Sunday, June 19, 2016
Sound Voltex gameplay report - June 18 (Controversial Trip)
While the local tournament held by Virtualand/Star Factory of Sound Voltex was taking place in the arcades at Bugis, things were still normal elsewhere. Indeed, the local tournaments of those games are kind of like KAC or something but on a smaller scale and my skill level isn't at the highest to be frank. Meanwhile at the arcades at Century Square which I went to again which has never been the main intention or main plan whatsoever to go there, it appeared that I was losing patience over the same inexcusable bullshit I blogged about three months ago. It's a repeat of what happened three months ago and I don't know when will the renovation in my neighbor's home be complete. Simply going there because of that drilling noise taking place in my neighbor's home isn't the main intention and that is inexcusable. I don't get it on why those idiots at my home continue to be this idiotic and that had affected my mood on that day. It was an inexcusable delay of my Disc Jockey ambition preparation.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Sound Voltex Gameplay Report - June 15 (Controversial Trip)
So, I managed to unlock Lachryma<<Re:Queen'M>> in Advanced difficulty after having decent grades in the prerequisite songs in the same difficulty. I don't know why I can't unlock Everlasting Message in Advanced despite having decent grades in its prerequisite songs like AA or A for instance. Maybe I need to get AA or something although the Dempa genre can go screw itself as it continues to be weird and turns me off. Like WHO IN THE HELL plays that weird-ass genre in the nightclub or something?
Also, I have a news here that reflects my new YouTube channel's description with its own policy, delusional relationships with whatever celebrity, pop idol or whoever quite famous whether that person is fictional or not are NOT ALLOWED in my accounts! If I catch someone, some group or some fan-page on my social media accounts with that behavior, a simple consequence is account blockage. It's like my taste in cartoon-ish stuffs isn't decent or the same anymore compared to the past which I find them fine. You could have gone through the past animated franchises you know of and like and trying to find the ones of the present time that are as decent as the ones of the past is a challenging thing. So expecting decent music in rhythm games nowadays like the EDM, House, Trance, Dubstep, Hardcore and D&B music should be what we should be interested in the first place in both the present and future times.
Also, I have a news here that reflects my new YouTube channel's description with its own policy, delusional relationships with whatever celebrity, pop idol or whoever quite famous whether that person is fictional or not are NOT ALLOWED in my accounts! If I catch someone, some group or some fan-page on my social media accounts with that behavior, a simple consequence is account blockage. It's like my taste in cartoon-ish stuffs isn't decent or the same anymore compared to the past which I find them fine. You could have gone through the past animated franchises you know of and like and trying to find the ones of the present time that are as decent as the ones of the past is a challenging thing. So expecting decent music in rhythm games nowadays like the EDM, House, Trance, Dubstep, Hardcore and D&B music should be what we should be interested in the first place in both the present and future times.
Groove Coaster Gameplay Report - June 15 (Important Update)
June 17 Update: I thought the renovation stuff for my neighbor's home was over in the middle of this month but it's not. And without the Renovation Notice paper this month, there's no way we can know if that shit is completed or not. It is noisy and distracting like hell but consider this a stand-alone complaint of mine and mixing it with other topics is already a no-no in the first place ever since three months ago.
That drilling noise as I mentioned three months ago is kind of over for the rest of this month or maybe a while. For whatever reason, they asked for another renovation stuff this month that the noise occurred again. But of course, it wasn't an excuse as a way of going out to the arcades at Century Square again just like ever since three months ago. It was actually due to some reunion reason that I went to Century Square as well as Tampines Mall for lunch and dinner.
After the lunch and before the dinner, it was when I went to the arcades again. I went to Event Mode in Groove Coaster for the first time only to get blown away online by other players. Seriously, they must be damn good at the rhythm game genre in which they are able to get No-Misses and Full Chains on many songs. It doesn't matter whether it's Multiplayer Mode or Event Mode, they are already tons of times better than me as I already know it all along. I might be doing fine to be frank but they can do much better if you ask. Also, with skill improvement for Groove Coaster, I don't know what's my limit right now. The crossover event is still on-going until June 19 and consists of songs from various Shmup games and the most famous one from that event is Hibachi theme from Dodonpachi Resurrection. It is famous for being extremely hard TLB in Dodonpachi Resurrection but its theme song can't be the hardest in Groove Coaster if I can believe it. I had seen gameplay videos of this before going to the arcades to attempt it only to find that I had a pain on my right shoulder from button-tapping to the beat like that. Also, I had trouble with some of the patterns in that track and it was a close call that I managed to clear it in Hard difficulty. However, there won't be any reason to show that result of mine from the game's official Mypage as the song is so hard enough that I had made tons of mistakes and showing you that will get me criticized like I already was on YouTube for certain gameplay videos. You will need a Nesica account along with the account for Groove Coaster arcade registered to your Nesica card to gain access to your Mypage where you can see your personal results and do other exclusive stuffs like unlocking songs with GC points for Groove Coaster 3. It will be extremely grindy to get enough GC points to buy specific songs I want. Also, the staff roll song for Groove Coaster 3, Link Link Fever, is somewhat accessible in Event Mode but you still have to unlock it for Standard Play by adding friends in your Mypage.
That drilling noise as I mentioned three months ago is kind of over for the rest of this month or maybe a while. For whatever reason, they asked for another renovation stuff this month that the noise occurred again. But of course, it wasn't an excuse as a way of going out to the arcades at Century Square again just like ever since three months ago. It was actually due to some reunion reason that I went to Century Square as well as Tampines Mall for lunch and dinner.
After the lunch and before the dinner, it was when I went to the arcades again. I went to Event Mode in Groove Coaster for the first time only to get blown away online by other players. Seriously, they must be damn good at the rhythm game genre in which they are able to get No-Misses and Full Chains on many songs. It doesn't matter whether it's Multiplayer Mode or Event Mode, they are already tons of times better than me as I already know it all along. I might be doing fine to be frank but they can do much better if you ask. Also, with skill improvement for Groove Coaster, I don't know what's my limit right now. The crossover event is still on-going until June 19 and consists of songs from various Shmup games and the most famous one from that event is Hibachi theme from Dodonpachi Resurrection. It is famous for being extremely hard TLB in Dodonpachi Resurrection but its theme song can't be the hardest in Groove Coaster if I can believe it. I had seen gameplay videos of this before going to the arcades to attempt it only to find that I had a pain on my right shoulder from button-tapping to the beat like that. Also, I had trouble with some of the patterns in that track and it was a close call that I managed to clear it in Hard difficulty. However, there won't be any reason to show that result of mine from the game's official Mypage as the song is so hard enough that I had made tons of mistakes and showing you that will get me criticized like I already was on YouTube for certain gameplay videos. You will need a Nesica account along with the account for Groove Coaster arcade registered to your Nesica card to gain access to your Mypage where you can see your personal results and do other exclusive stuffs like unlocking songs with GC points for Groove Coaster 3. It will be extremely grindy to get enough GC points to buy specific songs I want. Also, the staff roll song for Groove Coaster 3, Link Link Fever, is somewhat accessible in Event Mode but you still have to unlock it for Standard Play by adding friends in your Mypage.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Crossbeats Rev
The producer, Naoki Maeda, who formerly worked at Konami for various songs in Bemani franchise mostly the songs from DDR, is nowadays working at Capcom on a rhythm game as a continued dedication of his music career along with other music producers who also formerly worked for various Bemani games as well. Jun on the other hand whose music style is something people like us can recognize has made some songs for Crossbeats for IOS and arcade that matches the style of his previous songs used for Bemani games so expect some familiarity. It's a strange move for Naoki Maeda to work at Capcom in my opinion as Capcom already had some negative reputations for on-disc DLCs for various games as well as the way they released Street Fighter V in such a stupid way over the lack of important core game modes. Perhaps, he could have started his own indie company way before Hideo Kojima did and then made Crossbeats from there.
Using the Aime card to save progress for the arcade version, you can probably guess that the game is running on the Sega arcade hardware but when I looked up at Japanese Wikipedia about Sega Nu, it appears that Crossbeats Rev. is running on Sega Nu 1.1 which has some changes to the system specs. There's also Sega Nu SX which I have no interests in those games running on it. Another interesting thing is that Chunithm by the makers of Maimai is running on the same hardware as well but don't expect the hardware to be that great when compared to Taito Type X3 which uses Core i5 processor by default although the hardware components can be upgraded for certain games.
Using the Aime card to save progress for the arcade version, you can probably guess that the game is running on the Sega arcade hardware but when I looked up at Japanese Wikipedia about Sega Nu, it appears that Crossbeats Rev. is running on Sega Nu 1.1 which has some changes to the system specs. There's also Sega Nu SX which I have no interests in those games running on it. Another interesting thing is that Chunithm by the makers of Maimai is running on the same hardware as well but don't expect the hardware to be that great when compared to Taito Type X3 which uses Core i5 processor by default although the hardware components can be upgraded for certain games.
Thursday, June 9, 2016
PC Show 2016 at Singapore Expo
From this point onwards, there isn't so much special about to say about the computers, tablets, smartphones and even the set-top box. Maybe it's because I already have the laptop computers along with Android tablets and set-top box. Some of the booths kind of brought me some memories like the Creative Labs booth, the Klipsch booth which I already had the earpiece the last time as well as the Xiaomi Set-Top Box which has the familiar UI although I don't know if the device there was newer than the one I have at home. Gaming desktop computers might be interesting to look at and talk about although gaming computers are extremely expensive as ever that you may need to be financially hardcore to buy such a computer with hardcore computer components.
There might be newer technologies which I took a look at like the Intel RealSense which was Intel's Kinect-like accessory for RealSense powered computers although I didn't bother to try out the VR but this time, it doesn't look like there's anything specially new whatsoever.
The last thing to talk about was the fact that when I went in to the venue, something from MyRepublic PS4 booth caught me the attention that easily. The console was running Street Fighter V and I eventually took turn to play it before leaving the venue. Unfortunately, as I don't have the Playstation 4, I didn't know how to pause the game so that somebody could take over. I pressed the Share button and then returned to the game, and the Pause Menu showed up as pressing Options during the gameplay wouldn't pause the game whatsoever. I wonder if somebody customized the controls or maybe there must be a proper way to pause the game on PS4 or Xbox One. Also, I cleared Survival Mode of Street Fighter V as Ryu but that was in Easy Mode. So far, it took me a short time or few stages to get used to the controls with the Playstation 4 controller.
The reason for having the Playstation 4 booth was the fact that there would be a special subscription offer from MyRepublic. You can have either the PS4 as part of the special gaming offer or the gaming computer as a special choice. It was a good move from MyRepublic to involve the Playstation 4 as part of the special gaming offer if you buy that special subscription.
There might be newer technologies which I took a look at like the Intel RealSense which was Intel's Kinect-like accessory for RealSense powered computers although I didn't bother to try out the VR but this time, it doesn't look like there's anything specially new whatsoever.
The last thing to talk about was the fact that when I went in to the venue, something from MyRepublic PS4 booth caught me the attention that easily. The console was running Street Fighter V and I eventually took turn to play it before leaving the venue. Unfortunately, as I don't have the Playstation 4, I didn't know how to pause the game so that somebody could take over. I pressed the Share button and then returned to the game, and the Pause Menu showed up as pressing Options during the gameplay wouldn't pause the game whatsoever. I wonder if somebody customized the controls or maybe there must be a proper way to pause the game on PS4 or Xbox One. Also, I cleared Survival Mode of Street Fighter V as Ryu but that was in Easy Mode. So far, it took me a short time or few stages to get used to the controls with the Playstation 4 controller.
The reason for having the Playstation 4 booth was the fact that there would be a special subscription offer from MyRepublic. You can have either the PS4 as part of the special gaming offer or the gaming computer as a special choice. It was a good move from MyRepublic to involve the Playstation 4 as part of the special gaming offer if you buy that special subscription.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Tencent TGP Box
At this time, we don't know if Tencent has full transparency or not. But that aside, Tencent, Intel and Haier have announced a new game console that is powered by Windows 10 called Tencent TGP Box, which will be released as a Blade Box.
From the features, it will have things like:
From the features, it will have things like:
- Download and stream games
- Live stream of gaming sessions
- Local games
- TGP Box Mode/Gaming Mode
FindFace app - Giant security nightmare?
It has been days without blog posts of this month here but there's a shocking recent news from Neowin regarding an app that comprises privacy and brings other disadvantages. Privacy violation aside, it can also be used by cyber-criminals to do harassment or any other criminal activity. It's unspeakably worse than cyber-surveillance done by government agencies like what if you get targeted by baddies through this app?
What this app does is to allow you to snap a picture of someone and use it to connect to online presence like social network and government sites. Since it's made public even for consumers, it can make you look like a cyber-criminal yourself from using this app to do those illegal stuffs to someone. In fact, it you get photographed by someone using this app, you are more vulnerable and likely to be a victim. It doesn't matter where the hell you are whether you're in the photo on the net, you're at home or some other place, you are seen in the video or live stream or even TV, there's a chance that someone can use this app to snap the hell out of you.
What if someone uses this app to snap a picture of someone from the government or whatever agency? THAT PERSON WILL BE IN TROUBLE FOR THAT! And I don't know if Apple and Google are aware of this serious security-less situation. In fact, such kind of app like this should be in the hands of government agencies only to locate criminals, not the public because things can get out of control that easily as if cyber-security is of no more like people may end up misusing it and investigation can be more complicated all because of that app. And if that's the case, DON'T MAKE SUCH KIND OF TECHNOLOGY LIKE THIS AVAILABLE TO STANDARD CONSUMERS!
A kind of technology like this for locating criminals may be a good idea but making it available to the public as if anyone can use it has caused a serious concern to other governments, human rights and privacy advocates like us. Also, whoever has shown off this app like that has made a serious mistake out of some cyber-security stupidity or something like things are getting more chaotic or something. I don't know if there will be a Cease and Desist letter issued to the makers of this app should it continue to get misused by the public consumers. Certain online services that are similar to this by Microsoft DON'T compromise customers' privacy by themselves but this kind of technology still has some other security flaws. Or the best thing is that this kind of technology shouldn't be made available to the public or standard consumers in the first place and it is why it should remain private in the hands of those agencies I mentioned above. It should stay that way although not all cases are known by the public.
What this app does is to allow you to snap a picture of someone and use it to connect to online presence like social network and government sites. Since it's made public even for consumers, it can make you look like a cyber-criminal yourself from using this app to do those illegal stuffs to someone. In fact, it you get photographed by someone using this app, you are more vulnerable and likely to be a victim. It doesn't matter where the hell you are whether you're in the photo on the net, you're at home or some other place, you are seen in the video or live stream or even TV, there's a chance that someone can use this app to snap the hell out of you.
What if someone uses this app to snap a picture of someone from the government or whatever agency? THAT PERSON WILL BE IN TROUBLE FOR THAT! And I don't know if Apple and Google are aware of this serious security-less situation. In fact, such kind of app like this should be in the hands of government agencies only to locate criminals, not the public because things can get out of control that easily as if cyber-security is of no more like people may end up misusing it and investigation can be more complicated all because of that app. And if that's the case, DON'T MAKE SUCH KIND OF TECHNOLOGY LIKE THIS AVAILABLE TO STANDARD CONSUMERS!
A kind of technology like this for locating criminals may be a good idea but making it available to the public as if anyone can use it has caused a serious concern to other governments, human rights and privacy advocates like us. Also, whoever has shown off this app like that has made a serious mistake out of some cyber-security stupidity or something like things are getting more chaotic or something. I don't know if there will be a Cease and Desist letter issued to the makers of this app should it continue to get misused by the public consumers. Certain online services that are similar to this by Microsoft DON'T compromise customers' privacy by themselves but this kind of technology still has some other security flaws. Or the best thing is that this kind of technology shouldn't be made available to the public or standard consumers in the first place and it is why it should remain private in the hands of those agencies I mentioned above. It should stay that way although not all cases are known by the public.
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