| I winfed at Mario Galaxy. |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|08:37 pm] |
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I finally beat Super Mario Galaxy about a half hour ago.
I got Super Mario Galaxy in 07 as a self purchased Christmas gift, and I've been stalling in beating it. In fact for the most of the time I've been playing I've only permitted myself to earn one star per day.
The reason I was stalling is that traditionally since the Super NES there has only been one Super Mario platformer released per system. Super NES had Super Mario World (though strictly speaking Yoshi's Island is the legitimate Super Mario World 2), Nintendo 64 had Super Mario 64, Nintendo Gamecube had Super Mario Sunshine, and so when Nintendo announced Super Mario Galaxy for Wii, it wasn't beyond bounds to expect that this would be this system's sole Super Mario platformer, so i took my time with this in case I didn't get another new Mario until a theoretical Wii 2 comes out.
Since Super Mario Galaxy 2 was announced at last E3 (not to mention New Super Mario Bros. Wii), I was finally able to go ahead and beat the game without qualms, though my general gaming habits still meant that I'd go weeks or even a month or more at a time between times when I'd actually touch the Wii console to begin with, let alone choose to play that paticular game.
I'd say Mario Galaxy is one of the best platformers yet made, and the best 3-D Super Mario game.
The final stage and boss were mad easy though, I honestly had more difficulty during some of the regular stages and minibosses. I managed the last board in a single sitting and didn't die once fighting Bowser.
Also, the whole concept of "lives" and "game overs" in Mario Galaxy is a cumbersome and obsolete vestige of the time when seeing the words GAME OVER actually meant that your game was over. They let you try as many times as you need to beat the levels now anyway, aside from the fact that they deliberately put 1-ups right in your path during the difficult sections anyway, so why even bother?
The most recent "big" release I can remember in which GAME OVER actually meant that you were through and had to start again from the beginning was Star Fox 64.
I guess I'll be working on Super Paper Mario now, and Metroid Prime 3, even though I know I'll never beat it because as fun as the Prime games were, their silly fetch quest based plot structure was un-engaging and very un-Metroid like. Samus dosen't collect pointless trinkets and keys, she blows the door down with a missile.
Gonna go do some more school reading now and then maybe listen to a PotterCast episode. |
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| PKMN YO |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|09:55 pm] |
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Today I went back and forth between doing reading for school, (Dracula, and Far from the Madding Crowd, havent finished either, no spoilers please) and cleaning the house. I got the kitchen clean and for the first time in a while tackled the living room, which I rarely use, thought I do try to keep it nice. It's all neat and pretty now, like it was back in 06 when we got the new carpet, and the Wii along with it.
Speaking of the Wii, I actually touched it for the first time in months today, mainly to dust it off and re-calibrate the surround sound speakers since I'm actually going to be using it again in the near future.
And then, around dinner time, I made some fried rice and popped in the Desinty Dyoxys DVD I borrowed from the local library earlier in the week and had yet to watch. This was the first time I remember actually watching a movie in the living room by myself for any reason in many years. And I got my newly rediscovered fold out tailgaiting chair that I now use for gaming (or at least will from now on) to watch it in.
So, about Destiny Dyoxys.....
( Pikachu the Movie: Destiny Dyoxys spoilas! :o )
So, Destiny Dyoxys, good movie.
While the topic is on Pokémon, I just wanna say, the Shuckle still ain't hatched folks.
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| charity drive 09 GO! |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|06:07 pm] |
Inhuman update!
(and the sketch version for huge nerds)
i really don't have a ton of time to talk today, so i'll just get right down to it. i'm kicking off the charity war this week, which is early. but this year's been hard enough financially on people that i think it's warrented. LEMME GET THROUGH THIS...
...fanstuff
garuda - 1 new
...art by me
aliens - 2 new
wanderers - 1 new
ashido - 1 new
also there's some new stuff in shop, too. NOW WITHOUT FURTHER ADO....
Inhuman Charity Drive 09!
Okay, here's the drill...2009 has been an even worse year than 2008. People are in serious dire straights, and everyone can use as much help from everyone else as possible. We're all in this together and it's only by banding together and helping eachother out that we're going to pull through it. If you had no cash but needed food, you'd want to know that people were donating money to food banks so at least there'd be food for you.
So to make it simple: Do good, feel good, get something inhumany as a reward! This year, since I don't really have the time to devote to comics, I'm planning to write & illustrate some short kid-style books based in the Inhuman universe. choice one is a sort of "guidebook" to alien species in the universe, and some interesting traits about them as cultures. choice two is an alien horror legend, usually told to children before their first hunt to psyche them out. I'm pretty stoked to do either one, and I know I can make the time to do these...versus the time to work on other comics. doing a comic takes a lot more time than just doing a single image for one page of a book, if anyone wondered.
What you should Do:
If you want to contribute to the war, do this.
-donate your time or money or blood or whatever to a reputable source.
-get proof of such. (a receipt, a signed note on an official letterhead, "i gave blood" pin/sticker image, a screenshot of an online donation etc)
-email me the proof z AT demon-sushi DOT com with which side you'd like it to count for (Alien Guide or Legend)
-feel good about yourself :D
-DO NOT SEND ME MONEY. i'm not a gobetween! send it DIRECT to charities.
-DONATIONS TO PETA WON'T BE HONORED. PETA is really freaking crazy and i do not support them. donate to the humane society instead.
-ALSO DO NOT SEND PHOTOS OF YOUR BANDAGED BLOODGIVING ARM :D i have a phobia of needles. an 'i gave blood' sticker is quite sufficent, thank you!
-DONATIONS WILL BE LISTED HERE. If you DO want your name (or a message) shown, TELL ME.
since there's various things you can donate to, here's a ROUGH list of for how much they'd count for in the donation terms.| 1 hour of donated time | 20$ |
| a blood or plasma donation | 100$ |
| OLPC get one/give one | 200$ |
| a donated food item | 5$ + item value each |
| a donated toy/book/clothing | 25$ |
if you're at a loss for charities, here's a brief list of a couple:
( Charity link list )
Again, same as last year, please don't e-mail asking if your charity work back in july counts. It won't. The point of this is to encourage people to do more charitable things for the good of their fellow man and their community, not to encourage people to rack their brains for something they can write off as charitable.
Hit the streets and do some good, dudes. it's going to be a long, cold, unforgiving winter to those people with limited funds. |
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| Reloading! |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|03:00 pm] |
A Girl on the Server! and Villain updated!
Nothing really to report. This is the last of the Villain buffers I did over the summer. The next ones will be using the ninja tricks my watercolor prof taught me, so they should be prettier.
Also the Left 4 Dead 2 demo is pretty fun. I chipped in my two cents over on my Deviant Art Journal, but I do recommend a download if you got the 3 gigs of space it requires.
Best part of the game like always, are the Easter Eggs.
I love you Valve :>
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| reporting for the Gotham Globe |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|02:16 pm] |
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guess who has a press pass to the moscow ballet :O
man if this job actually made my rent every month, i'd want to work at the newspaper forever. it's seriously one of the most fun jobs i've held...aside from the usual "you did WHAT" moments of being the tech-monkey.
heeee press pass. so cool. |
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| Symbolic Interaction |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|06:57 pm] |
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| | Elements - Lemon Jelly | ] |
Arghhgdfglsdf. I got my registration done, and only got one class I really wanted. Turns out Mike (my watercolor prof) is leaving on Sabbatical, so there's no Watercolor studio next semester. Bawwwwwww. And Dinosaur class is MIA, and Astrology conflicts with everything else, so I'll save that for Fall semester.
So all in all, here's next Semester's schedule.
Intro To Music Lit
Fulfills my Humanities elective, so now I only need to take a Science with a lab and a Science Elective to complete my GenEd requirements. Basically this class is just listening to music and studying how it represents a culture. Should be an easy A at least.
Art Of Northern Europe 1350-1580
Again, most of the Art History courses I WANTED to take are MIA, so I took this one to get my 15 credits requirements. This actually fills up a spot on my Art History Requirements. I rather wanted Midevil art but oh wells, this should be interesting enough.
History Of Photography
This should be a pretty interesting class, since I do rather like photography. This count's as my Art History Elective, so with this class I have fulfilled my Art History Requirements! From now on it's Art electives and Studio Concentration courses! Woo!
Painting Studio II
Same as my Painting Studio I class. Just show up, paint sum stuff, and have stuff done by midterm and final critiques. Awesome.
Craft Design
We have to take 6 electives that have to do with Art, and they can be just about anything, as long as it has the required ARH, ART, FAS, CFT, or FAR label. So I figure why not take a Craft Design course? Plus it's with a professor I adore, and getting to build rather than just paint something will be a welcome difference from my usual things. I was considering taking a Weaving class, but I figure I should take this one first to get a taste of all the different craft courses offered at the University before diving into just one. I hope we get to make jewelry, that shit is funnnnn.
Blahblahblah. 2 tests tomorrow. I got my Child Psych studying done and out of the way, now it's just focusing on Sociology and then later drawing AGOTS and other things.
I got 3 paintings to photograph, but I'll do that later when it's not pitch black outside :| Lol Winter.
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| Toki Pona |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|05:20 pm] |
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So, I was looking around for some stuff and found some site with patches to translate NES games into another language.
I looked at some of the screenshots and...
   
 
... and after at first just shrugging it off as just some language I didn't recognize, it suddenly clicked in my head how odd the writing looked and wondered just what the heck language that was?
And then I discovered Toki Pona.
This language is awesome, its by far the first constructed language I'd seriously consider putting any energy into seriously learning, though I won't be doing that anytime soon.
Sadly, since the current version of the official site is pretty new, the other wiki's page on it actually has more information for now.
When the book the author is working on comes out I'll surely buy it.
And that's my cool discovery for the day.
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| WHAT KIND OF SOURCERY!? |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|12:27 pm] |
Okay, I'm pretty sure I haven't done anything music related on the net in months.
And I haven't mentioned music in quite a while to my knowledge except around last week in an IM client status message saying I FORGOT HOW TO MAKE MUSIC.
And suddenly today http://www.youtube.com/user/EminenceOnline and http://www.youtube.com/user/ocremix both send me friends invites. Arguably the most relevant friends invites I've gotten on Youtube since I signed up years ago. Both heavily feature music that fits my niche perfectly.
So did some kind of social technology launch recently that I'm unaware of, or is something else going on that's making it so that people pick up on my interests better than I can? |
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| 88 MPH |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|11:09 am] |
Hay ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) whatwith , I mailed out your package! Since you're on the East Coast like me it shouldn't take too long to get there ♥. The dude that weighed and printed out the postage sticker looked at the stuff I doodled on the bubble mailer funny, so at least you'll know it's from me when you see it. :D
In 7 minutes registration opens up for Spring Semester. Watch the system crash. Because having 7000+ students who got early registration jump on the Online Student Services at once is totally not overloading the system, KU >(
I finalized what I hope to get next semester.
Watercolor Studio 1
Painting Studio 2
Art History C
The 'Dinosaur' Class
Women in the Arts
Should be fun, if I can get into them!
I dunno what possessed me, but I got 10x12 inch stretchers to make into a teeny canvas. This is going to hurt my fingers to bad to stretch, BUT DAMMIT I PAID FOR THIS BIG PIECE OF CANVAS AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF I DON'T USE EVER SINGLE LAST BIT OF IT.
Also here.
Rhymes for all us giant nerds out there.
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| Wait, I'll grab my stuff! |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|08:27 am] |
Before I head off to class at this ungodly hour, I feel a need to pimp a site to all you other cartoon fags out there.
It's like the Hulu site in which there's a lot of full episodes, except they are all really nerdy obscure cartoons XD
SO HERE IT BE. GO FORTH.
Some stuff they got include Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Inspector Gadget, Captain N, Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda and oh my freaking god Mummies Alive!
Fuck I'll never ever get anything done ever again! I was right, I DIDN'T need to bring a tv back to campus. THE INTERNET DELIVERS! HORRAY!
As of now they just started, so the content library isn't really big, but hopefully they'll get stuff like Swat Cats and Gargoyles once it gets popular enough. ONE CAN ONLY HOPE.
GOD IT'S 8:30 I NEED TO GET TO CLASS FFFFFFFFFFFF ENJOY NERDY CARTOONS.
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| Pics and Status Update ("Happiness is Chestfluff"? I wrote that!?) |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|04:02 pm] |
First off some cutesy silly pics with balloons in it if anyone's interested in that:
http://travisuped.com/art/YumAndOneUpBalloon_Sketch.jpg
A doodle to try to chill out with the hopes that maybe the people who stopped drawing neat stuff recently will get back into gear when they see it. It half-worked.
http://travisuped.com/art/YumAndOneUpBalloon.png
GET THAT ONE UP YOU CAN DO IT
http://travisuped.com/art/YumHug1UpBalloonTight.png
These things are probably great for hugs!
http://travisuped.com/art/SqueezeOneUpBalloonYum.png
You know, they have to get the items out of the item balloons somehow. This probably isn't the fastest way, but I think it suits him.
http://travisuped.com/art/POP_Yum1UpGet.png
Noisy! I'm not a fan of seemingly-random loud noises, but if it meant an extra life if I screwed something up, I'd go at it too.
And now some pics that convey my current status through pictures. Not exactly happy pictures either, but not life-changingly important either, ( so if you're not interested in me whining about my life when other people have it much worse off, feel free to ignore the rest of this post. )
So a heads up: If I suddenly make a 180 in my drawing subjects, or if my drawings start to be worse than usual, or if I just plain stop drawing for more than a month at all (low chance of that last one. I couldn't even stop on the days I wanted to), give it some time and it'll probably revert back to the usual. It's not going to be sudden gore and bits everywhere or anything. I don't like gorey stuff at all. But it might decline into a bunch of stickpeople going FFFFFFFFFFff and GRRAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGG or something equally disinteresting. |
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| Mind song |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|02:18 pm] |
So here I am in the Fine Arts Building, sitting in an elevated swivel chair waiting for my Production class to start. It's not something I look forward to -- not because the class is hard (it's not) or because the professor is unreasonable (he's very cuddly.) It's because this class is just so long. Over three hours is stretching it for a lecture/studio hybrid, especially when the day happens to be lecture heavy. My attention span can only hold its ground for so long before it starts to drift and I find myself surfing the interwebs in a desperate search for something to multitask. For me, multitasking is the illusion of (mental) movement. I've learned that I do my best thinking when I'm moving. If I sit in one place too long I start to get antsy and thoughts begin to jumble and frustrate themselves. A brief walk across the room is enough to make me feel better, but I'm really cookin' when I've got a long forest trail in front of me, a leash (with dog) in one hand and heavy music humming in my ears. You'd think all the extra distractions would hurt more than help, but my brain seems to feed off the extraneous data. Like a battery.
Not that just ANY combination of "stuff" works. The constant hum of a television is maddening, for instance. I live with it at home because my father is always watching the news and my desktop happens to share the same room, but it drives me up the wall. It's rare that I get anything done in a setting like that. People chatting has the same effect.
Speaking of which, class is underway, and the professor is confusing the hell out of me. We're supposed to be arranging color layers from our book cover project in Illustrator, but he has a very convoluted way of giving directions.
Oi. I feel a headache coming on.
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now you try it
devious
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