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It appears that I have played Mabinogi on the wrong side of the hori­zon.  The above incred­i­bly com­posed cos­play is the alleged event win­ner in Mabinogi Tai­wan.  This piece is cer­tainly among the most fab­u­lous multi-character cos­play I’ve ever come across… and yes indeed, my uminkeo fan­bo­ism also prevails.

Though I am not play­ing Mabinogi any­more at this moment, I am con­stantly look­ing for signs of that would reju­ve­nate my faith in dev­cat so one day I may once again be moti­vated enough to resume my Fan­tasy Life.  I made three conditionals:

• When I have time
• When dev­cat revamps party sys­tem so the game is no longer “Solonogi”
• When dev­cat fixes abuses/exploits in end-game stuff (such as black­smith near-perfect)

So I say to myself, if two of the three above con­di­tions are met, I’ll be back to the game; sadly I don’t see that hap­pen any­time soon.  Or… worse, dev­cat became demented–for intro­duc­ing Ham­let into C4G13’s main­stream.  Yes, Ham­let, Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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I don’t need to upload a lot of videos to be fully frus­trated by YouTube’s seem­ingly irratic and unpre­dictable video con­ver­sion method.  Often times the same clip will look like crap, and some­times bet­ter than crap, when it is appeared on YouTube.  So, I did an exper­i­ment to find out what exactly are the encod­ing options that appeases YouTube.

Soft­ware used: FRAPS, Live Movie Maker.  Orig­i­nally, I would use the “old” Win­dows Movie Maker for more func­tion­al­ity… but my WMM can­not load FRAPS videos cor­rectly orz.  Really, I don’t see how LMM is con­ve­nient or com­pe­tent other than… out­putting videos in for­mats that can appear in HD in YouTube.

Test cases:

• Direct upload from LMM
• Using a cus­tom pro­file sim­i­lar to LMM’s 1080p profile
• Using LMM’s built-in 1080p profile
• Using another cus­tom pro­file sim­i­lar to LMM’s 1080p profile
• Using a cus­tom pro­file sim­i­lar to LMM’s 720p profile

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Or maybe it’s not that tragic; the mas­sively unpop­u­lar changes in Mabinogi NA’s pre­mium pack­age pol­icy seems to stand firm in the sea of crit­i­cism and dis­con­tent.  I have naively thought that, maybe, Nexon isn’t that regres­sive and maybe, just maybe, given time, the in-game items that have since become unob­tain­able will be brought back.  Since I’m con­vinced that things will not get bet­ter any time soon, I shall ded­i­cate this post to my favorite attrac­tive micro-transaction sys­tem for all times that no longer exists.

To make this as con­struc­tive as pos­si­ble, I strongly rec­om­mend a Mabinogi player like you–whether you’ve been caught in the wave or not–to read this neat lit­tle essay first.  It gives a good intro­duc­tion on the sit­u­a­tion and focus on impor­tant impacts which new ser­vice could inflict to the com­mu­nity.  Though (by the look of it) the essay is writ­ten some­time right after the announce of the new ser­vice, hence the more the­o­ret­i­cal word­ing.  Allow me to elab­o­rate the argu­ment by list­ing some casual obser­va­tions on how the Mari server has changed since the G9 update.

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“There is no doubt­ing it. Redire’s power level is over 9000. ”

It’s one of the “n won­ders of Mabinogi Main­stream quests”.  Here is an ana­lyt­i­cal report, writ­ten by kitaek27 and is backed with facts and sta­tis­tics, on how and why Redire is one of the leetest NPC in Mabinogi.  Be warned, though, as it is obvi­ous that the topic con­tains Gen­er­a­tion 2 and 3 spoiler ~

But Fer­ghus is still »» all.

Hav­ing the tam­ing part fin­ished for Gen­er­a­tion 8, it is only mat­ter of time when the entire generation’s main­stream quest is fin­ished.   I over­es­ti­mated the chal­lenge posed by the final boss and the fun of killing it…   But here, Taunes rid­ing his newest pet uni­corn in <SPOILER> is worth to see, at least. :p

With Nexon being sur­pris­ingly gen­er­ous, I reached lv70 for the first time on my char­ac­ter… never again this shall hap­pen, I assume, because I have no plan of pay­ing for dou­ble exp pots >.<

With G9’s arrival mate­ri­al­iz­ing just beyond the hori­zon, I have some­what final­ized my skill set–lastly, with rank­ing up my newest favorite skill.  Now, hav­ing achieved most of my goals in skills, pour­ing AP into Alchemy skill can be done with­out hesitation ^^

Thanks go to all who helped me with the final boss and more impor­tantly, I shall express my high­est grat­i­tude to peo­ple ran with me in Karu dun­geon for many times ^^

Here you see (the new) me with a fierce-looking boar, tamed.  I would like to con­grat­u­late myself for pass­ing the hard­est part of Gen­er­a­tion 8’s main­strem quest of Mabinogi.

It all started with the sim­ple and stu­pid mis­take I made when I ended my long absence from the game.  The plan was to rebirth as a female and bor­row a Rac­coon Cub Wiz­ard Suit from a friend… but then I for­got the fact that the suit requires age 17 to wear; the tragedy ensues when I rebirthed to an 11-year-old loli.

Six weeks of wait­ing is too long.  Mean­while I did my part in spam­ming Karu parts dun­geons and got 3 –cp enchants, and finally a female light armor with the 4th –cp enchant from (the god-knows-how-many-good-stuff-he-has) friend.  Then I looked like on the screen­shot, in a set that I call my sadis­tic “train­ing” suit. :3

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