Kawaii Security

Apparently the selling point is "NO LESS THAN 30 VIRUS-TANS."

Examu has yakuza connections

How else do you explain Aquapizza in fucking main Tougeki lineup?

Also, no TTT2, because they say it wouldn't be finished.
Sort of sad, SBO Tekken is like the only time I get hype for Tekken again.
via VersusCity

MBAACC...

Her sprites look great but at the same time WE DID NOT NEED MORE CIELS.

Square Enix suffers a 76% drop in profits from April to December 2010

Via Estelle

Grab Bag

So in the news today (or yesterday):

China passing off Top Gun footage as Chinese airplane "training exercises."

Aquapazza/pizza by Examu/Leaf:

Unfortunately it's on Taito's Nazi Online board NESiCAxLive, meaning that State side operators will have about 0% chance of getting the game (fubarduck already shed a single tear.)
Also Manaka attacking anything is just too weird!

India's most expensive (and most successful) film:

Witness the masterpiece Enthiran.

Taxes

So I have two W2s, one pointing toward the normal place and one pointing toward Mauritius.

From Wikipedia:

Mauritius – based front companies of foreign investors are used to avoid paying taxes in India utilising loopholes in the bilateral agreement on double taxation between the two countries, with the tacit support of the Indian government, who are keen to improve figures relating to inward investment. The use of Mauritius as a gateway to funnel foreign investments into India has always been controversial. Mauritius's financial regime has a number of the key characteristics of a tax haven, which has helped to facilitate this.

KKIITTAAAAAAAAAA!

Arcana Heart 3 is out

<HeartNana> ok
<HeartNana> shit felt PERFECT

And some joy finally starts creeping back into me.

Cosmic Break broke my heart

Sort of delayed, sort of old, but yeah time to post a final wrap-up more or less.
Cosmic Break broke my heart.
I'd be sort of over this if I didn't keep getting asked questions suddenly by IRL friends from the fighting game community.
"Hay sibladeko what's a good build" x9000.
Imagine my face when I have to tell them that they should never spend money on this game because the people running it are insane.
Where were you clowns in the previous betas when the game was actually good?

In short, Cosmic Break USA's insistence that it was "well aware they were dealing with a different market" was pretty much lies.
True they started out with "discounted" prices but they kept the RT conversion the same and once those discounts end it will go back to the hilarious Japanese pricing of 20 dollars for 5 rolls.
And so ends Cosmic Break.
10 dollars 5 rolls.
Not budging on that price point, that's what DFO uses and that's the border of sanity.
It's only fair too given the lack of a trading system and other bullshit the userbase puts up with.
If they had used that price point I'd be flying around with those shiny wings right now with chocolate Lily instead of playing other games.
But no they think 20 bucks 5 rolls will work here.
Even with the discounted rates (16 bucks for 5 rolls! 12 bucks for 5 rolls, almost there but no cigar) have firmly cleaved the user base by 66%.
And hell I wonder how many of those remaining 33% paid?
The few people who have shiny wings all belong to the merged clan of lagging HKers and iHOP called Everything's(Not)Fine.
That and maybe Middle Eastern Prince *******, he has something like 4 shiny wings on an alt.
Truly the saviors of USA Cosmic Break's economic model.

Quite honestly I spend tons of money on stupid shit, I threw 50 bucks at Ougon (HAHA SUCKER), I'm throwing 70? at Arcana Heart 3 limited edition, just to name my most recent examples of excess.
But I refuse to throw any more money at Cosmic Break USA until they change the pricing, which I don't think they will.
It'd be pretty trivial for me to throw 1000s and get overpowered bots like Everything'sFine and rule a dead game.
Except I don't want a dead game, I want a game that can grow, that can thrive, that can survive a balance change instead of having people quit because their 1000s of dollars are now worthless.
Buy in and you basically reward Cyberstep for their idiocy and their desire to kill their own game.

Edit: Oh yeah as for shit people ask me the most:
If you want to be a winner, Redux will help you win.
Tons of problems in the base game...though changing flat garapon price goes a long way toward remedying that.

Ougon Musou Kyoku

Is pretty kusoge.
I'm having limited "fun" with it but right now the biggest problems are:
1. Cancel window is retardedly tight and chains actually hurt my hands to do, very mashy game cause of how the command interpreter is.
2. Pressure is extremely linear, the guard meter builds hella fast so there's almost no reason to open someone up, just make them block. You basically block low 99% of the time in this game waiting for the obvious tag overhead.
3. Attacking someone gives them more meter than you.
4. Bursts are omega free, with the amount of meter you get in this game there is no reason NOT to burst. If a game has both sides bursting like 5 times per match there is a problem.
5. Metaworld is staggeringly powerful for certain characters, there is no reason to NOT counter meta if you have the meter and even if they have more meters to redeclare it throws off dash timing like a bitch and shortens the duration of it.
6. Everyone's combos are the same, though I don't mind it that much. No meter combo is 2a5b2b5c tag 2a5b2b5c2c special if you have it. One meter on your main? 2a5b2b5c metaworld dash 2a5b2b5c tag 2a5b2b5c2c metaworld super into dizzy. One meter on your sub? 2a5b2b5c tag 2a5b2b5c metaworld dash 2a5b2b5c metaworld super into dizzy. Ange has limited chains but she has rejumps. Probably one of the more interesting characters in the game.
7. Hitboxes are all over the place. True there is a slash wisp I believe in the actual move, but look at that thing. Same with a lot of the other moves, I think Battler's tie is something like impossible to attack head on.

8. Netplay is disconnecting garbage with no spectate and no way to copy paste IPs in (you have to mash up arrows on the number fields)
9. Limited joystick support, when's the last time I've played a doujin fighter that couldn't realize the directionals on both my pad and stick? Maybe 10 years ago?

Pluses:
1. Presentation is slick as hell, looking at the sprite work confirms this. Plenty of cool in-jokes and story moves as well, the characters really have a lot of their stuff from the sound novels.
2. Music is amazing, although it is in uncompressed WMA!?!?! Lol why is the continue song 2.5 minutes. It's like they didn't care. Plus a 7 minute stage song for a game with a 180 second timer. Do not understand.
3. Voice acting is top notch, everyone sounds in character and the ones who are annoying are annoying as hell nyehheheh (silly rabbit).
4. I really really like the meter system in that you only build meter for your partner. It really does promote the "tag" aspect of the game, however everything else sort of falls, especially of how metaworld is handled. Maybe doing metaworld super ends your metaworld immediately, because at the moment Beatrice has infinite momentum, Battler and Ange have free instant full screen punishes on anything you do that isn't down back, etc. etc.

The game has potential, I don't even want to think of how Melty Blood was when it first came out.
Right now though it's a pretty limited, though gorgeous, experience.

Arcana Heart 3 Test

Microsoft Taiwan makes a Silverlight Christmas dating sim

What the fuck? I didn't even know there were four Silverlight sisters.

Rollcaster

It’s possible for a sound to get played and then get canceled out by a rollback, which would of course be very confusing. I had to add some code that not only tracks every single instance of a sound being played, but what’s even more fun is that it has to check to make sure that the same sound wasn’t started on a later frame, so it doesn’t accidentally cancel something out that was just moved up a bit.

So you want to program games?
Hope to God you are as hardcore as mauve.

UMINEKO FIGHTING GAME PART 3

Voicework

God Beatrice sounds hilarious.


Anyway further shit:
Ange: Stun Boost (She gets a lot more hit stun on her attacks)
Battler: Resurrection (He heals life)
Beatrice: InfinitySP (One super she chooses costs nothing?!)
Lucifer: Attack Touch (Can tag in even if she is in waiting status)
Kanon: Silent Attack (Seals opponents SP gain when he hits them? Or makes them gain less, not sure.)
Shanon: Auto Guard (What it says...sort of vague, I don't know if it means you don't have to block mixups yourself or what.)
Eva: Berserk (??? Probably more damage)
Chester: Break Boost (Almost positive that she does increased guard damage)
Virgilia: ??? (???)
Ronove: Counter Boost (??? Guessing he does retardo damage off CH)

Serious thoughts.
Siesta looks ridiculous, guard damage is really absurd plus arrow spammy character along with rushdown type normals.
Not sure about Beatrice, she sure is elegant looking though.
Also if Shannon's shit lets her not have to block mixups she will be easy ass scrub character.

UMINEKO FIGHTING GAME PART 2

Actual play footage.

So Keits posts three times about this game on SRK front page and Stupid Retarded Kids explode because of too much anime.
Also lol, Japan more pessimistic than #Umineko because "oh no combo game."
Also damage is spelled DAMEGE aka DAME GE- aka "do not want game"

Anyway analysis:
It is a tag game, lifebars seem shared between characters, super meter is not.
There are three life bars total per pair.
Tagging is called "Touch."
Canceling an attack into a tag attack is called "Attack Touch."
Bursting out of hitstun into a tag switch costs two meters of your sub and is called "Damage Touch."
You can combo into and out of tags.
There is a life gain mechanic of some sort.
There is a guard meter.
There is a shitload of projectiles.
The toolshed stage either phases in and out of normal and ritual or it's some type of game effect (think arcana activations in AH1 and AH2).
Backed up by the fact that in the clip after Lucifer goes into snap finger pose and the background changes.
Beatrice has something called "Infinity SP"
Battler has something called "Ressurection"
Kanon has something called "Silent Attack"
Shanon has something called "Auto Guard"
Eva has something called "Berserk"
Chester has something called "Break Boost"
Lucifer has something called "Attack Touch" (different than normal attack touch?)
Ronove has something called "Counter Boost"

UMINEKO FIGHTING GAME

Holy fuck get out of my head Japan!

Murderface

Taiwanese news, again

Asians don't age, they in fact reverse age!

From elderly white man to young asian dude.
And here I thought the plot of Mission Impossible 2 depended way too much on the face change gimmick.

My guess is either:
1. Chinese political dissident or criminal or something
2. North Korean

Chinese hands NK escapees back to NK, I wonder if you were able to seek asylum in Hong Kong before the revertsal of ownership.

Frontier Aja has more money than God

Touhouvania II cast:
Sakuya Izayoi: Sawashiro Miyuki (Mint of Galaxy Angel, Shinku of Rozen Maiden, Aruru of Utawarerumono)
Remilia Scarlet: Kitamura Eri
Patchouli Knowledge: Rikimaru Noriko (Manaka of To Heart 2)
Flandre Scarlet: Kanemoto Hisako (Ika Musume of Ika Musume)
Hong Meiling: Satou Satomi (Ritsu of K-ON!)
Reimu Hakurei: Satou Rina (Negi of Negima, Haruka of Minami-Ke, Mikoto Misaka of To Aru Majutsu no Index)
Marisa Kirisame: Shintani Ryoko (Xianghua of Soul Calibur, Milfeulle of Galaxy Angel, Sae of Hidamari Sketch)
Alice Margatroid:　Tomatsu Haruka (Ai from Idolmaster DS, Nagi from Kannagi, Lala from To Love-Ru)
Yukari Yakumo: Endou Aya (Leanne from Resonance of Fate, Miyuki of Lucky Star, Sheryl of Macross Frontier)
Yuyuko Saigyouji: Shiina Hekiru (Haruka from Dream Club Zero, Hikaru from Magic Knight Rayearth)
Youmu Konpaku: Hirohashi Ryou (Kyou from Clannad, Rakka from Haibane Renmei, Sora from Kaleido Star)
Ran Yakumo: Kobayashi Yu (Setsuna of Negima, Mariya of Maria Holic, Kaere Kimura of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei)
Chen: Shintani Ryoko
Komachi Onozuka: Tomatsu Haruka

RRRAAAGGGEEE

Mizuumi site redesign

Bellreisa's making a serious attempt to make Mizuumi somewhat legitimate.
Wish him luck.

Blizzard bans single player cheaters

That sound?
That's the sound of the entire Diablo mod community shitting its pants.
Terrible precedent, you KNOW this shit is going to be in Diablo 3.
And with SC2's terrible editor limitations already (they recently banned a typing of the dead style UMS because the dictionary included the word 'dyke') Blizzard seems well on their way to stifling any 3rd party development, even for single player.

Italian Magic Girl Leather

vs


The more I think about it the more the fact it was just the intro really points to it just being the same sample being used.

New Jersey

I'm officially living in it.

Taiwanese Silverlight

Not to be outdone by Nanami, Taiwan's Microsoft has introduced their own version of Silverlight.

http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/silverlight/default.htm


http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/silverlight/resources.htm


http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/silverlight/mission.htm


via Hachima

Odin Sphere and Oboro Muramasa coming to PSN and XBOX Live Arcade

Source is hachima (Estelle) blog.

Recettear is awesome

I...I think I'll be all right dad!

Doom tear is the new eagle tear

I've got nothing.

Ingrid in Osaka SSF4 location test

Twitter.

Jiyuna stories

[10:34] <jiyunaJP> hellow everyone
[10:34] <jiyunaJP> i got drunk today
[10:34] <jiyunaJP> and went to game vamos
[10:34] <jiyunaJP> aka the BB arcade in nagoya
[10:34] <jiyunaJP> the usual crew was there; but HIMAJIN was playing
[10:34] <jiyunaJP> himajin; aka the SBO litchi
[10:34] <jiyunaJP> who beat me 5-0 last time
[10:35] <jiyunaJP> first i played on the red vewlix; because thats where the crowd was gathered
[10:35] <jiyunaJP> and watching some tao fight cpu
[10:35] <jiyunaJP> even though there are 4 setups...everyone was watching tao fight cpu (i dont know why)
[10:36] <jiyunaJP> i beat the tao 3-0 in close, well played matches
[10:36] <jiyunaJP> then everyone moved to the sega cabs and left me to fight cpu ( fuck japan)
[10:36] <jiyunaJP> i finished arcaded mode and watched as the sega cabs got full (so 3 setups, 6 players on sega cabs. me playing alone on red vewlix.) fuck japan
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> finish story mode, get up and go stand at a sega cab that SBO litchi is playing on. wait for my turn
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> SBO litchi has 4 wins, its my turn
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> play him, win first 2 rounds, lose next 2 rounds, neither of us has burst for final round
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> i win
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> 1-0 me
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> next game, just as close, but i win again
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> 2-0 me
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> next games are close, but he cleanly beats me
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> 2-1 him
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> next game close, but i fucking drop combo and hes mashing airthrow during last round
[10:38] <jiyunaJP> he wins
[10:39] <jiyunaJP> 2-2
[10:39] <jiyunaJP> final game, im up 2-1 rounds, i still have two burst
[10:39] <jiyunaJP> i use BOTH bursts during 4th round but still lose
[10:39] * jiyunaJP (~world@p8020-ipbfp2003tokaisakaetozai.aichi.ocn.ne.jp) Quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
[10:40] * jiyunaJP (~world@p8020-ipbfp2003tokaisakaetozai.aichi.ocn.ne.jp) has joined #blazblue
[10:40] <jiyunaJP> lol internet. fuck this fucking shitty country
[10:40] <jiyunaJP> but anyway
[10:40] <jiyunaJP> 2-2 games
[10:40] <jiyunaJP> 2-2 rounds
[10:40] <jiyunaJP> he has 1 burst, i have none
[10:40] <jiyunaJP> final round, he whiffs DP
[10:40] <jiyunaJP> i 5b (dont bait burst) 3c (jump back barrier)
[10:40] <jiyunaJP> he bursts, i IB
[10:41] <jiyunaJP> and rape him, win game
[10:41] <jiyunaJP> win 3-2
[10:41] <jiyunaJP> yell in japanese
[10:41] <jiyunaJP> "ARENT YOU THE SBO LITCHI!?
[10:41] <yeknom> how did you say it in jp
[10:41] <jiyunaJP> TOUGEKI NO RAICHI JYA NAI KA!?
[10:41] <yeknom> wow what a dick
[10:41] <yeknom> lol
[10:41] <L-Knight> lollll
[10:41] <yeknom> pretty good
[10:41] <Rei____> lolllll
[10:41] <L-Knight> stay american
[10:41] <EvilLinkz> hahaha
[10:41] <St1ckBuG_> lollll
[10:41] <jiyunaJP> yo fuck japan
[10:41] <EvilLinkz> I think he was drunk
[10:42] <yeknom> bringing american shit talk to japan
[10:42] <L-Knight> what did he do
[10:42] <yeknom> orz
[10:42] <jiyunaJP> its not even drunk shit talk
[10:42] <jiyunaJP> how are there gonna be 8 people
[10:42] <jiyunaJP> that dont play me
[10:42] <jiyunaJP> and go to different cab to play each other
[10:42] <L-Knight> did they get tight/leave
[10:42] <jiyunaJP> even when im being friendly
[10:42] <jiyunaJP> joking around
[10:42] <jiyunaJP> like during a ragna mirror, i got baited hard
[10:43] <jiyunaJP> and ate a YAMI NI KUWARERO
[10:43] <jiyunaJP> or whatever
[10:43] <jiyunaJP> and i yelled
[10:43] <jiyunaJP> SUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
[10:43] <jiyunaJP> like i give them props when they do good
[10:43] <jiyunaJP> when i do good....they run to different cab
[10:43] <jiyunaJP> fucking nerds
[10:43] <L-Knight> you look mad all the time
[10:43] <EvilLinkz> lol
[10:43] <L-Knight> youre too muscular
[10:43] <EvilLinkz> you're not japanese
[10:43] <Rei____> too american
[10:44] <Rei____> at least in CF they had only one cab
[10:44] <L-Knight> ive had people just watch me do arcade mode
[10:44] <Rei____> so people were forced to play you or wait it out lol
[10:44] <L-Knight> at cf
[10:44] <jiyunaJP> but thats because you're too good LK
[10:44] <jiyunaJP> these people arent scared of me
[10:44] <jiyunaJP> they my level
[10:45] <jiyunaJP> they just wont play me
[10:45] <jiyunaJP> oh yeah
[10:45] <jiyunaJP> and then the kicker
[10:45] <jiyunaJP> after i had my BB drama
[10:45] <jiyunaJP> i left and went to different arcade
[10:45] <jiyunaJP> and bought 2 strong drinks from conbini
[10:45] <jiyunaJP> got drunk, had fun games with troll rachel
[10:45] <jiyunaJP> then came back to serious arcade
[10:45] <jiyunaJP> no more BB....but 2 dudes were playing GUNDAM
[10:46] <FL|alz> lol damn
[10:46] <EvilLinkz> lol
[10:46] <jiyunaJP> i never played gundam before, but i always wanted to
[10:46] <jiyunaJP> so i played 2 games and got raped
[10:46] <jiyunaJP> then walked to other side and asked
[10:46] <jiyunaJP> well i said
[10:46] <jiyunaJP> "you guys really are too strong for me. who's the strongest gundam in this game"
[10:46] <jiyunaJP> they both were like "i dont know..............."
[10:46] <Rei____> lol
[10:46] <yeknom> lol
[10:47] <EvilLinkz> lol
[10:47] <Rei____> I thought it was something like turn-A
[10:47] <yeknom> you gotta realize also that a lot of jp people, especially otaku
[10:47] <EvilLinkz> turn A da gawd
[10:47] <yeknom> will avoid all conversations with gaijin
[10:47] <jiyunaJP> so i was like "well, whos a good gundam to use. its my first time playing"
[10:47] <jiyunaJP> "i dont know............."
[10:47] <yeknom> to avoid having a difficult conversation
[10:47] <jiyunaJP> yeknom: ive been here for two months
[10:47] <jiyunaJP> i know how to make myself sound humble/shitty

Live action Hayate no Gotoku...in Taiwan?

Taiwan?

New Office

Is large enough to get lost in going to the kitchen four times.
I keep doing endless laps trying to find people.

Satoshi Kon's last words

Sayonara (Goodbye)

How could I forget, May 18th of this year.

I received the following pronouncement from a cardiovascular doctor at Musashino Red Cross Hospital.

"It's the latter stages of pancreatic cancer. It's metastasized to several bones. You have at the most half a year left to live."

I have seen Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress and thought both were insane/amazing.
I think it's about time I pick up the rest of his work.
via Makiko Itoh

Daigo thread on 2ch

ウメハラ総合スレッド369

169 ：俺より強い名無しに会いにいく：2010/08/26(木) 23:32:21 ID:OpBL3OYp0
ファンボーイって軽い言葉は使って欲しくないね
ビリーヴァーもしくはファナティックと呼んで欲しい
ウメハラは単なる人間ではないのだから、信じる者もファンではない
神を崇拝するかのごとき神聖性を持っているものだ

[11:23] <fubarduck> "I don't want them to call us fanboys. "Believer" or "Fanatic" is more appropriate. Simply put, Umehara isn't human, so his believers aren't "fans". It's just like worshiping a god, and we are carrying that kind of sacredness"

And in this instant it became abundantly clear that 2ch is filled with the same trolls and morons as SRK.

Stripfighter IV

So there's this game by the name of Stripfighter IV, which is obviously a terrible parody of Street Fighter.
It's the latest in the longest series of pretty deranged adult fighters from this one doujin circle group.
Anyway, there was some Japanese player named Stripfighter, but I knew of the game first, so any time someone would mention him in an IRC channel I'd be like wait the game or the player?
Anyway, turns out...it's both.
I thought the player Stripfighter was trolling with his name from the game, but it turns out he's actually the guy who MAKES Stripfighter.
So instead of merely funny he rises to legendary status.


lolcombos by hyperhal

Kannagi starting again

She's cured!
or something.

US Army + Maritan...officially?

So the US Army in Japan is working on an official joint project with the Maritan people people about 50 years of US-JP military alliance.
For those of you unfamiliar with Maritan, the creator released a bunch of educational English help books:



Completely using Full Metal Jacket quotes.
Yes I'm not joking.

Anyway this has to be the best or worst idea ever.

Dropping the hammer

So our head accountant got let go today.
Literally she walked in the morning and was told through a phone call.
None of us knew except HR.
Passwords/backups/data/mail/hardware/bank accounts all this shit has to be scrambled together before end of day.
Her Indian counterparts are going WTF?
We're going WTF?
Seriously usually you give something like this 1-2 weeks for a transition.
Not here.
HR also would not tell me how long they had known about her upcoming release for.
Like give me a fucking break, respect the procedure but at least make it easier for everyone else who has to pick up the slack left by a GAPING HOLE in our team.
She has no replacement, I don't know who on accounting is going to take over her duties.
Standard India.

Also, I got Starcraft 2 in the mail for 45$.

More Taiwanese News

Who is making these!?

Twinkle Queen

Your daily morning sadlife FTG.

ARCANA HEART 3 ANNOUCNED FOR PS3/XBOX360!

FUCK YEAH!
No I don't know why this shit uploaded sideways.


OMG IT HAS NETPLAY

Gamberbee makes national Taiwanese news

Bzzzz I'm a bee.

Juicebox summons Cthulhu

Self explanatory.

Women's SSIV

Post 1 of 9000

<Cicada-> cuz hte match ended, and stephanie went for a hand shake "can i get ah andshake? no? what about a hug?"

Lol shittalk.
Apparently Stephanie (Bison cosplayer, very cute) walked forward and pressed roundhouse (with Bison of course) and Sherry couldn't deal with it.

In the end though I only had faith in Kayane, and even she didn't look her best in the finals.
Probably cause she was used to fighting real players not random wake up Ultra 2 from Gouken.
Dumbing down your play doesn't look pretty but it's what you have to do against low level.

Stuff

Back from Taiwan, off to Vegas like...tomorrow.
Cosmic Break needs to stop being addictive.
Work is moving to New Jersey supposedly some time in August.
I have a lot of things on my mind now.

Team Sp00ky Introduction

Rithli's finished a short introduction.
Rithli-level polish as always.
See you gimps in Vegas for EVO on the 8th.
Wonder how Caesar's is compared to the Rio last year, that place was amazing.

:V

(5/31/2010 2:11:36 PM) uber_awesome_piggy: :V is super useful
(2:11:41 PM) uber_awesome_piggy: i am addicted to it now

The army grows.

Eretto Patchouli figurine

I'd probably buy it :V

Windows 7 mascot Nanami

Garish pink Comic Sans font on purpose


Wow didn't expect this.
Microsoft officially acknowledged the Nanami OS-Tan as the OS-Tan of Windows 7 and bought her rights.
Then they got Nana Mizuki to voice her.
The result is the advertisement you see here...

Sometimes I think MS Japan is on another planet than MS USA.
"360 IS FAILING WHAT CAN WE DO!?"
"PUT MORE EROGE AND OTAKU GAMES ON IT!"
"ROGER!"

Police now more concerned with numbers than accountants are.

As a result, the tapes show, the rank-and-file NYPD street cop experiences enormous pressure in a strange catch-22: He or she is expected to maintain high "activity"—including stop-and-frisks—but, paradoxically, to record fewer actual crimes.

Busy work at its finest.

Akatsuki Blitzkampf sequel?

Or Mycale's acid trip?

Food moe

JP pastries at work today

Unfortunately the second I saw the chocolate cornet all I could think of was that stupid anime.

Tougeki scared of Evo, adds MBAA 2v2 to Category C games

I bet you Melty at Evo is the reason they added it.

SSF4 Arcade announced at JP nationals

By the way winners were:
1. RF (Sagat), Kindevu (Rufus), Momochi (Akuma)
2. MDR (Rufus), Pamyu (Boxer), some sagat
3. Tokido's team
4. Maeda Tyson's team

Daigo team got OCVED by MDR Rufus.
MDR vs RF second round down by 60% vs Sagat pulls some crazy bullshit to win the round and the match.
A Sim almost ocved RF's team but Momochi saved their ass.

Happy April Fool's

I have...no words.

April Fools (In Asia)

So let's start with normal game companies.
Arc Sys and Examu start with a Blaz Blue vs Arcana cross over...flash game. In which you eat Heart, as Arakune.

Dungeon and Fighter makes a dating sim.

TeamLiquid releases a "Professional" mod for Starcraft 2.

Type-Moon characters started twittering.

I'll put more as they come in out of boredom.

Marvel 3 and SSF4 PC

Wised aged veteran Henaki does not learn and puts Capcom on blast again.

Anyway, today I leaked Marvel 3 announcement in May and Super SF4 for PC. This immediately led to my permanent IP ban and a very hasty thread deletion. There are multiple sources that confirm Marvel 3 in development, and Super SF4 PC was sorta leaked a while ago by some guy with a slippery tongue at some trade show, but yeah it exists too.

Guns

My guns as of chapter 13.
lol min maxers

The Tales of Mago, 2D God

And then, the final blow.
Ameriken: “MAGO . . .”
Ameriken: “AH . . .”
・・・
Mago: “Ah . . . ? ?”
Ameriken: “AH . . ARIGATO!!!”
! ! ? ! ? ? ? ! ! ? ? ?

One of the most hilarious blog postings I have seen from Mago, credits to fubar for the translation.

South Korea ship sunk, North Korea suspected

Headline says it all.
WW3.

KOFXIII

So now that the tech demo called KOFXII has ended its miserable life, it's time for XIII.
Obviously leaving this character out was a mistake the first time around.

Resonance of Fate customization

That's a gun?

Cross Days even more of a trap than first believed.

Long story short, fake versions of the game upload ALL YOUR SHIT onto the internet.
That, and the actual game includes none of the preview screenshots (almost all fake) and your character cross-dresses as a girl who swings that way.
Yeah. Overfl0w spent years making a troll game.

New Ken winquote

Oh Capcom you.

End of Eternity/Resonance of Fate

This game is amazing.

Touhou in Ai Sp@ce

Seems like they've added a hilariously awkward looking shooting game to moe blob space.
Maybe people were getting bored of just being guys pretending to be girls doing nothing but looking pretty.

The Sandpit

New York City, in minature

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

I used to play this game

Youtube Strike Number 2 (3)

Seems like Funimation has nothing better to do than send me takedown notices.
However once again the target they're aiming at is hilariously beyond their reach.
The video they chose to attack was Anta...Baka?, which is a MAD of a doujinshi of Evangelion.
So in effect, the "video" is actually a slideshow of fanart.
Last I checked, Funimation only owned the rights to distribute the new EVA movie.
ADV still owns the rights to the tv series.
Neither of them own the rights to the entire franchise.
What a waste of time.

Out of the Blue

So I randomly had an epiphany at work today...the song "Out of the Blue" by Julian Casablancas describes why I play SWR/Hisoutensoku still.
Both verses even.
It was sort of morbidly sad and fascinating.

Long rant by Tim Rogers about Japan sucking

Summary of article I guess is:

[16:56] <@fubarduck> so while everything this guy says is true
[16:56] <@fubarduck> he has little right to complain about it
[17:01] <@fubarduck> i should write a book about america's problems
[17:01] <@fubarduck> and how they relate to our subpar videogame development

2ch taken down, now back up

Apparently the hilarious threads about how Yu-Na Kim bribed the judges (completely with corresponding Niconico videos) on 2ch angered Korean enough to take 2ch down temporarily.
That's a lot of angry Koreans.

Touhou 12.5 announced

I will use...two spoilers.
Also Aya is an elf.

Caster

Random Wonderfest 2010 Stuff

I'm sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Brocken Spectre

It's German.
Really.
Google it.

Your moment of zen

MBAA AT EVOLUTION

Results are up! Note these are the RAW results, before filtering for fraudulent votes. Keep this note from Ponder in mind:

Quote Originally Posted by Ponder View Post

It's very hard to tell exactly who got 2nd-4th because of the amount of vote fraud for all the games. This includes people who have multiple accounts voting more than once, suspicious patterns in the voting locations, etc. Even so, if you take away all the suspicious votes for Melty, it still wins by a narrow margin. So while we're confident Melty is the winner, we really don't know who got 2nd.

And a bizarre alternate universe has happened where MBAA has appeared at Evolution before SBO.

ITS ALIVEEEEEEEE?!?!?

ITS OVER

Umineko no Naku Koro Ni EP 1-5 Review

Simply amazing.
I honestly really have no other words for this series of sound novels.
They're extremely convoluted, there's a lot of text, and a lot of characters (more get introduced each episode it seems!), but it really is tightly wound and made; there is a clear direction, believe it or not!
Maybe this will change later but EP5 sort of affirmed to me what type of story this is at its core (it does cover a lot of genres, sometimes even to the point parodying them).
It's hard to say anything without spoiling ANYTHING, but you need to come into this body of work with an open mind.
Also, the music is GODLIKE.
The anime, however, is not.
Avoid at all costs and try to pick up the sound novel.
Here's a link to the music boxes (OSTS basically)

Getting started: Episode 1-4 torrent
Episode 5 torrent
Episode 6 is out but the current translation patch doesn't work with Ep 5-6 combined.
Go to witch-hunt for the translation patches.

Umineko no Naku Koro Ni Episode 1

Not the anime.
Something about the almost laborious introduction made me realize I had deeply missed reading actual novels instead of easy to consume light novels/manga.
Thumbs up for evoking that nostalgia, Umineko.
I think this is one of the rare translation projects that the creator himself (Ryuukishi07) has explicitly encouraged
Also, I think EP6 (final arc?) was released at C77, so dodging spoilers like mad from certain JLT Level 1 clowns in certain channels is hard.
I'll come back later with more of an actual review.

And now for a typo.

The Legend of Koizumi Preview

FUCK YES.

Top Tyr

Tyr:Catherine is a 10:0 matchup.

Wine Tasting, 80% bullshit.

Interesting conversation in RANDOM channel on Christmas Eve.

[11:58] <jiyunaMOS> the restaurant i work at
[11:58] <jiyunaMOS> best place in the city
[11:58] <jiyunaMOS> one of top 10 in the state
[11:58] <jiyunaMOS> best italian food in state
[11:58] <jiyunaMOS> the homemasde pasta omggggggggg
[11:58] <@bellreisa> PASTACHAMP
[11:58] <jiyunaMOS> cocoa pappardelle pasta with short rib ragout
[11:58] <Lokanas> What's the name of the place
[11:58] <jiyunaMOS> duck confit agnoloti
[11:59] <Forte> how many calories
[11:59] <jiyunaMOS> due mari
[11:59] <jiyunaMOS> 1000000000 calories
[11:59] <Forte> sounds godly already
[11:59] <jiyunaMOS> garganelli pasta with oyster mushrooms, prosciutto, truffle butter sauce
[11:59] <@bellreisa> i'm trying to imagine jiyuna doing the waiter thing
[11:59] <jiyunaMOS> 10000000000000000000000000 calories
[11:59] <Forte> trolling as a waiter
[11:59] <jiyunaMOS> being a waiter is fun, i troll
[11:59] <@bellreisa> "tonight we have a chef's special of garganelli, oh it is SO s rank"
[11:59] <jiyunaMOS> because people dont know shit
[12:00] <jiyunaMOS> my number 1 troll = some guy acting like a big smartass about wine
[12:00] <Lokanas> This menu looks fucking godlike
[12:00] <jiyunaMOS> so he asks to taste two different wines
[12:00] <@bellreisa> winetasting is lols
[12:00] <jiyunaMOS> i go to the bar, get 2 of the same wine, and bring them back
[12:00] <Forte> ROFL
[12:00] <Lokanas> looool
[12:00] <Lokanas> ^5
[12:00] <jiyunaMOS> the guy goes on a big rant about how the 2nd wine is so much better
[12:00] <jiyunaMOS> etc etc
[12:00] <jiyunaMOS> im just laughing in my head
[12:00] <Forte> you shouldve DECANTERED
[12:00] <@bellreisa> i read an article about how it's all a bunch of bullshit and the tasters just make shit up based on preconceived notions and expectations
[12:00] <jiyunaMOS> yes bellreisa
[12:01] <jiyunaMOS> also open to suggestion
[12:01] <@bellreisa> yeah
[12:01] <jiyunaMOS> like 4 of us will sit here and taste wine
[12:01] <jiyunaMOS> and ill say "i taste coffee"
[12:01] <jiyunaMOS> hey me too!
[12:01] <jiyunaMOS> oh yeah me too!
[12:01] <@bellreisa> same wine in cheap bottle vs expensive looking bottle
[12:01] <@bellreisa> first wine = cheap scrub shit
[12:01] <@bellreisa> second = WINECHAMP
[12:01] <Lokanas> There's actually technique to wine tasting properly
[12:01] <Lokanas> But actual taste is like
[12:01] <Lokanas> 20% of the whole deal
[12:02] <Lokanas> Which is why most people can't do it for shit
[12:02] <DaKamui> trying to sophistacted
[12:02] <jiyunaMOS> it just pisses me off when people try to look cool
[12:02] <jiyunaMOS> and others are too stupid to call them out
[12:02] <Lokanas> Yeah that is kinda dumb
[12:02] <@bellreisa> i read an article yesterday about how they apparently proved hfcs produces fat
[12:02] <@bellreisa> like beyond doubt
[12:03] <Lokanas> When they tested us on wine tasting we were allowed to narrow it down to 4 different things
[12:03] <Lokanas> Because nobody gets that shit pinpoint
[12:03] <jiyunaMOS> like we had this one bottle of super tuscan
[12:03] <jiyunaMOS> that was mislabeled in the wine list
[12:03] <jiyunaMOS> it was the wrong vintage
[12:03] <@bellreisa> super tuscan is a hilarious name
[12:03] <Forte> jiyuna you have to be this guy
[12:03] <Forte> http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kami_no_shizuku/v01/c001/19.html
[12:03] <@bellreisa> down in the cellar, it's a merlot, no it's a sherry
[12:03] <jiyunaMOS> BUT the vintage we had was 2004, which was like a gdlk year for super tuscan
[12:03] <@bellreisa> it's SUPER TUSCAN
[12:03] <jiyunaMOS> so this guy was giving us hell
[12:04] <jiyunaMOS> I WANTED THE 2005 BOTTLE! YOUR LIST SAID 2005!
[12:04] <jiyunaMOS> I KNOW SUPER TUSCAN, I KNOW WINE, ETC ETC
[12:04] <jiyunaMOS> ...then why you want 2005 nigga
[12:04] <Tonberry> lol
[12:04] <Lokanas> loool
[12:04] <jiyunaMOS> and his table is just like
[12:04] <jiyunaMOS> "ooooooooooooh hes so smart about wine"
[12:04] <jiyunaMOS> like the 2004 of this bottle costs 3x as much
[12:04] <jiyunaMOS> but we were selling it at the shitty 2005 bottle price
[12:05] <jiyunaMOS> lol Forte
[12:05] <jiyunaMOS> that pic always makes me laugh
[12:05] <Lokanas> DECANTERING FROM SUCH A HEIGHT
[12:06] <jiyunaMOS> because you're supposed to do it close to the decanter
[12:06] <Forte> DECANTERING FROM SUCH A HEIGHT
[12:06] <jiyunaMOS> so you can use a candle/light and stop when you see the sediment
[12:06] <jiyunaMOS> this guy is just trolling
[12:07] <jiyunaMOS> lolllllll this manga
[12:07] <jiyunaMOS> http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kami_no_shizuku/v01/c001/21.html people on the left = all of my customers

NEC X in a nutshell

I sort of wanted to write a long post about NEC X but honestly Rithli does it better in this movie than I could ever do.
This is why I play these games, and probably, while I'll keep playing them.