Pearl’s appearance in the game was always a little disturbing.
She’s eight years old. Why is she investigating crime scenes and standing at the co-counsel desk at violent murder trials?
It really bugs me that social services are completely oblivious to her existence. With her mother incarcerated, Continue reading
I finally finished replaying AA2, and also caught up to the corresponding anime episode.
I have to say, the anime isn't all that good. I mentioned that in my last post about it. They changed a lot of things, and that reduced the quality of storytelling and character development, I think. Edgey's case seemed really rushed. If I'd watched these without having ever played the game, I don't think it would have made me all that interested in the franchise, to be honest. But maybe that's because I'm seeing it through the lens of already being a big fan of the OT. Anyway.
Watch out for spoilers.
They gave us some of episodes of the three friends when they were kids. It was nice to see how their friendship was, but they changed a few things, and I didn't like that. I love how they keep the exact same hairstyles they had when they were 9. They're all ♥gottsu kawaii♥, all of them!
Why can’t I ever get sweetpeas to germinate? I think I only ever germinated one, several years ago. This time I tried the baggie method, where you wrap the soaked seeds in a damp sheet of kitchen roll, and place it in a baggie, but four days later and nothing is happening.
I think one is actually getting mouldy. I am never buying sweetpeas again.
We had a really sunny spell a few days ago, so I sowed some pepper seeds — I’m not bothering with eggplants anymore — and I was hoping the warmth (I turned off the heating during the day. It was 26 degrees) would get things going, but of course, I fell for false spring again, because it’s back to overcast.
We have a repeat visitor in our garden from last winter.
Continue readingThis book, Colloquial Kansai Japanese, by DC Palter and Kaoru Slotsve, is great, and I see it recommended online a lot as a good resource, but please bear in mind, this book was published in 1995, and doesn’t seem to have been updated since then. As a result, a lot of the examples given in it are outdated, and no longer used.
You know how HEPA filters get so filthy, so quickly? Techie Uncle saw my air filter and told me that I was wasting money, and kitchen roll is just as good. So I replaced the old filter with a layer of kitchen roll, but it was sooooo loud, and the fan is so weak anyway, it just didn’t seem worth it, so I packed it up again. When I can start spending freely again, I’ll just find a regular square fan, like this dude.
But one area it does seem to be working well is in my vacuum. The old HEPA filter was so clogged up with feathers and dust bunnies and clay dust from a project I filmed last year and still haven’t finished editing.
This is after washing
All I did was add a sheet of good old cheap Wilko kitchen roll over the new HEPA filter.
Continue readingLet’s see if g00gle even allows me to post this… It’s been well over a year since I last bought anything off Scamazon (the last time was December 2020), and I don’t miss it one bit. I’ve been on a tight budget recently, so I’ve had to limit my spending a lot, but for those things I needed to buy online, I never even bothered to look on Scamazon, except occasionally for reviews, and then I’d buy it elsewhere (usually eBay). When my radiator broke down in the middle of a cold snap, I ordinarily would have gone straight to Scamazon, but this time I ordered it from Curry’s and it arrived the next morning with no delivery charge! Maybe it would have been cheaper on Scamazon, I don’t know. But I’m glad I didn’t even look.
It’s been two months since I got Covid and I still Continue reading
I can’t remember exactly how we got these. I think it was the consolation prize for an art competition?
Note for morons: this is not a picture of a Muslim woman.
Continue readingI found the stickers! They were in my old diary. They’re cute, huh? These were the pictures I tried to replicate, and then I made one of my own design in that style.
Read on to find out what I wrote in my diary at age 7…
Continue readingHere are some things I’ve been working on (notably, here are some things I’m not working on: the mini dollshouse, Dreamsong chapter 6, Prescience).
A new baby, a new baby record book. I’ve run out of ideas for cover designs. All the kids have fruit nicknames. Tiny chose Kiwi Fruit for the new one, so I went with a green theme. I painted some kraft paper with gold kids’ paint mixed with copper to tone it down.
Continue reading The Chipmunk used to be mad about Commander Keen and Monopoly. So I made a Keen-themed Monopoly game, don’t sue me, Hasbro.
The Chipmunk is absolutely ruthless with Monopoly. He won’t even let me forfeit if I’m on the way to bankruptcy. He has to claw Mayfair out of my cold, dead hands. Although when he (very rarely) loses, he’ll throw a tantrum. Hm. His sister is the opposite. If I’m about to be bankrupted in Junior Monopoly, she’ll waive the rent, or give me money, while holding back the tears! It’s so cute! Poor thing.
Continue reading I made some origami flowers using the instructions from origami-instructions.com (note: this website is covered with ads). I made a trial flower with newspaper first, and it wasn’t hard actually.. Here’s what I made.
I used copy paper, and painted both sides with diluted acrylic. I didn’t really put enough thought into it. I was trying to go for a graduated look. The way to do it is how it’s done on the yellow one. A diagonal stripe down the middle. I then coated them with diluted PVA. To flatten them, I placed them in punched pockets and left them overnight sandwiched in a heavy book on a packed bookshelf.
Continue reading Kurain is an idiocracy anyway, but that’s not what I’m ranting about today. The whole spirit-chanelling thing just doesn’t make sense in-universe.
In the real world, we can dismiss mediums as a bunch of scam artists, but in the Ace Attorney universe, it’s genuine. They would 100% have won James Randi’s $1,000,000. I mean, they literally shapeshift for all to see. There’s no way to dismiss them as frauds. And it’s not like it’s a secret. We know from the Dr Grey case that the Feys take clients, and spirit channeling is their job. We also know the cops hired Misty years back. Mia frequently appears in court post-death and Franziska literally shows the court a photo of Maya transformed into Mia.
Continue reading I just did a post about this the other day. Metro has finally caught on. The thing is, I’ve seen several promotions of “made from recycled plastic bottles” clothing in their paper, as though it’s an eco-friendly choice. Meh. And this is the same Nicole Mowbray who promoted cow dairy over plant-based alternatives and came up with the dumb name of “filk”. Anyway, I’m glad they’ve caught on, but let’s see how long before I see another “gymwear made from recycled plastic ” feature in their lifestyle pages.
I’m confused about receipts, because a few years ago when I first heard of BPA being used in receipts, I asked the lady from head office if we used BPA or BPS in our receipts, and she said we didn’t, and its use in receipts was banned under EU law. She didn’t say anything about BPS, but who knows? Maybe regaining our right to poison our retail staff with day-long contact with BPA is a BREXIT BENEFIT™!
