Ayarane Project

In this post we sing the glory of sausage in our pizza.

Tonight, I looted the Overstuffed pizza from Pizza Hut, because new event item = must try!

It gets one ding on the outbreak: you only have two choices on how you take your pizza. The first is Supreme, which is just like any other definition of Pizza Hut’s supreme (peppers and such). The Italian Meat Trio is for us weenies who are so entrenched in our sausage+pepperoni ways. There is no “Build Your Own” option, so if you’re picky about your ingredients, this probably isn’t for you. :(

Now that THAT’s out of the way… Welp, do you like P’zones? Because this is basically three of ’em fused together. I looted the Italian Meat Trio spec, which in this case means Pepperoni and Sausage. Lots… and lots… of sausage. This is, of course, a very good thing for me because I am of course all for Team Sausage! Note, though, that the top layer crust comes off rather easily, so you may as well either just take it off entirely and eat it, or flip it over and hold it underneath the bottom crust as a support grip. I’m not sensing much sauce in here at all, so if that’s important to you, you may want to loot a marinara cup as an extra.

$13 for this sounds about right, given that, again, it’s essentially 3 P’zones stuck together (on days other than mondays, P’zones are $5 a pop, so this works out marginally cheaper!). And if you’ve ever wanted a P’zone that has sausage+pepperoni (emphasis on sausage), here is your chance!

It’s a little on the greasy side, if the collected grease on the wax paper is any indication, so take that into account if that’s of any importance. Otherwise, happy nomming, and I hope this is a long-lasting event item because as a sausage-lover I would TOTALLY loot this again. :)

TL;DR:
– Overstuffed = 3 P’zones. No really, same crust and such.
– Italian Meat Trio spec = Are you Team Sausage? Lots of sausage. Not so much pepperoni.

I marathoned all the available episodes of Sword Art Online. That’s right, I’m actually up to date on a current anime, rather than picking one up several years after the fact.

Now, the fact that this is tagged “Yoshi Suggests” means this is an endorsement. I think I’ve only devoted a hate post to one anime, ever, and I’m pretty sure THAT one was the RO anime. Seriously, that was such a steaming pile of poop, that I would SHAMELESSLY promote Ragnarok TWILIGHT, my own work, over that.

*ahem*

Sword Art Online is, as the name suggests, about a (fictional) MMO. Think… .hack//G.U. meets Tales of Vesperia. Yes, you even get Yuki Kajiura at the musical controls, though this time the soundtrack is more reminiscent of Xenosaga ep. 3 than .hack//SIGN, if your musical memory is up to par. In any case, 10,000 players get trapped in the titular MMO, with an added creepier twist: you die in game and you die in the real world. (Gee, wasn’t there a horror movie with that exact same premise a few years ago?)

SAO follows a solo player, Kirito (imagine Vesperia’s Yuri Lowell with shorter hair) and his path to the endgame, and his encounters with other players (mostly pretty girls– this IS anime, after all) and guilds along the way. As much as the nagging question of “WTF is happening to their bodies in real space” may nip at you, it’s one of those things where you have to just sit on it until the end of the current plotline and the closer you get, the more it will start feeding you answers. The payoff really is worth it. :D

VA Nerdery: The second arc introduces a different villain, one who gets automatic WIN points because he’s played by Takehito Koyasu. That’s right, freaking Jade Curtiss and in my headcanon, the “official” voice of Phil Ayarane and Avatar Blastoise. I should have expected Koyasu to show up in here, he’s a total RPG nerd and eats this stuff up. (He was even in that aforementioned RO anime trainwreck as its primary villain, to boot.) I recall long ago, there was an interview that someone translated, and when asked about a “career failure” he makes a reference to a battle in Final Fantasy Tactics that he got a Game Over in because he used the wrong job classes. XD

Man, is he ever a creeper as Sugou/”Oberon” this time around, sniffing the hair of a comatose person. But soft-spoken villains are exactly what Koyasu is so great at (see: Rezo). It’ll be awesomepants to see how this plays out.</small>

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Roadmap check!

With Brawlection (and with it, our Presidential election) in the can, it’s time to address the first round of Gourmet Ramen commissions. Here’s what it looks like so far as what’s going to happen here:

1. Slot 1 – Typh (Chelsea costume sheets, no color)
2. pause to boost Blastoise to Windows 8 and refresh his graphics programs (to add Illustrator) because of…
3. Slot 2 – Aeth (Magisteral cards, vector, flagged as special project BECAUSE of vector mode)
4. Slot 3? – Permadirty (need to confirm parameters, also flagged as special project)

This shouldn’t interfere with Snowschemes much, however. Whoa, is December already creeping up? We’re already 10 days into November. And the week of Thanksgiving, it’ll already have been 2 years since I got Dinah the MacBook. :O

It’s Brawlection, doods!
You know you’d want to see this happen. Throwdown in Brawl on Election Night, regardless of who actually won? Oh yeah. And it has to be livestreamed!

(There was a “b” screencap but it was just Obama and Biden)

Brawlection is rolling along on schedule… as it should, since it’s top priority in the queue for topical reasons.

Better get Romney a new controller (preferably one that’s both fully-charged and without a broken cable) quick or else the D team is going to snatch up the Smash Ball. >:D

Let’s talk about something happier… still WTF but happier.

*cough*

I like Pedobear!

Now, before I continue, let me make it QUITE clear that I in no way support, endorse or condone child pornography or molestation or any of those awful things that Pedobear stands for. But, come on, Pedobear greatly appeals to me on a character design level.

Just like with Action Cat, I do not know who to credit for the original Pedobear design as he hails from the land of 4chan (and its Japanese predecessor), but man, Pedobear has it really going for him. He’s a bit oddly proportioned for a cartoon bear since bears are not typically so thin in real life, and his face looks more cat-like. Still, the end result is… pretty damn cute. I must admit, as something designed to lure unwary children into dangerous shenanigans, Pedobear is pretty effective in the cute appeal department.

I’ve commandeered the Pedobear character for a couple of my NSFW show pieces, both in the capacity of pursuing a show guest who is actually of legal age but is usually the youngest in the group. Rather than going right for the naughty angle since that no longer applies here, all Pedobear wants to do is give Chad a hug. Is that so wrong? :)

…yeah, doods. They ran my painting at the very end of the show. Until the final podcast version hits, have some Justin.tv extract.