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The world through my myopic eyes

DarkMirage.com – now with 100% more clutter!

I finally decided to stop supporting 800 x 600 resolutions. It’s just too damn small to work with. According to Google Analytics, only about 4% of you are using 800 x 600 screens, so you’ll have to deal with the … Continue reading

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The Interference of Reality on Modern Otaku Life

I present to you my greatest masterpiece ever, after the jump.

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Moé Factor is now live!

Part II of DM’s domain-registering misadventure. Long story short: I decided to make it a picture-of-the-day thing. After hours of WordPress hacking, I finally got it down to something close to what I imagined. Why I didn’t just use one … Continue reading

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What should I do with this?

I registered a new domain for some unfathomable reason. Hurray! The catch is that I can’t decide what I should do with it. (It may seem like I’m doing things backwards, but actually that’s just your imagination.) www.moefactor.com Some ideas … Continue reading

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JLPTにさよなら!…多分。

The end is close. This will hopefully be the last JLPT paper that I will ever have to take in my life. Never again will I have to travel to that god forsaken school located in the middle of nowhere … Continue reading

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We are back!

Testing. テスト。 It’s alive! Yay! This blog is now hosted at Dreamhost. :3 I maxed out my bandwidth on my old host, so I thought it was a good chance to switch. I’m pretty happy with Dreamhost so far. It’s … Continue reading

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I hate 3D Studio Max

Modelling a spaceship: 2 hours Figuring out how to texture a planet: 2 hours 3D Studio Max crashing: GAO DESU!!! Doing random little adjustments and wasting a lot time: 2 hours Can’t finish rendering a 4000-frame animation in time to … Continue reading

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New Layout: Haruhi H

Yay! Finally, a new layout; my first since migrating from B2 to WordPress. It’s Haruhi… and the letter H! (What were you thinking?) Okay, so it’s not exactly a completely new layout. It’s based on the default WP theme Kubrick. … Continue reading

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Help fight lolicon!

Okay, so this isn’t exactly the post that everyone’s been waiting for. I’ll blog about today’s Wesada-Shibuya High School bunkasai later. Maybe tomorrow. Anyway… Say NO to lolicon! Help light a candle today!

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Calling all biology majors and bird watchers

Okay, so this is supposed to be an anime blog. Theorectically. But sometimes there are more important things in life than anime, such as finding out the identify of this duck-like bird that has been catching my attention every time … Continue reading

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愛と勇気のおとぎ話~A true story

A true story of love and courage from yours truly. Okay, so there’s not much courage involved and the love is somewhat superficial. but hell at least it’s a story. Continue reading

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Neowing has caught up with my trickery

My perfect strategy for saving up on CD/DVD shipping has been flushed down the infinite void of a JR train station toilet by the insidious conspiracy known as Neowing (better known as CDJapan).

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