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Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Part 1

Friday, April 8th, 2011 at 3:08 am

I started playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time a year ago…playing to around the beginning of Death Mountain…didn’t even make it to Dodongo’s Cavern (second dungeon), after picking it up and dropping it many times. Eventually, I hadn’t touched it in so long that I figured I should just restart. Not that I made it very far anyways…

I recently decided to re-pick up the game….again, I played until I beat the Deku tree and stopped. Not very far again. Well, today I spent much of the day playing…started from right after the Deku tree…right now I’m on my way to Zora’s Domain. I started today with 4 Skulltula tokens this morning and I have 23 right now. I had 0 1/4 heart pieces this morning and have 13 1/4 heart pieces right now.

Oh. I should note that I had today and have tomorrow off :) I’ve spent considerable time buying bottle bugs and earning the money back via the Shooting Gallery. +30 Rupee profit for each successful game. I’ve also spent considerable time slowing travelling as a child. So slow. Reminds me of WoW.

I kinda know how Ocarina of Time works…Links starts off as a child but at some point, turns into an adult. I’m trying to make sure I have EVERYTHING that I can get as a child, before I turn into an adult. I have no idea if it’s possible to turn back to a child (while this seems impossible, Ocarina of Time indicates some kind of time travel…right? Maybe not…I don’t know yet but I don’t wanna be spoiled, so don’t tell me.

Don’t tell me anything. I wanna find out as I continue.

Anyways, I’m working towards the 100 Skulltula tokens…tho I’d be happy with 50 as I can earn money quite easily. I’d definitely need to get the 32(?) 1/4 heart pieces…

Anyways, I’m happy with how things are going. Yes, I played most of the day and only did one dungeon…again…but I’m working hard in getting the other stuff….slowly working my way through to 100%. That’s how I roll.

Contemplating going out tomorrow morning to run some errands but tomorrow might be completely focused on Zelda: OoT as well….who knows, maybe I’ll finish within the next week! :D That’d be awesome.

Unfortunately, there already is one MAJOR spoiler that I’m aware of, which has to do with Zelda…I learned it accidentally as I researched Super Smash Bros. Brawl…too bad because I figure it’s one of those spoilers that could turn a game from “awesome” to “mind-blowing” :( Ah well, nothing I can do….that’s what I get for playing this game….15 years after it’s made?

Oh yeah, my goal is still to finish before the Zelda: Ocarina of Time comes out for Nintendo 3DS. I’m already wondering what to play next….Majora’s Mask? Twilight Princess? Final Fantasy XIII? Final Fantasy X? Mario Galaxy? Metal Gear Solid 3…followed by Metal Gear Solid 4? All these games are so old….I’m so behind.

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Omnimon & Predaking galleries

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 at 12:51 am

I got my D-Arts Omnimon toy this month. As I played with it, I didn’t think there was much I could do with it. Sure, it came with 2 capes but the joints are awkward, you can’t position it like you might want. So I wasn’t too thrilled in doing a gallery for it but felt compelled to give Omnimon the same treatment as my Wargreymon post from earlier. Turns out…after taking some pictures, that you can do a LOT….I had a lot of fun taking the pictures, giving him poses. There was one problem, my photos were a bit too dark, they should have a white background, like most of my photos….oh well :( Anyways, here’s the Omnimon gallery, followed by my comparison chart between my D-Arts toy and an old Omnimon toy. That is my Wargreymon comparison chart (again). And below that are my Predaking shots.

Click on the images for a larger one

The Generation 1 Predaking reissue is huge so there really isn’t much you can do with it…I only have 8 shots and most aren’t dynamic at all. For a $200 toy, I was hoping my gallery would be epic…but alas, it’s just too clunky to take good shots.

On another note, it was great to pull out my photography stuff, after 4 months (which is pretty long). With taking photographs, manipulating them, posting about them (all to the sounds of ReBoot Season 3!), I’ve been doing this for about 6 hours now. It’s so time consuming…

Tomorrow: Zelda + Web Development. That’s my plan :) Nice to do stuff just for me…that was the plan of this weekend and so far, I’m fulfilling it…

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WTB#6 – April 2011 Edition

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 at 5:56 am

Things I’m expecting in April – Total $490.41

Kotobukiya DC Comics: Catwoman Bishoujo Statue
$65.78 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Release Date Feb 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

DC Unlimited World of Warcraft Deluxe Collector Figure: The Lich King: Arthas Menethil
$56.68
Preorder – Purchased Feb 18, 2012
Release March 9, 2010
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

DCUO: Wonder Woman Statue
$76.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Release Date Feb 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

Kotobukiya Marvel Comics: Black Cat Bishoujo Statue
$51.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Release Date Feb 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

GUILTY GEAR XX – Dizzy – Alter
$134.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011

Release Date Apr 2011
Purchased at Kid Nemo

Kotobukiya DC Comics: Wonder Woman Bishoujo Statue
$51.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Release Date April 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

Kotobukiya Marvel Comics: Ms. Marvel Bishoujo Statue
$51.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Release Date April 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

Things I received in March – Total $390.84

D-Arts Omegamon
$70.98 – Price I Paid (total)
Preorder – Purchased Feb 18, 2011
Received March 18, 2011
Purchased over eBay.com

ReBoot: The Definitive Mainframe Edition
$79.96 – Price I Paid (total)
Purchased Mar 1, 2011
Received March 10, 2011
Purchased over Shout! Factory Store

Transformers G1 Reissue – Predaking
$194.95 – Price I Paid (total)
Preorder – Purchased Oct 27, 2010
Received March 9, 2011
Purchased over TFSource.com

Dinobot Combiners
$44.95 – Price I Paid (total)
Preorder – Purchased Oct 27, 2010
Received March 9, 2011
Purchased over TFSource.com

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Accomplishments #6 – April 2011 Edition

Friday, April 1st, 2011 at 11:59 pm

What I accomplished in March
Shows / Movies
127 Hours

Books & Manga

warrenshea.com

Gaming
Finish Super Mario Bros. (Wii) – Complete!
Finish Hard Corps: Uprising (PS3) – Complete!

Web Development and Design

Other
Went to a basketball game
Went to a soccer game
Went to a bar

Notes
First half of the month, I spent my free time playing Mario. Starting the second half of the month, I spent half my nights working and the other half of my nights relaxing and trying not to burn out. No time this month, I’ve been ridiculously swamped. While I enjoy the money, I wish my life was back in a summer of high school. 2 months for absolutely nothing. No responsibilities.

What I want to accomplish in April
Shows / Movies
ReBoot (entire series)
Clannad (entire series)
King’s Speech
The Kids Are All Right
The Fighter
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

Books & Manga

warrenshea.com
Finish my Social Network post
Maybe do a little redesigning…

Gaming
Finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

Web Development and Design
Start ASP.NET 4.0 book
Start my HTML5 book

Other
Learn my Mac OS

Notes

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It feels nice to have my life back.

Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 10:33 pm

I’ve worked all 4 days and nights this week. I’ve been putting in crazy hours that kind of remind me of one of the biggest projects I ever did, around this time a year ago. Usually I leave my personal computer on all the time but I shut it off on Monday and I haven’t turned it on for 3 days in a row. That’s…pretty rare for me. I haven’t been checking twitter or gmail nearly as much as usual, I feel like I haven’t been…living. I thought I was sick this morning but thank goodness I’m not. Hopefully I’ll sleep early tonight and get some more strength back.

I knew I’d be busy these days but it’s more than I wanted…I need to step back from work and do some personal stuff…maybe this weekend, I’ll try to do some stuff for me.

I had a few things I wanted to write about but they escape me at this time. Frig, Z’s watching this weird musical Grey’s Anatomy and it’s really distracting and weird. Like, some kinda dream. Some of the music is good/good choices tho…

I leave you with a new motivated photo with inspiration from this week’s Naruto.

Two other things I wanted to write about.

First, I love Swiss Chalet. Usually. I really like their ribs, their chicken sauce, everyone has fond memories of the food. This is not a bashing of the Swiss Chalet product. It’s just that their Twitter is TERRIBLE.
if you go to mySwissChalet, and scan the twitter page, it’s 95% just apologizing to people. I get that they want to be on Twitter…I get that they want to provide a type of social media customer support…but what’s their strategy to this? I go to their page and it’s just an apologizing mess. By not discussing a user’s compliments (and I’m sure there are some), and only trying to rectify a user’s complaints, it really just looks like all they do is put out a bad product. While it doesn’t deter me in buying their products, I do find it a pathetic channel. I even followed them initially for coupons, promotions….but they don’t have any of those. It’s just a waste.

If you haven’t been to the new TD Canada Trust….it’s just one of the most terrible redesigns I’d ever seen. Not just design, functionality.

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Oh god, I’m so tired, I can’t finish writing. There’s a rant in here but I’ll just let you decide for yourself. Take a look.

Can I get sued for the 2nd and 3rd image I put up? Defacing of brand? If you think I can, let me know and I’ll take them down. The rules of the internet…and the law….currently escape me, in my sleepiness…
10:30. Seems pretty late. Good night.

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