Post date: Dec 30, 2017 3:1:37 AM
Note: if people are late, will Gene perhaps kill time with the Crunchyroll 2017 Holiday Special? Or perhaps Crunchyroll's Anime Crimes Division?
7 - 8:15 Samplers
Blue Blazes, aka Blue Fire (Viki, fs)
fallback samplers (in case we bail on those early)
Hatenkou Yugi (DVD, HD)
Gundam Build Fighters (CR, BD)
8:15 - 8:40 short feature: Problem Children are Coming from Another World, Aren't They? OVA (BD)
8:40 - 9:10 intermission and voting on shows for Winter 2018
9:10 - 11 feature: Napping Princess, aka Ancien and the Magic Tablet (fs)
Notes: we didn’t end up sampling Ancient Magus’ Bride - enough folks felt they could vote on it without having to sample the episode. We bailed on the Problem Children OVA maybe 1/3 of the way through because it seemed to be mostly just kind of gross fanservice. We ended up watching episode 1 of Hatenkou Yugi (it seemed...OK-ish?), voted and had break, then tried watching Napping Princess.
At first VLC didn’t want to output rear channel sound to Gene’s system, we all tried finding a way to downsample audio, but restarting vlc with those settings in place made it unable to start, at least with the file in question. So we gave up on that, and tried playing the file using mpv...which worked perfectly the first time! Lesson learned: vlc’s day may have passed, to be replaced by mpv. At least on my computer...
...and do note that Adam showed up tonight, early in Hatenkou Yugi (just before break/voting). David also made it a bit into the feature.
Attendance:
Gene
Alan
Jenia
Brian
Steve Racer
Adam
David