You know sometimes there’s people you meet in life that you see once in your life and then you never see them again. More times than often I will wonder what ever happened to that person and what they’re doing now. Are they dead? Did they just have the best night of their life? Things like that, and it stabs at me knowing that I will never really get an answer. However, there are some people you are stuck with in life and you either love or hate them and those people you grow to love are there to stay. This is a good thing, but if something happens to make you not love that person any longer, what do you say to that person? How could you explain it in a calm manner that your feeling for them have evaporated possibly by someone else or maybe just because that person has changed while you yourself have stayed the same? Sometimes it’s just better to move on, I guess, but when you can’t let go of something or someone, what do you do? It’d be great if it were just easy as it is to say “Just stop it” but, unfortunately, it’s not that simple.

I’ve also been thinking a lot about my age. I’m 16 and I know that’s still young if you take into consideration the average of the American life span, but I still feel old. I think back to things that don’t exist any more. TV shows that you used to never be able to get rid of, playing outside until the sun went down, summer feeling like it lasts forever. There was all the time in the world to do whatever you wanted with no real worry of anything. But as you get older, it goes away. Time passes by so much faster and there’s not enough time to do anything. It’s a very awkward feeling, but I’m adjusting to it. However, I still don’t like it. I just wish there was more time to do more.

Well last night was pretty boring and in fact, I had a chance to be able to check out Pop’n FEVER! but I didn’t go to the lock-in and Thai went. >_FINALLY passed No.13. Took forever, but whatever. I did it. So yeah, hopefully I can clear Dawn [a] today. ‘Till next time.

In Pop’n news, I gave this guy named Chow my Pop’n ASC to give to the manager of the arcade to work on and hopefully he can do something with it. If not, then damn. If he can, fuck yes! It’ll be really great. :] I’ll finally be able to get back into the Pop’n Music scene.

So that’s about it for Bemaniwise. Lifewise, some shit is starting to happen. There’s a new pizza place that opened up called Incredible American Pizza company or something like that and there’s this huge arcade with a brand new SuperNOVA machine that Ian and I are beating the shit out of to get our names on it even though they’ll probably be gone by the time we go back which should be sometime this week. They also have Precussion Freaks which I’ve grown to like and have already cleared a few songs in “Hard” mode. There’s not a really.. huge songlist that it has to offer. Heres hoping they bring out a IIDX machine or something. Anything. Just give me more Bemani. Another thing that’s happening is Jodi’s birthday party is coming up which she will probably get shitfaced for, but I’m just going because last time I supposibly ruined her party by not attending because my friends wanted me to go and I just didn’t want to go mostly because Kevin was there. If you know me, you know how much I can’t stand that little douche bag.

Well that’s about it. ‘Till next time.

I got a new 500 gb external drive to put my shit in which is fucking awesome. I’m gonna have to download Tsutter’s awesome CDs all over again and have them blast in Winamp while I download even more albums and wait for those to finish. The transfer rate isn’t that bad and it runs pretty smoothly. The black on blue looks pretty nice, too. The outer ring is the capacity meter, which tells you how much space you have on your hard drive. It stays lit up until you fill in 25% of the hard drive, then it fades out a quarter of the circle. I’m just guessing that’s what it does, but it’s still pretty nifty. :3 I can’t wait to fill ‘er up with a bunch of emulation, videos, music, and hopefully some doujin of SS is in working order any time soon. The only problem I’m seem to be having right now is with my iPod. It’s dead, you see, and I have no charger. I am chargeless. As an alternative, I plugged it into the USB port of my laptop, hoping that would be suitable enough, but it only goes to the Apple logo, lights up, and stays there. No “Do not Disconnect” message or anything. It’s just stuck there. So I’m going to try to get that sorted out sometime soon, hopefully. I really need to rip all the shit out of it and put it onto my external for renaming and storage for when I get a new iPod to put my songs in.

Interestingly enough, I’m beginning to get into photoshop a lot more and it’s starting to grow on me. It’s a really fun program once you learn the things and what you have to do with it. It’s a shame I’m too lazy for tutorials. The reason I’m going on about this is because I’m in the process of helping a pack be made for Stepmania. :) Anime songs and video game songs galore, but we still haven’t come up with a name yet. We don’t have that many entries, anyway. It’s only me and two other guys working on it. Thai and myself are the leaders of the pack, putting in the most files since we are aware of what’s going on with it. Logan is helping provide maybe one or two files, but that’s better than nothing. We don’t know when we’re going to stop this project, but we’re hoping that it goes on for a long time because I have high expectations for it. This should be an awesome pack if we all keep our heads in and work together with it.

IIDX. I haven’t played IIDX in quite awhile unless you count simulation which you probably don’t. If you do, I’ve played a few DistorteD songs and I’m fairly impressed. I can’t wait until I can get my hands on a copy. However, I need to get back into the IIDX trend and start playing again. I need to pass a few more 11s and 10s and get a few 9s out of the way. I’ve passed another hard 10 that was very hard for me in the past. Gekkou [a]. I was very happy with that clear and I’m hoping I can come out with some more clears like that. :D It would be a big boost on my will to want to play, which has been taking a toll as of late. I really need to get more accurate rivals to play against, because the preloaded ones just don’t cut it. I either beat the shit out of them or they surpass me in a big number of EX points.

I’ve stopped playing games on my SNES emulator. I feel pretty shitty for letting Soul Blazer get me all this time. I’m stuck. I still am. I’m afraid to touch it because I know I’ll die. I might do something with it this weekend. I need to get back to playing Earthbound, too, actually. Oh well. ‘Till next time..

Tomorrow is a big day for me. I’m going over to Ron’s (Trip Machina) house to play some IIDX. Thai and another guy are coming with us so it should be fun. And since I’m making good progress on IIDX, I’m hoping that I’ll be up to par or a little over Ron, but I think he’ll beat me in the score part. He’s got a few AAAs under his belt. (By a few I mean over 100. Yikes!) Thai is a pretty good player, too. His timing is better than mine. Most players timing is better than mine, but I’m working on it! Another thing I need to work on desperately is scratches with keys in them. Aaauuuuggghhhhh! They obliterate me at times, but sometimes I completely own them (5.1.1. [a] until the end). I’ll own it some day. :)

As far as my progress on Soul Blazer goes.. well.. I have two bosses left and I beat it. But I’m stuck for the time being. I’ll just leave it be and maybe move to something else like Mario. Well, that’s all for now. ‘Till next time.

–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.

So anyway, I went to see my aunts house today and uh.. yeah.. WOW. Here’s some pictures:

You get the idea.. Wow.

Quoted from Bemanistyle, originally posted by: “Loserbait”

It seems Bemanistyle has been out of touch with Pop’n Music news as of late so here’s my attempt to bring it back into the spotlight. Konami have released images of the headphones which come with limited edition copies of Pop’n Music Fever CS!

Pre-order your copy today!
And don’t forget to discuss our favourite 9-button game here!
Source: http://www.konamistyle.jp/customfactory/popn14_sp/

The headphones look appear to be lime green with white trim. In fact, here’s a picture of them:

^____^ They look spectacular! It’s a shame I don’t have the money to buy the Limited Edition version of Fever! because boy, I would be all over this. At least I know what I could ask for when the LE is older and people are beginning to get rid of their Pop’n CS things. Wow. I can’t get over how awesome these things are.

Well, on the subject of Pop’n Music, my Desktop Arcade controller broke about 3 months ago and I don’t want to bother Steve with the whole “a wire came out and I have no idea where it goes!” only to wait about a month or two until I can get a solution and I’d be lucky to get it in that time frame, so I’ll keep looking around for a mini. :) One of the guy’s down at the arcade is has a Dao that is on it’s way, so I might be able to test one of those out pretty soon, too. If the Dao turns out to be good, I know who I’ll be purchasing from next. I’ll probably end up doing the same with a IIDX controller, too. But, until I get some money, we’ll see how that goes. Ah well, it’s 1:17 in the morning and I caught that announcement at a good time. Well, ’till next time.