101 bottles of IaMP on the wall

Yeah, forgot to mention I finally finished uploading the entire tournament.

This joke's for Brennan

So what are you making here Capcom?

3D...something?
Then again I thought Capcom stopped making fighters.
Looks funny, we'll see.

And so it begins: YouTube nukes 30,000 videos

Welcome to the NHK...or not.
Maybe this'll put a dent in Keshine's youtube-anime zombie watching.

The RIAA, they're real Boy Scouts

"Respect Copyrights" Merit Badge/Patch indeed.

Sucks to be in Europe...

Sony shuts down unauthorized PSP imports to Europe; PS3 likely held back

Not that I care about either console/platform, however this is a general blanket smackdown on all import stores that attempt to ship to Europe.
And they wonder why people start pirating Japanese versions of these games...

God Knows played by a fox.

Main site here.
It's about time someone did this for the Haruhi songs.

NEXT-GEN’S TOP 20 FROM TOKYO

By Next-Gen they actually mean Tim Rogers, pretentious prick and all. (冗談 Tim)
Anyway, some rather nice selections, and some that sort of puzzled me as to why they were included (The Gundam game piece had more on two other robot games than itself.)

One thing that definitely surprised the crap out of me though, is the amount of what's looking like REAL quality games...coming out for the 360.
Like a LOT.
Like Tim's always had FF/Nintendo bias, so to see him pimping like a million admittedly gorgeous ass 360 games caught me off guard.
Or is it more the fact that the 360 is TANKING like crazy in Japan, and that the way it's been marketted in America is well...completely not what the JP wannabes here want.

Just some food for thought...

Interesting, at least.

Music for one apartment and six drummers

October isn't so bad =/

Scenario 3 - The manga elitist
“OMG! THIS WASN’T IN THE MANGA! THEY’RE DOING IT OUT OF ORDER!!!!!!! I’M GOING TO WATCH THIS SHOW BUT NOT ENJOY IT AND TELL YOU HOW MUCH IT SUCKS AND WHY YOU’RE STUPID FOR LIKING IT!!!!”

Then again the new season, for me at least, is looking pretty bleak.

Kan-nad (Clever pun on Kanon and Clannad, amirite?)

Haeleth's Kanon translation patch project is officially dead due to "moral concerns" of the head man in charge about piracy.

In short, this is a travesty.

I'll let SirAlex argue for me here, but in short:

Again, I agree with everything in that newspost... but it's not the whole story. What's actually happening is that a choice is apparently being made to place a moral responsibility to Key's intellectual property over the moral responsibility to the people who bought the game on the promise of the patch. It is a fact that harm is being done to people by stopping the patch project for this reason at this time. If that's the call being made, okay, you're justified, I understand - but at least acknowledge what's being done.

He also didn't tell the people he was working with either about his decision, Esprite found out about it three days later after #shrinemaiden linked him.
Honestly, this was one patch I personally didn't care about as an end user, but I can see the huge effect it would have had on the community.
There are people who would have bought Kanon, there are people who DID buy Kanon, because of the prolonged promise of this patch.

It's hard to view this without a certain degree of cynicism ever since the WIND shenanigans happened.

Well, stay in school kids and you too can learn Japanese.