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Summer School
WELL!
Summer school has been...a journey, I started my first day today..which means, dread.
Although, I see some of my friends in here, so all is well.
But I will say, I have no idea what Im doing...
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Who Was Max Headroom?
The character portrayed by Matt Frewer on British television whose consciousness was transferred into an AI program following his fatal accident is possibly the most anime non-anime character ever.
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Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remastered
Ok, so, I've decided to start a new game of Final Fantasy X before playing X-2. Luckily there's YouTube if I get stuck at all, but since I've got the official HD Remastered strategy guide I might not need to rely on YouTube. Right now I've progressed to the point of the Al Bhed ship that Tidus helps in exchange for a place to stay after Sin transported him to the middle of nowhere. Or seemingly the middle of nowhere at first. I've never actually beaten X or X-2, so I'm hoping to cross that off my bucket list. Tragic story though. I still need to see the end, and I've forgotten a lot of it. That's why I'm restarting it. I'll keep posting my progress as I go trough the story though. Funny thing is I've got 99 Potions already. You just dive until you reach the next screen (underwater above the chain) then swim back up the chain and go back to the ship and the Al Bhed that gives you 3 Potions will give you 3 more. It's probably a glitch, but it'll save a lot of Gil if I just do it that way.
Right now I'm trying to unlock the Warrior and Slayer Overdrive Modes for Rikku and Tidus, getting Blitz Ace for Tidus, and the sphere levels along the way won't hurt.
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Climbed To The Top & Back Down
Hello everyone!
Wow, well, I think this blog entry is very much overdue, I apologise greatly for not making a post sooner or ever making that post about the gear or training (if you're interested, feel free to DM me)
So firstly thank you to everyone for the support! The goal was reached, and all the money was given to MRF!!!! (huge thank you to @Animedragonfor the donations)
As for the journey, well, I'll do my best to talk about it while also keeping it short.
I'm afraid I don't remember the dates or times, but I'll do my best!
So firstly me and my fiancee did this together along with a group of around 25 other students from Ireland.
We arrived at Dublin airport early, where we met the whole group for the first time (some of us had met at fundraisers but didn't get to know each other until that moment)
From there we flew to Doha and then flew into Dar Es Salaam. After a 7-hour bus trip through Tanzania, we arrived at Moshi (a small town near the base of Kilimanjaro), where we would stay the night.
Waking up early, we headed for Kili, this was a beautiful trip, and honestly, seeing Africa was just honestly one of the most beautiful things in the world, a real eye-opener.
Arriving at Kili, we were greeted by some really adorable monkeys at the gate and had to wait a couple of hours for our gear to be unloaded and sorted among the porters.
we took the Machame route which is a total of 7 days, 5 up, 2 down.
We started day 1 through the rainforest which was definitely a very difficult day, we arrived at camp much later than expected and had to use our head torches (Machame Camp)
Within the first day my fiancee became very sick but managed to push through day 2 towards Shira Camp, which I found quite a pleasant and beautiful walk. Shira Camp was definitely breathtaking.
The next day was when the altitude started to get to me, we went up to the Lava Tower for lunch and back down to the Barranco Camp where we would stay the night before tackling the amazing Barranco wall.
At this point I was getting sick and suffering from some crazy migraines.
We woke up nice and early and did the Barranco wall which was for sure the best way to start the day, absolutely love climbing and scrambling up the wall! but I didn't expect the very long walk after towards Barafu camp.
At Barafu camp we prepared to summit and left at around 1am at night if I remember correctly, this was the most painful and exhausting day of my life, our noses were pumping blood and our brains were foggy, I swear I sleep walked half of it, at every break you just wanted to close your eyes and give up, every step was heavy and painful and it just never ended, there was a sea of headlamps slowly making their way up the mountain and it was dreadful, but finally at around 7am we made it to the top!, at that moment all the pain just vanished, it was a fresh of life, we got our pictures and within 15 minutes were heading down.
Now if you thought getting up there was hard, coming down was just as bad, it was like a slip and slide of ash! absolutely dreadful experience, me and my fiancee swore to each other that we wouldn't do something like it again (that's a lie now) but we did it, and we were exhausted.
the two days down was dreadful but we were all looking forward to a shower and a cold Coca-Cola at the bottom, it kept our spirits up.
And that's it in summary!
Now I know there is so much more detail and trust me I will give it, so many stories to tell and so many pictures to share, but I will save that for the next blog post! I just felt I needed to share that it was completed.
So next post I will share some photos (at least one from each day) and then also some stories and what happened after we got down!
Buuuut I wanted to make this post because
What's next? Well
We are thinking either Machu Picchu or Mont Blanc!!!!!!!
And this time I will do a way better job documenting them with videos!!!
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Show Name: Desert Punk
Character Name: Desert Punk / Kanta Mizuno
Reason why I Relate So Much Because i am A Total Pervert ☠
, My Sex Drive Levels Is Insane
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Please note that the plugin I list doesn't prevent thumbnail ads on the front page, and that video ads are just skipped really fast after popping up on screen. This can be jarring depending on your own personal preferences.
In recent news, YouTube has decided that all adblock plugins are no longer kosher. The bastards have gone out of their way to block their video player for any users detected using them. In my testing, it also prevents usage of tracker blockers such as Privacy Badger. This marks yet another degradation of legacy sites most of the world uses on a more than regular basis.
YouTube is known for implementing horrible decisions for years, this being the latest in a long line of them. Being a website made in the heyday of mid aughts tech boom, and created in a much less corporatized internet ecosystem, this just marks another die off of legacy users to the site. It also marks a recent trend in legacy web 2.0 sites, which make zero profit from decades of being run under the idea that, one day, hosting thousands of terabytes of data will eventually be profitable. YouTube as a company never made money, from its beginning days to its entire history under Google ownership. These sites thrived through angel investors keeping the doors open under the idea that, because they have such a large userbase of so many people, the site would (eventually) be profitable. A slowdown in receiving investor money in recent years (due to a loss in faith in big tech as a whole) has caused these sites to go into full panic mode and do anything to make as much money as possible in order to bring the investors back. Twitter charging a dollar a year, and Reddit pay walling their API access are further examples of corporate sites ruining user experience for the sake of squeezing a few more dollars out of their user base.
Those inclined enough have made work arounds which (at the time of writing) work to prevent further ad bombardment. I, personally, have taken to using RemoveAdblockThing, a plugin for tamper monkey. I also use a plugin which reimplements the dislikes counter. Like I said at the start, however, it only quickly skips through any ads video that pop up, and does not remove thumbnail ads.
https://www.tampermonkey.net/
https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing
https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com/installThis method is the one that works best with me for now. I tested several other methods around and found this one to be the simplest to implement, and results in the most consistent blocking experience. I highly recommend doing research on the topic and finding a method that works best for you, personally. The early implementation of this has left a lot of room for bypassing this, and it will only become more difficult to do so over time.
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InuYasha Themed Sigs - Sara Asano
Sara Asano (阿佐野娑蘿（さらひめ）, "Princess Sal Tree")
Sara's necklace (娑蘿の首飾り, "Sara no kubikazari")
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Almost There!
The plans have been set! I'm going to spend two weeks going around Tokyo, Hiroshima, Chiba, and Osaka with my class. I will doing a homestay with four different families as well! I'm super excited! All of the hours I've spent working have paid off, and now my dad only has to chip in 300$ out of the near 4000$ I've saved for this trip!
I am a tad bit worried however because the third week I'll be going to Nagoya and staying with my best friend, but I've had trouble getting in contact with her mom. It is confirmed that I'll be staying with them, but I still have to work out the details before I pay my travel agent...
The last thing is that I've gotten in contact with my manga sensei! Nao Yazawa, the artist of Wedding Peach! I spent two weeks studying under her last time I was in Japan! And before I leave Tokyo on my last day, I've scheduled a lesson with her! Which I'm super excited about because she's an absolute genius in her craft. I've been able to see and touch the physical pages from Wedding Peach and it's insane how talented she is!
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