My new Sega arcade stick arrived this evening!

Oh yeah! A month or so ago I was outbid on one of these on Yahoo Auctions Japan, but this month I scored. It’s a Virtua Stick for the Sega Saturn. Over 20 years ago, I had the opportunity to get the double-sized (2 players) version for about 8000 yen, but declined. I couldn’t afford it at the time, and plus it was just too big. This Virtua Stick gives you the feel of playing on an Astro City or Blast City cab at home. It has autofire switches and a slide to set its rate of fire. It was sold as “junk” because it hadn’t been confirmed, but so far it seems to work just fine. It was a bit filthy, but I cleaned it up. FYI: Zippo lighter oil works well to remove price tag residue.


Oh, and what’s that next to it? That’s my Mayflash Saturn to USB converter. It works in Linux and this evening I played some Pac-Man on my new Virtua Stick in Final Burn via RetroPie.

The original Jungle shop in Osaka

Ever been to Jungle in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles? Here is the original Jungle in Osaka, which became famous for being a laserdisc-selling powerhouse in the ’90s. This pic is from 2001. It has since relocated.

Easter egg still frames spotted in Dirty Pair: Project Eden

There’s a scene in Project Eden which Mughi is watching a video screen in which several Easter egg still frames were inserted. Here they are, not necessarily in order.

Crusher Joe! Yes, before Haruka Takachiho wrote the Dirty Pair novels, he wrote Crusher Joe.

Images are rapidly flashed of the original version of the Dirty Pair from the SF novels written by Haruka Takachiho. These original character designs are by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu (Gundam, Crusher Joe, Venus Wars, Reideen, and many more anime).

Want ads from what appears to be Starlog Magazine. You see the ad with the Enterprise? That’s Space Station Studios from Massachusetts. I learned about them from ads in old Starblazers and Robotech comic books. I sent away for a catalog, and half a year later they finally sent it to me. I ended up writing a check for about $50 worth of stuff, which they cashed and never mailed me the merchandise I ordered. This was in the early ‘90s, and I’d never spent that much money before and was pissed. Fortunately I was a member of the Robotech Echo at the time via the local Anime Archive BBS in Phoenix, Arizona. I was able to bring about the wrath of Harmony Gold upon those buttpuppets and it turns out they were selling bootleg Macross/Robotech merchandise which landed them in a heap of trouble with HG’s lawyers, who don’t mess around. I very promptly got a refund. I’m glad that HG has finally worked out a deal with Bigwest to bring Macross officially to viewers internationally. They’ve been villains since the ‘90s for preventing Macross to be officially released globally and expecting everyone to only care about Robotech. Still, I’ll always be grateful with how they stuck up for a teenager who got rooked out of his money by a retailer that was either crooks or extremely half-assed and incompetent at the very least.

You see, due to an ignorant jury, Harmony Gold was able to win a case they really had no right to win, and since then they’d been using that ruling to stake a claim on the international rights of Macross that they actually do not have. This whole time, they din’t want people to be interested in Macross Frontier, etc. but just wanted people to forget about all of that and only like Robotech. But now it seems that those bastards are finally going to let international Macross fans own legitimate, English-language versions of Macross. It’s crazy. HG would even allow American toymakers to produce DYRL movie-version Valkyrie toys, but have refused to allow the movie to be released officially in English. Bastards. Well, hopefully things will start to change now. I still couldn’t care less about Macross 7 though. The first time I saw it, I was rolling on the floor laughing at how stupid it was. Anyhow, back to the easter eggs.

More want-ads. This one is for conventions.

Spock! The creators of the Dirty Pair show were definitely Star Trek fans (the design of the TV version’s Lovely Angel ship is definitely Trek-inspired). It came full circle with Star Trek: TNG with plenty of Dirty Pair references. The show’s set designer (I forget his name) was a big fan of the Pair. Even the robot Nanmo was used in the show as a robot that services the ship’s Jeffries’ Tubes. IIRC, there’s a Dirty Pair poster in one of the characters’ living quarters, but it was never shown on-camera.

She looks familiar, but I dunno who this is. Is she from Gundam? If you know, let me know.

There are some other freeze frames, but I couldn’t make any sense from them.

(This article is reposted from my Tumblr feed.)

My new etched acrylic Enterprise lamp

This is my most recent addition to my nerd cave. It’s a Starship Enterprise lamp made of etched acrylic. I peeled off the protective plastic wrap from the acrylic pane and plugged it into the base. Light is sent through the acrylic and catches on the acrylic etching. I can choose the color for it to shine, or elect to have it cycle slowly through colors. This lamp is USB-powered, so I have it plugged into the back of my computer monitor. It’s not an officially-licensed item. It only cost just over 2,000 with free shipping from Yahoo Auctions Japan, so I couldn’t resist.

Useful insights from a scientist friend of mine who has actually worked with viruses and developing vaccines.

Today on Skype, I chatted with a scientist friend of mine. He’s actually worked with bacteria and viruses, and even worked on developing a polio vaccine (which ended up not used by the FDA). So, he is rather familiar with viruses. Lemme post his comments on the “COVID-19 vaccine” (which I’ve taken the liberty to clean up a bit):


This is not a real vaccine. The body needs to see the actual virus to have an immune response. The spike proteins are only the mechanism that the virus has to get inside a cell to infect it.

So this so-called “vaccine” is flooding the body with the shit that damages cells, hence the heart problems, blood clots, etc. No immune response, or rather not an adequate response. You need the actual virus. The body builds antibodies based on the virus. Kinda like a negative photograph. The antibodies bind to the virus and render it inactive. Not the stupid spike proteins.

The spike proteins are damaging cells and the body is probably responding to the damaged cells. When a cell gets damaged, the body will destroy the sick or dying cell. So you get a bunch of spike proteins. The target cells get damaged and the body is cleaning up the mess. I am sure there is some sort of immune response, but not adequate to protect against the actual supposed “COVID virus.” The immune system is trying to get rid of the spike proteins along with flushing out the damaged cells. Hence myocarditis, blood clots, etc.

The liver is a filter, so its trying to filter out that spike protein. The mRNA from the spike protein is recombining with liver cell DNA. And the liver cells, when they replicate will express these spike proteins on their cell walls. So, the body is replicating spike proteins via the liver cells, but not the virus itself. If the virus was there and active, the body would become a virus-replicating machine. A virus uses spike proteins to gain cell access, take over the cell replication mechanism used to read and replicate the cell DNA by inserting its own DNA or RNA into the mix, the cell then cranks out more virus particles. Then the cell collapses and the viruses go on to other cells and repeat. This stupid spike protein is only damaging the cells that they target. There is no actual virus contained in the “vaccine.” So cells get damaged, but not turned into a virus factory and the body does not have the virus to make antibodies. So you will still get sick if exposed to “COVID”. There are no antibodies to protect them.

The spike proteins are causing damage to the cardio pulmonary system. Then the liver is trying to filter that junk out and it ends up expressing the damn proteins on its cells walls.


This explains why the clot shots are useless against actual viral immunity, and why people are suffering from myocarditis. The reason why people feel like crap after receiving the injections is not that their bodies are building immunity to a virus, but rather their immune system is reacting to their livers and other organs being wrecked by the spike proteins.

This doesn’t even get into the mRNA function that reprograms one’s DNA to give them autoimmune deficiency syndrome, nor the mysterious objects found in the vials like crystalline structures, sharp metallic objects, or creepy squiggly objects moving about. Even ignoring all that scary crap, these injections are a fraud regardless. So at the very core we have a hoax injection that does not provide any legitimate immunity to a virus, and beyond that is the Trojan Horse, the ramifications of which have yet to be fully realized, and this is where we have crimes against humanity.

Space shooter game ships—which one looks the coolest?

 I have model kits of half of these ships: Vic Viper from Gradius, R-9A Arrowhead from R-Type, Raiden, Solvalou from Xevious, Ikaruga, and the Silverhawk from Darius. There is a model kit of Twinbee, but I haven’t picked it up yet. Since Starfox is the only one in the picture that isn’t a 2D shmup, if we were to replace its Arwing fighter with the R-Gray1 from Layer Section/Raystorm, my vote would probably be for that one. But since it’s not there, I’d probably vote for the Ikaruga. Even though I don’t care for the game as much as others, the design is just so simultaneously elegant and deadly. I have models of the Ikaruga and Ginkei from that game.