OMG.
I emailed one of my advisors about information in Java programming, in comparing JBuilder vs. Netbeans. I just wanted a rather simple answer on why we were using Netbeans and JBuilder.
My advisor, in 15 minutes, sent back a 35 page technical report on the comparison between JBuilder and Netbeans.
...||orz....
15.12.08
6.12.08
Shugo Chara (Unfinished)
FIRST TRAP IN EPISODE 25.
THEN TERRIBLE REFERENCE IN EPISODE 38.
And this show is LEGITIMATELY DIRECTED TOWARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GIRLS. Yes. GIRLS. MAN WHAT IS JAPAN TEACHING THEIR CHILDREN.
BUT HAHAHA THIS IS SO AMUSING IN MANY MANY WAYS
THEN TERRIBLE REFERENCE IN EPISODE 38.
And this show is LEGITIMATELY DIRECTED TOWARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GIRLS. Yes. GIRLS. MAN WHAT IS JAPAN TEACHING THEIR CHILDREN.
BUT HAHAHA THIS IS SO AMUSING IN MANY MANY WAYS
23.11.08
Moeology
I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING WITH THIS TERM IN THE FUTURE.
Maybe.
Goddammit the blog address for this word is taken by some random guy named Moe.
"Moeology: Study of the components, influences, and significance of Moe."
I want to have subcategories!
Biomoeology
Sociomoeology
Moechemistry
Moephysics
...:V
EDIT: I FORGOT MOENGINEERING
Maybe.
Goddammit the blog address for this word is taken by some random guy named Moe.
"Moeology: Study of the components, influences, and significance of Moe."
I want to have subcategories!
Biomoeology
Sociomoeology
Moechemistry
Moephysics
...:V
EDIT: I FORGOT MOENGINEERING
21.11.08
Makoto's Instant Cancel.
Makoto ICs.
*GRAAAAWH!!!!*
I have a presentation tomorrow.
*GRAAAAAWH!!!!!*
I have to wake up at 6:30 AM.
*GRAAAAAAWH!!!*
LEVEL THREE SUPAR
*GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWH!!!!*
I already learned how to use Makoto's FM as an antiair. My next goal is to end every round in arcade mode either with a *GRAAAAAAWRGH* super or a *GRAAAAAAWRGH* IC.
*GRAAAAWH!!!!*
I have a presentation tomorrow.
*GRAAAAAWH!!!!!*
I have to wake up at 6:30 AM.
*GRAAAAAAWH!!!*
LEVEL THREE SUPAR
*GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWH!!!!*
I already learned how to use Makoto's FM as an antiair. My next goal is to end every round in arcade mode either with a *GRAAAAAAWRGH* super or a *GRAAAAAAWRGH* IC.
Blog Gendering and Sal2ing
http://genderanalyzer.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fenigmatic-cube.blogspot.com%2F
"We guess http://enigmatic-cube.blogspot.com/ is written by a man (54%), however it's quite gender neutral."
Wrong its written by an inanimate object!!
And for anyone who ever wondered what Sal2 looked like:
http://fc16.deviantart.com/fs30/i/2008/062/a/d/Nidoking_by_BuckWulf.jpg
This is pretty nice.
"We guess http://enigmatic-cube.blogspot.com/ is written by a man (54%), however it's quite gender neutral."
Wrong its written by an inanimate object!!
And for anyone who ever wondered what Sal2 looked like:
http://fc16.deviantart.com/fs30/i/2008/062/a/d/Nidoking_by_BuckWulf.jpg
This is pretty nice.
20.11.08
15 random things
This is the stuff I do when the presentation I've been worried for 3 months 6 months over a year is 2 days away. Posted on my facebook.
"Once you've been tagged you have to write a [note] with 15 weird/random facts about you. At the end you choose 15 people to tag."
1. I'm always seen wearing long pants of some sort. Whether it be jeans or slacks or whatnot.
2. I think better when I pace.
3. I'm much more hardcore otaku than I tend to want to be. If had no self-control I'd be 110% hikikomori.
4. My moe is medium wavey hair and elbow gloves. :(
5. I can forget what I was doing in less than 2 seconds.
6. I'm not as intelligent as I appear to be to people. My image seems to give out that feeling though.
7. I'm not as emotionally inert as I appear to be to people.
8. I tend to not care about things not concerning me, but I will tend to listen to them, even if I don't appear to be listening.
9. I think up random story/plot ideas almost involuntarily. However because I prioritize school over other hobbies I usually never build on them, although someday I wish I will build on them.
10. I prioritize my studies over almost everything else, but really admire those who have other hobbies that they prioritize over their schoolwork.
11. I'm actually more organized than people give me credit for. But things tend to go wrong anyway. :V
12. I like stupid-looking birds. Like pigeons, ducks, and chickens. :V
13. Similar to how I like coming up with plot and ideas, I like coming up with different mathematical sequences and structures. Sadly this is wasted on trivial things like making combos in EFZ or stat builds in Ragnarok Online.
14. I am generally bad at reading any forms of text more than 3 lines long. Beyond that, if I'm actually interested I will probably read only like 70% of the words most of the time, while it is significantly less if I'm NOT interested in the subject. Even in math I am terrible in interpreting symbols; its only when I can visualize what's going on that then I would understand it.
tl;dr I can't read.
15. I watch nico videos, read anime related stuff, and facebook while I am working as a technician in my lab. And I should really stop doing that.
"Once you've been tagged you have to write a [note] with 15 weird/random facts about you. At the end you choose 15 people to tag."
1. I'm always seen wearing long pants of some sort. Whether it be jeans or slacks or whatnot.
2. I think better when I pace.
3. I'm much more hardcore otaku than I tend to want to be. If had no self-control I'd be 110% hikikomori.
4. My moe is medium wavey hair and elbow gloves. :(
5. I can forget what I was doing in less than 2 seconds.
6. I'm not as intelligent as I appear to be to people. My image seems to give out that feeling though.
7. I'm not as emotionally inert as I appear to be to people.
8. I tend to not care about things not concerning me, but I will tend to listen to them, even if I don't appear to be listening.
9. I think up random story/plot ideas almost involuntarily. However because I prioritize school over other hobbies I usually never build on them, although someday I wish I will build on them.
10. I prioritize my studies over almost everything else, but really admire those who have other hobbies that they prioritize over their schoolwork.
11. I'm actually more organized than people give me credit for. But things tend to go wrong anyway. :V
12. I like stupid-looking birds. Like pigeons, ducks, and chickens. :V
13. Similar to how I like coming up with plot and ideas, I like coming up with different mathematical sequences and structures. Sadly this is wasted on trivial things like making combos in EFZ or stat builds in Ragnarok Online.
14. I am generally bad at reading any forms of text more than 3 lines long. Beyond that, if I'm actually interested I will probably read only like 70% of the words most of the time, while it is significantly less if I'm NOT interested in the subject. Even in math I am terrible in interpreting symbols; its only when I can visualize what's going on that then I would understand it.
tl;dr I can't read.
15. I watch nico videos, read anime related stuff, and facebook while I am working as a technician in my lab. And I should really stop doing that.
6.11.08
4.11.08
Election Day
In what I regard as an interesting act on my part, I did actually took the initiative to submit a ballot today. I say this is interesting because I had and currently still have the mindset that many fervent patriots and campaigners fear the most: that I don't care too much about the election, that I don't regard my vote as being of high value, and that ultimately whatever results I'm going to deal with it. So it comes to the question as to why I voted in the first place.
I discussed this with a few of my friends already, since the whole voting propaganda was EVERYWHERE so you couldn't avoid one or two conversations with it. My main reason for voting is....stupid people.
As I stated earlier, I'm not too concerned for the outcome of the elections and hold no real favors as to whether I'm democrat or republican. (Actually if it ever had the chance I'd vote Green Party) But once in a while I go in and read people's arguments. It could have been anyone's argument from either side. I read them and I OTL. I can't stand the amount of ferventness they have when they know so little about the subject, researched so little on the other side yet condemning them so much. This person was my one reason to vote. I had to cancel out at least this person's ferventness, make at least one stupid person's vote neutralized. I cannot say I did any more than that.
There you go already. I voted, not because of patriotism, not because I favor a particular party, not because I think my vote will do any better, not because of the chickens (although that proposition WAS quite amusing to me), but because of stupid people.
...My god, stupid people, I wish you guys would stop voting so I don't have to counteract... *sigh*. Yes, Americans, let the stupid people vote to keep me voting.
EDIT: LOL MY FRIEND JUST MADE ME THINK UP THE BEST PHRASE TO DESCRIBE ME: "Tsundere Voter"
I discussed this with a few of my friends already, since the whole voting propaganda was EVERYWHERE so you couldn't avoid one or two conversations with it. My main reason for voting is....stupid people.
As I stated earlier, I'm not too concerned for the outcome of the elections and hold no real favors as to whether I'm democrat or republican. (Actually if it ever had the chance I'd vote Green Party) But once in a while I go in and read people's arguments. It could have been anyone's argument from either side. I read them and I OTL. I can't stand the amount of ferventness they have when they know so little about the subject, researched so little on the other side yet condemning them so much. This person was my one reason to vote. I had to cancel out at least this person's ferventness, make at least one stupid person's vote neutralized. I cannot say I did any more than that.
There you go already. I voted, not because of patriotism, not because I favor a particular party, not because I think my vote will do any better, not because of the chickens (although that proposition WAS quite amusing to me), but because of stupid people.
...My god, stupid people, I wish you guys would stop voting so I don't have to counteract... *sigh*. Yes, Americans, let the stupid people vote to keep me voting.
EDIT: LOL MY FRIEND JUST MADE ME THINK UP THE BEST PHRASE TO DESCRIBE ME: "Tsundere Voter"
3.11.08
WHAT COULD BE MORE ANNOYING THAN TYPHOON AT LOW LIFE?
Why, when some particular nuisance IMs you when you're at low life.
No hard feelings to that person, just the timing that he IMs is AMAZINGLY annoying. I mean, he must seriously be watching me somewhere and timing when he decides to IM me just so I can purposely screw up on some sort of game. :V
That aside, I have to stop trying to RG through youmu's super dash-slash attack. OMG playing so many Mais has had me conditioned to doing that. :V
No hard feelings to that person, just the timing that he IMs is AMAZINGLY annoying. I mean, he must seriously be watching me somewhere and timing when he decides to IM me just so I can purposely screw up on some sort of game. :V
That aside, I have to stop trying to RG through youmu's super dash-slash attack. OMG playing so many Mais has had me conditioned to doing that. :V
1.11.08
Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
MY MOE WEAKNESS.
When looking at this anime from an objective view, I can't say it's that great. The storyline, while better than the typical harem anime (I'm really happy that the main girl and guy gets matched up immediately... AND STAY MATCHED UP) is really quite mediocre. There are things that are quite obvious in what will happen so nothing is really that new... still... in the present anime world where tsunderes dominate, to have a sweet deredere rich girl to play the main role this time... it's pure awesomeness. To top it off, her character design is one that I find incredibly attractive so I can't say any more than "It's my moe fantasy." A world where everything goes according to plan, practically... you get a rich, prostegious, intelligent, innocent, otaku girl falling for you.
...You can't get ANY further from reality than this.
Anyway, as I've already stated, the art design for this anime is SPECTACULARLY MOE. It's the addictive drug that drives my main ambition to watch anime (in contrast to say a live action movie). The music is pretty fun too, although similar to the plot: cute, yet not great. Without a doubt, the strongest point of this anime is the sheer cuteness in the artwork, and I HIGHLY suggest people who like stuff just because of the moe anime design, and pretty much solely for the anime design, to watch it. And I HIGHLY suggest anyone who doesn't like anime just for its artwork and is looking for something with substance, to avoid it.
OMG I AM SOOOOO HAPPY HARUKA IS A MAIN CHARACTER! A MAAAAIIIIN CHARACTER THAT I LIKE, SO GODDAMN CUTE!!!
...consequently I think the other girls in this show aren't as good, which is pretty unusual. I MEAN THE MAIN CHARACTER IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER HOW WEIRD IS THAT--Well, Haruka is unique in that way (in these types of anime these days) so that's why I like it.
Well, there's ONE other character that I liked... it was one of the friends of the little sister who I thought was also incredibly moe but she played a very small role in the anime... hmm... I wonder if the manga is better... *checks it out*
When looking at this anime from an objective view, I can't say it's that great. The storyline, while better than the typical harem anime (I'm really happy that the main girl and guy gets matched up immediately... AND STAY MATCHED UP) is really quite mediocre. There are things that are quite obvious in what will happen so nothing is really that new... still... in the present anime world where tsunderes dominate, to have a sweet deredere rich girl to play the main role this time... it's pure awesomeness. To top it off, her character design is one that I find incredibly attractive so I can't say any more than "It's my moe fantasy." A world where everything goes according to plan, practically... you get a rich, prostegious, intelligent, innocent, otaku girl falling for you.
...You can't get ANY further from reality than this.
Anyway, as I've already stated, the art design for this anime is SPECTACULARLY MOE. It's the addictive drug that drives my main ambition to watch anime (in contrast to say a live action movie). The music is pretty fun too, although similar to the plot: cute, yet not great. Without a doubt, the strongest point of this anime is the sheer cuteness in the artwork, and I HIGHLY suggest people who like stuff just because of the moe anime design, and pretty much solely for the anime design, to watch it. And I HIGHLY suggest anyone who doesn't like anime just for its artwork and is looking for something with substance, to avoid it.
OMG I AM SOOOOO HAPPY HARUKA IS A MAIN CHARACTER! A MAAAAIIIIN CHARACTER THAT I LIKE, SO GODDAMN CUTE!!!
...consequently I think the other girls in this show aren't as good, which is pretty unusual. I MEAN THE MAIN CHARACTER IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER HOW WEIRD IS THAT--Well, Haruka is unique in that way (in these types of anime these days) so that's why I like it.
Well, there's ONE other character that I liked... it was one of the friends of the little sister who I thought was also incredibly moe but she played a very small role in the anime... hmm... I wonder if the manga is better... *checks it out*
29.10.08
Arithmetic
What is the school semester without a test rant!! Yes, even on this very last semester of mine, even though only 3 out of my 5 classes actually have midterms/finals, even though all 3 of those classes only has ONE midterm the ENTIRE SEMESTER... we still can't have a school semester without a rant about midterms!!! But HEY!! It's the LAST SEMESTER SO THAT MEANS THE LAST RANT ON (school) TESTS!!! REJOICE (until I start complaining about GREs and graduate applications)!!!!
Understandably there have been rants in this blog that have dealt with errors, confidence, and other extraneous material relating to reasons why a test score would be lower than it appeared to have been. In particular the mere concept of arithmetic errors seems to be one of the most influential and annoying reasons a test score may be lowered. At first, this seems trivial. After all, why mark a student down when he forgets to put a minus sign instead of a plus sign in the very last equation of his problem, making him off by only a small amount? It would seem unfair...
However, if relating to the problems addressed in real life, perfection, in all sorts, is desperately needed to avoid serious errors. Relating to experiences in lab, perhaps one small miscalculation doesn't seem much in one part of the experiment, but if in the end it causes a large variation in your data, rendering it unusable, that "small" calculation isn't looking so small either. There are other stories people have constantly noted, such as the collapse of a bridge because of a misestimation, computer programs misfunctioning, etc... the list goes on. Therefore getting marked down is quite an accurate representation of the types of problems one can encounter in real life.
It's always particularly difficult,though, when you have so many lines and lines of equations to calculate and you err in one line. In general one always feels that for the most part it seems alright and doesn't need to be redone. Even if one tries to redo it, they will likely just follow their own equations and say "yes that makes sense" although if they truly look into it, it doesn't make sense. Its a sense of confidence that is unneeded. And I believe I had in the past mentioned something on confidence and how it makes people err more (well, actually maybe that's just me). And I think if I continue talking like this I'll be getting nowhere so I'm going to cut this short now.
GRE'S ARE NEXT, PREPARE YOURSELVESSSSS
Understandably there have been rants in this blog that have dealt with errors, confidence, and other extraneous material relating to reasons why a test score would be lower than it appeared to have been. In particular the mere concept of arithmetic errors seems to be one of the most influential and annoying reasons a test score may be lowered. At first, this seems trivial. After all, why mark a student down when he forgets to put a minus sign instead of a plus sign in the very last equation of his problem, making him off by only a small amount? It would seem unfair...
However, if relating to the problems addressed in real life, perfection, in all sorts, is desperately needed to avoid serious errors. Relating to experiences in lab, perhaps one small miscalculation doesn't seem much in one part of the experiment, but if in the end it causes a large variation in your data, rendering it unusable, that "small" calculation isn't looking so small either. There are other stories people have constantly noted, such as the collapse of a bridge because of a misestimation, computer programs misfunctioning, etc... the list goes on. Therefore getting marked down is quite an accurate representation of the types of problems one can encounter in real life.
It's always particularly difficult,though, when you have so many lines and lines of equations to calculate and you err in one line. In general one always feels that for the most part it seems alright and doesn't need to be redone. Even if one tries to redo it, they will likely just follow their own equations and say "yes that makes sense" although if they truly look into it, it doesn't make sense. Its a sense of confidence that is unneeded. And I believe I had in the past mentioned something on confidence and how it makes people err more (well, actually maybe that's just me). And I think if I continue talking like this I'll be getting nowhere so I'm going to cut this short now.
GRE'S ARE NEXT, PREPARE YOURSELVESSSSS
21.10.08
Credit
People will often treat ideas like things they own. And like things they own, if other people use those ideas people often accuse them of "stealing".
In general, from any reasonable perspective, this is complete BS.
Ideas or even discoveries that are patented just because someone submitted it to the patent office is the stupidest concept I've ever seen before. Ideas are just concepts floating around that can be used and thought up by anyone and everyone; there's no such thing as "I thought this up first" or "this is my idea", because ideas take little more than a few burning mitochondrias in your head think up. Its the people who happened to put their ideas into practicality and make some sort of invention or publication... that end result is what ends up getting any profit, if at all. But the idea behind that creation... anyone can take that and make something else from it. Even if its rather similar to your new invention, as long as it isn't blatantly copied that you can actually SUE them for copyright issues, there's nothing stopping them from using any idea and not giving you any credit for it.
(Although people try to sue others for stealing their ideas...)
Credit would be nice, but its a privledge, not a right. It would be nice if people said "Thanks ____ for the idea!" But that rarely happens. No, people will usually just take the idea as their own, implement it, and display it blatantly even in front of the original person who may have thought it up. But wait, maybe that person who originally thought it up might have built his ideas off of other people's ideas. Still, maybe he'll get angry about it and try to complain to the person who made the idea. For a person who came up with this great idea, this is pretty stupid.
All people may see an idea and think "that's awesome! I wonder what I can do with it." Credit or not, this is quite fine; in fact, its people's desire to mix and match and come up with new things that keeps this world going, whether it be in science, technology, or in arts. But maybe it's human nature that people will get angry if they see their idea being used and doing well, but they don't get any credit for it. Its too bad, people (especially those intelligent enough to come up with these ideas) should realize that they should just be grateful that their ideas are being put to good use, and don't think much else about it.
I'm not here to attack all the complainers of those who had their ideas stolen.
I just felt that, sometimes, I have things I came up with, and people wouldn't say much about it and use it. Even though its not important and not really significant to me, I can't help feeling a bit bothered by it. I think I still need some time to mature. (Many people would agree.)
By the way I'm not saying that if you have an idea that revolutionizes the world that if someone else plucks it off you and gets all the credit, you should be happy about it. But it should be enough motivation to work as fast as you can to make your own creation from your own idea before someone else does, and take whatever credit you want from it. Money, fame, your name on a company.
It also tells you that keeping quiet can be beneficial at times.
Well, my issue at hand has more to do with the actual concept coming into being but the others taking it anyway, and I didn't really put a name on it (or rather, don't know how to) so it really IS a situation I can't do much about.
Hmmm. I have a feeling that my rants have this "trying to be objective and apathetic but sort of showing more emotion than desired" type of voice. But at least stating this out is good for general relief. Now I can get back to doing my work. Maybe. :V
In general, from any reasonable perspective, this is complete BS.
Ideas or even discoveries that are patented just because someone submitted it to the patent office is the stupidest concept I've ever seen before. Ideas are just concepts floating around that can be used and thought up by anyone and everyone; there's no such thing as "I thought this up first" or "this is my idea", because ideas take little more than a few burning mitochondrias in your head think up. Its the people who happened to put their ideas into practicality and make some sort of invention or publication... that end result is what ends up getting any profit, if at all. But the idea behind that creation... anyone can take that and make something else from it. Even if its rather similar to your new invention, as long as it isn't blatantly copied that you can actually SUE them for copyright issues, there's nothing stopping them from using any idea and not giving you any credit for it.
(Although people try to sue others for stealing their ideas...)
Credit would be nice, but its a privledge, not a right. It would be nice if people said "Thanks ____ for the idea!" But that rarely happens. No, people will usually just take the idea as their own, implement it, and display it blatantly even in front of the original person who may have thought it up. But wait, maybe that person who originally thought it up might have built his ideas off of other people's ideas. Still, maybe he'll get angry about it and try to complain to the person who made the idea. For a person who came up with this great idea, this is pretty stupid.
All people may see an idea and think "that's awesome! I wonder what I can do with it." Credit or not, this is quite fine; in fact, its people's desire to mix and match and come up with new things that keeps this world going, whether it be in science, technology, or in arts. But maybe it's human nature that people will get angry if they see their idea being used and doing well, but they don't get any credit for it. Its too bad, people (especially those intelligent enough to come up with these ideas) should realize that they should just be grateful that their ideas are being put to good use, and don't think much else about it.
I'm not here to attack all the complainers of those who had their ideas stolen.
I just felt that, sometimes, I have things I came up with, and people wouldn't say much about it and use it. Even though its not important and not really significant to me, I can't help feeling a bit bothered by it. I think I still need some time to mature. (Many people would agree.)
By the way I'm not saying that if you have an idea that revolutionizes the world that if someone else plucks it off you and gets all the credit, you should be happy about it. But it should be enough motivation to work as fast as you can to make your own creation from your own idea before someone else does, and take whatever credit you want from it. Money, fame, your name on a company.
It also tells you that keeping quiet can be beneficial at times.
Well, my issue at hand has more to do with the actual concept coming into being but the others taking it anyway, and I didn't really put a name on it (or rather, don't know how to) so it really IS a situation I can't do much about.
Hmmm. I have a feeling that my rants have this "trying to be objective and apathetic but sort of showing more emotion than desired" type of voice. But at least stating this out is good for general relief. Now I can get back to doing my work. Maybe. :V
17.10.08
Lucky Star OVA
Actually the OVA was so AWESO^H^H^H^H^H similar to the regular Lucky Star series that it doesn't really need another full review. Instead, have a 15 minute Lucky Star music video I've been addicted to for the last 2 weeks.
EDIT: FOR THOSE WITHOUT A NICO ACCOUNT, ENJOY... NIPON ＼(≧∇≦)／
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtVhKHgruSU
EDIT: FOR THOSE WITHOUT A NICO ACCOUNT, ENJOY... NIPON ＼(≧∇≦)／
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtVhKHgruSU
3.10.08
Raven and his overheads
ARG if tenken only did overheads like Raven does I wouldn't be able to beat him.
ARG ARG GARG Raven and his damn unpredictable overheads ARG. I can only be consulted by the fact that I beat him in some games. sure, 1 in 10 games, but still. :V
ARG ARG GARG Raven and his damn unpredictable overheads ARG. I can only be consulted by the fact that I beat him in some games. sure, 1 in 10 games, but still. :V
20.9.08
REISEN
...was never moe until SWR came out. THANK YOU SWR
EDIT: As a side note I REALLY need to stop going to #swr. My sleep schedule is already screwed, I don't need more SWR battles to deprive me of any form of rest possible...
17.9.08
Magic Battle Arena
YOU HAVE NOT FELT PAIN IN THIS GAME UNTIL YOU GET GANGRAPED BY 5 SAKURAS.
...
This game is very pretty. :V And memory-consuming. Its quite fun actually, albeit simple as some have already stated. Aside from the fancy graphics the gameplay is rather easy to understand (in spite of the 9 buttons I have to remember). Loading takes a HELL of a long time considering it takes more than twice the amount of time needed to load the game than the time they give you per round to finish (wtf only 200 seconds which it takes like 10 minutes to load the round)...blame the fancy graphics. I totally love their conceptual idea though. Needs Moetan. Needs Shugo Chara. Needs EFZ Sayuri. NEEDS MAGICAL CELL PLASMA B-CHAN...
...
This game is very pretty. :V And memory-consuming. Its quite fun actually, albeit simple as some have already stated. Aside from the fancy graphics the gameplay is rather easy to understand (in spite of the 9 buttons I have to remember). Loading takes a HELL of a long time considering it takes more than twice the amount of time needed to load the game than the time they give you per round to finish (wtf only 200 seconds which it takes like 10 minutes to load the round)...blame the fancy graphics. I totally love their conceptual idea though. Needs Moetan. Needs Shugo Chara. Needs EFZ Sayuri. NEEDS MAGICAL CELL PLASMA B-CHAN...
6.9.08
DA CAPO OVA
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-09-06/d.c.i.f-da-capo-if-part-i-ova-announced
KOTORI IS THE MAIN CHARACTER~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In related news, now that I have a job I am less hesitant to buy the translated game as soon as it comes out in October. WakuWaku, I can't wait :3
(except I'll be having exams at about the same time so this might suck)
KOTORI IS THE MAIN CHARACTER~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In related news, now that I have a job I am less hesitant to buy the translated game as soon as it comes out in October. WakuWaku, I can't wait :3
(except I'll be having exams at about the same time so this might suck)
28.8.08
V=IR
(Slightly emo, people that actually read this, please disregard.)
Just a few moments ago one of the new members of my lab posed a simple question to me regarding the Hudson-Huxley equation which soon proved to be a devastating blow to my pride and confidence. Even though I had a vague idea of what the HH equation was all about (and pretty much told much of what I knew about it), she wanted a much simpler answer, one that established HOW Hudson and Huxley came up with the equation and essentially the basis of neuroscience which stood behind it. After struggling for a good amount of time another lab member revealed the answer to me: "V=IR".
Although the question posed was simple and seemingly trivial, it felt almost as bad (possibly worse) than getting a low test grade. Even if I got a low test grade, I can somewhat redeem myself by scoring better later in the course; I cannot redeem myself for this. It exemplified the difference between "knowing" and more properly "UNDERSTANDING" the material, a difference between an average person and a genius. The fact that I could not figure out what she talked about even with all the hints she provided proves, in my mind, that I am a much bigger idiot than I thought I was. And I'm sure she thinks so now too. This however is more trivial.
Although perhaps I am concerned of her perception of me. I don't want her to regard me as a genius but the fact that I couldn't figure out her simple question now makes me think that she regards me as possessing less potential intelligence than what she thought of before. In reality this should be of no concern, though of course it is human nature to want to have a good image of their self to others.
The aspect of having nothing that I can do about it is perhaps what's most devastating to me. I cannot redeem myself in any way from this small err I made. I am not only a biologist in a neuroscience lab but a biomedical engineer, who has been taught to remember "V=IR" ever since BME 101, where the teacher said, "if you drop BME and never want to take another engineering course again, you should at least remember V=IR". I felt that, though I am graduating this semester, I have failed. I have failed to grasp 4 years of engineering studies, thinking it is more like a fun game with interesting math problems than an aspect of innovation that can be applied to reality and promote a better state of living. In truth I had somewhat of an idea that I'm not quite applying engineering courses as much as I should be, since I could never really see the big picture: I only saw the math problems behind them, and solved them. I never thought "this is the problem I encounter when I make something like this". I only saw "there is a math problem. Let me solve it."
Not only that, I have failed in the biology aspect of the world as well. I have delved too deeply into understanding so much of the specifics that I forgotten that we need to look at the overall picture. One of my undergraduate labmates made a collage (he's part art major) based on such an idea that everyone looks so much about the small details that when they suddenly realize they should step back and see what they've done... it's a mess. It's like that. I look into my brain searching for answers and there's a bunch of answers, but they're all junk. They're all obscuring the true answer, the simple equation that established many different aspects of reality in many different fields.
There was no use sulking about this for a long period of time and this is partly why I wrote this up. While I'm not particularly happy this blog somewhat public, its a good enough place to write about it. I don't know what else I can do about what happened... I want to talk to the person who posed the question to me again but due to my poor conversation skills I wouldn't know what to say.
But maybe, I can try. In all cases even in a defeat like that I'll still have to get back up and do better. I already acknowledge I'm not some sort of genius. I'm not as smart as I appear to be. But I want to try, and that's mostly what my motivation for going through school and education is all about. This failure is devastating to me, yet essential and necessary for me to understand, since failure is the only way I truly learn. I hope to do better from now on, and never forget the simple things again. Such as V=IR.
Just a few moments ago one of the new members of my lab posed a simple question to me regarding the Hudson-Huxley equation which soon proved to be a devastating blow to my pride and confidence. Even though I had a vague idea of what the HH equation was all about (and pretty much told much of what I knew about it), she wanted a much simpler answer, one that established HOW Hudson and Huxley came up with the equation and essentially the basis of neuroscience which stood behind it. After struggling for a good amount of time another lab member revealed the answer to me: "V=IR".
Although the question posed was simple and seemingly trivial, it felt almost as bad (possibly worse) than getting a low test grade. Even if I got a low test grade, I can somewhat redeem myself by scoring better later in the course; I cannot redeem myself for this. It exemplified the difference between "knowing" and more properly "UNDERSTANDING" the material, a difference between an average person and a genius. The fact that I could not figure out what she talked about even with all the hints she provided proves, in my mind, that I am a much bigger idiot than I thought I was. And I'm sure she thinks so now too. This however is more trivial.
Although perhaps I am concerned of her perception of me. I don't want her to regard me as a genius but the fact that I couldn't figure out her simple question now makes me think that she regards me as possessing less potential intelligence than what she thought of before. In reality this should be of no concern, though of course it is human nature to want to have a good image of their self to others.
The aspect of having nothing that I can do about it is perhaps what's most devastating to me. I cannot redeem myself in any way from this small err I made. I am not only a biologist in a neuroscience lab but a biomedical engineer, who has been taught to remember "V=IR" ever since BME 101, where the teacher said, "if you drop BME and never want to take another engineering course again, you should at least remember V=IR". I felt that, though I am graduating this semester, I have failed. I have failed to grasp 4 years of engineering studies, thinking it is more like a fun game with interesting math problems than an aspect of innovation that can be applied to reality and promote a better state of living. In truth I had somewhat of an idea that I'm not quite applying engineering courses as much as I should be, since I could never really see the big picture: I only saw the math problems behind them, and solved them. I never thought "this is the problem I encounter when I make something like this". I only saw "there is a math problem. Let me solve it."
Not only that, I have failed in the biology aspect of the world as well. I have delved too deeply into understanding so much of the specifics that I forgotten that we need to look at the overall picture. One of my undergraduate labmates made a collage (he's part art major) based on such an idea that everyone looks so much about the small details that when they suddenly realize they should step back and see what they've done... it's a mess. It's like that. I look into my brain searching for answers and there's a bunch of answers, but they're all junk. They're all obscuring the true answer, the simple equation that established many different aspects of reality in many different fields.
There was no use sulking about this for a long period of time and this is partly why I wrote this up. While I'm not particularly happy this blog somewhat public, its a good enough place to write about it. I don't know what else I can do about what happened... I want to talk to the person who posed the question to me again but due to my poor conversation skills I wouldn't know what to say.
But maybe, I can try. In all cases even in a defeat like that I'll still have to get back up and do better. I already acknowledge I'm not some sort of genius. I'm not as smart as I appear to be. But I want to try, and that's mostly what my motivation for going through school and education is all about. This failure is devastating to me, yet essential and necessary for me to understand, since failure is the only way I truly learn. I hope to do better from now on, and never forget the simple things again. Such as V=IR.
21.8.08
School Days
One of the few anime where I can endure watching it even though the main protagonist and one other character is completely horrible and despicable in character personality yet watchable because--SPOILER but not really because anyone who has the faintest idea what School Days is should be able to guess-- they die at the end. And die beautifully. The one girl that I like and find absolutely moe is the girl that survives, albeit insane. However, that's sort of why I liked the show. My friend says I have an unhealthy obsession with yandere just because I find them so fascinating...moreso than tsundere. Although I think in School Days the yandere had a good reason to go psychotic since she was pressured on so many degrees and, while trying desperately to maintain her innocence and true love, logically breaks down after so many people betray her. At least in my mind and in this anime, she was logically yandere.
There are of course others who are not particularly logically yandere. I think these yandere are more scary in that aspect, yet just like how horror fascinates people, I still find them rather particular. Ryoko from Haruhi is a different kind of yandere, one I call a "calm, smiling" yandere. In a way her relation to her victims sort of is like a human to a mouse in a science experiment, unable to fully relate to their subject. While on one hand this seems cruel, on another (especially since I'm going into a science field where this is often seen everyday) it's sort of a "that's how it is, it can't be helped" attitude. Other yandere, especially Kaede from Shuffle, can be rather scary. Kaede (although it could be attributed to her young age) had a less noble reason for killing and stems more from "I need someone to blame" than for a true reason. This is a scary yandere.
But I digress. Aside from the characters and plot, the music varies. The ending changes from episode to episode, and I liked some of them and didn't like so much some of the others. The opening wasn't that great either. The main thing the show had going was the art, which was near CG quality. I find the character designs quite beautiful and even more so by the fact that the most moe character turns yandere at the end...:V
"Nice Boat."- I couldn't figure out what this had to do with the anime at first. I mean, sure there's a boat near the end of the show but so what? I found out using wikipedia that it was some 4chan comment turned meme and eventually became crazy popular for whatever reason. Something about people being angry at the series and the guy just randomly pops in and says "Nice Boat". Oh well. 4chan, you don't expect logic in that. :V
Additional Comments: I finished Tokimeki Memorial Only Love before School Days, which is a decent anime except for the emo parts (like all these series). Now I'm watching To Heart 2. Kind of like To Heart 1, kind of boring, but there's no emoing at least. But it feels awkward watching it after School Days. Kind of like "I wonder if Konomi will pull out a knife now and go on a killing spree" awkward.
Sigh. More Schoolgirl/harem anime should end like School Days. :(
There are of course others who are not particularly logically yandere. I think these yandere are more scary in that aspect, yet just like how horror fascinates people, I still find them rather particular. Ryoko from Haruhi is a different kind of yandere, one I call a "calm, smiling" yandere. In a way her relation to her victims sort of is like a human to a mouse in a science experiment, unable to fully relate to their subject. While on one hand this seems cruel, on another (especially since I'm going into a science field where this is often seen everyday) it's sort of a "that's how it is, it can't be helped" attitude. Other yandere, especially Kaede from Shuffle, can be rather scary. Kaede (although it could be attributed to her young age) had a less noble reason for killing and stems more from "I need someone to blame" than for a true reason. This is a scary yandere.
But I digress. Aside from the characters and plot, the music varies. The ending changes from episode to episode, and I liked some of them and didn't like so much some of the others. The opening wasn't that great either. The main thing the show had going was the art, which was near CG quality. I find the character designs quite beautiful and even more so by the fact that the most moe character turns yandere at the end...:V
"Nice Boat."- I couldn't figure out what this had to do with the anime at first. I mean, sure there's a boat near the end of the show but so what? I found out using wikipedia that it was some 4chan comment turned meme and eventually became crazy popular for whatever reason. Something about people being angry at the series and the guy just randomly pops in and says "Nice Boat". Oh well. 4chan, you don't expect logic in that. :V
Additional Comments: I finished Tokimeki Memorial Only Love before School Days, which is a decent anime except for the emo parts (like all these series). Now I'm watching To Heart 2. Kind of like To Heart 1, kind of boring, but there's no emoing at least. But it feels awkward watching it after School Days. Kind of like "I wonder if Konomi will pull out a knife now and go on a killing spree" awkward.
Sigh. More Schoolgirl/harem anime should end like School Days. :(
16.8.08
Legend of Mana (SD4), Seiken Densetsu 3
After suffering from anime watching OD (where I couldn't get myself to watch anime yet was still feeling excessive amounts of ennui), I decided to take up a few games to cure my boredom. In the overall case, my opinion is that Legend of Mana is significantly better than Seiken Densetsu 3, despite what everyone else says.
In actuality I had started Legend of Mana a while ago (about 5 years ago, when I was still in high school) yet never finished it because I was told the game copy I had (which was an illegal CD >.> ) had some bug where if I beat the game it would freeze. Not liking that, I never beat the game. Eventually I lost my memory card as well and I stopped playing Legend of Mana (along with some other PS games). During this summer I had the random idea to try Legend of Mana again but I remembered I thought it was an awesome game. And I still think its an awesome game. Legend of Mana encourages a large amount of creativity and innovation while still setting enough rules for the game to work (a game without rules isn't fun, and rules are sometimes where creativity can stem from as well). The gameplay isn't hard at all so the player doesn't necessarily have to focus on levelling to beat the boss but instead on other more interesting aspects of the game. (There is actually a nico video of an example where a person didn't level at all - by not collecting EXP crystals - and yet beat the game in "No Future" mode where all monsters and bosses were level 99... it was really amusing). Of these aspects there are pet raising, golem making, instrument (magic) making, weapon/armor tempering, skill learning, and quests in general for the player to go through. IMO each aspect in itself can be a "game" of sorts and the player can decide which one he wants to do in the game. I've tried my share in working all of these except the golem making and found it very entertaining.
-Pet raising is fun in that you grow fruit and then feed them to pets and their stats and personality change. It's quite amusing to see how your pet acts in the battlefield due to their personality and watch stats rise rediculously high as you feed them delicious foods with fun names.
-Instrument Making I haven't looked into significantly especially since there's no real FAQ guide on it, although the concept is simple enough. I just created strong enough magic instruments for me to use in the game.
-Tempering can be very entertaining, yet extremely complicated. The FAQs liken it to chemical reactions and this is what insterested me. First off, you can temper almost ANYTHING you get into a weapon or armor. This includes the fruit you grow in your backyard or the random (and seemingly useless) items you win in battles. and of course these things have effects that can modify your weapon and armor. These effects, like the FAQ says, can work similar to compounds in a chemical reaction; there are even things like catalysts to get over an energy barrier and reach another level, and cards/compounds which won't work if combined with other things. It can be dangerous as well, since it can lower the effectiveness of your tempering item. Finally it can also be a good way to earn money since some things you compound will be worth more after you temper some things together. Overall I never became an expert on this and worked on it only for one night, but it was really fun and I made some spiffy weapon that OHKOs monsters with one arrow shot and OHKOs bosses with one special.
In sort, I had much too much fun with tempering. :V
-Skill Learning isn't as complicated but it also isn't just "level up, learn a new skill". There are some basic skills set that one can use and depending on the combination of basic skills one can learn new skills and even some new special techniques with the weapon they're using. This isn't very complicated but each skill does somethign different in battle so its fun to play around with a bunch of moves and set up a character that works for the player. There's even a way to load other characters from the memory card and battle them... that's actually quite fun if I had more players to play LoM with. Well, my sister is playing but it will be hard to play her since she's still pretty new and it would be rather unfair if I battled her in the arena. :P
-And of course, quests to make the story interesting. There's no linear plotline but there's three main stories one has to get through in order to activate the final quests in the game. I only got through one of the stories in my most recent trial and remembered getting through another a long time ago, but there was one more I haven't finished so I'll be getting through that one soon. Overall in terms of the characters its probably without a doubt that Pearl is the most moe character in LoM (with main character debatable but I used the less-moe character so I dunno :V). This is especially because about 70% of the characters are some animal hybrid (ie, furry) and of the other 30% only Pearl acts rather cutely in compared to the others...well... Diana could probably be moe too.
Actually, I take that back. Pearl is the most humanlike moe character, but characters like Elle (a siren) and Flameshe (a mermaid) are very moe too. But you can't get Flameshe as a partner and Elle can only use magic, which is cool but rather limited. Well. If you use Pearl she can't do crap until she turns into another character, which then she's not moe, HOWEVER IF YOU'RE USING PEARL YOU CAN COMBO YOUR CROUCHES AND I FIND THIS ENTERTAINING FOR WHATEVER REASON.
AAAB236BXY- long chain combo for any usual character. For Pearl it gets you like 5-6 crouches in a row. Why do this? I dunno, but it sure is entertaining. :V
Seiken Densetsu 3.
I found this game remarkably cheesey and rather lame compared to the ratings it gets, but perhaps it was innovative and new at the time. Obviously with the whole stat raising and real time action gameplay it gives it plays a lot like RO so I never had that much trouble playing the game. Despite what others may say I don't think the difficulty of the game is that high if you're playing normally- I died about 2 times because I did some stupid stuff but otherwise it seemed pretty easy. Although my game style is to level quite some levels before playing the boss and I also had a healer so it might have been that I just had a really easy team to use. Maybe its a bit annoying in that I didn't know what to do sometimes so I had to use the guide (where it tells me something stupid, usually, but not as bad as when I'm lost in LoM. Geez like 3 times when I got stuck and had no idea how to continue the quest even though it seemed like I went everywhere it told me "go home and... etc" and I'm like "wtf" and I go home and boom the quest continues and I feel dumb). The storylines... could be better. Final Fantasy storylines definitely make SD3's storylines seem rather lame, especially since plot is so predictable... even if there ARE different stories for different characters... but oh well. I got through the game anyway.
So WHY did I play this game in the first place, then, if I didn't find much interest in it? It's because of RIESZ. The ONLY thing you'll probably find if you search for SD3 fanart is pictures of Riesz, who for whatever reason is made to be incredibly moe. Not that she wasn't moe in the game, but perhaps because she's the best looking and has the best personality out of the three girls (one is a loli, the other is... a term I prefer not to use, but let's just say she's good with the opposite gender). SO ESSENTIALLY, because she's everywhere whenever SD3 is mentioned I decided to play the game just so I know her story and know what's going on, and so when I go look at SD3 fanart I don't feel guilty for not knowing who she is and can fully appreciate the art, so to speak.
...:V
Afterwards I tried Xenogears but I couldn't get it to work (gets stuck in the world map) so I gave up and decided to end my gaming for the summer (with the exception of replaying some LoM at times). But OMG RIESZ IS SO MOE WHYYYYY. :(
In actuality I had started Legend of Mana a while ago (about 5 years ago, when I was still in high school) yet never finished it because I was told the game copy I had (which was an illegal CD >.> ) had some bug where if I beat the game it would freeze. Not liking that, I never beat the game. Eventually I lost my memory card as well and I stopped playing Legend of Mana (along with some other PS games). During this summer I had the random idea to try Legend of Mana again but I remembered I thought it was an awesome game. And I still think its an awesome game. Legend of Mana encourages a large amount of creativity and innovation while still setting enough rules for the game to work (a game without rules isn't fun, and rules are sometimes where creativity can stem from as well). The gameplay isn't hard at all so the player doesn't necessarily have to focus on levelling to beat the boss but instead on other more interesting aspects of the game. (There is actually a nico video of an example where a person didn't level at all - by not collecting EXP crystals - and yet beat the game in "No Future" mode where all monsters and bosses were level 99... it was really amusing). Of these aspects there are pet raising, golem making, instrument (magic) making, weapon/armor tempering, skill learning, and quests in general for the player to go through. IMO each aspect in itself can be a "game" of sorts and the player can decide which one he wants to do in the game. I've tried my share in working all of these except the golem making and found it very entertaining.
-Pet raising is fun in that you grow fruit and then feed them to pets and their stats and personality change. It's quite amusing to see how your pet acts in the battlefield due to their personality and watch stats rise rediculously high as you feed them delicious foods with fun names.
-Instrument Making I haven't looked into significantly especially since there's no real FAQ guide on it, although the concept is simple enough. I just created strong enough magic instruments for me to use in the game.
-Tempering can be very entertaining, yet extremely complicated. The FAQs liken it to chemical reactions and this is what insterested me. First off, you can temper almost ANYTHING you get into a weapon or armor. This includes the fruit you grow in your backyard or the random (and seemingly useless) items you win in battles. and of course these things have effects that can modify your weapon and armor. These effects, like the FAQ says, can work similar to compounds in a chemical reaction; there are even things like catalysts to get over an energy barrier and reach another level, and cards/compounds which won't work if combined with other things. It can be dangerous as well, since it can lower the effectiveness of your tempering item. Finally it can also be a good way to earn money since some things you compound will be worth more after you temper some things together. Overall I never became an expert on this and worked on it only for one night, but it was really fun and I made some spiffy weapon that OHKOs monsters with one arrow shot and OHKOs bosses with one special.
In sort, I had much too much fun with tempering. :V
-Skill Learning isn't as complicated but it also isn't just "level up, learn a new skill". There are some basic skills set that one can use and depending on the combination of basic skills one can learn new skills and even some new special techniques with the weapon they're using. This isn't very complicated but each skill does somethign different in battle so its fun to play around with a bunch of moves and set up a character that works for the player. There's even a way to load other characters from the memory card and battle them... that's actually quite fun if I had more players to play LoM with. Well, my sister is playing but it will be hard to play her since she's still pretty new and it would be rather unfair if I battled her in the arena. :P
-And of course, quests to make the story interesting. There's no linear plotline but there's three main stories one has to get through in order to activate the final quests in the game. I only got through one of the stories in my most recent trial and remembered getting through another a long time ago, but there was one more I haven't finished so I'll be getting through that one soon. Overall in terms of the characters its probably without a doubt that Pearl is the most moe character in LoM (with main character debatable but I used the less-moe character so I dunno :V). This is especially because about 70% of the characters are some animal hybrid (ie, furry) and of the other 30% only Pearl acts rather cutely in compared to the others...well... Diana could probably be moe too.
Actually, I take that back. Pearl is the most humanlike moe character, but characters like Elle (a siren) and Flameshe (a mermaid) are very moe too. But you can't get Flameshe as a partner and Elle can only use magic, which is cool but rather limited. Well. If you use Pearl she can't do crap until she turns into another character, which then she's not moe, HOWEVER IF YOU'RE USING PEARL YOU CAN COMBO YOUR CROUCHES AND I FIND THIS ENTERTAINING FOR WHATEVER REASON.
AAAB236BXY- long chain combo for any usual character. For Pearl it gets you like 5-6 crouches in a row. Why do this? I dunno, but it sure is entertaining. :V
Seiken Densetsu 3.
I found this game remarkably cheesey and rather lame compared to the ratings it gets, but perhaps it was innovative and new at the time. Obviously with the whole stat raising and real time action gameplay it gives it plays a lot like RO so I never had that much trouble playing the game. Despite what others may say I don't think the difficulty of the game is that high if you're playing normally- I died about 2 times because I did some stupid stuff but otherwise it seemed pretty easy. Although my game style is to level quite some levels before playing the boss and I also had a healer so it might have been that I just had a really easy team to use. Maybe its a bit annoying in that I didn't know what to do sometimes so I had to use the guide (where it tells me something stupid, usually, but not as bad as when I'm lost in LoM. Geez like 3 times when I got stuck and had no idea how to continue the quest even though it seemed like I went everywhere it told me "go home and... etc" and I'm like "wtf" and I go home and boom the quest continues and I feel dumb). The storylines... could be better. Final Fantasy storylines definitely make SD3's storylines seem rather lame, especially since plot is so predictable... even if there ARE different stories for different characters... but oh well. I got through the game anyway.
So WHY did I play this game in the first place, then, if I didn't find much interest in it? It's because of RIESZ. The ONLY thing you'll probably find if you search for SD3 fanart is pictures of Riesz, who for whatever reason is made to be incredibly moe. Not that she wasn't moe in the game, but perhaps because she's the best looking and has the best personality out of the three girls (one is a loli, the other is... a term I prefer not to use, but let's just say she's good with the opposite gender). SO ESSENTIALLY, because she's everywhere whenever SD3 is mentioned I decided to play the game just so I know her story and know what's going on, and so when I go look at SD3 fanart I don't feel guilty for not knowing who she is and can fully appreciate the art, so to speak.
...:V
Afterwards I tried Xenogears but I couldn't get it to work (gets stuck in the world map) so I gave up and decided to end my gaming for the summer (with the exception of replaying some LoM at times). But OMG RIESZ IS SO MOE WHYYYYY. :(
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