10th Anniversary.

At the beginning of December it shall be 10 years since I started writing this blog. 

I set it up to basically have an output, online and act as an archive to things that I would have forgotten about over the years. Stuff like British Cable TV, Polish cartoons, Hardy Boys detective novels.  A love for the PSP and PS Vita consoles, and some Rom hacks that I've played and liked.

I have at times written reaction pieces to bad reporting on cacti and have received at least 1 comment that wasn't spam over the years. 

Looking at my earliest posts I really wanted it to be called Lobster Egg, in part derived from Roger Irrelavent in the Viz and essentially Davey Jones strips which speaks to my level of stupid. But it turned out that the name was taken by a food blog, which was a bummer.

I still don't know 100% where Tibbet, as in my name for a cat, came from. Pretty sure its Mrs. Kitten from the classic Smoke and Fluff but of course intensely corrupted. See also Mrs Nibble / Mrs Cobble from Blackberry Farm tales for the rabbit equivalent. 

It also seemed that I was a bit haphazard in my posting, putting pages up rather than every Sunday, like I do now.  

I was a proper hammer on feminism then, which would take Darkness Savior on Tumblr of all places to turn me on to the whole MRA / Skeptic community. I still like the news critic stuff like Tim Pool, Short Fat Otaku, Vee, The Britisher and even Sargon and Thunderf00t when they're not too cringy.

I added a twatter profile some two years ago and its brought me daily dogs, cats, game knowledge and left wing cunts galore to laugh at. 

Its bittersweet to look back at how the time has gone and that, and for once decided to do what every other cunt does when it advances in years. Adds a shitty retrospective post.

 

Houses on cliffs again.

Been working hard on this for the past few days. A new David Attenborough on TV, is the impetus what made me bust a gut and get it finally done.

I've made a version for the UK, which most certainly would not have been released here in under the Armada imprint. Also I think I've caught all the Americanisms that were in the revised text.

And I've added a fresh PDF of the original text. So far I've got about 9 more to buy to add in which should, dog willing take me through 2020.

Also we're coming up to this blogs tenth anniversary which is nice, though we have fuck all planned for this home coming celebration.

Anyway here is both the original text and the UK rewrite that would have been put out back then,

Uptown trip.

Not a bad trip uptown to be honest, just a lot more convoluted than it should be, due to rail improvements on the DLR and parts of the District line being closed.

In fact we saw quite a few people out, whinging about a second brexit vote. Overhelmingly middle class, middle aged home counties types with their E.U. flags and pithy worded plackards. They even had a cute doggo that was called Euro dog there on the tube. And you never see dogs on the tube as a rule.

Euro doggo seems to be some sort of howl (spaniel) / poodle crossbreed, a cockermutt*, if you will. Would love to have gotten a photo but train was packed and they would have gotten the manager. (Yes they were those sorts of people.)

The other doggo on the tube, (yes, there was two,) was much more easier to pin down, a nice medium sized husky. He had to be carried down the escalator as is customary, and while on the train was befriended by a small girl.

Had a look around Notting hill and did the usual record shops taking advantage of the bargain bin to pick up some overlooked house for the channel.  Walked down to Kensington and was gouged £2.49 for a can of U.S soda. Rather good too, ranking behind Jone's soda for a good American soda taste and sugar free too, which is a miracle as only Bepis do sugar free right. Kind of reminds me of Sargon brewing up a batch of liberalism for the kiddies there.

Had to go to Sloane Square because of the shut down for repairs and that and was reminded that getting the regular train is also bastard expensive and that £3.10 to London Bridge and their nicely renovated station from Woolwich Arsenal. As they say a total rip off. No wonder that climate cunt was pissed off at Canning town.

We also grabbed a leaflet stuck in the tube from anal rebellion. No doubt they are light on resources as it seemed to be stuck on with the worlds smallest amount of masking tape.  Can imagine doing a bad photo shop of this in paint.  If I get the time.

*edit, as its citation has gone awry, imagine if you would the dog in the link but with the traditional brown Springer Spaniel colouring.

Mini PC continued

This is just a short version update, on the mini PC. So far I've had no luck in removing the bios password. Oh, there's guides but they mainly involve taking it apart and either shorting out the battery (yeah right like I'm gonna cause a house fire) or dismantelling it to remove the saturn battery in it (the big button cell type, I know it as the battery back up from Sega's Saturn console.) so it goes to BIOS.

Apart from that have a new game. Resonance Of Fate for PS3. It doesn't explain itself well and there are a few things a good faq will sort out, but it seems to be quite good so far. Can see echoes in the town scape of Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria another Tri Ace game. Too ages to work out how to save a game while the mini PC ran through diagnostics.

Cambodia PC

We finally found a really small netbook PC thrown out. It's one of the small Acer Aspire series of netbooks from I guess 2010 - 2012.  It runs a starter edition of Windows 7 and is quite nifty in a way.

It's not the fastest as it packs an Intel Atom processor, and I've upgraded it to 2GB of ram from the 1Gb stick it did have.  It does the internet, but really slowly and I've finally added the printer to it.

The downsides are the BIOS is password protected and will need to be unlocked before I can switch boot order and see if a Linux will run. It has no CD so maybe a puppy linux live  usb with the HD removed, as it can run in ram,  will do the trick.

So the original owner was on some sort of scholarship to Cambodia as part of a gap year / sixth form work.  They had dropbox and a few other storage solutions there as well as an expired Graham Norton antivirus.

Mostly videos of a few places, but largely mates and dorm rooms and such. Pretty normie stuff, and a typical bird behaviour. If you like no landscape shots and plenty of mates posing in front of things, including a few clips of them round the pool, then this your thing. No pron and the owner is pretty homely looking to boot.

I've been adding programs to it, to get it into shape including looking for a non adobe PDF reader as my go to favourite, fails to install.  Will I use it for much? god knows, its small enough to not have any CD drive built in so will need an external drive to take advantage of anything. Definitely do have the drives to take advantage though. So there is that.

All in all, its not bad but hardly essential. Hopefully it will linux ok.

Old Mill Update

Just a few lines to say that my original upload of the Secret Of The Old Mill has been updated with a new edit of the text and to add the UK version for the first time. Everything should at least have question marks now instead of exclamation marks, thanks to Applewood press using a nebulous punctuation system.

Remember that this is typed in from original books, or using them as a source to check and amend if there is an existing PDF available.

Original here and UK version there as always.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3D Review

Recently got hold of this RPG from Monolith soft, exclusively for new 3DS.  I was sort of aware its a remake of sorts from a late era Wii game along with Last Remnant, and maybe something else I've forgotten, Essentially its a hardcore RPG for a system that mainly has horse poking simulators and mini game selections.  But this time is been ported to New 3DS

One of the nicest things about this is that its entirely voiced in English. That is proper English accents, no yanks here to ruin it.  Some of the voices, mind, are a little strange if you're a native. They vary from stage school kids trying to sound tough, to pure council accents. Seriously there is one NPC bird earlier on that I swear, could be from work, she's that common.

Other times its more like Harry Potter kids doing the lines, so a bit of Daniel Radcliffe or maybe someone who sounds a lot like him. I shouldn't nitpick mind as they really are the good bits here.
It's just that you continually add bits to the dialogue, MST3K style.

Combat is a little weird, no continual attack and you have to target everything manually before going in  and beating the shit out of it. It works if there is a bunch of you, but not so well, solo.

Which brings us to the graphics on this. Can see why this needs the extra grunt of the New 3DS as the whole game with its open world layout and draw distance reminds me of PSP games, cough Zill Oll cough. With pretty good frame rates as well.

You play as Shulk a tinkerer working at colony 9, you have a hero's sword called the Monardo blade and you have an ex veteran as a boss who looks a lot like Hulk Hogan - Shulk Hogan- and the swords original owner, who is now a bedridden cripple after being injured taking out a billion robot badguys, oh yes there is a war on.

You also get to play as a girl with twin knives (Fiora) too, she seems pretty handy too, though her jumping sound, makes her sound like she's being sick which is off putting.  ... and that is as far as I've got. I'm sure the story will carry on from us beating up rabbits and dragonflies outside of town, when Shulk Hogan goes on one of his foraging missions for the army.  Will have to write more once we've progressed the plot some.  But this is  a preliminary 88% so far.