Received a few packages yesterday. One of them contained… a box.

With a loli in it! Awwwwwwwwwwww!

The loli is Noumi Kudryavka known from Key’s eroge Little Busters! Ecstasy.

This cute little figure is an extra that comes with the March issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine.

Still available from Hobby Search for 943 Yen: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10104570 (Now with SAL shipping.)

Many thanks to comrade Guy who found her while browsing some online shops earlier this year.

More about how he fell in love with Kud over here: http://geekorner.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/loli-puppy-in-a-box/

At the bottom of Kuds box you will find the logo of Key’s upcoming eroge called Kud Wafter (クドわふたー). This spinoff of Little Busters! focuses on Kud and should be released this summer.

More info over @ Wikipedia or the official website. Teaser below:

So cute… <3

If you are interested in some pics of the magazine itself head over to this Flickr album: http://www.flickr.com/Dengeki G’s Magazine March 2010

Now on to some tech-stuff again:

Not long ago I assembled my ION powered HTPC. Every thing seemed fine back then. Unfortunately my hearing is pretty well and Western Digitals Caviar Green isn’t as silent as it is advertised. The LianLi case has rubberized HDD mounting screws but unfortunately they riveted the mounting frame to the cases bottom. Because of that the hard disks vibrations are directly transferred to the rest of the case. No one else noticed the noise but I just couldn’t live with it.

Ordered the ichbinleise Box HDD 10 from Germany for 25€.  (“Ich bin leise” means “I am silent”)

The best HDD silencing box, the GrowUp Japan SMART DRIVE 2002C seems to be sold out everywhere. (Would cost over 90€ anyway.)

The ichbinleise box, which needs to be assembled in a few easy steps, contains of:

- 2x aluminium side panels and 2 x inter panels 3mm thick (There are versions for two or three hard drives available.)

- 2x sound damping panels

- 1x self-adhesive decoupling pad

- 4x knurled-head screws

Assembly complete. It’s a hardrive sandwich! With the hard drive inside the box is really heavy.

Fits perfectly into my ITX case as you can see above. HTPC Revision 1.2 ready to go – (Guess I need to come up with a name for it, any ideas?)

It is indeed working well and the hard rive is quite silent. The temperatures are little bit higher but 37°C isn’t a temperature to worry about. (Apple thinks it’s okay that hard drives have constantly around 60°C for example. o_O)

My tip if you are going to build a HTPC too:

Check reviews for the most silent hard drive models, get a 2,5” model as those are usually quieter or (if you have too much money) a SSD.

My main machine got some attention too cause my old and cheap gaming headset decided to die last week. Ordered this as replacement:

Creative FATAL1TY Pro Series Gaming Headset. Unlike some earlier revision the latest one is quite good.

Specifications:

Earphones

• Driver units: 40mm Neodymium magnet
• Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz 
• Impedance: 32ohms
• Sensitivity (1kHz): 110dB/mW

Microphone

• Microphone type: noise-cancelling condenser
• Frequency response: 100Hz-15kHz
• Impedance: <10kohms
• Sensitivity (1kHz): -40dBV/Pa
• Cord length: 8-foot / 2.5m Oxygen-Free Copper cable
• Input/Output plugs: 1/8" / 3.5mm gold-plated stereo miniplugs
• Net weight: 7oz. / 200g (without packaging)

Works great combined with my Creative X-Fi soundcard. Way better gameplay for example in Modern Warfare 2 as you don’t miss any sound. Guess they will do a good job in Bad Company 2 too which I preordered for only 28€ from here. (Limited Edition!)

Anyone of my readers playing MW2 by the way? Kinda boring without some buddies as way too much of my comrades decided to play FPSs on consoles! WTF???

My next blog post will probably contain some half naked figure and some thoughts about a certain DX11 graphics card. xD

-hikky logging out

Guess what’s missing on my desk…

Right, one of my Syncmaster T240s is missing!

Why? Because I need some space for the new 27” Quadcore iMac which will be shipped in a few weeks!

Ok ok, not really. Actually I came across a problem with the monitor. Every time I opened up a webpage with a lot of white stuff, for example Wikipedia, the right T240 began to hum. Sounds weird but looks like I’m not the only one facing this problem according to the interwebs.

Contacted Samsungs TechSupport yesterday and they will pick it up tomorrow.

The monitor will be check at Samsungs secret bunker somewhere in the Austrian mountains I guess.

My productivity decreased 95%. Once you go dual you can’t go back!

So in the next days I will probably miss a lot of tweets and such.

Not just because of the missing monitor but also because version 1.00 of the Sengoku Rance translation patch was released! Thx to the folks over @ Yandere Translations!

You can grab it here: http://yandere.gray7.com/?p=652

Make sure to install this small fix too: http://yandere.gray7.com/?p=662

Oh shi…

Oh and I finally managed to get rid of my tower of waifu boxes.

Didn’t look very neat after all…

Moved the boxes to my bedroom and transferred the additional parts to this “waifu addon storage” thingy~

~hikky off~

EDIT: 2009-10-22, 14:50: Got a call from the Samsung logistics department (?). They will pick up the monitor on Tuesday! Fail! Unboxed my second monitor right after that call of course…

And btw: The Windows 7 drivers for my HP All-in-one thingy are finally available!

You may have heard about the RapeLay incident: None Japanese gaming sites/feminist groups/ politicians using one of the most extreme sort of Eroge as reference for all games of this genre. And banning them. This lead to the situation we are in atm: Foreign visitor are blocked from most Eroge producer’s websites.

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After a lot of reactions from foreigners minori added the statement on the left to their homepage.

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The blocking was quite a strict move but after thinking about it I guess it was the right decision for the current situation.

How should they deal with politicians who have no insight (especially the foreign ones) and who tell them that foreigners are offended by their games?  How would you react?

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Wikipedia might not be the most awesome source for otaku related stuff but maybe some anti-eroge folks should have fired up their IE6 (sry for mentioning such an awful piece of software xD):

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Definition from Wikipedia below:

An eroge (エロゲー, erogē, a portmanteau of erotic game: erochikku gēmu) is a Japanese video or computer game that features erotic content, usually in the form of anime-style artwork.

Most eroge are visual novels or romance sims. However, there are many other kinds of eroge:

• Other common video game genres such as RPGs with eroticism.
• Conditioning game, in which the female character, by performing different types of sexual activities, changes her stats, unlocking additional types of play.
• "Strip"’ versions of traditional games, including but not limited to mahjong, pachinko, poker, chess, and blackjack. Many adult arcade games fall under this category.
• Interactive video, which is essentially nothing more than an eroge that plays in a DVD player (also known as DVDPG, DVD player game).
• Sex simulators, often in 3D.
• Puzzle games with erotic background images.
• Ero-cha is online sex chat employing full voice chat with voice actresses in real time. This system uses 2D eroge-type characters, as well as erotic game style point-and-click functions.

Eroge may be bishōjo games, GxB, or BL games, although bishōjo games are the most popular.

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Unfortunately the game which got attention was not one of the most common sort of Eroge. But aren’t there sick movies out there too for example? Let’s say someone is offended by a horror movie, does this mean we should ban love stories too? Don’t know how RapeLay got approved @ Amazon. “We don’t sell ecchi stuff, but a rape game is fine?“

Those of you who ever played a VN know that those are beautiful and awesome stories and not perverted/sick/whatever at all.

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6BFvXrhjl4&w=873&h=525&fmt=18]

Is this something that needs to be banned in western countries? I think not. Those are pieces of art!

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What’s your opinion? Do you think writing to Japanese officials is going to change anything? I’m not sure about that but a huge amount of complains may have an effect. “Little strokes fell big oaks.” Please think about this and support the game companies by spreading this story in every  possible way if you would like play great games in the future too.

For example… .…

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Another thing I was thinking about is the fact that Japanese otaku-related companies seem to have no idea what’s going on overseas. Maybe because they just focus on the Japanese market?

Japanese otaku are discussing the website blocking too. But according to some sources there are also statements like:

“This can’t be helped”, “Damn foreigners are attacking our culture!”, “They are all just dirty pirates anyway!”, and “All eroge makers should ban foreigners!”

I understand those reactions quite well, but aren’t the ones messing around with the laws in Japan actually Japanese officials? If you have more insight feel free to enlighten us/me, please! Would be interesting to hear some Japanese opinions on this but I guess that’s not something that’s likely to happen on this blog.

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The figure photo-session which should have been up by today is delayed for some reasons. Going to blog about them later. Have to get some food now.

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Hopefully without blowing anything up ^^;

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Just a quick first indoor photography approach before I create another EPIC FAIL NIDA PHOTOSHOT… and a little bit of image sharing.

Sasami came with Dengeki G’s August issue for free!

For those who don’t know her: She’s an additional heroine from Little Busters! Ecstasy by Key, and it was love at first CG for me

Now at first, a few figure photos:

I think the quality is acceptable for a free figure and I would like to see a taller version in the future. (GSC or ALTER please do me a favor ^_^)

And now a little bit of Sasami-ism xD

…and the following scenes only via mail or IM… NSFW!

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just sharing a little bit of ecchiness

I know I’m a little bit late but I ordered it as usual with some stuff as you could see @ yesterdays post, thats why it arrived that late.

But as you can expect from Dengeki Hime the following text is marked as…

Adult Content

poster overview

Kawai Ameri poster

and @ the backside all girls from Tayutama

The Tayutama-artwork looks really nice, *me wants an english version*

oh and check out the opening:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZIRFb8XVRU]

Something about Ef – the latter tale

something for my fellow-meido-fetishists

ohh it's summer time

are you thinking the same weird thing?

and finally: random lolicious girl x2

puplish--> visit site-->WTF??!!???!??

(btw: this wordpress visual editor sucks.. sometimes ^^ )