Cosplay Project: Sengoku Basara

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I’ll start with the basics.

basara logo

Sengoku Basara is a series of games much like Dynasty Warriors.  You are a singular badass who fights the entire population of a country who’s sole existence in life is to get slaughtered by you.  Here is the opening for the latest game.

In addition Basara was made into a 2 season anime composing of 12 episodes.  This roughly follows the story of a few characters looking to take down a few other characters who are being a bunch of jerks.  Opening for the anime pretty much gives you the idea.

For those of you watching, have watched or are thinking of watching the anime.  It is at the same time the manliest and the gayest anime ever.  Inuyasha and kagome can only wish to have the passion of Sanada Yukimura and Takeda Shingen

Now that i have spammed you with enough links lets get on to the good stuff.

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The One-Eyed Dragon is not just for show

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Going to keep this post short and get right to the good stuff.

I’m sure you have heard us make comments about how Anime LA was made awesome by meeting awesome people.  One of those people is Masa, who appropriately cosplayed the character Date Masamune from Basara.  In fact, it is somewhat Masa’s fault that we are now planning a new cosplay for the next convention we are attending.  You may have noticed the nifty new link on the right for Fanime…

“Are you guys ready? Put Ya Guns On!”

Project Alpha Legion 3 – The models (and the money)

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Now that we have our army list, its time to get some miniatures.  Sadly neither minis nor money grows on trees so we are going to have to be a little cost effective here.  So what I’ve done is put together what i feel is the MOST cost effective way for me to build this army, while still getting everything i want.

Oh yeah, also there is one additional bit.

I hate Chaos Marines without helmets, or helmets with horns on their head.

Dark Helmet knows

Good is Dumb because they take off their helmets and get shot in the face!

So lets get this started.

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Project Alpha Legion 2 – The List

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Continuing with what i hope to be a new series of articles, lets take a look at what might be the best place to begin building a Warhammer 40k, or really any table top army, the army list.

With the end of 5th edition quite literally on the horizon, and not a single tournament planned i have decided that my goals for this army are going to be a little different from your normal Plague Marine/Oblit spam… in fact lets start with a set of goals for this army

1. Not a net list: this one is quite simple, just avoid the usual chaos spam (there really is only one or two acceptable Chaos builds right now given that there isn’t much flexibility in the current codex).  Since i do not intend to take 3×3 Oblit spam, i feel I’m already on the right track.

2. Feels like Alpha Legion: Now what is it that comes to mind when we think Alpha Legion.  Cultist, Traitors, Infiltrator, no daemons.

War cry of the Aplha Legion

This may honestly become my armies battle cry.

3. Ease of conversion into the potential 6th edition Chaos Codex: OK, this one is admittedly much harder.  Currently all we have are rumors, and if the rumors are even passingly true then the Alpha Legion will have a nice long wait till their codex rules see print.  Until then, they will need to be played as generic Chaos Marines, or worse… *gasp* 5th edition CSM.

So with those 3 guidelines in mind lets get a building

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Anime LA, our wrap up and thoughts

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Writer is not amused... wait, yes he isAs I sit back in Las Vegas, I have had time to sleep and properly absorb Anime LA.  I can say without any doubt that it was a good convention.  Here is a quick breakdown of my thoughts (chris), and i will see if i can get Anime-x to make a quick post with his thoughts later on today.  All ratings are set out of 10.

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Anime LA: Musings as I get ready to leave.

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Writer is not amused... wait, yes he isWhile it is a personal pet peeve of mine to acknowledge day 0 as a part of the convention, I do admit that useful things do happen. Badge pick up, hotel check in, some really lazy cosplay… But I’m not in LA yet so I’m getting ahead of myself.

What I’m currently writing about is basically my preparation for Anime LA.  I wouldn’t say that ‘anticipation’ is the right word.  I mean, I have heard some pretty impressive things about this convention.  Almost on par with the level of awesome with other successful cons (Sakura con and PAX prime come to mind… interesting how both of those are in Seattle)

And I won’t lie… this kind of worries me.

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Trolling those who hotlink

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For some reason, tonight I’m just in the mood to troll people.  I’m sure you’ve noticed but the site got a bit of an overhaul on New Years.  On the back end we even had to move to a new server that supported the latest version of Word Press so we could properly get things working.  With that said, i still have access to said files on the old site but have not quite gotten around to importing all of the previous content… namely the images.

Most of them will be moved in due time and thats all well and good.  But one thing about the new site is it alerts me to 404 errors.  Mostly in case i screw something up.  HOWEVER, lately it has been flagging me for images.  Images that i have not imported… NOR have i linked to my site.  Thusly i realized what was going on… HOT-LINKING

Now i’m not one to knock on people for doing dumb things, but there are 2 reasons that you shouldn’t hot link.

1. you are stealing other people’s bandwidth.  -  normally not a problem. i don’t generate enough traffic, nor do you, to max out my bandwidth.  BUT the real problem is…

2. People can change said image and rename it whatever they want and fuck with your site.

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League of Legends: a little rant about teamwork

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Currently I’m playing Sona in a full heal build. And i would like to open this rant by stating that i know i play League of Legends pretty casually.  I’m all for people playing whatever character they want.  I don’t mind if you call Mid, or that you want bot with your buddy.   I appreciate that people like to solo, jungle and play with their friends.

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Project Alpha Legion 1 – a return to Chaos.

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It goes without saying that i’ve played a table top game or two in my life. Malifaux, Warmachine, Heavy Gear, Dystopian Wars. But in between playing all of these games i just can’t help but come back to the one that suckered me into it all… Warhammer 40k. Dam you Grim Dark!

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