I finally got the chance to play Persona 4 Arena tonight. I thought it’d be a simple anime fighter/simple storyline that was the same as the Persona 4 Anime I watched last month.
I was wrong….this story is completely new which is very refreshing…also, there are new characters and many references to Persona 4, the original game + what the anime was based off of. So this seems like a very logical continuation which is really nice to experience.

The problem is man, this game is LONG…for a 2D fighter! I think it took me about at hour of story and cut scenes to make it to the final battle. That’s only about 7 one to two minute battles. Assuming each one was 2 minutes (which is not true, they’re shorter), that’s like…46 minutes of story! CRAZY. And I was skimming as fast as I could read.

And..the “wut?” part? I’m about to face the last battle and then……………….TO BE CONTINUED. I WTF’ed! Cuz I don’t have tons of time to play this game. Anyways, it unlocks a few more characters, I’m only 8% done the game…so I guess I have to play it on a few more level to GET the story of this game. Kinda intrigued, I hope to play a bit tomorrow.

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My last hamster, Monica, passed away today. She’d been having a really tough time the last few weeks so I knew it was coming. She passed away in a really cute pose, the cutest pose of the 12 hamster I’ve had in the last 8~ years. It was nice, she wasn’t all contorted and distorted from rigimortis like the rest of them. She just lay on her stomach, hands out…like she was just lying there, resting.

I’m not sure if I’m going to get more hamsters. I absolutely love them and they’re so cute when they’re young…but it’s a pain to clean the cages sometimes and they take up room. And sometimes I’m bad with cleaning cages on a regular basis and it’s not fair to the hammies to deal with such a bad owner :( I mean, with 1 hammy, you can clean the cage every once in a while but with 5 (like I had 2 years ago), you have to clean the cage pretty frequently. Also, 3/5 of my hamsters have escaped in this last batch. Maybe I’m getting sloppier as an owner.

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I’m watching Steins;Gate right now which I was assuming I’d love. Tho 6 episodes in, I’m terribly confused with everything. I know there’s a rich tapestry/storyline here but it’s purposely eluding. Which makes me intrigued. I think it’s odd, complex, and confusing….and it’s funny, intriguing, and addicting. So 6 episodes in and I can’t wait to watch the next, but I also can’t go straight from one ep to another like Death Note or something. It’s bizarre and the storyline doesn’t exactly continue linearly…it tangents highly which requires some downtime so I can figure out what just happened.

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I tried to take photographs yesterday, despite it being cloudy. It looked like a good opportunity so I took a few. When I was editing though, I DID notice a difference in light between some of the shots. DAMN CLOUDS. WASTE MY TIME. Seriously, I need some clear days PLEASE. @#$%T$@#$@#$ nothing more upsetting than setting up my photo studio, spending an hour or 2 taking pictures, a few hours editing…and then realizing…it was all for nothing. BAH.

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I converted 4/13 Video8 (before digital) tapes to Digital this weekend. I’ve been procrastinating it for a while. Using a USB Capture “Card” converter, hooking it up to analog and recording the video. Unfortunately, capturing video is real time so it took about 8 hours to convert 4 tapes. I still have 18+ hours of capturing to go. During that time, I try not to use my computer, I don’t want any heavy CPU usage to interfere with the quality or video to sound sync or anything like that. I know when you render videos using Adobe Premiere, it’s very good to…not. touch. anything. So that’s been tough. Fortunately I have my MAC here to use. Unfortunately, it can’t do the thing I want it to do:

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Play DOTA2. I’ve been playing DOTA2 a lot this last week. I’m going to try to stop for a while until I’ve finished Steins;Gate and captured by other videos. DOTA2, like all games, can be such a time waster. It’s fun though…and one of the reasons I play it is that you can get “a full game” worth feeling in as little as 30m to one hour. It’s a perfect “I have a moment to kill, before I get to something else”.

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I’ve also been playing The New Super Mario Bros. 2 on the 3DS that came out recently. On world 3-something. I’m finding it a lot harder than the first one and I’m missing lots of secrets this time around. I’m usually pretty good at finding Mario secrets but I think the level designers who make this game are getting smarter/they’re making it tougher.

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Anyways, that was my weekend. No plans this weekend FINALLY. So I feel like I was able to accomplish a lot. It was very relaxing too! Next week’s gonna be rough Q_Q
Going to have to work a lot :(

I’ve just been working really hard.

I do my standard day at work and I spend a lot of time during the night working lately.
My days are still pretty busy, I don’t seem to find time to get lunch until 2:30ish.

I’ve got a number of big projects, Facebook API I need to learn for work, doing some ASP.NET…
but I’m just all around busy.

I pray for a sunny Saturday and Sunday cuz I got no plans and I’m going to take so many pictures this weekend! I haven’t for a while cuz I’ve been busy…but no more!

I just got the New Super Mario Bros. 2 on the 3DS and I’m going to give Persona 4 Arena some more playing now that I’ve watched the anime.

I’ve also been playing a lot of DOTA2. OMG I’m so stupid, I’ve been waiting for this game for a while…and it’s been out for a while…but I didn’t know I could get it off Steam. I thought it was still in BETA or something. Everyday this week, I play about 1-3 games which is about 30m-2.5 hours/day. So I guess my time’s going to THAT too.

I’m basically living my life the way I lived it before I was deving a lot: watching anime and playing games. It’s nice to get back to my “this is purely for enjoyment” roots but I don’t want to stay here. There’s too much time already wasted to maintain this lifestyle. I need to be more productive!