Tanaka Futaba (aka D-San) Blog

Mygamercard.net leaderboard is down for quite sometimes already for some fixings. Because of this I can’t get my usual screenshot of my race. I can only get it from my overall rankings (below). Yes, it’s been a while and I am not passing the 70s line and moving towards the 60 finish line and soon will reach my 50 line goal.

Other news, I will adopt another cat and I hope he will get along well with Truman. I will name him MiKe, as in Japanese not English (pronounced as mee-ke). The color pattern on him and the blue eyes struck me and I want him right away. He reminds me of Mike character from my favorite anime “Sketchbook ~ Full Color’s” and thus the same name to honor the great anime. Here is the pictures of both.

Anything bad, dark, gruesome can be cute if drawn in anime style. This include the infamous BioShock’s newest character, Big Sister. I am sure the original big sister and little sister in the game are sinister characters with scary shining eyes (top picture). But look at them now in the anime style (bottom picture). Kawaii ne.

Yes, in the game world anyway. What’s the curse? Gamescore glitch! So far I think there are only 2 games based on movies which Jolie starred in: Tomb Raider and Wanted. I played both games and I stuck with one last GS glitch that drove me nuts. Instead of the perfect 1000/1000 GS, I’m stuck with 975/1000. I can’t stand it. I hate GS glitches because it is an annoying and frustrating things to keep replaying to get the points but nothing in the end.GRAAHHH!!  Angie, I love you but I hate GS glitch! *flip table*

Joe Rosberg posted an article on TechRepublic and I want to thank him when he took the words right out of my mouth. So Joe, you’ re not alone

Here is the section that I think it is so me. Quote: “I’ll admit my bias. I just don’t like any of the Internet’s social networking sites. I don’t want to be Face Booked or My Spaced, and I don’t want to be Twittered or Tagged. I want my former Classmates to remain part of my past, and I don’t want any future Adult Friends to be found for me. I guess I just don’t want to be Linked-In, regardless of who invites me, legitimate or not.

One might think that out of the hundreds of social networking sites out there, that just one of them might appeal to me. Nope, not one of them. If that makes me old school, then so be it. I do find it interesting, however, that at one time (not too long ago), I was considered a person on the leading edge of Internet technology. Has it really been around long enough for me to be an Internet old fogie?” Here is the link to the full article titled “Another social networking site harvesting e-mail addresses“.

Updates on my Gamerscore and race. Since it is a nice even number, I decided to capture it before it changes.

I am ranked 81 on my race. Hmm… with GS accumulating every week, my rank is actually dropping. I suspect either many gamers put some good scores or some high score gamers from other countries simply choose Singapore (fewer total gamers) as their “country” so that they can “rank higher”.

To emphasis why I will not like Wii, I have to quote IndustryGamers interview with Ubisoft Producer Ben Mattes on why not bring Prince of Persia to the ultimate casual console: The Wii? (I am underlining the reasons here)

“Mattes said that the system just couldn’t handle what his team wanted to achieve, saying “the AI of Elika was highly advanced and required a lot of processing power; the world size and dynamic loading, the draw distance, the number of polygons in the characters… If we had done a Wii version, it would have been toned down, probably linear, it wouldn’t have been an open-world game, and so it would have been a very different experience. We didn’t want to water it down that way.”

Again, I am a serious gamer and I want to see and hear everything dolby or better. I need a close to real life precision in control, not the almost real with Wii’s remote.  Also Wii will be incapable of producing games like Halo, Mass Effect, Assassin Creed, etc. Yes, Wii is a fun console with fun game for family. Maybe the only Wii I’ll get is Wii Fit to help me get fitter while playing other consoles. Ok, ok, so the new Metroid does appeal to me a bit.