Re-Ment, for the (Miniature) Food Obsessed

Hello again,

BlazBlue may always be on my mind, but I’m going to pry myself from it’s ridiculous-ice-car-spamming ways for a moment.

I am a total nerd for random Japanese stuff, so at some point I was doomed to get into miniatures. Currently, that means re-ment. For anyone not familiar with re-ment, they are collectible blind-box 1/6 scale miniatures with extreme attention to detail. Most of them are either food or food related, and being Chinese and Italian, I find that pretty hard to resist (yes, some stereotypes are true). I like cakes, so I’ve gotten a bit obsessed with the Elegant Sweets set, which is made up of fantastic looking desserts (mostly cakes!)

This is set #1. Everything is always carefully wrapped...

Look at all those cute little pieces! That's right, I think food is cute.

I’m also pretty obsessed with Kuroshitsuji right now – including the dolls from Jun Planning. I only have Ciel. I love that he is such an irritable and depressing shota character. Good thing he is always the one having tea and cakes!

Ciel Phantomhive from Kuroshitsuji, Dal by Jun Planning

Re-ment photographs perfectly with 1/6 scale dolls, so this is becoming the slippery slope of one obsession feeding another (no pun intended!) The level of detail on this doll is incredible, from the articulation points to the face-up, and the elegant outfit is beautifully constructed. He even came with an eye patch and a walking stick! And the contract seal on his right eye is enough to please any OCD anime fangirl (*cough*ahem…) Being able to shift the eyes around with a switch is another creepy perk. Ciel is my first Jun Planning doll, and I couldn’t be happier with him. Expensive, but worth it. The gigantic heads…so cuuute……

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So basically he just needs a friend (or a butler…:3 ), and until then he’ll be having tea and cakes alone!

That look says ''Maybe you should just get a cat...?''

Add comment September 2nd, 2009

Champions Online (again)

The Champions Online beta is over and the game is finally ready to go live for everyone. A few thoughts on the game so far…

This is far more like City of Heroes than any other MMO I’ve tried. Not that that’s a bad thing. From the way level upgrades are handled to the way gangs sort of hang around, it’s very familiar.

The storyline(s) are ridiculous and cheesy. This has been debated online a bit, but I like the B movie flavor of it all.

The character creator is unbelievably fun. I’ve seen some excellent toons out there. Favorites I’ve seen include Josie from Josie and the Pussycats, Duke Nukem and what looked a lot like Samus from Metroid. There are plenty of generics too, but the variety is pretty awesome.

CoH/CoV had pedestrians spouting funny lines at you when you’d run by. The enemies do more of that here. Hearing (or rather, reading) goons in nuclear waste talking about their latest mutations is entertaining.

There need to be more open objectives that can be done with large groups ala Warhammer Online. There are some, but more would be welcomed.

Millennium City feels like a ghost town. It’s big, it’s shiny, but it needs way more activity. This may change in later levels, I don’t know. For now going there for any reason other than that you have to feels pointless. I was hoping to “want” to go there.

If you visit the official site forums you’ll be bombarded with topics like “you guys broke the game!”, “I’m not playing this anymore” and “Cryptic, why did you nerf my class?”. Every MMO has message boards that look exactly like these, pay them no mind. I’ll be back with this topic another time, I need to sink another 3 months into it first.

If you see me playing, say hello! I’m usually online with the Mrs. who plays as Nurse Death.

Doctor Death

On a completely unrelated note, these are the lamest wax figures I’ve ever seen.

Add comment September 1st, 2009