LUCIDITY

New Post has been published on https://couch.diet/2018/08/26/couch-diet-episode-2-is-disenchantment-a-disenfranchised-disappointment-from-matt-groening/

Couch Diet Episode 2 - Is Disenchantment a Disenfranchised Disappointment from Matt Groening??

The second inaugural episode of the podcast! Yes! I can make up the rules if I want to!

I touch on a couple things here and there for this episode. A little bit about games; battlefield 5 and EA, Hunniepop 2, and Leisure Suit Larry. A little bit about anime; Kemono Friends/Youkoso Japari Park, Iyapan, Your Name. Also a little bit about a japanese horror/found footage mockumentary called Noroi: The Curse. Then I take another stab at Netflix and subsequently Disenchantment (RESULTS ARE MIXED).

Finally JAPAN 2020 *preview

SO – again, just like last episode, I re-recorded this podcast after the first take wasn’t to my liking. I had a itchy dry throat the second time around which meant a lot more editing around drinking water and coughing than the first. Weird. Well anyway I thought I was rambling too much in the first take and decided to cut the fat out and managed an even shorter episode 2. And YES, I did hold this episode back a whole week because I wasn’t that satisfied either way. We’ll see if the next episode I record will be held back again.

Episode 3 will be out much faster trust me (probably tonight, no promises). It’ll be a rant and then I’ll start on features the episode following.

Please follow and like us:

New Post has been published on https://couch.diet/cbd/

cbd

<embed src=”http://ecksample.myctfocbd.com/”>

Please follow and like us:

New Post has been published on https://couch.diet/subscribe-to-podcast/

Subscribe to Podcast

By subscribing to this podcast, you will automatically receive the latest episodes downloaded to your computer or portable device. Select the subscription method below that best fits your lifestyle.

iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod)

To subscribe, select the "Subscribe on iTunes" button above.

Mac and Windows

To subscribe, select the "Subscribe on iTunes" button above.

Android and Amazon Fire

To subscribe, select the "Subscribe on Android" button above.

Your favorite application

Copy the address found in the box above and paste into your favorite podcast application or news reader.

Bookmark this podcast

To bookmark this podcast site, press the "Ctrl" and "D" keys on your Windows keyboard, or “Command” + “D” for Mac.

Please follow and like us:

New Post has been published on https://couch.diet/2018/08/13/couch-diet-episode-1/

Couch Diet Episode 1

This is the inaugural episode of the Couch Diet podcast! I had to do a retake because I honestly just didn’t know how to get it going. There’s gonna be a lot of issues with it so please bear with me. I will also mess with my mixer because I was too close to the mic the whole episode and it was nothing but heavy breathing and other ASMR stuff. The ASMR will be gone next episode I promise. In the meantime feel free to give me feedback anyway you can either here or on any of the social media pages, I’ll have dedicated places for interaction later.

  For the time being, thanks for listening!

–SEO crap–

Video Games “EVO

Smash Nintendo Direct

Red Dead Redemption 2″ Weekly Anime “Boku No Hero Academia

Jashin Chan Dropkick

Harukana Receive

High Score Girl – Kemono Friends (SEASON 2)” Non-Anime or Japanese “Netflix – The Dark Tourist

I Don’t like netflix as much as Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime App Sucks” Outro “Couch.Diet Twitter, Couch_Diet

Please follow and like us:

New Post has been published on https://couch.diet/privacy-policy/

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://couch.diet.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Please follow and like us:

New Post has been published on http://couch.diet/high-score-girl-anime-episode-1/

High Score Girl Anime Episode 1

This is a blind rambling summary and impression of the first episode of High Score Girl.

  I read bits of the manga through scanlation pages I found online so I feel slightly informed but not enough to call myself a previous fan.

  To start things off, first impression is the 3DCG. I feel like 3DCG anime is at a point where it looks natural if you are used to anime frame rates but the backgrounds still suffer because of budgets. High Score girl definitely has a lower-than-normal budget to it but most of the characters and animation feel better compared to 3DCG anime from not even half a decade ago. For examples look up World of Golden Eggs and more recently World Fool News. These were 3D anime that I did like but were obviously really not up to par on the animation aspect. Where High Score Girl doesn’t stand up is the backgrounds. It’s mostly a dark anime when it comes to settings due to the fact that most of the show takes place in arcades. When you finally see the characters in more well-lit environments you can see where only some of the background was paid attention-to and then the rest is kind of just flat textures. We can contrast this with another 3DCG anime Kemono Friends. Kemono Friends had a vast array of beautiful landscapes and locations that would vary drastically from episode to episode and really helped cement the characters as living in a believable world. I’m not going to say High Score Girl looks ugly or boring at all – just that there was an obvious way to cut corners to stay on budget for the show. I won’t mention much of the 3DCG in later episode impressions unless I feel it gets in the way or improves the anime.

  So obviously an anime’s strengths will be in the story to keep you watching and I feel like I won’t likely drop this anime anytime soon. It’s very relatable with the real-world video game references. And by references I don’t mean: say the name of a video game – bazinga! – there’s your punch line. High Score Girl actually gets into the real history and explanation of a video game that old school players and newbies can relate to and follow along with the story. By the way, this story takes place in 1991, shortly after the release of Street Fighter II, which is the main focus of the episode. In the first half of the episode our main characters are introduced through the backdrop of an arcade where SFII is popular and has crowds forming just to play. The main character is great at Street Fighter II and has a deep understanding of the game’s mechanics; this allows him to monopolize the time spent at his arcade cabinet keeping others from playing until someone he knows from school defeats him from another cabinet. This brings us to our next topic: the characters.

  Our main character in this anime is Haruo, an average underachiever who only cares about video games and doesn’t have much going besides that, especially at school. Back at school, everyone in class picks on Haruo for having such a lack in skills and talent in every school subject, unlike Oono, who everyone fawns over. Oono is a rich girl with natural talents and is the admiration of the class besides being quiet and never saying a word. A secret to everyone except Haruo, Oono seems to be infatuated with arcade games.

  Our first episode focuses on their newfound rivalry at Street Fighter II, which comes to a head with Haruo decides to play cheap and turtle against Oono after losing to her multiple times and ends her almost thirty-round win streak against the whole arcade player-base. When confronting her over her loss, she beats him physically and easily, putting Haruo back in his place. Haruo spends the rest of the episode following Oono around after school to see his new rival in action and finds out she’s no con, she’s the real deal, except for the fact that she doesn’t like scary games. They bond over beating an annoying teen couple at Street Fighter and hitting a high score in Streets of Rage during a sudden rain shower. Haruo buys Oono some lollipops and she eats them both at the same time, this cements their friendship and the episode ends with Haruo getting run over mercilessly by Oono’s chauffeur and they drive off without a second thought, leaving Haruo’s mangled body in the alleyway.

  So yeah, I’m definitely feeling very positive about this show and I hope to watch more episodes as they air. Episode 2 is already out which I will watch. I really like the main characters and I hope to see more of the romance aspect to come through, especially since the opening credits show them in middle school uniforms and Haruo hanging out with another girl, as-yet named in the anime. When I write more about the episodes I’ll focus less on the summary and more on my impressions and review of each episode.

New Post has been published on http://couch.diet/blog/

New Post has been published on http://couch.diet/en-media-res/

En Media Res

Alright, so this should be the first blog post on a revamped Couch Diet website, which would probably be revision number three or four by now. If you are reading this months after this post is made, you either have too much time or I don’t have enough time to make more posts, hopefully the former.

As the titles suggests I’m going to carry on and post about whatever I’m currently watching, reading, listening, thinking or creating at the time. If I am already in the middle of something I’ll start there, instead of going back to square one, unless I feel the need to revisit something.

  The majority of my interest lies in popular culture, which would include television series, movies and books, although, I believe the majority of this blog will probably end up being about Japanese anime and manga. As I mentioned before I will also post about things I create so some posts may be purely visual such as pictures and videos, which you can also follow me on certain social media sites for more direct viewing experiences.

  Feel free to reach out to me in any way that makes you feel most comfortable if you would like to take any discussions further – the sidebar on this blog should give you plenty of ways to contact me. This blog will more than likely evolve as time goes on, so expect to give me feedback on the layout and ease of access to navigation.