May 01, 2010
Cooties
Completely unrelated...and there is much rejoicing over that fact
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August 28, 2009
One of THOSE Headlines
Drudge may actually provide some perspective in his link to this story which reads...
BEST & MONTH RALLY FOR STOCKS SINCE 1933.
Well yay! I mean that's a pretty impres.....wait......1933...
...oh...
...fudge.
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July 09, 2009
Quick Updates on Status
Mom had her surgery today.
Surprisingly, she is home already. A decision was made at the last minute to scale this back to be a an exploratory surgery for another round of biopsies so this was not the huge surgery that we feared. OTOH it will probably be the first of several.
She started throwing up a bit ago, so I've called into work and am standing by. However, other than that she seems to be doing very good.
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June 02, 2009
May 27, 2009
An Update
There is a fairly substantial update to the post about that abominably abominable
abomination which is mercifully buried far from unsuspecting eyes
here. Or you can cut out the middle man and go
here.
I'm gonna be appalled either way aren't I?
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Well I read about on "Wonderduck's Pond" and downloaded the free episode 1. It is not what a lot of people think it is. Like Wonderduck I have some problems that let me identify with the characters. I'm lucky in a sense that only two manifested as a child and only one was real apparent. Later in life I was faced with the choice of using near theatrical makeup or just going out into the world and dealing with it. Now the final added handicap is age and cataracts.
Posted by: toadold at Sat May 30 07:28:22 2009 (l7PFt)
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April 30, 2009
Cringe Worthieness
Some months ago I blogged about
various visions of vileness I'd encountered, one of which was an alleged
H-Game that caused much well deserved horror. I was unsure it was not an elaborate leg-pull but they had a dev blog and seemed to be semi legit. I eventually forgot about it....until a few weeks ago when I encountered this wallpaper that looked cute...but odd somehow.

click here for supah-sizeI looked it up and belatedly realized I'd returned to the
dev-blog for
THAT game. Not only was it still a going concern they were about to release a demo of the disability girl game.....Oh the horror....
....or perhaps not.....
You see looking at the blog to see if this was indeed real I noted that the focus has changed. It appears that this has recently become a straight 'dating sim' rather than a porn game which makes it less worisome for some reason. Also several more or less normal characters have been added as well as at least one other guy with..."issues" (a hikokimori).
The characters are all interesting interesting on the face of it and I don't quite get the same creepy ass vibe I got from it the first time. Last night around 4 AM I took a break from my paper and perused the 4th level of the Chan's where it was announced that the demo has been released.
I don't do dating sims and I don't have time right now to look at this if I did. Fortunately I keep an EBP (emergency backup pervert) on retainer who is all about dating sims and their kin so I sent it his way. Hopefully a review will be forthcoming. It will be interesting to see if they can avoid having this this be creepy, exploitative or insulting.
UPDATE: The EBP came through with a thoughtful and tasteful review.
Go read the whole thing.
I agree with most of his points, particularly the idea that the inclusion of am "H-Option" in the game is very unfortunate. Dating sims are not my cup of tea but I actually played through this thing a bit and the characters realy are quite engaging and likable. The designers did a fine job making the characters engaging, interesting people. Rin in particular is well realized with her dry wit. The designers deserve a good deal of credit for their characterizations here. Tiberius sums it up the whole thing very well in a
comment at Wonderducks place:
Waaay back when I first saw "that picture" it was the first time I ever
really felt ashamed of my anime hobby. Now, mirabile dictu, I've been
surprised by human nature, in a good way, no less. What I've seen of
this so far is not too bad. I shant blither
on and pre-empt your review, but I would like to contribute this: by
about half-way through this demo version, I didn't give any thought to
the girls' conditions at all; I wanted to know more about them and
where the story was headed. That's good story telling.
Indeed...
And we should probably never speak of this again.
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Posted by: Wonderduck at Fri May 1 00:54:49 2009 (/nYBT)
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Well don't blame ME for fingering you...you outed yourself!
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According to the latest dev-blog update there will in fact be pr0n...
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April 28, 2009
Obsolete...

This ray of sunshine is already obsolete...As to its significance, your milage may vary.
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July 15, 2008
How?
How does one deliberately cut ones head off with a chainsaw?If he'd been juggling a couple then I could see it but this...
How?
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Duck-tape it to a column, rig it to run without a hand on the controls, and make a running charge?
I dunno, I could see someone killing themselves with a chainsaw deliberately, but it would take a heck of a Rube Goldberg device to pull off the "clean decapitation" trick unassisted.
Posted by: Mitch H. at Wed Jul 16 07:03:40 2008 (jwKxK)
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It's not the first case that I heard about. There was a polak who did it on a dare a few years back, too.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Jul 16 08:55:04 2008 (/ppBw)
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June 09, 2008
Most Awfulest Merchandising Idea EVAH!
Murdoc's other blog
Gunpundit, is generally worth a read. Be advised that eye and soul protection are hardly ever required because stuff like
this almost never happens over there.

Yes Mr. toy designer....we mean you.
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April 07, 2008
Danger!... Brickmuppeteers Beware!
Skip this post...it is an atrocity.
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Because some people did not listen, I've moved the horror below the fold for your protection. Please, do not look below the fold.....
more...
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That second picture is going to give me nightmares. Those are characters in a game? Good God...
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tue Apr 8 00:37:32 2008 (+rSRq)
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He sent that pic to me a month or so ago, Steven... do you have ANY idea how hard it is to pluck your eyes out?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tue Apr 8 01:20:08 2008 (Hrqgp)
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Wow... There aren't words. Wait. Yes there are.
Zetsuboushita! Handicapped hentai has left me in despair!
(geez, imagine the google hits for that search string...)
You know, I think I'm beginning to develop a reputation for finding this stuff. It's not entirely undeserved, but I'm going to pass the blame for most of my depredations on to The Hostages.
Posted by: Will at Tue Apr 8 10:49:46 2008 (WnBa/)
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If you visit some of the -chan picture boards, you'll sometimes find a category named "guro". Do not go there.
It turns out to be a contraction of gurossu from English "gross" (I'm pretty sure) and its the category where they put gross pictures: dead bodies, amputees, I won't say what else.
Something like ten years ago I saw a "guro" drawing that haunts me to this day. I really wish I hadn't seen it, and I won't describe it because just a description of it would be awful.
It would seem that there's a subculture in Japan, kind of the ultimate otaku, which likes this kind of thing. God knows why, though. So I can't say I'm totally surprised that someone's creating a dating game (I assume that's what it is) featuring amputees and otherwise deformed girls.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tue Apr 8 13:59:21 2008 (+rSRq)
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Perspective is important. The guro stuff is downright evil. This is head spinningly disturbing but doesn't strike me as anywhere near that.
OTOH, mentioning that the girl with the prosthetic legs is challenging
because she is...fast... ...certainly makes one wonder about the direction the
game goes.
On the upside the character sheet does warn about "gigolo play" which
indicates that perhaps being a complete amoral bastard is not necessarily rewarded....The girls are, in most cases superficially off-putting and the premise is, on the face of it, undeniably creepy on a couple of levels (not just aesthetic ones), but I gather most of the females are supposed to have considerable depth of character and are quirky and interesting (except perhaps the blind girl...who is..er.. just "clichéd") and focusing on girls who are not conventional beauties is refreshing in a way.
But damn....
And that is about as in depth as I'm likely to go on this matter.."shudder".
The Murnauesque trek-vid was creepy too, but I laughed at that.
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Well that was... interesting. I'm not surprised though there are quite a number of fetishests that find disabilities a turn on. And yes I've run into them and yes they are creepy.
Posted by: Marina at Wed Apr 9 10:31:09 2008 (IofL6)
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Comment#6 has creeped me out more than anything else in this whole thread.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Apr 9 12:58:01 2008 (NsNzF)
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That's why I never went alone to science fiction conventions. The freaks leave you alone if you have someone with you.
Posted by: Marina at Thu Apr 10 13:31:05 2008 (Lt4Ge)
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Google doesn't find anything containing the string 片輪少女, but goo.ne.jp does, and it all looks like fan art. Apparently the whole thing is based on a piece posted to 4chan (possibly
this one, which is well-done and less disturbing), and some non-Japanese eroge fans decided to run with it and at least claim to be making a real game.
At the moment, it's indistinguishable from a prank supported by a few artists from the deviantart crowd.
-j
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