Boing~

So yeah, I didn't feel like actually thinking of something, so I made Mika bounce around. Drag and release to toss her, and use arrow keys to resize and rotate. Fun fun XD

OH GAWD MIND FUCK! I have *no* idea what the crap is going on in Umineko right now. Is everyone dead? Did they revive? Is this heaven, an illusion, or the inside of a delicious chocolate cake? I have absolutely no clue anymore, and while I love it, the week-long wait is painful for something like this. XD

Dead Fantasy 5 debuted on Tuesday, so check it out if you've been too lazy to get it yourself!


The link to GameTrailers.

Lots of 'Holy crap Tifa!' to be had here, haha. Not sure where he's taking this, or what's become of the other 5 girls, but we'll see that eventually I guess? Like I said before, this is the last of this set for Dead Fantasy, so don't expect Part VI until some time next year.

I've actually been spending way too much time watching videos and reading stuff about Dissidia: Final Fantasy over the past couple days (coincidentally part of the reason I didn't make a comic, lol), and I'm pretty stoked for it. I haven't heard any terrible English voice actors, which is a breath of relief, though we don't have all the characters yet. I've no clue who's going to be replacing Hayashibara Megumi for Shantotto, but they'd better do a damn good job, as Megumi's the main reason I didn't nerd-rage over the fact that they dropped Prishe (The original rep from FFXI) in favor of Shantotto. Prishe better be in Dissidia 2 though, I wanna Dropkick me some gods. XD

Oh my!

You shouldn't go outside unless you are certified to handle bears. And catgirls. They can get you with but a moment's notice.

Anyway, so I found and downloaded a working copy of Immaterial and Missing Power, and I still don't know why people like it more than Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, lol. It's probably because I suck at fighting games in general, so I wouldn't know all the subtleties like the infinite combos and the cancels and all that junk. I just figure out how to hit someone and then do, and then proceed to spam the same few moves over until they're not effective anymore, then I find new moves! :D I did somehow manage to beat Story Mode (on Easy, lol) with Reimu, Marisa and Sakuya, so I've got all the characters unlocked now if I ever decide to spend any length of time with the game.

What I DID spend absurd amounts of time playing was Higurashi DAYBREAK. Geez, why did I never download this game before? Haha. It's kinda clunky and the loading times are noticably slow, but I don't think I've had that much fun with a fighting game since like 5-6 years ago when I got Super Smash Brothers Melee on my Gamecube. I got the expansion too, so there's Natsumi and Hanyuu, and all sorts of other weapons and outfits. Favorite characters so far are Rena (of course XD) with her Giant Cleaver, and she constantly talks in Psycho-mode with that weapon. Also Natsumi with her knife. I'm not quite used to her yet since she's quick, but if you connect with a full charge attack, holy crap! She tackles the victim and sits on them, then goes on a yandere stabbing spree. <3 And of course, there's Hanyuu who's always talking about cream puffs, though I don't use her much because I suck with her. Higurashi is so awesome. Maybe if I'm lucky I can find a person or two to play against while I'm at college, after I learn to not suck. XD

This week's photo didn't come out how I wanted, I suppose I need a few more weeks to level up my Photography skill again. =/


The theme this time was "Pieces of the Night", although I wasted two days on the concept because I read it wrong as "Pisces of the Night", haha. I spent some time trying out different spots and driving around the area, as well as doing slow shutterspeeds to try to get taillight blurs. Of course, that last part didn't work, I should've brought my tripod, though I didn't think of it at the time, ah well. Interestingly enough, I've learned my camera tends to make pictures kind of grainy in both very high-light and very low-light situations, so I should keep that in mind when conceptualizing for future shots. I didn't think I'd be missing the capabilities of my Mamiya so soon. XD

No sign of Dead Fantasy 5 yet, might be a day or two late because of Comic Con I suppose.

Got an idea of how much I need for Books for the fall now, though it looks like I can only get secondhand copies of my English books. The Calculus ones still aren't listed yet though, so that a bit of a pain.

Water Country USA sounds pretty rad right about now...

MONDAY NIGHT

So yeah, Touhou 12.3 was announced the other day, and so far we just have those three characters confirmed. I'm definitely looking forward to it, because Cirno is hilarious and one of my favorite characters. Still, no real info on it other than it'll be a fighting game, even whether it'll use IaMP or SWR's fighting styles. Not that that means anything to me, since I haven't played IaMP I don't know what's different about it. I've heard we might even see as many as 4 new characters make an appearance too, teamed up with the full version of Undefined Fantastic Object it's like a jamboree next month. XD As for the 12.3 part, I've no idea if that means another side game is in planning between UFO and TH13, or if ZUN just wanted 1-2-3, but I guess it'll be a while before we'd actually know.

Umineko holy shit. I mean, we're only 4 episodes in and we're almost out of characters. And Umineko doesn't do the time-reset thing Higurashi does. I know there's some more characters we haven't seen, but I've no idea where they would come from with the typhoon and all. I mean, I figured at least those two would survive, since they very much seemed important, but Beatrice apparantly didn't think so. O_o; I did like the Rena reference when Kanon went and started swinging around the billhook though, haha.

Sorry about the delay~

Animals are a pain in the arse to work with. Geebus. I had to basically scrap every idea I could come up with because cats will never cooperate with you when you want them to. So I just said screw it and tossed a beanie baby on Tara, haha. Theme from Rei was 'All creatures great and small.'

It's also National Ice Cream month!

There are like holidays pratically every day of the year. This calls for a celebration! Today's National Junk Food Day! I had some Pizza Rolls earlier, so I think that counts, right?

Anyway, following up from last week, Dead Fantasy 4 is out now. More action, more explosions, though it's over alot quicker than the last one. Certainly worth a look though.


The link to GameTrailers.

Cloud's totally a woman, lol. Part 5 (the last for now) should be out next Monday, and maybe wrap up this mini-arc? No telling until then I guess. XD

Anyway, somehow, someway I managed to eke out 6 more clears in Shoot the Bullet, bringing me to the coveted 66 and unlocking EX mode! Where I was promptly discombobulated by everyone, oh yay! Haha, it's not earth-shattering difficult, although there are 3 I wasn't able to get more than a single photo on. Surprisingly, I already managed to beat one of Flandre's spellcards, "Taboo 'Forbidden Games'". Aya's quote she made after the win is probably one of the best I've seen in the game thus far too. "I was fairly sure vampires were weak to the cross symbol, but it doesn't seem like it. She just came out and played with it..." Hahaha. Also, this morning I managed my first true victory in Touhou Normal Mode, beating Phantasmagoria of Flower View with Aya of all people. Probably so used to her due to my overplaying of Shoot the Bullet, haha. After countless times of Shikieiki kicking my arse right at the end with Unlimited Bullet Works, when I finally beat her I hadn't even been hit once in the round, talk about luck. XD

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, I'm unable to present the photo assignment for today yet. I'm hoping to get everything worked out tonight so I can throw up the photo tomorrow morning though. If you see this Rei, you can go ahead and come up with this week's assignment if you like.

Saw The Spirit last night, which was surprisingly good, despite not being about stallions. Needed more Red Tie though, that think had the potential to be almost as cool as Shinobi's scarf, lol. I'm unfamiliar with the source material, so based on the movie itself I'd give it an 8. Quite good, but seemed awkward or rushed here and there.

Watched the first two episodes of Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, and it more or less keeps the same disjointed style from the other seasons, so I guess I can just kick back and enjoy the next 11 episodes as they come out. Maybe we'll actually get plot and discover this mysterious dark side of Kafuka, haha.

And a minor update on Touhoumon LUNATIC. Holy shit is this game grindy. I'm trying to work up to ~Lv70 just to do the Rocket Base in Celadon City, something you could normally easily sweep through at 30. At least the Bridge of Hell Trainers mostly stayed and can be VS. Seeker'd, as the highest wild Touhou I've seen is Lv20. >_>;

Blarg

Summer is pretty boring tbh. And hot. A water park sounds good about now, but that requires both people and effort, and blarg. Maybe in August sometime? I'unno. Maybe this time I won't get heat stroke and die, haha.

First up (and it's about time, haha), Dead Fantasy III has *finally* been released!


The link to GameTrailers.

Not only that, but is seems Dead Fantasy 4 and 5 are finished (or just about) as well, and should be out withing the next few weeks. DF6 is still a long way off though. XD There's a bunch of footage of the next two floating around already since Monty Oum presented all three incomplete at a few cons up until now, so be wary about clicking related video links if you don't want spoilers. :3

Also it seems I lied about taking an extended break from Shoot the Bullet, as I've instead been playing quite a lot of it lately. As a result, I've now cleared 60 stages, putting me a mere 6 away from getting my face completely obliterated in EXTRA mode, haha. I'm not sure how much more I can force out right now, since I've done every one I can get close to completion on, and Youmu is a bitch. Seriously.

And WOW, I can't believe it took me this long to realize, though I blame the fact I haven't watched Slayers in years aside from Revolution/Evolution-R and Xelloss didn't have a very large part at all there. But anyway, Xerxes Break in Pandora Hearts is voiced by Ishida Akira, in his lovable creepishly eccentric character who knows far more than he should about what's going on. Basically, Xelloss/Shinkohyo/whoever is in Pandora Hearts as the Mad Hatter, and it's probably my favorite character of that group, although Shinkohyo is quite close.

Saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the other day. The movie...wasn't that great. It spent way too much time with the teen drama stuff, and not nearly enough time with the meat of the plot, despite alot of it being Harry's inner thoughts. Ironically, it *didn't* include the infamous Harry/Ginny scene after the Quiddich match near the end of the book, but whatever. As Erik pointed out to me, it's quite a letdown of a movie, especially since they made us wait for such an extra length of time for it. Well, maybe they'll get the last one right? *flips a coin*

Gotta catch 'em all!

Holy ever loving crap. Touhoumon LUNATIC is no joke. Like, right now I have a full team of Lv28 Touhou, and Brock still managed to kick my arse. Granted, it was his last Touhou (and it hacks so bad ><), but still, when you could sweep the original Brock with a Lv13 Bulbasaur. XD I don't really show it here, but Viridian Forest is a nightmare too, not really because of the trainers (there's only a handful, and only the last one is challenging) but because it's a giant maze, completely dark and you don't get Flash, and raining. One wrong jump off a ledge and you have to figure out your way back to the beginning (or at least, quite a ways) before you can even start working your way through again. I think I finally got through after an hour of bumping around. And I hear Mt. Moon is worse. WONDERFUL! *dies*

There is a good part though, while I had to give up my Chibi Flandre to try picking one that could evolve and stand up to the crazy arse trainers, I later found a wild EX Flandre looking for a Chibi Kirisame! And her attack is through the roof compared to the rest of my team! XD To make training slightly less painful, they give you 3 Lucky Eggs right at the start too. For those of you worried about the 'Part I', it's probable that I'll make another few about this game later on if I don't come up with anything else. It is a long game though, aside from practically requiring training multiple Lv100 teams, it contains the entirety of Kanto, Sevii Islands, and Johto apparantly. Well, I'll get into more later I guess. Back to freaking BROCK. -_-;

I probably forgot to mention this because I tend to forget about that manga outside of release days, but Fairy Tail is getting an anime this fall! It's the next work by Mashima Hiro, the guy who made Rave Master/Groove Adventure Rave for those who haven't heard of it. And in alot of ways I like it more. Although before this fall season I really need to catch up on anime at some point. >_> I'm months behind on Bleach due to constant intermittent shitty fillers, One Piece due to lack of stable fansubbers, and Gintama due to infrequent releases. I also need to get around to watching Hayate no Gotoku, Rave Master, and possibly Shuffle (I've heard this one's good, but the beginning is just really lame. Needs moar yandere.) And to top it off, staying current with Pandora Hearts, Umineko, and Haruhi (after they freaking stop Endless Eight). AND it looks like a new season of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei came out, so I'll have to check that out. So yeah. Geez. I guess I could probably catch up on Bleach and Gintama, but who knows with the rest of them.

To end the news no one cares about, I finally upgraded to Firefox 3. Doesn't really feel any different, a few things here and there, and the updated skin I got looks a good bit better. I lost Perapera-kun though, so I guess the trade-off's even.