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Remixes for those not in the know

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
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I was surprised that even though DJBouche had put up countless remixes of Haruhi music on his site, no one seems to have bothered to blog about it. So I will instead, and I want to congratulate DJBouche on his great work. I hope he continues to make good music in the future.

ハレ晴レユカイ (Euro Mix) / (Off Vocal)
God knows… (Euro Mix) / (Off Vocal)
冒険でしょでしょ？ (Cascada Remix) / (Off Vocal)
雪、無音、窓辺にて。 (Program Hack Remix) / (Off Vocal)
冒険でしょでしょ？ (Euro Mix) / (Off Vocal)
ハレ晴レユカイ (”Live” Arrangement Version) (MP3+MIDI set)

My favorites in this list are God knows… (Euro Mix), 冒険でしょでしょ？(Euro Mix) and 雪、無音、窓辺にて。(Program Hack Remix). Would like to see Nagato’s other song remixed though.

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Rozen Maiden oüberture

Monday, September 4th, 2006

I never understood exactly what was it that made Rozen Maiden a popular series for its first two seasons other than probably Maids, magic, and lots of fighting. Well, maybe oüberture might pique my interest, for one reason; villain turned tragic character turned main character. Why does that remind me so much of Rockman Zero?

DarkMirage had already covered the release announcement from MOONPHASE, so you can check it out there. Instead, here’s an obligatory image since for some reason Suigintou looks really good:

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More PSU Offline

Monday, September 4th, 2006

You may see screenshots over at the usual place.

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Now we know why Gendou is crazy.

It’s Kabuto! Oh wait… Mushiking, anyone?

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Flourescent lightbulbs for weapons, anyone?

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PSU Reset/Beta Test/BLARGHHHH

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Sounds to me like:

  1. Rollback/reset on Sept. 6 (looks like reset? not sure on this one, no real confirmation people)
  2. Lots of server testing throughout September, rollbacks will happen as necessary to maintain balance
  3. 30-day Guardians’ License will be reset on Oct. 1

And thus, we have the Open Beta we were supposed to have. Well, I’m content with that. At least they’re honest and realize they’ve screwed this one up miserably. For now I guess I’ll be S-Ranking all of the Free Missions and Story Missions at this time… Chapter 5 is a bit harsh though on this sort of endeavor. ^^;;

uhawww’s translation follows:

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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

From Ramblings of DarkMirage:

I was browsing Kyo-ani’s official site when I came across these Official Haruhi cels on sale at Kyo-ani’s web store.

Haruhi Cel 1Haruhi Cel 2

The cels are created from the original data used in the anime (which is pure CG) and limited to one per person. Each one comes in an album that protects the cel and an accompanying certificate is printed with your name, the episode number and the cut number. They are not mass produced and it takes about two months upon ordering to ship.

Haruhi Cel 3Haruhi Cel 4

15,000 yen is a shit load of money, though. It’s also somewhat disappointing that my favourite scenes from “Live Alive” and “Yuuutsu VI” are not included. Still, it may be a good investment to buy one of these and keep it for a few years… <_<

Can someone say eBay?

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PSU: Day 2

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

And rollback. So it’s like Day 2-1, then?

Here are the moments before the rollback, accumulating about maybe some 8 hours or so. People, resend your Partner Cards please. (if we lose them that is)

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Endless August/Eight/whatever

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

So Haruhi’s list says. The last thing on this list says “Homework”, you can imagine who came up with that.

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AQS and Kanon

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

You can see their current project page here.

Knowing their reputation, I’d certainly lose against them with their team if I attempted to fansub. Well, let’s check back on this in two months.

Does anyone know of any good blog aggregators? I’m concerned about blog好き’s restrictions…

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Rollback

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Guess SEGA screwed up. They should have had an Open Beta to begin with…

From PSO-World:

In an effort to address character corruption and unintended item duplication, Sonic Team will be performing a rollback. Here is the news announcement as translated by uhawww:

Beginning last night, there were some issues with reading character data. We have discovered a related issue were item and meseta duplication was possible if this issue was exploited.

We consider this problem critical, however we are unable to respond individually to this problem based on the number of inquiries we have recieved. Also, we have projected that this issue will cause unrecoverable problems in the future if left as is.

Because of this, we will be enacting a rollback to a time prior to last evening when the anomalies occured. We are currently developing plans to compensate players who currently have active characters, though it has not been formulated yet.

In case there are any further problems, your corresponence is not only appreciated, but critical at this time.

We apologize for these issues from the bottom of our hearts and we ask for your utmost understanding, however if we do not resolve these issues immediately, the playability of the game would be compromised, and we have a wish and goal to maintain a fair and level playing field for all players for a long time.

Honestly, they should either give us a certain amount of meseta for playtime that’s lost through the rollback, or give us some EXP multiplier (4x or so for 24 hours). Either would do just fine.

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PSU: Day 1

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Lots of things happening; SEGA detects problems and responds in five hours, apparently. Relatively good, as programming is an intense job anyway. Here’s the gallery.

UPDATE: It appears that the My Room servers are still buggy as hell, I’d recommend everyone to avoid using their My Room until further notice. Wait for an update from SEGA on the matter.

Oh and by the way, Sonic Statue for the win:

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