Wow.

First Form < Third Form < Second Form < X-Form

By the way, why does he have Kite’s facial markings now? Oh noez, implications…

By the way, if anyone knows if it’s possible to get such weapons in Phantasy Star Universe, please let me know ASAP. A twin dagger + twin handgun combo would be very effective in my arsenal.

What is with the community? When an ingredient sells at an NPC shop for 100 meseta, the players like to sell it for freaking 500 or sometimes even 2000! Does anyone agree with me this is retarded?

Here’s my policy; if you don’t sell < NPC price, I’m buying at the NPC. I’m not going to support asshats who think they can make a living off overpricing people.

Or rather, 4 mbps. It’s a shame, I was hoping for better numbers.

According to the tests, my max download is 4137 kbps and max upload is 650 kbps. That’s roughly 517.125 KB/s download and 81.25 KB/s upload. Although my download speed’s gone up by approximately 217 KB/s, the upload’s the same.

And judging by Look’s website, upload’s gonna stay that way until further notice.

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Hey guys, like, I’m rated at 5058/800 on my modem’s configuration screen. Why am I still just getting 80% of the juice I’m supposed to be getting?

Now the reason why I haven’t commented much on how the current Sprocket-TWH collaboration is doing on fansubbing is mainly due to the amount of flamebait it might catch from people currently watching Kanon. There are a number of things I’ll mention here.

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91 is…

1. a liar.
2. an asshole.
3. one who flirts with all the women.

What’s with Makoto? When she’s around 91, Nayuki, and Akiko, she’s all hyper and likes to pull pranks, but when some stranger (e.g., Ayu) comes round, she’s all shy and hides a lot. Guess we’re starting to see part of her personality.

Kaori coverage! Finally, I was hoping for more of that. Too bad she isn’t one of the main girls, let alone the main heroine. By all rights she should have been one! >:(

Nayuki’s too damn typical for the average harem girl; all “I’m trying to do everything but falling behind” business. Though mind you she doesn’t look too bad.

Kawasumi Mai + sword = win. Though will we be seeing her actually attack demons? Would be nice if a giant blue humanoid thing from Haruhi came about, and she’d have to jump up and do a Jumping Golden Slash. I would kill to see that happen.

In other news, we don’t have any snow yet, so we can’t expect any Sad Girls either here. But it’s Canada, so who knows what’ll happen. Of course, expecting Sad Girls is going to be like expecting to win the lottery.

Oh noez! I’m actually covering another anime that’s not Sad Girls in Snow!

Okay, seriously. Although one of the storywriters comes from Gundam SEED, you have an entire staff with experience from Gasaraki, Eureka 7, the works! Best of all, you have CLAMP character designs (with some influence on storyline from them I might add), and this may end up being one of my favorite mecha anime shows.

Lelouche’s all “end justifies means” and Suzaku’s “means justifies end”, though they both seem to be heading in a generally gray direction. I wonder how both are going to handle taking down Britannia. Although a lot of what’s happened thus far hints towards a Suzaku vs. Lelouche thing, I beg to differ. It seems more like they plan to collaborate from time to time but try to avoid fighting each other unless absolutely necessary (given circumstances).

… seriously though. I look at a few of these characters and I keep thinking of Fye and Kurogane from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Suzaku being Syaoran, Lelouche being Kamui. It’s just that sad. At the same time though, you could say that they don’t look alike, but they seem that way in likeness and personality.
If we were to think about it that way, you could say that our “Kamui” is going to figure out what he’s doing wrong, “Syaoran” is going to figure out why things aren’t always what they seem, etc. It’ll work out.

FOs are too damn unbalanced. Deega at level 30 has been reported to damage monsters for some nasty 2200~2500, which is impossible for any HU/RA to perform within that same amount of time. So this is what I propose…

Let us classify skill levels in C/B/A-Levels. So C-Levels would be Levels 1-10, B-Levels would be 11-20, and A-Levels would be 21-30. Since the PP cost is the same from 1-10, 11-20, and 21-30 respectively, it’s better to assume it this way.

1. Higher, worse exponential curve going from C to A-Level for techniques. You can blame Deega for this one.
2. Being able to choose whether or not to cast at C/B/A-Levels for bullets/techniques. I’m surprised that Forces don’t have this ability; it’s a bit on the Ragnarok Online style, but allows for more freedom on deciding whether to go overkill on a monster, or use only what’s absolutely needed in order to get the job done.

You’re probably wondering why I neglected skills; this is because Hunters already have the ability to decide whether or not to finish their combo beyond the first hit. They won’t get this luxury one bit. Rangers do though, since they only shoot once and sometimes Rangers do need to save up on ammo, at the cost of damage potential.

No screencaps this time, unless someone makes it easy for me and gives me an auto-screencap program! >:)

First things first, Makoto is hilarious. Freeloaders at their best, huh. The sponge rolling down her back was classic. Yuuichi is an asshole, and he’s good at what he does.

Secondly, no Kaori exposure? Come on, Kaori is a cool girl, after all! Out of all the girls in this anime, Kaori looks/acts the best hands down. Screw Nayuki, Ayu, or any of the other girls!

Lastly, does everyone have amnesia? Seems to me maybe they all came together one night seven years ago, ate something that put them all into a coma, and here they come one winter morning present day all having their memories screwed up. That’s gotta be fun.
Read on for spoilers regarding what might happen at end of series…

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Things to note:

• Kyon + Yuuichi = Kyuuichi, also known as “91″ or 九一, as put by some other bloggers. Reasons are:

• Had a “normal” self-introduction and would like to hear a “not normal” self-introduction
• Narrated out loud like Kyon would
• Called himself a “normal transfer student”

In conclusion, Kanon ep 2 will hook people a lot more than ep 1 did. Be warned. It’s Haruhi all over again.

P.S. Does anyone know how to take the following screenshots automatically and have them automatically resize and post to WordPress in this manner? Doing this all manually is going to give me carpal tunnel or something… ^^;
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Okay. What kind of asshats are actually running this game?

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=109

We apologize for this great and continued inconvenience.
In the process of implementing the planned content updates, serious problems were encountered.
Due to these events, we will be postponing the update.
We will make an announcement tomorrow October 13, with new information regarding the update.

If it were up to me, I’d do the following:

1. Have a test server running at all times alongside live server; if test server checks out with new content/changes, put it on live server. Then I can guarantee 2-hour maintenances.
2. Use SQL server with relation tables for shops. Searches would run a lot faster compared to using .txt files for shops.
3. Look over the algorithm used for handling users playing all at once.

If SEGA of America hired programmers to work on the PSU database/server stuff I’d join in right away. It’s quite clear SEGA of Japan is incompetent when it comes to programming for a PC environment, let alone the server/database itself.

I fear for people who play the Xbox 360 version coming up soon… if it’s being programmed by SEGA of America, you guys may have better luck. Otherwise, prepare for the worst…