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Sluggy Freelance Megatome 01, Humble Bundle

I got my Sluggy Freelance Megatome 01 book! You can read almost all of it for free online so there’s no real need to buy the book. I did it partly to support the comic artist, and partly because I liked the story and the jokes, so I wanted to reread the comic from the beginning. And doing it in book form is a bit better than doing it on the screen again, or so I figured.

I also preordered a book from another webcomic that I recently started reading and liked, Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life, and I donated some money to Sandra and Woo. Yeah, I seem to keep throwing money around to support people/companies that I like. Other preorders I did include the Collector’s Edition of Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and the Collector’s Edition of Batman: Arkham City.

Now that I think about it, I also applied as a monthly donator for Røde Kors (Red Cross in Norway), but I haven’t gotten anything in the mail from them yet. I’m sure it’s been a few weeks since I applied. I guess they don’t have the manpower to go through requests quickly?

Oh, and I also bought/donated to the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle, which at first only included Frozen Synapse, but now added two other games, Trauma and SpaceChem. (It also includes the previous Humble Bundle with Frozenbyte games if you give more than the average, currently 4.67USD. I already got that bundle when it was running though.) Both Frozen Synapse and SpaceChem are puzzle/strategy kind of games which seem simple enough through the tutorial, but which explodes with difficulty already in the first stages. (I might be exaggerating.) I did beat my brother twice in Frozen Synapse, though he hadn’t even played the tutorial yet so I’m not overly proud over that.

Trauma however is a simple point and click game a lot like many online flash games, although with a somewhat more serious story about a car accident victim. And life. I kind of like the mood in that game. The game is pretty short, but I haven’t found all the secrets yet. Might do that in the weekend. Anyways, the bundle is at the moment of writing still running for 7 more days, so you should get it while you have the chance!

Here’s a video of my solution in one of the stages in SpaceChem. Later I found out that I don’t really need to have the same shape on the molecules for them to be accepted, as long as the bonds were correct. Oh well.

Posted by Johan Ho on 2011-10-05 in Uncategorized

Bergen, Sjöbo and MegaZone

October 01

Went to Sjöbo (near Malmö in Sweden) last weekend, and to Bergen the weekend before that, to visit friends.

Bergen was nice, even though two of the people I was hoping to see in Bergen were working so I didn’t even get to see them. But met Hanfeng and Ivy, it was cozy walking around town with them I guess. And it was actually sunny that day, even though it is almost always raining in Bergen! In the evening we went to Ivy’s place and ended up just watching videos and eating a late dinner.

My father was driving to Bergen on Friday, it took 8 hours or so to get to Norheimsund where we stayed with some friends of my parents. It was a quiet place, but very beautiful! We left for Bergen on Saturday and stayed there most of Saturday before going back to Norheimsund to stay the night before leaving for Oslo on Sunday. Because Norheimsund is slightly closer to Oslo than Bergen, this saves some time, but still I think I’d prefer taking a flight next time I want to visit anyone in Bergen!

On my way to Sjöbo I stayed at Tizian’s place in Malmö. Don’t remember if I’ve stayed there once or twice before, but it’s been a while since last time! We left for Sjöbo on Saturday, to go to a party to say goodbye to Anna and Alexiz who were going to Japan to study. Even though I only met them once before, they were pretty fun to talk with, so I ended up going to their party to say goodbye! Unfortunately I left early because I had promised to go to MegaZone on Sunday, but it was fun while it lasted.

After taking the night bus back to Oslo I went home and slept before going to church with my brothers. After church we went to MegaZone (a place where you can play laser tag, kind of like LaserDome. They also have some other games like paintball). We played one round of laser tag, then tried out "GladiatorZ", which is some kind of activity center with a mechanical bull, an obstacle course, sumo suit wrestling and "giant Q-Tips" battle (I tried to find out what it’s actually called in English, but couldn’t find it).

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My phone camera is so bad.

After MegaZone we ate at a Vietnamese restaurant. I had fried banana with ice cream for dessert. It was delicious!

Also I finally managed to find all the Gold Skulltulas and heart pieces in Zelda Ocarina of Time Master’s Quest, using a FAQ to find the rest of them because I had gotten so tired of running around the map multiple times. It’s kinda annoying how obvious some of the locations I missed were! Oh well, after that I started playing the first Legend of Zelda (the NES one) on the 3DS. It was as difficult as I recalled it to be, but after playing it a while I seem to have somewhat gotten the hang of it. I think I’m on the level-6 dungeon now, the one with the Wizzrobes.

Looking forward to Kirby Mass Attack‘s release in Europe! Also Batman: Arkham City.

Posted by Johan Ho on 2011-10-01 in Uncategorized

Genki

August 13

Went to Genki last weekend. It was decent fun, although I didn’t really know so many people there and most of the people I knew were working.

Busy, so busy!

Most of the time I spent playing board games with Jocke and the other people I knew.

Puzzle Strike again. I don’t think I won even once during Genki, now that I think about it. Did I?

But I did get to talk with a few new people, though not for that long. I had to work on Friday so I missed most of the first day. Oh I met Tizian for the first time in a few years, since he hasn’t been to camps. He was actually the first one I saw at Genki, I randomly met him outside when I arrived! So he showed me where my other friends were inside.

One of my new friends at Genki.

And I got to listen to a concert with Yukie Dong singing Japanese songs, some from anime that I’ve seen. It was fun! And some of the songs that I hadn’t heard before really stuck to my head. To be honest I didn’t even know who she was before I went to Genki. But it was fun seeing her dancing and singing Japanese songs! According to her website she’s born in Beijing as a branch of a royal family from the Qing Dynasty. And she’s an engineer (chemical and material)! And an anime fan obviously. So cool, haha!

Awesome Yukie Dong + some plain guy

I didn’t really take so many photos of the other cosplayers since I’m too afraid to ask random people to let me take photos of them. But this site has lots of photos, taken/owned by Sascha Nielsen (whom I don’t really know, just saw the link on Facebook).

My biggest regret was not taking a photo of the girl cosplaying as Chell. She had a portal gun replica! With shiny lights! I should’ve asked for a photo… Haven’t seen her in other people’s albums from Genki either yet.

After Genki me and Andrew went to Copenhagen to eat Chinese food, since Roskilde didn’t really have so many good restaurants. We ate dim sum at a restaurant, and then bought some takeaway at another one to eat at the airport. The dim sum was good! But the takeaway was not quite as good, some of my roasted meat seemed a little burnt. Oh well.

Drunken chicken at the dim sum restaurant. For some reason my 3DS messed up the colors on the left photo.

Watched Super 8 on Tuesday, it was a decent movie. There’s a lot more action than you might expect from something which might seem as a children movie (because of the young main characters). And it’s not really a horror movie even though some people might get that impression from the trailer. I’d say the movie is kind of like a mix between (Movie name intentionally left out to avoid spoilers. Click at your own risk!) and Jurassic Park.

Will be having a barbeque today with some friends. Spent last night and most of today cleaning the apartment. Where does all the dust come from! If only they would stay away! *sigh*

Posted by Johan Ho on 2011-08-13 in Uncategorized

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