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Jul. 15th, 2009 @ 05:27 am
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http://www.ps3center.net/news/3374/valkyria-chronicles-2-officially-announced/
Whaaaat? Senjou no Valkyria 2 is a PSP game? WTH... I mean part of the whole point of Valkyria 1 was the awesome unique art style. I fail to see that coming across as well on PSP.
In any case it's set 2 years after the first game and focuses on a group of new cadets at the academy. I wonder what cameos we'll be seeing from the first game. Cosette is cute at least. The other 2 guys look like dicks. And our mysterious Valkyria is.... unusual. Her 'spear' is more like a whip. And she's all grinning and junk, unlike Selvaria. And she's totally flat-chested, unlike Selvaria.
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Jul. 13th, 2009 @ 08:55 pm
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Jeeeeeeeeeeesus. Namco has gone out of their way to make 360 Vesperia as inferior as possible to the new version.
I mean, even aside from the already-revealed stuff, what I learned from the demo:
-NEW SKILLS. Like, Repede gets a skill that lets him use items on everybody at once. Rita gets something that makes it so she's impossible to dizzy during OVL (meaning her arena dominance is all but assured... unless they change how the OVL Tidal Wave spam works. If they make it so you can't earn OVL gauge while in OVL, I will be very sad.)
-NEW MOVES. Estelle gets a tri-slash move, maybe she will be better at melee.
-EVENT SKIP. THANK GOD. The most painful part about doing a New Game+ for Tales games is that most of them don't give you any sort of event skip (Star Ocean always does...). But Vesp PS3 has it!
-MONSTER INFO. Now if you've spectacled a monster, you can press L1 while targeting it to bring up its info any time, you don't have to respectacle it.
-ITEM INFO BOXES. When you open a treasure chest, it now tells you what the item you picked up actually does (just like ToDR for instance).
-PARTY BATTLE IN ARENA. Wiki mentioned this. Does that mean there are more Tales cameos? That's always good. (PLEASE PUT IN PRESEA FOR HIGH-DEF HIEN MESSHOUJIN PLZKTHX)
Anyway Patty is really weird. She has four forms which she alternates between semi-randomly, and a lot of her moves do different things depending on what form she's in. And a lot of her other moves make you press a button, and if you guess the right one the move does something extra, but pick the wrong one and you take damage and junk.
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Jul. 13th, 2009 @ 03:59 pm
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I SEE PATTY ON THE VESP PS3 DEMO PREVIEW SCREENS
TIME TO DOWNLOAD
Rita-Indignation will bump Vesp PS3 to the very top of my Tales games rankings. I can feel it. The only way it could be better is if Estelle and Rita got Blue Earth together and they made out at the end of it.
OK, it's not just that, but the additions they're making have so far been all-around awesome. I like Repede's new hi-ougi too. He opens his eye that you thought was scarred and closed! And as we all know from anime and junk, when a character who normally has eyes closed opens them (Xelloss, Chou Un, etc.) you know MAJOR SHIT is going to go down.
Guess we'll see how Patty is! Since Saitou Chiwa is Taokaka in BlazBlue I've heard a lot of her recently. I don't think Patty will go "Yo! Chichi no hito!" to Judith or anything though.
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Jul. 12th, 2009 @ 09:07 pm
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Guyz I creamed my pants D:
Other cut-ins for good measure:
And a mystery:
9999999 damage?
As always click on the images for full-size.
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Jul. 12th, 2009 @ 08:30 pm
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WAIT. WAIT WHAT.
THIS IS CURRENTLY ON THE VESPERIA WIKI:
* 新たな秘奥義の追加。第二秘奥義のカットインはTOAの様に全身の立ち絵でアニメーション(瞬きをするなど)が入る
OVLにレベル5が追加され、これが第二秘奥義のトリガーだと思われる
フレンとユーリの協力技「武神双天波」
エステル「アルティメットエレメンツ」
ラピード「ライトニングモーメント」
カロル「○閃○○ウルトラXボンバー」
リタ「インディグネイション」
asdfaksjdfhjjjjjj there's no sources. The Flynn/Yuri and Karol entries are accurate and confirmed and have been up in awhile, but the other lines are newly written. I can't tell if this is real or not. (That's the problem with Wikis, LOL.) BUT RITA. INDIGNATION. OH MY GOD. THAT WOULD BE PANTS-WETTINGLY EXCITING.
天光満る処に我はあり、黄泉の門開く処に汝あり
出でよ、神の雷よ！インディグネイション！
The Vesperia PS3 demo is supposed to be out on PSN tomorrow (I think). According to the Wiki it's set in Cave Mock and it has Patty in it, so it's not the same as the 360 one. But again no sources, so take that with a grain of salt.
(Along those lines here's a video ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hikarugenji sent me. It's a Tales-games-comparison of classic Tales moves, like Majinken/Kogahazan etc. Of course, there's hardly any ToD2 or ToR since they rejected the classical Tales moves in favor of their own stuff. It was also made before Vesp came out, so no Repede Majinkens or anything...)
EDIT: shinryu_nanashi sent me the proof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62iZ20Gur_Y&fmt=22
WTF HOW DID I MISS THIS THIS IS A WEEK OLD
TALES FANS ON MY FL YOU ALL DROPPED THE BALL
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Aaaaand I'm home. The interesting case got bumped because of some trauma surgeries so it won't happen til later today, so they just sent me home. My resident is going to give me a call later when it happens though in case I want to scrub in on it, which I kind of do. It's a pretty unique case, so I might go back later today. (I know, I'm crazy.)
Jul. 12th, 2009 @ 08:43 am
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6:40 pm on call. Interesting case tomorrow morning. I may stay for it if it's not too late and if I can get some sleep.
Jul. 11th, 2009 @ 06:39 pm
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The Republican Party is really going to have a tough time shedding their image as racially/religiously/ethnically intolerant if they, as many observers predict, select a lady who laughed at and agreed with comments referring to Obama as a 'coon' and a 'Muslim terrorist' as the new head of the Young Republicans. Jesus Christ.
And you know Republicans have a tough time appealing to young people when their "'Young' Republicans" group means anybody under 40.
Jul. 10th, 2009 @ 04:22 pm
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WHO CARRIES A BOOK AT ALL TIMES, EVEN TO THE BEACH/OCEAN? RITA!
WHO LOVES BOOKS VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH? ESTELLE!
RISTELLE=CANON I TELL YOU*
*This silliness brought to you by I-don't-want-to-keep-studying-cervical-cancer.
Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 09:00 pm
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I'm home early today! A miracle! Of course, by 'early' I mean 'only an 11-hour shift', but hey, small victories, right?
sistaofpeace1 also posted new swimsuit outfits for Vesperia PS3. Evidently that was one of the most frequent complaints about Vesperia 360, that the hot springs outfits weren't actual swimsuits, LOL. Well, here they are:
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9100/wwwdotuporg217118.jpg
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6065/ips7x3.jpg
Yuri's pretty lol, but the fact that Flynn gets one is pretty hilarious. Judy of course gets a small black bikini, while Rita is a little more conservative with a windbreaker over her suit. As well as still carrying the book. No Estelle yet, sorry fellas (and cybersky and charmwitch).
Tales of Versus blurb has added Caius, Farah, and Kohaku. Farah's cool but meh about the other two. There's a minigame shot in the upper left and you can see Cless vs. Mary... I wonder if that means Mary is in the actual game too, cause that would be cool. Mary's pretty awesome.
Tales of Graces blurb introduces two new characters, once again the Inomata designs have me wavering between complete apathy and a thin layer of disgust at them. Well Sheria's kind of cute, though from her brief description it already sounds like she's gonna be stereotypical healer-bait. Whereas for Hubert, without even hearing him talk or seeing him do anything, I feel like he's going to piss me off.
Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 04:29 pm
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mura_arkaine txted me about this. Good thing I wasn't in surgery lol.
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/2210/vesperialloydrutee.jpg
oh man oh man! Karol Lloyd lol. And mura's creaming himself over rutee!Judith. So we have aschyuri, tearestelle, guyflynn, lloydkarol, and ruteejudith. I wonder what Rita and raven will get.
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I just thought of Mao!Rita for no particular reason. That would be pretty awesome haha.
Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 01:32 pm
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http://kotaku.com/5310615/tales-of-vesperia-ps3-demo-dated
VESPERIA PS3 DEMO NEXT WEEK!!!!!
Now, they might just end up recycling the 360 demo, so I dunno if it'll have Patty or any of the new stuff in it. Still, it might be worth it for anybody who didn't play the 360 version, like maiki. YOU WILL PLAY THIS RIGHT maiki? NO PLAYING KINGDOM HEARTS 25 HOURS A DAY WHEN THERE'S VESPERIA AROUND, OK?!?!?
Also:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/08/unofficial-the-complete-guitar-hero-5-track-list/
Goddammit. I hate Activision and their soulless franchise-killing. But once again GH5 has a bunch of tracks that I want to play. You Give Love a Bad Name? Only Happy When It Rains? UNDER PRESSURE?!? Please please pleeeeease tell me some of this will be showing up in Rock Band. Although if Shirley Manson is going to be featured in GH5, maybe they now have some contract with Garbage such that they're a GH exclusive now... MEH. (Same with Muse.)
Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 04:52 am
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/business/media/08porn.html?_r=1&hp
LOL. The gist of the article is funny - porn stars are lamenting the fact that porn no longer has even paper-thin plots, since the internet has reduced attention spans to 5 minutes or so. But it IS kind of sad. That "Pirates" movie sounds like something I need to see. And I mean it when I say I want to see it for the plot. PIRATES FROM THE MIST.
Also there was this clip:
But he says he still plans two to three bigger-budget releases each year, including the recently shot “2040,” which is about the pornography business of the future. Mr. Orenstein described the movie as “an almost Romeo-and-Juliet story between an aging porn star and a cyborg.”
LOL. They had to use the year 2040, didn't they. I instantly think BOOMERS! Or like Sylvie, though she was in the original series.
Jul. 8th, 2009 @ 09:32 pm
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Dead.
Was in the OR for 7 hours today. Two major procedures. Both fat ladies. I don't say that judgmentally, but being fat makes it a lot harder on the surgeons, as the more there is to get through/retract, the slower the process goes. (Not to mention if the patient also happens to be diabetic from being overweight, it's a lot harder to care for them post-op and the rate of complications is much greater.)
Anyway, today really sucks, cause I was at the hospital at about 6 AM prerounding and I just got back, around 5:30, PLUS tonight I have a freakin' clinical skills session so from 7-8:30 I will be performing breast/pelvic exams. So by the time I get home I'll have like, I dunno, maybe 45 minutes (which will be spent studying of course, not on leisure) before I got to sleep, as I'll need to start prerounding tomorrow around more like 5:30 AM, thanks to Grand Rounds. Yesterday I at least took an hour for me-time. No such time today.
Now I see why med students tend to date other med students. Not only are you with each other all the time, but a non-med student might not intuitively get that there will be days when you will be unable to even talk to them, much less see them in person or spend time with them.
Jul. 8th, 2009 @ 05:49 pm
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Ten billion things to study. Med school is so much harder than grad school, cripes. I'm ready for bed and it's not even 1 PM. Anyway, I have like four kinds of cancer to learn everything about tonight.
Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
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Lull in orientation. So confused. I start on Oncology, so for all of you who made jokes about diseased vaginas attacking me, I get to start with the oldest, MOST diseased ones. (Though it's mostly diseased uteri.) First call for me is Saturday. So this weekend I get to spend 5 AM Sat. morning -> 12 noon Sunday at the hospital. Then I get to go home and try not to mess up my sleep schedule. Maybe I will make the guys do stuff with me Sunday afternoon. It'll be easier to stay awake with company rather than trying to do it alone.
Anyway, two weeks of oncology, then two weeks of obstetrics, two weeks of gynecology, then half a week for the shelf exams, and one and a half weeks for the clinical skills session.
Jul. 6th, 2009 @ 04:18 pm
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I... I kind of like Rachel Alucard. Not just cause she's Ueda Kana and ドＳ and abuses her pets. But also cause I can throw out random cannonballs and an electric frog and a lot of times they still hit >_> I'm no good with her (like... I can't do COMBOS lol) but she's fun. I think I'll stay with Noel for main though. Even though I'm too scrubby to do her throw cancel combos most of the time.
Anyway my day was also very constructive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyYhuECUYc0&fmt=22
Fully tempo-aligned crowd and band animations? CHECK
Drum animations? CHECK! Nene ain't so lazy now!
Removal of random stage dives? CHECK!
Unfortunately it looks like figuring out lip sync is still far far away, the guys who programmed the Customs tools have no idea how the data is packaged... ah well. Having a fully dynamic band is a great step.
Jul. 5th, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO3CyXg_kt0
OH LAWD IS THAT SOME HARUHI?
My...my fingers burn. LOL. It's called No Fail mode. I need fingers like Nagato, apparently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EWzR2C36-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaEfcfX8DGY
Also prettied up my Waiting For You chart, and since I did get a Wii guitar, I can try out the guitar track as well. Not bad, not bad. Unfortunately I spend much of yesterday tweaking the event and venue flags and I still couldn't figure out how to get Nene to play drums, even though I know now how to remove stage dives or keep them at a minimum. Hmmm....
Jul. 5th, 2009 @ 07:22 am
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrkuUHqE7cI
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLS YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
ONE OF MY LIFELONG DREAMS FULFILLED. Well, a dream of the last several years, at least.
Yes, customs are now possible in Rock Band 2 (for the Wii). Since I did that Guitar Hero custom a long time ago, I had a chart sitting around for it. Recently I added the bass/drums/vocals track, and the customs tool was finally released to much fanfare last night. So here it is.
The animations are in their infancy - the current tool just adds them randomly (else it crashes the game) so that's why Priss apparently likes to stage dive a lot, and Sylia has unbridled rage at her guitar, and Nene just sits around most of the time. Stop being so lazy, Nene!
Also since I bought RB2 for the PS3, I only have PS3 instruments, heh. So I can't test out the guitar/bass/drums tracks on the Wii, I can only the vocals. Maybe I should buy a Wii guitar since I know customs are now possible... mrrr, I bet Gamestop is closed today, aren't they. Punks.
Jul. 4th, 2009 @ 11:51 am
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Speaking of time loops...
The last three weeks of Haruhi have been new episodes. But they're the same episode. Except new. Does that make sense? I wonder how many times they're going to loop, lol. All three eps have been titled "Endless Eight". Masaka to omou kedo, they aren't going to loop for eight times, are they? Each new episode has different animation and slightly different lines so it's not like they're being lazy and recycling artwork and junk, but wow. Talk about mindfux. I don't think they left the loop either, so next week will probably be another Endless Eight, ha.
Then again both the Haruhi and BlazBlue time loop things I think are pretty cool. After all, my favorite episode of Next Generation ("Cause and Effect") is when they get stuck in a time loop until finally Data is able to 'program' the number three into the next loop and he realizes that they have to follow Riker's suggestion to escape. I saw it when I was like, 10 years old, and it completely blew my mind.
Jul. 3rd, 2009 @ 10:42 am
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