Not just another NPC - (ds-x2 ver.)

Lack of updates you say? Well, I have good reason: I just finished wrapping up High school! Woo!
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It’s been a wild ride. Lots of memories from the last twelve years of public education. Lots of… horrible memories. Oh ok, and some good ones…

But mostly bad ones.
(I might reflect more on that after I have my graduation ceremony later this week)

Within the last days of school I finished filming my broadcasting project(not actually finished on the last day, as the schedule was really wonky). Now I just need something to import it and edit it all with. However I did manage to take some random pictures here and there with the video cameras since pictures can be directly saved onto my SD card instead of the archaic miniDV tape. I’ve even uploaded some of the pictures to my flickr account.(in 16:9!)

I would buy a miniDV camera or something, but I’ve been strapped for cash since last year. I bought the turntable using money I had in my bank account which I usually never do. I consider withdrawing a bad habit so up until then I had never actually withdrawn money from my bank account and don’t plan on doing it again until I get a job.

Speaking of looking for a job I have been searching for one since April or so - with no luck. Now that school is over though I’m going to be a bit more aggressive with the whole thing. It’s not going to be easy with this economy. There are probably plenty of experienced people out of work looking for any job they can get their hands on.

Progress on Earthbound is slow but steady. I’ve been playing it almost 2 and a half hours each day with the exception of this weekend and Monday so far. When I was in the town of Threed I contemplated making a blog post as if I were right there with the zombies or something:

Hey it’s NPC here vacationing early in the town of Threed! Zombies seem to have invaded the town before I arrived - and after my travel agent sold me this vacation package. Every now and then I have to smash a zombie with a baseball bat to protect myself. In short, the nightlife here is dead…. or would that be un-dead?

Yea I just think Zombies in general are funny. Ever since I saw Peter Jackson’s “Braindead” I’ve been pretty much desensitized to all horror films.

Yet Metroid Prime still freaks me the fuck out.

Last but not least I promised I would post up my first turntable mix if I thought it was “decent” and sure enough I have one which qualifies. I can’t link the thread I made on the DJforums because it’s blocked to non-members, but I reposted it all at inanity. Complete with a screenshot of the comments left at the DJforums which I find inspiring. I must add the music I use isn’t for everyone. Which reminds me, I actually drove a person in broadcasting crazy with my music one day. That is actually what sparked the idea to start filming the type of project that I made… unfortunately he didn’t flip out again despite my best efforts.

Christmas is over, but the fun has just begun! Still a week and a half left of nothing but messing around with what I’ve received. Got my graphics card back today too so I’m ready to do anything! Orange box here I come! Oh but let me total up what I’ve hauled in so far.

I was right on the money with the Wii. Finally in “next gen”… but I lack games. I plan to go out and buy Mario Galaxy today as soon as I’m done posting this. I was at Target the other day exchanging an extra nunchuck controller my mom had bought, then reminded myself to go buy a Wii points card and classic controller. Saving my Bestbuy gift card for game purchases in case you’re wondering. I own a lot of classic games, and “own” even more of them (that I play with an emulator). Sin and Punishment is pretty much the only reason I bought a points card. It isn’t emulated 100% anywhere else except on the Wii and I think it’s a great game to actually own. That and Blazing Lazers since I could never find(or figure out) a Turbo Graphics16 emulator for my PC. I kind of regret it, it’s not as good as I thought it would be. Even for a late 80s game I think Cho-ren-sha is much more impressive. Not to mention this now leaves me with a useless 200 Wii-points. WTF? Oh well, I’ll put it towards Wii-ware titles.

Another major gift(in my book) is a cell phone! Woo!
Unfortunately it’s very limited in terms of applications(damn you Verizon), but it plays music(yay!), with 2GB of internal memory accessed by a USB cable(yay!), and… sigh… output through a 2.5mm jack(what?!). Yep, same miniature “jack” my calculator uses to talk to other calculators. It’s weird, it’s small, and I don’t like the headphones earbuds(even worse) it came with. If it exists, I’ll buy the adapter. It has a nice long-lasting rechargeable battery at least.

Ok maybe I won’t total up everything I got.

Just one more thing.

Tis awesome. I got the “European version” apparently because it has an extra track on the main CD, and came with the first Disc of Ken Ishii’s Play, Pause, and Play. Which is awesome. Especially since it has my favorite track from Joris Voorn “Incident”.
Ah, some great driving music.

I missed blog action day on Monday, because I like to keep updates weekly(sorta). I got a friend to post about it though. That gets me off the hook, right? Well I put all my required high school community service into cleaning creeks, planting trees, and labeling storm drains - so don’t think I don’t like to help the environment, I really do.

My save clover valley armband, next to my classy rotary phone

Picture transition! Oh yes, just linked two subjects with a picture. I believe my rotary phone is a 70s era Western electric(AT&T), with carbon mic, a hold button, and four line switches. Ooh yea! Unfortunately an analog phone has it’s disadvantages in this modern digital era… no pound key. Whoops. “If you are using a rotary phone please hang up” is what I got on Thursday as I tried to use it in a conference call. Now I know better… yea… dial with the cordless, and then switch back to the rotary.

I guess I never mentioned it before, but I played most of the Trouble Witches demo a few months back and loved it. It’s a bit on the Otaku side, but a solid, well produced, shoot’em up. Now Studio Siesta(the dev) has announced it will be making an English version called TOMBOYISH ☆ WITCHES(their caps and star, not mine) for us gaijin. Great! But… I liked the old name better. Oh well, I’m so buying it. Speaking of Shoot’em-ups, what’s up with everyday shooter? A lot of the 1UP crew has been talking about it ever since… what, GDC? I know one friend with a PS3 and he doesn’t touch the thing(don’t ask)… so he probably didn’t buy everyday shooter off of PSN. If there was a PC demo I would like test it out because I’m really curious about the appeal. To me it just looks like another geometry wars mixed with elements of REZ and every extend. But apparently it’s more than that. Well, I usually prefer my shoot’em-ups scrolling and vertical anyways(with some exceptions of course).

That’s it for this week I guess, really brief. I now await someone to point out my excessive usage of the word “but” in that last paragraph.