All Kinda Classics

 The Macbook Neo is only $500 with a teacher discount. I'm pretty happy with the HP I'm currently typing on (running Fedora), but I haven't really used a Mac since undergrad. A lot of my friends are pretty big Mac friends, and it might be interesting to try to learn a new OS. Granted, it's still a *Nix system (I know this!) I do remember being frustrated in college when someone asked me to fix something on their Macbook, and I knew how to do it from the terminal on Linux, but couldn't get it to work on Mac. So, I was thinking about what kind of stuff I'd do with it. I've heard great things about a lot of the built in productivity-type stuff. Chess is the only built in game, which seems kind of weird. Then I saw an ad for the new Marathon . I don't know that I'll bother with it (extraction shooters are too much like work), but it did get me thinking about the original Marathon , which came out for Macs in the 90s. I think I played a source port for li...

 I generally try not to do this blog three days in a row. But, while wandering the internet on my lunch break, I found this: It's pretty bad, but it's also one of those things people thought was lost for a couple decades. Excellent 90s representation. Exactly one Asian, black, and disabled person. Why does Victoria get a pendant from Darien and then wind up immediately replacing it? For years, all anyone had was a cam rip of this: Which, honestly, is better.

Continuing yesterday's magical girl ramblings. Crystal not being good isn't a terribly controversial opinion. The art is atrocious in the first couple seasons (I don't expect perfect scaling, but I think Usagi's hair varies by about 10 feet in some episodes), I think they had about three different models for Venus's sword that they swapped at random, and WTF is with everyone's face. But the real issue is filler. I talked about this on the other blog a little, but the original Sailor Moon anime's first season had to try to stretch 14 chapters of manga into 46 episodes, and was running almost concurrently. That lead to a lot of filler. Some of it is really good. The Doom Tree arc (technically part of season 2, but whatever) is better than the actual  season 2 arc. Some of it is pretty bad. Beach episodes are usually bad, but the one that doesn't even have the main villains is especially pointless. Crystal tries to go 1:1 with the original manga. Each episo...

Kind of a disjointed rambling on several topics here. Earlier this year, I started going copywork some nights, especially if I wasn't feeling up to regular writing. It's an old way to practice writing at pretty much all levels. From basic practicing handwriting/typing (the mechanical act of copying) up to doing analysis and practicing your own writing. Basically, pick a piece that you like and rewrite/type it. Handwriting is more traditional, but I mostly type. It's easier to do comments that way, and one of the pieces I'm doing is heavily formatted. I'd have to get a whole stack of different pens or something to try to do it justice. Sailor Nothing  by Stephen "Twoflower" Gagnes started in 2000. It was published ~monthly until it wrapped up in 2001. It was  a hugely popular fic back in the aughts, that's become controversial with age. Short version: 1. It's fairly graphic in a way that was popular at the time, but frowned upon now. There's som...