Alrighty, time to start posting on my gamin journal. First off, I haven't been buying as many new games as I used to. Near the end of the school year I started to get swamped, and seeing as video games are all play and no work, as opposed to music which is a bit of both, gaming got the cut for a while.

However, I did keep up with some DDR action, because the exercise is good for me. Although, it was starting to feel like I hard reached a plateau in my abilities. No matter how hard I tried the nine footers that were too hard for me remained impossible to pass, and the tens were all distant fears that would never be overcome. Therefore, I gave up, on passing those songs anyway. I decided that if I could not pass the hard songs, I may as well obliterate the easy ones. So, after getting DDRMax (The best home version, btw) and hooking up my Cobalt for a few hours, I managed to pass every songs, save Max 300, with a AA. By the end, my Perfect Attack started to get very good. Currently, I am working on getting AA's on all of the songs on standard. Just for fun, I played a few songs on Heavy and found that I was really ripping them apart in comparison to my old scores. I passed PARANOiA Evolution with an A, a very good score for me, but more importantly, I found that my stamina was hardly impacted by this. In fact, I felt as though I could have done the song several more times before feeling tired at all. The reason, I believe, is the fact that I was so used to my high PA style (Which conserves a lot of energy by being very very consistent) that it carried over into the more difficult songs. I think I'll be able to pass some songs I never thought I could, if I keep on this path of working my way up slowly and precisely.

After I moved into my house I started to have some free time again. So, I started playing Final Fantasy Tactics, just to enjoy one of my favorite games. Right off the bat, I discovered that my save files had been corrupted somehow, damn. So, I started a new game (No biggie, my best game at the time was stuck on the fight with Velius, I was pretty much screwed anyway.) This time, I used some cheap tactics to level up my characters. First, I used the JP cheat on the possible skillsets, a few exceptions exist, particularly on sets that I planned on having as part of my character's main skills. Next, I leveled up a lot before moving on with the story (still haven't even gotten in to Dorter :wink: ) Finally, I used a strategy known as Hazing. Pretty much, you just take a low level generic character, bring him into your party. During a random battle, you use skills to lower an enemy to 0 brave, they turn into a chicken, but the fight doesn't end. After you have a chicken on the field, you just beat the living crap out of the low-level generic. Because he is lower level, you gain very few EXP, however, you gain the normal amount of Job Points (Or extra, if you have the ability of Gained-JP Up.) This is how I got my party all of the best skills and abilities long before they were even level 20. With all of the abilities learned, I could focus on leveling them up in the classes that offered the best growth for them.

Well, that is all for my gaming log.