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Lost in Interface

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Biting more than what you can chew.

After two months, I log in, auto-update my Wordpress installation, and then WHAM! I get a smörgåsbord of slow loading items, a new interface, and all other things that I don’t really know what they are on where they went during when. It’s like getting getting a boot in the behind while thinking of a way to get out of a pool of quicksand. Innovation, anyone?

First, the color scheme shift. Less blue, more black and gray. Kind of generic compared to the old circulation where every color gets its own way. A lot of stuff changed here and there. The old tab-style main interface gets moved to its own window to the left (a reaaaaaaaaaaaaally smaaaaaaaaaaaal window to the left), while some of the posting options get moved on the right. News and updates got a bigger window, so much for advertising, especially on the news part. The stats summary got moved to the lowermost part, which is something that annoys me when I check stuff. Uploading system got simpler (maybe because the Flash Uploader’s going haywire with all the stuff?), and it seems that there’s so much stuff that some of it isn’t shown, and you have to change your Screen Options to view stuff you want. INNOVATION, ANYONE?!

If there’s anything I should be happy about, that would be Quickpress. I’ve yet to use it, but it seems that you don’t have to load another window just to be able to write a post. I think it’s limited to posts as of the moment, so I smell improvements pending. Not bad, I can say. Anyways, the whole gamut change may not be that anticipated, but I can manage. Not that it can kill, but it can annoy.

Randomsphere 23: Japanese Game Shows

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on January 7, 2009
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Funny. No wonder moonpeople get the knack for some of the best shenanigans while all the other people can do is curse themselves for not thinking about it sooner, then imitate it anyway.

Uh… I’m Back…?

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on January 6, 2009
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Yeah, right.

So much for my two-month vacation. No, don’t. I don’t really plan on making excuses. Right now, I’m just to reinstate my existence back from where I left it. Plans? Works? Posts? Not yet. At least not at this very moment.

So, I just went KAPOOF, then return like nothing happened while bidding “Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!” to all. All too much on the cliche stuff, no? I expected no less. I pulled it off again with the in-out, out-in stuff. Same old drill, new excuses. Unlimited reasons, limited initiative. All too predictable.

Well, enough with the senti-talk. I think I need to have things laid out since I left the place in an incomplete and utter mess (that’s for sure…). At least I should also keep you guys informed (if I still have any readers, that is…):

  1. Noe’s Corner. That’s one thing. During FuyuComi (no, don’t, I don’t really plan on answering questions) and other places that I needed to visit, that’s one thing I can’t totally ignore. I saw a lot of good stuff, anime, manga, figures, design, art format, the works. I dunno about motivation, but this is a priority.
  2. FuyuComi. Yep. Not much stuff, so I think I can do this better than C74 (which ended up with too many stuff for me to play with, which took up at least at third of a month’s worth of personal vacation time). Not enough good stuff, but it should work. Expecting something worse for Reitasai, though.
  3. Episodic Blogging. Now, this is where things go nut haywire. Since I have more than half of three series’ worth to watch, I’m thinking of dropping out of the scenario in the meantime. Since there aren’t any good stuff for Winter season anime-wise, I think I’ll just focus on reading and playing the Fall season anime counterparts. Hopefully I can think up of a format for that.
  4. Site Revamp. But hey, the site looks simply good to me as is. Do we need something else?

It’s 2:23 AM, no sleep for nearly a day’s worth, and I have impending work. New year, new stuff, same old routine, only better. HOPEFULLY.

Japan + You = DOES NOT COMPUTE?

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on November 9, 2008
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Owen has again made himself manifest with this post. Though I did take a hit or two, I wouldn’t mind. It’s how things stand anyway.

Your Japan is right here.

Now, I’m not going to talk about how I know stuff, or how I see things fit. I’m not one to talk for that since things and thoughts differ from person to person. But I think I stand for something of temperance, whereas a certain fanaticism of a certain field would be loved so much as to be alienated from what it used to be. Therefore, I think Owen has proved a certain point.

So basically, it’s about how people think they can learn Japanese by watching stuff. Or more like they learn to PERCEIVE. I’m not against all the osmosis-to-learn-moonspeak-by-”understanding”-stuff-with-moonspeak or something, but I think there should be a limitation of some degree on how you can exalt yourself from the rest of the otaku populace just because you can half-ass your way to understanding how an episode is laid out. Of course, that means I despise some people who would blatantly prance around and tell tales about it, only to get a major assfuck from someone who doesn’t even know a thing or two about moonspeak the next day.

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Word Pressed

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on November 7, 2008
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Somehow the decline is getting pretty obvious.

The recent patch-up by Wordpress seemed so not okay this time around. Aside from making homage links pop in and out for no good fucking reason, it also screwed up the flash uploader function. Now I can’t do multi-uploading since browser uploader only supports one-by-one uploading. How shitty can you get.

I would also like to know if any of you guys experience such problems as well, so I can confirm if this is just a problem on my side or if everybody else is experiencing the same stuff.

Soul-Searching On The Month Of Souls

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on November 6, 2008
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Like a vampire fresh out of its coffin, I come back to life.

Apparently I tried to somewhat get a hold of myself together this past month (or something like it). I mean, I did take the month off work just to be able to do something. Unfortunately, I was about to do A LOT OF SOMETHINGS, so to speak.

First, there’s the pay-respects-to-the-dead thingie. Well, it’s an occasion, what gives in celebrating it? I don’t really have things for the dead, or the undead, if you include those who don’t want to rest in peace (like Owen), but hey, it’s November. Then again, I’m pretty much included among the undead. It’s November, and it’s that time of the year where spiritual vibes go haywire. It’s never wrong to go batshit maniacal crazy (though I’d like to reserve that basically because you wouldn’t want to, but yeah, I could come out of your monitor for keeps, hee hee hee).

Sounds like I’m making excuses here, eh?  Well, I am. I’m trying to find reasons on why I was on the Intarwebs while not even being able to touch the blog. Guess all that shit talk about losing the drive on vacations do happen, after all. There’s the random crip-crap going all along, then the schedule that seemed to fix it up but had me uptight too much. It’s just like juggling from one shit to another. Decision-wise, if Tonberries were real, I would’ve been dead by now. And it’s Halloween too. Talk about how appropriate that is.

Now, let’s see. A shitload of animu and manga to blog, then games, then webcomic and sketches, then other stuff. Sweet! I feel like this would be killing me before I can even get to work next week! But enough complaining. I guess I’m just going to take responsibility for it.

Then again, was I even responsible?

CAPTURING GOD MODE

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on October 28, 2008
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We’ll probably be too occupied to know what we’re doing…

Pretty much, yeah. The animu’s being stalled on the episodic posts, the webcomic’s on a standstill o’ limbo, and either I’m just lazy, or I’m too preoccupied with something else. But screw that, it’s about time I activate CAPTURING GOD MODE!

Since I need to go out for today, either half of today or the entirety of Tuesday will be spent on epic animu marathon to dispel my backlogs, and prolly do something about the webcomic the next day. But as all godmods have in common, this is going to be a double-edged sword. I might end up doing nothing the next day, or play a marathon scheduled eroges for moar moe madness. Well, the latter seems to be in good terms for me.

Life? What is that? Is that edible?

Schedule Update (Oh God, Finally, FINALLY)!

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on October 23, 2008
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The end and the beginning of a Decisive Battle.

Finally, after two or three weeks of watching animu, the schedule for fall is complete. In order to squelch some time off trying to do backlog crap about randomly-themed shows, I decided to pull out Macademi Wasshoi! and Kemeko DX from the schedule. Well, that’s two series down, and four more to slave myself with. Apparently the remaining shows sport some kind of interest for a story junkie, and somehow the art catches my eye well enough for me to continue watching, which sums up to the former fact. That being said, the shows Akane Iro Ni Somaru Saka, To Aru Majutsu No Index, Toradora!, and Kannagi will be retained for normal episodic pleasure.

I guess that returns us a bit to regular programming…

Last Week Of Work Fiasco

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on October 14, 2008
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I’ll be back…

This is the last week of work before I take a month-long vacation from it. Thank heavens for that. However, it seems that the last stretch isn’t as easy as it seems.

Due to the overwhelming amount of last minute work that I need to do, I might get this week’s schedule off the pace. There might be no timed ep entries, no art entries, and updates might be seldom to none. But hey, once I get this over with, I can have all the time I want to take care of the backlogged shit. So much for business knocking, I am quite aware of that.

Regular programming will resume by next week, so yeah, I need to tell myself to stop having withdrawal symptoms.

Cosplay Mania 2008: Why The Hell Am I Here?

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on October 13, 2008
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That was the question I was asking myself over and over and over again. Why was I there? For someone who doesn’t have any special interest in cosplay to be in an event featuring abundance in Bleachtards and Narutards and rarity of “true cosplayers” donning high-class (or high-level, whatever the shit works) stuff, it’s quite… awkward. Add in the fact I was wearing a costume myself and I go “Ooookay… I think I just got so fucked up…”

But anyways, here’s the dish. Cosplay Mania 2008 is an event organized by different cosplay organizations (they power themselves and do not rely on any major group concerning the otaku or cosplay genre) which patronizes the cosplay society. That’s a sweetened term for the definition, no? I think I should just say this is a shit crappy event full of retards and weeaboos everywhere. So much for my meager costume, I didn’t join any event or anything whatever it is. Don’t think you’ve spotted me and my shit. It’s not for you in case you were there.

OSHIT! HIDE YOUR LOLIS!

And I can’t believe they kicked off late! The program starts at 4:00 PM?! THEY FUCKING WASTED SIX FUCKING HOURS ON SICK FUCKING USELESS SHIT! This actually made the event population balloon to unbreathable heights like something near worse than a fully-packed Comiket event. And unlike the excellent discipline Japan uses on their events, this one fails too much. Marshalls are scattered everywhere but can’t control a big crowd. The volunteers aren’t working good enough, and the event organizers are like, y’know, shit.

One order of Bleachtard Bankai Zinger, coming up?

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