Akilae

Could somebody recommend a good router? I'm sure it's been discussed sometime in the past, but I'm a bit lazy to go through 40+ pages... I'll be hooking it up behind a Verizon FiOS router... something that has a stable wireless G and doesn't reset every so often would be nice, since that's what my Buffalo router has been doing.

hmm, and this just as I just reinstalled DIIX for the first time in years. Am I the only one that saw the character intro screen and thought "hmm... that looks remarkably like the WoW engine... just with less cartoony characters"?

There did seem to be a time in the 80s and 90s when anime was wonderfully dark and texturized... Berzerk, Lodoss War, Gungrave, Eva (yes, it's wonderfully mainstreamed, but that thing was bloody as hell and at least dug into the metaphysics in ways anime these days cannot touch...), Trigun, LOGH, Shadow Skill, Angel Cop, etc... Heck, I'll even throw in El Hazard for its fabulous artwork and Tenchi Muyo as the original harem anime... It's also the same two decades that gave us Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura, Pokemon.... *shudder* Which also gave us Ah! My Goddess, the Yuusha-oh series (culminating in GaoGaiGar and carried on in spirit by Gurren Lagann), Kenshin, Dragon-half, Slam Dunk, Nuku Nuku, etc... Half of those started out as 80s manga series. There are quite a few 90s manga series that have yet to see the light of day and remain wonderfully "niche", so to speak. The second half of Berzerk still needs to be animated, Vagabond would actually make a great dark and deep anime which could top Kenshin. The sequel to Gunm is just about winding down so that could also be animated. Five Star Stories... could be animated, but it's taken 20 years just to get to Vol. 12... 3x3 Eyes is over and done with and could be animated properly, but cannot due to being overly graphic violence. There's also the rest of Suzumiya Haruhi. CLAMP also need to get their act together and finish X and Tsubasa. 2000 so far has impressed me with Makoto Shinkai, Last Exile, Suzumiya Haruhi, Full Metal Panic (come on third season!!! I want to see the ARX-8 animated!), Gurren Lagann, and thus far Macross Frontier is doing a fair job. One of the problems that I can see is that manga artists generally want to take as long as they can to finish the story. It's not a problem... but after 10+ years of watching Belldandy and Keiichi dance around each other, I sorta want the story to go somewhere and for those two to get it on. The manga lost me after Vol. 24. Berzerk is thankfully hopping towards some sort of conclusion with Griffith finally out in the open again. However, with all these ongoing manga, anime starts losing source material to work off of. Claymore had a WONDERFUL opportunity... then the anime went and created its own ending while the manga continued onwards. Trinity Blood was interesting and promised a very rich backstory, then they had to cut it short when the artist died. Even with Bleach and Naruto, as bland as they are, the best episodes are the ones based off the manga. Outside of manga, there are precious few anime directors who can tell a coherent story, and even fewer studios that can realize their visions.

I think that's the next ep's title: ... then again, I could be hearing and reading it wrong...

Haven't read through all 10 pages of this thread, but... Anybody thought Ozma's meditating during the wait for launch a homage to Macross Plus? Also, no idea if anybody actually bothered to pause at 19:14, when the screen flashes with their mission briefing (I think)... the whole screen seems to actually contain a blurb on motocross racing...

Just to throw my hat into the whole Ranka/Lanka debate... am I the only one that watched the ED credits and saw the "Ranka Lee" pasted in the corner?

So I'm thinking about finally getting a PSP and was wondering what one would need a hacked PSP for? Would the only reason be to play PSX ISOs?

I forgot where I read this, but the smartgun supposedly is actually more a mass driver. "Ammo" is supplied by a block of metal, which is shaved by the gun and the slivers propelled forward. Can't seem to find the source though...

Ep. 5 subbed is out at the usual place.

3D fighters, and nobody mentions Virtua Fighter?

What's this "2D is dead" thing? Just look at the Guilty Gear series...

sci-fi series and you miss out on Babylon 5? No Stargate? sheesh...

Another interesting SR-71 tidbit I heard from somewhere: In order to refuel mid-air, the tanker has to be going at full throttle, and the SR-71 has to throttle back to near-stall speeds. Makes for hairy situations I gather.

err... SR-71?

Well, considering that I don't get House or Heroes in my country, I do feel your pain... It's amazing that in the 21st century there are companies that still believe in market segmentation, whether for legal or commercial reasons.

Just so people know, there's a 5&6 raw compilation floating out there.

1) El Hazard (the original OVA only) 2) Hajime no Ippo 3) Irresponsible Captain Tylor 4) GaoGaiGar 5) Ah! My Goddess (the original OVA only)

Case in point: MGS2... the English dub butchered Raiden's voice so badly from the original Japanese version... I think that was part of the reason Raiden failed to horribly in the American market.

Real Doll? REAL DOLL?!?! *snigger*

I take it that it's arrived and it actually works? Thank goodness, after that lightning strike and all the smoke... j/k How's HW2 so far then?

The very last frame in the preview for 22 was interesting, makes you wonder about what's really going to happen.

You've got PM!

hmm.. whereabouts are you located? I actually have a Geforce 4 Ti4800 sitting around doing nothing. Want a better card for free? Nobody wants a Ti4800 these days anyway...

Well, might as well try what it says and do something like this: "C:\program files\Sierra\Homeworld2\bin\release\Homeworld2.exe " -fragment_program 0 EDIT: Random thought: could you cut and paste what the path in the HW2 shortcut looks like right now? I'm assuming you haven't touched it since you installed the game... but a quick google says that error message has more to do with wrong data paths than graphics.

Yeah well... unless you go looking for it there's no reason for you to know about it, lol. So I dug around the relic forums. 90% it's something wrong with your video card. Update drivers and usually it goes away. HW2 is very picky about video cards. No idea how it reacts to a GF4-MX, but in theory it should work. Worst comes to worst, see how this works. Edit your HW2 shortcut on the desktop to look something like this: "C:\program files\Sierra\Homeworld2\bin\release\Homeworld2.exe " -noVBO -noDisplayLists -nopbuffer the game will look like butt, but if all fails it will be your best bet. Oh, and make sure your desktop is set to 32-bit.