Tasunke's Random Ramblings

So, this is the first of two posts specifically on the types of cosplay used to power up your Charadolls for the water gun shooting game. This one is about キャラコスプレ, Character Cosplay. As you can see from the image to the left, there’s three characters. Nagisa Furukawa from Clannad, Lisianthus from Shuffle!, and Otome Asakura from Da Capo II. Translation of this information post starts after the jump.
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So it’s been a while since I translated one of these posts. I’m really sorry about that. Life’s been quite hectic the past couple of months. I’m studying abroad in Japan this school year, for instance. ;) Anyway, the next one to translate (originally posted on August 7th, 2009) is entitled 「コスプレでパワーアップ!!」 or, “Power up with cosplay!!” It seems that by dressing up your charadoll, you’ll be able to boost her stats in the water gun shooting game. Let the translation commence…. after the jump.

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So, the latest update on information about the ai sp@ce watergun shooting game came out on July 17th. Unfortunately, I’ve been a bit busy, and haven’t gotten around to looking at it until now. If anyone’s actually reading these posts, I’m really sorry about that. ^^; If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I might suggest reading my previous posts about this game, where I discuss the enemies and some of the basics of the game.
It seems the mysterious silhouette from last time is a girl that’s the mastermind behind this entire situation. In other words, the one sitting in the background and pulling the strings.
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So, as promised, on June 26th, ai sp@ce posted the next tidbit of information about their odd little watergun shooting game. This time, it’s information about the enemies in the game, and I will again attempt to translate what they have to say in this latest update. (If you’re lost about what the watergun shooting game is, you can read my previous post on the subject.)
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Okay, this is kind of odd. But I figured people would like to know about it. I found out about it when checking the ai sp@ce website to see if there was some kind of known outage (or if it was just an issue with my computer).

Apparently ai sp@ce launched is launching some kind of new watergun shooting game. Now the fact that it’s a watergun shooting game isn’t what’s odd. Nor that it seems that you are playing it as your chara doll. No the odd thing about it is something else entirely.
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As some of you who play ai sp@ce may be aware, the font used for in-game dialog is horrible. All too often, kanji with many strokes become unreadable blobs.

If you’re familiar enough with the kanji to be able to read it anyway, you’re okay. However, if you’re having to look up the kanji for any reason, it’s going to be almost impossible to do so. That is why I started looking into ways I could get at the text being displayed directly. In my searching, I found AGTH.
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Sure, this is about 5 months old, but it’s new to me, and amusing. n.n
Some of you may be familiar with 「電脳フィギュア　ＡＲｉｓ」 (Cyber Figure ARis), which allows you to interact in real life with a virtual character, via a webcam and special symbols on blocks and other items. This is known as “Augmented Reality” and is where the “AR” in the name “ARis” comes from, if I remember correctly. Well, an enterprising soul known as Ionized created an Augmented Reality Mirai-chan… that does the umauma Caramelldansen dance. Video after the jump.
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So, a while back, Danny Choo posted on his site that he was looking for someone to make a flash widget to read RSS feeds in a speech bubble. I had been looking for a good project to learn some flash programming, as I had never done any before, and this seemed like it would be a fun project to try for this.

After searching around for suitable free tools for flash creation (as I have absolutely no money to buy Adobe’s flash creation tools at the moment), I found OpenLaszlo, and used it to create this flash widget. A screenshot of the widget in action is shown below.
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So, today is the last day of the “Early Access” beta for Neo Steam. I finally got to the city of Nasdaim and did a few quests there.
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So, I got to sit down for another day at Neo Steam.
I got up to level 11 today. I ended up running several quests from this one NPC (whose name escapes me at the moment, she wanders around near the save point person), some were more of killing specific animals, but there was one where I was harvesting some kind of plant for her.
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