T w e n t y S i d e d
I guess Otaku thinks he can just go around inventing new words. That’s fine, I guess, but… otakusphere?
Otakusphere?!?!
The sad thing is I know I won’t be able to resist using it. It’s going to leap out in conversation sometime soon. And I know I’ll get strange looks when it does.
Spec Ops: The Line
A videogame that judges its audience, criticizes its genre, and hates its premise. How did this thing get made?
Spider-Man
A game I love. It has a solid main story and a couple of really obnoxious, cringy, incoherent side-plots in it. What happened here?
Video Compression Gone Wrong
How does image compression work, and why does it create those ugly spots all over some videos and not others?
Netscape 1997
What did web browsers look like 20 years ago, and what kind of crazy features did they have?
Why The Christmas Shopping Season is Worse Every Year
Everyone hates Black Friday sales. Even retailers! So why does it exist?
I win!
btw – presently otakusphere is a Google Slice – a search term that returns exactly one hit. Not for long, though :)
google slicing is harder than it looks…
Man the site is really going down hill quickly. My head is bowed in shame.
Heh. Just used “otakusphere” in an e-mail… we may have to arraign Fledgling Otaku for war crimes if it catches on.
Of course, I was writing about the popularity of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya when I wrote it…