WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING?

I'm working on my goal of watching every episode of Criminal Minds right now. I do t know how or when I got so attached to the characters but I did and it's terrible.

I just caught up with Agent Carter which I'm enjoying thoroughly. The plot the designs and the slam and pound fight scences are super fun.

I'm gonna second Liberty's recommendation of Leverage. It's a very fun and clever show and probably what I'm going to go through and pick up the episodes I've missed once I finish CM.

I finished watching SAO season 2 recently. Then I talked about it with somebody who read the light novels and apparently the story is basically off the rails at this point. At least compared to the light novels. He knew nothing about the Mother's Rosario arc at the end of the season, but Wikipedia has that as the title on a manga adaptation arc so I wonder how much the story has been changed and whether the anime is following the light novels or the manga.

Long story short, maybe the Sword Art Online light novels are what you really wanted that story to be. There's apparently quite a lot of the more political story in those novels that was skipped over in the anime in favor of the harem-building episodes.

I'm currently watching BikdipOnABus' Let's Play videos. Finished watching his LP's of Kaizo Mario 64 and Super Demo World awhile back. Now, I'm waiting for the next LP vids on his Super Smash Bros. Melee Lets Play. By the way, I'm watching this right now, him playing Pikmin 3.

At least its not like some Anime, where CHILD ABUSE and/or MURDERED PARENTS is the ONE TRUE BACKSTORY, especially for villains.

Anyways, mostly been watching random anime on Hulu. I don't really last more than one or two episodes with most of them, but I've liked and finished Mushi-shi (+ Next Passage), New Dominion Tank Police, and Tiger & Bunny. Now I'm watching PatLabor: The TV Series (1989-1990), AGDQ 2015 archives, and occasionally an episode of Space Dandy.

PatLabor is mostly a lighthearted slice-of-life sci-fi anime (though there are live action spin-off films) about a division of a police force dedicated to dealing with out-of-control mech suits (the "Labors") and other issues that only big mech suits can handle. The mech stuff is not really the focus, though.
Meanwhile, Space Dandy is I think about as close to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as an anime is ever going to get.

e: but seriously, I can't get PatLabor's theme song out of my head. Space Dandy's intro and outro are pretty catchy, too.

Started watching Suits a week ago and already hooked on it! Though I'm not sure on what to think of Dana's relationship with Harvey since he's supposed to be the "no-strings-attached" type of dude.

Also watched The Imitation Game with a friend today without expecting and knowing what the movie's about and holy crap it was freaking awesome! Gotta hand it to Cumberbatch and Knightley as always. :D

I hate Brickleberry. Never watched it. Just really annoyed that they made really, really vulgar adverts that played right before The Daily Show came back from commercial. I was watching that on DVR with kids around damn it. If I wanted to watch that shit I'd watch that shit, but you pour it into my unwilling eye sockets AND make the channel an unsafe place for my daily viewing.

I'll have to try BoJack sometime though. The great thing about Netflix series is there isn't so much filler so at least I probably won't have to slog through quite so much for the payoff.

Peppa Pig. I have a niece. She is addicted to anything Peppa. She recently learned the magical computer box can show her Peppa all the time if Aunty 'Beppy' presses the red and blue picture. Let's just say I've been inundated with begging for 'Peppa! Peppa!' every time she visits. She lives next door. She visits daily.


;.;

On a side note, some episodes of Peppa Pig were banned from Australia. Why? Because they showed the characters picking up spiders and going swimming alone... NOT something any Aussie wants their kids to ever do, seeing as most of our spiders are deadly poisonous, and that the most common death of children in Australia was drowning for a while (we still have ads telling you to watch your kids around pools and water - this coming from a society where we are all taught from an early age how to swim.

Seriously, it's literally a major part of our schooling and parents are encouraged to teach kids from an early age to respect and act responsibly around bodies of water. It's not unheard of for kids to go jumping into dams at a pretty young age for fun.

My first memory of water was when I was about 5-6, going yabbying with my dad and just playing in the water of a local dam. Hell, Mum took me yabbying when I was a baby (and nearly killed my by wrapping me tightly in blankets on a 40+ degree (Celsius) day. Yeah. I was the first kid, so... she learned a lot of 'do not do' things from me. Sometimes I count myself lucky to have lived this long.)). :/

Oh. Oh my. I forget, sometimes, that the rest of the world has never seen or eaten a yabby. You poor, poor souls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_yabby
https://www.facebook.com/yabbying

It tells most of the relevants. Basically, it's something that tends to happen in the rural areas a lot during the summer. Yabbies like heat, and they're scavengers, so they're pretty easy to catch. Most people who go yabbying tend to adhere to the common rules of:
- if it's smaller than your finger, throw it back
- if it's got eggs, throw it back

(Seriously, though - you get a bad name if you don't adhere to those above rules. Like, your name becomes dirt in the community. Thinking of it, it's such a weird psychological thing, but it's all about protecting the species (and future yabbying). It's so ingrained into us when kids, though, that it just becomes habit. Has eggs? Throw it back. Always check the tail for them. Smaller than your hand? Toss it back. Let it grow and breed.)

This is how we protect the yabbies from over-fishing and keep up the populations for next years' yabbying. Some farmers keep yabby dams and get mighty pissy if they find nets in their dams. It's not unheard of to trespass, drop a few nets overnight then check back the next day and sort on the bank.

Often they're carted home in a bucket of dam water and later cooked (much like a crab or lobster) in a pot of boiling water. Most people either eat them straight (or soaked in vinegar) or thrown on a salad.

They're different to prawns, lobsters and the like in both size and taste.

Some people keep them as pets, too. (We used to have one named 'Pirate Pete' because he was missing a claw. His other claw was pretty large and when we first got him he was beating all the other yabbies in the bucket with that one hand, even though one of 'em had pulled off his other claw. He lived for quite a while, though. Good ol' Pete.)

It's not exactly a sport. In fact, it's more like idk hunt and gather? Like, it feels great to just grab your gang of friends and head out to visit dams on a steaming hot day. Drop a few nets, drink a few beers, go visit other dams and drop other nets. Just hang around for a few hours, check the nets, sort the catch and head on home with your prize. It's like... I don't know how to explain it. Not really like hunting since that has effort applied. It's about the laziest way of getting food there is. XD I guess it's a bit like fishing without the focus and quiet. It's more of a social thing, really. I don't know how to really explain it.


But yeah, yabbies. Delicious.

Like right NOW now? American Dad with my friend, but I've been juggling marathoning Trailer Park Boys and Evangelion.