Is there any program out there that can virtualize a whole hard drive partition? I want to use one of my (real) partitions in a VirtualBox virtual machine in real time, not just the virtual drive for the system. I’d imagine the whole process like this app i look for would act as a tunnel, appear as a virtual drive image that VB can use, act as a link and just forward all VB requests to the physical drive and the responses back. Is there such a thing out there?
Breathless
When it came to subbing the latest Xros Wars episode, i was surprised no one was in the irc channel when i got there the usual hour or so after the episode aired to ask for the raw video and subtitles to translate… No one said a word while i was there for hours… Then i went to sleep. Next morning i got a notice from iMon that the WPP joint is over and we’re working by ourselves from now on. I’ve also seen the since deleted posts the WPP people left at the forums… As much as i knew them (not at all, it seems) i didn’t think they’d write such stuff without being seriously pissed off. That and knowing iMon’s habit to get a bit too 4chan-ish in arguments made me think he overreacted something and kicked them. Sorry about that, i really am.
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt
Take two totally unangelic angels, a priest and a city, write murderously hilarious stories and turn the whole thing into a strictly 18+ anime with the looks of Invader Zim and the Powerpuff Girls. That’s Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. Panty is the slutty angel who uses her panties as a gun to kill ghosts, Stocking is the gothloli angel addicted to sweets who turns her stockings into swords and Garterbelt is their mentor priest-looking madman who gives the girls missions and seems to be just a bit too fond of young boys.
There’s no much story to this anime, but it’s frenetic. If one likes this kind of filthy humour, the adventures of Stocking and Panty will cause a warp in timespace: bringing infinitesimal amounts of fun in the very limited time of an episode. When i say the series’ humour is filthy, i mean it: if the above character descriptions are not enough, the continuous stream of shit and sex jokes will prove the point.
There’s also a cute doggie-like something that looks very similar to GIR from Invader Zim and dies even more often than Kenny of South Park.
And whenever the girls finish a ghost off, it dies exploding just how a stereotypical Kamen Rider Hibiki or Power Rangers enemy would.
Searching for a game
I’m trying to find a certain computer game. I hardly remember anything about it, so it’s not easy. I got it ages ago with a computer mag, but it seems to have been just a demo—and in the heap of almost eight years’ worth of a collection, i can’t just look through them all without any clue as to what i’m looking for…
It’s a RTS, and it’s not new. I’d say it’s been at least four or five years, if not more. Its menu is dark blue color. What i remember of the gameplay is that you have insane long range artillery, which shoot pretty much vertically up, then after a long while the projectiles fall down roughly where you originally aimed. Also the camera can be rotated totally freely, so you can actually see those projectiles’ path in the sky. In the sky, where a huge planet or moon is visible most of the time, and is very well designed.
Any ideas what it could be?
Edit 2021/11/9
Thanks to helpful people on Twitter and Discord, I now know the game in question was Ground Control II: Operation Exodus. Thanks!
Movie night: Tekken, Prince of Persia
Last night as my connection was down, i decided to have some offline fun: watch movies. Thus i watched the two seemingly lightest pieces, two game cover movies, Tekken and Prince of Persia (note here, it’s annoying like hell that sites try to serve me content in japanese based on my location). I decided to write just one post about the two movies together, for the simple reason i can sum them up better this way.
Game adaptations, with loads of action, american movie cliches and practically no story (even less than with the games, not to mention the movies’ storylines are just vaguely similar to the games’). That’s all. Great visual effects, easy to watch, quick to forget. Good exactly for the reason i watched them: light but exciting entertainment. I got it.
After dark, aka. the intermezzo between Okinawa and China
Unrelated, though looking at my financial status my next gig will probably be an Ajikan in november. The point is, after my adventurous trip back to Naha, the next day i woke up in time, packed my stuff, bought a bottle of awamori for souvenir, got on the plane at Naha, Okinawa prefecture and flew back to Osaka. There i changed trains a few times, walked a while, and here i was in my good old room in Hikone, Shiga prefecture, Japan.
But it was not a day of rest. It was already late and my club friends just happened to ask me if i wanted to go to karaoke. Yeah, i wanted to. So i went to karaoke, and i got back home around 4 am. A bit late, considering i was supposed to wake around 6 so that i could catch a train to Osaka to get my visa in time… Obviously it didn’t work out. I didn’t even wake when my alarm went off, so i still didn’t have my chinese visa, even though i was leaving the very next day.
No surprise i was a bit anxious all day, but at least i got a charger for the ipod and a voltage converter so that i could use it at all. I had to wake early again…
Third day
Today was unexpected. I mean, not that the sun rose up, and with it i, but the events later. First, for some mysterious reason i woke up almost an hour before my phone’s alarm went off. Nevermind, at least i had time to do everything i wanted to do, nice slow.
Then it turned out we didn’t have afternoon classes (which would’ve been two english lessons), instead some meeting of non-sports clubs, which included us, the music club too. It was dead boring, and apparently it was not only me who couldn’t get what was going on at all—the fellow japanese looked just as bored as i did. Not to mention it was frickin long. We had to get there at three pm, and it was almost seven by the time i got home. I could’ve spent those hours better, for example practicing… I have six songs to learn (four of which i play the bass, two just vocals) asap, so i won’t have much free time…
Anyway, just before eight our drummer called if i wanted to go karaoke… Sure, why not. Thus i went to karaoke again, after a month or so… It was fun. I more or less am able to sing enough japanese songs to go one western – one japanese. Yeah, i still love karaoke.
Okinawa, day five
After i woke up at Yoshika, i again headed off for the Chiraumi park. The day before i didn’t see any of the water shows or the aquarium, but this day too my first priority was to make it to the beach. I wanted to enjoy it as much as possible in that day, because i had no way to be sure that i’ll have any more good weather. The view was spectacular…
Okinawa, day seven – hitchhiking adventures
My day before the last at Okinawa was very adventurous. I woke up very early in the morning, packed my stuff and hoped to cross the bridge before it gets closed because of the typhoon. Left a thank-you note on the table and headed out. It started raining as soon as i set foot on the bridge, but i didn’t mind much since i had no illusions about making it back to Naha dry. I just had to get to the bus stop nearby and hope i’d get connections all the way. But it was raining hard, so i decided to give a try for hitchhiking to the nearest bus stop. Luckily enough, soon two surfer guys picked me up, and offered a ride not just to the next stop but all the way to Nago (where i had to change on the way to Motobu). In Nago i walked to the bus station (on the way making my usual ice coffee out of Via and having two onigiri for brunch (which, apparently, is a recognized english word)). This town seemed so… abandoned. I mean, there were people everywhere, but the overall impression was that it’s a dying town.
Gone for good, aka. Stargate Atlantis
Don’t worry, i wasn’t lost or dead, neither was i abducted, though i did spent most of my free time in the Pegasus galaxy. Anyone familiar with that phrase? Yeah, i’ve been watching Stargate Atlantis. I started it when i was supposed to, at the end of the seventh season of Stargate SG-1. But i didn’t keep up—i know i was supposed to watch it parallel with the last three SG-1 seasons, but i didn’t. At least this way i got more… continuity.
In its five seasons Atlantis had much less space for the predictable episodes that were so typical to SG-1 after a few seasons. Much less, but of course they were still there. The story overall is much simpler, with “just” one race as the great enemy and a few minor powers who mostly only cause trouble. In the five seasons, there was only one clip show episode, somewhere in the last season (thus near the finale), so it’s forgivable.
The characters were well designed and the crossovers with SG-1 made it really feel like a part of the already constructed Stargate world in my head, although there were hardly any episodes in the Milky Way galaxy.
True, significant parts of the story won’t make much sense to someone who haven’t seen SG-1, but the main storyline events will. Now on to Universe.
