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UPDATE 2: I figured out what was causing the game to freeze up in After Story, and fixed the patch. Skip to the bottom for the updated link. I still haven't tested it on the school life section, but I can now confirm that it is possible to finish After Story, including the True Ending. If you've already unlocked After Story using a previous unofficial patch, you can definitely get 100% CGs and music this way.

UPDATE: The patch uploaded here still has some glitches (it freezes up fairly early in After Story) so it's probably best not to use it until further updates.

As I've mentioned before, I've been playing CLANNAD recently. To be more precise, I've been using an incomplete patch that was compiled from the CLANNAD Translation Project. However, after finishing all 10 routes, I discovered that the unofficial patch doesn't include the translation for After Story (the concluding arc of the game). That's pretty important for me, so I created a patch that provides an updated translation of the game, including After Story.

Currently, the team translating Clannad has posted their translations on a wiki, but they have not officially given out anything that can be used to play the game. So, I downloaded their translations, learned how to use RLDev, and created a new SEEN.TXT file that is (for the most part) up-to-date with the project's translation as of November 11, 2008. For those who are curious how I did it, read on. (Otherwise, you can skip ahead.)

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As I was packing up to return to school after this break, I spotted my old laptop, lying all by its lonesome against my desk. When I spotted it, I recalled the things left unfinished with it - most importantly, my save from Ever17 - the out of infinity. Now, some time ago (perhaps a year and a half?) the laptop had broken, just stopped turning on. So I thought I might take the hard disk out and bring it to school where ITS has an enclosure they could use to copy my data. But since I don't have a screwdriver with which to take the computer apart, I couldn't simply do that. So instead, for no particularly good reason, I plugged in the computer and turned it on, when lo! and behold... it worked.

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More and more each year, I find coming home for Thanksgiving to be a surreal experience. It occupies a strange space in my life: it's too short to get used to being at "home", but it's not like it's a vacation, since I'm spending it at the place I used to live. Instead, I get this strange impression that I've driven some untold hours through a portal into the past, and arrived in the life I lived up to four years ago.

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This is it. I officially concede that I will not make the deadline for the JET Program this year. There was a small chance, but in the end, I simply could not find it in me to demand letters of recommendation to be written within a matter of hours. Although I wanted to do JET, in the end, I didn't get my act together in time, and this is the result. I will do my best to apply next year, and that's about the extent of what I can do.

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It's a funny thing, climate. You never know how hot or how cold it can get until it does. And, I mean, there are plenty of people who don't think that we humans have any significant impact on it year to year. But as someone who's going on four years here in sunny Southern California, it's hard not to think Al Gore is right on the money.

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So, here we are. An actually kinda bloggy blog post. The topic? Anime that's airing this season. More specifically, I have some things to say about CLANNAD ~AFTER STORY~, Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, and Xam'd: Lost Memories (also known as Bounen no Zamned and a few other variations). There's actually a lot more I'm watching besides just that, but those comments will have to come later! So, hit the jump for my more detailed meditations, and don't worry - spoilers are properly tagged as such within.

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