In My Lifetime

Ever since gmail switched the interface, I’ve started to dislike it more and more.  There is constantly a notification or two hovering over my emails about some feature I could give two shits about.  Really, the whole never ending notifications extends to pretty much everything Google does that isn’t the search engine.  How many hundreds of times will I have to click an x on the same thing before the system says to itself, “you know what?  I don’t think this guy is interested.”

Additionally, making filters has been changed to where it auto-skips past the most im-frickin-portant steps (actually defining what will get something filtered).  That’s the whole damn point!

Twitter has been getting on my nerves but they seem to finally believe that I understand about the @mrsickvisionz and Activity buttons.  What really pisses me off though is that promoted tweets show up in my feed even if nobody I know retweeted it.  This shit is going down the crapper pretty fast.

My Kaiba set from Siren Visual (Australia) came in the mail earlier today.  It came with a bonus noitaminA disc with the first episodes from three series.  The more and more anime I get from other countries the more and more I scratch my idea about how the US releases stuff.

Also, Welcome to Inabu’s Office is pretty insane.  I really want to see more of that.  It’s like the art style of Tom Goes to the Mayor (a classic) combined with the pre-K art collage monsters of Madoka Magica with a story that has the same somewhat realistic but crazy feel of Tatami Galaxy.

I was on freaking BBSs back in the day.  I lived in DOS.  My mom used to take me to work and I played on AutoCAD.  I was into programming.  I actually made multiple text adventure games.

But now… now I’m baffled by the Facebook wall, I still don’t “get” most websites, the “Activity” link on Twitter has completely lost me, and I just noticed that the little rectangles under Tumblr posts is people interacting with it (I thought they were tweets or something)… and I still don’t quite understand how you’re supposed to read the Tumblr timeline.

So Im reading a pornstar bio of April O’Neil (yay, everyone is a nerd now!  That’s what the cool kids are into now, right?), a German-Mexican-Russian-Nicaraguan-bisexual Jew.  Two things she wont do: anal and interracial.  This immediately made me super lol.  There’s a lot of stuff to draw from this.

#1 Boning outside your race is down there with anal sex and seemingly less acceptable than being bisexual and a pornstar.

#2 $50 says that German-Mexican-Russian-Nicaraguan-Jew = White when it comes to interracial.

#3 Now… just pause and think about this: a German-Mexican-Russian-Nicaraguan-Jew is adverse to interracial.  Don’t rush.  Let it marinate for at least 5 seconds.  A German-Mexican-Russian-Nicaraguan-Jew is adverse to interracial.

Ahh, internet.  You never let me down.

I actually planned on ordering all of these in October, but DeKalb County paycheck shenanigan put those plans on ice until now.  My ordered shipped out from Japan on November 8 and was at my doorstep from Amazon.jp via DHL at about 10:30am on November 9th.  It seems super quick, which it is, but it’s also aided by Japan being like 13 hours ahead of us so it’s like you gain a alternate realm extra shipping day in there somewhere.  Anyways, my pickups were the Kure-nai Blu-ray Box Set and both Book of Bantorra DVD Sets.  

Kure-nai (Full Picture Library HERE)

The Kure-nai one was really nice and was packaged as a 4-panel Digicase inside of a cardboard holder.  As a bonus, it included a 96-page booklet with artwork, interviews, and a bunch of other stuff.  I’ve only looked at the first disc, but it included a commentary track on the episode I was watching as well as some storyboard/pre-vis versions of various scenes.  Very nice.

Book of Bantorra (Full Picture Library Here)

Book of Bantorra was a Rondo Robe release so it was pretty light on physical bonus items, and by light I mean it didn’t come with any… which puts it on par with your standard US anime release.  However, the first disc (the only one I’ve seen so far) includes a commentary episode, a bizarre music video by Ali Project (I think), an AMV, and a weird behind the scenes video that includes

• a studio tour with a voice actress,
• a Bantorra Q&A at a panel,
• information about the characters/setting,
• and the thing that actually makes it weird: the whole thing is hosted/guided by an AKB48 member doing in-character cosplay as a character from the show

It’s actually a pretty nice digital package.  Additionally, both sets were pretty cheap, costing me only about $50 each which actually puts them in the price range of a US release.