ROBOTECH: BATTLECRY (PS2)
Harmony Gold/TDK

The Short Version: Protoculture is a miraculous new energy source that can run a Veritech Fighter a virtually unlimited amount of time. Battlecry, however, runs out of steam early. Still. Robots. Whee.

The Long Version: Continue reading Big Bots Don’t Cry

Once again, the mighty Manna has been sidetracked by the doldrums of day to day life longer than intended between postings. Not unpleasant ones, mind. So far, the new apartment life is pretty sweet. Thanks to saving and budgeting, I’ve had money enough for the various things I’d been expecting to come out. Living with someone sympathetic to my nerdidity has such perks as chucking Transformers figures into the cart while at the grocery store and it being regarded as ‘adorable’ rather than with an eye-roll. Though I think I toed the line a bit when I spent the remainder of the trip activating Animated Megatron’s voice clips.

“WHERE IS THE ALLSPARK?”

“CRUSH THE AUTOBOTS!”

“MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!”

The last two work best in quick succession. I kind of wish they’d included “Decepticons, transform and rise up…!” as a nice counterpart to the classic “Roll Out” from Prime.

(Sorry, Mike, only found one Soundwave this trip. Next time, though…!)

Best of all of course, we adopted a kitty today. A black and brown one who we’re renaming Nia. She’s a very sweet, fluffy 1-year old.

Ah, shoot. I’m blogging about my cat. I feel my social standing slipping just a bit more…

A fucking overdone gag I’m not going to use.

Just a quick note here that I didn’t die in transit or crush my laptop or anything like that. I’ve finished moving into the new place, though between unpacking and settling everything in a little at a time and the SOUL-SAPPING humidity in the air, I haven’t gotten around to doing as much as I’d planned. I did get a Monday comic done though, and if I buckle down after the girlfriend’s grampa’s funeral this evening I can probably still make my 2-a-week minimal goal that I’ve been completely and blatantly ignoring.

(Been trying not to dwell on the OMG MY COMIC IS SO LATE stuff here since it really ends up rather off-topic to the usual discussion and apparently obnoxious enough to warrant as a ‘minus’ in some people’s books.)

I’ve also at least started a feature on the new Transformers Animated series, which, as per Teen Titans before it looked like insufferable over-stylized sheist but has built up to be one of the more interesting re-re-reboots of the franchise. The Season 2 finale of the past weekend was especially awesome. I AM OMEGA SUPREME!

Speaking of cartoons, you can apparently find the GaoGaiGar DVD set for 25 bucks at most Best Buys now. Considering it was 19.99 per individual volume before, I say CHARGE. The only drawback is the fact that it’s only half of the series so far- AnimeWorks put the series on hold ostensibly to focus on their Voltron releases, leaving GGG waiting for an eventual, subtitle-only release of the rest of the series down the line. Gurren-Lagann seems to have taken the opposite approach, and is all the better for it- three sub only volumes of 9 episodes apiece, with the dubbed/bilingual discs coming out some time next year.

(you should also probably really watch Gurren Lagann if you haven’t already cuz it’s like the craziest best over the top mecha anime ever)

Til next time, KEEP WATCHING THE SKIS

As we speak, my DVD’s, games, and the consoles that run each are in boxes on the other side of town. Normally I really only touch the systems in moderation- any more most of my home time is spent writing and trashing drafts of articles or scribbling furiously. But as soon as those things were put out of reach, I have a burning itch to play NeoGeo Battle Colosseum or Smash Bros. Brawl to excess. That said, I was smart/addicted enough to not pack my portables, and though my PSP is sitting there, nice, shiny, and full of Disgaea Portable, it’s FFTA-2 that’s got me by the hair. Seriously. I played last night before bed until I started to nod off and lose my grip on the handheld, then woke up and wheedled about two hours away in bed.

That said, comic and content updates will resume soon, and with better regularity. I’ll have some dead time over the next couple of days in which to catch up. Thanks for bearin’ with me.

Continue reading Moving, and Box Psych

What’s the deal with FFTA-2 displaying elemental weaknesses in words rather than numbers!? It’s in blatant disregard of how long we’ve been trained to think about Final Fantasy stats in numbers, rather than outright saying a monster takes double damage from a certain element but absorbs another!

From what little I’m through in it it seems like it’s going to be a lot more in-depth than Advance was, which is good because it lets you personally undertake some of the ‘oddball’ missions that normally would have been resolved off-screen by a Dispatch– and speaking of which, the opposite is true and you can simply Dispatch troops to take care of boring ‘Destroy All Monsters’ quests while you work on digging around in the grass for Mushamallows.

Well, off to the cable company to prove that I exist! And need Comedy Central/Cartoon Network/History/Couple others.