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Just now, I was looking at his website's new starting page. Well, it took me a moment to realize it's indeed him.
And I hear a lot of people are getting really concerned about the changer of look'n'all.
My two cents:
1. People change. That's okay. You can't expect someone to keep a certain look just to avoid possible complainers. And as we know, Tobi has always been one to do controversial stuff (McDonald's chart show appearances, anyone? Hasn't hurt them yet, AFAIK...)
2. Even if Tobi changes his look, who would actually believe that his character would be affected in any way? I don't mind a darker theme/style, as long as he stays the smart and incredibly funny guy he is. Which he will. Goddammit, this is Tobias Sammet, not some casting boy band singer who twists and turns according to the general public's taste *fumes*

Oh my, this feels like "A Defense of Edguy" all over again. Maybe someone remembers that... or not. Too long ago, I s'ppose. Gotta dig it out again, 'twas one of my better pieces of non-fiction ;)

And... I can't help it... he looks damn hot in that pic on there. Want more soon, pklskthx.. My good ol' crush on him is in full blaze once again.
*points at pic and shouts* I. Want. That. Now!!!

October 19, 2007.

Also, Wacken 2008.
Seems a bunch of Rockfic-ers will drag themselves over there next year, including my sorry-ass self.
We should totally get together, what say you? =)

Finally, something I found at the Wacken site. I haven't seen it anywhere else and it wasn't on the English version of the page. Here goes:
Apparently, Tobi was supposed to give a press conference at Wacken on Saturday. However, in the morning, he had to be rushed to hospital to get his appendix removed.
Awww, poor baby. I hope he gets well soon ;_;

I just drained my writing powers a great deal by creating that long and angry rant on my German blog (apporopiately titled "Eurpoes' worst losers"), so just have a few notes:

- Amazing show, the intro (feat. Lordi, wolves, monsters and TONS of fire) was the coolest thing ever. I love Finland. Kiitos for that ^_~

- The level of music quality was rather high and there were surprisingly little acts relying on ass, boobs and naked skin O_o

- Serbia was awesome and fully deserved their victory. I voted for them, Twice. Such a fantatic voice and OMFG what a passionate song.

- I adored the little movies that were shown in between the performances. I think this is the first time some of them made me laugh. Lovely job <3

- Ukraine was funny even though they need to practise how to count in German XD

- Sorry, my precious friends from the UK, but there's bad songs and there's awful songs. Your entry was off the scale ;_;

- We don't need a change of rules. Serbia didn't win cuz the other Eastern Europen countries voted for them. They won cuz everyone voted for them. If you take the non-Western countries out of the equation, rank 1 and 2 stay the same.

- I despise this country and its media for bashing the contest, its rules and the winner like this. Just because we did badly. Shame on you.

.... apart from our 'net connection being fucked again.
It runs, but everything except HTTP and mail downloads makes it either run at half speed or crash completely.

Y'know, if I were in command, I'd have upgraded to a satellite connection at least a year ago. True, it's a bit more expensive but it'd be a lot faster and maybe even somewhat stable and reliable compared to this utter shit.

Can you tell I'm fuckin' angry?

The fun thing is that mum onyl recently renewed our (or rather, their, for I don't support this in the slightest) internet and phone subscription. And is now bound to them for two MORE years! Why? Because she can call every other phone (not cellphone, mind you!) in the country for free now. Yeah, that makes total sense because everyone here talks on the phone for at least five hours a day. NOT!!

Well, right now, it means no TDS/TCR and no anime music. The only thing I can grab via HTTP are old c't TV shows. Which... is still... somewhat nice. Jeez, my parents should be happy that we're that easy to please, otherwise, I dunno what'd happen...

Okay, I need to do something else now, before I explode. Or implode. Who knows.

I dunno whether I mentioned it before (and to be brutally honest, I'm too lazy to check XD), but soon, there will be a German version of Comedy Central.
Sounds good? Yeah, in the beginning, it did, since the US CC runs a couple of fine shows, like South Park, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Of course, me and various other German bloggers hoped that the German CC might air the latter two as well.
But the closer we get to the channel's launch date, the less likely it gets.
The schedule for the first week is out and they're mainly showing re-runs and recycled material. Blergh.
Well, it would have been nice to watch the "real" TDS and not those Global Editions on my TV but right now, it looks like it's not gonna happen.
Which means... back to BT.
And... god... I can't wait for TDS to start again! Tomorrow, folks =)

BTW, I grabbed "America - the audiobook". Didn't manage to listen to the whole thing yet, but so far, it's pretty funny ^^

And while I'm at it...
Here, have a TDS/Jon Stewart fic REC:
Hilf Mir! bycobrasnaps. Very cool, very unusual and very powerfully written :)

*checks tonight's TV schedule*
Ewgh. Bloody fuckin' nothin'.
Whatever. I have enough stuff lying around to get me through weeks without 'net - and, indeed, TV - access so no worries there ;)

Okay, I'll spare you the usual "I'm a lazy lousy looser and should update them more often" and get right to the freaky stuff:

- For the umpteenth time: The Rowan Atkinson fanlisting is NOT run by Rowan Atkinson himself. Holy hell... >:O
- I'm not good with numbers and/or statistics. But like always, a good amount of the people who added their website URL to their application seem to never have heard about such a think as "linking back".
- I hate Myspace. Nothing new, I know. But going to all of those pages and instead of your button finding a ton of teenage nonsense is just so tiring...
- This is the first time I got an application email from someone who WAS already on the list. Eh...?
- People with an exclamation mark at the end of their nickname scare me to death. Imagine asking them for their name. "I'm TARUTO!!" *ears ringing*

I just started episode House 3x02. It was recorded from TV.
Before the thing started, it said "Viewer discretion is advised".
That made me laugh.
And it got me to write up some stuff I needed to get rid off.
Just ignore it if you like, okay?
Anyway.
Censorship. On TV. The hell is that supposed to do?
I mean, I am from a country where you get graphic stuff in the middle of the afternoon.
A country where US musicians are happy to be able to drop their pants and show their ugly asses on a TV show that is mainly watched by people younger than 20.
Well.
It's laughable, really.
I got my own TV set when I was fiteen.
Which is damn late compared to the stuff that goes on in this country today.
Still, from that day on, I could watch whatever I wanted.
Which I did.
And it didn't turn me into a psycho, an addict or a mass-murderer.
All that parental advisory stuff just makes bad stuff more intersting for kids.
Who then get it on the 'net or from their older friends.
And then notice it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Really.
I mean, I love you Americans.
But I don't get why you would erase images of guns from kids' cartoons when those kids' dads can buy then in the store at the corner.
Priorities, anyone?
But I still love you, even though you're quite the weird bunch ^_^
End of rant.
*goes to watch House*

... am I the only one in this blasted family who understands that if you have a cellphone, it makes no sense to leave it in the car oand/or never turn it on?
And funnily enough, each time, I am the one who fails to reach people when it's neccessary.
*breaks random things*

ETA: Okay, things were resolved - hopefully. Geez, I want my cellphone back (had to lend it to bro until his arrives, which will - again, hopefully - be today). I feel naked without Roku-chan O_o

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The Q DVD set is a mess. The DVDs are the worst ones I ever encountered. No idea who pressed them but they did a job as terrible as my DVD-RW did when I ran it via a damaged Southbridge.
My DVD software keeps crashing every three to five minutes. Even my LG drive which as a substantially better error correction than the Samsung one can't handle them. Oh crap.
Right now, I'm decrypting the discs and saving their complete content to my HDD. Luckily, I have more than enough space for the four DVDs (together, they'll need about 32 GB). Maybe I'll even be able to burn working copies of them this way. I need DVD DL (double layer) to do that, but I'd love to try that. I've never burned 8 GB discs. Might be worth a try.
Until the extraction is finished (takes about 25 minutes per disc O_O), I'll look at the pretty layout of the Q DVD box. The outside is completely metallic and holographic. Wow. It also has a lot of Q pics (the back of the inner box actually has a small gallery <3). If only the DVDs were not that pitifully made...
However, I'm gonna try and play the discs on every drive I have (Kan-chan and my standalone DVD player), maybe I'm lucky and one of them works. My hopes aren't that high. I'll report later.

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My stepcousin and her mother visited earlier, mainly to pick up my uncle's laptop. When I told them about the corrupted HDD, my stepcousin admitted that she hits the thing when something doesn't work the way she wants to. Holy crap, you tech molester! Being the responsible techies we are, mum and me explained that this is a bad thing to do and they were like, "Well, nobody told us when we bought it". Er... wait a second. Is it really that far fetched to think that hitting a portable computer can damage it? I think that's as much of an adivce as "Stay as far away from anuclear explosion as possible" (via John Sheppard). Dammit, why are people with no common sense still allowed to own (and torture) poor computers? It's sad.

€dit: Okay, forget the burning thing. DVD DL discs cost about 3€ per disc. Oops XD Guess I'll wait until the buggers become affordable. Right now, they're just expensive beyond any reason.

... and how they managed to ruin ALL of the characters!
Yay! ... not XD

So this thing happened last Wednesday.
I was watching the interview with that young woman who had been imprisoned by a guy for eight and a half years but during the commercials, I switched around the channels a bit and suddenly found myself in the middle of a SG-A episode. A dubbed SG-A episode. A second before I started yelling and destroying random pieces of furniture, I decided to take this opportunity and make some notes about the stuff they did to the characters. That way, I'd have some real arguments against the bloody dub of doom.
Fun fact: I actually did this in ENglish almost automatically cuz I know nobody would read that if I put it onto my German blog and... let's face it, you guys simply got better adjectives than we do ^_~

This was an episode from the second season and that's why Lt. Ford isn't mentioned. And I really would've liked to hear Radek Zelenka, too (maybe in his case, they didn't remove an accent FOR ONCE, but my hopes aren't exactly high) but he didn't appear during the five minutes I managed to stand this crap.
I also researched the names of the pathetic idiots voice actors just for the sake of completeness.
Anyway, here are my (slightly exteneded) notes, sorted by character! Grab your vomiting bags, hold on to something and have... fun X_x

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John Sheppard
This is the only character where I can tell you the name of the voice actor without research: Marcus Off, who also played Eric Idle in Monty Python's Flying Circus and Jack Sparrow in You-Know-What. And you know how much I love him in both roles. But John Sheppared is probably the single wrongest thing he ever did! I mean, John's behaviour and the stuff he says tend to be kinda dorky (space bugs, anyone? XD) but he's also very brave and saves the days on Atlantis on a somewhat regular basis. But the dub really reduces him to the silly comments. Which hurts. Badly.

Elizabeth Weir
(played by Elisabeth Günther)
Heck, no. Now, Elizabeth can be TUFF when danger looms large. But in general, she really CARES for her people a lot. Well, her German version sounds more like a teenage bitch than anything else. Yuck.

Rodney McKay
(played by Axel Malzacher)
OMG I always hated Axel Malzacher and now it's just getting worse >:O Okay, Rodney is an ass. But he's a brilliant, funny, loveable and terribly charming ass. Not to mention he's a lot hotter than I tend to admit to myself, ahem XD Anway, the dubbers somehow succeeded in taking away all of his charm and leaving only the ass behind. Great job. Not.

Teyla Emmagan
(played by Natascha Geisler)
The leader of the Athosian people is friendly, caring and compassionate. Her German version sounds as if she had an IQ of about 12.7. Wow.

Carson Beckett
(played by Tobias Lelle)
Okay, it's impossible to recreate a Scottish accent in German language. But it's still irritating because there's certainly something missing. And that's not the worst aspect of Carson's dubbed version. Oh no. As I told silicondreams, he's my favourite character in SG-A. Why? Because he's cute and gentle and easily scared ;) In contrast, the German Beckett sounds as if he was being constantly annoyed. Where is my adorable, shy Carson gone? Oh god, this is just so terrible!!! *sobs*

Ronon Dex
(played by Ole Pfennig)
Heh. He's the only main character that sounded somewhat similar to the original. Strange.

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Y'know what? Right now, I firmly believe the vocie actors were chosen by throwing some dice T_T

And we can do better, we really can. And we did.
For example, I have heard John de Lancie speak. It was only a short piece and it was years ago, but that really burned into my brain (God, I had have such a crush on that man, but more about the embarrassing stuff tomorrow ^_~). And his German VA (Hans-Werner Bussinger) really sounds remarkably similar. No kidding.

Okay, this doesn't change the fact that I want to watch the Q episodes in English but anyway. We can do better.

Coming up: 40 years and not counting anymore: Star Trek and me - Of crushes on ominpotent creatures and slashy POVs before I even knew what slash is ^_^

There was this entry on my German weblog. I talked about a GR video bootleg I grabbed off P2P.
Today, I got the following necro-comment:

Hi,I am really interested in this bootleg.Can you reupload it please?Only for one day.Answer me please on my email.Thanks very much

For one, someone should teach that guy what a space key is.
For another, why do people still think everyone has the time and the webspace (and the connection for god's sake) to upload huuuge files for total strangers and let them drain their website traffic?
It's a complete mystery to me.
Of course, the question of HOW he got there isn't. Geez, I hate Google >:O
Now I hope the guy (judging from his email address, he's Czech) understood the stuff I wrote in my email. Guess I'll keep you updated, should he reply. Which I doubt. But reality tends to defy my imagination anyway, so we'll see.

Eek, Forecastfox is displaying that scary red thermometer again. Guess for the next two days, we're gonna hide inside the house and try not to move that much.