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( RP journals )

( OH GODS I'M COVERED IN BEEEEEEEEEES )

Edit: AUUUUGHHHHH 1.5 hours worth of battling, powerup getting and more importantly, NOT DYING down the drain because of sudden LOL ACID WITH NO WAY OUT OF IT.

Okay so. Near my place, there's a shopping centre thing that's under renovation for more shops. For quite some time now, there've been signs up that there'll be an EB Games opening there! Well, today, I found out that they've just opened, so, naturally, I went down there to check it out. I was poking around the Wii and DS games sections, since my brother said to buy something I liked and send him the bill for my birthday, and spotted the collector's edition of the Metroid Prime Trilogy in it's extremely shiny glory.

It was $99.95.

I have never played a Metroid game for longer than 10 minutes.

... I bought it anyway.

I'm hoping it's well worth the cash, because I only had $5 left in my wallet. Afterwards, I went to the petrol station to refuel my car. I only wanted to fill up $20 worth, since I won't be driving around all that much these holidays. I get $50 from mum for the fuel since I'm so broke right now, so after I pay for the fuel, I put the change in my wallet, and when I get back in the car, I give her the money in my wallet. She checks the cash and says, "The guy gave us $5 extra change."

I look over, and sure enough, there's $35 change instead of the expected $30. So I go back to the guy at the cash register and hand him back the extra $5. The guy's (probably) manager gives me an appreciative look and a "Thanks for that!" and I cheerfully walk out and get back in my car.

I don't realise the mistake until I get home. The "extra" $5 was really the $5 I had left in my wallet after buying Metroid, and I'd given mum all the money in my wallet instead of just the change.

|||OTL foreverrr

Crap, unexpectedly have to entertain family (with Brawl?? This is actually more frustrating than it sounds). It also involves a lot of driving (WHY FREMANTLE, FAMILY??). Will be away from internet until Thursday-ish. Probably. /floats away

I'M FREE. FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I'LL NEVER HAVE TO DO RE 252 AGAIN ! \o/







Additionally, the Brawlening after exams was awesome fun \o/ It included gay moments that critical failed to take photos of. Brawl's awesomeness levels just shoots up like. 100x when you're camping someone's house to play. SMASH BALL SMASH BALL OMG MINE MINE MIIINE YES PEE KAYYY STARSTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM ♥ Of course, about half the times I died was because I fucked my recovery omg QQ. I NEED TO. LIKE. BLOCK MORE AND ROLL/DODGE LESS HHHH. Also, lol boss battles intense mode :| We got up to... 5 defeated, co-op Toon Link and Lucas /o\

I. SHOULD BE BACK IN RPING IN A MOMENT JUST AHHH HAVE TO SPEND TIME WITH DAD BEFORE HE LEAVES SO AHHH /flails forever oh god

Rule 1 of moving silently on creaky floorboards: walk where the nails are.

( Ten's brief talk on asexuality (now with more diagrams!) )

Finished the main game of PMD2. I'll write a more detailed thought thing when I finish post game stuff


PMD2: Explorers of the Sky final stats
Episode Bidoof and Episode Igglybuff complete, but Episode Sunflora and Episode Team Charm I didn't finish because I wanted to get the main game done. So no items from those two episodes.
No extra days to do guild jobs done, no taking side paths for levelling, no grinding. So basically, if there was a plot mission to be done, that was done immediately. Which amounts to about 4-6 days to actually take guild jobs. Yeah.

Guild Rank: Gold [1390 to next rank]
Play Time: 27:06:46 [includes time I put down the game and wandered off while it was left running]
Adventures: 37

Joshua [Bulbasaur]
Level: 37
HP: 120
Atk: 90
Def: 69
S.Atk: 74
S.Def: 64
Item: Power Band

Ness [Riolu]
Level: 37
HP 121
Atk: 77
Def: 66
S.Atk: 68
S.Def: 72
Item: Power Band

In between study for exams, I have been playing Brawl. Today I just spent a good hour or so playing around with PK Thunder.

And I have to say:

HOLY CRAP the distance you can get on that thing is insane. HHHHHH you can reach the ledge of Final Destination from off-screen both horizontally and vertically. Also, from the very bottom corner of the Battlefield map to the ledge. And I found out that if you angle it right, you can rocket up the (under)side of Final Destination as well FFFFFF. oh man it looks so pretty when you do that, especially since you're pretty much going UPSIDE DOWN to get to the edge eee. NEEDLESS TO SAY I have vastly improved from when I started playing Brawl, where I couldn't. even get their electricised sperm to hit Lucas/Ness in the ass, let alone make them go in the direction I want.

You'd also be amazed at how much a broken TV helps with timing PK Thunder when you can't see the bottom half of the screen half the time.

- stop playing Brawl

RE
lol history :|
1) Software Process
2) Requirements Determination
3) Fundamentals of Visual Modelling
4) Requirement Specification
5) Moving from Analysis to Design
6) System Architectural and Program Design
7) GUI Design
8) Persistence and Database Design
9) Quality and Change Management
CHAPTER 10 IS REVISION. MAYBE I SHOULD ACTUALLY DO THIS.

- STOP PLAYING BRAWL

IPE
Syntax errors
pointers <- THIS THIS THIS HHHH
logic errors
memory diagram
MAKE FILES OMG
I/O
LINKED LISTS/ADTs <- linked to pointers lol :|
recursion and stuff

- STOP PLAYING BRAWL

You know, I was all prepared to do a really long essay/gush about how awesome Shadow of the Colossus is and how incredibly immersive the game is and BAWWW the ending, but I am now tired and going to try to stop gaming and start studying :|

I am working on the tricks I owe people ! Turns out mediocre badfic is more difficult than flat-out badfic.

Tricks go here. NSFW, though one should be Not Safe For Brain
( For Levi )

( For Fushi )

( For That One Person Who Can't Stick To An LJ Name )

( For Fae )

Admittedly half the reason they weren't done yet is because I spent about 8 hours almost non stop playing Brawl. I think it was time well spent, but my eyeballs disagree with me. I am still hilari-bad at Brawl (the stupidest ways I have died, there are so many), but I'm definitely better at Brawl than I am at SSB. The characters I feel most comfortable playing at the moment are Peach, Pikachu, Bowser(!!), Lucas and Ness (but only in my ground game for the last two. I haven't got the timing for PK Thunder down yet, so I keep on shooting AWAY from the edge /facepalm).

I'm powering my way through Shadow of the Colossus. It's kind of interesting that travel time doesn't bother me nearly as much in this game than it would in another game. Because there is a lot of travel time when you hunt for the next Colossus. I think it might be because I treat Shadow of the Colossus less like a game and more like an experience. I find myself pulling on the reins to slow Agro (Wander's very awesome horse) down to a stop in front of a tree and get off, instead of just galloping full-speed at the tree and just jumping off. Functionally, they do the same thing in game (put me in a position by the tree), but I know that sending a horse directly into a tree is a Very Bad Thing in real life, so I don't do that to Agro. Even though I could, with no repercussion in game. That's the kind of effect Shadow of the Colossus has. Things that would annoy me in any other game (like how friggin hard it is to shoot an arrow at eyeball when you're riding a horse going at full speed, which dicks around with your aim) don't annoy me here. I think the only time I felt dicked by the game was against that small Colossus that's afraid of fire. When it charges at me and I fail at dodging, it'll knock Wander to the floor. But in the (very long) time it takes for Wander to get up, it charges Wander before he can move again, and then Wander gets knocked to the floor. Rinse and repeat :|

I'm really kind of B| at my Toto samples, but at this point I'm like NOOOooo I cannot be bothered working on this app anymore. Especially since I'd been working on it off and on since frigging August but couldn't get anything solid down until now (though even that's debatable).

1) Create a graphic (200 x 200 max size) to represent your personal "candy". It should have your username on it, but otherwise can feature whatever you want. Make it something special since it's self-representative.

2) Make a post with the subject "trick or treat?". Put your "candy" somewhere in it, and be sure to repost these instructions.

3) Then, go around other people's LJs and reply to them with either "trick" or "treat". If you reply with "trick", they will give you an LJ dare that you have to perform before taking their candy. If you're too wimpy for that, simply say "treat" and take their candy.

4) List all your collected candies in your original "trick or treat?" post to show off your collection, being sure not to direct-link! (but I don't care if you do)

( Candies received )

It's always the things I predict and keep to myself that come true, inexplicably and inevitably. The things I predict and share are always the ones that don't. It's a shame about the former, because those are always my more cynical predictions and it's a bit jarring when I generally believe that people are wonderful.

The dreams that I know will come true always do, even after I stop believing in them. I ended up getting the new scanlated DMW chapters 4-6 months earlier than than I was expecting !

Whose smart idea was it to make you RUB THE TOUCH SCREEN to do a barrel roll in Star Fox Command? SERIOUSLY. I keep on getting shot down by motherships because it's not working in the split second I have between then and the last beacon, and because barrel rolling requires you to rub the touchscreen, which is also your directional navigation, your ship flies everywhere while you're trying to roll. Which has the unfortunate side effect of rolling you out of the beacons to hit the mothership, which results in you getting shot down. ARGHHHHHH taking a break from RE isn't supposed to fill me with frustration !

The gameplay of the game itself isn't bad ! It just primarily suffers from the difficulty in pulling off barrel rolls (and it's not just in Star Fox that has a problem with screen rubbing controls; TWEWY suffered a similar problem with its rub pins, and some of the early-mid game breakers were rub pins). Unfortunately, unlike TWEWY, whose problem could be easily solved by swapping pins, barrel rolling is such an integral part of Star Fox Command (even more so than in Star Fox 64). Not only is it required for destroying motherships, it also deflect attacks, which in doing so, grants you precious time bonuses so you don't fall out of the air when you run out of fuel. So yeah, REALLY frustrating to have such difficulty in using a skill that's so vital to the gameplay.

Man, if there was something that mapped barrel rolling to the L button, I'd be so happy ; A;

Edit: Clearly I should read FAQs on GameFAQs first. You can do a barrel roll by drawing a (small) circle on the touchscreen. Despite the game telling you to "rub the stylus back and forth" B| SO MUCH EASIER though sometimes I draw the circle too big >:

OCTOBER 22ND IS INTERNATIONAL CAPSLOCK DAY. I FULLY EXPECT YOU PEOPLE IN A SLOW TIMEZONE TO CAPSLOCK AT ME.

Also today I saw on the side of a van:

SEME - solutions for a safer world

( Uni stuff )

Other stuff to do list (doesn't include stuff after exams are over)
- reply to L and Edgeworth
- message Sekai-mun (Jen) about potential CR
- Toto app (iron out the history, look over the personality and remove some crap that's not relevant, samples DONE \o/)
- get up to speed on plot, primarily golden fleece stuff fasdfhgjsdl;kfj
- STOP BEING STUPID

HI THIS IS A OH GOD I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON WITH TOTO IN DMW POST.

( a more shallow brain dump because lol tests and lol gaming being very distracting )

( OKAY let's have some short Atsuro thoughts )

random RE stuff: DIS standards (IEEE standard)

... and are within my means to do so.

F-Zero
Fire Emblem, Shadow Dragon
Ice Climbers
Ico, Shadow of the Colossus
Kid Icarus
Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 and CoM (maybe! The annoying camera in 1 & 2 is very offputting for me)
Kirby Super Star
MGS 1 & 3
Mother 1-3
SSB, SSBB
Star Fox, Lylat Wars, Starfox Command
Super Metroid, Metroid Prime Hunters, Metroid Prime Pinball(!!)
The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Phantom Hourglass
Yoshi's Island


Somehow, this list is getting longer and longer. That's what, 28 games? And that doesn't include stuff I might've forgotten :| However, the chances of me finishing all of these, considering half of them are genres I am terrible at, are slim. You might notice a pattern with the majority of these games.

Edit: shimering2 I AM DISOWNING YOU. FOREVER.

Instead of studying for my SE252 test like I meant to tonight, I discovered I had Star Fox for the SNES. Guess where my evening went.

I had a great sense of deja vu when I started playing it though. Like it felt kind of familiar, or that I'd played something as a kid that reminded me of it. Still didn't stop me from sucking, though. Peppy and Falco were bitching me out for being so crap in the tutorial level, sob. And then I died in the first stage against the boss hhhhhahahaha. I couldn't help but think "GOD SLIPPY, SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LET ME FLY" during the first stage though. Not in a "SHUT THE FUCK UP, NAVI! /throws bottle at" way, but in a oh god Slippy you're kind of cute but YOU ARE VERY DISTRACTING. VERY. DISTRACTING.

Edit: Dammit Nintendo, for making me very interested in the games the characters in SSB come from ! Damn my weakness for retro games ! Now I'll never get through my list of games to play !

fuck why am I so stupid. Just went over my home internet quota last month. Got charged an extra $35 because I estimated my usage wrong and went over quota by about 350mb. Really fucking pissed at myself for it, because it's 35 bucks lost from my carelessness, and is a complete fucking waste because that money could've been put to much better use.

Not only that, when I tried to log into my internet account to check how much quota I've used this month (so I don't go over, since I figured out how to download There Will Be Brawl instead of streaming it), I got locked out of my account. Fucking hell. I'll have to call the customer service line tomorrow morning to get it fixed, but fuck you know how customer service lines can be sometimes. I was going to spend the evening drawing a Pit 4-koma comic and doing the SE mock test tomorrow morning BUT I GUESS THAT'S NOT HAPPENING. FUCK. I have no words for the amount of rage and disappointment I feel in myself right now. The fact I'm (voluntarily) paying mum for the amount I went over makes me feel a bit better, though.