http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffb ... rom=ghibli
The Toronto International Film Festival is showing a fifteen-film retrospective of Studio Ghibli's work entitled "Spirited Away:  The Films of Studio Ghibli".
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Castle in the Sky
Only Yesterday
Ponyo
My Neighbor Totoro
Princess Mononoke
Whisper of the Heart
Porco Rosso
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Cat Returns
The Ocean Waves
My Neighbor the Yamadas
Pom Poko
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
With a 3 1/2 to 4 hour trip, plus border crossings, there is no way I can make it.

So, this is a thing.


Here's the order page. I'm rather tempted.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uHHmTSDCvA
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

I can't go look on FF.net right now, which would probably answer the question definitively, but I'm too curious to wait until I get home from work tonight.

Does anyone know of any Nanoha/Evangelion crossovers?

Does anyone know of any good ones?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.953
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Graveguard: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Street Justice
Secondary Power Set: Regeneration
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Heavy Blow

• (A) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (13) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance
  
• (15) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge
  
• (15) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (19) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (19) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative)
  

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
  
• (3) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
  
• (3) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge
  
• (5) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration
  

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
  
• (9) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (34) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
  

• (A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod
  
• (11) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge
  
• (11) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy
  
• (13) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Endurance
  

• (A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (42) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
  
• (43) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
  
• (43) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (43) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (21) Mako's Bite - Damage/Endurance
  
• (21) Mako's Bite - Damage/Recharge
  
• (23) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (23) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (25) Mako's Bite - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
  

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
  
• (33) Numina's Convalescence - Endurance/Recharge
  
• (34) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge
  
• (34) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Aegis - Resistance
  
• (42) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (45) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (46) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
  
• (46) Aegis - Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
  
• (17) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
  
• (17) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge
  

• (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (36) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  
• (37) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  
• (37) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (37) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
  

• (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  
• (31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (33) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  
• (33) Serendipity - Defense
  
• (36) Serendipity - Defense/Endurance
  
• (45) Serendipity - Defense/Recharge
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  
• (25) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  

• (A) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (27) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance
  
• (27) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge
  
• (29) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (29) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (31) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative)
  

• (A) Regenerative Tissue - Heal/Endurance
  
• (50) Regenerative Tissue - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (50) Regenerative Tissue - Heal/Recharge
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (48) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  
• (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  
• (42) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge
  

• (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (39) Mako's Bite - Damage/Endurance
  
• (39) Mako's Bite - Damage/Recharge
  
• (39) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (40) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (40) Mako's Bite - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
  

• (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  

• (A) Triage - Heal/Endurance
  
• (45) Triage - Heal/Recharge
  
• (46) Triage - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Perfect Zinger - Taunt
  
• (48) Perfect Zinger - Taunt/Recharge
  
• (48) Perfect Zinger - Taunt/Range
  
• (50) Perfect Zinger - Taunt/Recharge/Range
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
  
• (5) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
  
• (7) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Energy Manipulator - EndMod
  
• (7) Energy Manipulator - EndMod/Recharge
  
• (9) Energy Manipulator - Chance to Stun
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

Story here.
(For those who don't recognize the name, he was the conceptual artist who created the look-and-feel of Star Wars for George Lucas.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear ... said_.html
Ms. Fluke has not aceepted his apology and neither did one of his former corporate sponsors. Now I am curious:
1.  When Mr. Limbaugh would play the "martyr" card?
2. How many of his fans would stand by him?
3. More importantly, would Clearwater stand by him? 
__________________
Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Hello
I'd like to ask members for short self inserts set in one of my "toy" wargame/RPG universe's.
Specifically I'd like to request interested site members to read over the info pointed to in the links below and then write a short self inserts of what they think their reaction would be to the described attack and attempted invasion of the US in march of 1998 of my wargame/RPG universe..
One thing to remember is that the Star Trek franchise doesn't exist in this version of the Star Gate universe instead it was "Galaxy Quest".  Other than the mentioned Star Trek it is safe to assume that all other science fiction from our universe also exist within this "toy" universe.
To save bandwith on this site if you write something for the wargame/RGP "toy"  I've labeled "Voyages End" you can email your work to me at this email address.
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supermanunbound@yahoo.com
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As an added benefit, unless the person submitting the self insert says otherwise I'll merge it with any others sent my way and put them all in a single HTML file and place a link to the short stories and snippets file on my Hobbies page and within the Voyages End file.
Before I forget please keep it PG-13 if you want your self insert posted I've got some young family members that have my hobbie page link and like Starfleet Battles, so they probably won't be able to resist reading the self inserts.
My reasons for this thread is to find out what other people(both in the US and around the world) think the version of themselves living in the Star Gate universe on march 6th and 7th in 1998 would do when they see the "Fires in the Sky" and are able to watch on TV and/or experience live the actual attacks of alien fighters flying almost randomly over both Canada and the eastern half of the United States.
What would your self insert of march 1998 think about the live televised Emergency Broadcast from the President stating the US was under attack, but currently all incoming fire was being intercepted by Reagan era star wars technology, but please seek shelter below ground level?
What would they think of a unedited or live video showing what at first was a series of high altitude explosions, followed by becoming a glowing cloud that quickly descends, dims and resolves in the camera's telephoto lenses into a swarm of what must be thousands of alien fighters?
What would your self insert make of the camera's audio pickup as he or she finally notices an ever increasing rumble that is air force Jets starting to fill the sky over DC? Then follow this with the sudden appearance of contrails pointing toward the descending swarm each representing climbing missiles fired from all around the viewers horizon as the massive attack drops below 100,000 feet over Washington DC.
What would your self insert think/do  when the US military and even the military of nations know for being close US allies are reported to be activating science fiction energy fields over bases and around Navy vessels?
How would your self insert react during the hours of partially and confusingly  televised invasion firefights both on the ground in D. C. and in the skis over half of America and parts of Canada?
What would he or she be thinking as telescopic cameras are sending live feeds of a large US Navy carrier group complete with two Battleships moving in close to the East coast around  Washington DC and are engaged by several alien gunships and alien fighter craft?
What would you/they think of seeing world wide video and news reports of what must be immense explosion occurring sometimes close enough to the upper atmosphere to make it glow for long periods and at other times what must be tens of thousands of kilometers from the planet.
What would your self insert think/do when they see the video or worse yet are a eye witness to several alien gunships rising up and taking on a large US Navy fleet off the east coast near DC?
What would they think when they see two Battleships firing 16 inch shells at the area where reports say alien infantry has landed and then notice that those Battleships and other Navy ships are using energy weapons and force fields or energy shields to partially protect themselves from what ever the aliens are firing at them.  
What would your self insert think after roughly six hours of the above alien attack reports complete with unedited video suddenly again being replaced by a calm US President speaking to US citizens telling them the invasion force has nearly been defeated and  revealing that the fires and lights in the skies around the Earth is a single US star ship standing off two alien battleships and as soon as the rest of America's star ship fleet returns from interstellar space they will overwhelm and destroy the two Gou'ald star ships.
 
There are links provided to my note file that give more detail, but after the links at the bottom of this message I'll give a quick over view, warnings and some samples from the "Voyages End" note file.

LINKS
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First the front page of my hobby site it has a little more info and the shortcut  links for civilian and military self inserts.
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http://hmelton314159265.webs.com/
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"Voyages End"  reference point to read from for a civilian self insert for march 1998 invasion.
Unless your self insert was a civilian very closely associated with the military use this as your starting point because the first you will know about the invasion is when the "fires in the sky" are lit above Washington DC. 
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http://hmelton314159265.w...esEnd.html#Firesinthesky
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Use this if your self insert was in the military or is a civilian very closely associated with the military.
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http://hmelton314159265.w...yagesEnd.html#Mobilizing
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For completeness a link to the head of the "Voyages End" RPG file
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http://hmelton314159265.webs.com/VoyagesEnd.html
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I know it's only a very remote possibility, but in case of a Bandwidth overload here is a backup link for the "Voyages End" file.
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http://supermanunbound.angelfire.com/VoyagesEnd.html
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OVERVIEW and WARNINGS
Voyages End is a rough RPG/wargame universe that mixes a Star Gate alternate universe with elements of Star Trek Voyager and a Star Trek war game called "Star Fleet Battles".
I've been playing with this private wargame/RPG for the past few years and making background notes and rough rules about how  it mentally games out, at least how I mentally game it out.
First let me warn you the original point for me was the mixing of modern 20th century technology, Star fleet Battle's take on trekology and Star Gate technology so there are large sections that will probably only interest a gamer or engineer. Feel free to skim or completely skip those sections if you want to read all the notes.
Also I'll mention that I was more interested in creating a internally consistent game universe than in closely matching what was seen in any individual episode of Star Trek or Star Gate, so some of the RPG background and rules will contradict episodes of both Star Gate and Star Trek.

SAMPLES from Voyages End
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1310:15 EST March 6, 1998
The 100 megaton range plasma explosions slowly walking down into the upper atmosphere above the east coast are clearly visible across more than half the continent.  The President uses the EBS or Emergency Broadcast System sending warnings of the attack and orders all civilians to seek shelter below ground.  He also assures the general public that the military is fully prepared and that secret "star wars" equipment developed during the Reagan era is currently intercepting all incoming rounds at least a 1000 kilometers above the surface.
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The 1147 Death Gliders that succeed in escorting the troop transports through the waves of unguided long range Battleship scramjet shells and then through the barrage of guided missiles fired from surface bases, several coast guard vessels and land based fighter jets quickly sweep the sky clean of all airborne American aircraft and then follow this up minutes later by overwhelming and burning the unshielded coast guard vessels. Less than ten minutes after reaching 1000 meters the swarm of troop transports Death Gliders have achieved complete air superiority over Washington and the surrounding area as all unshielded military anti-aircraft assets are overwhelmed and destroyed and the heavily shielded bases run dry of missiles and are forced hide behind their shields with only a few obsolete small caliber anti-aircraft guns to reply to the Death Gliders.
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What follows for Voyager and the world is a highly visible running battle that spirals and hop scotches in and out around the Earth and Moon dozens of times and includes several  dozen atmosphere grazing approaches to Earth over the next six hours. This constant if unpredictable "FIRE IN THE SKY" almost upstages the news video being broadcast world wide of the Death Gliders attacking first Washington DC and then moving on to other towns and cities of America's  Eastern coast and Canada. This initial devastating attack is followed by ever spreading dog fights and ground strafing raids that ultimately reach beyond the Mississippi river into the central part of  the United States.  The alien craft are shown world wide via live news feeds from terrified news crews as they watch American and Canadian forces engaging them with fighters, helicopters and surface missiles shooting down alien craft often just before they are overwhelmed by what at first seems to be a unlimited number of alien fighters firing energy weapons.
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 The Voyager's battle circles the planet dozens of times as Janeway and her swarm of phaser armed shuttles desperately fight the Ha'taks. Her battle is putting on a irregular show that varies from distant, but intensely bright pin prick flashes to atmosphere churning close approaches that cause the extreme upper atmosphere to glow brightly on the day side and creates frightening levels of light for unnervingly long periods on the night side. The spray of multiple megaton range Plasma bolts being intercepted and detonated prematurely along with direct shield hits from multiple 64 megaton and 500 kiloton photons makes for a clearly noticeable show even when the battle in space races out to the moon on the night side of the planet and is an almost unnoticeable, series of  pinpricks of intensely bright light in the blue sky of Earth's day side.
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Even if you don't write anything I hope you have fun gaming your self insert in the Voyages End universe.
hmelton

 

In the sprit of the Big Red Button of the Internets... I present http://mirrors.rit.edu/instantCSI/InstantCSI.swf]this! (It really should be embedded but the code escapes me). I just must press it....the one liner I've yet to do.