Aug/093
SCANDAL-On! – SCANDAL does ‘Don’t say “lazy”‘
I like SCANDAL. Something about four girls in one band speaks to me; one bass, two guitars and a drummer is better than having one keyboard too. I also like Houkago Teatime, although five girls and add in keyboard from a girl with peanuts for eyebrows. So does someone over in Japan, and mixed it together. Can we get a Fuwa Fuwa Time cover too?
Starts with a presentation of the band and promo of their current best seller "Shoujo S"; the K-On! fun begins at approximately 00:40.
Aug/090
Blogging from an iPhone
I already have Tweetie running on my iPhone to sort out Twitter when on the run. I can go in MSN and AIM from the phone. Hell, I can even get on IRC either through an SSH app or just through Colloquy. Now I can blog from it without using Safari with its random lag.
The Wordpress app feels and operates like any good iPhone app, although a misconfiguration in my LigHTTPd made the app simply bug out. I fear that half of the world's self-hosted blogs will have the same problem if they use pretty permalinks. The trick was to make sure xml-rpc.php has its own redirect line so that HTTP GET values get passed on properly.
Did anyone else try the app out?
Aug/090
Recent project: Desucon
I recently finished a website project for my buddies in DirtyWorker now that their yearly con is getting close. Desucon's Art team had a meet-up that I attended since they wanted a backseat moderator who knew the limitations of time, form and composition of a website using Wordpress. At the end of this meeting, I was already in charge of making the new website happen, and spent just over a week putting it together. Below is a peak at the finished project, click it to see the site in action. If you are Norwegian and reading this, please leave your comments in this entry!
The Desucon 2009 website
May/093
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier
Long time, no post, see Twitter.
I've been playing Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier the past few weeks and it has fired up the JRPG-gamer in me again. I've completed Fallout 3, I've cleared Fable 2. I've yet to do any of the DLC for neither, since Endless Frontier's occupying me.
With this.
Mar/0919
Minute reviews of what I’ve been watching lately
My good time is being spent on movies, TV-shows and not so much anime these days. I prefer to have company to watch stuff together with and thus there's either one of my housemates or someone else upstairs with me watching something. That, or I'd be outside watching a movie or just hanging out. With this recent obsession over spending time NOT watching things alone, I've discovered various rather amusing things. So here's some reviews.
Feb/0915
I just saw these at MegaHobby 2009 and holy shit
Some of my absolutely most favorite shows out there is the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha triology, and of these, I like StrikerS the best. With that, I had my eyes pruned opened for the past half year, waiting for Alter to announce their incarnation of Nanoha and Fate in their StrikerS form. I have *every* single other Alter Nanoha figure, with Nakajima Subaru on pre-order now, and I picked up Teana Lanster from the postoffice yesterday. So why am I posting this? Actually, did you even read this before you noticed the below images?
Yes, I have more images. They are courtesy of Akibahobby and Hobbystock.
Feb/0924
Japanese games not being kept Japanese
Milling around lately on the great Internet is the news of the new Star Ocean 4 game, coming out this month, having de-animefied the game and changed the menus and whatnot. Also, there's no original dub track from the Japanese release and thus only an awful excuse for an English dub will be available instead. I assisted my housemate in wrapping up his copy of Infinite Undiscovery and returning it to the gamestore. We screamed as the voiceactors in Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 opened their mouths. I really, really don't like dubs. And I can't play the non-dubs unless I import Japanese consoles.
For games like Tales of the Abyss, where I have use for the terminology the translators there used, I have soft-modded my PS2 with a networking adapter and a huge IDE harddrive in it. Works like a charm with HDLoader and I play an UNDUB of Tales of the Abyss. I didn't have the need for this with one of my favorite games, Eternal Sonata, where the game itself came with a Japanese language option. My XBOX 360 is European, which means all the games are usually in English since region codes prevent me from getting Japanese games. And because of this, I had hopes for Namco Bandai, who started out so well on the 360 with Eternal Sonata. Come Tales of Vesperia, and the North American release doesn't have a Japanese language option. I hold my hopes high as I wait for the Asian English release to possibly have it - no luck there either. And this game doesn't even have a European release slated yet! With both Tales of Vesperia and Star Ocean 4 probably only having shitty dubs - and both games I would really like to play - chances are I won't even play them. Until I get my hands on a Japanese 360, as these dubs are just plain awful and hurt my ears, and thus also ruin my experience with the game.
So I'm asking whoever's reading this - are there any good current generation games like Eternal Sonata out there - without awful English dubs, that keep the Japanese dialogue? I think Lost Oddysey has kept it, but if there's two games in the pool of many, I'm sad that we're not even being offered the ability to get the original audio as downloadable content at least. I'd pay full price for the game and half the original price on top of that just to get the original audio. Please, Namco Bandai, pretty please!
