Devil May Cry 5, Dante and Hideki Kamiya

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For those of you who know me well, you know that I love console games. I have an Xbox360 and PS2 back home. No PS3 yet however. Will get one when the time is right. If you know me too well, you know that I am a rabid fan girl of Devil May Cry. What is Devil May Cry? If you are a gamer or an anime lover, you are familiar with the series and the hot twins known as Dante and Virgil. If you are neither, Devil May Cry is a hack and slash video game that centers around a half demon-half human protagonist known as Dante. Check this cute guy out. That is Dante for you:

For girls who are not familiar with the gaming/anime/cosplay world may think that Dante looks like a girl. But for us who are anime and manga addicts, we just love to feast our eyes on Bishounens. Besides, I think that Dante is more manly than Bill Kaulitz, the lead singer of Tokio Hotel. I don’t get the hype about that guy apparently. What is his appeal?

“He listens to maggot rock. He wears nail polish. My dick is bigger than his“ – Jennifer Check from Jennifer’s Body

After waiting for almost two years, they had finally announce the release of Devil May Cry 5. Being a loyal fan-girl that I had always been, I started to get excited and wonder whether Virgil will be in the fifth installment too. When I watch the trailer,  I thought I had press a different link to a different game trailer. Unfortunately, it was the correct link and I found out that they had reboot the DMC series and replace a legendary video game character with this:

(Check out the new Dante here!…)

Wanting Me: The Art of Sexual Innuendos

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I survived the second week of my classes with a breeze. Maybe because it is only the second week and not really that challenging yet. Even after the first week, I already had some essays to write. Fortunately, the essay won’t be as annoying as the one in English and Academic writing classes. So I think I can handle it. There are challenging courses that I had taken this semester but I think I am able to ace it if I am committed. Lots of group projects and those group projects made me think of the old times when I was in high school and in matriculation college doing my A-levels.

What about group projects? Well, nothing special except for people who keep chasing me around and telling me that they ‘want me’. If you know me personally, you know that I like to twist words like this into something dirty. It is not really my fault though, the people who said these stuff to me did not notice how dirty it can sound in someone’s ‘innocent ear’.

Few years ago, when I was doing my A-levels, we had a lot of group projects and we need to pick our own group members. Groups are usually consist of 4-5 people and we need to pick our own group members. If you have cliques, this is easy for you since you can just ignore other people and pick your clique members as your group members and make your communication skills even shiteous. If you are the type that is confident about your communication skills and feel that you can handle a task easily, you wouldn’t care with whoever you have to work with. If you are the type who is not confident about your own skills and need somebody to guide you, you will start panicking.

I belong to the second group. So far, whenever there is a group work or group projects, my group always ended up ace-ing it. I am always the ‘leader’ when it comes to group work and I know what I want exactly, how I want to execute it and how to handle my group members. They call it the ‘Asian factor’. Apparently, if you are Asian, you will automatically be the person with the sexiest brain alive! You are in demand!

Whenever there is a group project, I just want to skip classes and sleep in my room and switch off my phone. And just avoid any sort of communication with other people for a while. Because this is when my classmates will start hunting me and tell me that they ‘want me’. One of the quotes is;

Girl: Ren, I really wanna be with you. I just really really wanna be with you.
Ren: I don’t think so this could help us. I am not the type of person that you can work with since I don’t think that I am your type of friend.
Girl: No. We don’t have to be friends. Lets just do this together.
Ren: …

So, most perverts who do not know what is the based of this dialog will think, “Oh! She just wants to do her but with no strings attached after that. HA!” Yes, I am in demand. If I am a guy and girls just come to me and says these types of things, my life is COMPLETE!

Anyways, I was thinking about removing some of my affiliates who are inactive. I am planning to get more affiliates but have set up some strict rules on affiliation because I am just so sick of people who comes and goes. People are just not serious anymore. They came by and open up their site and if they don’t like it anymore, they will close it down or change the name of the site just because they want to sound more ‘mature’ or different. After changing the site’s name, they will be M.I.A again. We barely even talk so I am sending most of them emails tomorrow and just kick them out. The rules for affiliations and link exchange will show up tomorrow.

Note that I might post up some neat new tutorials this weekend. Or possibly next week. I was thinking about putting either a CSS tutorial or a jQuery. Depends on you guys though. What do you want? There might be some graphic updates next weekend but I am not promising anything. I’ll try and see.

I might not be posting the tutorial this weekend since I want to see the response. What are you interested in?

Your Thank Yous

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I always stumbled upon great designers, plugin authors, script authors or tutorial authors that are really talented. So awfully talented to the point that they inspired me. I have to admit that without all these talented designers, programmers or artists, I wouldn’t be where I am now. When I look at some of the freelance designers who have a small website, I notice that people are just downloading their graphics without even saying ‘thank you’ in their comments or even a simple ‘hi, I love your work’. Instead, these down-loaders ended up eating the bandwidth shamelessly and never give proper credits to the designers. Worse, they ended up stealing the graphics and resources and claim it as their own. I know that the designers had put up those graphic resources in order for you to enjoy but popping up in their comment boxes and saying ‘thank you’ will not hurt.

I just recently used WordPress and I am a fan of their plugins system. There are lots of WordPress plugin developers out there and some of them are dedicated when it comes to improving their plugins so that it will make your life easier. What makes these developers more charming is that they are not doing it for the money. Even if they are searching for a profit, they will simply ask you to donate and it is up to you if you want to donate or not. It is annoying to see that some people are just so ungrateful and start bitching about a plugin feature that they do not like. Constructive criticism and bitching are two different things. Learn it and apply it properly. I guess you should stop bitching about a WordPress plugin and start saying thank you instead. If you really do not like the plugins, go and develop one your own.

Here is a few guideline on how you can actually thank the designers and programmers that had produced the designs, plugins, or scripts that you really like:

Thanking a designer
So you like one of the graphic resources that they had design for you to use for free. How to thank them? It is really simple. Believe it or not, commenting on one of their entries and saying thank you will actually make them happy. It makes them feel appreciated. I don’t know why is it so hard when it comes to commenting. Are you intimidated or just scared that the designers are going to eat you when you leave a comment on their site? Don’t want to comment? Leave an email. Take it as a ‘thank you’ note. Next, credits. Give the designers a proper credit if they demand for one. If they don’t, it is really up to you. You can either credit or not. If you chose not to credit, maybe saying thank you or dropping a thank you email will be the least thing that you can do. Believe me when I say that seeing a thank you comment will make a designer happy and also motivate them to do more quality designs and resources. Last but not least, respect their request. If they want their layouts, brushes, textures or other resources to stay on their website only, do not redistribute their stuff. The terms of use are there for you to read and understand and does not act as a pretty invisible ornament on their site.

Thanking a plugin, scripts or an application developer
You do not have to comment or credit when it comes to thanking a WordPress plugin developer since it is usually not necessary and they don’t even care since it is open source. The least you could do to thank them is to comment on their plugins by saying thank you. Refuse to comment? Then you can rate their plugins. If you feel that there could be some improvement that can be made for their plugins, you could give them constructive criticism on how to make their plugins better. Complaining is not a constructive criticism. You are not contributing to anything by complaining. You are just another ungrateful twit for that matter. Here is an example to illustrate a complain perfectly;

“I tried this plugin and it sucks and the author just don’t offer support for it anymore! There is not even a new update for such a long time! And the plugin features are not even that great! I think there are better plugins out there with better features!”

A constructive criticism does not sound like this by the way. Constructive criticisms are giving suggestions to the developers on how they can actually improve their plugins. Plugin Developers are not obliged to provide support for the plugins. They are not even paid.

What about a simple script or a php/mysql script developer? Comments are decent. But if you don’t want to, you can put their name somewhere on your credit page. If they allow you to remove the credits from the script, it is up to you. No credit at all if they don’t demand it is fine too. A thank you note or a simple comment would be awesome. Don’t like any of these thank you methods? The least you could do is not to steal and redistribute them if they don’t want you to. Stealing as in claiming that it is your script and that you had developed it.

Why am I suddenly writing an article about thank yous rather than writing an article about myself or jQuery? Because I just found out that somebody has been redistributing my brushes without my permission and I really really dislike redistribution. And the worse part is, they are redistributing it without even crediting. But don’t worry, I already did what is necessary. ;)