3DS Stuff

Was going to talk about a Kew article I saw about decolonising botany, but really cannot be arsed. Better people have done a much better job than I ever could. Nothing needs decolonising, just more support for local people in the countries where those plants grow, oh and of course some cash to fund those parts.

No I'm going to talk about how I managed to hack my 3DS and a few notes about the guide to do it here.

I'm 90% there at the moment, gotta download the alt CFW and apply a few bits and pieces so an old flashcard can run again, but it's a lot less painful than doing the Vita, no command line fuckery for certain, just a long line of things adhere to.

So those notes then:

An easy way to get the ID0 folder number for Seedminer. As this is the first folder you should see when you double click on the Nintendo 3DS folder, open a file in notepad and right click on the ID0 folder and go to properties. You can then copy the folder name there and paste it into notebook. Typing it out will not work using some one else's ID0 file will not work. 

Later stages your DSiWare folder is officially called the Nintendo DSiWare folder.

Here is a picture explaining where it is (unless you've bought no DSiWare games then it does not exist and will have to be created). You can follow the guide as normal from now on.

Hope that helps out a bit.

Phantom Freighters and the like

Have a new selection of books for you to read now. This is the Phantom Freighter another Hardy boys mystery. Number 39 if you will. It comes in both the original and UK edition remake.

To be honest, it's not a bad little mystery, the lads are investigating a few related mysteries. A shipping company that really does not want them to travel with them, and a courier service delivering boxes to residences where the original owner is not in but a gang member is. 

There are a few differences from the original to the remake. Chet has a hobby where he's making lures for fishing and there is a section where they test them out.  

In preparation for their often aborted trip on the freighter the boys get smallpox shots and have some crummy passport photos done., while obviously outdated the photo bit is obviously relatable nowadays, especially from the booths you see in malls and bigger supermarkets.

Finally the ending is changed from Joe Hardy squeezing through a duct to enter the radio room of a ship to them simply tricking the captain in the original.  I know which one I prefer.

Anyway original is here and the remake is here. Enjoy.

VHS MESS

Finally have a few new bits of VHS Mess for you. On a video with the cryptic label of BFG, Snow White and Cartoons we had no hope of finding anything strange.  

BFG is of course the well loved cartoon version of Roald Dahl's book. It''s got David Jason in it as the titular giant. It's not bad.  Snow White is the Cannon Video version with Diana Rigg as the evil queen and Nicola Stapleton as a young Snow White, I guess fresh from starring in Simon and The Witch.

No it's the third one, that nebulously named cartoons that got my attention.  I kinda guessed that the Snow White might have been the Disney one (it's not,) but I guess the cartoon bit was some old Warner Brothers Merrrie Melodies stuff or Tom and Jerry.

What it actually is, is Fables of The Green Forest.

A sort of 70's anime version of Animals of Farthing Wood where no one really dies but the dubbing is fucking awful. No seriously there are whole episodes on Youtube in the original Japanese and what sounds like Spanish and its charming if a bit old.  

The English dub is shouty and horrible with some awful music to boot as well. The episode I have is a small lemming critter trying to evade a pair of foxes one is, for some reason, an old granny in a shawl.

He tunnels, they pounce and shout out. He tunnels some more and hides out in a barbed wire covered log and the fox fucks up his paw. Granny covers herself in snow to become a makeshift snowdrift. Lemming dude sees through this obvious disguise, evades her and gets picked off by an owl. 

Then the tape ends.

It has it's charms when not saddled with a horrible dub (there's a reason we went for subs back then) and there's a whole playlist up on youtube for you to look at. One of those 70's oddities to play along with Rascal Raccoon and Anne Of Green Gables.

Hate and more hate

There is a certain demographic of people that you can hate these days, with  no comeback whatsoever. Call them names, and class them as less than human and no its not any oppressed minority you'd usually suspect.

I'm talking about the working class white male. Most certainly Brexit voting, overweight with tattoos and a big England flag outside their house. They're fair game for the sort of middle class liberal Twitter limpets who post bollocks 24/7 to their feeds. 

They are the sort of folk they look down on. You can call them knuckle dragging, gammons and there's no comeback. They're not a minority but they should be. 

I'm reading up about the anti statue protests up town. It's a mix of the far right, football thugs, patriots, white van man and dare I say it, concerned ordinary working class blokes who decided to protest in London against the far left hysteria.  Of course it all kicked off with the police and that, but the same happened with the BLM marches last week, and they were never branded as such.

To be honest, I hate both sides, The left being vandals and never being called out on their shit, the far right for being violent thugs as mentioned. They make it worse for the centrists such as myself and if you think its some Youtube alt right spiral, well I've held these views since the mid 90's. It's nothing new and in 30 years time will still be going on just with no push back on far left ideas as they take the piss out of the far right (and rightly so.)

Anyway you'll be wanting something to cheer yourself up, after that. I found an old clip on the end of a Bruce Lee tape of the One O'clock news, with a young Michael Buerk reporting on a microlight journey from the UK to Australia. 

A brief bit of searching on line I found what it referenced, here. Its a link to the MAAS museum in Sydney who have the actual microlight as an exhibit. The bloke doing it was an ex journalist and went around the world in a microlight back in 1998. So this is a bit of a dry run for him.

3 Stories.

Apologies for this in advance. When I post race stuff all the mentals come out of the woodwork. I'm still haunted by the boat missing cunt on one of my Steve Lawrence posts several years on. Anyway, on with the show.

Story 1.

Bum riots.

I fully understand the rationale behind the riots. I fully understand that you do not kneel on a guy for 8 minutes for essentially having a counterfeit note. I also fully understand the US Cops are full on Robocop mentalists.

I don't understand burning and looting your own communities, often of black run small businesses down because free stuffs yo. Worse every day I log into the twatter its an avalanche of bad take after bad take. 

White people need to bend the knee.

ACAB / Shut down the police.

Anti fa are anti fascist. Rather than the problem to the solution. Seriously only Metokur and Sargon on facebook are keeping me sane here. Largely because Metokur just wants the world to burn.

I've seen white lives matter trend and its largely KPop weirdos, a real case of cancer begetting cancer.

And I've seen the UK protests turn ugly from a largely legitimate peaceful protest. Going to watch to see if there's a spike in SARS 2 electric boogaloo cases in the coming weeks, in said communities.

Story 2.

Our Maddie.

This one is sort of linked to work, but its also to do with the ongoing Maddie McCann case.

It's news now because they've picked up a German nonce because he may have something to do with her disappearance.  (I'm waiting for some actual evidence before I'm rushing in. Habeas Corpus yo.)

Context: They had a little girl who wanted me to help her on with her coat at a place I work at. Her mum was getting her phone fixed out the front, apparently they can come to you to fix it now. I helped her on with it and she started to follow me around (she's about 3 I'd say).  Luckily her mum had finished getting her phone fixed and she could see her come up. So she went back.

Did a double take this morning, going over it in my head, if she went missing, I'd be the last person she saw, not a good look for an autard like me. The press would have a field day too. I'd never hurt anyone but they are not to know that.

Story 3.

Books and that.

The copyright cunts are bitching at archive.org for their inspired massive lending library scheme. Worse they're trying to get it taken down for good. This means no wayback machine, no prelinger archives and a whole lot more. You can read more here.

Personally as most of the books there are out of print or mostly difficult to get I see no problem with their lending library scheme. You don't see anyone protest about this though.