heās 30 years old. heās a gamer. heās a ceo. he kicks off the whole plot at 14 by sending a deadly virus to a random kid because the kid had better ocs than him. he really wants to change the world and create a way to bring dead people back to life but he also really wants to make fortnite real. he insists on combining those. he succeeds at both. heās asked to apologize for what is essentially mass murder and bioterrorism and he completely genuinely replies with āi donāt think iāve done anything that merits an apologyā. he dies over 100 times total. he dies 12 times in one night once because he overworked himself too hard. he renames himself to ānew kuroto danā after one of his more major revivals. then āgod kuroto danā. he gets extremely mad at people for not calling him that. thereās a scene where he screams about becoming god with the power of gaming while heās naked in the woods. it is never explained why he was naked. heās played by a licensed pharmacist. heās 6'1. heās everything to me
no please dont forget to add that kuroto wasnt originally meant to be this insane but iwanaga started playing him that way and the directors and producer liked it so much they just let him do whatever. so basically
Okay, burning need for a citation on that last one.
Iām fully able and willing to believe itās real though. Dan Kuroto once heās ditched the sane, helpful CEO act for the true transcendental being he truly is, just about brings a tear to my eye.
As for Iwanaga-san himself,Ā he becomes even more amazing with every new fact I learn about him.
Wow, the tip? I can touch my nose with my tongue but I canāt manage the tip.
Still, nice to know I share a skill with one of my favourite scenery-chewers.
My email got hacked. Now sorting through over 8,000 mail delivery system responses to the crap that got sent out via my hacked account.
Looks like it was mainly āSingles in your areaā posts going out and maybe some free movie or whatever spam.
Did have one good response- a definitely manual unsubscribe post, in caps, very angry. I would have responded manually about the hacked account, but I decided not to, just out of security fears.
So Andrew H, sorry I got my email hacked (and I hope he gets a better spam filter).
Anyway, ran all existing scans, updated, restarted, ran the scans again, added a new malware scanner, ran that. Ran the other scanners again, then talked to what I call āin-house tech supportā and had my password changed.
Hopefully that ends my other laptopās career as a bot-net member.
Forgot to post an update.
Livejournal support was actually quite quick in responding to me, and very helpful. It ultimately involved me having to mess around with photobucket, to post something for them to use a verificaton, but I regained access of my LJ account Sep 4th, 2021.
Considering itās now Jan, 2022, just goes to show how infrequently I post stuff,
So, i canāt log into either of my lj accounts. I get a āpassword out of date - reset itā message. But itās been like 5 years since I last used those accounts, weāve changed ISPs I donāt know how many times since then.
To be able to reset the password, Iād have to change the account to my current email address. To change my email address Iād have to log in, which I canāt do unless I reset the password.
Oh, and old accounts arenāt deleted after years of inactivity (but their passwords can expire!) just how many accounts are there I wonder, where people have the password, but canāt use it because itās āout of dateā.
Itās maddening.
.... about the only solution I can see is finding out if we have records of who our ISP was in 2016, hoping theyāre still around and signing up for a very short time, just to get an old email address back, so I can reset the passwords, change the email addresses then cancel the account with the ISP.
Or, actually get a hold of someone at livejournal, have them see that the email accounts associated with the accounts donāt work anymore, and either let me log in with the āout of dateā passwords so I can change the email address, or have them change the email address so I can reset the password.
Does anyone even work at Livejournal anymore? For all I know, itās all been automated, and the only human beings involved are whoever cleans rooms the servers are in.
......yeah, Iām not gonna hold my breath.
Kougami Foundation Internal Research Report: Long-term metaphysical human side-effects due to long-term bodily possession by a sentient avian-based alchemical construct. Or, How Izumi Shingo became a Disney Princess.
The first clue Ankh's possession had Changed Things was something anybody would miss. The balcony and windows of the Izumi apartment, Shingoās car, favourite spot to eat lunch, etc. Japan was a clean place and bird droppings are only something you notice when theyāre present.
The second clue was odd, but a bird attacking the robber Shingo had been chasing through the park- well it was close to nesting season- the conclusion anyone would come to is that the robber came too close to the birdās nest. Between the adrenaline of the chase, cuffing the man, and the planning of the paperwork ahead, well, no-one ever thought to wonder why Shingo was exempt form the birdās attack.
The third clue however, couldnāt be ignored or explained away.
It had been a long day, the latest in a sequence of long days, and it would be a long night as well. Shingo had not only missed lunch, but dinner as well, and wouldnāt be getting a break anytime soon to let him rectify the problem. A situation he lamented about out loud.
He found out that he had been overheard by more than his coworkers when not long after he spoke, a Tokyo raven- those eerily clever, oversized urban corvids- dropped off a bag of senbei, sold by a vending machine only few blocks away.
What if Ankh's title "King of the Birds" actually had some weight to it? With the King dead, the guy the King ended up posessing for a year seems as fitting a candidate for Regent until the King's ressurection right?
Honestly, even for a throw-away one-shot, I'm not that happy with this. Really needs a beta or co-author to punch it up I think.
Okay, tv show.... opening scene is some muscular guy with slicked-back teal hair standing outside of building getting admiring looks. That building is apparently the front exit of a spaceport (thatās right in the middle of the city in an area with lots of foot traffic) and he is an alien.
Okay, now alien and military guy are sitting in the audience of a sporting event we never see. Military guy is telling alien dude (who is some sort of ... goodwill ambassadorliaison from the aliens?) is being told he wil**l not **be going to the far-off space battlefront, heās too valuable to risk or some-such and instead must stay here and be forced to compete in the Olympics.
Alien guy (what happened to the teal hair btw, why does he now have a big brown afro?) protests, heās from a warrior people/been trained as a warrior etc etc,. Military guy is āthis is from higher up, no fighting it.ā Alien guy is not happy with this.
Next scene, alien is ... visiting with a random family. Oh? Family of some human friend he has, whoās off fighting somewhere. Wait,... what? Why? And why is his hair now the horrible afro only with bits shaved out of it?
Anyway, heās catching up with them -never-mind how the hell heās supposed to know them- when theyāre interrupted by the tv - some sort of emergency (attack? robbers? fire? brain, you wanna put in some details? No? Okay)
So some sort of emergency, presumably with Bad Guys...huh alien guy is having some sort of fit... annd now heās turned into a sort of gold-coloured lion-styled superhero. (I like the mask.... is that supposed to be a mask? Itās his face? Okay) Now heās put his hands together and is firing some sort of energy at the woman who turn into something similar. The guy with them them who is ...not part of the family, but some sort of military liaison//minder for alien guy has freaked out and pulled a gun. Woman protests thatās sheās fine, let him him do his thing dude. And the gun goes away and guy is energy beamed into some sort of blue cat styled superhero.
Before they depart to kick ass, they need to know more. Alien lion now has a sword and.... is this Thundercats but meddled with so much by tv execs who know nothing about it so thatās not even related to the original anymore? I think it is, because heās doing the eye of Thundara bit, only without the speech, the sword is horizontal and heās looking into some sort of glowing eyepiece.on it.
Dream ends before they can head out. Thatās REM cycles for you. Overall, a very 90ā²s low-budget tv series feel to it, and sort of a āre-imaginedā Thundercats thing meddled with by execs, marketing, sales, producers and so forth who all know nothing about Thundercats and/or never knew about that bit in the first place that itās been turned into classic 90ā²s generic superhero dreck.
Brain:āBut would you watch it?ā Well, I do love that crap, so Iād probably give it a few eps at the least to see where it goes.
To be fair, those are plaits (or braids is you prefer that term). Maybe heās trying out a new way to get those waves in his hair?
Plait hair while still wet after washing it, let it dry = wavy hair.
So, back inā¦. May. The 17th or 18th thereof. The laptop I was using hit the loading screen singularity. It booted to an error message. I could restart, and get the same error message, or I could try to run recovery, watch it fail, then restart.
So geared up in my informal hazmat-lite disposable attire, I stepped out of the front door of my little Fortress of Crazitude, and went inside the house, where the functional human beings live, to use a laptop there.
Searching for something I liked was going to take a while. In that strange Before Time, when people went outside without being masked, Dad zipped out and kindly got for me the cheapest laptop he could find.
Now I could begin my search in earnest.
Starting with the gaming rigs. Hideous, hideous, awkard design (that was hideous). The closest to what I was looking for was an Alienware modelā¦ that was hideous, and came with something called Tobii eye-tracking. I donāt want my computer staring at me. Plus, this was a gimmick, I donāt play the kind of intense shooters where every picosecond counts.
I kept looking.
I found a laptop marketed as a ādesktop replacementā. Just the sort of thing I wanted. Something with the power of a desktop, but without needing me to do a major cleaning job to find space for it, and/or rig up something to hold a monitor where I wanted it? Perfect.
So I looked around, a place in the US, it had them in stock, and they would even customize it. Great, a bigger hard-drive! Okay the thing needed two power-bricks to work, which would be a hassle, but I could live with that.
In the meantime, the budget laptop could just about run an older version of Minecraftā¦ as long it was on the server my bffās hurricane child had dragged me onto, I could make do.
I made my order. ā¦ā¦ā¦.
3 weeks passed. I heard nothing from them. Okay, the world is in chaos, I expected some delays. Still, I wanted at least some idea for how much longer I would be making ersatz icepacks to keep my new little laptop from overheating from the overworking I was currently giving it, even as I did my best to cut down on my usual habits to lessen strain on itās CPU.
I sent in a request for an update. āOh yeah, turns out we didnāt actually have one in stockā. So how long till they could get one? āOh theyāre discontinued. How about one of these?ā
All the ātheseā were ones Iād looked at and already discounted. Wait, hereās one on eBay, how I about I send it to you, and you upgrade that one? Iāll pay the extra shipping fees.
āOh no, we wouldnāt be able to honor a warranty on that.ā
My domain is the black hole of electronics. Once itās in here, it wonāt leave again. My OCD means I cant have something sent out to be repaired and have it sent back. Once itās here, itās here. I tried to explain this, and said I would waive any rights to a warranty. It would be the most expensive idiot tax Iād ever paid, but I was willing to pay it.
June passed and I heard nothing.
Time to look again. I had toyed with the idea of a custom rig from another place in the US, but, oh, the price tag. And the wait time. ā¦Mainly the price tag. Okay, major purchase for me, and I was going to crack open my savings. But still, Iām on a pension.
Okay, another look, see if I can find anywhere in Australia. More cash could be spent on the laptop itself and not the insane international shipping tool.
I found a place. Custom configurations, in a shell that isnāt painful to look at.
Could it be?
I checked some reviews. Chunkyā¦. I like a bit of heft to a device. Besides, it wasnāt going to be doing a lot of moving anyway. 1-2 metres on average at best. Fans can get loudā¦. that means theyāre working. I can get a headset if I need it.
Ooh, and they have a sale on too. I consult with in-house tech support. Iām told I can get the hard-drives cheaper elsewhere, and another M2 memory stick, then put them in myself.
Sweet, more cash to spend on the graphics card and CPU. Not quite top-tier, but heck, I hadnāt been running any of my games on the old laptop at full graphics settings anyway. No dvd drive though, but every other maker seems to have dispensed with those as well. Oh well, itās not like I used those much anyway, and I can always get an external one.
And it only needs the one power brick.!
Better specs than the discontinued model, I can max out on hard-drive space and have a second M2 drive just for my games, with plenty of room!
Before the end of June, I make my order.
I find a big hard-drive, a good sized M2 stick, and even an external usb enclosure for the hard drive I pulled out of the blue-screened purgatory.
July, that place in the US actually mails me back. Since I was willing to waive a warranty, they might be able to source a model off eBay. Ship has sailed, Iāve found me something nicer, and Iāve picked out the extra drives for it.
A few days later, the new place emails me. Theyāre having delays, but we have a new range out which will be coming in sooner, here are the stats, we can switch you over to one of those?
I forward the stats to tech support. Nope, the hard drive you got in anticipation wonāt fit. New place āhmm, thatās true, weāll do our best to keep you updatedā.
They do, and and my orderās been put in priority for assemblage.
As August gets into gear, my new workhorse arrives, and the poor beleaguered budget laptop can retire to light browsing duty.
Only the big hard drive I got? Turns out itās fat ass canāt fit in the drive bay. Oops. But with the help of tech support, I found an external enclosure that will fit it, so I have a roomy and easy to use backup device.
And then I stripped the head on the screw holding in the M2 memory. And the other slot, that requires a lot more work to get to. But Iām already wiped from the ordeal, the files on the now external drives run fine, and I still have plenty of room on the drive. I can wait for the sales, and pick up some (carefully dimension-checked) drives then. (This beast will hold 2 standard hard drives!) and get around to putting in the second M2 stick.
And that concludes this chapter of Crazy Shut-in Searches for Their Dream Laptop.
And like a dumbass, I didnāt bookmark http://acetechnologist.tumblr.com and my brain canāt hold information well, so I had to spend a while finding it again. I was in the mood to re-read some of the reactioncaps, only to find I didnāt have it in my bookmarks.
I like the reactioncaps, it actually got me motivated enough to finally watch through Kuuga- allthough it was something of an adventure finding the fansubs for it.
Still, Iām glad it got me to finally watch it though. -Although āOdagiri effectā? Shouldnāt that be āKatsurayama effectā? Ichijo is where the real hotness is at. <3
As for lately, finally took a look at some Agito. Got through 12 episodes so far. Was thinking of looking at the reactioncaps for it to help put me in the mood to tackle some more eps, only to find out, no bookmark.
Thatās the downside of keeping everything open in tabs. Circumstances happen, and everything disappears, and you realize there were a lot of things you should have bookmarked, but didnāt.
Anyway, at least Iāll have more context for the fanfics. Yes, I read fanfic for series I havenāt seen yet. Some things, I do backwards. ....and some things I do in such an out-of-order fashion it goes beyond comprehension.
Reposting so I can find this easier (for, uh.... research ;p )
Well honestly, I started off with view that a well-formed pair of buttocks are pleasant enough to gaze upon, but the absolute fervor so many have was just confusing- and then I come across something like this and Iām āOh, I kind of get it nowā. Not just a well-formed ass, itās a well-formed ass that allows me a glimpse into the world-view of other human beings.
Ladies and gentlemen: Katono Taiko- ass ambassador.
I just learned that the actor who plays Kuroto Dan, Tetsuya Iwanaga, has a lot of talents. Heās pharmacist (I think making him the only Ex Aid cast member with a medical background), fluent in English, and an actual āgeniusā in real life. For instance, he got a ātriple A ratingā on the JAXA astronaut qualification test.
Heās also seems to be soft spoken:
(Heās like this in other interviews, not just the one here in English.)
I bring this last part up because I knew he was having fun playing Kuroto but wow, this drives home just how much heās having a blast.
Dan Kuroto after heās dropped the good guy act and launches into the scenery chewing is one of the most glorious hamtastic performances out there, and you can feel how much fun Iwanaga-san is having.
The only thing that could beat it is Shindo Gakuās work as Killbus in the Build New World movie. Thereās good chance that if they were close by, even sets he didnāt appear on had tooth-marks.
One can only hope the stagehands were given proper guides to each actors tastes so they could properly season each set beforehand. āitās a Dan Kuroto scene, salt? Chicken salt? Pepper? Soy or Barbeque sauce?! I NEED TO KNOW!ā
He must have had the time of his life playing Killbas... I just hope before he stepped on set there were enough stagehands to properly season the scenery for him.
So I have a copy for myself if/when I ever watch Zi-O
And since it moved
Now to headcannon in a way for Zi-O to get his powers, without erasing the Heisei Riders from the timeline.
Toei: āWe want the last of the Heisei Riders to be a tribute to all who came before him and commemorate their adventures.ā
Also Toei: āHave the last Heisei Rider gain his powers by erasing the previous riderās adventures from the timeline!ā
What the fuck Toei?!
I watched a random compilation vid of henshin sequences for most of the Kamen Rider shows (being Youtube, the top comment of course was āI like the bit where they say henshin.ā) and well, I did want something different to watch.
I started off with Kamen Rider W, since a review recommended it as a good starting series, and I was pretty much shipping Phidari before I even saw an episode.
Also, Suda Masaki is omfgsodamnkawaii and I am just under the wire as far the Standard Creepy Rule goes. Although itās more of a puppy crush, as in- I view him in a very similar way as I would an adorable puppy. Yes, I kinda want to mash his head into my boobs, but not in a sexual way. I have all these feelings that I don't know how to process properly. In the meantime.... so cute!
Then I started on a bit of Den-O because I liked the sword form henshin jingle. And Satoh-san, so impressed how he portrays multiple characters. I know itās all in collaboration with the suit actors, still thatās a lot of work. Plus thereās the dancing, (and I love how Ryutarosās special power is being able to summon backup dancers and create flash-mobs) and you did all that whilst sick? Damn.
And then.... well turns out Iām a bit too ADD to binge watch a series. Heck as kid, I was usually in the process of reading two to three different novels at any given time. Given that, might as well check out another series.
Wowowowowow Four-ze! Wowowowow Fun, ne? Man is Gen-chan tall or what? Love the interaction with Shoutaro in the movie, Taro club away! JK looks like a live-action version of Zaou Ryuu. I need more screen-time to determine do I love him for him or for his resemblance to my fave anime man-hoe?
Also, Kamen Rider Meteor-Ā love the disco henshin theme.... is that small blast all there is? I canāt find it on Youtube. I can find a ten-minute loop of Shabadoobie touchie henshin (and why havenāt more people made that into a remix?! I sought out the loop because: 1: So catchy & 2: my brain was demanding "More!!! the henshin sequence isnāt long enough!ā) So yeah, more disco please.
Got further through Fourze before oversaturation hit. Well, looking through the Kamen Rider wiki (I needed a guide for who the heck these other riders are that keep showing up in the fanfics) and since Heisei Phase 2 has the characters Iām seeing most, Iām focusing on that for now.
So what next? For some reason Iām still hesitating on OOO, and I donāt think Iām quite ready for Gaim. Zi-O? Iām waiting for the right fanfic to fix the time-rewriting first (Seriously, you try to take my ćć£ćŖććĀ away and I will fucking cut you.) Maybe itās just the fic, but Build looks a little too emotionally heavy at the moment.
Okay then, Ex-Aid.
Episode 1: I know these shows are marketing toys to kids, but holy crap guys, slow down. (Plus, the 90ā²s called- they want their colour scheme back.) Still, this looks- aptly enough- to be what the doctor ordered.
Episode 2: Love the op theme. Kagami Hiiro-sensei? You are being such a dick right now. Will someone smack this idiot over the head ... WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! IF YOUāRE ALL āSAVING THE PATIENT IS ALL THAT MATTERSā, THEN WHY ARE YOU DUELING INSTEAD ON FOCUSING ON SAVING THE PATIENTāS LIFE?! Someone grab this boy and give him an priority adjustment and ego-ectomy stat.
Episode 3: Why wasnāt Tagia given counseling? Proper intervention and maybe you wouldnāt have flushed a medical career down the toilet. So he got hooked on gaming and put it before medicine. You assholes gave him the driver and gashat in the first place. The game was implied to be faulty, (or at least, thatās the impression I got) meaning he was essentially given a mind-altering substance, had his priorities warped as a result and it lead to him loosing a patient.
So for that he got booted out the door, with the lack of a medical license now making him an unskilled laborer with an addiction problem. Of course heās back and looking for a fix. (Are they gonna redeem this guy? Hope so.Ā BTW? Love the hair, dude.)
Episode 4: āThereās no point if you donāt ride me.ā Excuse me while I pause the episode and giggle for a while.
Ah, Ex-Aid, I think Iām going to like you.
Flashback time: In the analog days, most girls when they hit those teen years moved onto trashy romance novels. I, as what I believe they are now calling āXennialsā, was still stuck on sci-fi novels during the switch-over and by the time I was interested in such fiction, well I went right to slashfic. (Remember mailing lists?) Joined my first (and only) slash-list at 16. Despite the reigning 18+ rule, I was honest about my age and they let me in anyway. (Perhaps if only to keep an eye on me.) Then mailing lists kind of died off and it was onto web archives.
And thatās when I paused the ep and logged on to type this up. Thereās a certain point in peopleās lives, where to some degree, they mentally stop aging. On the whole, a lot of the time, Iām pretty much still 16 (Probably a good thing, apparently my motherās still only 25.) randomly touring though my early 20ā²s and occasionally re-visiting being 7. Actually when I was in my teens, I think I was time-travelling on occasion to what might very much turn out to be my 70ā²s (āIn my day....:)
Where was I? Oh- āThereās no point if you donāt ride me.ā Said the tanned guy in the leather jacket to the clumsy naive young twink of a doctor. You canāt put that in front of me and not have me shed at least 10 years worth of maturity.
(Actually, lemme just check the fic count on this pairing.... ) Still kinda want to pair Emu and Parad, but I have got to start to try watching shows before I start paring off the characters.
