Welcome to Rupee Shards, my own little world for whatever I feel like writing about. (Gosh!) For those who don't know me, I'm an administrator of OtakuBoards and a theOtaku chat moderator, and I've been hanging around here since September 2001. I'm an avid gamer and anime fan so most of what you'll see here will relate to one or the other.
Nintendo WFC Friend Codes
Wii Number: 8387-7566-7057-0450
Super Smash Bros. Brawl: 1504-5385-2566 (Des)
Rock Band 2: 4667-9521-5706
Mario Kart Wii: 4124-7294-7708
Animal Crossing: Wild World: 4553-2727-4864 (Desbreko in Kakariko)
- saved on Sat Nov 07 2009 01:12:30 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) - Desbreko: CCS is so very screen shottable. http://img193.imageshack.us/i/sakurasweatdrop02.jpg/ SunfallE: lol SunfallE: that it is Desbreko: Why does this make me think of redj? http://img517.imageshack.us/i/jump01.jpg/ Desbreko:http://img8.imageshack.us/i/jump03.jpg/ SunfallE: XD SunfallE: I don't know, but it does. XD SunfallE: you should show him sometime. lol Desbreko:http://img8.imageshack.us/i/jump04.jpg/ SunfallE: oh the irony SunfallE: that it's so... small SunfallE: XD Desbreko: It wore itself out and shrunk back to normal size. :p SunfallE: XD Desbreko: LOL http://img132.imageshack.us/i/jumpaggressivebutstupid.jpg/ SunfallE: hahahaha Desbreko: I think I'm going to have to save this log and post it. SunfallE: XD SunfallE: you should, it's so redj that it's making me laugh, a lot. SunfallE: like Indi's post dressing him up did
So I just watched Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 ep3 and went to update the counter on MyAnimeList. Instead of my list, though, I got this nice little message:
Access has been restricted for this account (IP: 10.2.10.22).
If you feel this is an error, please contact banned@myanimelist.net.
This is a temporary ban, it will be removed at some point in time. If you
feel this ban has been exceptionally long, please send an e-mail
to the address above stating your case.
Disregarding the fact that I've barely done anything there besides update my list and thus have no idea what the hell I could possibly have gotten banned for, the great part is that that's not even close to my IP address. Mine is currently 76.220.194.88. Which leads me to believe that whoever runs the site is just an idiot and screwed something up yet again.
Edit:
But wait, it gets better! I got curious and looked up that IP on DomainTools and guess what I found. It's an IP in one of the specially reserved ranges used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, i.e. the people who oversee the allocation of IP addresses. And apparently MAL has banned it. Good luck with that, guys.
Edit 2:
I got up this morning (read: noon) and, as I expected, this had been fixed and I was able to log in as usual. I figured it affected multiple users, if not everyone on MAL, and from the comments I'm guessing I was right.
I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it to Anime Club tonight. We've got family visiting over the weekend and such and I might be busy this evening. So, if I'm not around at 6:30 PM PST (9:30 PM EST), someone else feel free to start the chat. Gome, Shin, anybody... anybody... Bueller...?
I'm sure most people have already seen this linked in the chat but I have to post it here anyway:
As soon as I saw that scene in Tales of the Abyss ep7, I knew I had to extract it to mercilessly Jaderoll Gome with. It was just too perfect.
In other news, I went through my ImageShack account just now and tagged all my images. So now you can sort them by anime, video game, specific series, etc. Finding stuff I'd previously uploaded was getting to be a pain, what with the ever-increasing number of images in my account, but this should alleviate the problem.
Last night I also got Adam to fix the bug with sorting World posts by tag. Now, when you click one of those shiny links up in the intro to view only posts with that tag, you'll be able to browse through all the pages of posts instead of having the page nav links reset the tag filter. So yay for that.
Holy crap, I've been on OtakuBoards for seven years. Now that I think about it, no one else from when I joined still visits the site regularly, other than James. only a handful of people from when I joined still post regularly... Though now I'm responsible for a large part of the site so I have an excuse like James. Yeah, I'm going to go with that.
Speaking of OB, I just uploaded a bunch more avatars to the gallery for people to use. A new member pointed out a while ago that we didn't have any Haruhi Suzumiya avatars, which was a bit surprising. Somehow I missed the series when making avatars and no one else had submitted anyway. I couldn't let that stand.
My plan to skim through the episodes in search of good screen shots to use for avatars turned into me watching the entire series again over the course of a couple days. This was the third time I've watched Haruhi, and I'm not sure if it's because I watched it in broadcast order again (the second time was in chronological order) or because of a longer period of time between screenings, but I found it a lot more entertaining than the second time. Actually, it's probably a combination of both, but whatever. I had fun and saved 226 screen shots, 49 of which turned into avatars.
ef - a tale of memories also got some more love from me in the form of 19 avatars. I can't wait for a tale of melodies to start next season.
I've been meaning to write another Hatsune Miku post for a while now but haven't gotten around to it. There are plenty of good songs I've found since the last post.
Moar people need to come to the Anime Club chats. It's fun with just me and Michi (and Shin next week!) but, seriously, Minami-ke is awesome and deserves more attention. I think it's the best comedy/slice of life series I've seen since it aired.
Saving the best for last, it's Sabrina's birthday today! Everyone send her gifts.
