“The other party’s nomination battle is still playing out. The candidates are an interesting group with diverse opinions. They’re for tax cuts and against them. They’re for NAFTA and against NAFTA. They’re for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act. They’re in favor of liberating Iraq, and opposed to it. And that’s just one senator from Massachusetts.”
— George W. Bush, 2/23/2004Dear Sony,
Why on Earth are you shipping a brand-new, business-class laptop with a 14-inch 1024x768 display?!?!?
Blazing Knocked-up Classmates
For quite a while now, a fair percentage of tv anime series have been based on porn games, sometimes scaled down into a simple harem comedy, sometimes left raunchy. I’m thinking that this one (NSFW! NSFW!) will end up going straight to DVD, with no attempt at a tv-safe version.
Anime producers have managed to tone down “screw the schoolgirl” stories before, but when the declared bust sizes range from A to P Q and a number of them are equipped with 母乳, well, I don’t think it’s destined for television.
[and, yes, it comes from a company called SQUEEZ (NSFW! NSFW!)]
[I think the title 炎の孕ませ同級生 should actually be translated as “inflamed knock-me-up classmates”. By the way, the subtitle makes it clear that you’re supposed to impregnate all of them, which means that the 母乳 is just there to add a bit of flavor to some of the sex scenes.]
[no, after waking up, it’s not the imperative -mase, it’s the stem of the causative -maseru, so “knock-them-up”]
[Update: the promo videos (1, 2, NSFW! NSFW!) are hilariously awful. As are the theme song lyrics.]
[Update: Apparently you’ve got your work cut out for you…
Network Autofellatio
How did I spend the last two days? Discovering that a machine that was powered off was sending a two megabit/second stream of SMTP traffic out through our firewall to another machine that had been powered off four days earlier, and that would have been on the far side of a VPN even if it had been turned on. And the VPN configuration had been removed from the firewall, which by this point was a completely different machine (hardware and OS) from the one that had been there four days earlier.
Rosario + Vampire
So, there’s an upcoming tv anime series based on the manga Rosario + Vampire, and they’ve put up a promo site that makes it look like a fan-service comedy with schoolgirl vampire hunters. This has a certain Buffy-esque appeal to it.
Except that I own one volume of the manga, and it’s filled with blood and murder. Also fan-servicey schoolgirl vampire hunters, but the bad guys aren’t at all cute, and neither is what they do to their many victims.
Even if they tone that down for the anime, I don’t think I’ll be looking forward to this one.
Morning pick-me-up
[Update: the title says it all, really]
I’ve been getting a little Youtube-happy around here recently, which slows down page-loading, but I can’t resist the megadol:
Expose breasts before entering
A Chinese online game is enforcing gender in character creation. Want your online avatar to be a girl? Prove you’re a girl. Using a webcam.
In their next release, players will be required to provide proof that they’re elves, dwarves, trolls, warriors, wizards, thieves, heroes, assassins, or demigods before they’re allowed to select anything but the “geek living in mom’s basement” character class.
By the end of the year, they plan to require all characters to be exact replicas of their players, leading to 1000-man raids on the Lord of Cheetos and endless camping of the Valley of Free Porn.
WTF?
Two guys working alone in an electronics factory at 1:30am, and one of them falls into an open vat of sulfuric acid?
It’s nice to hear that OSHA is investigating, but I can’t help but think that a company that lets unsupervised 18-year-olds work around a waist-deep vat of acid in the middle of the night should have been shut down a long time ago.
