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err, or maybe my previous statement was wrong. =/ Correction: this allows people with money to catch up on the higher ranked peeps. =/

Why not go for the North Pole instead? Guaranteed pollution-free zone as well as an endless supply of ice. What more can one ask for?

wow, interesting. This option actually allows lower ranked people to have a chance on catching up to the top players.

Or one could just check your profile. As for me I'm not the youngest nor the oldest.

Gogo is paranoid. Afraid of a guy ranked 600+ lol. One probe from that kind of players isn't enough to give away info on your fleet...

There is and this is what happens if you download it. http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?sh...ic=3822&hl= @gogo

Haha! Fumoffu is so cool and funny! (note for those that don't know, FMP Fumoffu is the second series of the show, I'll add a description for it sometimes in the future) Though by making it they kinda split the show, fumoffu gets most of the comic school story arc while the second raid gets most of the action story arc. And btw, you definetly have to see FMP TSR. Since lots of important things happen such as the identity of the main rival organization being revealed, new technologies (such as weapons capable of disrupting ECS) being used or the introduction of Tessa's brother. (if you rememeber she did mention having one in the Behemoth story arc of the first season ) Also the one commanding the enemies in this series is the cherry on the top. He's a clinicaly insane madman and by far the best character in the season. His lines and actions are always hilarious. Aww, Naruto ain't that bad. Sure it's by far the most overrated show of the moment with way too many people watching it, but even so it's a decent show. Well, of course for that you would have to ignore the filler episodes (that make half of the series). Also you would have to get used to Naruto's biggest problem which is... well... Naruto. Naruto (the character) is basically anoying, but he's anoying because that's the way he's suposed to be. So if you can accept that then you might have a better chance of enjoying the show. Though in the end it's everyone to his tastes.

Gogo is cheating on his seraphim.

Hi myles. Great and honorable thing you're doing gathering up all the bits of lost data and puting them back together. It's always a shame to see the hard work of other people go to waste in the depths of time. Thus the fact that you're salvaging all the old that is really apreciated. Keep up the good work and have fun around our little forum here.

FULL METAL PANIC! Full Metal Panic! is a 24 episode long comedy/mecha anime adaptation of a series of graphical novels written by Shouji Gatou. Story: The action of FMP takes place in the modern world (1999+), however some details are changed such as the cold war still being in place or China being split in half between communists and democrats. Also a significant boost in technology exists under the form of giant mecha robots (called Arm Slaves), advanced AI systems, etc. Most of this technology has become available due to the existence of extremely gifted people (called whispered) who have a latent ability of developing scientific breakthroughs. Chidori Kaname is a typical Japanese high-school girl who has no idea that she is in fact a whispered, yet this attracts the attention of different organizations, both good and bad. One of this organizations is Mithril, a powerfull secretive paramilitary organization possessing superior weapons and technologies to any existing countries and having the mantainace of world peace as charter. To do so another of it's obejctives is securing and protecting whispered. In order to protect Chidori Kaname should any terrorist organization threaten her, Mithril assigns a team of three skilled soldiers to protect her. Among them, Sagara Sousuke (a sergent of Kaname's age) is assigned to protect her by engaging in direct contact and thus posing as a foreign transfer student. Yet all this are easier said than done. Sousuke has no idea how school life actually is as he has spent most of his life fighting in different conflicts around the world. Even though he presents himself at start as a sergent nobody believes him and everybody starts looking at him like a military-obsessed freak, especially Kaname. The fact that he is always following her and that his reactions are always impulsive and over-exagerated (always taking any situation as something dangerous and a threat to Kaname's life) doesn't help their relationship either as she is always yelling or hitting him for his reckless actions. The series does change a bit when Kaname is actually abducted by a different organization and thus realizes that Sousuke's claims were in fact real. Yet is that enough to change their relationship? Wikipedia: Full Metal Panic! on Wikipedia - uhm, spoilers, duh! Videos: Full Metal Panic! opening 1 - Mikuni Shimokawa - Tomorrow Full Metal Panic! opening 2 - Mikuni Shimokawa - Tomorrow* Full Metal Panic! AMV - Spineshank - Beginning of the End ***Second version (episodes 17+) - same song, different images **This one is awesome! It clearly points out why FMP is extremely funny! Some of the images are from a different season though. Personal notes: This show is definetly a great one due to its blending of comedy and mecha genres. Episdoes usually fall into two categories. One is the school related part of the story, which contains most of the humor and focuses primarily on the relationship between Sousuke and Kaname. The second one has a more serious tone, containing the arm slaves missions and battles and focusing on Mithril's conflicts with other organization as well as on Sousuke's personal conflict with a person from his past. Wether you need a dose of comedy to lighten up your day or a dose of action to keep you hooked up this anime has them both. The graphics used in the making of this anime are top notch, with excellently rendered characters as well as the giant mechas and combats.

What the...?! No one is that stupid as to not avoid the wall at that speed! I mean you see a wall and you think "must turn fast!" and you do that as hard as possible. Look at the front wheels, they barely turn. That and the fact that he jokes about it make me believe that's all done for publicity. This video here makes me feel like that as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OILPJPPzKf4 See, they barely care that the car got smashed. There should be a law against crashing rare cars on purpose. =/

Lol, actually no. I was getting too attached to my account so I gave it away to gogo. Guess I'll be waiting for them servers to restart before I actually have a battle, though I might go for an economic aproach rather than a military one, haven't decided yet.

LOL! That was funny. Question is, was it actually for real?

SAMURAI CHAMPLOO A 26 episode long anime with action taking place in a slightly altered version of Edo period Japan. By slightly altered it means that historic facts are modified in a comic way. The show is a sword-fighting one with a slight twist, one of the main's character moves being more a combination of traditional samurai moves and breakdancing (in other words he fights in a funny and chaotical way ) Story: The story of Samurai Champloo focuses on Fuu, a young waitress who even though is poor is in fact of samurai descendence. She has one wish which is to find her father, whom she refers as "the samurai who smells like sunflowers". One day a man starts picking on her in the bar and a vagabond named Mugen offers to help her in exchange for food. He easily defeats the man's bodyguards using a very strange and chaotical fighting style, however the man claims to be the son of the region's governer and threatens Mugen that he will be in trouble should he harm him. Mugen doesn't care and says him to bring out the best fighter should he wish to live. In a different part of town, a wandering samurai named Jin gets involved with the governor's bodyguards who where abusing a man unable to pay his taxes. Jin doesn't explicitly say that he helped the man just that the bodyguards were blocking his road and leaves on his way, with the governor left behind frightened. Coincidentally after this Jin happens to enter the bar where Mugen was who mistakes him for the best fighter and attacks him. As they fight they trash the bar and eventually start a fire which ends with the building collapsing and themselves waking up in jail, awaiting death sentence at dawn. Fuu on the other hand is now workless and decides to sneak into jail and help the two out on the condition that they will help her find the samurai who smells like sunflowers. They agree to it eventually and even though the original plan didn't go out well, they escape their death sentence partly thanks to Fuu and partly thanks to their fighting skills. After they escape the first thing they do is attempt to finish the initial fight, however Fuu stops them reminding them of their promise. After flipping a coin to make a decission they have to obey the girl and follow her, however they both vow to kill the other once the journey has ended. The story continues with their journey during which most of the time they're starving and without money as well as Jin an Mugen occasionally attempting to finish their duel or leave the girl behind. The end of the anime has all three of them forced to confront a part of their past. Wikipedia: Samurai Champloo on Wikipedia - p.s. spoilers Videos: (High-quality version) **This one is surprisingly well made Personal notes: Lets see now, this anime is a comic/action one which clearly stands out from others. The cool thing about is the contrast between the fighting styles of the two main male characters. Mugen has his chaotical, yet effective way of fighting which is based on a lot of moves, while Jin uses a traditional fighting style, which uses precise and effective moves, and is extremely skillful at it. This difference in fighting styles makes the two want to fight even more in order to see which one is the best as the original reason for fighting is forgotten. The comical alteration of historic events, most related to Japan but also some related to European countries (such as Holland), such as changing how things exactly happened or adding modern day elements. Among the modern day elements added for example are hip-hop and graffitis. The graphics used in making it are of excellent quality and the drawing style fits the anime's theme perfectly. The music is mainly hip-hop themed which blends well with Mugen's fighting styles as well as with some of the introduced elements in the show. Also Mugen's voice actor in the japanese version has by far my favourite voice so far and I enjoy it in all the anime's he plays in. This is mostly because his voice fits so well with the somewhat unchiseled characters. Probably if I were forced to make a top 10 list of best animes I've seen then Samurai Champloo would have a place in it. The show is great and I recommend it to everyone.

Lol, I know how you feel about time. I can never seem to find enough time to watch all the animes I want. For example at the moment I have more than a hundred episodes that I have yet to see for which I would need more than 40 hours to see them all. On the other hand getting a hundred new episodes would take only 10 hours. So ugh, there's no way I'll ever get to see all the animes I want. =/ But I can always try. Note: made some additions to first post.

HYPER FUTURE VISION: GUNNM Gunnm (also known as Battle Angel Alita) is a 2 episode long OVA based on a manga by Yukito Kishiro. Initial public response to it was somewhat unenthusiastic which is why even though the manga now has 18 volumes the anime was never continued. Story: In the future are generally divided between two distinct societies. The high society lives in sky cities, while the lowers society lives on earth, feeding on the garbage dumped by the sky cities. One example of this is the sky city Tiphares and it's earthbound counterpart, Scrapyard. In the latter lives Ido Daisuke, a cybernetic doctor exiled from Tiphares. His job consists in installing, mantaining and repairing the cybernetic body modification that are a common thing about humans. Even though he is the most skilled at his work he doesn't charge his clients much as he gets his profits from a different venue, which is hunting wanted criminals. One day as he is searching through the piles of scrap metal for parts to salvage he finds the head and torso of a female cyborg and his equipments tell him that her brain is still intact (only the body is that of a cyborg, the brain is that of a human). As such he takes her back home and manages to bring her back to life, however the girl doesn't remember anything of her past so Ido names her Alita and adopts her as a daughter. Even so, Daisuke doesn't tell Alita about his other job in order to keep her mind pure and innocent. However she notices the fact that he has the tendency to leave home in the middle of the night and sometimes the second day he has injuries. Initially Alita fears that Daisuke might be an organ thief which makes her follow him one night. Due to this he gets both herself and the doctor in danger when attacked by a really powerfull brain junkie (one who has an addiction of eating human brains, the future is weird, I know) yet she also the one to get themselves out of trouble, defeating the outlaw with some hand to hand combat moves that she didn't know she possesses. Daisuke recognizes the moves as being those of an ancient martial arts technique called Panzer Kunst even though that still doesn't bring any memories back to Alita. Due to this experience Alita decides that she wants to be a bounty hunter as well and enlists as one despite Ido opposing the idea. The first episode followes the part of Alita uncovering her forgotten hand to hand moves, while the second episode follows a part where Alita falls in love with a boy named Hugo. However he is seems more interested in fullfilling his dream which is reaching Tiphares one day. Wikipedia: GUNNM on Wikipedia - not much info on this page, but there are spoilers on the related pages Videos: *Video contains blood and violence as well as spoilers Personal notes: GUNNM is a great anime as it illustrates the manga so well, which makes me wonder why it wasn't that succesfull. Also the fact that it wasn't continued leaves the story hanging and the only way to ge around that is to start reading the manga which also reveals the mysteries of Tiphares, Alita's past and much more. What got me into watching the anime was the video that I uploaded to youtube as I found the images from it to be very interesting and as such I gave it go, which proved to be the right choice. The graphics in the anime are ok for the time it was made as for the music not much to say about it. There's no opening or ending just some background music if I remember correctly. I would like to be able to say more on this however the anime isn't that long and the story isn't that condensed since it's only a part of a much larger story. However as that one is only found in the manga and not in the anime, talking about it in this post would stray away from the original subject. (feel free to ask me more about it though should you be interested)

Wow, I'm not sure wether my thread really deserved such an elaborate reply, but I thank you for it nevertheless. As for the moral burden, don't know how to explain it, but the topic just seems to always get my attention when it comes to anime, yet I could care less when it comes to a real movie. Maybe animes just have a better way to get messages accross to me. This is probably because when watching anime you don't analyze the acting as much as when watching a real movie. When it comes to real actors you can easily see the unconvincing acting, but when it comes to anime you tend to be less harsh on bad acting. I'm not saying the acting in animes is bad or unconvincing, I'm just saying that it's more prone to getting away with minor mistakes and thus not spoil the overall viewing experience. Note: added another video link to an amv with one of the opera songs in the anime. The amv is more like a slideshow, but that's mostly because all the othe ones with opera songs contained way too many spoilers.

Sorry to hear you got defeated in your match. But don't worry, being worried and nervous about an important thing like a match is natural and your bound to make some mistakes when you're just starting. With more training, experience and determination you will be able to overcome this and eventually defeat the strongest of opponents. Victory will soon be in reach.

NOIR Noir is a 26 episodes long anime that generally focuses on gunfights and uncovering the memories of two female assassins. As the title sugests (noir=black in french) the anime has a dark and mysterious tone, features no humor at all and has a lot of drama. Story: Mireille Bouquet, the daughter of a former powerfull corsican organized crime family, is a female assassin living in Paris. One day she receives a note saying "make a journey to the past with me" as well as a musical watch, which is identical to one related to a traumatic event in her childhood. Thus she arrives at a construcion site where she sees a schoolgirl. Before getting to talk with her she is attacked by armed hitmen and, despite managing to kill some of them, she is eventually captured. However the girl she saw earlier appears and dispatches them all with incredible ease. After that they both head to the girl's home where Mireille finds out that the young girl (who is 15 or 16 year old, can't remember exactly) has no memories of her past, except for one word, Noir (which she doesn't know what it refers to). The first thing she remembers is waking up in a lonely house having no clue where or who she was. As she searched through the clothes and drawers she found a student card with her photo and the name Yuumura Kirika (which she doesn't know if it's her real name or not), a gun and bullet box, and the musical watch. Kirika is tormented about the fact that she can kill people easily yet she feels no regrets or sadness when doing so. As such she asks Mireille for help in order to find out about her past. Mireille, mostly intrigued about the musical watch, agrees to do so under one condition: once her past is revealed Mireille will kill her, to which Kirika agrees. Thus the two start working together as a team under the alias of Noir. During the anime as they plunge deaper into the secrets of the underworld more and more of their pasts is revealed as well as about a mysterious organization, Soldats, which seems to be opposing them and wanting them killed. Wikipedia: Noir on Wikipedia - as always, major spoilers in here Videos" Noir opening - Ali Project - Kopperia no Hitsugi (High-quality version) Noir AMV - The Rasmus - In the Shadows Personal notes: Well, Noir is kinda special since it's among the first animes that I watched (excluding those as a kid). What impressed me the most is the realism of the characters feelings and emotions which makes you forget sometimes that what your watching is animated and not real. This is also aided by the fact that most of the places and weapons featured in the series were made to look and feel as much as possible as the real world counterparts. What attracted me the most as I started to watch the series was the plot of the anime, since I'm basically a sucker for characters with internal moral burdens. However what initially got me to watch the anime was seeing the without knowing it was one in the first place. Seeing that video imediately made me want to find out what it was all about. There aren't many major characters in Noir, just the two main ones as well as two more which are strongly linked to their past and future. However this allows the viewer to focus on what is really important, which is the story of the two girls, and not get distracted by subplots. The main plot on the other hand features some expected points, which are generally hinted to the viewer before they happen (such as what Mireilles traumatic event in her childhood is), but also many unexpected events which influence the overall story greatly. The lack of comedy is a necessary thing as the anime follows a dramatic and mysterious plot. As such you wont see any jokes or deformed facial expressions in any of the episodes. And then there's the music. The songs used in the anime are a mixture of italian opera, french music and techno music. All of them fit perfectly with the anime, however the greatest impact on the viewer is given by the opera music which gives a feeling of grandness. So if you're interested in watching a great anime that is made as realistic as possible, as well as following the uncovery of a mysterious plot, then Noir would be the one for you. Post history: v1.0 - 26.03.2007 - post created v1.1 - 27.03.2007 - added link to canta per me

Oh well, sooner or later everyone has to stop playing ogame. In the end what matters most is the fact that you enjoyed playing the game, as well as the people with whom you played it. So yeah, join us in imperia online.

start>run>regedit tell me you were joking.... Uhm, yeah, the user switch approach is slow as it uses a lot of ram and cpu. But running two sacred processes at the same time will be slower than normal even if you manage to edit the registries.

You can run two copies by: -using fast user switching in xp -editing the registries for the sacred.exe of the second copy of sacred. However I don't remember exactly what you have too edit. There might still be info on this left on the SIF though so you should try searching for this there.

Lol, the woo-woo sound is the final stage in the path to manliness. Woo-woo!

Konichiwa! ^_^ Welcome to the best forum the net has to offer.

AA! MEGAMI-SAMA! OVA Continuing our list of animes in no particular order we have Aa! Megami-Sama! (Oh My Goddess!/Ah My Goddess!) OVA (original video animation). This anime is based on a manga by Kosuke Fujishima which is still running after almost 20 years. The OVA series had 5 episodes an were based on the first chapters of the manga. This episodes where made at the beginning of the 90's so the graphics in them are something between old and new. Story: The story revolves around Morisato Keiichi, a student at the Nekomi Institute of Technology. Keiichi is what one would call the opposite of a babe-magnet. Even though he has good grades and is a skilled mechanic and driver (being part of the Nekomi Motor Club) nature wasn't as generous when it came to his height and so Keiichi is only 1.60 meters tall. If that wasn't enough, his personality is also shy and somewhat indecisive. All this lead to the other motor club members tend to make him do a lot of choirs. It all begins with Keiichi being forced to remain at the motor club and do a lot of tasks while everyone else goes out (I think it was for a movie). Also among the list of things to do is to call his sempais (ergh, kinda like a colleague but sorta higher ranked) once he gets everything that. As he does that the wheels of fate turn and he reaches the Goddeses' helpline and soon a beautiful girl appears coming from a mirror in the wall. She says her name is Belldandy, first class goddess - license unlimited, and that she will grant him a wish. Mostly believing that this is all a joke made by his sempais and not thinking that much he just says the first thing that comes in his mind "I want a goddess like you to be with me forever". As he does this everything around goes all shiny and after the lights settle down Belldandy says that the heavens have aproved the contract and that she will stay with him forever or untill he no longer wishes so. The story goes on with Keiichi's new life and with the fact that he fails miserably at any attempts to improve the relationship between him and Belldandy in a romantic way, despite the fact that they now live together and alone in a new house. Also she is nice, warm and loving with anyone around, no matter what. As such he has no idea how to approach her mostly due to his shy nature and due to fear of not angrying a goddess. As time passes Keiichi's romantic troubles grow as Belldandy's big sister, Urd shows up. She is a goddess second class, limited license as well as self-proclaimed goddess of love. As such she has become bored of watching the two not doing anything and has decided to come down and help him. However her plans usually involve magic potions and are almost guaranteed to fail miserably. If living with two goddesses wasn't enough, then what happens when you have to live with three? Well of course Keiichi's chances at Belldandy become even lower once her smaller sister, Skuld, appears. She is still young and has no magic powers yet, however what she lacks in magic she compensates through mechanical ingeniousity. As such she always build all sort of contraptions that, like Urd's potions, usually fail in one way or another. She has come to earth due to the fact that she misses spending time with her sister Belldandy and as such wants to end the contract between her and Keiichi. This leads to her viewing Keiichi as a rival in getting her sister back. Wikipedia: Oh My Goddess! on Wikipedia - Warning! Spoilers ahead! Videos: Oh My Goddess! opening - Goddess Family Club - My Heart Iidasenai, Your Heart Tashikametai (High-quality version) Oh My Goddess! AMV - Foreigner - I want to know what love is* *Despite this song being slow and a bit depressing, the anime is in fact lively and cherful, certainly not depressing. I just couldn't find a different AMV. =/ Personal notes: Well, the main parts in this anime are definetly the romance and the comedy. Probably some of the guys might say "ugh, romance?". Well in fact it's not bad at all as it isn't the sugary type of romance with "I love you!" and "I love you too!"; it's the "they both like each other but don't know how to work on it" type of romance. As for the comedy, what can I say? It's golden! When was watching a guy who is a complete failure at girls try to get along with three of them not fun? Or if romance and comedy fail for you, you can always try just going for the eye-candy. As I said at the beginning, the graphics are something between old and new, at their time being classified as very good. In terms of music, apart from the opening and the ending, there's only background music since the anime isn't a fast-paced action one and adding songs during the episodes wouldn't have been a good choice. And now a final note, there are more anime works of this series, however in order to keep the post's lenght to a acceptable level I decided to describe them one at a time in chronological order. There shall be more of this in the future.