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I've talked a lot about Cowboy Bebop on my site, but I have watched some other animes. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is probably my second favorite.
Netflix worked with David Studios on part 6, Stone Ocean, and they were going to release it in sets of episodes over a course of unknown time. The first set was 12 episodes long, and probably like many other people I had it finished in less than a week. This past week, Netflix announched that the next set of episodes will be releasing in the fall of this year...
This is pretty dissapointing. I've already read the manga for part 6, so I know what happens, it's just unfortunate for those who haven't/don't want to. This is almost an entire year for 12 episodes.
From what I've seen so far, it looks pretty up to par with the rest of the animated parts though, so I hope they are able to keep the same quality throughout. Towards the end, this part was hard to follow (at least for me), so I hope the anime is able to help with that and make it more clear.
People on twitter have started making petitions for Netflix to release episodes weekly, which would be cool I think. I'm not sure why they wouldn't, unless it could effect their watch times or something.
Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:37:19 -0400
I tried really hard to not look at too many people's opinions on the live action Cowboy Bebop remake, that way my opinion was more my own and I wouldn't be parroting the same things thousands of others have said.
But I started browsing r/CowboyBebop today just seeing what was top rated, and found this really funny comment regarding Gren that I wanted to share.
‘Gynecomastia doesn’t really jive with the Twitter crowd, and Netflix really wanted to tick that box’. - Eternal_Indifference
This was in response to a joke about a headline from an article where Mason Alexander was talking about how the live action was "fixing the problems in the anime".
It made me laugh pretty hard. This is a good joking way to explain my thoughts on the Gren situation (sorta). If you want to read my full opinion, it is linked on the home page of my website.
Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:18:35 -0500
I've decided to add a "reviews" section to my website, for general overviews over things I like and want to talk about.
The first thing I've decided to review is the live action Cowboy Bebop series. So go feel free to read it.
I'm not going to link it in this post because I'm thinking of moving some stuff around, and I don't want to have too many broken links in my RSS feed. It's just on the home page.
Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:56:07 -0500
Like 2020, 2021 was "...a year". I think 2021 was slightly worse than 2020 for me personally, but good things did happen, so it's not all bad. For instance, I had a nephew born at the very end of 2020 and one born in July, so new babies were big wins for the family. They are awesome.
Several friends moved away, unfortunately. But they are moving on to better things and are all going to do really well, I'm very proud of them. They say they'll come back and visit, I can visit as well, and I still talk to them very frequently.
I didn't become as involved in this site as I think I wanted. But, I did learn more about systems administration when it comes to hosting services (libreddit, nitter, xmpp, email, etc.), and messed around with OpenBSD and GPG. I haven't kept up with the blog that well because I don't have that much to say, and we've been really busy with this very large project at work.
Personal goals turned out alright. I've grown a little bit as a person, so I think I'm able to look at things in a more healthy way, and can let things go more often. I still struggle with certain things, but I'm able to better identify what about them gives me trouble. I've been reading more philosophy books, such as Marcus Aurelius's meditations, and trying to apply different ways of thinking to my life.
As far as fitness goals, I'm about 5 pounds heavier compared to the start of 2021 (I weigh 205 now), which puts me 35lbs away from where I want to be. I hurt my back on a vacation to Virginia Beach, so I haven't been going to the gym as often or working as hard while I'm there. Then Christmas also messed my diet and sleep schedule up, which doesn't help.
That's my recap for 2021, now on to 2022:
I'm going to try being a little bit more lenient on how/when I achieve my goals, and take smaller baby steps.
I want to keep the list small and manageable, so I'll leave it at this. Happy New Years everyone, thank you for reading.
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:27:18 -0500