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No posts for a while.

2009-12-16T05:01:00.000-08:00

In case you haven't noticed, this blog is on a permanent hitaus until further notice.
See me on Squiby, Valenth, Court Records or Bogleech till then.
http://squiby.net/user/furbearingbrick
http://valenth.com/user/furbearingbrick
http://forums.court-records.net/member/laserpotato/
http://z3.invisionfree.com/bogleech/index.php?act=idx

The Cheese Stands Alone

2009-05-23T09:56:00.000-07:00

Today I'm going to bring up something odd about Six Flags America's iconic wooden coaster. I speak, of course, of the Wild One. Remember how the park was once called Wild World? Well, the Wild One is the only thing in the park that hasn't been hastily renamed to dissasociate it with the park's old name (to be fair, most of this happened during the Adventure World rebranding in 1994, bit after the Six Flags takeover they started renaming things for NO DAMN REASON.) Why is this? Well, first a bit of context...

In 1981, Largo Wildlife Preserve changed its name and identity from a safari to an amusement park called Wild World. The Wild One was the very first ride installed, and it became the iconic symbol of the park, even becoming incorporated into the logo (I used to have reams of merchandise with the logo on it, but I gave 'em away...sigh) The other big attraction, the Wild Wave, was built a few years later. I'll blog about that one later.

Anyway, the line I keep getting is that "Wild World" and "Adventure World" are registered trademarks of Disney, which is why Six Flags made the ingenious descision to rename Adventure World to "Six Flags America" when they clearly already have a Six Flags Great America. The existence of the Wild One proves that they could have pulled off "Six Flags Wild World" with no problem, as if it really WERE "Wild World" that were an issue, they would have renamed the coaster a long time ago. Or maybe just "Six Flags Wild", to be on the safe side.

Or maybe this is a sign that they WILL rename the Wild One (probably to something really stupid)-with the overly litigious folks at Warner Bros. you never know. *shudders*

It'll always be Wild World to me.

2009-05-08T04:31:00.000-07:00

Today's my first full day of work at Six Flags America, formerly Adventure World, formerly Wild World, formerly Largo Wildlife Preserve. I remember a rail ride from when I was a little kid that appeared to be constructed from the remnants of the safari (when it was an animal park), only there were cut-out plywood cartoon animals in place of the real ones. In the mid-80s, the plywood animals were used as ride signs and removed when it became Adventure World in 1994. I'm not sure where they are now...

Another link, yay.

2009-05-04T03:57:00.000-07:00

Lots of Backbeard pictures (some NSFW.) Unfortunately to see them at full-size, you have to be a member...which means you have to be Japanese and living in Japan. Sigh...
http://tinyurl.com/co6f2k

Welcome To The Machine's Missing Ending?

2009-04-27T06:28:00.000-07:00

I have this wild-ass theory about Gerald Scarfe's music video for Welcome To The Machine. If you can manage to find it, notice that it cuts off just as the applause begins. Now, listen carefully to the actual song at this point.
A few seconds of muffled voices, then the distinct sound of a car window rolling open before the voices become clear. This is obviously meant to be a limo, tying in with the song's message of the price of stardom.
My opinion is that Scarfe couldn't figure out a satifactory way to represent that part considering what he already had set up, so he ran the last frame over the final moments. Better than nothing, I suppose.

Hooray!

2009-04-14T03:48:00.000-07:00

Ginmar's back! (For now.)
And on a personal note: Charlie (my brother) has got a new DS; this is like his 4th one now. Normally, I'd attribute it to his rampant carelessness, but in this case it was theft. Namely, a theft that included every single DS game in his collection. He says he's not taking any chances and isn't taking any of his portable systems to work with him anymore. Good idea, I say.

NOOOOOO!!!

2009-03-20T06:00:00.000-07:00

Ginmar's finally gone the way of Biting Beaver and quit blogging. Scans Daily's also history. Why do all my favorite things keep getting cancelled?

At least I still have Orac, Bronze Dog and PZ Myers...

Actual content?! SHOCK! HORROR!!!

2008-03-27T03:53:00.000-07:00

I'm now a contributor at the livejournal community scans_daily. I've been digging through my brother's comic collection (which includes some Kirby and Ditko story reprints) and there's much crack-tastic stuff within.

I never liked Ben Stein anyway

2008-03-26T07:01:00.000-07:00

You've no doubt heard about the new Creationist crapfest "Expelled" and the fact that in order to see it, you have to sign a waiver that basically keeps you from criticizing it. (No Intelligence Allowed, indeed.) You may also be aware that PZ Myers (who was tricked into appearing in it) has been banned from seeing it for no good reason. If not, you do now. There's ongoing coverage of the spin on PZ's blog.

Some unmade films...

2008-03-25T03:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.vincentguastiniproductions.com/whathappened.html

Films that SFX company Vincent Guastini Productions worked on that never saw the light of day. Includes some very early concepts for the Cylons of the current Battlestar Galactica series and possibly the only visual evidence of SFX work on the Doom movie before the script was changed.

http://www.angelfire.com/film/unmadekaiju/

Unmade Giant Monster Movies.

HERRING AND GRUEL AND PORRIDGE AND MILK!

2008-03-12T09:08:00.000-07:00

http://waluigious.blogspot.com/

Amusing rants from a Mario fan. This picture was taken from his site.

http://spacepope4u.blogspot.com/

Coin Heaven, a now-defunct blog run by another Mario fan.

http://www.goodtimeretrocafe.com/

Polas reviews infamous games. Some bad, some not.

Don't expect Randy Solem-style freakout rants here. The NES reviews are the funniest.

In case you're wondering about this post's header, it's a line taken from a Norwegian fairy tale called "Rumble-Mumble Goose Egg."

Critters Ahoy!

2008-03-12T08:15:00.000-07:00

http://www.strangescience.net/goof.htm
Strange Science, a site with vintage illustrations of animals, both real and imaginary.
I have to correct him on the Haeckel entry, though: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/wells/haeckel.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB701.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB701_1.html

Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of birds

2008-02-27T07:11:00.000-08:00

http://www.jrcompton.com/photos/The_Birds/J/J_index.html
How many waterfowl photos can YOU handle???

Darumas, yay!

2008-02-27T06:41:00.000-08:00

More daruma than you could possibly stand.
http://darumasan.blogspot.com/

The "Official" Ramen Homepage (heh), has some good-sounding recipes.
http://www.mattfischer.com/ramen/

And now, for something serious: Anybody have Biting Beaver's email? Her blog's invite-only, and I miss her posts. :(

The White Bunny

2008-02-21T03:35:00.000-08:00

Now this is just weird...(warning: popups)
http://sapporo.cool.ne.jp/dateiwao1234/usagimars.htm

More about the "bunny":
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/bunny.html

Wheeee (sarcasm)

2008-02-20T09:19:00.000-08:00

Yeah, this blog isn't very exciting so far. I'm basically using it as a link dump for now.

Yet another Megaten site:

http://ww5.et.tiki.ne.jp/~sukeroku/devil-page.html

A Japanese site with some arcade game screenshots.
http://tugger1.hp.infoseek.co.jp/etc.htm

Happy Holidays. Yeah, I said HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

2007-12-20T10:00:00.000-08:00

Wanna make something of it?
PS: found a sweet, but really slow-loading Metaten shrine in French.

http://shindds.free.fr/

Sprite URLs FTW

2007-10-04T13:55:00.000-07:00

http://rpg-home.lunar-net.com/choose.htm
Animated GIFs and illustrated walkthroughs for the Phantasy Star, Shining Force, and Lunar series.

http://www.roempire.com/database/?page=monsters&act=list
EVERY monster on Ragnarok online, including thier walking, attacking, and death animations.

http://dbz.icequake.net/share/afs/pub/emu/nesnew/www.theredeye.net/index.html
TheRedEye's site, brought back from the brink of infinity. Not sprite-related, but that's OK.

http://hkaityo.hp.infoseek.co.jp/dq/index.html
Japanese page with a buttload of monster pictures from the Famicom and Super Famicom Megami Tensei games, as well as ones from Romancing SaGa 1,2, and 3.

http://www.pekori.jp/~emonoya/monster/index.html
An impressive collection of monster images from Wizardry installments across various platforms. Oh yeah, and it's in Japanese.

http://yois.if-legends.org/
Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe. Peek inside the Vault to see covers for lots of text-based games. Not sprites, but I like 'em, OK?

http://sdb.drshnaps.com/
The only sprite database I know of that has a plentiful amount of DS sprites.

http://www.odinsrealm.com/tatakau/
Sprites from mostly obscure games.

http://www.bogleech.com/games.html
Scythemantis's fabulous collection!

http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/castle.html
Mr. P's Castlevania Realm.

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Final Fantasy boss sprites compared across different platforms. (not working at the moment)

http://www.woodus.com/den/home.php
Dragon's Den.

...and that's it.

Random URLs For The Win

2007-10-04T13:29:00.000-07:00

http://hkaityo.hp.infoseek.co.jp/dq/index.html
A Japanese page with monster sprites from Famicom and Super Famicom installments in the Megami Tensei series, along with those from some other games like Romancing SaGa 1-3. Warning: in Japanese.

http://dbz.icequake.net/share/afs/pub/emu/nesnew/www.theredeye.net/index.html
TheRedEye's site, saved from the brink of infinity.

http://rpg-home.lunar-net.com/choose.htm
Animated GIFs and illustrated walkthroughs for the Phantasy Star, Shining Force, and Lunar series.

http://www.roempire.com/database/?page=monsters&act=list
A list of EVERY monster on Ragnarok Online, including thier animations.

http://www.pekori.jp/~emonoya/monster/index.html
An impressive collection of monster images from a myraid of Wizardry games on various formats. Warning: also in Japanese.

http://www.tenchionline.com/ragey/Shinobi/main.htm
The Super Shinobi 2 Beta Central.

First post WOO HOO

2007-09-30T14:55:00.000-07:00

Nothing much right now...that's because most of my time is occupied by studying. Gaaaaah...it's gotten so that I even *dream* about algebra. I'll have much more exciting stuff to talk about in the future, I promise. OK, not quite a promise...but it's a strong possibility.