I suck at checkers

My only victory

My only victory

While waiting for my friend restarting a server at remote location, I tried checkers… Which turns out I totally suck at it. Like, in about one hour (or more) playing, I only able to gain ONE victory. Fail. Anyone has tips? ;_;

(A)WarpSharp is dangerous toy

It’s useful, but must be used with utmost care. Oversharpening is BAD.  It’s good when used moderately but soon after that it’ll become simply fugly. Straight lines with start bending, especially in line intersection. Not to mention it’s irreversible.

Simple guidelines would be to never use more than 10.0 for depth and, 2 for blur, and 0.5 for threshold (for awarpsharp).

Great pics (and PSD)

I don’t usually link to downloadable files. This one is rather exceptional though: a collection of wallpapers and the source of one of the wallpaper.

Source, as in, layered PSD. Also includes sketches. And lighting. And layer adjustments, masking, etc. It’s a must see for anyone trying to make wallpaper (or anything in general). Or maybe not. Whatever.

[ Get here ]

P.S. the site also has many other interesting reads and downloads.

Finally! Zero no Tsukaima 3 in high quality

After sad state of ZnT2, where the only hq sub team are slow, the season 3 is now subbed by SS-Eclipse! It means than we can get both quality and speed for this series. 😀

SS-Eclipse is like OVER9000 times faster than SS-Ayu. Hopefully.

Go grab yourself one from usual source. Available in both 704×400 xvid and 1280×720 h264

Let’s move

Moved to http://edogawaconan.ath.cx/blog https://blog.myconan.net https://myconan.net/blog

SRSLY.

Reason: lawl customization and maybe google ads.

And I r too lazy to move old posts.

Update 2010-03-10: updated link.

Update 2011-02-07: Update for one last time.

Update 2020-02-26: More updates.

Hey, look! I have ads!

This is one of the reason I moved away from wordpress.com: to add advertisement. 😀

It turns out that adding it is very easy with this theme (Tarski). And still valid XHTML 1.0 Strict to boot. Yay.

How to:

  • Use Tarski
  • Go to Design > Widgets
  • Add a text widget (to one of the widget location; I placed at main sidebar for this site)
  • Insert the Google Ads script! Make sure you use correct version or it’ll look like a failure
  • ???
  • Profit!

No need to install plugin or whatever. 🙂

If, for some reasons, you need to make it center-aligned, here’s the trick:
<div style="text-align:center"><-- Google Adsense Script Goes Here --></div>
And still valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. Do not use <center>, it’s a gay’s tag.

How to release animu in HD

Why HD?

  • More guaranteed downloads
  • Better than anyone else

How?

In your AviSynth script (hey, I can safely assume that you use AviSynth, right?), just add this ULTIMATE HD MAGIC at the last line:

BicubicResize(1920,1080)

To increase the quality even more, don’t forget to add this:

AWarpSharp()
Deen()
HQDN3D()
UnDot()
UnFilter(10,10)
FastLineDarken()
AAA()
etc etc

After the ULTIMATE HD MAGIC. It increases overall video quality by OVER9000 percent and adds MORE DETAILS the the video.

And after muxing, don’t forget to include resolution information in the filename. Either:

[Your-Group] Sum Popular Oversubbed Animu With Subtitle From Sum Other Group - 9999 (1920x1080) [CRC].ext

or

[Your-Group] Sum Popular Oversubbed Animu With Subtitle From Sum Other Group - 9999 [FHD][CRC].ext

It’ll give you GUARANTEED downloads.

Add the translation source’s group name after your group name (ex: [YourGroup-SauceGroup]) to increase the download count even more.

Waaai

I’ll be missing from intertubes for a week starting tomorrow afternoon (or later). Will return at July 5 😮

Muahahahahaaaaa

This one is damn fail.

I don’t know, there’re only TWO ‘widescreen’ version of this in Tokyo Toshokan (using keyword ‘ikkitousen’). And I suspect the other one’s uploader is the same as this one. The rest are 4:3 (at least the ones that have resolution information in the filename).

and this one’s correct resolution should be 4:3 or 960×720 or sth like that

what’s more, it’s 30fps (PAL?)

LAWL.

Daily craps

  • LOL U-U-Uma Uma. Not good for health.
  • Noizi Itou drew the cover.
  • LAWL 22MB PNG. Perhaps I should mirror moe.imouto/noizi_ito…
  • a manga with nijikon main character. Recommended. LOL.
  • wat.
  • Danbooru 1.14.0 has released. I still wonder what “Final tagged version” means. And I think I’ll use tagged ones instead of trunk from now on. Why? Just because. 😛
  • ^– actually, it means less maintenance.
  • With that, I’ll also stop using -current for animu server o.o
  • Not before 4.4 released though – which means I’ll have to struggle with -current until November – or until I switch to NetBSD. The reason is simple: Danbooru requires PostgreSQL 8.3 which only available as package on -current (I forced to manually compile before using -current). – Or maybe until I switch to Shimmie (which sucks).