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... in this post was that otakusphere was created by the artist formerly known as Fledgling Otaku1 as a way to keep updated on the latest posts of the blogs he follows

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So, I was going through my Linux RSS feeds when I stumble on this post of a translation of a "Ubuntu romantic school comedy"...

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Maybe both. Printing it out now to read it...

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Well, my first taste of Ralph Bakshi wasn't too good, though it had its interesting moments. But in truth, this wasn't Bakshi's original script for this movie; supposedly, his producer took his original script that had a subtext of a warning about casual sex and got it rewritten into the mess of a plot in the movie today.

Some of the plusses about Cool World include the smooth animation quality and an interesting soundtrack. I'm not a big fan of rotoscoping in animation, but it's not like I really consider it cheating1 and Bakshi seems to make good use of it here. The one-off gags that go on constantly in the background in cool world also provide entertainment.

• 1. the modern equivalent would be to use motion capturing to animate 3D models

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It feels good to give a gift to someone who I never met face-to-face, but only know each other through words.

In any case, Merry Christmas to all. Hope all of you have happy holidays, and at least a better next year than how mine will be starting.

... but anyways:

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Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Well, those of you in the U.S. Hope the rest of you had a good Thursday...

Some members on an anime forum I frequent had a topic up showing off their collection and how they watch it, so I figure I should post it here just for the hell of it:

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Actually, the nearest shelf contains my housemate's anime DVDs. The further shelf houses my girfriend's and my DVDs. Two-thirds of it is mine; I have maybe about 10 boxes of non-anime. Here's a picture with only my anime DVDs in it:

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No, my new hobby hasn't taken up all of my time that I haven't watched anime. I'm still watching, just not having enough time dedicated to blogging it as much as I used to.

Hopefully, I can get an update out this weekend.

Fledge posts about his blogroll and triggered a few thoughts on my end1.

• 1. Somewhat treading on the tenth blogging cliché (via)