Moonsoul 東方 EX-Mode

I really hate Sony so goddamn much right now..

I was bored out of my mind, so I decided to finally pick up Disgaea 3 for PS3, and after getting a bargained copy at the local store I pop in the game to start playing. And the first thing that happens is a big “FUCK YOU” from Sony with a MANDATORY goddamn game update which forces me to download a fucking update for over 1 hour before I can even start playing!

Seriously! If it’s something that should be OPTIONAL on todays consoles, it’s updates! Of course if you want to play a game online you would have to update to play with other players, but I really see no need in this completely retarded application of having to update a single player game for over one hour before I can play it. This is NOT something that makes people happy, rather it will make them pissed of and more likely to not wanting to play the game and/or become hesitant to buying any new games because of the dreaded forced updating.

Although Sony is even worse on this shit than others, in that you even are forced to apply any System Updates if they are available. Before you can even login to your account to see if you have any messages or if any friends are online and so on.

Get it together Sony! What the hell?!

//Sai

Today it is exactly one month left till my plane leaves for Narita Airport in Tokyo, Japan.

It’s bugging the hell out of me that I still haven’t received those visa papers from Japan. Seriously who can’t they freaking learn how to use email?

It always takes such a damn long time for bureaucratic crap like papers and stuff that needs to be in order. Seriously what’s up with all that?

And it’s really hard to concentrate on stuff when there’s so much things to do that I can’t do because I have to wait for papers and stuff to arrive.

I’m having such an extreme amount of things to think about these days, and there’s appointments and everything to take care of. And I’m still not even sure on what to bring with me, or even what I can bring with me and not go over the weight on stuff.

And on top of all that I still need to get another laptop since I had to return the other one because of hardware errors.

Oh and whoopee I still have to get christmas presents for people, and I have completely no idea what to get and for who. If I think about it, this might actually be one of the few christmases when I’ve been stressed out.

Usually I just get everything done way waaaaay before people even rush into all this crazy with getting gifts. But this year I haven’t had the time to do it.

I hope I wont have to deal with this much paperwork and crap again. It really really sucks to have to do so much stuff just to study in another country. Seriously it’s ridiculous.

It should just be ok with paying any fees and then having it done, but hell no. That’s not even close to the hell of filling out forms and applications. And of course you also have to wait for authorities to send papers back and forth by snailmail inspecting the crap over and over for who knows what reason.

Sometimes I really wonder if they do all that crap just for fun and to piss people off or something. There really can’t be much good with having so much papers to fill in.

I really hope it’ll feel better when everything is done and I’m on my way, because now I’m really sick of everything taking so much time. And it’s not like it’ll be cheap either.

That’s probably one thing that’s bothering me the most. The whole cost of it all. Whatever, I’ve already sold a crapload of games and stuff. I’m not even sure how many I sold. Probably over 60 or something, and nearly all consoles too.

*sigh*

Why can’t things just be easy? If this doesn’t work I’ll just become a scientist or programmer probably. That’ll be fun I guess. Or at least easy if nothing else.

//Sai

Ok I’ve been calling Asus support for like 2-3 days now and they still are pretty clueless on how to resolve my RAM issue.

It’s really annoying seeing how they keep asking me to try and install another graphics driver and other random stuff to see if it fixes the problem, but seriously hasn’t anyone with this problem ever called them before? Wtf.

So the first time I called today I got asked to download the graphics driver from the Asus support download page and install it. Almost amusingly though, the files which so badly linked were found on the page were the drivers for a 32bit system.

And my computer clearly states that it uses a 64 bit system. So naturally that didn’t work. But I didn’t have time to call them again until I got back from my meeting in Stockholm so I rushed away to the bus.

Of course when I got back home I had about an hour to call before they closed their support phone at 5 pm.  So I called up again and were once again asked to give them the serial number for the computer, which by now seems pretty pointless since the only thing it seems to do is to let them determine that it’s indeed a 64 bit system that of which I have been telling them from the start.

And so this new guy asked me to look in the bios to see if all memory was recognized in there, and of course there was no signs of problems in there. It only helps bringing this mystery into an even bigger enigma.

And the only solution they seemed to have was pretty much to maybe hope for a bios or graphics driver update in the future that might fix the issue. What kind of lame excuse is that? How can they even sell a computer stating 4gb ram when you will only get 3 gb that’s usable?

Also there is no place on the specs or any information about the hardware where it says that the graphics card will eat 1gb of additional memory to beef itself up even more. That’s just bullshit.

I haven’t been able to find any option to turn off the shared memory portion either, so It’s kinda safe to say that it will probably not work.

Then again, this might also be one of those ridiculous kinds of early bugs since Windows 7 is a brand new OS and probably needs some fixes and updates. Although it sounds really far fetched.

I could of course assign 250gb harddrive space for virtual memory just for the heck of it, but virtual memory isn’t even near as fast as hardware memory, so that would be pretty pointless and crippling.

I’m seriously considering to just install everything on it and get stuff up and running anyway, I’m tired of dealing with all this support crap. Spending hours on phone with the same stupid questions over and over again.

Yes I have a 64 bit system, yes it is a dual core computer, yes I have installed new drivers and yes I have tried reformatting the computer.  FFS can they come up with something new?

It would even be a lot easier if they had live internet support while on the phone so I could just send them all the screenshots and log files to them so they understand what I’m trying to tell them.

Seriously, not everyone who calls the support is hopeless with computers.

//Sai

Ok so today I went out to buy the imported US version of Blazblue, and it’s my first time playing it.

I headed straight for arcade mode with my favorite character Rachel Alucard, which sadly is the hardest character to control in the game. So that kinda sucks.

Switching over to Ragna the Bloodedge I pretty much breezed my way easily through the game until the boss V13. And that’s where things got a lot worse.

Let me tell you that this is by far the most  broken boss in a fighting game EVER. I spent over 2 hours wasting continue after continue trying to beat her with no luck.

She constantly spams super attacks and specials all over the place at the same time as stunlocking you with a gravitation field.

And here’s the kicker. When I head to the Gamefaqs boards to complain over how broken she is, people are just mocking me. What kinda idiots of a fanbase does Blazblue have when the only comments you get is that everything including Hell Mode difficulty in the game is easy?

And then they start ranting about crap like “this isn’t a real topic, is it?”. Who do they think they are?!

Just because you’ve played the same game over and over again since the release, doesn’t mean that you should act like a total asshole with an attitude against new players.

Blazblue is in great need of some  heavy balancing. There is at least 3 characters which are extremely broken, even if V13 is by far the worst of them all.

Don’t take me wrong. I love hard games, but I really really hate fake difficulty. That kinda crap that the CPU screws you over with by spamming super attacks and specials over and over without ever seeming to run out of energy to use them.

And one of the arrogant bastards on the boards even had the gut to say this “Glad you had fun with those sissy games. Now here’s where the big boys play.”

Now that kind of person should be down right executed. Just because you are good at this one game doesn’t mean that it is THE game for the most awesome players. More like “Now here’s where the big retards play.”

Those are the types of people that makes you sit down and master a game completely and then come back and beat their sorry ass until they run off and cry in a corner and lose that smug smile on their face.

I guess the morale behind the story is to always assume that people on the internet are complete idiots until proven wrong. It’s obviously a much safer bet than assuming people are going to be helpful.

//Sai

Native English speakers really needs to learn how to spell correctly.

These days the degrading of the English language is one of the most common things seen on the internet. And sometimes it really gets to me how extremely bad people really spell.

In most occurances they have managed to produce a deranged version of the intended word instead of the correct one. And even though there is several kinds of internet speak out there, you can clearly recognize when people are just spelling horribly while not using any netspeak.

Some common misspellings  are for example:

WRONG/RIGHT

Threw, Tru, Thro -  Through
Grammer - Grammar

Although there is way way more common misspellings than these, I can’t remember them all at the moment.

And I really find it extremely sad how most people who doesn’t have English as a native language are better at English than most native speakers. That really doesn’t make any sense.

I’m not saying this holds true for all native speakers, but it’s a really huge number.

And here’s a protip. If you are unsure of how anything is ever spelled. Just look it up on google before writing it, and that way you probably wont make the same mistake again. Especially if  you are going to bitch about someone else’s spelling. I’ve lost count long ago on how many times I have seen people complaining about people’s spelling while they are writing even worse themselves.

So here, use this link and just type in whatever word you are to look up after the current text: define: @ google.com

Define: or define: is  another one of those wonderful functions of google’s search engine. If you want to look up, let’s say the meaning of the word candle, just type in define:candle without any spaces between the word and define: and you will get a number of definitions for the word you searched for.

And naturally if you type in a word that is misspelled or doesn’t exist, it will most likely either not turn up at all or it will say that it is a misspelled version of whatever word you were looking up.

So go ahead and abuse the define function on google to help in putting a stop to the horribly bad grammar online and irl.

Addition:
Since it clearly wasn’t obvious enough, even though it goes without saying. People with disorders like dyslexia and the like are obviously excluded from the normal group of misspelling people.

I shouldn’t even have to explain this since it’s one of the most obvious things ever. But even so, the define function in google can still be of great use to anyone and everyone. People with dyslexia included, since it might make studying easier.

//Sai

Ok now I’m pissed off again.

It seems that Youtube changed all accounts to their new look now without the option to keep it in the old style. And as you may or may not know, the new channel look on Youtube sucks!

Not only is it ugly as hell and harder to find stuff in, it’s also slowing down my netbook a crapload compared to the old channel styles which were pretty much perfection.

Seriously, what is the whole deal with big communities and changing layouts and shit around so people don’t know how to use the site properly anymore? And every time a site does that, nearly noone likes it anyway.

It just seems like a really stupid deal, instead of implementing something useful like a search function for your favorites. But oh no! They have to screw up the whole website instead of making improvements.

Screw you Youtube, really. Screw you. =_=

We can just hope that they add the option to change back to the old look again.

//Sai

Undefined Fantastic Object on Lunatic. Now what can be said about that?

What the hell is this?! Dx There’s so much stuff flying at me from everywhere I can’t even find a tiny little open spot to cover in!

And whatever you do, aim at that first ufo fairy on the left side in level 1 first. I’m serious, she will completely destroy you. ;___;

What kinda hellish upstep from SA are we seeing here? Heck on SA Lunatic I’ve even made it to Stage 2 or 3, but on UFO I haven’t even gotten to the boss of level 1 in it. >_>

And whats the deal with the bulletspam in level 3? Isn’t level 4 supposed to be where all hell breaks loose? Stage 1-3 is supposed to be pretty much harmless, like in all the previous games.

But what was ZUN thinking in UFO when he put bulletspam all over the place like that? He could at least have made the bullets near the middle another color than blue. They become very hard to pick out at one place in the level.

I really need to practice more. I haven’t played any of the Touhou shooters in like 3 weeks now except today.

I’ve been running TH12.3 constantly for some days, and I’m loving it. I am however greatly disappointed in Cirno. Her attacks doesn’t seem to link very well at all and they made her extremely weak too. =_=

Remilia on the other hand is still kicking major ass, and Utsuho is also a major powerhouse which can easily take off huge chunks of life.

I hope that Tasofro will continue in the same style, releasing a new expansion with more chars each year now. That would be awesome. And hopefully we’d get Flandre in the next one. Preferably with Mystia and Yuugi.

//Sai

It not go well playing IN right now.. Freakin’ Keine..

Yeah, that’s what she did to me.. I really really don’t like her spellcards.

You can watch two new replays, Here and Here. The first one features getting massively owned by Keine.

Second one is pretty much trying to play as Reimu, before getting severely owned by Marisa. Mainly since I’m even worse at her than Keine because of her evil stars that I can never figure out.

//Sai

Seriously now. Storage space has hit 1TB since long ago now and a 1TB hdd costs something around 100$ or so. So just why do we still have to set for these mp3 players with their extremely minimal space?

I currently have a iPod Mini which I’ve owned for maybe 5 years or so, I have no idea. And I just bought it a new battery when the original one died after maybe just the first year or so.

But seriously the storage space on that iPod is just ridiculous. I get a measly low 4gb to bring my music with me. Heck I don’t think I can even fit 5% on there.

They did however increase some storage space through the years, but if you want a pocketsized mp3 player they still only go as high as I dunno 16-32gb or so? Come on, we have 1TB hdd’s going for about 100$ and you’re telling me they can’t just make a pocket sized mp3 player with maybe 250gb or so storage for maybe about 150$ or so?

And while they’r at it, don’t they dare forget to include support for all other filetypes like ogg, flac, tta and all that crap so we don’t have to sit for hours and hours converting files over and over again, just to be able to take the music with us without carrying a freaking desktop computer or a usb harddrive.

If they haven’t released a pocketsized mp3 player with a size over 100gb by the end of the year, I think we might as well just give up on it. Because clearly the industry is just screwing us over yet again by overcharging the prices on their outdated hardware.

//Sai