Random Thought

Good to hear it turned out well, Mitsuki. But from the looks of it chances are still on the bad side. I guess you will have to keep taps and go check every year.

rampant face recognition... nothing new, though.
https://www.perpetuallineup.org/

Checking out Ace Combat games again, wondering if I should try to get a collection of games from 4 to 6 on my desktop somehow. I did buy when the Star Wars collection premiered on steam X-Wing Alliance. I have a lot of games like that. Tachyon: The Fringe is another one of those.

Been feeling tired, getting worried about whether or not I can get my phone up and running by my trip in November 3rd. Anyway, new episode of The Great War today showed, I look forward to it.

May share more about Electric Six, Video Games, and The Great War, seems appropriate.

Well, if you are into action/arcade that's fine but should play the whole series or you miss some goodies. Likewise with Armored Core series, Heavy Gear2...
I prefer the more realistic simulations
DID F-22, EF2000
Macross VF-X, VF-X2, Plus, VO (the rest is too easy with wide-angle auto targeting/arcade)
Wing Commander 3,4,5 (rest is too old)
with more on trade
Privateer 2/Freespace 2/Freelancer 2/X3

a bit more challenging(timers)+puzzles
Tomb Raider 1-4
Ghost in the Shell


If you lean on a bit more tactics/strategy:
Jagged Alliance 2
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Front Mission 3 (4 & 5 require a lot more wanzer setup micro management)
World in Conflict
AubirdForce 2 (1 might be too old for you)
X-Com
or any other famous japanese RPG like Fire Emblem 3,4,5 etc...
Legend of Galactic Heroes
http://kinofthestars.heavenforum.org/t128-legend-of-galactic-heroes-pc-game
Seikai no Senki games with RPG elements

Heh-heh, I need to get the Seikai no Senki games. Doubt they would run on PC.

On any note, I did play the Jupiter Incident, though um, hmm, I should see about playing more stuff once classes are done.

Been rather tired keeping up with work and grad school. Writing for the wiki and coming here are one of the few things that bring me sincere and deep joy. I feel uneasy about that. Anyway, time for more random stuff.

Lindybeige is a YouTuber I recently started watching whom I think is fantastic, and I'd recommend whomever comes by watch him along with The Great War.

Well we got our ballots in and I just finished voting to Make America Great Again....but we shall see.

Almael it looks like you might get your wish of an Indians vs. Cubs World Series after all!
The Cubs need only win one more game.

I think if it is the Cubbies then it will be one hell of a fun series to follow!

I am not sure how to interpret that post, but I suspect we'll keep the politics elsewhere on the board. The greatest choice I suppose would be of course to vote for neither primary person.

Anyway, back to bed or work, or both.

Politics and anything is fine here as its not visible...
Besides don't fall for the fallacy. America is already great or better than anyone. Wishing back to the old days isn't gonna work. Did people of that time look back and wish for their old days? No, they looked forward and solve problems. That how things become better. You gotta solve problems and move forward!

Anyway, Philippine's president is running his mouth again. This time in China and about severing ties with the US. This guy is licking up someone or just not in sane. Or maybe he is imitating Trump?

Well post 2001, there has been pulses of decent social justice and leftist movements, but I imagine the nationalists movements of the planet have seen far more success than I have stomach for. I do not fall into that fallacy so to speak, I suppose I sought clarification. Canada and the US I suppose will be the last Kenyesian/Psudeo-Left bastions on earth in the OECD. You may include the Nordics, but that's been dodgy as of late as well.

I think the reason why politics and religion are banned as topics from larger forums is that with a lot of members someone is sure to take even the most ambiguous statement personally and so start a flame war that the mods have to nip in the bud.

It finally happened: we are having the Cubs versus the Indians in the World Series. Somewhere
Ernie Banks is smiling and saying:" It's a good day, let's play two."

Can't wait to see the it.

Spider eats mice in your kitchen going viral
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/move-over-pizza-rat-mouse-spider-is-the-stuff-of-nightmares/
As a kid I had an encounter with such a big spider... approaching my face. It was a memorable experience to say the least. And thankfully it was not in the kitchen.

Looks like Tenchiforum going down under spam...
Our site went down for maintenance or so the hosting site was saying.

I've to go to bed early today. Tomorrow's a long day.

This week has not gone terribly well. Between class overruns of scheduled online meetings and the inability to assemble the work needed for my portfolio to complete my comprehensive exam, I am starting to feel rather sad. Oh well.

British cruisers hit World of Warships. They're bloody awful, it's just agony to play them as I was last time. If you play the game, this this series of complaints explain everything in my case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioHL8B6I2wo

At least somehow the underpowered French Dunkerque somehow does fantastic. I think the Russian/Belorussian producers of the game are punishing the British for some reason, maybe Brexit jokes can be inserted here. To be fair, the US and Japanese lines of ships are still fantastic and well done. German BBs and CAs are fantastic too in my opinion.

Welp the World Series did not start off well for those of us rooting for the Cubbies.

Yeah, I have noticed that too Almael. There seems to be a lot of spam lately on Tenchiforum.
I go there right after I finish up here and have noticed ever since I got back on there how much
there was.
I wouldn't be too surprised if sooner or later they had to shut down the forum for at least awhile
to clean things up.

Can't be helped.

Btw. Abhnation.com is online again!
Please support it! Start making back ups of good stuff if you haven't already. I will have to comb it again for old data and everything I've lost.

spoor356 wrote:
British cruisers hit World of Warships. They're bloody awful, it's just agony to play them as I was last time. If you play the game, this this series of complaints explain everything in my case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioHL8B6I2wo

I'm not surprised. The Washington Naval Treaty was in effect the RN didn't build a lot of new ships. Most of their ships were outdated like the W-,V, Town-class ships. All the good ones were out hunting Bismark and co. They nothing good such that the best they got were 2 american frigates and they had to rely on the corvettes (Flower class) and Canadians. Canada had six ships but in the end had to grow to 400 ships! Just to help out convoy missions. Not long ago someone would say "Canadians got warships!?" Many of the good battleships got sunk Hood, Prince of Wales, Repulse etc. They had nothing good to spare for the convoys.

The developers in a Q&A about the British Light Cruisers did partially address this balance needed, but I understand the armor and size limitations due to the Washington Treaty. There are a lot of light cruisers in the game already, the difference though is you can switch ammo types from Armor Piercing to High Explosive, RN only gets AP, which against any heavy cruiser or better, you're firing pillows at the enemy. HE at least you have a chance to set fires.

The developers explain there were two problems in one developing the line:

1. The inclusion of HE resulted in having giant ships hiding in smoke no player could see setting everyone on fire, which players agonized to play against.

2. The exclusion of HE resulted in a far more challenging experience playing AS the ship, and maintain some historical realism (smoke, damage control teams) without sacrificing the built in game mechanics, but made the CLs stupidly hard to play.

They admit they hated this situation where they had to choose between 1 or 2. I wish they stuck to their guns and chose 1 since I mean against Japanese and American Destroyers, we already deal with a lot of "stealth-bombers" or "submarines" setting fires, so British CLs would be no different.

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Good news for Cubs fans, Cubs won big against the Indians and now have the next three games at home. This is a solid position to be in going into games 3, 4, and 5. There should be a huge turn out at Wrigley, and it will be cool to read about.

Looks like they have a damage model which doesn't fit well for ships (as for Wo-aircraft, tanks). Ship AP does have some explosives, too.

The Cubs might win it all.

AP and HE works well for the rest of the game, but that's because it's an ammo standard everyone has. With the British CL line being the only one with no HE, well . . . I know if I can describe adequately how it feels to attempt to penetrate armor with 152mm rounds in the game. . . The low shell velocity and obscene high arc, it's like this.

Every ship in the game has standard rifles or if not, at least mortars. Glancing blows will at least hurt a little bit HE or AP shell even from small caliber guns.

British CLs have catapults that launch armor piercing shells with all the authority of a pillow tossed by Stephen Hawking. They're as threatening as the army of Costa Rica (bonus points if you catch this joke).


Anyway. Listening to awesome Sabaton again, planning to write a bit more on the wiki, we'll see where it goes.

Yeah I need to look that up when I get off of here.

And I posted a comment on the Ask The Staff sub forum over at Tenchiforum about all the spam.
Don't know if anyone there has seen it. It does seem like the forum isn't as active as it was even
before I took my hiatus.

I've decided I need to add the following to my comics collection:
Green Arrow
Legion of Superheroes
Elektra had the entire run before but threw it out so want to go back and recollect it.
Thor
Daredevil
Birds of Prey
Aquaman
Iron Man

Some of these I already a few copies of and just want to add more but others I don't have any.
Also I would perfer to find the older 1990s and earlier issues if I can. But I'll have to look around
the second hand store that has the comic nook in town to see what he's got.

It's a rather blah! day out here. Damp and dark and looks to rain so probably little to no chance of
Trick or Treaters this year. Then again we have never gotten too many to begin with.

For 2017 I am definitely decided upon:
*Akame Ga Kill
*Celestial Method
*Sailor Moon R
The rest we shall see.

Interesting IIRC both Timeless and DC's Legends of Tomorrow are having Civil War
themed episodes this week. Legends of Tomorrow has zombies!

Microsoft disabled my account recently saying there was suspicious activity e.g. spamming. So I was locked out and could make any call.
Remember before my hiatus how my isp updated my internet line and I was suddenly off the grid... Well, this new line makes it possible to make video calls which I did every few days to my folks. So I had about 700 MB of traffic a week of which 400+ MB was used by google alone. As it turns out after authenticating myself things work for me again but everyone else's contact list was wiped. So I can call people but people can's call me anymore. Nice safeguard, I could go on spamming everyone but nobody could harm me.

As for google and co. not only are we paying them for earning money with our data but we also pay their net bills, too,(for freely using ours).

Hello there,

I had no idea the situation concerning data was so bad, but normally I am blown away by your expertise.

I am headed to Youmacon in Detroit. I intend to have a blast. I am in pain from the running around and packing, so we'll see how the flights go.

I've recently lost contacts too for a different reason. AT&T couldn't move my contacts or any data from my Mega 2 Samsung phone to my new phone, and like a goof, I just deleted everything before taking the new one per his request. Oh well, . . . time to rebuild that list of people.

I've been using Duckduckgo on occasion. It seems to be the only alternative to Google now.
Though I still use Google for the most part.

The Cubbies are now one miracle away from their first World Series Championship in 108 years!
If they make it you will hear one of the biggest celebrations in the history of Sports.

Well since they are one of my favorite teams I have to say that the possibility makes me almost as excited as when the Twins won the second time in 1991.

I shall be at choir practice tonight so will miss much of the game.

Congrats to the Cubbies and all their fans out there!
Finally the Curse is over and after 108 years the Cubs are finally again World Series Champs!

On a separate note: for those Indian fans out there: your team may not have won but they did their
best and you can be proud of the fact that they took the Cubs to the limit before it was all over.
Nothing to be down about there.

AFAIG with yesterday's Legends of Tomorrow :
it was a pretty MEH! episode.
The only really good part of it was the Martin-Mick-Ray triple act in the Waverider as Zombie Mick
chases the other two around the ship.
The rest of the episode I could have done with out personally.Especially since the producers showed their PC Lefty bent throughout it.
They even got an actor who didn't look the faintest like Grant to play the general!
Also they seemed to hit all the Anti-Southern buttons on this one, including making Collins
out Legree Simon Legree in his cruelty. That and they must've been reading the part of Roots
where Kunta Kinte tries to escape because of the discussion of slaves who had been castrated and
had their feet chopped in half(seriously dudes! even Alex Haley didn't go that far as he only had
Kunta Kinte have half his foot chopped off! And that was in the 18th century!)

The Zombies were in the end the silliest part of the entire episode. And let's not forget the part where they spend 5 minutes introducing the character of the Time Pirate and then totally
forget about him for most of the episode...Seriously?

I think now that NBC has Timeless on Monday nights theCW better be careful or Legends of Tomorrow may start loosing viewers.

One day away from President ? and half will be happy and half will be disappointed. But life goes on either way.

I stood up early to cut short staying in line but it was still long.

I've found a free & fun spaceship creating game called cosmoteer
http://www.cosmoteer.net/
Not as good looking as Starship Corporation.
It's old fashion 2D, simple, but sensible. It's still a bit lacking in "accessories" (parts) and fun stuff like missiles. But they will come sometime. Probably not so soon. You can paint your ship with 1 base color and 2 decals (actually 1 with 2 colors). But this feature is still primitive even compared to old games like Armored Core 1.
It's easy to mod, too. You only have to edit the stats in the text files. You can change the look by replacing the bitmap images if you can spare the time to redo them.


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Last week, W10 updated without my consent overnight. When I booted it up the boot-manager froze up and wouldn't go on. Wasted two days to get it working again. I had problems with installing old programs, So I have good reasons to want W7 back. My alternative option is to install W7 within a virtual machine.
I'm still not done getting all my programs' setting back to the way I had them nor have I been able to get all the plugins/add-on.
W10 is hampering my work flow. Now I have to waste at least 2-3 more clicks to get the simplest things done compared to old XP or Vista/W7.
Also I noticed how small the amount of standard font is. Gosh, if only I could access the lost drives.
My old program fonts are outdated (since XP, later Vista there's a new file format in use). They could be trouble because unicode for example is not code compatible with ascii. And I don't mean the difference from 16/32 to 64 bit but the order of numbering is total arbitrary depending on the creator. Dunno who's (MS) bright idea it was to choose order as they pleased. Now it seems unicode is being reigned and block numbers are being assigned for certain type of glyphs. Too late.