More video thing

More videos from youtube because today was eventless~ this one’s pretty good.

An entry after a while

Spent much of yesterday and today watching random video streams through out both Youtube and Nico Nico Douga; particularly those revolving the parody of one certain Yandere drama CD series. Here’s a parody of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna – Tatari’s opening with the characters from the Yandere CD series plus several other more better known characters, if you can recognise them:

I have also finally completed a papercraft project I have been stalling since forever a few days back since I was too bored anyway. I didn’t make an entry about it that day itself because I was too sleepy. I was originally planning to however.

Picture taken using the DSi; complete with the effects of its image manipulation capabilities.

No prize for guessing what it is. And I know it’s missing one ear… I lost it while I was gluing the parts together. It probably fell off somewhere behind the computer or something. Will fix it when I run into the other ear in the future, hopefully still in one piece.

Helios Eclipse Epilogue

I was walking around the mall to survey the price of an internal data card reader for my computer when I though I would just drop by the book store to see if there are any new interesting books. Several glance through the shelves and I was kind of convinced that it was the same as several days ago when I last checked so I was about to leave when I suddenly felt like using the electronic search kiosk to see if there are anything hidden that I might be interested in, oh whadaya know~

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Helios Eclipse Epilogue, the final book in the looong running series and also my final connection with the local comics scene. It showed there was 40 stocks available on the screen but I can’t see any on the shelves. So I asked the customer service desk and they promptly went into the store room behind and got one out for me… It wasn’t even placed out yet lol! I haven’t looked it up online before leaving for the mall but a check a moment ago showed the official site haven’t even updated to show this new book too. Now I’m thinking maybe I got it before its planned release…

Well anyway, as for the contents, it ends the series pretty well. Several clues posed in the past are finally pulled together and explained; some I didn’t even remember until it was mentioned. But <spoilers ahead, highlight to read>I can’t help but feel that Soileh’s change of heart in the end feels kind of forced… I mean, he was bent on destroying all of existence from sheer vengence for the past 7 books. What’s Helios saving him once is going to make him turn a new leaf instantly? But other than that, the final climax was pretty cool. Also with how the story had been developing from the past volumes, it had been very likely that the series would have ended with a sad ending so the sudden plot twist in this one that resulted in a happy one was kind of interesting. I do like plot twists after all :P</spoiler> And now with this series over I have finally lost all my ties to the local comic scene… again… until Kaoru release another book that is, or if something else interesting catches my attention.

Final touches

So I finally got myself together and assembled all the documents required for my next college today. And as an extra bonus that I didn’t expect: I also got my diploma certificate for my previous multimedia design today.

Quite a huge step forward this is. All that is left now is to just submit these to the college and I’m back in the classroom.

And the next Touhou X.5 is…?

oh boy oh boy

The lastest update in Tasogare Frontier’s official site released one very interesting picture. If it says anything, it’s definitely telling that Tasogare Frontier are working up on something new; either a whole new Touhou fighting game or an expansion to SWR. Either way is still awesome!

Hisashiburi no short day

Got off bed at 12pm and left my room at 2pm. Left for ‘breakfast’ at 2:30pm and got home again at 4pm. No, I did not spend 90 minutes on my ‘breakfast’ but 60 minutes walking around Sunway Pyramid before going home. 4pm onwards was just routine.

I did play a little Project Diva though… very little compared to how I would usually play a game.

The best excuse to use when losing in Project Diva: because I was using Yowane Haku!

The more I play, the more familiar stuff pops up. I’m really hoping to see Kasane Teto (I blame Touko for reviving the drill spirit in me with the recent Marimite 4 >__>) in here but from a legality point of view it might very well be impossible… oh well.

Two things

worth blogging about today.

First is about Hatsune Miku -Project Diva-. It has been floating around for a few days now but I never tried it before because of the CFW version issue, which was solved soon after although it also brought other new problems but that’s a story for another day.

Loads of unlockables, just as one would expect

Starting up Miku and I was greeted with almost half of ryo’s Supercell album at the very top of the song list, which pretty much made me felt like I was playing Beats all over again since I used to always play those songs in Beats. Not to mention the gameplay was about the same save for Project Diva having a 3D PV-esque thingy going on in the background, the end-point for the notes are all over the place rather than stationery, and in Project Diva you don’t have to worry about multiple stream of notes like in Beats since there isn’t. One thing I’ll commend about the game is the ingenuity of the ‘note-ends that goes all over the screen’ thing I just mentioned earlier; with this, the player’s eye would not have to be fixated on just a single corner of the screen through out the entire gameplay but also give the player a chance to actually look at the things that are going on in the background (a 3D PV of the song featuring Hatsune Miku, oh yeah). There are also many familiar songs in there; familiar if you have been following the Vocaloid scene in Nico Nico Douga of course.

Second is that I’ve finally gotten my own Nintendo DSi today!

Sleek stuff, looks almost like my screwdriver set

This is the first time I’ve bought a console early during its production life cycle. I also still owe my friend RM100 since I wasn’t able to make it to the bank in time to get my own. I haven’t tried any games on it though, because of the simple reason that I don’t have any games yet. It’s pretty entertaining by itself I suppose; taking and editing random pictures, scribbling non-sense with its stylus, time well spent amirite? Another thing I feel like mentioning: Seems like some people noted the removal of the glossy finish in the DSi compared to the DSlite as a minus but I say I prefer it this way. Glossy stuff are finger print magnets as far as I’m concerned… another reason why I went for a silver PSP rather than the piano black one. Not sure if I ever mention that before in here.