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Plans for this weekend.

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Yay, the weekend is basically here.  I just need to survive a few hours of work, then I’ll have my blissful days off.  Even better, I actually have a plan for the weekend.

You see, starting today, there is an event going on in Las Vegas called EVO.  While I won’t be competing at all, I’ll still be heading over to hang out with a few people from Capcom Unity who have gone to Sin City to enjoy the show.  We also plan to eat at Margarittaville tomorrow, which is one of my favorite spots.

So, tonight, after work, I’ll be swinging to the Caesar’s Palace to check out EVO and see what’s going on.  I also do still plan on streaming tonight.  However, I cannot say when I’ll be available to stream.

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For safe keeping.

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I’ve been wanting to learn Japanese for quite some time. I even bought a book on Japanese when I was like 15 years old, give or take. However, I never really was able to get into the language outside of listening to music and watching sub-titled media. Well, yesterday, I asked Greg from Capcom, an awesome guy who knows Japanese, to help me. Hopefully, I’ll be able to properly study it this time around.

However, for now, I’m going to put the list that he gave me here for safe keeping. I currently am a bit short on funds, so I’m going to wait a short bit to get the books that he recommended.

Japanese For Everyone: http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Everyone-Functional-Approach-Communication/dp/0870408534
Essential Kanji: http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Kanji-Characters-Systematically-Reference/dp/0834802228/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341370394&sr=1-1&keywords=essential+kanji
Basic Japanese Thru Comics: http://www.amazon.com/Mangajins-Basic-Japanese-Through-Comics/dp/0834804522/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341370406&sr=1-4&keywords=japanese+through+manga
People also say Genki is good, but I never used it: http://www.amazon.com/GENKI-Integrated-Elementary-Japanese-Edition/dp/4789014401/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341370443&sr=1-1&keywords=genki

Also, I looked at a few apps on the iOS store in an attempt to get a bit of a start before I get my hands on the books above. I’ve found an app called Human Japanese that looks like it may be a good start for the meanwhile.

I’m also considering writing a blog post in Spanish about once a week. I had studied Spanish for 5 years back when I was in school. However, I’ve only retained a small bit of all that I had learned during those years. I might as well try to actively use it in order to rebuild my skills.

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Yay, did some maintance fix-ups to the site.

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Encountered some color issues yesterday when I actually had a conversation going in the comments. So, I am happy to announce that the color issue is now fixed. The blog once again looks nicely designed without having any important text elements made illegible due to css color mistakes.

Furthermore, Seffy decided to add in a nice feature for those who actually decide to become official members of her blog. There are now group forums activated. So, chit-chat can occur here. Seferia tried to install site-wide forums, but they didn’t want to work. But group forums are just as good.

Enjoy the improvements.

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Seferia will probably stream tomorrow on the 4th of July

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I’m definitely thinking of streaming something tomorrow. Now, I shall possibly poke Darius and the crew and see if they want to do a revived fight night stream. If not, perhaps I’ll do Borderlands with Malek. Maybe I’ll just do P3rd.

I should also try to figure out which night the EVO crew will be meeting up for dinner. If it’s Friday, I might have issues trying to work out the P3rd stream on Friday. I’ll figure it out. Mmmm-hmmm.

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The video round-up.

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I’ve been recording quite a bit of my adventures on P3rd HD these past few days. So, for your viewing pleasure, I am about to present all the videos that I have put up on the subject.

I never had any intentions of teaching anyone anything about Monster Hunter when making these videos, so don’t expect to be enlightened. Nor am I some great hunter of prestige, so no impressed either. Just look for entertainment, my dears.

Continue reading The video round-up. →

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It is honestly quite amazing….

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I’ve been a part of Capcom-Unity for about two years now. Nearly the entire time, I’ve had my steam account mentioned in my signature. Yet, only recently have some of the people who I actively speak to actually noticed that I have Steam. I received many “wow, Seferia, you have Steam?”s when I joined the WOM group on Steam.

I’ve even previously mentioned jumping on a sale of Skyrim on Steam this past winter…. People are just honestly strange.

Anyway, I spent most of my night last night messing with Adobe Premiere. I had somewhat messed with the program in the past. After all, I went to college with a Flim/Video/Animation degree in mind, though I didn’t follow through… But that’s beside the point. Anyway, I had forgotten most of how to use the program, though most of it is quite self-explanatory. Overall, I had the largest problem figuring out how to encode my project into a format for YouTube.

Well, I think I finally figured it out this morning. So, hopefully that very simple edit job will be up and available on YouTube tonight.

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Woot! New add-on for my blog works! Now to needlessly ramble.

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Not that anyone really reads this. However, I feel like using it, so I shall use it since I feel like it.

Anyway, this past weekend, Steam had a great sale on Dues Ex. The Dues Ex collection was selling for 14.99. That’s a whole lot of gaming and fun for little price. So, I decided to go ahead and jump on it after about a day of thinking.

So far, I haven’t regretted the choice at all. I started off with Dues Ex: Human Revolution, since that was the game that I had been eying off for some time. While I’ve been dying a lot, most of my deaths can be blamed solely on me being careless and not on any silly game quirk that would frustrate me. I’m also having fun just running around all over the place and hacking everything. I can’t wait to unlock more augments and mess with them.

Also, this weekend, I attempted to go back to another game that I had bought a few months back, Divinity II. Yea… That game is all sorts of frustrating. I should make videos of me yelling in frustration at it, since there have been plenty of moments of that… Heck, the game consistently glitched on me about 10 straight times as I attempted to restart the game because it wouldn’t load a guy’s dialogue. There’s just something not right with that game.