お前を助けられるのなんて、オレ様しかいないだろ？

Ohhh Daigo you have redeemed yourself in my eyes although I am still kinda scarred after your shiny star cape thingy.

Though I'd be annoyed by the bitches who would pick up Monster Hunter and squeal all over it solely because of the fact that Daigo plays it. Monster Hunter has absolutely nothing to squeal over (except if you wear male Kirin armour HAHA). Play the game for the fun of it, not because your favourite star is playing it. Yea, you can be introduced to the game by them, but rawr I hate the poseurs. And I'd smack anyone who now says "Oh you mean the game that Daigo is playing?" because a crapload of other Japanese artistes and Japanese in general play it. And also people from all around the world.

While we're on the topic of Monster Hunter, I STILL have no Basarios Wings although I've carved up TWO Basarios Tears and gotten one in the rewards despite the probability of getting wings being higher than that of getting tears. I get lazy to kill more after downing my fourth in the Basarios Hunting Season quest and usually just hang around for awhile more to disturb the others to collect the shiny before handing in the Paw Pass Ticket to end the quest. I NEED THEM DAMN WINGS. Maybe I should shoot the wings rather than going for the chests, considering that I seem to be getting a higher probability of getting Velocidrome heads etc after I try to aim for their heads (when supposedly it's a 3 - 5% rate).

I tried going back to my Freedom 2 last night, and STILL couldn't kill the Plessy because I timed out. Stupid fish kept running back into the water, and sonic bombing him did NOT guarantee that he'd come out unlike in the later iterations, though he'd get mad too. I also get thrown off by his movement patterns, because the movements aren't crisp like in P2G or Unite, and while he is turning to face me, he will always wiggle also in the direction AWAY from me, so I don't know if I should load up on my next shot or not. I WILL GET YOU ONE DAY. JUST YOU WAIT.

EG2401 exam tomorrow.

EDIT: LOOK AT THE HEADER HERE. DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE??? :DDDDDDDDDD
2010 IS SUCH A SPARKLY YEAR.

I shall sleep earl(ier) for once because I usually wake up at 1pm feeling tired, and my exam on Saturday is at 1pm.

But before I ninja, this story of the accidental discovery of a Desert Tortoise hatchling made me smile.

Sometimes I wish I had gone into the study of reptiles since they bring such joy into my life. Too late.

Oh god I can't believe we're discussing about the different names that long swords can have on the Monster Hunter forums. And I think it started because I posted wondering why the word "Simon" was censored (it was a thread about censored words in the game. Damn long list), and then people started saying that they thought it was supposed to be another name. Hilarious.

I wuv all of them <3

Gah trying to figure out how to use all those image masks is not funny. I'm trying to look online for stuff, but the search isn't turning up anything at all, since everyone out there leaves the computer to do all the calculations which I'm looking to do by hand. I've managed to find some sort of a pattern, but have no idea whether I'm really right or not.

Sleepyyyyyyyyy. Had to go to school after waking up to book the Muse tickets, so I couldn't go back to sleep after that. From the Sistic site, it looks like there are still tickets left so I actually needn't have woken up at 8am specially to play fastest-fingers-first with other kiasu people like me, since ours are free-standing tickets. But there'll be this big WHAT IF IT SELLS OUT??? guillotine of sorts hanging over my head if I didn't do so. Rawr.

Also, I want new icons. Meh.

Hmm a look at the SGCafe Muse thread and the LAMC facebook page turns up that tickets are flying off the shelves. Supposedly. But the Sistic site still lists the categories in black which means there are loads still available. Strange. Maybe the forumers are hyping it up too much. Or maybe Sistic are lazy asses and we get to see an updated page tomorrow.

No Basarios Wing for me out of the 6 I killed. I am sad. I mean, what are the odds, considering that I carved up 2 Basarios Tears, which are supposedly more rare than the wings. Rawr. Going to sleep.

I slept at 4.30am and am awake now at 8am feeling vaguely alert, trying to look through the floor plan and decide which seats are better so I can book immediately when the ticket sales start later at 9am.

Only for Muse, I say.

EDIT:

TICKETS GOT. WE'RE OFF TO SEE MUSE BABYYYYYYYYYYYYY <33333
Last minute massive indecision on whether or not to upgrade our seats to the $148 ones, but we finally decided not to. NO REGRETS. I hope.

But yes, besides the ragepost, today was made muchmuchmuchmuchmuch better by fangirl squealings. Well okay not squealings, but typing in perpetual caps. Also, with a conversation which was full of win and aMUSEment.












MUSE IN SINGAPORE 2010 <3

Also, I got my King and Mini-size crowns for the Rajang!! Cleared the Final Invitation quest with the Dual Rajangs in slightly over 20 minutes using sleep-bombing on the first one, then just pure attacking on the second because I ran out of sleep coatings. Yayy I don't have to hunt Rajangs for the crown sizes anymore!! \o/ I haven't seen the armour appear in the crafting shop yet though. Hmm. I wonder what I'm missing.

EDIT: Okay I know what I'm missing. I'm missing a Rajang horn. Rawr I always manage to break one of his horns, but not both :S

My first Rajang!! Figures that the game decides to throw a King-sized one at a noob who's going up against it for the very first time in her life -_- Ah well. Guess it's good that I get it now, so that I don't have to go looking for one next time just to complete my guild card.



Since that was a King-sized Rajang, I'd think that the others -might- be a little easier...? *wishful thinking* I need 4 of them strong claws to do the final upgrade for my Howling Devil Slicer. SIGH :(

Gah I can't download anything. But I guess it's better than having no computer at all. Taking a break from studying for Image Processing, and well since I don't have my computer, it means no watching of videos or doing random stuff. Which means! Monster Hunter! Okay, everyone saw that coming 7 miles away. I have no other life.

Am trying to learn how to headlock the Kirin because well it's a nice break from farming for materials to upgrade armour and weapons.



I managed to do it a couple of times on my first run, but I guess I got lucky more than anything. A little more consistent on my second run, but the miss rate is still horribly high. I think I only succeeded 60% of the time, if you count the attempts where he decided to chase my cat instead and went off in the opposite direction *grumbles*

I can't wait for all this exams stuff to be over so that I can join in on the group hunts again :( Also because I can't really solo that many G-Rank monsters myself except the Kut-Ku, Khezu, Basarios, Rathian and Daimyo Hermitaurs. Well, not that I really tried the rest either, actually. But I won't have to sit around for 50 minutes only to see the quest failed screen appear because I ran out of time. Got that once while trying to bow the Purple Daimyo Hermitaur, so I got pissed off and changed to the hunting horn instead. Worked wonders.

Also, I think I might give Rajang a try. Never went on a Rajang quest before in my 380 hours of gameplay, and my Howling Devil Slicer needs his claws for an upgrade. Am somewhat terrified of him though *shifty eyes*

Hello from the Fujitsu! Sent the Vaio in for servicing today, and the guy at the counter said he thinks its a fan problem. Laptop back on Wednesday. Rawr.

I think.

It's time to pay the Sony Service Centre a visit =_=

DOES IT HURT TO SPACE OUT YOUR EVENTS A LITTLE BIT MORE??

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NO MONEY AFTER IT ALLLLLLLLLL.
And to think that we want to go festival hopping in Japan as well T____T

Anyone going/wants to go?

I cannot study :( And no, I'm not the one with the gastric.

Talking to a friend about the future and offering my opinions on whether he should pursue further studies or not. Which is somewhat ironic since I'm quite sure myself (95%) that I won't consider Masters or PhD. Instead, I'm considering going after a Diploma. Yea, sounds like I'm taking a step backwards, right? Had a somewhat quiet (thank goodness for that) major disagreement with the father on that issue, because he's very keen on me taking up a Masters, and thinks that it's one of the only ways to open up future prospects for myself so that I can eventually go into management (which I'm totally not interested in). But I seriously think that with my standard of fail programming, I won't be able to take even one step into the door of the games industry. They don't offer Masters to people to work on their C++ programming skills, I'm sure.

I've said this before, that I think I'm one of the more unambitious of the people surrounding me. I'm happier getting my hands dirty than directing others around, and taking up management usually means you get less chances to get your hands dirty unless you start siphoning money off from the company. I still very, very, very much want to be a roadie, but that'll probably just remain a dream. So, I take the next best option, which is the gaming industry.

Hmm. I guess my attempt to Think Seriously about the Future hasn't given me any new insights, or at least there's nothing here that I don't already know. I kinda know what I want, but now I need to figure out how to get there, since it's not like the prospects of me getting there straight out of university is very high.

Oh god I cannot unsee. Wtf is this.



He even self-designed the thing and is still keeping it in his house.

And I cannot comprehend their latest song, Love Fighter. It's wannabe techno where they digitally alter his voice at some parts, which is similar to Gackt's Koakuma Heaven, except Koakuma Heaven sounded much better. The only saving grace was the very short guitar solo, but I might very well be biased XD They do have nice songs, but the majority of them aren't, unfortunately. Also, I find it strange and am a little miffed that my boy only sits in the background and nods his head once in awhile during talk shows. Everything's just focused on Daigo, and at this rate they might as well call themselves his backup musicians and join the others in the background. But AKIHIDE's not much of a limelight hogger, and I get the feeling that he's happier in the background doing his thing and making music rather than facing all those cameras, so I guess I'll have to live with it. He even looks vaguely grumpy on camera, which is sad because I absolutely love his smile.

But enough about that. Gems from the gaming class presentations. One group named their game Ballz (yes you can predict what I'm going to say next), and there were loads of sniggering during their presentation because the presenter had this strange way of emphasizing the word, and thus he'd be saying stuff like, "The objective of this game is to use your BALLS to get across obstacles." Funniest presentation ever. There was also something else amusing in today's presentations, but I guess it wasn't as amusing as the balls one because I forgot what it was already =X Also, some other group did a short introduction video, and the moment the BGM started playing, I was all "HMM THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR" but couldn't really place a finger on it. Thought it might have been from Final Fantasy, since it's one of the few games which I actually pay attention to the BGMs for. The main tune started playing ten seconds later, and it turns out that I was right! It was the Chocobo theme from Final Fantasy played using the piano (Aloha de Chocobo from the Final Fantasy IX OST, if you're interested in the details). I felt an immense sense of achievement, for some reason. Too geeky for my own good XD

Hmm. I think I should start sorting out all my notes and actually start studying.

EDIT: CLICK HERE FOR HILARITY. Awkward fansubbing ftw.

Really, really thinking of starting lance/gunlance. So far, I've kinda used each weapon class at least once on actual quests except one from that class. Okay, so DS was just for G-Rank Red Khezu and if I had a decent gunner set with HGE I'd probably opt for a bowgun instead, but at least I used it. Tried out lance against the Kut-Ku in the training quest to a rather good first time result. Would have beat my bowgun score and be less than 2 minutes if not for the fact that I stayed in base camp for quite some time trying out the attacks. Decided to go for another lance run to try to beat my bowgun time, but got utterly owned the second time around. Ugh. Beginner's luck, probably.

Screenshot of the day: Kut-Ku says, "OHAI!"


This one was from last night's Purple Daimyo Hermitaur runs. I find it amusing because the main monster is tranqed in the background fast asleep and here is a random Apceros trying to grab some screentime.

Presentation today was somewhat crash and burn. Though not as crash and burn as another group which didn't even go halfway into their slides and got booted off because their time was up. It didn't help that the other group before us had damn sleek slides. Possibly a mac? I have no idea how they get nice slide transitions like that. But whatever. It never struck me before, but after hearing ourselves speak to the audience, I realise that we committed the same problem the prof keeps warning me about, which is to remember that we're not presenting to ourselves, but to an audience who knows zilch about your stuff. So by the end of the presentation, I was wondering how many people actually knew what our game was about. I don't want to know, and it's too late to know anyway. I also realised that our content felt really scattered all over the place. Ahwell. But with the amount of work we put in for this (which isn't much, to be honest), I can't complain. But it was amusing, the way we were notified that we'd be up next. To paraphrase a dude from the group sitting behind us, it's like being at the doctor's. Thank goodness we could present today though. We were the last group to be called up.

Also handed up my FYP CA2 report today. Another thing off my mind. All that's left for the week is the report for the presentation above to be handed in next Monday, plus my Image Processing lab report due Thursday.

I don't know if I'm just suay or what, but the genprey in the quest with the Purple Daimyo must have been wearing paralysis gloves of steel or something. One hit one paralysis. It's a bloody 100% hitrate. What sucked the most was that I usually get paralysed just before he digs under. Doom if you can't avoid his dig-up attack. I missed the dig up attack once and his butt-charge attack once all by a hair's length just because of the damn genprey. Also, I don't know if it's a G-Rank monster thing, but when they move into your map, they don't dig up in fixed places anymore. They dig up at wherever you're standing, so it means that you basically can't stand still. No wonder the quest was called "Death from Below". MH names their quests really well. See "A Sinking Feeling" given by the "Optimistic Maiden" who was clearly too optimistic when she said that "there will likely be no wyverns in this weather!" My foot. I was Tigrex chow.

I've no idea why I'm so tired all the time, even when i get 6 to 7 hours of sleep.

And before I forget! New wallpaper! Was a toss up between Girl in Kirin armour feeding a mini Kut-Ku and this, but aww the cute Chammy <3 It's kinda problematic though, because I can't not use stretch since the original picture's pretty small. But when I use stretch, the vespoid gets lost among my icons. Time for another round of desktop re-arrangement I guess, since this arrangement was done for my previous wallpaper.

If I have to rush my FYP report due Monday more than the amount of rush that I'd have to already put in at the moment. Okay I'm not making sense, but you get the point.

Spent half the day in school at a group meeting, which is probably the most productive meeting we've ever had. Was supposed to come home to start on the FYP, but I got very distracted after deciding to look further into Evony, which is an online RTS MMO.

I'm sure everyone has seen an Evony ad before, though the states of undress the women were in are varied. If you can't recall, you can see the whole progression of ads (or should I say "deterioration) here, athough I've seen later ads which are even more risque than the pair of boobs in your face. There was also a Queen of Evony contest going on which apparently was suspect as to how the votes were counted, and while I know that no one should laugh at others... I always thought that there should be some sense of self-restraint. This is why, you know, I don't wear minimal stuff with my fats bulging and splash it across the interwebs waiting for people to say that I'm sexy. Does not work. But as Christina Aguilera sings, you are beautiful, no matter what I and many other people might say. I came across a really good demotivator for that one. Pity I lost the link. I guess that's where most cosfucks draw their inspiration from, but that topic is for another day. At least the few pictures in the link posted above weren't super plus-sized women posing in bikinis. And some actually looked decent.

Of course, I haven't played the game before (and am glad I didn't after reading all this) and so I won't be able to provide an alternate view, but I'd think that having current players coming up with complaints about the system and showing some shady workings going on there with the iEvony download (you download the program, and it automatically sends emails inviting all your other friends on your address book to play Evony as well... WUT??) I'd think that there is some basis for truth. Also, people can't be getting their systems screwed with for no reason.

Game-play isn't copyright-able, that much I understand. But when you have a game that blatantly lifts, using the sprites and other stuff from games such as Age of Empires and Civilisation IV?? Doesn't that call for a huge lawsuit? I don't mean to be against any particular country. It's not nice, and damaging to diplomatic relations. It's not like we have the best relations with them at the moment either. But if it's the same country that offends this copyright shit again and again (lol, the PXP-2000 emulates Mega Drive too! And they might as well sell OWees! Also, both of these are Gintama references), it does shine a very negative light on the country in question. It also makes for witty reviews like these. You can say that it's only a few black sheeps, but hey negative rep lingerrrrsssss. Of course, there is a personal stake in this all, because one of the games they blatantly copied was Monster Hunter, and if you've been around here long enough, you'd see that I'm a very avid player of the game. Seriously, same monster design, same monster attacking style, same game-play, same weapons, same annoying way you'd do a pose immediately after drinking a potion that sets you up for a bum rush if you drink at a bad timing (lol I wonder why they kept that aspect), just with loads crappier graphics and jerky animations. If you're going to have to copy a game, at least make sure that you do a better one. (In reference to that video: Effing huge Tigrex is huge. To go up against him with heroics is insane. But I guess Narga X armour makes things easier with the Evade skills.)

But yes I digress and the brain is not making sense and telling me to sleep early so that I can get up early tomorrow to start writing that FYP report. If anyone else is interested, this is where I started the whole Evony chase from, and just clicked on links here and there and ended up all over the place. He got sued by Evony in the Australian courts though, which is pretty strange considering that he's from the UK, and Evony were (because they probably went to set up a shell company in Australia after that) located in the US. WTF much. Oh and if this is of any interest to any one, Evony, originally called Civony (see their roots now?) was set up by the dude who ran WoWMine which is basically a gold mining company in WoW.

And this is today's "pretend to look intelligent" article of the day. Eyes are half-closed and not holding out much longer. Goodnight, world.