January 24, 2024
Chortle
Oh no, he's posting about the Hugo awards again.... (Link to my wordpress blog)
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January 20, 2024
Speed....
I've noticed that I haven't had to reboot my cable modem since I moved it. Actually, I think it's been behaving pretty well since New Year's. Anyway, that's a vast improvement over having it drop to 12 Mbps every day and a half or so. It's been maintaining a nice, stable 230 Mbps every time I've checked.
Still slowly rearranging stuff in my Living Room/Office, but working off the new desk is a lot more pleasant than the old setup. Alas, there's no place for the DVD shelf that I built way back in my Vancouver, WA apartment days ('92-'96). It's held up well, but there's no wall space left. But there is a narrow bookcase that can nearly accommodate all of its contents. And if I rearrange stuff on the wall of bookcases I have between the Living room and Dining room, I could manage it without double-stacking.
Desk 3 and the coffee table are still covered with random junk, and three old Macs and a beige PC case occupy the center of the room, but the fireplace is exposed. I bought a pair of plastic 3-drawer storage units that fit nicely under the desk, but I haven't put anything in them because I can't decide what goes where yet. That's the same kind of organizational paralysis I have that explains the dozen empty comics shortboxes in the storage room and the huge stacks of comics in the den that have been that way for years.
I also bought a BD drive for Purah. Haven't put it in yet. It will be interesting to see if it works with MPC-HC natively or not. Also got a Bluetooth Playstation controller. Interestingly, the button assignments are different if it's plugged in to the USB cable. It came with no software but Windows apparently has drivers built in. But there's nothing that lets me assign keys to the buttons, so compatibility with games I currently play is iffy.
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January 09, 2024
Winter 2024 - Part Three
So why on Earth do I want to watch it?
more...
Hime-sama "Goumon" no Jikan desu - 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess
Food Porn anime is a genre unto itself. And frankly, it's not one I'm particularly interested in. It heeds to have something else going on for me to even think about it. Food Porn in the middle of a Tournament arc? Hard Pass. This one's slightly different, where the warrior princess and her talking sword are captured by the demons, and their captor, the Hellhorde's Grand Inquisitor, Torture Tortura tempts her with delicious food. It's a thin joke, and they run through it three times in the first episode with Toast, of all things, Takoyaki, and Ramen. Although they do promise something else in the preview.
This:
There's something about a demoness in semi-business attire. (I'm rather fond of Helltaker fan art too). And she certainly seems to enjoy her work.
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January 07, 2024
Winter 2024 - Part Two
Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari - (lit. Wedding Ring Story, but romanized as "Tales of Wedding Rings" Note the plural.)
It starts off like a bog-standard Isekai, the kind nobody actually makes any more. Young Satou is chasing stag beetles in the woods when an unearthly beam of light appears, and out steps a pretty blonde girl and her wizardly grandfather. She asks his name, and introduces herself as Nokana Hime (and according to the localizers, says "You can call me Hime", which he does.) Then she advises him to never speak of this event and says he'd be better off forgetting it ever happened.
Ten years later they're inseparable, all his classmates think she's his girlfriend, and she happens to live alone in the apartment next to his (While his parental supervision is also conveniently absent, but they haven't done anything.) She's also developed into quite the Gyaru, and I do mean developed.... It's the last day before summer break, and she asks him to meet up to go to the festival. They play games, eat food, and find a nice secluded spot to watch the fireworks, and he thinks that she's taking this time to confess to him, and she turns to him, and says...
"I've decided to move. Tomorrow."
As he drops her off at her door, he still can't quite manage to blurt out his confession as she keeps rambling, trying to let him off easy, then she dashes inside.
Alone in his room, he finally recalls when they first met. Looking out his window, he can see the beam of light off in the distance in the woods, and runs to intercept her. She is surprised he actually remembers where she came from, and admits "Moving away" was a lie, that she's from a different world, and that as a princess, she's going to get married. It's the third time she's tried to let him off easy, and he's just too thick.... After she goes though the beam, he thinks for a moment about how he doesn't have to think about it, and dashes through the beam as well, and appears in the middle of the wedding.
Although apparently he isn't the only wedding crasher. A huge demonic beast smashes through the window, clearly intent on killing Hime. Only hovering in place long enough for some important exposition to take place. The two rings Hime has been wearing on a chain around her neck the entire time are The Ring of Light, and the guy whom she marries bears the power. And at the last second, rather than completing her vows with the prince she was scheduled to marry, she runs up to Satou, plants a big kiss on him, and they are enveloped in light, and are now wearing the rings. The prince accepts this well enough to toss his sword to Satou, since he's the one who has to fight the demon now. Satou, who doesn't know which end of the sword to grab luckily catches it by the hilt, and it suddenly transforms into a bright, flaming sword, which slices the demon in half with one swing. Satou passes out then.
This is followed by awkward scenes in the royal bedchamber when he wakes up, and the bath, during which he manages to say the wrong thing several times. Fortunately he is saved by the Alarm Bell as more monsters attack.
If it weren't for the opening credits, you'd never know this wasn't a straightforward story where the guy goes to another world, saves the kingdom and gets the girl. But this shot right here tells you exactly what's going to happen.
If it weren't for the opening credits, you'd never know this wasn't a straightforward story where the guy goes to another world, saves the kingdom and gets the girl. But this shot right here tells you exactly what's going to happen.
Dark-skinned, white-haired, catgirl warrior. Yeah, you sussed it out. That's why I'm planning to watch this sucker. Hey, at least he makes honest women of them all... see the rings?
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January 05, 2024
Winter 2024 - Part One
So here's what we've got so far.
Frieren is, of course, continuing this season. Also, Urusei Yatsura is back for another 23 episodes. (Although I think I have a few to finish off from the last round.)
Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete "Gushing over Magical Girls": SubsPlease has an Uncensored version, Although I'm picking up that an even more uncensored version is in line for the BD. Or is that BDSM?
Hiragi Utena lives in a city protected by the Tres Magia, a Three Magical Girl team in Red, Blue, and Yellow, and she is a total fangirl for them. Then one day, as she stops for a drink at the vending machine, she's approached by a black furry flying critter who offers to make her a magical girl. Only, once she's finished her transformation, she realizes her costume is rather lewd. She doesn't think it looks much like what a Magical Girl would wear, and that's when the critter tells her she's been recruited to FIGHT the Tres Magia. She refuses. The next day, he approaches her again, and tells her that she's perfect for the job because she's so average. Although the examples he gives of her being "average" sound more like she was the first runner up for the lead role in Watamote.
Still following her around, they stop in a park and he makes her transform, then he reveals that he filmed it, and will post it on their Twitter-analogue if she doesn't do what he says. Unfortunately, the Tres Magia can sense evil, and interrupt the discussion. Utena's plea that she's being forced into this falls on deaf ears. At which point the critter, Venalita, gives her her magical wand, er, Riding Crop, and tells her she can use it to create monsters. He tells her to tap one of the flowers, and it suddenly turns into a gigantic flower-gimp, and before you can say "Tentacle Rape" the Tres Magia are subdued. Venalita then tells her she has to step into the fight, and before she knows what she's doing, she finds herself cropping the bejesus out of the magical girls' behinds. And then something awakens in her and she starts really enjoying it, because she assumes it can't be real, and if it's a dream, she may as well go all-out.
Waking up in bed at home reinforces the idea it's all a strangely enjoyable dream, until Venalita addresses her from the top of the dresser. Alas, the magical girls pulled off some kind of "Power of Friendship" rally and defeated the flower monster.
At school, of course it turns out that the secret identities of the Tres Magia are all her classmates, and they are all pissed off at whoever this new Villainess is, because their backsides are all still hurting really bad. But they conclude that she must be protected by the same spell that keeps their identities secret.
Venalita has set the stage for another fight, and so the three all excuse themselves to go to the bathroom at the same time. Utena then notices her phone has blown up, which she doesn't check because it's normally just her family. Venalita tells her she can fly when she transforms, and sends her a map to where the fight is taking place. She gets there almost too late, and she doesn't really want to fight, but he's got video of her whipping the three magical girls to use for blackmail, so she uses her power to animate a bunch of manikins into multi-limbed conglomerates who again capture the Tres Magia, and start tearing off their clothes and tickling them. Alas, the manikins start to fail, so Venalita opens a portal for them to escape through, but the Tres Magia are left pretty well wrung out.
I generally love shows that play games with the standard formats. So I'm very curious which way this one's going to go.
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