Yeah, so I’ve not exactly had much to say this week. It’s been busy at work and I’ve had other concerns. This weekend I’m hoping to get enough gaming and anime watching done to be more loquacious in the week to come… I will say that I did finish watching Please Teacher! over this past week, and I’m saving some thoughts on that for the April anime report, but overall this has been a slow month, as expected. I needed this month to slow down and “recharge”, I suppose.
Anyway, thinking about both running the Game and Anime reports next week (since otherwise they’d be delayed until the 12th and 14th), and setting up for an early Essay Week. I’m also curious: would it be too over the top to do two Essay Weeks in 2008? Maybe one in late October? Of course it’s really up to me, but I’m wondering if maybe it would be considered a little too, I don’t know, overbearing.
Off to enjoy the wonderful weather, folks… that’s why there’re portables, you know.
Not much to report right now; thunder threatens to take out my connection, so I’m going to just get this up and not worry too much about writing something deep for now. Catch you tomorrow on the LJ, I hope.
You can dress up a video game review in as many ten-cent words as you want. You can get all hoity-toity with the analysis of game as art. You can even pull out the big guns and examine, with a fine-toothed comb no less, the social implications of the Friend code system and the quantitatively better or worse aspect of the various elements of play. You’re welcome to do all of that, and more power to you if you do so.
Sorry, folks. Today’s post just isn’t gonna happen. I’d embed the Bailout for today but I can’t… I do encourage you to check it out, though, as it’s the Fate stay/night vid I mentioned in the Tekko report.
Tomorrow’s post for the LJ is set, and will be on time, but for now, go watch video.
If you noticed the blog page loading kinda sluggishly of late, you weren’t alone. A vulnerability in WordPress caused a great many sites to be hacked, with loads of spam links, invisible to the user, being injected into the footer. WP2.5 closed this hole, but unfortunately upgrading was a pain in the ass and a couple of custom features were broken in the process. I’ve restored everything to a more-or-less usable state and as a result things should be back to relatively normal. If you notice any strangeness on the blog, please let me know.
But really, please go look at the Tekko Report. Really.
As you can see to the right (or here if you’re one of those weird RSS people), the Tekkoshocon 2008 report is up. I’m still working through what few photos I do have, and once I get them all into Flickr I’ll post a link to that set, but that might be a while longer. In any event, I hope you like text.
Still working on the Tekko report. I didn’t get to too much more writing last night, but on the plus side I still have the list of events, and more importantly I’ll make an effort to work on it during lunch today. I’ll try to get as much of it done as soon as I can, and have it for you either tonight or tomorrow, if the world doesn’t kick my ass as much as it did yesterday.
Off to the con today; weekend updates will conti– wait. I don’t do weekend updates anymore. Hrm.
Oh well. Have some Red Bull. You know I will… well, probably not, as there’s usually enough Bawls to go around at Tekko. (And I don’t want to hear any remarks from the peanut gallery about “Bawls at an anime con”.) The full Tekko report will be up… eventually.
Re-installing World of Warcraft sucks bad enough, but it’s even worse when suddenly your install discs refuse to be read, and you’re left downloading the client. That’s a great thing in theory, except Comcast thinks I’m haxing teh megahutz and throttles my bandwidth randomly.
No writing has gotten done since Monday lunchtime, and no gaming beyond very minimal Audiosurfing has been done either. Both are situations I want to rectify tonight…. but I’ll probably only be dealing with the latter as I want to save up writing inspiration for the con report.
It’s a con week, so naturally all hell has to break loose. I just hope that by the time things get settled Thursday evening I’m not going to be hyper-depressed. In any event, this entry aside, we’re likely to have some bleed-over of the anime and game content on this side of the blog this week. The LJ should be business as usual, but no promises.
I’m trying to muster up the motivation to want to play through more of Ratchet and Clank, but unfortunately my remarks over its genericity (that’s not even a word– but genericness is?) have rung true, and so at the fourth planet I’m succumbing to the crippling apathy that threatened my enjoyment so far. I’ll say this, though: getting new weapons did help to make the game a lot more enjoyable, but the fact that it’s exactly like any other platformer that’s been endemic to the PS2 since launch did not help it at all. So, it’s going back to the movie store today, a day early.
As for anime, I’ve been re-watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Ouran Host Club, for no particular reason. There’s still no schedule for Tekkoshocon, so I’ve no idea what I’m likely to see there (and I probably won’t find out until Thursday night) but I expect to do a bit of watching this year. Though I suppose it couldn’t hurt to watch a little more Kiddy Grade in the meantime.
Which reminds me– I need to update the novel word count with what I managed to eke out during lunch. Then I need to go return the movies, get dinner, think about doing the laundry, etc. etc JOHN R BUSY. Catch you all tomorrow.
