Entries from 2012-01-01 to 1 year

Mount Fuji - Personal Purchases

So, before I get on to blogging about the actual Japan trip, I thought I'd share some photos of the stuff I bought specifically for the trip up the mountain.Aviator hat, by Ultrafino Panama Hat. You can't see it here, but my cookie jar is …

Mount Fuji - Equipment

So, if you've been keeping track, I modified my previous post a bit since a few more important things came to mind, and it belonged more in that post than this. If you've already read it, I can sum up the things I thought of in three simpl…

Mount Fuji - Preparations

I think I'll spare a while to talk about things people need to summit Mount Fuji, or at least the things that people who've never climbed a mountain before need before they do so. This will probably be the first of two posts, but I'm prett…

Mount Fuji - Preface

So, the first thing I thought I'd write about for the Japan trip is what all you need to do to prepare for a climb up Mount Fuji to its peak. I was thinking about going through the entire Japan trip day by day, and I think I still will, bu…

Oh wallet, what have I done to you? (The sequel)

Just back from a Japan trip. Within the next few weeks, I'll be blogging about the experience.As a general outline of the trip, real quick so I can get to working on the ever increasing stack, which as can be predicted just bloated up...We…

3776 meters

Also... EPIC BIRD!!

Not made of finger hurt

So, I finally decided to return the Inferno after a little bit of deliberation. When you get down to it, 90% of what you buy a mouse for is the shape and feel. If you want extras, that's great, but even if you have all the features that yo…

Fire and Ice are in the name

Since I'm the curious type, I decided to pick up a CoolerMaster Inferno, another mouse, just to see how much I liked it, and to figure out whether or not my other mouse (the XL-760H) just didn't want to play nice with my DAC.As it turns ou…

7th Dragon 2020 review

So, I've finally beat 7th Dragon 2020, and when I say beat, I mean completely beat - I've pretty much got a feel for all the classes and how they work as I went through six different team configurations (playing each of the five classes at…

Drink it Down

So, I don't know what the power draw of my new mouse is, or the power draw of my portable amp, but I guess I spoke a little too soon when I said that my equipment was all fine and good.I encountered some problems with my FiiO E17 (my headp…

Two mice for two hours - first impressions on budget gaming mice

Looks like in the past year, I've been coming across cases where my equipment just up and dies, or becomes obsolete.It started with my Sony Optiarc CD drive when I installed Windows 7 - apparently Windows didn't like it or it didn't like W…

Saimoe AGAIN

So, the main prelims of the International Saimoe League are over and the main bracketed tournament is underway right now. I was actually too lazy to watch Ore ha Tomodachi ga Sukunai, so a good bunch of votes that I could have made I'm abs…

Owning the Tokyo Tower is the in thing to do

So, apparently I spoke too soon when I said the Music Bomb shirt was too large for me. It's size XXL, yeah, and I assumed that no matter where you go, that's the size of giants in whatever area of the world you're in. However, in this inst…

Music! (Bomb)

So this is (most) everything I've been spending my money on recently, and by recently, I mean at around the time of the last Celga run. My music playing equipment has been revived and revamped, with new music to boot (all of which have val…

Opinions on Grand Knights History

So, after putting in more hours in Grand Knights History than I care to publicly disclose, I finally beat the game. Part of what took so long was my absolute refusal to beat the game with anything less than a top tier team. In order to mak…

1/64 drop rate?

So, after not using my Fuze for the longest time, I decided I'd fire it back up and see how the device was doing.It wasn't doing very well unfortunately. I remember, around the time I installed Windows 7 on my computer, it started having t…

Still waiting for S Rare Uzuki Shimamura

One kinda wonders how a cell phone game can garner a huge following, especially when most of the gameplay is collectomania. Well, the game kinda exploded and has so much participation, they're having trouble keeping the servers up and runn…

最萌え

The International Saimoe Contest has started... been started, but this year is special. With the Idolm@ster anime out, some of our idols are up against characters from other shows.'Course, not many people really know what Im@s is and stuff…

I'm spending moneys!

So, after not spending money on anything cool for the last since new years, I finally got fed up with things and spent a bunch of money. With my contributions, maybe the yen will go up to 80 yen to the dollar instead of 83.612 like it is n…

なでなでなでなでなでなでなでなでなでなでなでなでなでなでなでなで(ry

Unfortunately, this guy doesn't like Baseball Girl (Yuki Himekawa) as much as I do, or this would be filled with fandom awesome.Someone needs to do an RPG replay with the CG idols.

Rinse and repeat

So, I'm two games down. I'm whittling this backlog down, one game at a time. The only one I have immediately pending is Grand Knights History.Demon's Souls is the one of the games I packed away. I said I'd talk about its flaws and so I wil…

One step to the end

So, I guess I should update my blog, but guess what? Nothing's really changed. About the only thing to happen lately is some minor progress through Devil May Cry 3, having just beat Mission 18 (the hard way - take out every single chess pi…

It's bad for the community

So, just for kicks, I decided to play a little bit of Devil May Cry 3 again, seeing as I stopped on Very Hard at Mission 12. That stage took me quite a few tries, and before, I never got past it. Something about two boss fights in a row, a…

Should've cheesed him to death

So, I screwed up my Demon's Souls run, and now I'm realizing I'm going to have to go through a New Game + if I want what I missed out on.There are certain items you can get (and events to see) in a world based on its tendency. In Pure Blac…

Die, ads, die!

So, I've kinda known for a while that Hatena started putting ads in my blog, it's just I've had AdBlock Plus, and so they haven't really been showing up. In fact, for the longest time, I've always wondered what that big thing of blank spac…

And a happy new year?

So, like how long has it been since I updated this blog? It's been a while.Lately, I've been playing Demon's Souls. The game's pretty good, but at the moment I admittedly find PvP to be... annoying. Maybe it's because I can't really do any…