#Jessica Hsuan

[don-dake]

How to deal with a nutjob (pt. 1 of 4)

TW: Stalking

Disclaimer: This is an entirely fictitious scenario. Dealing with people like that in real life is strongly not advisable!

Having been a victim of a manipulative, obsessive and delusional person online before, it is definitely not funny nor easy to deal with such people, possibly even dangerous if it takes place offline!

But, if you have been a victim of similar circumstances and not let the awful experience traumatise you enough to mar your sense of humour, read on!

「李想。」 「Flora?」

“Lei Seung.” “Flora?”

「點解你係都要揀你嘅仔唔揀我呀？！」

“Why did you still choose your son over me?!”

「我對你咁好…你應該全心全意噉愛我呀！」

“I'm so good to you…you should be loving ONLY me!”

「你大錯特錯呀！賜仔應該跟返佢媽咪㗎！」

“You're making a huge mistake! Your boy should be with his mother!”

「如果你肯返轉頭，我可以既往不咎。」

“If you're willing to see the error of your ways, I will let bygones be bygones.”

「我哋依然會好開心㗎！我會原諒你嘅。」

“We can still be very happy! I'll forgive you.”

李想：「嗱…夠嘞Flora！唔好再胡鬧嘞！」

Lei Seung: “That's enough, Flora! Stop your nonsense!”

Flora:：「你好過分呀！」

Flora: “You're too much!”

「每個人做錯嘢，都要付出代價㗎！」

“Everyone who does wrong, must pay a price!”

「今次我就殺曱甴，下次我就唔知囉！」

“This time it's cockroaches I kill, next time, who knows!”

「畀時間你，諗清楚再call我。」

“I'll give you some time, call me again when you've thought it over clearly.”

《夢想成真》 (1999) 第十七集

新詞：既往不咎 (🀄 ㄐㄧˋ•ㄨㄤˇ•ㄅㄨˋ•ㄐㄧㄡˋ | 🇭🇰🇲🇴 gei³ wong⁵ bat¹ gau³)

[pizzaandcoffeeintherain]

Miss these two. A Matter of Customs with Wong Hei and Jessica Hsuan

[drmikewatts]

IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2024

1) Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Human Centered AI in Game Evaluation

Author(s): Alena Denisova, Diego Perez-Liebana, Vanessa Volz, Julian Frommel, Sahar Asadi

Pages: 742 - 745

2) Video-Based Engagement Estimation of Game Streamers: An Interpretable Multimodal Neural Network Approach

Author(s): Sicheng Pan, Gary J. W. Xu, Kun Guo, Seop Hyeong Park, Hongliang Ding

Pages: 746 - 757

3) Cultural Insights in Souls-Like Games: Analyzing Player Behaviors, Perspectives, and Emotions Across a Multicultural Context

Author(s): Sicheng Pan, Gary J. W. Xu, Kun Guo, Seop Hyeong Park, Hongliang Ding

Pages: 758 - 769

4) Predicting Wargame Outcomes and Evaluating Player Performance From an Integrated Strategic and Operational Perspective

Author(s): Yusheng Sun, Yuxiang Sun, Jiahui Yu, Yuanbai Li, Xianzhong Zhou

Pages: 770 - 782

5) Improving Conditional Level Generation Using Automated Validation in Match-3 Games

Author(s): Monica Villanueva Aylagas, Joakim Bergdahl, Jonas Gillberg, Alessandro Sestini, Theodor Tolstoy, Linus Gisslén

Pages: 783 - 792

6) AstroBug: Automatic Game Bug Detection Using Deep Learning

Author(s): Elham Azizi, Loutfouz Zaman

Pages: 793 - 806

7) Using Reinforcement Learning to Generate Levels of Super Mario Bros. With Quality and Diversity

Author(s): SangGyu Nam, Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, Pavinee Rerkjirattikal, Kokolo Ikeda

Pages: 807 - 820

8) A Framework for Predicting the Impact of Game Balance Changes Through Meta Discovery

Author(s): Akash Saravanan, Matthew Guzdial

Pages: 821 - 830

9) More Human-Like Gameplay by Blending Policies From Supervised and Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Tatsuyoshi Ogawa, Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, Kokolo Ikeda

Pages: 831 - 843

10) A Progress-Based Algorithm for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning in Regression Testing

Author(s): Pablo Gutiérrez-Sánchez, Marco A. Gómez-Martín, Pedro A. González-Calero, Pedro P. Gómez-Martín

Pages: 844 - 853

11) Multimodal Measurement of Cognitive Load in a Video Game Context: A Comparative Study Between Subjective and Objective Metrics

Author(s): Emma J. Pretty, Renan Guarese, Chloe A. Dziego, Haytham M. Fayek, Fabio Zambetta

Pages: 854 - 867

12) Understanding Fear Responses and Coping Mechanisms in VR Horror Gaming: Insights From Semistructured Interviews

Author(s): He Zhang, Xinyang Li, Xinyi Fu, Christine Qiu, Jiyuan Zhang, John M. Carroll

Pages: 868 - 881

13) Procedural Generation of Rollercoasters

Author(s): Jonathan Campbell, Clark Verbrugge

Pages: 882 - 891

14) Nested Wave Function Collapse Enables Large-Scale Content Generation

Author(s): Yuhe Nie, Shaoming Zheng, Zhan Zhuang, Julian Togelius

Pages: 892 - 902

15) Simulation-Driven Balancing of Competitive Game Levels With Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Florian Rupp, Manuel Eberhardinger, Kai Eckert

Pages: 903 - 913

16) DanZero+: Dominating the GuanDan Game Through Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Youpeng Zhao, Yudong Lu, Jian Zhao, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li

Pages: 914 - 926

17) STEP: A Framework for Automated Point Cost Estimation

Author(s): George E.M. Long, Diego Perez-Liebana, Spyridon Samothrakis

Pages: 927 - 936

18) Procedural Level Generation in Educational Games From Natural Language Instruction

Author(s): Vikram Kumaran, Dan Carpenter, Jonathan Rowe, Bradford Mott, James Lester

Pages: 937 - 946

19) Exploring Gameplay and Learning in a Narrative-Centered Digital Game for Elementary Science Education

Author(s): Seung Lee, Bradford Mott, Jessica Vandenberg, Hiller A. Spires, James Lester

Pages: 947 - 959

20) Neural Network-Based Information Set Weighting for Playing Reconnaissance Blind Chess

Author(s): Timo Bertram, Johannes Fürnkranz, Martin Müller

Pages: 960 - 970

21) The First ChatGPT4PCG Competition

Author(s): Febri Abdullah, Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Mury F. Dewantoro, Ruck Thawonmas, Julian Togelius, Jochen Renz

Pages: 971 - 980

22) The Effects of Social Presence on Gaze, Movement, Arousal and Blink Rate in Autism: A Cooperative Virtual Reality Game-Based Approach

Author(s): Trent Simmons, Joseph Snider, Leanne Chukoskie

Pages: 981 - 992

23) PyTAG: Tabletop Games for Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Martin Balla, George E. M. Long, James Goodman, Raluca D. Gaina, Diego Perez-Liebana

Pages: 993 - 1002

[skullsandwineglasses]

My interests in specific types of cdramas can be traced back to the HK dramas that I watched growing up. Specifically, xianxias and historical romances. 

My interest in historical romances stemmed from watching TVB’s 2003 Perish in the Name of Love, based on the 帝女花 opera. To an 8-year old, that was the angstiest drama I’d ever seen. The second angstiest drama was when I watched Drive of Life in middle school, also starring Charmaine Sheh. She honestly ruled my childhood. 

But my interest in xianxias stemmed from 2 specific dramas: TVB’s The Journey to the West (my mom used this drama to teach me about reincarnation lol) and Whatever it Takes starring Benny Chan and Annie Man. 

There were 2 stories in The Journey to West that were memorable to me, and both included Angie Cheong, though she played different characters. The stories are all a blur to me and I barely remember any details from them, but I think in Journey to the West I, she played the spider demon named Shishi whose lover was reincarnated but they ended up dying in a fire. According to TV tropes: 

“Spider Demoness Shishi was sentenced to death via fire but her scholar husband Yushu refused to accept it, and carried her to perish in the fire together, although Shishi inadvertently survived. The arc ended with a reincarnated Yushu (as a Centipede Demon) sentenced to death via fire, but Shishi carried Yushu to perish in the fire together, this time killing both for real.“ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/JourneyToTheWest1996

In Journey to the West 2, she played a snake demon. I remember nothing from that arc, except she was also scorned by her lover. 

I also remember nothing from the 2001 drama Whatever it Takes 天子寻龙, except that I was especially in love with Annie Man’s angelic character, and it was probably my first exposure to story about a fairy falling in love. My only faint memory from the drama was how ethereal and elegant she was as a fairy, and my kindergarten self wanted to be her. But here’s the MDL summary if you’re curious. It’s also not the first TVB drama that featured a fairy/angel who falls in love with the mortal she’s been tasked to help. Jessica Hsuan played a fairy who’s come down to earth to help Deric Wan’s love life in the 1995 drama A Good Match from Heaven 天降奇緣. 

Whatever it Takes (2001): 

A Good Match from Heaven (1995): 

I feel like TVB xianxias walked so that cdrama xianxias could run. 

Bonus: Dicky Cheung (who played the Monkey King in Journey to the West I), mocks the tropes in modern cdrama xianxias (at the 1:40 mark in the video). He says that back in the day, deities and spirits and fairies could wear whatever colourful clothes they wanted. Nowadays, the heavenly realm in xianxia dramas seem to have a dress code where everyone needs to wear white. 

Back in the day, there was also a Shi Fu 師父 in xianxia dramas, but back then, your Shi Fu was nothing but your Shi Fu. Nowdays, your Shi Fu is your lover. Brutal. 

Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rWjN96VIc8 

Anyway, thanks for joining me as I took a trip down memory lane. 

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Listening Snow Tower (2019)

Gifs of Ending of cdrama “Listening Snow Tower“

(English Subtitle) 《Snow Tower 聽雪樓》第01集（秦俊傑，袁冰妍，宣萱，袁澧林，鄭文森，韓承羽）

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyrL36sBaVs

[gregor-samsung]

我来自纽约 [The Kid from the Big Apple] (Jess Teong - 2015)

[lapsapdrama]

It's a man from your world who won't let me go.    — Back to the Past 《尋秦記》

[tomorrowsdrama]

Omg you guys I just learned there’s a sequel movie to Louis Koo’s tvb drama A Step into the Past.

Y’all don’t understand. I was obsessed. OBSESSED with that drama in my childhood. And it’s with the original cast. Yes, Louis Koo, Jessica Hsuan, Sonija Kwok, Raymond Lam (looking kinda older than Louis). Holy fucking shit balls what the fuck.

Like 2021 is really out to kill me from happiness. Just as I thought it couldn’t get any better, 2021 was like bitch, hold on, REMEMBER THIS?!  If SMAP decides they want to get back together, 2021 is their year! Like come on, y’all already weren’t spring chickens when you disbanded.  Even as a loyal fan I don’t know if I can justify a bunch of men in their 50s dancing and singing.  Who am I kidding, I’d still watch.

I told y’all I was raised on tvb dramas and HK movies in the 90s and early 2000s. Louis Koo was one of my first ever actor crushes (along with Andy Lau, Tony Leung, and Takeshi Kaneshiro) and I thought it was so scandalous that I was crushing on a man so much older than me. This was before tumblr, livejournal, hell, even fast speed internet. Anyone remember dial up? So your girl literally printed out his pictures and glued them into a PHYSICAL JOURNAL and fangirled about him to my friends in our shared friendship journal. Those poor girls. I guess not much has changed in that respect except now I fangirl to a bunch of strangers on a site that’s barely being held together by a bunch of bandaids and rubber bands ahahaha.

This probably won’t mean much to lots of people because tvb’s heyday was waaaay waaaay back then when the concept of an online fandom barely even existed. But yeah, wow. I was taken back to the past (har har) and all the excitement I felt for that drama and cast with just that short trailer. Crazy. It doesn’t even matter if it’s good or not. The fact that it exists and with that cast is enough to make any fan go wild. The nostalgia is real y’all.

[hachikim]

Louis Koo and Jessica Hsuan for Zip Magazine October Issue 2019

[littlecloverstar]

"Come on, baby. Follow me"- Hanson

[la-panda]

[don-dake]

Standard Chinese:

「把我當成傻瓜的也是你！」

Spoken Cantonese:

「當我係阿茂嗰個亦都��你喎！」

第九集

Standard Chinese:

「說起來我都忘了要謝謝你了坐過牢的。」

Spoken Cantonese:

「講起嚟都唔記得多謝你呢啲監躉仔。」

第十五集

《夢想成真》 (1999)

新詞：

阿茂 (🇭🇰🇲🇴 aa³ mau⁶)，

監躉 (🇭🇰🇲🇴 gaam¹ dan²)

[linggluu]

trailer just dropped for the film version of A Step into the Past - Back to the Past .I think it's so exciting that Louis Koo brought the rights to the drama and remade it with THE ORIGINAL CAST ;;;;;; AND USING THE ORGINAL THEME SONG. this truly one of my childhood favorites (lmao every drama was a childhood favorite) and it's so crazy that the drama version was released 20 years ago ;;. Which was also Louis Koo's last drama at TVB before he left.

Also quite excited to see all the old tvb faces like Jessica Hsuan, Raymond Lam , Joyce Tang and Sonija Kwok and even Michelle Saram who was in like 2 tvb dramas.

Can't wait for this release + the film version of A Witness to a Prosecution which recently started filming. It'll be like living 1999-2003 all over again.

[tvb-world]

*gets a gun as a gift*

“Women prefer to receive diamonds.”

[pizzaandcoffeeintherain]

Thank you @hitomebore08 

Top 5 OSTS:  The King and the Clown - Fate by Lee Sun Hee Cinderella and the Four Knight Sophie’s World  Top 5 Actors (males and females):  Lee Min Ho Won Bin Park Bo Gum Park Seo Joon Park So Dam Sarah Michelle Gellar Amanda Righetti Wu Chun Mike He Yeo Jin Goo Kim So Hyun Shin Rin Ah

First Girl Crush:  Rainie Yang... hm, I think I can remember further back... Jessica Hsuan. Or, American... then the lady who played Paige in Charmed.  First K DRAMA you watched:  Is it bad that I can’t remember? My first K movie was My Sassy Girl.  Oh, I remember, it was Winter Sonata (not sure if I finished). But then it was years later that I started getting into K drama. It may have been The Heirs... but I doubt it. I’m sad that I can’t remember. I’ll have to try to find out.  IF YOU CAN MEET ONLY ONE OF YOUR IDOLS (BIASES): Lee Min Ho IF YOU WERE TO RE-WRITE JUST ONE DRAMA WHICH ONE WOULD IT BE:  Emm, I don’t know how to answer this one.  Ultimate K DRAMA otp:  Park So Dam & Jang Il Woo in Cinderella and the Four Knights RUNNING MAN OR 2 DAYS 1 NIGHT:  I’ve only seen running man  AN ARTIST YOU THINK DESERVES MUCH MORE THAN WHAT THEY ARE GETTING, SOMEONE YOU BELIEVE IN AND YOU WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO KNOW AND APPRECIATE:  Defendant with Ji Sung - This show doesnt seem to have a big following on tumblr? Or have I just not found their sphere FINALLY? A DRAMA/A COMEBACK YOU ARE LOOKING FORWARD IN 2017: My Only Love Song

I will tag @fandom-trash-kpop-trash @amoulaseojoonmadridista @purplegirlsworld @erosbriosaelektra @blacklioness15 @silvinharv @blossomtea89 @orchideebes @yahhajima @arasoaniyo @hellokittyrocksmysocksoff @mischiefcalling7 @mopieo @matsuket @flare-chan @lizzieborednow @dansphil @peanutsizedkingkong @kdramafeels @acupofchar @cassiopeiayunjae-blog @kitory @kimyoujinis186cmofpuregoodness @daebak-gd @tae-la-tiger 

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Listening Snow Tower (2019)

Gifs of Intro of cdrama “Listening Snow Tower“

(English Subtitle) 《Snow Tower 聽雪樓》第01集（秦俊傑，袁冰妍，宣萱，袁澧林，鄭文森，韓承羽）

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyrL36sBaVs