Yesterday I went off to see Watchmen. Since basically every man and his dog is discussing it, I’ll give a quick rundown of my feelings on it. Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson and Jeffery Dean Morgan absolutely nail it. I thought Billy Crudup was perhaps a little too quiet, and sometimes a little tricky to [...]

Sometimes things just fall into place. I had some spare christmas money and a old, dying-in-the-arse 17 inch CRT monitor practically disintergrating on my desk, and one of my friends knew a guy who was selling his big, fancy monitors for larger, car-dwarfing variants. To what purpose, I don’t know, but me and said friend [...]

So, I finished my course. It was long, and frustrating, but I learned a decent amount. Still, I doubt I’ll be heading back to school again any time soon, I’m a wee bit burnt out on education. So, what have I been up to lately? ROM Hacking Ah, yes. Every now and then I sit [...]

So, I’m back! Turns out that finishing TAFE makes one not want to immediately update their blog. :/ Or for that matter, do much in the way of churning out crap. I’ve recently been working on a new Super Mario World mod, though. I’ll try and post about that tomorrow, all -3 people who read [...]

I haven’t posted here recently, because I’ve been really, really busy.

This article was written… umm… must have been two years ago, now? December ’06? I can only assume my writing’s improved over that period of time… for a earlier, crappier site bearing the same name as this one. I present everything as it was back then, except that I had to move the image captions to alttags because my HTML sucked. Onwards!

Fan-made translations are a wonderful idea. Where the complexities of corporate wrangling and conflicting ideologies (Square’s reasons for not localizing it’s follow up to Secret of Mana, so I faintly remember, was that the game was “too buggy” for western audiences, and that they’d probably be seen dead before they’d give the source code to their US branch to fix it up) failed, a pack of hygiene-impaired doofuses with a year of high-school Japanese between them picked up from Naruto fan-subs can succeed! Unfortunately, true successes are perhaps a rarity in the realm of the fan-translation, and I put it down to a little thing called Literalism. (Not to be confused with Liberalism.)