Sunday, October 31
Look at this picture of Maddox and his political principles, too — he's indistinguishable from contemporary teabaggers, except for the fact that he had his sign professionally done and all the words are spelled correctly.What exactly are you against - free enterprise, capitalism, liberty, private property rights, or America?
Or are you implying that people who support free enterprise, capitalism, liberty, private property rights, or America are intrinsically racist?
Being on the right side of one debate doesn't always make up for being a ranting loon in another.
(From here.)
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Friday, October 29
Warning 1: This is basically a spoiler-reel for the entire show. But you won't catch most of the meaning unless you've seen the show, so I don't know if it's really as spoily as all that.
Warning 2: If you're able to watch this that likely means you have Flash installed, and those cretins at Adobe have just managed to defeat the security on 99% of the world's computers again. Youtube is safe enough, but for general browsing you'd better get yourself Flashblock or something similar. Oh, and set PDFs to be downloaded rather than displayed in-browser, because, yes, they managed to introduce the same vulnerability into Acrobat.
Video? What video? Oh, right, the video!
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Wednesday, October 27
No, really.
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Since GOG pulled their little stunt a month ago, they've released Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, and as of fifteen minutes ago, Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition (the original game, both expansion packs, and the Kingmaker DLC). Oh, and Temple of Elemental Evil too, but I'm not so excited about that.
I wonder how Neverwinter Nights will run on a modern PC. The last time I played it was on a Pentium 4 2.6 with a GeForce 6600GT, and the Aurora toolkit (that you use for building your own dungeons) was pretty sluggish, though the game ran quite well. My current system is a Phenom 9750 with a Radeon 4850, which makes it about eight times faster. Should be interesting!
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That's certainly a thing, is what it is.
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Tuesday, October 26
Yes, even that.
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Monday, October 25
As mentioned earlier, I needed to back up 9TB of data over the weekend.
Gigabit ethernet is really, really slow.
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Just because.
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Apparently the only time I get to watch anime is when one of the servers at work dies. Which one did. So I spent the weekend bringing up a new server, transferring 9TB of critical data, and then handing the ailing box over to the hardware techs to do their worst.
(We lost four entire servers to bad RAID controller firmware last year, so I've come to view routine hardware maintenance the way the CDC would view an ebola outbreak in central Manhattan.)
Anyway, this:
Um. I'm not totally against that style of animation. I love Invader Zim, but I love it for its bleakly absurdist humour more than its visual style. Panty & Stocking gives us poop jokes.
It also gives us this:
Would the show be any better if it all looked like that? I honestly don't know.
1.5 headcats out of 4. Not unmitigatedly awful, but not good.
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Someone's also started fansubbing Maicchingu Machiko Sensei. You remember, this one:
Sadly, it's not very good. But this is Japan, so it ran for 95 episodes and spawned at least two live-action spin-offs.
Google google google. Two live-action theatrical-release films and at least four videos.
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Saturday, October 23
Another group decided to pick up Super Doll Licca-Chan and fansub that. The first four episodes were subbed in 2004, and it's been languishing ever since.
No more. They've subbed 43 episodes in the past two months.
Update: 44.
Update: 45!
Update: This:
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This one saw a commercial release back in the dim distant dawn of time, but only 8 episodes of 13 ever came out then it dried up and blew away. Which made me a sad small mop-headed panda, because it's a surprisingly good show.
Now, after billions of years (anime years), it's being fansubbed. Usual places.
3 headcats out of 4, maybe more, since I've never had a chance to see the whole series.
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So our hero has a little sister who likes playing, uh, dating sims. In particular, little sister, uh, dating sims. Adults-only little sister uh, dating sims, which she isn't (adult, not little sister, which she is).
Should suck. Doesn't so far. The father is freaking Gendo Ikari. Still doesn't suck.
My favourite character is the girl-next-door-childhood-friend-romantic-interest-to-whom-the-hero-is-completely-oblivious. She's quite well-handled, not a tsundere, not hopeless or helpless, and not stupid. She is shy, but it looks like she's prepared to haul out the cluebat of love if she has to.
Another 2.5 headcats out of 4 - so far - and the most likely to make that extra 0.5 as the show progresses.
(Youtube fail: No video.)
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So our hero spends all his time capturing girls in dating sims (on an apparently self-repairing PSP) and is set to capture demons (literally) from real-life girls by capturing the girls' hearts (figuratively).
Which he does by applying dating-sim tropes.
Should suck. Surprisingly, does not. Not great, but by no means terrible, silly and amusing and perfect for a rainy Saturday, which is exactly what it is where I am. 2.5 headcats out of four.
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Good lord, where did those come from?
No, I know where they came from, I mean why...
No, I know why, I mean... Never mind.
Yosuga no Sora, surprise boobies (and occasional meido) anime scores 2.5 headcats out of 4. 2 for the show itself, and a bonus 0.5 for the meido omake.
That's not the opening. It's not the ending either. It's the second ending. It think this show was made by hobbits.
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