How to Force Nico Nico Douga to Play Its Video in Low Quality

Or, as they called it, "Economy Mode".

So, let's say you want to watch some videos in Nico Nico Douga, the Japanese version of Youtube. But then, you realize that your computer happens to be crappy! And what's more, you're trying to watch them late at night, too. That means, like it or not, you have to watch them in high quality, and that also means your computer is going to lag!

"Oh no! This can't be! What should I do now?!" you ask yourself.

Well, it's actually fairly simple.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm24896887

See the link above? Let's assume that this is the video that you're going to watch. But obviously, you'd want to watch it in low quality. So, how do you do that exactly?

Like this.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm24896887?eco=1

See, simple as that.

However, while doing this is as easy as finding a generic love-comedy harem manga in a manga site, the downside is that every time you want to watch another video, you have to do that again, and again, and again. And at the moment of writing this, I still haven't found any other ways to do this.

So yeah - either just suck it up, or buy a better computer already.

How to Piss Off Touhou Fans

A few hours ago, I accidentally found myself in a 'U.N. Owen was Her?' video when I was trying to come up with some inspiration for my Halloween project. Needless to say, it was pretty much filled with the fans who rage, and the trolls who troll.

And then - being a Touhou fan myself, I was wondering, "Is there a list of 'How To Easily Piss Off Any Touhou Fan' anywhere?" But before I realized it, I've already decided to make my own. So here it is, a list of quote that can trigger diehard Touhou fans' berserk button in one way or another.

Image courtesy of わさび少女 (wasabi shoujo)

1. "What anime is this?"
2. "I've finally found Death Waltz!" in a 'U.N. Owen was Her?' video.
3. Or the variant, "This song is actually a remix of Death Waltz."
4. OR the variant, "Stolen from McRoll!"
5. "<insert shmup game here> is harder than Touhou."
6. "I play this game on easy mode."
7. "I only like the fanon."
8. "Ten Desires is so easy, therefore it sucks."
9. あたい = Eye. Like so: "Eye'm the strongest!"
10. "Pfftt... there's such thing as canon in Touhou?"
11. "...since she's Nazrin!"
12. "Aya or Sanae (or both) is a slut."
13. Or maybe, "<insert any touhous except Rinnosuke here> is a slut."
14. "Alice is a tsundere/yandere."
15. "Lazy Meiling is gonna get knifed by Sakuya!"
16. "Mima won't be making an appearance in the next Touhou game."
17. "Tenshi is a masochist."
18. "I recently heard from CNN that this stop motion video is how they made Bad Apple."
19. "Letty is fat."
20. "Hataters gonna Hatate."
21. "ZUN's art is the best art ever!"
22. "Sanae is a good girl."
23. "Pettan, pettan, tsurupettan."
24. "Kaguya is a NEET."
25. "Sakuya, do you wear pads-" *knifed*

I won't be surprised if this list is going to spectacularly backfire on me.

Also, I'll update this when I can find (or think of) more.

I Clicked a Cookie

...instead of, you know, eating it.

It was a rather sunny day in Bekasi. A really nice time to do something productive. I could have done a chore, went for a light jogging, helped my brother download that anime about naked giants attacking people's shit (man, is that anime so popular as ever), or baked a cookie.

But instead, I sat my lazy ass down at my computer (like always) and clicked a cookie. While being helped by nice grandmas to bake more cookies.

What? Of course I'm talking about that game - Cookie Clicker. Duh.

As a wise man once said, "The journey of a thousand cookies begins with a single click."

First of all, Cookie Clicker is what you call an idle game; the kind of game where you just leave your game running by itself for long periods of time.

Now, you probably will ask, "What's the fun of it when I'm doing nothing but waiting?"

Well, well. Fun fact about this kind of game; the majority of them are actually so addictive in their own way. Don't believe me? Well then, you can try it for yourself here - or here for the old version. I say play the old version instead if your computer is shitty (like mine, for example).

So anyway, back to the game itself. The objective is quite simple; you start out with a single large, clickable cookie (as seen on the pictures above). One click from it produces one cookie. Once you've produced enough cookies, you can buy upgrades to help you with your cookies clicking. Soon enough, you will find yourself no longer have to click anything as your upgrades will be doing the job for you.

Of course there are more things to expect, and these things involve eldritch abominations, aka. Things Man Was Not Meant To Meet. But hey, this is for you to find out, and not for me to spoil it any further.

So far, I've played three idle games (including this). The others are Coinbox Hero (made by jmtb02, of Elephant Quest fame), and Kaguya Table (for Touhou fans out there). Try them out too if you have time to waste!

Lacking Creative Juices

More like I don't have any to begin with.

I have so many WIP projects that need to be done right now; whether they be music, literature, or just a rubbish that exists just to waste my time, in a good way. The problem is, my creative juices just won't flow, no matter how hard I try.

I mean, seriously. For the love of Mike, pass me the goddamn coffee! It's still afternoon, but my eyes really need a good rinse right now!

Anyway, so far I have 6 FL WIP projects, 2 abandoned FL Projects, 2 WIP fanfictions, and 2 WIP original literature. And I have no idea what to do with them. Seems like my incompetence gets the better of me once again.

Skin Glassed

I ABANDONED THIS BLOG FOR LIKE A YEAR NOW WHAT.

Oh well, I sincerely blame a certain blogger (or is it wordpresser instead? I know it sounds kinda silly) for making me write a post in this blog ever again. Not that I'm really complaining or anything.

But... now that I actually think about it; writing blog is just one of my hobbies in this space called the internet. Once I'm bored with it, I'd do something else. Like, say: composing/arranging music, uploading music on Youtube, being a part of scanlations, writing fanfictions, translating doujinshi, and any other stuff.

In conclusion; I'm easily bored, and always wanted to do something different all at once. And this is probably why I always found myself trying to make music with different genres. Ranging from orchestral, classical, oriental, trance, techno, to drum and bass. And maybe dubstep too, if only Massive isn't fucking with my FL and my CPU.

Speaking of CPU, my notebook is so easy to overheat, and it eventually turns off by itself. And because of that, everytime I brought it to my school, I had to constantly turn it off every goddamn hour! And man, was it annoying. Good thing that I own a cooler pad now, or else I'd totally pour ass juice down the throat of an unwilling zebra.

Seems like I need to redesign this blog, too.