May 25, 2017: Presentations

I guess to sum everything up that just happened, I had to deal with doing a presentation in English class. This so called, personal creed or whatever. I suppose it was a fun thing to do, but at the same time it wasn't. I think the not so fun part of this would be dealing with having to write out the drafts (and I know for myself how much I didn't put effort in those or ended up doing those last minute). The presentation itself wasn't too bad though; well I guess all I had to do was press a simple "play" button anyways. Video editing? Don't even get me started; that was absolutely hell. It took me hours and hours and all I ended up was with a nearly 9 minute clip. Gets me real salty, you know?

Building up to when I ended up having to do the presentation, I actually had to also draw out some little drawings and also had to plan out a script on what I would say. Recording that also took many, many hours. Too many for what the product ended up being. I did a background of black and put a slideshow of anime pictures, with a few memes, over that background. (I didn't want to accidentally have a white screen leak through, so that's why I added a black BG, I don't think it even showed up in the end because everything was in, erm, 16:9 anyways.

Going away from that topic, there's nearly five or six projects due within the next few weeks. Absolutely tragic. I was thinking I could actually not do much and sit around, but nope- here comes a project in history and here comes a few from English. *shrug* I guess doing the draft for the independent reading is going to be hell, since the book just arrived a few days ago and I still haven't started. That creed took too long, seriously, oh my god. I guess that's not going to be too good for me, especially since it's due tomorrow. I wonder if my "coping box" from last year will save me.

Math, well, I will assume that test or quiz was tragic and will drag my grade to a D+, meaning I will be forced to do better, or suffer not so good consequences.

Going away from the troubles of school, I keep saying that I'll catch up with anime but I still haven't done so. I guess there's a few shows I'm actually watching, especially this one similar to Sword Art Online but made by a Chinese company (Mandarin so... yep) and I'd say it's pretty good so far. I'm looking forward to watching more episodes perhaps today.

I'll go now then, lunch then chem next.

March 16, 2017: Worktime

So, I'm supposed to be working on my classwork and homework in English. You can assume I'm absolutely lazy and not doing it right now. I was considering actually doing work but the temptation of not doing anything was simply too strong for me to resist, so here I am. Perhaps I would have better things to do than to type out meaningless paragraphs of filler paragraphs and stuff about school life or games, but this was the first thing I thought of doing with the resources that I have nearby.

It's seriously been a long while since I last posted anything here, for all the ghosts that are around--- sorry. I would've loved to post more but I had other stuff to do. More like, trying to grind for Love Live! School idol festival or playing cringe games such as osu! and Aura Kingdom. I'm not sure if I mentioned about Aura Kingdom in the past, but I joined that game due to a friend. My PC started dying and I lost motivation for it so I've pretty much left from that game. I suppose I could play more since I have invested some money into it.

If we talk about spending money on a game, none of this would beat the amount I've spent on LLSIF. That amount has been super high, perhaps almost reaching the 700 or 800 dollar mark now. I'm excited for the Honoka solo box, which should be here in a few months. I spent around $48.85 just a few days ago so I could buy the three 10+1 scouts for 30, 40, and 50 gems. I'd say I was pretty satisfied with the results, which left me with around 5 of the same Umi SSR. (Makes sense, since the only set for Umi would be initial set.) I got it 6 slotted and got rid of two to use on other SSR.

As for other stuff, I guess the period will end in roughly thirty minutes now. I made some sort of progress on the Vocabulary for Achievement homework. I actually ended up procrastinating up on last week's VfA assignment; I did around 1/4 of it. We have so many assignments coming up lately, essays, worksheets, reading and bookwork--- it's gotten really tiring.

If I remember correctly, the Honoka event starts later tonight, so that won't be fun. I still haven't cleared some of the E/N/H songs yet and they'll expire. I think it's almost time I leave. Oh, and it's that time of year again--- time for Internexus. It's going to be held at American this year, instead of Washington. I would really have it would turn out better than in the past, which was really a mixed bag, but I have a feeling it won't. In any case, perhaps I'll be able to take a role in the club next year.

Course selections were just seriously annoying to do, but at least I got signed off for Chinese 4. I was going to consider French 4 but I'm already barely passing with a C, so I don't think it would be a good idea to go further on. It's sad there isn't any sort of AP Chinese/Mandarin course. AP Psychology probably won't be too fun, but we'll see about that. Maybe it'll be better than I thought it would be. 11:50 AM, we're almost there.

Let's see, I have to go to my junior high, Thornton, later today with some friends. We plan on advertising for Internexus in addition to maybe getting some food, or T4, or something. Odds are that we will leave at 2:40 PM, and get there and be done by 3:10. Then from 3:10 to 5 PM we would have a big chunk to do whatever. I hope this time would be used wisely. Maybe we'll get some pizza for the librarian. We'll see. I'm a bit excited I suppose.

So, JP LLSIF started their 4th anniversary rewards. They have a bunch of actually valuable rewards this time, so I'm really looking forward to using it all up. I think there's roughly ten minutes left so I'll try to make the most of this. Back on topic, LLSIF is going to go crazy soon, cause the events they've announced have been really amazing and cool. If we, EN, get this someday that would be really superb. I guess I'm somewhat running out of G, so that would be good to get more of.  In addition, I need to max level the SSR Umi, which is just barely at 71 or 72. I need a 90 for her "full" potential.

You know what, I'm going to leave now.

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

July 7, 2016: Cringe-fest

So right now, I decided I would cover a song for the first time in years. It's not going well. I'm dying, every time I sing this there's a cringefest going on. I'll just leave now.

June 27, 2016: Alpha

I had the chance to test out a game in alpha today and it was quite bad and buggy. It was fun, but I regret putting in so much effort since I won't get anything in return other than some sort of gift pack when the game comes out. It had some translation errors and it seemed to crash a bit.

June 26, 2016: Failure at Taiko

Taiko no Tatsujin is my favorite rhythm game of all time. It's pretty fun, and with two buttons that you have to hit you would expect that it would be just, pretty easy. That's what I thought when I started playing; but it got harder after hitting the highest difficulty, Oni. I never knew that the notes would come at me at lightning fast speeds. I can say I can pass most of the 7 star Oni songs, but as for 8, 9, or 10 star ones, I absolutely have difficulty doing those. I'm starting some new shows lately, and I still need to finish the 13th episode of Re:Zero. I've watched half the episode and I'm stuck on the other half. There's nothing else I can do other than watch television.

June 15, 2016: I Know.

So if you keep asking me, why I'm not updating this regularly... all I can say is that this blog isn't as important to me as before. It should be, but it isn't. However, I am keeping up with anime and you might be able to track me down here, which is where my MyAnimeList profile is at. Go there.

So Shadowverse finally decided to show up after its long closed beta back a few months ago. I was literally waiting for ages. Seriously, it took that long? Also, I'm going to be in my second year of high school now. I have to say, my first year sucked. There wasn't much stuff to do. Internexus turned out fine, and I would say it is an amazing improvement to last year.

I guess I'm making friends, and them senpais are noticing me. I hope I can do better next year at Internexus and potentially be the president of the JAM club at my school... not that I have that sort of luck. I'll try my best though, and I hope they'll notice.

June 2, 2016: Internexus

I'm looking forward to volunteering for this. Hopefully someone will come to our mini anime convention. Sigh.

May 26, 2016: That Inactivity

You may be wondering, what's kept you so long from your last post? Let me tell you, with a combination of terrible grades, Love Live School Idol Festival, and anime, it made the perfect environment to neglect my blog. I'm sorry. But I'm back, for a while, and let me share with you this: Love Live is cancer. It infected me and now I can't stop playing it. I don't know what to say, but if you have anything you would like to ask me just comment.

March 11, 2016: Long Hiatus...

Well, it's been ages and I'm finally back. Things have changed lately. Rage of Bahamut is finally dead, Blood Brothers is dead as well, and I'm starting to get into rhythm games. Not much to say about it, but they're fun. Mobage has been pulling the plug on tons of games lately and I  think they're preparing for release of Shadowverse in the international reqion.

November 4, 2015: Progress Reports? No---

I suppose it could be considered the "end of the world" for me. (Not really.) That science grade is going to be really low. Anyways, hello! I started playing Love Live, and Rage is still in eternal OS. I'm also playing Dark Summoner again, and they have an event on. It's annoying how events are hard to rank in. People play way too much for me to do well in the game. ES (Should be able to figure my abbreviations by now if you read regularly...) is still dead, no updates at all. I'll leave now.

September 16, 2015: Aurcus Online

I found an RPG that doesn't seem to lag too much on my phone. I want to play it, but then it gives me the garbage every RPG always gives me: Downloading ADDITIONAL files. Like we already needed any more than 40 MBs of files. Also, I've been feeling sick since this morning. My stomach has been hurting, sort of. Oh well. Anyways, I'm absolutely tired right now. I also don't want to go to 5th period. I have biology. We all know biology sucks (sort of) . I think all classes suck. But I have to learn, right? I've also been having this extreme headache since this morning. Oh, it finally loaded, sort of. I think it crashed. Never mind. Bye then?

September 15, 2015: Marp.

This absolutely sucks. I can't be anywhere. Everywhere, there's some creepy person that's really loud that constantly bothers me so much, I want to explode. (But I can't. Right?) mARP. aNYWAYS,  (caps erroererererere) I'm surprised I don't want to even correct this error. But oh well. Looks okay. To me. Sort of. Hmm... Yet another OS event starting today. This sucks. I really don't want to have war again. It's such a hassle to get to wars on time. Not that it matters anymore since the game might shut down, but still, I have to be there because I'm the OL. The pressure sucks! I should get going. I think. Bell will ring... Sadly.

September 11, 2015: ...

So, here I am all alone in the library again. I mean, as in no one here is someone I know. Oh well. I'm just guessing they have their own communities to join. But I guess they have a lot bigger manga selection than in the past schools I've been at... I'll be going now.

September 8, 2015: Hmm...

I'm sorry if all the recent titles have been similar. I have no ideas left on new titles. Umm... School hasn't been good. Anyways--- What was I going to say again? I know they have ANOTHER trainer. (Yup. Another one.)  They have no ideas left, do they? I should head towards class soon. The thing that still bothers me--- it's been a year now I think, is that issue with me having to activate my account. Who would force you to do that? They just have to force me to find someone from Japan and ask them about it. (They need a phone number to text you some sort of message.)Trainer events are good, but they end up forcing you to do more and more stuff for the card. You get motivated, then by the end of the event you'll screw up somehow. Yup. They really suck. I should leave in a sec. I know this is really random but, Dell Optiplex 3020. I should just go.

September 4, 2015: LoTD

If you've been following up this blog for a while you should know that LoTD is a very (I'm stressing this a lot) old game that I started playing when it first came out. I lost 4 accounts between then and now.Well. Umm...

September 3, 2015: Leader

I've probably mentioned this but if I haven't, I somehow ended up being the leader of Anbu. This is amazing. (Thought other members seem to be doubtful. I'm not exactly a senior player.) An upcoming war is coming up so we need to prepare for it. I have no idea how to do that at all. I'm racking up tons of shows I haven't watched. Anime updates but I have so much homework to do. I still didn't finish the poem I'm supposed to do. I also haven't been playing Taiko no Tatsujin. I'm expecting that I can't do Oni anymore. Oh, just found out, they still use iBoss filtering. Oh well. I guess I should try to somehow activate my account for Mobage. They seem to use servers for the computers, with each person having a different account for files. The browsers don't change though, it seems. I need to leave in ten minutes. http://10.254.0.75:7080/swg/#/dashboard is the webpage for the login of the filter. I'm also wondering how to login to wifi. They ask for some sort of login and I have no idea what type of login. I get really tired after I get home. It's the school. It sucks. It's so energy consuming.

August 31, 2015: Hmm.

Nothing much really happened between the first day of school and now. Anyways, it seems that Shingeki is having 4th anniversary? I really don't have any idea on what to say right now. It's morning. This absolutely sucks, getting up at 6 AM in the morning. In ROB, there doesn't seem to be any new events. (After all it is shutting down.) I really expected more though. I wonder if they use iBoss filtering at the high school. I'm not going to test it though. They use your student ID as your login information. It's finally server based. These keyboards at the school are really flat. They're not as responsive as I want them to. My fingers are numb. It's really cold outside. So... I guess we're supposed to go outside today and actually get physical education. That's not good, I think. Oh, and that math pre-test thing? I did okay on it. 47 out of 50. That's a 94. That's good. I'm not sure if she was just joking about the 60-something average, but I think I did well. (By now, I notice I'm blurting random crap.) Around ten minutes before I have to go to class. It's just around the corner but... I don't exactly like classes. (Isn't that obvious? >.<)

August 12, 2015: Bee

So, there was a bee today. It was terrible.

August 9, 2015: Nearing Summer's End

So, a few more weeks until summer ends. Oh, good thing too, I hope, I should've gotten  8 victory points in ROB. I'll go check right now. Also, I started playing Taiko no Tatsujin, if I haven't mentioned it yet. I'm also finally free of that sickness I had after that vacation to some far place. If I remember correctly, we stayed at the Inn of Lompoc. (which was absolutely horrible!) I've wondered whether people actually read this blog or is it just me. Anyways, I am really starting to feel the pressure of school now. I hope I'll actually put in the effort to do well this year. It's high school. Really. So. Yeah. No more lazy--- I hope. Because that would only bring sadness. E-he-he. You know. Or not. Oh, and I'm kind of following shows on CR now. Anyone who wants to see my list can go here >>> http://www.anime-planet.com/users/NekoDesu
That's my list for now. Until I kinda put it somewhere else. I can't export the list because they haven't implemented it yet. So I'm stuck with this or I gotta go and copy and paste every single one to a text document and then move it to another website where I can keep my list at. Which would take me hours. Or maybe an entire day. That. Would. Suck. A. Lot.  I'll go now. And BTW. We lost the VP in ROB. So saaad.