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Episode III will be great! In one scene there'll be Obi-wan going "=O" and in another there's the emperor all like ">=D" and not to mention the part where anakin becomes all badass and stuff like ">=[" and padme will be all like "<=(" and finally there's gonna be jar-jar, who will end up like "x_x"

Here's the ICQ log of most of what transpired last night as far as Dwip, the end of a 15 year old, and I.

It's quite large, so I hope you have a good 10 minutes to read it, and then reread it to figure out what was actually going on.

[=== begin ===]

Whir: This one kid thinks that he has the answers for a utopian society, and that "old farts" like me are just ruining it because we don't care about the younger generation.

Whir: One of his ideas, mind you, includes printing fake "real" money and ruining the value of the dollar so that people realize that money is evil.

Whir: I've been having fun with that one, although not today.

Dwip: Well, at least that's sort of original.

Whir: Yeah. I guess he really hadn't thought about the whole prison thing.

Dwip: And yeah, you're getting to be positively ancient. I mean, you'll be thirty in under half a decade! You're practically dead by then!

Whir: I might as well be. I'm not exactly thrilled at the prospect.

Dwip: Well, you see, once money is evil, our utopian society will no longer need prisons, because we will all lose our greed and selfishness. Also, we will cavort with deer.

Whir: [Halor] Mael, if the people wants free food and have a plan to do it, but part time, and then someone comes along and wants to invent and perfect rocket science all the time, he/she does so by making money off his research and buying food/anything he needs to survive and live comfortably, what does it mean?

Whir: Can you make heads or tails of that?

Whir: You get blogged!

Dwip: I have no fucking clue. Like, I think he was trying to suggest that the food makers are SOL, but...

Since, in reality, free food isn't happening, it's besides the point, but.

Whir: Yeah, he's trying to explain it, but it's not getting anywhere.

Dwip: Woot.

Whir: [Halor] Pengu, the people asks this rocket scientist to help with growing food to make it free, then this rocket scientist decides to use money he somewhat earns from doing research and buys food from them instead which doesn't make food free

* Whir falls off his chair laughing.

Dwip: Like...yeah. I'm not even sure what to say to that, really.

Whir: Exactly.

Whir: His whole idea is to make everything free by being a big co-op. Um, that's called communism the last time I checked.

Dwip: Yeah, pretty much.

Dwip: Ask him how his experiences in the USSR went. [shrug]

Whir: Heh.

Whir: He's like 15.

Dwip: Nevertheless. Dumbassery is still dumbassery.

Whir: Indeed.

Whir: [Pengu-San] replicator == only way socialism can work

Whir: Heh.

Dwip: Note to self: Try to keep Cadbury filling out of facial hair.

Dwip: And eventually the clones will begin competing for who gets to use the blanket.

Whir: [Halor] also might i add, there is a voting option not to have an elected leader on the leadership ballot

Whir: He was talking about food replicators, actually.

Dwip: Well, ok. Can't argue with that. Well, as long as I get my cold fusion and my teleporters, too.

FTL travel would be nice, too, while we're there.

Whir: [Halor] don't you guys find it weird that the President never fails to be elected?

Dwip: So, what. He wants Powell to lead a military coup to become leader of the country? I'm confused.

Whir: Oooh. He's naive enough to believe that the US is actually a democracy!!

Dwip: Or is he talking about 2 term presidents, in which case George Bush Sr, Carter, and Ford, to go back a bit.

Whir: No, he wants the option of being able to not elect a president, or to change the system of government.

Dwip: Oh, ok.

"So, for the next four years, we're going to use the German constitution. Right then."

Whir: Or something.

Dwip: Or, you know, let's just give government a miss for a while. Give anarchy a try. Because it's worked SO well in the past.

Whir: Yeah.

Dwip: This is dense, even for 15.

Whir: He's pretty idealistic. He's got a lot of passion though. Even if he isn't the brightest bulb in the attic.

Dwip: Ah, so he's the guy that dies tragically at some point during the Revolution.

Whir: Yeah, more or less.

Dwip: Hence providing a martyr for the cause. And conveniently allowing the power-hungry leader type to take over.

Whir: I even said something to the fact that being a martyr for his singular cause isn't going to get him weepers at his funeral.

Whir: [Halor] Mael, how do you know you deserve anything in life?
[Halor] Mael, or that doesn't matter to you?
[Mael] Halor, I deserve what I work for. Is that a bizarre notion?
[Halor] Mael, but in return from your work, what do you get?
[Mael] Halor, I get money, or in the case of my garden, food.
[Mael] Obviously your reward depends on what area you're investing into.
[Halor] Mael, but money can buy other people's work, how is that justified?
[Mael] Um. Because that money is what gets the other people money?
[Mael] Thus creating a functioning economy.
[Halor] Mael, you get money from work, but how do you justify the x amount?

Whir: I love how he can't keep a topic for more than two seconds.

Dwip: I sort of see where he's going. His attempt at Socratic method is a bit odd, but.

It's a fair enough question, I guess, which is why we have a market-driven economy in the first place.

Dwip: Besides. Who wants to work on barter?

Whir: The thing is, I already had the x money argument with him the other night, and since he didn't like my answer, he says it's irrelevant and asks me again.

Dwip: Well, that's just being dense, then.

Whir: Yeah.

Whir: Apparently "you will get payed what you're willing to work for" is too abstract an idea for him.

Whir: And he somehow tried to create a money is evil argument around it, but failed quite miserably.

Dwip: I'm interested to know what medium of exchange he's going to substitute for it.

Whir: None.

Whir: No money.

Whir: Everyone does work, everyone gets a share.

Whir: Communism, plain and simple.

Whir: [Halor] Now is a time i wish i was retarded or stupid because i am living a lie and i know it is a lie
[Mael] You're in the Matrix!

Dwip: So we're going to haul our work chits to the commissar, and he'll be like "Ok, here's your cow."

So, you know, money.

Oh, wait. I forgot. No need for work chits, because nobody would ever steal. So we'll just leave piles of Rolexes and stuff around. Not to mention cows.

Dwip: That's funny on so many levels.

Whir: ROFL

Whir: [Halor] i chose to look for the truth of the matter

[Mael] You think that's air you're breathing?

Dwip: If he's breathing nitrous where he lives, I'm moving.

Whir: And I mention something earlier about this tribe in Africa that does wealth and status by the number of yams they have...

Whir: So this is like 30 minutes later now...

Whir: And Pengu goes "does the red pill taste like yams?"

Whir: I about died.

Dwip: [laugh]

Whir: Bah. He must have passed out. No more laughing at idiocy.

Dwip: Dammit. I was about to demand more moronic entertainment.

Whir: Yeah, sorry. He seems to have fled for fairyland.

Whir: Oh, he's back.

Dwip: Yay! Make him entertain us.

Dwip: Ah.

Whir: I'll try.

Whir: [Mael] So, am I contributing to the decline of modern civilization by paying for my food instead of growing it myself, is that what you're saying?
[Mael] BTW, my garden is furious at your implication that I don't use it.

Whir: Too bad you're so stubborn about new technology. We could have a lot of fun in here.

Dwip: Heh. Likely.

Whir: [Halor] Mael, what you need to do is disect every word you have just written and trace back it's manifestations

Whir: I guess he's run out of steam.

Dwip: Apparently so.

That's funny, though.

And apparently OR has a chemical weapons depot. My National Guard can TOTALLY beat up Marechal's National Guard now!

Whir: Hahahahah.

Whir: [Halor] Mael, not exactly, i am researching everything very thoroughly and then push it when i am about to die

Dwip: Say WHAT?

Whir: Yeah.

Whir: [Mael] What the hell good does that do you or anyone in your generation?

Whir: [Halor] instead of what einstein probably did was argue and revise his arguements, i'm going to just keep everything to myself and be selfish, then throw it all out in an essay before i die

Dwip: And pass utterly into irrelevancy. Sounds cool to me.

Whir: This one is good too...

Whir: [Halor] Mael, first off, do you know why young people do not respect their elders?

Whir: [Halor] Mael, when you figure it out, let me know, because i already do

Whir: Keep in mind, he's 15.

Dwip: Oh yeah. This should be good.

Whir: [Halor] Fierce, it is because people younger than you are going to live longer than you, it doesn't matter how stupid you think they are

* Whir dies.

Dwip: Amusing, yet...wow.

Whir: Yeah.

Whir: We're trying to get him to understand that you can't make an argument without a point.

Dwip: I think he's got what he thinks is a point, just he refuses to share it with the rest of you, because it's too good to share with anyone else unless he's dead or cavorting with deer.

Whir: Heh.

Whir: Haha, now he's just ignoring me because I blasted all his lack of arguments out of the water with common sense.

Whir: Or at least by pointing out he had no point to begin with.

Dwip: Heh.

Whir: He's really holding on to this "younger people don't respect older people because they know they will live longer" thing.

Dwip: Yeah. That's totally why I never did things my parents told me to. As opposed to "But it's just not FAIR!"

Whir: Yeah.

Whir: [Halor] if you start respecting elders by their intelligence or whatever, they will take advantage of you with it

Whir: At least that statement has finally cleared up all the fuckedupedness of the past hour of pointless arguing.

Dwip: Does explain some things, doesn't it?

Dwip: I wonder how much he gets savagely beaten in school.

Whir: [Halor] and after the young knows what the old did, the young is going to want to shove this old fart over a cliff

Whir: [Halor] Mael, they took away your childhood and replaced it with an education

* Whir dies again.

Dwip: This whole conversation deserves to be quoted at length somewhere.

Holy fuck.

Dwip: I mean, high school was disillusioning for me, too, but...

Whir: [Halor] Mael, you were forced to spend your time at school and your parents at work

Whir: [Halor] Mael, ok, If i demanded free food, before you were born, what would happen?

Dwip: Did that start somewhere, or did it just sort of appear?

Whir: [Halor] Mael, don't you think your childhood would be different if food was free, then your parents might work less and be with you more until you're old enough to be on your merry way ?

Whir: He finally said something with half a brain in it!!

Dwip: Except how food production is only some miniscule part of the economy. So, yeah. We handwave food production so it's made by our robot slaves and it's free. You've just made it so farm kids can see their parents and cavort with deer and whatever.

Now, on to auto workers.

Whir: Hahah.

Dwip: Then again, since I guess we're handwaving robot slaves, we're all pretty much set at that point.

Whir: You're being much more clever than I am tonight.

Dwip: I just like the cavorting with deer imagery.

Whir: Yeah, that was pretty good. Which is why it got blogged, obviously.

Whir: [Mael] Like I said the last time we had this conversation, capitalism and business control the world. They won't let it happen.
[Hakkuryuu] not to mention the amount of lazy people out there
[Halor] Mael, sorry to say, they don't
[Hakkuryuu] if you don't give incentives peole wouldn't work
[Halor] Mael, they may, MAY, control THIS world
[Hakkuryuu] no work, no production, no economy change
[Mael] There's not "may," business controls the world. That's how it works. By not accepting that reality, you are hamstringing yourself.

Whir: [Halor] Mael, yes there is, Business may control this world, Reality in this world is infinite

Whir: Left field called, they said they were missing a segue, have you seen it?

Whir: [Halor] we're lazy because we're taught to believe in the miracle of science rather than doing agricultural work because money allows us to buy food

Dwip: A) Squirrel aliens.

B) Not to inturrupt the whole divining the mind of Buddha thing, here, but what the HELL did that even mean?

Whir: [Mael] Halor, the miracles of science are what allows agriculture to FEED the world.

Whir: I have no idea. He didn't go any further with the statement.

Dwip: Oh, ok. Scratch the robot slaves, then.

Dwip: That sucks. I was really looking forward to the not having to work part.

Whir: Yeah, me too.

Whir: [Halor] yea, the problem was people decided to learn the science of logic, science of quantum physics and didn't want free food

Whir: What?

Dwip: Oh, ok. God's going to give us the food hookup. Got it.

Whir: I love it...

Whir: [Mael] Okay, Halor, you just levelled NYC. You just made 21 million people homeless so you could build farms. Where are you going to put those people?
[Mael] The crop yield vs pop density doesn't add up.
[Mael] Better yet, level Tokyo.
[Mael] 35 million people in an area smaller than NYC.
[Hakkuryuu] Oi, don't level Tokyo. I'm going there for my holiday
[Fierce] DUDE, NOT TOKYO
[Mael] Don't forget to mention that Japan isn't exactly known for it's massive amount of agricultural property.
[Fierce] WTF ARE YOU CRAZY!?
[Mael] Oh shut up you pansies.

Dwip: Heh.

Whir: What I get for having this argument in an anime channel. :P

Dwip: Aff.

Dwip: So what happened after we leveled NYC and Tokyo?

Whir: Nothing. He said they would all live with me.

Dwip: A Fight Club-esque rambling speech about pounding corn on the abandoned interstates?

Dwip: I see. You have the mythical Garden Of Free Food, I see.

Whir: I guess.

Whir: And everfull pitcher and horn of plenty.

Dwip: I wonder what he thinks of Fight Club. I bet he wants to be Tyler Durden.

Dwip: Oh. Suddenly it makes sense. He plays too much D&D! Ok.

Whir: Hah!

Dwip: So probably he cavorts with those midget deer from FR.

Whir: This is good too:

Whir: [Halor] i thank my teachers for letting me fulfill my dream of making a utopian society
[Hakkuryuu] And I'll thank my money for sparing me of farming

[Halor] Mael, there probably will be but less than now but probably more quality to the overall anime and internet

[Mael] Who the hell wants quality internet? All I care about is downloading anime and porn.

[Halor] Hak, and i do not thank you for ruining other people's lives with your money

Whir: Notice both sides of the conversation hold various amounts of amusement.

Dwip: Very.

Whir: Now we're back to "how do you know what amount of money you should make for the work you do?" thing.

Dwip: Because, based on market conditions, it is percieved to be worth X?

Whir: Yeah.

Whir: My go is you're worth what you're willing to work for.

Dwip: Or some balance between that and what people are willing to offer.

Whir: Argh. You need to be here for shit like that.

Whir: Er, this.

Dwip: Yeah?

Whir: It would be a lot more entertaining.

Dwip: Because the masses need to hear about cavorting with deer?

Whir: Well, that, and you make points based on facts and history whereas I make points based on common sense.

Dwip: Both work pretty well, usually.

Whir: Yeah.

Whir: But it's more fun when everyone is present.

Dwip: [grin]

Whir: It would be great fun to get a chat room going with like, Cole and Marechal some night.

Dwip: True.

Whir: See, I'm answering with my "common sense" and he wants fucking math problems. Yeesh.

Dwip: Like what?

Whir: He wants an absolute number for how much you should earn for x amount of work.

Dwip: Oh. Good luck with that one.

Whir: Yeah, I'm not talking to him anymore.

Whir: At least not right now.

Dwip: Hrm. I really want to go to bed. But I'm not in the least tired.

Whir: Wow, he's getting REALLY specific now.

Whir: [Halor] Hak, lets say you get paid to pick up a littered paper bag, how much do you earn?

Dwip: Hopefully I would do that out of the goodness of my heart. Not a lot of people get paid for that sort of shit.

Whir: Yeah. He's just getting absurd.

Dwip: I bet he thinks he's being clever, too.

The anti-educational cynical posing sort of made that clear.

In a rather breathtaking fashion, no less.

Whir: Yeah, he does, look.

Whir: [Halor] Mael, do you really want me to disect everything and make yo look like a fool?
[Mael] Yay, we have now gone in a giant circle and still not found a solid point!
[Hakkuryuu] And right now, my economy here is pretty predicatble and stable, so ask any rubbish picker, they can tell you their wages re about 800 per month
[Mael] Yes, Halor, please do.
[Halor] Mael, nah, i'm too smart for that
[Mael] Hahahahahah.
[Mael] Yet you do nothing to prove it.
[Halor] i already did

Dwip: Awesome.

Dwip: The awesome thing about the internet is, ten or twenty or whatever years from now, people like us can look up people like him and say "Look. You're STILL a dumbass."

Whir: Yeah.

Dwip: I really like the whole neo-communist dark ages society he's got set up. In another life, he'd have made a great khmer rouge.

Whir: ROFL

Whir: [Halor] so the price of these tree depends on demand for tree and supply of trees?
[Hakkuryuu] YES

[Halor] that doesn't make sense

* Whir dies, yet again.

Dwip: With the whole "Down with the bourgoisie exploitation of the common worker! Abolish the classes! Destroy the intelligentsia who keep us down!"

So, you know, he'll grow up and kill a few million Cambodians or something. He can be JUST LIKE Pol Pot.

Dwip: OMG. Hurting. Hurting. The pain.

Dwip: [still laughing]

Whir: You should see this shit.

Dwip: You need to keep quoting it at me.

Whir: Now he's asserting that since he doesn't know the value of a tree, it could be $1 or a million.

Whir: [Halor] ok, demand and supply, cost of tree should be what people are willing to pay
[Hakkuryuu] yes.
[Halor] who owns tree? i own it by force and by government( doesn't make sense)

Dwip: Presumably they still teach econ in high school these days. Boy is that going to be a shock.

Dwip: Oh dear.

Dwip: I wonder how much class this kid sleeps through.

Whir: Well, I don't think he's American.

Dwip: I gathered. Nevertheless.

Whir: Oh. I'm wrong, he's from California.

Whir: Not that that's any better.

Dwip: My thoughts exactly.

Whir: [Halor] these elders are the ones who screwed up this world before i was born
[Mael] Whoah whoah whoah.
[Mael] You're blaming the world on ME?
[Halor] Mael, partly, if you can call it that
[astare_ae] Mael = All mighty screwer upperer elder....
[Mael] I guess I am!
[Mael] In under 30 years, I've managed to destroy the world for Halor. I am fucking impressed with myself!!
[Halor] Mael, no, you did more than that, you made it possible for me to become famous by making a utopian world

Dwip: Awesome. You've become the harbinger of the Messiah. How's that feel?

Whir: Pretty fucking good, truth be told.

Dwip: Heh.

Whir: As I'm sitting here thinking "damn, this CD is long," and then realize WinAmp is on repeat.

Dwip: Haha.

Whir: [Halor] if i wasn't born yet into this money world, and this elderly guy have , i feel sorry for this elderly guy when i am born and realize money is an illusion

Dwip: Well, he's half right.

Whir: Yeah, but his grammar is all wrong.

Whir: So we're giving him shit about that now too. :P

Dwip: He never actually started with world domination, so, you know.

Whir: But still, he hasn't really got a shot at this rate.

Whir: Hah, we've been arguing for like four hours now.

Whir: W. T. FUCK?

Whir: He just said he's in an economics class.

Dwip: !

Whir: [Halor] Men's Health Issues, and Statistics in Business and Economics
[Kuran] o.o
[nightmarik] ...Men's Health Issues is a subject now in school???? LMAO
[nightmarik] and you should be studying more than that?
[Hakkuryuu] THEN WHY DONT YOU UNDERSTAND WHENEVER MAEL OR I TELL YOU ABOUT ECONOMICS?
[Mael] I was just wondering that myself.
[Hakkuryuu] lol
[Halor] Hak, i do, you don't

Dwip: We've been reduced to "I understand everything! You understand nothing!" as an argument technique.

I'm running my house off the power generated by Pol Pot spinning in his grave.

Whir: Hahah.

Dwip: I'm rendered almost speechless.

Whir: [Halor] if i believe in money, and i am either looked upon as having x amount of money, then i look at the world and i feel sad about it, there isn't free food, nothing is free
[Halor] then what use is continuing believing in money?
[Hakkuryuu] if you want to live a good life, you'll use money and you'll believe in it.
[nightmarik] your labelling money as the cause
[Mael] Well, mostly because not believing in money is going to find you starving to death in a ditch, I'd guess.

Dwip: I like how he keeps coming back to free food.

Whir: Yeah. He's huge on this free food thing.

Dwip: It's kind of confusing, really.

Whir: Yeah.

Whir: I'm doing something else now.

Dwip: I really want to know what he said to the starving in a ditch thing.

Whir: He didn't. :(

Dwip: Bah.

Dwip: I suppose I shall go to bed, then.

[=== end ===]

Toys!

But funny nonetheless:

Dwip: Well, you see, once money is evil, our utopian society will no longer need prisons, because we will all lose our greed and selfishness. Also, we will cavort with deer.

So I picked up another anime series. This one is called Last Exile. It's hard to describe exactly what the setting is. Far future with everything either being powered by steam, or some bizarre future tech they never really get into. A "Guild" controls everything, more or less (sound familiar? Dune? Star Wars?) and the world under them struggles to keep its balance between warring factions while the planet is dying, though they don't really mention anything about the dying part much. But the ships they fly around in look something like a cross between a 30's concept car, a bi-plane, and a WWII fighter with its wings clipped at about a foot out. Interesting designs anyway.

There's also the whole European chivalry, guys with (steam powered) muskets lined up on the side of a ship, blasting eachother when they're passing. Rules of combat are similar as well. I figured Marechal would like it for that alone. He's odd though, being a Wisconite and all.

I'm not sure what else to say about it just yet - I haven't finished - but it's definitely getting good grades for originality in world building. The animation is good; even with a ton of CGI, it doesn't look bad. They blend it well, unlike some other things I've seen (Bakuretsu Tenshi).

I'm pretty sure we'll get a happy ending. Happy endings are the best.

Anyone looking for a VB/JAVA programmer? My schedule is open.

I will own this.

Magical. Canan.

Also, somehow I know that the new NIN CD kicks a hell of a lot of ass.

Still not feeling the new Garbage though. Just doesn't hit me at all. I'm bummed about that. Shirley = teh h0t.

Also, I've had my second article published. Link.

Now if I could just write the elusive Best Seller.

So we were playing vamp tonight, and I'm getting irritated that these guys I'm shooting aren't dying and decide to kneecap someone. Of course I succeed (I am uber), and the guy's knee becomes one with the lead and pavement. So we're trying to decided how to work combat for the guy and Tim sighs and says, "wow, I almost had the guy make a piloting skill roll to get back up," or something very similar.

Battletech, it seems, is horribly infectious.

Next session I'm going to run around with a disposal pulse laser and vibrokatana.

Hence the Dark Age, where everyone drives the agromech because their grandparents were fucking dumbasses.

Ah, my friend FAFSA, did you miss me? I missed you!

IRC amuses me. Probably too much.

I have a guitar.

First DVD of GiTS SAC2 is scheduled for release in November. That's a long wait.

Garbage's new CD is boring.

May 3 = NIN

Audioslave's new song is boring too.

What happened to music?

Futakoi Alternative is teh win. Speed Grapher is teh win. Dokuro-chan is teh scary. Please play again.

Have vampire, will game.

They aren't too fond of you.

Since Dwip isn't doing any blogging, I guess I will.

I realized recently, with astounding acuity, that I'm almost 30. How the hell did that happen? Okay, so now I'm starting to be bothered by the fact that I'm older than most of my friends (but not Tim because he's a living fossil, perhaps related to the wooly mastadons of yore), and yet, have no actual direction in mind for the future. Hell, I haven't even completed enough credits to be a sophmore in college! But then, it really only bothers me when I think about it, and who's got time for that when you're making brain matter into paste on an instance wall somewhere? Because picture a frail little undead chick carrying a club that's about as big as she is, and you've got Kirika. And Kirika doth own.

Anyway, I'll need to do something about the school thing soon, I'm sure the summer semester starts in May or June.

Job hunting hasn't become any more filled with hope and love for my fellow man, because all the jobs are taken by "educated" people that couldn't spill their way out of a seive. All the ones that aren't taken are still truck driving or nursing, neither of which I'm quite qualified to do. Though I'm sure given a day or two of on-the-job and I'd be better than half of the ones in the immediate area. Yes, I'm that awesome.

Not much going on in the anime world right now, unfortunately. We finally got to finish Air, and we all went "holy Hell, that was a giant waste of time." There were parts of the series that were good, like the two episodes that were set in the past and explained the present - and it was feudal Japan with samurais and winged oracles and such, ie cool. The end was a complete let down. We all know how I love sad endings, so you can guess where that one went. There's supposed to be a summer special, I guess, but I doubt it will resolve anything since one main character became a crow and the other died.

Xenosaga just finished but I haven't finished it. I have four to twelve to watch, so that'll take a few hours. Ah! My Goddess TV continues to be sort of amusing and cute, and I'm glad it's going the long haul instead of just 13. Mahoroba is pretty funny most of the time. Not sure how long that'll run, but it's at 10 and I can see them wrapping it up, or I can see them taking it past the quarter year mark. Girls Bravo season 2 is up to five and if the first season was ecchi, this one is ridiculously so. And we're still waiting for the last episode of Mai HiME to be subbed. Because I doubt that I'm going to like how that ends either, but I have to watch it or it'll bother me. Bleach is up to 26, and is still managing to be amusing with semi-cool action. And out of the corner we'd never thought to have gone to comes Mahou Shojou Tai Alice (Magical Girl Squad Alice), which is, of course, more of a kid's show, but the animation is something else entirely, and it's actually been pretty fun to watch. Plus, Tanaka Atsuko, or Atsuko Tanaka in Western naming conventions, does the voice of one of the main grown-up characters. She's also the voice of Major Kusanagi Motoko of Ghost in the Shell (ie the main character). I watched Metal Fighter Miku and it wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great. And finally someone is doing Daphne in the Brilliant Blue again, so hopefully I'll be able to finish that before the end comes. I'm sure there's some I'm missing, but I'll stop now.

So, what should I major in; sound, science, or english? And if by some freak of nature phenomenon simfish is reading this, you are not allowed to answer until you figure out your own life.

Also, Regina, I hate you and your stupid U2 tickets. And stealing Erik is not cool since he's the only one that'll go to a NIN show with me.

Also, Dwip, start saving for GenCon, you're going this year.