Piracy Wars: Scanlating Licensed Series It has been a while since I did an episode of my Piracy Wars series. However, I felt prompted to do so after an editor of a small, licensor complained about scanlations, aggregator websites, and their communities. I’m not naming the editor as that’s not the point. I have friendly
Posts Tagged ‘Random Thoughts’
[O/T] Need Sleep
August 27th, 2022 
AstroNerdBoy [O/T] Need Sleep Hey gang! Work has been very busy this year. But I’m about to get some time off and for a start, get some desperately needed sleep. After that, I’m going to try to queue up a LOT of blog posts to return the site to daily posts. I have a lot of
Favorites (Anime, Manga, and More)
August 11th, 2022 AstroNerdBoy Favorites (Anime, Manga, and More) Hey gang. I’m running behind, so I wanted to do a quick and dirty post. It has relevance to the blog as many of the questions are anime/manga related. Note that this is my current stance on favorites, which can change over time. So without further ado, here goes. Favorite
Happy Birthday Me!
August 4th, 2022 AstroNerdBoy Happy Birthday Me! Hey gang! Today’s my birthday, which means I’m planning to have some Five Guys for a feast of burger, fries, and my yearly hotdog. Wish I had the day off to kick back and relax, but alas, too many work projects. But Lord willing, I’ll take time off at the end of
Mangaka AKAMATSU Ken Wins Seat in Diet’s Upper House
July 10th, 2022 AstroNerdBoy Mangaka AKAMATSU Ken Wins Seat in Diet’s Upper House Well, it is official. AKAMATSU Ken-sensei, the creator of A.I. Love You, Love Hina, Negima!, and UQ Holder, is now a member of Japan’s Diet Upper House. Sensei had this to say on Twitter after winning the election. ２０時すぐ、参議院議員普通選挙にて報道各社から当選確実が出ました。 この当確は、漫画家初の国会議員の誕生を意味します。日本が変わる！と思います。 私に期待して投票してくれた有権者を裏切ることのないよう、また「全国民の代表」に恥じぬよう、しっかりと公約の実現に取り組んでまいります。 — 赤松 健 ⋈ 参議院議員(全国比例)候補者
Happy 4th 2022, America!
July 4th, 2022 AstroNerdBoy Happy 4th 2022, America! Hey gang! To all of my American friends, I hope you have a happy July 4, 2022! However you celebrate, I hope you have a good day. For me, I’m technically off. A last second work project that went in on Friday is turning out to be quite the disaster. But
Summer 2022 Plans
June 30th, 2022 AstroNerdBoy Summer 2022 Plans Hey gang! As is a common refrain from me, things are insanely busy. At the moment, I average 62 hours/week at work. And sleep? Hahaha! What is sleep? However, I am getting paid, so I can’t complain. But as usual, it does interfere with blogging. As such, the S1 review of Spy×Family
Raising Fictosexual Awareness! (Reality Sucks!)
April 27th, 2022 AstroNerdBoy Raising Fictosexual Awareness! (Reality Sucks!) From time to time, I have written about oddball relationships (and yes, I’m going to call them what they are). Back in January 8, 2008, I noted a newspaper article about how lifelike robots who look and act like “fully functioning” human females would be a thing. (Well, except for
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