Persona Boosted: Sylph, Yomotsu-Shikome, Legion, Mada, Ose and Decarabia. I did more than 4 this week. Still streaming at Twitch ID Krelmoon Had a hard time sleeping this week, I blame Neon Genesis Evangelion for most of this. I took it out on Persona.

Saw a lot of Parallels Between EVA and Persona 3: Reluctant kids forced to fight, Unreliable Adults, and a bummer of an ending. Will probably watch the Persona 3 movies this week to catch up on the story again then talk more about Persona 3 vs. EVA next week. I think there is something there worth expanding upon.

If I was to play through Persona 3 again i would play Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable as it has more story options and has most of Persona 4 Goldens Interface improvements. As someone still haunted by the ending of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES particularly "the Answer" Epilog, I feel it looms over the series as a whole. The characters of Persona 3 have mostly moved on with lives,...except Elisabeth. She will never let it go, her storyline in the Arena games indicates that resolving the "Nyx" situation is her only priority.

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth is out next week and am debating getting it. I would have to pull my 3ds out of storage (probably for the last time). Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth had a vail of forgetfulness and time travel to get around being part of story canon but the interactions between the P3 and P4 cast was fun

So long till next week

Stat boosted Personas: Sarasvati, Fortuna, Yatsufusa and Pixie. Still Grinding and Streaming. Twitch ID Krelmoon Have enough cash and skill cards to give whatever moves I want to each Persona I Stat Boost. Zio spells seem particularly useful in the dungeon I am using. The method for boosting each Persona is pretty much the same but the stats conditions can be quite different. I had one Persona that had all stats to 99 but one and i needed 35 points of strength to finish it off.

Pixie the Persona I just finished needed 31 points of endurance. I think four a week is a good pace. I Should Finish Sometime by the End of the Year.

(Ongoing quest to complete arbitrary final P4G goal Boosting all Persona Stats to 99)

Since I last posted finished boosting the following Personas: Pabilasg, Undine, Oni, Nozuchi, and Asura. Averaging about 2 hours of streaming a day. How am I keeping motivated on my thankless task? Playing the P4G combat system as more of a puzzle game than usual. To get stats you need shuffle times, to get guaranteed shuffle times you need to knock down all shadows and perform a successful (destroy all shadows and end the combat) all out attack. the Highest level dungon i have avaible at this point of the game is Secret Lab and I will stay on the highest two floors of it to parr down the number of different enemy types. At this point I know the most efficient ways to knock the shadows down for shuffle times. Would really like to learn more about making custom overlays for OBS so that I can track the stats im picking up in real time. Just need a good tutorial probably.. Still streaming progress at Twitch ID Krelmoon

I was about to store away my Vita and Playstation TV when I caught myself watching the P4 Endurance Run again. Every time i've watched it I get back into playing it again and at this point some 11 years later what do i have left to do.. In Golden I have:

1. Beat the game.

2. Leveled all social Links to 10 on one playthrough

3. Collected all the Persona.

4. Leveled all the Persona to Max (99)

So the only thing left is to take all of my Persona out of the Compendium one by one and boost all their stats up to 99. I have been streaming out my attempts to do so on twitch and have found out it takes about 3 to four hours gameplay grinding Shuffle Times for stats to do so. That is a lot of Persona to grind though and this is now my own personal hell loop. IF you wish to watch this madness I'm streaming out about 2 to 3 hours a day at Twitch ID Krelmoon. and will put a log entry at this blog about once a week showing progress.

I will let my Mother tell her own story:

Come on a wonderful journey with me

A wonderful journey to help me see

With cameras and lenses and strange device

And a son who is very smart and nice

Here is my journey to better sight. My first experience with glasses was.when I was in first grade. When I came home from the doctor with my new glasses, I noticed lots of neat things. The window curtains which had looked solid, were lace. The carpet was not just plain brown, but shades of brown, with patterns. The light over the dining room table had a shade over it, which was not solid, it had flowers etched into the glass. There were disadvantages to my newfound sight, but the advantages far outweighed them.

My next experience with sight enhancement came when I was a young mother and I was working with Vocational Rehabilitation, trying to get a job. The people there knew that I was a good candidate for employment if I could see better, so,they introduced me to "The low vision center". The people there tried several different devices, and they let me take home an eye loupe that was like a telescope, with a lens that screwed onto the end for close up work. It only had one focal point, but with it I didn't have to bend close to what I was typing. The telescope helped me see a little clearer at distance, but it only had one focal point. It was not focusable. When I had been using the clip on telescope for about a month, I had to return it, but, in it's place, I was given a pair of glasses that had the telescope built in, and lenses to attach for close work. They gave me two lenses, so I could adjust the focus somewhat. These really helped with reading the small print on medicine bottles and other small print, but I had to use both lenses for that. I found other uses for the close up lenses, like looking into my children's eyes, and seeing what kind of embroidery stitches were used for certain embroidery work, and knitting with patterns was a lot easier now that I could actually see the stitches instead of just feeling them. These glasses fascinated my children. They would try to pull them off my face and then drop them. These glasses had those springy frames that would bounce back ,but sometimes the kids would pull,them off my face and they would land on the floor. They were resilient, but sometimes I would loose a lens. My husband who was an electronics engineer always had a small screwdriver in his pocket protector, he wore glasses too, With that, he would fix them and save the day.

When these glasses were old and scratched and beat up, I called Vocational Rehabilitation to see if I could get a new pair. They were pretty slow about getting back to me, but when they did, they made an appointment for me with the low vision clinic. When I got there, I showed them my old glasses with the telescope, and got a lot,of laughs and surprised looks. They were surprised they had held up,for so long, and that I could still see out of them. I told them that I needed another pair of these glasses, and they asked me if I would like to try something else, and I said "sure!" They gave me what looked like my old clip on telescope and clipped it in to my glasses. I had a pair of glasses without the telescope that I wore for everyday use. This was different they told me. They said to turn the lens at the end of the telescope and let me look at some small print. When I turned the lens at the end of the telescope, I could focus on the small print I was given! Then they told me to look out the window and turn the lens on the telescope in the other direction. What I saw made me gasp. I could see clearly at quite a distance! The trees had branches that branched, and I could see individual leaves. I could read signs that were only blurry before. They told me this device was called a "bioptic" and they could make me a pair of glasses with this device built in! I asked them if I could have the same frames, the ones with the bows with the springs, and sturdy, because my children were still apt to knock my glasses off. They said yes!

It took about a month, but I got the call to come and get my new glasses. When I went to pick them up, I was excited. As I was being driven home, I noticed the same things I had noticed before. I could see the tree branches clearly, and the individual leaves on the trees. They didn't look like green mist on the trees anymore. I could read signs, and even street signs, if the car moved slow enough. Then I Iooked at the road, and noticed something I hadn't noticed before, the heat reflections on the road, For the rest of the drive home, I stared at the road, fascinated. When my husband asked why I was being so quiet, I told him, and he couldn't believe that I had never seen heat reflections before. That night was a clear night, and as I was looking at the moon, I saw the face! I had never seen that before either, and as the month went on, and the moon became a crescent, I could see the earth light shining off the dark side. I experimented with medicine bottle print, and the small print at the bottom of advertising. All these things were fascinating to me. I could use the computer without squinting. All I had to do was adjust the lens on the bioptic. The bioptic soon became my everyday glasses. I have gone through three pair since I received the first one. The glasses, and the bioptic have been invaluable at home and at work. When I lost my job and had to find another one, everything was online, and the bioptic was a big help! I still had some trouble using the Internet, because you have to see the whole screen, and my field of vision with the bioptic wouldn't let me do that, but at least I could read the screen without trouble, and I eventually found another job after a year and three months of looking.

During the time I lost my job, my son tried to make it easier for me to see the computer. He had a monitor that was bigger than the one that came with the Apple G-5. We hooked that up and that made using the computer a lot easier. He told me that he was looking for an electronic solution to my vision problem. When he came home from the Navy, he brought a Glasstron with him from Japan. The Glasstron is a head mounted device with a screen in it to display images when it is hooked up to a video recorder or a computer. It has speakers in the device so you can hear the audio portion as well. We tried it one night. He hooked the Glasstron up to the video tape machine, and let me watch "The Abyss", one of my favorite movies. I could hear the movie, and it was like I was there with the characters. After the movie was over, the video player suddenly went off. Ralph said the circuits were overloaded or something. When I took the Glasstron off, my forehead was very warm, and I had a doozy of a headache that took a while to go away. Ralph said the Glasstron would not work as an.electronic solution to my vision, It was a power hog, and had given him headaches too, but it had been fun for him to use on the carrier to watch movies.

Time has gone by, and I am still using the bioptic. The glasses are getting worn, and the lenses are scratched, but they are still useful. My son has continued to search for an electronic solution to my vision problem. last May, he was looking on the Internet and he started to get excited. He had found what he thought might work for me. It was called the "Vuzix M-100". It was a device something like Google Glass. It could be worn over either eye, and had glasses that came with it, without lenses, of course. It was pretty expensive, and I had to get it with two credit cards, but it finally came. My son rigged up a gamer headset, taking off the earpiece and the microphone so I could use it with my glasses without the bioptic. When I tried it on, it worked, but the camera that came with it did not zoom far enough for me. My son found an open source camera program and worked it so that it would work with the Vizix. Using this camera program and the Vuzix, I could see almost as well as I could with the bioptic. We decided to get lenses for the glasses that came with the Vuzix. We went to my eye doctor, and they said they could not make lenses to fit those glasses. Ralph looked up the Vuzix site and we saw that they recommended a shop called "The Artful Eye". It was close enough for us to drive there in 45 minutes, so we went there and talked to,the lady who owned the place. She said the lenses could be made. It took about a month of trying, but the lenses were made, and the Vuzix fit nicely into the frames. I put them on and played with them till the battery in the Vuzix went dead. My son bought me a battery pack that was better than the one that came with the Vuzix, which only lasted two hours. This one lasted all day, and used a regular phone charger to recharge. I took the Vuzix, with the battery pack to work. Working with it, I found advantages and disadvantages. I had enough field of vision to actually see the whole face of a person, and could read facial expressions, something I could not do with the bioptic, because of the narrow field of vision. I could see a space much larger than I could with the bioptic, field of vision improvement again. I could read the computer in zoom in mode, if the Vuzix felt like it. It can focus up close or far away in zoom, but not at the same time. If it's zooming close up and I want it to zoom far away, I have to shut the Vuzix off, disconnect the power, wait about five seconds, reconnect the power, and turn the Vuzix back on. Then it will zoom in far away. As you can imagine, I usually use the Vuzix at work to zoom in close up. I can still see faces alright in that mode, and read facial expressions, but not too far away. We proved the Vuzix works almost as good as my bioptic because we went to see Dr. Quimby, the person who made the bioptic for me, and he did a visual acuity test with the Vizix.

While I have been using the Vuzix successfully, and have learned to deal with it's advantages and disadvantages, my son has been looking for something better. Something that will let me see as good or better than with the bioptic. We think we have found a solution, but we won't know if it's better till we use it for awhile.

My son bought a Samsung Galaxy S-6 about three weeks ago. Then, we bought a Gear VR device. Ralph hooked the phone up to the Gear VR and let me look through it. He downloaded some neat VR demos, and they were definitely cool, but what we were interested in was the "pass through" mode. I could see my surroundings really well, but could not zoom in on anything. My son solved this by downloading the open source camera program he used on the Vuzix to the Galaxy S-6. Then he adapted the Gear VR so that I could use the volume controls to zoom in and out. It worked wonderfully till I went to read something close up, but I touched the touch pad on the Gear VR, and the camera focused close up for me. Then, when I wanted to look far away, I just touched the touch pad, and it focused far away. It seems to zoom in better than the bioptic, and the camera is more stable. There are no trails when I move my head and no bluriness. We need to work out the power problem. We would like to use the power pack we used zix, I haven't taken it "out in the field" yet. We'll have to see what kind of looks I get when I do.

I am very glad we have the technology that we have now. And I thank the Father for giving me such a wonderful, smart son.

I have been looking for a technological solution for my mother's vision problems for nearly 10 years. I have finaly in the past few years found a workable fix using a combination of a Samsung Galaxy S6 and Gear VR.

I will post again with the details of my setup in case you reading this have a loved one with low vision and would like to replicate my results. Fortunately compared to most low vision aides because my solution uses common off the shelf consumer electronics it is relatively inexpensive.

Yes they needed funding to scale properly. and yes they needed some way to slim down the amounts of video they had to archive. But by adding content id to the service without warning or asking the community for input first twitch has effectively destroyed the goodwill it had with gamers. Instead of leading the fight of fair use it has caved to old media copyright holders that don't understand when sharing is in there own best interest. If music can't be shared with voice over why can games.. why can any video.. if you were not going to fight for fair use why bother creating the streaming service in the first place.. This change affects every streamer great and small in some cases it will be as easy as not playing spotify in the backround of there streams but the majority of the user base is going to have to leave and find somewhere else to be. Game music is all copyrighted. Game Video without voiceover is all copyrighted the Sharing economy with stop or become illegal to participate in unless the Fair Use question is brought back to the supreme court and transformative content is recognised as fair use.. All streaming services are threatened ... All games have copyrighted music in them.. All game videos will have to be muted... Even if the copyright holder doesn't want or in fact desperately want his content shared... he could as for it taken down some day and thats what a system like this tries to avoid. my hopes and prayers go out to the streamers who were counting on twitch as a service for their income and that they get back on there feet somewhere else.. But how long before Ustream implements a similar system and kills it self too. youtube is now cat videos and corporate sponsored original programing with the threat of a takedown notice or monetisation being taken away at all times. The entire concept of livestreaming is threatened by twitch content ID change. And for me and perhaps milions of others, Twitch is now dead

Hey Everybody!  Thanks to Drew for editing down my 7 min Quick Look into a QOTW length.   A few persons thought the Mine Storm ship looked like a penis, thats interesting.  I believe a combo of motion blur and low rez video is to blame but it is shaped vaguely like that.  if the mines are then STD's that takes the game's narrative to a new dark place.  Thanks for the comments! 
 
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I went by Walmart today to see what was up with the Super Street Fighter 4 thing.   I talked to the guy that normally checks out my games.  He candidly told me that they do have the game, locked up in the game cage in the back, but there is no way they could sell it to me.  He was putting movies away and had a box of DVD's marked for the 27th on the counter.  He pulled a random movie out of the box and ran it up at the register as if he was going to sell it.  The register beeped three times and displayed "SALE NOT ALLOWED" on the screen that normally shows the price.  So to get someone at a Walmart to sell you something early they would have to put it in the system manually as some other not restricted bar code.  Which would eventually show up on that stores inventory as theft.  So I don't see how they under the current system would be able to sell one early without getting in trouble with the company.  He did say that whoever flags street dated games or movies as "SALE NOT ALLOWED" sometimes forgets and or misses a game.  The example he gave was that all their copies of Mass Effect 2 were not sellable until it's release date but the Collector's Edition copies were a separate bar code and could go through.