Katawa Shoujo Released
Few years ago, I post an article regarding this game in my old blog.
And now, finally, this game is released.
For you who don’t know about Katawa Shoujo:
Katawa Shoujo mean, disabled/cripple girls. This is a Japanese style of Dating Sim, or more precisely, a visual novel and released by Four Leaf Studio. For short, it’s a text heavy game 
If you like to reading Novel or short story, this is a good choice for you.
When this game was in development, I was expecting if this game will be SFW, a.k.a Safe For Work. But when it released, I saw the download link is saying about 18 years old of minimum age, it mean this game is eroge, or NSFW.
To be honest, I kinda dissapointed. Because this is a eroge, it mean not everyone can play it (but probably, it doesn’t matter, kids these day don’t care about rating at all). But thank god, the amount of ero scene is not that much and I enjoy the story.
Just like most visual novel, you will play as Hisao Nakai, a lucky bastard (with hearth problem) that will dating (and hopefully have sex) several girls in the process, so yeah…
And here are the candidate (see picture above from left to right)
Lily Satou (Blind)
Hanako Ikezawa (skin damage on her right half body)
Rin Tezuka (her both arms are gone)
Shizune Hakamichi (Deaf, and mute)
Emi Ibarazaki (her both legs are gone)
Other girls (didn’t appear in the picture):
Misha (Shizune’s translator. She’s got a loud voice and drill hair style)
Yuuko (Part timer librarian and waitress)
Miki (tanned skin girl who lost her left hand)
Katawa Shoujo is delivering messages to all of us, of how disable people run their life.
We must admit if there are lot of “normal” people in the community who are thinking if disabled people are useless because the’re not normal, because they loosing something (physically), because they’re waiting for their death, because they’re disgusting for being imperfect, and their imperfection made them deserve no love nor happiness, and their imprefction made them a second class citizen, or even third class citizen…
And I don’t talk bull shit here.
The reason why I know this because I do have disabled friend, I know how he struggling for equality, how he must facing problem over problems.
And this is one of many reason why I’m interested with Katawa Shoujo.
Contrary to what most common people believe, disabled people don’t live in pathetic life. Sometimes common people treat them like they’re also mentally disabled, and this game can open your mind of how they run their life.
I must admit though, not everybody are happy. They do struggling to overcome their problem, like how they must walking alone without vision, running without legs, communicating without hearing, eating without hands, dealing with people who saw ugly appearance, and many others…
During my first encounter with my blind friend, about 6 or 7 years ago. I was questioning, how did he actually operating a computer? He said he can use computer, but how? So I go to his home and find the truth, he shows me how he working on a computer.
And I was like “ow, I see. Bill Gates seems care about blind people too”
And they even can play games, some of them are even kicking ass on Starcraft II game, good god 
Anyway…
This game is an Indie Game or a Doujin Soft. However, this game is distributed freely under Creative Common License. if you’re interested about this game, you can download it on katawa-shoujo.com
SOPA can fuck you up like a bitch
Basicallly, if this law passed in USA, other country will get screwed up too. Why? Because, your domain, and your hosting server might be in USA. Even if you’re not American or live in America, but SOPA can be used to shut down your domain and hosting if they feel didn’t like it, or sue you and put you in jail. And that is not just all about your domain and hosting, but all about things that related to the Internet.
Learn here, in this youtube video.
The Guessing Game
starcraft
So, what’s the relation between Gaming and Betting? Here’s the fun begin. After I’ve wandering around in TeamLiquid forum, I found an interesting betting features, and one of their sponsor also creating their own betting site, e-sport Betting League or ESBL.
Basically, this is a feature that allow you to guess the result of a game tournament (in this case, Starcraft). For you who might not know, Starcraft players already entering the professional world. It mean, they’re got paid to play the game, they make living from the game, and they’re damn famous like a celebrities.
Let’s go back to the Betting things.
First, you will not dealing with something like this. Second, it’s free, no real money involved. So you don’t have to worry about anything.
This is just for fun, this betting game basically a guessing game, who will be the winner or what is the final result of the game/tournament, just like betting on horse race, or soccer play.
There are alot of Profesional Starcraft player like Boxer, Marine King Prime, Nestea, etc. While people enjoy their game, we can also play our own game, a betting game. Marine King Prime vs Nestea, who is the winner? what is the final result? 2-1? 2-0? Something like that.
In e-sport betting league (ESBL), we can place our guess by betting the point we have. For a new member, they got 100 eDol (e-Dollar), as your virtual money. The more you got correct guess on betting, the more eDol you got.
Just like in Starcraft, there’s a League that ranked the betting participants into several level. The more you win, the higher your rank.
Now, the question is, what if I loose all of my eDol? How do I refill? Do I need to pay?
NOPE. Like I told you before, this is just for fun, no real money involved. All account with less than 100 eDol will be automated refilled by 50 eDol in the next day. So you will never running out of virtual money.
The other question is, why we need to play this game?
Well, may be you love betting. Or, you love starcraft and always curious about the tournament result. Or, you just love to competing people in any kind of form. Or, you’re suck at the game (like me) but love it so much to watch the replay or starcraft Tournament video (especially with your favorite caster like HD, Husky or other.)
The answer is a lot
I just put my bet on KiWiKaKi. He’s Protoss player, and I play Protoss too. Go KiWiKaKi! be the winner!
Starcraft 2: GG GL HF
Picture was hijacked from wikipedia
I remember, when at my first semester of college, I got the Demo version of Starcraft. This game is my first RTS game on my brand new IBM Cyrix 233mhz CPU. Yeah, I know…that’s an old bustet jar. But during that era, it was a rocking gaming rig (even my friend is drooling when he saw my PC).
I was little bit annoyed of how Starcraft work at first. I mean “why do I need to click on Move button and click on the map to move my Marines? Is there any simple method to move them?” It turn out, you could just right click to move them
Also, Starcraft is the first game that gave me a chill. I was not accustomed with a very tiny character and war area that covered by black fog. When the Zergling pop out and kill my Marine, I was like: “Aw sh*t! That was scary”. No, I’m not kidding, I was scared, seeing a tiny Marine get murdered by a tiny alien in my monitor. Why? Because the Marine’s dying scream is loud and real.
Then, my friend told me: “Dude, this is RTS. Quantity is a key to your victory.” So, I’m massing my Marine, and then kill a Zergling with 5 Marines “Damn, it feel good~~~!”. And the sensation was even better when I’m massing my Siege Tank and marching all of them to the Zerg base and then blast away. (Zerg was called as Xenomorph during that time).
But I never knew, Starcraft is a big hit in Korea. I knew it was booming in Korean Cyber Cafe, but I never know it will lead into a E-SPORT. With all of the tournament, competition, prize, sponsors, fame, etc.
Then, we jumped to present time: Where Starcraft II is released, and showing amazing development.
GUNNAR Anime Crystalline Eyewear: First Impression
Man, when I decided I need a computer glasses, I don’t believe if I will spending this much.
Few days ago I just bought a computer glasses. This glasses is made by GUNNAR, an eyewear company that focusing their product in Computer and Gaming. And this glasses is not an el cheapo glasses that I can find here. This glasses is a pricy glasses that I take the risk to buy it. (more…)
