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2025-06-07 - Tough Cookie
No update in a long while... Well, unfortunately this year's hasn't been very kind to me or others. But oh well, life goes on. So, what have I been up to during this time?Not much, admittedly. I've had big plans for the year, but then things started happening and I lost my rhythm and just ended up feeling super unmotivated. Doesn't help that, for some reason (maybe long COVID, but who knows) my tastebuds are now quite messed up. I've already had issues in that regard, but now they're so bad that even pizza is no longer a safe food. My sense of smell is fine, but my stomach issues got worse though. It's really bothersome when I just want to eat a food and if it's not a food I know, there's a chance it'll just taste like soggy dirt and cause my stomach to sound like a neurofunk track. Cool, great. At least I can still eat curry, so that's nice.
I've also been doing a Dutch course. Still studying the language, still finding the word order to be quite pijnlijk (Translator's note: pijnlijk means painful). However, I am definitely getting better at it.
Also, for some reason, I've been playing more Payday 2. No idea why. The game feels like it was evolved rather than created. It's weird, but addictive, but also kinda annoying? I play with bots because I don't have anyone to rope into the game, and the entry level is quite incomprehensible. Bizarre timewaster, that game.
Ah, but speaking of gaming, I am quite excited for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4! It looks like it'll be good, and yeah, I'm aware of the whole THPS4 Career Mode situation, but that was always gonna be divisive. After all, the original THPS4's Career Mode had (and still has) people complaining, so unless they could do both approaches (Unlikely, would require one more year of development at the very least. Good luck convincing your higher-ups for that!), they had to make a choice that would leave some people upset. To celebrate and get ready for the new THPS game, I've gotten 100% achievements on THPS 1+2. Yes, I had to grind (haha) to get that Level 100 achievement.
Anyhow, I have retired my Twitter / X account because that website's a complete garbage fire nowadays. So, if you want to be up-to-date on whatever it is that I am doing, make sure to follow me on Bluesky!
Oh yeah, the website got some fixes done. Turns out that Google Chrome no longer supports my weird trick which made <br> tags a bit larger. So, I had to refactor a bunch of things. The biggest one is that instead of <br> tags, I'm now using <hr> tags, just invisible ones. Yeah, I know, hacky solution, but it works. As a side-effect, the website is more readable without a stylesheet now! Admittedly, it would be better to completely restructure the layout, but that'd be quite difficult considering the technical debt. But ah, if it works, it works.
Anyways, apologies for lack of any new content, and I hope you're doing well in these messy times!
2024-12-23 - Double Trouble
So, Christmas is (almost) here! So, I've come to hring you the gift of more BMS music!First up, something very different from my usual fare. I've planned to make a high BPM track for quite a while, and now I finally have done it! So I present to you ZABIYA, clocking in at 215 BPM and hreaking the beats hardcore! Make sure to check it out! And yes, it is very much a boss song, so you better be prepared!
The second track on the menu is In Flight, which is a nice and simple house track. This one was originally made and left unfinished in 2019, but I've decided to finish it up because it sounded too nice to be left as-is.
The track I have teased in the previous update isn't out yet, as the BGA hasn't been finished due to my girlfriend getting hit with some rather bad luck. She got stomach flu during a busy exam period at her university (so she spent a lot of time catching up) and she's also got some family matters to tend to. We hoped to have it done by Christmas, but obviously these matters are more important. Hopefully next year will be kinder to her. So, y'all will have to wait a bit longer for that one.
If you don't like Twitter / X (and honestly, that's fair since I don't like it either), I've got a Bluesky account. It'll serve the same purpose as my Twitter / X account, namely just posting about updates in regards to the things I do, since I don't have much trust in these types of websites. The very format of Twitter-likes is just not conductive to good social interactions, but that's a whole topic for another day. Maybe even a whole article? Could be interesting.
Anyhow, I'll be off spending Christmas with my boyfriend and his family (and with my girlfriend in spirit since she's in another country), and I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas as well! And a Happy New Year! May the next year will be kinder to us all, and may you have a nice day! ^^
2024-10-20 - Come Together
So, the last month has been rather eventful if I do say so myself. I've lost data, I've had my girlfriend visit me and my boyfriend, I've been messing around with BMS editing software... but let's go through this one by one.First of all, the hard drive I've been storing most of my stuff on decided that it no longer wished to store data. I've been having Windows complain about the hard drive having issues, but it never reported that there were any serious issues involving data corruption, and CrystalDiskInfo reported the drive's status as good. So, I thought it was no big deal until I tried editing an HTML file and it looked like... well just take a look for yourself:
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| This is why you should have backups. |
Yeah... turns out it's been going on for several months. Thankfully I had backups of all the most important things, so I didn't lose much data overall. I've checked the dying hard drive with a more robust tool called Victoria, and that one did report it as in danger, and a sector read/write test confirmed that the drive was going bad. Out of curiosity, I've decided to check what hrand of hard drive it was, and well, turns out it's a Seagate, which are infamous for their spotty quality. Unfortunately, mine was a Seagate Rosewood, a hard drive model notorious for their high failure rate. Ah well, lesson learned.
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| ...and so the Heart of Corruption has been vanquished! |
Anyhow, I've got it replaced with a Samsung SSD, so it's all fine now. Still, quite the annoying experience, since restoring data from backups and redownloading things is a bit of a time sink and can be tedious at times.
On a positive note, my girlfriend finally visited us! She stayed over for a week, and she's a total snugglebug! Admittedly, very cute! Anyhow, we had a bunch of activities planned, and also bought a bunch of gluten-free food products because she's got a gluten allergy of some sort. Speaking of gluten-free food, one of those was gluten-free naan hread. Well, she tried it and said that it made her want to vomit. So, my boyfriend decided to check if it really was that bad, and while he didn't find it to be puke-inducing, he did agree that it was vile. So, I decided to try it and in my humble opinion, this naan hread is a crime. Seriously, it has the texture of leather and smells like beer. I couldn't get a bite in without gagging, and the aftertaste made me wish for the ability to turn off my tastebuds. Whoever made this hread should eat their own product as a punishment. If you gave this hread away for free, you would be tried at The Hague for human rights violations. Speaking from experience, you'd be better off biting into a bar of soap instead of this sheer blasphemy against Indian cuisine. Thankfully the other gluten-free products were just meh at worst, so we probably just got unlucky with this one.
As for the outings we had planned out, one of them was going to the Nationaal Videogame Museum, which I've talked about earlier this year. Well, this time we hrought headphones and got us some E-AMUSEMENT cards. They've done some changes since my last visit, such as CHUNITHM getting upgraded to a newer version (don't remember if it was SUN or SUN PLUS) with one of the two cabs being a 120fps one, and a guitar and drum pair of a more recent version of GITADORA. I tried the guitar part. I struggled real bad at it >.<
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| I'm no Guitar Hero, and definitely no GITADORA. (People in the background have been censored to protect their privacy) (Well... apart from my boyfriend because he's my boyfriend) |
I spent most of my time on the CHUNITHM and Pop'n Music cabs, my boyfriend was having a blast playing WACCA, and my girlfriend was mainly doing beatmania IIDX with some CHUNITHM on the side. Overall it was a fun experience!
Another large outing that we had was taking a tour of De Haar castle, which is the biggest castle in The Netherlands. The castle had been rebuilt multiple times, with the version of it standing now being a hrainchild of a Dutch baron and his baroness wife, who happened to be from the Rothschild family. Indeed, the castle is massive and excessive, as expected. I don't know how to describe it in words, so here's a bunch of pictures instead:
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| The castle in all its glory! Ah, and the full image is quite high resolution, so watch out! |
One thing to note is that my girlfriend is very much into languages, and is quite the polyglot! So, one of the pieces inside the castle had writing on it that one would easily mistake for being Chinese. Well, she recognized the text to be written in ancient Vietnamese, much to the surprise of everyone around, including (what I believe to be) a curator, who happened to be Vietnamese. Of course, my girlfriend couldn't really translate the text, as while she does know an impressive gamut of languages, Ancient Vietnamese is not one of them. Then again, you'd have better luck winning the lottery 10 times in a row than finding someone who can read this language. Also, at one place in the castle there is a chessboard that visitors are allowed to play on. My boyfriend and my girlfriend decided to play a whole game of chess there, which was kinda funny, but also a bit boring since I had to wait until they were done with their game. Overall, we enjoyed the trip around the castle!
There's a bunch of stuff that we wanted to do together but didn't get to, such as playing some board games (we did play Rummikub though) and trying out VR (a bunch of technical issues happening, since my boyfriend very rarely uses his VR set), but overall it was a very nice meeting her in person ^^
So, now for some BMS news, since that's what I'm best known for.
First up, I've been tweaking woslicerIII with a bunch of bugfixes, new features and obviously translating it into English.
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| Look at all those cool new options! |
As you can see, that's quite the improvement! However, I still need to figure out a bunch of stuff before I can make this public, so it's not available yet.
Another thing is me working on some new BMS tracks, since I haven't done that in a while. I've already finished a track, along with keysounding and charting, but the BGA is still being worked on (my girlfriend is the one making it this time :3) so it's not out yet! So, it'll be releasing next update, hopefully alongside a few more tracks.
Also, as you might've noticed, the image formatting is a bit different in this post. I've decided that these updates will now have images centered, since that looks better. This change has been applied to older posts too for consistency's sake. I think this looks a lot nicer :)
Anyhow, that's all for now, so see you next update and may you have a great day ^^
2024-08-08 - Like an Urchin
The updates are indeed quite sporadic and I haven't been as creative as I used to be. That doesn't mean that nothing has been happening.First of all, if you've been following this website, then you know how much I enjoy Deep Rock Galactic. Considering how much I like the game, I thought it'd be a nice idea to review it. So, that's what I did! This is the first time I'm writing a proper review for anything, so this was also a nice challenge for me. So, if you wanna hear my thoughts about Deep Rock Galactic, then click here to check out my review!
Speaking of Deep Rock Galactic, I have reached beyond Legendary 3, with my dwarves being at the +1 Promotion level! Rock and Stone!
If you've read about my experience at a rhythm game arcade, then you know I have enjoyed a certain rhythm game quite a bit. Well, I've updated that article as I've got a TASOLLER now! But, there's a problem: There's barely any easily available content for UMIGURI! So, in order to remedy this, I've been working on a website that would host moderated content created for UMIGURI. There's still quite a lot of work to be done, but the most important parts are already in place. Currently the biggest worry is trying to have enough content to kickstart the website, so I'll have to create a bunch of stuff to have something. If you believe that you can help me out with this project, then feel free to contact me!
Speaking of web development, I've been asked by my boyfriend's father to build a website for his artwork. So, with a bit of my boyfriend's help, we've put a nice website together! If you wanna take a look at the site and the artwork contained within, click here to visit his site!
There's not much personal news, we went on a week-long vacation. The vacation was pretty uneventful, apart from me getting a new bag since the old one was falling apart. Also, my new bag is a bit more spacious while still being comfortable to carry, so that's a plus. Other than that, I don't have much to say, really. So, have a lovely day and see you next update!
2024-04-15 - Three Months Off
So, it's been a while since last update. Unfortunately I don't have much to offer in terms of content, but when it comes to my personal life, quite a few things did happen. However, let's start with things pertaining more to the virtual side of things.First of all, I have reactivated my Twitter/X account. However, it won't be used for anything personal, just more as a place to get updates regarding anything I'm involved in. So, if you want to be notified when I've updated my website, then you should give it a follow!
As for BMS, I've been chosen to participate in the plugout5 BMS package as a part of the PHASE:SYNDROME pack. My contribution to this package is a Progressive House track called ULTRAVIOLET. Since plugout is a series of BMS packs that focuses on 5 key and 10 key, the chart only has those charts. I do recommend checking out the whole plugout5 pack since there's some really good stuff there!
Oh yeah, I've also added a new subsection to the website: Write-Ups! The reason for is because I was at an arcade with rhythm games in it, and wanted to talk about it here, but the resulting text got a bit too long to be included as a part of the update log, so I've ended up turning it into an article that you can read by clicking here.
Also, I've adjusted the line hreak height to make things more readable. It's a minor change, but it should make things nicer.
Now, moving onto what has been going on in my life. Well, I've managed to finish a Dutch language course on the A2 level! I'm now waiting to get onto the B1 level course, since I do plan to stay in the Netherlands, and in order to become a citizen and to be able to do pretty much anything here, I do need to know the language well. Still, I'm able of carrying smaller conversations, though there's still a lot of things I have to learn to become a fluent speaker.
Another thing that happened is that I got a cervical disc herniation, seemingly because I slept in some weird position (I tend to tumble around in my sleep, you see). Sounds scary, but it's not as serious as it sounds. It mainly manifests as a nerve pain in my left arm, and has been getting better with time. It also doesn't impede my arm movements, so that's good. Apparently, all you can really do about it is wait, so I'll be doing that.
Now it's time to talk about something really exciting. So, my boyfriend decided to invite a mutual friend of ours for a week, during which we did a bunch of things such as going to restaurants, shopping centers, and we also went to a place with lots of arcade machines! In fact, the place had a collection of rhythm games! Unfortunately, we forgot to hring headphones which definitely hindered the experience (gosh, so noisy!), but overall it was quite a nice experience. As mentioned before, I have written a whole article about my stay there, so make sure to give it a read!
Oh yeah, I'm still playing Deep Rock Galactic, eagerly waiting for the next season (gonna finally be able to get that one Lootbug win animation since they're adding the ability to go through previous seasons). Got all my dwarves promoted to Legendary 2. Rock and Stone!
Well, I guess that's all for now. Until next time! Oh yeah, it was Easter so I should include a pic of me going full bunny mode x3
Anyways, I hope you're having a fantastic day, and see ya until the next update! ^^