Just my personal FTP.

I’ve had this thing up for ages just for the convenience of my IRL friends, so, I guess it’s alright to put it here.

This here is my FTP. Call it a repository of files I’m willing to share. Although really, it’s just the 1TB drive of this computer where I’m typing right now. Feel free to add files as the permissions are set for public (although you can’t do so on select folders, such as my Music folder). Right now, I wouldn’t say that it’s worth much, although I do have some rare stuff on the Internet.

ftp://beatoriche.doesntexist.com <– yes, I had that name in mind thanks to Umineko no Naku Koro Ni and the lol pronunciation of “Beatrice” in the anime.

Seeing the server up is quite rare though, since I’m not around at mornings and paying for the power bill with the help of a 24-7 server is not a funny thought. Uptime would be around 8:00 PM – 1:00 AM (although I will keep it up until 6:00 AM if someone’s downloading beforehand) @ GMT +8

Getting your anime fix.

The title says it all. I’ve set up a bunch of links that are very useful to refer to whenever a new season is coming up. This will cover everything, from how to know what’’s airing, where to get it and how to watch it. Oh and yes, this is fit for beginners.

Read more for the whole thing.

P.S. Ain’t done with the whole guide, but I already posted the links you’d be interested in, especially if you know what you’re doing.

iTunes 9 + Windows 7 wait… WHAT?

All thanks to that 09/09/09 fuzz made by Apple, I was convinced to try out iTunes 9 for use on my iPod touch and guess what, they actually managed to make iTunes Windows 7 compatible!

Finally.

Although, what amazed me was this:

iTunes showing its preview box via Windows 7's implementation.

Yep, that’s right, they even managed to implement the playback controls in the preview window (like WMP12 does it) and preview what’s currently playing with the helpful caption. iTunes is probably one of the first few to try this. (please disprove me, comment.)

To add, this is a Windows 7 exclusive feature, the idea of Apple devs nosing around with the API for it seemed hard to believe. I guess they were trying to mimic how iTunes behaves in Mac (they did this before through the system tray) by adding this bit of functionality.

Not bad, Apple. I might just start praising you.

Or not. I still cringe at those price tags and the UI I could never get used to; in OSX.
Windows still knows how to spell the word “productivity” better than OSX. (in b4 flames in the comments.) /rant

TF2 items to be returned! (for those who idled / “cheated”)

If you’ve done the milestone achievement for the classes, be happy.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11117879&postcount=16

Now please, stop being such lousy butthurt faggots and actually play the fucking game properly. (I’m looking at you, people who don’t heal others with halos. Relinquish your anger at someone else, like Valve, not the other gamers who’ve nothing to do with this.)

tl;dr GROW THE FUCK UP. Whenever Valve released updates, we all raved and treated Valve as kings. Now that they did this, people are now treating Valve as what, the epitome of evil? Sheesh.

Valve – idling players debacle

2 5 7 minute post in 3… 2… 1… go. (sheesh, I have to go somewhere and I’m a bit late.)

Valve just pulled off something not-so-extreme. Seems that they removed items that were gained through idling via means of some program and Valve is currently taking in a small backlash from the community of idlers.

Seriously, I think that the idlers really haven’t much of an argument here. If you’ve truly lost legitimate items (take note, you did not DELETE your legit ones and replaced them with your newly gained idled items) then you win this one.

Valve only stripped you of items which you wouldn’t have owned in the first place.

And for the whole “they have a halo, and I don’t” envy, It’s pretty much the same as “I have a cool hat and you don’t because I idled a lot” statement that you guys love to use.

…..

I need to spellcheck and see the grammar on this later.

Umineko Opening Themes

I love Umineko (yep, played up to EP4) and I just wanted to share the opening tracks for both the anime and the game. Yes, the anime OP I have here is of full-length.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni OPs

Anime Opening – now that Nipponsei finally released it, get it there. Unless you wanted the old link

Visual Novel Opening

Enjoy.

Cease and Desist!

http://www.tsukuru.info/tlwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

See this for yourself and guess what’s missing?

That’s right, Saya no Uta, Chaos;head and other Nitro+ related games are now missing.  and the reason why is:

“Support JAST USA’s official localizations of Nitro+ games”

Anyway, as a preventive measure from any legal issues, you could say that TLWiki has now removed all Nitro+ translation patches from the site, that means… everything that was made so far. So much for all the time spent on translating, editing and hacking each of the games.

In other words, no more English patches. It’s happened before, live with it. Honestly, it sucks, but whatever.

Honestly, I had hoped that Chaos;head was at least spared (it was barely Nitro+) but I guess that’s a no.

And another classic.

Ever since Amaterasu Translations picked up the oh-so-long dropped project CROSS+CHANNEL, I had an aching to play one of the games that made it popular, well, just for the rest of the world. If you’ve been in the internet for quite some time, you should’ve encountered playing this timeless classic of a flash game.

Or it’s just me.

Oh, and if you want to know more about that CROSS + CHANNEL, it’s an eroge that eventually spawned that flash game, not necessarily related, but you could say that most people knew it because of that accursed flash game.

Or it’s just me. Again. I’m sure it’s not though.

Anyway, that game. Just let Kurosu (the guy) reach as far as you can go while hitting on as much girls to boost your speed. Left+Clicking allows you to use certain AERIAL moves. You’ll figure it out, but then again I bet you’ve played this before too. Ages ago.

Lastly, CROSS+CHANNEL is progressing smoothly on translation, as what I can see. It’s a pity no one could get a hold of whoever was translating before but in this age of wikis, forums and Subversion-based projects, it’s not likely to happen. In other words, it’s finally getting translated.

Just quoting.

Got this from someone in /jp/. Anonymous (No. 2723819), obviously.

“All they do is take their CGs and slap some pans and zooms on them. Oh, and don’t forget the wacky transitions. All this to disguise the fact that there’s no actual fucking animation. God, this is fucking embarrassing shit. You could get a 5-year-old with Adobe Premiere to do your VN OPs and it would look exactly the same. The worst thing is that ALL VN OPs are like this. Play some cheesy song, have random PANS and ZOOMS that make no sense, along with BIZARRE CUTS AND TRANSITIONS. A million monkeys with typewriters are all facepalming right now because even they could do a better job. Fucking pans and zooms.”

QFFT.

Honestly though, nearly everybody does this.

School’s out!

Well, school’s out for DLSU. Everyone gets a 10-day vacation while the administration cleanses the place of any H1N1 virus traces.

So yeah, with all that time, I went there just to snap pictures of the place. Empty as a school at midnight, I say.

Pictures to be uploaded later. iPod touches don’t have cameras.