TFS and Mirai FigmaGood photos on Akibahobby's site. My next long-term goal in life is to get the Konata and Kagami Fate/stay Night cosplay nendos for under $100!
HikikomoriMy roommate during freshman year lived like that. The floor on his side of the room was uneven and covered with laundry with loads of junk underneath. If you squatted low you'd smell the strong stench of months uncleaned laundry. His desk drawers wer...
A Week in Tokyo 42When I was in Japan I usually got convenience store meals for dinner but worked my way up to small alley places and yattai my last few days in Japan. Only had sushi three times in two weeks though--a bit of a shame.
MacBook Pro 17"Between a few PCs and a few laptops I've only had trouble with one power supply. I'm generally very cautious about moving my laptops around when they are on and how I set them up. Also clean out my cases whenever I upgrade.
Future of dannychoo.comI think Dannychoo.com has been a great evolution of an interest-specific Web 2.0 community. It facilitates communication between fans separated by distance and more disparate interests, it allows great networking between people linked by those intere...
D5000Blah. The grain that comes with high ISOs doesn't go well with jpeg compression. Do you have an original of the last pic so we can compare to an uncompressed high ISO pic?
Eroge Websites BlockedSeems quite silly. They don't even make games that have rape in them as far as I can remember, and their games are really good too! Unless their members moonlight for other eroge companies? And shutting off access to every foreigner for something mor...
PachinkoI was surprised how often I passed by pachinko parlors when I was in Japan. Seemed like a hassle what with all the balls you need to lug around.
Japan Robot ChefThey're taking away more and more blue collar jobs! What will all the useless young people of the future learn the toil of menial labor if they have no jobs to sweat at? But really.. does Japan need labor-saving technological advances with unemployme...
Japanese CompaniesWhat about shifting interests? Your hobby focus has progressed from Star Wars to gunpla to figures to dollfie in the last several years. Though I realize you have not left any previous hobby behind, your time priorities must have shifted somewhat and...
Tokyo Photo Walk 5One thing I noticed about the homeless I came across in Japan was the lack of psychotic symptoms that quite a number of homeless here in Berkeley and San Francisco display. A few of the homeless I talked to near Berkeley (the non-nutty ones) said the...
11 Year Old College GraduateWhat a pity. There's lots of life experience you pick up that you miss if you skip grades. That he believes he could change the world is admirable but it reflects naivete toward the world.
Also... as a resident of east LA, I know East LA community...
Japan Job BenefitsI get to talk to more world-wise supervisors at my part-time job. One teaches graduate Buddhism classes and another is quite involved in the classical music scene and beer. Also learned lots about office politics and how to mediate intra-workspace co...
The Old Republic Jedi vs SithI wouldn't worry about KOTOR 3. They've been leaving sequels/expansions up to Obsidian Entertainment since Neverwinter Nights 2. That being said, I hope they can keep up with content patches to keep players in the game.
The Old Republic Jedi vs SithDo you ever strap ice packs underneath your armor? Maybe install a cooling system with copper pipes and coolant? Seems like it would be quite unpleasant running around in this muggy summer weather.
Anime BostonI'm gonna get some phat lewt this coming week--2 whole days to run around Akihabara when I get back from Hokkaido.
...Actually, that seems kinda short huh? Must plot a thorough route first on Google.
A Week in Tokyo 39Bought some candied beans when I was in Kawagoe for my mom, but I noticed the expiration date was before the end of my trip. Going to make another trip before I leave, or gotta find something that lasts longer than a week.
RapelayMy impression was that games of this genre give the player a personal space where taking away a victim's power, consent, and "human rights" is okay to do (male or female). While I agree that games may not influence most people to act as they do in th...
KawagoeAh, I was in Kawagoe yesterday. Started with the flea market at the Kitain shrine and radiated outward. Lots of antique shops and snack shops. Bought some candied beans and deep fried sweet potato chips. Nice history, but many of the buildings feel l...
RapelayI disagree with you two. Games involving rape can normalize the idea of rape as an acceptable form of "love". You might liken this phenomena to precursors of social change in that the more exposure you receive to something the more desensitized you g...
RapelayThere are some incredibly disturbing rape games out there--of which Rapelay is very tame compared to them. Not defending the genre, but there are many things other fetishes that accompany the category of rape eroge that only the mentally disturbed co...
Otaku GraduationI find disapproval of my hobbies an impetus for improving other parts of my life--like doing better in school--to take away from that criticism. This works against some people. While I am not as deeply engrossed in otakudom as some others, I know tha...
