Might be time for an update

It's been a little while, thought I'd type something up. Not much has gone on because of school work and whatnot (and sucking terribly at shooting lately, but that's another issue). A few minor things here and there...

The new LasRem trainer is looking pretty damn good~ I like that it also displays how many of the different enemies you've killed so far in the file. Perhaps also displaying the number of battles that you've already fought would be another nice touch, but that's really only if you're adamant on trying to spawn the 3 annoying Jhana rares that require a certain number of Jhana encounters already fought (20/50/150). Haven't progressed through my own playthrough for quite a while now, but I should be able to get a little bit in after the exam period. About 2 weeks before the next term starts should be enough to complete the run since I'm about halfway through anyways. But the question is... will I be able to do that? Which leads into the next bit.

Fire Emblem: Kakusei was announced a while ago (about Sept. 2011, actually), and 210's been updating their site and releasing info on a nearly weekly basis for about a month. Needless to say, I'm very excited for its release, especially since the voice cast is looking quite stellar along with a few new mechanics that I had been hoping for. While I'm a little bit concerned that it's Kobayashi Yuu voicing "Marth", it should prove interesting since Midorikawa hasn't voiced Marth in about 11 years. It's thrown off quite a few people, myself included. Seeing how the JP players are more likely to link characters with their voices, it's actually reasonable for them to doubt that it's really Marth there. The mask is a little bit strange too... It's a butterfly, which is also featured somewhat prominently in the OP. Ah well, won't really know the significance until I play it anyways. I wonder if it'll be localized? It's been announced for the EU territories, which is great for them. Problem. The 3DS is region-locked. So... I currently have my eyes on the Kakusei Edition. Hopefully I'll be able to snag that since I really like the colour and the simplicity of the design. Plus, I was going to import the game anyways and would need a JP 3DS to play it. Nowhere at PMall sells the JP version, so I'm stuck having to import it from an online shop. No matter, since I was going to do that anyways.

In preparation for the new release, I have started replaying some of the FE games. ... Although it seems that starting FE1/FE2/FE11/FE12 all at once wasn't the brightest idea in the world since I actually don't have that much time to play through them all at the moment. I doubt I'll even get through one of them in time for Kakusei's release. Maybe. But considering how they're portable (DS or emulator), I'll likely get through one of them, albeit poorly. In the meantime, also watching playthroughs, which is considerably faster. Just finished watching a FE1 playthrough with silly commentary from the characters themselves. KING CRIMSON! And actually making Riff useful. Somehow. With feeding him a ton of stat boosters. That really should have been used on other units. And then there's another run that was done a little bit after the initial that maximized gains (and turn counts). Needless to say, funds weren't an issue there! Everyone had boosts everywhere and the final chapter was dealt with in 4 turns. Curbstomp battle, anyone?

Perhaps I should blog my progress through one of the games...? It might help my issue of boredom. And maybe not let this blog just sit here with random updates of more serious things. Would require that I restart, but eh. I'm not that far in any of them in the first place.


Hm. Maybe FE1. No reset. Definitely not doing a LTC run since I've been out of practice and there's no RNG manipulation to be had. Looks like my PSP will be seeing some use now! I still haven't finished Type-0, but that's because I don't know which side quests I want to do...




PS: "Ike's Resolution" is a strangely cute track for a guy who does Flat Whats all over the place. And I hope I have enough for the Sengoku BASARA HD Edition. And maybe the DMC HD Edition. Really want to replay them, but my PS2 is dying and the emulator doesn't like running those games at 60fps.

Annoyed

I've already posted this on my wikia blog a while ago, but might as well post it here too. The LasRem wiki was nearly 100% copied and hosted elsewhere. They probably obtained a database dump, which is admittedly not that hard to do. I mean, you just need to find a way to navigate to the Statistics page (Special:Statistics) and request one. They used to do weekly dumps, but that got pretty excessive so now you have to request one (the requests are processed weekly). They're still missing a few articles for units, but that may be because of the rather excessive number of redirects we have (which are justified because of wanting to keep the number of actual pages down...). Even after 68 days of stealing the content (which I can't do anything about because of the Creative Commons), their info is pretty outdated because of a few things I'm trying to implement. The JP wiki already started on something that I was going to get to over the break, but a certain assignment effectively put a stop that, along with trying to finish up adding CO/CD rates to the equips.


In other news... Still making my way through Skyrim. Probably not doing a very job of it since I'm only at the Diplomatic Immunity stage. Eh, good enough. First TES game after all. Instead of progressing through the main quest, all I've been doing are sidequests. Still not the best at killing people in towns, so I got a dragon to take care of it for me~ Might stop for a little while to try out Arena. Got it installed on another laptop that I'm using when I don't need all the extra RAM and processing power (although it's stupidly loud and annoying to know that it only has DDR2 RAM). Need to look into an SSD for dual-booting, but the prices are still really high. Either that, or switch over to a Linux distro completely. Good thing Wine can allow to play the games I want without much issue~

Nabbed the Ikaruga demo. I like it... but it's a little bit weird at the moment. Not sure how big the hitbox is, nor am I used to the polarity shift timings, which resulted in me eating a bullet. Maybe I'll get it at some point. Only 800 points...

Speaking of hardware... Mechanical keyboard broke, got a refund for it (annoyed). No Cherry MX Blues until mid~late April. Want a new trackball with a scroll wheel. 5400rpm HDDs are really slow. Practically everything in the house uses DDR2 RAM (Acer + desktop use DDR3, pretty sure mom's laptop is DDR3). Amused to find out that my DELL has 1GB because of 2 512MB sticks. My netbook usually beats it in speed despite being a single-core. Still need to clean the HP laptop, but don't know exactly what's up with the screen. All of this should really be on my other blog. And why am I here when I have an assignment due in about a day?!




And now a little something that tickles the geek in me, an equation:
sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7) *(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5