Of cheap internet access. A while ago parts of the community came together to form The colorado internet co-op. In fact, if you look at the network diagram of this group, they use nettrack, which also has a connection to the co-op.
Some of the more prominant Unixers on the co-op board are Trent Hein, and Evi Nemeth (two of the authors of the USAH) was also involved. The CO-OP has played a nice part in keeping colorado up and wired.
That statement is not verified by the facts. As the paper points out, the two large wars in the last century were WWI and WWII. These wars were massive on a scale not seen since the Napolionic Wars (in particular, the war of 1812), and the American revolutionary war (which where the real first two world wars).
WWI was primarily fought over past humiliations, and the breakdown of the Bismarkian system. WWI was completly pointless, the ideology between France/UK/Germany was extremly similar (the Russians were somewhat behind). That cost of the war became so great so fast that the pure pain of what they had already gone thru and promise for future battle prevented a resonable peace.
WWII was a battle of Ideology pure and simple. The only religon that really played any part was the cults that tended to surround Hitler. Either a remaking of Christianity replacing Jesus with Hitler (German Christian) or The Wagnerian view of the German "Volk". From the oral testimony, as well as the general overview I have had in the Japanese front, they were faced with the simple fact. If they did not attack america, their war against China would die, leaving them vunderable against Russia and China.
The last "religous wars" that occured in the western world were during the reformation. Islamic fundamentalists now seem determined to return us to the era of religous wars.
Thoose were much more about the desire of the German princes to establish soverignty over their land, and to be independant of the foreign powers that had run amuck with them.
The Crusades were a "clash of civilizations" Christiandom vs a revivified east. Contrary to popular opinion, they didn't occur because the pope or the celiph decided that the other was wrong.
I hope this argument serves to rebut your troll. I will watch this thread in hope you decide to turn your troll into a argument, and thus a debate.
What people are missing on C#
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I have already read at least five different people claim that C# is nothing but a java language rip off.
Fine, do this in C#:
public delegate float mathmatical_operation(float anum);
public event mathmatical_operation onFinish;
void domath()
{
float result;
if (onFinish!=null) result = onFinish(anumber);
return result;
}
BTW, that there works transparently over the internet as well. (This is really a series of callbacks and is symantically easy enough to make even the hell that is Windows messaging easy to deal with.
I noticed that the first few battles have this bug as well. You also need to realize that if you hit square, and then hit a directional button, then it will ignore the square (stupid stupid). The first few battles are stupidly difficuly, and "Keepa" just does not get the job done.
Take a look at the combined NASA/JPL/NSF budget (just non millitary and non-medical for now). That alone runs us 100+ bln a year. I would challange anyone who would slams us on research to lookup the number of governments that have 100bln a year budget, to say nothing of research.
That is not even counting the vast amount of money going to H&HS, NIH, ARPA, DARPA (remember that little thing called the internet?).
BTW, no, the ANTHRAX was _not_ from American lab's. Watch CNN or even a news network more often.
He makes an interesting point that - contrary to the belief that the ISS is a NASA brainchild/braintrust . ISS is a NASA goal (to the extreme detriment to what I would argue should be the real focus, probes going out to learn about the solar system. On top of that, not only are we sinking 100+ Billion dollors on this (100x the contribution of any other country... and for good measure we are covering most of the soviet's costs as well), we are cutting programs that would go out and examine the Kuiper belt, the sun, etc.
Think of what kind of knowledge we could gain. Long term space research? bzzt. Soviets already did that. Radation effects on humans? bzzt.
The entire problem is that this space station was created by the state department and congress rather then the scientists. ISS? What ever happened to freedom and liberty the first names of this project.
Screw the space station. Give us a workable re-usable launcher and the NGST.
Yes, but there is a second element to this. Brand Recognition. While FF:TSW might have sucked severly for profitability reasons, it did raise the awareness of the brand out there.
Not that it really matters. FF10 is already the most popular PS2 game in Japan, and will probably do the same here. Nowadays, the FF games are more interactive movie then old school RPG. This is the reason why Square has been kicking people's arses.
(And every now and then they do something "old school" to keep the geeks happy).
Someone posted a new FFXII (FF12) Picture here. FFXII is being developed by a "dream team". Sakaguchi and Yasumi Matsuno, Hiroyuki Ito are all working on the game and Yasunori Mitsuda will be taking over music direction (a move I applaud after the excellent Chrono Cross soundtrack). The picture is here:
FFXII First Pic .
FF7/8 both had disappointing performance on the PC. In addition, it was very much a console game, rather then a computer game (interface requierments etc), so I foudn 7 hard to control and use. 7 was also extremly slow on even the most modern of machines.
AFAIK, there is no plans for FFX to be ported to PC. In addition, it was rumoured that FFXI (online) was going to be multiplatform, but that appears to have been dropped (perhaps due to the fact that Sony now owns a large chunk of Square).
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There are less summons then before, but they follow the FFIX summoning scheme where by you get a long sequence the first time you use a summon, and then mostly abrieviated summons.
HOWEVER...
Sommons are now regular battle characters in this game. Summon Ifrit and he sticks around for a while. Some summons (2 of them I think) are multi character summons, and they also stick around. From what I have heard, the main use for summons is "to take one for the team" in FFX (ie, mega powerfull villian, you throw a summon up there to block, and then your characters rotate in).
All of this is my speculation, nothing but
my speculation, but I think the theory fits:
Quickie Lession: Pioneer "owned" Tenchi.
While AIC came up with the idea, the storyboards,
the animation etc, Pioneer fronted the money, and
got most of the revenue (AFAIK) from Tenchi.
About two or three years ago, Rumours leaked
that Tenchi was in litigation between AIC and
Pioneer.
MY _guess_ is that AIC now owns the rights
to Tenchi, given that Pioneer is _not_ involved
(AFAICT) with the new series at all.
VAP is taking Pioneer's role, at least in Japan.
AIC has stated publically at cons, that Pioneer
controlled what Tenchi was released and when,
and honestly, if you look at it from Pioneer's
point of view, a new OVA series does them
little good. Something more toned down, ala
TV series would be good for them, because
they might be able to get it on TV.
VAP is now the production house for Tenchi,
I don't think that this means anything too huge
(for instance, I don't think anything like VA's,
will change, since there has already been at least
one Tenchi series by Kadokawa). I imagine
that they will have more freedom with VAP,
but I don't know.
Interestingly enough, VAP seems to be one of the
few Japanese production houses that does not
have some sort of relationship with an american
distro. I think AnimeWorks, Media Blasters,
TSRI, ADV and Bandai all release some of their
stuff.
VAP, of course, was the production house (not the
studio) behind Dirty Pair, Gunsmith Cats, Breserk, Zone of Enders, etc.
Just looking at the titles, I wonder if VAP is owned, in bed with Bandai, since they tend to grab whatever Sunrise Titles Bandai Video doesn't release.
It is still possible that Pioneer may be the US rights holder for Tenchi.
There is this little thing called checks and balances. This was the Judical arm (over which the president has no control) vacating a ruling, because of improper contact between the judge and the media (from what I have read, this is a fairly no-brainer. you have no business as a judge doing media interviews during a trial).
This is important, because it is a implementation of Linux inside of the DoD itself. Having recently built a system for one of the armed forces, and being forced to deploy it on NT, because Linux was "not yet accepted".... This is a huge wonderfull foot in the door.
One of Square's new favorite tricks w/ the PS2 is to utilize a bit of the overkill proccessing power of the PS/2 and change the facial system depending on the vocals. Hence Bouncer and FF10 both have this feature. As to the re-rendering, nope. It is not unusual for these types of movies to get released in English and only in english. AIC, most recently, only release Armitage III movie in English.
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There is a underlying truth here tho. World War II, pacific theater is inherintly a Psychalogical War. Pearl Harbor itself was meant as a blow to the American Moral. Despite what a few revisionist historians think, before Pearl Harbor, no Japanese thought that America was simple going to roll over. The size of the battle put them into a bit of a delusion (as did their successes with the Langly, Singapore, Phillapenes, etc). Anyways, I stray from the point.
Dolittle's raid is critically important because it knocked the Japanese command off of their high perch, and made it so that they tried to both continue their downward path (into australia) and to finish up a ring of defensive islands. Corel Sea blocked the advance into Australia, and Midway blocked the defensive Island pass.
Important note, both of these battles were fought without any new equipment at all. Both of them in terms of the greater land wars were realitivly small battles. (A million people died in a single battle (Stalingrad) in Russia.
Once America entered the war, they built up for the more conventional war in Europe, and then started to focus on Japan.
When the tatics that had developed in Europse started to be applied in Japan, it was even more devestating. Make no mistake, Japan was defeated and out of the war in 1944. They refused to surrender, even when most of their cities had burned to the ground, they fought on.
Have you ever looked at the plans for Olympic etc? (Japanese D-Day style). Really not pretty. Rather then go ahead with that, they decided to use a nucular bomb. Bear in mind Tokyo had already been burned to the ground in a attack that was far more devistating. It was a pure pych shock that ended the war. I for one, am very glad not to have had to invade Japan.
If Katz has forgotten what "having fun" is. (This post contains spoilers).
Random Pygmy mummies are fun.
Corny romance is fun.
Smart-ass remarks in the face of danger are fun.
Airships (literally airbags with ships) arefun.
The objective of the mummy was to make a good hybryd action/commedy, just as the first one. Once again, the critics pan the movies, because it doesn't appeal to their intellectual need for movies, and the rest of us have fun. I highly recommend this movie.
The difference being that the United States consitution (remember that pesky document) preserved individual freedoms above the interest of the society.
The second is not the case here. That is what this trial was about.
For the most part, rules that exist in Europe simply can not be maintained here. We are too diverse of a socity, with too much different backgrounds etc. Therefore natural self-interest (aided and abeited by the constitution) keeps thoose who would cause violence for personal reasons in line.
Hence, no Hitlers and a much more conservitive society.
I'd like to see your MBA please. This is techno elitism at it's worst. Just because he does not share your political views does not mean that he is a neophyte when it comes to technology. How many of your representitives even use a computer?
The top 5% in america make more then 140k per year, and the top 20% make 80k a year. Thoose people pay ~75% of the taxes. Remeber, that is just income.
That statistic is quoted from the American's for Tax Justice. As you might imagine, they happen to be a rather liberal partisan bunch. Their projections were done ignoring the fact that Bush changes tax ranges as well, and also the fact that Bush does not change the AMT (which they failed to take into account).
I actually would not even grace it that much. Reality check (with statistics from Time/Newsweek etc):
Myth: The poor pay most of the taxes in America
Reality: The lower classes in america do not pay any taxes. As you go up, the tax burden goes up.
Just look at the tax cut. The bottom run of the tax scheme goes from 15%->10%, a 33% cut. The top rung goes from 36%->33% about a 9% cut. Further realize that only about ~120 million american's even pay taxes in the first place. The others actually get money back, even though they never paid anything.
Myth: But they just deduct everything.
Reality: Ever heard of the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax?)The AMT is an amount that you can not deduct under, and as usual, it is a very high number in the higher brackets.
BTW, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are about to loose the JSF. GE did make a bonaza on the air market a few years back, but that's clinton's territory, the defense industry is getting ready for another round of base cuts, and budget cuts (Bush's new money goes to get our millitary people off of food stamps... yes you read that right).
BTW, one of the things that Bush is trying to do is get rid of the hump in the tax code between 20k and 27k where there is strangly a 31% tax, surrounding two 16-16% ranges. Oh... yes.. now I remember why that is there, so the poor stay poor.
As for the rest and the entire argument about "payroll taxes" thoose taxes are social security and medicare, programs that are completly seperate. If you don't like that tax, repeal Social Security;-) (C'mon... I dare ya).
Pioneeer may or may not even have the rights to this series. In this case, AIC is doing the anime, but there was (suposidly) some amount of legal flaming going back and forth between AIC and pioneer several years ago.
So, it is very very possible that Pioneer is not even involed in this series.
First of all, a couple of Quick corrections. There were two creators of Tenchi Muyo. The other creator is Hayashi Hiroki, of El-Hazard, BGC 2040 and several other awesome animes.
Second, thoose people who think this will "sell out" need to rember that neither creator was involved w/ Tenchi after the OVA series.
This is a post on the TenchiML that I wrote, my comments start with #
Anyways, I wrote this off of the interview itself....
"The 3rd "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA series
WILL direct by me and remain the originality..."
--by Kajishiima
Ok, just in case anyone missed it, the Third OVA series is finally confirmed, althought the
#question of OVA/TV/etc has not yet been settled. My personal guess is that this will turn #into a 13 episode TV series on WOWOW.
I believe all the Tenchi fans around the world will be very exciting when
they know that AIC IS going to produce the 3rd series of "Tenchi
Muyo!Ryohki" OVA. Is there anything you "must"
address here for AIC to all the supporters before we start the interview?
K: Yes. There is. On behaves of AIC, I officially annouced that the 3rd "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA series IS direct by me-Masaki Kajishima. and the
3rd "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA IS the sequel of Kajishima's original "Tench Muyo! Ryohki" OVA.
You know, although we tend to just call it OVA because that was the medium, I think
they are saying here that the new series will be a OVA series.
T: Let me repeat here again that YOU ARE going to produce a real Kajishima
"Tenchi" world, right?
K: Yes. The 3rd "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA WILL direct by me and remain the
originality of Kajishima's "Tench Muyo! Ryohki" world.
Wahaha. Just in case anyone doubts it.
T: Thank you. If there is no other things you "have to" say on bahaves of
AIC(grin). Let me start our question from the story of "TenchiMuyo! Ryohki"
the 3rd. I know that you already have the
big picture of the ending in your mind. Will you put all of your ideas in
the the 3rd series this time?
K: Basically, the story will start from clear out the mysteries I left inthe former OVA series, such as who are Goddesses named "*Choushin ", whythey are there...etc. And the story will move on to Tenchi himself after
Goddess ended their war. The story of Tenchi will have nothing to do with"fighting". (*Choushin=the highest Goddess among Goddess world)
Hmmm this is interesting. It has been hinted that there were other high dimensional people in the Tenchi universe (ref Dr. Clay's lines about "not your first time seing a uper dimensional being). The shadows in the background prob represent the rest of the Megami/Kami.
T: What will happen after the battle between Goddesses?
K: well, the highest Goddesses is coming down to earth and surround Tenchi; there will be no chance for any enemy to show up on the
stage. (Grin)
this is confusing. 1) Tokimi does not currently live w/ Tenchi. Is there another class of Megami trying to ursup the Choushin? What exactly is "The Goddesses's war?" anyways?
T: We understand that you can't say much about the ending at this moment.
Let me ask you this, do you have the ideas of "TenchiMuyo! Ryohki" the 3rd
when you were directing "TenchiMuyo! Ryohki " the 2nd? Or you have the
ideas after the second series?
Hmm. This question alone was interesting. Someone correct me if I am
wrong,but I thought that both Kajishima-san and Hayashi-san left after the first seven episodes
K: I had the ideas way back to "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" the 1st and I
already knew how to end the story when I was directing "Tenchi
Muyo! Ryohki" the 2nd. I just don't have the detail about how to
connect each images and fragments of the base storyline in my
mind. It's just an outline, not very specific.
T: In other words, you are going to enjoy the "fun" of connecting
the images and fragments from now on.
K: Yes. That is right. I will fix or change the detail depends on my
chose. But the basic concept of the ending had been made. That
will never be changed.
So what do we know about Tenchi? He is a reluctant hero, very satisfied tolet the people
# around him write the story. But he is also pro-active is protecting what
he cares about. This is #the difference between him and Yousho.
# I can't see Tenchi doing what Yousho did.
# Tenchi has a destiny, that has been clear since Episode 6 when the LHW's
show up. Yousho
# would rail against his destiny, and ultimatly, flee it.
T: Will all the characters in "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki " so far be
deeply involved in the story and be quite active this time?
K: "deeply involed in and be quite active"...um...they will not be
THAT active as usual. Tenchi is the main character and the center
of the story. He has to settle everything by himself.
This is a interesting departure from the Tenchi of old. Tenchi of old was
not the main character. This is a comment directed to the fact that Aeka,
Ryouko et all are not going to play the main role. # So what do I think of that? Good. About time. Yes, fans love Ryouko,
others like
# Aeka, but the series is far too tied into "which one wins" and not the
main character.
# This is a risky move (focusing on Tenchi instead of the fan service girls)
but one I
# think will strengthen the characters.
T: Can we interpret what you said into, there is somebody Tenchi
has to upfront with, some toruble things happend that he has to
deal with, meanwhile Ryoko and other characters will involve in
the chaos, is that right?
K: It's the war between Goddesses. There is no room for Aeka,
Ryoko and any other. They will be arranged at somewhere that
won't trouble Tenchi.(Grin)
Hmmm... the statement that there is no room for Aeka, Ryouko is very interesting. Remember that Ryouko at least has Megami level powers (Washu)
As much as Ryouko and Aeka are the "main characters" of the first series,
and Washu # is the main character of the second, I think Tsunami is going to end up
being the main
# character of the third series.
T: Then, do you mean Washu, Tsunami and Tokimi will become
the main characters of the story?
K: Yes. And a mysterious main character will show up at the
episode 13th that Tenchi has to deal with. I temporary named him
"Z"
# Ahh.... Hazey Guy shows up again. In this case, one theory gets blown out
of the water
# right from the begining (Tenchi==Hazey Guy).
# Which of course raises a interesting question. If there is a dual between
Hazey and Tenchi,
# who wins? Z can pull more LHW's (5), but Tenchi's seem to be different (3
blades).
# There is another point I just realized. Tokimi is watching Clay when he
goes to the
# Masaki house. Why doesn't she freak when she sees Zero unable to copy thegem?
T: For most of the audiences and fans, will it be difficult for them
to understand the existence of "Tokimi"?
K: Well, I can only say she is a Goddess, one of the "Choushin".
# Hmm... ok.
T: Have you decided the real name of "Z"?
K: Not yet. I just called him "Z" at this moment.
# There is something up here.
T:In my understanding so far that the basic story will start from
telling Tenchi's upbringing, his destiny. At the same time, deal
with many things, and finally, fight with Z. is that right?
K: It's not only about Tenchi's destiny. Its also about 2 men's fates
that has been taunted by Goddess's purposes and determined by
Goddess that they have to fight. The whole story will be developfrom that basic concept.
# Hmm... They are telling about Tenchi's upbrining? Sounds like Masaki
# Kiyonne will be involed. There is that comment about "destiny". The two
# men's destiry. I am willing to bet that "taunted" == tainted.
# Ironically enough, I would have thought that "two men's destiny" would be
# between Yousho and Tenchi, who are the most interesting foils.
T: Its pretty rare to have the story mainly developed from 2 men's
fates.
K: But remember, Tenchi fought with Gakato at the end of 1st
"Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA series. In certain meaning, the 3rd
Tenchi OVA has the similar ending as the first series.
# Hmm... So a Tenchi vs. Kagato battle? Or in this case, a dual between
# two LHW's. This entire setting though really re-inforces the "Tsunami has
# been bit-twidiling with Tenchi" line of thought.
T: Tenchi is born as normal human beings. He get to know many
things after grown up and without choices, he accept his fortune and involve with many people. I think He is a very typical
"reluctant hero".
K: That is correct. He is caught in something too this time. It's
about some emotional factors of "Z".
# That's interesting. The more you think about it, the more valid it is.
# Tenchi had some level of control even with the actions, but choose to
# stick w/ the girls, and to follow thru, even though it wasn't his problem.
# In this case, he is about to get dragged into the Megami's war, building a
nice
# little parrallel.
# The interesting thing is that combined with the facts we know about
Aeka/Ryouko
# staying out of this one, The relationship that is built is that Tenchi can
embrace his
# destiny, and go w/ Tsunami/Tokimi/Washu et all. Or he can turn his back on
this
# destiny and return to earth.
# IF the story was structured as it was before w/ the foil relationship
between Yousho
# and Tenchi, I would argue that he would stick w/ the goddesses, because he
would
# fufil his "duty" then. If on the other hand, Z sticks with duty, while
Tenchi does not, he
# would return home.
# seem like a obscure point? I am convinced now that the series will come
down between
# Tsunami/Ryouko, and that question may very will determine it.
T: In other words, "Z" has the same fortune as "Tenchi", right?
K: He is, too, in certain meaning, a victim of Tokimi.
# Victim of Tokimi? IE, Tokimi bit twiddled to get Z? (BTW, can anyone
confirm to me, since
# Japanese gender roles can be freaky, that Kajishima referes to Z in a
masculine tone?)
T: Sounds like "Tokimi" is pretty bad...
K: I don't know if you can put it that way. I mean "bad". She is the
most hardworking Goddess among 3 Choushins. Tokimi is seriously
putting Choushin's original purposes into action. As the result of
their "purposes", "Z" becomes the victim.
# This makes the argument that Washu/Tsunami/Tokimi are all acting in
concert. IF this
# is true, then perhaps it is Z who goes renegade, goes over to the "other
side" and Tenchi
# is the only one who can stop him.
T: "Z" sounds like a ponderous character to me.
K: "Z" belongs to Tokimi, but he doesn't like her at all.
# This would re-enforce that theory. It really also backs the Tenchi is
Tsunami's shadow theory.
T: Let's back to Tenchi. Normally, not many people can stand with
that kind of chaos life long. A normal human being will get crazy
pretty soon if he has to deal with so many troubles.
K: Well, Tenchi has the destiny to be so. Therefore, at the moment
Tenchi decided to live with Ryoko and other people, he already
made up his mind.
# This is also a interesting point. Tenchi "accepted" his destiny by living
w/ Ryouko et all? A
# intersting point when we (or tenchi) do not even know what exaclty his
destiny is.
T: He simply accepts his fates, right?
K: People may surprised to know that, "Tenchi Muyo!" anime is not
the story about how Tenchi grown up. Because Tenchi already
gave people his answer in the very first beginning.
# Re-enforces above point.
T: Really? Its looks like the other way to me. I just watch that
animation as normal audience and the story so far is useing many
things, like, what will happen to Tenchi, who is he going to be
with. to tickle fans' curiosity,
K: As I said a while ago, girls don't know Tenchi already has the
answer. But I am planning some episodes after the war between
Goddess to explain that. I am thinking of girls are forcing Tenchi to
make up his mind to chose one among them.
# Hmm. Okay, this states two things. 1) Tenchi has "Already" decided
# on one of the girls. Ref: Kajishima's comments about "Tenchi sleeping
# with all of them?" This goes far into "Tenchi will not pick any of them"
# catagory. This also seems to state that Tenchi will pick after this OVA
series.
"Tenchi is forced to make up his mind and chose
one among girls."
# The time frame established was after this OVA series.
# He does say explicitly one. This is a big surprise, and I still
# think that there will be a bit of a cop out at some point w.r.t this.
# Neither Photon nor Dual had strong endings like this. (Although
# trhe love triangle is much less balanced in Photon with Kiine way out
# in front.
# On a random Aside, I think that Dee is probibly one of the Megami that
# Kajishima makes a note about.
T: That will be a HUGE event to all fans.
K: The result of his choose, will be the biggest break point of
"Tenchi Muyo!" And end the Chapter one of OVA series.
# Okay... Chapter One is defined as the first three OVA series. Gotcha.
T: Tenchi is chased into a life that he can't make the choice as a
male human being. Or I should say his destiny has determined
what he has to go through. Tenchi is not allowed to have his own
will and it all caused from his environment and fates. He must go
through good and bad things. Will Tenchi's life changed in the 3rd
OVA series?
K: The easy way to put the whole things is, Tenchi Muyo! the 1st,
2nd and 3rd are like in WW2. The Chapter 2 of OVA are post WW2.
# Okay, the 1st noted here is the first chapter (1-3 OVA's). Kajishima
# Actually seems to leave himself a lot of room here for more series.
T: I believe people will be curious about the Chapter 2 as well. Do
you have the idea now?
K: um...I wonder the project will be accepted by anybody...cause
its about a normal daily life after war.
# In other words, it may not be made into a OVA series. But this series
looks to be
# much more comedic series.
T: Its like after war and everything settled, the rest of it is just
normal daily life.
K: Yes. But, there will be another meaning of "war" waiting for
him...
# Hmm... Another War? I rather suspect that Tenchi may be on the Jurain
throne here.
T: yeah, the "war" that is different from "The earth is in DANGER!"
things.
K: Therefore, I think there will be no more 4th, 5th of Tenchi
Muyo! Ryohki of the Chapter one.
# I think he is refering to the fact that the "1st chapter" of tenchi (OVA
1-3) will not be followed?
# or that Tenchi OVA ends after three chapters?
T: Then, Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki the 3rd is base on the conflict
between Tenchi and "Z" and the rest of the stories will be
influenced by the purposes of Goddesses.
K: Also about how Tenchi is going to deal with all that.
# Hmm. This is looking very very intersting.
T: I think the male fans are curious about Tenchi's "love life", you
know what I mean (grin). In what situation that Tenchi have to
choice is the most mystery and interesting part for us.
K: I agree. Personally, I want to end the story of the war between
Goddesses and move the story to the romantic part too. I am
interesting in "that "as well (laugh)
# Okay, let me re-iterate, He seems to be saying that Tenchi's picks are not
# as clear as they might be at the end of the series.
T: I have to change the subject now for I have to ask you some
questions from our English BBS before we end the interview part 1.
Have you ever been to USA? Do you know "Tenchi Muyo!" is
popular there?
K: I've never been there. Really? It is?
# Hmmm.... So much for the CN is giving AIC impetus to do new series theory.
T: Yes, it's very popular. What do you think about the popularity of
"Tenchi Muyo!" in USA and other countries?
K: I created "Tenchi" for my own interest. I am glad to know that
there are other people think its interesting like me.
T: Do you want to say anything to your Fans around the world?
K: Yes. "Tenchi Muyo!"is not finished yet, and I will keep
working on it. Thank you for your support and please keep
support it.
Cool... I am really really really looking forward to this series.
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Of cheap internet access. A while ago parts of the community came together to form The colorado internet co-op. In fact, if you look at the network diagram of this group, they use nettrack, which also has a connection to the co-op.
Some of the more prominant Unixers on the co-op board are Trent Hein, and Evi Nemeth (two of the authors of the USAH) was also involved. The CO-OP has played a nice part in keeping colorado up and wired.
That statement is not verified by the facts. As the paper points out, the two large wars in the last century were WWI and WWII. These wars were massive on a scale not seen since the Napolionic Wars (in particular, the war of 1812), and the American revolutionary war (which where the real first two world wars).
WWI was primarily fought over past humiliations, and the breakdown of the Bismarkian system. WWI was completly pointless, the ideology between France/UK/Germany was extremly similar (the Russians were somewhat behind). That cost of the war became so great so fast that the pure pain of what they had already gone thru and promise for future battle prevented a resonable peace.
WWII was a battle of Ideology pure and simple. The only religon that really played any part was the cults that tended to surround Hitler. Either a remaking of Christianity replacing Jesus with Hitler (German Christian) or The Wagnerian view of the German "Volk". From the oral testimony, as well as the general overview I have had in the Japanese front, they were faced with the simple fact. If they did not attack america, their war against China would die, leaving them vunderable against Russia and China.
The last "religous wars" that occured in the western world were during the reformation. Islamic fundamentalists now seem determined to return us to the era of religous wars.
Thoose were much more about the desire of the German princes to establish soverignty over their land, and to be independant of the foreign powers that had run amuck with them.
The Crusades were a "clash of civilizations" Christiandom vs a revivified east. Contrary to popular opinion, they didn't occur because the pope or the celiph decided that the other was wrong.
I hope this argument serves to rebut your troll. I will watch this thread in hope you decide to turn your troll into a argument, and thus a debate.
I have already read at least five different people claim that C# is nothing but a java language rip off.
Fine, do this in C#:
public delegate float mathmatical_operation(float anum);
public event mathmatical_operation onFinish;
void domath()
{
float result;
if (onFinish!=null) result = onFinish(anumber);
return result;
}
BTW, that there works transparently over the internet as well. (This is really a series of callbacks and is symantically easy enough to make even the hell that is Windows messaging easy to deal with.
I noticed that the first few battles have this bug as well. You also need to realize that if you hit square, and then hit a directional button, then it will ignore the square (stupid stupid). The first few battles are stupidly difficuly, and "Keepa" just does not get the job done.
And in return, you have not had to worry about your borders from outside threat since 1865.
Take a look at the combined NASA/JPL/NSF budget (just non millitary and non-medical for now). That alone runs us 100+ bln a year. I would challange anyone who would slams us on research to lookup the number of governments that have 100bln a year budget, to say nothing of research.
That is not even counting the vast amount of money going to H&HS, NIH, ARPA, DARPA (remember that little thing called the internet?).
BTW, no, the ANTHRAX was _not_ from American lab's. Watch CNN or even a news network more often.
He makes an interesting point that - contrary to the belief that the ISS is a NASA brainchild/braintrust . ISS is a NASA goal (to the extreme detriment to what I would argue should be the real focus, probes going out to learn about the solar system. On top of that, not only are we sinking 100+ Billion dollors on this (100x the contribution of any other country... and for good measure we are covering most of the soviet's costs as well), we are cutting programs that would go out and examine the Kuiper belt, the sun, etc.
Think of what kind of knowledge we could gain. Long term space research? bzzt. Soviets already did that. Radation effects on humans? bzzt.
The entire problem is that this space station was created by the state department and congress rather then the scientists. ISS? What ever happened to freedom and liberty the first names of this project.
Screw the space station. Give us a workable re-usable launcher and the NGST.
Yes, but there is a second element to this. Brand Recognition. While FF:TSW might have sucked severly for profitability reasons, it did raise the awareness of the brand out there.
Not that it really matters. FF10 is already the most popular PS2 game in Japan, and will probably do the same here. Nowadays, the FF games are more interactive movie then old school RPG. This is the reason why Square has been kicking people's arses.
(And every now and then they do something "old school" to keep the geeks happy).
Someone posted a new FFXII (FF12) Picture here. FFXII is being developed by a "dream team". Sakaguchi and Yasumi Matsuno, Hiroyuki Ito are all working on the game and Yasunori Mitsuda will be taking over music direction (a move I applaud after the excellent Chrono Cross soundtrack). The picture is here:
FFXII First Pic .
FF7/8 both had disappointing performance on the PC. In addition, it was very much a console game, rather then a computer game (interface requierments etc), so I foudn 7 hard to control and use. 7 was also extremly slow on even the most modern of machines.
AFAIK, there is no plans for FFX to be ported to PC. In addition, it was rumoured that FFXI (online) was going to be multiplatform, but that appears to have been dropped (perhaps due to the fact that Sony now owns a large chunk of Square).
There are less summons then before, but they follow the FFIX summoning scheme where by you get a long sequence the first time you use a summon, and then mostly abrieviated summons.
HOWEVER...
Sommons are now regular battle characters in this game. Summon Ifrit and he sticks around for a while. Some summons (2 of them I think) are multi character summons, and they also stick around. From what I have heard, the main use for summons is "to take one for the team" in FFX (ie, mega powerfull villian, you throw a summon up there to block, and then your characters rotate in).
All of this is my speculation, nothing but
my speculation, but I think the theory fits:
Quickie Lession: Pioneer "owned" Tenchi.
While AIC came up with the idea, the storyboards,
the animation etc, Pioneer fronted the money, and
got most of the revenue (AFAIK) from Tenchi.
About two or three years ago, Rumours leaked
that Tenchi was in litigation between AIC and
Pioneer.
MY _guess_ is that AIC now owns the rights
to Tenchi, given that Pioneer is _not_ involved
(AFAICT) with the new series at all.
VAP is taking Pioneer's role, at least in Japan.
AIC has stated publically at cons, that Pioneer
controlled what Tenchi was released and when,
and honestly, if you look at it from Pioneer's
point of view, a new OVA series does them
little good. Something more toned down, ala
TV series would be good for them, because
they might be able to get it on TV.
VAP is now the production house for Tenchi,
I don't think that this means anything too huge
(for instance, I don't think anything like VA's,
will change, since there has already been at least
one Tenchi series by Kadokawa). I imagine
that they will have more freedom with VAP,
but I don't know.
Interestingly enough, VAP seems to be one of the
few Japanese production houses that does not
have some sort of relationship with an american
distro. I think AnimeWorks, Media Blasters,
TSRI, ADV and Bandai all release some of their
stuff.
VAP, of course, was the production house (not the
studio) behind Dirty Pair, Gunsmith Cats, Breserk, Zone of Enders, etc.
Just looking at the titles, I wonder if VAP is owned, in bed with Bandai, since they tend to grab whatever Sunrise Titles Bandai Video doesn't release.
It is still possible that Pioneer may be the US rights holder for Tenchi.
No, they replaced one Lawyer (Bois) who resigned. Why did he resign? Possibly because he spearheaded the case the overturn Florida's election.
There is this little thing called checks and balances. This was the Judical arm (over which the president has no control) vacating a ruling, because of improper contact between the judge and the media (from what I have read, this is a fairly no-brainer. you have no business as a judge doing media interviews during a trial).
This is important, because it is a implementation of Linux inside of the DoD itself. Having recently built a system for one of the armed forces, and being forced to deploy it on NT, because Linux was "not yet accepted".... This is a huge wonderfull foot in the door.
One of Square's new favorite tricks w/ the PS2 is to utilize a bit of the overkill proccessing power of the PS/2 and change the facial system depending on the vocals. Hence Bouncer and FF10 both have this feature. As to the re-rendering, nope. It is not unusual for these types of movies to get released in English and only in english. AIC, most recently, only release Armitage III movie in English.
There is a underlying truth here tho. World War II, pacific theater is inherintly a Psychalogical War. Pearl Harbor itself was meant as a blow to the American Moral. Despite what a few revisionist historians think, before Pearl Harbor, no Japanese thought that America was simple going to roll over. The size of the battle put them into a bit of a delusion (as did their successes with the Langly, Singapore, Phillapenes, etc). Anyways, I stray from the point.
Dolittle's raid is critically important because it knocked the Japanese command off of their high perch, and made it so that they tried to both continue their downward path (into australia) and to finish up a ring of defensive islands. Corel Sea blocked the advance into Australia, and Midway blocked the defensive Island pass.
Important note, both of these battles were fought without any new equipment at all. Both of them in terms of the greater land wars were realitivly small battles. (A million people died in a single battle (Stalingrad) in Russia.
Once America entered the war, they built up for the more conventional war in Europe, and then started to focus on Japan.
When the tatics that had developed in Europse started to be applied in Japan, it was even more devestating. Make no mistake, Japan was defeated and out of the war in 1944. They refused to surrender, even when most of their cities had burned to the ground, they fought on.
Have you ever looked at the plans for Olympic etc? (Japanese D-Day style). Really not pretty. Rather then go ahead with that, they decided to use a nucular bomb. Bear in mind Tokyo had already been burned to the ground in a attack that was far more devistating. It was a pure pych shock that ended the war. I for one, am very glad not to have had to invade Japan.
Random Pygmy mummies are fun.
Corny romance is fun.
Smart-ass remarks in the face of danger are fun.
Airships (literally airbags with ships) arefun.
The objective of the mummy was to make a good hybryd action/commedy, just as the first one. Once again, the critics pan the movies, because it doesn't appeal to their intellectual need for movies, and the rest of us have fun. I highly recommend this movie.
The second is not the case here. That is what this trial was about.
For the most part, rules that exist in Europe simply can not be maintained here. We are too diverse of a socity, with too much different backgrounds etc. Therefore natural self-interest (aided and abeited by the constitution) keeps thoose who would cause violence for personal reasons in line.
Hence, no Hitlers and a much more conservitive society.
I'd like to see your MBA please. This is techno elitism at it's worst. Just because he does not share your political views does not mean that he is a neophyte when it comes to technology. How many of your representitives even use a computer?
Yeah, so now lets deal with some real statistics.
The top 5% in america make more then 140k per year, and the top 20% make 80k a year. Thoose people pay ~75% of the taxes. Remeber, that is just income.
Then factor in Capital Gains. Heh.
That statistic is quoted from the American's for Tax Justice. As you might imagine, they happen to be a rather liberal partisan bunch. Their projections were done ignoring the fact that Bush changes tax ranges as well, and also the fact that Bush does not change the AMT (which they failed to take into account).
I actually would not even grace it that much. Reality check (with statistics from Time/Newsweek etc):
;-) (C'mon... I dare ya).
Myth: The poor pay most of the taxes in America
Reality: The lower classes in america do not pay any taxes. As you go up, the tax burden goes up.
Just look at the tax cut. The bottom run of the tax scheme goes from 15%->10%, a 33% cut. The top rung goes from 36%->33% about a 9% cut. Further realize that only about ~120 million american's even pay taxes in the first place. The others actually get money back, even though they never paid anything.
Myth: But they just deduct everything.
Reality: Ever heard of the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax?)The AMT is an amount that you can not deduct under, and as usual, it is a very high number in the higher brackets.
Here is a good argument about the mostly liberal billionairs that spoke up. The wealthy are conservitive, but right now, no changes is a liberal position.
BTW, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are about to loose the JSF. GE did make a bonaza on the air market a few years back, but that's clinton's territory, the defense industry is getting ready for another round of base cuts, and budget cuts (Bush's new money goes to get our millitary people off of food stamps... yes you read that right).
BTW, the Economist has a pretty good write up.
BTW, one of the things that Bush is trying to do is get rid of the hump in the tax code between 20k and 27k where there is strangly a 31% tax, surrounding two 16-16% ranges. Oh... yes.. now I remember why that is there, so the poor stay poor.
As for the rest and the entire argument about "payroll taxes" thoose taxes are social security and medicare, programs that are completly seperate. If you don't like that tax, repeal Social Security
Why should there be a tax cut? The percent of the GDP that is being eaten is the highest it has ever been.
Pioneeer may or may not even have the rights to this series. In this case, AIC is doing the anime, but there was (suposidly) some amount of legal flaming going back and forth between AIC and pioneer several years ago.
So, it is very very possible that Pioneer is not even involed in this series.
First of all, a couple of Quick corrections. There were two creators of Tenchi Muyo. The other creator is Hayashi Hiroki, of El-Hazard, BGC 2040 and several other awesome animes.
Second, thoose people who think this will "sell out" need to rember that neither creator was involved w/ Tenchi after the OVA series.
This is a post on the TenchiML that I wrote, my comments start with #
Anyways, I wrote this off of the interview itself....
"The 3rd "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA series
WILL direct by me and remain the originality..."
--by Kajishiima
Ok, just in case anyone missed it, the Third OVA series is finally confirmed, althought the
#question of OVA/TV/etc has not yet been settled. My personal guess is that this will turn #into a 13 episode TV series on WOWOW.
I believe all the Tenchi fans around the world will be very exciting when
they know that AIC IS going to produce the 3rd series of "Tenchi
Muyo!Ryohki" OVA. Is there anything you "must"
address here for AIC to all the supporters before we start the interview?
K: Yes. There is. On behaves of AIC, I officially annouced that the 3rd "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA series IS direct by me-Masaki Kajishima. and the
3rd "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA IS the sequel of Kajishima's original "Tench Muyo! Ryohki" OVA.
You know, although we tend to just call it OVA because that was the medium, I think
they are saying here that the new series will be a OVA series.
T: Let me repeat here again that YOU ARE going to produce a real Kajishima
"Tenchi" world, right?
K: Yes. The 3rd "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA WILL direct by me and remain the
originality of Kajishima's "Tench Muyo! Ryohki" world.
Wahaha. Just in case anyone doubts it.
T: Thank you. If there is no other things you "have to" say on bahaves of
AIC(grin). Let me start our question from the story of "TenchiMuyo! Ryohki"
the 3rd. I know that you already have the
big picture of the ending in your mind. Will you put all of your ideas in
the the 3rd series this time?
K: Basically, the story will start from clear out the mysteries I left inthe former OVA series, such as who are Goddesses named "*Choushin ", whythey are there...etc. And the story will move on to Tenchi himself after
Goddess ended their war. The story of Tenchi will have nothing to do with"fighting". (*Choushin=the highest Goddess among Goddess world)
Hmmm this is interesting. It has been hinted that there were other high dimensional people in the Tenchi universe (ref Dr. Clay's lines about "not your first time seing a uper dimensional being). The shadows in the background prob represent the rest of the Megami/Kami.
T: What will happen after the battle between Goddesses?
K: well, the highest Goddesses is coming down to earth and surround Tenchi; there will be no chance for any enemy to show up on the
stage. (Grin)
this is confusing. 1) Tokimi does not currently live w/ Tenchi. Is there another class of Megami trying to ursup the Choushin? What exactly is "The Goddesses's war?" anyways?
T: We understand that you can't say much about the ending at this moment.
Let me ask you this, do you have the ideas of "TenchiMuyo! Ryohki" the 3rd
when you were directing "TenchiMuyo! Ryohki " the 2nd? Or you have the
ideas after the second series?
Hmm. This question alone was interesting. Someone correct me if I am
wrong,but I thought that both Kajishima-san and Hayashi-san left after the first seven episodes
K: I had the ideas way back to "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" the 1st and I
already knew how to end the story when I was directing "Tenchi
Muyo! Ryohki" the 2nd. I just don't have the detail about how to
connect each images and fragments of the base storyline in my
mind. It's just an outline, not very specific.
T: In other words, you are going to enjoy the "fun" of connecting
the images and fragments from now on.
K: Yes. That is right. I will fix or change the detail depends on my
chose. But the basic concept of the ending had been made. That
will never be changed.
So what do we know about Tenchi? He is a reluctant hero, very satisfied tolet the people
# around him write the story. But he is also pro-active is protecting what
he cares about. This is #the difference between him and Yousho.
# I can't see Tenchi doing what Yousho did.
# Tenchi has a destiny, that has been clear since Episode 6 when the LHW's
show up. Yousho
# would rail against his destiny, and ultimatly, flee it.
T: Will all the characters in "Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki " so far be
deeply involved in the story and be quite active this time?
K: "deeply involed in and be quite active"...um...they will not be
THAT active as usual. Tenchi is the main character and the center
of the story. He has to settle everything by himself.
This is a interesting departure from the Tenchi of old. Tenchi of old was
not the main character. This is a comment directed to the fact that Aeka,
Ryouko et all are not going to play the main role.
# So what do I think of that? Good. About time. Yes, fans love Ryouko,
others like
# Aeka, but the series is far too tied into "which one wins" and not the
main character.
# This is a risky move (focusing on Tenchi instead of the fan service girls)
but one I
# think will strengthen the characters.
T: Can we interpret what you said into, there is somebody Tenchi
has to upfront with, some toruble things happend that he has to
deal with, meanwhile Ryoko and other characters will involve in
the chaos, is that right?
K: It's the war between Goddesses. There is no room for Aeka,
Ryoko and any other. They will be arranged at somewhere that
won't trouble Tenchi.(Grin)
Hmmm... the statement that there is no room for Aeka, Ryouko is very interesting. Remember that Ryouko at least has Megami level powers (Washu)
As much as Ryouko and Aeka are the "main characters" of the first series,
and Washu # is the main character of the second, I think Tsunami is going to end up
being the main
# character of the third series.
T: Then, do you mean Washu, Tsunami and Tokimi will become
the main characters of the story?
K: Yes. And a mysterious main character will show up at the
episode 13th that Tenchi has to deal with. I temporary named him
"Z"
# Ahh.... Hazey Guy shows up again. In this case, one theory gets blown out
of the water
# right from the begining (Tenchi==Hazey Guy).
# Which of course raises a interesting question. If there is a dual between
Hazey and Tenchi,
# who wins? Z can pull more LHW's (5), but Tenchi's seem to be different (3
blades).
# There is another point I just realized. Tokimi is watching Clay when he
goes to the
# Masaki house. Why doesn't she freak when she sees Zero unable to copy thegem?
T: For most of the audiences and fans, will it be difficult for them
to understand the existence of "Tokimi"?
K: Well, I can only say she is a Goddess, one of the "Choushin".
# Hmm... ok.
T: Have you decided the real name of "Z"?
K: Not yet. I just called him "Z" at this moment.
# There is something up here.
T:In my understanding so far that the basic story will start from
telling Tenchi's upbringing, his destiny. At the same time, deal
with many things, and finally, fight with Z. is that right?
K: It's not only about Tenchi's destiny. Its also about 2 men's fates
that has been taunted by Goddess's purposes and determined by
Goddess that they have to fight. The whole story will be developfrom that basic concept.
# Hmm... They are telling about Tenchi's upbrining? Sounds like Masaki
# Kiyonne will be involed. There is that comment about "destiny". The two
# men's destiry. I am willing to bet that "taunted" == tainted.
# Ironically enough, I would have thought that "two men's destiny" would be
# between Yousho and Tenchi, who are the most interesting foils.
T: Its pretty rare to have the story mainly developed from 2 men's
fates.
K: But remember, Tenchi fought with Gakato at the end of 1st
"Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki" OVA series. In certain meaning, the 3rd
Tenchi OVA has the similar ending as the first series.
# Hmm... So a Tenchi vs. Kagato battle? Or in this case, a dual between
# two LHW's. This entire setting though really re-inforces the "Tsunami has
# been bit-twidiling with Tenchi" line of thought.
T: Tenchi is born as normal human beings. He get to know many
things after grown up and without choices, he accept his fortune and involve with many people. I think He is a very typical
"reluctant hero".
K: That is correct. He is caught in something too this time. It's
about some emotional factors of "Z".
# That's interesting. The more you think about it, the more valid it is.
# Tenchi had some level of control even with the actions, but choose to
# stick w/ the girls, and to follow thru, even though it wasn't his problem.
# In this case, he is about to get dragged into the Megami's war, building a
nice
# little parrallel.
# The interesting thing is that combined with the facts we know about
Aeka/Ryouko
# staying out of this one, The relationship that is built is that Tenchi can
embrace his
# destiny, and go w/ Tsunami/Tokimi/Washu et all. Or he can turn his back on
this
# destiny and return to earth.
# IF the story was structured as it was before w/ the foil relationship
between Yousho
# and Tenchi, I would argue that he would stick w/ the goddesses, because he
would
# fufil his "duty" then. If on the other hand, Z sticks with duty, while
Tenchi does not, he
# would return home.
# seem like a obscure point? I am convinced now that the series will come
down between
# Tsunami/Ryouko, and that question may very will determine it.
T: In other words, "Z" has the same fortune as "Tenchi", right?
K: He is, too, in certain meaning, a victim of Tokimi.
# Victim of Tokimi? IE, Tokimi bit twiddled to get Z? (BTW, can anyone
confirm to me, since
# Japanese gender roles can be freaky, that Kajishima referes to Z in a
masculine tone?)
T: Sounds like "Tokimi" is pretty bad...
K: I don't know if you can put it that way. I mean "bad". She is the
most hardworking Goddess among 3 Choushins. Tokimi is seriously
putting Choushin's original purposes into action. As the result of
their "purposes", "Z" becomes the victim.
# This makes the argument that Washu/Tsunami/Tokimi are all acting in
concert. IF this
# is true, then perhaps it is Z who goes renegade, goes over to the "other
side" and Tenchi
# is the only one who can stop him.
T: "Z" sounds like a ponderous character to me.
K: "Z" belongs to Tokimi, but he doesn't like her at all.
# This would re-enforce that theory. It really also backs the Tenchi is
Tsunami's shadow theory.
T: Let's back to Tenchi. Normally, not many people can stand with
that kind of chaos life long. A normal human being will get crazy
pretty soon if he has to deal with so many troubles.
K: Well, Tenchi has the destiny to be so. Therefore, at the moment
Tenchi decided to live with Ryoko and other people, he already
made up his mind.
# This is also a interesting point. Tenchi "accepted" his destiny by living
w/ Ryouko et all? A
# intersting point when we (or tenchi) do not even know what exaclty his
destiny is.
T: He simply accepts his fates, right?
K: People may surprised to know that, "Tenchi Muyo!" anime is not
the story about how Tenchi grown up. Because Tenchi already
gave people his answer in the very first beginning.
# Re-enforces above point.
T: Really? Its looks like the other way to me. I just watch that
animation as normal audience and the story so far is useing many
things, like, what will happen to Tenchi, who is he going to be
with. to tickle fans' curiosity,
K: As I said a while ago, girls don't know Tenchi already has the
answer. But I am planning some episodes after the war between
Goddess to explain that. I am thinking of girls are forcing Tenchi to
make up his mind to chose one among them.
# Hmm. Okay, this states two things. 1) Tenchi has "Already" decided
# on one of the girls. Ref: Kajishima's comments about "Tenchi sleeping
# with all of them?" This goes far into "Tenchi will not pick any of them"
# catagory. This also seems to state that Tenchi will pick after this OVA
series.
"Tenchi is forced to make up his mind and chose
one among girls."
# The time frame established was after this OVA series.
# He does say explicitly one. This is a big surprise, and I still
# think that there will be a bit of a cop out at some point w.r.t this.
# Neither Photon nor Dual had strong endings like this. (Although
# trhe love triangle is much less balanced in Photon with Kiine way out
# in front.
# On a random Aside, I think that Dee is probibly one of the Megami that
# Kajishima makes a note about.
T: That will be a HUGE event to all fans.
K: The result of his choose, will be the biggest break point of
"Tenchi Muyo!" And end the Chapter one of OVA series.
# Okay... Chapter One is defined as the first three OVA series. Gotcha.
T: Tenchi is chased into a life that he can't make the choice as a
male human being. Or I should say his destiny has determined
what he has to go through. Tenchi is not allowed to have his own
will and it all caused from his environment and fates. He must go
through good and bad things. Will Tenchi's life changed in the 3rd
OVA series?
K: The easy way to put the whole things is, Tenchi Muyo! the 1st,
2nd and 3rd are like in WW2. The Chapter 2 of OVA are post WW2.
# Okay, the 1st noted here is the first chapter (1-3 OVA's). Kajishima
# Actually seems to leave himself a lot of room here for more series.
T: I believe people will be curious about the Chapter 2 as well. Do
you have the idea now?
K: um...I wonder the project will be accepted by anybody...cause
its about a normal daily life after war.
# In other words, it may not be made into a OVA series. But this series
looks to be
# much more comedic series.
T: Its like after war and everything settled, the rest of it is just
normal daily life.
K: Yes. But, there will be another meaning of "war" waiting for
him...
# Hmm... Another War? I rather suspect that Tenchi may be on the Jurain
throne here.
T: yeah, the "war" that is different from "The earth is in DANGER!"
things.
K: Therefore, I think there will be no more 4th, 5th of Tenchi
Muyo! Ryohki of the Chapter one.
# I think he is refering to the fact that the "1st chapter" of tenchi (OVA
1-3) will not be followed?
# or that Tenchi OVA ends after three chapters?
T: Then, Tenchi Muyo! Ryohki the 3rd is base on the conflict
between Tenchi and "Z" and the rest of the stories will be
influenced by the purposes of Goddesses.
K: Also about how Tenchi is going to deal with all that.
# Hmm. This is looking very very intersting.
T: I think the male fans are curious about Tenchi's "love life", you
know what I mean (grin). In what situation that Tenchi have to
choice is the most mystery and interesting part for us.
K: I agree. Personally, I want to end the story of the war between
Goddesses and move the story to the romantic part too. I am
interesting in "that "as well (laugh)
# Okay, let me re-iterate, He seems to be saying that Tenchi's picks are not
# as clear as they might be at the end of the series.
T: I have to change the subject now for I have to ask you some
questions from our English BBS before we end the interview part 1.
Have you ever been to USA? Do you know "Tenchi Muyo!" is
popular there?
K: I've never been there. Really? It is?
# Hmmm.... So much for the CN is giving AIC impetus to do new series theory.
T: Yes, it's very popular. What do you think about the popularity of
"Tenchi Muyo!" in USA and other countries?
K: I created "Tenchi" for my own interest. I am glad to know that
there are other people think its interesting like me.
T: Do you want to say anything to your Fans around the world?
K: Yes. "Tenchi Muyo!"is not finished yet, and I will keep
working on it. Thank you for your support and please keep
support it.
Cool... I am really really really looking forward to this series.