Thursday, August 4, 2016

August 4, 2016: SIF Addiction (and osu!)

If you ask me what I have that makes my life interesting, it would be Love Live! School Idol Festival. This summer was uneventful and nothing happened to me at all. Some relative visits here and there, going out to a restaurant once in a while, things like that. But during early last year I discovered this game. Now, I had tried to download this a year or two ago but at the time, my phone didn't allow me to download it's over 500 MB of game files. I kind just deleted the game, because it felt like it would be a hassle to go and try to make it work. But this time around, FolderMount saved the day and allowed me to move all its files to the SD card.

So I jumped from account to account, and now through a series of trading I've ended up with a whale account. The previous player spent over $1600 USD on this game, and potentially even more if they used iOS (Apple) devices. In-app purchase costs vary significantly when comparing Android and iOS, and iOS purchases tend to cost more, at least in LL. The teams are quite strong as well, with a solid 55k+ teams. Average teams for a new player would be around the 20k region, then when they start to get stronger, average players reach around the 40k+ range, and usually senior players end up in the 48~53k ranges. Anything higher usually means tons of purchases were made or they were just extremely lucky.

Seeing that I've obtained a pretty good account, my dreams to finally give up LL are kind of, not going to come true. The addiction sinks way too deep down to the core. In any case, if you want to check my progress, here is my School Idol Tomodachi account. As of now, I'm just quite excited for the next update. Finally, the long-awaited 4.0 update will come this Fall (supposedly) to our international server. It will bring over features such as a higher difficulty and seal shop changes. The new difficulty, master, wasn't as hard as I thought. Yes, it does have combo breakers, but it was not harder than our current flame songs. (super hard expert songs) The seal system will be changed so when removing a member that is idolized will only grant a single seal, making the idea of selling idolized members a bad idea.

Thinking about it, although summer has been boring and nothing much was done, I will go volunteer for a small convention on Sunday. It'll be held somewhere near me, and it's called Kin-Yoobi Con. I'm not sure how this will turn out in the end, being that it's a small convention and that the area they have is small. They also don't have that many things to do there, so there's also that. I really hope volunteering for them will be fun and enjoyable. I mean, who likes boring conventions anyways? I invited some people I know to come. I think they said there was takoyaki I misspelled it takoYAOI last time so I'm really excited to try it out. I only have to work for 4 hours so it shouldn't be too bad. There's a mandatory meeting tomorrow and I hope to see how it all works out.

As for osu!... I think it's the fact I'm not practicing enough at it. My skills at osu! are lacking, compared to games like Taiko no Tatsujin and LL. Passing easy songs are already kind of tough for me, but normal songs are on a whole higher level. I doubt I'll ever get to harder songs unless I dedicate as much time as I do to LL.

I'll have to hike my grades up to B's or higher before I can even think about potentially being able to play games and do things I want to do at home. With the grades I have now, there's going to be disapproval and my parents will suggest that I should just study more instead of playing games and all. How am I supposed to get to a college at this rate with these bad grades... I really need to stop procrastinating on every single thing related to school.

I guess summer is drawing to an end, less than 30 days before school starts. It disappoints me that it just ends so quickly. I didn't have a good time in summer anyways so I guess school will make it more interesting. Being on Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail non-stop gets old really quickly. I hope this is a good enough blog post, since I haven't done one lately, nor have I ever usually done any good ones. Any questions, just shoot me an email. (alichak000@gmail.com) I guess I'll talk to you people later. Not that anyone reads this