Long time no see
Hi all, I have returned from the black hole I have been living in for the last... well let's just say it's been awhile since I've posted.
I've been busy reading through supernatural fic and inception fic and buying (and watching) lots of films with Joseph Gordon Levitt or Tom Hardy in to fuel my obsession. I have also been enjoying netflix's arrival to this side of the Atlantic (it is a large part of the reason I am now the owner of a new TV and an internet blu-ray player), rewatching Numb3rs and Avatar the last Airbender and have rather a long list of series I've been meaning to watch that I can now legally stream in HD and in order .
Mostly though I have disappeared into the world of swagbucks and superpoints, which pay me in amazon vouchers or paypal for messing around on the internet (and thus pay for the blu-ray, TV, and JGL and TH films) and are depressingly addictive. I'm not going to put a whole post up about them (at least not yet) because I'm still debating whether that's OK in a mainly fandom blog but the links above are referral links if anyone wants to join and feel free to ask about them if you're interested, they are US sites but also work for UK (like me), Canada and I think Australian users.
In other news I finally got round to buying (what was supposed to be) a legitimate copy of Hikaru No Go (I'm gradually trying to make sure I have boxsets for everything).... Not entirely convinced whether the boxset I had imported is real or not the disks and box looks real but the chapters on the DVD are put together really badly and the subtitles are terrible.
I know people often say fansubs are better than the official one's (and they often are) but these - in some places it is like someone put the script into babel fish and then put that up on the screen. Seriously they really are that bad, it's not just that it doesn't match what they are saying it's actually not really English (and bizarrely they change the characters names in the subtitles, for some unknown reason Hikaru becomes Kanazi, why???????). I only know what's going on at all because I understand a little Japanese and remember the story.
I've been busy reading through supernatural fic and inception fic and buying (and watching) lots of films with Joseph Gordon Levitt or Tom Hardy in to fuel my obsession. I have also been enjoying netflix's arrival to this side of the Atlantic (it is a large part of the reason I am now the owner of a new TV and an internet blu-ray player), rewatching Numb3rs and Avatar the last Airbender and have rather a long list of series I've been meaning to watch that I can now legally stream in HD and in order .
Mostly though I have disappeared into the world of swagbucks and superpoints, which pay me in amazon vouchers or paypal for messing around on the internet (and thus pay for the blu-ray, TV, and JGL and TH films) and are depressingly addictive. I'm not going to put a whole post up about them (at least not yet) because I'm still debating whether that's OK in a mainly fandom blog but the links above are referral links if anyone wants to join and feel free to ask about them if you're interested, they are US sites but also work for UK (like me), Canada and I think Australian users.
In other news I finally got round to buying (what was supposed to be) a legitimate copy of Hikaru No Go (I'm gradually trying to make sure I have boxsets for everything).... Not entirely convinced whether the boxset I had imported is real or not the disks and box looks real but the chapters on the DVD are put together really badly and the subtitles are terrible.
I know people often say fansubs are better than the official one's (and they often are) but these - in some places it is like someone put the script into babel fish and then put that up on the screen. Seriously they really are that bad, it's not just that it doesn't match what they are saying it's actually not really English (and bizarrely they change the characters names in the subtitles, for some unknown reason Hikaru becomes Kanazi, why???????). I only know what's going on at all because I understand a little Japanese and remember the story.