School starts up again... we get this new teacher who transferred from Emily Carr and... he's hard D:! Then the usual other teachers...
So we have this printing class where we get field trips (!) to the actual printers to get some real experience. The printer places ranged from someone's backyard to a multi-building company. So unfortunately I don't remember all the places... but let me try and think! PacBlu - digital printing near 4th.. shared the building with some radio stations like TheBeat, has a Starbucks across the street, has a hidden second building... we went to Granville Island afterwards and sat at the park; Hazzard Screen Printing - screen printing in Burnaby near Metro... building looks skinny and small at first, but alas, the looks tricked us once again as they had a hidden second building as well... They did a lot of N64 game floor stickies, Iris banners; SomeGuy'sHouse (I forgot the name of his business... orz), but it was literally someone's house all the way out by New Westminister... he did the old school offset printing and gave us all a little memento letter block... he also did his own old school book blindings and did the printing all by hand.. impressive, and sadly it's going extinct; _____ in Richmond by Bridgeport... they do flexo meaning lots of plastic and the related packaging; Norampac also in Richmond by Viking Way = moar flexo.. this company that the one before this one work together often it seems; Hemlock Printers...; Blanchette Press on River Road, Richmond.. giant printing place.. lady from there also gave us the 411 on paper. On top of that, she let us dig through their garbage bin for misprinted paper and etc... we also got a pretty poster to bring home; Gryphon Graphics on Viking Way in Richmond did foil stamping and all the pretty shiny, metallic, sticker, embossing stuff; Lastly Pacific Bindery by Marine Drive right beside Coast Paper, did all the nifty binding.. which was literally everything imaginable. There we also had a guest speaker from R&M Laminating who did, duh, laminations come and talk about the different types of laminations on top of mmm samples~ We also had a rep from Coast Paper come by and talk... we also left with
In our societies class, we ended the semester with a group project (as usual) and our topic was Asian Stereotypes (mainly the ones we are most familiar with - Chinese, Japanese, etc.) just cuz the topic's so broad. We had fun EXCEPT, we presented from my laptop and my "entertainment" remote aka. not suitable for presentations, didn't work so well lol. We also didn't bother rechecking the clips we inserted so some were not even properly cut =_=... それと、ある仲間はスゲーうるさくて、なまけものくさすぎたっ Never again, I hope.
Onto the gaming side again.. yes. Finished Gurumin, Tales of Eternia and Final Fantasy X (omg, finally? XD)...
Gurumin
Gameplay 4/5 - Pretty fun action adventure rpg... 'cept aiming where to jump and ending up missing... multiple times can get pretty annoying. And then landing into annoying lava-like gaps on the floor make it that much better.
Music 4/5 - Fun music, I liked.
Character 4/5 - The voice acting wasn't bad! Some were quite cute.. might be because of the character designs themselves.
Overall 4/5 - Ending battle was a bit confusing... But all in all good! Underrated.
Tales of Eternia
Gameplay 3.5/5 - It's old school style so I can't say too much about it. It's the original Tales game after all.
Music 3/5 - Good Sakuraba stuff. I hate the underwater music.
Character 2.5/5 - Voice acting is so bad...characters weren't all that exciting except maybe Meryl. However, I watched the anime 12-ep version before playing this too so... well, doesn't look like it changed my opinion of the characters :b
Overall 3/5 - Decent.
Final Fantasy X
Gameplay 4/5 - No complaints. I hate blitzball. Sorry that was a complaint.
Music 3/5 - Not THAT memorable. Perhaps I wasn't a fan of the rock pieces...
Character 5/5 - Great characters... good voice acting... can't stand Yuna tho... I think that's the reason why I'm not going to touch X-2 anytime soon.
Overall - Overrated. Ending was probably overrated... I expected something more! But the last boss was sad. :b A beam comes out of his EYE OMG, someone, shoot me now. With that eye beam and paralyze me while you're at it.
And other gaming... in the world of FFXI, there once was a Salvage ls. Lasted a dozen or so runs. Then people began to go their separate ways.... then now it's on hold. I got a lv15 headpiece if anything... not that I would wear it for anything, considering all three of those jobs that can wear it don't need it anymore. Most amusing run was probably the first Madame Poroggo run, most rewarding was the Rampart bee run, and the most crappy run... apparently I didn't show up for those lol.
AU. I swear I attempted 44 at least 10 times! I was so sick of the damn mission until I picked up a party a few months later to finally finish it. Wish I grabbed the +acc ring instead. Hurry SE, give me an option to change it soon!
This Dynamis LS also tried doing Valkurm and failed pretty badly. Sigh. Everytime I think about it and the fact that this ls can't do it, makes me wish I followed Fortune <_<;; And with this ls for 4 months, I only got RNG head. Wow... what a waste of 4 months x 4 hours of my Sunday life! Then they ended up having this whole drama series, when the leader retired, co-leader took over, leader returned, co-leader did not give back rights, fightfightfightfight. Now.. it makes me wonder if I should've just stayed with the messed up ls instead of jumping ship... since right after the holidays, the leader gets hacked and there everything went poof. RIP. *head to desk*
COP. Finished. With a bit of awesome effort. Didn't plan on finishing it ever... until a Salvage member who's static ditched him asked to static with him so yeah :D So Sea is wonderful... with their UFOs... coming out of nowhere... I get to watch my teammate get eaten right in front of me... then we mad run any other way possible lol...
Also Nyzul. Only lasted one run before things came up and it had to cancel. Wot the fuk.
Oh yeah, expansion. It's.... fun I guess. Campaign only lasts so long before it gets boring. I'm only able to get full points on BST so far tho hm -_-
More recently, out of boredom, I went and joined a Bahamut "Storm of Fates" pick up pt. It has made me come to realize how much I miss doing big group endgame events.. ;_;
There was also a wedding on Nov 29. I somehow made myself cameraman... I need to finish that video already.
Mission: make money. Yeah I need moar gilz.
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