Monthly Archive for May, 2008

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Pennies (and AP exams)

Published on May 16, 2008 in Daily flash and Life. 42 Comments
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Here’s the flash I made two days ago about the AP exams. 48 hours have passed, so I’m guessing it’s safe to post this without getting sued. It’s not that great, as I’ve said last time: the joke is the actual test itself. I’ve kinda lost my enthusiasm for this exam after those 48 hours, so I guess I won’t be as excited to tell you what was on it.

Anyhow, for the document-based essay, the prompt was to argue for or against the abolishment of the penny. It seemed really silly for an essay topic, and a bunch of people started laughing after seeing it. What was really funny was the last document: some scanned images of pennies, heads and tails. I was just wondering how someone would even use that source to support their argument.

One of the sources was about some internet group that advocated for the “retirement of the penny”, and it was also pretty silly. There was some guy named Jeff Gore who was like “pennies waste valuable time,” yet spends his time creating a site and coming up with these calculations for how much time and money are wasted yearly by pennies, which apparently comes to $10 billion a year. The argument he makes can be found on the site (scroll all the way down), word-for-word as it was seen on the AP exam. It’s just really silly, and although pennies are annoying, I don’t like that guy’s reasoning. Anyway, I thought I wrote a pretty good essay for that prompt. I really liked it, despite how silly it was (I kinda made fun of that Jeff Gore guy a bit).

Oh well, AP exams are over for me now, which is nice. Next year, I have four AP exams to look forward to (statistics, calculus, physics, English literature). Greeeeat.

I guess I’ll update create.swf tomorrow. If you have any suggestions for new items, accessories, backgrounds, etc, and character, that’d be nice.

Edit: Oh yeah, and here’s a Touhou SRPG concept by Fawkes using characters from create.swf. Yay.

Patches

Published on May 15, 2008 in Daily flash and Touhou. 37 Comments
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More specifically, the Mabinogi Generation 2 patch. But darn, I don’t have enough AP for all the new music stuff. I’ll probably rebirth once I get $10 from the site ads (using them to actually pay for the site is a bit unreasonable because of how slowly the money comes in), which may take awhile, considering I get like 10~20 cents a day.

AP exams

Published on May 14, 2008 in Life. 30 Comments
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Darn it, darn it, darn it. I really wanna talk about the AP exams, but there’s that whole rule about how you can’t talk about the contents of the exam until 48 hours after the test. I don’t wanna get sued or anything. I guess I’ll do it on Friday. I made a flash about it, although there’s no real joke (the joke is in what actually happened). I think anyone who took the AP English Language and Composition exam today will know what I’m talking about. The document-based essay, that is. Oh, you know, that. A bunch of people laughed when they saw that essay prompt and the last source, including myself. Anyway, can’t post the flash or talk about the exam today, sorry. I reaaaaaally want to, though. It’s so silly!

iPods

Published on May 13, 2008 in Daily flash. 59 Comments
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I don’t have an iPod and I don’t quite care about them. I just don’t like how people use the terms “iPod” and “MP3 player” interchangeably. It gets annoying sometimes, although I guess people only do it because most audio players people use around here are iPods. Anyhow, the English Language and Composition AP exam is tomorrow!

Colds (And Pixiv stuff!)

Published on May 12, 2008 in Daily flash, Site stuff and Touhou. 27 Comments
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Who cares about today’s flash when there’s exciting news like this!


(no, this link does not lead to a Touhou flash)

It’s like that one time when Walfas somehow managed to pop into some sort of informative Japanese convention-goers pamphlet! Totaku linked to this on IRC and then I went around investigating! This one person on Pixiv (I can’t read Japanese but I assume the name’s ????) seems to draw quite a bit of Walfas-based art, and combines stuff from the daily flashes as well. Quite awesome and worth checking out. If you don’t feel like getting an account there, some of the images can be found here.

And here’s a bit of Walfas-style pixel artwork from another Pixiv member by the name 8bit. Hooray! It’s always nice to see fanart from people who speak a completely different language.