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Akiha's Tea Room / What's special about you?

« on: March 14, 2008, 08:35:50 AM »

Everyone is unique and has something that makes him different from other people. Talents, diseases, histories etc. I thought about hearing interesting stories of people.
For an example: Are you homosexual, do you have a habit that always annoys other people, are you extraordinary if it comes to maths?
Such things.

I hope some people actually write something that is discussable. And it's supposed to be ONLY a discussion. Questions are welcome, answers too. But please don't let this thread go into some spam thing. We all know that you can see lines. Thanks =)


For me, it's this:
I have decreased feelings. There's a gene missing in my skin that produces enzyme for my nerves and they are rare and some kind of numb. It's not as extreme that I can hold my hand into fire and feel nothing. I have just reduced feelings.
I can't feel a soft breeze, I don't feel rain. I can imagine how those things feel, but I never felt it. I only feel strong wind, and not much of it. So I think that my feeling of strong wind would match yours of a soft breeze. Just only without the hair flying around 'n stuff.
I'm not ticklish. I don't feel light pain. One day in school a guy came when I was concentrating and cut my arm with a knife. I didn't even notice it, only after some girls screamed about the blood that was everywhere on the table. I was so fucking surprised.

And it has a big disadvantage. Sex. I CAN have sex and it works fine, but I feel near nothing. This is propably the most broken and annoying thing about my disease. My body reacts and enjoys it but I can't, which makes sex something totally strange. My girlfriend said once to me that I am as cold as ice since I "don't enjoy". She didn't know about my disease then.


Also, I had tinitus for 4 years. It started after an accident with a car. This accident caused the tinitus thing. It's hell, I tell you. People who have it and enjoy their life fully have my biggest respect. It's annoying, driving you crazy. You can't sleep, can't concentrate, listening to music is different and you need to hear it loud to enjoy it without this beep-tone.
After 4 years, I had an accident again, with a car. The tinitus disappeared. The docs didn't know why, but I was so happy.


Mh. Bleh. So I think, I'm special somehow. What about you?

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Akiha's Tea Room / What's written on Ciel's seventh holy scriptures.

« on: February 18, 2008, 02:59:33 AM »

Quite a strange question, but watching the anime again, I screenshotted some stuff. Since TYPE MOON co-produced the anime, there must be some sense behind the text - or it's just some random quote. I took the time and typed it down so one can read it.

XXX = not readable



Mes dernières années

sont impatientés de mon pinceau maladroit et se sont envo-
les chaeun de leur côté. Je m'accroche à leurs chaussures
boueuses et leur hurle de m'attendre. Si je n'élabore pas un
nouveau plan de bataille, c'est moi qui vais perdre souffle le
premier.
  Bref, ce roman c'est pas très drôle. Il n'est fait que de
poses. Ce genre de livre, qu'on en écrive un page ou cent.
J'étais optimiste en espérant qu'au moins un élément sin-
cère sortirait de ce que j'étais en train d'écrire. Quelle pré-
moins un bon côte? Désespérant de mon style puant et
bavard, je traque quand même dans le moindre recoin « au
moins une bonne chose, au moins une ». Ce faissant, je com-
mence à me raidir à vue d'œil : c'est que j'ai claqué. Ah! un
roman, on ne doit l'écrire que sans arrière-pensée. Avec de
bons sentiments, on ne fait pas de la bonne littérature.
Qu'est-ce que j'ai pu être bête - et que ce mot contienne
les pires choses! Si l'on n'est pas dans un état extatique
jamais on ne pourra écrire un roman. Si un mot ou une
phrase rebondit dans vorte cœur en dix sens différents, il
vaut mieux casser vorte pinceau et le jeter. Qu'il s'agisse de
Yôzô, de Hida ou encore de Kosuge, ils n'ont nul besoin de
toute façon, on sait d'où ils viennent. Sois mièvre, sois
mièvre. Spontané, sans réfléchir.

Ce soir-là, la nuit était déjà bien avancée quand le frère
ainé de Yôzô vint le voir à la clinique. Yôzô jouait au
cartes avec Hida et Kosuge. La veille, lorsque le frère éXXX
aussi tous les trois. Mais il ne faudrait pas croire qu'ils par
sent leurs journées des cartes à la main. Au contraire, on
peut dire qu'ils jouer. Ils ne sortent des cartes que
lorsqu'ils s'ennuient ferme. En outre, ils évitent les jeux où
...


What do you think? I can't read this because I don't speak French at all.

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Akiha's Tea Room / CARD SAGAS WARS

« on: February 13, 2008, 03:09:50 AM »

Yo. I'm starting this topic because I'm bored and saw this one the other day. There's a pretty good looking M.U.G.E.N. fan project called Card Sagas Wars. I only saw the videos and pictures, but they looked really good so far. This is a crossover-like fighting game, featuring known characters. From the videos I've seen, there is even some kind of BnB possible, this means the creators did some deeper work into this. The sprites are rather kewl, though I am not used into this card gallery style they use.

However, just wanted to throw this into the room. Have a look yourself.

http://cardgallery.tales-tra.com/main_csw.htm

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Akiha's Tea Room / So... BigBang Beat.

« on: January 04, 2008, 05:27:21 AM »

Some of you know. I just want to ask if there are more guys interested in this game, it's a good alternative to MBAC, though in my opinion it can't beat MB if it comes to gameplay. I know there are freaky guys who spend their time with trying out combos and stuff and this is a thread for showing those. Or discussing combos.

It would be nice to find a norm for combo definitions. Some people say L, M, H instead of A,B,C and such stuff. I would prefer the ABC thing. Also, D is the Cancel Button.


Okay.
My primary char in BBB is Ren. He has a kendo and throws coke and he is able to hit the coke with his kendo so it will fly towards the opponent. If the opponent is in the corner, the coke hits twice and you are able to smash the coke a maximum of 6 times. Though, if you do, you can't combo out of this. So 5 hits are ideal. Then you follow with a 214B, 623C. Repeat this one. Then you can Superjump and ABC, then land, 2A, ABC, 623B, D, ABC, 214B, 623C, Superjump, ABC.
I did it once, it's possible and it does more than 6k damage. Though Ren is a low-tier, he is pretty impressive.

The coke thing only works if you got the right distance from your enemy. In the dojo stage, you should stand directly in front of the stipe. In the school stage on the top of the school, you should stand right on the fissile which is straight vertical. If you're too close, you can't hit the coke that many times and if you're too far away, the coke will fly too low and finally land in front of the opponent.

Maybe someone is crazy enough to do this combo after the coke wars.
214B, 623C, 214B, 623C, Superjump, jA, jB, jC, 2A (on the ground), B, C, 623B, D, A, B, C, 214B, 623C, Superjump, jB, jC

This is one that does some more than 5k damage. In combination with the coke it would be really powerful, I think.

However, this is what it starts like.
http://www.npshare.de/files/36/2579/comboren2.avi


Discuss, of course other chars, too.

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NetPlay Community / mbcaster doesn't run mbacPC~

« on: December 30, 2007, 12:40:13 PM »

Hi there.

This is not a problem regarding me, but a friend. Whenever he tries to use mbcaster and selects debug (9), then the game won't start. It doesn't say something like "caster and MB not in the same folder" or something similar. It says nothing and freezes until he closes caster.
Furthermore, the CPU usage rises up to more than 90% for mbacPC.exe in this situation.

I gave him hours of advices what he can do, but with no success. We checked the config_caster and everything. We even replaced them with new files. He even reinstalled Melty Blood. The other thought was that some kind of malware forces the cmd up to such a high CPU usage, but this didn't happen. I gave him my pre-configured mbcaster with the INI files but this didn't work either. I even gave him the mbacPC.exe, the cfg.cfg and the app.cfg, but this didn't work, too.

We disabled the Firewall. Even by deselecting it and everything that is not nessesary in the msconfig. We cleaned the registry from auto starts and dubious programs. This didn't help, too.


So. There he is, he can play Melty Blood regulary, but not via mbcaster. Does anyone have an idea what may cause this problem?

Thanks.

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Akiha's Tea Room / Epic music. Well, I hope it is.

« on: December 29, 2007, 09:39:43 AM »

You know that you can do very impressive stuff by spending money into instrument samples and spending time on learning to understand music and then throwing half your life away to make a song?
No? Damn. That's what I did.

I thought to make a movie score like music. Especially for my own little game project, so after near four weeks of working in FL Studio I can show something. It's not finished though and has a fast ending. But I hope, some of you can give me constructive critique. I would appreciate it =3

http://www.npshare.de/files/36/2293/kramzeuchs.mp3

That's the song. Uhm. I don't know what to say more. See ya. =D

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Akiha's Tea Room / Your personal GOTY 2007.

« on: December 23, 2007, 03:38:33 AM »

So the year is nearly over and it's time for a summary. A summary of you personal Game of the Year.

Which one impressed you most? What was the most entertaining game? All those questions I want you to answer if you list a game here. =3


Of course the 1st place is
Melty Blood - Act Cadenza


Call me a fanboy, but this game rocks harder than everything I ever owned. It's the fastest, most dynamic, most tactical fighting game I know. The animations, the sprites, the graphics in general. Also I like the OST and the sound effects of this game. I was able to spend lots of nihts playing against friends and the netplay patch is the manifestation of my wettest dreams
My personal Game of the Year 2007.

I can't wait for Actress Again.


The 2nd place is
The Witcher


Why? Well, not only because of the genius story of Andrzej Sapkowski or the hype made around it... The Witcher is a solid, entertaining Action RPG, which can let forget you lots of bored nights (if you have time, of course).
The graphics are amazing for the NWN2 engine, the epic soundtrack (and when I say it's epic, it IS epic, goddamnit!), the main character Geralt, the fighting system and the possibility to choose from different moral choices which result in different consequences.
All this aspects grant another GOTY 2007. Though MBAC is first.

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Akiha's Tea Room / Oniblade!

« on: December 19, 2007, 02:34:54 AM »

Hell it's been released in Russia and I was able to get a DVD at the promotion festival.
I can say one thing: HAWT!

Seriously. It's often compared to DMC. That's correct in it's own way. But Oniblade has not only the standard Hack'n'Slay, but also several magic skillz both good looking and being hell effective. The gameplay is damn fast. And when I say damn fast I mean it. The girl doesn't have a WALK animation at all XD

So you are running from Stage to stage, beating up monsters, getting souls with which you can buy skill- or weapon upgrades. There are 4 hotkey slots in which you can put magic stuff. So while you beat up guys with the mouse, use magic with the Keyboard. The skills are somewhat between standard magic arrows and mass damage stuff. Also boost spells and heal magic (costs souls ).

The graphic is hawt. Not best-of-the-best but very good looking, especially the totally overused HDR effects, that makes this game somewhat awesome. If you slay with the mouse, you can just mash onto the left mouse key which will result in fast hack and slay or you may hold the button every slash and the game turns into a short slow motion in which you can react faster and land more combos (because fast klicking is really hard to time). Mass battles are hell of a style. Slaying, gaining magic power from slaying, using mass destruction skillz, casting magic missiles at the darkness (Ya, I know~) and then beat the shit out of the enemies again.

Though it's not that simple. Most there is a unique monster that makes your life hard. It's like one shooting fireballs frequently or spawning more overlords / doing a barrel roll. You know what I mean. Beating this guy up first is nessecary, but don't forget the other monsters.


To say it short:
If you like DMC, half naked anime chicks, blood and eye-burning japanese-like magic effects then you should spend this few bucks into this game. It even has different endings and Cel Shading video sequences. Though it's only available in Russia (or the internets ) and not translated into English yet. But hell, it doesn't matter!

Kay. Back to work. *takes out his gunblades and beats up some random civilians*

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Akiha's Tea Room / Screw Ciel-senpai's lesson!

« on: December 08, 2007, 03:31:38 PM »

Some parts of Tsukihime are remembering me of those silly interactive adventure books where you go to different pages after choosing from several options. Most of them only got you to a "That's it, you were beaten by a burning whale while trying to steal the diadem of doom. - FIN".
And the particuliar thing about this is, that after this happens you get "the lesson". It's made to be useful but I think it misses the spot after guiding me into another dead end.

Actually, this topic is a search for help only covered into a pseudo discussing platform. I apologize.


If you didn't play Tsukihime, don't read further.

I am talking about the things that happen after the chair eyesore thing. You know what I mean. I am going to meet Ciel and got three decisions:

1. wait at the front gate of the school
2. go into the class
3. go behind the gym

I take 1. Okay. At the gate, Ciel doesn't appear > go into class. Talking with Inui. Then another choice comes up when the break starts.

1. keep in the class
2. go eat some lunch in the cafeteria

I am waiting in the class. After the class is over, Shiki gets thoughts I can not follow about how he wants to meet Ciel and such stuff. He goes into the Kaiba cave, I mean, the tea ceremony club and then Roa appears and kills you. Dead end.

"Hum." *loads*

1. wait at the front gate of the school
2. go into the class
3. go behind the gym

I choose 3 and go behind the gym. Ciel doesn't appear > class.

1. keep in the class
2. go eat some lunch in the cafeteria

Taking 2. I meet Ciel. Blah talking. Then another choice.

1. Leave her after the talk
2. Go after her and talk about Arcueid 'n stuff

Choosing 2. Go after her, talking, then she invites me to the tea ceremony club after school. Appearing there, I get killed by Roa. No Ciel. This bitch didn't appear to rescue me after I rescued her from Arc. *loads*


1. wait at the front gate of the school
2. go into the class
3. go behind the gym

Taking the class, 2. Blah, Inui talk.

1. keep in the class
2. go eat some lunch in the cafeteria

Choosing 2.

1. Leave her after the talk
2. Go after her and talk about Arcueid 'n stuff

I am leaving her alone. Then I go back to class and after it's over, he STILL goes into the damn tea ceremony room and STILL I die.


----

So I am asking. WHAT is going wrong. The lesson tells me to not abadon Ciel and clear things out between me and her. So I did and I still died. It's a nightmare. I can't even bear Ciel's lesson anymore. Help XD