Animu, Games, Words about Nerdery
I’ve had this entry half-written sitting around in my drafts for months now. I actually went straight on and finished Umineko episode 3 after writing my thoughts on the second one, but never got around to finishing this entry off. Now that Witch-Hunt have released the full patch for episode 4 I thought I’d dig this entry up and complete it prior to commencing play through the next installment.
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I really want to support initiatives like Crunchyroll and stuff, especially with the way their lineup has been expanding lately, but I find that I just really, really hate watching stuff streamed. It seems frightfully inconvenient and annoying to me, and I’d much rather have local copies. Partially this is because of Australia having anal data usage caps, and decent quality streamed anime chews that up quite quickly, especially if you accidentally navigate away from the page etc and it’s got to start over. I also like to be able to tinker, extract specific frames, etc. While it’s easy enough to save the CR video stream to disk, they make it annoyingly difficult (requiring reverse engineering some DRM) to get hold of the subs they stream which makes it pretty much hopeless. Worse, it often seems like I’m the only person on the planet who really dislikes watching anime in a browser window. I feel like I’ve been left behind and this is one of those generational gap things and I’m one of those angry old dudes yelling at the damn kids to get off his lawn.
It’s amusing to go back to what I wrote a few weeks ago after playing the first episode, and see just how completely wrong I was. Since I’ve now finished episode 2, I thought I’d continue where I left off, with a ton of comments and speculation. And a hell of a lot of unresolved questions. Episode 2, as expected, asks more questions than it answers - and the answers it did give I’m not sure about, either. Anyway, same as last time - episode 2 spoilers within, and I haven’t read through episode 3 yet so please don’t spoil me.
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I did quite a bit of searching and couldn’t find any documentation explaining how to get this to work, and decided since no one else has done it and a couple of people had asked me about it I thought I might as well write it down. My distro in this case is Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and I’m using the Umineko Episode 4 package.
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Late last week I finished playing through the first episode of this. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and will be starting episode 2 ASAP. I realise that I’m extremely late to the party and pretty much everyone’s already talked this one to death probably, but I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts. Naturally this is going to have spoilers for episode 1 so if you don’t want to be spoiled then don’t read. Additionally I’d really appreciate it if people who have played subsequent episodes would please not make knowing comments or whatever, or spoil the coming installments.
Additionally I already know that I’m completely wrong about everything.
For those who have no idea what I’m talking about here, visit this site for more info including the english translation patch for the first three episodes.
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