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My nerd cave late at night, updated August 2024.

I took a photo of my nerd cave late at night, two years ago. I have a better camera this time. I also have added more stuff since then, like my light-up Starship Enterprise atop my monitor. This is a better view of the iron bead pixel art on the wall.

A closer look at my Pac-Man light. It’s actually LEDs, made to look like a neon sign.

My Pac-Man lamps, with a Dragon Quest Slime in between, atop my Megadrive game collection.

My blue paper lantern now lights up the far corner of the nerd cave.

My Aliens and Empire Strikes Back posters, and to the left side are my Record of Lodoss War action figures.

My video gaming pillow collection: Megadrive, Saturn, and Dreamcast cushions, pillows and tissue covers, as well as Pac-Man pillows. Ulan likes to plop on these pillows and chill out. I’ve shown the Sega stuff from Shimamura previously on this blog.

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Disney plagiarized the story of Nadia with their Atlantis movie

Yet another reason to hate Disney! Disney has plagiarized Japanese animation before, with Aladdin and most infamously for Lion King. I found this post on Pinterest demonstrating how they stole the concept of Nadia with their Atlantis: The Lost Empire movie. 10+ years prior, there was the fantastic Gainax anime about a dark-skinned girl in a tube top who turns out to be a long-lost princess of Atlantis who teams up with a boy with blond hair and glasses. Disney took the gist of that story, gave the girl white hair instead of black, and plagiarized. Those stupid bastards. I took the image and cut it up into segments so that it can be seen in this blog format.

To hell with Disney. Plagiarist bastards. Interestingly enough, the Nadia anime places Atlantis in the heart of Africa. Lately, archaeologists are pointing towards this theory. It makes more sense than the “middle of the ocean” theory.

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Nadia desktop wallpaper Linux Raspberry OS June 2024

Just in time for the summer, Nadia relaxing on a beach now replaces the USS Enterprise wallpaper I’d had on my Raspberry Pi for a while now. I had to sudo apt install Kazam because Raspberry OS does not come with a default screen grabber that simply uses the print screen button on the keyboard.

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Resin kit of Asuka in her yellow dress is now complete

I finally finished her last night. Over the weekend, I had to pry some parts apart and reattach them. Her right arm especially did not want to cooperate. I had to use some acrylic putty to fill in a bit of a gap and I hand-painted the flesh tone over the putty along her right shoulder and the side of her breast.

I posted before about painting her eyes, but I had such a hard time getting the shading right for her cleavage. It was too dark for a while, so I had to redo it a few times. I used Tamiya’s pink flesh accent color, Mr. Hobby’s Lascius pastel shader, and Faber Castell pencils go get the shading right. It looks better if you don’t get too close to it.

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Nadia iron bead sprite complete!

Glad to have learned of Artkal beads on the r/Beadsprites subreddit! Perler is American, Hama is British, and Artkal is Chinese. Artkal provides such a broader palette of color than the other two companies do! Artkal S82 made this project possible. That and Perler Brown are the two main fleshtones for Nadia. Her hair is Perler Midnight and Pastel Blue, while her vest is Perler Cherry and Red.

The pixel artwork was taken from the Fushigi no Umi no Nadia game for the PC Engine CD.

Here she is, ironed and pinned to my wall.

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Hasegawa’s big 1:72 Macross Queadluun Rau model kit spotted in Yodobashi

Yesterday I went to Yodobashi Camera in Utsunomiya with my friend Lou who is visiting Japan. Here is me in the Macross section of the model department. This is the first time seeing the new Q-Rau model in-person. Wow, what a big box! I have enough Yodobashi points that I could have walked out of the store with this kit without paying for it, but unfortunately I have to buy my daughter a crappy Chromebook for her schoolwork and I will need to use those points on that instead.