This installment’s title is pretty self-explanatory. It seems the “Overlord’s Right Arm” isn’t just there for show, and while the search for the Key Fragments is still not going anywhere, they’re confident(?) to learn that all of the huffing and puffing about Overlord Momus actually means something…
TV Tropes Link – Chapter 13: The Otaku Goddess and the Plot Against Neptune
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Back in Chapter 10, Neptune and pals learned of an Overlord named Momus, who was supposedly too powerful for Lowee’s goddess to seal properly. Could this be the reason that’s why Lady White Heart’s so pissed off lately?
TV Tropes link – Chapter 12: Overlord’s Right Hand
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Sometimes, in order to build something in your own image, you have to tear down the old image piece by piece until there’s nothing left. That’s the philosophy my dad seems to be following right now, as I prepare to apply a new coat of paint to my bedroom.
I hadn’t paid much attention to the cracks in some of the walls, but my dad says that it’s a result of old wallpaper decaying and tearing apart. In order for me to get this paint job done properly, he recommended that I stripped the top layer of wallpaper (not like that!) and sand the rest down. I spent the last two or three days (and a total of seven hours time) peeling chunks of old paper off the ceiling and the walls. It looks like there are two or three more layers of wallpaper beneath that, but I don’t think I need to touch that, lest I dig too far and scratch up the actual “wall” part of the wall.
To keep myself from going nuts on the second day of work, I listened to the latest Giant Bombcast, where Adam Sessler (formerly of G4tv’s X-Play) was the special guest. He didn’t talk much about the events that led to his exit from the program, which is fine because I think he’s listened to plenty of questions about that already. He seems to mesh pretty well with the GB gang, although I doubt he’d ever be a GB staffer full-time.
In other news, I got my hands on the first four volumes of Archie Comics’ Mega Man comic, which cover the first story arc, “Let the Games Begin” (a retelling of the events from the first game). Since it doesn’t look like Capcom’s going to be doing any more Mega Man video games for the foreseeable future, I wanted to see what this comic was going to do with the license (there apparently was a series of comics by Dreamwave several years before this one started, but got cancelled shortly before the company went out of business), and…it’s actually pretty good. Though not always consistent, the artwork and writing are well done, and some of the characters get a few funny lines here and there. I think I’m going to continue ordering the four-volume omnibus editions rather than getting each individual comic, to save myself money on shipping and handling.
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Tagged adam sessler, archie comics, bedroom, giant bomb, home improvement, mega man, painting, podcasts
No fancy intro text this time around, as it’s been more than a month since the last installment of “There’s a Nep for That”. All I’ll say is that there’s a guild involved.
Chapter 11: The Guild (No, The Other One)
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Er…sorry for the unexplained extended leave of absence. Two weeks may not seem like a long time when you’re in school, but when you do blog-type stuff on a regular basis on the Internet, it kinda leaves a pretty big gap.
I’ve spent most of that time preparing for a final exam in Network Communications (which I finished earlier this morning with an A grade) and working on a small Dreamweaver project for my Web Page Development class. I had to cut back on up to 95% of my normal video game-playing in order to get them finished. On the bright side, this now means I’ve completed my first semester at DCCC, and can go back to a relatively normal work schedule (regular work and blogging). In the fall, I’m planning on moving into Flash, PHP and MySQL, and since they’re all Internet-based courses, I can take them from home without having to worry about travel expenses (except for those times when I may have to get books or other crap).
I also had to deal with a minor computer issue over the weekend, where the update to my AMD graphic card drivers screwed up almost all of the 3D graphics in the games I own. After spending a lot of time fiddling with my computer settings, I concluded that it was the new drivers themselves that were corrupted. So instead of updating to version 12.4, I’m going to stay put with 12.3 until AMD releases a new version that doesn’t make everything look like a demented checkerboard.
As a bonus, I used part of the money I won back from selling my textbook to purchase Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, which I hear is supposed to be quite a bit better than the original. I’m only about 25% done with the first Neptunia, and pretty much stopped updating my playthrough of the game to concentrate on my studies. I suppose I should try to finish the first game before even sniffing at the second, as I’m quite sure there are some things I’m going to need to know about the first game’s story for any of Neptunia mk2 to make sense. Then again, I’ve already started a new game file in Atelier Totori, even though I’m not quite done with Atelier Rorona yet. I’ll try to get an update done on that front by Wednesday.
