An AMV with the characters from Ah! My Goddess — and a bit of a twist.
It actually tempts me to pick up the rest of the series…
Update: And this is a blast from the past… except it’s not. It’s new. Tron: Legacy. I can’t embed the video, it’s been disabled. Stupid Disney.
Sigh, another short comment that started running out of control at Chizumatic.
Edit: fixed episode #
The episode is kind of confusing in that it picks up an hour or two after the end of ep. 1. Yumiko apparently hightailed it again; Koyomi and Misa have gone back to Misa’s place and Koyomi explains how and why she came to be there. After they talk, Koyomi goes back out to search for Yumiko, although Misa warns her that she could really die if she gets hurt here. Now I have to explain that…
It’s all spoilerish, so it’s below the fold.
The shrink-wrap is still on my copy of Fate Stay/Night. I must fix that.
Edit: a few hours later. Ah, that’s better. Rewatched the last two DVD’s. One of these days I need to take the wrap off of Haibaine Renmei. Still haven’t watched it. Just not right now.
For right now, I’m installing Company of Heroes: Gold Edition. Yay me. I finally have a legal copy. Did the same for BF1942 a while back, and quickly wondered why. It’s ok, I guess.
I still like to go back and play Total Annihilation, but I never got into Supreme Commander. Graphic improvements over the last ten years shouldn’t mean units now look like shredded confetti. I can’t tell one unit from another in that game. TA on the other hand, it’s fairly easy to tell them apart at a glance.
Although I remember that the Jeffy scout and the minelayer car look just a bit too much alike. I’ve never properly paid Dr.Heinous back for that little bit of treachery. “Hey! Where the hell did my base go?!”
…to get back on the Internet, Dr. Heinous goes and revamps his blog. What’s more, he actually starts blogging, just a bit. And guess who’s commenting there?
No, not me. The SSB, as “El Brat.”
I don’t expect to see the prolific output you’ve come to expect from Bridgebunnies (what? Hey, WAKE UP!!!!), but who knows. Maybe he’ll be at least half as funny as the Stainless Steel Brat.
Speaking of whom, the story behind the DeMotivator poster is: the SSB texted him about the D&D campaign: “I wanted to take a level in badass, but I could only multiclass into brat instead.”
I don’t get it; I thought she’d be multi-classing OUT of brat.
Edit: Guess I’ll remember the link now…
How am I supposed to remember a little blood and violence after seeing all this, in Sekirei?
Warning! NSFW below the fold!
So, if anyone still stops by this blog, I thought I’d mention something I found today. Over at The Economist, it seems they don’t like the names picked for the new class of aircraft carrier.
THE purpose of the naming of military vessels is to inspire fear and awe in the adversary. It is not to suggest to the adversary that he needs to bone up on his American history (who was John Stennis?), nor to thrill him with memories of the disco era (where were you during the Ford years?). The inspired men who built the Royal Navy understood this simple fact, and they left us with the greatest names in the history of naval warfare. HMS Dreadnought. HMS Intrepid. HMS Terror. HMS Invincible. (Also HMS Partridge. Not sure what that was about.
(snip)
Admittedly, the USS George McGovern does have a ring to it, and as a former bomber pilot who himself rained destruction upon America’s enemies, his pick has a certain logic. But the entire custom is flawed. An enemy looking upon an American ship of war should not be reminded of the droning speeches of American politicians. American warships should be named after universally recognisable, all-American cultural figures who embody limitless powers of destruction, put to the service of peace, justice, and the good of all mankind.
Suggested names for the next generation of American naval vessels:
USS Batman
USS Wolverine
USS Captain America
USS Storm
USS Mr Incredible
USS Invisible Woman
USS Hulk
USS Michael Jackson
I’m not even going to comment on that last one, except to point out that it should have a mottled paint scheme.
However, the real prize was in the comments, where it one idiot went off on a rampage about naming them after Evil Oil Companies, since they used so much to fuel these things.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Maybe he was talking about the jet fuel. I don’t know of any nuclear power plants that use oil to regulate the fission reaction, myself.
Also, while one reader pointed out Wolverine was from Canada, I don’t think anyone remembered Storm was from Africa. Duh. And technically, Superman was an illegal immigrant, so there.
Some of the reader suggestions were pretty cute:
* USS Loki
* USS Kali
* USS Cthulhu (A later reader pointed out this could only be a submarine)
* USS Eris
* USS Shiva
Star Wars Imperial names:
Implacable, Invidious, Virulence, Tyrant, Night Hammer, Iron Fist, Executor, Accuser, Razor’s Kiss, etc.
Contemporary Names:
* USS Stimulus
* USS Cash for Clunkers
Webcomic fun:
* USS Serial Peacemaker
Sponsor This:
* USS Coca-Cola
* USS Blockbuster
* USS Fleet Bank
* USS Ford (brought to you by Verizon)
* USS Red Lobster
* USS Arthur Treacher’s
Ok, enough of THAT silliness… what about animé-themed warships? We want to inspre fear and terror in the enemy, after all… So what’s your suggestions? Can you develop a theme for the names?
USS Nadesico
USS Kamina
USS Tsundere
Go crazy with it…
That I couldn’t stand Ikkitousen. I mean, damn, the girls are gorgeous. It would be the harem to die for, if it had been that kind of show.
No mere thumbnail will do justice for this wallpaper, so it will blow the formatting — and I warn you, it’s emphatically NSFW.
NSFW: 
