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Daily Inquiry

Over the past 24 hours, can you recall the primary emotions you felt?

If you're often miserable/angry, then it's something to think about

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Baseball for all | Konami’s WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS (PS4/NS)

POWER PROS was under a dollar (99 cents in fact) and I took a chance; I’ve seen videos of it (connected to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC’s) global competition) and I was surprised at how cute it was and that it had an esports platform. While football (soccer) and baseball are the most witnessed sports in Japan, it shakes a memory for me. I watched more basketball and maybe martial arts than the previously mentioned, but when it came to games, I believe I played virtually everything with the exception of football games. Hockey and baseball were definitely my favorites; recently, I played Volleyball on my NSO [Nintendo Switch Online] recently and I was surprised at how simple and fun it was.

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The time is finally here…

After almost a decade of working on this project, preorders for my TANKHEAD narrative artbook opens next week!

More info coming soon.

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Saint Seiya fanfiction Volume 1

Saint Seiya Omega: DAWN OF END (聖闘士星矢Ω ドーン・オブ・エンド) is a derivative story of Saint Seiya written by myself in March 2015. A sequel to Saint Seiya Omega as I aim for compounds from different series. Dawn of End can be read at Fanfiction.net and ArchiveOfOurOwn.

VOL 1's chapters are the following:

Open your Eyes to a Nightmare

Dark Intentions,

Dark Cloth

Pegasus’s Resistance

Declaration of War

Reignited

Reignited Crimson

Leaving the blue Winter

Cygnus, to the Sea

What is your favorite sound?

Dragon Peace, cool guy

Even though it’s been nearly 7 years, and I have a hard time believing it, it’s barely at the halfway point. I wonder what have I been doing this whole time. Last year was understandable, but 2015-2019? What was going on here? I could’ve been my school assignments (and my niece) as well. COVID started around 2020 and was adapting to virtual learning for both me and niece.

I noticed that the above-listed titles, which I dubbed “VOLUME 1” are rather short chapters marking the beginning, or rather the unwinding of the antagonist’s shenanigans. Chapter 1 is by far one of the longer chapters as I go for both a sharp dagger of tension and a bit of comedy, transmitting from peace to upcoming battle. Afterward, I seek out the loyal image of Saint Seiya going by just words. I wonder if I could do it.

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Animation Students with burning hearts create DAWN OF THE ECLIPSE EP ZERO

I am deeply inspired by the students of HAL Nagoya college, specially in 3D animation, who created Hatenoissen EP Zero. I will absolutely support them in future endeavors. Since Sept 11, 2023, it was viewed over 3 million times.

In the distant future, humanity faces off an extraterrestrial entity called The Black Knight . With his friends on his mind, Haru executes the strategy that will take out the Knight once and for all.

果ての一閃 EPISODE ZERO

Dawn of the Eclipse

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Thoughts on first suspenseful pages of “The Andromeda Strain” (1969)

It could be about the first five, six, or seven pages. The chapters are split into “five days”, which are also split into parts.

I always enjoyed Critchon; the last book that I read from him was PIRATES LATITUDE (2009) based on when the Caribbean was controlled by the British against the Spanish. Along with a new copy of Jurassic Park, to replace my long-gone torn paperback, I also picked up The Andromeda Strain. I sought out for a sci-fi story, first leaning towards Sphere or Prey before making my choice. Sphere is most like a superficial alien with human intelligence, while Prey and Andromeda cover human mistakes that affect our bodies and seem like true-to-life events.

Crichton always felt that we, as the public, should have more awareness of a scientific crisis as they always repeat themselves. Of human error, especially if goverment covers it up. Thus, Crichton, even though not being completely precise, has extended a hand to many members of the military and professional associates in aeronautics, genetics, health and more. It seems that he had a lengthy manuscript to bring this story to life.

Reading the praises (see above) and epigraph, I have to wonder “How can Crichton scare the hell out of me?” Of course, it could be an exaggerated metaphor for intense page-flipping.

The first page seems to be utter nonsense, or rather, it insinuates confidential information that should not be within our sights. It is not to be tampered with by those not of military personal or the staff of a nuclear plant. Then following after, in the acknowledgments, there is the idea that the Andromeda Strain were real?! Was it or an imitation?

“This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis.” And then I suddenly thought — the 1970 sights of UFOs and nuclear meltdowns such as the Three Mile Island. How about the Chernobyl disaster? Not sure why my mind went in that direction.

Everything starts seemingly in a ghost town out in the middle of the Mojave Desert (Southern CA and NV). Using a satellite fitted on their van, Lt. Roger Shawn and Private Lewis Crane of the Army were tasked to finding the Scoop Satellite, capsules sent into space to analyze the atmosphere and then re-entry. Its landing spot – the town of Piedmont, Arizona. The map suggests that there is a population, but the town gives out the eerie impression that no one was around.

Especially when no one relays sighting of the satellite to authorities, and especially when there were buzzards flying above town. In the beginnings of DAY 1, we monitor the Army’s actions of PROJECT SCOOP. In addition, we have a cardiovascular physiologist following the movements of Shawn and Crane in Arizona. Reaching Piedmont, Shawn and Lewis find dead bodies littered everywhere. Were they murdered? Something seemed strange about these corpses. Then, there was a man in a white robe.

And, then there was a scream. There is barely detail, only dialogue from the intercom.

Thriller and Suspense is fun when it doesn’t make much sense in the beginning, but leaves you for more. Do we have a silent killer? Is it related to the re-entry satellite Scoop? Now we are left with such questions.

Vandenburg seems to be a military base.

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Chest vs abdominal | Why is breathing important in Yoga?

Why is breathing, what we do naturally, a central part in yoga techniques? Physical exercise in general? Why are you asked to breathe deeply and how? It turns out to be very simple. Breathing more activates the important organs in your body such as the lungs and heart. The capacity of the lungs and the rest of your muscles, increases and triggers Bohr Effect, which enhances metabolic activity in tissue, thus athletic performance. If it’s affecting your muscles, it should help with changing positions.

The development of muscles is a different case, which requires damage (from exercise) to regenerate via cell swelling. Muscles also require rest.

Many of us think or say that breathing helps our concentration and calms us down (and helps my stomach aches) — indeed, if Oxygen is regulated to the brain. If anything, become of cell regulation, exercise (and breathing) stimulates blood flow, reduces inflammation and more.

How active seniors can lower their injury risk (champion newspapers)

Harvard Medical School notes that warming up pumps nutrient-rich, oxygenated blood to the muscles and helps increase heart rate. The American Council on Exercise reports that warming up helps reduce workout-related injury risk by improving tissue elasticity.

Can Flexing Your Muscles Make Them Stronger? (HealthLine)

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You want to have appropriate breathing because it may indicate some form of stress. “Deep breathing” has more to do with one’s awareness of how to breathe. Breathing deeply, we slow it down; naturally, if we’re sitting, we breathe in and out for about a couple of seconds. The diaphragm under our lungs is a muscle; it expands when we breathe in, as the lungs fill up, and then contracts as we breathe out. We’re instructed to breathe in through the nose and then exhale either through the nose or the mouth. The mouth probably expends more when we’re trying to encourage slower breathing.

Chest = Short, Shallow breathing Abdominal = Pulling lungs outward, more air within, working diaphragm (assisting the air going in and out)

Try it out.

I encouraged a co-worker to hold her stomach and do a deep breath for her physical pain.

Another things I’ve been wondering about: Cholesterol and Artery Plaque Buildup (WebMD)

Article: Why is breathing important?

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Why reading is important | Astrid Lindgren

Link to Article: Ronia the Robber's Daugher Chapter 1

About Ronia Ch 1 Something riveting was happening at Matt’s Fort, far more than the fierce thunderstorm outside– the leader of Matt’s Fort was having his first baby. A daughter. Upon his child’s birth, Matt and his robber group lavished it with love. Matt’s wife Lovis named the child Ronia; as she grew, Ronia would learn the charms of living within the Fort’s Great Hall, and the company of her parents and robber companions. However, the real treasures were outside where the woods waited for her.

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If you didn’t read as a child, start now. Start anytime.

Swedish Writer Astrid Lindgren seemed like every woman of her generation. Aside from being an author and winning many awards, she used her talent as an activist against poverty, nuclear power, and dictatorship, and as a fighter of civil rights. A lady who lived through World War II, reading anecdotes from others within said war, she was well aware of the evils of Naziism. However, she was a shining star within those days. She was also highly supportive of children and their rights, vocally against oppressive childbearing.

Its always interesting to read and hear about someone from a far different generation from you. She didn’t seem much, born on a farm in Vimmerby, Sweden, but she grew with enthusiasm and depth, seeing value in that way of life. It was days before TV and radio. Astrid was a bookworm. 

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Conscientiousness vs neuroticism? Our connection with personality and lifespan

Related link: https://president.jp/articles/-/63165 (PRESIDENT Online; Sato Shinichi)

Article: Blog

The toughest complainers are those who don’t have common sense.

Professor emerita (or dean) Sato Shinichi, who wrote a book about elderly people and what happens to people with dementia, suggests that there is a relationship between health and personality, and people with bad temperaments do not live long.

He also believes that elders continue to drive to feel a sense of efficacy.

According to Sato, elderly people unconsciously tend to select and memorize info that is convenient to them, such as family coming to meet them or having dinner with others. On the other hand, the younger generation tends to focus on negative things: how to endure life or develop in anything. Of course, you experience stressful events when older and experience physical and mental decline. That can happen at any time. As a result, you want to focus on the positives. Also, do elders remember their youth well? It is due to episodic memory containing positive experiences such as marriages and having children.

Human memory is separated into sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, explicit memory and episodic memory. It also goes through a three step process and it declines as our senses (vision, hearing, etc) do: Ingraining (Inscription), Retention (absorb) and recall. According to Sato, retention does not change. If elders are aware of this, should they try to not feel inconvenienced? TO combat poor memory, a notebook is used (like me, even though I am not an elder).

But what about the fear of approaching death? Is there a sense of loneliness? What about geriatric depression?

The five personalities or characters, which do have a tendency to change, are:

Neuroticism

Extraversion

Openness

Agreeableness

Conscientiousness

This was also advocated by a psychologist from the University of Oregon. This is known as the Big Five Theory. Sato states that “neuroticism” leads to a higher morality rate due a person being prone to stress and hypersensitivity. Bad lifestyles can lead to arteriosclerosis and diabetes, and eventually stroke and other diseases. However, with “conscientiousness”, a healthy lifestyle is usually followed.

the length of a person’s life span and personality are deeply related to the individual’s emotions, actions, and will. Especially for people with high neuroticism, the key to longevity is to have a positive attitude every day without being burdened with anxiety or stress. When that’s difficult, getting support from people around you to reduce your anxiety can help reduce your risk of illness and death.

With that said, we speak on the title of the article:

｢歳をとったら丸くなる｣は科学的には間違い…老化研究の専門家が語る”性格と寿命”の残酷な関係性 “You become squeezed in when older” is scientifically false. Aging Research Expert Discusses the Cruel Relationship between Personality and Life Span

丸くなる = to become round, but is it a literal sense? It seems to me “more calm”. According to the thesaurus, it also means more ‘mature”? Or more “soft”?

Furthermore, we seem to universally believe that we become “more stubborn” when older. Sato gives an example of two former school classmates who reunite after 50 years. “Person A” is more calm, while “Person B” is more active and sociable. There is a Person C: an energic young man who met B at a gym. Person C seems to think that he’ll become calm like Person B when older, but Person A disagrees. Sato points out that their impressions contradict each other due to perspectives. It is likely that B felt “calmer” than people of a younger age.

Considering my parents, I don’t think their characters changed that much at all, especially other family members that I remember, particularly a fickle uncle. If we listen to our family members and their stories about the past, can we see connections? Especially in their behaviors?

Do you agree with Sato Shinichi’s analysis?

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Dale Carnegie (1892 – 1955) 

There was a guy named Dale Carnegie (1892 – 1955) an author who was born into poverty in Missouri, who dedicated himself to “not worrying”. Putting misery away. It has a lot to do with changing your surroundings, finding courage to face the inevitable, keeping busy, focus on the present and not the past, avoid distractions, accepting the worst and weighing the facts.

You also have to meditate on what your “problem” is, the cause and the solution. Do I really have a problem or am I making an unnecessary one? The surrounding company can be at fault for your mental health. Nothing can be done about that, especially when love and obliviousness is involved.

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Brainwashing of my Dad documentary

Mental and social science of brainwashing. 2024 is a political year in the United States and misinformation will touch the most vulnerable. How so?

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Game Dev and Director Sakurai Masahiro talks about Game Essence

On his official "Creating Games" channel

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Kyoukai Senki (境界戦機)

OFFICIAL SITE: https://www.kyoukai-senki.net/ Babby Hobby Site: https://bandai-hobby.net/site/kyoukai-senki/ Hobby Japan: https://hjweb.jp/article/tag/title_01/ Twitter: @kyoukai_senki

In the year 2061, the country of Japan was divided and ruled by five economic blocs: North American Confederation (NAC), Great Eurasia, Asian Free Trade Entente (AFTE) and Oceania. Japan, while its people are living under oppression, is also on the frontline of boundary wars where the blocs battle with mobile weapons called AMAIM (Auto Mobile Artificial Intelligence Mount). One day, a boy named Shiiba Amou meets with an autonomous AI named Gai and his life changed when his AMAIM Kenbu activated.

Directed by Kimura Noboru (木村暢), who has worked on the series composition of Build Divers, Gundam 00 novels, and SoltyRei, KKSenki is property of 2019’s SUNRISE BEYOND (KING’S RAID< Gundam Blood Orphans, Build Divers RERISE), an animation company that collabs with BANDAI NAMCO. Is it possible that this new branch holds a lofty future in Bandai IPs?

More here (Season 1 reflection)

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Terminator Armor by Juuso Laasonen

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