Thursday, November 13, 2003
9:00 p.m. -- I didn't get around to re-installing Bearshare or looking up any more about The Clone Wars. Jacquie didn't seem all that excited about it tonight, although the email I got from her earlier in the day when she found out about the series was obviously written when she was quite ecstatic.
The last week or so, I've been re-watching the Cowboy Bebop anime series, but this time with the English dubbed soundtrack doing. Well, uh...yeah, English dubs on animes are so rarely done well. While this one is of higher quality than most (which isn't saying much), the voices seem a little too jovial. Spike comes off more as City Hunter than as he seemed to be portrayed through the Japanese voice acting, and Jet's voice should have a bit more edge and roughness to it. Ed is about as close as they could probably get to what I had in mind, so kudos to that voice actor, and the voice acting of Faye is not too bad. It does seem a little off at times, though.
Some people would suggest I'm a little too picky about these types of things, though. ;)
2:45 p.m. -- Note to self: I've gotta start putting times on these things, 'cause there are occasions when I'd like to bitch about multiple things on the same day. Well, here we go again...
As most of my friends know, I'm not a fan of television. That is, I don't watch cable TV. I use my TV for playing video games on and watching DVDs and VHS tapes (often of movies in the latter cases, but sometimes of TV series that have been brought out, commercial-free, in all their glory). The truth is I find very little to watch on TV. If you've seen one sitcom, you've seen them all...and I watched enough sitcoms during the '80s to surely have seen 'em all. However, avoiding cable TV also means I sometimes miss out on things that come out...like The Clone Wars cartoon that recently started airing on The Cartoon Network.
Oh wait, we in Canada get fucked by government regulations. I forgot. We don't get The Cartoon Network. We get the scaled-down, rip-off, craptastic, "Canadian content" version called TeleToon. Anyway, I'm a Star Wars fan (a critical fan of the series, but a fan nonetheless), and I would very much like to see The Clone Wars, but the folks in the US have essentially put a ban on us poor bastards in Canada from watching the show. We don't get it on any station. We can't access the replays on the Cartoon Network's Website (I tried). And frickin' TeleToon won't have the rights to show The Clone Wars until sometime in 2004.
So where does leave me? Well, it honestly leaves me in this position: Wait for the show to either come out on TeleToon (which I despise and quite honestly refuse to pay for) or wait for the series to come out on DVD (oh wait, this is George Lucas we're talking about -- that'll be in about 2015) or break copyright laws and find someone who has uploaded episodes to Bearshare, Kazaa or one of the other peer-to-peer networks. Take a guess at which I'll choose...especially seeing as Jacquie is an even bigger Star Wars fanatic than I am.
I hope that the DVD release of the series will come out shortly after the series ends its run in the US next fall. Whenever it does, I'll buy it...but as a fan, I'm surely not waiting. I guess I'd better re-install Bearshare before Jacquie gets home.
Morning -- Over the last few days, I've been hunting an area in EverQuest called Iceclad Ocean on the continent of Velious. Seeing as my ranger, Crispinus, was only 36th level until a couple of nights ago, I was mainly just hunting snow cougars and pulling them to the docks to fight them one at a time (or at worst, two at a time). Two days ago, I ran into some guy who was just hanging out in the zone all day. Every time I took a break from working and jumped on, he was there. After work, I was for a couple of hours and I got into a bit of a conversation with him.
It seems the guy had been camping a named griffon named Stormfeather, who is used in a high-level quest. Stormfeather is actually one of four named and somewhat rare creatures that spawn in Iceclad Ocean that are part of the quest. By the time he logged off, he had been just sitting there waiting for Stormfeather for twelve hours. I looked the griffon up, and it seems Stormy only spawns every nineteen hours...and even then, he can skip several spawns. I read that one person had camped him for over fifty hours before seeing him. Others, of course, have stumbled upon him by a fortunate accident.
Yesterday morning, before I started working for the day, I popped onto EQ to kill a couple of snow cougars. Well, what do you know? Stormfeather was up and conning dark blue to me (translation: He would put up a fight). I took a couple of screenshots, knowing that I may never see him spawn again. I figured I'd be hunting Iceclad maybe for another few days (a week at most). I checked, and there were no other players in the zone. After a few minutes of thought, I decided to take the plunge and fight Stormfeather. He put up a hell of a fight, and I would've died if I hadn't been snaring him and throwing damage over time spells (I had run out of arrows before even challenging the beast). It took me about twenty minutes to emerge victorious.
The last week or so, I've been re-watching the Cowboy Bebop anime series, but this time with the English dubbed soundtrack doing. Well, uh...yeah, English dubs on animes are so rarely done well. While this one is of higher quality than most (which isn't saying much), the voices seem a little too jovial. Spike comes off more as City Hunter than as he seemed to be portrayed through the Japanese voice acting, and Jet's voice should have a bit more edge and roughness to it. Ed is about as close as they could probably get to what I had in mind, so kudos to that voice actor, and the voice acting of Faye is not too bad. It does seem a little off at times, though.
Some people would suggest I'm a little too picky about these types of things, though. ;)
2:45 p.m. -- Note to self: I've gotta start putting times on these things, 'cause there are occasions when I'd like to bitch about multiple things on the same day. Well, here we go again...
As most of my friends know, I'm not a fan of television. That is, I don't watch cable TV. I use my TV for playing video games on and watching DVDs and VHS tapes (often of movies in the latter cases, but sometimes of TV series that have been brought out, commercial-free, in all their glory). The truth is I find very little to watch on TV. If you've seen one sitcom, you've seen them all...and I watched enough sitcoms during the '80s to surely have seen 'em all. However, avoiding cable TV also means I sometimes miss out on things that come out...like The Clone Wars cartoon that recently started airing on The Cartoon Network.
Oh wait, we in Canada get fucked by government regulations. I forgot. We don't get The Cartoon Network. We get the scaled-down, rip-off, craptastic, "Canadian content" version called TeleToon. Anyway, I'm a Star Wars fan (a critical fan of the series, but a fan nonetheless), and I would very much like to see The Clone Wars, but the folks in the US have essentially put a ban on us poor bastards in Canada from watching the show. We don't get it on any station. We can't access the replays on the Cartoon Network's Website (I tried). And frickin' TeleToon won't have the rights to show The Clone Wars until sometime in 2004.
So where does leave me? Well, it honestly leaves me in this position: Wait for the show to either come out on TeleToon (which I despise and quite honestly refuse to pay for) or wait for the series to come out on DVD (oh wait, this is George Lucas we're talking about -- that'll be in about 2015) or break copyright laws and find someone who has uploaded episodes to Bearshare, Kazaa or one of the other peer-to-peer networks. Take a guess at which I'll choose...especially seeing as Jacquie is an even bigger Star Wars fanatic than I am.
I hope that the DVD release of the series will come out shortly after the series ends its run in the US next fall. Whenever it does, I'll buy it...but as a fan, I'm surely not waiting. I guess I'd better re-install Bearshare before Jacquie gets home.
Morning -- Over the last few days, I've been hunting an area in EverQuest called Iceclad Ocean on the continent of Velious. Seeing as my ranger, Crispinus, was only 36th level until a couple of nights ago, I was mainly just hunting snow cougars and pulling them to the docks to fight them one at a time (or at worst, two at a time). Two days ago, I ran into some guy who was just hanging out in the zone all day. Every time I took a break from working and jumped on, he was there. After work, I was for a couple of hours and I got into a bit of a conversation with him.
It seems the guy had been camping a named griffon named Stormfeather, who is used in a high-level quest. Stormfeather is actually one of four named and somewhat rare creatures that spawn in Iceclad Ocean that are part of the quest. By the time he logged off, he had been just sitting there waiting for Stormfeather for twelve hours. I looked the griffon up, and it seems Stormy only spawns every nineteen hours...and even then, he can skip several spawns. I read that one person had camped him for over fifty hours before seeing him. Others, of course, have stumbled upon him by a fortunate accident.
Yesterday morning, before I started working for the day, I popped onto EQ to kill a couple of snow cougars. Well, what do you know? Stormfeather was up and conning dark blue to me (translation: He would put up a fight). I took a couple of screenshots, knowing that I may never see him spawn again. I figured I'd be hunting Iceclad maybe for another few days (a week at most). I checked, and there were no other players in the zone. After a few minutes of thought, I decided to take the plunge and fight Stormfeather. He put up a hell of a fight, and I would've died if I hadn't been snaring him and throwing damage over time spells (I had run out of arrows before even challenging the beast). It took me about twenty minutes to emerge victorious.
// posted by Chris @ 7:15 PM 
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