Corn, corn everywhere

Battle Cats. For a free Android game, it’s very presentable. A tower defence game of sorts where you send out your weirdass-Cats to raze the enemy’s base. Also, if you get enough of the premium currency (“cat food”), Samurai-, Ninja-, Sumo-Cats. Even God-Cat.

About God-Cat. I just thought, “Eh, what the hell, I want to see what it looks like.” But once you get it (by spending cat food), you can only activate it by using more cat food, so relish its one free use. ‘Cause seeing God-Cat. Worth it.

You get enough crazy cats when they level and evolve. Then things get strange, and you realize that something must be said about you being the leader of all these oddities.

There are a lot of unlockables including a dictionary or “Enemy Picture Book”. Whoever wrote these had a field day. Like apparently it was really, absolutely necessary to mention the hippo is bisexual. The elephant, the moth - even if you don’t play the game, you should look up the dictionary entries.

It’s a simple game but well done. Also, Cow-Cat’s Forever Alone head = perfect match! Yep, visuals are perfect as they are.

I only got Farm Story to get gems on another Team Lava game. Therefore purely aiming for xp while being an antisocial hermit avoiding commitment. Surely for the sake of all my would-be neighbours/followers who would tear their little hearts out once I delete this game.

Newbie thought process:

1. Optimize for XP. Strawberries = 1xp/5min? As good as it gets.
2. Get a sheep because I’m sure there is some analogy akin to watching paint dry and pots boil that applies to watching plants grow.
3. Like any good “power gamer” (I-I’m not! or that apple tree and sheep’d be long gone, definitive proof), must break even a casual game by filling the entire plot of land with strawberries. Sheep doesn’t even move? … Sell that useless fence shit. I’m actually a little disappointed, because even the white pixel sheep blotches in SimFarm 15 years ago moved around.
4. Gold building up because a fat total of 0 items in the catalogue gives more xp than strawberries? Buy lanterns for the xp, then sell. Because lanterns only take up 1/3 or 1/4 of a square! More room for crops.
5. Bask in the most realistic Ultimate Farming Experience.

It only took a few mins, but I calculated xp/gold for decorations and at my piddly level there are a few top choices, but lanterns take the least space.

I have some corn or whatever growing too for the times I’m not harvesting every 5 freaking mins. I actually looked up this strawberry strat later to see if other people did this, because it “breaks” what should be your beautiful farm. Of course loads of people do it. Of course.

Strawberry Fields Forever ♬

I’ve had a Google Nexus 7 in the house for a while but it’s not mine. Lately, I’ve been commandeering it more often. It’s a great Android tablet for anyone looking for one. Snappy. Just wish it had expandable memory.

So my next slew of random posts is going to be about this foray into Android gaming lewl. Because I’m going to be busy with work for the next while, I won’t be doing much of my regular updates (translations, sheet music posts, transcriptions). I’ve actually put transcribing on the back burner for years now… shoot. I just haven’t been playing the piano as often to get into finding or making more sheets.

But I still wanted to post things, so there.

New manga: Puzzle

Original novel by Yamada Yuusuke and illustrated by Sanbe Kei. I really like Sanbe Kei’s works, even if endings have been kinda weak so far. Lots of survival themes and suspense/mystery. There is also a 2007 Japanese drama adaptation of Puzzle.

Description from d-wiki: When an armed group seizes control of an elite high school, a group of classmates are forced to find 2,000 puzzle pieces hidden throughout the school within 48 hours.

Sound exciting? I hope so! Here’s chapter 1!

Read @ http://jp.snomits.net

Bocchi Biyori manga update

Chapter 4’s done. More fairy mouse cuteness.

Read @ http://jp.snomits.net

The next release will be a new series. I’m pretty excited about it, but chapters are about 50 pages so it will take a while. The new project and Spiral Alive will be my main active projects, along with Bocchi Biyori when I just want something short and simple.

Spiral Alive manga update

Volume 05, chapter 22 complete! With the new system of mouseover translations. It takes me a while to do Spiral Alive, the length. I hope my attempts are done properly. >_<

Kiyotaka and Rio explain what happened 9 years ago, and Amanae faces Sheffield with her own revelations!

Read @ http://jp.snomits.net

What do you mean by “change” and “somewhere else”? Are you re-inputting all the notes (just curious)? If you could leave in my name and say it was edited by you or something like that, that’d be swell.

Woowoowow Ni no Kuni on the ps3.

Credits in the opening, on seeing “Studio Ghibli”: Yeeeaaaah Ghibli!

On seeing the credits for music by Joe Hisaishi: Yeeeeeaaah Joe Hisaishi!

Music performed by Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra: Woh!

I started playing the DS version before it was translated to English. It looks nice, but I was busy so didn’t finish it. I haven’t played nice comp/console games in ages. Ages.

OHRhrhghffjfjf the music! Drippy’s Welsh accent! Actually listening to the English voice acting just for Drippy.

I’m so psyched. I spent a loooong time getting this to work:

Mouseover translations!

A kindly anon messaged about typesetting to improve readability. I’ve been thinking about that since I began, but chose the slideshow format in the end. It’s good for summaries. But there are more resources available now, so heck yeah!

Anyway, the point of this message:

• Warning that translated pages may bork. I have like four formats and project index pages that all run off the same script.
• Pages will load more slowly because the page dimensions are much larger, and after the page loads the notes need to load. Hmm.
• You should not be able to add/edit/delete the notes on the pics. Please let me know if that is not the case…

This is the only page or so that uses this right now: Spiral Alive extra. Still a work in progress!

Kousuke, one of my fav chars from Spiral Alive! Pic from chapter 8.

Currently rereading. I keep seeing “complicity” in these sorts of sentences… please, no more! Some changes during QC were good; others…

Not that I am aware of currently.

Late reply, oops. Because I wanted to find it and be able to say, “Yes! Here!” But nope.

Here’s a random tidbit.

永 = forever (“wing” in Cantonese)

氷 = ice (“bing”)

The difference is the dot at the top/left of the character. “Forever” is one of my fav Chinese chars purely because of its aesthetics. A while ago, my friend who knew I had a site but had never seen it asked to see the site. One of the first/only things he bothered to say was, “Why is my name on it?”

永 is in a lot of things besides your name, bro!

Anyway, as promised I changed the character in my headers to 氷, which doesn’t look/sound quite as cool but is still nice and more fitting. A nice 2013 change! To my limited knowledge, 永 isn’t normally used alone in a sentence. You have instead 永遠 and 永久 and stuff.

There. Chinese characters lesson of the day.

Bocchi Biyori manga update

Chapter 3, in which Shiharu makes a new friend who genuinely enjoys “Black Bloodthirst”.

Read @ http://jp.snomits.net

I promise Spiral Alive is next! Plan for the next 34u82343 days: reread Spiral Alive scanlations/my crap because I forgot everything that happened. Then keep going!

I will when I can!

The links broke (sigh) and the video doesn’t have a link to the sheets anymore. Actually, the arranger re-uploaded the video or something. So I updated the link and now the video in the post works. As for the sheets… hopefully I have them somewhere or can find them again.