天下制覇

I’m not sure whether I should be terrified by anime hug pillows hitting broadcast TV, or relieved that it’s obviously a fake half-assed one. Either way…

Having some technical gubbins… I believe is the correct term. Attempting to sort it out. Don’t worry, I almost certainly won’t have anything important to say until the weekend anyway.

Edit: Site was just down briefly because the greater Seiha domain began going nuts with system resources causing things to crash. The runaway script has been nuked and everything is back to normal… arguably better than normal.

I’ll be the first to admit that this season has been a little lacking so far compared to the first, thanks mostly to a somewhat lackluster rehash of the Fantastic 4 and Doc Ock’s somewhat inane plan to tap his brain into all the world’s modems, but this week’s episode shows that they’ve still got the chops, and a mediocre Spidey episode is still worlds beyond any of the other action anime shows I’ve been watching this season no-I-am-not-looking-at-you-Index-Abyss-or-Casshern. And that clip above doesn’t include the shorter fight in the same episode where Sandman went all Gilgamesh on us to quad-wield antique weaponry. Bringing Venom back halfway through the season, along with having Cletus Kasady hanging around the mental institute makes me hopeful for a Carnage season (maybe series) ender. Sure… it’s not the Gwen-as-Carnage that would be awesome, but it’d still be pretty cool. Brock being one really insane SOB just makes me smile all over.

Man. I have no idea what it is about this installation of WP, but it invariably breaks every time I upgrade it. I’ve had 2.7 running on a different one for awhile, and have just been putting it off because I hate the dashboard. I thought I had the root cause solved, but apparently not. This time, it worked fine for 12 hours, then seized up and vomited all over itself. I thought it was a problem with my host since there were server hiccups around the same time, but they were blameless here. Then the internal redirection stopped working and… ugh. I think it’s all fixed now though. Apologies.

For those interested, I finished up the script stuff for Battle Moon Wars last weekend. While I’d personally suggest waiting on it since Werk introduced a slew of errors to Act 1 that they haven’t patched (but I’ve done my best to fix) and the New Game+ upper difficulties being occasionally impossible… Well… let’s just hope they fix them when they put out the Saber Lily/Magical Amber/Naughty Schoolgirl Haruna patch in a month or two. Only a few system messages in the exe (which will have to be redone anyway, so I can’t really bring myself to care yet) and the dictionaries (oh boy! character notes!) are left. Grab the patch here.

Just your friendly neighborhood reminder that there are indeed still spectacular animated shows airing outside of Japan, even if the werelion look was a bit muchfor Kraven.

Oh, and sorry about the downtime. Host apparently had a hardware failure that broke the cluster. It happens.

So… a pretty disappointing Comiket for games, but I suppose it was just 4 months after the last one, so hopefully it just means that next summer’s will be all the better. What Comiket would be complete without me leeching shots of the crazy cars in the parking lot from SenakaBlog (NSFW)? SB was on hiatus during last Comiket, though, so nothing to see from the last one unfortuantely. I do like the tsundere tun-dele car, but nothing quite lives up to the Embodiment of Scarlet Spare Tire or any of the Nanohamobiles from past Comikets.

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The Doctor Who Christmas Special was rather good. I don’t think I liked it as much as The Runaway Bride, but it was a damn sight better than Voyage of the Damned or The Christmas Invasion. It did veer a little towards the over-the-top silly at the end, what with the 50 foot tall Cyberking stomping around, but I’m overall pleased with it. I’m not really as much of a fan of Wallace & Grommit in general (and yes, I already know this special was leaked to the interwebs a couple weeks ago), but it’s nice to see serious animation living on outside of anime and 20 minute US toy commercials. The story was predictable, the villain was predictable, there really weren’t a ton of jokes, and the height of my enjoyment came from the line "I’m in bread too."

Sort of.

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