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Upgrading your computer can be a great way to save a little cash. It can also be a great way to fulfill that need most gadget geeks have for getting cool new stuff on a regular basis. But upgrading can also be shockingly expensive if you’re not careful (steer clear of Apple’s overpriced RAM), and it can seem…

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The Yowamushi Pedal New Generation television anime is partnering with Japanese automaker Subaru, a division of Fuji Heavy Industries for a promotional...

There are 52 shopping days left until Christmas and X-Plus has something nice for the good little otaku out there. They're bringing back the Lucy and Yukino Fairy Tail figure set that they released back in January. This time, it'll be a Christmas variant with the two Celestial Spirit Mages adding Santa hats (removable and key on with magnets) to their bikinis, and accompanying the pair with a snowman Happy on the base. 

 

The limited 23cm item is selling on their online store for 18,360yen and shipping in December.

 

 

 

Speaking of Fairy Tail sexiness, recently posted by author Hiro Mashima...

落書き。 pic.twitter.com/dzTnRD4csl

— 真島ヒロ (@hiro_mashima) October 22, 2016

落書き。 pic.twitter.com/OnvXtzMOtO

— 真島ヒロ (@hiro_mashima) October 11, 2016

落書き。 pic.twitter.com/kquUI92SMo

— 真島ヒロ (@hiro_mashima) October 7, 2016

ギャルゲ塗りを参考に描いてみた。モデルを間違った可能性もあるな。 pic.twitter.com/oHQhftHrQW

— 真島ヒロ (@hiro_mashima) September 18, 2016

 

 

 

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

With its relatively bright and cheery atmosphere, lowered difficulty and excellent ‘80s soundtrack, Infinite Warfare’s Zombies in Spaceland mode was almost perfect. Then the clowns showed up. Their squeaky shoes haunt my dreams.

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Founded in 1962, animation studio Tatsunoko Production will be celebrating its 55th year of operation next year, and plans are already underway to launch a year-long celebration entitled "Tatsunoko 55 (Go-go) Year".

 

タツノコプロは皆様に愛されて来年10月19日に創立55周年を迎えます。そこで本日より2年間「タツノコ55（ゴーゴー）YEAR」をスタート!まずは、記念ビジュアルをお披露目します！#タツノコ55 pic.twitter.com/nhH5hy95wx

— タツノコプロ（公式） (@tatsunoko_pro) October 19, 2016

 

The first stage in the celebration is the publication of a commemorative visual, which features characters from numerous Tatsunoko Production anime, including but not limited to: Hurricane Polymar, Casshan. Honeybee Hutch, Karas, Yatterman Night, Time Bokan, Precure, Tekkaman: The Space Night, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, and Speed Racer.

 

 

Source: Yaraon!

 

Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

The voice actress and idol group i☆Ris announced this week that it is offering fans a chance to chat with performers via Skype. The service will be available...

Battlerite is a good time. For a MOBA/Brawler, it is easy to pick up and filled with fun champions. Tomorrow, the roster will expand a little more during the game’s Halloween update.

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Battlefield 1's open beta will end tomorrow, Thursday, September 8. For the final day of the beta, all accessible weapons have been unlocked for use.

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WeMo smart outlet switches, a popular garbage disposal, and a $15 Eneloop starter kit lead off Tuesday’s best deals.

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Romanian hacker "Guccifer" who targeted high-profile US politicians has been sentenced for 52 months in prison. Guccifer, whose real name is Marcel Lazar, pleaded guilty in May on charges of aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access of a computer. Lazar targeted former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Bush family and was arrested on hacking charges in Romania in 2014 and was sentenced four years. He was extradited to the U.S. to face charges in March 2016. Reuters adds: Lazar has said in interviews he breached Clinton's private server at her home in Chappaqua, New York, but law enforcement and national security officials say that claim is meritless. Lazar is believed to have hacked into email accounts of about 100 victims between 2012 and 2014. They include prominent political figures such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a relative of former President George W. Bush and Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House aide and an unofficial adviser to Clinton. Clinton is now the Democratic nominee for president. Lazar leaked online memos Blumenthal sent Clinton that were addressed to her private email account, which was used during her time as secretary of state to conduct both personal and work business in lieu of a government account.

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Trailrunner7 writes from a report via On the Wire: Attackers can add an arbitrary page to the end of a Google login flow that can steal users' credentials, or alternatively, send users an arbitrary file any time a login form is submitted, due to a bug in the login process. A researcher in the UK identified the vulnerability recently and notified Google of it, but Google officials said they don't consider it a security issue. The bug results from the fact that the Google login page will take a specific, weak GET parameter. Using this bug, an attacker could add an extra step to the end of the login flow that could steal a user's credentials. For example, the page could mimic an incorrect password dialog and ask the user to re-enter the password. [Aidan Woods, the researcher who discovered the bug,] said an attacker also could send an arbitrary file to the target's browser any time the login form is submitted. In an email interview, Woods said exploiting the bug is a simple matter. "Attacker would not need to intercept traffic to exploit -- they only need to get the user to click a link that they have crafted to exploit the bug in the continue parameter," Woods said. Google told Woods they don't consider this a security issue.

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An anonymous reader writes from a report via Ars Technica: Jennifer Youngman, a 65-year-old woman living in rural northern Virginia shot down a drone flying over her property with a single shotgun blast. Ars Technica reports: "Youngman told Ars that she had just returned from church one Sunday morning and was cleaning her two shotguns -- .410 and a .20 gauge -- on her porch. She had a clear view of the Blue Ridge Mountains and neighbor Robert Duvall's property (yes, the same Robert Duvall from The Godfather). Youngman had seen two men set up a card table on what she described as a 'turnaround place' on a country road adjacent to her house. 'I go on minding my business, working on my .410 shotgun and the next thing I know I hear bzzzzz,' she said. 'This thing is going down through the field, and they're buzzing like you would scaring the cows.' Youngman explained that she grew up hunting and fishing in Virginia, and she was well-practiced at skeet and deer shooting. 'This drone disappeared over the trees and I was cleaning away, there must have been a five- or six-minute lapse, and I heard the bzzzzz,' she said, noting that she specifically used 7.5 birdshot. 'I loaded my shotgun and took the safety off, and this thing came flying over my trees. I don't know if they lost command or if they didn't have good command, but the wind had picked up. It came over my airspace, 25 or 30 feet above my trees, and hovered for a second. I blasted it to smithereens.'" Ars goes on to explain that aerial trespassing isn't currently recognized under American law. "The Supreme Court ruled in a case known as United States v. Causby that a farmer in North Carolina could assert property rights up to 83 feet in the air. There is a case still pending on whether or not Kentucky drone pilot, David Boggs, was trespassing when he flew his drone over somebody else's property. "Broggs asked the court to rule that there was no trespassing and that he is therefor entitled to damages of $1,500 for the destroyed drone."

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When T-Mobile announced "One" plan, little did the company know that people wouldn't like seeing their "unlimited" data plan offer video streaming max out at 480p resolution. The company is making some tweaks to that plan, only to make things more confusing to people. It will now begin selling "HD day passes" for $3 per day, allowing customers to stream in 1080p for 24 hours. The Verge reports: That's simple enough, but here's where it gets really weird: T-Mobile is also offering a plan called T-Mobile One Plus, which, among other benefits, offers unlimited HD day passes. So by subscribing to the plan, you can stream 1080p video all you want every single day -- but only if you go and activate the HD day pass again every single day. Presumably, T-Mobile is hoping you'll forget to activate those passes, or else it would have just lifted the 480p quality limit without this bizarre constraint. Making this even more confusing, T-Mobile originally announced plans to offer an "HD add-on" for the One plan that offered unlimited HD streaming without constraints. That's no longer going to be an option, however, so if you want HD video streaming, you're stuck re-enabling it every day. A T-Mobile rep framed the change as "giving customers more" for the same price, which is true (both cost $25 extra per month), but the new plan also involves the strange new reactivation hurdle.

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Household essentials, Munchkin: Marvel Edition, and $15 off textbooks lead off Friday’s best deals.

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VR experience launched on Friday at Diver City Tokyo Plaza

Let’s talk about maintainability.

Those of you that know me know that in my civillian identity, I work as a SQA professional. QA gets a bum rap sometimes; manual functional testing can be one of the most boring parts of software engineering, but while there’s plenty of button-pushers who will be happy to poke at an application for minimum wage, there’s a lot more to quality than simply functionality. One of the commonly overlooked aspects is maintainability: the ease with which changes can be made to the software system.

Now, maintainability can be measured. You can track how long it takes to discover the root cause of an issue, or how long it takes to work a simple enhancement request. You can track the number of groans or “WTFs” per minute in code review. You can track the cylcomatic complexity of the codebase or, if you’re a masochist, the Halstead complexity. But there’s a number of informal, “gut feel” warning signs you can use to tell if your application is maintainable. Here’s a sampling I’ve collected from various programmers in the industry. I like to call it Your code might be unmaintainable if…

Your code might be unmaintainable if the programmers give it nicknames like “the monster” or “the barge” or utter the words “there be dragons”

Your code might be unmaintainable if you can tell how old a file is by what revision of the coding standards it follows – within 3 seconds of opening the file

Your code might be unmaintainable if requesting a dependency map from the database server chugs for 30 minutes then crashes with an “out of memory” exception

Your code might be unmaintainable if you’re the most senior dev on the team… six months out of uni

Your code might be unmaintainable if you can’t localize the text of dropdowns for a new locale because that would break the existing 400-line if-else chain that lists out every localized string and keys functionality based on it

Your code might be unmaintainable if management dictates the design of the codebase – down to the nitty-gritty tactical level. Bonus points if the manager is a non-technical VP who responds to criticism by firing the developer on the spot.

Your code might be unmaintainable if half the variable names are in a different language and nobody’s quite sure which

Your code might be unmaintainable if you’re serving 20MB of CSS files on every request

Your code might be unmaintainable if your dependency graph is unreadable when printed on a single sheet of 8.5“ x 11” paper. Or a single sheet of A4. Or a single sheet of A3.

Your code might be unmaintainable if your variable naming “convention” is u734, u1234–2, u623, etc… and variables all change names between files

Your code might be unmaintainable if you have a single function webservice with 17 layers of abstraction between the entry point and where the business logic lies. Apparently the developer had never heard of YAGNI

Your code might be unmaintainable if you re-order the properties of an object and the code breaks

Your code might be unmaintainable if Microsoft Access forms a critical part of your business workflow. Or Microsoft Excel. Bonus points for unreadable Excel macros that fall victim to other traps in this article

Your code might be unmaintainable if it includes the line #defined ONE_HUNDRED 100 unironically

Your code might be unmaintainable if you find the source code! …in a folder marked DEV_BACKUP_2013

Your code might be unmaintainable if you can’t find the malfunctioning bit of code because it’s monkeypatched onto a class you control from god knows where

Your code might be unmaintainable if you go to debug a production issue and not only can you not reproduce, the entire functionality isn’t present in the codebase on the development servers.

Your code might be unmaintainable if you go to debug a production issue and not only can you not reproduce in dev, you can’t find the functionality even in production. Bonus points if you finally chase down a series of redirects and end up on some server somewhere, named after a flower, that was meant to have been decomissioned years ago. Double bonus points if you’re pretty sure it shells out to a Minecraft server in the process.

Your code might be unmaintainable if it’s full of comments that simply read //BUGBUG. Or //TODO (with no further explanation)

Your code might be unmaintainable if there’s a header at the top of every page served up in production that reads

// [Decompiled](http://thedailywtf.com/articles/variables-everywhere-but-not-a-stop-to-think) with JetBrains decompiler
// Type: FloorPlanCLR.EventManagementService.Triggers
// Assembly: FloorPlanCLR, Version=1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
// MVID: 55C2F875-6F43-4FDE-A2C6-6CD7F464A43B
// AssemblyLocation: C:\Users\SomeGuy\Pictures\FloorPlanCLR.dll

Your code might be unmaintainable if it’s in a proprietary langauge your company invented. Or a blend of two such languages.

Pokémon Go’s Team Leaders haven’t been doing much leading thus far. That’s about to change, with the game’s latest update introducing something called “Implemented Pokémon Appraisal”.

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Gyms in Pokémon Go can be intimidating if you don’t know what you’re doing. These tips will turn you into a pokémon trainer so good other players will have to start giving you badges.

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One of the most beloved first-person shooters ever to grace a Nintendo console was born of a movie that was not James Bond's finest outing. One would think the greatest secret agent in the world would take less time to kill Sean Bean, for one.

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Hope you've already gotten all your Dragon Quest IX treasure maps and downloaded all those daily Professor Layton puzzles. If not, now's your last chance.

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After months of previews Sentinel's Attack on Titan - Ultra-Hard Blade Shaped Cover Survey Corps ver. iPhone case is now on sale, available for preorder at 3,996 yen ahead of an August release. 

 

Like their Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes' iDROID, there's an action gimmick, where the trigger will open a cover on the phone's camera. Compatible with the iPhone5/5S (but not 5C), the item measures about 14cm and features a metallic looking shiny paint.

 

 

 

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

Remember the one where He-Man rubs his hands over sand so fast it turns to glass, and then he uses the glass to create a cage, or what about the time he spun the sword around fast enough to create a tornado and then threw the tornado at someone? Get the 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Set that has everything for $33 today. [Masters of the Universe Limited Edition, $33]

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Frankly, I'm surprised that nerdy condoms like this don't actually exist. Not because I want to use them or anything, but because I'm sure that someone hilariously would.

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Crossovers are an everyday occurrence in the comics industry, where Spider-Man hangs with Wolverine, Batman stops by Teen Titans HQ, and Aliens battle Predators. But not all crossovers make as much sense as these do. Here are a dozen of them that aren't necessarily bad, but they're all definitely weird.

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Anison duo of two high school girls from Hokkaido, ClariS, are back for the second Nisekoi opening, "Step." This time, rather than the singer's illustrated alter-egos, the cover goes to the winners of Shonen Jump's recent character popularity poll, Kosaki Onodera and Marika Tachibana. 

 

The CD will be released April 16th.

 

Limited edition

 

Standard edition

 

Limited edition with music video

 

 

In other Nisekoi doings, Seishirou Tsugumi has been added to the smartphone game.

 

The game has players, as the male protagonist of the story Raku Ichijo, helping the heroines grow by supporting their daily life (study, sports). All of the character illustrations in the game are newly drawn. 

 

 

via Yaraon

 

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

At the successful AnimeJapan 2014 event which drew about 111,000 attendees in two days on March 22-23, the exhibitors tried their best to hand out many kind of free promotional materials such as flyers, pamphlets, booklets, posters, stickers, clear files, calenders, and even music song CDs, to the rushing fans. Check the promotional items for some of the upcoming April TV anime below. More items for the summer TV anime and feature films will be posted in the next feature article. Which new title are you most excited for the next season?

 

   

AnimeJapan 2014 Photo Report 1: Life-Sized AV-98 Ingram from "Patlabor" Live-Action Films

AnimeJapan 2014 Photo Report 2: Company Booths

AnimeJapan 2014 Photo Report 3: Company Booth Cosplayers

AnimeJapan 2014 Photo Report 4: Good Smile Company Booth

 

 

AnimeJapan 2014 complete guidebook

 

 

Keroro (March 22)

Puchimas!! Petit Idolmaster (April 1) 

 

 

Majin Bone (April 1)

 

 

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (April 2)

 

 

 

Blade & Soul (April 3)

 

 

selector infected WIXOSS (April 3)

Akuma no Riddle (April 3)

Convenience store chain LAWSON and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Stardust

Crusaders (April 4) collaboration campaign

Tenkai Knights (April 5)

FAIRY TAIL (April 5)

Kenzen Robo Daimidaler (April 5)

 

 

Seikoku No Doragner (April 5) 

Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei/The Irregular at Magic High School (April 5)

 

 

Kamigami no Asobi (April 5)

 

 

Captain Earth (April 5)

 

 

Abarenbou Rikishi!! Matsutaro  (April 6)

 

 

Haikyuu!! (April 6)

 

 

Baby Steps (April 6)

 

 

Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V (April 6)

 

 

Love Live! School Idol Project 2nd season  (April 6)

 

 

Isshukan Friends (April 6)

 

 

Oreca Battle & Doragon Collection (April 7)

Hero Bank (April 7)

The Manga Artist and Assistants (April 7)

Magica Wars (April 8)

Black Bullet (April 8)

Soul Eater Not! (April 8)

No Game No Life (April 9)

Hitsugi no Chaika (April 9)

 

 

Fuun Ishin Dai Shogun (April 9)

Gochumon wa Usagi Desuka?/Is the Order a Rabbit? (April 10)

Nanana's Buried Treasure (April 10)

Knights of Sidonia (April 10)

Date A Live II (April 11)

 

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Other April anime titles which I coundn't get promotional items:

 

Kutsudaru. (April 2)

Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou (April 3)

Mushishi Zokushou (April 4)

Lady Jewelpet (April 5)

Pretty Rhythm All Star Selection (April 5)

Kindaichi Case Files R (April 5)

Kiniro no Corda: Blue♪Sky (April 5)

Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii/Still World is Beatiful (April 5)

Dragonball Kai: Buu Saga (April 6)

Gokukoku no Brynhildr (April 6) 

Broken Blade (April 6)

Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara (April 6)

Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple: Yami no Shugeki~ (April 8) 

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky (April 10) 

Ping Pong The Animation (April 10)

Mekakucity Actors (April 12)

Inugam-san to Nekoyama-san (April 15)

M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane (April 21) 

Kantoku Fuyuki Todoki (April)

 

 

It looks like Google is on Tokyo time with today's launch of its April Fools' Day fun. Dozens of wild Pokémon have taken up residence on streets, amidst forests and atop mountains throughout Google Maps. To catch 'em all, grab your Poké Ball and the newest version of Google Maps for iPhone or Android. Then tap the search bar, "press start," and begin your quest. 

 

Follow Google Maps on Google+, Facebook or Twitter for hints and tips for the most dedicated trainers. And check out this link for more details.

 

 

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