someday soon...

yeah I've been MIA for a long time again. One of my internal hard drives failed and it took me a while to actually take the time to go have it checked out and get my desktop running again. Even when i got my drive back and placed into an external enclosure, I still feel as though my beloved かおり is nothing but an empty shell of what she used to be. Frustrations with hard drives a long with a faster paced life put fighting games, capturing, editing, and blogging on the shelf.

I've been meaning to get a new PC for a while but i doubt I will now with how gas prices are sky rocketing. I'll have to make do with what I have at the moment but I need another component cable and a component splitter. I'm limited by software cuz a lot of things can't seem to use the vbox2 advanced signal. Since i can't get a new PC right now, I can't upgrade to a BlackMagic Design Intensity Pro. sigh, if i did, I would be able to produce "gawh lie" clarity in my vids and stream.

I still need to get my upload speed fixed. The hardware installed at my house is capped at 5mbps (I'm downloading at 42mbps though... lol) but I'm paying for 35mbps up and down. I've just been really busy with work so I haven't been able to call verizon to get it replaced. Once that is taken care of, I should be able to start streaming again.

Sigh... someday soon I'll be back uploading vids again...

another lack of updates

yeah. yeah. I've been super lazy on the posting. I had a good thing going for a while but then, like I stated before, it becomes a little much to keep up with all the action.

I'm going to try to be a little more conscious about posting but I'm not making any promises. One of my 360s went down again. I'm positive that it falls within the 3% unrepairable margin. It's still under warranty from the guy who has fixed it two other times so he's going to take another look at it. This would be the fifth time it had to be fixed since I've been in possession of it. A friend of my sister's fixed it twice before but he was out of work then and I couldn't bother him for a third try. The person who I take it to now noticed that the fan is really weak and suggested I get a fan mod but the true problem may be more sinister. I'll have to talk to him at length about possible issues and see what he said. So far i think i put a little more money in this than I should have already but oh well.

So what does this all have to do with anything? Since this was my extra 360 that was gathering dust, I wanted to see if it was fixable in the first place. This new person got it up and running and has been in my room connected to my desktop for capture and streaming purposes.... well it's just more comfortable to play in my room without having to worry about someone wanting to watch something in a communal area. Since she (my 360) is rendered incapacitated for the time being, I'm that much farther behind in getting into the flow of SSFIV. It has been difficult enough to only get a few hours in on the weekends and with this new RROD, I'm set back another week, not working my core. I have yet to test out my new capture software with the 360 as she died just before I could try.

Looks like more TvC is underway. I do plan on testing my streaming capabilities once more with the new capture card if I get some downtime. It's a long weekend and life > video games. If you don't agree with me then that probably means you have trouble living yours.

people need to be open to change

So the backlash for the control scheme regarding MvC3 rages on. I just checked out the MvC3 facebook page and read a quote from Killian.

I'm getting annoyed. I'm sure a vast majority of them have not played TvC and don't really have a basis on their hate on it. I remember when I went to the SSFIV launch party, that came up and a lot of them didn't even know Zero was in the game. They haven't even tried it and yes it's strange at first but its so intuitive for being so simple. Sometime simplicity yields complexity. It feels so natural to move from normal to normal. I love the L, M, H format and i foresee less issues with tagging partners on accident and vice versa. If the controls add two assist buttons, those will work like the partner buttons. So much easier to switch out. Hold back plus whatever assist character you want and there you go or command tag and you got one hell of a chombo going on. the code named "exchange" button looks like a cool element. They might have picked that up from TvC with random launchers when you didn't call out for them. They also have some sort of other functionality. It might mean that H won't end air chombos now and you might be able to juggle more with a stronger attack.

I think people are getting all tight assed cuz they're afraid of change. That's understandable. They want things to remain the same. It felt really strange at first to play TvC but when i went back to MvC2 i so wished that game had the 3 attack layout. It's just so cumbersome. MvC3 will play like MvC2. There's no doubt about that. The controls will be alike TvC but the action and dynamics will have MvC2 spam assist, assist the spam, spam the fucking assist bullshit. Fuckers need to be happy that they're even addressing the whines. seriously people -- OMG! GTFO!

aya on the juri short anime

I don't know. I think there's a reason why the US division or the company as a whole decided not to release the anime outside of Japan. Everyone should know that Capcom likes to milk every last drop out of all properties they have and this shouldn't be any different. They've hired a bunch of people to create that short. I doubt they did that out of the goodness of their hearts and just to be part on the SSFIV project. I'm sure it wasn't cheap for Capcom to pull that off either.

So, I'm sure they will release it in some form or fashion that makes it accessible to the rest of the world. It doesn't make any sense for them to have it English dubbed yet only release it in Japan. This is assuming the English cast did work on the entire thing but why go through all the trouble to add voice to the trailer and not the whole thing?

sigh. people need to shut up already. Even if they decide not to release it (highly unlikely... people like myself would not mind paying to own a copy) it'll either be up on youtube or BakaBT will have it if they don't already do.

blah... all you whiners OMG! GTFO!

my first ragequit of SSFIV!

lol. the one time i can't get my taunt out. So yeah... Once a rage quitter, always and forever a rage quitter. Hopefully, all his ragequits will come back to haunt him one day.

cross counter FTW!

Sigh... Sensei told me that the Bison tried to ultra but all that came out was a teleport. It annoyed the crap out of me and he should have just finished me off instead of trying to go for the flashy finish. Sounds like a recurring theme with people...

sigh. I should have supered into the ultra instead. It would have ended his bullshit earlier.

control yourself... take only what you need from it

sigh... this is what happens when I wait to blog everything later. I run out of stuff to say. lol.