152 insights into my soul

So I saw you can indeed import Warriors Orochi 3 data into the upcoming Warriors Orochi 3 ultimate. Which is good, since I've done so much in 3 already. But, I haven't seen any word of it coming out in America yet. If it doesn't I will be sad! Like before, I was thinking you couldn't import the data, so I was fine if it wasn't coming out here. But now that I know you can, I want it! I mean, even if we don't get all those DW8 additions, we at least get Xu Shu (not to be confused with that fat mongoloid Xu Chu) from DW7 Empires, plus the entire cast of Ninja Gaiden they added in WO3 Special and Hyper, like Kasumi, Rachel, and Momiji, plus Sophitia from Soul Calibur and some others.

Of course, I haven't actually touched WO3 in a while because of ME3 multiplayer. Which, I had mentioned before I finished every single challenge under the weapons tab. I'm a good way through the aliens tab. I'm just 67 waves away from completing Machine mastery. I just need to finish one more challenge to complete Rebellion as well. I was thinking of completing it with the Phoenix vanguard, since I already have 2 out of 10 extractions. I hear the QFI can do pretty well against Geth since she has sabotage, but I haven't gotten the hang of that power yet. Like when I hack the Geth, they don't seem to be killing their allies all that well.

That leaves resurgence and outsider mastery. Resurgence, I have 2 challenges left. I did unexpectedly well with the Geth Infiltrator- like I was only gonna play him long enough to complete the geth prox mine challenge since that was way quicker than doing 200 waves with a character. But I managed to solo extract just fine. But that leaves 1 more to do from either Geth Engineer, Batarian Sentinel, or Asari Justicar, none of which I'm good with, but its also been a long time since I've used them, and I've gotten better.

As for outsider, that's gonna be tough. I refuse to play a volus, but I'm only at 3 out of 7. I'm okay with the awakened collector, haven't messed with the talon mercenary, but since its waves and not extracts, I can prolly manage. Which still leaves 2 more, the phoenix characters and the drell. I could prolly use the phoenix vanguard, but I'm not too keen on the adept, and the drell are kinda squishy. But I hear decent things about the drell vanguard, and again, I haven't tried playing him in a long time, and I have gotten better at the game.

TV commentary:

Glee- You know, Becca Tobin is way cuter with her hair down, when she has her hair pulled back in a pony, it makes her look old.

Vampire Diaries- Actually, I don't mind the whole sire bond thing with Damon and Elena. Because it will just lead to Damon being all upset and worrying that what he and Elena have isn't real, and you know how much I eat that shit up.



Anyways, trying to finish up AC3 and WO3 before Mass Effect Trilogy. I could prolly finish WO3 quicker if I didn't get slowed down trying to raise bonds in an efficient manner. I mean, everyone's at least level 60, and Speed is of the Essence is a guaranteed 8-10 levels per playthrough, plus around 8-10 levels worth of growth points. So like I said, if I just didn't care about bonds, I could've gotten everyone to 99 by now. But I feel its a waste of points not to do it right.

In AC3, I'm one mission away from the last sequence, at which point its the point of no return. So, I'm finishing up all the side stuff. I'm done with the homestead, and I finished all of the navy stuff. Its too bad there wasn't more boarding missions. Because as fun as the naval combat was, I did like the few boarding sequences you get.

I will say the game can be a little too easy, at least combat wise, both for Connor and the ship stuff. Granted, I did upgrade the Aquila to max before I started tackling the missions, but the only time I was actually worried was when I had to protect another boat. Otherwise, three man-o-wars vs the Aquila, the win is already guaranteed. And unless I eff around too much, its rare that I come close to danger in a fight. Like I said, the forts, there's prolly a slick way to do them, but honestly, its quicker and easier to just walk in the front gate and slaughter everyone.

But I've never had a problem with games being too easy.

Looks like the last batch of DLC for WO3 came out today, which I got. So now I have access to all the costumes. I finally got everyone to S rank and maxed out their weapon compatibilities. I almost have everyone's weapons the way I want them, and once that's taken care of, just need to max out special relationships and get everyone to level 99. Which shouldn't be too hard, there's enough interesting DLC stages that offer a lot of xp. That should tide me over video game wise until Assassin's Creed 3 comes out.

For durlxnemesis, his two favorite Nick girls doing something silly:

TV commentary:

Burn Notice- Interesting summer finale. ( spoiler cut )

Suits- A little surprised at the summer finale. ( spoiler cut )

Wilfred- Didn't this end somewhat offensively? ( spoiler cut )

WO blather- Currently working on Magoichi, Huang Gai and Pang Tong. The first two I just need to max out their weapons. Pang Tong is basically a fresh character. But yeah, after I finish up Pang Tong and Huang Gai, that finishes up all the major DW faction folks, leaving only Zhang Jiao and Meng Huo from DW. So who do I have left to max?

Others 1: Zhang Jiao, Meng Huo, Da Ji, Sun Wukong, Kiyomori Taira

Others 2: Himiko, Dodomeki and Gyuki (actually, I just have to level them up a bit more and max out their weapons, I had gotten their personal skill to S a long time ago, since Dodomeki is the one that lets you rank faster and Gyuji is the one who lets your weapon rank go up faster, but amusingly enough, I haven't even used them all that much for that), Sanzang, Benkei, Shuten Doji

Samurai 1: Okuni, Shingen Takeda

Samurai 2: Yoshimoto Imagawa, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Nene

Samurai 3: Hanbei Takanaka, Goemon Ishikawa

18? That's not too bad.

WO blather- New DLC out this week, including the DW costumes for SW characters. For some reason Bao and Zhurong's outfits look even skimpier on Gracia and No. One of the new DLC stages, "Speed Is of the Essence", seems great for maxing everyone out. Its my favorite kinda stage, just you versus everyone. No allies to babysit, and no bond missions to hamstring you by forcing you to not use musou. And, given the stage is basically grading you on how fast you can beat it (giving you a 15 minute time limit), it doesn't take too long.

But yeah, basically, there are so many enemies you can't swing your weapon without hitting something. So not only do you get a lot of kills (a minimum of 5000, which is double the average number of kills I'd get on the previous "good" stages for leveling up) which means more exp and more rewards for beating the level, your TTA gauge fills up fast because you're carving through folks left and right, which means more triple attacks and more gems (I've been getting 35-55K, it seems!) Plus, there is just a ton of officers, so with prosperity you're getting like more than a dozen weapons (and given its a ten star stage, they have good attributes)

My fastest time so far is 13 minutes. Which I thought was fair, given it gave me a ranking of "swift", but it also says I can do better. I prolly could do it faster if I ignored a lot of the scrubs and went for only the important officers, but its always been hard for me to not kill enemies. Which is why my times on speed runs aren't too hot, because like the Dread Pirate Roberts, I don't like leaving survivors. In any case, I did find out in the mission I was killing Orochi X too fast there at the end, because there was this big boat showing up, and I was all, "what's with the friggin boat?" right before killing the big guy. But I guess it actually releases a couple of supply captains who give you even more rewards!

Walking Dead- I kinda needed that! ( spoiler cut )

TV commentary:

Pretty Little Liars- WTF, did they really have Emily kiss a distraught Nate? Way to piss off your lesbian audience, show! And wait, why do they act like Wren is not in the same boat as Ezra? He is a doctor, which means he's around a decade older than these girls. First Spencer, now Hanna?! He was acting like her being with Caleb was the only reason they couldn't be together, and not that it would be statch.

Degrassi- Ugh, Drew proposed to Bianca? Whatever, as long as he doesn't mess up her college plans. Dave on the other hand dumps Alli, because he feels they've grown apart.

But I realize Imogen is supposed to be miss quirky, but putting your face in front of a confetti cannon to figure out why it didn't go off is prolly not the wisest idea. The knock down drag out fight was a little excessive though. And while the Ice Hounds can be dickish, again, I feel bad for Dallas. He can be a jerk at times, but he can also be a good guy. So its interesting he seemed actually hurt when Fiona kicked him out. I guess he did think they were kinda friends, but only he got sent away, and not Eli and Jake, who technically threw the first punches. Of course, he and the hockey team did crash the party, with the intent of stirring up shit.

And hey, at least Claire finally told Eli the truth!

What's up with the "pre-action" interviews on those kinda videos? I figure most people fast forward through those anyways. Because that's why people watch such things, to watch someone yammer on about themselves! Okay, occasionally, I'll watch it, mostly if I end up having to actually jump ahead a bunch before anything starts, just because I'm curious what the hell they're talking about for so long. Its usually the girl talking about when her first time was, which given she's in the pr0n business, is almost never a good story.

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WO blather- So I've been re-working the weapon set ups for a few of the characters. I've been going the absorb/agility/bolt/brilliance/echo/slay/typhoon/wind route (well, actually I've been replacing echo or typhoon on most folks with prosperity for weapon farming), which is a reasonable set up, but annoying because it makes it hard to regain musou. Which sucks for people with good musous or R1 specials.

But the main use of echo and/or typhoon is for crowd control. Its important for people with sucky movesets, but not so much for the ones who have decent moves. Now, I'd been replacing osmosis with brilliance, because brilliance needs your musou meter to be full for it to work. However, for those with really good specials (ones that activate weapon attributes), they'll refill their musou meter anyways with osmosis.

So, I've been doing absorb/agl/bolt/brilliance/osmosis/prosperity/slay/wind for a number of characters who have great specials, and good enough movesets they don't need typhoon/echo (and I intend to replace propserity with one of those when I no longer need to farm), like Mitsuhide and Nuwa.

Some people build their character around the special attack though, going the frenzy route, which is fine, but its no fun using just the one move over and over. Like Susano'o, yes his special will kill everything instantly, and between osmosis getting activated during it, and equipping musou magatama, he can just do it over and over. But that's not any fun, I want variety in my attacks!

So, today's gospel was the multiplication of the fishes and loaves story. I once heard someone give forth a mundane explanation for the miracle in a sermon once. Something about all the people there actually having brought food with them for their own consumption and not saying anything lest they have to share. But when the baskets were being passed around, they were filled with grace or the Holy Spirit or what have you and rather than take food, they put a little of their own in the baskets to help feed everyone. And that's how everyone got their fill and there were so many left overs. I'm sure there's some sort of message there about God working through people's hands and the spirit of brotherhood, but frankly, I'm not too keen on that explanation. In fact, I find it somewhat heretical.

Oh, I realized my list from a few days ago was missing the hot and curvy Jennifer White, and the cute (especially in glasses) and ample Penny Pax. So I corrected the list, bumping off two of the ladies I was feeling luke warm about and had only put in because I was struggling to make the list a normal list-like number.

Speaking of Penny, she plays Batgirl in the Dark Knight XXX parody. Which as the Comics Alliance review says, is pretty friggin dark! As they say, the first scene is basically a reference to the Killing Joke. I mean, usually these parodies are tongue in cheek and light hearted, but this was kinda disturbing! And whatever, spoiler alert, but like you the reader care about spoilers for a pr0n parody, but yeah, basically Catwoman tricks Batman, and Bane beats him up and breaks his back, and then he has a threesome with her and Kathy Kane. And that's how the movie ends! WTF?! Batman loses, and the bad guys have a threesome?! Oh, and yeah, its totally random that Constantine and Zatanna are in this!

WO blather- So, still playing through the game, here's some comments on some of the characters:

Motochika- His moveset is actually better than I was remembering. I mean, it has its flaws, but its relatively solid. His R1 special is ridiculous though. Basically, he fires out a bunch of soundwaves for a surprisingly long time, which with my current weapon set up (I'm not sure if the blast +10 and echo are the reason for this) means if there's a big enough crowd, its an auto-fill of the TTA gauge!

Liu Shan- He has the same rapier moveset from DW7. But like Xiahou Ba, he has a ridiculously powerful R1 special. Basically, it makes him invulnerable AND causes him to constantly regenerate health. Which, given his ability is thrift, give him osmosis +10 and maybe the musou magatma item, and there's no reason to just not constantly have this on.

Yoshitsune- First, he gets cool points for his weapon being a light saber. His R1 special needs a grab confirmation, but basically makes the beam larger and longer for several seconds. I'm trying to figure out if all attacks have weapon element activation in that mode. In any case, he's definitely fun and cool to play.

Nezha- Another cool character to play, I love the whole hovering thing. But yeah, his C5 is rather ridiculous. Its a little like Motochika's special, in that Nezha fires out a persisting (seriously, its weird how long it lasts) cone in front of him that basically decimates everything in its path. You can't go wrong with spamming that. The only annoying thing about Nezha are that his big stars are joke weapons. Its like, can I get a powerful weapon that doesn't look like a chocolate covered donut?! This is total BS! And yeah, I can't just stick with his 4 star, because his big star at max compatibility is way more powerful than the four star at max.

Can't believe I went the whole weekend without commenting on the pending Tomkat divorce on here. I guess the brainwashing has weakened enough that she was able to finally formulate a means of escape? Katie's a brave woman though, trying to get sole custody of Scientology's princess, isn't she worried about them declaring a fatwa on her? I mean, look what happened to Chef! He didn't even speak out against Scientology, he just didn't chastise Matt and Trey enough for making fun of it, instead expressing just mild disapproval!

WO blather- Hmm, I'm thinking I'm going to have to spec out two different Pacific Blades for Mitsuhide. I've been using the standard "best" load- agility +10/absorb +10/bolt +10/brilliance/echo/slay +10/typhoon/wind +10. (well, technically I subbed out echo for prosperity +10 so I could use him for weapon grinding) But, his R1 is one of the best in the game, and his true musou looks totally awesome. So another one with agility +10/absorb +10/bolt +10/osmosis +10/slay +10/typhoon/verity/wind +10, which will let me do those to my hearts content?

Looks like Sima Shi was decloned from the rapier set (haven't played Liu Shan or Yuan Shao yet, so not sure which has the original and which one was decloned) I like his new c4 and c6. His ex attack is still great, but it could be better if there was any forward movement on it. As it is, its solid, because since its off his c2, the first hit hits him in the air, and given he's a technique character, he does critical damage against airborne enemies, and the ex part slashes them several times before ending in a nice area effect hit that clears out people around him. He's got good speed, enough that its easy to forget he's not actually a speed character, and thus cannot double jump.

Ranmaru is similar to Xiahou Ba in many respects. I think Ranmaru is runs faster under normal conditions, but like Xiahou Ba, his attacks are very slow because he's wielding a big-ass sword. However, like XB, his R1 is a speed boost, but unlike XB, it just boosts his attacking speed, he doesn't get the crazy running boost.

Woke up early this morning, so I read the latest League of Extraordinary Gentleman book. I got a lot more of the references than the previous ones. The things I recognized- Entourage, West Wing, Doctor Who, Torchwood, 24, Burn Notice, The Thick of It, 30 Rock, Harry Potter, Mary Poppins and Heroes. I'm sure there were more hidden references, but those were the only ones I picked up on. Anyways, since it was still early, went back to sleep. Don't do that after reading such things! Or maybe do, it will lead to some interesting, action packed dreams to say the least.

WO blather- Although I still have a lot of people to play, I've been using growth points to get everyone to level 20, so when I do play them, I'll have access to their full moveset. I believe I just need to get Okuni, Takeda, Ieyasu, and Yoshimoto up to 20, but that shouldn't take too long. I plan to at least get everyone to S rank, with a maxed out four or big star weapon with satisfactory attributes. So far, that leaves them in the mid-30s level wise. The ones I've played the most are in the 60s right now. I could try to get everyone's special bonds maxed at least, but trying to max out everyone's bond with everyone else might be too insane. If I wanted to get everyone to L99, that would take forever too. A couple of thousand boards, by my calculations. And since I shockingly hadn't yet gotten the played a thousand levels trophy in DW7:XL, its no small task.

Having played all the new SW characters except Aya, I'm concentrating on the Wei (and Jin) right now. Played Zhen Ji and Cai Wenji. Can't remember if it was this way in DW7, but her EX attack here will also give her a speed buff. She's fine, but Cai's awesome. Her moveset is very safe, as she's always hitting 360 around her, so she doesn't get hit often as she's keeps crowds off her. I don't remember her being this good in DW7, but she's definitely great here.

Also played Xiahou Yuan, Xu Zhu, and Sima Yi. Looks like they were all decloned from the original bow, club, and war fan movesets. Xiahou Yuan's moves are kinda spry for someone as... bulky as him. But I do like his new charges a lot though, they're all cool looking, and his c4 and c5 are especially useful. Xu Zhu's new C4 is quite solid, he quickly just bounces and slams into the ground twice, which is really good for taking out crowds. And cool, Sima Yi basically got his old moves back, particularly his c4 and c6. I hear Zhuge Liang also got his old moves back- in DW7, the fan moveset seemed to have elements of both their old movesets, but it didn't really seem them because all their good moves were stripped away. I'm really glad they got their DW5 moves back in their repertoire.

WO blather- Finally tried out Kai and Masanori. They're both pretty good. Kai has good speed and a strong moveset. Masanori is kinda like a mini-Keiji. You can just spam his c5 all day and it will serve you well.

Weird, apparently Wang Yi and Xing Cai auto-block and counter during their S-strings? So give them the Demon Mask and Gauntlets of Vitality and they're practically invincible- as long as they're attacking, they'll counter attacks from any direction, and the gauntlets will heal them for counter attacking.

TV commentary:

Royal Pains- Weird, I guess Jill really is gone if she's not longer in the opening credits. And interesting, Paige and Boris are in the opening credits. I'm particularly glad Paige is a regular now.