Agung Paramtapa's Journal

  It's been a few days since I put my beloved Boruto action figure that designed like a Barbie doll back into the box, and guess what? I have good news and bad news. The good news is, I have a chat with the storekeeper who sold this online and even though the storekeeper said that it ran out of stock, it will eventually restock, but on the next month. Dunno when, but I'll be waiting. Besides, I have a lot of things to do when the Final Project title is approved. It's about research and I have no idea what, but then again, something can be used to research, even if it's in correlation with gaming. Like... for whatever reasons, my habitual issues can be used as a research topic. Otherwise, I'll look for something new. The bad news is, pandemic is still going and everything is slow-paced, because after I sent that proposal to the teacher who coordinates Final Project or is a part of the Final Project team, no answer. Still waiting, but Idk; could be taking more than a...

  Well, in a middle of redesigning the proposal of Final Project and uploading an all-new walkthrough of Ace Combat 7 campaign in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations style while promoting Calamitous' /CloakedEnigma's True Canon Pack mod @ Nexus, this is what I thought of for the past few months: Spare parts . You know, in case if one of the required parts to swap body parts like a Barbie doll is missing? If we talk about cars and motorcycles, that's a different story. Tokopedia storefront when I searched about the same sh*t (Boruto action figures) shows exactly like what I bought since early 2020, on February, I suppose, after I had been scammed for the second time. What I need is at least two spares. Yes, two , which not just for two extras of the same model with interchangeable parts, but two extras of parts that is compatible with one after another. I was thinking of buying two, but I'm not in a position to spend A LOT of money, especially after the third scam (in S...

 To start this post, I've opened the Facebook again to check the status I haven't yet been in or checked out. Also, to state the fact that I've opened the Pinterest before I started uploading an all-new walkthrough without restriction for Ace Combat 7 while I waited for the Final Project enroll or something like that. See, this is where my personal issues start. Darwin VS is a Brazilian GTA modder (singleplayer, ofc, not GTA Online ; he creates ped mods that shared via his Patreon page) and I saw his Facebook page recently . He spokes Brazilian Portuguese. I wonder if any Englishman or English-capable speakers like me are subscribing to his page, of which, most of his contents are in Portuguese. Like, I can hardly distinguish between Spanish and Portuguese, but I can see the difference when it comes to what word/sentence comes out. Now, when it comes to messaging, I wonder if this guy can speak English. I don't speak Portuguese, and I seem to have a phobia with contac...

BC7 Compression I always wonder what makes BC7 compression in DDS format is superior than DXT(n) compressions. I get that this exists in OpenIV's Image Compression type, but what's the point if most of the modders uses standard DXT(n) compression (such as DXT1, DXT3, and DXT5)? Apparently, just figured out after I talked with the author of The True Canon Pack @ Nexus Mods, DDS format can be modified by all means, so BC7 isn't an exception, right? So, on a whim, I Googled out via private window about what's this BC7 compression in DDS format about. Dunno the proper keyword, so I started out on a basic, yet understandable keyword on my standards. At first, I thought that BC7 compression is used as an anti-tamper for modders who create skin mods, but no... this can be easily circumvented. Ninja Ripper is the most easy way to export textures, but... nope, I've tried it. Some color palettes on texture export are gone. Imagine if what I want is grayish black, then when N...

 Back when I accompanied my sis at Cileunyi, get this. I managed to scavenge some stuffs I found on my bro's laptop, the old one that still uses Windows XP. There are photos and some old games I found, not to mention Red Alert 2 that requires you to have a CD inserted all the time. I wonder if those can be made anime or cartoon as in... some of the profile pics I found in my life are based in real life, but animated or "cartoonized", as some people says these days. Especially this one. This is the money shot because of the school rules back in the day of senior high school. "Sports uniform in a school uniform", I'd say, whereas the school rules stated "no outfit stacks". I believe this was taken with my bro's Nokia cellphone, maybe at a mall somewhere at Soekarno-Hatta bypass in Bandung. Metro Trade Center , I believe it is called. It's been a long time since I never visited that place for maybe 9, 10 years since this photo was taken. ...