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Nov. 12th, 2010 05:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedHooked the VCR up to the hard drive yesterday, and it turns out that everything on my second new tape is just downright fucked up. Didn't bother recording anything to the hard drive, so I decided to send an email to Tomodachi (the group that fansubbed the Makendou OAV) to just translate what I already have up on YouTube.
(I did try out a DVD while I had the unit hooked up. The quality was much smoother than even my original tape, so that means nothing's wrong with EZ Grabber, just with the tape.)
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After just reading recently that Melissa will likely be moving away sometime next year, I've decided that I'm going to start a new game in Pokemon Diamond today. With the Gen IV era coming to an end, and four games left to it that I plan on playing, there's not really much of a reason to continue stalling with the series. It's not like there are gonna be that many downloading events to take place, if any, once Black and White come out. The only reason I'd stop playing any games is if I decide I've played long enough for some period of time, at which point I'd probably have made a good amount of headway with whichever game I'm playing.
Also decided that whether I get a Wii for my birthday or at some point beforehand would depend on whether I get any gift certificates on Christmas. I do remember a year ago, when I got some BestBuy cards, I was able to use them right towards a new TV set. Had come to mind right after I wrote my last rant about Pokemon, so yeah.
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Even though I just started a new game with Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars (and only got past two scenes so far), I've decided that playing it any further would be a moot point. The only reason I started in the first place was to write down stats, since everyone's HP starts out to the exact hundred in that game. Had something to do with Monster Collection Chronicles, and the grid-based gameplay was also something inspiring.
As of yesterday, though, I've decided that the only "stats" for MCC that I care about anymore would be MP and SP, which would determine how long each Knight would be able to use their magical powers at any given time. HP, attack power, defense power, and all that other stuff is no longer relevant; injuries would be realistic, especially since a major point of MCC was to deviate from certain mechanics of video games.
For the record, I still do plan on mapping each area for MCC. I think this has to do with the ficseries' inspiration from video games, but to actually have everything plotted out instead of just making stuff up... Well, don't quite know how to explain it, but I do know two stories for which the authors created maps to go with their works: Eragon, (even though the story itself is nothing but crap), and Egregious Exile (a Sonic fanfic; links at the ends of certain chapters). The authors of those two stories must have had similar reasons for having drawn maps for their stories in the first place, and I would presume it had to do with some kind of fulfillment.
Don't worry. Actual battles will not be governed by dice. Everyone is still free to act as they see fit, and anything consisting of minuscule movements (such as close-range combat) will just be made up as I go along.
(I did try out a DVD while I had the unit hooked up. The quality was much smoother than even my original tape, so that means nothing's wrong with EZ Grabber, just with the tape.)
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After just reading recently that Melissa will likely be moving away sometime next year, I've decided that I'm going to start a new game in Pokemon Diamond today. With the Gen IV era coming to an end, and four games left to it that I plan on playing, there's not really much of a reason to continue stalling with the series. It's not like there are gonna be that many downloading events to take place, if any, once Black and White come out. The only reason I'd stop playing any games is if I decide I've played long enough for some period of time, at which point I'd probably have made a good amount of headway with whichever game I'm playing.
Also decided that whether I get a Wii for my birthday or at some point beforehand would depend on whether I get any gift certificates on Christmas. I do remember a year ago, when I got some BestBuy cards, I was able to use them right towards a new TV set. Had come to mind right after I wrote my last rant about Pokemon, so yeah.
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Even though I just started a new game with Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars (and only got past two scenes so far), I've decided that playing it any further would be a moot point. The only reason I started in the first place was to write down stats, since everyone's HP starts out to the exact hundred in that game. Had something to do with Monster Collection Chronicles, and the grid-based gameplay was also something inspiring.
As of yesterday, though, I've decided that the only "stats" for MCC that I care about anymore would be MP and SP, which would determine how long each Knight would be able to use their magical powers at any given time. HP, attack power, defense power, and all that other stuff is no longer relevant; injuries would be realistic, especially since a major point of MCC was to deviate from certain mechanics of video games.
For the record, I still do plan on mapping each area for MCC. I think this has to do with the ficseries' inspiration from video games, but to actually have everything plotted out instead of just making stuff up... Well, don't quite know how to explain it, but I do know two stories for which the authors created maps to go with their works: Eragon, (even though the story itself is nothing but crap), and Egregious Exile (a Sonic fanfic; links at the ends of certain chapters). The authors of those two stories must have had similar reasons for having drawn maps for their stories in the first place, and I would presume it had to do with some kind of fulfillment.
Don't worry. Actual battles will not be governed by dice. Everyone is still free to act as they see fit, and anything consisting of minuscule movements (such as close-range combat) will just be made up as I go along.
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Date: 2019-07-19 12:34 pm (UTC)Creating a map is actually something almost all fantasy authors do, since they can't rely on the audience already being familiar with areas. They are usually printed on the first pages of the book. Definitely do it, it will be a great help both to you and the audience.
Eragon's map doesn't make sense, he just made things up on the spot and then drew the map (have a look at the map and see whether you notice anything wrong with the location of the desert and the rivers), so, maps aren't only good, they should be something that a lot of care is given to.
If you're wanting to create a global map as well, here is the one aerial shot we get of the planet, which already shows part of the land's outline :
https://dmxrated.dreamwidth.org/file/8133.jpg