Restoration Process – 9 PerCent

Slowly getting there… still on reviews. Plenty of them left to go before I can start rendering other stuff… but at the rate I’m going… and provided nothing goes wrong… I might be able to sneak a commentary or two along the way… just to break the monotony.

Digging into the RAW Vegas files, I can add another casualty to the list… the Donkey Kong review for 2600. In this case, I must have “misplaced” the files and can’t find them. So this is one that I have to REDO somewhere down the line… all I have left is the original text review that I used for the dubbing…

Dang.

Tonight's DixieLand

While TNA is holding their Slammiversary PPV, it should be noted that TNA’s first PPV (the weekly variety) took place June 19, 2002. So rather than watch what should be an interesting show (if only because it’s going to feature reigning WWE Intercontinental Champion Christian Cage), I think I’ll check if I still have that first show laying around… maybe do a quick musings out of it.

Restoration Process… 6 PerCent

Not much in terms of archive restoration; managed a couple reviews rendered back in one piece. Unfortunately, I’ve hit a bit of a snag when it came to rendering the Rebel Assault II review… the RAW Vegas file is incomplete. I honestly have no clue where the completed version is… if I even have it still. I did download a lower-quality MP4 file, but I really want a high-quality file on hand in case I ever need it.

It seems like my only option at the moment would be to restore the video, which will likely result in a brand-new edit. I’m debating whether it’d be worth it, though, since I really have no intention of revisiting the game in a reviewing format and any edits made would be fruitless since both DM and YT accounts have the review. I will give it a think.

Restoration Progress – 5 PerCent

Finished rendering a few more old reviews today. It’s still a long ways to go, but I think given the amount of time available to myself, I’m lucky to be getting any of this stuff redone at all. Of course, because of certain missing elements lost to the crash, I had to make some slight, minute edits to some of the older files – mostly a different opening panel. It’s a piss off that I’m even bothering with this, but it needs to be done… eventually.

Quick Thoughts on Codename: Sailor V

I had been on-and-off reading the re-released Codename: Sailor V, the supposed prequel to the wider-known Sailor Moon manga, which has also been re-released. Reading the first few acts and recollecting my admittedly faint experiences with the (dubbed) anime, Sailor V comes off as being more of a prototype Sailor Moon than an actual prequel. Minako/Sailor V is as much of a slacker and lazy girl as Usagi/Sailor Moon was a crybaby and lazy girl. Both girls have loud abbrasive mothers that scream a lot. And both spend time at Crown. Some of the Sailor V supporting casts do bare slight resemblances to other better-known Moon characters (Hikaru-chan bares a strong resemblance to Ami/Sailor Mercury, the inspector-police is almost a dead ringer for Hino Rei-chan.)

But setting that aside, Codename: Sailor V has very little plot development at the beginning. It’s mostly episodic fare comprising Sailor V fighting off against pop idols working for a group called the Dark Agency while looking for first loves (many of which she’ll come across and have broken hearts over). There’s also bickering spats between Minako and Artemis, which are funny. There’s quite a bit of funny stuff to be found here and it does quite a bit to garner a chuckle.
Overall, I’m really digging this one. The initial Sailor V manga had always been something I wanted to get my hands on, even long before I began following the PGSM live series back in 2003. For what it is, it’s a pretty fun read that, if nothing else, provides a bare template for the Sailor Moon saga that would eventually be told… or something.
Now I need to find the first volume of said Moon saga.

Restoration Progress – 2 PerCent

Managed to re-render 25 older review of the archive, including a couple reviews for future postings. It should take me a couple more days to restore the review portion of the rendered archive, by which point, I’ll start on commentaries and later.

I’ll be posting regular updates on my progress regarding this archive restoration bit. While I will admit that these things won’t make for interesting reads long term, it is a way to get content (and post count) up. And if nothing else, it’ll be a nice gauge to progress how far I have to go before I can get back to making new content.

Skip if you like.

Random Thoughts On… The "New" WWE Championship

Original image can be found here
http://bluebarcage.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-wwe-championship-belt-design.html

At the moment, it looks unfinished and could very well be more like a side plate than anything… but whatever the case, anything has to look better than the Spinner belt. By default.

If the image is a preview of the main plate… I don’t think it looks bad for a belt buckle, but as a top championship title belt, it looks pretty plain and not much else. But then again, it’s not exactly final and given what we were stuck with for the past few years, plain and not much else is a nice change of pace.

We’ll see in the long run, no?