Reileen van Kaile

Stuff related to Phoenix Wright, a series that I have yet to play*, but which I still know a fair amount about (without spoiling myself too badly...I think):

The Takarazuka Revue is going to do a musical version of Phoenix Wright. For those of you that don't know (including myself), the Takarazuka Revue is an all-female musical theater group in the city of Takarazuka, Japan, putting on productions on the scale of Broadway epic, with women playing both male and female roles. I...think I want to see a performance of this when I go to Japan. Tickets must be crazy expensive though.

New scans and information for Gyakuten Kenji, the PW spin-off game starring Phoenix Wright's boytoy nemesis-ish-person-thing, Miles Edgeworth. The game will come out in spring 2009 in Japan.

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General game stuff:

Nintendo creates an ad that breaks YouTube! (Warning: The Flash may also break your browser in the process. But it's a fun time to watch.)

vyctori pointed me to this amazing remix of the Forest Temple theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

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Generalities:

Randall Munroe of xkcd, the Gods bless his soul, has a rather interesting take on the financial fiasco threatening the You-Nighted Staytes of 'Merica...

Astronomers spot a bizarre "strobe light star", which they call a magnetar, which just makes me think that it's another evolution stage from the Pokemon Magnemite.

Tokyomango brings word of suicide prevention train platforms and instant ramen in a can.

And finally, the man who saved the world and yet almost no one knows about it: On September 1, 1983, an overworked and underpaid lieutenant colonel, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, kept a cool head and deduced that the things that the computer report said were missiles coming from the US, destination Moscow, were simply computer errors - and he was right. Seriously, go read this, this is amazing.

-Reileen
never did I want to be here again

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*Lydia offered to let me borrow her PW games if I ever felt so inclined to play them. Clearly this "socialization" thing has its perks...

From Tokyomango: REAL! LIVE! POKEMON!

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Two gems from Whatever -

Scalzi looks back on some of his older entries. Here, he tries to console one of his books about not being reviewed.

In this second reminiscing entry, Scalzi argues that the new Muppets fails because they're not neurotic enough.

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dantaron pointed me to The Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator. REFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESH

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Make sure you're not eating or drinking anything while watching this first installment of Terry Tate: Office Linebacker. This has to be one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. I first watched it back in a comedy screenwriting class in spring of my freshman year of college, but I was reminded of it because the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator vomited up the idea of writing a fic that crossed Super Mario Brothers with Terry Tate: Office Linebacker and had gay sex involved somehow. No, for serious. Here's the Wikipedia link for more information, as well as making sure you've seen all of the produced segments, which you can reach from YouTube's related videos feature or whatever.

RESPECT THE ARTS, OR THE ARTS WON'T RESPECT YOU!

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Judge Robert Pattison Patterson rules in favor of JKR in Lexicongate. FUCK YEAH.

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Okay, I saw a Yahoo headline earlier today that said "McCain and Obama dead even in opinion polls," and totally read it as "McCain and Obama are dead, even in opinion polls." I think I need to get more Mountain Dew, stat.

In somewhat related news, I was thinking of trying to find a nice Obama support banner thingy I can stick up on my LJ profile. I was considering just yoinking the "AAPI For Obama" pin preview image from the official website, but that's kind of boring. Maybe I'll make a "Shiroko For Obama" banner instead.

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Was at lysis_to_kill's apartment again today with mia_noire. Much music was shared, which includes this album of...traditional...Indian...something-or-other that I got from Emily which is really nice. We also watched Rosemary's Baby, which is, in my not-so-humble opinion, one of the stupidest fucking movies I've ever seen. Debating on whether I want to formulate my feelings into a more coherent, quasi-scholarly/intellectual rant later. At any rate, my rifftrack for this movie consisted of exclamations of:

-"Are you fucking kidding me?!"
-"What a fucking asshole!"
-"Shut the fuck up!"
-"Go the fuck away, fucking morons!"
-"Oh, fuck no!"
-"What the fuck is this shit?!"

Yeah. Uh. I was pretty profane tonight, even for my normal heathen standards of profanity.

-Reileen
we're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves