Mahou Meido Meganekko

I have a need for a mapping program or app similar to the Google user maps. I need to be able to put addresses in and have them marked on the map. It needs to be persistent, that is, not disappear when I shut it down. Writing data out to a file is a major plus. Ideally, the program will allow sharing and collaboration, and if it’s a web app (acceptable for the short run) it needs to have some kind of privacy or security.

Can anyone recommend something really cheap (under $50) or even free?

As some of you may recall, I am a big New Orleans Saints fan. A couple of years ago, Wonderduck and I put our front pages on the line when his Bears met my Saints in the NFC championship. Sadly, he won that match.

But seven weeks into this season, the New Orleans Saints don’t look like they’re going to let ANYTHING stop them this year. Ok, there’s still a bunch of weeks left in the season, and anything can happen… but seriously OUCH on the Dolphins today. I didn’t get to watch the whole thing (if the Cowgirls are playing up in Dallas, they’ll be on TV here), but I caught the tail end of it. I’d heard the score; that they were behind 24-3 just before the half, and thought “damn, I guess they’re having a bad week; probably got full of themselves after the Giants.” Then I saw they scored just before the half. “Cool. Maybe they can make a game out of it.”

Did they EVER. The final score? NO 46 MIA 34. After just ten more points allowed in the third, the Saints D just shut Miami down. Worse, as Miami tried to recoup, they started making mental mistakes, just wilting under the pressure: Fumbling out of bounds to stop the clock (Illegal forward pass, loss of down), an interception, illegal motion penalties, and the capper: with Miami at first and goal, and managing to stop the clock with one second left, time then expired due to a penalty!

The only sad note is that mother is no longer around to see it; she was as big and excitable a Saints fan as there ever was, and we never had the money to take her to a game in the Superdome until she was too old to make the trip.

A post in which I chose to snark or not at the offerings this fall. (more…)

No, it’s not a review, and I’m too lazy to add screenshots tonight. I just wanted to make a quick post that it’s strange how this show has been the winner so far, when I ridiculed and ruled it out to start.

I still have doubts that the concept can carry an entire season, but from what I read, they’re skipping the early “no plot” novels and quickly jumping into the later ones, which were more eventful. And in the meantime, they’re still playing against expectations. So far, Ken is, if not a manly man, at least not totally crap and an embarrassment to the human race as a leading man. (Heaven’s Lost Property, I’m lookin’ at you.) He’s focused on “winning the game” yet nice to the girls, a hard worker even if he has to sneak around to do it, and surprisingly perceptive for someone whose reality seems filtered through ero-games.

Still, it’s an indication of how weak this season is, if this is the best we have for autumn.

Yay, Tenchi spin-off.

As expected, the only thing it’s got in common is the main character’s design and name. Oh, and a harem that comes into being for even LESS reason than Tenchi’s. Of course, all the girls, queen included (but not the the suspicious tsundere), start falling for Kenichi the instant they lay eyes on him. It must be in the Masaki genome.

Random thoughts and screenshots below the fold:

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Steven tried Suomomo Momomomomoommmo whatever… He had me scared for a bit when he said it made him laugh a couple of times, and what with all the screenshots, I thought he actually liked it.

It’s in my “gave up after 1-3 episodes” list. Three years ago, the sum total I had to say about it was:

I found the premise of this show repulsive, the male lead an uninteresting jerk, and the female lead unattractive, not to mention a flatchested loli. Unattractive = bad. Flatchested = bad. Loli = illegal. Flatchested, unattractive loli should = illegal. (At least Louise was cute.)

I just couldn’t deal with a female lead whose motivation was “I’m a failure at being the ultimate warrior so I have do what daddy says and start popping out babies.” And she was enthusiastic about it. Oh, and I’d rather have someone shred my ears with a cheese grater than listen to an entire series of that seiyuu.

I mean, when it comes to my Worst of 2006, this studio can legitimately claim to have been gypped. It so deserved a spot in the bottom ten… At least in the Honorable Mentions.

A post in which we pretty much forget to review any of the games or compare them to each other, but instead waste time posting pictures of our anime-themed characters. What can I say? It seemed like the thing to do.

This is what happens when I try to create a copy of Koyomi, from Yokuwakaru Gendimahou. In my first attempt (unmentionable), I couldn’t find the dress options, nor half of the chest options. I think the the costume interface logic was created by a German munchkin.

I really liked City of Heroes/Villains much better — although, it isn’t quite as flexible, it has many more options (having had several years to perfect them.

Ito Nobunaga is an anime otaku planning on world domination. He’s the last descendant of the famous Japanese samurai — or so he believes. However, one should never ask him either of the following questions:
1. How do you know you’re the last descendant?
2. Wait, don’t Japanese family names come first?
It’s possible that he’s not wrapped as tightly as the hilt of his genuine historic imitation samurai sword (bought at a renaissance festival).

And this, by God, is why City of Heroes kicks Champions’ ass: You can do an honest to goodness Japanese seifuku! Well, except for the socks, or the Absolute Distance. But it’s really damn close, isn’t it? With cat ears!