a lot of that group works for Ion Storm now. Warren Spector (Ultima Underworlds, System Shock, Deus Ex) is working on a Theif III, and a Deus Ex 2. They pretty much still play their own tune. Ion Storm was essenially 2 groups, one headed by Romaro and the other by Spector. Romaro's group was killed off (thank god for that, we didn't need another Diakatana out there) and Spector's still remains. Though I think they are trying to get a new name (or tried at one point). LGS may be gone, but a lot of that team is still making games, which is a good thing.
What I think is one of the biggest problems facing our computer games originality is the fact that the companies don't want to get an original game, they just want one that will sell a ton of copies. They play it safe in the market instead of taking risks and we wind up with the same crap over and over again. This is the way the system always winds up working. Heads of companies want to be greedy and instead of taking a risk that could net them a crap load of cash, they take the safe road that keeps their head in but nets them a smaller amount of cash. If the companies who pay the studios would take more risks we would have a better market for computer games, but they don't so we get stuck with repeats of the same games. This has been going on in most of the other industries for years, and the computer world is catching up with them. Same trend goes on with movies, music, tv shows, and even in camera lenses.
What we need are companies who are willing to take risks and try to create new and creative products instead of the drek that we are force fed regularly. If we could get that to happen then we might get out of this billion and one Quake clones, or the extremely repetative Dune clones. We need companies who aren't afraid of change and who are willing to take the bull by the horns and get something new and different out there. Companies shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes and screw up a few times, that is what the market is really there for. Unfortunately all these companies care about is money, and that is a shame. If they cared about the customer (not consumer) they could have a much more respected business image.
I would have to put Grim Fandango and The Longest Journey higher than Sam and Max, but I agree, it is one of the best games ever made.
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It isn't just 70 year olds either. No one seems to be able to read a sign unless it has 2 foot letters on it. I see this problem at school and even in the photo lab where I work. It doesn't matter how big I make a sign peo8ple never read it. I get asked about things that I have a sign explaining VERY clearly the answer to their question in PLAIN VIEW. Employees are bad, but customers are the worst. Oh, and when it comes to instructions then it is time to bring out the clue stick.
I will be enternally grateful to the first person who can teach a customer how to read and fill out a simple form. There is an order to my system, and it is a fairly easy one. Look first, if you can't find what information you want THEN you may ask. I get people who just stand at the counter (where my envelopes and paperwork are) and wait for someone to come up and will then ask about whether I can develop and print 35mm film (which is stated very clearly on the envelope along with several other formats and print options).
Speed and efficency can only be obtained when people can get a clue (maybe even develop some sort of higher level thinking, I mean I see children who can figure out how to get my system to work, but most of the adults seem to not be able to think at all). U-Scans rock (especially if someone happened to have 'let' you see the operating instuctions), they minimize my interaction with people, take my abuse well, and let me scan my own stuff quickly. I will be glad when they can figure out to let me get my beer with out stalling me too much (which won't happen till the US gets less uptight about alcohol).
would you be able to cause a medusa or hall of mirrors effect (2 different effects here, not one like someone would interpret if i don't specify). Imagine acidently spraying a bad tecture on and your computer locking up or accidently making a mirror face a mirror. And before someone makes a comment about it yes, I know hall of mirrors is a problem in the build engine and not doom (no mirrored surfaces in doom). Prohaps you could make a paralax floor in real time (or a paralax wall, which is EVIL.) I made a multiplayer level once with normal floors and paralax sky and walls, was really amusing to try to play.
This is an increadibly good thing. Think of all the great things that can be done with mods if the game is this way. You can virtually recreate anything in the game you want to be able to create a totally differant experiance. maybe iD will release a package with it that helps you create new variations of the game's mechanics.
i use one of these myself and personally think they are great (till people mess with my forwarding tables). Setup was really simple and teaching others to set it up is simple as well. I was really impressed with it, and I recogmend it to others as well.
not to mention you can just VIEW SOURCE and just find the link to the picture in there and copy|paste it into your address bar then save the picture.:)
now what was the point of disabling my right click again? oh yeah, to piss me off.
We need more dipshit fines. We should also make them enforcable my the citizens. I would love to drive down the street and give tickets to every fat woman who crossed the street regardless of traffic, or double parked on a small road. How about we make using celphones while walking fineable too. I can't think of all kinds of dipshit things that I see everyday that should be finable by the average joe.
I had a teacher once who had a rule: No celphones or pagers unless you had a GOOD excuse. He got to choose if the excuse was good or not, if it wasn't you lost 10% of your grade per offence. Needless to say the one time I heard one go off for a good reason was when someone was called in for military duty. The only acceptable excuses I heard that he had been given were military and medical related, and he said he would accept no other. He only had to enforce it once to keep people from using celphones. someone broke it became an example, and suddenly all celphones (almost all of the class had them with them) were turned off or on silent mode.
There is no part of working in a supermarket than the people who bring their wanker kids and weiner babies in there. The wanker kids go around making a huge mess and generally causing havok and the mom screams at them and so forth. This is pretty annoying, but not nearly as bad as their whining little runt children that don't know how to shut their damn trap. I had to put up with this shit day in and day out. Would be nice if they just banned children in stores all together (ateast children under age 5 (don't know why but that is about when they seem to get a clue and behave themselves)). I have asked many people if I made that much noise when I was young and all the people I asked said no I didn't, so I dont' know why all these little ones must make as much noise as possible. Maybe if more parents DISIPLINED their kids these days there wouldn't be a problem. You just need to start the dispilining at an early age (like year 1 or so).
Personally, I prefer BSD over linux and Solaris. I haven't gotten to compare BSD vs Solaris on a server scale, but the Sun and BSD ones that we run seem to have better performance than the Linux servers that we keep around. On a desktop I can't see a reason to use Solaris, but I guess there is on large servers, and that is really where Sun's market is anyways. We hardly ever wind up using them for desktops. Usually we use Windows and BSD to that end but we do have SPARC workstations that run Solaris, and it works just fine for what students and teachers need to be doing. Granted I have been tempted to turn the UNIX lab into a large cluster for rendering, but that is another story.
We run a Unix lab at the university and there is a bunch of remote boot systems tied into our large Sun server. Even when everyone is logged in and doing stuff, there is still almost no preformance lost. These computers are all remote booting from the the same server that everyone telnets into for the Unix shell accounts. When you need real power for a network you go with a Unix, when you need a toy you can play with a desktop operating system like Linux or Windows. I will accept Linux as a server platform as soon as I can see evidence of it working well in a setting like ours (granted I will still use the Linux servers over some of our old VMS stuff).
This is not necessarily true. If it goes down there is a chance that it will scatter radio active material throughout the country side in the form of dust (sort of a dirty bomb). However that is the least of your worries, what happens if one of these reactors has problems while flying, did anyone think of that. If you blow a nuclear reactor in the upper aptomosphere it will be a disaster the likes of which you have never seen or imagined. It will have ecological impacts that the EPA would shit themselves over.
Imagine if you will how far dust can spread if it is caught in the wind. Now imagine that this dust is radio active, because that is what you will be dealing with. It won't be just a simple explosion like a Nuke, it will be FAR worse and have the possibility of doing massive harm for a very large area, potentially making areas bigger than texas uninhabitable. We should not be putting nuclear reactors in air planes for this reason. At least when naplam hits it burns out quickly (in geological terms atleast), this stuff will last a VERY long time and contaminate VERY large areas. which would you rather have a quick burning death or a slow aginising death due to radioactive poisoning. I think I would rather have the quick painful death instead of the long painful death.
Of course it is free. Everything is free as long as you have the ability to not get caught making off with it. It is on a need to have basis and if you lack the skills than you don't need to have the painting.
why not just make it start a remote install of a random linux distro on the given computer if it isn't already running *nix. If you did it that way then you wouldn't have to deal with all the ugly ass people who can't seem to figure out how to get anything to start for themselves. Prohaps make it so that it doesn't install X at all so they are stuck in the command prompt world and leave them to figure out how get out. Would definately clean up the 'net a bit.
First think I thought of when I saw it was to mount guns on it. Maybe a 20mm gun or a.50 cal minigun (neither being in a fixed mount). Would be quite useful for military applications, and wouldn't surprise me if it was already being developed with some in mind. Refine the technology enough and you will have some really nice battle platforms for ground operations. maybe we can make it look and act like a scorpion too:)
this is a great thing for several reasons. Smart bombs are REALLY easy to track back to the source, however I would really like to see you track an infer-red beam back to its source with out all of your kit out there looking for when it is going to hit. You can track projectiles after they are fired, missles can be don by radar, lasers like this have to have special fliters and optical equipment, and even then there is no garauntee that you will even see it because you have to have everything set up just right.
On a side note using this on people is a lot like using fragmentation devices (mines, gernades, and various types of artillary rounds). If you kill the person you take out one person. If you mame someone you have take out not just one person but the people who have to take him back to camp. Effectively for the price of killing on person you have killed no one but still taken several people out of combat. Also, someone has to feed and house this newly made blind man, and that ties up resources, resources that would be used against you otherwise.
Also, the military's job is not to kill, but to win battles. Killing is only one route to this end, there are other ways to reach this but killing is the most common.
Honestly, I don't see why so many people here have thier panties in a knot over this. I personally think we should release the ban on cloning and get rid of most of the Geneva Convention. War is a beast that should be let live unchained, and free. It doesn't have a need to be 'civil' or 'elegant'. The only thing that will afford is giving the battle to the person who has the highest technology. The feild should go to whoever wants it the most and is willing to throw the most resources at it. The 'horrors' this laser could do are nothing compared to what can be done with chlorine gas, shrapnel filled cannons, or 15mm machine guns.
there is a liscencing system for hardware and software on consoles. Anything not liscenced is not an authorized peice of equipment. It would be like making and selling custom shirts with band logos with out permission to do so. Nothing too serious, the idea is that they unauthorized peice of hardware is cutting down on funds that the company could be making by letting such a peice of hardware be legally purchasable. However, if you don't do something that is major like selling copied games with it, no one is really going to care.
Black Dog Serenade and Pierrot Le Fou back to back. Now there is an hour of quality television. almost all of my favorite episodes are here. add Mushroom Samba and the one with the one where Spike hunts the mold from the fridge and you would have a perfect set.
I think that was the only episode I didn't like either. But I understand why they don't air it, do you know how many wackos would be writing in about someone blowing up a set of twin towers? They would say that it was made directly to mock the attack on the WTC last year (I refuse to refer to it as 9/11 I think it sounds stupid as fuck and very US-centric. pisses me off to no end that people have to call it that. but enough of that ranting). There was talk of a perminant cancelation of Cowboy Bebop over here in light of that incident. But luckfully it didn't happen, as Cowboy bebop seems to be the best thing that Cartoon network can seem to get their hands on, except maybe outlaw star. I doubt you will see the cowboy episode any time soon, watching mushroom samba again instead is worth the exchange:)
there are better Lupin III movies in my opinion. I liked both Dark Order of Assassination and In Memory of Walther P-38 better. I can't say for certain that those are the best ones, as I still haven't seen three of the Lupin movies (nore the different TV serieses, and the comic book by Monkey Punch is pretty hard for me to get my hands on). However Castle Cagliostro ranks about 4th or 5th in my list of Lupin movies.
Lupin III is one of my favorite series of movies to watch, and I would really like to see more of it come out over here. For all of those that haven't seen any of this series, you should go rent/buy Castle Cagliostro. Someone released Mystery of Momo over here (can't remember who) on DVD. All other ones over here have been titled Rupin III: whatever, and are available from Animego (or where when I got them).
But back to the subject of Cowboy Bebop. I thought Cowboy Bebop TV series was pretty good, but you couldn't pay me to sit through that movie again, I though it was pretty poor. I couldn't watch it in one sitting, and will never watch it again. I thossed the fansub in the same bin as the Kenshin movie, Escaflowne Movie, and most of the Evangelion series (Death/Rebirth and a few episodes were all that I saved for later veiwing).
I hereby petition that someone bring Hell Teacher Nube to the US and somehow get it to me on DVD (I care not if it has English subs or is in strait Japanese) This is IMHO the greatest anime TV series ever. I have yet to see anything brought over here that could compare (however I know of a few things that have been liscenced for release over here that are on my instant buy list (Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar, Hellsing and Vol 2 of Goldenboy:) If someone could point me to where I can get fansubs or DVDs of this series I would be very greatful.
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a lot of that group works for Ion Storm now. Warren Spector (Ultima Underworlds, System Shock, Deus Ex) is working on a Theif III, and a Deus Ex 2. They pretty much still play their own tune. Ion Storm was essenially 2 groups, one headed by Romaro and the other by Spector. Romaro's group was killed off (thank god for that, we didn't need another Diakatana out there) and Spector's still remains. Though I think they are trying to get a new name (or tried at one point). LGS may be gone, but a lot of that team is still making games, which is a good thing.
What I think is one of the biggest problems facing our computer games originality is the fact that the companies don't want to get an original game, they just want one that will sell a ton of copies. They play it safe in the market instead of taking risks and we wind up with the same crap over and over again. This is the way the system always winds up working. Heads of companies want to be greedy and instead of taking a risk that could net them a crap load of cash, they take the safe road that keeps their head in but nets them a smaller amount of cash. If the companies who pay the studios would take more risks we would have a better market for computer games, but they don't so we get stuck with repeats of the same games. This has been going on in most of the other industries for years, and the computer world is catching up with them. Same trend goes on with movies, music, tv shows, and even in camera lenses.
What we need are companies who are willing to take risks and try to create new and creative products instead of the drek that we are force fed regularly. If we could get that to happen then we might get out of this billion and one Quake clones, or the extremely repetative Dune clones. We need companies who aren't afraid of change and who are willing to take the bull by the horns and get something new and different out there. Companies shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes and screw up a few times, that is what the market is really there for. Unfortunately all these companies care about is money, and that is a shame. If they cared about the customer (not consumer) they could have a much more respected business image.
I would have to put Grim Fandango and The Longest Journey higher than Sam and Max, but I agree, it is one of the best games ever made.
It isn't just 70 year olds either. No one seems to be able to read a sign unless it has 2 foot letters on it. I see this problem at school and even in the photo lab where I work. It doesn't matter how big I make a sign peo8ple never read it. I get asked about things that I have a sign explaining VERY clearly the answer to their question in PLAIN VIEW. Employees are bad, but customers are the worst. Oh, and when it comes to instructions then it is time to bring out the clue stick.
I will be enternally grateful to the first person who can teach a customer how to read and fill out a simple form. There is an order to my system, and it is a fairly easy one. Look first, if you can't find what information you want THEN you may ask. I get people who just stand at the counter (where my envelopes and paperwork are) and wait for someone to come up and will then ask about whether I can develop and print 35mm film (which is stated very clearly on the envelope along with several other formats and print options).
Speed and efficency can only be obtained when people can get a clue (maybe even develop some sort of higher level thinking, I mean I see children who can figure out how to get my system to work, but most of the adults seem to not be able to think at all). U-Scans rock (especially if someone happened to have 'let' you see the operating instuctions), they minimize my interaction with people, take my abuse well, and let me scan my own stuff quickly. I will be glad when they can figure out to let me get my beer with out stalling me too much (which won't happen till the US gets less uptight about alcohol).
would you be able to cause a medusa or hall of mirrors effect (2 different effects here, not one like someone would interpret if i don't specify). Imagine acidently spraying a bad tecture on and your computer locking up or accidently making a mirror face a mirror. And before someone makes a comment about it yes, I know hall of mirrors is a problem in the build engine and not doom (no mirrored surfaces in doom). Prohaps you could make a paralax floor in real time (or a paralax wall, which is EVIL.) I made a multiplayer level once with normal floors and paralax sky and walls, was really amusing to try to play.
And this is exactly the reason that you don't play games on a satilite connection.
This is an increadibly good thing. Think of all the great things that can be done with mods if the game is this way. You can virtually recreate anything in the game you want to be able to create a totally differant experiance. maybe iD will release a package with it that helps you create new variations of the game's mechanics.
the ultimate tool for collecting porn, next step is to attach it to another script
i use one of these myself and personally think they are great (till people mess with my forwarding tables). Setup was really simple and teaching others to set it up is simple as well. I was really impressed with it, and I recogmend it to others as well.
not to mention you can just VIEW SOURCE and just find the link to the picture in there and copy|paste it into your address bar then save the picture. :)
now what was the point of disabling my right click again? oh yeah, to piss me off.
full throttle was the game I beleive.
The Longest Journey had them too.
The only place I really see pie menues in games is in the Adventure games, the sims did obviously as well.
that thought of lenses when they saw Sigma in the header.
We need more dipshit fines. We should also make them enforcable my the citizens. I would love to drive down the street and give tickets to every fat woman who crossed the street regardless of traffic, or double parked on a small road. How about we make using celphones while walking fineable too. I can't think of all kinds of dipshit things that I see everyday that should be finable by the average joe.
I had a teacher once who had a rule: No celphones or pagers unless you had a GOOD excuse. He got to choose if the excuse was good or not, if it wasn't you lost 10% of your grade per offence. Needless to say the one time I heard one go off for a good reason was when someone was called in for military duty. The only acceptable excuses I heard that he had been given were military and medical related, and he said he would accept no other. He only had to enforce it once to keep people from using celphones. someone broke it became an example, and suddenly all celphones (almost all of the class had them with them) were turned off or on silent mode.
There is no part of working in a supermarket than the people who bring their wanker kids and weiner babies in there. The wanker kids go around making a huge mess and generally causing havok and the mom screams at them and so forth. This is pretty annoying, but not nearly as bad as their whining little runt children that don't know how to shut their damn trap. I had to put up with this shit day in and day out. Would be nice if they just banned children in stores all together (ateast children under age 5 (don't know why but that is about when they seem to get a clue and behave themselves)). I have asked many people if I made that much noise when I was young and all the people I asked said no I didn't, so I dont' know why all these little ones must make as much noise as possible. Maybe if more parents DISIPLINED their kids these days there wouldn't be a problem. You just need to start the dispilining at an early age (like year 1 or so).
Personally, I prefer BSD over linux and Solaris. I haven't gotten to compare BSD vs Solaris on a server scale, but the Sun and BSD ones that we run seem to have better performance than the Linux servers that we keep around. On a desktop I can't see a reason to use Solaris, but I guess there is on large servers, and that is really where Sun's market is anyways. We hardly ever wind up using them for desktops. Usually we use Windows and BSD to that end but we do have SPARC workstations that run Solaris, and it works just fine for what students and teachers need to be doing. Granted I have been tempted to turn the UNIX lab into a large cluster for rendering, but that is another story.
We run a Unix lab at the university and there is a bunch of remote boot systems tied into our large Sun server. Even when everyone is logged in and doing stuff, there is still almost no preformance lost. These computers are all remote booting from the the same server that everyone telnets into for the Unix shell accounts. When you need real power for a network you go with a Unix, when you need a toy you can play with a desktop operating system like Linux or Windows. I will accept Linux as a server platform as soon as I can see evidence of it working well in a setting like ours (granted I will still use the Linux servers over some of our old VMS stuff).
Is this like the famous cat and flooring system?
This is not necessarily true. If it goes down there is a chance that it will scatter radio active material throughout the country side in the form of dust (sort of a dirty bomb). However that is the least of your worries, what happens if one of these reactors has problems while flying, did anyone think of that. If you blow a nuclear reactor in the upper aptomosphere it will be a disaster the likes of which you have never seen or imagined. It will have ecological impacts that the EPA would shit themselves over.
Imagine if you will how far dust can spread if it is caught in the wind. Now imagine that this dust is radio active, because that is what you will be dealing with. It won't be just a simple explosion like a Nuke, it will be FAR worse and have the possibility of doing massive harm for a very large area, potentially making areas bigger than texas uninhabitable. We should not be putting nuclear reactors in air planes for this reason. At least when naplam hits it burns out quickly (in geological terms atleast), this stuff will last a VERY long time and contaminate VERY large areas. which would you rather have a quick burning death or a slow aginising death due to radioactive poisoning. I think I would rather have the quick painful death instead of the long painful death.
Of course it is free. Everything is free as long as you have the ability to not get caught making off with it. It is on a need to have basis and if you lack the skills than you don't need to have the painting.
why not just make it start a remote install of a random linux distro on the given computer if it isn't already running *nix. If you did it that way then you wouldn't have to deal with all the ugly ass people who can't seem to figure out how to get anything to start for themselves. Prohaps make it so that it doesn't install X at all so they are stuck in the command prompt world and leave them to figure out how get out. Would definately clean up the 'net a bit.
First think I thought of when I saw it was to mount guns on it. Maybe a 20mm gun or a .50 cal minigun (neither being in a fixed mount). Would be quite useful for military applications, and wouldn't surprise me if it was already being developed with some in mind. Refine the technology enough and you will have some really nice battle platforms for ground operations. maybe we can make it look and act like a scorpion too :)
this is a great thing for several reasons. Smart bombs are REALLY easy to track back to the source, however I would really like to see you track an infer-red beam back to its source with out all of your kit out there looking for when it is going to hit. You can track projectiles after they are fired, missles can be don by radar, lasers like this have to have special fliters and optical equipment, and even then there is no garauntee that you will even see it because you have to have everything set up just right.
On a side note using this on people is a lot like using fragmentation devices (mines, gernades, and various types of artillary rounds). If you kill the person you take out one person. If you mame someone you have take out not just one person but the people who have to take him back to camp. Effectively for the price of killing on person you have killed no one but still taken several people out of combat. Also, someone has to feed and house this newly made blind man, and that ties up resources, resources that would be used against you otherwise.
Also, the military's job is not to kill, but to win battles. Killing is only one route to this end, there are other ways to reach this but killing is the most common.
Honestly, I don't see why so many people here have thier panties in a knot over this. I personally think we should release the ban on cloning and get rid of most of the Geneva Convention. War is a beast that should be let live unchained, and free. It doesn't have a need to be 'civil' or 'elegant'. The only thing that will afford is giving the battle to the person who has the highest technology. The feild should go to whoever wants it the most and is willing to throw the most resources at it. The 'horrors' this laser could do are nothing compared to what can be done with chlorine gas, shrapnel filled cannons, or 15mm machine guns.
there is a liscencing system for hardware and software on consoles. Anything not liscenced is not an authorized peice of equipment. It would be like making and selling custom shirts with band logos with out permission to do so. Nothing too serious, the idea is that they unauthorized peice of hardware is cutting down on funds that the company could be making by letting such a peice of hardware be legally purchasable. However, if you don't do something that is major like selling copied games with it, no one is really going to care.
Black Dog Serenade and Pierrot Le Fou back to back. Now there is an hour of quality television. almost all of my favorite episodes are here. add Mushroom Samba and the one with the one where Spike hunts the mold from the fridge and you would have a perfect set.
I think that was the only episode I didn't like either. But I understand why they don't air it, do you know how many wackos would be writing in about someone blowing up a set of twin towers? They would say that it was made directly to mock the attack on the WTC last year (I refuse to refer to it as 9/11 I think it sounds stupid as fuck and very US-centric. pisses me off to no end that people have to call it that. but enough of that ranting). There was talk of a perminant cancelation of Cowboy Bebop over here in light of that incident. But luckfully it didn't happen, as Cowboy bebop seems to be the best thing that Cartoon network can seem to get their hands on, except maybe outlaw star. I doubt you will see the cowboy episode any time soon, watching mushroom samba again instead is worth the exchange :)
there are better Lupin III movies in my opinion. I liked both Dark Order of Assassination and In Memory of Walther P-38 better. I can't say for certain that those are the best ones, as I still haven't seen three of the Lupin movies (nore the different TV serieses, and the comic book by Monkey Punch is pretty hard for me to get my hands on). However Castle Cagliostro ranks about 4th or 5th in my list of Lupin movies.
:) If someone could point me to where I can get fansubs or DVDs of this series I would be very greatful.
Lupin III is one of my favorite series of movies to watch, and I would really like to see more of it come out over here. For all of those that haven't seen any of this series, you should go rent/buy Castle Cagliostro. Someone released Mystery of Momo over here (can't remember who) on DVD. All other ones over here have been titled Rupin III: whatever, and are available from Animego (or where when I got them).
But back to the subject of Cowboy Bebop. I thought Cowboy Bebop TV series was pretty good, but you couldn't pay me to sit through that movie again, I though it was pretty poor. I couldn't watch it in one sitting, and will never watch it again. I thossed the fansub in the same bin as the Kenshin movie, Escaflowne Movie, and most of the Evangelion series (Death/Rebirth and a few episodes were all that I saved for later veiwing).
I hereby petition that someone bring Hell Teacher Nube to the US and somehow get it to me on DVD (I care not if it has English subs or is in strait Japanese) This is IMHO the greatest anime TV series ever. I have yet to see anything brought over here that could compare (however I know of a few things that have been liscenced for release over here that are on my instant buy list (Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar, Hellsing and Vol 2 of Goldenboy