| 2:27am | ohhhh boy: first the wall street journal, now the new york times |  | | | can you possibly get a better picture of a troll? Yes, that’s right. An article heavily about 4chan. I say “heavily” because it’s actually about internet trolls, but /b/ is a part of this. Also, the fact that this is in the Times gives it a weightiness which starts making... |
| 11:55pm | what i was forced to watch this week #35: saber marionette j | | | | you had me at “sexy evil space nazi robo-bitches” It’s been a while since I’ve been forced to watch one of those. You know, those. The “comedies” full of KER-RAZY characters in WACKY situations. Hyuck hyuck! Actually, Saber Marionette J was one of those only... |
| 12:05am | what i was forced to watch this week #34: slayers try | | | | oh look, more fishmans Hmm. I dunno. Slayers Try is obviously worse than Slayers Next, but I can’t decide if it’s worse than Slayers Slayers. It had a coherent plot, which gives it props above Slayers, but it had annoying new characters and wasn’t nearly as funny as Slayers. Actually,... |
| 12:46am | hulu figures out how to make money on streaming video: porn | | | | At first, I thought that Hulu was cool because I could watch full-length TV shows on my computer with little delay after they aired. Then, a few days at work, I was monitoring what movies were going up on Hulu for compliance purposes. One such movie that I had been specifically asked to investigate... | | |
| 7:20pm | now i understand what kawamori and kanno are doing with macross frontier | | | | After reading this GREAT interview with Shoji Kawamori and Youko Kanno last week, I’ve been paying way more attention to the music in Macross Frontier and constantly listening to the soundtrack. The most illuminating point in that interview is how the two of them discuss how the show is really... | | |
| 9:54pm | strike witches 3: first panties, now boobs | | | | What happens in anime when some new female characters are introduced? Gratuitous boob groping and comparisons, of course! That said, the show still never forgets where it came from: OBVIOUSLY they have to start the camera down there and pan up so despite the fact that i’ve just... |
| 2:18pm | does my-hime’s ending suck? depends! | | | | While reading Stripey’s post (and the comments) on rewatching My-Hime, the inevitable discussion popped up: what’s the deal with the ending? The gears started grinding in my head to make a comment about the ending, but once I realized how lengthy it might end up, I decided that it’s... | | |
| 10:43pm | macross f 14: YES! | | | | Don’t get me wrong; I really like Macross F. I had just started to get well, antsy recently. It had been over two months since our last instance of enemies breaking through the final defense line, and Strike Witches didn’t seem up to the task. Last week’s OMGWTFBBQ ending got me... |
| 12:16am | weeaboo dining: ippudo ramen | | | | When looking for new Japanese restaurants to try, I usually use Chopsticks. I’m not exactly sure who their target audience is (mainly Japanese expats or mainly Japanophiles?), but they definitely have a very Japanese approach. I usually don’t see Asian fusion crap in there, for example.... | | |
| 1:34am | what i was forced to watch this week #33: slayers next | | | | So everyone said that Slayers Next is the best season of Slayers. While I haven’t gotten to Slayers Try yet (whenever that happens), it looks like they’re right for now. While Slayers was fun, the “plot” was pretty slapdash. It seemed like everything that happened was basically... |
| 1:19am | strike witches 2: almost, but not quite | | | | Correct: Incorrect: The second episode picked up immediately where the last episode ended. This meant that 90% of the episode consisted of a battle between the fleet and the Neuroi. As this is a naval battle, this means that it consisted of: Magical circles Bridge crews reporting important information... |
| 4:23pm | guess who has an article today about 4chan? | | | | So since Time had that article about Japanese senior citizen porn, I find nothing wrong with them posting an article about 4chan. I do, however have a problem when THE FREAKING WALL STREET JOURNAL has an article about 4chan. I died (again) inside today. |
| 4:48pm | anime (and wood) are crufting up wikipedia | | | | This has been constantly building up in my head for I don’t know how long now, but the final straw to write about it finally came today when xkcd made fun of this. This prompted me to go to the Wikipedia page for Wood, which was locked with the following disclaimer: Editing of this article by... |
| 11:41pm | what i was forced to watch this week(end) #32: slayers | | | | Slayers is awesome, because it is one of those japanimations from back when japanimation was just about me and my 2 friends having a circle jerk to the kewl naked cartoon b00bies and tentacle rape in Legend of the Overfiend. Or at least, it’s exactly the sort of anime that never seemed to be... | | |
| 4:44pm | unpacking the crunchyroll anime expo keynote | | | | Isn’t there a saying about how statistics are more about what they hide than what they show? I like Freakonomics for precisely this reason: they try to see what’s possibly hiding behind statistics, control for those, and see how outcomes change. It comes as no surprise that the numbers... |
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