Although I started musing about this a long while ago before I watched NHK, the fact that the main character becomes a scenario writer (somewhat) for a dating sim game catalyzed my imagination process in thinking up, what would be an "original" dating sim game I could make that would still be able to follow the genre of "dating sim?" As in, being cliche yet original at the same time. How oxymoronic...
Consequently, I did think up of one thanks to my one-year experience in the lab, although who knows? Maybe someone DID make a dating sim game about Ph. D student... >.> I wouldn't be surprised if both it existed AND it didn't do well on sales considering how niche and geeky you have to be to understand such a game... But! If it wasn't thought up before, here I present to you the "original" Research Student Dating Sim game, the game that every (male) Research Student wished happened to him (but chances of happening probably being less than them discovering the cure to cancer).
AND THE TITLE OF THE GAME IS...
I don't know. And the characters don't have names either. Yes, I'm bad with names, but I THOUGHT UP EVERYTHING ELSE!!! Like:
Plotline: The main character is a new graduate student working at a University in a city he recently moved in. The city, in actuality, is the same city he was born in and lived up until age of 6 or so, until he had to move away from it for various reasons . He is ambitiously pursuing a degree in the Pathological sciences to achieve an ultimate goal, a "promise" to cure a particular disease as requested by some childhood friend that he cannot remember very well. (Of course, he remembers the promise clearly... they never remember the girl) Immediately upon arrival, he is given a project related to his studies and is expected to complete and present his results in two weeks. The suddenness of recieving a project and its close deadline present a shock to him; furthermore, his only other collegue that he was supposed to work with insists on working alone. In fact, she practically considers the main character a rival, attempting to outdo him in as many ways as possible, the project being just one competition. After regaining his composure, the main character determines to keep his head held high and accept this new challenge as a graduate student. He will find many "discoveries" along the way that may interest and surprise him as he slowly approaches the deadline for his project...
Characters!
The character varieties are: The other graduate student (the collegue mentioned in the plotline), the Lab Director, a medical school friend of the main character, a Lab Technician, and two Undergraduate students working in the lab. All of them are girls (whoever talks to guys in dating sims? Come on!)
Graduate Student: She is of the same year as the main character. Probably same age too. Her hair is light pink and has vivid blue and determined-looking eyes. She is (I'll state this right off since people probably figured it out by now) the main character's "childhood friend" and consequently, has decided to take up a path on her own to cure this disease she had requested a friend of hers in the past to cure. The historical plotline would probably go along the lines of the main character promising to cure the girl's dying father of this "mysterious" disease (the two probably didn't know what it was at the time). Of course, the main character fails, and the girl, who doesn't know any better, blames him, then after the main character has left, made a vow to fight against the disease herself. This would probably explain her rather rash and untrustworthy attitude to most everybody she meets, especially the main character. Inside, though, she probably realizes it couldn't have been helped and wishes she can say sorry to her friend from the past. If the main character goes her path, the student slowly realizes who he is and reluctantly begins to open up to him.
Lab Director: Consider her as the typical "Onee-chan" of the harem set. She is probably the one that would most likely fit a google search of "Anime chicks with Lab Coats", considering that everyone seems to believe that only mature-looking women become doctors (an appropriate stereotype, but I don't like it). Her chest is *cough* considerably larger than the other characters; she has purple hair typically in a ponytail and small rectangular spectacles. She has the same attitude as all characters of her type: drinks, has a sort of lax attitude, sometimes acts suggestively and often thinks everything will be fine in some panicky situations. However, when she becomes serious, she WILL be serious, especially with her lab work; the main character realizes this as time goes on (the hard way or the easy way, depending on the player). Because she is significantly older and she is a PI, she probably has a decent amount of history behind her which would explain some of her actions.
Med School Student: A comrade of the main character that happened to come to the same city as he did, and works in a hospital a few blocks down from the university. She is in fact friends of both the main character and the graduate student working in the same lab as him, but she does not know the history behind the two. I had imagined her as more of the Mutsumi from Love Hina type, rather spacey and and not always knowing what's going on. She is remarkably calm in every sort of situations, but despite her ditsy attitude she is a very good repuatation as a doctor. She is kind and always willing to listen to the main character's ranting whenever he is under stress, and yes, she probably has a crush on him. Nevertheless, she will help him in no matter what love affairs the main character gets into, except possibly her own pathway which she might become a bit befuddled about... Anyway, since all the other character I imagined seemed to have relatively long hair (most of them), I thought a good balance would be necessary and she'll probably have relatively medium-cut hair sort of like Shamal from Nanoha A's. You should google her if you don't know who she is. :p And her hair color will be, uh... light brown!
Lab Technican: The cliche "maid" of the group, and she may as well be wearing a maid outfit under her lab coat for all it matters. She could also be considered a "robot", if you will, though in the game she is not (to keep the plotline somewhat realistic... "somewhat"). Her persona is probably best related to Hisui from Tsukihime: stoic yet hard working and very good at it. If someone asks her to do something for her in the lab, as a lab technician, she will do it with profound accuracy and efficiency. Needless to say, if the main character goes down her path, she'll reveal more emotions and why she acts this way? I realize this is the same trend for not just some, but nearly all the girls in dating games... She has long singly-braided white hair, and I currently can't think up a character comparison but I know that there's a female hairstyle like that in RO. :(
Undergraduates- They are supposed to help out in the lab, but in the end it turns out that the main character does all the babysitting, since the graduate student works alone and the lab director expects her researchers to work for her. (Bosses... geez) So, on top of finishing his project, the student also has to deal with some rather not-so-helpful helpers...
Undergraduate #1: Is Loli cliche #1: The Shy + clumsy girl that messes everything up and says "I'm sorry" after every sentence. It is without a doubt that she immediately develops a crush on the main character, who helps her out in spite of the fact that she is supposed to be helping him out. She is best friends with Undergraduate #2. Her hairstyle is like that of Hayate from Nanoha A's, or Shinobu from Love Hina, or Nodoka... That sort of hairstyle, one gets the point. (With a Ribbon!!!) Her hair color is dark blue.
Undergraduate #2: Is Loli cliche #2: The hyperactive and mischevious girl with ADHD that likes to blow things up more than help out in experiments. I think she's the little sister of one of the characters, but I don't know of who yet. Regardless, the plotline will inevitably, no matter which girl you choose, involve her getting sick; whoever makes her feel better is dependent on which pathway the player chooses. Of course, if she ends up dying, you'll probably figure you're going to get a bad ending...
...and THIS is the product of being an anime fan and a biology major pursuing a Ph. D.... ok so not exactly Key or TypeMoon material, but I still think its more original than those 40 million schoolgirl games... though this is almost a "school""girl" game since you're in a school and stuff... oh whatever :p
28.10.06
23.10.06
A Possible Random Story Arc stemming from...
The Anime Club group I go to?
I frequently think up random stories involving characters sometimes based off of people I know, sometimes completely original. I had at one time wondered if I could ever form a story based on the people I knew from Anime Club, and alas, today, with my overactive imagination I had thought up a semi-decent one. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter my overactive imagination was halted and crushed brutally by some theory in differential equations involving multiple variables, and I've yet to fully recover from that... But I guess I'll write something up. I think this will be the first and last time anyone will ever hear of this.
I figured I'd base this off of playing EFZ, since I always thought it would be rather interesting to have some kind of plotline revolve around it. The only "story" I ever heard that came from EFZ involves some class A/B/C and torture issue which seems rather weird... Well, mine is more of a strange Pokemon/Fate-Stay Night combination set in a fantasy world (And maybe that's based off RO...>.>). I'll just try to express it in a letter that the "author" of the story(ies?) wrote (he's not necessarily the main character):
Dear Sir.
I apologize for not having written to you recently; as you are aware, as an alchemist and a traveller I am constantly busy observing and recording down many new sites and exciting events that may happen along my travels. There has been one discovery in particular that I find extremely incredible and fascinating, and I felt it necessary to write to you about it.
Have you ever heard of familiars? Perhaps you had imagined them to be pets of some beings such as wizards. Coincidentally, I had thought so too until I recently arrived upon a small town with a rather outstanding castle. The inhabitants provided me with generous hospitality when I told them of my occupation and purpose of travels; they even provided me with access to their main library after some rather... particular events. But what was most astonishing was what happened after that; upon browsing through the ancient literature, I stumbled upon a summoning spell and after attempting to study more about this strange old incantation, figured it would be best to, um, try it out for myself. I figured that, though the odds were low and there was little chance it would accomplish anything, I might learn something from conducting the spell...
Well... something DID come out of the spell, and it came out triumphantly with a large explosion of a strange, thick liquid. But more surprising than that, was the appearance of a small, well dressed girl, looking around curiously as if she had just woken up and didn't know where she was, staring first around her surroundings and then onto me. I was completely astounded and did not know what to do.
As if to complicate things further, one of the head knights of the palace had come by to see what had happened, then, upon laying his eyes on the girl and myself, became remarkably hostile. At first I had thought he had mistaken the event for something else, but on the contrary, he knew exactly what had happened and, even more to my astonishment, materialized himself girl similar to the one I had just summoned, though she was equipped with a sword while mine had no weapon.
Now, the head knight I never thought had a particular liking for me, nor did I admire his rather pompous attitude, but the seriousness of his appearance and the murderous commands he gave to his accomplice in attacking the girl shocked me into immobility. Indeed, had it not been for another (!) girl wielding a spear, and a rather intellectual-looking figure who seemed to have just past by and saw what was going on, I wouldn't have known what to do...
It was then on I learned everything from this intellectual man. What I had summoned was a familiar, and this was a rather unique event since there are not many, apparently, that have the ability to summon such nymphs. All familiars have a class, and within the class have a specialty; the summoning of a familiar is seems somewhat akin to what the type of person is. I, apparently, had summoned a faerie-type familiar, with a specialty in animation; she seems capable of controlling movement of liquids and creating lifelike entities out of otherwise inanimate objects. (Its a rather particular skill, I must admit...) The head knight that had attacked me was of a Warrior type with a specialty in one-handed swords, whereas the intellectual's familiar was also of a Warrior type but weilded a spear.
In all of such a strange turn of events, I have now ended up travelling with them to learn more of this phenomenon. I've seen many things along the way: That the knight seems adamant on one day defeating his one idol, another great knight with the same familiar class and specialty as he has; that there exists, somewhere, an "ultimate" familiar that some have said was somewhat related to mine (?), as well as meeting others with familiars. Recently a rather large and burly young man is accompanying us with his own familiar (a fighter type, I believe? And quite powerful). I hope this does not seem too unusual to you, and I hope that someday I can stop by and show you how such unique and fascinating beings these things are.
With best regards.
*----
(haha, no name for the author yet :p)
Hmm, I guess this basically says I'm too obsessed with EFZ right now :p Although, I thought it would be neat, because saying "HEY I SUMMONED MISUZU LOLZ" would have looked rather dumb, so I thought I would split most of them into "class and specialty"... maybe someday I'll list all the characters and what exact class and specialty they are.... HAHAHA yea right :p
I frequently think up random stories involving characters sometimes based off of people I know, sometimes completely original. I had at one time wondered if I could ever form a story based on the people I knew from Anime Club, and alas, today, with my overactive imagination I had thought up a semi-decent one. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter my overactive imagination was halted and crushed brutally by some theory in differential equations involving multiple variables, and I've yet to fully recover from that... But I guess I'll write something up. I think this will be the first and last time anyone will ever hear of this.
I figured I'd base this off of playing EFZ, since I always thought it would be rather interesting to have some kind of plotline revolve around it. The only "story" I ever heard that came from EFZ involves some class A/B/C and torture issue which seems rather weird... Well, mine is more of a strange Pokemon/Fate-Stay Night combination set in a fantasy world (And maybe that's based off RO...>.>). I'll just try to express it in a letter that the "author" of the story(ies?) wrote (he's not necessarily the main character):
Dear Sir.
I apologize for not having written to you recently; as you are aware, as an alchemist and a traveller I am constantly busy observing and recording down many new sites and exciting events that may happen along my travels. There has been one discovery in particular that I find extremely incredible and fascinating, and I felt it necessary to write to you about it.
Have you ever heard of familiars? Perhaps you had imagined them to be pets of some beings such as wizards. Coincidentally, I had thought so too until I recently arrived upon a small town with a rather outstanding castle. The inhabitants provided me with generous hospitality when I told them of my occupation and purpose of travels; they even provided me with access to their main library after some rather... particular events. But what was most astonishing was what happened after that; upon browsing through the ancient literature, I stumbled upon a summoning spell and after attempting to study more about this strange old incantation, figured it would be best to, um, try it out for myself. I figured that, though the odds were low and there was little chance it would accomplish anything, I might learn something from conducting the spell...
Well... something DID come out of the spell, and it came out triumphantly with a large explosion of a strange, thick liquid. But more surprising than that, was the appearance of a small, well dressed girl, looking around curiously as if she had just woken up and didn't know where she was, staring first around her surroundings and then onto me. I was completely astounded and did not know what to do.
As if to complicate things further, one of the head knights of the palace had come by to see what had happened, then, upon laying his eyes on the girl and myself, became remarkably hostile. At first I had thought he had mistaken the event for something else, but on the contrary, he knew exactly what had happened and, even more to my astonishment, materialized himself girl similar to the one I had just summoned, though she was equipped with a sword while mine had no weapon.
Now, the head knight I never thought had a particular liking for me, nor did I admire his rather pompous attitude, but the seriousness of his appearance and the murderous commands he gave to his accomplice in attacking the girl shocked me into immobility. Indeed, had it not been for another (!) girl wielding a spear, and a rather intellectual-looking figure who seemed to have just past by and saw what was going on, I wouldn't have known what to do...
It was then on I learned everything from this intellectual man. What I had summoned was a familiar, and this was a rather unique event since there are not many, apparently, that have the ability to summon such nymphs. All familiars have a class, and within the class have a specialty; the summoning of a familiar is seems somewhat akin to what the type of person is. I, apparently, had summoned a faerie-type familiar, with a specialty in animation; she seems capable of controlling movement of liquids and creating lifelike entities out of otherwise inanimate objects. (Its a rather particular skill, I must admit...) The head knight that had attacked me was of a Warrior type with a specialty in one-handed swords, whereas the intellectual's familiar was also of a Warrior type but weilded a spear.
In all of such a strange turn of events, I have now ended up travelling with them to learn more of this phenomenon. I've seen many things along the way: That the knight seems adamant on one day defeating his one idol, another great knight with the same familiar class and specialty as he has; that there exists, somewhere, an "ultimate" familiar that some have said was somewhat related to mine (?), as well as meeting others with familiars. Recently a rather large and burly young man is accompanying us with his own familiar (a fighter type, I believe? And quite powerful). I hope this does not seem too unusual to you, and I hope that someday I can stop by and show you how such unique and fascinating beings these things are.
With best regards.
*----
(haha, no name for the author yet :p)
Hmm, I guess this basically says I'm too obsessed with EFZ right now :p Although, I thought it would be neat, because saying "HEY I SUMMONED MISUZU LOLZ" would have looked rather dumb, so I thought I would split most of them into "class and specialty"... maybe someday I'll list all the characters and what exact class and specialty they are.... HAHAHA yea right :p
22.10.06
Raven's EFZ Gathering "Ranbato 1"
In an ironic twist of fate I happened to be placed in the easiest bracket in the EFZ tournament, and ended up somehow beating everyone in the bracket landing me in 4th place in terms of points... o_O I thought that was rather hilarious. But honestly, how the scores turned out should have been more evened out, I should be placed lower while Zaido and MTP should have been placed higher... I think it would have been good if I was tied with Evo instead of being above him since I think he is probably closer to my level in EFZ, if not higher.
But anyway, here is my excuses for somehow winning the bracket. I apologize once more for analyzing these people without their permission, and if you guys somehow stumble onto my blog >.> uh, sorry :P hope you're not offended :(
1. Rightot- He's a fairly typical beginning/intermediate player and presents a good challenge to me. Mainly because, I usually do fall for similar (and stupid) mistakes over again and I need to work on those... either learn how to avoid them, or to RG better XP But his combos are not really any good... most advanced seems to be the basic AABBCC combo everyone uses. I think because he wasn't able to execute long 3k combos is why I was able to beat him, because he certainly had the chance to do so.
Also, he doesn't do the wall slam >>> Level 3 Sayuri skill that everyone has learn to hate very well. When he learns to master that he will be a deadly foe to compete with.
2. Evospace- I am completely serious when I say the "2-0" win for me against him was a fluke. Honestly I'd probably more expect a 2-1 loss with me being the loser, but I do think there are several reasons for this. One, is that he uses Ikumi; Ikumi, I believe, is the worst character to use against Misuzu, being very terrible in the air while Misuzu can just dash over most of Ikumi's ground attacks (or lay a book trap!). The second reason I think I won was because I played him first, and while I had already played one game of EFZ in the tournament (along with having practiced EFZ during the week before) who knows how long he had touched EFZ before the tournament had begun. Afterwards he obviously did better (he won against the other people in the bracket) but that was after my game.
3. Joe- Um... if he practiced and played EFZ more often, I think he would have been able to beat me by now. But at the tournament, I think he was just free points for everyone in our bracket... in a way, that's kind of the reason why our results were skewed...
In return for my unusual victory in the C bracket, I was the official donor of points in the MBAC tournament. I was lucky that I even gave Joe a challenge by finally being able to pull off a dragonpunch motion :p But, as you can see from the results, Joe got some points in MBAC!
Some comments on other people I played:
4. Zaido- Is a cool guy, plays like a pro, and makes our matches fun and entertaining. You'll notice in my match against him that I get completely screwed over, mainly because I wasn't sure when was an attack point when he was pressuring me with Minagi (and also because of the flaming rice ticket). I did do sort of ok (except I messed up on all my combos) when I found an opening but then I died shortly thereafter.
We had fun casuals after. He mentions about this one fight where "the world freezes" when I summoned Yukito right when he was launching the blood mine super that Ikumi has... :p and we did fun random crap in practice mode that you can't do alone (like RG and testing Kaori's super thingy).
5. Psylocke- In a sense he seems like a complete opposite of a player than me; he's really good with his combos when he finds an opening, but he doesn't know a lot about the game play yet, or about his character. He tends to turtle a lot without much idea of how to get out of it, which puts him in dire situations when he was playing me (or, even worse, if he had played Raven) since I often use throws nowadays when I get tired of people turtling...I'd say he would be about the same level as I am as a player, and him getting only 1 point was really unfair in the EFZ tournament.
6. Kyle- I didn't play him in the tournament, but since I'm analyzing a bunch of people I might as well include some other people I played also. I think he's worth mentioning in that he's really good at punishing; if you make a mistake, you're screwed with his character. Well, his character IS a one-chance "you better not screw up or you'll get grabbed and creamed" type of character... In any case, I lost a lot of games to him because of my clumsiness and tendency to make mistakes, and unlike other players I played yesterday if I mess up he doesn't just do a 1k simple combo to me; he takes out 3/4ths of my health.
7. Raven- there's a reason why he's the most feared EFZ player on the west coast.
There are others of course (tekken and lina) but for the time being I'll leave them out. I never played Lina yesterday anyway.
In other notes, I think I'll need to get a PS controller to computer adaptor since MBAC is on PS2 and there's no way you can get a keyboard to play MBAC. It's probably useful since the Higarashi game Raven gave me yesterday seems rather difficult to play on keyboard too, along with a few other games (GGXX, possibly Queen of Heart) is better to use the controller instead of the keyboard. Its really tough converting to controller though. Using a thumb to execute all one's moves instead of 3 makes it unusual to play with... I can't do jump AB jump AB in MBAC (fast enough) which really makes me depressed because I would be able to do it on the keyboard. :(
But anyway, here is my excuses for somehow winning the bracket. I apologize once more for analyzing these people without their permission, and if you guys somehow stumble onto my blog >.> uh, sorry :P hope you're not offended :(
1. Rightot- He's a fairly typical beginning/intermediate player and presents a good challenge to me. Mainly because, I usually do fall for similar (and stupid) mistakes over again and I need to work on those... either learn how to avoid them, or to RG better XP But his combos are not really any good... most advanced seems to be the basic AABBCC combo everyone uses. I think because he wasn't able to execute long 3k combos is why I was able to beat him, because he certainly had the chance to do so.
Also, he doesn't do the wall slam >>> Level 3 Sayuri skill that everyone has learn to hate very well. When he learns to master that he will be a deadly foe to compete with.
2. Evospace- I am completely serious when I say the "2-0" win for me against him was a fluke. Honestly I'd probably more expect a 2-1 loss with me being the loser, but I do think there are several reasons for this. One, is that he uses Ikumi; Ikumi, I believe, is the worst character to use against Misuzu, being very terrible in the air while Misuzu can just dash over most of Ikumi's ground attacks (or lay a book trap!). The second reason I think I won was because I played him first, and while I had already played one game of EFZ in the tournament (along with having practiced EFZ during the week before) who knows how long he had touched EFZ before the tournament had begun. Afterwards he obviously did better (he won against the other people in the bracket) but that was after my game.
3. Joe- Um... if he practiced and played EFZ more often, I think he would have been able to beat me by now. But at the tournament, I think he was just free points for everyone in our bracket... in a way, that's kind of the reason why our results were skewed...
In return for my unusual victory in the C bracket, I was the official donor of points in the MBAC tournament. I was lucky that I even gave Joe a challenge by finally being able to pull off a dragonpunch motion :p But, as you can see from the results, Joe got some points in MBAC!
Some comments on other people I played:
4. Zaido- Is a cool guy, plays like a pro, and makes our matches fun and entertaining. You'll notice in my match against him that I get completely screwed over, mainly because I wasn't sure when was an attack point when he was pressuring me with Minagi (and also because of the flaming rice ticket). I did do sort of ok (except I messed up on all my combos) when I found an opening but then I died shortly thereafter.
We had fun casuals after. He mentions about this one fight where "the world freezes" when I summoned Yukito right when he was launching the blood mine super that Ikumi has... :p and we did fun random crap in practice mode that you can't do alone (like RG and testing Kaori's super thingy).
5. Psylocke- In a sense he seems like a complete opposite of a player than me; he's really good with his combos when he finds an opening, but he doesn't know a lot about the game play yet, or about his character. He tends to turtle a lot without much idea of how to get out of it, which puts him in dire situations when he was playing me (or, even worse, if he had played Raven) since I often use throws nowadays when I get tired of people turtling...I'd say he would be about the same level as I am as a player, and him getting only 1 point was really unfair in the EFZ tournament.
6. Kyle- I didn't play him in the tournament, but since I'm analyzing a bunch of people I might as well include some other people I played also. I think he's worth mentioning in that he's really good at punishing; if you make a mistake, you're screwed with his character. Well, his character IS a one-chance "you better not screw up or you'll get grabbed and creamed" type of character... In any case, I lost a lot of games to him because of my clumsiness and tendency to make mistakes, and unlike other players I played yesterday if I mess up he doesn't just do a 1k simple combo to me; he takes out 3/4ths of my health.
7. Raven- there's a reason why he's the most feared EFZ player on the west coast.
There are others of course (tekken and lina) but for the time being I'll leave them out. I never played Lina yesterday anyway.
In other notes, I think I'll need to get a PS controller to computer adaptor since MBAC is on PS2 and there's no way you can get a keyboard to play MBAC. It's probably useful since the Higarashi game Raven gave me yesterday seems rather difficult to play on keyboard too, along with a few other games (GGXX, possibly Queen of Heart) is better to use the controller instead of the keyboard. Its really tough converting to controller though. Using a thumb to execute all one's moves instead of 3 makes it unusual to play with... I can't do jump AB jump AB in MBAC (fast enough) which really makes me depressed because I would be able to do it on the keyboard. :(
15.10.06
OMG :O
There's Engrish even in Science Journal articles! I don't particularly find it bad, but its quite entertaining how even in such a professional field people still mess up in the language they're writing in.
Again, nothing bad, I'd like to see some scientists try and write their reviews in Chinese... /gg
Again, nothing bad, I'd like to see some scientists try and write their reviews in Chinese... /gg
Analysis of my Combo ability in EFZ
Only for Misuzu and Makoto. Maybe I'll do Mizuka and Tohno later, but so far I like playing with Misuzu and Makoto.
Misuzu:
Ability to Theorize Combos in situation-
Corner: 100%
Midscreen: 90%
Starting the Correct (Theorized, Combo I meant to do) Combo in:
Practice Mode: 85%
VS CPU: 65%
VS Player: 50%
Continuing a Combo Chain for a decent amount of time (whether I had planned it or not):
Practice Mode: 95%
VS CPU: 70%
VS Player: 30% (I keep on missing the wall bounce combos, dammit! D:)
Makoto
Ability to Theorize Combos in situation-
Corner: 90% (All of them pretty much made up myself without any help from replays... well, one combo replay but the technique I acquired is rather hard to execute and I'm not quite ready to put it properly into any of my combos, though I can theorize how it would work)
Midscreen: 5% (OMG all I can do is AB-shoot-shoot-shoot can't even dash-combo D:)
Starting the Correct (Theorized, Combo I meant to do) Combo in:
Practice Mode: 75%
VS CPU: 45%
VS Player: 20%
Continuing a Combo Chain for a decent amount of time (whether I had planned it or not):
Practice Mode: 65%
VS CPU: 40%
VS Player: 0% (T_T ;_; /sob)
Misuzu I suppose is easy to combo with; anyone who test-played with her agrees that she's probably really easy to combo with, so I guess I learned most about comboing from her. Consequently, I can combo with her the best, assuming I could get anything down with reasonable accuracy...
Makoto I really like because somehow I feel that her play style is just the play style I was meant to play, not really the same with Misuzu (although obviously, I got used to Misuzu's playing style and now I can combo :P somewhat). Makoto is rediculously hard to combo with, though, because she has short stubby arms that can whiff even if you're right next to the opponent... (or maybe Misuzu was just rediculously easy to combo with) But thanks to what I learned from Misuzu comboing with Makoto isn't nearly as hard as it would have been if I started with her first off, though if I did start with her first off, I bet I would be able to get used to her more quickly than Misuzu save the combos... Currently my strategy with her is pretty much be as annoying as hell :p Hurray for priority moves! (Which Misuzu seriously lacks)
As a side note, the damage from a 60 hit juice loop using four feathers < Level 3 GaoGaoFire. -_-;; Well, its a good combo to mock your opponent if you have nothing else to do but combo!
Misuzu:
Ability to Theorize Combos in situation-
Corner: 100%
Midscreen: 90%
Starting the Correct (Theorized, Combo I meant to do) Combo in:
Practice Mode: 85%
VS CPU: 65%
VS Player: 50%
Continuing a Combo Chain for a decent amount of time (whether I had planned it or not):
Practice Mode: 95%
VS CPU: 70%
VS Player: 30% (I keep on missing the wall bounce combos, dammit! D:)
Makoto
Ability to Theorize Combos in situation-
Corner: 90% (All of them pretty much made up myself without any help from replays... well, one combo replay but the technique I acquired is rather hard to execute and I'm not quite ready to put it properly into any of my combos, though I can theorize how it would work)
Midscreen: 5% (OMG all I can do is AB-shoot-shoot-shoot can't even dash-combo D:)
Starting the Correct (Theorized, Combo I meant to do) Combo in:
Practice Mode: 75%
VS CPU: 45%
VS Player: 20%
Continuing a Combo Chain for a decent amount of time (whether I had planned it or not):
Practice Mode: 65%
VS CPU: 40%
VS Player: 0% (T_T ;_; /sob)
Misuzu I suppose is easy to combo with; anyone who test-played with her agrees that she's probably really easy to combo with, so I guess I learned most about comboing from her. Consequently, I can combo with her the best, assuming I could get anything down with reasonable accuracy...
Makoto I really like because somehow I feel that her play style is just the play style I was meant to play, not really the same with Misuzu (although obviously, I got used to Misuzu's playing style and now I can combo :P somewhat). Makoto is rediculously hard to combo with, though, because she has short stubby arms that can whiff even if you're right next to the opponent... (or maybe Misuzu was just rediculously easy to combo with) But thanks to what I learned from Misuzu comboing with Makoto isn't nearly as hard as it would have been if I started with her first off, though if I did start with her first off, I bet I would be able to get used to her more quickly than Misuzu save the combos... Currently my strategy with her is pretty much be as annoying as hell :p Hurray for priority moves! (Which Misuzu seriously lacks)
As a side note, the damage from a 60 hit juice loop using four feathers < Level 3 GaoGaoFire. -_-;; Well, its a good combo to mock your opponent if you have nothing else to do but combo!
14.10.06
Kanon
This show rocks. I can tell it will rock. With the creators from Air, Kyon voice actor as the new Yuuichi, and doubling the series length, its going to be eyecandy throughout the entire season, I tell you.
Well, because it's now 26 episodes, I can tell that the series is going at a rather slow pace. Unlike the first verison of Kanon, which introduces a few characters and scenarios immediately, Kanon 2006 seems to be going at an almost painfully leisurely case, but with so much eyecandy around and a hit of humor, its certainly endurable. (notlike futakoi alternative *cough*) But in any case.
The first episode of Kanon has a REMARKABLE amount of symbolism and foreshadowing, as anyone who basically just even watched the first version of Kanon would be able to tell. They introduce all the signficant characters of Kanon and a few minor ones as well, probably teasing Kanon fans out there and making them want more. Indeed, the first Kanon was rather Mediocre, but I have high hopes for this series...
So the series will probably be released at a slow rate as well, but considering the immense load of work I have to do this semester, I'm not too bothered with it. I'll just be rather annoyed that some people will be able to watch Kanon a bit earlier than me, but I'll be happy to indulge in a weekend afternoon when school gets out, full of Kanon goodness.
A few other random notes. The voice of Sayuri, as a friend once told me, is done by the same voice actor as the one who did Misuzu. And with Sayuri's cameo, I can tell... holy crap she does sound like Misuzu o.o all she needs is a bunch of "Gaos" and she can be the perfect Misuzu clone... oh well.
In celebration of Kanon, I need to work on my Makoto combos!!
Well, because it's now 26 episodes, I can tell that the series is going at a rather slow pace. Unlike the first verison of Kanon, which introduces a few characters and scenarios immediately, Kanon 2006 seems to be going at an almost painfully leisurely case, but with so much eyecandy around and a hit of humor, its certainly endurable. (notlike futakoi alternative *cough*) But in any case.
The first episode of Kanon has a REMARKABLE amount of symbolism and foreshadowing, as anyone who basically just even watched the first version of Kanon would be able to tell. They introduce all the signficant characters of Kanon and a few minor ones as well, probably teasing Kanon fans out there and making them want more. Indeed, the first Kanon was rather Mediocre, but I have high hopes for this series...
So the series will probably be released at a slow rate as well, but considering the immense load of work I have to do this semester, I'm not too bothered with it. I'll just be rather annoyed that some people will be able to watch Kanon a bit earlier than me, but I'll be happy to indulge in a weekend afternoon when school gets out, full of Kanon goodness.
A few other random notes. The voice of Sayuri, as a friend once told me, is done by the same voice actor as the one who did Misuzu. And with Sayuri's cameo, I can tell... holy crap she does sound like Misuzu o.o all she needs is a bunch of "Gaos" and she can be the perfect Misuzu clone... oh well.
In celebration of Kanon, I need to work on my Makoto combos!!
Something odd about this flyer...
When I logged into facebook, they have this column for "flyers" and advertising junk, just like every other site does. Well, except they usually specialize in people actually on facebook advertising rather than some random "invest in your home loan!" company from who knows where. But this was interesting, it was an advertisement about a research study which I found... uh... probably not too effective if you ask me.
"Dyslexia and The Brain
Are you Dislexic? Participate in a brain imaging study! We'll take pictures of your brain while you read, and we'll give you a copy. Compensation provided."
I wonder how many Dyslexics actually surf the internet, much less have a facebook account and can read an advertisement with size 10 font. I mean, its a great idea of course, research is always a good idea, but I think this time they should be more vocal about it rather than placing an add on facebook...
"Dyslexia and The Brain
Are you Dislexic? Participate in a brain imaging study! We'll take pictures of your brain while you read, and we'll give you a copy. Compensation provided.
I wonder how many Dyslexics actually surf the internet, much less have a facebook account and can read an advertisement with size 10 font. I mean, its a great idea of course, research is always a good idea, but I think this time they should be more vocal about it rather than placing an add on facebook...
12.10.06
A "confession"...
though confession is really a bit too strong. Its just something I noticed a long while ago.
I am not meant to be a "scientific" character though I long to portray as one. I am actually more fitted to be an author, a lawyer, or a philosopher. My strength lies more in analysis than in memorization, and I more often enjoy taking a little bit of fact and spinning a lot of ideas and concepts out of them. Consequently, this is evident in my inability to memorize LARGE amounts of data, just flat out (although I will somehow have a few facts randomly pinned into my head for all of eternity despite my lack of any use for it). I am EXTREMELY bad, as Physics, EE, and some math classes have painfully pointed out to me, in applications. While I can, say, think up a variety of chemical syntheses from just a few chemical equations, solve a variety of differential equations and interpret circuits quite well, if I have merge any of them together, I fail to see the linking point for a very very long time.
Consequently, I wonder if some of my problems in physics or whatnot may be due to overanalyzation. Especially in mechanical physics, the concept of a spring or whatnot is so incredibly simple that I may have purposely overcomplicate it myself. If there were no spring or picture associated, and the only thing given to me were equations and numbers, BAM!! Easy material, can be calculated out in a couple a seconds. But add in a picture and suddenly I'm stumped for hours, trying link formula to the picture. Even if it was a graph instead of a picture of a spring, I would understand the math; but somehow that accursed little bouncy thing screws up my mind whenever I see it... (hahaha irony there's my analysis at work :p)
My other problem is dexterity. I can rarely do the same thing twice. This applies to EVERYTHING. Science experiments, Piano performances, solving math equations, writing an essay twice (hasn't happened often), trying to do moves in EFZ. Unfortunately, in the science career this is a very essential part of an experiment, to perform and repeat the experiment and get consistent results. But I'm incredibly clumsy and my skills are rather lacking in this part; I think too fast and before I finish what I'm supposed to be doing I start something else. This leads to messups, forgetting to clean something, and thus contamination/throwing something away.
With such a realization, one would wonder why I haven't changed my career path as of yet. Its not for any monetary issues; if it were, I'd be going to pre-med or, better yet, Law school because it would fit my style. Its not because I'm a social recluse either; many authors and philosophers can do perfectly fine without society, and scientists actually have to interact with society often in order to get their experiments going. The best reasons for my actions is most likely environmental influence, which (contrast to what die-hard gene-controls-everything believers think) lead me in general to think "science is cool". My parents were scientists, and I was proud that they were. In whatever movies I may have watched as a child, I rooted for the nerdy kid; being smart just seemed "cool" to me. Now, even my parents have suggested that if I wanted to, I could go into something like 3D animation (a course I took in high school, I did fairly well in it and found it fun) instead of science, but I chose science anyway. I don't know, I liked the image of the intellectual.
This poses problems at times. I'm fairly confident that my IMAGE (note: image) is that of an intellectual, but I worry if my actual intellect can hold up to that image at times. I worry that if people ask me questions and I am unable to answer them, if my image is ruined. Does this mean I'm being a scientist and acting all smart just because I like to look smart? I at the point don't think so. And don't hope so. I still hold genuine interest in my subject. Admittedly, it wasn't as strong as my curiosity as a child, but I want to go in deeper into the world of science. Because I like Organic Chemistry. I like doing math problems. Electrical Engineering is actually really fun (a helluvalot better than mechanical physics). So I don't think its just the image thing. I'm still asking questions; although I'm quite shy at doing so, its not because I'm afraid to admit my stupidity, but more of a social disability that I've had for a while, unrelated (I think?) to my interests in science.
But, for appearances anyway, I think... I most relate to the "large forehead" character in Pani Poni Dash, the one with orange hair. Though I don't like her disrespectful attitude to her classmates, I am completely emphatic with her... as the appearance to try and be someone smart, determined and hardworking, yet only recieving mediocre scores on her test and not being able to compete with some who are just better than her. Yeah, I dislike the whole concept of other people working not as hard and still getting decent grades... that's another issue altogether, for another post. Over here I just summarized about 2-3 years of thoughts that usually come up (and will continue to come up) during times of stress and wondering about the reasons for my. And Anime is a huge distraction. Also a topic for another blog. I am done, I need to go up and develop some blots in my experiment so I can leave for anime club. (swt) IRONY AGAIN!
NOTE HOW I ANALYZE MYSELF, THIS IS AGAIN PROOF THAT I'M MORE ANALYZING THAN... ok I'll shut up now.
I am not meant to be a "scientific" character though I long to portray as one. I am actually more fitted to be an author, a lawyer, or a philosopher. My strength lies more in analysis than in memorization, and I more often enjoy taking a little bit of fact and spinning a lot of ideas and concepts out of them. Consequently, this is evident in my inability to memorize LARGE amounts of data, just flat out (although I will somehow have a few facts randomly pinned into my head for all of eternity despite my lack of any use for it). I am EXTREMELY bad, as Physics, EE, and some math classes have painfully pointed out to me, in applications. While I can, say, think up a variety of chemical syntheses from just a few chemical equations, solve a variety of differential equations and interpret circuits quite well, if I have merge any of them together, I fail to see the linking point for a very very long time.
Consequently, I wonder if some of my problems in physics or whatnot may be due to overanalyzation. Especially in mechanical physics, the concept of a spring or whatnot is so incredibly simple that I may have purposely overcomplicate it myself. If there were no spring or picture associated, and the only thing given to me were equations and numbers, BAM!! Easy material, can be calculated out in a couple a seconds. But add in a picture and suddenly I'm stumped for hours, trying link formula to the picture. Even if it was a graph instead of a picture of a spring, I would understand the math; but somehow that accursed little bouncy thing screws up my mind whenever I see it... (hahaha irony there's my analysis at work :p)
My other problem is dexterity. I can rarely do the same thing twice. This applies to EVERYTHING. Science experiments, Piano performances, solving math equations, writing an essay twice (hasn't happened often), trying to do moves in EFZ. Unfortunately, in the science career this is a very essential part of an experiment, to perform and repeat the experiment and get consistent results. But I'm incredibly clumsy and my skills are rather lacking in this part; I think too fast and before I finish what I'm supposed to be doing I start something else. This leads to messups, forgetting to clean something, and thus contamination/throwing something away.
With such a realization, one would wonder why I haven't changed my career path as of yet. Its not for any monetary issues; if it were, I'd be going to pre-med or, better yet, Law school because it would fit my style. Its not because I'm a social recluse either; many authors and philosophers can do perfectly fine without society, and scientists actually have to interact with society often in order to get their experiments going. The best reasons for my actions is most likely environmental influence, which (contrast to what die-hard gene-controls-everything believers think) lead me in general to think "science is cool". My parents were scientists, and I was proud that they were. In whatever movies I may have watched as a child, I rooted for the nerdy kid; being smart just seemed "cool" to me. Now, even my parents have suggested that if I wanted to, I could go into something like 3D animation (a course I took in high school, I did fairly well in it and found it fun) instead of science, but I chose science anyway. I don't know, I liked the image of the intellectual.
This poses problems at times. I'm fairly confident that my IMAGE (note: image) is that of an intellectual, but I worry if my actual intellect can hold up to that image at times. I worry that if people ask me questions and I am unable to answer them, if my image is ruined. Does this mean I'm being a scientist and acting all smart just because I like to look smart? I at the point don't think so. And don't hope so. I still hold genuine interest in my subject. Admittedly, it wasn't as strong as my curiosity as a child, but I want to go in deeper into the world of science. Because I like Organic Chemistry. I like doing math problems. Electrical Engineering is actually really fun (a helluvalot better than mechanical physics). So I don't think its just the image thing. I'm still asking questions; although I'm quite shy at doing so, its not because I'm afraid to admit my stupidity, but more of a social disability that I've had for a while, unrelated (I think?) to my interests in science.
But, for appearances anyway, I think... I most relate to the "large forehead" character in Pani Poni Dash, the one with orange hair. Though I don't like her disrespectful attitude to her classmates, I am completely emphatic with her... as the appearance to try and be someone smart, determined and hardworking, yet only recieving mediocre scores on her test and not being able to compete with some who are just better than her. Yeah, I dislike the whole concept of other people working not as hard and still getting decent grades... that's another issue altogether, for another post. Over here I just summarized about 2-3 years of thoughts that usually come up (and will continue to come up) during times of stress and wondering about the reasons for my
NOTE HOW I ANALYZE MYSELF, THIS IS AGAIN PROOF THAT I'M MORE ANALYZING THAN... ok I'll shut up now.
11.10.06
And the days fly by...
Haha, I noticed my last entry was my first ochem test... that was like a month ago!! I had my other ochem test yesterday, it sucked too! :p But I think I can scratch some points up by digging through my ochem book and showing them some stuff...
My EE test sucked. Whoot, that really worries me. Now I have to focus on EE, which is really a bother.
Uh, last is, lab is consuming my life. Well, oh well. I'm in lab right now, coincidentally. 9 PM... waiting for my transfer to finish so I can put my blots in antibody... Not bad for tonight, not like staying up till 1 AM last week... in the lab... But, I do worry that my lab work will affect my academics (refer to EE) and so I realize, I need to either control and seriously organize my lifestyle, make less mistakes, and ( D: D: D: ) sleep less.
My head hurts from eating too much products containing MSG. I feel like beating people up with Makoto in EFZ.
CHAOS!!!
Thomas T. Reusbucks would not approve of this post, it is very unprofessional. -_-;; I speak of more organization when I lack it even in this blog post.
I'm just writing whatever comes to mind. I know last couple of days I've been thinking about philosophical things and the concept of stress and mistakes and everything that's been going wrong with my experiment/life this past week, but I feel braindead right now and can't think it up. DAMMIT!!
Oh that's right, I remember now, the internet makes me stupid. This would have been a more thought out topic to talk about but I can't think right now. But I will discuss this some day. I'm smart without the internet. I plan things, organize things, work hard. With the internet, I sit in my chair wondering what I'm doing half the time when I'm doing nothing. Um, I'll get back to that in another post. More professionally. Hopefully while the internet hasn't dumbed me down yet.
TONY IF YOU READ THIS... lets find time to play EFZ. :( Since I'm pretty sure Tony's the only person who bothers checking my blog. :P
My EE test sucked. Whoot, that really worries me. Now I have to focus on EE, which is really a bother.
Uh, last is, lab is consuming my life. Well, oh well. I'm in lab right now, coincidentally. 9 PM... waiting for my transfer to finish so I can put my blots in antibody... Not bad for tonight, not like staying up till 1 AM last week... in the lab... But, I do worry that my lab work will affect my academics (refer to EE) and so I realize, I need to either control and seriously organize my lifestyle, make less mistakes, and ( D: D: D: ) sleep less.
My head hurts from eating too much products containing MSG. I feel like beating people up with Makoto in EFZ.
CHAOS!!!
Thomas T. Reusbucks would not approve of this post, it is very unprofessional. -_-;; I speak of more organization when I lack it even in this blog post.
I'm just writing whatever comes to mind. I know last couple of days I've been thinking about philosophical things and the concept of stress and mistakes and everything that's been going wrong with my experiment/life this past week, but I feel braindead right now and can't think it up. DAMMIT!!
Oh that's right, I remember now, the internet makes me stupid. This would have been a more thought out topic to talk about but I can't think right now. But I will discuss this some day. I'm smart without the internet. I plan things, organize things, work hard. With the internet, I sit in my chair wondering what I'm doing half the time when I'm doing nothing. Um, I'll get back to that in another post. More professionally. Hopefully while the internet hasn't dumbed me down yet.
TONY IF YOU READ THIS... lets find time to play EFZ. :( Since I'm pretty sure Tony's the only person who bothers checking my blog. :P
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