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is not as it was meant to be
2004-08-06 14:06:20
This is some whack stuff:
http://www.animaxis.com/en/zine/newsletter/view.asp?id=N001271
I like Genshiken. It's frickin' hilarious. It's good that it's becoming an anime, so we can show it at club.
I don't even like the *idea* of Kujibiki Unbalance, though. There is something deeply wrong with the concept that a title created as "generic eroge-influenced harem series" for *fictional* otaku in a bloody *comic* to obsess over should be made into an actual anime at the same time as the main manga title it's from.
What is more disturbing is if, as is likely, Kujibiki Unbalance becomes more popular than Genshiken and gets imported while the "real series" here does not. That would suck. However, there is still the possibility that the whole production of Kujibiki is an elaborate hoax to build up more buzz for Genshiken, or that it will just be included in the broadcasts of Genshiken as vignettes, the way Excel Saga would occasionally check in on Nabeshin even when he wasn't doing anything pointful.
But the last thing the world needs is another pointless harem show....and despite that, even if Kujibiki isn't really produced, seems to be what the industry has in store for us. SUCK.
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I'll probably finish the video over the weekend, even though my brother got his new school computer today, giving me the excuse to pirate his OS and finally get my system running. Doing a full gentoo config without emerge capability for a system that is going to get papered over with W2K in a month or so seems like a waste, and I don't have the initiative to carry it out. I figure if I get him SP1 and load it up, he'll owe me his gear.
Going to record for FuKu no Radio tonight....hopefully I'll get some interesting dialogue and the recorder won't screw up.
--Kai out
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modern-day man of steel
2004-08-05 11:14:46
Despite two of the five players scratching at virtually the last second, the session worked out all right, if fairly slow. Thankfully the impatient ones who like to kill things were the ones who scratched, so the swapped-in slow stuff wasn't too grating. Pretty much the only regret I have is that I didn't hook it well at all..but the players covered and picked up on it anyway.
Purely by chance, the players brewed up between themselves nearly the optimal party for the situation. No combat monsters (like the guys who scratched would have been), just intelligent and tricky ones who know how to leverage their connections.....and break into university systems to steal mail files, prise info out of drunk metalheads, and build full-auto stake-launching potato guns. What's scary is how much player knowledge went into that one....it's a good thing Jake is terminally broke so he can't try to make one of these IRL. I still have to do stats on it...1.5-inch diameter wooden stakes fired at a muzzle velocity of about 120 mph, that's a lot of ouch going on.
Player quote of the night:
"Either it's a vampire, or somebody's got a killer weapon and a really good mop." It's not at the aquatic-mexican level of escaping from the in-joke black hole, but it had us incapacitate laughing for the better part of a minute. Picture a metal drummer saying if it's not funny enough straight.
Video will see some more drafting work tonight, and I still hope to finish it over the weekend....even though I've got a ton of work and more Awakening stuff to work up for potential multiple sessions next week. It's a good thing gaming is so fun, else we should grow too sick of the work involved preparing it.
--Kai out
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riding the northern wind
2004-08-04 14:52:18
I'm listening to the new Amon Amarth, "An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm".....
.....and it sucks......
......because I can't get the volume up high enough with just my headphones and just the .mp3. Sike! _Fate Of Norns_ is gonna destroy come September. At least at home I'll be able to turn up the speakers and really pound this one.
song in question:
http://www.metalblade.com/bands/Amon_Amarth/aa-aasocs.mp3
--Kai out
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beware of the beast that's within you
2004-08-04 12:07:06
No progress; duped stuff last night and put off installing the OS. The session is unfortunately slimming down, but with the current tweak the players will probably be able to overcome the challenges presented. Work is limping along as best it can.
I was watching the first four of Yawara (finally) last night, and was thoroughly disappointed with the release. The print was messed up and leaking color, much worse quality than on my tapes from raws, and the subs were little better than half-assed. It's not like I haven't seen this before, but this was a particularly bad case. It's as though the translation was done without any reference to context at all, which is a killer with a sparse language like Japanese which relies so much on the listener just picking up what isn't said.
Having seen 116 episodes of this series raw, I am pretty much on top of the necessary vocabulary. The subs would in any case be random scribbling across the bottom of the picture, but *poorly translated* scribbling just makes it that much worse.
The video'll get done...just collected a recent cosplay picture (thanks to the FuKu folks) for the ultimate in tasteless closing dead-ication. Now I just have to animate it.
--Kai out
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the shackles have to fall
2004-08-03 11:33:57
No progress last night; I was busy with the latest SAR and talking over various attributes of the Awakening Skill system with my brother. Tonight I probably install the OS and dupe off what I can from my borrowings; I have to go out and buy a T-160 for Tree of Palme, but that's not real urgent. Tomorrow is the session, so the likelihood of anything getting done on the video is small. And then there's the usual club round Friday, so the video will probalby be drafted to near-completion on Thursday and finished over the succeeding weekend.
I'm also kind of bound to two audio projects for the FuKu/FnO people, one of which will also probably be in operation this coming weekend. I'm not spending $50 on yet another distortion pedal, though, so the other one will have to wait, in large part, until I get back to school. I can start practicing now, though; "Sakura Saku" is tough enough to play straight, never mind re-arranging it Mortician-style. I was thinking about doing the Esca opening theme after the fashion of Death's _ITP_, but I can't play guitar that well, even if it just means throwing arpeggiated hooks all over the middle register and turning down the crunch.
And if there are no problems writing to CD and reading from DVD on the new setup, then there will be a new video for Farlo's contest before the end of the summer, which I may also send to AWA as long as they're accepting non-anime videos.
A nice video with a nice song. Any fears of excessive dhyabolism are surely misplaced.
--Kai out
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