Monday, April 25, 2016

Beatmania IIDX gameplay report - April 22nd

Somehow, I messed up my sleep schedule that I ended up going to the arcades quite late in the late afternoon but it looked like there was one thing to play Beatmania IIDX again, either to get my itchy fingers scratched by the sharp edge of the turntable or maybe to determine the true culprit behind the cutting of my finger skin. It turned out that the layer just below the very top of the turntable has the sharp edge that may scratch your finger skin if you're not scratching the turntable correctly like it already happened to me but it seemed that either someone peeled off the top part of the turntable again or perhaps, that part was not pasted correctly that I would expect a more accurate condition of the turntable.
Another shameful thing was that the bed or the floor I've been on is attracting some itch on my body so the itch problem isn't quite over yet and that I may expect that the dengue problem be solved in my current place as soon as possible as it is one of the most notorious ones for having the most amount of problems.
Lastly, the train track construction event for Beatmania IIDX Copula is already over as of this time of blogging and that the new event called Melody Line is coming soon. Again, the goal of playing Beatmania IIDX Copula will be to improve my skills and attempt the remaining IIDX Pendual songs. A credit or debit card is required if I want to unlock the Pendual songs that are still locked by purchasing the E-Amusement Basic Subscription but I don't know if that feature will be available outside Japan and I hate to falsify things in my accounts like that.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Let's Encrypt reached final stage

It was a surprise that Let's Encrypt by EFF had reached the final stage and Wordpress was one of the websites/blogging services to have the Let's Encrypt implemented for better security using the HTTPS protocol. As the secure certificate went final and became stable, it attracted many webmasters in which many websites finally made use of it for better security. Even many tech-giants had become EFF's sponsors of the Let's Encrypt certificate and that you can also use it for your web as well.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Groove Coaster 3 Link Fever True First Play

OK, the title says it all although two of the Groove Coaster machines were turned off for unknown reason but at least I managed to play the game again. Prior to this, I signed up for the Nesica account and choose Groove Coaster at the official Nesica website which allowed me to use the virtual currency to unlock additional stuffs. Unfortunately, certain songs that needed to be unlocked through music panels were not available for unlock at the My Page section of the game's website so I may be out of luck like that.
It's already April by the time I played Groove Coaster again at Virtualand arcade at Bugis and things went quiet after late March in which the renovation on my neighbor's home was completed or something and that there should be some peace but then, there may be fears that such peace like this won't last forever. Also, I might have fulfilled some career prerequisite by having recently published a mixtape to Mixcloud but complaints about renovation noise were still bullshit when I still have yet to fulfill the remaining prerequisites. And this is why playing Groove Coaster 3 at Century Square arcade for the first time didn't count.
On the technical side, those idiots at home NEVER know what my ambitions for those careers are all about. They never know things about IT Professional or even Disc Jockey. It's like they mistake those things for games and it was the same for this year's Lunar New Year. If they continue to make and spread those stupid rumors about me every Lunar New Year to my relatives, related aunties and uncles without any proper knowledge, then I have no one else to network with since I think that they're behaving like baddies or something. And besides, they may be more idiotic if they take any IT careers for laughing stocks.
Anyway, the renovation thing I mentioned was completed before the start of April and nobody cares for such excuses stated above. What do I care is to advance the beginning of my careers with sufficient experience and skills as well as to make future progress in arcade rhythm games. But, never be ignorant about someone's career and ambition! It's disrespecful to me as what happened this year's Lunar New Year.

Beatmania IIDX Gameplay Report - April 8th

At least the mistakes were solved this time in which I played the same set of songs in Expert Mode in Beatmania IIDX in Hyper difficulty with Auto-Scratch turned off. Unfortunately, it looked like I scratched my finger while scratching the turntable which was like causing skin cuts on that finger. Play too much of Beatmania IIDX and that finger would get its skin cut open. Fortunately, the vinyl or traditional turntable texture was nothing like that but for the Beatmania IIDX turntable, its texture has the dotted pattern that trying to scratch it too hard may result in the finger skin being scratched as well. The workaround for this is that there should be some official tape-mod for the turntable but it is quite rare to find one.
Reasons for tape-mod may be the fact that your hands may get sweaty or maybe my finger gets scratched when scratching the turntable. I don't know if the Beatmania IIDX PS2 controller's turntable has the same texture pattern or not but I don't want to risk cutting my finger skin over scratching the turntable as it may be painful. Imagine me playing Beatmania IIDX with the glove on.
Or maybe that I scratched my finger skin at the metallic edge of the turntable, I don't know.