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| Please. Do not buy Gyromancer. Gyromancer sucks. It really does. Reasons: There's almost no actual customization to it, at all. Your only choices are between monsters, which means which 2-3 abilities you have... But almost all the abilities are very similar to each other. Oh, and, also? The 50+ monsters they advertise? Each are grouped into sets of 3, with those 3 being only slightly different from each other. There's no real comboing going on, as you don't choose when you use the abilities, and certain abilities of yours will get used when you don't want them to. So... Yeah. Bad. Go play Bejeweled Twist online and imagine monsters on either side. Bam, you are now playing Gyromancer. For anyone that was hoping for a good game, go replay Puzzle Quest. Gyromancer's only element of strategy (that you can make non-pair making moves) gets ... pretty much taken out a few hours in. I went from liking the game to hating it, given that ... Well, now I might as well just find a bot to play the game, there's that damn little to do anymore that requires thought in the game. Avoid this game. Seriously. I wonder how it's so hard to make a sequel to Puzzle Quest. I mean. It should be easy. I could probably do it. Alone. And make better than the piles that were Galactrix and this game. | ||||||
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November 21st, 2009
November 12th, 2009
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The Protomen - Act II, The Father of Death. This was a very hard choice. It was either that or Act I. | ||||||||
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October 24th, 2009
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| Books: Bearing an Hourglass - Anthony With a Tangled Skein - Anthony Wielding a Red Sword - Anthony Being a Green Mother - Anthony (This and the 4 above mostly completing my collection of Incarnations of Immortality) World War Z - Brooks Contact - Sagan The Great Book of Amber - Zelazny Ringworld - Niven Driving Blind - Bradbury The Cat's Pajamas - Bradbury The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - Heinlein Job: A Comedy of Justice - Heinlein The Queen of the Damned - Rice Midnight Tides - Erikson The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain The Great Unraveling - Krugman Why Not Me - Al Franken Christmas Carol - Dickens Oliver Twist - Dickens Great Expectations - Dickens Vols 1-4 Encyclopedia Magic (Leather bound) Comics: 5 Sonic comics (random ones) 4 Gundam Wing comics (They... don't seem to be manga, o_O. so, I picked them up) 1 Street Fighter Megatokyo vol 2 Game: Red Alert: Tiberian Sun For $51. Noooot bad. | ||||||
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July 6th, 2009
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April 18th, 2009
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| Books: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Malllory's Le Morte D'Arthur The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Time Machine by HG Wells 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Vernes Frankenstein bt Mary Shelley The Dragonriders of Pern (Omnibus collection of 3 Pern books) by Anne McCaffrey Nemesis by Isaac Asimov (And the rest I got on a whim): Willow Destiny's Road by Larry Niven Bio of a Space Tyrant vol. 5 by Piers Anthony Comics: 6 issues Street Fighter Udon comic 2 issues Metal Gear Solid 1 issue Transmetropolitan (The fucking TV one, too. The only really standalone one. Fuck yeah.) Manga: 1 volume Rurouni Kenshin Video Games: Myst (PC) Age of Mythology (PC) Total cost: $22. Like. A. BANDIT. :3 | ||||||
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April 13th, 2009
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| Edit: Amazon appears to be fixed. Rumors are that it was an idiot with a script, but I don't know how much that gels. http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.htm The links speak for themselves. This isn't Amazon trying to stop kids from seeing adult content, this is Amazon having a homophobic slant. The first one is a good summary of events, the second two are further reading. Skim the highly voted comments on the slashdot article if you're really interested. http://community.livejournal.com/meta_wr http://community.livejournal.com/meta_wr http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 If this stays around, I'm going to take my purchasing elsewhere. | ||||||
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April 10th, 2009
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So, yeah. My Numerical Analysis Prof is totally awesome.
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March 30th, 2009
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| How do you teach someone IT? A friend of mine, who is the most knowledgeable person I know about computers that is not a computer person (ie, she's not a person that you'd go to to fix computers, ask for advice on, such like) wants to actually learn how to do IT. She picks up computer related things pretty fast, and I've taught her some stuff already, but my method of learning IT was osmosis over 15 years. She wants to be taught over summer, not over her life. So, I already figure that when I reformat my computer over summer I'll involve her in the process, show her some hardware stuff, talk to her a bit about spyware/malware etc, drives, OS underpinning type stuff, but ... Well, I'm not sure exactly how to do it. Any advice? | ||||||
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December 4th, 2008
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| Nixon delivers some amazing lines. It's a bit slow in the beginning, as it lays down foundation for what's to come, but that's kinda expected. You can go into the movie knowing nothing and understand everything that's going on. Nixon pulls off a fucklot of awesome lines. And the phone call. Holy fuck the phone call. It's also a lot funnier than I expected, going in. The phone call and the final day of interviewing reminded me that I wish I could do something nearly as awesome or as world changing. I wish I could do journalism, but I honestly don't think I could. I probably have a snowball's chance in hell at politics, too. | ||||||||
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November 4th, 2008
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| CEEEEEEELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, C'MON! | ||||
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October 7th, 2008
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| I just sorted out my recent downloads folder into my music folder. I am up to 57 GB of music. 11236 songs. Which adds up to: 3 weeks, 6 days, and about 5 hours of music. ... Musics, I likes dem. | ||||||
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October 6th, 2008
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| Heh... So, one of my roommates is a Journalism major. He has to write an article every week. I just heard him leaving a message on an Econ prof's office voice mail about talking to him for an article. I was talking to him after that and he said he decided to do this because of the Bail Out, and I said this - "But the bail out is just the most recent series of events in 'Hey America, bend over! You're gon' get fucked!'" He made a comment, then I said "I even brought the strapon with a spike on!" He made another comment, then I said "I named it Big Bruno!" ... I am so going to hell. >____> | ||||||
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September 23rd, 2008
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| This year goes much better than the last. I've found my groove, and it's amazing. I hang out with people, though I'm still having a few issues with that getting in the way of classes <_<;;, but I've pulled a few last minute things and nothing's come out bad. It's... massively different than last year's beginning, where I knew no one and barely did anything. It's amazing. Living off campus, too, is a huge difference. Being able to cook again! Whoo. Though, I have to deal with roommates who suck at cleaning, but... I can just keep yelling at them until that issue gets solved. >_> Hopefully, at any rate. I've been serious about Kendo since the end of summer, but now that Fall sem has started, the practices are bigger and more formal/serious. I suck, but I'm having a bunch of fun. The most ... discouraging? thing about it (as I can deal with that I suck and am slower than everyone else) is that what's mostly holding me back is that my body is fucked up. My legs in particular. One of the most important things about Kendo is the footwork, which involves keeping your feet parallet. My body does not do this. My natural stance has my feet at about 20 degrees or so outward of forward. Yeah, so I'm trying to get my feet and knees and legs into submission. It's a slow process and it hurts my calves a bit, but... I can deal with it. I'm also thinking about joining the ACM Programming Team. I'll just have to see how much that would eat into the rest of my schedule. Classes are relatively fun, too. At least, Discrete Math is. Logic is fun. I think so, at any rate. <_< In other news: Yeah, I'm still alive. Been, what, a month since my last entry? Heh. Edit: LJ, you sly bastard | ||||||||
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June 29th, 2008
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| I had a great time at home. Better than I expected. Ended up just doing a bunch of hanging out with friends. Saw 4 movies, played video games, did a bunch of talking. Good times. Now, back to the grind! Le sigh. | ||||||||
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June 5th, 2008
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A meme, from Dor (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kawaiinochan)She gave me the letter K, I pick my 5 favorite songs that begin with said letter. If you reply, I'll give you a letter, you do the same, etc. Knocking on Heaven's Door by Guns n' Roses - What can I say? I love Guns n Roses, and the live version of this song is excellently done. Audience participation songs are one of the best things about concerts, and this is a recording that actually captures the feel very well. Katamari on the Swing from the Everyone Loves Katamari OST - It's a song with a very different feel to it. That, and it's on a Katamari OST. That alone makes it an amazing song. Keep Hope Alive (Sol's Theme) from the Guilty Gear XX OST - I love the GGXX OST, and this is, IMO, one of the better songs from it. Kefka's theme from the Final Fantasy 6 OST - Hate the bastard all you want, he has a nice theme. Kill the Lights by The Birthday Massacre - And here's a song that really deserves favorite. I love this band. They're a combination of most of what I love in music. The songs have a great beat, a different sound, and the singer has an AMAZING voice. I'm a total sucker for female singers. (I kinda had to dig for these... K is an odd, odd letter.) On that note: I wonder if anyone reads my LJ that isn't a friend. If so, they'd have a very boring read, considering how much of things I f-lock. | ||||||
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May 3rd, 2008
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| Precisely, an entire extra room. I'm the only one living in my suite for summer. A suite style room, at UF, means two rooms, each person living in one. Over summer, dorms are so sparsely populated, that I'm the only one in the suite. Fuck yeaaaaaaaah. One is my computer/gaming room, with my computer, TV, and PS2 set up in it. The other... Has a ton of empty space, a desk, and two fridges (I'm holding onto a friend's over summer... HE asked me if I could so he didn't have to rent storage. Works for me!). I figure I'll use this room for studying. And whenever I need a large empty space. Of course, hauling all my shit from my old dorm to my new dorm sucked ass, but... Eh, what can you do. A friend helped me, so it wasn't absolutely terrible. Would have been hell without him. (And, the next day, as predicted, I am sore as hell. Eeee.) | ||||||
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March 26th, 2008
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| I laughed, I cried, I saw a drill that pierced the heavens. I'm being serious about all that, too. The series has some amazing//sad moments in it. First anime to make me cry (Besides Grave of the Fireflies, but that's a given.). Happened multiple times over the last few eps. On the other end of the spectrum, if you have any inkling of like for Shounen anime or Mecha ... Then the series also has more epic moments per episode than most entire series manage. It's a truly great show. Go download it, people. Black-Order does the best subs. And their DCC bot in channel is great. | ||||||||
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February 27th, 2008
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| I dreamt that I went to a con with some friends of mine and we met Alanis Morisette there. o_O But, she was like 15 years older than she is now. One of my friends (Danny.) that was in the dream knew her (They talked on AIM. ... wtf?), snd so she spent the entire time at the con with us. And... somehow, in that short amount of time, I got to know her so well, I was cryingwhen the con was over and we said goodbye. Weird. (And then a funny part of the dream is that, at the very end, I get to where I was staying and saw that I had left AIM on and had gotten a bunch of IMs while I wasn't at the computer. | ||||||||
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February 26th, 2008
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| First thing I almost lost: Backpack. Second thing I did lose: Credit Card Thing I lost today, for an hour, in my room: Wallet. Yeah. I knew it had to be in my room. I tore my room apart for an hour, skipping the class I was supposed to go to (Hence why I was looking for my wallet in the first place.), then... Finally found it right next to where I was sitting, in the hardest possible place to see it. Wheeeeee. On a better note, however, package from my mom arrived today. It had a few things I left at home (Most important: Nintendo Wifi connector Dongle. I can play DS online again! Huzzah.), and the Questionable Content shirt that arrived a month late. -_- And... Of course, my mom being my mom, the excess space in the box was packed full of candy. Whee. Yay, Integer-o's! | ||||||||
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February 25th, 2008
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| It finally gets an exclusive that makes me pause and say "Holy shit. I want that game." Valkyrie of the Battlefield. Action/Strategy RPG. Looks AMAZING. Kotaku Article with pix And follow the trailer link in the article. And this: Trailer 2! That makes 1 PS3 exclusive that DO WANT (FF13 and MGS4 haven't terribly impressed me yet. Oh wait, Disgaea 3. Fuck.) compared to like 4 for the 360 (Mass Effect, Blue Dragon, and Lost Odyssey, and Eternal Sonata. Oh, and Tales of Vesperia might be good.) | ||||||||
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