10 Anime That Turn Out To Be Nothing Like What They First Seem
I’m just going to say, most of these are worth watching and more than a few are great ^_^.
How to know it’s time to take a break:
- You’ve cleared out a post apocalyptic city full of daemons.
- You’ve defeated the villain’s pet three headed, fire breathing dog.
- You’ve defeated the villain’s Astral ally, with some help from your own.
- The game crashes before the post battle auto checkpoint save.
Yep.
Watching Christmas Vacation for the first time in some years, I think the real problem is less that Griswold’s luck is like a suburban dad version of Ashley Williams, and has more to do with his foolishness. But there in lays the rub.
In a way, Clark Griswold kind of represents the foolishness in us all, parodied to National Lampoon levels. He’s pretty much hopeless, and nothing he tries to do for his family goes according to plan, but they love him just the same. Somehow.
Most people can probably identify with how that works out, and be glad that most of us space out our foolishness enough not to have a reserved spot on the other side of the nut house, or encounter SWAT teams that often in our happy endings. Oddly, the characters work really well, lol.
Final signs that the tablet has won:
- Posting from my desk usually means my tablet is between my keyboard, and monitor, and the keyboard is paired to the monitor.
- If it doesn’t involve video playback, Direct3D games, or compling code, I’m probably going to use my tablet when I’m at my desk more than my desktop.
- The urge to hook up my HDMI switch again, so that I can share the monitor with my tablet.
Yes, I’m weird.
Breffo Spiderpodiums as an Xbox controller caddy and headphone stand
The Breffo Spiderpodium was originally made with holding an iPhone in mind, but I have to admit that it works pretty good as an Xbox controller caddy.
Two middle legs are folded to create stand, two back legs to lip over the controller, and two front legs are folded to make a sort of rest by the accessory port. So I can pretty much tilt the controller about ten degrees downward, slide it into place, and relax.
The larger model originally designed for the iPad, also works pretty neatly as a headphones holder. Hehe.
Plus whatever Breffo’s definition of British steel or whatever the interior is made out of, I’ve never actually managed to break one of these things. The most damage I’ve ever done is melting the plastic a bit by hanging one out of my car’s air vents for a lustrum or more.
Check out what I’m watching on Crunchyroll! http://www.crunchyroll.com/oresuki-are-you-the-only-one-who-loves-me/episode-7-i-discover-an-unexpected-side-790234
This episode especially made me laugh, in a pretty steady symmetrical fashion. Perhaps helps that the jokes with Sun-Chan just made me cackle louder. Their trip to the pool is just filled with reasons to laugh, while somehow maintaining the pseudo-serious tone of the series; it really worked for my funny bone.
Oresuki is probably worth watching for the twisted-characters and wise cracks about rom-coms, but this episode is just worth watching, period.
Not sure why I’m so ridiculously tired tonight.
But I’m tempted to either blame the comfy goons, or tell them to move over.
Mastery of the comfy nap award of the day, goes to Willow.
Hunger was banished by beefaroni.
Which happens to be a great recipe for food comas.
I think I’ve finally found something my iPad truly does better than my Androids, lol.
By in large, my many years of using my Android tablets docked to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor has been a pleasant experience. Enough that the only real beefs I’ve had, have been when apps (read Google’s) break the scroll wheel support. Mostly, it just works(tm).
One sore spot however was anything that involves a pinch gesture. Like trying to zoom in and out on Google Maps, which did not always have eat double tap and slide gestures to it. Everything else worked pretty well.
Well, I think I finally smiled. Apple binds the right mouse button to penning the accessibility menu, which is an artifact I guess, of mouse support being more of an accessibility minded thing then a general feature like Android’s support. But when you open this menu and goto Custom it offers the ability to trigger a pich. Which changes the cursor and left click behavior to let you navigate pinching in multiple axis of movement. It doesn’t suck, although naturally it might be a tad confusing.
That’s kind of cool. Good job, Apple. I know I rarely say that instead of four letter gestures, but this one made me happy.