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[edit] The download link below is currently broken. I'm currently exploring other methods of sharing the movies online, however. ----- Well, it's probably temporary, but it'll work for now. :P I managed to find a way to extract the SWF files from the Flash Player EXE files, so I've zipped them up, uploaded them to Filefront, and... "The Ever-Matrix Trilogy" by FortunadoTa-daaa! For those who might not know what I'm talking about (or who may be finding this entry through a Google search), the link above is a link to the "Ever-Matrix" movie files in SWF format. The Ever-Matrix Trilogy is a trio of Flash movie clips that were made by a person named "Fortunado" some years back. (Note: I am not Fortunado.) The title of the movies is pretty self-explanatory -- "Verant" is an Artificial Intelligence program created by a man named "Sony," which is designed to maintain the "Matrix" world (i.e.: EverQuest) and imprison the world's population. However, things are breaking out of control... The movies are composed almost entirely of screenshots from the original EverQuest game engine, along with music from various bands in the background, and the dialog is text-based. Compared to today's standards, the video may look kinda crappy, but it was really damn good for its time, and I still believe it's one of the best fan-made video series ever made. Total playtime is approximately 50 minutes between all three files. To watch them, simply drag-and-drop the SWF file you wish to view into an open browser window. Internet Explorer or Mozilla should work just fine, as long as you have a Flash 4 (or higher) plugin installed. Unfortunately, these movies have been on and off the internet for many years now. I'm doing my part to keep them alive! So, even if you've never played EverQuest before, or you hate MMORPGs, the Matrix series, fanfiction, or whatever -- if you have the time, it's worth a watch! (Even if it's just to gawk at the horrible EQ graphics engine from 9 years ago.)
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If you guys wanna hear some oldskool videogame music, stuff from NES/SNES/N64, point your Winamp or other MP3 player to http://67.68.26.148:8010. ( Source; the "Mystic's Classic Video Game Archive" station.) I've heard all kinds of music, from Ninja Gaiden, to Battletoads & Double Dragon, Super Mario All Stars, Goldeneye 007, Wanderers from Ys III, Conker's Bad Fur Day ("I'm going to take your head and ram it up my butt!"), various Castlevanias... Zomg nostalgia. On the "Castlevania" note above, a track played this morning from Castlevania X: Bloodlines. Thanks to that track, I now know the basis of the third stage's music in Koumajou Densetsu: Scarlet Symphony. (Y'know, before I hit up Youtube just now and read the comments on the video.) Haaax. And someday, I swear I'm actually going to find time to play Conker's Bad Fur Day.
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Yeah. So, my little mini-notebook OF WRAAAAAAAAATH (specifically, an Eee 1000H series) has been getting positively chuggy lately. It's bound to happen, honestly, given that it's a low-budget computer. All PCs gradually lose performance as Windows gets bloatier and bloatier. Just, lower-end computers feel the pinch a lot worse than more modern hardware. The last couple of times that it's become unbearably slow by my standards, I've simply wiped the harddrive and reinstalled from the system restore disc. Followed by 2-3 hours of uninstalling the preloaded crap... Windows Live, Skype, and a whole bunch of other blogging applications that I'll likely never use myself, much less on a netbook of all things. After all's said and done, the speed is back... for a while. Today, I decided to try something a little different. You see, I have this old Windows 2000 SP-4 disc. For those of you who don't know, Windows 2000 is XP's immediate predecessor. It's a little lighter on resources, it looks more like Windows 9x/ME in terms of UI, it actually boots a little bit slower than XP of all things... but it's lean, mean, and fast once it gets going. ( Read more... )/babble Current Mood:  tired
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http://ar-tonelico.jp/at3/The official Ar tonelico III website has been live for about a week and a half, though I've forgotten to post about it. I definitely haven't forgotten to check it out myself, however -- the BGM is rather catchy. The preview videos seem very interesting, as is the discussion about them over on the A Reyvateil's Melody forums. I'm still debating on whether I should import the game or wait and hope for a localization. I'm leaning towards import, though the drawback there is that I won't be able to read the dialogue or understand much of the storyline... unless I learn Japanese or something. On the other hand, I'd get an artbook out of the whole deal, and the ability to play it long before it receives a localization. /hmm In other news, Yizuden is finally level 80. He now wields two Tankards of Terror, as well as purplez from Coren Direbrew and Headless Horseman. I've kinda given up on killing the HH though... only reason I'd have now is to get the mount, and I haven't seen a single one drop in the 100+ times I've killed him since the event started. Hell, I've only seen one broom drop, and those don't even last beyond the Hallow's End event. Ah well, I need to do more important stuff anyway. :P Cross Edge. There are a lot of mechanics about it that I don't quite have a handle on. Very complex game. But, it's good to see the Ar tonelico cast members joining the party so early on in the game. It seems that most, if not all, of their respective voiceactors from the Ar tonelico NA version reprised their roles, which is nice. (It's hard to tell whether Aurica's VA is the same; otherwise, all the rest are indeed the same.) They even seem to have done a better job of the voiceovers this time around, too... at least, so far. Thank god Shurelia doesn't sound as off-key or robotic as she did in AT. ( Example. She's "Leila" in this video. PHEAR HER BAD VOICEACTING!) Anyway, I went ahead and picked up a lot of the downloadable content for Cross Edge. Hey, the game is rather tedious, Hard Mode is hard (though I don't know how it compares to Normal or Easy), and I don't particularly like random battles that can take up to 5 minutes. Sadly, to my knowledge, the game can only be fully unlocked and completed when it's finished on Hard Mode, so... I've got my work cut out for me. It's also kinda sad that the DLC has made the game thus far trivially easy... but ah well. One more very important thing. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gizagiza is in the process of drawing a picture of Yizuden, and it's looking really damn smexy. However, I dunno if she wants me to link to the work-in-progress or wait until it's completely finished, so... until I know otherwise, I'll post about it when it's finished! It's totally awesome~! :D [edit] Randomly, this is the cutest Shurelia artwork I've ever seen. Current Mood:  cheerful
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If you park your vehicle in an area where the general public has access to it, day or night, make sure your fuel cap has a lock on it. Whether it's on the fuel door or the cap itself, it doesn't matter. As long as there is a mechanism there that prevents Joe Fuckwad from walking up, popping open the fuel door, twisting off the fuel cap, and doing whatever he intends to do to your car. Fortunately for me, it was a fairly cheap lesson: $20 for a new, locking fuel cap. Joe Fuckwad didn't seem to take any fuel, or if he tried he failed, or only took a small amount. He didn't seem to be a dick about it, other than snipping the cord that tethered the fuel cap to my car and swiping the fuel cap itself. He didn't seem to pour anything like sugar or an excessive amount of other solids/fluids into the tank either, since the car started up and ran mostly OK without the cap on. After I got the new fuel cap and filled the tank, the "emissions control" warning light on my dashboard turned off and hasn't come back -- always a positive sign. If ever in the future you should buy a new vehicle that doesn't have a locking mechanism for your fuel cap, invest a few dollars into it. Don't fuck around, don't forget about it like I did. Just do it. And don't be a Joe Fuckwad, either. This is my $20 lesson, which could've been drastically more expensive, to you for free. Also, the website for Advance Auto Parts is broke as hell. Haven't seen a website as slow and unresponsive as that since the old AOL dial-up days. Or the early LiveJournal days. Current Mood:  busy
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