Author Archives: baudattitude

Things that go bounce in the night

Posted on September 5, 2010 by baudattitude

It’s been a bad month for video game Nazis. Choosing to play through Bloodrayne made thematic sense; it’s a natural follow-up to both Bayonetta and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.  Like Bayonetta, it panders pretty heavily to base male instinct, and … Continue reading →

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Predictions, accurate:

Posted on September 4, 2010 by baudattitude

As often happens, I was looking up information about something completely unrelated when I ran across this gallery of classic computer ads on BoingBoing.  I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I’m old enough and was a geek from early … Continue reading →

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So about Bayonetta…

Posted on September 3, 2010 by baudattitude

Finished “Bayonetta” this afternoon.  Having done so, I’m very glad that I took the advice of the community and ratcheted the difficulty down a notch, to “Easy” (although there is a “Very Easy” difficulty that I didn’t have to stoop … Continue reading →

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Yogurt for MEN

Posted on September 2, 2010 by baudattitude

When I saw this stuff for sale, I had to try it out.  Yogurt marketing as I’ve known it up until this point tends to be all about athletic looking women in leotards, not fists. The Japanese reads “Businessman’s breakfast … Continue reading →

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In which I purchase officially licensed “Hannah Montana” merchandise.

Posted on September 1, 2010 by baudattitude

Let’s be perfectly clear:  I’m not a fan of Hannah Montana.  That isn’t to say that I have anything against the show, I’ve never seen it and I’m not exactly in the target demographic so I really don’t have an … Continue reading →

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The Man Spa

Posted on August 31, 2010 by baudattitude

About two miles from our previous apartment, there was a day spa whose advertising seemed predominantly aimed at women.  You could go in for a day of relaxing, having people do your hair and nails, get a massage, generally decompress … Continue reading →

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This is a thing.

Posted on August 30, 2010 by baudattitude

This is a real thing: No, seriously, this is an actual thing.

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Finding my limits

Posted on August 29, 2010 by baudattitude

The biggest purchase I made in Japan was an Xbox 360S, partially because my US 360 is four years old and will presumably die any day now but mostly because I wanted to play Japanese-only releases of shooters and Idolmaster … Continue reading →

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Let’s get these out of the way

Posted on August 28, 2010 by baudattitude

Here’s a pile of random Japanese-English signs and so on that I’m just going to throw into a single post, make a couple snide comments about, and move on to more important things instead of pretending that each one is … Continue reading →

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This will be a day long remembered

Posted on August 27, 2010 by baudattitude

Lucky find at Goodwill today. It may be a bit of a challenge making all of these work in a modern operating system, mind you, but I’m looking forward to it.

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