Lately I’ve been buying a lot of anime/game junk….

I figured I might as well post some reviews at some point and revive this site.

This picture, incidentally, is from nearly 2 years ago – Pinky’s Arcueid, Palm Scenery Shirou and Saber, and some Legend of the Galactic Heroes ships from Yellow Submarine.

Very effective at clearing rooms indeed… haha..

(Pic unrelated)

On June 16th, a bolt of lightning struck a tree next to my house and killed my motherboard and all of our networking equipment. On June 21st, I officially declared my newly built replacement system “fully operational.”

On June 24th, I started getting strange lockups in Windows, and failure to proceed past POST. At first I thought the DVD-ROM drive was faulty, since the lockup started happening when scanning the drive list… but that was not the problem. Next I was afraid that it was the Southbridge (with its somewhat inadequate cooling) on my new Asus P5B going bad…

After quite a bit of aggravation, I found out one of my 2 Western Digital 500GB SATA drives had errors and became unmountable. Removing the drive seems to have fixed the problem. Fortunately, there wasn’t a whole lot on the drive.

Looks like I’ll be returning that one to newegg for a refund, and getting a retail drive at Yubtseb because I don’t trust Fedex.

Deadlines and Death. This show is awesome BTW.

I have on my desk 2 new things that require my attention. One is made primarily of paper and the other is not.

Image source here.

Yes, everybody knows this horrible Saber figure was made in China, and that it’s a terror to behold…

These are some reactions to “Sader” gleaned from teh internets from a place whose name I fear to mention.

” thats amazing. Chinese industry should die”

” OMFG FFS you have to know that chinese products are just crap most of them are”

” LOL SUPPORT CHINA GOODS, MADE IN CHINA LOL”

Right.

That would be fine, assuming Japanese toys were made in Japan. But they’re not. Almost all those glorious and beautiful legitimate PVC figurines are made in China. The sculptors and designers may be Japanese, but the production, painting, and assembly are all done in China.

Now if only the Chinese would stop making terrible bootleg figures that feed sinophobia and poison greedbay Ebay with fakes.

Don’t be like Satou (pt2).