I got to thinking that maybe my current warm up & cool down routines weren't sufficient so I browsed Youtube looking for routines that would be simple an short and found these;
Review: Lover`s Position
Lover`s Position by Masara Minase
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
First story: Lover's Position (Chapters 1, 2 & 3) - Hayato & Jun
The story is told from Jun's perspective. Jun is finally going out with is much admired crush from high school, his senpai Hayato. This story tells of how they encounter each other again and start over afresh as lovers. But Jun still feels insecure because of Hayato's beautiful best friend Motoki who was Hayato's lover in high school. Whenever the best friends meet up Jun is excluded and his feelings of in adequacy are made worse when Hayato prioritises Motoki over him.
I honestly found Jun to be a little annoying, I mean sure Hayato isn't exactly wearing his heart on his sleeve or anything but he liked Jun enough to get him a ring for his birthday. I feel as if he should have at least spoken to Hayato about it before he was driven out so Hayato could look after Motoki or at least confronted him when he overheard them talking. Not that Hayato didn't have his flaws, the most glaring being his tendecy to put his friends before his lovers. I was super satisfied with how it ended though.
Second story: Love Damage (Chapters 3 & 4) - Naoto, Aida & Sawada
Naoto always gets dumped by his boyfriends because they prefer to get married and have kids.
One day he awakens to find someone strange in bed with him and to make matters worse his boyfriend walks in and sees them together and promptly dumps him. He goes drinking with his friend (because that's what you do after you have drunken sex with a stranger) drink more! He sees the man who he slept with chatting with a woman and accosts him. It turns out this guy works for a break-up company and Aida paid Sawada to break them up. Oh dear. Not that I don't understand where Aida was coming from but I think he should have confided the situation with his family troubles in Naoto. I think it would've hurt less that way.
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A Song to the Sun, Volume 1
By: Kenji Bandou
Genre: Drama / Josei / Romance / Tragedy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the story of the short life and final days of a girl called Kaoru, who suffered from the rare disease Xeroderma pigmentosum, which basically makes it impossible for her to be outside during the day. Unlike most tragedies I’ve read Kaoru has a wonderfully supportive family who try their best to make her as comfortable as possible. She spends her days gazing though her window at the world of light and falls in love with a boy whom she eventually meets and becomes involved with. Kaoru is a plucky girl as evidenced by the way she approached Kouji that night after recognising him, her rapid confession/ introduction made me chuckle and left quite the impression on him.
But then she botches explaining her illness to him and tries to break it off by avoiding him, something which managed to hurt him and almost kill her. This incident is the turning point for both Kaoru & Kouji; as she declines both mentally and physically, he becomes a more mature version of his original self, that of a somewhat idiotic, earnest and straightforward boy. He encourages her musical talent and manages to get her to record a song, making her dream come true and when she was no longer there brought comfort to those she left behind and hope to those who heard it.
The story deals briefly with the rapid decline and her eventual demise, which had initially led me to believe that perhaps the author rushed it too much but in retrospect (this situation is very similar to the way my father died) sometime diseases act swiftly, leaving no room for anything but numbness,a feeling that Bandou has captured quite effectively.
There were a few elements of this volume that really bothered me. You can’t get a sense of how much time passed at all and the disease itself isn’t dealt with very well in my opinion, the scenes where Kaoru’s at the hospital are so rushed and the explanations so brief, that it makes it difficult to empathize with what Kaoru’s going through.
This was a good book, the story is cute yet sad, the characters likeable and even though this is just a one-shot you get a lot of character development overall something that rarely happens with one-shots in general. While I am no fan of tragedies I’m glad I made an exception as this was not much of a tear jerker.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants a quick read with a decent storyline.
Genre: Drama / Josei / Romance / Tragedy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the story of the short life and final days of a girl called Kaoru, who suffered from the rare disease Xeroderma pigmentosum, which basically makes it impossible for her to be outside during the day. Unlike most tragedies I’ve read Kaoru has a wonderfully supportive family who try their best to make her as comfortable as possible. She spends her days gazing though her window at the world of light and falls in love with a boy whom she eventually meets and becomes involved with. Kaoru is a plucky girl as evidenced by the way she approached Kouji that night after recognising him, her rapid confession/ introduction made me chuckle and left quite the impression on him.
But then she botches explaining her illness to him and tries to break it off by avoiding him, something which managed to hurt him and almost kill her. This incident is the turning point for both Kaoru & Kouji; as she declines both mentally and physically, he becomes a more mature version of his original self, that of a somewhat idiotic, earnest and straightforward boy. He encourages her musical talent and manages to get her to record a song, making her dream come true and when she was no longer there brought comfort to those she left behind and hope to those who heard it.
The story deals briefly with the rapid decline and her eventual demise, which had initially led me to believe that perhaps the author rushed it too much but in retrospect (this situation is very similar to the way my father died) sometime diseases act swiftly, leaving no room for anything but numbness,a feeling that Bandou has captured quite effectively.
There were a few elements of this volume that really bothered me. You can’t get a sense of how much time passed at all and the disease itself isn’t dealt with very well in my opinion, the scenes where Kaoru’s at the hospital are so rushed and the explanations so brief, that it makes it difficult to empathize with what Kaoru’s going through.
This was a good book, the story is cute yet sad, the characters likeable and even though this is just a one-shot you get a lot of character development overall something that rarely happens with one-shots in general. While I am no fan of tragedies I’m glad I made an exception as this was not much of a tear jerker.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants a quick read with a decent storyline.
Installing WAKFU on LMDE
Before we get started here's a little introduction to WAKFU courtesy RPGFan or you can visit the official site.
Installation Notes
To install WAKFU you will need to manually download and execute the contents of the file. If you don't know how to do this follow the steps outlined below, don't worry it looks harder than it is.
After installation I ran into problems on my first run, namely blocky, unintelligible text. I was able to solve it by inputting the following commands into terminal.
Installation Notes
To install WAKFU you will need to manually download and execute the contents of the file. If you don't know how to do this follow the steps outlined below, don't worry it looks harder than it is.
- Download WAKFU by clicking this link.
- Right click on the Wakfu_unix.sh file and choose "Properties".
- Select the "Permissions" tab and check "Allow executing file as program".
- Close the window and double-click the file Wakfu_unix.sh.
- A temporary file Wakfu_unix.sh.5070.dir should appear, and a few seconds after the installer will run.
- From there all you need to do is follow the on screen instructions.
After installation I ran into problems on my first run, namely blocky, unintelligible text. I was able to solve it by inputting the following commands into terminal.
sudo apt-get install driconfAfter the driconf window appears select the "Image Quality" tab and enable S3TC texture compression. The next time you run WAKFU the problem should be resolved. If you're using a netbook the text may be a little small but it doesn't really bother me however resizing the window may help.
driconf
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