I started the install process back in December 2023. I kept hitting a wall when trying to install Uni, but there is a fix for it. You need to do a manual update (directions here). Once you've sorted that, you're good to go.
I got all my EPs installed (UNI, NL, OFB, SNS). I copied my old no-cd crack from my netbook (I'm still paranoid about Securom haha. Also I don't have an onboard optical drive on here either). But then my screen went like this.
Continue readingI met Calvin Jones from Park Tool! He's so MEGA COOL!!
HE asked for MY autograph! He's so cool! Super mega duper thanks to my boss for bringing me to the trade show so I could meet Calvin! I can't believe he never spoke to him himself. The sacrilege! CALVIN JONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
They were only £4 in Asda.
I actually bought two. I originally bought one for my niece. She really wanted Lemon, so I spent ages in Asda Living feeling up the packages to see which one was Lemon.
Uh oh.
Only when I got halfway through the queue (it's a rare day when you have to wait less than 10 minutes in that place), I gave it another feel and realised it was Continue reading
Is this finally our year? Either way, an LA vs NY series is gonna be fantastic, even if we do choke.
Edman has been a great acquisition. It's really nice to see the bottom of the order playing their part. Great job by the Hernández brothers, even Taylor pulling his weight. And ma boi!
It's probably not obvious, since I barely talk about it on this blog, but I super love Tamagotchi.
There's over £1,000 worth of stuff in that photo if eBay is anything to go by
My first virtual pet was the green triangular one above. It was a clone of a Nano Kitty. Continue reading
I loved Jacqueline Wilson's books as a kid. The first one I ever read was The Mum Minder, followed by The Suitcase Kid, and I was hooked.
I wish the Stevie Day books were still in print, they were great. I read How to Survive Summer Camp before she partnered with Nick Sharratt.
As an aside, when I was a kid, I loved Sharratt's illustrations and imitated his style as best I could for many years, but I'm so tired of his one-trick-pony style. I know I'm not the target demographic, and the fact that I found his style so appealing as a kid shows he got it right, but man, it gets tiring very quickly. Especially how for instance Tracy Beaker and Ellie Allard are supposed to be the ones illustrating their own stories, but they have the exact same art style and handwriting. I'm sure there was even a book where two characters had the same handwriting in the one book.
Continue readingMy boy!
I can't find the footage of him getting hit by three foul balls during the second Giants game. They didn't show it at all in the highlights, so I was confused why he wasn't appearing for game after game. Dodgers went on a losing streak. Defence was atrocious in some games. Then ma boy comes back and we're back to winning. Yay! Yesterday's game looked like our streak was coming to an end; the new pitcher was showing his inexperience, but Muncy, whoa! His defence is meh this season, but he's made up for it with his homers!
Will Smith leads the Dodgers' batting average this season at .301. Go it, Will! That's ma boy!
In other news, a chat on CAI brought up this memory @ 20.57.
The Chipmunk is now a Mika Häkkinen fan.
Congratulations on another WBC championship! I hope next time Team GB will do better, and have more Brits on the team!
After losing 8-2 and 8-1 in our exhibition games, I was expecting an 8-0 loss to Team USA.
It was a 6-2 loss, which was actually not as bad as I thought. And also 6+2=8. Trayce Thompson, ma Dodger, got us off to a good start in the first inning with a solo home run, and our defence held up for a while.
Then it kinda went to pot, but we got this from D'Shawn Knowles.
Continue readingWatch highlights on the official World Baseball Classic channel.
I wish I could watch the full games, but at least we're getting highlights. Team GB is playing exhibition games today and tomorrow in the US, but I don't see the highlights anywhere 🙁 and it seems a certain 11x6 site isn't even showing them. Sucks.
Full 2023 schedule here. We're in the same pool as Team USA, we're done for. It's a shame there's barely any homegrown talent in Team GB. Most of our players are from the USA or the Bahamas. I don't mind too much if we get beaten by the yanks though; Will Smith, Mookie Betts and Trea Turner are playing for them, so I'll still be rooting for those players, if not the actual team. Anyway, if Team GB wins even one game, I'll be happy. We got one of ma Dodgers, Trayce Thompson, yay! ✨ And I'm hoping to see the London Mets live for at least one game this season.
Friggin' Astros. I thought, wow, I picked a good year to get into baseball. When it came to choosing a team, I Continue reading
RIP my GBA SP.
Remember I was all, “Yays! I have the same GBA as Edgey!”? Well, I violated my one cardinal rule: if you don’t want something to get broken, don’t let the kids touch it.
Tiny has recently become obsessed with playing Sonic Advance (she’s an Amy fangirl like I was). And so far, it had been fine. She’d play the first level, then put it away. I don’t know what happened this time.
Continue readingThis is something that really makes no sense. Kurain channellers literally shapeshift into the person they’re channelling. Think about it. People already spend thousands on these scam mediums in the real world.
Imagine a world where you can literally meet up with a late loved one. Where you can physically touch them, hug them, hear their voice. People would pay their entire life savings for such a chance, people would go into debt to hold their deceased child one more time.
And yet the village is decorated with scrolls and screens giving tips on saving money, and Maya is constantly cribbing money off Phoenix like the freeloading wench that she is.
Why aren’t they minting it? Phoenix is always broke because he’s a big softie who keeps taking cases pro bono and has to pay rent and bills for his flat and his office and is constantly bankrolling Maya. What’s the village’s excuse? No, like, seriously, I would pay money just to see my old budgies again. Kurain should be rolling in money. Their channelling is not a secret. They take clients, we know this from canon. They even had a public exhibition.
Kurain should be the wealthiest village in the country. Why does none of this make sense?
I might translate a few more of these. If there's a character page you'd like me to translate, leave a request in the comment section. This is NOT related to the Naruhodo Gyakuten Saiban! fanbook. All scans are from the Ace Attorney Wikia. I edited out the Japanese text and replaced it with an English translation and did a bit of contrast and saturation enhancement. As always, I did my best, but I'm not fluent at Japanese. Click for big.
