Listening to one of Fabrice Lig’s newer songs “X-Slaves who changed the world” when I decided to drop by his MySpace page. Then I stumbled upon this really interesting video.
Looks(and sounds!) good!
At first I thought maybe it was something new, I couldn’t find any posts about it at DS-X2… or even via google! In fact, I only found that fab himself re-posted the video at MySpace-video, and this random French GBA forum. So I shot him some questions thinking: Maybe he was developing it himself?
Me: —————————————————— Hey Fabrice Lig, I was wondering what happened to your Nintendo DS game “Cross Control”. The URL you list brings an “error” and I can’t find any other info on the web about this game.
Who’s the developer? Has the game been canceled? Were you involved in other aspects of game development other than the music? If you can answer, thanks. ——————————————————
Fab: —————————————————— Hi Nick, Actually, I have no news about the game, the developpers had some contact with different companies to developp the game, but I think it didn’t happen ? I dunno? Its a bit sad as I tryed some parts of the game, and it was really cool… Fabrice ——————————————————
Canned I guess. Seems Lig saved the video though! Very cool.
On a completely unrelated note I’ve been challenged to a fight. A Garou: Mark of the Wolves fight, that is. On Halloween my friend and I will go at it, and get this, my friend has been playing it all month long with a keyboard because he’s too lazy to hook up his computer joystick/CP. That’s hardcore LAME. So he’s become so cocky(he’s always cocky actually) to the point were he’s letting me use my awesome Logitech rumble pad against his crappy keyboard. This is either going to be really easy or really hard. Gotta practice either way! Oh and he got Bust-A-move for his MVS, if all else fails, I know he can’t beat me at that.
I’m a really bad student… This week I finished one project and was handed three more. Not pretty. Sometimes I’m not really sure what distracts me, but I’m usually pretty good about not playing video games with homework to do. My friends say I’m lazy and I don’t put forth enough effort. I guess the consequence of failure doesn’t motivate me…
I delayed this post on purpose however, because I knew I was going on a hike today(something different I could blog about). I hiked the Sutter Buttes, the world’s smallest mountain range.
Unlike the other places I have been in the past(usually national parks) this is actually privately owned by a couple of rancher families. Twice a year it is opened to a small group of people led by a non-profit organization. Once in the spring, and once in the fall.
Info note: The “mountain” on the far right with the antenna on it is(click for high res) the tallest at 2,117FT – and is the one that qualifies the Sutter Buttes as a mountain range.
The hike wasn’t too bad, but our guide was a bit… lost at times? Slow at times too, people would often go ahead of her only to find themselves going in the wrong direction. haha
The hiiiills~ are aliiive~, with the soooound~ of- no.
I took a crap load of photos for some reason. Probably because I look at these hills from the higher points of where I live occasionally but have never been able to visit.
Also, I find it fascinating how these hills stand out of the valley floor. Truly a geological anomaly. … Really nice weather helps too.
I was just waiting for a WRX to come screaming by while walking on some of the back roads.
That’s it for today I guess. Did we learn something today? Great! Now do your homework!
I missed blog action day on Monday, because I like to keep updates weekly(sorta). I got a friend to post about it though. That gets me off the hook, right? Well I put all my required high school community service into cleaning creeks, planting trees, and labeling storm drains – so don’t think I don’t like to help the environment, I really do.
My save clover valley armband, next to my classy rotary phone
Picture transition! Oh yes, just linked two subjects with a picture. I believe my rotary phone is a 70s era Western electric(AT&T), with carbon mic, a hold button, and four line switches. Ooh yea! Unfortunately an analog phone has it’s disadvantages in this modern digital era… no pound key. Whoops. “If you are using a rotary phone please hang up” is what I got on Thursday as I tried to use it in a conference call. Now I know better… yea… dial with the cordless, and then switch back to the rotary.
I guess I never mentioned it before, but I played most of the Trouble Witches demo a few months back and loved it. It’s a bit on the Otaku side, but a solid, well produced, shoot’em up. Now Studio Siesta(the dev) has announced it will be making an English version called TOMBOYISH ☆ WITCHES(their caps and star, not mine) for us gaijin. Great! But… I liked the old name better. Oh well, I’m so buying it. Speaking of Shoot’em-ups, what’s up with everyday shooter? A lot of the 1UP crew has been talking about it ever since… what, GDC? I know one friend with a PS3 and he doesn’t touch the thing(don’t ask)… so he probably didn’t buy everyday shooter off of PSN. If there was a PC demo I would like test it out because I’m really curious about the appeal. To me it just looks like another geometry wars mixed with elements of REZ and every extend. But apparently it’s more than that. Well, I usually prefer my shoot’em-ups scrolling and vertical anyways(with some exceptions of course).
That’s it for this week I guess, really brief. I now await someone to point out my excessive usage of the word “but” in that last paragraph.
The past few months I’ve been puzzled as to why I was unable to load DS games(or really anything) on my supercard. I tried a number of things and after a few weeks I discovered that the way I transfer files to my miniSD card over the network just won’t cut it. It’s bizarre but even thought the file(s) will exist/transfer and show up on the card it apparently just doesn’t write correctly. So instead of writing them that way(with a network printer) I tried using the SD card slot in my mom’s laptop, and sure enough it made all the difference.
My DSLite with some games, a classic DS strap, and a Radirgy sticker. Not pictured: Supercard, for obvious reasons.
With that out of the way I’ve been playing Race Driver: Create and Race, and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Phantom hourglass kicks ass so far and just about everyone I talk to agrees with me. Funny story, there’s this girl in broadcasting who I recall playing Nintendogs one day, and then just recently I saw her playing Zelda. Talk about effectiveness, it seems Nintendo really is converting non-gamers… hell girl non-gamers – that’s a difficult thing to pull off IMO. Back to Phantom hourglass: it’s good but I start to loose interest after awhile. I really don’t care about difficulty but currently I feel like the dungeons are kind of busy-work getting in the way of my story. Maybe I’ve been playing too many action games like Metal slug lately. Which also reminds me, my friend with the MVS finally got Metal slug X! Currently we have this wonky temporary CP set-up since we had taken out the whole CP(control panel) for an over-haul, and we just couldn’t wait. Basically I don’t think I’ll do a review on PH because I’ll probably take my sweet time and I know there are other people at DS-X2 who are probably much much further than me. As for Race Driver: create and race, I’m trying to like it but just can’t. It might suffer from small-screen-itis where the game could be much better… with a bigger screen. I say this because the cars start off feeling really slow and then jump to being really fast. It’s weird but I think if I had a bigger screen I could have a much better sense of speed. Either that or the game’s just broken. Now that I think about it, if they had just made the car models much smaller it would give the game bigger screen space(Think: Mario kart), and higher frame rate. Are you listening Codemasters? Really the game is very well polished(love the menus) but from what I’ve experienced of the gameplay it’s not worth the 30(?) bucks. Yea I think I might do a review on this one, I just need to bring myself to play it more. Though ironically this weekend I’ll be trying to allocate some time towards studying for my permit test(zomg Monday). You know… so I can drive real cars.
One last note, it seems my little drama story (which I decided to only post at my main blog) has got me twice the feedburner subscribers! Woo! 8!… um yea, I know. I think it’s a big improvement though. Also, don’t expect me to blog like that again. Well maybe a bonus blog – yea ok – but I still try to avoid personal posts.
Warning: This specific entry is extremely long, somewhat repetitive, had almost no proofreading, and goes into extreme detail.
It’s been over a year since I’ve been blogging, as I’ve mentioned before in previous posts. But something I’ve never done with that time blogging – almost avoided really – was to blog about my personal life. Well Today you’re going to hear it… a long story about how I fell in love… and was rejected.
-Yea I know, cheeee~sy! right? Well it’s your choice to read this, I just do this to get it off my chest. If there’s a story to be told, tell it, I say.
It began with one of my now favorite classes, broadcasting. Junior year and it was the second time I had the class since the beginning of school. We were to be assigned into groups this day and I was a bit nervous. Sure enough no one really cared about me – I had no friends in this class – and so I ended up with two losers. Ok, I could(and should) probably call myself a loser, but these guys were above and beyond. Then my broadcasting teacher realized the groups were uneven so he asked around if anyone else wanted to join our group to make it even. Sure enough this girl from the back of the room joined. I was relived because any girl would probably have a better work ethic than these guys I was with. I took this class very seriously, especially since I had no electives the previous year and I was looking for an outlet at school – broadcasting was perfect. Why didn’t I have electives as a sophomore? Long story, lets just say all throughout high school I’ve never been an “above and beyond” type of student. My first project I was really strict, I wanted all the camera work perfect – even if the overall production was lame. The two guys were really hard to guide, but once I broke everything down they listened. Or so I thought. As I slowly figured out, they only listened to me because the girl listened to me, and she listened to me because she probably just wanted to finish the projects. That’s my point of view at least.
She was the main drive of our group and we made a film every quarter. But rewinding to around the time of our second project – a montage. I finished my montage really early, and I thought it turned out pretty good. It was based on my favorite subject of…(you guessed it) video games. I finished it with some confidence under my belt and I exported it to game-videos.
As you can tell, I was playing every extend at the time
Finishing that project early gave me tons of time to just sit around and do nothing. This was great for a end-of-the day class. However the girl in my class began to talk to me, well, more than usual – it’s not like we didn’t talk at all.
I got to know her, what she liked, what she didn’t like, and her personality in general. Or at least that’s what it seemed to be. Till this day I’m not even really sure. Either way that was the time period I began to like her… especially when I went to night school during the fall/winter. Looking into the sunset during break knowing I’ve reached a knew academic low I swore to never reach again. I was in denial up until this point and when I walked home in the dark I tried to think of ways to tell her one day. Thing is she knew I was a computer freak by then and I knew if I was going to tell her I should not use the computer. However I told no one and never confessed to her at all. I was too much of a coward. However I did hint to one friend I liked someone, but never said who. I increasingly liked her as the year went on and then one day… school… ended.
I don’t know what she did over the summer but I went to summer school. I passed night school but I fell behind in my current English class that year. I fought the summer school system and managed to get two English classes that summer and made up all remaining English class credits. I worked my ass off, and night school taught me how. Or re-invented my ways at least. On top of this I was biking about seven miles round trip in temperatures of +100F everyday. My main drive became her… to go back to school and work with her again. I then was planning to tell her in class one day… that I loved her.
I passed my summer school classes and went on to vacation with various friends. All of which I would’ve loved to replace with her. -Haha, don’t get me wrong, I love to travel with my friends. But there’s something about visiting a far away place that makes you wish you could experience it with someone you love. Regardless of how well the trip goes.
The day came. I went to school. I looked around. Nothing.
She was nowhere to be seen. Not in any of my classes, not around campus, nothing. For a day or two I thought maybe she had moved away. Until a week afterwards, I saw her for the first time. At that time I finally told my friend her full name and I excessively discussed with him possible ways to get back into her life…. somehow. My first plan was to figure out her patterns around campus and sneak in a friendly “hi!/hello!” whenever I saw her. I figured if we were acquaintances before she would have no problem saying hello to me. But unfortunately I quickly remembered her reluctance to talk to me outside of class. This wasn’t exactly new, and it wasn’t really a big deal either. I figured she probably is just nervous… or something – and for the record she did actually say “hello” back most of the time. Honestly I don’t think she saw me the other times… and was probably talking to her friends while walking.
Anyways, I soon realized that no conversations were going to spark. Mainly because we’re both too busy changing classes. I got impatient and figured I should probably just tell her how I feel… but then my cowardness kicked in(I made that word up) and I came up with another lame plan. Well, I had some peer pressure with this one since I now had my friend to talk to. I came up with this plan to burn a note confessing on a CD full of music. You see last year I planned to burn her this one song but never got around to it. So I would give her this CD and essentially disguise my little love note. Brilliant, right? I gave it to her. Then I realized an error on the last line of the note. I put the following:
“if you don’t talk to/message me(note: back) I’ll just assume you want to be left alone.”
Problem with that is I didn’t know if she wanted to be left alone, or simply hadn’t read the letter.
As my friend told me, if I was truly determined I should probably just assume she hadn’t read it. After a few days, I assumed so. She probably didn’t like the music after all and probably still has the CD lying around somewhere. Or being a mac owner that she is, looked at the CD with itunes, which doesn’t display other files besides music(my note was in HTML). Then one weekend my friend tells me he heard one of my good friends talk about her, and how he would like to go out with her, ect. ect. In fact, he had her befriended on MySpace and he linked me to her page – which was set to private. At first it was like someone just poked me in the eyes and kicked me in the balls. Then a couple days later I made my own call and talked to him about it. He seemed pretty casual about it and noted I must like her more than he does. I couldn’t argue with that. In the process however I had bookmarked her page, and then made the decision to join MySpace. MySpace is a hideous place filled with creeps and shitty web-pages. I sent a friend invite to her and waited. It took her about a week to approve it, and in that time I was just thinking about how I would apologize for breaking my promise at the end of my note. After all if she wasn’t approving it she must’ve read the letter, and hated me, right? Well like I said she eventually approved it and not a moment too soon – I was ready to tell her everything the next day. Then began the tedious process of messaging her. I wanted to keep it casual, get acquainted again, and then tell her one day. This was my only possible way of communication with her. I hated it but it seemed to be going well… until I told her one day in conversation that our Broadcasting 1 group from last year was “nothing without you”. It’s true though! Like I said before, it really wasn’t. I could however sense that she knew what I was up to. Never-the-less she didn’t say anything. If she had told me “omg are you hinting at something?! go away freak!” I would’ve been perfectly content. Strait-up rejection is fine. She choose to toy with me and I had no other choice as a person in love but to keep going. To an extent it worked… for a bit.
I really dropped the ball when I replied to one of her bulletins about a homecoming party. “Homecoming” is -for anyone that doesn’t know- when we have the first home football game at our school. I said I had nothing else better to do than come over and join her… (I was feeling ambitious I guess) unless they were going to the football game later on as well. Which then she replied with “we’re going to the football game”. Now I realized my stupid mistake by now, combined with my(stupid) ambition, and the fact I live 4 blocks away from the stadium… I went. Alone. I walked down there, paid four bucks, and looked around. Nothing… Well ok, I found one friend at least. I didn’t find the girl though. Over the course of a few days I sent a few messages to her, they were read(you can check the status), but no replies. No friend de-listing or blocking either so I carried on… very carefully.
And so came college night. This was actually just yesterday. Once again for those that don’t know, “college night” is when a bunch of colleges(forty?) come to our campus and set up a booth. Well this was a huge event for me because I was filming it for broadcasting(morning announcements) and cable access(which no one watches). While I was filming one of the orientations(?) in the theater, I noticed her out of the corner of my eye. She was right there, smiling, hiding, almost spying on me really. I’m not 100% sure but I’m very positive it was her. She left after a few moments but I think she knew I was there the whole time – I posted about it before hand. Maybe she wasn’t avoiding me completely after all? Maybe she was, as some say, “playing hard to get”. I didn’t see her the rest of the day.
When I got home I commented on her MySpace page – not about college night – but about a comment she left somewhere else on MySpace. Apparently this was MySpace blasphemy and she talked more on this other page where she revealed she thought of me as some sort of stalker(It’s complicated to explain unless you know what I’m talking about). That was it. I snapped. I had to tell her why I was there. “The truth” – is what I titled that message. I told her I loved her, and have since broadcasting. I’m not a stalker, just a stupid kid in love. No reply and I went to bed.
The next day after school I got an email telling me I received a new message from her. It said the following:
“Subject: I don’t
feel the same way, and to be completely honest, 1. you make me feel slightly uncomfortable 2. i have a boyfriend 3. i’ve decided it’s better to not be myspace friends
sorry.”
That’s that. I can’t blame her really. One thing that strikes me odd though is that her MySpace status was always “single”…
Well regardless I’m going to delete my MySpace account and call it a day. I’ve finally been rejected, and I now have a pivot to turn away with.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have some homework to do.
Some days I don’t know where I am. Figuratively of course. This weeks post was highly delayed because I planned on posting my broadcasting project, only to find it fairly difficult to export. Or actually I played back the exported/compressed file in windows[VLC,zoom]: Nothing. Played it back on a mac[quicktime]: Bingo! Screw imovie and it’s compression techniques(codecs..), my next project(which will be actual reporting – sorry) will have to be done in final cut. imovie is too… weak.
Continuing on my last post a bit, I opened up my last Nintendo Power(or as we know it). Sure there were obvious hints that the NP staff was being booted out the door(editor’s note) but I question how far in advance. I say this because there were at least 2 or 3 places in the magazine where they still encourage you to visit the Nintendo forums – which have been inaccessible for about 3(?) weeks now. I have a feeling we knew almost before they did! Quite sad.
Now let us celebrate Sin and Punishment finally coming to America! Yay! Ok, I still don’t have a wii. But if you have a wii I highly recommend you purchase/download it. Just remember: Change it to normal, and don’t bother with easy. The game leaves out some of the insane stuff if you put it on easy. Sin and Punishment is an easy game on it’s own – compared to most other Treasure games. If you’re not into Treasure games already this game(well, and Gunstar) will change that. I heard they even improved the graphics a bit. *insert “tighten up the graphics” joke here*
Ok, last on my list here for today is the fact I finally joined myspace. “ZOMG Nick joined MySpace!?” is what you’re thinking, right? Because I swore to never ever join MySpace, but I caved recently… I have my reasons. Blog will totally still be here, MySpace is a terribly designed website and is nothing compared to my little template-tweaked blogspot page. So anyways, here’s my page if you know me you can send a friend request or something. But if you’re some random internet-troll guy looking for more friends on MySpace don’t even bother. I’m very strict about approval of friends… and in case you’re wondering I sent a request to Ken Ishii – he’s a DJ and I like his music, so yea. If you have no intentions of ever joining MySpace, don’t have an account, ect. ect. – then I encourage you to click the link anyways for some awesome dZihan & kamien music. Sliiiding~
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