Man. I have no idea what it is about this installation of WP, but it invariably breaks every time I upgrade it. I’ve had 2.7 running on a different one for awhile, and have just been putting it off because I hate the dashboard. I thought I had the root cause solved, but apparently not. This time, it worked fine for 12 hours, then seized up and vomited all over itself. I thought it was a problem with my host since there were server hiccups around the same time, but they were blameless here. Then the internal redirection stopped working and… ugh. I think it’s all fixed now though. Apologies.
For those interested, I finished up the script stuff for Battle Moon Wars last weekend. While I’d personally suggest waiting on it since Werk introduced a slew of errors to Act 1 that they haven’t patched (but I’ve done my best to fix) and the New Game+ upper difficulties being occasionally impossible… Well… let’s just hope they fix them when they put out the Saber Lily/Magical Amber/Naughty Schoolgirl Haruna patch in a month or two. Only a few system messages in the exe (which will have to be redone anyway, so I can’t really bring myself to care yet) and the dictionaries (oh boy! character notes!) are left. Grab the patch here.
Just your friendly neighborhood reminder that there are indeed still spectacular animated shows airing outside of Japan, even if the werelion look was a bit muchfor Kraven.
Oh, and sorry about the downtime. Host apparently had a hardware failure that broke the cluster. It happens.
So… a pretty disappointing Comiket for games, but I suppose it was just 4 months after the last one, so hopefully it just means that next summer’s will be all the better. What Comiket would be complete without me leeching shots of the crazy cars in the parking lot from SenakaBlog (NSFW)? SB was on hiatus during last Comiket, though, so nothing to see from the last one unfortuantely. I do like the tsundere tun-dele car, but nothing quite lives up to the Embodiment of Scarlet Spare Tire or any of the Nanohamobiles from past Comikets.
The Doctor Who Christmas Special was rather good. I don’t think I liked it as much as The Runaway Bride, but it was a damn sight better than Voyage of the Damned or The Christmas Invasion. It did veer a little towards the over-the-top silly at the end, what with the 50 foot tall Cyberking stomping around, but I’m overall pleased with it. I’m not really as much of a fan of Wallace & Grommit in general (and yes, I already know this special was leaked to the interwebs a couple weeks ago), but it’s nice to see serious animation living on outside of anime and 20 minute US toy commercials. The story was predictable, the villain was predictable, there really weren’t a ton of jokes, and the height of my enjoyment came from the line "I’m in bread too."
Man, this week’s Doctor Who was spectacular. Just the right amount of mystery, paranoia and subtle terror that will make me stay away from cross-planetary diamond trains for years to come. It’s amazing the creepiness you can instill in a scene with just some clever sound technicians. The Spectacular Spiderman finale was also pretty decent, but the second half was just a biiiiiiiit too thick on all of Peter’s friends coming together to save Gwen and then the awful "power of friendship conquers all" ending. I expected better of you, symbiote. You got suckered in and defeated by the Care Bear Stare. Oh well, there’s always next season.
Oh yeah, and I’m messing around with Battle Goddess: Episode Zero, just slowly and with many many distractions. Expect a writeup in a couple of days though. It’s at least much much much MUCH better than Amaneka.
I finally managed to track down a version of this week’s (well, last week’s at this point) episode with properly synced audio that wasn’t encoded by a two year old epileptic monkey. Awesome. Just flat out awesome. Where’d all this kind of action go in this season of anime, dammit? At least summer’s coming soon with its glut of action shows. <3
Remember way back on April 1st… the Touhou Valkyrie Profile clone that would never be? The sprite maker posted all his sprites a little while back (most had been up for months before). They really are things of beauty. It’s a shame that I still have to kill him for not making the actual game.
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