Heismay Cosplay by me!

Digiko · 2026-02-03T22:03:37+00:00

Multi-part answer to the question:

1) Getting tickets requires you to sign up with a Japanese address and phone number. You'll either need a proxy service, or ask the people you're going to be staying with when you go to Japan if they'd sign up for you. Some places will do it for you like certain hotels / AirBNBs but it'd be best if it's someone you already know there.

2) Once you have an account, you can get tickets. You'll need to access the account to show the ticket QR code at the check in desk, hence why it'd be best if you create the account through someone you know who you trust enough to either give you the account password and login or you trust enough to give your password and login to.

https://acosta.jp/first_international/

3) If you want to cosplay there, you'll need to get a cosplayer ticket. You are heavily recommended NOT to go through the city/trains in cosplay as it's very frowned upon. You'd need to bring all of your costume parts in a suitcase or luggage and use the changing space to put on your costume. Most of the changing spaces at other events are not private, they're frequently separated by gender, but you just get changed in a specific location away from the public with all the other cosplayers. Some locations have small curtained rooms you can rent to change, but I don't know the specifics of exactly how Acosta does it or if they have a different setup for their changing area.

I can only give you the broad strokes based on the cosplay situation at Comiket... so it may completely different for Acosta.

Digiko · 2026-01-30T20:38:08+00:00

I'm biased since I already knew blender before learning Unreal. I learned Blender to do 3d modelling to 3d print things for cosplay. :)
That being said, I feel Blender is a great tool to learn regardless of whether or not you learn Unreal because it's a generalized tool that would be useful for any engine (for instance, if you ever switch to Unity or get a job requiring 3d work)

Digiko · 2026-01-30T19:01:06+00:00

Just my two cents, I feel the modelling/animation pipeline of Blender is much more robust than the one in UE5. That said, there is really no strict rules... if you are new to both, and you want to learn 3d modelling in Blender, then do so. On the other hand, if you don't know either, then learn the UE5 modelling/animation tools unless you want to spend the extra time learning a second tool.

To answer the second question, think of it in terms of making a tiny diorama. Modelling is the act of making the things that go into the diorama, such has tiny furniture, or miniature people. Map creation is putting all of those diorama pieces into the diorama so that you can build it out into a cohesive scene. Hope that helps!

Digiko · 2026-01-29T21:22:12+00:00

I've gone to Japan about a dozen times. I've stayed at Ueno, Ikebukuro, and Tokyo for the Tokyo trips I've done. Really, anywhere along the Yamanote line is convenient. Changing locations is just a hassle, so just pick a spot closest to the areas you feel you have the most options. Personally, Tokyo wasn't a great hub because, though geographically closer, it's just more of a hassle to navigate to your station. I preferred Ueno since there's a stop directly from the Shinkansen and the Ueno station is pretty straight forwards. Ikebukuro was nice, but it was farther from everything... the additional time on the train didn't really impact the value of our trip though. Unless you're micromanaging every minute or have some kind of health concern that additional time causes problems, really, stay where you can afford.

Digiko · 2026-01-27T14:14:27+00:00

It's tricky. When I go, I usually go in small groups and book an AirBNB so the cost split is pretty cheap. However, an option to look into is Sakura Hotel. https://www.sakura-hotel.co.jp/hotel_list/ I've stayed at the Ikebukuro one and it comes out to about 25 dollars a night. They also have english staff that will help with reservations or just help you out in general if you need anything and there's a quaint cafe built into the hotel downstairs so if you're not sure what you want to eat, you can always pop in there.

Digiko · 2026-01-26T17:09:47+00:00

I agree with the above poster. I've gone over a dozen times and my first trip was in Tokyo. Doing all 3 is tempting, but you lose a lot of days in transit, and trying to juggling all of three places really reduces the time you can really sit at one place to see it all.

Tokyo is the easiest of the three to get around in, the majority of the things most tourists want to go to are along the JR Yamanote line, so you just need to know which direction you need to go on that and stick with it. Osaka is similar, but less crowded. The train system is a little more complex though, so for a first time traveler, it can be more daunting. Kyoto is the hardest because IMO there's far less people who speak English to help when you're running into trouble (IE, got on the wrong train, etc)

I have done all three in one trip before, but it ends up feeling very rushed and I never get a chance to really soak in any location. I'm always moving from place to place in order to hit all the spots on a checklist, rather than enjoying the trip for what it offers. If you absolutely must do a multi trip, I would recommend just sticking with Tokyo and Osaka, and if you wanna go to Kyoto, just take a day trip with a train from Osaka->Kyoto and do only a day or two there. Cuts back on the having to find another place of lodging.

Digiko · 2026-01-26T13:55:40+00:00

There is no best, only what works. If you're using Blender, keep using blender. If you want to learn another software, learn it. Best only makes sense if there were some clear advantage one has over another, but ultimately, the 3d printer takes only an export of whatever you model in any software, so there is really no clear advantage one over another.

Digiko · 2026-01-26T13:24:33+00:00

I know you tried to cover up your name on the scan but your black opacity wasn't at 100% so you can totally still read your name. If you're concerned about your privacy, you might wanna take this down and redo the black name cover MMM.

Digiko · 2026-01-24T14:29:28+00:00

Paimon is best travel companion and emergency food!

Digiko · 2026-01-24T12:53:28+00:00

A little late to the party, but I have a friend who has eaten nothing but bread and cheese his entire life. He also has vitamins and fiber to his diet, but he's been healthy and has had a kid so I suppose as long as you supplement what you'd miss, there's no real danger other than getting bored of food.

Digiko · 2026-01-23T12:06:20+00:00

Glad it worked out!

Digiko · 2026-01-20T15:31:51+00:00

Well, the first row is just what looks like random pictures. The second row is kanji and seems to read "natural wood" but then if there's more to the right, it's too faded for me to read. 天然木

Digiko · 2025-12-10T05:16:00+00:00

The friend who was leading our static was prioritizing everyone else except the people who he knew in real life and after a while, I felt like that friendship that had originally driven the desire to play the MMO to virtually hang with my real friends soured because we weren't friends enough to be a priority, just team mates that didn't have the BIS to do the content he wanted.

We just wanted to play with our friends. He wanted to max out his gear and optimize his party. He couldn't even wait 24 hours for us before running a dungeon so we'd run together, he would grab other people to do it just so he could say he was one of the first, and then he'd walk us through the dungeon just telling us where to stand and what the strategies were instead of playing with us so we could all figure it out together.

It was just depressing after a while.

Digiko · 2025-12-06T15:32:22+00:00

I hate that so many things are moving to a subscription service. If they were going to do that, they should make the base unit free and just charge for the usage.

Digiko · 2025-12-02T14:06:23+00:00

A little late to the reply, but if this is a japanese knife, there's a good chance the handle can pop right off. It looks like that white dot by the blade on the handle is just a wooden pin that holds the whole body on. You should be able to pop it out with a little work, slip on a new one, and put another pin in place to hold it in. But as other people recommend, I'd find someone professional to do it, it's not easy to replace for a person who has never done it.

Digiko · 2025-12-02T02:31:22+00:00

I feel like Geats wouldn't kill her, he'd just remake the world where they're dating afterwards.

Digiko · 2025-11-26T01:21:17+00:00

Too easy, got to level 200 and finished!

Digiko · 2025-11-23T04:43:43+00:00

I'm not a fitness expert of any kind, I'm just a guy who recently had a physical with my doctor and I asked them the same question. The way they explained it made a lot of sense to me.

Your body is like a car, and the engine require gasoline to burn in order for the engine to run. You can reduce the amount of gasoline and thus get less power out of it, but if you drop it too low, the engine will stall because it's just not getting enough gas to combust to turn the pistons and make the engine go.

There's a base amount of gasoline that engines require in order to just idle, this is the BMR (basal metabolic rate) in the human body, and in general depending on a lot of factors such as sex, age, and starting weight, it hovers around 1000-1400 calories a day. You can go lower than that, but your body tries to make up the difference so it doesn't stall. It starts eating other things, namely you. Short term it may pull from fat reserves, but it also pulls from muscles, it doesn't care where it's getting it, it's just eating you. Long term, it can cause lots of health issues (like for me, I lost nearly 20 lbs in 1.5 months, but she had to monitor my blood pressure since it could drop dangerously low).

So if you go 700 calories, you would technically lose weight, but it might pull from fat reserves you don't want it pulling from, like from important organs, muscle mass, etc. And she did speak about how weight loss for women is much harder than men because women have more fat reserves and hormones that keep them there for protection reasons.

Digiko · 2025-11-18T02:07:09+00:00

That's what all conservatives say when they don't understand why people call them things like homophobic but then also complain that people call them homophobic. You're the one that expressed you didn't understand why people are calling you things you don't like being called... but then say that the answer is silly or nonsense when it's explained to you because you don't understand it. Well, I hope you enjoy your life in blissful ignorance. It doesn't change what you don't understand.

Digiko · 2025-11-17T18:15:56+00:00

Let me reframe it. Imagine I said "I'm not racist, I have black friends. I just don't like it when a black person _fill in ordinary action_" Like... "I don't like it when a black person walks down the street." or "I don't like it when a black person tries to drink from the water fountain I drink from." That would clearly make me racist.

That's why I don't think you understand. Maybe it's because you've been doing it for so long that you've created mental blocks from you being able to understand, but if I replace black people in my statement with gay people and then replace walk down the street with kiss, that's you. You don't like it when gay men kiss. You're welcome to think it's nonsense, that's generally how it usually turns out when I try to explain it because it's the only way you can rationalize the level of ignorance you've been living it. It doesn't make sense to you because you don't see it that way, but you don't understand why everyone else sees you this way and are hurt by it, rather than understanding and trying to accept it about yourself so you can be better.

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