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It's pronounced: "Die-skee-no." That silent "u" screws you up every time.

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Those other wacky podcasts I listen to.

I don't listen to Bob and Tom live on the radio, I instead get their podcast. I generally don't have the time to when they're on. The podcast gives me the ability to hear the show at my own leisure. The real big advantage is that I can edit and save the bits that I like. Usually I wind up saving about ninety percent of the yearly CD releases within a few months. The downside is that it is a paid subscription, but I definitely get my money's worth.

Botchcast is one I get once in awhile. It's a wrestling oriented show. When the hosts talk about how a match was screwed up, the history leading to and the aftermath of a match, or a wrestler's general history, and other such thing I find very interesting. However It tends to be a what happened this week which is incredibly boring. We're on the net, we've long since read the Smackdown and Impact spoilers. One of the co-hosts has this bad habit of getting into some sophomoric ethic humor.

The Tech Guy is a technology themed live radio show. The odd bit is that I think podcast is what is on Leo's mind while doing the show. When I listen to it live on the radio, things tend to get cut up a lot differently than he plans on. The big problem I have is that it seems like the same show each week. What phone should I buy, I lost my pictures, what phone should I buy, I think I got a virus, what phone should I buy, Mac is great, what phone should I buy, my email has been hacked, what phone should I buy. Leo handles all this with the utmost patience, never talks over people, or down to them. He generally gets the problem solved or points people in the right direction. All the while making sure he gets in his advertisers.

Listening to Leo's show led me to this:

Otaku no Podcast. It's everything anime and Japanese related. It's very sporadic, but you get notes on the latest releases, websites of note, political news from Japan that affects the medium we all love, and the latest conventions coming to town. The major downsides is that the hosts tend to prattle on insistently for about two hours and rabbit trail into their own personal political opinions that really have nothing to do with the topic at hand.

The Nerdist. For me this one is hit or miss. Somedays it is a total bore fest and I hit the next button after only five minutes. Then there's Adam Corolla, Kevin Smith, Weird Al, and, Mike Birbiglia, Plus the hostfull shows can be quite funny. If you are not a fan of Dr. Who, you're going to wind up knowing a lot more of Dr. Who than even the BBC.

Ravy 2011 Pg. 28.

With the Daisukino Sisters I'm practicing a new style for me. It's a hybrid of the Sailor Moon RPG and early Final Fantasy. I need an easy to mass manufacture style for a comic series that I was going to start back in 2010, but never got around to it. Maybe next year. I'll know for sure, maybe, by December of this year.

Of course the Daisukino Sisters will have nothing to do with it.

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Transformers 3.

The real reason we went to the Moon? Because the Transformers got there first. Events from the Sixties set off a chain reaction of a long term Decepticon plan to revitalize the Transformer homeworld of Cybertron. After the Autobots are betrayed by Sentinel Prime and banished from the Earth, it is up to Sam Witwicky, his girlfriend, and a rag-tag band of former secret operatives to save everyone.

Two and a half hours? I hate to see what was left on the cutting room floor. Couldn't they have left out the bit with Optimus trying to give the Matrix to Sentinel? Or even the whole damn section of Sam trying to find a job?

There were lots of inconsistencies. Bumblebee saves Sam from Starscream and one minute later he's shown as a P.O.W. Or when Shockwave captures Optimus's trailer. Prime is going on and on about how he needs it. Four hours later He shows up in a jet pack. I guess it's the trailer. They don't explain it. I guess the writers must think that everybody watching must have bought the toy.

Logical transformation was thrown out. I read many articles about how the 3D model designers went to great length to make sure that how the robots looked in robot and vehicle form were proportionally correct. That's why Optimus is a conventional truck and not a cabover. That the change from robot to vehicle followed a logical pattern. Now we see Laserbeak go from printer, flatscreen, and chickbot.

One of the annoyances I had with the first movie was the recycling of lines from the first movie. This one was worse. We were getting plot elelments from the cartoon and comic books. This is the third time that Cybertron is brought to Earth. The second time the Autobot ship is destroyed while taking off. Starscream gets a bomb stuck in his eye and is blown up. And we we get a line from Spock. That's when I said out loud: “Oh my goddess, they just couldn't resist.”

Transformers Animated had fewer references to the original series than this one.

However, the best part? Ken Jeong has his pants off, and we aren't forced to see his wiener.

Matinée for Transformers 4.

Odd Month of Anniversaries.

June is a month that has all kinds of meanings for me.

It is the month I started and ended my Army career. Technically, I signed the paperwork in May, but I did the oath in June. Then I did the oath several more times over the next many months. And I did pick up my orders telling me to get the hell out and don't ever come back in May, but the clock ran out in June.

It is the month that Ravy Comics went online. That in itself is a very uninteresting and boring story. I got time, if you're here, then you do too. I had hoped to get on with Bob and George. I sent in a bunch of comics for review and it was taking so long to get a response I thought I had been rejected by being ignored.

I really really wanted to be published, so I did a little investigating and found out it wasn't as hard as it looked. A friend gave me a beta copy of Fontpage. Just by farting around with it I made something somewhat passable. I had just purchased the webspace and was in the middle of the final designs when I get an email back saying that Bob and George was possibly maybe, kinda sorta, on the fence. A couple a emails later we both agree that it was better we go our separate ways. I wish I could have have gotten the notoriety that would have come with BnG, but I think I made the right choice. Just think, if I had made it, I would have been one of two currently running comics.

Most controversial, June is the month I started blabbing about Rosenkreuzstilette. I think. You see most of the stuff I wrote was pre-blog. Looking at the articles themselves doesn't help because I never dated anything. Right-clicking properties doesn't help either because the created by date is the last time I transferred the file form one harddrive to another. The modified date is two days before that. Same thing with the images I used. The harddrive I found the game on has long since died. The receipt has long since been thrown away.

Luck was on my side. While digging through my Windows Museum. A place where I store all those copies of Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, and Seven. I found the copy I made of Rosenkreuzstilette to test out the English Patch. There are two versions of this patch: one for the digital download, and one that was for “original” C.D.s only. The Original CD version was released first. Only those who had bought an Original CD could use it. Me, and many other before figured out a workaround. By burning the Rosenkreuzstilette folder to CD. On that CD I made was the created by date of July 2009. Which means I had to been playing the game before then. Maybe May, or even April. But for the purposes of this monologue, June will suffice.

Even more controversial: June is the month my grandmother was born.

And the month her son, my father, was born.