It's called Blitzball in Final Fantasy X. It's a sports game that is played as turn-based with a "die roll" for randomization with the pre-existing stats.
Replying to my own post, but just a clarification - there is no statute in VA that states that public facilities can not ban weapons, however, there is no law that says they can or must either (with the notable exception of courthouses and passenger airport terminals - if you consider terminals public facilities). In the absence of a prohibition it is automatically assumed legal. Localities are however barred from making any laws stricter than what the state allows (preemption) and as such can not pass any bans of their own.
There is no freedom to bring weapons into any public building anywhere in this country
Yes there is. In fact, in the Commonwealth of Virginia it is explicitly stated by law, and local governing bodies can't do anything about it. I go to local Board of Supervisors meetings in a PUBLIC building, and they have metal detectors... but they have to let me in with my pistol and can not bar me from the building soley on the grounds of my carrying a weapon. Plus, if it's not concealed, no license is even required. I'm not even sure what the point of the metal detectors is supposed to be.
The General Assembly Building in Richmond is the same way, which I have been to on multiple occasions. The only sticking point there is a potentially illegal rule instituted last year that bars open carry without a permit in the building. A statewide rights group (VCDL) is preparing to sue over this, as research into what legal standing the Rules committee has in both the VA Constitution and statutory law seems to indicate that they have none, and only operate out of "custom". They may even be in violation of law by instituting such a rule under the VA FOIA statutes as it states that such rules must be ratified by the full House and Senate, of which this one was not.
I would rather that my children would behave well because they know how they are expected to act than they are only acting decently because they have no other option.
Exactly. Isn't that one of the themes of A Clockwork Orange?
Well, I buy Japanese imports of anime titles... and those usually run you twice or more the cost of a US DVD. Same with Japanese CDs. However, there are titles that I'd like to have that won't make it to the US soon (or ever), such as the Shoujo Kakumei Utena movie. And even though the Japanese anime discs are more expensive than their US counterparts (if one exists) a good portion of the time they are of higher quality - the aforesaid Utena movie is less than an hour and a half long but is on a dual-layered disc, and the bitrate stays in the 9s almost throughout the entire movie. What does this mean? It means that it comes out beautifully, with no artifacting, bright colors, and a picture sharpness that rivals laserdisc (or is even better). Only problem I see is that there is no English translation on all but a very few titles (I believe Gainax is going to do English subs on the DVD release of FLCL), but I don't care - I want to see it regardless.
People in the US have been importing anime laserdiscs for a good long time now, and laserdiscs were never region coded. The region coding on DVDs is a just minor annoyance with the availability of region-free players. (FWIW, I have a region-free, and Macrovision-free, Pioneer-DV525.)
Could do like my car... After 25 years, the "Fury" model plate simply fell off. But now there's a spot on the side of the car that vaguely says "Fury" where the paint hadn't faded...
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Since no one has mentioned this: Capt. Tylor is not out on DVD. Yet. The dubs have been made now, but as for DVD, I don't know.
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"FIRE... BALL!"
*BOOM!*
"Who the hell are you?!"
"I am the beautiful sorcery genius, Lina Inverse!"
"LINA INVERSE?! The natural enemy of all that live?!... Let's see... Clothing: dressed as a sorceress; height: short; age: approximately 15 or 16; breasts: practically none..."
"What did you say?!"
"No..no... no... nothing! *gulp*..."
"Darkness beyond twilight, crimson bejond blood that flows... Buried in the flow of time... In thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness. Let all the fools that stand before me be destroyed by the power you and I possess! DRAGON SLAVE!!"
Cute is good. I like cute anime... (But not all of it... I couldn't sit through three episodes of Magical Thief Saint Tail...)
The first series that really got me into anime was Oh My Goddess, although I think the manga is better. I'm a sucker for cutesy romance stuff, I guess.
Getting the Card Captor Sakura DVDs when they eventually come out, too... ^_^
(FWIW, my favorite series is Slayers, TV series - not OAV/movies, cause I can't say I like them too much.)
If you are looking for some Anime resources on line, here is a short list off the top of my head:
- EX This is a review site that reviews a ton of Anime, Anime Music, Manga(comics where a lot of Anime comes from), and other stuff(games, books, etc that are Anime related). One of the oldest and longest running online Anime e-zines.
EX is one of the best magazines out there for anime in the US. The US print mags are sorta sub-standard IMHO.
- Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database Hitoshi's exploits as a Seiyuu(a voice actor/actress) are legendary and his database shows it. If there was a piece of animation made in Japan and there was a speaking role in it, it has been cataloged here. Great for crossref-ing your favorite actress!
Still the best resource out there, but is starting to show a lot of holes recently... there's only so much Hitoshi can keep up with, and he seems to be mostly interested in shoujo or otherwise cutesy series.
Conventions(there are a bunch...to list them all would kill me ^_^) - Anime Expo Southern California con. Quite possibly, the "high profile Anime con" where a lot of the domestics and some of the Japanese companies make announcements.
Going this year! Woohoo! Got my Zelgadis costume ready too...
Finally.... - Anipike An ambitious attempt to catalog all of the Anime content out there on the web. Has an interesting "Last Exit" column that showcases the best(and the worse) of Anime Online. This site is great to find anything and everything Anime.
YMMV. I can't say I always agree with Ryan in his column, but he seems to have a very moderate viewpoint, between casual and hardcore fan.
The movie version of that is freakishly surreal. I saw it in raw Japanese, but it's still fairly easy to follow with minimal knowledge of Japanese as much of the story is visual. Think of it as an animated Bosch print...
I want that one just because it has Sakura Kinomoto from Card Captor Sakura on it!
"Hoee!"
(I'm a sucker for cute...)
Also noticed that they had some Megumi Hayashibara and Kikuko Inoue songs on their playlist (the monitor picture). They not only made an MP3 player, they actually use it for good music! ^_^)
Right off I can remember that Madhouse also did Ninja Scroll [Jubei Ninpucho], Trigun, and the finishing work on All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku [Bannou Bunka Nekomusume] (which Gainax actually did some animation for as well).
Oh! My Goddess - Sweet story. Saccharine, almost. If you want a really good laugh, check out SD Mini Goddess sometime (a continuation where the Goddesses go chibi-cute and befriend a talking rat which isn't cute in the least).
Skuld is actually a lowly debugger... Urd is the sysadmin. Very typical, too... she adores alcohol and hates answering luser calls on the telephone...
There aren't Daemons per say, but in the manga there are Demons (Hild [Urd's mother and head of Niflheim], Mara [incompetent demon "friend" of Urd's], Welsper [Belldandy's doublet demon that was turned into a cat]).
Wasn't this about a horse... I sort remember something about it...
M.A.S.K.
It's all about the toys bay-bee... still got 'em, too...
Princess Army Wedding Combat
... no clue.
Code Name: Sailor V
I take your challenge! Was never animated. Only a manga, Naoko's precursor to Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Sailor V, Minako Aino, became Sailor Venus).
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Don't remind me... hideous animation...
How about "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors"? I know someone who has that on tape and knows Jayce's voice actor...
Sort of... same writer, same chara designer, same animation studio, mostly the same seiyuu, and same metamythology. But not the same characters, premise, or even universe. (The Slayers world is one of four universes in their mythology. The Lost Universe universe is one of the other three.) There is a cross-over in Slayers Try involving the Gorn Nova and Dark Star, but that was not part of the novels and even the creator said that the two series use the same words (the mythology) for different things. Funny, though... characters in both series have light sabers (Kain's Psy Blade, Gourry's Kikari no Ken/Gorn Nova).
And I avoid any and all dubs, personally. It's just... wrong.
Normally, I do too, but the Trigun dub is actually better than the original Japanese IMHO. (Speaking of series crossovers, Vash really reminds me of Justy Ueki Tylor in the Old West...)
Well, be fair... Those animé titles are TRANSLATED! I'll bet Star Trek: The Next Generation translates into something like "Space Walk: Your Children".
Um, no. Those were the original titles. Slayers was written in katakana as "sureiyazu", a transliteration of the English word, and the extra words ("NEXT", "TRY", etc.) were written in English to begin with.
Yeah, it *is* ugly. But I prefer function (and speed) over flash. Each to his own. I wouldn't recommend FVWM 1.0 for a newbie, though. I'm just used to it after using it for two years.
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It's called Blitzball in Final Fantasy X. It's a sports game that is played as turn-based with a "die roll" for randomization with the pre-existing stats.
Replying to my own post, but just a clarification - there is no statute in VA that states that public facilities can not ban weapons, however, there is no law that says they can or must either (with the notable exception of courthouses and passenger airport terminals - if you consider terminals public facilities). In the absence of a prohibition it is automatically assumed legal. Localities are however barred from making any laws stricter than what the state allows (preemption) and as such can not pass any bans of their own.
Yes there is. In fact, in the Commonwealth of Virginia it is explicitly stated by law, and local governing bodies can't do anything about it. I go to local Board of Supervisors meetings in a PUBLIC building, and they have metal detectors... but they have to let me in with my pistol and can not bar me from the building soley on the grounds of my carrying a weapon. Plus, if it's not concealed, no license is even required. I'm not even sure what the point of the metal detectors is supposed to be.
The General Assembly Building in Richmond is the same way, which I have been to on multiple occasions. The only sticking point there is a potentially illegal rule instituted last year that bars open carry without a permit in the building. A statewide rights group (VCDL) is preparing to sue over this, as research into what legal standing the Rules committee has in both the VA Constitution and statutory law seems to indicate that they have none, and only operate out of "custom". They may even be in violation of law by instituting such a rule under the VA FOIA statutes as it states that such rules must be ratified by the full House and Senate, of which this one was not.
I'm waiting for the full-size android catgirl version myself. At least one of those could help out around the house instead of just sitting there.
And yes, my domain name does mean "catgirl".
'Cause, y'see, the Second Impact happens *today*.
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No, Don Bluth. Recently did Titan AE. And FWIW, the Secret of NIMH was also Bluth, and the Iron Giant was Brad Bird.
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Exactly. Isn't that one of the themes of A Clockwork Orange?
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Well, I buy Japanese imports of anime titles... and those usually run you twice or more the cost of a US DVD. Same with Japanese CDs. However, there are titles that I'd like to have that won't make it to the US soon (or ever), such as the Shoujo Kakumei Utena movie. And even though the Japanese anime discs are more expensive than their US counterparts (if one exists) a good portion of the time they are of higher quality - the aforesaid Utena movie is less than an hour and a half long but is on a dual-layered disc, and the bitrate stays in the 9s almost throughout the entire movie. What does this mean? It means that it comes out beautifully, with no artifacting, bright colors, and a picture sharpness that rivals laserdisc (or is even better). Only problem I see is that there is no English translation on all but a very few titles (I believe Gainax is going to do English subs on the DVD release of FLCL), but I don't care - I want to see it regardless.
People in the US have been importing anime laserdiscs for a good long time now, and laserdiscs were never region coded. The region coding on DVDs is a just minor annoyance with the availability of region-free players. (FWIW, I have a region-free, and Macrovision-free, Pioneer-DV525.)
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Hey, at least he likes Tenchi ^_^
Hey Rob! If you liked Tenchi in Tokyo, get Tenchi Forever (AKA Tenchi Muyo in Love 2)! It's a serious spin on the series.
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Could do like my car... After 25 years, the "Fury" model plate simply fell off. But now there's a spot on the side of the car that vaguely says "Fury" where the paint hadn't faded...
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Since no one has mentioned this:
Capt. Tylor is not out on DVD. Yet. The dubs have been made now, but as for DVD, I don't know.
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"FIRE... BALL!"
*BOOM!*
"Who the hell are you?!"
"I am the beautiful sorcery genius, Lina Inverse!"
"LINA INVERSE?! The natural enemy of all that live?! ... Let's see... Clothing: dressed as a sorceress; height: short; age: approximately 15 or 16; breasts: practically none..."
"What did you say?!"
"No..no... no... nothing! *gulp*..."
"Darkness beyond twilight, crimson bejond blood that flows...
Buried in the flow of time...
In thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness.
Let all the fools that stand before me be destroyed by the power you and I possess!
DRAGON SLAVE!!"
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Cute is good. I like cute anime... (But not all of it... I couldn't sit through three episodes of Magical Thief Saint Tail...)
The first series that really got me into anime was Oh My Goddess, although I think the manga is better. I'm a sucker for cutesy romance stuff, I guess.
Getting the Card Captor Sakura DVDs when they eventually come out, too... ^_^
(FWIW, my favorite series is Slayers, TV series - not OAV/movies, cause I can't say I like them too much.)
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EX is one of the best magazines out there for anime in the US. The US print mags are sorta sub-standard IMHO.
Still the best resource out there, but is starting to show a lot of holes recently... there's only so much Hitoshi can keep up with, and he seems to be mostly interested in shoujo or otherwise cutesy series.
Going this year! Woohoo! Got my Zelgadis costume ready too...
YMMV. I can't say I always agree with Ryan in his column, but he seems to have a very moderate viewpoint, between casual and hardcore fan.
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The movie version of that is freakishly surreal. I saw it in raw Japanese, but it's still fairly easy to follow with minimal knowledge of Japanese as much of the story is visual. Think of it as an animated Bosch print...
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Hmmm... let's see what I've got here:
Does any of that count?
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I want that one just because it has Sakura Kinomoto from Card Captor Sakura on it!
"Hoee!"
(I'm a sucker for cute...)
Also noticed that they had some Megumi Hayashibara and Kikuko Inoue songs on their playlist (the monitor picture). They not only made an MP3 player, they actually use it for good music! ^_^)
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Right off I can remember that Madhouse also did Ninja Scroll [Jubei Ninpucho], Trigun, and the finishing work on All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku [Bannou Bunka Nekomusume] (which Gainax actually did some animation for as well).
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Oh! My Goddess - Sweet story. Saccharine, almost. If you want a really good laugh, check out SD Mini Goddess sometime (a continuation where the Goddesses go chibi-cute and befriend a talking rat which isn't cute in the least).
"Belldandy-san ga daisuki desu da!" - Gan-chan
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Keiichi is an engineering student.
Skuld is actually a lowly debugger... Urd is the sysadmin. Very typical, too... she adores alcohol and hates answering luser calls on the telephone...
There aren't Daemons per say, but in the manga there are Demons (Hild [Urd's mother and head of Niflheim], Mara [incompetent demon "friend" of Urd's], Welsper [Belldandy's doublet demon that was turned into a cat]).
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The Lost Cities of Gold
ITYM "Mysterious Cities of Gold".
Spartacus
"Sparticus and the Sun Beneath the Sea"
Wildfire
Wasn't this about a horse... I sort remember something about it...
M.A.S.K.
It's all about the toys bay-bee... still got 'em, too...
Princess Army Wedding Combat
... no clue.
Code Name: Sailor V
I take your challenge! Was never animated. Only a manga, Naoko's precursor to Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Sailor V, Minako Aino, became Sailor Venus).
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Don't remind me... hideous animation...
How about "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors"? I know someone who has that on tape and knows Jayce's voice actor...
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And yes, Lost Universe IS Slayers in Space.
Sort of... same writer, same chara designer, same animation studio, mostly the same seiyuu, and same metamythology. But not the same characters, premise, or even universe. (The Slayers world is one of four universes in their mythology. The Lost Universe universe is one of the other three.) There is a cross-over in Slayers Try involving the Gorn Nova and Dark Star, but that was not part of the novels and even the creator said that the two series use the same words (the mythology) for different things. Funny, though... characters in both series have light sabers (Kain's Psy Blade, Gourry's Kikari no Ken/Gorn Nova).
And I avoid any and all dubs, personally. It's just ... wrong.
Normally, I do too, but the Trigun dub is actually better than the original Japanese IMHO. (Speaking of series crossovers, Vash really reminds me of Justy Ueki Tylor in the Old West...)
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Well, be fair... Those animé titles are TRANSLATED! I'll bet Star Trek: The Next Generation translates into something like "Space Walk: Your Children".
Um, no. Those were the original titles. Slayers was written in katakana as "sureiyazu", a transliteration of the English word, and the extra words ("NEXT", "TRY", etc.) were written in English to begin with.
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Yeah, all I have to say about that is f_ckingweird.jpg
But the f_ckingmonkeyislandendingsucks.jpg too.
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Yeah, it *is* ugly. But I prefer function (and speed) over flash. Each to his own.
I wouldn't recommend FVWM 1.0 for a newbie, though. I'm just used to it after using it for two years.
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