#anyways- *turns to look at pretendo*

[darewolfcreates]

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Goodnight Splatoon 1's server's and thank you for everything.

I remember seeing the first trailer for Splatoon. At first I wasn't interested at all... a shooter game? Not my style of game play... But then I kept watching and wow... I just got so captivated by what I saw that it was the first game I had ever pre-ordered that wasn't a Pokemon game. I used to do something called the "24 hour challenge" something that no one else but me did because I made it up. I would stay up the full 24 hours for Splatfest for the first handful of Splatfests and play the wholeeeee time. Or at least until my brother wanted to play and I'd take a nap, haha. That stopped once school started up again but those memories of my 24 hour challenges are still ones that I hold close to my heart. My first real Splatoon friend was Nick! We would play the new stages together in recon as soon as they would come out and we were both online. We still talk and I'd still consider him one of my closest friends. Thanks for sticking with me all these years Nick, I appreciate you more than words could ever express. I've made more Splatoon friends over the years and I'm happy to have every single one of you. Here's to the future!

#splatoon #splatoon 1 #splatoon 3 #splatoon art #my art #artists on tumblr #color #dare #splat dare #friends #nick #arson #captian #splatoon captain 3 #captian 3 #captin 3 #captain 3 #3 #i remeber songs like “its raining tacos” haveing a 10 hour version and there being comments about how if you listioned to the whole thing #you chould make a wish and have it granted. i used the 24 hour challange to take advantage of that #another song was wacky inflatable arm flailing tube man #the wish sort of came true so i think it was worth it. it hasent come all the way true tho yet so i wont be telling you what i wished for #not takeing any chances haha #paint markers #ive wanted to make this peice for a long time... im really happy with how it turned out :] #i deconstructed my paint markers useing a yogurt lid. isopropanol alcohol. and a paintbrush to get the transparency of my pants #thank you again for the memorys yall. love you <3 #anyways- *turns to look at pretendo* #IF YOU SAW THIS POSTED YESTERDAY NO YOU DIDNT. I WENT TO CORRECT IT AND WHEN I SAVED THE POST IT POSTED INSTEED. #i think i fixed it tho-

[songifywra-wow]

((So, Prefacing this by saying I got a little too creative and thought it would be fun!))

[Khulma]

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a human Dropped in the middle of the forgotten- Spot in the Forbiddin’ (Sea) By Provenance, impoverished and squaller Grow up to be a hero?

[Kane] What’s Your Name Man?

[Ayrai] Mycael Suncrest

[Mycael] My name is Mycael Suncrest.

[Sophaen] And there’s a million things I haven’t done But just you wait. Just you wait!

[Blackthorn Correlation] I am not throwing away my shot! I am not throwing away my shot! Yo I’m just like my city, I’m young scrappy and hungry And I’m not throwing away my shot!

[Camsaen] Raise a glass to the four of us! Tomorrow there’ll be more of us! Telling the story of-

[Lissa, Euphoria, and Cass] Work Work~

[Euphoria] Euphoria~

[Lissa, Euphoria, and Cass] Work Work~ 

[Lissa] Lissa~

[Cass] And Cassi~

[Lissa, Euphoria, and Cass] The Darkbough Sisters~

[Euphoria] Lissa I’m looking for a mind at work, work

[Lissa, Euphoria, and Cass] Hey! Hey! Yea~ Hey! In the Greatest City, In the Greatest City in the World~

[Shezmu] Oceans Rise, Empires Fall, We have seen each other through it all, And when push, comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love Da da da da, da da, da ya da~ da da da

[Sha] We are out gunned, Out Manned! Out numbered, out planned! We gotta make an all out stand! Yo, I’m gonna need a right hand man

[Seilynn] Oooh~ I do, I do, I do, I do~ Oh, You got me helpless Look into my eyes and the skies the limit Ah~ Down for the count~ And I’m drowning in-

[Elennia] To your union! And the hope that you provide! May you always~ Be satisfied! Satisfied! Satisfied!

[House Songheart] Life doesn’t discriminate, Between the sinners and the saints It takes and it takes and it takes But we keep living anyway We Rise, And we fall And we break, and we make mistakes And if there’s a reason that I’m still Alive when so many have died Then I’m willing to-

[Doc] One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine

[Ahane] Wait for it

[Lilia] Wait for it

[Doc] One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine

[Ahane] Wait for it

[Lilia] Wait for it

[Four Horsemen] It’s the ten duel commandment.

[Amoradine] Oh~ Let me be a part of the narrative In the story they will write some day Let this moment be the first chapter Where you decide to stay~

[Zan] Zantheon! Zantheon! I’m taking this horse by the reins Making Bluecoats Redder with Bloodstains Zantheon! And I’m never gonna stop until I make ‘em Drop and burn ‘em up and scatter their remains, I’m Zantheon! Watch me engagin’ em! Escapin’ em! Enragin’ em! I’m— Zantheon! I go to Org for more funds Zantheon! I come back with more Guns And ships

[Ang] Mycael Suncrest I’ve got soldiers in the field for you If we manage to get this right They’ll surrender by early light The world will never be the same!

[Blackthorn Correlation] The world turned upside down~

[Lissa] Look around~ Isn’t this enough?

[Euphoria] He will never be satisfied

[Lissa] What would be enough?

[Euphoria] To be satisfied

[Cass and Euphoria] Satisfied

[Lissa, Euphoria, Cass] Satisfied!

[Khulma] History has it’s eyes on you~

[Too Many People to do all lyrics here]

[Blackthorn Correlation] History has it’s eyes on you!

[Camsaen] What did I miss?

[Rook] Mycael! That was a really nice declaration Welcome to the present, we’re running a real nation Would you like to join us? Or stay mellow doing whatever the hell it is you do in Count Pretendo

[Euphoria and (Cass)] Take a Break! (And get away~) Run away for the summer let’s go upstate! (Where we can stay!) We can all go stay with our father (Look around, look around, how lucky we are to be alive right now~) Close your eyes and dream We can go when the night gets dark Don’t say no

[Mycael and (Ayrai)] Whoa, tell me how to say no to this How can I say no to this? There’s no where I can go (Help!) When your bodies on mine then I can’t say no (Help~)

[Non-Officers] No one else was in The room where it happened The room where it happened The room where it happened My God In God we trust But we'll never really know what got discussed Click-boom then it happened But no one else was in the room where it happened

[Ahane] It must be nice, It must be nice To have Valorian on your side To have Valorian on your side

[Everyone singing different parts]

[Sophaen] We both know, what we know

[Hanis] Alright, Now wait No~

[Khulma and Sha] Lissa Darkbough had a torred affair, And she wrote it down right there

[Mycael] Highlight!

[Cass] I know my sister like I know my own mind, You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind

[Hanis] I’m erasing myself from the narrative, Let future historians wonder how Hanis reacted

[Cass] I love my sister more then anything in this life, I will choose her happiness over mine, everytime! Put what we had aside I’m standing at ya side You could never be satisfied God I hope you’re satisfied

[Men] One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven-

[Stitch] It’s quiet uptown.

[House Songheart] Forgiveness, can you imagine? Forgiveness, can you imagine? If you see them in the street, Walking by his side, Talking by his side, I have pity They are going through the unimaginable

[Lissa] Now I’m the villain in your history

[Mycael] I imagine death, it feels more like a memory

[Seilynn] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine

[Sophaen] This is where it gets me

[Ayrai] I should’ve known

[Lilia] I’ve gotta throw away...

[Euphoria and Shezmu] Will they tell your story?

[Everyone] Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.

(( @blackthorn-correlation, @nalsrumvokunhaan, @lady-rosedrea, @noblehorseman-death, @felashathia, @mycaelsuncrest-deactivated20171, @lady-songheart, @khulma, @house-arachnia, and others I forget to tag! ))

#Just for funsies #Horde Side

[hotokeiki]

Week 128: J-pop

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Hey guys!

Man, has it been a while. The summer has been busier than I originally anticipated. Hopefully, you saw the last update I posted. That explains fairly well what all I want to do this summer, and NEED to do this summer.

Anyway.. How is everybody?

…

Linda: They can’t answer you.

Shh, Linda. *whisper* I know, but I’m trying to be polite. *whisper*

So, the last post was good ol’ St. Paddy’s Day, March 17. It is now May 17.. I’m sorry I left you with that for two months. XD

So, what’s happened since then?

Well, finals. That was a week before my birthday. Oh yeah, I had a birthday!.. We’ll get to that.

Let’s start with grades. A couple of my professors waited until the latest allowable time to turn in grades, but I had my grades by Friday, May 5.

Here they are. I’m pretty happy with them.

EE 353 (Communication Systems) - B+

EE 358 (Control Systems) - A                (pretty happy with this one)

EE 368 (Control Systems Lab) - C

CS 460 (Operating Systems) - A

EE 363 (Communication Systems Lab) - A

EE 477W (Senior Design II) - A

PSYC 460W (Psychology of Women) - A

Term GPA was 3.73, so I made Dean’s List! (=> 3.5)

I was trying to catch up in Control Systems after realizing I was taking the class too lightly. You don’t really learn things when you’ve already convinced yourself you don’t understand. Anyway, there were some tougher parts of the semester. I was freaking about this one report for Control Systems Lab, and I had convinced myself that it was due later than it was. The first section of that lab had two more days to do the simulations and write their report.. but I digress. I felt bad about doing that to Uncle Paco, being at the lab to ask questions when the assignment was due, and worked to get it done that night (I thought it was due by midnight). I apologized to Uncle Paco, and emailed my report before midnight. We worked things out, but I still got docked for the assignment. So did Evan, and we weren’t the only ones who thought it wasn’t due at that point. The last exam for Controls was the week before finals, and I thought it went pretty well. I actually figured out how Lag Compensation works during the exam (no one knew). XD

And the Communication Systems exams were brutal. I did pretty badly on the first one. It’s not that the questions were confusing, but there were so many! I told myself that if I had worked out more problems while studying, I could’ve finished the exam. There were 9 problems. I only had one actual final, and that was basically comprehensive. Also, Dr. Wu says that the exam problems are the same as the homework. They’re not entirely. He basically copied the exam from last year, and I didn’t have that exam to study for the first exam. Anyway, we get to the final (there were only two exams in total) which I’d been studying for for a couple days. But the final was.. OH MY GOSH, HOW?? How do you answer 11 problems in 2 hours. It seems easy, but the first problem is finding the coefficients for Trigonometric Fourier Series. I didn’t even finish that problem, and it took like 10 minutes!! That final was by far the worst exam I’ve ever had. I was mentally and physically exhausted. I know, because I had Evan record it. The Communications Lab was fun. It was basically a bunch of MatLab programming. I got behind on three reports, but the T.A. was fine with me turning them in late, and immediately graded them. He’s a nice guy, and he’s graduating with his masters. We’re friends now. Good luck, Zhewei!

Psychology of Women went really well. That was a fun class. I got perfects on all my papers. The last exam was also the week before finals, and it wasn’t comprehensive. I felt really good about that one. Dr. Krawczyk said we could email her to find out our scores on the final. I got a 38! Operating Systems was also really fun. Now I understand why Windows is not great for task management. We only had a project and a final take home exam/ homework/ project thing. That also went really well. I got it finished before the Computer Science party. That was a strange week. And we hit a bunch of snags in Senior Design, but my dad helped me a lot in getting ANYTHING running on the display. The display driver controller was being a little shit. Here’s video of the display demo we showed Dr. Allen: https://www.facebook.com/christian.dickinson.33/videos/566937140183929/

(it’s supposed to update the whole display at the same speed, but we ended up with a loading bar. And then we just repeatedly inverted and un-inverted the color on the display. It looks nice) Thaddeus had the Audio subsystem producing a tone, and Talen had click response of the Schmitt Trigger piano keyboard controller. In case I forgot to tell you, our project was the Super Pretendo, a handheld gaming console. There’s a good amount of documentation on Github this year!

 This is what happens when I don’t post for two months!! Sorry, guys. I’ll try to wrap up.

 My birthday was good. I had bacon and brats, and we saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 that weekend. It was good. It made me laugh and cry. I’ve been a little sick since before my birthday. I’m thinking it was a flu thing, maybe allergies. I’m pretty much over it.

 How old do you guys think I am now?

 Linda: You’re 23. Keep going.

 Gee, way to ruin the fun, Linda. Fine. Other than that, I made my last lecture for the trimester and presented it at the high school on Monday. It was about counting age, and telling time. It was confusing. Ore wa ni-juu-san-sai!

 And since Monday, I’ve just been trying to find an internship. I applied for one at my dad’s company, and he’d already decided who he was going to hire, but wanted to talk to me. It was good, and I might be able to get a job there later down the road. I applied for one at Itron, which is in town (I didn’t really want to commute again the whole summer). But I applied at a couple places in Mankato, and I got an interview set up at Software For Hire for tomorrow morning at 9am.

 Ok, I’m done. *deep breathing*

 Let’s get to the post!

 Watashi*dori by Reina Ueda is a song off her album RefRain.

 Yeah, something not tied to an anime… I think. You can never be too sure. I’m pretty sure it’s not, though.

 So, I found this song on SoundCloud. I was looking online for a song from Uma Musume Pretty Derby, and I found it uploaded by Anime Song#5. The name intrigued me, so I looked at the other uploads. And I liked almost every track there. And at the bottom of this list of uploads, as in the first upload for this account, was ワタシ*ドリ. I decided to follow Anime Song#5, and really liked the uploads. It was good, and there was so much good stuff being uploaded on a daily. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Ava.. LINDA! Did you switch my script again?

 .. That’s what I thought. Why do we even have that lever? .. SCRIPT! You did it again, Linda. It was funny the first time. Ok, it’s still funny…but stop.

 Anyway, I wanted to listen to Last Proof (was tied with this song. I wasn’t sure which to post), but I couldn’t find it. I could play it on my mobile app, because I queued it up when I had wifi and hadn’t changed the playlist. But it only existed on my SoundCloud app, and it was the same for Watashi*dori. Well, I realized that Anime Song#5 was no more. All that exists is one message thanking them for the great uploads (like I started with Minazuki-san!!), and all of the songs that I downloaded using the SCDL extension (thanks Rae), which changes the metadata so that the composer is the account that uploaded the song. So, I have a bunch of songs currently by Anime Song#5, and those were a bunch of the songs that Anime Song#5 uploaded. Thank you for the music, Anime Song#5. R.I.P.

 Word of advice. Download new songs you find on a regular basis, so they’re not completely lost to copyright antics. I SoundCloud is bad, because when an account is taken down, nothing remains. Nothing. It even says the message I sent is to Deleted user. I guess this message is my epitaph, then. This was three months ago:

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Hi,

My name is Chris. I just liked almost all of your songs XD.

You have very good taste. I look forward to your future uploads.

I noticed the #5 in your profile name. Do you have multiple Soundcloud profiles?

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks. I listen to a lot of J-pop, and post it on my blog. So, it's always fun finding more.

Here's the link to my blog if you'd like to check it out: hotokeiki.tumblr.com/

Thanks again for the great music!!

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 This has happened before with SoundCloud. I lost a song one time, I think Sophomore year. It was before Signals and Systems and I wanted to hear this song. I hadn’t heard it in a while, but I still remembered what it sounded like and what it was called. I was able to find it again!! … and then I lost it before I downloaded, and I neither remember what it sounded like nor what it was called.

 The second time was similar with a song called Signal Graph. I talked about this on my Facebook page. This was in August last year!

Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/WeeklyJpop/posts/226243397773833

 And then most recently with Watashi*dori. Due to Anime Song#5’s deletion, I didn’t have the song anymore. But I remember what it was called, and who it was by. It took a little while, and checking multiple sites (a lot of which were in Russian), but I found it. I found an mp3 site that I could give a link to an individual mp3 instead of the whole search result. I wouldn’t do that to you guys.

 Anyway, lesson learned. I actually downloaded this song before that unfortunate incident.

 Now, let’s talk about the song, because it’s super funky.

 First off, Reina Ueda’s voice is soft but also fun. It works very well with the playful nature of this song. The song is just super funky, and fun to listen to. It does a great job of switching between feels. And the instrumentation and back-up vocals really fit. It’s a well-crafted song that blends the parts together so well. I really like it. Unfortunately, I can’t listen to it with headphones at the moment. But when I can, it will be glorious!

 Enjoy!!

 Album: RefRain Track: 02 Lyricist: Youhei Matsui & Reina Ueda Composer: Hidekazu Tanaka (MONACA) Arranger: N/A Artist: Reina Ueda

 Here’s a link to the album sampler. It’s really cool! https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjSpbmZxvjTAhWIeSYKHY_XDbUQyCkIKjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9yY9IVfngPk&usg=AFQjCNFXd5Uy3qwp5WLpOMNOzHtroOtkBA&sig2=VxyLjWx1sM2pfjVaSzPTsA

 Alright, that’ll do it for this post.

 I need to get to bed. Interview tomorrow. Wish me luck!!

 If you have any questions or requests, please let me know. Sankyuu!!

 Linda: Hey, Kanchou..

 (That’s the first time you’ve called me anything. Why “director”, though?)

Yes, Linda.

 Linda: Happy Birthday.

 Thanks Linda!

 Ok. Good night, everybody!

 Issho ni ittemiru?

 - Chris  ——————————————————————————- Minna, gokitai kudasai!!

#Watashi*dori #Ueda Reina #ワタシ*ドリ #RefRain #Weekly J-pop #Week 128