I've let these links accumulate a little too long!
jobhunters is a new-ish Dreamwidth community. I know it's relevant to a bunch of you, so you should join & comment! There's an open thread every Sunday, which I think could be used to help focus weekly searches/progress, etc.
Over at
moogle_university, two DW users are playing through Final Fantasys I-XII, one each in the year of 2013. So, right now obviously, they're on Final Fantasy IV.
For the moment, I am not playing along, but the posts are really fun to read, and I assume will become even moreso as they get up to the Final Fantasys with which I am more familiar!
Screencaps, reflections, caps lock, etc. It's like a community made for me, :)
I keep rereading this post & the comments on it: Thinking About Anger by
sparkymonster
littlebutfierce has uploaded some music for me b/c I am the most spoiled friend in the history of the internet. This post has songs about women being in a band,, or as I've titled it in my iTunes, "K-ON! fanmix," :D :D :D
I love-love-love listening to mixes of any length on themes, so I'm delighted by this.
Also this post from a couple weeks ago with 2 songs. "Stone by Stone" is a superior anthem, the lyrics are amazing.
"Rock This" is a fantastic GET UP AND GO!!! song, imo.
I rolled my eyes a lot at the coverage of the demise of J-Manga.com. So I was really grateful for this post by
snarp.
* You were asking people to pay real-book-type prices for low-resolution scans of poorly-edited manga.
* Which were not downloadable. Not even with DRM. They could be accessed only from your servers, using your website and or your proprietary apps.
* As such - as any erstwhile user of Yahoo! Music or other such services well knew - we did not buy those low-resolution scans from you. We merely rented them, until came the day upon which you would shrug your shoulders, say "welp, I tried," and shut down your servers.
* You didn't actually try.
* Like, your website and apps were so bad? That I think they were meant as some kind of deliberate "fuck you."
* You didn't even release the mobile apps until last October.
* Wait, did the iPad app ever come out? (Edit: It didn't.)
* It's just kind of hard to believe you were serious about entering this market, is I guess what I'm saying, JManga.
I then got into a Twitter exchange with Deb Aoki (who writes about manga at About.com), basically about how commentators ALWAYS BLAME fans who "pirate everything" or are ungrateful assholes or what-fucking ever.
I was disgusted by Erica Friedman's apparent rage-quit post in her blog, which was inspired by J-Manga closing up shop.
So I was really glad when
snarp ALSO commented on that in JManga Stockholm Syndrome.
Ms. Friedman, you are a treasure to that internet demographic preoccupied with swordfighting lesbian schoolgirls (me), but this is bullshit. JManga was deliberately marketing towards people who didn't know enough about the internet to realize that the manga they'd bought was going to disappear on them.
I'm so tired of the way anime/manga industry commentators in the US talk about piracy/etc. whenever a company goes under.
I can't think of any other industry that constantly blames its consumers for its own failures.
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