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| Friday, April 28th, 2028 | | 6:52 pm |
What this is.
Post Edited March 18th 2009 to reflect life changes This is mostly a place where I ramble, rant, and rave. Reason I have this journal: To maintain some form of human contact. Due to my job vastly limiting my social time, and having no social interaction at work, I want to keep interacting with people. I also live in an isolated area, so this is the best, easiest way for me to do so. Main Topics will be : Various Games, some slice of life, Anime (mostly the artsy-type anime), Politics (I lean centrist), and Economics/Weather (career fields) Friending: Open. I will FL posts and filter posts for privacy purposes or if someone doesn't need to know certain things. This is only about 5% of my posts. Usually this is done to protect embarassment, either for myself or others. If I Friended you: I found you interesting for some reason. I usually just fire away on the comments. I try to friend one person randomly per month and see what happens. Oftentimes it's because you left a comment in a friend's journal. Things that will make me get rid of you: Very little. Usually only if you're milk carton material, in which case if you return I add you back, unless you decide to de-list me yourself. The Equine Forecaster Story: Nickname I got in the military. Came from when Commander heard me discuss the forecast in terms of barnyard animals, and went crazy, until it was explained to him why I was doing it. One animal in particular was a donkey- so that's where the equine comes from. Forecaster comes from my military job- which was a weather forecaster. Enjoy! I needed to do one of these splashes. Wish I had some art to go with it, but I can't draw. I'm envious of those that can. | | Friday, November 27th, 2009 | | 8:07 am |
White moderate consumer guilt. with a twist of gaming rant
This is going to sound whiny, but again, this is a really small problem, and there are much bigger thing. Just being with my parents and hearing how Glenn Beck has influenced them is a bigger problem. Sometimes, being a huge fan of fighters makes it difficult to appreciate other good games on console. I mean, I have Disgaea 3. I like Disgaea 3, but I never play Disgaea 3 cause I was playing nothing but SF4 (and now some Tekken also) On PC, it's a different story, I'm more willing to try new stuff- Dangerous High School Girls in trouble was pretty good for a cheapo game- but then, if I wasn't at work, would I even play it or other stuff. I often feel like I end up missing out on stuff unless there's a PC port. I know some of this is my personality. I'm addicted to competition. It's probably unnhealthy and obsessive on my end. It doesn't need to be perfect competition (I don't mean that in the economics sense)- but I need to be able to win or lose to feel anything. One thing I don't like about this gen, and why I avoid Nintendo like the plague now- is that I feel like that competition just doesn't exist in many modern games, especially on the Wii. Everything just seems dumbed down and easy to beat. I am pretty sure now if I had inherited my dad's athletic talents, I would have been your typical meathead jock, just maybe with a bit more of a clue. Unsure if that's a good or bad thing though. I actually feel bad because there are good things out there, and I'll end up not playing them because I'm satisfied with what I have (or at least satisfied enough). Then again, my wallet is probably a bit better off, even if I end up spending a lot of money on fighting game stuffs. BTW, I really need to do my Zettai Karen Children is awesome as hell and I want a 3rd season and US release post, but I'm saving that for when I finish the series up. Too bad the US release will never happen. Not in this climate. | | Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | | 5:37 pm |
Wowzers #2
I did not know that Asuka's VA is the same voice as Aoi-chan from Zettai Karen Children. Favorite characters in both. (well, I like Magi in ZKC, he gets pwned so hard sometimes and has to deal with such a difficult boss that it's hard not to feel sorry for him) Asuka seems to be too popular online though- I may just switch to Ganryu for the hell of it. | | 7:50 am |
Tekken 6 patch
It's SFIV quality. 3 bars was iffy for specifics but easily playable, 2 bars isn't horrible, and 5 bars is very good. Namco shocked the hell out of me, I was expecting another disasterpiece. There are still some things I don't like - regions for matchmaking are too broad "America" means I can get a 2 bar match with someone in CA. - money rewards aren't enough, forcing people to play shitty scenarion campaign. That said, if this had been Tekken Day 1, this game would have sold a lot better. Namco should have delayed this gamme until this week. Seriously- they would have done a LOT better saleswise. At the very least, it is now safe to play Tekken 6 | | Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | | 7:34 am |
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The GOP Purity Test- how many of these do you think I support?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/gop-considers-purity-resolution-for-candidates/ (1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill; (2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run health care; (3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation; (4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check; (5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants; (6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges; (7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat; (8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act; (9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and (10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership. The Republicans are saying less then 8 of these= not a conservative. | | 4:10 am |
House thinking
I really wish my job security was such I could buy a house right now. There's something almost affordable, I'm just scared of losing everything if I lose my job. I really want $60-70k saved up before thinking about it, especially with a 9 yr old car with 120k miles on it. I really need to wait 3 years. | | Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | | 4:24 am |
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| | Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | | 12:12 pm |
Curiousity- and why isn't this nice thing done?
Is there any Japanese equivalent of Steam or Impulse to download dojin games? I know Rockin Android put a couple on Gamersgate (which is a good service mostly) and D2D (which is pure garbage) They are something I'd be willing to pay money, but I don't want to deal with international shipping. Then again, would there be any actual demand. I think this could have effects on the anime industry too: If I was running things, I'd consider doing this On anime I have the rights to at launch: I'd speedsub it, then put it on Steam/Impulse at $2.50/episode. Proof of purchase could be used to get $2.50 off the box set, which would have the finished subs. Would this attract pirates to give some money (I'd ask the Japanese companies for a 24 hr head start to sub) instead of pirating, would this increase box set sales? Profitability is important- this is one thing I've noticed across all fandoms- most fans don't have a clue about economics and why things don't sell. It can get incredibly frustrating when dealing with local FG fans who don't understand why Tekken needs working netcode because it "plays great at tournaments", not realizing that only 1% of FG fans play at tournaments. | | Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | | 12:55 am |
Failbook has some use.
Turns out some old military folks wanted to contact me. Glad of that, I had lost contact with many of them. One uses linkedin, but I have no point for that site whatsoever. I still dislike the site , but if anyone wants to send contact info, I'll take it. Comments sceened for that reason. | | Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | | 6:06 am |
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| | Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | | 4:52 am |
| | Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | | 2:49 pm |
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| | Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | | 9:51 am |
I think I must be one of the few FG players
who genuinely prefers online to offline play. Yes, lag makes things imperfect, but it's a lot easier on my nerves to deal with lag, then it is the type of people who play fighting games. I don't think it's the same everywhere, but there are some real douchebags out there offline, at least locally, and enough to make me solidly dislike the community. The fact that I work weird hours, and got called in tonight, does not help matters. | | Monday, November 9th, 2009 | | 5:13 am |
Wow.
One of the chars in one of the series I'm watching- just seduced Obama. WOW. | | Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | | 11:03 pm |
So, healthcare passed.
I'm going off Consumerist's post here about what's in it - but two things I'd like to see removed or changed. a) The employer mandate to cover workers. What I'm concerned about here is that companies will just do what my company did- make a complete stinker of a plan and force us onto a lemon plan. I got private insurance because it's a flat-out better deal then company health. In fact, I'd rather see employers banned from giving health insurance (unless government agencies), and have the insurance exchanges instead. b) Why can't the public plan use Medicare rates? That sounds very inefficient. Senate version may be better here, but I'm unsure. Overall though, I think this would be one of the better uses of taxpayer then some things we spend money on- such as Afghanistan/Iraq. (Yeah, I don't oppose us rooting out bad guys, but I don't think we should be occupying anymore- it's not cost-effective. We're not going to be loved, we can be feared without that) | | 3:38 am |
Why I think Tekken fixes it netcode.
I know someone on here said that they wondered why Namco would fix Tekkken 6, as it didn't sell well first week. I think that's why they will. If they printed 2.5 mil, and sold 500K, that means there's 2mil copies out there still, and a lot of fans haven't bought the game. The most likely reason- pirates sent the warning out that the netcode was unplayable, and a lot of people took a wait and see attitude. Also, this could affect sales of a franchise that did better then expected this gen- in Soul Calibur. That had netcode issues too- but not to the point where it affected sales. SCIV sold much better then they were anticipating (I think double, it sold 2mil+ and I think expecations were 1mil)*- and it didn't benefit from SFIV at all,since it came out before SFIV. SCIV also made the 360 a viable fighting game platform, which wasn't a sure thing at the time, except to the dozens- and dozens of VF players. I just hope in SCIV's case they don't credit it to Star Wars, which didn't help it that much. The boobies might have though. Even if sales don't improve, the fact it got fixed with 500k users around, may provide enough word of mouth to undo the damage. * Wikipedia reports 2.3mil sales for SCIV. That would put it #2 in sales just behind SFIV. |
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