Nestor's Cola

One thing I’ve been facepalming over (and over and over, etc) is people who see ‘Fight Club’ or some other … trendy fucking movie, they suddenly “see the light” and “wake up” and suddenly they’re this bleary-eyed basket case with half-boiled convictions and a head full of fucked-up wiring, determined to preach the fucking gospel to a bunch retards with brains the consistency of used oatmeal. They’re (usually) the first to preach about the injustice of it all, and complain about the intolerance of living in a society that gets off on a lack of personal accountability and encourages a false sense of entitlement. They’re also the last in line to realize that they’re just as at fault as the “sheep” and “tools” and “mindless drones” they castigate. They might not see it, but it’s simply another insurgence of the ‘I want’ mentality that they themselves claim to oppose. It’s the ‘have-nots’ complaining that they’re not getting what the ‘haves’ have. If there’s one thing I can’t fucking stand it’s the thought that these idealists  scream about revolution but never fire a shot.

Listen: If you feel you are somehow ‘enlightened’, or you think that the other people around you are ‘mindless sheep’, ‘drones’, or ’slaves to the corporation/ government/ fire hydrant’ or if you’ve ever had the idea that people need to ‘wake up’, congrats. You’re part of the fucking problem.
Any first-year revolutionary will tell you that the government is corrupt, society is weak and complacent, Mass Media and the infoglut are part of the problem.
Any first year punk rocker will tell you that revolution is coming and that the only way to avoid being sucked into the nine-to-five rat race is to fight the power.
Any first year sociology student will tell you that all of these things fit together to form the society as a whole. That it doesn’t matter at all where you stand or what you stand on, you’re simply fulfilling a role. Eat your fucking breakfast.

Chef Nestor here again with another panty-dropping, tasty fucking recipe you and yours can enjoy. I call this a lasagna.

• 2 cups uncooked penne pasta
• 1 pound ground Italian sausage
• 1 (26 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce
• 1 cup cottage cheese
• 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided

Directions:

1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 2.5 quart baking dish.
2. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Place pasta in the pot, cook for 8 to 10 minutes, until tender, and drain.
3. Cook and stir the Italian sausage in a large skillet over medium heat until browned, about 8 to 10 minutes. Drain the fat from the meat, pour the cooked pasta and spaghetti sauce into the skillet, and stir well to combine. Bring the mixture to a boil.
4. Pour half of the hot pasta-sausage mixture into the prepared baking dish, spread with the cottage cheese in an even layer, and sprinkle with half the mozzarella cheese. Spread the remaining pasta mixture over the cheese, and top with the remaining mozzarella cheese.
5. Cover with foil and bake in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes, until the casserole is hot and the cheese is melted and bubbling. Let it stand 5 minutes to firm up before serving.

My alterations: I make 2 1/2 cups of pasta, I take the foil off the lasagna about ten minutes before taking it out of the oven so the cheese melts more evenly, and I of course make my own spaghetti sauce.

Yarrr.

After conferring with the guy that actually owns the space I use for this wordpress, he’s installed a filter countermeasure that should deflect spam attacks with impunity.

Please wait warmly while girls are preparing; I have to go back through each and every post and enable comments again.

Now that we can bring Clannad and Clannad After Story to a close, I can only feel a sense of relief. As much as I like Key, I can’t help but feel a bit resentful of their formula. “Here is something cute but ultimately useless. You love it. Watch it do cute things. You love it. Now watch us do bad things to the cute thing. Feel sad. Next week, we’ll introduce a newer, even cuter, even more useless thing that you’ll love. (uguu~)” It’s something I became only viscerally cognizant of with AIR and playing through Planetarian, It became clear to me during Kanon, and the same formula was applied to Clannad as well. Don’t get me wrong, I think Clannad would have been great if I’d never seen anything else by Key before.

In a lot of different tangental aspects, I enjoyed each series for what it was, but the main underlying formula destroyed them for me. Unfortunately by the time Clannad came around I had become calloused and cynical- their attempts to elicit an emotional response from me fell on deaf ears, and I simply watched as a dispassionate observer. There were plot elements I could appreciate and enjoy, but the foreknowledge of the inevitable result left only a tired sort of acceptance.

Final notes:

Tomoyo is fucking hot.

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In keeping with the localization of Nitro+ games through JAST, I have removed the DDL links to the translation patches for both Chaos;head and Saya no Uta as of 7/23/2009.

Girls have prepared.

The past couple of days I’ve been really hammered with spam, hilarity ensued. My temporary solution is simply to turn off replies for a while.

Please wait warmly while girls are preparing.

I guess I’m not really the smartest chipmunk on the block, because I’ve just taken it upon myself to translate a doujin.  See, the first time I did this, it wasn’t so bad; I had to translate maybe four words. Not rocket science. This time, however, it’s different- Not like, one or two or whatever pages, but four chapters, 25 pages each. It’s slow going, because I have to reference a lot. “Didn’t I see that one before?” I have to do my own editing and typesetting. I also have had some problems running across characters and words I’ve never seen before. Google helps, I’ve gotten help from Wikipedia in a couple of instances (my charts don’t have all the hirigana/ katakana, apparently) but one character, ?  “mu” drove me to distraction because I couldn’t fucking find it anywhere. Oh my fucking Christ, I banged my head on the walls for forever until I found it. Well, I guess that shows how moronic I am. ??? ???.

Two complaints:

Firstly, whomever scanned these pages was a bit of an asshat; tiny res is tiny. I mean, I can resize after all the typesetting and editing and shit, but, you know… typing in 5pt font is pretty shitty.

Secondly, LOL ENGRISH. I swear, I’ve racked my brains over stupid, asinine shit like “fighto~” unnecessarily and decrypting shit like that (fu ai to? What’s that? fu ai to? … oh. goddamnit.) is mind-breaking.

Well, if I feel like it, when I’m done, I’ll link chapters 2-5  (the first was done by someone else) and you all can shock and amaze at how terrible a person I am.

…why did I fucking decide to do this..?

The long and short of it:

Someone (Anonymous) translated some ero doujin and needed a typesetter, I fulfilled that role.

AntiAgingAnon also did it at the same time- he did it faster and better than me. I still have a sense of accomplishment for what I did; I learned a lot about the editing, typesetting process and shit.

Link coming… sometime.

I got permission from Tinfoil (from TLWiki) to mirror the patches for Saya no Uta and Chaos;head.

So within… a couple of days or so, I will upload and host them. Look forward to it.

Editus:

Chaos;head and Saya no Uta patches.

Links verified as of 11:41pm 3/29/2009
In keeping with the localization of Nitro+ games through JAST, I have removed the DDL links to the translation patches for both Chaos;head and Saya no Uta as of 7/23/2009.