the rest of Sunday, aside from being a big dork

[dr4b]

Just to respond to all of the comments on the last one - yeah... you are all entirely right. And Nick, I definitely miss the lounge :) I guess that's kinda why I keep going to IZ so much - it kinda feels like a random place I can go and see random people I know and have fun... the problem is, unlike the lounge, it's a 25-minute drive, not a 10-minute walk away.

Anyway, today we were originally going to get up early and go bowling with some people for Sunday morning bowling, except I really wanted to sleep in. So we argued over it at like 9am, and ended up sleeping in, which is all good because it turns out Megan and Josh didn't go bowling anyway. Yeah. I guess this is a small karmic bonus for last night's karmic whiplash.

I don't remember much of the day... cleaned up the house a little, and read half of the Megatokyo book, and played a whole bunch of IIDX 6th Style, trying to get B's and A's on songs I had C's on before I knew how the EX scoring system works (thanks to Mwinzi I'm going to be obsessing over this for a while). Eventually Eli got home from grocery shopping, and we got to work on making dinner. Well, not really. We got to work on making dessert, mostly. I had decided I wanted to make an apple pie, Bayani style. I'll make a recipe entry next since I haven't done one of those in a while. Dinner was going to be dumplings, pork buns, and pea greens, which are pretty last-minute quick cooking things.

At any rate, our dinner guests tonight were mh75 and Josh, thatmathchick, and jeliza and seanmcguire. Jane brought the pictures she did from her musical instrument photo shoot of us from months ago! They're *really* awesome, I'll have to scan some of them in at some point. They're some of the best pictures of us ever taken, and I hate pictures of me in general... well, except maybe ones where I specifically posed for them and got several shoots to get a decent looking one. (Yeah, that's still from the PPP bunch.) Anyway, we had dinner, and a little while later had dessert, and apparently the apple pie really did go over pretty well, especially with ice cream. Whew. Sat around talking for a while. Showed off all the new ducks in the bathroom (We specifically put down the duck bathtub anti-slip thingies, and inflated the duck footrest today... "I just blew up a duck!"). Opened up our Christmas present from M+J, which turns out to be a really nice backgammon set. Now we just have to learn how to play backgammon.

Oh yeah, I played IIDX after dinner. Passed Romeo&Juliet 7-key! My first 6-star 7-key! With a B! Whee! Feels good, since I just learned the PPP routine for it like a week or two ago. :) A friend suggested that I try the other PPP songs on 7-key too... I'll have to do that soon.

Whee, guess I should try to get to sleep by 2am and get to work at a decent hour tomorrow. Looks like my IZ day this week is going to be Tuesday night, btw, if anyone cares.

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I know it would be considerably less spectacular, but are there ever videos of people playing KeyboardMania and/or IIDX much in the same way as the DDR videos? You could probably point me to them more accurately than I could find them on Google.

Thank you for blowing up your ducks using air rather than, say, dynamite.

[dr4b]

I dunno, actually. The IIDX 6th Style game came with a bunch of "tatsujin videos", aka experts playing and passing the hardest songs in the game with outrageously high scores... and maybe someone's encoded those and put them online. But I actually don't really know offhand of any particular KBM or IIDX video sites. To be honest, the games aren't usually that spectacularly interesting to watch unless you play them yourself, in general. KBM in particular is pretty boring; there's not even a video in the background. At least IIDX has weird animations going on while you're playing the song. I like watching KBM/IIDX a little to see how people put their hands for technique, but that's about it.

If you want to see what the games kinda like like in action, I do have some pictures, but I don't know if that will help.

beat no tatsujin

[bk1e.livejournal.com]

KBM has music videos that go with the songs, but they show up in a little window on the PS2 version (unless you turn on the option that makes them show up in the background, but that makes the notes harder to see). I think they show up at the top of the screen in the arcade, or maybe on the second-player display if you're playing one-player single mode.

The problem with KBM tatsujin videos would be that if the machine wasn't on tight judgment mode you might end up with videos of people mashing keys. :(

Anyway, http://www.bemanistyle.com/ has some IIDX and Pop'n Music tatsujin videos.