Embarrassing Dating Sims Are Not Required.

news blast: you gotta shoot 'em in the head!

Or rather, you don't really have to shoot 'em in the head, because this week's news links don't really have anything out to get us. A first for Get Back To 8-bit.

Japanese train station employs cat as station master. First order of business, vomiting hair ball on the tracks and putting a dead bird on the 9:15am commute to Tokyo:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-05-26-tama-trainstation_N.htm

Japan's "Robot" Brand Milk. Contents, 90% Lactose 10% Poison:

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/03/robot-milk.html

Eventually different companies in Japan will have manufactured enough parts for you to just build your own girlfriend (Probably NSFW):

http://www.himeyashop.com/product_info.php?products_id=4332

http://www.wellsphere.com/skin-health-article/get-breasts-from-a-japanese-vending-machine/627400

And then the third item I mentioned... yeah I was originally going to put a link up so you could see it for yourself but I think the "telling you without really telling you how bad this thing is" on the show was enough. Needless to say, it's a big bowl of wrong.

So can the dog tell you that this device humiliates both of you?:

http://trendsupdates.com/bowlingual-voice-can-help-you-talk-to-your-dog/

I call dibs on She-Ra as my girlfriend:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24576437-5014239,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-2DLove-t.html?_r=3

Posted at 18:18, 15th October 2009

evil! pure and simple from the eighth dimension!

Remember, sub-lifeforms, Get Back To 8-bit is turning Japanese this week with a playlist composed of nothing but frenetic noise waves from the land of the rising sun! Don't miss what might be the bestest show of mine and anyone's lives*! Tune in this week, Thursday 14:00, on Subcity.org!

Also to tide you over until then, this is most definitely worth your next two minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Db4avDn1mc

*Not a guarantee.

Posted at 20:13, 12th October 2009

dr. osamu tezuka cybernautic school of geekdom.

If you've been listening to Get Back To 8-bit, you know how much Japan and their schenanigans influences the show, so this week is a complete Japanarama blowout! There'll be too much pickled eel and tentacle eroticism for you to know what to do with. Expect some good and bad news from the land they call Nippon in the You Gotta Shoot 'Em In The Head! newsbeats as well. You definitely won't want to miss this one! Now return to your normal lives, Gaijins!

Posted at 18:20, 10th October 2009