Just so you know, the top three mecha pilots of all time are as follows:

1. Shinji’s mom.
2. Kira Anime Jesus Yamato, Gundam SEED Destiny edition—as long as he isn’t piloting Strike Rouge
3. Sagara Sousuke, assuming Bonta-kun qualifies as a mecha

Mecha, powered armor, odious fursuit…it’s a fine line.

That is all.

I am through with optical media. Well, not exactly. However, I am ripping all my DVDs and CDs to hard drives. I’m not even taking the time to re-encode them or cut unwanted language tracks; I’m copying exact ISOs. The reason is because while storage space for optical media continues to improve, reductions to spin-up and seek times remain marginal at best. You’re crazy if you think I want to manually load discs and then wait for the optical drive to reach a playable state.

I had the idea to construct a DVD TiVO years ago, but it wasn’t cost effective at the time. I’m still doing this manually, but I know others have had the same idea and written various scripts to automate much of the procedure. I don’t know if anyone has created a fully-automated file server/media center to do this yet, but he’s surely a thousandaire for his efforts.

Of course, I’m still at square one with regard to Blu-ray, though. Damn you optical media! Play more faster!

Like Stripey, I also enjoy My-HiME even more after each re-watching. (Yes, I finally got the seventh R1 Best-Box-Ever DVD.)

This is really just an excuse to further drum up support for a Kajirua-composed My-HiME opera and/or an End of My-HiME ~My Purest Heart for Thee~ movie where everyone turns into Tang instead of green sparkles. No, I won’t let it go.

With some prodding…

I think it would help a lot if there was a screencap.

– Pete

The world-famous "Everything in America is big!" macro.

P.S. Earth Defender Mao-chan DVDs ordered.