Here’s whats been going on for the most part.
–IIDX
I passed my first 11. Kecak [a]. Felt fucking awesome, but I think its the easiest 11 out there, even though it has that stupid ass retarded ending. It was more like a 10 until the end, so yeah. I figure that most hard IIDX songs are ending stupid except for Genocide. I’ve learned that you can sit through 2/3s of Genocide [h], hit all the notes at the end and pretty much pass it. So I passed Genocide [h] actually TRYING and I passed it with a D. Yeah. It’s hard. For me at least. My fingering techinque is stupid. I use my left hand ring finger on 1, middle on 2, index on 3, right thumb on 4, index 5, middle 6, ring 7. It can be VERY uncomfortable, so I try to mix up my fingers when I play to stop me from being TOO uncomfortable. Or I just turn on random which helps in a way to relieve the pain in the cramps i get from doing something like SigSig [a] or Go Berzerk’s 7K middle to end. It’s pretty stupid.
Also, in 10th style, I can’t play anything lower than 140+ bpm because I just can’t read that slow without sudden+. I can’t use a towel because I can’t adjust it properly on my TV, and if I do something with a speed up, I don’t have the chance to reach out and throw it off since I sit pretty far from my TV and my TV is way higher than me when I’m sitting and playing. So for older styles, I’ll run into some problems, but I guess I’ll just have to keep practicing to get used to it. High-Speed 4 just isn’t enough.
–Pop’n Music
So I still haven’t gotten a chance to play Pop’n Music (or take those pictures of my busted up controller), but apparently there’s a guy that goes to the mall and has a Pop’n Mini, so I might check it out and hope he would sell it. I doubt it though. It’s the Limited Edition yellow one from 10. :) I hope I can get my hands on it. At least just play on it a little while. He’s also getting a DJDAO ASC, which I’d also love to invest in. Apparently they’re REALLY REALLY good, so here’s hoping to it not crapping out on me. I’m also thinking of having a guy who makes arcade joysticks to just make me a mini controller.
I haven’t been really keeping up with 15: Adventure like I should, but Fever! CS still looks promising. I can’t wait for it to come out. I’ll definately get it controller or not. I think it’d be pretty cool if they released another mini sometime soon. I’d be all over that.
–O2JAM
I started O2JAM again. ‘Nuff said.
–Life
Summer is fucking BORING. I have nothing better to do than sleep in late and my dad gets all bitchy at me because I sleep late. What do you want me to do? Shit, even if I woke up early that’s just stretching out the hours of boredom I’ll have to endure, so I’d rather just sleep off the day and stay up at night where the house is actually active (since both of my parents will be home, dinner, etc.) It’s almost 5, so my mom should be home in 30 minutes. That’s good. I’ll drink coffee with her and discuss shit that I wouldn’t with anyone else since I have that kind of cool relationship with my mom. :) It’s a great thing to have.
I’ve been adding shit to my iPod but it’s still broken. The hold button is stuck. If I could ever get it to power on, it shows the little lock on the screen no matter if i switch the Hold switch on or off, so I’m just thinking of getting a Zune. 30 gb, plays videos, music, all that good stuff. But at the same time I want an iPod video due to it having 80 gigs of space! Can’t go wrong with 80 gb.
Speaking of large memory spaces, my external drive died on me a month ago. Fucking sucks. 500 gb capacity, it falls on a carpeted floor off a desk that wasn’t very high up, and it all of a sudden can’t transfer my shit. Fucking. Weak. I had all of my music on there (5,000 songs!!!!!), some TV shows, 1000 pictures that I’ve collected on the internet over the course of the year I had this computer, and it’s ALL GONE. I hate to dwell on it because it makes me feel like shit for being such a dumbass to even bring it in the game room. I was trying to get DistorteD’s HDD to work correctly since it would lag on my computer really badly, so I tried it on another one in the game room and, well, it fell, and now it won’t transfer large files. Even so, I would have had to format it and lose everything, but at least I would have the space to get everything back. Another weird thing that happens: when I plug it in and try to transfer something, my whole computer freezes.. until I turn the external drive off. Then everything goes at lightning speed and I get this fucking error saying “Windows cannot write blah blah blah blah blah.” It’s really stupid and I just.. want to throw it into a wall. But, that’s not cool, so I won’t. Fuck.
Anyway, I started on a new game. Illusion of Gaia. It reminds me a lot of Zelda, but I can’t figure out where to place the two Inca statues. -_- Pain in the ass. Oh well, I’ll figure it out later. I’m tired of typing for now. I might update tonight. ‘Till next time.