Raiyuu

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='Boo][/font][size=1]Meaning you can play a guitar, does not mean you can play a bass aswell :P[/size'][font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] I would disagree! Well, not entirely. But playing bass is [b]easy [/b](at least the basics are - if you want to start playing funk or slap, that's a different matter). I would suggest learning the guitar first, as moving from guitar to bass is simple, while moving from bass to guitar as I did involves learning a lot of new techniques (chords, for one :p). Basses are bigger, heavier, have longer necks, and have (in general) four thick steel-wound strings, where guitars have shorter necks and have six strings, either three steel and three nylon, or all six steel. The bass gives you low sounds. Trying to play melody on a bass will often get you labelled as a pretentious prog-monkey! If you play regularly (like an hour every day) on a guitar, your fretting (left, if you're playing an ordinary righty guitar) fingertips should stop hurting after about a week. But then if you have a break you'll lose the resistance and it'll hurt again next time. Bass strings only hurt when you slide your fingers up and down them - they're too thick to slice at your fingers like the top E string n a guitar, but the thickness of the wound steel means sliding grates your skin... [/font]

[size=1][size=2][font=Trebuchet MS]How could I possibly resist? [b]Name [/b]Remy LeBeau [b]Codename [/b]Gambit [b]Gender [/b][i]Homme, cherie. [/i]Mos' definitely [i]homme. [/i][b]Age [/b]19 [b]Appearance [/b][url="http://ultimatecomics.free.fr/ultimate_xmen/images/Ultimate_X-Men_Gambit.jpg"][u]ain't he the coolest?[/u][/url] Under that mass of unkempt hair is a face marked with several weeks' growth of stubble, the grime of living on the street, two long parallel scars along his left cheek and a disturbing pair of red-irised eyes. [b]Alliance [/b]Brotherhood of Mutants [b]Biography [/b]Gambit was orphaned at an early age, and grew up on the streets of the Big Easy, New Orleans, making a living out of cheap card tricks and pickpocketing. After unwittingly stealing a gold pocketwatch from Jean-Luc LeBeau, head of the Thieves' guild, the boy was adopted and given the name Remy LeBeau. Brought up as Jean-Luc's son, Remy was married at sixteen to Bella Donna Boudreaux, heir to the Assassins' Guild, in order to foster peace between the two rival organisations. A year later, the Assassins' Guild put out a contract on Senator Robert Kelly, who was believed by many of the country's powerful elite to be fostering racial hatred and driving humanity towards a war it could not win. Remy's first contact with the X-Men came when Professor Charles Xavier visited Bella, now the Guild's head after her father's untimely death, attempting to persuade her to call off the contract. His second contact came that night, when Wolverine - acting without Xavier's consent - broke into his master bedroom to try and persuade Bella more forcefully. As a hot-blooded Cajun, Remy defended his [i]cherie [/i]with zeal, coming close to blowing the invulnerable Wolverine to pieces along with his mansion. Ultimately, of course, he was no match, and Wolverine left the youth facially scarred and with his pride shattered. Feeling useless and undeserving of Bella after failing to protect her, Remy disappeared once more into the New Orleans underworld, living rough and stealing food to live. When she was found dead - poisoned by a senior Assassins' guild member with designs on her title - he blamed first himself, then the X-Men. When he was headhunted by the Brotherhood, who had heard rumours of a young man that had held his own against Wolverine, he accepted through bitterness and lust for revenge. [b]Powers [/b]Gambit can charge objects with kinetic energy generated by his body. The upshot of this is that the object glows red, flies nearly as fast as a bullet when thrown, and explodes upon impact. Most often he charges playing cards or throwing knives, but with effort can charge an object as large as a HummVee. Mental blocks currently prevent him from charging living tissue, but he's working with the Brotherhood's psychics to overcome that obstacle. If an object is charged and then gently released instead of thrown, it will gradually decompose in a haze of light, while either floating gently to the ground, hanging in mid-air or floating upwards, depending on its original weight. Not useful in combat, but a pretty trick to impress the ladies. [/font][/size][/size]

[color=Purple][font=Trebuchet MS]Xiaoyu vaguely remembered that [b]Pac-Man [/b]had been a contestant earlier in the game, and the [i]wakka-wakka-wakka [/i]sound that greeted her passage through the portal jogged her memory further - he'd been that beach ball with the pizza-slice mouth, who liked to pop pills! She found herself standing atop a high wall, looking down into a deep, dark trench with blue spheres the size of her head hovering, weightless, at regular intervals. Peering out from side to side she could see that the walls cornered here and there, forming a giant maze. Taking a few tentative steps, she teetered along the top of the narrow wall, looking for a way down that wouldn't involve testing this game for falling damage. Such a way presented itself unexpectedly. [b]"Wha...?" [/b]Xiaoyu said, as the wall under her feet began to shake. A rumbling sound was growing in time with the tremors, and she was finding it hard to keep her balance. Crouching to keep her centre of gravity low, Xiaoyu scanned the trench for the source of the earthquake. As the juddering wall threatened to throw her off, something [b]huge [/b]rounded the corner behind her. [i]WAKKA-WAKKA-WAKKA! [/i]Xiaoyu's arms windmilled as the giant yellow ball rolled past right underneath her, its immense weight shaking the entire surrounding area of maze. [i]If I can just stay upright until it passes by, I should manage not to fall off... [/i]Xiaoyu would later swear she heard fluttering wings behind her, felt two tiny paws plant themselves in the small of her back, and heard a grunt of effort that sounded suspiciously like [size=1]"kupo!" [size=2]Whatever the cause, she found herself stumbling off the top of the wall and plummeting through the air ... instinct took over and she hit the ground running, except she didn't hit the ground, she hit the colossal Pac. [b]"Hee~eelp!" [/b]she squeaked, running frantically backwards to avoid being swept forward and squished by the rolling monstrosity. [b]"Slow ... [i]down!" [/i][/b]Unable to keep up the pace anymore, she slowed down her steps, resigned to an icky end underneath the ball, but to her surprise it slowed down accordingly, allowing her to proceed at a comfy walking pace. [b]"Oooooooh ... so I'm in control now?" [/b]the tiny girl grinned gleefully. [b]"Okay, let's go ... left!" [/b]As a gap opened up in the wall to her left, she turned to face that way and started the weird backwards run required to propel Pac in that direction. With a little resistance from his forward momentum, the ponderous pinball started rolling left, towards an as-yet-unplumbed mine of blue pills. Xiaoyu and her unwieldy steed approached the first of the impossibly floating spheres, and just as she was wondering too late how she was supposed to grab it, the pizza-slice mouth she'd remembered opened up and gobbled it. [b]"How does your mouth stay on the front even when you're rolling...?" [/b]she worried out loud, but it seemed that Retro Arcade Pac was less conversationally inclined than the gobby player that had played Survivor. [i]The hairs on the back of Xiaoyu's neck stood up in a sudden chill breeze... [/i]Craning her head around, she was confronted with a pair of giant glassy eyes in a fluffy pink dome. The 'ghost' didn't look especially threatening apart from its huge size, but those eyes were dead, reminding Xiaoyu of the eyes of dead fish in theme-park sushi bars. Yelping, she indulged her first instinct - to back away. Of course, on the spherical head of Pac-Man this was a bad idea, and the ball started to slow. [b]"No no no, faster, faster!" [/b]she panicked, overriding her flight reflex and running [i]towards [/i]the scary vision, causing Pac to roll forwards. Silently, fish-eyes flicking from side to side, the ghost swept after them. Pac's mouth split open and ingested another pill with a [i]gulp. [/i]Adrenaline flowing through her veins, Xiaoyu quickened pace to roll her transport faster and faster away from her adversary. It seemed to only move at a fixed speed - if she could just outpace it for a while she could build up some leeway - [i]Gulp [b]Two more! [/b][/i]Xiaoyu knew there were two pills left in this corridor before a T-junction, and then she'd have to pull a super-quick direction change to try and throw off the sinister pink pursuer - [i]Gulp [b]Just one left! [/b][/i]Which way to go? Left or right? Had it even been a T-junction, or just a blind corner? Xiaoyu couldn't remember, she didn't trust herself to run backwards quickly enough to outrun the ghost and besides, she wanted to be able to see how far away it was - [i]Gulp [b]Make a decision! Okay ... um ... left! [/b][/i]But it was too late: Pac smacked at full speed into the wall, throwing Xiaoyu off and leaving them both stationary and at the mercy of the pink ghost... ...which seemingly decided, on a whim, to abandon its helpless prey and scoot off down a random side corridor. [b]"What the...?" [/b]gasped Xiaoyu, winded on the maze floor. [b]"Stupid Retro A.I.!" [/b]She scrambled to her feet and stuck her tongue out in the direction of the ghost. [b]"Haa - haah! You're too dumb to catch me!" [/b]A blue ghost glided quietly from the left fork of the T-junction, straight into the motionless form of Pac-Man, who had little yellow birdies [i]cheep[/i]ing around him from the impact with the wall. Pac's mouth opened ... and opened ... and opened some more, in a three-hundred-and-sixty degree arc, until he'd disappeared completely. The filmy fish-eyes turned to Xiaoyu. [b]"Get me out get me out get me out!"[/b] [/size][/size][/font][/color]

[b][font=Trebuchet MS]Lonley Fighter, [/font][/b][font=Trebuchet MS]I'd like to refer you to the [thread=52331][u]Otaku Lounge Rules Thread[/u][/thread]. It's stuck to the top of the forum, or you can click the underlined link. Pay attention to the sections on post quality - especially the quality we expect from a thread-starter. Then feel free to recreate this thread with a better quality first post. Questions? Private Message me, or one of the other Moderators, if the sticky thread and the official OtakuBoards Rules can't answer them. [b]Thread locked.[/b] [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]Something I don't necessarily want to [b]own, [/b]but which I definitely want to [b]exist, [/b]is a plush toy of Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist ([spoiler]post-Chimera-isation[/spoiler]). Freaky? Sure. But (in my mind at least) also weirdly cute. The marketing guys from Funimation are missing a trick if this doesn't already exist.[/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]Okay, my 'net's back up so I'll do my Pac Man post by the end of the week, but I'm still going off to NY on Saturday if that has ramifications.[/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][size=2]My Internet connection's being arsey again.[/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet MS][size=2]My entire residential block at uni has no internet connection and I'm not sure if the staff have even noticed yet. I'm on in the public access computer lab right now, but I can't do any proper modding here because there are big signs everywhere saying [b]These PCs are for academic use only [/b]and sooner or later one of the prowling staff members is going to notice. We're going en masse to complain today, so hopefully I'll be back on by the end of the week ...[/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet MS][size=2][/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet MS][size=2]... but then on Saturday morning I'm flying transatlantic to New York City. I'll be holidaying there from April 1st to 6th and my parents will be mondo unimpressed if I spend any of our precious leisure time online.[/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet MS][size=2][/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet MS][size=2]So yeah. I probably won't be on again until the 7th. Sorry.[/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet MS][size=2][/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet MS][size=2]So Pac Man's open as well Solo - and I'm going to end up slowing the game down loads, so sorry, Sandy. Take measures to keep the Game On if you need to :animeswea [/size][/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][size=2]Well, the staff in guitar shops are usually really into their guitars (sometimes to the point of being really dull people for it...) so my advice is to set yourself a budget, walk into a guitar shop, collar the first staff member you see and say "I want to buy a guitar, I know nothing about them, have never played before and have this much money to spend". That's pretty much what I did with my first guitar and I still play it today.[/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet MS][size=2][/size][/font] [font=Trebuchet MS][size=2]As for teaching, it's true you'll probably learn faster with professional tuition (or even with a friend who already plays showing you the ropes). But as Radiohead once said, "Anyone can play guitar". Find some tablature, either in a guitar songbook (find them in guitar shops or on Amazon) or online (try [/size][url="http://www.ultimateguitar.com"][size=2]www.ultimateguitar.com[/size][/url][size=2]) and start playing. It'll feel really awkward at first - you'll take a while to fit your fingers into chord shapes and it won't sound anything like the song you're trying to play, because it'll be so slow. But keep plugging and eventually it works.[/size][/font] [size=2][/size]

[b][font=Trebuchet MS]Hinata Hyuga, [/font][/b][font=Trebuchet MS]I'd like to refer you to the [thread=52331][u]Official Otaku Lounge Rules Thread[/u][/thread], most especially the bit that says [b]Not For Anime. [/b]This is not the correct forum for discussing anime, so normally I would move your thread to the Anime Lounge, OtakuBoards' specialised anime forum. Unfortunately due to the Anime Lounge's special posting rules your thread would simply be locked if I moved it there, so I'm going to cut out the middle-man and lock it right here. For future reference, all discussion of Naruto should be done in the [thread=37457][u]official Naruto discussion thread[/u][/thread]

[b][font=Trebuchet MS]Hanabishi Recca, [/font][/b][font=Trebuchet MS]can you please put some more effort and detail into your responses to this thread? Some of your posts are verging on spam. It's no fun to read one of your posts when all it does is state which option you'd choose - we all want to know [b]why [/b]you'd rather be tortured than die. Even if it seems obvious to you, it's still a good idea to expand on your answer so that people who would choose differently to you can see your point of view. I hope you enjoy your time here at OtakuBoards. If you have any questions about post quality or any other issues, feel free to Private Message me, or one of the many other Moderators. Other useful resources can be found [u][url="http://www.otakuboards.com/rules.php?"]here[/url][/u], [url="http://www.otakuboards.com/faq.php?"][u]here[/u] [/url]and [u][thread=52331]here[/thread][/u] (click!). [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]Shotgun [b]Pac Man. [/b]I'll hopefully have at least something up by this evening. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]The answer is [spoiler]David[/spoiler]. Five hundred in Roman numerals is D, so it begins and ends with D. Five in Roman numerals is V, so there's a V in the middle. Then the first of the letters is A, the first of the numbers is one, or I in Roman numerals again. [spoiler]And as far as I know there's never been a famous king called Divad...[/spoiler] [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]The Anime Archives aren't really related to theOtaku. They're an archive of old OtakuBoards threads. Updates to theOtaku don't affect OtakuBoards. It isn't like certain threads get periodically swept into the Archives. They're just threads from previous versions that don't conform to the v7 posting rules. They haven't changed since they were created and I doubt they ever will -_- [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]I'm done, so Tetris is free now, Sakura. I'll try and stick to one post per game for the next ones if that's what you want, Sandy. [/font]

[color=Purple][font=Trebuchet MS]A couple of high platforms had stacked up while Xiaoyu struggled to figure out the game, or while she picked herself up off the floor after failed leaps of glory. Taking a running jump from the top of one, she kicked off the wall, soaring towards a falling square block. Landing neatly atop it, she took a split-second to look up and align herself before stepping deftly back onto the edge, coiling like a spring and launching herself diagonally upwards. The force of the leap shunted the block sideways in mid-air and it slotted with a [i]thunk [/i]into a square gap in the angular terrain. [i]Bloopbloop [/i]As the square block filled its hole, two layers vanished, the hanging remainder dropping into the sudden vacuum. Xiaoyu had realised that this game was like chess. You had to think seven moves ahead, or something - that was what Lei had said when trying to teach her the game. You had to try and imagine what the terrain would look like after the layers had disappeared, and plan ahead to fill the newly-shaped gaps that would appear. She'd never been great at chess. She didn't have the attention span. Lei'd had to handcuff her to the chair to teach her. Her daring leap from the falling square had propelled her high enough to reach a flat-top of four blocks lined up on a horizontal. It was headed right for one of the towers, and even without thinking much ahead she could see that if it landed there it would form a roof, preventing other blocks from falling and causing no end of bother. Her fingers caught the edge of the horizontal bar, but her weight wasn't enough to flip it around. She needed it vertical, and then she needed it shunted to the left - she could look down and see the perfect hole for it to slot into, but she'd been expecting it to swivel as soon as she caught hold, and that wasn't happening. [b]"Stupid thing!" [/b]she cursed, hauling herself up to stand on the rapidly descending platform. The slipstream tugged at her, whistling through her pigtails and making them stand up vertically from her head, making her eyes water as the ground rushed up to meet her. [b]"Spin round!" [/b]she yelled in frustration, jumping up and down on the end of the block in an effort to bring her tiny weight to bear. Abruptly, as if a catch had been released, the bar spun on its axis, twisting to vertical and tipping a surprised Xiaoyu right off. [b]"Uwaa~aah - [i]oof[/i]!" [/b]she wailed as she fell and smacked into the pastel-coloured floor. Lying there, winded, she could see the tower that had thrown her off land with a [i]clack [/i]on top of one of the already-established skyscrapers of blocks. She'd rotated it okay, but having been tipped off, she hadn't managed to shunt it across to land in the hole. [i]Clackclackclackclack [/i]The rain of different-shaped blocks started piling up on top of the now-much-taller tower at an alarming rate. Before Xiaoyu could get her breath back and pull herself out of the hole she'd landed in, the 'scraper had reached the scrap of sky at the top of the shaft. [b]"Bing-bong! Game Over, kupo!" [/b]Mog's voice was accompanied by a twisting, whirling sensation and Xiaoyu found herself being spat back out of the Tetris portal into the gaudy Retro Arcade. [/font][/color]

[font=Trebuchet MS]I have an exam on the 27th where I have to analyse a video of a woman talking to a [b]pea [/b]in terms of performance studies. I also have a non-academic test on the 24th - if I pass it my tech crew 'rookie period' ends and I can actually start getting [b]paid [/b]for working thirteen-hour shifts. Then, come Summer term, I have ... wait, what's this? No exams, you say? Not even coursework? And wait, what do you mean, no lectures either? Drama & Creative Writing is the best course evaar. I have the Summer term off. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote=D.Resurrected][/font] Raiyuu thanks for helping me I think of you as a buddy. thanks for everything oh and for your riddle Raiyuu it was a shot glass sprayer [shogun as in shot gun] get it :D[font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] Anytime. And sorry, Sakura got my riddle right. It was an actual shotgun which the barman used to surprise the man and thus cure his hiccups, hence why he left the bar without his glass of water. [/font]

[b][font=Trebuchet MS]Honk, [/font][/b][font=Trebuchet MS]not-quite-right answer. Our DNA is one [i]per cent [/i]different from chimpanzees. I think one amino acid different would just result in a human with a genetic abnormality, like cystic fibrosis. On a side note, our DNA is fifty per cent identical to that of a banana. GUNmanZERO7, can you clarify exactly what you want to discuss in this topic? Is it wondrous experiences people have had, or are you after a debate on the existence of God (good luck), or looking for alternatives to creationism or what? As it stands right now the discussion's going to end up a bit vague and woolly. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='GoldScorpion78][/font']For instance, remember when there used to be more titles than New Member, Member and Moderator? Whatever happened to "Otaku"?[font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] We got rid of post-count-determined titles for a reason: people spammed to get enough posts to be an 'Otaku' or whatever. That's why we have custom titles now - you can have 'Otaku' as your title if you want, and you don't have to have 1000 posts to get it. Much preferable, ne? [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='D.Resurrected][/font'] What has no content yet you are still able to see it?[font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] [b][url="http://www.otakuboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=92"]The Nexus[/url] ;) [/b]D.Resurrected, please clean up your post quality. There have been posts of yours in this thread that I've had to read [b]three times [/b]before getting even an inkling of what you're on about. Example: [quote name='D.Resurrected][/font'] no that not for the forest one its for the one that saise thought folous close behind.[font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] Capitalisation, punctuation and even [b]vaguely [/b]correct spelling never hurt anyone, and they're especially important in a thread like this where people really need to understand what you're saying. Just take a bit of time to read over your post before posting - or better yet, type it out in a program like Word beforehand, so you can spellcheck and then copy-paste it into your reply. [i]A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The barman responds by pulling out a shotgun and pointing it at the man, who thanks him and leaves. What on earth just happened?[/i] [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][color=Purple]The Retro Arcade was ? well, retro. Heavily pixellated and decorated in garish 8-bit colour, the square room contained four blocky armchairs in which the contestants could wait to enter their portal of choice. Four blue portals swirled on the far wall, spiralling in jerky fits and starts as the primitive version of the CPU tried in vain to keep up with Mog?s programming. On one wall was a door, leading to the private room in which Mog would reveal their scores for each game. [b]?I call Tetris!?[/b] sang out Xiaoyu, still buoyed up by her victory in Mog?s castle. [b]?Second from left, kupo,?[/b] the winged furball replied, pointing. [b]?See you guys!?[/b] she called over her shoulder as she stepped into the angular blue vortex? ?only to narrowly avoid being crushed by a square block taller than she was. [b]?Yipes!?[/b] she yelped, drawing back. The block looked to be formed of four smaller blocks, arranged in a two-by-two square, each smaller block being about a metre square. [b]?Don?t do stuff like that straight away!?[/b] she fumed at the absent Moogle, shaking her fists at the sky. She was at the bottom of an outrageously deep, sheer-sided grey shaft, with only a tiny scrap of blue visible at the top. There was no question of scaling the walls ? they were as smooth as only 2-D graphics can be. Springing up, she caught the top of the big block and hauled herself up on top, looking upwards again. The shaft didn?t look any less deep from this vantage point, but the patch of sky had disappeared. Xiaoyu frowned and pouted, confused and doubting her decision to choose this game first. It had looked the simplest of the four, but ? The reason for the sky being obscured quickly made itself apparent, as a tall stack of four blocks came whistling down the shaft straight at her. She somersaulted backwards on instinct, glad that Mog had returned her skills for this challenge, landing heavily after the two-metre drop, just as the stack thudded down on top of the square. [b]?Stupid thing!?[/b] she yelled, pulling herself back up onto the box and delivering a hefty kick to the tower. To her surprise, it gave way, sliding smoothly across the surface of the square to drop down and land on the floor next to it. Xiaoyu nearly lost her balance ? she hadn?t expected the thing to move ? but pulled herself upright, sidling over to the block and giving it another push. No good, it felt cemented to the spot. [/color][/font] [center][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/SheriffMatt/tetfirst.jpg[/img] [/center] [font=Trebuchet MS][color=Purple] This gave her another level to climb up to, so she jumped up and pulled herself onto the metre-square platform afforded by the tower. The sound of rushing air caught her attention and she looked up to see another four-block tower hurtling down the shaft, about to squash her flat where she stood. But knowing now that the blocks weren?t so heavy as to be immobile, she took a breath, crouched and sprang forward, towards the shaft wall. Twisting in mid-air, she met the wall with her feet, bending her knees to spring off the vertical surface into a flying kick that smacked right into the top block of the falling tower. The force of the kick shunted the tower across the shaft, but also, unexpectedly, set it spinning on its axis like the blade of an electric fan. As the bottom end swung upwards it caught Xiaoyu a heavy blow right across her back, sending her flying across the shaft to bounce off the opposite wall and plummet solidly to the floor. [b]?Phew!?[/b] she exclaimed, pulling herself to her feet and catching her breath. [b]?Good thing they hadn?t invented hit points when they made this??[/b] On the other side of her platform, the spinning tower hit the ground, slotting neatly into place on its side, spanning the gap between platform and wall. As Xiaoyu pulled herself back onto her square block, an L-shaped one thunked down on the ground right where she?d been. [/color][/font] [center][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/SheriffMatt/tetsecond.jpg[/img] [/center] [font=Trebuchet MS][color=Purple] [i][b]Bloop[/b][/i] [b]?Uwaaah!?[/b] Xiaoyu squealed as the floor dropped out from under her. She dropped with it a moment later, landing in a crouch to retain her balance. [b]?What?s going on??[/b] The tower she?d rotated had disappeared, along with the bottom two blocks of her square and the L that she?d just avoided. In short, an entire layer of blocks. [b]?Umm, right ? I think I get it now??[/b] [/color][/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]Hee, I [b]said [/b]they'd only appear right at the very end of the episode... I'll add "nice exposition on [spoiler]Sergei's motives[/spoiler]" to that list of great things about this episode. I've been wondering where he's coming from for a while now. My main questions now are: 1. [spoiler]Who are Mai and Mikoto? From the OP sequence Mai is an Otome; perhaps Mikoto's, which would make Mikoto some sort of royalty. And what's the relationship between this Mikoto and silhouette-Mikoto in Harmonium? What actually happened when Nina fought silhouette-Mikoto?[/spoiler] 2. [spoiler]Speaking of which, what is Harmonium and what exactly does Nagi plan on doing with it?[/spoiler] 3. [spoiler]What's with the cats? This episode we had one that Miyu met right at the beginning, with a sort of slanted T-shape on its head; another later on with a crescent moon, and of course cat-Mikoto. Are they relevant or just random, like the cat in Trigun?[/spoiler] [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]I'd assume it all goes in the game thread - we're just all taking ages to post. Mine's half-written! I may post it in two instalments, it's getting quite hefty. In which case expect a post early tomorrow afternoon, GMT. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]I'd assume they'd have pulled out the pistol before closing to melee range. And what's the point of a pistol up close? It still makes a hole is what, and plus at point blank it could probably penetrate samurai armour. A pistol shot is quicker and more often deadly / incapacitating than a sword. [quote name='John][/font'] It's a running internet joke. I'm sure you could find something on Wikipedia about it. ;D[font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] Better to try [url="http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Great_Pirate-Ninja_conflict"][b]Uncyclopedia [/b][/url]- it leaves no dumb Internet meme unturned! [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]D.Resurrected, I'd like to draw your attention to the [b][url="http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?t=52331"]Otaku Lounge Rules Sticky[/url], [/b]and especially the points it makes about starting threads. It's great that you want to thank OB's members - let's face it, we're probably the best people on the Internet - but you'd be better off doing it by participating in discussion and doing your best to maintain the high quality that makes us all awesome. Basically, I can't see this thread generating discussion, just a list of brief 'thanks you guys rule' posts. Sorry. [b]Thread closed.[/b] [/font]