[YT] Partial blogging hiatus until October 2017

*Takes a deep breath* Where to start?

In two weeks, I'm going abroad to Norway until the end of September, 2017. It's probably not my first call to go all the way there for almost half a year, but unfortunately I don't have much choice. Why? It's for my graduation assignment to finish my study.

Subjectively, it's a bit of a mixed bag, as for several personal reasons I'm not entirely looking forward to it, but I'd rather just get it over with as soon as possible so I can finish my study. And yes, I am aware that LEGO® is currently looking for students, but unfortunately I missed that opportunity because that application was published two days after I just got to a point of no return with my current assignment. Sucks (which is a sore understatement for how I truly feel about it), but there is nothing I can do about that.

Anyway, that brings me to the following point: during that time, I'll have no access to any of my LEGO® collection, which means there will be no progress on my MK Projects, any other projects and no blacklight posts. It's just too much to take with me, as my entire room is chock full with it, and I won't have much time to order at Bricklink at all in case I'll need something to progress my Hailfire Droid or Constructor. There will be moments during this upcoming semester where I'll go back and forth between Norway and home, but those moments will be brief and thus unlikely for me to work on anything LEGO® related.

However, I fortunately have enough space (just barely though) to bring all of my hardware gear, which includes my standard PC, laptop, TV, consoles and recording devices, as a survival kit throughout these months. I'm not expecting to have much time to work on any Youtube videos, but at least, if I want to work on them, I could. Just don't expect anything big and time consuming as a Single-Part-Video anytime soon. I'll probably end up playing EMS during most of my spare time however, if I'd be honest. This graduation assignment will require quite a lot of me, so resting up after each day is very important to me.

So, that does mean that there will be less blogposts than usual to read here in the next upcoming months. The EMS blogposts will just come as they've always been, but just don't expect anything for the LEGO® department until I'm back home.

[EMS] Amaterasu's Armor - Finished scrolling

Oh man. This Amaterasu's Armor has given me quite a conundrum, but the scrolling process is now finally over.
For 14 slots, the Attack boost on this Amaterasu's Armor has been rather unfortunate; I had two painful Incredible Chaos Scroll of Goodness (ICOG) resulting in +0 Attack. In addition, for quite a while, this overall seemed "doomed" to not get past 20 Attack until the second last slot.

In early stages, this overall had some pretty good boosts - but that promising "feel" was short lived. The stat increases were halfway through in favor of STR and DEX - at the 12th slot, the total Attack was only 17.

Fortunately, on the bright side, I did really get past the "20 Attack", which is kind of my expected standard for every Amaterasu equip other than the Belt and Shoulder. On average luck, you should get at least twice the Attack for the amount of slots you have, with "one Attack per slot" being the bare minimum. If you really get below that bottom line (like I have with my Lionheart Cape in the past), you might as well should consider yourself lucky enough to even to hit that RNG or just feel like garbage that you managed to get almost none for your investment. That is one risk you take with these scrolls, y'know...

Anyway, thankfully because the STR and DEX boost has been that generous, I should get to 100+ STR/DEX on my overall when the Star Force is finished. And that is something that is in my opinion, definitely worth looking forward to.

So the current result is a bit of a mixed bag to me. It could have been way worse, but 25+ Attack on an Amaterasu's Armor is not too difficult to achieve through ICOGs, nor asked too much. But, for the stats it has and eventually will get to, there are some redeeming qualities worth to mention. Some of which, wouldn't be possible if the ICOGs were too biased towards Attack.

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post!

[EMS] First Level 15 Arcane Symbol GET!

Hi guys! Today, I have maxed out my first Arcane Symbol! It's the Arcane Symbol for Chew Chew Island (which for some reason, had to be changed to "Chu Chu" in the English dub), and this particular symbol is most likely the first to be maxed out by many.

Every region in the Arcane River so far has its own Arcane Symbol, which commonly is rewarded after you have finished their own regional storyline. And every region has (or, will eventually get) their own daily method of increasing the Arcane Symbol's, and for Chew Chew you have to do a little Party Quest that you can either enter on your own, or team up with up to 3 other people. You have two different difficulties with the rewards being dependent on ranks; the faster you complete the PQ, the higher the rank - which results in more experience gain for both you and your symbol.

This isn't the "first day" to have a Level 15 Chew Chew Symbol, given I have started out with the easiest difficulty for a handful of days first, and I didn't immediately start with Chew Chew Island's storyline on day 1. In addition, you can always find experience for your symbol as an extremely rare drop in the Arcane River - some people prefer to speed up the leveling process of their symbols by grinding for several days with high droprate multipliers.

Anyway, it will most likely take a few months before I've finished the Arcane Symbol for the Road of Vanishing. The daily mini game to increase the level of Lacheln's Arcane Symbol has yet to come out, and by then, the fourth Arcane Symbol will be available soon to players over Level 225 as well. But obviously it will take a while before I'm Level 225, and I'm not in a hurry.

And no, you're not able to level the Arcane Symbol any further when it hits Level 15, even if it states the next level requires a whopping 236 experience...

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post!

[EMS] Level 221!

Definitely the most lazy level up in the past few years. I've had experienced lazier though (read: leeching).

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again tomorrow!

[Other] Donkey Kong 64 - 101% Score!

Sup guys! Perhaps a bit of a different subject to talk about for today. As of recent, I have finished Donkey Kong 64 with a 101% score! I assume most of you guys have your own childhood game - well, this is mine.

Some of you recurring readers might know I have been raised in Tokyo for a few years in my childhood. To be more precise, the years where the Nintendo 64 was just brand new in stores. Obviously, that where I got mine - hence why my Nintendo 64 has all of its games running in Japanese.

This isn't my first save file for the game however, as I have erased my original I made back in the late nineties. If you can't read or speak Japanese, the only way you know how to navigate through everything as a child is through trial and error. That was all way before we had those fancy stuff such as Gamefaqs and Youtube to guide us through.
In fact, only just earlier this year, I was made aware of the Widescreen setting on this game through watching a Youtube stream of this game...

Anyway, somewhere in 2008, when we started our Youtube channel, I picked up my Nintendo 64 and started playing again. In example, I've managed to complete Mario Kart 64 and unlock the special title screen last year. This year, I've finished Donkey Kong 64. There are still a lot of games in my library I want to finish eventually to be honest, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one out there.

Interestingly enough, I already had a 101% score with just 200 Golden Banana's. I've gotten the Rareware Golden Banana rather early in the game to unlock the infinite ammunition, so perhaps that is why it jumped from 99% to 101%.

That's it for now - I'll see you guys again next post!