*NERDGASM*

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Nobou Uematsu is coming to Anime Boston this year

guess who is staffing anime boston this year

guess who may be hanging out, just chillin', with Nobou Uematsu

*dies and is dead*

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to my xblox pals: has the XBL service been acting strange lately, or is it just me? - for the past two days or so i have been getting lots of disconnects and lag spikes and spotty/static voice chat and 'cannot join party chat' messages. IT IS NOT VERY FUN. i keep dropping games and getting error messages when i try to accept invites and, just, RAAAAAAAAAAGE. >:| i tried resetting my router and modem but it did not have much of an effect.

ALSO. i downloaded the Aliens vs. Predators demo and everyone tells me it is super awesome, BUT the only mode available is multiplayer deathmatch. i really want to try it out but i hate playing with a bunch of random dudes i don't know. so some other people should download it & we can all beat each other to death in varied ways. PS i hear playing as the humans is really scary.

and that's about it for tonight~

Comments

[underworld.livejournal.com]

I've been having laggyness [not terrible or anything] anddd anddd um people can't hear my in voice chats sometimes... Idek! is it Valve games specific? because their servers just fucking suuuuck >=O

[lulzycupcake.livejournal.com]

Is you Xbox connected directly to the modem or are you using a wireless adapter? The adapter tends to be quite temperamental.

You might have to turn you firewall & NAT settings down on your routers settings. That's usually the problem.

[nekocrouton.livejournal.com]

Anime Boston sounds like it's going to be amazing this year. *is totally jealous* I wanna go. D:

And you're not the only one with Live issues, it's been rather fucked up lately. Last night we tried to play a game of Versus and every time it would try to connect, it would just bump us back to the lobby. I think it was maybe a combination of a Live problem and a Valve server problem?

AvP sounds scary. D:

[terabient]

i dunno :( the voice-chat problems make me think it's an XBL problem, but L4D2 has been really weird lately too, especially last night.

i actually tried to join your game last night, but the match-making thing was acting so strange...like, on the 'play with friends' screen it said there were open slots in the game you were in, but when i tried to join it said 'session no longer available' - i tried joining through the xbox dashboard, but the 'join session in progress' option didn't even come up.

so yeah i don't know what to think :/

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my modem/router setup is all wired - i did check and reset everything once last night, just to make sure everything was running, and it seemed normal.

the firewall and NAT settings are open, though i suppose someone else could have changed them without me noticing? ^^; heh

[underworld.livejournal.com]

yeah that happens to a lot of people I find. it used to happen to Kaycee a LOT. she finally had to do this thing where she deleted her profile from her console and recovered it which actually ended up helping. so if it keeps happening you may wanna try that!

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until the musical guests were announced, i wasn't that excited...mostly because i couldn't recognize any name on the guest list ^^; i don't watch much anime nowadays and when i do it's usually fansubbed torrents of stuff that hasn't been picked up for NA distribution yet, so the voice-actor and artist list was just a whole bunch of 'bwah?' for me. XD

but zomg, now there's video game music stuff. I AM IN NERD HEAVEN.

i'm not 100% i'll be on staff though, just because of the weekend it's happening, i have LNA training stuff that week and won't be able to show up until Friday afternoon/evening which is kinda bad for a con the size of AB.

i didn't go to AB last year, but i DID go to the afterparty - loversheart is the head of security staff - and i got to meet Yuki Kaijura. unfortunately i was totally smashed when i did, but still. I GOT TO SEE HER AND DRUNKENLY WAVE HELLO. XD

fffff BOO LIVE AND/OR VALVE SERVERS. >:| every game i tried to join or host kept imploding like halfway through, i couldn't finish ANYTHING. it must have affected match-finding stuff too - every time i pulled up the 'Xbox Live Custom Match' option I would get either 'no sessions found' or only 1 or 2 game sessions would come up - even on popular modes like Campaign. i was like 'why is this game so dead all of a sudden?' but if there were server problems then i guess it makes sense.

one of my friends was talking about the AvP demo - the humans only have a little flashlight to see with and you can hear the Aliens clicking around you in the darkness and i was like OH SHIT THAT SOUNDS AMAZING..LY HORRIFYING. =0

it sounds like it's really good, but even if it didn't i'd want to play it anyway because i'm a great big AvP dork. i have seen all the terrible movies and everything. XD

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huh. i have had the same HDD since the 360 launched, so maybe that would help. but i'm kinda scared of deleting my profile even though it's not too difficult to retrieve it, lol.

thanks for the advice :D

[underworld.livejournal.com]

yeah it only took her a few minutes. the tech guy @ xbox said for having it for so many years, things just get all clogged and stuff and that helps clear the cache more or something. lol.

[nekocrouton.livejournal.com]

I'm not as much of an anime nerd as I used to be either. I used to watch anime all the time, but now I'm lucky if I catch episodes of anything new. D: I still like to go to anime cons, though. :3

BUT YES, VIDEO GAME MUSIC STUFF. GWAH. <3

YOU MET YUKI KAJIURA? D: *JEALOUSJEALOUSJEALOUS* I FUCKING LOVE HER.

It seems like the servers have stopped acting up... for now. But yeah, seems it was a Live/Server problem. D: I played a couple of Versus matches last night with few problems, besides a lag spike here and there.

THAT DOES SOUND TERRIFYING. TOO TERRIFYING FOR A PUSSY LIKE ME. XD I often watch my husband play scary video games from underneath a blanket on my couch. ^_^;;

[lustychan.livejournal.com]

That's fucking amazing!

I met Midorikawa Hikaru once at Anime North. It was bad.ass. I've also met nearly all the VAs for Gundam Wing. That was also pretty freaking awesome, at the time.

I hardly watch anime at all anymore. Nothing seems to catch my interest. I still love watching the anime I first loved though. I dunno, things seem so... boring now.

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i don't even know what's new x_x but i do like hitting up anime cons, if only for the dealer's room and the video game setups ^^ plus it's the only way i would see friends who have moved away. :(

Meeting Yuki Kajiura was like, a total fluke. XD she and some of the members of FictionJunction were guests at the con, but i couldn't go last year because of a wedding the same weekend. i was able to go to the afterparty loversheart was throwing, though, and Yuki Kajiura wasn't leaving until the morning after. I met her when she and a bunch of other staff people went outside the hotel to smoke, and after a lot of badgering from other people (i was pretty drunk at that point and i didn't think she'd appreciate having some drunk crazy fan talking to her while she was trying to relax) i went up and said hi. XD she wasn't upset or anything, thankfully.

trying to find a game in the custom match settings was still hard, but quick match worked last night. i think the custom match thing is an issue on my end, though, not a server/xbox one. OH WELL~

i like scary games but if they're really frightening i can't play them for like...more than half an hour, tops. it's too nerve-wracking.

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i'm so excited! AB's been getting bigger and more famous guests each year, but i never would have thought they would host someone like Nobou Uematsu. o_o

Midorikawa Hikaru is like, the only seiyuu whose name i can recognize right away these days. XD what was he like?

i'm just overwhelmed by the sheer amount of anime coming out these days. o_O it all has the same shiny, generically pretty look too - it's hard to find stuff that sticks out. :|