressed him on it) college and moved west to Cali to play poker full time.
Last year or so he made a splash by bankrolling half of Sanford's 2000 money match vs Duc Do.
Now it looks like he's on the road to becoming a millionaire.

The 5 Killers

http://www.clockworkmachina.com/?p=288
I'm sortta liking where these Japanese/English anime hybrids are going.
Afro Samurai was downright fun.

Evangelion Re-Take

It's been a long long time since I watched Evangelion.
Again, it was one of the earlier series I watched, though not my first at all.
Problem is, the ending soured me on what was a great series for pretty much the rest of my life.
Even a remotely halfway decent ending combined with "first love" anime syndrome would have been enough to vault it into my most beloved (Magic Knight Rayearth, Escaflowne) series list.
Instead I just get a feeling of mild disappointment which slowly built to a "most overrated" stance because of the people who could actually seriously watch the movie and extract something more than a "FUCK YOU" out of its contents.
So deep!

However, when someone was talking about some random Evangelion doujin and how it was the greatest doujin he ever read and such, I admit it had me curious.
After all this guy doesn't really read doujins, and it was an odd person to come from.
Plus he said it was "adult," which had me even more curious, as he doesn't really touch the stuff. (Yeah, I on the other hand -_-a)
Anyway, so I decided sure, why not, and downloaded Re-Take 1, 2, 3, 0, 4, and AFTER.
It's to be read in that order.

Honestly, he was right.
The entire series is extremely well-written "what-if" piece that does incorporate both the anime and the movie into its premise, but retells the end of Eva as what some would say is what should have been the ending.
The art does a good job at imitating the old style to prevent artist shock, the character development is pretty off the hook, it still keeps a great deal of the mindfuck that makes Eva oh so special (but not eva movie fuck you mindfuck), and it wraps everything up nicely.
It's nice to see old friends grow spines :3
Anyway, highly recommended piece of work for any and all Evangelion fans and former fans (i.e. myself), just a warning that it IS for adult and not for kids, and there IS violence and sex in it.

By the way, it does go down Shinji x Asuka, so just a warning for the Rei doll lovers out there (well they do good by her, but it's not Shinji x Rei).

Temporary Direct DL link

Arcana Heart PS2 October 11th

Two days after my birthday.
Get hype?
Lol

<37fest/AX2007

I didn't know all THREE female lead seiyuus for Haruhi were going to AX.
Thought it was just Aya (more than enough), but Yuko (Mikuri) and Minori (YUKI.N) are both going.
Damn...if they do some live role reprising I will be sad I missed out.

HeartNana (<37, get it? a heart and a seven) fest started this Wednesday but of course due to work I can only go from Friday to Sunday.
Still, I want to see him peace fools out in Arcana and play him in random doozin games.
I am still sad (I'm sure bell is sadder) that he decided to take IaMP completely non-seriously, but eh, what can you do.
Buri keeps throwing out "MONEY MATCH YOU IN MBAC" threats, I didn't think I hurt his pride that much with my remarks :V
Whatever, time to see if I can win.

Chu Chu Rocket

Ahahaha I remember the times we had with this game with four players.
zubabababa!

Tohgeki 2

Finished recording, encoding, and uploading everything.
There's 119 matches, by the way.

Persona 3 Fes - Fuuka Joins

Just what I've been wasting time on.

HALFBY - RODEO MACHINE/SCREW THE PLAN

It took me forever to find this.
I first found a fastforwarded version in that meme video.
It was the only video I didn't really recognize so I looked on nicovideo for the original, and saw a comment saying grooooooovision.
Went from there using my leet jp google skills.
Anyway, the songs are Rodeo Machine and Screw the Plan by DJ Halfby.
The video was made by groovision.


Ahahaha they did a new one.

Music for busy people who obviously do not include PBox

"Music for busy people."
A compilation of almost every JP meme song in the past year, fastforwarded and remixed.

SKITTLES!

IaMP 2: Direct Feed

The best footage we have so far.

Thoughtamps

Well Tohgeki 2 has come and gone, and I'm churning out youtube vids.
XCTU has come back home stateside, and has played IaMP, but he's sort of meh on it, probably cause he believes he will never get better.
XAQshinor hates the input, but he plays melty blood, I don't understand.
Surprisingly, Sp00ky is getting hardcore into it, which is sort of scary, cause I'm trying to get into Melty Blood.
I think there's this dual mentality of, let's try the other game and try to get good because I'm getting a little tired of my main one.

BTW, about IaMP.
I feel like I get zero leveled a lot.
That being said, I do plenty of dumb shit against my opponents, because I completely dislike blocking/being on the defensive for any moment of time.
Hell, of course I am I'm Patchouli.
But I still feel that I'm much more susceptible to random joe 66B crap than I should be, and it's sort of wearing on me.
I try to slow down my game and then I fight Remilia players and it's back into hyperactive scared as all shit mode again.
So much work and not safe by any stretch of the imagination.
I remember way back when bell called Alice a weaker Patchouli.
Well now he calls Patchouli an Alice except you can graze all her shit.
Sounds right.
Maybe I should put effort into learning a char who's actually safe.