{"id":296,"date":"2007-08-29T20:20:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T01:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/08\/29\/random-notes\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T01:20:16","slug":"random-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/random-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Random notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dinosquad.com\/\"><em><strong>Dino Squad<\/strong><\/em><\/a> \u2014 yet another reason to stick to anime. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/timblair.net\/ee\/index.php\/weblog\/dinosaur_blamed\/\">Tim Blair<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>I notice that the group fansubbing <strong><em>Dokuro-Chan II<\/em><\/strong> calls itself &#8220;Philanthropy.&#8221; That&#8217;s not the word that occurs to me.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>For those who regard every anime they&#8217;ve downloaded that is subsequently licensed as a an &#8220;obligation buy,&#8221; a suggestion. If it&#8217;s a lousy, trashy series, e.g., <strong><em>Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> spend your money on it. It will only encourage the company to license more garbage. Instead, take that money and apply it to a good show, preferably one that is underappreciated. (My own policy is less stringent. I purchase more than I download, and if a show is genuinely good, it goes on my &#8220;buy&#8221; list, even if I don&#8217;t expect to rewatch it soon. My drive may be getting full, but my shelves are overflowing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dino Squad \u2014 yet another reason to stick to anime. (Via Tim Blair.) ***** I notice that the group fansubbing Dokuro-Chan II calls itself &#8220;Philanthropy.&#8221; That&#8217;s not the word that occurs to me. ***** For those who regard every anime they&#8217;ve downloaded that is subsequently licensed as a an &#8220;obligation buy,&#8221; a suggestion. If it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/random-notes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random notes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[672,547,684],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever","tag-occidental-animation","tag-stupidity","tag-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-4M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}