This is a game you should play

It is called Crimzon Clover. It is a really awesome SHMUP. Right now there is only a three stage demo, with the full version coming out in August. You should probably check it out because it is awesome and manly.

Here is a link to a place where you can download this demo.

http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/winnt/game/se481428.html

Thanks to the people who tweeted about it and brought it to my attention, namely Div3rse.

The war between man and insects rages on…

So I woke up this morning, and having no classes to go to due to the most inclement of weathers, I hit up the twitters. Waiting for me was something amazing. This fellow I follow, a Mr. EmutyWorks (you can find his blog here) had recently received some Things.  Kuji-Un (lol), some thing I don’t care about, and Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san.  Go on after the break to read more! (It’s like I’m really)

4Str/4Stam High Ammo Cap Bazooka

Hello!

So it was a little while back that I felt a familiar itch. See, deep down inside me, there’s something that loves numbers. It doesn’t want to know what these numbers mean, it just wants to revel in seeing them. Much higher up there’s a part of me that loves Giant Robots, to about the same degree that chicks Dig them. What this means is that Armored Core is a match made in heaven for me.

One of the first PS2 games I played to completion was Armored Core 2. When I eventually got my own PS2, my library of games consisted of MGS2, Phantom Brave, and Armored Core 3. I picked up AC3 last week, realized that it had nothing more to offer me, and so went out to pick up Silent Line. I don’t know all that much about the Armored Core series really, so I was lucky that the name that stuck out in my mind was the continuation of 3. A used copy cost me something like seven bucks, a ridiculous value. It’s awesome to love things that other people don’t give a shit about. Maybe. Judging from the Wikipedia articles about the games, it’s obvious that at least one person cares for the series, and there’s a few cool FAQs that I’ve seen, which is pretty amazing given that the average FAQ for anything is total shit, but I’ve only known one other person in flesh who likes the game, and he shares my love of giant robots and big numbers.

Perhaps you know him? He laments that he is never featured in a #followfriday, so I will pre-empt things this week and just say http://twitter.com/MastaLCom.

So anyway, Silent Line has been great to me so far, even if it’s gotten to the point where it’s kind of balls hard. I really like the additions they made to the part selection, in particular the ‘clone’ weapons and the expanded Left Arm arsenal. For those at home who may be unfamiliar with the series, traditionally the left arm carries either a laser blade, or an energy shield. AC3 had a few other options, such as a howitzer which was awesome, but for the most part everything else was rubbish. Silent Line adds a whole slew of new options, handguns, rifles, machineguns, solid shields (which don’t drain your energy! Hooray!), and all other manner of  crap.  My versatile AC Misdirection dual wields a laser rifle and a solid rifle, and it is good. The ‘clone’ weapons are slight variations on other weapons, with tradeoffs like lower weight for less range or something. My personal favorite is the bazooka with an ammo capacity of eighty. I pair it with the off-hand bazooka. Double Bazookas. Can you dig it?

The thing is though, Playing Armored Core again also sparks other, more creative impulses in me. I broke out my old LEGOs and puttered around with them for a while. What started out as that high ammo-cap bazooka eventually turned into something else, and it doesn’t have an arm to hold it or anything, but it’ll come eventually. Maybe. More importantly though, it gets me thinking about MechJack again. Maybe we’ll see something happen with that. I’ve already been going through the docs and shearing some crap away, and I have some tentative ideas that I want to test out. Will we see a New Genesis of Giant Robots? Find out next week, on Gabbrology!

Every week is shark week.

So here we are, five days into the fine month of MMAugust.  In the future, I’m sure that this will come to be known as the Summer of Broken Computers, and will be taught in grade school. I’ll be able to look back with my one remaining good eye, and say to the children “Yes, I was there, in those torrid months of restlessness and mis-communication. I’ll tell you straight kids, it was hell. Love your computer, and keep it close to you. You never know when it might be snatched out of your hands.” And the children will look up at me in confusion, as their computers had been working right as rain from the day they were implanted into their skulls. Then I’ll knock back a jigger of scotch and tell ‘em to get off my porch.

Having been without my laptop for a while now, I’ve been finding replacements for all of its functions. I can no longer sieve the expansive infonerts for tasty bits of information, so I’ve started reading again.  Music has been a major problem. With a little work I was able to get my ipod back in order, but getting music onto it is a whole ‘nother story. The lack of easy access to pornography is infuriating. I have no Double or Dorf Fort to play, so I picked up Final Fantasy Tactics again.

Without adjusting for hours spent with the console on for one reason or another, I’ve put about thirty hours in. I’m somewhere in the middle of Chapter 3. The game has been much easier to get through this time around, thanks mostly in part to a  mysterious strategy guide that apparently manifested itself in my room as a response to my need. There’s a lot more to the game than I thought at first. It suffers a bit due to the translation, but the story is surprisingly meaty. Well, surprising to me anyway. It reminds me a lot of Berserk, in that it starts out as a war-drama thing about nobles and commoners, and then BAM SURPRISE DEMONS. It’s p cool though. I was hesitant to use Agrias when she joined my party for serious, but I’ve come to appreciate her. She’s about twelve levels behind the rest of my party (A master ninja/thief, samurai/geomancer, lancer/knight, and a white mage that she’ll probably replace) but she performs well enough. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with my units soon, I’m at the point where I’m running out of skills to get that would fit with the roles I’ve given them, and it seems to me that if I keep them in a class they’ve mastered that I’m wasting their potential. Maybe this is just my own psychosis.

Aw yeah talking about twelve year old (holy fuck) games.

I made a pixiv account. You should check it out. We’ll be friends adrift in a sea of moon-runes. We’ll run a ship of foreigners, eagerly plying the waves for hidden booty. It will be amazing. I promise you this.

Yeah so about that…

Yeah, it’s alright.

SUGOI SUGOI

Waiting for Neotokyo. Expect some kind of writeup once it happens.
In the mean time have some pretty music.

Don’t call it a comeback.

Not much has changed since last we spoke.

So this LateNite thing, I don’t really know how I feel about it. I’ve never dabbled in self-insertion (a concept which is far less hot than it sounds) as many similar persons have. On the other hand, I think that this has the potential to be a very wholesome writing experience. I’m not sure, and I’m not sure how the other fine folks behind this think about me thinking so goddamn much, but I think its about something lost.  There’s a disconnect between the world we brainstormed and the one we live in that might be very significant. I dunno, maybe its just the rain we’ve had lately thats put me in a wierd state of mind.

Anyway, I don’t know if Nick has made any progress on our introductory comic, but I know Tim has sketched up some of the locales of LateNite. Perhaps I will link to them once I convice him to put them up somewhere.

So I’ve been playing more of the TriPple lately, I made it through Oct. 4th. I was afraid that it wasn’t going to be effective because I’ve seen like a million half-spoilers so I kind of knew what was coming, but I still got a bit choked up. I never really liked Shinjiro, or Akihiko for that matter, and I kind of saw what was coming, but I didn’t expect it so soon. Akihiko has earned himself a place on my team now though, and he’s the one that I swapped out as soon as I could. Fair play, TriPple.

And I guess I gotta stay true to the name. Dorfan. I had myself convinced that I wouldn’t be playing until the next big update hit, but I put in a solid couple of hours last night. I’ve been fooling around on a site with a magma pipe and chasm, the occasional wave of troglodytes has made life fun. Once the next migrant wave comes I should be able to take care of them pretty easily, its been give and take with them and unarmed untrained migrants, so I figure once I have a decent militia I should be able to clear them out. I had to channel the magma quite a ways to actually make use of it, but I have a decent setup for forging now. I think I might make a larger magma cistern somewhere closer for other uses.  Make some kind of magma fountain or something. I dunno. I’m not really down with the whole “hurr hurr magma murder elves booze booze booze oh man dem fucken dorfs 2cat” shtick. Eh. Whateves.

Oh, and Double. I started playing again after my long absence (well, like a month ago, but hey, its been how long since I updated here?) and my style has changed a bit. I dunno. I’m not a good sniper, but sometimes I just bust out and murder people with the huntsman. Maybe its like they say, it enables bad players, but I enjoy using it and sometimes I help out the team even, so it works for me. I dabbled with the FaN for a while, and using it has really made me appreciate the normal scootgat. Its fun, don’t get me wrong, I like the FaN, but I never really appreciated the Scout’s potential for murder. Oh, speaking of which, I’m kind of excited for that female scoot skin (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=896752), its really true to the original style. I just hope the new voice things turn out well. I’ll probably use it if they do.

operation ilu

Guys. Whats up.

YEAH SO LIKE REMEMBER WHEN I WOULD UPDATE LIKE AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK EVEN?

HAH HAH HAH GOOD TIMES.

Even in this blog, U. F. O.

So,the news is a day old by now, but, Touhou 12. 「東方星蓮船　～ Undefined Fantastic Object.」http://kourindou.exblog.jp/9703480/ As far as I can tell from those screenshots, Marissa and Reimu kidnap Sanae and take to the high seas, hoping to sell her into slavery in the new world, when they are intercepted by flying saucers. The only solution to their problem? FLY AND SHOOT.

Also I almost beat Imperishable Night the other day. I can pretty consistently meet the time requirement on the first two stages. So that’s good. I really need to figure out how to deal with Reisen though, I lose most of my lives to her. Eirin isn’t that bad for me, because her cards are straight forward, but Reisen’s mindfuck is just too much for me.

Also, I struck adamantine (am I the only one who thinks that sounds like an adjective?) in Dwarf Fort the other day. I haven’t died or gone crazy yet. This was right after I lost one of my starting seven to a mood (I neglected to request any silk, woops). Forboding.  Also, I almost flooded the world. I managed to make an emergency drainage pit quick enough to get someone in to turn it off though, and now I think I’m almost set to dam my creek. I think I might make a water tower and direct it towards the Pit. Just in case.

The true cognescenti are more obsessed with Airpi

Sup.

Been a while.

Sorry.

I spent a little time adding tags to most of my earlier posts instead of going to my first two classes today. Also, a new box over there where I’ll tell you to listen to a song.  Cause I figured that might be fun That’s probably an efficient use of my time. I dunno. I’m in a mood. I’ll be driving Jansen back up to Albany today, maybe I’ll be more myself after that. I do like a long drive. Something about not really being anywhere, just being in transit. 

I’d say expect something more substantial later today,  but it’d probably be better not to.

Also I need to figure out how to change the dates on my posts to an Eternal September calendar.