7 posts tagged “game”

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Just by surfing the interbutts, you get experience (datapoints).  You can spend these on mines, to attack other surfers; armor, to protect yourself from mines; portals, to send people blindly to sites of your choosing; crates, so you can stash goodies for others to find; and lampposts, so you can make your own missions through the interweb, highlighting your favourite sites, exploring a topic, or whatnot, which other people can take for experience and learning new stuffz.

It's good fun, and you can play it as actively or passively as you like.  Additionally, it's all delightfully steampunk themed, so how can you go wrong?

I'm Mullenkedheim, so feel free to mark me as an acquaintance if you like, once you join. 

NOTE: If you're using Firefox 3 Beta 5, the plugin may be a bit dodgy. It works fine for me in 3b5 under Vista Ultimate, but it doesn't work under 3b5 in XP SP2.  It works perfectly in 2.0.0.14 though, and the 3b5 problems will be cleared up sooner or later, I trust.  Just a heads up, to prevent you from getting too frustrated. :}

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I've been playing a lot of Simcity 4 the past few days. Dunno why, I have much better games that I ought to be playing (I've been working on FF12 for more than a year, for fuck's sake), but I'm just in a Simcity mood.

I started this region years ago.  I custom made it. It's supposed to be Toyama... but the conversion didn't work, so I thought, meh, I'll do my best, then I started getting more lazy about geography, then I started getting lazy about mayor names, and now meeeeh.  It's called Toyama but bears no resemblance to the place.

Anyway, have a looksee, if you like.

"To write a novel every day is my way. I am writing a dream novel. I am writing a novel named 'Chrono Cross'. 'Chrono Cross' is a mixed dream novel. It mixes comics with a game and novel."

RULES:
Step 1: Open up whatever MP3 program you use and add every song in your collection.
Step 2: Put it on random.
Step 3: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 4: Post and let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 5: Bold the songs that someone guesses correctly.
Step 6: Googling the answers is lame. :)
ルール：
規則:
ポイント1. あなたのmp3プレーヤー、iTunesまたはウィンアンプにあなたのすべての音楽を加えます。
ポイント2. 無作為のモードにプレーヤーを設定します。
ポイント3. 最初の20曲のために、歌詞の最初の台詞を掲示します。
ポイント4. 皆に歌詞がどんな歌から来るかを推測させます。 歌手も推測させます。
ポイント5. だれかが正しく推量するとき、その歌詞をボールドにします。 また、歌のタイトルと歌手名を追加します。
ポイント6. Googleで答を見つけるのは悪いです。

1. They call me white devil
2. See the stone set in your eyes
3. nanananananananananana nanananananananananana Trigger pulled, got the fuel, ready to burn
4. layin' awake, i don't give a shit if i even ever wake up in the morning
5. i just wanna scream out again once again
6. 見てない画面点けて 読まない本積んで
7. howdy, people.here's a little story about an old friend of mine. and to all you great folks out there, this is hardcore 10-4
8. excuse me, i just have to explode
9. Hey you, touch me. 触れてみな
10. 長かったよ　もう少しで　凍えそうで目を閉じてた
11. バックシュート外してプレイオフ
12. Let me go! Seven days 憂鬱に絡まって
13. The last that ever she saw him
14. 大人になって行く事の意味
15. 楽しいことだけ考えてみるさ
16. I'm gonna fight 'em all
17. 「そのうち会おう」と笑って手を振った
18. Some of them are hairy
19. 「NO.1にならなくてもいい　もともと特別なOnly one」
20. 君のくれた　春の日々は

Maybe this is difficult, so I will give you a hint. Below are the names of the singers in this quiz. If a name appears twice, then that person has two songs in the quiz.
このゲームが難しいので、ヒントを差し上げるでしょう。以下の名前はこのクイズにおける歌手の名前です。 名前が一度より多く見えるなら、その歌手はクイズで複数の曲を持っています。

Names/歌手の名前

• Tom Green
• Skye Sweetnam
• Miyavi -雅-
• Everclear
• V6 (Inohara)(井原）
• Aqua
• U2
• V6
• TM Revolution
• Spock
• Offspring
• Bjork
• 浜崎あゆみ (Hamasaki Ayumi)
• alice nine.
• The Pillows
• SMAP
• コタニキンヤ/Kotani Kinya
• The White Stripes
• Missing Heart
• 浜崎あゆみ (Hamasaki Ayumi)

Remember, you must give the correct artist, chosen from the list above (if someone else did the song, well, figure out which one of these people did it), and the name of the song.
歌の名前と歌手の名前(上のリストから選ばれているように)を与えなければならないのを覚えていてください。

Let's have fun!
楽しみましょう!

So, this is the time of year when ALTs leave Toyama for pastures with less oishii mizu (and less cadmium!) and try to get rid of a bunch of their stuff.  Takaoka is run by twats these days, so they've eliminated all the city ALT positions, replacing them with Interac staff.  This means all the Takaoka ALTs have to get rid of EVERYTHING instead of being able to leave stuff for their successors.  It's a pain in the ass for them, and I hope I don't get shafted like that when I leave.

At any rate, I decided I'd take a friend's rice cooker, since she was getting rid of it, and I didn't have one.  I used to have one, but I used it 4 or 5 times, and then noticed a little rice moth and a little rice worm crawling around in like, the LCD display, where I couldn't get to them.  That was it, I tossed it.  But in the past month or two I've been wanting a rice cooker, not only to make my own rice, but to try making other things, like rice cooker brownies and bread.

I went to Tak this afternoon after work to pick the rice cooker up (it has a clock, that's on, and telling time, but it's not plugged in -- what manner of sorcery is this!)  While I was there, she suckered me into taking a shark game thing she had.  You open its mouth, and press the teeth. One of the teeth will make the head snap shut on your finger. It's all fun and games (too bad the unlucky tooth never changes).

At any rate, the package is made of win and Engrish (and an unrelated Finding Nemo shark that i'm sure is used without permission).

With your family, friends and classmates test the feeling of heartthrob together

Lucky Testing
1.Lift up the brainpan of shark until it makes the sound as "KACA".
2.Press down the tooth of the shark randomly.
3.The upper jaw of shark will take a bite when you press a tooth. At the same time, you can hear all kinds of sound that comes from the shark.
4.Press a tooth each time, it is for you to test your lucky.

It can allow one person, two persons or more to play games. You can choose to press the tooth of the shark for deciding to be a winner or a loser, and the shark can make crazy and funny sound. You muc be like it very much, it is a good partner in your journey.
It is suitable for all  kinds of occasion, such as a party, KTV, the classmates play it after class, an appointment with your friend. Anyway, it is a delight for you to have a shark.

Yeaaah, win and gold, that.

Of course, now I have another culinary tool in my kitchen that I'll rarely/never use (like the slow cooker I've had for more than a year, the George Foreman grill I don't use very often, the oven function of my microwave that will allow me to cook things that belong in an oven, etc.)  Why won't I use it?

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired and not being taken seriously.  I'm sick and tired of not being in control. So, I've taken control.  While, for a very long time, I've been quite aware of what it is necessary I do to lose weight, and I understand very well, in an intellectual sense, how to do it, I've never bothered with it.  Partly it's because diet books and programs are always more philosophy than diet ("we must come to terms with our relationships with food and people, and only then can we feel at peace with mother earth and our root chakra. Now let's meditate,") and the actual "This is what you do, do it now" steps were either wishy-washy, or stupid.  Fucking hippies went on diets, and if my choice was to be an in-shape hippie or a fatass non-hippie, I was gonna choose fatass.  Additionally, I never really felt a lot of impetus, personally, to go for it.

But in the back of my mind, I always kind of had a goal: I'd like to be unfat in time for my best friend's wedding.  I didn't want their friends, years down the road, to be like, "Oh goodness, who's the landwhale in this pic?"  But that was always sort of a far off date, so I didn't need to start yet.  Then he got engaged earlier this year, and it pushed it to the forefront a little more, but I still didn't really think about it.  Then the "We're getting married on this day, save the date, invite to come later" card came in the mail, and I had a fixed amount of time.  That, coupled with how unhappy I've been lately, coupled with serendipitously finding The Hacker's Diet online at about the same time led me to actually start making the change, and take control of my fucking life.  No more will the shitty things people have done to me in the past control shit; I control shit. Fuck you!

So, this weekend, I started a low-cal diet, and low-impact exercise (since I can't really handle a lot, I've had to start at rung 1 of the program described in The Hacker's Diet, but it's not overly hard, I can do it in the morning, and I'll probably be able to move up to rung 2 this coming Saturday), in the hopes of becoming less of a fatty in time.  Now I'm sure some of you are saying, "Doing it just for someone's wedding isn't a very good reason," and I agree, but you've got to understand that that's really just the final thing that pushed me into it.  Besides, putting a year into successful weight loss (and it will be successful -- it can't not be), you don't just stop and go back to your old ways after that, you know?

So yeah, to make the body actually start burning fat, there needs to be a significant calorie deficit for a few days.  If you just eat a little less than your body requires, your body will just slow your metabolism down, and be like, "Okay, fine, we can work with this bit of reduced food no prob no prob."  I'm not sure what my basal metabolic rate, but given the needs of typical people my height and with my activity level up to now, 1800kcal/day is probably the minimum, unless of course I have the metabolism of a hibernating bear, in which case my calculations may be askew.  At any rate, to kick start fat burning, I've been on a <600kcal/day diet (I don't think I've exceeded 450kcal/day since I started on Saturday).  At rates like this, assuming the blood sugar level falls appropriately, the fat cells should be like "Ho shit!  Fire up the furnaces, we gotta dip into the reserves!"  Of course, if my blood sugar is artificially high because my pancreas is shot or whatever, well, then this also may not work, at least not as fast, but anyway...

But yeah, on 450kcal/day, I'm not hungry.  There are times through the day when my stomach gets empty, and I get a bit of heartburn because it's trying to digest nonexistent food... I'll just chug some water, or a nice 0kcal drink.  I have one meal, at 7pm, which consists of my calories for the day.  I find myself thinking of food more than I used to; "Oh, man, popcorn chicken would be delicious for supper tonight," "A grilled cheese sandwich sounds good," etc.  But I'm still not hungry.

Meh, most of this post is mostly for me, and probably doesn't interest most of you.  I'm kind of rambling at this point. :)

But seriously, other diets and shit, it's always philosophical crap, guilt, and vague, hard to follow instructions ("you may eat 3 ounces of cottage cheese, BUT ANY LESS AND YOU HAVE FAILED!!!!")  What the fuck is an ounce? Get the fuck out.  "IT's your fault you're fat, but here's some hippie mumbojumbo to make you feel warm and cuddly in your blubber."  Being aimed specifically at non-hippies, and rather at engineers and what not, this diet is much more rational. It's an easy read, can be done in an evening, and putting it into practice is super easy.  I wish I'd found this shit earlier!

tl;dr: I'm dieting, and it's going well. I'll still be a fatty for my best friend's wedding, but decidedly less of one.

So uhhh, I don't really have anything in particular to write about.  So, I shall write about various things, in point form.

Just. Can't. Wait.

Next:

And the colour version, which I think is just as interesting.

So that my entire long weekend wouldn't be a total waste, I decided to go to Kanazawa today.  I got a bit of a late start, and left around 3pm, arriving in Kanazawa around 4ish.  I followed the signs for Kenrokuen and Kanazawa Castle, and soon found that area.  However, I couldn't find parking; rather, I kept finding parking as I drove past it and it was too late.  I drove up and around and through the castle and garden area, then was stuck standing on my brakes on a downhill street with a stupid light at the bottom for about 10 minutes.  Soon, I was near the station, and completely away from where I wanted to be.  I gave up and decided to head back home.  It wasn't a great loss, since I'd forgotten my camera at home anyway, and when I visit the castle and Kenrokuen, I want to have my camera with me.

I'd been on the road for about 90 minutes, and I was quite thirsty, so I stopped at a Sunkus convenience store.  I was also hoping that they'd have omiyage (individually wrapped snacks) with "Kanazawa" written on them, or "Ishikawa" or something.  They had omiyage, but generic crap omiyage only.  As I stood at the counter, I looked into the steamed bun cabinet, and my eyes got wide, not in glee, but rather in confusion and embogglement.  I had to buy the steamed bun in question, I had no choice, really.  I... well, just take a look for yourself.

Yes.  I bought a Poring-man (man, of course, being the suffix added to steamed buns; niku-man, pizza-man, an-man, Poring-man), and headed out to my car to take pictures.  It's eyes have got a bit of an AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRR thing going on, but whaddya gonna do.  The custard inside was kind of gross, so I only had the one bite then threw the rest out, but I got the picture, which is really all that matters.

I still hadn't found omiyage, and since I did take a 4-day weekend, and since I'm going to be asking for more time off tomorrow at work, I figured I'd best get SOMETHING.  The one place, save doing a U-turn and going back to the front of the station, where I was sure I could find Ishikawa- or Kanazawa-marked omiyage was at a highway rest stop.  Also, it gave me an excuse to take the highway, which is really fun, since I get to drive decent speeds (80km/h+) as opposed to slowass normal road speeds (50km/h).

I stopped at the first rest stop I got to, and there was a small selection of omiyage.  The only ones emblazoned with Kanazawa, though, were gross little anko (red bean) filled cakes.  That would go against my policy of not encouraging the anko producers and consumers in this country, so they were out.  I did find Noto Milk Cookies.  Noto is the name of the peninsula at the north end of Ishikawa.  I wasn't anywhere near there, but my co-workers didn't need to know that.  I bought a box of 36 (not quite enough for my office, but close enough), and a Hello Kitty Kanazawa charm for my collection (it's not that I'm a fan of Hello Kitty, it's just that the first thing like that I bought was a Hello Kitty, so now they all have to be... you know?)  Hopped back on the highway and headed back here.  Considered heading to Takaoka and doing some shopping there, but decided against it.

Some people I know were going out for dinner, so I just came back to my apartment to chill until I knew when/where that was gonna be.  Seems like we're going to some sort of curry house chain that I've never been to in my entire time here, in about 15 minutes.  woo.

I've still got a brazillion postcards, so hit me up if you want me to send you one.