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Saiunkoku Monogatari Curtain Call Spoilers.

2011-12-03T11:44:00.000-08:00

Saiunkoku Monogatari Curtain Call was a special 80 page set for people who collected 80 points from Beans. (I'm not sure what this is but I'm assuming it's for people who purchased 80 points worth of other novels)

The first story is "Hana no Ato" which is a story about giving flowers and spending time with a special someone. It's a story with the former Kokurou, aka Ouki's big sister (aka Tsuyuri) , Ouki, Riou, and Ryouou. It also explains the origins of Ryuuki's otedama (bean juggling bag).

On the way home from a special event, Ouki, Riou, and Ryouou find a tree that has buds for the first time in 50 years. There is a saying about that tree and the story is about going back in time and learning about the former Kokurou and her relationship with Ouki with whom she was enemies for most of her life. the main characters are Ouki and Tsuyuri but the story also features Riou, Ryouou, Shouka, Jyuusan Hime, Ryuuki, Jin, Shuuei, Kouyou, Sera, Shuurei, and Ensei.

It explains why Ouki didn't know Shouka was Kokurou and shows a potential romance for Kouyuu and Sera Hime (Kurou's low teen daughter) Sera Hime has liked Kouyuu for a long time. (I believe she's 13-14 while Kouyuu is 25-26)

The 2nd story is "Ikeru Yuuhi, Noroi no Kanoke wo Hashirasu"
This one was a complete comedy with almost the entire cast. It's a story about everyone being drawn into the huge event of Reishin promising on meeting Shuurei.

Anju makes a bet about it with Yuushun and Kouki and the entire government is drawn into this intense battle. Anju bets that Reishin will meet Shuurei and bets on a one day kingship (Yuushun promises to lock Ryuuki away himself) Yuushun bets that Reishin will not meet Shuurei and Anju will listen whatever Yuuhi wants. So the people who want to help Reishin can't help him because they do not want Anju to be a 1 day king.

Reishin sets a date with Shuurei at a Dango shop (the same one where Yuri and Kou Kijin met) but the dango stores are closed using the might of various families.
Reishin is basically thwarted everyway he goes at which point his former subbordinates come and help. He's then stuffed into a casket by someone else. Seiga is freaked out when he comes to do something. and finally when he's about to meet Shuurei, Yuushun comes and asks him out to dinner which Reishin can't say no to.

Pretty much everyone shows up except for the people in Brown Providence.

PS Reishin doesn't meet Shuurei. Anju wins though because Shuurei meets Kurou
PPS One day Kingship sucks for Anju who is forced to work hard while Ryuuki takes a break in the closet.

Translated from this this this and this
I really really want to read these :(

PS apparently there will be no more Gaidens. I hope this isn't true and she writes another 2-3 stories and releases Curtain Call as a Bunko. Preferably with a short and sweet romantic story with Shuurei and Ryuuki when Shuurei finally gives in to him. The ending of 18 had a short and sweet romantic part but knowing now that Shuurei's life ends so short, I kinda want something where Ryuuki finally truely wins Shuurei. Could also just take the short novels from the DVDs once the DVDs stop selling well enough and just add it to a bunko.

PS: I keep mistaking the names of Yuushun and Ouki, I think I caught them all but Any Yuuhi is Yuushun and any Ouri is Ouki

Amazon Kindle updated 9/21/11

2011-09-23T08:31:00.000-07:00

The Good
Go read Kindle propaganda here. It's mostly accurate.
Even though it's not an MP3 player it plays music which is nice because it's one less device to carry. I don't need some massively multifunctional machine. I'd get an ipad or a laptop or something for that. I can see why people are happy about color but I don't really need color from Nook.

The Bad
PDF reading. They need some sort of PDF reformating program or an easier way to navigate PDFs that you had to enhance the size on to read. (I know it's not a PDF reader but it's terrible unless you reformat the file)

The 5 button navigation system is awkward
Browser is pretty slow but it's not a multiuse device so I guess it's okay.
Collections Management is awkward.

What I want for Kindle
I want some sort of SharePod like program that allows me to do all the collection making on my computer. I really really hate making collections on the Kindle. That 5 button scroll thing is awkward at best. The reason why I prefer a SharePod over iTunes is because SharePod is something that you could put on your iPod and use anywhere on any computer without involving someone else's Library. I want it for my personal documents not my Kindle books which I know I can synch from the web.

Edited for Kindle Collections Manager. This is still in beta and requires an install but overall it's made my experience with collection making a million times easier. Wish it'd identify Mangle created folders as well.

Japanese Ebooks at Amazon JP or Amazon.com. Right now I basically have to go to 3-4 different E-book stores for manga and novels. and try to find one that is reformatable. XMDF is not reformatable. Kindle doesn't do terribly good with EPUB. If Amazon could consolidate the E-book format in Japan it'd make me so happy.

DEAR AMAZON, SELL JAPANESE E-BOOKS.

More formats and better conversion tools.
While I do buy most of my stuff from Amazon, the Japan situation has made it really difficult for me to format everything. I want the Kindle to read EPUB .BOOK XMDF

What I'm enjoying using the Kindle for
English Novels. Durr. Amazon.com

Japanese Novels on Kindle. I love reading in Japanese. I know that Amazon will have a hellish time accessing the Japanese market (given how restrictive the publishers seem to be) so for now I am sticking to Aozora Bunko and some of the less legal sources. A 400yen book goes for about 10-12 dollars in the US if you have to actually order it, (from Japan; in a US bookstore it is much much less.)

Manga
I use Mangle. Sometimes it degrades the images a bit too much but overall it makes the formatting process a lot easier and maintains enough quality. The Kindle however will not carry that many manga. There are plenty of sources for manga on the web. I use Kyoto Music City and Winny Club. Guide to Mangle.

Formatting Japanese for Kindle
The Kindle 3 can read Japanese natively but most Aozora Bunko and text format novels have (rubi) markings which make reading like that hard. Converting them to PDF is really easy with Aopii.

For Novels with Aozora Bunko markings
For straight up Aozora Bunko, there is a free service here that will make your Bunko into a readable format for Kindle.

For some less legal novels.
Use Microsoft AppLocale if you are too lazy to set your region to Japanese for the text file. Set the encoding to UTF-8. If you have set your region to Japan, you probably don't have to change encoding.
Use Aopii PNG to encode the text file with the rubi correctly inputted or use Aopii PDF.
Both Aopii use Java RE. Aopii is a .JAR file
For the PDF version you will need to download and use a different font, the default option doesn't work. for my American Windows XP. I used IPA Font Mincho.

For XMDF Format Novels
XMDF is Sharp's format for E-books and is also the most popular format for E-books in Japan. Unfortunately or as expected, Amazon does not support this format. Neither does Calibre. There are users in Japan however who made some guides to how to convert XMDF to an image format (I then use Mangle to condense it a little more.) Hopefully, someone will make a program that would streamline this process a bit more.

Download ブンコビューア for viewing XMDF files on Windows PC
Download AutoHotkey or UWSC and create a script to take screenshots and save them to a folder. (See here or here for UWSC scripts. personally, the 2nd script was easier to use and customize.)
Trimming. I use Ralpha for trimming. You can use your own programs or use the Linux script from the above link (I don't really know much about Linux so I don't know if that method is faster or more effective.)
Further formatting using Mangle to reduce size and greyscale it better. You can also convert the folder to PDF if you want but I'm perfectly fine with Mangle folders.

The entire process takes around 15-20 minutes for a thin Bunko book according to one of the guides.

Other thoughts.

I was reading Ｊコミ and was thinking, why don't/can't Japanese artists whose works aren't published anymore take advantage of Kindle Direct Publishing. It's not limited to just Kindle because the software reads on iPad, IPod, PC, so forth which makes it superior to the .book format I keep encountering or the T-time formats.

While Amazon takes 30% royalties, having something on Amazon would be great publicity for older works that publishers aren't publishing anymore to receive more revenue. It just makes more sense to me than the advertisement revenue via JComi. If they made a good Japanese platform they could easily tap into the thousands of doujinshi manga artists for whom paper format is more expensive than digital format.

Links
Kindle Store
Blog Kindle is also pretty informative for other hacks.
青Ｐ Aopii for formatting Aozora Bunko formatted texts into images with correct rubi
Mangle for formatting images
Instapaper for reformatting webpages for reading on Kindle
星空文庫 Hoshizora Bunko
青空文庫 Aozora Bunko
Project Gutenberg English version of Aozora Bunko

Saiunkoku Monogatari Ending Spoilers

2011-08-28T18:06:00.000-07:00

I finally finished reading Saiunkoku 17 and 18 and I must say that while it was expected that everything would end happily ever after I didn't expect it to end that way based on how dark the story had gotten. It really seemed like there was no way out to get to the ending that was promised in Volume 1. It was obvious that Shuurei would somehow survive and that Ryuuki would win somehow but I really did not see how it would happen so when it did happen it was nice.

One thing I disliked is that almost everyone survives. It is a shoujo light novel so it was obvious that at least Shuurei would survive but people like Anju I couldn't see surviving but somehow did. I did want something from Sakujun more even though he was dead. (He helps Shuurei escape from Anju in volume 18 as a corpse and that's pretty much it) What I did like is that it ended the same way that it began. The storyline got darker and darker and darker throughout 13-17 but 18 brought it back to humor and romance.

Plot line Spoilers:
Volume 17 was all about Ruka, fixing the locust problem and getting everything set up for Ryuuki vs Ouki

Shuurei figures out the 2nd boss, where the money, the steel, was going. it's Anju. The money went to bribing the Kou Family. The steel went to Ouki's property where he got some steel workers from the Red Clan building weapons.
Ruka, Uu, Shuuei, Ouki fix the locust problem using a virus against the locusts and Uu uses the last of his life force to make sure that the locusts die.
Seiran and so forth help Ouki to help Ryuuki. (Killing Ouki would kill Ryuuki politically even more so than letting him take the crown.)
Shuurei sacrifices the little time she has left to help Ruka fix the holy objects. When Ruka is killed by kyonshi Sakujun and the balance of the world goes array. Ruka Uu, the girl who caused Ruka's death, Eiki all willingly turn their spirits into human pillars. Uu and Ruka were 2 halves of a single artifact because of how long Ruka had lived and protected the world.
The Hyou family is completely opened to the world, helping the weak and supporting everyone.
The mirror is fixed by Karin. (Karin's husband is the human vessel for Hekisen). (Creating the mirror did not kill the creator, that was bullshit that someone thought up and all the creators suicided because they would never admit that they weren't good enough to die for their art)
Shuurei goes to rest in a casket. She'll have 1 day more to live and only when she and the person she gives the key to want her to will she awake. If she stays asleep she can live 10 more years in sleep.

Volume 18 was about Ryuuki. Shuurei spent 90% of the novel sleeping while Ryuuki began giving up things to protect them.

Ryuuki learns from Shou Taishi that his responsibility was to last 3 years as King. He was manipulated to make it easier for Ouki to become King
Ryuuki still believes of Yuushin's betrayal but decides to escape the castle before more people on Ouki's side try to kill Yuushin.
Ryuuki gives up one of his swords to a stranger while escaping for helping him because he doesn't need the sword. This is direct contrast to Ouki who gave everything up except for his sword and armor because he still needed them.
Ouki takes control of the government and fixes up a lot of the problems. He uses many of the plans that Ryuuki and Yuushun made but couldn't announce because of the backlash that was going on against Ryuuki.
Ryuuki spends the next few months with sleeping Shuurei, Shuuei, Shouka so forth. Shuurei is protected by Hien, Riou's mother and Ouki's daughter who was the last body for Ruka. Hien was dying in childbirth when Ruka put her into stasis in hopes that someday she would be able to be fixed. With Ruka dying Hien uses the last of her time to work towards helping Shuurei.
At this point Ryuuki's basically fucked. The 6 ministers are not on his side and are helping Ouki fix the government. The Ran providence locks up the governor as sick and the rest of the government is taken over by Ouki's supporters. The White and Black Providences are angry at the Red Providence who was hiding food when the locust problem occurred. They are also pissed off at Ryuuki who failed to help them. The Yellow family has been accepting bribes from Ouki and in general always sides with the winning side. The Heki Governor is missing from the earthquakes and Heki people in general are not terribly interested in war.
Shuurei is stolen using Sakujun (who was turned into a Kyonshi by Anju who is his older brother) and used against Ryuuki. Ryuuki decides to not try and save her.
Ryuuki and Ouki meet at a battlefield and have a duel. Ryuuki arrived with just Shuuei, Ouki with 50,000 troops.
Shuurei wakes up and rushes to Ryuuki's side with the help of her old friends at the government. Rou Ensei is who she trusted with the 2nd key.
Ryuuki and Ouki duel.
Suddenly a village in Ouki's territory rises in flames (due to Anju's plotting)
Ryuuki offers Ouki his head to save Ouki's troops from death. He can't stop them as a King but his head can.
Yuushin arrives with the support of White/Black/Yellow families. He was gonna betray Ryuuki if he hadn't run away to protect Yuushun's life. Because that would be what a normal guy would do and if Ryuuki was just average then Ouki is better for everyone. However, because Ryuuki follows through with his beliefs and sacrifices everything to protect it, Yuushun sides with Ryuuki and Ouki loses the battle.
When Ryuuki escaped the castle Yuushin asked Haku Raien to give Ryuuki his sword. This sword giving was intended as Haku Raien's personal loyalty to the king but was in reality, the White providence pledging to the king. The Black providence was given laxatives in the guise of medicine that would make them stronger. They pledged loyalty for the cure and are now honor bound. Kouyou somehow convinces the yellow clan but gets lost in the north. The Brown/Red/Blue families also come and Ouki loses
Ryuuki makes sure Ouki doesn't commit suicide and gives Ouki, Bakuya which he accepts and pledges loyalty to Ryuuki. On a side note, his general was a legendary fighter from the Black clan.
Shuurei is shot by an arrow. (this is cliffhanger)
The 7 Sen meet and mourn the death of one of their members and most of them pledge not to meddle with things for at least another 100 years. Everything went to plan and the Black Sen's love still didn't show up, Purple just lost. Yellow doesn't want to have more work saving lives, Heki has a son and wants his son to live a nice life, Sa doesn't really care much, Byakuya completely fell for a human.

Epilogue

Shuurei survives using the life force that was being tapped from her via Kyonshi Sakujun. (her life was being used to reanimate Sakujun) Hien, Ruka, and Shusui were basically sucking back her life force back into Shuurei. She's given just a little more time.
Ryuuki proposes to Shuurei but is rejected publically for the 100th time. (In the background Yuushun says that Shuurei is better as an official for the country and Shuurei's old friends all petition against the king.)
Reishin, Yuushin become parents. (As a side note, Yuushin wasn't dying but pretending to die because it's safer. His wish was to become a good person. He likes siding with idiots because he doesn't have to think much) Yuushin decides to never side with the King when it becomes matters of women and love after being beaten up by his wife who hid her pregnancy from him.
Jin and Shuuei are given the chance to return Jin to Shiba family if they defeat White General who is the current owner of one of the Shiba family's old family heirloom sword that they lost 100 years ago. Juusan hime says she'll consider Jin when he defeats the White General. Juusan Hime privately gives up on Ryuuki whom she was quietly in love with. Jin is made the vice minister of Military division.
The entire Ouki taking over thing is summed up as Ouki getting pissed off at the king and going to pick him up from the Red Providence. Ryuuki makes Riou his son. Ouki laments of Riou's lack of luck in fathers.
Shuurei is given a job like Seiga that allows her to visit the world of Saiunkoku over 3-4 years. Ryuuki allows it and says she'll always come back, everyone will come back. They have a very sweet moment. Shouka overhears things and is reminded of Shuurei's mother and his own romance. It'll take a while to get married.

True Epilogue

Ryuuki's reign truly begins in Jyouchi 5. His reign is noted for having no wars and for cleaning up after the 100 years war. Much like his father was compared to Sougen, he is compared to Soushuu. He's also famed for having only 1 wife.
At age 32, he marries Kou Shuurei. At that point she was a famous official but she gives up her official status and accepts Ryuuki's proposal.
This is also the year when a new girl passes the examinations. This new girl is Shuuran from the Brown Providence and also becomes the first Female Prime Minister of Saiunkoku.
Ryuuki's reign is famed for a period when women were exceptionally famous. Hyou Shusui advanced schooling, Kou Yuri conducted a lot of charity and raised the quality of life throughout saiunkoku. Shuuran governed well. Ran Jyuusanhime was famed in the military while Heki Karin was famed in the arts. Sai Rin became the minister of crafts while being the wife of the Prime Minister.
Kou Shuurei is one of the most famous because her life was not too long.. The year after her marriage, Kou Shuurei died in childbirth at age 30. She died saying "my just a little more time ended" Few records of her life remain leading to her legendary status.
Shi Ryuuki immediately made Riou his successor but Riou gave up his succession right to Shuurei's daughter who lives 70 years as a rare Queen. Riou becomes prime minister after Tei Yuushun Kei Yuuri and Ri Kouyu and restarts the tradition of Hyou family in the government.
Shuurei's daughter is one of the rare Queens of Saiunkoku's history (asides from the ancient queens) and was said to closely resemble her mother.

It's nice to figure out was what except I still have no clue who was the human vessel for the Black Sen

Purple - Shi Shou (Who ends up being the big bad in a way)
Red - Bara Hime (Shuurei's mom, she officially dies)
Blue - Ran Ryuuren (Shuuei's Younger brother with the flute)
Yellow - Kou you (Shuurei's doctor)
Brown - Sa Nan (Ensei's training master)
Heki - Ourou Jun (Heki Karin's Husband)
White - Byakuya (To Eigetsu's other personality)
Black - Anju? (Perhaps he didn't even have a human vessel)

Torchwood Miracle Day

2011-08-06T08:56:00.000-07:00

Oswald for Prez?

I've been catching up with Torchwood: Miracle Day and I'm sad to say that it's somewhat of a disappointment. The premise is interesting; people cease to die, but I feel that the series could do what it's doing so far in 2 episodes rather than 5. I'm starting to think that what I liked so much about of Children of Earth was precisely because of the budget. By condensing the series the way they did, they made each moment have that much more impact.

More of her less Esther

I really like Russel T Davies stories (I miss them on Dr Who) but I also think that Torchwood would have benefited from less fillers, less filler characters, and less filler material. Oswald needs to have more interesting moments or cease to appear as much.

In my mind, his moments would be the execution, running from fear of the mob to the police, talking on the TV, Jack and Oswald. Any other moments really aren't interesting with him, including the screencap I have here even tho it was a Jack and Oswald moment the first was enough.

Jack Jack Jack I miss Ianto.

Esther needs to go. She's boring and she brings nothing to the table, her role can be filled by Gwen or any other girl and it can be filled better. At best she'll serve as a "whistle blower" like the girl in season 3.

More Jack and Gwen. Rex is just not interesting compared to Gwen or Jack.. I understand his importance and that he's needed for the series but he's starting to annoy me. I want to see more of Jack and the effects on him killing Ianto and his grandson in Children of Earth

Less moving around. I do not see the point of moving back and forth from Cardiff to California. If the American public can't appreciate Cardiff then move to California and stay there and if UK can't appreciate California then tough because Starz is a US cable network which is probably funding a large part of Torchwood.

Valid Raeth: Wood Rush Build

2011-05-09T11:48:00.000-07:00

Completion time: 76 minutes
Recommended class(es): Assassin/Ninja with Wood Rush
Soloable: Yes
EXP, Drops, and Gold analysis

Overview: This is almost identical to the Four-Tower Build, except with one extra tower and slightly lower-level Freeze towers.

Wood rush (or shortened as Log) will completely stop monsters in their tracks if they are in range of a Freeze tower level 5 or greater. So to take advantage of this, a second freeze tower is placed. Level 5 is efficient enough for the Log effect to work, but higher level towers will target more monsters.

A down-side to this build is that Log will freeze the monsters fairly spread out, which takes longer for the Gaias to knock them out, but you will have plenty of TP to continue buffing them for as long as you need.

Hit the jump for detailed tactics.

Tactic:

Set up the first three towers and max the TP buff ASAP. It's not necessary to kill the monsters at the 2x area. (I've never found it necessary to kill in the 2x area, in fact.)

Place the second freeze tower. All towers should be at level 2 at this point.

Level the first Gaia and Freeze tower together. Once the Freeze tower is level 5, focus on the first Gaia until it's level 7.

Upgrade the second Gaia tower to level 7.

Upgrade the first Gaia to level 10.

Upgrade both freeze towers to level 8.

At around level 35 you'll need to start actively Logging the mobs to keep them from passing through the towers.

Upgrade the second Gaia to level 10. This row of towers are now complete. Incidentally, at Stage 42 you should now start buffing the first Gaia tower at the beginning of each stage herein.

Place your final tower and upgrade it to 8. All towers are now complete.

Log the monsters as they pass through the first Freeze tower, buffing the Gaia towers as needed. Make sure not to have any monsters frozen near the spawn point once monsters make the lap around the map and start coming in from the north.

Diagonal casting log is pretty useful when freezing monsters around corners.

Stage 50 in action:

Good run overall! It's not as fast as the Four-Tower Build but it's the most efficient I've found so far for Assassins.

Valid Raeth: Four-Tower Build

2011-04-29T21:58:00.000-07:00

Completion time: 70 minutes
Recommended class(es): Warrior with level 5-10 Stun Hammer/Stumblebum, Wizard
Soloable: Yes

Overview: This is a very relaxing build, as the build only needs four towers in all; you can set up your main offense very quickly, leaving you to do whatever you want while you wait (be it AFK, or just mess around with the extra TP). It's also a stress-free build in terms of TP; you will not have to worry about not having enough TP to keep buffing your towers.

This build is also really good for collecting gold and drops, as all monsters will be killed in concentrated areas.

This build does not work very well with ninjas because their Wood Rush skill won't stop much with only one Freeze tower. A slightly modified version of this build works much better for ninjas (demo'd here).

Hit the jump for detailed tactics.

Tactic:

Set up the first three towers and max the TP buff ASAP. It's not necessary to kill the monsters at the 2x area.

Prioritize on the first Gaia tower, keeping the Freeze tower and the second Gaia close behind. At this point you can probably AFK for ten minutes or so.

Once the first Gaia is maxed, start focusing on the second Gaia until it's maxed.

At around stage 37, start stalling the monsters while you work on getting the Freeze tower to level 10. You can still AFK up til probably stage 42 or something but you will have to let the monsters make a full lap around the map, which is at the expense of your completion time. If you start stalling now you can still kill the whole waves at the spawn point. So it's up to you what you prioritize.

The first Gaia tower should now start getting buffed from here onward. One buff will be sufficient until probably Stage 46-47.

Get the final tower started. Upgrade it to level 8, being careful not to overspend on TP because you will need to buff the first two Gaia towers.

At stage 44, both Gaia towers on the first row now need to be buffed from here onward.

Stage 45-48: if the wave of monsters take the lap around the map with at least/more than half HP left, re-buff one or two of the Gaias once they start coming in from the north.

Stage 49: Buff every tower.

And here is Stage 50 in action:

During this final wave of monsters it's important to separate the monsters into packs (seen at 1:15). If there are too many monsters stacked, some will slip through the Gaias unharmed. I delayed myself at doing this properly because of trying to take screenshots and I left a huge stack of monsters near the tail of the wave (1:33). Once that wave reached the Gaias many of them slipped right past (2:13), so the stone took a good amount of hits but the run was still completed.

Game of Thrones

2011-04-19T19:12:00.000-07:00

It is renewed for a 2nd season yes!

To be absolutely honest, I haven't read the books. I have them but I never got around to reading them. I'm now fighting the burning burning urge to go gorge them all up based on the 1st episode of the HBO tv series. (Is there a way to get HBO Go without a cable provider? )

Sean Bean was kinda there kinda not in regards to my interest. He has a lot of kids and is turning into a hot old man king character. The 5 people who really stole my interest in the premiere were the Queen/her Brother, the blond prince/princess, the Queen's dwarf brother.

The princess probably has a long journey to make to becoming a stronger woman. I look forward to seeing her take that journey. Preferably, she'll knock her douchebag brother down on her way. The Queen seems rather sterotypical but I enjoy characters like hers.

The actor who played the dwarf brother just simply stole every scene he was in. He was funny and sinister at the same time.
Waiting for next week.

Dragon Saga F7 - Rokko Round 2

2011-04-13T13:56:00.000-07:00

Rokko - Level 52-53 Priest, Level 54 Assassin
Total Time 71 Minutes
EXP Gain = 60.03% [House Buff, Channel, 2x Serverwide EXP, 40% EXP Pot]
Gold Gain = 44.6377 Gold
Soul Gain = 176
Armor Enchant Dust 120
Weapon Enchant Dust 35

2x10 Gaia, 2x8 Freezing, 1x8 Gaia

Time 01-10 8 minutes [4.57%, 0.6958 Gold]
Time 11-20 10 minutes [9.31%, 3.6464 Gold]
Time 21-30 10 minutes [10.67%, 5.9829 Gold]
Time 31-40 13 minutes [13.67%, 11.9686 Gold]
Time 41-48 30 minutes [21.74%, 22.3335 Gold]

Thoughts:
Fast and Loots were compact. This build works well with Log and an assassin.

2nd run with Lightning instead of the level 8 Gaia came out much faster, checking times against exp rates. House buff was active until round 50

2x10 Gaia 1x7 Freezing 8x10 Lightning

45-46 2 minutes [2.34%]
46-47 2 minutes [2.14%]
47-48 3 minutes [2.36%]
48-49 3 minutes [2.20%]
49-50 5 minutes [1.88%] (House buff wore off sometime here.)

Thoughts: When house buff runs out just leave, time is better spent rebuilding for the next run once house buffs disappear. In this build it generally goes to level 49-50 with house buffs.

Law and Order LA EP 9-10

2011-04-12T11:13:00.000-07:00

Congrats to Dick Wolf for managing to revamp the series back to it's origins.

It's not great as in Sam Waterston, Jerry Orbach, and Jesse L. Martin; but it's better than the disaster that was the first 8 episodes. The series is now actually about the crime rather than about LA. To be honest, LA is not the same as the character that was NYC and it never will be. While NYC was a character in the original L&O, I don't think LA needs to be a character for L&OLA as much as it was for L&O.

First episode from last night, killing off Skeet Ulrich. This felt like a bad idea, but it opened the way for Alfred Molina, who I think was much more interesting as a detective. I wish Corey Stoll and Skeet Ulrich's character could be added and divided by 2 because I love Corey Stoll but Skeet Ulrich was the more interesting of the detectives. I will miss seeing his wife. Much like seeing Elliot Stabler's family, it adds more of a human touch to the detectives. The rest of the people who were lost I really won't miss considering I can't even remember who they are.

One thing that was great was seeing Alana de la Garza back. Now they need to get rid of Terrence Howard and get Linus Roache back (or someone better than Terrence Howard). While I would love seeing Sam Waterston as well, I feel that he should remain in NYC much like S. Epatha Merkerson and the older L&O people. I would want Linus Roache's character to remain in NYC too but I just loved the Law side of L&O throughout the ending of the mothership that if they could get him to come or better yet revive L&O somehow....

I liked the majority of the 2nd episode last night. The guest star was fabulous. He's the FBI agent from White Collar, Christopher Misiano. It was amazing seeing his gut-wrenching acting as a survivor of a family killing. Especially, because he seems so natural cop in White Collar. I felt there were a bit too many twists and turns but in the end, it was nice seeing Alfred Molina interrogate and law prevail. The thing I like about L&O is that the cops don't always win like most other procedurals. That makes the wins and the losses seem that much more rewarding. I did however want to know more about the criminal in this case because it was an interesting leap from a decorated FBI agent to a rapist and murderer.

I checked TV by the numbers and it appears LOLA has stumbled. I really hope it's because the east coast was hot on Monday because I think LOLA deserves a 2nd look from fans of L&O. If they can keep up and improve upon it more, it's a wonderful show.

PS: Bring back Corey Stoll's moustache.

Dragon Saga F7 - Rokko Lightning Round

2011-04-11T11:16:00.000-07:00

Rokko - Level 51 Priest
Total Time 61 Minutes
EXP Gain = 36.2% [House Buff, Resting EXP, Channel, 2x Serverwide EXP]
Gold Gain = 57.5719 Gold
Soul Gain = 189
Armor Enchant Dust 184
Weapon Enchant Dust 70

Time 01-10 13 minutes [3.94%, 0.637 Gold]
Time 11-20 9 minutes [6.76%, 4.5125 Gold]
Time 21-30 9 minutes [8.35%, 14.6883 Gold] *
Time 31-40 13 minutes [8.31%, 15.7522 Gold]*
Time 41-48 17 minutes [8.84%, 22.0219 Gold]

* I missed the 30 round and recorded at the beginning of 32 so Gold/EXP is off.

Thoughts:
- I only got to level 48 with this setup. I can't seem to figure out how to get to 50 with minimal freezing/stunning. Perhaps a hybrid between Gaia and Lightning would work? 48 is however pretty good for almost no freezing and stunning from my priest.
- Loot is scattered a lot more than in the Gaia runs so I lost a bunch of loot although, I did try hard to pick up all the dusts.

Dragon Saga F7 - Arka Round 1

2011-04-09T21:50:00.000-07:00

Arka - Level 60 Sorcerer, Level 61 Overlord
Total Time 88 minutes
EXP Gain = 41.18% [House Buff, Resting EXP, Channel, 2x Serverwide EXP]
Gold Gain = 54.1637 Gold (Approx 108.3274 with 2 characters)
Soul Gain = 205
Armor Enchant Dust 97 (Approx 194 with 2 characters)
Weapon Enchant Dust 23 (Approx 46 with 2 characters)

Time 01-10 14 minutes [2.48%, 0.764 Gold]
Time 11-20 8/9 minutes [7.87% 3.5256 Gold]*
Time 21-30 10 minutes [6.13% 9.624 5Gold]*
Time 31-40 19 minutes [10.55% 15.178 Gold]
Time 41-50 36 minutes [13.82% 23.4253 Gold]

*Approximate I was AFK for the round 20 mark I counted the beginning of round 23 as 20 and guesstimated the first 3 rounds of 20 were around a minute each.

Thoughts:
- The Lower 3 towers were not doing much, however Tactical Point limitations lead to those numbers
- Gold was not picked up as religiously as in the case of Rokko F7. It is very possible that the gold count would be higher in this however because of how involving it was post round 40 picking up gold was simply too hard.
- If the last 10 rounds actually takes 36 minutes even with some optimization, it would be better to simply restart and do the first 30 levels again in the approximately same amount of time and sacrifice some Gold because the last 10 rounds are extremely involving for the player.

The Borgias Pilot

2011-03-31T15:39:00.000-07:00

What the Borgias lacks in super hot famous male lead (Jeremy Irons is no Jonathan Rhys Meyers) it definitely makes up with a gorgeous backplot and one of the most interesting families in history. I hope, this is a success and they can revert back to England and consider Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, or the Medicis, perhaps Louis the 14th, or Catherine 1 or 2.

First impressions is that Jeremy Irons was bored. The whole incest power hungry is there but not quite there. It's not as powerful as I expected it to be. I wanted some stronger acting for Cesare and stronger for Alexander VI. Both seemed weaker to their female counterparts who were not at all the strongest actresses.

Throughout the pilot what interested me the most was Lucretia, I know the basic plot of the rise and demise of the Borgias and Lucretia is one of the most interesting person in their history. Was she a normal girl abused by her brother and her father for politics? Or is she just as poisonous as the rest of her family. The Borgias appears to have taken the former rather than the later but the actress shows potential for a poisonous black widow as well.

Dragon Saga F7 - Rokko Round 1

2011-03-28T09:06:00.000-07:00

Rokko - Level 57 Warlock
Total Time 83 minutes
EXP Gain = 25.66% [House Buff, Resting EXP, Channel]
Gold Gain = 87.2340 Gold
Soul Gain = 204
Armor Enchant Dust 234
Weapon Enchant Dust 64

Time 01-10 21 minutes [1.74%, 1.4172 Gold]
Time 11-20 14 minutes [3.54% 5.4958 Gold]
Time 21-30 08 minutes [4.6% 12.6210 Gold]
Time 31-40 13 minutes [6.68% 24.6606 Gold]
Time 41-50 26 minutes [9.11% 43.0394 Gold]

The bottom 3 towers were put up first followed by the 3rd Level 8 or 9Earth tower and the 2nd level 6 Freezing tower with the 2 extra level 3-4 Freezing towers going up for stalling at the level 50.

Camelot

2011-03-06T19:04:00.000-08:00

Camelot is a new series that I watched this week.
I'm still rather mixed in feelings about this series because while it includes me love for legends, kings, wizards, and so forth. The 2 main characters are as far as the pilot are wooden to me.

I don't see anything new in the characters, I don't see any potential differences from the original roles in the legend and maybe that's exactly what they are going for, but to me that feels lacking.

I've read the books and I've watched other adaptions, so what I want is something that gives me a little something different. It'd be interesting to have a blond haired blue eyed angelic looking Morgana instead of the always dark evil queen image Morgana.

The other Arthurian TV show I watch, Merlin may have a tiny tiny budget compared to this and the main characters may not be the most attractive people (oh Merlin and Gwen) but the characters just feel so much more alive. Maybe I'm being too harsh after viewing just one episode and I'm sure the characters will flesh out more but the pilot leaves me wondering if it's going to be worth it to watch another episode. (which I probably will. I generally watch at least 2-3 episodes to see the direction a show is going before dropping it)

There's about 2-3 scenes that make the series worth it. Eva Green telling King Lot to "say my name" in bed which was honestly hot and pulling the Sword of Mars out of the stone.

Sparticus Gods of the Arena

2011-01-22T19:07:00.000-08:00

My weekly softcore porn series is back and it's fun as the first season.

I'm a huge fan of the 2 leads Lucy Lawless and John Hannah who make this show amazingly fun to watch. I actually hate the blood and gore parts and the excessive sex parts but watching Lucy Lawless being (I don't know what to call that character other than) a conniving (lesbian) bitch and John Hannah being so utterly assholish makes this show so much fun to watch. This season Lucretia gets an even bigger bitch to have lesbian relationships with. The fact that it's Lila from Dexter season 2 makes it so sweet as I literally just ran through Dexter eps til the end of season 2 last week. The character may not actually be a bitch but I just have this image of crazy bitch in my mind from Dexter and Sparticus has so far not had many "nice" people from the ruling class.

I heard that the original actor for Sparticus has cancer and that's the reason for this show but I'm honestly happy they did it because my favorite characters Lucretia and Bartiatus are dead at the end of season 1 of Blood and Sand and I'm not quiet sure how interesting war will be and the eventual death of Oenomaus (who dies early on and Crixus will feel as well as how the original bitch of Blood and Sand Ilithyia will come in to play. (With twisted luck she'll be pregnant by Sparticus and make me laugh so hard)

This guy I think is supposed to become the first champion of Capua. The fact that he's not Crixus tells me that Crixus will show up around episode 4 and kill him at episode 6. RIP Gannicus, your death is inevitable, but until then I'll oogle your 6 pack.

PS Apparently he's a general in the Sparticus uprising. It'll be interesting to see Oenomaus and him work out their differences.

Medium series Finale

2011-01-22T18:28:00.000-08:00

Medium was one of those TV shows that I don't know anyone who watched other than myself, but come Fridays I found myself watching parts and bits of it and throughout the years I came to love watching the family grow. So watching the finale after 7 years was expected but bittersweet. This wasn't a show that I watched religiously every week but more of a comfort food show I dropped by on maybe once or twice every month. Seeing it gone is bittersweet but shows can't go on forever.

The finale was horrible and well expectantly so.
I knew they were going to kill off Joe or Alison when the producer said he was going to burn down everything and close the story completely. What I didn't expect was the sadness that came when Joe dying so early on in the remainder of Alison's life. The hope of Joe being alive in Mexico which turned out false made me sad even though I knew it was gonna happen. That stuff only happens as Joe put it, only in dreams. Even so a part of me wanted it to be true or false much like Alison's death in last season's finale (which was wonderful as well)

The end result of Alison living her life to the fullest and being rewarded for it with Joe waiting was, however, satisfying especially because Alison and Joe's marriage was one I look at with envy. In the world of divorces, affairs, and abusive relationships, their marriage was full of ups and downs but in the end you knew that they loved each other dearly and probably would have become one of those grandpa grandma couples you see on cruises dancing away for their 60th anniversary.

Medium was a silly story but it did family better than any other series I've watched.
I'll miss it and I hope the best of luck to the fabulous cast of that series.

Hugel Medals to EXP Renewal Version

2010-12-19T11:10:00.000-08:00

Because I'm very lazy and don't feel like coding something to do this I just made a spreadsheet which requires much less effort on my part.

http://tinyurl.com/hugelmedals

How to use
Go to the Formulas Tab

For TOTAL EXP input
"=sum("
and click the base or job exp tab to highlight the level you want to get medals up to.*

or simply manually input the sum located on the lower right corner when you highlight the cells

*For example, if you want level 1-80 you highlight 1-79.

Medal formula is basically TOTAL EXP/(PER MEDAL*BM%)
where BM% is either 150%, 200%, or 300%.

For PER MEDAL use the chart to input the correct per medal for your base level.
If someone is using the online spreadsheet just download it and use it on your own computer.

Based on iROwiki's Base EXP Chart / Job EXP Chart / Hugel mini Games Pages

Eureka Christmas Special

2010-12-08T21:31:00.000-08:00

This episode was amazingly fun and christmasy
It's a pity that Eureka isn't back until next year but I really enjoyed this treat!

Spoilers ahead

The episode was told as a flashback to children who were upset that they were being snowed in.

The story begins with an unidentified flying object coming flying/crashing down into Eureka. Leave it to the guys at Eureka to scientifically create the things that make Santa so magical. The sled was created by someone who disappeared in the past few seasons but is still my favorite crazy man, Taggart!

Taggart decided to start the study of Santa; Santalogy. This sounded suspiciously similar to Scientology which made me chuckle a little, but it's just his accent. To do so he created a gun which shrinks and expands presents to solve the problem of carrying so many gifts on his sled

He even gave a gift to Jack, a holographic trio of carollers which were activated every time he said Christmas. Meanwhile in the lab, a scientist was trying to take his hydrogen crystallization project home for the holidays and was stopped by Joe

It turns out this crystal turned into a kind of hydrogen bomb because of the gun that Taggart made which was used to create a perfect fruit cake by Vincent caused the entire town to shrink.

In the end they use both guns to shrink the now huge crystal to a size they can carry and explode it above the town using Taggart's sled.

The scientist is hinted to being Santa himself bringing a different kind of Santa to the TV screen.

Merlin Finale

2010-12-05T09:33:00.000-08:00

I'm such a Science Fiction/Fantasy geek...

Merlin's season 3 ended today and it was good. Merlin has those horribly low budget effects but it's still a great series if you ignore it. In the end, it's the story that matters not the special effects.
Finally, they got past the Morgana is evil, but no one will believe she's evil phase and into everything else.

I really hope Merlin maintains an audience and goes up until Merlin's demise Preferably in a happier format where he goes willingly rather than be forced by Nimueh. They made that possible when they separated the Lady of the Lake and Nimueh. He could easily go willingly with his lady love at the end. Freya is the Lady of the Lake

That relatively positive ending would need at least another 2 seasons. One to deal with Morgana//Morgause and to let Mordred grow and another to do the Lancelot/Guinevere/Arthur and various other battles. I'm not sure I'd like to see a full on love triangle between the three of them although the series has hinted at the romance, this series is one that I want to always be happy which means no to trying to burn Guinevere for her affair.

Most of the features of the Arthurian Legend finally showed their face. The Round Table check! (It looks a bit small in my opinion but it's okay) Guinevere and Arthur love scene check! (The actress of Guinevere always seemed ugly to me, but she's slowly turned really attractive as the series has gone on. Morgana was always really beautiful and the acting/makeup has really worked well to turn her icy)

Yey! The Sword is in the Stone now

Gateway Bypass for Dragon Saga

2010-12-04T08:35:00.000-08:00

My friends told me how to bypass the Gateway for Dragon Saga!

I discovered that my problems with installing Dragon Saga were not because of the DDOS but rather gateway related issues.

Gateway itself is a cool looking program with little functionality, much like the WarpPortal payment system. It's another sign of ignoring the basics of business; never make it harder for your potential customers to touch your product. Hopefully, gravity will fix the issues that the Gateway has or add their own bypass to it.

1) Create a new txt file in your C:\Program Files\Gravity\Dragon Saga
This will differ according to where you installed to but that's the general address

2) Edit it with notepad with "start Patcher.exe Gravityus" (without the quotes, case sensitive)

3) Save the txt file with any name. I chose "GatewayBypasser.txt"

4) Change the extension to ".bat"
You can view extensions under Tools/Folder Options/View/ and uncheck Hide extensions for known file types

5) Run "GatewayBypasser.bat"

First Impressions of Dragon Saga

2010-12-03T08:49:00.000-08:00

In a stalking my friends who were finally fed up with Ragnarok, I started another Gravity game and I see Gravity failing again and this time with a game that could easily rival Maple Story or Wonder King. Dragon Saga. Frustrating!

I really hope they fix the DDOS problems and the Gateway problems. This game can easily become their next cashcow.

Dragon Saga is a sidescrolling/3D game which is adorable and the exact opposite of Ragnarok. It's massively quest based. So far it's been fun but it's lacking in the community effect that Ragnarok has always had even in its recent massive decline. Hopefully, once they fix the Gateway program that will change for the better.

Caprica Finale

2010-12-01T18:31:00.000-08:00

damnit damnit damnit.

Spoilers ahead.

Caprica finale brought everything together so well and it was amazing but they needed that finale to have been season 1's finale (episode 9). The hints of season 2 made me want so much more but it's cancelled. FUCKING CANCELLED. It sucks that it turned out amazing once they got past of most of part 1.

(Heaven got destroyed by Zoe. All of Clarice's work destroyed by a teenage girl)

What I would have done different now that I rewatched the entire thing would be vastly making the storyline faster. While the explosion in the premiere and the explosion in the ending were well programmed it needed to be this good before this. So much before this..

(Little Adama, I'm going to miss Joseph, he was one hot Adama)

I'm glad they fixed the Adama problem from episode 17, nice to know he'll be a lot more younger in the first Cylon war than I thought. Time wise it was 16 years to the Cylon war and he was born after the death of William 1 so he'd be 15 by the time the Cylon war began and 18-19 a few years in. It sounds like we'll see a hot teen/ low 20s William in the Cylon war.

(99% sure that this was that other Zoe in V world who's gonna be badass, I guess Tamara would have been useful in that case but it would have been better if they had focused more on the basics. Greystones, Adama, Clarice, Zoe)

Also, it's nice to see that the origins of the monotheism of the cylons originates from Clarice rather than from that girl that was friends with Zoe. (To be honest, I would have cut a majority of her storyline and had her just pop up in the 2nd half of season 2)

(Zoe got a "humanoid body." I'm not sure, it felt like it kinda conflicted with BSG but then again in BSG, their bodies were able to reproduce so.)

I'm going to miss Caprica.

Next time, please please condense the plot so that people don't get bored. It's an amazing story, it just went too slow.

(This girl, the majority of her story was just filler. It would have been better to have been minimal and then bam this)

I would have started with the terrorism within the first 10 minutes of the premiere, I would have had Zoe escaping on the Cylon body by the end of episode 2-3, I would have had the Adama family drama, the Greystone takeover drama by 4-6 with Clarice trying to blow up everything by episode 9. Cut most of Tamara, she was useless. cut most of V world, it was only interesting in regards to Zoe finding her way out even if they had planned there to be 2 Zoe which is what it appears in the previews for the 2nd season.

I really hope the other prequel will be successful and that they can throw us some bones about what happened after Caprica.

(screencapped from a Canadian Internet TV stream)

The Walking Dead

2010-11-29T20:35:00.000-08:00

Filling my time gap left from the whole Gravity ISP sucks balls, I caught some of The Walking Dead.

If you like comic books and you like some good ole gore and zombies, you'll love this series. It is cliche but it's still pretty fun watching all the gore and guts.

The 28 days later
The main hero wakes up in a hospital that was overrun. My question is always why the fuck do the zombies leave that one comatose guy alone.

The Resident Evil Part 3?
One of the guys gets bitten or scratched or something and they have to abandon him. Also, a family member died and the remaining family had to shoot/pickaxe them. I always like those scenes but this show didn't build up on the leaving a guy behind thing too much. The woman crying for her sister was very good though as well as the beaten wife pickaxing her deadbeat husband.

The Prison Break (Teabag)
The racist douche bag who cuts off his hand to escape from danger... You know he's gonna come back over and over and I hope he can become somewhat as amazingly creepy as Teabag was. Teabag was just amazing as a character.

The I am Legend (Scientist)
The lone surviving scientist trying to save the world from his well fortified home.

Standard child who will not die because shows like this never kill off a 10 year old on screen.. although maybe off screen.

Caprica and Kings

2010-11-24T20:11:00.000-08:00

After waiting for the season to go somewhere, I finally caught up with Caprica.

How I wish episode 12+ were the pacing they had gone for episode 1-9. It's gone from boring to amazing in the span of those few episodes. It's moving, the characters are much more interesting. The fact that it's over makes that so much worse.

I honestly cannot remember much of what happened in the first half of Caprica other than Zoe died, Zoe became the first cylon. I think the first half could have been done in the premiere + 2nd episode with the 3rd-4th going into the Greystone takeover attempt.

I will be mourning that it got cancelled. I really just wish the pacing were like this to begin with.

I'm still hoping that the new Battlestar Galactica prequel will bring back some of the actors and perhaps help end Caprica and/or give its story some kind of closure.

On a side note, I also finished Kings recently and wish there was more to it as well.

Not because the actual story was interesting, but because of Ian McShane. The story of David is interesting but the way that it was written made it hard to be interested in David or in a lot of the characters. It was Ian McShane's story but David needed to become more powerful in the story rather than just be a pretty face. Unfortunately for Kings that all he and most of the cast were.

Ian McShane made Kings amazing, much like he made the one dimensional Waleran Bigod of The Pillars of Earth fun to watch (which is also an interesting show if you like your history and don't mind a clean and cut good versus evil story) Waleran Bigod was one of the most purely corrupt characters I've seen grace TV screens in recent productions which is why it amazed me that I still wondered what will he do next!

Now to netflix Deadwood.

WarpPortal.com

2010-10-23T12:00:00.000-07:00

WarpPortal was unfortunately one of the worst implemented ideas of iRO's management. It's a great idea for people who play multiple MMORPGs from gravity, but it's ignoring one of the fundamentals of all businesses. Never make it harder for customers to give you money.

Oh you have to wait a few hours for them to vertify your credit card as well. It says 24 hours but if it's a weekday it'll be much shorter.

The gist of the system is that you purchase WarpPortal Energy which is then converted to subscriptions or to Kafra points.

Start by going to WarpPortal Website.
The Login button is on the upper right corner and the Registration at the bottom of the login page.

Once you have logged in there will be 2 options of interest. PowerUp and Game Accounts.

If you are a new player or a very old player, you want to go to Game Accounts and register your game account or attach your game account to your WarpPortal account
If your accounts are attached to your WarpPortal account then you will just want go to Power Up

The PowerUp tab looks like this.
Here you can purchase WarpPortal Energy which can either be converted to Kafra Points/Subscriptions to any of the Gravity Games. You will see your total WarpPortal energy to the top left. Any ingame points next to your account name to the bottom left next to the account name.

For ingame Kafra points chose the account you want the points on under Game Accounts and select the amount you want to convert. Once it is converted you have to use it up on that account.

To pay for your subscription chose Premium Services and insert your desired play time

Fushigi na Shounen

2010-04-25T18:45:00.000-07:00

Some very rough translations of Fushigi na Shounen (不思議な少年) by Yamashita Kazumi (山下和美)

Chapter 1 Bansaku and Yuujirou
Chapter 2 Charlotte and Emily
Chapter 3 Torakichi the Fox Eyed
Chapter 4 Tetsuo
Chapter 5 Socrates
Chapter 6 Tamara and Domitri

[Scanlated by SCX-scanlations]
Chapter17 Husband: Kyouhei, Wife: Ruriko
Raws are available at Winny Club

I want Female minstrels and Male Gypsies

2010-04-18T10:05:00.000-07:00

Female Minstrel Attempt.
Looks wierd because I couldn't do the legs so I just attached sniper legs.

Male Gypsy was just for lulz.

Shadow Chaser Edits

2009-10-14T05:26:00.000-07:00

Blah Blah

More in line with the artwork imo
But makes her look anorexic Idk

I just hate Rune Knight for female so I tacked on the bottom for a Lord Knight

Sprite Edits are fun

2009-10-11T19:03:00.000-07:00

Was dicking around with the sprites again and ended up with something that looks NOTHING like a sorcerer (closer to a dancer or something) It was pretty fun tho making it even though it might do better with some more color

Something a bit more "Sage tree" The legs are wierd but imagine that design with the proportions of the above sprite.

Lets Make a High Priest Mini Game

2009-10-08T21:25:00.001-07:00

I've been cheating on RO... with an RO mini game.

Meet Lets make a High Priest Mini game (Japanese)

It's basically good old Princess Maker except you have daddy (The Forger) and Aco who wants to be a High Priest and defeat Thanatos and has to hunt to do that. In the middle she also meets a swordie who looks just like Daddy and she fights her way up to Thanatos.

English Patch (Ghetto Eng Patch that needs some more translating)
You might need to install Japanese to your Windows or set your computer to Japan. I don't know because I have it set up automatically to accept Japanese.

Aco Smash (Automatic skill)
Aco Crasher (Mouse wheel Up after/during Aco Smash)
Heal (Double click)
Warp (Click move mouse up)
Cure (Double rightclick)
Angelus (Rightclick drag Mouse up)
Kyrie Elesion (Make a Cross over the "Battle Window's borders going left -> Right -> top -> down
Storm (Hold Mouse wheel down. When the enemy is in Endure, you can use the skill about 2s after Kakarot has attacked.
Blessing (When HP is less than 60% make a clockwise circle from the left)

Sorcerers

2009-09-30T00:59:00.001-07:00

Omgosh

They aren't bad... but as with all of the other RO sprites they are too cluttered in my opinion.

I like that the bellybutton isn't showing but something didn't sit right.

so I pulled off some of the feathers but didn't pull them all off because they help differentiate between Scholar and Sorcerer and after fiddling around a bit, I came to the conclusion that it wasn't the feathers, it was the see-through bottom with the red things on it.

Edit: was thinking what was too cluttering for me for the male ones and it was that extra whiteness so I tried deleting it. It looks pretty bad but mostly because of my editting skills. Then I realized that if I put a cape on that, it'd be a pretty hot Warlock that looked like a mage class rather than a Gunslinger!

My conclusion of the 3rd class sprites is that I would have loved them a lot more if they were a bit more modest and had less panties, and spikes. (and in the case of Shadow Chasers, the females stood more like Rogues/Stalkers.

To do list for Website

2009-04-10T07:05:00.000-07:00

RO Addiction Projects

DS Sim: Fix the Code URL creation code so that it doesn't error upon the addition of new skills.
DS Sim: Add a save/load feature to DS sim. Relocate the URL code box
DS Sim: prereqs
Update Medals Page with Extended Super Novice Base/Job Exp.

Other Hobbies

Translate Fushigi na Shounen
Translate Under the Rose