Well now this is interesting! 

Quote:(From Tim Eldred: 7-4-11)
 
"Makoto Kobayashi, mecha designer of Yamato Resurrection and occasional
employee of Enagio Studio announced at the closing ceremonies of Anime Expo
that he is currently contributing to a remake of Star Blazers! (He actually
meant Space Battleship Yamato but used the English title for the benefit of
the American audience.)
"This confirms what we learned last December in
Tokyo for Yamatour 2010. At our farewell dinner with the staff of Yamato
Party, we were told that they had seen pre-production art for a new TV series
that would remake the original. Story development had been underway for quite
a while, scripts were written, and designs were being worked on. These are
the pickiest Yamato fans on Earth, and they were very impressed by what they
saw.
"In fact, I saw some of the mecha designs myself by accident; I
purchased several collections of model sheets from Yamato Resurrection last
year, and a few dozen images from the new series somehow slipped in. They're
mostly Yamato interiors,
reimagined with new technology. The exterior of the
ship is largely unchanged and has already been seen by many; we were told
that the 1/500 Bandai model kit released in December is essentially the new
TV version. The designs that fell into my hands also included fighter craft
and a few pages of Gamilas ships. There were also some text documents with
very early concept notes about important points to be developed.
"The
most critical data has not yet been announced: when and how it will
debut. Kobayashi's announcement merely confirms that he is working on the
project for next year. No other details are available, but I'll keep
watching."

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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Bob, would you be okay with me making my GURPS IST One Note folder publically available?  I have links in it to both your extended IST timeline as well as the front page of Access Denied.  Also, I have a link to the e23 page for GURPS IST.
If you'd like, I can shoot you a link while it's still restricted so you can take a look at it.  If you've got Windows 7, you don't need Office 2010 to view it, you can view it in your browser.

This is one of those questions that's been bugging me for a while. It has little story value (Fenspace economics being vastly different from the 'Danelaw), but it could seem interesting from a Fen-Dane interaction perspective.

I initially was thinking more about real estate (or equivalent of) prices, so I went and worked out how much 'land' Ki had. Using what I believe were conservative estimates, I got a figure of 3389 acres for Ki alone (I can share my workings if anyone wants), which is about 2561 American or 1920 Association (Soccer) football fields[1].

Obviously this wasn't quite what I expected.

Next I tried finding some estimates for Asteroid values. Again this wasn't quite what I expected, given the values bandied about. We're talking trillions of dollars for a stereotypical 1km asteroid in materials alone (I'm assuming a metallic asteroid). Eeep.

In terms of personal wealth, I've already given A.C. a value of about AS$6.5 million as of April 2013 in Journeys through tarnished dreams, but that was before things like Cybertech medical trials finishing and civilian wrist-com licensing and other things.

This leaves me stumped as to actual values. Sure I can say A.C.'s very rich and most everyone will agree, but I'd like to know roughly how much.

Any ideas?

[1] Actually a little over in both cases.

After looking at a lot of the Stuff for Fate/Stay Night, I liked the idea of some of the Classes and such, so my Muse started coming up with a potential idea for the Epic Heroes.
then I though, why have all the fun to my self? Who would you have in your Grail Tourney, what class would they be and their noble phantasm? and remember, cuz it's Type Moon, we can swap a gender or two (In one game Saber and Rider are Emperor Nero and Francis Drake, both women. )
Here's what I came up with, will try and get around to writing for them, it's an interesting cast.
Saber: Jone de Arc
Archer: Ned Kelly
Rider: Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel
Caster: Rasputin
Berserker: William Wallace
Assassin: Jackelyn the Ripper (needed at least one gender bent toon and some theory's said it was a woman )
Lancer: Vlad the Impaler
Noble Phantasims will be posted when I do a bit more reserch on them, but till then, throw your ideas in, be interesting to see what you can come up with.

It's been a while, and since I was scratching away at my fic, I thought I'd re-watch the series a little.

First, I'm sort of astounded by how old the animation actually looks. It really does look like it dates back to 1995. I can see the individual colours in the background, the different shades of paint they used, that sort of matte flatness that comes from paint on paper. It's exciting to see in a modern world of digital ink, evidence of actual human beings working on something. It's a very physical and visceral sensation, kind of like the light crackle of a needle touching a record for the first time. It's a human work, about characters who are human beings and not animé archetypes.

From a colourful OP that grabs your attention with a catchy pop-song, without falling into the trap of squeaky over-cute bubble-pop . The first episode sort of feels like a mix between a classic kaiju film with all the military getting swatted away by the big unstoppable monster , and then into Thunderbirds with the readying of Unit 01 for launch. Everything's very tight and controlled, while Rebuild goes the 'Ooh Shiny' route far more, the original series feels much tighter focusing on what's important.

I'm not really sure whether it's worth a full topic or not, but I forgot how fascinating this series is to actually watch. It still looks and feels so different. It's still so exciting to watch. And the dub ain't half bad. I'm just glad I saw down and watched it.

And Service! Service! Service!
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Right Stuf/Nozumi - More Dirty Pair, license rescue for Gasaraki and Martian Successor Nadesico. Included in the Nadesico one is the Gekigengar 3 OAV which has never been released stateside
Aniplex - Blue Exorcist dvds confirmed.... oh, and a little known series known as Puella Magi Madoka Magica...

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There is no coincidence, only necessity....
- Clow Reed

Okay, I thought Sarah Palin was a fluke with her version of Paul Revere.  Now you have Michelle Bachman and her take on American history

What is it with these people?  I realize the last president who was a scholar and educator was probably Woodrow Wilson. I do expect a putative POTUS to have at least have a grasp of history that a high schooler would have. What is even more disturbing is that they stand by their statements..even in face of the evidence. At least correct their mistakes. Is it a case of anti-intellectualism bias. I do realize there is a strain of American bias against "weisenheimers" and "eggheads".  Then again, this is the land that came out with "Beavis and Butthead"  and "Dumb and Dumber", so maybe I should not be surpised by this.
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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

The 'Frostiana' thread inspired me to ask of this. Leslie Fish has done a bunch of Kipling poems to music. Wonder what Doug could do with a few of those...
Pict Song, for instance:

Quote:Rome never looks where she treads.
Always her heavy hooves fall
On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads;
And Rome never heeds when we bawl.
Her sentries pass on--that is all,
And we gather behind them in hordes,
And plot to reconquer the Wall,
With only our tongues for our swords.

We are the Little Folk--we!
Too little to love or to hate.
Leave us alone and you'll see
How we can drag down the State!
We are the worm in the wood!
We are the rot at the root!
We are the taint in the blood!
We are the thorn in the foot!

Mistletoe killing an oak--
Rats gnawing cables in two--
Moths making holes in a cloak--
How they must love what they do!
Yes--and we Little Folk too,
We are busy as they--
Working our works out of view--
Watch, and you'll see it some day!

No indeed! We are not strong,
But we know Peoples that are.
Yes, and we'll guide them along
To smash and destroy you in War!
We shall be slaves just the same?
Yes, we have always been slaves,
But you--you will die of the shame,
And then we shall dance on your graves!

Quote:Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady!
Watch for a smooth! Give way!
If she feels the lop already
She'll stand on her head in the bay.
It's ebb--it's dusk--it's blowing--
The shoals are a mile of white,
But ( snatch her along! ) we're going
To find our master to-night.
For we hold that in all disaster
Of shipwreck, storm, or sword,
A Man must stand by his Master
When once he has pledged his word.
Raging seas have we rowed in
But we seldom saw them thus,
Our master is angry with Odin--
Odin is angry with us!
Heavy odds have we taken,
But never before such odds.
The Gods know they are forsaken.
We must risk the wrath of the Gods!
Over the crest she flies from,
Into its hollow she drops,
Cringes and clears her eyes from
The wind-torn breaker-tops,
Ere out on the shrieking shoulder
Of a hill-high surge she drives.
Meet her! Meet her and hold her!
Pull for your scoundrel lives!
The thunder below and clamor
The harm that they mean to do!
There goes Thor's own Hammer
Cracking the dark in two!
Close! But the blow has missed her,
Here comes the wind of the blow!
Row or the squall'Il twist her
Broadside on to it!--Row!
Heark'ee, Thor of the Thunder!
We are not here for a jest--
For wager, warfare, or plunder,
Or to put your power to test.
This work is none of our wishing--
We would house at home if we might--
But our master is wrecked out fishing.
We go to find him to-night.
For we hold that in all disaster--
As the Gods Themselves have said--
A Man must stand by his Master
Till one of the two is dead.
That is our way of thinking,
Now you can do as you will,
While we try to save her from sinking
And hold her head to it still.
Bale her and keep her moving,
Or she'll break her back in the trough. . . .
Who said the weather's improving,
Or the swells are taking off?
Sodden, and chafed and aching,
Gone in the loins and knees--
No matter--the day is breaking,
And there's far less weight to the seas!
Up mast, and finish baling--
In oar, and out with mead--
The rest will be two-reef sailing. . . .
That was a night indeed!
But we hold it in all disaster
(And faith, we have found it true!)
If only you stand by your Master,
The Gods will stand by you!

Quote:Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade."
"Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all."
So he made rebellion 'gainst the King his liege,
Camped before his citadel and summoned it to siege.
"Nay!" said the cannoneer on the castle wall,
"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- shall be master of you all!"
Woe for the Baron and his knights so strong,
When the cruel cannon-balls laid 'em all along;
He was taken prisoner, he was cast in thrall,
And Iron -- Cold Iron -- was master of it all!
Yet his King spake kindly (ah, how kind a Lord!)
"What if I release thee now and give thee back thy sword?"
"Nay!" said the Baron, "mock not at my fall,
For Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of men all."
"Tears are for the craven, prayers are for the clown --
Halters for the silly neck that cannot keep a crown."
"As my loss is grievous, so my hope is small,
For Iron -- Cold Iron -- must be master of men all!"
Yet his King made answer (few such Kings there be!)
"Here is Bread and here is Wine -- sit and sup with me.
Eat and drink in Mary's Name, the whiles I do recall
How Iron -- Cold Iron -- can be master of men all!"
He took the Wine and blessed it. He blessed and brake the Bread.
With His own Hands He served Them, and presently He said:
"See! These Hands they pierced with nails, outside My city wall,
Show Iron -- Cold Iron -- to be master of men all."
"Wounds are for the desperate, blows are for the strong.
Balm and oil for weary hearts all cut and bruised with wrong.
I forgive thy treason -- I redeem thy fall --
For Iron -- Cold Iron -- must be master of men all!"
"Crowns are for the valiant -- sceptres for the bold!
Thrones and powers for mighty men who dare to take and hold!"
"Nay!" said the Baron, kneeling in his hall,
"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of men all!
Iron out of Calvary is master of men all!"

Some folks here might remember Usenet... Specifically, some folks here might remember the Usenet anime-announcement group rec.arts.anime.info, and how it went dormant some months before the group's moderator, Steve Pearl, passed away in 2007.

As of today, rec.arts.anime.info has a new moderation team (of two, one of whom is, well, me) and is back in operation.

So I have a favour to ask: If you're still using Usenet and you have any sort of anime-related announcement to make (anime convention announcements, anime FAQs, anime reviews, anime news, and so on), please post that announcement to rec.arts.anime.info as well as wherever you're already posting it. The group needs the content... but it doesn't need any noise.
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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