jukebox - The Concept of Love (Jet Set Radio Future)

things going pretty slow on my end what with trying to juggle article work and commission sheet work and other things together, so have another jukebox entry.

while i haven't played too much of the Jet Set Radio series (JSR i own the steam version of, Future i've yet to find a copy of), the games have a REALLY wonderful punktastic soundtrack, with genres ranging from hip-hop to techno and electronica to rock'n'roll to probably some others i dunno much about.

this track and most of the best (original) tracks in the series were composed by Hideki Naganuma, who has done music work for various other Sega games such as Sonic Rush and the PSP Kurohyo titles. Hideki's got a really funky style to his compositions, and they're worth more than one listen. his soundcloud can be found here if you want to listen to some select tracks.

jukebox - Nerevar Rising (TES: Morrowind)

been meaning to do a segment like this for a while. dunno why i haven't done it yet, but i guess now's a better time than never. basically the jukebox will feature some of my favorite musics from video games, films and animated media, and even some musicians.

while i'm at a tossup between whether Morrowind or Skyrim is the best out of the Elder Scrolls game series, there's no denying that Morrowind has a fantastic soundtrack, with its title theme "Nerevar Rising" being one of my top favorites in the series. while Oblivion and Skyrim had their own versions of the theme, the original Morrowind version is still my favorite (though, i'd be lying if i said Skyrim's theme didn't get me pumped up).

this piece was composed by Jeremy Soule, who composed the soundtrack for Morrowind as well as some other games in the Elder Scrolls series. he also composed for various other games such as Icewind Dale and Guild Wars. his official website can be found here.

by the way, i highly recommend the Elder Scrolls series if you're interested in sandbox-ish roleplaying games where you can do what you want and be what you wish. i highly suggest starting out with Skyrim first; Morrowind's gameplay and controls can be a bit tricky for newcomers.

KKGS faves of Anime Boston 2015

i took a lot of photos during my first time at Anime Boston, though while i did show off some shots of myself as Almaz, i didn't put up any other solo shots featuring some fabulous cosplays i saw during my trip.

well, i said i'd put them up after my AB writethinger, so here you go. photos under the cut, of course! i gotta get back to other crap and blogspot work on my end now that the con's over.

also, if you see yourself on here and wish to be credited properly or for your photo to be removed from here, please contact me and i'll take care of it as soon as i can!

gen's daily life - gensou's boston adventure

hoo boy, saturday was a HUGE day for me. last week, i attended Anime Boston for the first time ever in my life. i registered back in February, but i never actually attended a convention of any sort in my life till now. plus it marked the first time in a while i ever went to Boston. sometimes i forget what the big city looked like.

am i still tired? yes. did i nearly run my wallet broke? yes. did i nearly exhaust myself walking around for around 10 hours? yes. did i have a blast? hell yes.

shot of the full outfit. iiiiii did not have the wig on (yet)

i went as Almaz von Almandine Adamant from Disgaea 3. scarf, jacket, belt, and gloves were done with my dad's help, and i managed to find a use for my leg warmers as well. might not be a 100% accurate cosplay, but it was comfy enough and inexpensive to make. thrift shopping and my dad being a tailor helps wonders for cosplay.

i was the only Disgaea cosplayer at the con that day, aaaaand subsequently that meant that not a lot of people recognized who i was. despite that, i got to see quite a few neato booths, saw some rad cosplayers (and even snapped pictures of them!), played some games in the game hall, and even ended off the con by attending their JoJo panel.

so yeah, as you can imagine, there's quite a bit i can say about my first ever con experience! as much as there were only so much photos i could snap with me in them, aaaaaand the fact that i only attended one panel, quite a bit went on that day!

photos and a brief overlay of what went on under the cut, of course!

vlog - Desert Dream

(warning! flashy effects! don't watch if you're epileptic or easily disorientated by such effects)

another scene demo for everyone. this time it's an Amiga one: Desert Dream by group Kefrens. not as technologically impressive as Second Reality, but still has some pretty cool graphics, music, coding, and pixelart. it was released in April of 1993, and placed first in the demo competition for The Gathering demoparty in that year.

if you got an Amiga (or Amiga emulator) you wanna try it out on, you can download the demo here.

MAKAIPUNK - Manga Senki Disgaea CHAPTER 2

one day i'll learn to start doing MAKAIPUNK installments on a more frequent basis.

er, yeah. anyhow.

last time we left off with the manga readthrough, our princely protagonist Laharl woke up from a two year nap and found out that his father King Krichevskoy died. not really caring about that, Laharl decides to take the title of overlord for himself. and some guy named Vyers showed up, i guess. gen then went on a break from MAKAIPUNK for like three months to do shit involving the Playstation 2, bandicoots, Steam games, cosplay, and JoJo's Bizzare Adventure. alongside other things. ahem.

so yeah, let's get this back on track. will Flonne assassinate the king? will gen remember how to write these kinds of readthroughs after an entire winter? let's find out.

curiousities - Microsoft Comic Chat

back in the halcyon days of the 90s and early 00's, IRC clients were a pretty popular way for people to message each other and host chatrooms where likeminded people could gather around and talk about things. of course, with instant messengers like MSN and Skype and the like becoming more widely used in today's more streamlined era, IRC chat clients saw a significant decline in use (from one million users in 2003 to around 400,000 in 2014, according to Wikipedia).

of course, that doesn't mean IRC chatting as a whole has dropped off the face of the earth. while it has gone scarce, there are quite a few communities around the net who still host IRC servers for people to chat about stuff, and of course IRC clients still exist. one of which we're going to talk about today.

i'll be honest, i know very little about IRC stuff aside from this one client and the Wiki page, but hey, having your chats in comic form is always rad, innit?

Microsoft Chat (sometimes called Microsoft Comic Chat or just Comic Chat) was released in 1996 by... well, Microsoft. it was bundled with the full downloads of Internet Explorer 3, 4, and 5, though distributions of Windows 98 and 2000 included the program as well. for quite some time, it was Microsoft's main chat program until some time around 2001, thanks to MSN discontinuing the official Comic Chat servers.

of course, that didn't spell the complete end of the program; being an IRC-based client, it still works with a lot of IRC servers out there today since it runs on the same standard protocols. course, there's a bit more to Comic Chat than that, obviously.