May 14, 2014
We're BAAACK!
As some of you may have noticed, there was something of an issue here over the last few days. If you didn't...then I need to up my blogging game rather dramatically.
As I understand it, this is what happened.
A large number of razorback hogs with beehives straped to their backs were set loose by unknown parties in the Texas bunker containing our RAID server, sucsessfully distracting the staff long enough for a number of trained Ghost Faced Bats to plant their C-4 charges in the facilities fire control computer without being noticed which precipitated the destruction of the buildings point defense system thus allowing a low flying UFO to fire an asteroid into the server building with the following results...
Actual footage from the Mee.Nu Zeppelin which was arriving with a shipment of Vegimite at the time.
So yeah...aliens.
Despite this, our crackerjack team of antipodean tech unicorns have restored everything except for any images or files uploaded after mid-March. Restoring some of those will be problematic as the frame grabs were discarded. In any event I've restored the images on the front page as I type this.
In all seriousness, Kudos to Pixy (our Antipodean tech unicorn) who has been working his Aussie posterior off the last three days rebuilding everyones websites despite a disasterous hardware failure and the difficulties inherent in being upsiode down all the time.
In possibly (but probably not) related news, my Twitter account got hacked yesterday as well, sending all 45 of my followers 150 solicitations to invest in a bitcoin enterprise. Between this and the spoofing a few weeks ago it's been a bad month for me and tech.
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May 11, 2014
They Couldn't Just Hire A Couple of Russians?
The Girls Und Panzer DVD has been sitting on my shelf for months and I suddenly realized I have time to look at it.
The dub is a bit uneven and rather rough at the beginning (Miho pronounces Oorai as O-O-R-I amongst other things) making it look like it was done on one take. To be fair, the voicework rapidly gets a lot better as the show progresses and Molly Searcy absolutely NAILS IT with her portayal of Mako. After about episode two the dub is pretty decent.
Then...suddenly.
They'd avoided the temptation of wacky accents...until the Pravda battle at which point there is an ill concieved attempt...from time to time...to affect something that probably sounded Slavic to somebody late one night in the studio when they were all strung out on Red Bull and Mountain Dew.
It gets worse...There is that moment in the Pravda battle that Crunchyroll edited out the Katushya song. Crunchyroll just cut the scene...the dub keeps the footage (minus the mouth movements) and replaces Katushya with an unrelated accordion solo.
" Well...THAT was regrettable. "
The accordion solo is present on the subtitled track too, indicating that they were not able to resolve the rights issue. However, it's unclear why the scene wasn't simply cut (like Crunchyroll did with the sub) as the result is most jarring.
Wait...
Can someone explain to me how a commie song from before 1945 is a copyright issue anyway.
Sentai has done some pretty good dubs (and Highschool of the Dead was absolutely superb) so this is more galling than it ought to be.
UPDATE: The dub on OAV release is actually excellent. Even when a silly accent raises its head, it's intentionally silly and fits perfectly.
I'd not seen any of them previously. They are entertainingly odd.
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May 10, 2014
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions - Heart Throb
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions was an absolutely superb series, being both hilarious and poignant. It also had a satisfying ending that quite effectively wrapped things up, so I've been ponsdering the sequel with some trepidation.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions - Heart Throb is set just a few weeks after the end of the previous show and pretty much takes up where it left off. There is a bit of hand waving regards the progress Rikka seemed to make in the last episode and some hand waving to explain why a class concious climber like Nibutani is still hanging with these whackadoodles, and further hand waiving regards Dekimori's hair, but it otherwise continues the story, and, well, two episodes in, I've laughed out loud a few times.
It certainly seems to be worth the time thus far.
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May 08, 2014
Their Texture...
...has always been a source of speculation for me. However, now that I seem to have discovered where Pringles come from, I find that I rue my foolish curiousity.
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Perhaps It's Just My own Insecurity...
...but I have come to the deeply disheartening conclusion that all those complementary comments from Michal Kors and Oakley may not, in fact, be entirely sincere.
Also: If you haven't already, you should go watch Nichijou. It makes the bad news bearable.
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
This film has a lot on it's plate. It's a sequel, a prequel, and a fairly pivitol stand alone thriller that moves the overall plot of the Avengers tie-in franchise quite a bit. It could easily have become a mess, but Captain America: Winter Soldier is a surprisingly solid film.
This film is a very interesting hybrid of superhero flick and spy thriller, with the latter predominating at first. The "superheroes" in this movie are not earthshakinglty powerful in comparison to a lot of others, being for the most part, just very skilled people. A good chunk of the movie has a sort of espionage vibe, but the threat the heroes find themselves fighting against is one of earth shaking gravity. Furthermore, the heroes are super-heroic, not so much in their power level, but definitely in their attitude. Three of the leads are fine examples of "The Cape"and the fact that they are decent, ethical people becomes much more obvious as well as pivotal to the plot as the film progresses. There are also plenty of references reminding the Marvel fans in the audience that this is firmly "in universe".
All in all, I was quite pleased with it. One minor spoiler; as with most of the films in this franchise, you'll want to stay for the credits.
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May 07, 2014
Umm....
Yesterday my friend BOB! and I went to see Captain America 2. As there was no usher at the moment, we went roaming the Cinema Cafe multiplex looking for our theater and found something that needs an explanation.
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May 05, 2014
Solving the Millennials Employment Problem
This New York Times article indicates that we may soon find something for all of them to do.
Young Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging
To my considerable alarm, the article actually has all of the awkward implications the headline suggests.
"Stop yer whinin'. We're payin' yer college loans!"
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May 01, 2014
OK
I'm drawing a blank.
What the HELL does this damned blimp say?
It is allegedly the Sapporro Beer Blimp of 1909...but that Katakana has me stumped. "Ru-bi ro bo sa su bi a ?"
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Happy May Day Everybody
In honor of the day here is an animated celebration of the third 5 year plan,
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Note in particular the bit between 2:20 and 2:34, and remember that this is a propoganda film intended to put their best foot forward.
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