The Old School Otaku Lounge

I guess I may be set in my ways. I have both a desktop and a laptop, but I use the desktop much more. And I never play games on computers. My desktop houses multiple hard drives and for doing stuff. My laptop is just for when I want to lay on my bed or whatever. Swapping out the motherboard and CPU on my desktop costs me only a few hundred dollars, but high quality laptops usually go for a bit more than that. Actually, laptops have come down in price in North America, while they remain overly pricey here in Japan. For the equivalent of $700, you can buy a used laptop that's a few years old. Not so in America.

Speaking of anime parodies, has anyone seen Excel Saga?

Excel Saga was pretty cute. I remember a few of my friends had no idea some of the things they were supposed to be parodying, but EVERYONE loved the part when Excel did the Sailor Moon schpeel. XD

I knew someone saw it.

I've been trying to finish excel saga for years now...

I loved the episode of Excel Saga when they had the pulse rifles from Aliens. I think that was the Puchuu episode.

greg wrote:I loved the episode of Excel Saga when they had the pulse rifles from Aliens. I think that was the Puchuu episode.

Haha, that sounds about right!

Finally got to try out my Hauppage (Hop Pog) 1512 HDPVR 2 for capping satellite TV. Works very nice with the addition of an HDMI splitter that breaks the HDCP. The Asus i5 uses the capture, editing and disc burning programs. Capping to a WD 2TB USB 3.0 portable hard drive. CPU uses a maximum of 30% of its power on maximum settings of 14 MBps and Dolby AC-3 5.1 audio. I would have needed a powerful desktop for this just a little while ago. Not anymore. Picture quality is superb, almost indistinguishable from the actual broadcast. Editing tools like Videoredo cut out the commercials and put the TS files back together without re-encoding and are in perfect sync. These can be played back on my WDTV Live Plus media player or else authored and burned as AVCHDs or Blu Rays. it took awhile but I've got what I need for the present.

So, who's got what on the old parodies? We should get a collection going for us aging otakus to share. I know I have some stuff that Dennis sent over on tape, and maybe Dave, to. Happy to share, assuming that those who sent the tapes are alright with it.

AnimeSennin wrote:So, who's got what on the old parodies? We should get a collection going for us aging otakus to share. I know I have some stuff that Dennis sent over on tape, and maybe Dave, to. Happy to share, assuming that those who sent the tapes are alright with it.

I posted a link to this place earlier: http://animefanparodies.org
They seem to have a lot up for streaming...dunno if that helps or not?