The secondhand store had a ton of budget anime today, just stacks of generic 90s adventures and 2000s rom coms you've never heard of. I bought the two weirdest looking ones: All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, and Appleseed. The first of which is about a 90s anime android catgirl, which advertises itself as "The greatest custody battle of all time [...] unleashing the full force of M.H.I's military products division," and the other being made by the dude that did ghost in the shell, but from what I can tell on the box it's entirely CG, and rated R. There was also one about space trains but I had already spent enough so
2/17/23
Found out my school has a DDR club a while back and decided to go today. Was pretty cool playing with a hardpad and trying out a bunch of other rhythm games I've never played before. My school is also a stickler on parking tickets and complete assholes about it too, which makes it extra nice that fun stuff like this exists
2/12/23
As a joke like a year ago I started playing yiik and recently I was bored and decided to finish it. It's a bad game. I knew it was a bad game. I don't know why I did this.
If you don't care about yiik spoilers you can click this text for my yiikview on the yiikxperience
For most of the last chapter it gives you double the amount of time you'd need to completely overlevel your party, only for the only two boss fights after this to be scripted ones you have to lose, and one of them not even with the party you leveled up
The ending twist is one that works, like it makes sense, but it really doesn't feel like the ending for the game that you just spent twenty hours playing. In fact it kills off all the characters except alex right before and doesn't give any sort of closure for any of them, and for a game that constantly vomits plot monologue to you, the entire twist takes place in one room in like 15 minutes
The plot is so disconnected, that the initial mystery that started all of it doesn't get any sort of resolution besides someone talking to you right before the final boss room
The style is generally underutilized, but there is at least two parts (creepy phone calls before new years and seeing crayon drawn friends after walking around corner) that gave me a feeling of "something is dreadfully wrong here" so it CAN work, just usually doesn't
There's much more issues I'm not gonna delve into, but this is what it left me thinking about
In some parts I can see what it was going for, it's just not well executed at all. They are coming out with a YIIKIV patch sometime soon that's looking like it's gonna make a lot of things better, if I can get a friend to play through it with me maybe I'll check that out too
2/5/23
I know I'm a little late but since I don't use spotify I thought I'd compile a list of my top listened to genres this past year. In no particular order:
Russian turbo polka metal
2000s one hit wonders
Hatsune miku death metal
Video game OSTs
Lemon Demon
Industrial folk rock
Touhou cafe jazz
Ambient jungle drum and bass
J-pop
1/17/23
Started a lab TA position at school today. I was very nervous but I had my emotional support clipboard and after joking to the teacher that i should bring a water bottle next time she actually brought a cup of water when she came in the classroom next (´▽`; ) I am taking 17 credits this semester, though with all the people I can study with in my classes I think I should do alright. On another note I got some chrome nail polish, which I think fits my vibe more than any other color I've tried so far
1/12/23
After my exposure to DDR from my con trip a few months back I've been playing a ton more of it. My friend had a wii mat his mom bought brand new to use with ddr workout games but I don't think she ever had anything that supported it so it had been sitting in a box for ten odd years. I wouldn't say I'm a pro but it's a very addicting game and I've been playing it like it's 2009. Also when googling dates for this post I realized that the wii is 16 years old??!?
1/8/23
College starts back up and I'm taking probably way too many credits. At least I'm in most of the classes with friends so studying will be good
This weekend I finally used a bowling coupon that I've been waiting for everyone to be free to use, and today I went to my first autocross type thing. Fitting that it was in the winter. Here's some good photos that were taken of my truck's amazing suspension
1/1/23
I somehow found myself in situations that led to this photo last night. New years was fun though! I dyed my hair black
12/31/22
If it gets hung on loading just click the title link; flash embeds are prolly broken as all hell. Imma see if i can fix it l8r lol
12/24/22
Merry Christmas!! The weather here is absolute shit, lots of snow yesterday, lots of wind today blowing it into massive dunes. That's fine though, I've had my fun with it driving around in 2wd, and soon there'll be enough for snowmobiling as well I've been playing va11halla in line with the in-game timeline too. It's kinda fun seeing how much advice I've taken from it since I first played it and how much I probably should now. Getting drunk on various nights is fun too though once I'm out of my special pibb everclear I should probably take a break from the stuff. As a Christmas treat I finally finished editing a video I should've finished way back in summer, which y'all can see either from the videos page or this link
Merry Christmas and may you recieve a jolly Twelve Men blessing this season!
12/13/22
It's twelve days 'til Christmas! This year we've got a special guest for the Twelve Men Official™ Christmas song, so I hope you have a wonderful snowy season while listening to it every day for the next twelve days
Lyric sheet in case you wish to spread Twelve Men joy while out caroling
12/9/22
Was gonna upgrade my walkman from a 512mb model to a 1gb model, so I bought one off'a ebay, with plans to just sell the 512 for a li'l less afterwards. But when it arrived, the first of 3 problems was immediately apparent, some of the paint is jutting up by the shuttle switch, kinda like rust does to a car, and there's some weird greenish fuzzy bits around there. Whatever, not too bad of an issue, everything seems to work. Except, the shuffle/eq button on the back does not function. This wouldn't be a horrible problem, but I use these a lot, and shuffle can only be engaged with that button, so I start a return online. They refund me and, here's the thing,
They don't want it back
This is enough prompt for me to take it apart and start fiddling with stuff, 'cause if I fuck it up horribly there's no obligation for me to return it how I found it anymore. The button is weird, 'cause it still physically works, but only registers 1/2 of the time if you press it really hard, and 2/3 of the time it does, it registers as one of the other option buttons that are on the front. So I look up the schematic, and figure out that all three of these buttons are on one circuit, and that something is either fucked up with a resistor or that the button isn't completing the circuit well enough.
So I take it apart and blast the shit out of the button with contact cleaner, and press it a bunch of times, and blamo it starts working as it should. At this point I'm getting ready to deal with sonicstage's bullshit to transfer music until I put some of my songs on there and have a listen and, it's strangely quiet and crunchy at volume peaks. Just to make sure I tried it with multiple headphones and used my current walkman as a control, and yeah something is very wrong with the output. It didn't sound like something with the aux port but I cleaned that too to no avail. So I take it apart and have another look. After looking reaalllllly close I notice that one of the components looked a little bit like it shouldn't
Now I'm no electrical engineer, but I don't particularly think that resistors should look like that. On top of this it is directly connected to the amp, which goes right to headphone out.
So uh seeing how I have to squint to see the part irl I guess I have a spare walkman now in case I need any big parts or wanna change the body color of mine or something
11/20/22
Thinking about shredding the possessions page for something a little more fitting of twelve men. I've just been thinking about how I have way too much stuff and should probably sell a good deal of what's in my room, and replace it with parts in my life that are more meaningful. I should probably figure out what I want to do with the fashion page first tho so it doesn't hang in construction limbo
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