Fate/Grand Order is a popular mobile RPG game (for Android and iOS) made by DelightWorks and featuring characters and Servants from TYPE-MOON‘s expansive Fate universe. It’s main gameplay involve going through a visual-novel-style storyline that lead to turn-based combat against enemy NPCs using Servant cards that you can collect. Finishing battles and defeating enemies give item rewards, which can help you level up your Servants to make them stronger. As a simple mobile game designed for commuters, much of the time spent in-game is spamming repeatable battles, also known as grinding. When grinding for a specific item/reward, the term to …
Read More »[CABAL2] Desiree’s Detailed Guide to Force Archer Skills and DPS Rotations
In Cabal 2, Force Archers fill in the role of a traditional ranged damage dealer class. The most important thing about being a damage dealer is our DPS, short for “Damage Per Second”. So what does that mean? Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers! Desiree, my lvl 40 Force Archer with 1k+ attack on Cabal 2 (NA) Pegasus server The following is a detailed breakdown of each Force Archer skill, comparison of each skill in terms of DPS value, and suggested skill rotations to maximize your damage. Note that this guide does NOT go over which stats to choose and what equipment …
Read More »Sanding down Dollfie Dream busts *NSFW*
NSFW warning: This post contains photos of nude Dollfie Dream parts. A while back when I was photographing V0 of my custom Arcueid Brunestud Dollfie Dream, I quickly noted something bothering me when I was reviewing the photos. Something that stood out. Literally. That something was the pointy nipples of the DD L bust. Like in this photo: For a modest character with a modest outfit like Arcueid, the overly-pointy and obvious nipples looked completely out of place. I remember reading a tutorial written a while back by Archangeli about sanding down the nipples, so I decided to try it …
Read More »Akihabara Shopping Map 2013
NOTE: This is partially outdated, will post an updated map later. While planning out my Japan trip Akihabara shopping spree, I spend some a lot of time researching all the figure/doll/gunpla stores and mapping them out. I figure this might be useful for others in the future. Here’s the map and please let me know if you can think of any important stores in the Akihabara area that I missed ^_^ Online Google map link: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=216291585881164541606.0004c0510f2cf86838ec4
Read More »[GW2] Elementalist WvW Cookie-Cutter Build
Build: Focus: WvW, AoE Weapon: Staff, Sigil of Bloodlust Gear: Power/Toughness/Vitality (“Soldier” or “Invader” gear), Runes of Divinity Role: Your role is to backline in groups, casting ranged AoEs on enemies. Build: http://en.gw2codex.com/build/9246-wvw-cookie-cutter-elementalist
Read More »Git for Windows with TortoiseGit and GitHub
For my Dancing Monkeys Accelerated project, we were required to use Git for version control and host code on GitHub. As a person who has always preferred SVN (for its linear/incremental nature), and have only had experience with Google Code and SourceForge, setting up a new GitHub repo was a new experience. And so, for future reference, I document the process here. In this tutorial, we install msysgit and TortoiseGit and host code on GitHub.
Read More »Baseball card cases as Detolf raisers
IKEA’s Detolfs are arguably the cheapest glass display cases you’ll find around but with one major issue: there are only 4 shelves. For most collectors, 4 shelves is far from enough to display all your awesome figures. Each shelf is also pretty deep, so filling them normally would only result in the back figures being blocked from the front. And because each shelf is so tall, there’s a lot of empty space. The easy solution: make more shelves! By creating a second, elevated “shelf” in the back using baseball card cases, you will now be able to display an entire …
Read More »Intro to Android Development
For PennApps Mobile 2011, I was invite to present a tech talk on how to get started with Android development. The talk gave a general overview of what Android was, how the app layers worked, what you needed to get started, a live/follow-along setup+Hello World demo, a small stopwatch app demo, the basics of debugging, and then finally next steps for app publishing. Finally, the talk ended with a quick blurb of Beats as an example of what your project could become. Here are the links and slides. Announcement: Android, iPhone, WP7 Tech Talks! Facebook event: Intro to Android & …
Read More »Desiree’s Detailed Veno PvP Guide
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Read More »[PWI] BM Fist Spark Combo Demo
(Direct download) This is a demo of the demon fist-blademaster combo, performed on the official Perfect World International Harshland server. The combo takes advantage of skill cancelling to trigger both the bonus status effects of Drake’s Breath Bash (+fire attack buff) and Demon Glacial Spike (+50% crit though not shown in this video), followed by a performed Heaven’s Flame. You can also cancel Cyclone Heel for the added attack speed bonus. If one were to Demon Spark Eruption and use a chi pot right before Drake’s Breath Bash, the BM can obtain the highest DPS potential immediately after the Heaven’s …
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