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.

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?

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.

This game has so much breasts, so much gratitious intense amounts of random bouncing from any character without a flat chest - even a character with AAs has the frontal set bouncing like mad from simply lifting her arm to cast a spell. Add in that the game itself is very self-aware of this and is thus filled with horrible jokes about breasts all over. Take for example a scene where the crew lacks a keycard, and our friendly hyperactive big-titted robot with a love for sarcastic remarks delivers this line:

Why don't you try looking between her boobs, you spend enough time staring at them.

She also has golden moments such as

Shall I pull her dress down, Sir? That would likely elicit a response.

But to the gameplay itself; this game has overdrives making you get an animated scene on top of the battlefied. As KOS-MOS here demonstrates.

D-TENERITAS

The main thing you do to increase damage in Endless Frontier is to keep an enemy in air, chaining together all kinds of attacks by commands on the D-Pad or with a simple press of the A-button. You need to time it right, and you can cancel attacks to increase the "Frontier Gauge", which lets you see bouncing breasts when it fills to 100%. In fighting games, you call this juggling. I would argue that for Endless Frontier, this should be jiggling, and this game is full of shits and jiggles. Did I mention that the first pair of bouncing meat belongs to Yukana, and the cat ear robot is Suzuki Mariko? The voice acting in this game is awesome.

Watchmen (movie)
I'll start with saying I haven't read the comics, but I like Rorschach somehow because of an artist that did awesome artwork for Quake 2 mods back in the day, who signed everything as 'Rorschach'. My attraction to this movie was then based on knowing there was a guy in a coat with a hat walking around being awesome with his white mask with inkblots from the Rorschach test on it, and my expectations next to none.

I'll be brief, as there wasn't much to say. I felt like I was tossed into episode 4 of an ongoing TV-show with Watchmen. Something was missing, and the characters were really badly introduced and I had no real grasp on who any of them were except the Comedian and Rorschach at the end. The effects were... cool. Some will watch this for the effects, I wasn't too amused. There were however some moments where I was being all 'ooh shiny' and then Dr Manhattan comes with his blue penis to ruin it. The moments I enjoyed most of this movie were with the Comedian and Rorschach. I laughed at Night Owl and Silk Spectre II's scene in Arkimedes with the godawful misplaced song and the flamethrower. I did not laugh at anything Involving Ozymandias. Rorschach (again) should just have had his own movie where he narrated his own random investigations like a journal - I really didn't enjoy any other parts of this movie. I rate it 4/10 for Rorschach, and if they ever decide to keep using the Joker in the Batman movies, please make Rorschach's actor the new one.

The Mentalist (TV show)
It was C.C. that told me I should watch this show, while warning me the main character is a big jerk. I don'' get it - I love the guy. I love this show. It's a extremely intelligent and very socially smart guy walking about helping crime investigations while his mental condition is a mystery and all you really know is that he will slaughter his wife's murderer in stead of prosecuting him. And yet you just sit there and enjoy the ride.

Having Patrick Jane troll and zing every person he can come over and always flaunt his superior intelligence and knowledge, always putting his beliefs and what he believes is justice and right in front of him and making it the norm for anyone he encounters. He is just so amusing with how he always gets his way - and nobody really tries to get back at him for doing it. The rest of the cast supplement him really well too, although I feel the boss is a bit poorly written. I absolutely love Cho ('it's time for CHO BUSINESS') and how his extremely straight and unshaken character keeps the stone face, even when someone drunk and hurt is sitting next to him near a bed - crying her eyes out - in stead he just zinged her in stride.

I'm all out of episodes now and I can't wait for more. For me The Mentalist is like watching Code GEASS or Death Note without the superpowers and the will to dominate the world. It's a relief from the oh-so-evil-boo-hoo mentality that Lelouch and Light have their characters based around. In stead, the superior intelligence is used for a greater good, although with an ulterior motive to get himself some peace of mind - at least not by dominating the world.

Yes, I have more images. They are courtesy of Akibahobby and Hobbystock.

Bonus Fatina picture:

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!

Some might have caught on that I have recently spent time building a HTPC and set it up to replace the old machine I had which couldn't run 720p with more than one line of text at once. Gundam 00 karaoke was fabulous and Marina's song was ten times as annoying since the whole episode started lagging. But no more! I can now run 1080p with 20-30% CPU usage while crunching through a billion torrents. Although... I've had to file a ticket with the motherboard creator, since I can't get sound through HDMI no matter what I do. I've tried about everything I can think of now, and the latest event was me getting a reply from a technician at XFX, handing me a beta BIOS. Still not working, so we've had to run 2-channel sound through analog outputs instead. Sure, there's sound, but I'd rather have it running digitally over HDMI.

I'm now furiously trying to figure it out together with the XFX technician. I've cross-checked with other TV sets and confirmed the audio working over the cables and to the inputs on my TV using my XBOX 360. So what gives? Any ideas?

And then it just went down the drain, really. Characters modifying their bodies, a mecha woman lusting for OJISAN, some other weirdo that looked just like the mecha woman lusting for OJISAN and those fucking kids and then the doc has molded himself into OJISAN? Topple all that with that song Hirano Aya so wonderfully fails at singing and then they're making Ion Cannns and I don't know anymore. I can't wait for episode 22 so I can finally say I managed to watch through this show and that I can rate it so low that I will forget it existed and announce how it managed to be worse than Evangelion. And from my point of few, that is a seriously major feat - and Evangelion doesn't even have Hirano Aya!

Question now is whether I play or whether I do something else.