Fuck me. I just joined the Hetalia bandwagon and it's all Prussia's fault. And all those hot Germany/Prussia, Prussia/Germany fanart I see around. I solve this problem by just searching 'Prussia' on the hetalia_daily comm though. :3

Fail.


Prussia recs from flist welcome!

Oh wow. I haven't done one of these since 2005. I have checked out about 15 titles from the fall season. I thought I'd commemorate by posting again (that and Debi picked a fine time to NOT pick up new titles. So I have to do this for her too). Breaking it down to 5 titles per post. Links to ANN included for those who want a summary, as I suck at summaries so I don't do them.

( Gundam 00 S2 )
( Casshern Sins )
( To Aru Majutsu no Index )
( Kyou no Go no Ni )
( Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo )

Ok. I was in the middle of writing this post when I spotted the news on the Chrono Trigger remake. Got majorly sidetracked of course. Random useless info forthcoming. Hope it's useful to someone at least.

Where are your bookmarks in Firefox 3
For those who 1) use Firefox and 2) reformat their PC on a regular basis, then you're probably used to backing up your bookmarks by backing up the bookmarks.html from your Firefox profiles folder. Now for those who already upgraded to Firefox 3, it actually handles bookmarks differently than the previous versions. Bookmarks are now stored in the places.sqlite file found on the same folder as bookmarks.html.

I did not know this when I reformatted my PC a month ago. It's a good thing I tend to backup the entire profiles folder. Once I have the fresh install though I tend to only copy back my bookmarks.html file, so I spent a good 10-20 minutes being annoyed when no matter what I did, Firefox wouldn't update my bookmarks when the correct bookmarks.html was already copied into the profiles folder.

So yes, remember kids, places.sqlite has your bookmarks now. If you want to set up Firefox so that it updates both the sql db and the bookmarks.html file, you can learn how to do so here.


How to open multiple profiles in Firefox at the same time
Debi and Em have asked me about this before, but it's always when they're over at my place and always in passing. I use 5 profiles for Firefox, each designated for a particular task. One is for normal use, one is for handling downloads, another for surfing art sites, etc.etc. I just find it much easier to handle tabs and bookmarks this way.

Now Firefox normally doesn't give you the option to open two profiles at the same time, but you can override this by using the firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager string on the command line. This will pop up the profile manager for Firefox, and let you open another profile while a current one is still running.

You can also update the Target field on a shortcut icon on your desktop/quick launch with the same command so that it pops up the profile manager without you having to go to the command line.

Like so:



ETA: BTW, if you're not using Firefox... WHY NOT?! D:

Because the usual people aren't online for me to be absolutely incoherent at.

CHRONO TRIGGER FOR THE DS.

A month behind on the news, but still! Have waited SO LONG for this to happen, I don't think I ever actually expected that it would. I am now a happy Chrono fangirl. (Still hoping for a new game somewhere along the line.)

Rawr. Bored like you wouldn't believe. Currently PCless as my pc is at the shop having its motherboard changed (or the power supply, or both) depending on what's causing my 500gb drive to disappear from time to time. I was originally assuming it was the power supply since I had three drives mounted on the cpu (having too many external drives = too many cables), hopefully neither will cause very much to get changed.

So what have I been doing while I go through pc withdrawal? Reformatting my old PC is what. Since it'll be transferred downstairs to take the place of that literally ancient pc that they're using for work.

Also watching Matantei Loki Ragnarok. Apparently I never finished watching it before (like I never finished watching a lot of series), and it was one of the few series' I had on CD that would play on my dvd player.

I keep meaning to make an anime post (and D keeps bugging me to make one), but I'm lazy and now I have an excuse not to. Though if you haven't already, everyone really should pick up the new Macross series.

Holiday tomorrow. I don't think I'll get my PC back by today. DDD:

Oh. And Nintendo DS players. The World Ends With You is the game you should be playing. Really. >:E I love the art and the dialogue and the music for this game. I wish it had more characters so I could stare at the art some more. As it is, cutscenes kind of take forever for me to go through because I just keep admiring the art, even if I've seen Neku a gazillion times prior. BTW, I thought Rhyme was a guy until Day 4. WTF.

Will have to make icon from that game once I get my PC back.

Just in case anyone on my flist who plays WoW actually missed it. The WoWInsider article for it is a funnier read though.

And since I'm already posting, have returned to playing WoW as my once again absence from LJ probably already proves. My 70 alliance warlock is temporarily put on stasis while I concentrate on my shaman hordie on another server (namely with sesame_seed and her posse).

Soooo... *prods flist* Anyone tired of playing their mains and want to level a new toon on another server? (Or if you have a hordie you can always transfer servers.) We're lots of fun I promise! :D We wanted to see if we could get enough people to do the 10-man raids with people we all know. (25-man would be nice, but let's concentrate on the more achievable goal.) It's all the more fun and laid back that way. More room for error when you botch up in a raid. :P I run with a pretty casual raiding guild on my alliance server, but even so, the first time I was put on fel duty for the Maulgar fight at Gruul's I was utterly mortified. Q_Q DID NOT have macros ready for that first fight.

Would say more, but it always feels weird to be posting on LJ again. So I leave you with random screencaps from when I was leveling with caillen's paladin the other day.

( corpse rainbows )

Once upon a time when Debi, Bhex and I were out the conversation somehow jumped to LJ memes and being tagged for memes and my never doing them.  So I said I'd do the next meme I was ever tagged for. Even if Bhex is cheating with AN OBVIOUSLY ILLEGAL TAG.

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll respond via comments. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on fannish stuff, favorite type of underwear, the less touched-upon aspects of my life, etc. And then, repost this on your journal so that I can start asking too. XD

Hello insomnia. Welcome back old friend.  I will now attempt to survive the day whilst completely braindead.  I owe people email/lj replies, have been rather occupied all weekend, but will attempt to reply to a few during random bouts of lucidity throughout the day.

For now, image heavy post since it requires minimal brainpower.


I normally don't do this, but I just had to take a pic of this particular stack of doujinshi. Henceforth to be remembered as the package where the Philippine Post Office TAXED ME WAY TOO MUCH for some porn. I've never been taxed for my manga or doujinshi before, so I was pretty much DDD: at them when I picked this up.

Most of it is Initial D doujinshi (Ryousuke/Keisuke ).  I reallyreally wanted to splurge on Gintama and Reborn djs at the time, but there was a reason I got the IniD ones instead. D:  I got the Acchicchi (Kanegae Shouko) collection mostly because I had never heard of the circle before and was curious to see if it would be worth getting her individual djs in the future. I probably won't because she mostly does Reborn/Lambo, but the anthology was a pleasant surprise and had me laughing a lot while flipping through it.  There were a lot of completely random CPs which alone made it well worth it.  I would not mind buying another anthology of her stuff if she ever releases another one.

Anyway, wanted to share a few of the more random gag stuff in the anthology.  Subpar pics behind the cut.  My scanner is currently still in its box, so I just took pics of a few random scenes.  Will get around to scanning some of the more amusing stories once I hook the scanner up. Still waiting for Em to read Reborn so I can force make slavedrive ask her to translate these.

( some non-worksafe pics behind the cut )

So oh hey, maybe some of the artists on my flist can answer this one?  I was looking through Ballistic Publishing's artbooks and the major difference between their Expose line and Exotique line seems to be that the former is for digital art while the other is for CG? (I had originally thought it was pro versus non-pro / semi-pro artists.) I couldn't seem to find anything on this on google, I had always thought digital and cg art was the same thing.

For those not familiar with it - Ballistic Publishing. I just spent the better part of a few hours flipping through their Expose and Exotique books and wibbling incoherently. They are basically artbook collections with digital and cg art from several incredibly talented artists (a lot of which I'm sure some of you would be familiar with, especially those who frequent deviantart). I have probably already made myself broke for the rest of the year so I will have to wait until next year before getting any, but there are already 7 books out total and I can't possibly afford them all. Q_Q

I like the Expose books  a lot since they have landscape and structural art on it as well.  Someone covet with me!



From Exotique 3


From Expose 4



Was sorting through boxes yesterday and I'm just finally realizing just how much fancrap I used to buy.  I even have useless stuff like postcard sets and stationary and card sets, etc.  Why god why?! All that money down the drain. D: Although it's also reminded me that I am an artbook whore, which are actually one of the few things I spent on that I don't regret.

Boredom begets memes. Otherwise known as Arc's perfectly good excuse to not work on her 1859 fic.  Ganked from gekidasa.

First, write down the names of 12 characters (it's best when they're all from the same fandom). Then read and answer the questions.You can't look at the questions (or click on the cut) until you write down the 12 characters you're going to use.

1 Gokudera
2 Tsuna
3 Reborn
4 Yamamoto
5. Colonello
6. Hibari
7. Mukuro
8. Byakuran
9. Lal
10. Ryohei
11. Irie
12. Lambo


( ... )

I belatedly realized I had not written any of the Varia members down, which makes me sad. But I made the list by putting in the first names that came to mind. D:

Haha. I could not resist doing this.

( Rules behind the cut because it gets in the way of my pimping. )

Christmas wishlist
1-5. READ REBORN.
6-9. READ EYESHIELD 21.
10. Anything Hibari/Gokudera is also gooood. Even if you're only at volume 3 whut. (BHEX I AM LOOKING AT YOU.)

Seriously.

My RL friends who do not do this meme automatically get a copy of the Reborn manga with the words READ REBORN AS IF I WERE TO DIE printed on the cover. And probably even if you do the meme anyway.

I have nobody to fangirl ES21 with on IM (damned friends), so I have to spam my LJ instead.
DL: Eyeshield 21 ch.259 / Reborn ch.171 [raw]

( Sena may not be my favorite, but there are reasons I love the kid. )

Have I ever mentioned just how much I love this series? More people on my flist need to read this. Q_Q


And because raws came out while I was procrastinating on this post. Reborn Target 171.

( Wherein I randomly fangirl over everyone. )

Sharing this, because I had to grit my teeth from giggling like a crushing schoolgirl when Iida Toshinobu introduced himself (complete with Mukuro laugh) and then promptly spazzed out of embarassment. ♥ Haha. Such a short segment though. D:

Reborn Net Radio #10 - 11.12.07 [download]
Hosts: Ichinose Hidekazu (Gokudera), Inoue Suguru (Yamamoto)
Assistant: Ishibashi Rika
Guest: Kokubun Yukari (Tsuna)

Reborn Net Radio #11 - 11.19.07 [download]
Hosts: Ichinose Hidekazu (Gokudera), Inoue Suguru (Yamamoto)
Assistant: Ishibashi Rika
Guests: Kataoka Yoshiro (producer), Iida Toshinobu (Mukuro)

I had to download the asf stream for #11 thrice before it finally downloaded the complete radio show. Not sure what was wrong with it. I ended up listening to the show online while waiting for the download to finish, so if there's any glitches on the mp3 file do let me know.

Randomly, I am totally for Varia character singles, if only because I would love to hear Takahashi Hiroki singing in Squalo's voice. Chichi wo moge! ♥

Just needed to vent somewhat.

( ... )

Because I refuse to write smut (and it is the only fic in my head that wants to be written), I opened up a Reborn fic request thread over at the fic journal. I figure I should be able to do most of the requests, since not a lot of people on the flist seem to be following it.

I find that I find writing fic more enjoyable when I do it with someone else's fic prompt. I am weird that way. Because I can do something ridiculously unforgiveable and blame it on someone else! ;D

And as an aside... WHERE IS MY BYAKURAN/MUKURO SMUTTAGE DEAR FANDOM. Q_Q woewoe. It is like the battle of the semes. Of course it would be fun!

Decided to do a quick browse of Persona 3 english fen just to see if - in true fashion - it'd hate me yet again. It does.

So... am I the only one who thinks P3 main character is most seme? D:

And while I'm talking about P3, was there ever an "official" name released for the main character? I named my hero Suou Shura, because I am unoriginal like that, what.


In other news, World of Warcraft has finally spat my soul back out. There is only so much dailies you can take before you get sick and tired of doing them just for the gold when you no longer have anything to use your gold for. I mostly only log on for raids these days, as well as special events, like the Brewfest Festival this month. And so, I will regal you with a screencap of the best Brewfest quest there is. Getting rid of pink elephants, which you can only see when you're dead drunk.


The screen is fuzzy because I had to be drunk to see the elephants, I had the effects turned off (because looking for a tiny rabbit while dead drunk and having a fuzzy screen hurts your head), but I turned it back on to take the screencap. I was no longer in a drunken stupor when I took the cap, otherwise the screen would be fuzzier.

And the things one does when bored. Elyrianna (selfaro's paladin) was running my lowbie mage through ZF and on our way out we aggroed every damned mob remaining in the instance.


click to view
The Witchhunt addon was spamming like crazy, (the big yellow text on top) so it covered the huge line of mobs that was in front of me and running after Ely. It was rather funny to see. And excuse the messy UI, my UI is set up for my warlock (my main) who has a ton more skills at her disposal than a level 46 mage. Hence all the empty space at the bottom.

Real men sport a natural perm and wear pink-rimmed glasses.


P.S. THEYMADERAIDENGHEIEROMGLAWLZ. :P

I reallyreallyreally wanted to use spectacled!Izy icon, cause it amuses me greatly. So I write this half-assed gaming post to give me a reason to do so. Well that and I was just full of randomness, and what I really needed was an excuse to make a half-assed gaming post.


Silent Hill 5 - You are Alex Shepherd, a war veteran returning home from an overseas tour of duty to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his younger brother, Joshua.

Haha. And Silent Hill delivers what Fatal Frame refused to. Brothers! :P


Also, seen while reading my clan's message boards in Kingdom of Loathing:

I've done a bit of reading about the new chefstaves and, holy wow, they look awesome! The second tier staves are just amazing, and they're all one-handed. I'm looking forward to upgrading my MP regeneration gear sometime in the future, if I end up ascending again.

I haven't really been playing KoL for a couple of months now, and I just LOLed when reading that, because it sounds so much like something someone in WoW would say. (Never mind that tier 2 gear in WoW is now dung.)

KoL has added so much new continent since the last time I played it's a bit intimidating to start again. Each ascension became so routine before, but I'll have to familiarize myself with the new stuff this time around. It will be fun, just wtfwhatisdis for me. ;P


Aion: Tower of Eternity: New Aion video footage released at this year's E3. The graphics surely doesn't disappoint. While I've always intended to play Aion once it becomes available (in English), I've been of the mind that I'd try it out, not like it very much and then stop playing it. At the moment though, I'd be willing to level a character just so I can travel around the world and go sight-seeing. I kid you not. We get a floating city in the sky! Tell me which race in L2 gives you that! :P

Though NCSoft, LRN2MAC. Because Athene cannot play otherwise. :(

- I posted a grand total of 25 LJ entries for the entirety of 2006.

- I only finished 3 games for the entire year. Suikoden V, Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana and Final Fantasy XII.

- a good 70% of 2006 was spent playing online games. Mostly Lineage II, with a spattering trials for World of Warcraft, Zera, D&D Online and a bunch of other titles I didn't find very interesting.

- I probably finished watching more anime series' than I recall, but the only one that comes to mind right now is Mushishi and Jigoku Shoujo.

Haha, okay. I can't really think of anything to post here, I just felt the need to post on January 1, since I normally always do. I'm about to leave for the New Years party with the relatives, so don't really have much time to post.

Though old friends should already know this, every year we hold a New Year's play on our father's side of the family (the children and grandchildren perform) and at the same time, everyone is required to dress up depending on the year's theme. Last year we did Mulan and had a Chinese dress code. This year's theme is 50's vintage, since we're doing Grease as our New Year's play. My brother's (Carlo) costume is awesome. I end up laughing everytime I see him. It's so FPJ. >:3

And leaving. A good new year to all!