...has Yuku suddenly started handling "new posts" and page updates reasonably this morning?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

...Pick a server none of us frequent, look up the List of Seven Hundred
Hobo Names, and create a supergroup composed solely of characters inspired by any names that will fit into the field. ^.^ It's time the hobos returned
from the stars and resumed their conquest of the United States!

...or not. In any case, I call dibs on 41-K, the Experimental Hobo Infiltration Droid.

--Sam

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On the news of the station that shows CSI here, they recently had a special report on the dangers of text messaging while driving.

The idea that anyone would need that explained to them makes my head hurt. Or it makes me want to write things in all capital letters. With cursing. Lots of
cursing.

I mean, talking on cell phones is bad enough (and I ranted about that before somewhere), but this?

I think I'll propose that all cars be fitted with faraday cages. -.-

Alternatively, how about anyone using their phone while driving will have their phone taken from them and smashed then and there? That'd probably help.

-Morgan.

....According to the latest volume (28) to come from DH, six times All-Heaven Broom Racing champion. While their cats' old vacuum cleaner won the demon's Broom racing series championship eight times running, when the possessed cat was a demon.

Howdy folks! (^_^)

Just wanted to be the first to congratulate Bob for getting Evangelia to 50 tonight. Woohoo! ^_^

Regards,

Bert V.V.

Somebody's got way too much time on his or her hands. Apparently, this was copied from somebody's blog (don't know the URL).

I think I recognize about half the characters. There's characters from at least four Steps and two Staggers in the mix, and the timeframe ranges from at least the early-1990s to now...



 
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Just something thats been bothering me for a while which I finally got written down.

I've managed to get my finances under control from last holiday season and top off my retirement plan for the tax year, and still have some cash in the luxury budget. (Yay!) So, I decided to see what I might want to get from Hobby Link Japan.

I found two that I ended up ordering: http://www.hlj.com/product/HAP80412 and http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT33929. (Yay!)

(Edit: Shima is now listed as "discontinued" - I hope that means I got the last one, not that they can't get one for me...)

I found three others that I want to buy, but they aren't being made any more. (sigh)

• There's a pretty figure of http://www.hlj.com/product/YUJ91864 out there... (sigh)
  
• I've wanted a figure of http://www.hlj.com/product/YUJ92375 for a while - it's the only one of her that isn't available. (Aargh!)
  
• The Fenspace crowd will know why it really hurts that this figure of http://www.hlj.com/product/MAX04014 is the same scale as my figure of Kohran Li... (Aarrrgh!!!)
  

We've had threads for crossovers that should not be, but how about the most horrible non-crossover rabid plot bunnies to ever leap through one's brain.
Here's one from me, in just three words: "Urotsukidoji: The Musical."

--The Twisted One

Why must you irk me so......

Well, they do. I mean since I've acquired a first-gen PSP, when I'm not playing Socom, Ridge Racer or Lumens. I can be found toiling away with Valkyrie Profile, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II or (a recent score for me) Sakura Taisen 1+2.
Now the FFs ain't bad as the only previous FF series experience I'd had was with the PC demo of FF7 eons ago. That and pretty much every non-D&D RPG I've played uses a knockoff FF UI. Also the PSP ports of FF let you mess with peeps by the not so hidden option of using Japaneses text instead of English.
But I think most of us would use the other latin character set based language built into the game instead. I think it's French.

Valkyrie Profile on the other hand, nice graphics, decent gameplay, great sound, Odin's a perv, nice pre-rendered cut scenes pity you can't skip any of them! The first thing anyone should once you start the game is put the PSP down rig up something to tap a button every so often and come back in an hour or less. That's how long it takes to just get at the meat of the game. Not fun when you must do that umpteen hundred times, at different difficulty levels just to unlock all the goodies.....

Then we come to Sakura Taisen 1+2, not a bad game. Pity there's no english port, cause it's all in japanese. At least there are some translations & walkthroughs on-line to help us nihongo deprived muddle through. However, besides the language grip, my biggest irk with the game is: why do they use the circle button for the enter key, instead of the cross button. I drives me bonkers for a bit after playing and I'm using the PSP for something else and each time I hit enter, I'm hitting escape/cancel/no instead.

Meh, I suppose when you get down to it, it almost as annoying as a PSP with a malfunctioning D-pad, of which mine is currently afflicted with (hit down and end up 50% chance of going right, 30% chance of going down, 20% chance of going left). But that's an easily rectified mechanical fault, everything else is down to the code.

--Rod.H
This has been another Rod.H stream of ramble