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Weekend Photography 6/4/09 Friday, June 5th, 2009

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Catching the sunset from atop the Light Rail platform while returning from the Mall of America tonight, I liked how it was setting next to the smokestack, but didn't realize there were wires crossing overhead, amazed
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DVD-A-Day 12 – Ah! My Goddess TV Season 1 disc 6 Thursday, June 4th, 2009

And there's the season done. A bit surprised that it only took the first two episodes on the disc to finish up the sudden plot, but I guess I should have seen that the actual series was only 24 episodes and the last two were DVD-only specials. Perfectly ...


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Manga-A-Day 12 – Comic Party v4 Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Again with the two major plot threads, tying back into earlier, briefly introduced characters (also cute girls, this did originate as a visual novel game after all). Overall, the tone of this volume was a fair bit more serious (relatively speaking) and almost approaching normal slice-of-life, rather than the ...


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DVD-A-Day 11 – Ah! My Goddess TV Season 1 disc 5 Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Augh! Super goofy relationship-advancing horny-potioned Belldandy episode, goofy-but-sweet relationship-advancing gender-switched Keiichi episode, melancholy Urd super-character-development episode, OMG-RETARDEDLY-PLOY-HEAVY-EPISODE. While Marller's been there on and off this season, and has really brought the only bit resembling an ongoing plot to the mix, there ...


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Manga-A-Day 11 – Comic Party v3 Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Continuing last volume's cliffhanger, we spend the better part of the volume wrapping it up, in requisite ridiculous fashion. Then we're on to getting our lead's proto-Kasukabe girlfriend (yes, I know, completely different creative group than Genshiken, but still) to participate in the next doujinshi event ...


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Metroid: Other M Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I'm thinking I'll be posting an E3 roundup at some point, but this can't wait. At Nintendo's conference this morning, they announced a collaboration on a beloved franchise franchise with motherfucking Team Ninja (of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive fame). That franchise? Metroid. ...


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Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer! Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Okay, I heard about this earlier in the evening, but the fine folks at Rock, Paper, Shotgun have continued to bring the awesome news today with the Left 4 Dead 2 trailer:

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DVD-A-Day 10 – Ah! My Goddess TV Season 1 disc 4 Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Hrm, there's the robot, Banpei, guess I did catch up to where I'd read with the last disc. We have a rather meandering set of episodes here, mostly wandering around, but providing some secondary character development and, notably in the last episode on the disc, moving ...


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Manga-A-Day 10 – Comic Party v2 Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

The insanity marches on, as our lead continues to learn the ins and outs of the doujinshi world, finding that its not always successful, and that spurned fans/creators can be really fucking scary. The cast, which seems to keep expanding every few chapters, is working nicely, and the lead ...


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Manga-A-Day 9 – Comic Party v1 Monday, June 1st, 2009

For some reason, I thought this was going to be a rather tame series, focused on the crafting of doujinshi with somewhat realistic characterizations. Doujin-making aside, I couldn't have been more wrong. Opening with a nailbat wakeup call, lots of metal references, and a quick jump into the world ...


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