October 29, 2019
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It's not all Thud and Blunder.
I recently read the original Conan the Barbarian stories, and was pleasantly surprised.
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October 19, 2019
It's Furry Anime Season...
... and I'm not talking Catgirls.
The Good is Beastars, which is about a Wolf working the stage crew of a high school's drama department, and Dwarf Bunny girl who is ostracized from the herbivore student body. Tensions are high in the school because a student from the Drama Club was recently eaten, so the whole school is on edge.
The Bad and the Ugly combined is African Salaryman. The less said about it the better. It's just shit.
Interestingly, both shows are CGI. Beastars uses it to great effect. African Salaryman uses it to produce even crappier than normal 2D effects.
There's also at least one Isekai that promises Beast People, but I haven't checked it out yet.
On the Fan service front, there's Kandagawa Jet Girls. Girls race on a river through the city on hydrofoil jet skis, with a "Gunner" who fires water-shots that can either degrade the jetskis, or the opposing girl's wetsuits. (This is described sarcastically by one of the announcers as a "Safety Feature".) There's one uncensored torrent that I know of by "HorribleOhys" that's worth tracking down.
Slightly interesting is "Rifle is Beautiful" about a girls high school rifle team. Of course, this being Japan, the rifles are just light guns that use a photoreceptive target system. (This is not a sci-fi show).
Both of these shows have in common the fact that their schools both have shut down the respective clubs, and our heroine is determined to resurrect them. However Kandagawa Jet Girls is FAR more exciting, and frankly, has a much better animation budget, and looks it. Rifle is Beautiful will probably be more about the Friendship because as someone who has shot precision smallbore rifle competitively in college, I have to say that it is the single LEAST exciting sport to watch ever invented, and doing it with flash guns is even less so.
The Good is Beastars, which is about a Wolf working the stage crew of a high school's drama department, and Dwarf Bunny girl who is ostracized from the herbivore student body. Tensions are high in the school because a student from the Drama Club was recently eaten, so the whole school is on edge.
The Bad and the Ugly combined is African Salaryman. The less said about it the better. It's just shit.
Interestingly, both shows are CGI. Beastars uses it to great effect. African Salaryman uses it to produce even crappier than normal 2D effects.
There's also at least one Isekai that promises Beast People, but I haven't checked it out yet.
On the Fan service front, there's Kandagawa Jet Girls. Girls race on a river through the city on hydrofoil jet skis, with a "Gunner" who fires water-shots that can either degrade the jetskis, or the opposing girl's wetsuits. (This is described sarcastically by one of the announcers as a "Safety Feature".) There's one uncensored torrent that I know of by "HorribleOhys" that's worth tracking down.
Slightly interesting is "Rifle is Beautiful" about a girls high school rifle team. Of course, this being Japan, the rifles are just light guns that use a photoreceptive target system. (This is not a sci-fi show).
Both of these shows have in common the fact that their schools both have shut down the respective clubs, and our heroine is determined to resurrect them. However Kandagawa Jet Girls is FAR more exciting, and frankly, has a much better animation budget, and looks it. Rifle is Beautiful will probably be more about the Friendship because as someone who has shot precision smallbore rifle competitively in college, I have to say that it is the single LEAST exciting sport to watch ever invented, and doing it with flash guns is even less so.
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October 14, 2019
BTW...
I wouldn't mind too terribly being on more people's blogrolls.
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September 27, 2019
Ah, silence (Nearly)
So I showed off my homebrew cooling system a while ago. I was trying to get away from the crap Antec system I'd been replacing every year. The one part of that system left was the pair of cooling fans that I repurposed to blow through the radiator. One was the original cooler fan, and the other was an auxiliary fan they included for if I wanted to set up a push-pull system. The original fan was a little loud. Not too bad when the system was idling, but when going at full bore (say, after a reboot) it sounded like a jet engine. The aux fan wasn't too bad, except I think the bearing or a coil was going, because at idle speed, it started to make a rubbing noise and actually stopped.
Well, thanks to Amazon, I bought a couple of Redux Nocturna 1700 RPM PWM controlled (4-wire) fans, supposedly designed for pushing air through radiators. They arrived today and I installed them. Ah, the silence. At idle they're ticking over at 550 rpm, which is barely a whisper. At full speed, the whir is still quite tolerable, and it doesn't sound like the computer is struggling to not catch fire.
It was a bit tricky to find 4-wire computer fans, even on Amazon, because a lot of fan-makers include adapters to connect to the old molex power cables, and call it 4 wire.
A quiet computer makes a happy Mauser.
Now if I could just solve the random bluescreens.
Well, thanks to Amazon, I bought a couple of Redux Nocturna 1700 RPM PWM controlled (4-wire) fans, supposedly designed for pushing air through radiators. They arrived today and I installed them. Ah, the silence. At idle they're ticking over at 550 rpm, which is barely a whisper. At full speed, the whir is still quite tolerable, and it doesn't sound like the computer is struggling to not catch fire.
It was a bit tricky to find 4-wire computer fans, even on Amazon, because a lot of fan-makers include adapters to connect to the old molex power cables, and call it 4 wire.
A quiet computer makes a happy Mauser.
Now if I could just solve the random bluescreens.
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September 20, 2019
Huh?
I could have sworn I had a more recent post.
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September 08, 2019
Duck Tales, Woo-hoo-ooly shit!
I was really impressed with the pilot, and I was collecting the series, and watching it in dribs and drabs. And it was really, really good. But tonight I just finished the end of the first season and all that stuff that they had been tucking in edgewise around all the other episodes finally came together....
... and it was fucking awesome!
Even Donald got to be a badass (Thanks to a temporary electronic voice modulator that gave him a normal voice until it shorted out.)
Seriously, the payoff for the first season was worth every second. Highly recommended (even if belatedly.)
... and it was fucking awesome!
Even Donald got to be a badass (Thanks to a temporary electronic voice modulator that gave him a normal voice until it shorted out.)
Seriously, the payoff for the first season was worth every second. Highly recommended (even if belatedly.)
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August 29, 2019
You're in a maze of twisty little plots, all different.
Okay, Kanata no Astra just threw TWO major curve-balls in one episode. I love that this show is just jam-packed with various SF tropes, but damn! They pull out a new one for each episode's cliffhanger.
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August 20, 2019
She Blinded Me With Science
So I went back to Crunchyroll for the first time in a while, and while there I decided to finish off Flip Flappers.
I'm beginning to wish I'd started making the list I would add this to, that is, Anime where the plot comes down to "Your family fucked up the world with a Science Experiment, and now you have to fix it." If I remember correctly, Big Order and Guilty Gear would be up there too.
What more can you think of?
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August 11, 2019
You can't get away from it.
Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO has just transformed from a time-travel story to an Isekai at episode 18. *facepalm* This show REALLY doesn't know what it wants to be, but it took THIS much investment to find out just how schizo it is.
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August 03, 2019
This Season
Probably the most shows on my download list ever.
Kanata no Astra
Tejina-senpai
Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka II
Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO (continues)
Gegege no Kitarou (Still running! Ahhhh!)
Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka
Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV
Of course, this is more than I can manage to actually watch. Gegege no Kitaro, for example, is up to 66 episodes and I've watched maybe 15, and I'm a season and a half behind on Symphogear.
Kanata no Astra though is on my Watch Immediately list, especially after this week's cliffhanger. True, the initial setup in the first episode was WAY too ham-fisted to get the characters into the situation the story required, even the characters hung a lampshade on that, but then it proceeded logically from there. In a way I am reminded of Heinlein's "Tunnel in the Sky", thematically anyway, even if the setting is totally different.
Tejina-sempai is dumb fluff. It's a short format, gag comedy about the girl who runs a stage magic club at her school and the guy who joins it just because the school requires that you be in a club. The girl can do her tricks... if nobody's watching. I ended up making a meme picture for it just because of an obvious pun, if anyone's interested.
DanMachi: I'm just a couple episodes in, and I'm deathly afraid this is going to turn into some kind of Arena Combat run.
The first episode of Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka is actually a little funnier BECAUSE someone spoiled the first girl's secret, so watching all the misdirection leading up to the ultimate reveal is hilarious.
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