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  Some More AMV Suggestions (mostly older AMV)
Posted by: Jeanne Hedge - 04-17-2010, 06:04 PM - Forum: Anime Music Videos - Replies (5)

Since search never works, I don't know if you've talked about these before, but here are several of my current favorites (though they're probably all considered "old").  All available from animemusicvideos.org.
"Ad Caelum" from Honou Productions - music = the opening from the HBO series "From Earth to the Moon". This video is a valentine to flight.
"AMV Night in Canada" from Eh-MV Studios. This opens with a parody of Hockey Night in Canada, and jumps to all sorts of goofy amv clips that were created especially for this video (I wish some of them were their own full AMV).  Comedy, definitely.
"Classical Flight" from Vlad G Pohnert - music = "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams. Multiple Miyazaki/Ghibli anime.  Action.
"In Memory of Soldier A" from NeoMikey.  Comedy tribute to the so-essential anime character, "soldier A".
"Live at Budokan" from Honou Productions - music = "Rock of Ages" by Def Leppard.  Every anime band/character who sings seems to be in this thing.  A real music video.
"The Look" from Vlad G Pohnert - music =   "The Look" by Roxette.  A tribute to some kick-butt-and-take-names ladies of anime, circa 2001.
"Moondance" from Premonition Studios - it's an instrumental using music of the same name. Featured anime = Sailor Moon (of course). SM spoilers for anything past the R-movie (including the S-series and beyond). Action.
"A New Kind of Art" from Darkmag - music = "99 Red Balloons" (in English).  Multiple anime. Action.
"Sappy Self-Indulgence" from Kuroyaro - music = the elephant love song montage in Moulin Rouge, sung by Nicole Kidman and Ewan MacGregor. Comic/romantic/sappy.
Self-Titled from Kuroyaro - music = "Golden Slumbers," "Carry the Weight," "The End" by The Beatles. Action.
"A View to a Kill" from Vlad G Pohnert - music = "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran.  Profile (City Hunter)
"We Want You" from Vlad G Pohnert - music = "In the Navy". Multiple anime. Parody/Comedy.
"We Need You" - the follow-up.  music = "It's a Good Day to Die" by that singing SkyMarshal from Starship Troopers 3.  Multiple anime.  Parody/Comedy.
(ok, just about anime AMV that Vlad G Pohnert has done)

[Image: 6bf36ddc1d2c96930d75576c361a9b3f8152885f.gif]Jeanne Hedge
www.jhedge.com

"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia

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  Acyl Art: Sachie Hanagawa (B-Day Gift for Valles)
Posted by: Acyl - 04-17-2010, 11:42 AM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (18)

Valles' birthday was Monday. This is somewhat belated.
It's a pretty crappy colouring job, but I got lazy. There's also a ton of bleed in the colour and a few stray lines. I'm pretty happy with the base lineart, though, so I might go back and recolour this later.
This is Sachie Hanagawa - whom you all should know by now. If you don't, then, uh, I got nothin'.
[Image: sachie1lo.jpg]
Direct Link to Image
Higher Res Version
Valles, I have an even larger version of this image if you want to print it - the actual size I drew at. Let me know when you're back home so I can mail it.
-- Acyl

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  Costume Design: Gatchaman
Posted by: Logan Darklighter - 04-17-2010, 10:02 AM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (9)

"Sometimes one, sometimes five; the white shadow that moves unseen..."

[Image: gman_alex-0011.jpg]
Ken the Eagle

[Image: G1-Ken-01.jpg][Image: G1-Ken-02.jpg][Image: G1-Ken-03.jpg]
Joe the Condor
[Image: G2-Joe-01.jpg][Image: G2-Joe-02.jpg]

Jun the Swan
[Image: G3-Jun-01.jpg][Image: G3-Jun-02.jpg]

Jinpei the Swallow
[Image: G4-Jinpei-01.jpg][Image: G4-Jinpei-02.jpg]
Ryu the Horned Owl
[Image: G5-Ryu-02.jpg][Image: G5-Ryu-03.jpg]

Just some fun I had designing costumes. What do you think? ^_^

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  Embers Discussion: Spoilers from Ch 30
Posted by: Herr Bad Moon - 04-17-2010, 07:00 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction - Replies (11)

Spoilers 

I've tried to keep liking this story.  I really have.  But with Chapter 30, it's about time I threw in the towel.  I was ok with Zuko being Captain SuperGreat! and getting all kinds of Marty Stu power ups, I could tolerate Katara being a five star biatch to everyone but Aang, and I could live with but dislike the apologism for the Fire Nation that was written into the background.  Now?  Now Katara is so axe crazy she's genocidal, and due to the magic plot power that was given to Water and Fire benders, everyone around her becomes genocidal too!  I just had to throw up my hands.  Despite it being very well written, it's descended into the kind of character assassination that I haven't seen since the Fiance Wars back in the old days of the internet.  Vathara, you had me, then you lost me.
---
Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

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  Commission: Battery Acid
Posted by: Acyl - 04-17-2010, 03:24 AM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (2)

So, Sofaspud actually got this commission as a gift for me...some time ago. I just completely forgot to post about it here. Picture by Dave Reynolds, who does, among other things, the webcomic Shadowgirls.
This is Battery Acid, my main villain, an Elec/Will Brute.

[Image: BatteryAcid2.jpg] 
Or view it on DeviantArt
(Thanks, Sofa! =)
-- Acyl

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  Always read the Terms & Conditions
Posted by: robkelk - 04-17-2010, 02:12 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (1)

Gamer.Blorge: http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/04/16/game ... your-soul/]Gamestation may own your soul

Luckily, they're giving all the souls back. All 7500 of them. (The 12% of people who actually read the T&Cs and opted out of giving away their souls are getting £5 gift certificates instead.)
--
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

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  The Abuse of Child Abuse
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 04-16-2010, 02:50 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (13)

An interesting article about the apparent exaggeration of what constitutes the sexual abuse of children, driven by a mix of obsessed crusaders and an industry that's grown up around "treating" alleged victims.  Doesn't minimize the enormity of actual abuse, but it does raise questions about what actually constitutes abuse, and how many people have actually been abused.  Worth reading even if you don't agree with the writer's conclusions.

Quote:And here is where the excesses of the crusade against child abuse
become not just over-zealous and silly, but irresponsible, even
abusive. Most of us didn’t have to grow under the shadow of imminent,
omnipresent paedophilia - the dirty man at the pool was little more
than a creepy amusement to be avoided. Today, he and others of his ilk
are being used to bulk up statistics on serious child sexual abuse, our
children now convinced there is no escape, that their doom is awaiting
them in the shadows of their own homes. It’s despicable. No child
should have to be frightened of that.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  Some Tron Legacy pics...
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 04-16-2010, 02:36 PM - Forum: General Chatter - No Replies

From a "cyber-nightclub".
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  [dskswdyhms] Chapter 4 Teaser
Posted by: Black Aeronaut - 04-16-2010, 01:52 PM - Forum: Hangar 13 - Replies (9)

Chapter 4 is about two-thirds done and I've been making good progress lately.  Chapter 5 will feature the showdown we've all been waiting for.  But in the mean time, here's this little tidbit.



Rei was as good as her word.  I had a good meal, an hour-long soak in the furo, and then she promptly beat the ever-loving crap outta me with her calisthenics regime.

You ever wonder why Japanese women are usually so skinny?  Simple answer: selective breeding.  Women in Japan were anything but sheltered.  They were expected to be able to fight for themselves if it came down to it.  Marvel at the weapon known as the naginata – a two-meter pole-arm with a wicked thirty-centimeter blade.  That’s a hell of a lot of damage waiting to be dealt, there.  I think I’d rather have the naginata than the katana.

And it was made explicitly for women to defend themselves.  A man caught using a naginata was either completely out of options or cross-dressing.

A woman that wasn’t fit enough to wield her naginata was not considered to be worthwhile.  After all, she couldn’t even protect herself.  Japan was a dangerous place, what with Samurai Lords waging war on each other all the time!

Times have changed, but the genetic precedent that was set for a thousand years hasn’t.  The vast majority of Japanese women are trim looking creatures of femininity and they do not have to expend much effort to maintain that fitness, as long as they don’t overeat.

Trust me, that is pretty much a given anyways.  I saw how much Rei was eating and was vaguely disturbed, even after she repeatedly assured me that she would be fine with her small portion.

Usagi seems to overeat, but that isn’t true either.  The fact of the matter is that she’s simply stocking up for what will probably be a colossal growth spurt.  I could tell because while she’s shorter than the other girls, her shoe size is rivaled only by Makoto’s.  Mamorou wouldn’t have to lean down for too much longer.

Rei, though, is evenly proportioned.  She’s already grown as tall as she’s going to get, and I doubt she’s going to fill out much more than she has now.  The only way that would change would be if she got pregnant.

…Do not go there.  That is for much, much later.

But anyhow… I can’t argue with the results.  Rei is drop-dead gorgeous.  Even in a simple work-out ghi that does as much as possible to hide her physique.

Focus, Zeke, or else…  Too late!

The wood of an unstrung long-bow cracked across my head.

Baka!” snapped Rei.  “Don’t look at me!  Focus on what you’re doing!”

Hai, sempai!” I grunted out and corrected my stance.  Calisthenics was not the only thing on the regimen, it had turned out.

Rei studied Aikido.

Very fitting of Shinto – it was all about harmony.  A harmony achieved with your opponent that you are in control of.  It was a concept that I was very familiar with.

Rei may have been able to outmaneuver me the day I used a nikiyou hold against her.  She meant every word when she said that if she ever got out of that hold that she’d make me suffer.  I simply got the drop on her there.  And now, here, under her Grandfather’s watchful eyes, she would mold me into a proper grappler.

It was really no coincidence that I had started to learn Aikido myself.  My Grandpa Bear was a close friend of Rei’s Grandfather, and together the two had studied Aikido.  When my Grandpa returned to America, he brought what he had learned with him and eventually passed it on to his daughter, who got my Father hooked on it, who in turn insisted that I learn some of the basics.

At least I had a foundation to build off of.  I just needed some polish before Rei would really start teaching me other things.

Grandfather chuckled.  “You see, Rei-chan?  A man really will go to any length to please his woman.  You’ve hooked a good one.”

“Grandfather!” cried out Rei, scandalized and turning an attractive shade of pink.  “Not right now!”  The old coot just cackled.

Mental Note: Ask Raven if the old man’s got some sort of affiliation.  Though I sensed I already knew the answer.

Troublesome.  I got a closet-follower of Raven for a future-Grandfather.

“Sugoi!” came a voice I knew.  Imouto-chan was here, and she brought the entire troop.

“I think that will be enough for today, Zee-kun,” said Grandfather.

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  How I plan to spend my summer vacation
Posted by: robkelk - 04-16-2010, 04:01 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (3)

Or the first week of it, at least: viewing the Tall Ships at this year's http://towaterfrontfest.com/]Toronto Waterfront Festival

Anyone else here a Tall Ships fan, and in the general area June 30 - July 4?
--
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

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