http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v15/n11/full/nn.3221.html
I do have to admit, gloss does WONDERs to an CG artwork at times. I think they started putting that in a lot of anime too (see: Denpa Onna). Not entirely logical, though, but I guess it tickles the brain! Just like this paper suggests.
GLOSS!
26.10.12
12.10.12
9.10.12
The World Is Ending.
A PSP rhythm game based on GUMI is coming out.
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/10/09/report-new-vocaloid-game-featuring-megpoid-coming-to-psp-this-spring
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/10/09/report-new-vocaloid-game-featuring-megpoid-coming-to-psp-this-spring
6.10.12
命短し恋せよ乙女
I'm pretty surprised, a Teto song that sounds pretty good. Well, it could have been that there are lots of good Teto songs out there but not many of them reach the top 10, that's for sure. I do like the pacing and the art designs in this song. I think I'd like the lyrics too if I knew what it was talking about... :V
I think the title has to do something with life and love and young maidens... Something about short-lived maidens? :V
...Google Translate says "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may". Wait... what?
3.10.12
Atelier Meruru part ??? (I forgot already)
Pepped up Healing Salves are the best.
If there was one thing I regretted in Totori coming from Rorona, it was that I couldn't register the Pepped Up trait (because in Totori they don't let you register high level traits). You could get your chims to do it, but you might as well let your Chims make some better, high end items like N/A or Elixirs instead, so really the Pepped Up trait was lost through obscurity.
But, in Meruru they brought that back. In Meruru items have a tendency to be stupidly expensive so while you can register high end traits your items tend to be ridiculously expensive as well. But not if your item itself is relatively cheap. Healing salves is like the crappiest of all healing items, but that's all you really need if you ever get hit.
So now I get these awesome, autoheal-on-hit healing salves that heal for a reasonable amount of damage, then when my turn rolls around I recover even more damage from HP regen, then Convert lets me regen even more HP upon attacking... and then even if the enemy manages to kill me, I have auto-res so I don't really die...Endless HP is great!
...too bad this doesn't help when your enemy moves 5 turns in a row, choosing to heal 3k HP each turn... NEW PLAN NEEDED
If there was one thing I regretted in Totori coming from Rorona, it was that I couldn't register the Pepped Up trait (because in Totori they don't let you register high level traits). You could get your chims to do it, but you might as well let your Chims make some better, high end items like N/A or Elixirs instead, so really the Pepped Up trait was lost through obscurity.
But, in Meruru they brought that back. In Meruru items have a tendency to be stupidly expensive so while you can register high end traits your items tend to be ridiculously expensive as well. But not if your item itself is relatively cheap. Healing salves is like the crappiest of all healing items, but that's all you really need if you ever get hit.
So now I get these awesome, autoheal-on-hit healing salves that heal for a reasonable amount of damage, then when my turn rolls around I recover even more damage from HP regen, then Convert lets me regen even more HP upon attacking... and then even if the enemy manages to kill me, I have auto-res so I don't really die...Endless HP is great!
...too bad this doesn't help when your enemy moves 5 turns in a row, choosing to heal 3k HP each turn... NEW PLAN NEEDED
24.9.12
Atelier Meruru 2nd Playthrough Pt. 2
I may have said this before somewhere, but when Totori is on the topic of making homunculi she has the best and cutest face ever.
"e-he! I can't tell you yet!"
You truly wonder what's going on in her mind... :V
EDIT: Story parts aside, I have already begun the "overpowering chars to break the game" process. I notice that most people in the boards are going for speed such that enemies can't do a thing before they get obliterated by Meruru's team. because of the whole "doesn't use a part of your day if meruru doesn't get a turn" thing, this would make sense - pump the speed of your allies so that they obliterate everything before Meruru can even move. For the most part this is cool with the common enemies.
For bosses though, it's cooler to see their attacks and see how you can withstand them! So I'm going the defense and HP healing route. Sadly defense is mostly for non-elemental attacks only, and getting full elemental immunity for all 4 elements seems like a really difficult task. Luckily, we have HP regen! And luckily, we have a ton of traits for HP regen that can stack on top of each other! And then we have auto-KO recover (after one turn)! So essentially the only way an enemy can obliterate my team is if it launches some wide-scale attack that would OHKO anyone... well... lets hope that doesn't happen. But...
Totori's HP regen is looking freaking amazing right now, though. Heals for 78 HP per turn without items, with the mystery Ankh it heals for 100 HP per turn, then, pocketwatch for auto KO recovery... HAHAHA COME AT HER YOU GUYS, JUST TRY AND KILL HER, SHE'LL COME BACK ALIVE LIKE A ZOMBIE HAHAHA
Oh right we can also top it off with some Lively or Pepped Up trait and along with the convert function which absorbs HP from attack HAHAHA TOTORI IS UNSTOPPABLE HAHAHAHAHA
"e-he! I can't tell you yet!"
You truly wonder what's going on in her mind... :V
EDIT: Story parts aside, I have already begun the "overpowering chars to break the game" process. I notice that most people in the boards are going for speed such that enemies can't do a thing before they get obliterated by Meruru's team. because of the whole "doesn't use a part of your day if meruru doesn't get a turn" thing, this would make sense - pump the speed of your allies so that they obliterate everything before Meruru can even move. For the most part this is cool with the common enemies.
For bosses though, it's cooler to see their attacks and see how you can withstand them! So I'm going the defense and HP healing route. Sadly defense is mostly for non-elemental attacks only, and getting full elemental immunity for all 4 elements seems like a really difficult task. Luckily, we have HP regen! And luckily, we have a ton of traits for HP regen that can stack on top of each other! And then we have auto-KO recover (after one turn)! So essentially the only way an enemy can obliterate my team is if it launches some wide-scale attack that would OHKO anyone... well... lets hope that doesn't happen. But...
Totori's HP regen is looking freaking amazing right now, though. Heals for 78 HP per turn without items, with the mystery Ankh it heals for 100 HP per turn, then, pocketwatch for auto KO recovery... HAHAHA COME AT HER YOU GUYS, JUST TRY AND KILL HER, SHE'LL COME BACK ALIVE LIKE A ZOMBIE HAHAHA
Oh right we can also top it off with some Lively or Pepped Up trait and along with the convert function which absorbs HP from attack HAHAHA TOTORI IS UNSTOPPABLE HAHAHAHAHA
22.9.12
Atelier Meruru (2nd Playthrough)
THESE ENDING REQUIREMENTS HOLY CRAP WTF WTF WHAT WHAT WHY IS IT NOT JUST "increase char friendship" ;o; ;o; ;o;
Ren＊Ai
The song that starts in the middle.
No, seriously. :V Certainly gave me a "wait, what?" feeling since I was tabbed out to do other things, and suddenly the pace of the song changed.
It's not too bad of a song, but then again I don't think there's been a lot of good songs lately. There seems to be some theme of China and GUMI for whatever reason, which is interesting, but not that good sounding imo. Oh, there is also this rather realistic and slightly freaky video of Miku singing Disappearance... the eyes don't have enough saccades so the model doesn't turn out as realistic as it could have been (putting aside the unrealistically perfect proportions in other parts of the body). But that's not this video. This video is LOVE!
13.9.12
Hi-Res Printing
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v7/n9/full/nnano.2012.128.html
They say " security, steganography, nanoscale optical filters and high-density spectrally encoded optical data storage"
I say QUALITY (color) DOUJINSHI
They say " security, steganography, nanoscale optical filters and high-density spectrally encoded optical data storage"
I say QUALITY (color) DOUJINSHI
10.9.12
Rinshan
Closed Kan on dora.
Flipped over 3m.
drew 4m, also dora.
was winning tile, as well as keeping me in tanyao.
Took a while to get my first rinshan, but looked to be a good one! :V
Hey look red dora too!
28.8.12
Neptunia Anime
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-08-28/compile-heart-neptunia-rpgs-also-get-anime
In honesty I really didn't think Neptunia would get an anime, at all, considering it is a relatively not-so-great series although the concept is pretty amusing.
BUT HEY
NEPGEAR, RIGHT? :V
I think I'd have preferred an Atelier anime series though.
EDIT: What IS apparently happening with the Atelier series: http://andriasang.com/con2ew/atelier_totori_vita/ <<< proof that Totori is the best
In honesty I really didn't think Neptunia would get an anime, at all, considering it is a relatively not-so-great series although the concept is pretty amusing.
BUT HEY
NEPGEAR, RIGHT? :V
I think I'd have preferred an Atelier anime series though.
EDIT: What IS apparently happening with the Atelier series: http://andriasang.com/con2ew/atelier_totori_vita/ <<< proof that Totori is the best
23.8.12
Growing Brains
http://www.nature.com/news/tissue-engineering-the-brainmaker-1.11232
Since this is Japan, I hope that in the future we can have home-grown moe maid humanoids~!
Since this is Japan, I hope that in the future we can have home-grown moe maid humanoids~!
18.8.12
I saw a good amount of fanart for this song so I wanted to check out and see what it's about. Apparently, it's about China! :V I think the song in itself isn't too bad, but I believe the acting and the lyrics are what makes this video pretty amusing. I don't understand all of what's going on, but I do notice the times when the VOCALOIDS try to speak Chinese, which is pretty funny.
The title seems to say some kind of fanclub... what does google translate say?!? ...nope google translate isn't helping me either. ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS?
17.8.12
Atelier Totori 2 (Unfinished, part 2)
From now on I'm no longer calling this game "Atelier Meruru", but in actuality it will be "Atelier Totori 2" because clearly (to me) this is just a sequel to the first Atelier Totori game. And "Atelier Rorona" is of course "Atelier Totori 0".
TOTORI IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OKAY.
Anyway. There is some early spoilers but I highly doubt anyone who is interested in the game will have not played it by now.
So Hom-chan is back! I'm happy, but I liked her outfit in the first game better :(. But still, nice to have artificial humans running around doing my work for me. We get them pretty early in the game too, so that's nice, along with the registering of items. This is useful considering how annoying it is to synthesize items that require like 7 steps when you start with the basic gatherable ingredients...
Oh yeah. Astrid is such a jerk. :V
TOTORI IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OKAY.
Anyway. There is some early spoilers but I highly doubt anyone who is interested in the game will have not played it by now.
So Hom-chan is back! I'm happy, but I liked her outfit in the first game better :(. But still, nice to have artificial humans running around doing my work for me. We get them pretty early in the game too, so that's nice, along with the registering of items. This is useful considering how annoying it is to synthesize items that require like 7 steps when you start with the basic gatherable ingredients...
Oh yeah. Astrid is such a jerk. :V
15.8.12
Atelier Meruru (Unfinished, Part 1)
Oh god Totori's win pose is so cute.
Oh man oh man oh man TOTORI I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK TOTORIIIIIIIII TOTORIIIIIIIII
...what? Meruru? Who's that? :V
Oh man oh man oh man TOTORI I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK TOTORIIIIIIIII TOTORIIIIIIIII
...what? Meruru? Who's that? :V
11.8.12
Comiket 82 Day 3
1. That feel where you go in circles in an area for so long after having bought so much stuff, you aren't sure if you bought doujin from that good looking booth already or not. (and of course you have too much stuff you're carrying to bother looking through and checking)
2. People say its awkward when they see a cute little girl selling hardcore ero doujin. I find it more awkward finding 50-60 year old people selling loli moebait stuff... >.> Oh well, don't discriminate!
3. Screw east hall ero doujin, west hall 2 original works is where its at. Everything is SO AMAZING THERE.
4. Comiket traffic is like everyday Hong Kong rush hour subways, except you tend to have goods you want to protect rather than yourself. But I daresay Hong Kong at the subway is a worse experience in general than Comiket.
5. Somehow, I had the MOST stuff I wanted to buy today, but I finished up comiket the earliest today. I blame pointless 3 hour lines in the previous days which I desperately avoided today.
6. Advice for future comiket goers: use the backdoor to go between east-west. Less than 5 minutes to go from one hall to another. I had no trouble going from west to east to west again. It was more trouble going through the halls itself, especially east hall.
...I need to buy a new suitcase. :|
2. People say its awkward when they see a cute little girl selling hardcore ero doujin. I find it more awkward finding 50-60 year old people selling loli moebait stuff... >.> Oh well, don't discriminate!
3. Screw east hall ero doujin, west hall 2 original works is where its at. Everything is SO AMAZING THERE.
4. Comiket traffic is like everyday Hong Kong rush hour subways, except you tend to have goods you want to protect rather than yourself. But I daresay Hong Kong at the subway is a worse experience in general than Comiket.
5. Somehow, I had the MOST stuff I wanted to buy today, but I finished up comiket the earliest today. I blame pointless 3 hour lines in the previous days which I desperately avoided today.
6. Advice for future comiket goers: use the backdoor to go between east-west. Less than 5 minutes to go from one hall to another. I had no trouble going from west to east to west again. It was more trouble going through the halls itself, especially east hall.
...I need to buy a new suitcase. :|
10.8.12
Comiket 82 Day 2
"Hah! I don't need to buy tapestries, they're useless!!"
*buys 2* "..."
"Okay, no more bags, I can't carry all of them back and they're terribly hard to pack. No more bags, no more bags."
*gets special edition set because... of the bag* "Wait... shit."
*buys 2* "..."
"Okay, no more bags, I can't carry all of them back and they're terribly hard to pack. No more bags, no more bags."
*gets special edition set because... of the bag* "Wait... shit."
Comike 82 Day 1
Buying that seemingly useless bookcase cover was the best purchase I have ever made so far.
1.8.12
History Cycles
http://www.nature.com/news/human-cycles-history-as-science-1.11078
This is pretty cool, mainly because I really can see something happening in 2020. Judging just from the rancor on facebook alone, it will probably be something about gay rights, industry copyright vs freedom of internet, or both.
I think the medium might be different though. Whereas before there is a lot of riots straight out on the streets, I think there's going to be a lot more focus on online activity when the next "revolution" comes.
This is pretty cool, mainly because I really can see something happening in 2020. Judging just from the rancor on facebook alone, it will probably be something about gay rights, industry copyright vs freedom of internet, or both.
I think the medium might be different though. Whereas before there is a lot of riots straight out on the streets, I think there's going to be a lot more focus on online activity when the next "revolution" comes.
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