It's raining cats! It was raining pretty hard earlier, so I scribbled this up. Dogs are kinda boring though, so I modified reality to suit my desires.
I actually had an elaborate Tenshi/PSO crossover flash planned, but thanks to a tag-team effort by PSU and TVTropes, I ended up not actually getting around to anything until about a half hour ago, lol. So I just stole more ideas from other Flash peoples. I'll write my own actionscript one day, honest! XD
So yeah, ended up doing much more PSU than PSO over the past few days since I almost forgot I had bought the expansion pack 'Ambition of the Illuminus', which has the entire Episode 2 of the Story mode available for Offline play. Episode 3 is still online, and judging by PSU's vigorous community, I doubt there'll be another expansion pack to let me play through that, haha. Ah well. At least I'll get to hunt for Rare Lewtz and watch all my NPC partners get hopelessly dumbfounded by the subtle differences between solid rock, boiling magma, and open doorways while I'm getting my arse handed to me by everything on this side of Moatoob. *dies*
There's also a bridging motion comic called Shadow of the Arkguard that links Episodes 1 and 2 that I found here. It clears up a few of those important plotpoints that authors opt not to add into the actual story, assuming their readerbase has psychic powers. You know the type. It's not anything spectacular, but it's not too bad either.
Oh neat, I just realized the 4th of July is this Saturday. Maybe I can watch some Windows Media Center visualizations and pretend they're fireworks or something. I certainly won't have any need to imitate the sounds though, lol.
Hahaha, after reading a doujin about Rumia, one thing led to another and I decided to try something more random than usual. There's a bit more to this flash than you might think at first. ^_~
Anyway, Higurashi Rei ep 4 was finally subbed! Thanks a bunch to the ASR group. Unfortunately, even if I haven't played the visual novels, I can tell there was alot left out of this arc, despite it being the majority of Rei. It still managed to retain a fair amount of weight, I'll give it that, especially this episode. I was a fair bit surprised at exactly how it turned out after the first two episodes. Well, just one more episode of Higurashi left forever (probably) T_T In August, we'll get the one-ep summation of Hirukowashi-hen, or the Daybreak Chapter. Granted, there's still a bunch of other arcs that weren't animated, I doubt they will be, if they only bothered to devote 5 episodes to Higurashi Rei. Ah well, I shouldn't be too depressed, the first episode of Umineko airs next week after all. ^___^
Also, I did manage to find Manazashi, the Higurashi Rei ED. It's a very peaceful theme, I like it alot. It's no Why or Why Not, but it still keeps a good feel to it.
Also, I ran across this the other day. Read it. I don't think I can add anything to that.
Since I'm trying to save some of my video games to alleviate boredom at college, (particularly my last few DS games) I started poking things in PSO yet again. I figure I can at least get this Redria Racaseal up from Normal to Ultimate mode so I can figure out why I made her (heh). I might also dabble in offline PSU as well, although I think I nixed my save files, so I have to deal with more Ethan before I get to unlock Extra mode. >___> I thought about switching it up with Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles too, but I think I'll save that one for now in case I ever actually meet someone who wants to play that with me. (haha) They really need to add an expanded version of the original FFCC into the series. I don't mind all the other games, but the DS ones aren't nearly as fun, and the Wiiware ones are kinda retarded. Ah well, maybe The Crystal Bearers will be an intensely epic game.
Dreams do funny things huh? In an interesting note, my roommates genderswapped after the rumble through the airport shopping center/security checkpoint, but they didn't really do anything after then so I didn't draw them. But yeah, the whole campus was decked out in Cardboard Victorian, it was pretty intense. I also went ahead and threw up Rei's profile, since she's inevitably going to be showing up more.
Anyway, Super Scription of Data finally came out today! That's the Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Rei opening, which is sung by Shimamiya Eiko and created from awesome, as are almost all of her songs. No sign of subs for Higurashi Rei Ep 4 yet, but today was the actual release for Episode 4 I think, so hopefully they won't be too much longer. >_> The ending theme, Manazashi, also hasn't shown up on Youtube that I've seen, though it was also supposed to come out today.
Nothing else really that I can think of, other than this awesome U.N. Owen was her? mix vid using Idolm@ster. :3
Not really, but I couldn't resist using those quotes. XD I think I'm going to settle into a 2/3 day update cycle, because it's really too bothersome to do this too much. I might even have to slack back a bit when I get into heavy work at school, but hey, you never know.
I seem to have identified my computer's internet dying issue being linked to our router, so I'm not going to reformat or anything after all. At least I'm not playing FFXI anymore, it was most annoying with that. Now it's mainly just a minor inconvenience for a few minutes while I go back to my DS :D
I finally did it, I beat a Touhou game on normal mode! Granted it's the Touhou 12 Undefined Fantastic Object Demo, which only has three stages, but I beat it nonetheless! XD The UFO system is kinda awkward though (only get RED ufos! D:), and Kogasa and Ichirin are two of the hardest early stage bosses I've faced off with in the series so far, only Yuugi has given me that much trouble pre-stage 4 before. Of course, when the full game is released later this summer, it'll probably pwn my arse, but SHHHHH.
Speaking of summer, it began today! Hooray! /wrists
For the past couple days, instead of actually doing anything productive (except testing on my interbutt issue), I opted to read about 240 chapters of Rave Master. Which is pretty awesome, if a bit cliche. 'Twas bound to happen though, since Fairy Tail is made of apple juice and win. It also looks like the translator is quite active, and the remainder might be done by the end of the summer, woo! so one fewer entry in my pool of manga. Of course, I also need to get around to watching the 51 episode anime sometime too... >_>
You can listen to the nonexistent bells that Saffy obviously set up here. Sheesh, she's such a problematic child (though quite a marvelous toy ;D)
Phoenix Wright is pretty dang fun, it's been like 6 months since I started Trials and Tribulations, so I kinda eventually forgot. XD Picked it up again a couple days ago and explosively got my way through the rest of the trials over two days. I liked T&T alot, which is good, because Justice for All was kinda lacking for a Phoenix Wright game. Also, the final case of T&T is probably my favorite case of the GBA games, pretty neat stuff in there. It wasn't quite as good as the fifth case of the first game, but that one was too awesome to surpass. But who knows? I've got Apollo Justice plugged into my DS already, maybe something in this game will push the limits of legal awesome. Also, apparently the fifth Ace Attorney game is supposed to be out by the end of the year, and starring everyone's favorite Edgey. Can't wait to see how that one ends up too. :3
Anywho, I finished up Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There on Tuesday, and I do say that I liked the stories. They were simple, childish, and quite dream-like in quality. Although, I'll admit my own dreams are a good deal less coherant, but that's because my brain likes to play tricks on me, like sentences will be completely different every time I read them. Alice is lucky in that regard, she was able to remember the poem about the Jabberwocky. But yes, a great deal of silliness and tomfoolery abounds in both Wonderland and the Looking-Glass world. I'd love to visit myself, where things are both so literal and obscure that it's certainly a wonder anything gets thought at all! There is one part of the books that bothers me though. Alice's forehead. In the illustrations, they really should have given her bangs. >_>
I've actually been watching/reading an anime/manga recently that draws heavily on the characteristics of Carroll's books, that being Pandora Hearts. Interestingly enough, while their Alice seems to be similarly innocent as Alice herself, the character Oz Vessalius acts very much more like Alice. After all, neither really get too alarmed in their current situations, ending up just accepting the extraordinary as reality. Of course, if anyone in the anime's to use the term 'Curiouser and curiouser', I'd imagine it'd be Break, but that's because he's the show's Mad Hatter, and also Hisoka without the pedo part, haha.
One last note, the best line of the books was at the very end of Chapter IX of Through the Looking-Glass. Alice says "'I'll shake you into a kitten, that I will!'" And she does. That right there is just awesome.
I got a haircut! Wow! Not really a cut, more a trim to take out the 30,000 dead and split ends and whatnot, but wow! Normally, one wouldn't make a note of this, but I get a haircut like every 2 years, so... XD
Episode 4 of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Rei is out, huzzah! Unfortunately it's not been subbed yet, and Episode 5 is still 2 months off... but Ep4 is out huzzah! :D
Also, a preview for the Umineko no Naku Koro Ni anime next month has come out :3
It's still being done by Studio Deen, but they've improved quite a bit since they first started Higurashi back in 2006. I dunno about any of you, but I'm looking forward to this tons and tons more than even the rest of Season 2 of Suzumiya Haruhi. =DDD For those of you unfamiliar with Umineko, here's a little taste, heehee.
No flashblog today, I was much too busy not doing anything to come up with something of wit. Instead, I give you the luminous gift of dance!
So yeah, I ended up not paying attention to the image size of the first Rin Dance, and it ended up being kinda big, so I think the host took it down or it hit a bandwidth cap or something. XD I'll try reuploading it and only linking to it this time, hopefully that will keep it up, yes? XD
I didn't draw that myself obviously, that would take both talent and work. I got them from this video. The video itself is kinda off, but I'm not one to question the groove of the Rin. That's actually how I spent most of the afternoon, going from vid to vid on Youtube looking for neat stuff. Most of it's crap, but every so often I get something quite awesome. For example.
This one I made! Can you tell? :3 Orin again, stepdancing! I hadn't actually planned on devising two separate Orin dancing flashes, but then I stumbled across this version of 'Corpse Voyage ~ Be of Good Cheer!', and after spending the next hour in a deadlock between Subterranian Animism music and Irish stepdancing, how could I not make this? XD
In less interesting news, I finally got around to reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (I've only had the book sitting around for a month or so, haha) It was actually quite interesting despite the short length. I'll probably go ahead and read Through the Looking-Glass tomorrow sometime and then talk about them both together in my next entry.
To close off, I'll give you one more video, that's just puréed defenestrated awesome. =3
vagrant Divagation started out as me being bored one day and messing around in Flash after spending way too much time on the interbutt. After no less than three years of grueling hardships, I somehow learned how to do unfathomable tricks like what you've seen here. I don't know how long this'll end up lasting, but as long as I don't find something more interesting to do, I'll probably keep this up. Be warned, I reference obscure things almost as much as I divide the 6th dimesion by 0, so expect to be confused every so often, or at least aware that parts of the flash are screaming past you in bullet time.
The name 'vagrant Divagation' just came from me spending an hour with a thesaurus looking for cool words that essentially meant 'random', haha.
For those silly people who get confused when I add new characters and disregard the need to actually name them for the general public, I present the Character Profiles! Brought to you fully animated and in TECHNICOLOR~!
I'll add new stuff every 1-2 new characters that are introduced, depending on how lazy I am. =D
So yeah, I woke up Wednesday morning, only to be greeted with the fact the internet was down, and the culprit ended up being a power supply failure in our Router or something. Took 2 days to get one out, and I had to spend it starved across the rugged badlands of the gray world. Actually, I just ended up playing Twilight Princess on the Wii a ton, so yeah. All that other stuff happened too. It was really intense.
Since I had a lot less internet stalking to do, I went ahead and finished up the Character Profile stuff too, I'll put that up tomorrow and update it periodically whenever I add someone else to the inanity.
Speaking of Zelda, Twilight Princess is just kinda weird on Wii. There's little actual thrusting and slashing of the remote, so much as just waving it when you want to hit something. This leads to me using jump and spin attacks more often, and also blindly running around enemies holding the clawshot unaware I haven't drawn my sword yet. Fun! The reverse-world isn't as bad as I thought it might be, since for some reason my memory of Twilight Princess is very hazy, like I don't recall much in the game until I get near that point. Very handy for the dungeons I guess. Overall I think I'll stick to GCN version when I replay this in the future though, it just feels better. Also, I'm cutting my Zelda span short. Dropping Phantom Hourglass and the Oracles, and probably LttP as well, just because I'm bored already, haha.
Bwahahaha. I did get lazy again though, but that's how I am and what I do! One day I'll come up with flashes that don't need complicated dance routines to convey a powerful message, but first I need another cucumber.
Phantasmagoria of Flower View translation patch is out now, hooray! And just as I expected, Cirno's stage dialogue wins the game, you don't even need to fight Yamada, the ⑨ is just too powerful, hahaha. Now I can actually understand what they're saying in all the Windows shooter Touhou games! Well, except Undefined Fantastic Object, but that's still at Demo and the full version won't be released until sometime this summer. I wonder what kind of psycho killer lolis we'll get this time, haha.
Speaking of Touhou, I finally graduated from Easy Mode! Just for fun (read:massochism) I decided to try Perfect Cherry Blossom again yesterday, and after a few stupid deaths, somehow my dodging ability bordered EPIC when I got to Yuyuko. Which is crazy, because she's the reason I always needed to use multiple continues, haha. Well, onto full normal mode! No wins yet, but I've reached the final boss in 3 games before exploding, so it's an eventuality (probably).
Also, since I'll probably gradually start using more peoples in my flashes, I guess I should put up a Character Page or something? That would be good, maybe I'll get to it this weekend. Of course, I won't include one-shots like Link, Gannondorf, Bunny Gannon, Yukari or Selphie, but I'll probably throw in characters that aren't mine if I end up using them often. Because I said so. Yeah. *puts foot down*
I was going through my bookmarks earlier today trying to see how many non-completed manga I'm reading, and came out to 24 series. I'm insane, even if half a dozen are on hiatus, that's still alot. Also amusing, before I tried to figure out how many I had, I was at 21. Distractions are awesome.
I spruced up the sidebar a bit so there's actually stuff there now. Well, sort of. It's all relatively useless atm, but I'm sure it'll prove invaluable down the road, right? Right?
Nothing really to talk about. Lazy summer days and all that. Ignore the fact that summer is still half a month away.
Anyway, so as it's obvious, Square unveiled FFXIV at E3, a new MMO slated for next year. No real connection to FFXI other than the races (which are going to be a bit different too). Anyway, most of it was prerendered stuff, but there was a few scenes using the Crystal Tools ingame engine. The pic of the shield magic on the boat is ingame stuff. No idea what the actual gameplay is going to look or even be like, Square likes being tight-lipped about everything. But yeah, I just beat/quit FFXI like 3 weeks ago too. This isn't fair! T_T
As for the rest of E3, it was pretty good. Nintendo's show was kinda lame, although some of the new games (Zelda Wii next year!) and more focus on the Wii Motion Plus makes me excited for what's to come. Sony had an AMAZING freaking show and I need a PS3 and PSP like yesterday. Seriously. I might get PSP by the end of the year, though not the PSPGo, I think I'd prefer to have physical media. PS3's too expensive without any kind of income though >_> I'll have to wait until at the absolute least next summer, probably later. Also, Square's got a new action game called Nier coming soon. It looks intense. Check it out.
Something I've been noticing recently while I sit down to work on these things...mice suck. Alot. Like I try to draw a one inch horizontal line and end up with something that looks like a violent struggle took place across a hundred years of the barren wastes of Bradwen's forehead. Yeesh. I'd like to get a tablet, but there's that money thing again, such a pain. Maybe I'll see if I can get one as my Christmas present this year or something.
Sidenote: trying to regulate sleeping habits is pain in the arse.
Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Rei episode 3 is out! Hooray! It's actually been out for like a week now, but SHHHH. Anyway, thank goodness Episode 4's going to be out in only 1 month (as opposed to 2) since Rika's about to I don't even know, and I must find out! Must! BLRAFGAGDSAGSB. I mean, I had heard Saikoroshi-hen was going to be a bit weird, but it's like almost 60's suburbian town weird. Rawr, Episode 4 is the conclusion to the Arc, and Ep 5 will be Hirukowashi-hen, which I'm super-looking forward to as well. Damn you for being so awesome Higurashi! And wanna know what else happens that's super awesome in a month? UMINEKO NO NAKU KORO NI! WOOO! XD Finally! I've been wanting to learn more about that ever since it came out, but I'm too lazy to learn Japanese yet, and the manga scanlaters apparantly ditched it after a few chapters. Lame. At least a group seems to have picked back up the Watanagashi-hen manga, though it's a bit slow, it's something. Got a long way ahead of them though. XD
Anyway, today I actually gave up on the idea I had for the animation sequence at the end, I think it's a bit too far above my level atm. -_-; I wanted to have their arms bobbing up and down while running (with Mika's cleaver-arm bobbing noticably more violently :DDD) but that started getting into pathing and stuff I can't even start figuring out. The feet alone took a while to do, although there's probably something I don't know about that would've made that alot quicker. Blarg. Maybe I'll get lucky and one of my early CompSci classes will have alot of Flash stuff, or I'll befriend someone who spends all their free time making crap for Newgrounds or something, haha.
E3 started today! I'm kinda excited, although that's mainly because I wanna see more about FFXIII, Rapture and whatever Nintendo's going to melt our brains with next. Today seemed to mainly be the Microsoft press release (Sony and Nintendo are tomorrow). It's funny, because they came out there like they had the best shit in the world, and that nothing could possibly be better than an Xbox360. At all. Ever. Nevermind 90% of what they showed I can do on my PC better, and their big announcement (I didn't see it, but Katy told me about it some) was essentially the Eyetoy II. El-Oh-El. Because that went so well when Sony did it what 10 years ago?
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