http://pinkubentobox.com/blog Animu, Games, Words about Nerdery Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:45:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been running this blog for a long time now, such as it is, and have essentially come to the point that I want a fresh start without any existing baggage. As such, I won't be maintaining this site any more. Instead, I will be working on a fresh site. You'll ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/542/rip-pinkubentobox/ In an attempt to force myself to actually put content up on this blog more than once or twice a year, I've decided to start actually writing a bit about anime that I finish. This is sort of continuing along the same theme that I started when talking about Slayers ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/539/closing-thoughts-kaze-no-stigma/ 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 ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/538/umineko-no-naku-koro-ni-episode-3-thoughts/ 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 ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/537/i-hate-watching-streamed-anime/ 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 ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/536/umineko-no-naku-koro-ni-episode-2-thoughts/ 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 ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/535/how-to-run-umineko-no-naku-koro-ni-in-linux/ 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 ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/534/umineko-no-naku-koro-ni-episode-1-thoughts/ [singlepic=170,640,480,,center]1920x1200 | Illustrator I managed to escape from Azeroth for long enough to actually complete a vector again. This time it's Touko & Yumi from Marimite. I tried a slight variation on my usual style and used coloured lines. Not sure if I like the effect or not. I initially thought ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/533/yumi-touko/ In an attempt to cut down on annoying comment spam, I've set things up so that posts more than 120 days old will get locked and any comments made will go to moderation. Hopefully this will cut down on the number of tsubasa-loving mexicans that like to flood that particular ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/532/posts-on-old-comments/ [singlepic=169,640,480,,center] Just wanted to point out this excellent essay exploring the aspects of the Touhou series and its incredible fan popularity. I must admit that it's hard not to be swept up into the Touhou fandom - personally I quite enjoy the games and have a fair amount of the doujin ... http://pinkubentobox.com/blog/archives/528/touhou/