As promised, many moons ago:
Here’s Emi’s reaction to the above:
Category: Tech
The 200 Club
I made a strange Tweet last night, that no doubt confused some of you.
I was jubilant (and for once, I am not being hyperbolic there) when I finally killed this guy in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite:
It’s name is Yamatsukami, it’s bigger than a house and it’s the monster you have to kill to get to the highest level in the game, HR9. He took me four tries, during which I had to learn and get used to his one-hit-kill attack. Once I knew what to look for, he’s not so hard to survive. He’s got massive HP though, so I beat him with less than a minute left. I look forward to going back and killing him some more with better weapons.
So now I am at the highest and most difficult rank of the game (G***) with the hardest-to-beat quests that give the best rewards. How long has it taken me exactly to get this far? I wondered, and I checked. These next three images are the save files of the three PSP Monster Hunter games:
The times are not cumulative, because when the old save file is imported it resets the clock. Turns out I played MH Freedom and MH Freedom 2 much less than I thought I did, and this is partly because they are very, very solo-unfriendly (guild quests are multiplayer only). As you can see, things changed with MH Freedom Unite.
So the total time played in this series is about 404 hours. Impressive!
And I still have much more to accomplish in the game, including (finally) some multiplayer with SFL 🙂
Monster Hunter isn’t the only series I have played like a mad-man this year. Here is a shot of the save-file from Dragon Quest IX on the DS:
And here’s a shot (grin) of the save file from Monster Hunter Tri (the Wii version):
I’m too scared to do the math myself, but I urge you all to get out your calculators and verify that in the past ~36 months I have spent almost a month just playing Monster Hunter games.
What’s scarier: that I did this, or that I am proud of it?
Another Sony Eulogy
I feel like I’ve written about a few Sony deaths before on this site.
But this one is particularly sad.
Yep, it’s dead.
It had been acting up a bit these past few weeks, taking a few attempts to start up, but today it just kicked the bucket entirely. It boots to the Windows log-on screen, and then everything (including the login program and task manager) fails to execute due to insufficient system resources. Sometimes it doesn’t even get that far. The research I have done online suggests a faulty core memory chip, or perhaps a failed hard drive (although I don’t know how it boots at all without a HD).
So, I think the day has arrived to say the old TR-1, which has lasted me many, many years – has bit the dust.
This little fellow has travelled with me to Australia (4 times), Hawaii, Japan (3 times), Puerto Rico and England. Every single vacation blog post you have read on this blog was written from this guy. I have used him this semester more than ever for doing all of my schoolwork including (especially!) writing my lectures, and I used him for about seven years do all my VB programming on for my simulations.
This latter issue is the biggest one. I can write lectures on my Mac, I can use other computers while traveling, but I currently have no easy way to replace this guy for VB programming. Last time I tried to install VB at school it wouldn’t run at all (ours is an old version), so I guess I have to find a solution – and quickly – especially if I plan on ever graduating.
Will that solution be a new Windows laptop? Ugh… I don’t really want one. But I may have to cave and buy a cheap one just for school use… and then somehow find out how to get XP software running in Windows 7 (Bernard, is this even possible?)
What a bummer 🙁