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Halloween is pretty awesome! Except when you can't really do it properly. Hopefully I can fix this unfortunate circumstance whenever they let me into the apartments.

I figured out the source of the floating heads of sillyness in Oblivion! It seems that the TNR NNC merged mod wasn't behaving right and tried to clothe a ton of NPCs with clothes that didn't exist. So I got rid of that and replaced it with NPC New Clothes v2.6 and TNR All Races Final. Now everything's shiny! And I can get all the new clothing too, though that requires messing around with all the additional mods OR just killing the people who wear what I want, lol. Dunno if I want any of it that much yet..

College is continuing to be a pain in the arse, and I have 3 exams within a week. (Still have Calc on Tuesday) CompSci's was pretty easy stuff, except I probably got two or three wrong because I didn't bother looking at vocabulary, haha. Physics pissed me off though, since I basically lost 25% on it because 1 question was so freaking weird I didn't even know where to start. Blarg, I hope I did all the rest right so I at least get a C. >___>;

This week's topic was "People as Places as People". I think Rei told me all of these assignments are song titles. She must listen to some really weird stuff. Of course I'm one to talk, with like 6 remixes of 'Corpse Voyage ~ Be of Good Cheer!' on my MP3 player, haha.


I finally got to go to the RenFaire on the last day! Sort of... I overslept, so I started driving there around 1:10ish, and didn't actually walk into the Faire until after 3:30. Holy crap, there were too many cars. Anyway, got to hang out with Cat a bunch and bother Rei, and saw the Hypnotist show that I hadn't stopped in for before. It was quite funny, since one of the hypnotees were flopping around on the ground alot. I looked at some shops, but nothing in particular caught my eye. That was probably half because I'm poor and half because I couldn't even get at several of the shops. Holy crap people.

Saturday I did an informal photo shoot for Nerd to the Third. Was kinda fun and silly, although I had to balance a camera and mirror in addition to my poses of justice, since I wasn't able to get any lighting equipment. I think they turned out fairly well, other than a couple focus problems and "Holy crap the room is yellow". Afterward I got to run around with Cat's video camera trying to film their podcast when they were all sitting in completely different spots in the house, fun times! Especially when they kept going back and forth and I had no idea who I should have the camera on and inevitably end up spinning in circles. I think the answer to that though is Caramelldansen, because that's the answer to everything.

If you haven't started watching DBZ Abridged, then you're seriously missing out on one of life's finer pleasures. Nappavoice is far more fun than it should be, especially when paired with a Vegeta.

Finally, watch this video. EVERYONE. Even if you don't like Touhou, it's far too awesome not to watch.

Moar Memes

This always happens somehow. I just don't know.

I beat another Touhou game on Normal! Granted it was Mountain of Faith with CHO MARISA, but it still counts! I even somehow did almost all of Kanoko's final spellcard without dying OR CHO POWAR! But then I kinda died then bombed then finished her off with Marisa's burly muscles anyway. I tried Extra stage a few times, and managed to get over halfway through Suwako, but I don't think I'll stand any chance at finishing it unless I figure out a better way to get through Moreya's Iron Ring. Ah well.

I reinstalled Oblivion earlier this week, and subsequently like 10GB of mods. Crazy stuff. I fixed most of the inconsistencies, but like half the townspeople are walking around without bodies. Literally just heads, hands and feet. It's not a major problem, but it was annoying how it refused to be diagnosed. Not sure where I'm going to start yet since I've been too busy to play past getting my feet wet and the water-breathing ring from Weye, maybe the Mage's or Fighter's Guild to wet my feet a bit and then onto the Lost Spires. Gotta remember to try out Shivering Isles this time too, heh.

Still doing good in classes. Kicked CompSci's arse yet again when I came out of nowhere and aced the Graphics Lab without being able to review it beforehand. I also got the Graphics package onto my computer, so I can do some proper playing with it and resume finishing all my work before it's assigned. :3 Physics is on the reverse side, becoming more and more a pain in the arse every week. We were informed *today* that she's collecting the last *two weeks* of homework on Friday by 8am, and if it's not neat enough to her liking, it's a 0. (Homework is normally submitted online) So I basically have to redo 2 weeks of Physics homework tomorrow night. I think I'll leave her a grade for the work she assigned in red ink on my paper to confuse her. But yeah, now I'm understanding why she's rated so low by students. I'm just gonna have to teach myself practically the rest of the material for the semester, as the lectures and discussions do a terrible job of it. I'll have to talk with my adviser to see if I should just drop this after the semester and get my science concentration from Chemistry. >___>;

For the Slayers-inclined: WUT?

New image Hooray!

The assignment (from a month ago XD) was "Percussion Gun". And since it was an ambiguous request, I submitted an ambiguous piece! Artistic license go! I actually almost forgot to take the picture, because I had taken it a few nights ago in my dreams. Fortunately the dream-shot was of a real place! So I walked over there and took more or less the same picture. Neato.

Sushi Friday! Kitteh Saturday! Rennfaire Sunday!(?) MC HAMMERPANTS GO!

Urameshiya!

I didid a comic! Aren't I speshul? Cookeez plz/

Anyway, I'm probably going to start updating somewhat regularly again, but because I generally take way too long to make these, I'm only going to be putting up 1-2 per week. During breaks I might make more, but for now I kinda need to do homework and junk. Yeah.

Anyway, UMBC is going fine. I'm getting A's and B's, and Compsci might be >100% by now with all the easy arse extra credit, heh. I'm actually getting good at programming in Python! And by 'good' I mean 'Programmer Lv3 out of 100+', haha. I haven't even touched graphics yet, though we're supposed to start that next week. Unfortunately I can't just do all the coding for those assignments on my computer, because they have some sort of special graphics module on the server. Bleh.

Other classes are going well. Physics and Calc are the B's, because of technicalities and physics sucks. But it's better than Bio and Chem, so I guess I'll just have to go find Mr. Newton and have a little discussion about his laws of motion and stuff. I know he did Calculus too, but this stuff is mostly derivatives so far, and thus, really easy. Psych and English are just there, neither are really interesting, though I just have to pass the semester.

As for the campus itself, it's kinda boring. Then again, I'm a social recluse being forced in a triple with two guys I don't like, and no one on this side of the floor knows how to STFU before 2am, so that might affect my mood a little bit. Of course, I can just plug my MP3 player into my skull and everything magically goes away, so yay!

I beat Lotus Land Story! I really have no idea how, but I tried it on Easy since I don't play the PC98 games much, and I 1cc'd the whole thing with like 5 spare lives. That one's kinda easy heh. I tried Mystic Square after that, but I was getting pwned from the Stage 4 boss duo onward, and finally died at Shinki. As for the games I actually play, I've cleared several more shots in Shoot the Bullet, bringing me down to 8 total left. I've also almost cleared Subterranean Animism on Normal with ReimuA. Lots and lots of practice against Yuugi and Satori went a long way, and I beat Orin and got all the way to Okuu! Who then nuclear-blasted me in the face with her first spellcard. >_< Ah well, it was much further than I expected to get, and now I can practice Stage 5 (Which is not as bad as people make it seem, you just have to actually move around the screen more than usual.)

For normal video games, I just beat FFIV a few days ago...and it wasn't that great. I guess nostalgia makes things seem better than they were. All of the characters are really boring, they just have cool outfits. Maybe that'll change when I play through FFIV: After Years, but I don't know when that's going to be, because I really don't like playing my Wii or PS2 in here (I'll probably take all that stuff home soon so it's not just sitting around.)

I also played through an RPG Maker-made game called Yume Nikki, and it's unofficial sequal, Yume 2kki. (pun squad!) It's an awesome psychological game that is just awesome. I don't even know how to describe it properly, other than it went on my Top 10 of all time almost instantaneously. It's a SNES-looking adventure game that takes place in some messed-up/awesome dream worlds. There's no real threat, since you can always just wake up, and there's no real purpose except collecting effects and exploring everything. Apparently it's not done, but it's updated only every few years, so I'm looking forward to whatever else this guy has in store.

Anime-wise Pandora Hearts and Zetsubou sensei finished (though the latter's had two unsubbed episodes for like a month =/) Higurashi Rei finally got the final awesome retarded episode subbed and Umineko continues to be pretty awesome. We're on Episode 3 of the game, can't wait for the end of this one when my favorite character shows up! :3 Series in current are: One Piece, Bleach, Gintama, Umineko, Ghost Hunt, and Railgun. I should finish up Ghost Hunt right in time for Halloween assuming I don't slack. =D

Speaking of Umineko, the full version of La Divina Tragedia ~Makyoku~ came out while I was on hiatus, here it be!

Pretty nice, though I still can't get 100% used to it.

I'd love to write more, but I don't want to. More whenever I get around to it. I'll probably resume with Adrienne's photo assignments next week as well.