This week's loot (21st October 2010)

Oddly large number of posts today, huh?

Anyway, the second part of my latest Amazon order arrived.


Yay Karuma and Cop Craft. And yeah, those idiots shipped me Nyaruko-san #2 and #3 but not yet #1.

Forgot to stick Gemaga in the picture and I'll probably have more stuff by the end of the week, will update this post then.

Edit (October 22nd): Finished Karuma #6 last night. Man, this series gets weirder with each book (not that that's a bad thing).

Edit (October 22nd): More stuff arrived + tossed Gemaga in.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC

So yeah, I heard about the English release of Sora no Kiseki some time ago and have been bothering the non-Japanese-understanding people around me about it.

Was just talking about it just a while ago, did some Googling, found this.

Oh god, please don't tell me that this description is official.

Blazers. Estel (What's wrong with Estelle?). Rebel kingdom. Opal arts. YOSHUA.

You have to be fucking kidding me, their translators 1) Can't read the FUCKING ENGLISH PLASTERED ALL OVER and 2) CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ″ AND ° ?

Damn, it's like they got someone fluent in neither English nor Japanese to translate. Go hire some fucking fansubbers to do your translations next, why don't you? Seriously, Yoshua? That's the sort of bullshit we saw in bad low-budget RPG translations 10-15 years ago (remember "Jack Van Burace" and "Ziekfried"?).

Man, it's going to be so tough translating these names and terms to English.

Also,

>>Together with her friend Yoshua

Yeah, just a friend. Totally not anyone important at all.

Computer troubles

So, my Dell Vostro backlight started to die off a couple of months ago, and recently the screen stopped working entirely.

I never lug it anywhere due to my having ticked all the extra boxes when ordering it off their website, completely forgetting about that little statistic known as "weight", and ending up getting a notebook that breaks my back whenever I try to carry it anywhere, and have it permanently hooked up to my TV. So that's not a real problem for me.

Rawr.

But I DID fork out extra for an extra-clear screen or something and god damn, my under half the fucking price cheaper super-crappy Acer laptop still works fine. I mentioned this on IRC and

<ILikeLittleGirls> Makes me glad I have a three-year warranty on ■■. :/
<Me> Hm.
<Me> ...how long IS my warranty, anyway?

<Me> Good thing I had the foresight to mail myself the purchase shit on it
<Me> GO EMAIL
<Me> HOLY SHIT
<Me> I STILL HAVE A MONTH ON MY WARRANTY I THINK
<Me> WELL MORE LIKE HALF A MONTH
<Me> YEAH

So I called Dell up and found out that yeah, my warranty would cover this. So

<Me> Right, they're sending someone over either tomorrow or the day after to fix up my screen.

THE NEXT DAY

<Me> ARGH
<Me> The guy replaced the screen.
<Me> The backlight worked.
<Me> The screen didn't.
<Me> He figured it was a motherboard problem.
<Me> He replaced the motherboard.
<Me> It didn't work.
<Me> He guesses it's a graphics card problem.
<Me> He'll bring over a new one tomorrow.

TODAY

<Me> Well.
<Me> That's nice.
<Me> The Dell guy came and went and my screen still isn't working.
<Me> They replaced the graphics card.
<Me> IT STILL DOESN'T WORK
<Me> They'll send someone over with "parts" tomorrow to try and fix it again.
<Me> And the guy said if it isn't fixed tomorrow they'll send someone over on Monday which probably suggests he doesn't think it'll be fixed by tomorrow.
<Me> Joy.

Joy. Bah.

A MA ZONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

I am of course paying for shipping on each portion separately. Because that's what Amazon does.

You have no idea how hard I'm wishing the son of a bitch who came up with this system would just die.

.hack//G.U.

Found some DVDs loaded with old photos while spring cleaning yesterday, these were on one of them. Figured I'd just upload them.

SRW aces

Some old stuff, some new.




What can I say? Map attacks.

I can't seem to find my copies of MX, Alpha 2, and Alpha 3 anywhere, and my MXP and AP save data was lost when some fucker stole my PSP last year, may he die a slow and horrendously painful death.

But anyway, IIRC my top aces in those were

MX: Zeorymer >>>>> Z and ZZ, the Evas

Alpha 2: Arado > Amuro in Hi-Nu, Crossbones >>> Other Gundam

Alpha 3: Cobray and Amuro in Hi-Nu (each with over 999 kills from infinite enemy reinforcements) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Genesic Gaogaigar, Arado and Seolla

MXP: Zeorymer >>>>> Evas > Dragonars (didn't use Gundams much in Portable)

AP: Axel (Vaisaga) > Domon > Gundams

Today on the Zero no Kiseki thread

Damn it Mist, what are you doing in my Zero no Kiseki thread, shoo shoo.

Seriously though, what were they thinking when they made this guy? I mean, people hate him so much they troll by shopping magazine articles saying he'll be in the next game.

(And yes, I'm still reading thread 56 when 58 is almost finished)

1/100 Seravee designer's colour (light up)

Finally got around to getting those batteries I needed.

Zero no Kiseki, clear

The ending wasn't as bad as FC's but still left pretty much no sense of closure. Fuck, can't wait for the next game.

So, let's see...

Heiyue and Yin did nothing significant, Lector just wandered around doing silly stuff and acting suspicious, Kirika and a whole bunch of other characters did absolutely nothing at all, nothing explained about Gai's death, who dumped Kea at the Schwarz Auction, and Kea's past, and Ouroboros and the church didn't even show up.

So yeah, when's the sequel coming out? This can't be the end of the D∴G cult, can it?

Ren dropping out of the sky with Pater-Mater and twin buster rifling double buster cannoning the final boss out of nowhere was kind of a lolwut moment, though.

I haven't played Sora no Kiseki for ages but IIRC it wasn't explained why Ouroboros attacked the D∴G lodge Ren was in, was it? But considering how D∴G hates Eidos and seems to be opposing her it'd make sense if it turns out that, like what some people are thinking, she's the Ouroboros boss.

I feel like going through all of Sora no Kiseki again.