stunt_muppet

Ours takes USB as well (it's what I used to bore everyone with my vacation photos), but I use my drives mostly for documents so I haven't shown anything on it. Now that I think about it, though, that might give me a higher video quality for some of my shows (Umineko may be nice and crisp, but things like Shadow Raiders, with all that CGI, occasionally has compression and lag issues). A-downloading I go!

I am watching TV, on the internet, on TV. I cannot get over it.

I have finished episode 8 and was in the middle of episode 9 when my parents came home and commandeered the TV, so...not very far, really. But Maria has something to do with it! I kind of predicted that either Battler would use her to disprove Beatrice by saying that Maria "created" or "imagined" Beatrice to cope with the way Rosa treated her, but now I kind of think that whatever's going on with Shannon and Kanon (being the Ushiromiya family's "furniture" and thus being...magical or immortal or encountering the same kind of time loop as Battler) is also going on with Maria - she's connected to Beatrice somehow, either as another witch or she's a "pawn" of Beatrice's placed in the family as part of the bargain. Or, um, something. MARIA HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. Clearly I am smart.

Of course, that was before the red text of truth showed up and I had to spend a couple of minutes processing that, because I mean she's a witch, if she has that kind of metatextual control then obviously she could just say anything she wanted to in red text, but challenging that would mean accepting that she's a witch and would mean that Battler would lose the game, but then maybe she actually can't lie in red text, we don't know how far her fourth-wall powers extend and aaaagh, Umineko you keep screwing with me and I wouldn't have it any other way.