I change my name, burn my house to the ground, and stop talking to anyone we know in common.

Perhaps my methods are a tad bit excessive.

Well, this one is about time management for anarchist, or something like that.

Randomly came across this... people talk about machines taking over the world, but isn't the inhumane way that "the system" treats people, effectively as if people are controlled by machines, full of judgment and hate, but in denial so they can't ever "wake up".

Also, won't people who endure this level of abuse, some of it with permanent brain damage (although I think that the brain can develop very far, and heal a great deal, given the right environment and stimulation), lead to a world filled with less-brained people, similar to the brainless Zombies in fiction?

Those who survive, on the other hand, now have to hide their true natures, like how that girl in R.E. 3 had to hide from the Umbrella Corporation.

Wow, reality is like a cross between The Matrix, Terminator 1&2, and Resident Evil 1-3 / generic zombie pictures!

A while back, I tried out some "free open source" development tools, and found that all of them made creating a GUI a royal pain. They had tools that were supposed to make it easier, but it was worse than doing it "by hand", i.e. designing something in your head or on paper, then building it up incrementally with code.

A tutorial on GUI programming with Python that I found, is actually quite interesting... it even borders on being fun... okay, maybe it is fun, at times, but at the time, I was still thinking "why is there no drag-and-drop tool to make this even easier?" cause, you know, no matter how good you are at drawing lines and adjusting layouts, the machine on your design is designed (okay, evolved over time, in an inefficient manner) to do that stuff, and do it faster.

Well, I'm tired of this stuff, so I'm taking tomorrow off to get some sunshine or something.

I'm not big on OOP, esp. with respect to C++. I have a pragmatic view of things, and find it annoying when tools get in the way.
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For some reason, everyone is going about saying that there's a translation of Soul Hackers in the work. Well, the most recent detail I can find of it is a blog on May 19, this year, which explains that it is not a high priority of the team. I guess that is a good thing overall, it will be out eventually, but meanwhile, I'm like "meh", you know? The game is hard to hack, and I can't see any hobbyist doing that or SMT:IF..., unless they really are sorta M. ... but, you know, it'll be cool if it does come out, after all.

What might be even cooler, though, is a new cyberpunk game...

Yeah, this is me going into Monad for the first time, in Shin Megami Tensei : Persona 3.

This is my first playthru, and I avoided reading too much about the game, just so that I would get surprises... but I mean, story surprises, not this unplesant surprise.

Monad is... intimidating.

I like this game, though, partly because it reminds me more of the SMT 1 & 2 games for SFC (I only played the AeonGenesis fan-translations, and then, not all the way through).

Well, enjoy!

-K.

Okay, here are a few random things:

• Persona 3 - Reached top of the Tower (Nyx route), and now this "Monad" thing opens up, but the game tells you NOTHING about it, so I'm level 74, and hop in all big and bad, and my first encounter is with two enemies. They look familiar, and I get Player Advantage, but I scan them to be sure...
• And they are LEVEL 96. Level NINETY-SIX. In about two rounds, I'm dead.
• You'll get to see all of this if I upload the videos later. I have to do quality checks. I mean, I don't HAVE to, but, I want to... but not now, later, when I have time
• Right now I'm boosting the volume and uploading a very short clip, if it works then I'll use the same settings on previous videos. Then I'll start to work on my DHTML project. Not the P3 Fusion one, but, something more epic, which is harder for me but will let me learn more useful skills. I also will mention that, ever since I took some time off for myself, I've come to gain a lot more happiness. THe modern common stressful life can be a killer... that being said, Im still putting myself under a lot of pressure, needed to really put things in perspective... so I'll be doing more silly things more often, for contrast. It's not because I'm silly, it's because being silly lets me be serious and productive more when I'm working on something.
• On the other hand, FF9 continues to be my favourite Final Fantasy game so far. It actually feels like a game, and not a movie with sequences where you're supposed to press "X" while saying "oooo, look at the preeeety graphics". It's not perfect, but it is good enough that I would actually buy it and not have any regrets. Well, no, I do regret the lack of New Game+ and easier to access mini-games, but it's not like the same team that did it did Chrono Trigger --- um, wait a minute, some of them did... Square after all...
• I don't have a PSP, so please stop asking me about PSP games, already! XD
• WebCamMax looks awesome....
• and I need professional level gear if I'm gonna do some proper voice recording. Although I think I'll import it directly, not liking local prices.

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More notes, now that the post stage is done:

• There's a glitch in the two videos that I uploaded, and it bugs me, so I don't think I'll upload anymore. Fixing it in post, other than doing tedious frame by frame work, won't be possible for me (although I guess a filer could be programmed to do it, by some expert in the field). 
• Despite how I sound, I enjoy Persona 3 and will prob. buy the Persona 3 PSP game, when I get a PSP. Yes, I've come to realize that I will eventually get one. Just prob. not this year.
• This was a fun diversion, but I'll be "back to work" all week and will thus prob. not do any more videos until a week or more from now... but I'd like to do them at least once a week, and make them more update-ish than random.
• The DHTML project is coming along... slowly but it is starting to feel like fun. Can't say I felt the same way when I used to do C++, or even JAVA. Or should I say, especially JAVA. Nah, JAVA wasn't all that bad for me, I actually appreciated some of the things Sun tried... it was just sad how badly they failed to "get it". Then again, they did sell a lot of Sun servers because of it, I guess.

That's all for no!
-13K.

A model maps directly to an actual instance of form or structure. An analogy, however, distorts the image of a particular situation, in order to illustrate a point. Thus, an analogy will exaggerate some things, and be inaccurate, if treated as a model.

Well, that was just something I randomly though of.

This isn't possible to do literally, but, I would like to give maturity to more people. Even, or perhaps especially, to, myself.

The closest thing to doing this, would be giving books that I find represent mature models of thought, but, the problem with that is, few people read them, and even fewer, live by them... for myself, I've come to realize that I need to work harder to free my mind of those common lies and being more mature, and wise.

I came across a wikipedia article based on the book "The Art of Dreaming", based on the book by Carlos Castaneda... which I haven't read but seems like good fodder for an adventure game. Gates and all.

Now, meanwhile, I have a prediction: that I'll get my own website within a few months. The reason? Well, it's and adventure to manage stuff, but a bit of a frustration to be managed. With all the changes on the Internet, it'll become increasingly important for me to have an online place where I have a bit of control over policy.

Also, I tried fighting a boss in P3. Twice. Major failure there, but during it, I started thinking....

Successfully Managed, Ambitious Revolution Technique

Well, I've been slowly building a studio, in order to unleash the wrath of my "artistic side" upon the world. However, work has been at a slower-than-glacier-crawl, because of a lot of things. So, I worked to move those obstacles, and had a breakthrough today.
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Incidental asside: new video from BIPOLARorWAKINGup (or however they capitalize it) just went up, apparently. This one, on paranoia. Of course, in my case, THEY really ARE after me....

I do think of how everything I do will cause others to react, although for the most part, I try to ignore excessive fear of rejection, etc.

On the other hand, when I'm making a product for sale, or working in any sort of professional capacity, empathy with the customer (and boss, who is a customer as I'm the supplier of skills/labor/time) helps to determine what to emphasize, as well as whether it is worthwhile to continue.

This is a part of short notes I'm making here, fairly boring and technical. It's just faster to do it this way than to use a pen and paper notebook, and more reliable than using my hdd, and less expensive than printing out out. I'll tag them all "technote" and you can all just ignore them.

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So, whilst waiting for videos to finish uploading, I decided to check on videos which I had tagged with "l8r", which is a code I use to mean that I had planned to do the video description later on. This was one of the Grandia 3 videos which I had not done a proper description for... and as I was updating it, I realized that I had something else on my mind, since I started ranting about "additional costs".



Long rant follows!
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Short story: I'm dumping a lot more videos onto youtube over the next few days, but they're not new nor all that interesting... and the whole thing has made me rethink things a lot.

Long story: New focus to my free time.
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The key to you dream job:
holistic service,
clever marketing....

NSFW link.

Uploaded a video which was sitting on my hdd for over a year, to Viddler because it is over 30 minutes (youtube limit is aroudn 10 minutes), to an experimental account, links below:


http://www.viddler.com/explore/ManiKentaro/videos/2/

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The first Persona game has been remade for PSP, and the AtlusUSA team has gone to great effort to provide a full translation for the upcoming English release of the game. Of course, I sound like an advertisement, and I am really making this post not to review the game, which I haven't played (but many others have, e.g. this rpgfan preview), and may never since I don't own a PSP nor plan to get one anytime soon.

Wait, why am I making this post? Oh, I guess it's just mindless link propogation, then.