media update 12-14-25
Video:
Symphogear S1E5: heck yeah
Minky Momo 2: More fun episodes. Despite some dip in quality here and there everyone gets good silly moments. Mama got cute outfits in the episodes I watched. Theres a few times where Hayashibara's Momo is sufficiently silly but also a few times where the direction felt like like "copy Mami Koyama's momo" I wonder if the ep director or someone else didn't like a few of the more bland episodes or got some feedback. Could also very well be some out of order episodes. EN info on this one's production is not immediately available. Will dig into stuff after I finish everything.
The Heroic Trio: Fuck yeah. Wild action movie with cool camera work. Incredibly fun. Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung doing cool fantastical martial arts.
Music:
Listening to The Pillows and having jazz fusion on once again making me wish I had my guitar setup. Even if I got it restrung and adjusted I can’t also afford a cheap amp nor basic pedals this month. Turning into a March project at this point.
Misc:
did more doodling this week.
Since parents had blurays on their xmas lists I ended up spending part of this week checking discs. Check your boxsets. Worth having a drive that can handle a lot of re-writes for temporarily storing them and rip checking. The ripping process has to check the files so any read errors and such will get caught. Some companies are lax on checking boxes, the cases suck on some movies, and some places still press DVDs that rot.
web:
Protip I had to remember to use this week. Since eBay search got useless doing normal terms, I had to force it to load a variety of things with an “or” search it goes something like “(cosina, vivitar, cosinon) 28mm (f2.8, F/2.8, 2.8)" and it will mostly stop it from deviating than if I just put “28mm f2.8”. Using that search it will still ‘smart’ search f/2.8 and F 2.8, but will get weird and be like “oh, did you also want 35mm lenses? 24mm? the f3.5 version? here’s a Nikon lens that has nothing in common with your search.” This is also handy for clothing searches. Sizing and regional terms get less loose if you search that way. If you want a specific slim ps2 model this can help with searching.