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Friday, April 09
K-On!!
Apart from the opening song (what were they thinking?) it's more K-On!. If that's what you were after, you won't be disappointed.
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Mayoi Neko Overrun!
At least they didn't do the character animation in MS-Paint for this one.
Also, nice stockings there.
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I'll have to check that, but so far BH (GataKei) reigns supreme in the funny. Basically it's the ecchi Kimi ni Todoke which is funny.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Friday, April 09 2010 01:07 PM (/ppBw)
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Angel Beats
That sucked.
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Okay, so it wasn't
just me, then? Whew.
(Short impression: If you're going to go after the KyoAni fanboys, you might want to at least try making your recycled tripe the slightest bit entertaining.)
Posted by: GreyDuck at Friday, April 09 2010 02:14 AM (3m7pZ)
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It wasn't just you. They took a possibly interesting premise and crapped all over it for 23 minutes.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, April 09 2010 07:21 AM (PiXy!)
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So you're saying I shouldn't rush through my backlog for this one, then? It can't be as bad as
Haiyoru! Nyaru-Ani.
Posted by: Mitch H. at Saturday, April 10 2010 12:14 AM (jwKxK)
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I haven't seen
Nyaru-Ani, but hey, Nyarlathotep as a cute schoolgirl, what's not to like?
The first half of
Angel Beats ep 1 might as well have been a slide show of MS-Paint GIFs. Well, MS-Paint GIFs overlaid on stock photography. The character artwork and animation was just terrible. And don't get me started on the dialogue or so-called story...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 10 2010 03:03 AM (PiXy!)
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What's not to like? How about repeated stabbings of said cute schoolgirl with a fork by the apparent protagonist? The only reason we're given to think she's Nyarlathotep is the name. It's like those flash Haruhi shorts except not at all amusing. And shorter.
Posted by: Mitch H. at Saturday, April 10 2010 03:39 AM (jwKxK)
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Okay, I guess that's not to like.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 10 2010 12:31 PM (PiXy!)
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Monday, April 05
When Moeblobs Attack!
I think I'm going to need some more computers...
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I think you need to tell me how to tag my pictures so they'll expand like that when clicked.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, April 05 2010 03:38 PM (+rSRq)
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Use the [
slide] tag: [
slide=http://ai.mee.nu/images/moesplosion.jpg size=300x] will give you:
Multiple slide tags in the same post will give you a slideshow.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, April 05 2010 04:10 PM (PiXy!)
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Though I'm not 100% sure it will work in your blog - it requires a Javascript library introduced in 1.1. If it doesn't work, it just needs a minor change to your templates though.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, April 06 2010 12:07 AM (PiXy!)
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Yuno kinda looks wrong, but a nice picture otherwise. I would use the cast of Sketchbook instead of K-ON.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wednesday, April 07 2010 12:23 PM (/ppBw)
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Yes to both points.
One with Hidamari+Sketchbook+GA, and one with K-On+Sora no Woto.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, April 07 2010 04:34 PM (PiXy!)
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Sunday, April 04
Oh No!!
The second season of
K-On!?
It's called
K-On!!.
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They seen to be following in the tracks of
Negima! and
Negima!?.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, April 04 2010 09:02 AM (+rSRq)
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When they come to the season where the band breaks up, they'll probably call it "No-k."
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, April 04 2010 04:24 PM (mfPs/)
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Friday, April 02
Cute Girls Wearing Headphones Waiting For Trains
Sankaku Complex is probably the most NSFW site on the internet that anyone would ever want to visit for SFW reasons. If the odious Senator Conroy has his way, it will likely be banned in Australia.
Which would mean I would miss out on
this delightful gallery of cute girls wearing headphones waiting for trains. (The page contents are SFW, but it may contain NSFW icons or ads and sure as hell contains NSFW links.)
Okay, they're not all pictures of cute girls wearing headphones waiting for trains, but there's definitely a theme going there.
Huh, just realised that
three of those (not just two) are cute girls wearing headphones recording passing trains for sound-effects libraries. The thing in the second image is a portable digital recorder.
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That's an odd sort of fetish. Not that I'm complaining!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, April 02 2010 09:46 AM (mfPs/)
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It's one of the rules. No matter what it is, someone has a fetish for it.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Friday, April 02 2010 10:36 AM (+rSRq)
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Pixy, just sent you an e-mail... seems there's a bit of a problem going on over at The Pond. The header image seems to have done blown up, and no longer fits the assigned screen space. Halp?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, April 02 2010 03:30 PM (mfPs/)
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Nice duck!
The image is fine, but the page width setting is probably wonky.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, April 02 2010 04:58 PM (PiXy!)
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Oh fargle. Double fargle. Fargle^5.
I skood up.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, April 02 2010 05:11 PM (mfPs/)
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Okay, I figured it out... it wasn't the page width setting, it was the Header Picture setting. I had it set to make it about 15% wider than it should have been. Duh. Thanks for aiming me in the right direction, Boss!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, April 02 2010 05:54 PM (mfPs/)
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I actually have an entire artbook of girls wearing headphones somewhere. I have no specific recollections of trains featuring in it though.
Posted by: Shiroi Hane at Saturday, April 03 2010 09:50 AM (snVsN)
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These are in fact scans from an artbook of girls wearing headphones. As Shiroi recollects.
It got a little writeup on the excellent Danny Choo website.
http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/25111/Headphone+Girls.html
I've even seen it in Kinokuniya. The art is certainly lush and well done. The urge to buy is on my again.
Can 4chan be far behind ? Nanny nation rules. People should be allowed to decide for themselves. The same goes for parents. Infuriating.
Posted by: Andrew at Saturday, April 03 2010 07:27 PM (cB03i)
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These are all by the same artist, where the headphone book was a collection of work by various artists. But you're right, some of these did appear in the headphone book.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 03 2010 08:52 PM (PiXy!)
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And yeah, I don't think Senator Conroy has ever
seen the internet. Might as well try to ban dirt.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 03 2010 08:53 PM (PiXy!)
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Saturday, March 27
After The Steppe Cat, What?
So three series that I have been enjoying immensely are drawing to a close:
Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu, for which I held some misgivings that proved quite unwarranted;
Sora no Woto, which I was willing to watch on the basis of it being merely
K-On Goes to War, but which quite exceeded my expectations, and
Kimi ni Todoke, carried over from last season, which transcends not merely genre but time and space and is in fact the pinnacle of all human achievement past and future.
So...
Next season? We have
K-On! 2, which I'll certainly watch; if it's just more moe-blobs making music that's fine with me. And there's... There's... Okay, KimiTodo was a surprise, and there's usually a surprise every season, but I'm just not seeing it at this point.
At least Mythbusters is back on.
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Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, March 27 2010 08:22 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, March 27 2010 09:36 AM (mfPs/)
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I'll [probably watch
ITXX, but I won't admit to the fact. Oops!
Angel Beats - that's the dead girls in snow one? Given my reaction to every one of the Key's prior outings, I don't hold out much hope for this.
There's
Working and
Mayoi Neko Overrun, either of which might not be completely terrible,
B Gata H Kei, which almost certainly will be completely terrible,
Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou, which might possibly be watchable,
Senko no Night Raid, which promises to be a total train wreck, and a bunch of stuff that I have no interest in at all.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, March 27 2010 01:09 PM (PiXy!)
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Kiss x sis 01 was at Tenka Seiha and it seems kinda ok, unless you read Aroduc's write-up.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Saturday, March 27 2010 02:17 PM (/ppBw)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, March 27 2010 05:04 PM (PiXy!)
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Pixy, I hate to waste your comment section again, but it seems that my little read blog has once again exceeded bandwidth usage and been suspended. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Posted by: physics geek at Sunday, March 28 2010 12:37 PM (llWHs)
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Sorry about that! You should be good to go now.
Now let me see if I can find where all that bandwidth is going...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, March 28 2010 05:52 PM (PiXy!)
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It looks like it's Google Image Search. I suspected hotlinking, but that doesn't appear to be happening. But you've had 166,000 hits from Google Image Search alone this month.
That's fine. Now that I know, it's not a problem.
I'll be adding a new server in April and another 100TB of bandwidth (we currently have 6) which will mean all the bandwidth limitations will go away.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, March 28 2010 06:02 PM (PiXy!)
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What the heck picture has he got which is so damned interesting?
Google can do that kind of thing. For months now the single most read article on my blog is the one about PedoBear, which consistently gets hundreds of refers per week from Google Image Search. But not even remotely 166,000 per month! Nor do any of my ecchi cheesecake posts, not even the ones with nude pictures from Ikki Tousen.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, March 29 2010 10:07 AM (+rSRq)
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Photos of young ladies who have mislaid much of their clothing.
I've had mu.nu blogs become the top hit for popular Google Image searches before, and the traffic it can deliver is enormous.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, March 29 2010 11:01 AM (PiXy!)
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Thanks Pixy.
I plead guilty on the young ladies, although none of them have big tits AND a flamethrower. Ahem. Anyway, the vast majority of my junk isn't titillating to anyone except nerds, so I'm surprised how many people actually find my blog via search engines. The most searched picture in recent times is one of Alyssa Milano actually wearing clothes; there are photos without.
Posted by: physics geek at Wednesday, March 31 2010 01:57 PM (llWHs)
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Hey, I had pneumonia that month. OK?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, March 31 2010 05:17 PM (+rSRq)
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Sora No Woto - Fin
I don't really have much to add to THAT's
excellent review (not as awesome as their
KimiTodo reviews, but still very good).
K-On Goes to War certainly broke free from its assigned stereotype, and though it went a little wobbly now and then (including in this final episode), it's a fine little series and well worth watching. Three supernatural schoolgirls out of four.*
* May not contain any actual supernatural schoolgirls.
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Kimi Ni Todoke - Fin?
Perfect ending.
Five supernatural schoolgirls out of four.
...
Wait, there's more? YAY!
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Wednesday, March 24
Kannagi Update
Finally went back and finished watching
Kannagi; in fact, it's been so long that I simply started again from the beginning. Caught up on the final episodes last night while baby-sitting a new server.
It went in a different direction from what I was expecting, and was a bit uneven overall, but still earns three supernatural schoolgirls out of four. (By comparison,
Shana and
Haruhi each get 3.5, and
Kamichu! gets 5.)
The ending itself wasn't as strong as it might have been - again, uneven - but the very last bit, with Tsugumi, was perfect.
Well worth a watch. A level 2 teenage angst warning applies.
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Yeah, an uneven show all around. Wacky supernatural hijinks, then wacky otaku-referential comedy, then a hard right into the Pointless Angst zone... Had some good jokes, though.
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