Samurai Swords

 The mystery of the samurai sword is the 58th book in the Hardy Boys series and concerns the visit to America of a reclusive tycoon Takashi Satoya. He disappears en route to his hotel from his limo and as Fenton Hardy is tasked with his security is unceremoniously dumped from this task detail .

There is a secondary plot of the theft of a katana from the Palmer Dade auction house also owned by Satoya Takashi. Fill in  with a motorcycle gang plot and some insider dealing deep within Satoya's own company, and you have a pretty good story. The various plot points come together and play out with a big showdown with some yakuza thugs a biker gang and a very surprising ninja, that saves the day.

These later UK Hardy boys are word for word the same as the American releases, including spelling and terms. Angus and Robertson just reused the scripts without much localization, and apart from one line which could be from the text file I'm going from, has no real differences.

Anyway you can read the original here and UK version here. 

Double update.

 Not too much to say here, but it seems there are two alternatives to RHDN now. Seeing as it'll close at the end of the month these are neoromhacking.net.    a nice old skool forum type update of the main site, and  romhack.ing a bare bones version at the moment but more crucially has the old dinosaur image from years ago, which is a boon for the old heads out there.

In other news it seems that the far right rioters are getting sentenced. Well the fat fucks that call themselves far right, anyway. Mostly they seem to be football thugs and looters in my eyes, with a sprinkling of actual racists in there. Let me paraphrase this to you. If you need to riot to get your message across then you have failed. It will be doubly hard for people with actual grievances to get their thoughts and points across in an actual peaceful non violent protests. 

And if you think this will be only for those parties, such as reform, that you disagree with. Let me tell it to you straight, it'll be implemented across the board. In fact I can't wait to see the hope not hate brigade get hit with this. The whinging will be delicious. 

Also when it comes to disinfo, how come Hate not Hope are not being investigated for spreading fake news, when they post that the "far right" are coming to Walthamstow and Harrow, when in reality there was none.  Just an excuse to assemble the usual rent a mob of the far left, pro palestine weirdoes that are already here. 

Finally, A big thanks to the Rasta man busker outside Dalston train station for playing Waiting in Vain. One of the best Bob Marley tracks. Period.

Fighting words.

 If you've been living under a rock this past week, you can't have failed to notice that a lot of angry, pissed up blokes have been rampaging about our towns burning and looting and generally fighting the cops over what is largely thought to be "immigants coming in and taking our jerbs."

The catalyst was the stabbing of 3 young girls at a Taylor Swift yoga class by a Rwandan teen, which morphed into some world class disinfo, that it was "teh muslamics," and spread online by the far right (3 men and a dog) to turn into violent protest. Incidentally I'll put good money on that guy being a Christian from a strong god fearing family. Not saying there aren't Muslim Rwandans but if you really want to smash up a place, why not make it a church and target Christians, as its also a deadly ideology spreading hate and lies. Or is that too on the mark.

Anyway whatever was left of this now has largely burnt itself out like a scouse library and now all we have is the inverse, gangs of far left rent a mobs which are more peaceful but just as hectoring. Walls of stand up to hate and socialist wankers with endless placards and Palestinian flags. 

As you can see I'm a centrist. I don't want either groups in Britain. Far as I'm concerned people come, people go. Immigration albeit limited and legal is what made the UK, the old Eddie Izzard Mongrel Nation springs to mind. 

The ability to send back those that hate our way of life or are criminal are also what makes this country great. 

The integration of the immigrant class into our society and not balkanizing into ghettos and tribal lines are what makes this country great. 

I don't really stand with Farage or Tommy Robinson especially the latter. I will say that as part of the working class, we are never given a voice to speak about our fears. We're a Labour run and supposedly socialist democracy. Both noted poorshaggers and meant to at least be on the side of the common man. But I see none of that. 

You want the final word on this and someone who can put it better than I could. This piece from Andrew Neil a former giant of the left, and now Mail columnist.

RHDN is done.

 So it seems that Romhacking.net is going to close. A spiritual home for me for the last 15 or so odd years (subs plz check) and one of the few places with a decent forum.  I know its to do with site maintainer Nightcrawler being pigheaded about this and a few other things. But the good news is that the forums and hacks / translations are preserved on archive.org now. 

I know its just a stupid short few paragraphs from me, but I really hope the community comes together and offers up a decent alternative whilst keeping the traditions of  offering a helping hand to newbies and such. I was never a hacker or anything and mostly lurked there, but like I say its my first port of call when I get in from work. Hit the forums and see what projects people are doing. 

Dogspeed and R.I.P.