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A Robot's Letters to God, No. 33

posted @ 12/30/2009 08:00:00 AM by evermore

Yet another installment of A Robot's Letters to God...

Do you have an idea for a funny Robot's Letters to God? Just send them to evermore@electricsistahood.com. If we use it, we'll be glad to give you credit!

In case you missed 'em, click here to check out the previous Robot's Letters to God.

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A Robot's Letters to God, No. 32

posted @ 12/23/2009 08:00:00 AM by evermore

Here's this week's newest installment of A Robot's Letters to God. Enjoy!

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A Robot's Letters to God, No. 31

posted @ 12/16/2009 08:00:00 AM by evermore

Every Wednesday throughout December you can enjoy a new installment of A Robot's Letters to God continues. Here's this week's entry.

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A Robot's Letters to God, No. 30

posted @ 12/09/2009 08:00:00 AM by evermore

The return of A Robot's Letters to God continues. Be sure to tune in every Wednesday throughout December.

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A Robot's Letters to God Returns!

posted @ 12/02/2009 08:00:00 AM by evermore

After a three-year hiatus, A Robot's Letters to God returns. Every Wednesday in December, you'll get to read the inner thoughts of some of the best-known robots as they try to understand the workings of the universe.

Or something like that.

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King Baby Duck's Anime Calamity: Kyōran Kazoku Nikki

posted @ 7/12/2008 10:29:00 AM by FreeLoader

King Baby Duck here, working very hard (but not hardly working) on a few projects and J-POP CD reviews. Until the CD reviews are ready to be seen by the public, I've got another Anime Calamity for you all to read up on. This time we will be looking at "Kyōran Kazoku Nikki," or "The Diary of a Frenzy Family."

Based off of the light novel series by Akira, “Kyōran Kazoku Nikki” follows Oka: your average guy working as the head of the operations department of Supernatural Phenomenon Treatment Bureau. One day he runs into a cat girl named Kyoka, who used to be queen of Shangri-la. Upon capturing her, the Bureau makes Oka part of the Cozy Family Operation. Through this operation the Bureau must find the child of Enka; who swore that when he or she will be born, the destruction of the Earth will begin. As a result Oka is forced to marry Kyoka.

After their marriage the two set out to find the other members of the Cozy Family Operation. The other family members consist of Ginka, the eldest son who suffers from Gender Identity Disorder; Yuuka, the second-eldest daughter who is gentle despite her abusive past; Teika, the second-eldest son who is really a talking lion; Hyouka, the youngest son who is really a robot bent on destruction; Gekka, the youngest daughter who is really a jellyfish; and Chika, the eldest-daughter and biological sister of Yuuka. Together the family goes out on wacky misadventures, and learns the concept of love while Kyoka changes the rules at every corner and makes Oka’s life both pleasing and a living Hell.

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Has this concept lost you? Well it sounds wild and crazy, and it definitely is. In fact if you look up the word “bonkers” in the dictionary you’ll probably find Akira's face. However, there are a lot of great qualities, and some good morals to learn in this crazy series. Kyoka can be annoying at times, but by episode’s end you’ll see she has a reason for everything. Oka, though, doesn’t seem to be evolving as well as the other characters; which could be blamed on the scriptwriters who make Kyoka change her tune and personality traits at every turn. The other characters, though, evolve gracefully. Hyouka the robot boy learns about peace and how everything can’t be solved with things going boom; the relationship between Yuuka and Chika become stronger after harsh times; and Ginka is able to tap in to both his masculine and feminine personalities whenever needed be. In short, behind this off-the-wall series is a tale of overcoming one’s defects and learning to come together as a family to defeat any odds thrown at them.

“Kyoran Kazoku Nikki” gets a B+. The show is a good time-killer and lesson-learner, and by the end of each episode you’ll feel like you have a sugar rush that’ll last long enough for the next episode to come around. That is, if the series doesn’t leave you in a diabetic coma first.

This is King Baby Duck saying, "If it ain't made in Japan, it's usually crap!"

Labels: Anime, Anime Calamity, cat girls, jellyfish, Kazoku, King Baby Duck, Kyoran, Kyoran Kazoku Nikki, Kyouran, lion, Nikki, robot

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HD DVD: Yeah, It's Dead

posted @ 1/08/2008 12:45:00 PM by Ninjasistah

With Warner announcing that they will be moving from title releases on both high definition formats to [eventually] just Blu-Ray, you have to imagine that the HD DVD camp feels a little defeated.

And when I went by their booth here at CES, they sure looked that way. I strolled up to the booth late afternoon and my first impression before I spoke to anyone was, "wow, you look like you need a drink." I'm sure that every journalist that hit the South Hall show floor on Monday made a beeline over to their booth to question every representative about the announcements, but when I got there I just hung back for a moment. I gathered my thoughts and questions and then headed over to the booth.

I could tell that the guy I was heading toward at the booth caught a glimpse of my badge before I was in earshot as his smile started to fade away. When I finally reached him [foot is still a bit gimpy so I don't move too fast yet] after a short introduction I made my first statement: I'm not going to ask that question. the look of stunned amazement and then relief that came over his face was priceless. I wanted to take a picture of it, but I thought better of it. Besides I'm lazy.

Anyways, when he realized I was serious, a smile returned to his face and he began his spiel on HD-DVD. He was well informed about the product he was representing, and honestly believed that HD-DVD had a viable future, and I was happy to let him believe that. Who am I to tell him Santa isn't real and the Easter Bunny is a lie made up by candy companies? Nobody, that's who. I mean I had a lot of questions around the eminent demise of HD-DVD? Questions like, "now that nearly 70 percent of all feature length film studio work as well as television content will be moving to Blu-Ray exclusively, how do you [the HD DVD camp] plan to revitalize your format in hopes of staying alive? How long do you think the HD DVD format will survive if other content providers jump ship? Which in hindsight would have been a great question to ask as the new rumor about Paramount jumping to the Blu-Ray only ship swirls 'round the interweb.

But one of those thoughts that I gathered as I was walking up to the guy was this guy looks like he needs a stiff drink desperately. And while I couldn't give him a drink, I could give him a break. He's got three more days of dealing with awkward question, oppressive journalists looking for sound-bytes, and a never ending swarm of people looking to get free movie discs before they disappear forever. The least I can do is give this guy a break for 30 minutes and let him give the speech that he's rehearsed umpteen million times before getting to Vegas. So that's what I did.

At the end of the tour, I looked him dead in the eye, thanked him for his time and the information. I gave him my card, and went on my merry way. Good deed for the day done. But in case you missed it, HD-DVD = Dead. Especially if Paramount goes exclusive to Blu-Ray. It would leave Toshiba and Universal as the last pair standing

and that just isn't enough to make it moving forward. It's sad, because HD-DVD is not a bad format, but when the high definition development camp got split with Sony saying, "we'll roll our own thanks," that it was only a matter of time before bad things happened.

I don't want you to be sad though, so here's a picture of a model of Bumblebee from the Transformers movie.

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Transformers ain't got shit on this!

posted @ 6/27/2007 10:10:00 PM by Monkey Doo

If you thought the Transformers were the baddest bots in town, you were wrong. This July 4th, prepare yourself for the coming of truly kick ass robots, prepare yourself for... GOBOTS!

A movie so hardcore even The Punisher might piss himself a little bit. A movie so chock full of lasers, you'll walk out with a completed Lasik eye surgery. The true war is set, and whatever happens, the winners will be GOBOTS! There is nothing more to be said, just feast on the bountiful goods of this trailer....