So big changes at JJSWiki. After a recent server migration at my host, it was no longer working at all, just throwing up a crazy error. This is because it was running on an ancient version of TikiWiki which was no longer behaving properly with the modernest of PHP versions and all that. One previous time I'd been forced into an upgrade for a ( Read more... )

So I really really enjoyed Pacific Rim. The main thing about the movie, giant monsters and/or robots, is not something new. There are plenty of examples going back a good 60 years, including thousands of television episodes. BUT the difference is when you make a two hour movie with a budget that probably exceeds the entire Ultraman franchise, it's ( Read more... )

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Borderlands was a pain in the ass to get set up to work with computer nunchuk ( Read more... )

I read Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth in probably late 1996 or early 1997. How can I tell? Because a few minutes of research tells me that's when The Cardigans' single for Lovefool was a recent thing, and thanks to its heavy rotation on the school bus radio while reading, these two incredibly unrelated things are connected in my ( Read more... )

Well, the good news is I was finally able to find some information about musician Sayaka Suzuki.  Part of it did turn out to be a Japanese naming thing--searching for the reverse "Suzuki Sayaka" as seen on the cover art, along with "Ace Music" as company name, led me to this page, which includes various information including a discographyThe bad ( Read more... )

So sometimes in the past I've ended up on crazy Wikipedia walks through something like information about superhero comics and flabbergasted at all the connecting information and retcons and reboots and teamups and bla bla bla to be found. Recently I found myself similarly amazed at what I was coming across in terms of manufactured Japanese bands ( Read more... )

My normal method of learning a route is to try to get someplace, get mixed up, circle around for a while until I figure it out, and then add that to my list of known routes.  For this reason I don't often go out of my way, and thus it adds to my homebodiness.  This is pretty stupid ( Read more... )

So as I mentioned, I'm wasting less time on NeoGAF, but more time on things like anime. Pseudo-Japanese Katawa Shoujo put me in a real mood for real Japanese stuff, plus during that Internet connection downtime I had time to fill. So a rundown on what I've been up to since early July:

Visual NovelsKatawa Shoujo ( Read more... )

I love NeoGAF. For the last decade-ish it's been one of my chief online hangouts. So when we had our Internet issues in early July, not being able to veg out there for a week and a half was tough. When I was able to go back I saw how much I'd fallen behind on some of the big threads and thought, "Do I really want to go back to staying up on all ( Read more... )