Movies, just add water.

Watched Princess and the Frog and Ponyo. I like the first film; it's definitely a return to the classic Disney-style animated film with songs & recycled fairy-tale storyline. What's good about this one is it has a contemporary taste to it. It's a bit more modern in its sensibilities and the setting isn't the typical fairytale world but real world New Orleans, albeit several decades ago. The film was definitely enjoyable; I liked it better than Ponyo, likely because it has more mature themes combined with the contemporary aspects. Ponyo, while enjoyable, definitely felt like a kiddy film even compared to other Ghibli films I've watched such such as Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. And the animation looks almost like it's stuttering after having watched the smooth Disney animation of Princess and the Frog. Not bad but not something worth rushing out to see.

My DSL router got fried...

My AT&T router broke so I used that as an excuse to sign up with Clear internet. Some websites load much faster than before but not all. For some reason my yahoo homepage is slow; maybe because my yahoo's merged with my AT&T account (I can tell the split's going to be messy). Downloads are definitely much faster; more hentai in less than half the time!! \(^o^)/

Yee-haa!!

Long time since my last update. I finished Otoboku2 but also started reading Negima so haven't done much for a while. So the arrival of SMG Mana provided a good excuse to finally update. I also have other stuff I should post about such as Masterpiece Grimlock which I recently got as well. I'll likely post about that soon as well.

PS: Is it just me or is my writing really shitty today like I'm drunk or something?

mid-life crisis?

Haven't updated in a while. Been busy with getting back into the job market and playing Otoboku 2 so just haven't made time to go back to the blog. Anyways, I had an interview and tried out a job only to be booted out really quickly which is very annoying. I think I'm going to try doing a bit more self-searching to see what I want to do and what I should be looking for rather than a blind search from before. While it was fun doing various jobs, it ultimately did little to really bring in a feel of the different jobs out there (other than maybe a stint at a casual dining restaurant).

Sometimes it's better not to know... :p

I just discovered that Sofmap is clearancing both 1st print Saki DVD 2 and 7 for 2980 yen. This kinda ticks me off since I bought both of them for near MSRP. If I could have held out just a little bit longer...*sigh*. It especially nags me because the quality of the covers are pretty shabby even compared to the ones included with the magazines and if I had gotten them at the current Sofmap price, it would have been worth it but now I'm just feeling like I ripped myself off buying the DVD's at the price I did. Buying both again at the current price definitely won't save me any money at this point and flipping them on eBay won't give me much profit either especially with all those bootleg dakimakuras out on the eBay market.

eroge purchasing plans

I was thinking of getting Okiba ga Nai but due to the Akabeisoft2's net activation, I'll be skipping it. If I can't connect to their website without a proxy then chances are the same for net activation and having to use a proxy for that is a pain. I kinda wanted that Shannon figure but we don't know who the maker is so the quality is up in the air.

On a similar note, I think I'll be skipping the RuiTomo games for the same reasons. They also have net activation and it seems both software teams are headed by the same company or something similar; at the very least I remember seeing Akabeisoft2's name somewhere in the 1st RuiTomo's OP credits. The Tomo Nendo looks disappointing. Seems only to support the poses they've shown so far so there's not much you can do with him compared to other Nendos. The fandisk isn't worth it just for that.

Doujinshi shop annoyances...

Thanks to Tenso, there's a few more Japanese online stores you can order from as well as order some things you may not have been able to before due to certain restrictions. However, 2 major stores seems to be adamant against selling to people outside of Japan: the doujinshi shops Tora no Ana and Melon Books. Tora no Ana emailed me saying they won't ship to Tenso and Melon has a specific clause in their TOC saying they're against the use of services like Tenso and proxies. It really annoys me to no end that they would restrict foreigners who have legitimate interest in their products; not only is it a potential source of revenue but totally blocking off that market promotes online piracy as it becomes the only other way of being able to read the doujinshi one would want to read outside of living or flying to Japan.