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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories First Impressions

So I got my Disgaea 2 preorder in the mail a few days ago, and I've already played about 8+ hours. Yeah, my semester is really going to hell. Anyway, I thought I'd write about my impressions of the sequel to probably the best game ever.

So far, this game is pretty much like the original Disgaea. That's a good thing. The story is different, but almost everything is the same as the original. For example, the grid based movement system is back. The lifting and throwing system is still there. The geo panel stuff is also still present. Basically the only thing that has changed are the characters and the setting.

As for the story, it's ok. It centers around a human, Adell, trying to summon a powerful demon overlord into changing his family back into humans. They were turned into demons a few years back. He ends up summoning the overlord's hot daughter, Rozalin instead. The story can get a little heavy sometimes with Adell being emo, but for the most part it's pretty funny.

The only new feature I've noticed so far is the felony system. I didn't really look into it that much, but commiting crimes basically means that your demon has certain advantages in the game. The crimes I commited so far are “Geo Vandalism” and “High RES.” They seem kind of random.

I might write about Disgaea 2 some more once I've gotten more into it. For now, I think I better regulate my playing, or this might not turn out to be my last semester of college after all!

Notecentric.com Is Open For Business!

Hey everyone! So I finally finished (kind of) my second web app called “Notecentric.” It's basically a note taking webpage where you can do access your notes at any time and share notes with your classmates easily.

Right now it's in beta, because there's still a lot of stuff I want to add to it. Also, it's trendy to be in beta!

Head on over to Notecentric.com if you wanna check out what's up, or go to the Developer Blog first for more explanation on what Notecentric is.

To Prove To Dad I’m Not A Fool

Yep, it's time to go back to school! I actually finished signing up for classes like, an hour ago.

This semester I'm doin' 14 hours! The classes are: Marching Band, Jazz Band, Software Engineering, Beginning Chinese, International Politics, and an online version of Technical Writing (because I'm lazy). I need to take a full time load, even though I only need Software Engineering to graduate. Why? For like, health insurance.

Chinese should be cool, because then people won't ask my why I'm Chinese, yet don't know the language. International Politics just sounds kind of interesting to me. Plus it's at 11AM, which is not too early. Technical Writing should be okay, since it's online, and I need to get better at that kind of writing anyway.

I'm also TAing a CS class. It's just an applications class for Business majors, so it probably won't be too hard. Mostly stuff in Word and Excel I think.

Hopefully I'll pass Software Engineering, and graduate in December! Then it's off to (Job/Grad School/Slacking Off)!

T-Shirt Grab Bag at Thinkgeek.com

Man, has my blog become the T-Shirt Blog or what? Anyway, Thinkgeek.com is having a clearance of sorts on their shirts. You just pick how many shirts you want and they send you random ones.

I like most of their shirts, so this is sort of a no brainer for me. I ordered 3. Hopefully they'll all be unique, and not 3 STFU shirts.

Get the geekitude here.

Back To School Threadless $10 Sale!

Whoa, so like, right after I say I want a threadless.com $10 sale they make one! And this time, they released 6 shirts each on Monday, Tuesday, and Today.

There was a cool dinosaur shirt on Monday that I wanted, but it's sold out already. That was way fast. I was hoping there'd be some good ones later on and I'd buy em all in one order. That didn't really work out.

Right now, the only shirts I'd buy are probably the Ctrl+Z reprint (since my other one(s) are already fading) and the Ambition Killed the Cat one. It's so cute! Ask me how I became a Pirate is also kind of cool.

Afternoon Delight is surprisingly still in stock. I'd buy it, but I'm not too sure the world is ready for me to wear a shirt with two unicorns copulating on it.

I need to buff up my Fall wardrobe, so I guess it's a good excuse as any to buy a bunch of new t-shirts! Oh, the Sale ends Monday(8/21) morning, so hurry up and buy some shirts!