True Remembrance

Visual novels are hard to recommend to people who have little experience or interest in the medium. Of the ones I've read, however, True Remembrance is one that I have no qualms recommending to anyone who likes a good story.

Today, I'm Thankful For Adblock Plus

I like Crunchyroll.com. They have all sorts of good subtitled anime licensed for web streaming for those in the United States. I personally recommend Time of Eve, Durarara!!, and the new Spring 2011 anime, Hanasaku Iroha. Unfortunately for those unwilling to pay each month for premium membership, they have commercials playing in the beginning, middle (several times), and end of each episode. So greatly did the inconveniently placed commercials inhibit my enjoyment of Natsume Yuchijo this weekend that I resolved to find a way to block them. Thank goodness for Firefox extensions.

Mario Movie Trailer by SXSW

Before you get your hopes up, this is not a real trailer for a real movie. Despite that, it's pretty great. Watch it.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Wallpaper

Today I saw this art of Puella Magi Madoka Magica by an artist called Kariya, and I knew I had to add it to my computer background collection. I took it, resized it to 2240x1400 (weird numbers because I cropped the height and extended the length e.g. no stretching of existing pixels), and added the show's logo in the corner. I also adjusted the contrast a small bit from the original so that it pops out of the screen a bit. Enjoy.

My Favorite Vocaloid

A Spanish university, with funding from Yamaha, developed this software called Vocaloid (an amalgam of "vocal android"). It was eventually commercialized, allowing users to get the application to sing simply by typing in lyrics and melody. The singing voice that the application uses is drawn from a library of phonetic units provided by one person (what a boring recording section that must be). Two versions of the Vocaloid engine have been released, with a third soon to come.

Kimi ni Todoke Wallpaper

Just recently I discovered this glorious Kimi ni Todoke digital wallpaper. I'd like to share it with you now. Click on it for the 1440x900 version.

Rock's Line

Yeah! You got fucked!
I'm pretty sure it was this scene, where a WWII-era torpedo boat takes out a gunship, that made me buy Black Lagoon.

Hail, Fellow Blogger!

A very, very good friend of mine, Spencer Twaddle, started his own blog around the same time I did. It's called Pulled from Chaos.

Another Me

So there's this guy who (almost) has the same name as me, and it turns out a he's really, really good artist in California.
Check it out.