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50: very good episode until the very end. 51: didn't care for the first half, but enjoyed the second half a lot. I'm surprised that we got a new opening and ending. Does this mean we're due for more than 2-3 more episodes? Perhaps the show will be a 72'er... that'd be interesting. Why is Riza...

As an American, I 100% admit to the American bias of the wording/degrees. Unfortunately, it's not really possible to internationalize the poll without making it exceedingly complicated. I apologize, and I thank you for your courteous reply. Professional degree, in the USA, means something like...

Why not explain the situation to the fucktard gaijins? Granted, they probably would have blown you off, but you could have at least tried instead of letting them get away with that. Plus, it's not like you're ever going to see them again. Plus, it's not like any two of them could take you on. I...

Follow-up reply: Things worth pointing out in a defense or critique of RapeLay: RapeLay has been linked to x% of r*** cases in Japan. RapeLay has been linked to x% of domestic violence cases in Japan. RapeLay has been linked to x% of brutal acts against women in Japan. In regions where there is...

The problem with that argument is that someone may share in that logic but reach the opposite conclusion: "not only should r*** games be banned, but so should games in which you kill people!" It would be similar to this scenario: It would be better to point out the absence of reasons as to...

Walls of text have the nasty habit of scaring most people away. So ... I'll keep it brief. Do you know Equality Now? If not, look them up. Do you know RapeLay? If not, look it up. Do you remember our discussions on Akiba-Online about this matter? If not, look them up via our Search feature...

Not bad! Axandra's link reveals (via this link) that now's not been a good time to be a restauranteur in Japan. :\ Apparently if 2005 was set as 100.0, the wage-index in 2009 is roughly 80. In other words, between 2005 and 2009, wages/salaries were slashed by 20%. Ouch.

If only that were representative of the animation's quality ... =\

In the United States, it follows the pattern: 5 years old: enrolled in kindergarten 6 years old: enrolled in 1st grade 17 years old: the beginning of one's senior year in high school (12th grade) 18 years old: one's age at the end of one's senior year in high school There are always...

If you've never been to school, you select "no formal schooling." Again, this isn't a rigorous poll which examines how smart you are. (No test can reliably do that.) This is just to see what your level of formal education is. There are idiot professors and brilliant high school dropouts, but...

Wow. o_o You have my sympathy, red, you really do. I know you work hard to find this stuff out for the community and I can only imagine how frustrating this has been for you as of recently. Look at the bright side: "better late than never"? ^^; lol

Select the one choice which best describes your highest level of education. Purpose: I thought it'd be fun to see if our figures are similar to those of society-at-large or not; and if not, in what ways they differ. This is not a scientific study. It is non-random. It does not check against...

20 hours and 1 minute saved on my USA retail cart of Pokémon Heart Gold. (This marks my third playthrough of HGSS, with 150+ hours logged on the JPNS rom of Heart Gold and 50- hours logged on the JPNS rom of Soul Silver.) In case anyone is wondering, yes, they did change some of the dialogue...

IE's earned a bad reputation over the years amongst the tech-savvy. I personally avoid it still, but I have heard that they're working hard to turn IE into something on par with Firefox and that many people have actually made the switch back from Firefox to IE. Personally, I'm intrigued by...

You've already spoiled it by saying it'll happen again. -_-; Dude, cut it with the spoilers period. If you absolutely must mention spoilers, ffs use the spoiler tags as previously instructed. Sheesh.

I just watched 48. It was a very good episode. Tons of great character and plot development. (Moreso the former.) And as an added plus, not only were all of the characters I was interested in on screen for at least a couple minutes, but there was absolutely no sign of Winry anywhere except for...

I've been waiting for her back to matter. A, she's just plain hot. B, I want to know more about her father's research. So far we've been focused entirely on only two alchemists' research: Father's and Scar's brother's. Even Hohenheim's quest for mortality has taken a back seat to these two...

I'll offer a counterpoint from personal experiences (self and friends'). Anecdotes != the rule, but it's still another perspective all the same. During my college years, all Asian girls with boyfriends had Asian boyfriends. Not all Asian boys with girlfriends had Asian girlfriends, though...

Chocolate-flavored beer? I hate beer and pals period, but that sounds worse than par for the course. >_<

Yeah it is. ^^; One I didn't know myself. Oh well. Not a huge one. But you should probably edit your post out of politeness for others. (If you type the word "hide" inside of a square brackets tag like this {hide}{/hide} except with [ and with ], it'll create the spoiler tag.) As for your...

Well, the sneak peek for Episode 48 suggests that ____, but I've been known to be wrong before about these things. ^^; The narrator's dialogue in the sneak peek + the chimeras' dialogue in the episode proper + the fact that Heinkel/Lion King is fighting Pride with flames behind him -- providing...

I've read some more pretty darn good stories recently. Drill Murata: I finally finished up his most recent tankoubon, Aegu Nureru. Very nice. There was sort of a lull in the quality of his stories in the last one to two tankoubons, but 2009 was a very good year for Drill Murata and his fans...

The conclusion to Diabolus 2 was better than I had feared it might be. The second girl wasn't too too loli, and the episode still had a nice focus on its tragic plot. Pretty cool. The first (?) episode of Kansen 2 (Infection 2) was really nice. :D Some of the scenes ended prematurely, and there...

I mean, is "rivalry" even the right word when only one of the two parties feels that way? lol Seriously: we're such a chill, mellow crowd here, and H-F ... well, isn't. (Or wasn't when I was last there: probably shouldn't talk about a community I'm nearing three full years of absence from as...

"am" or "was"? ^^;

They're just being dumb. Hayeate is a troll (a lovable one, but a troll nonetheless) and his "den of traitors" talk is hyperbole. Shibuyabashi existed long before Akiba-Online, existed at Hong-Fire, was how I first came into contact (indirectly) with chompy, etc. They provided scans of manga or...

I don't know. I've been avoiding reading spoilers on Wikipedia so I'm almost all out of 'em, but I do have one important one left that hasn't taken place in the anime yet. The impression I got from when I read the spoiler months ago was that it was to happen right around now, maybe even a few...

I held out on visiting the IRC channel until yesterday evening. Said nothing. Signed out. Come back today and voilà: the board is back. It's the Midas touch. ;)

I liked all three story arcs in this episode very very much. Even the least entertaining of the three (Ed's) was still very entertaining. That's the sign of a good episode. Three different story arcs and none of them is a waste of your time. I'll be interested to see how the homonculus fight...

Real shit gets real real with the end of Episode 44. The show is definitely starting to redeem itself. I'm going to watch it again. :) Very good episode.

Comic Kairakuten Beast's January 2010 issue (COMIC 快楽天 BEAST 2010年01月号) had two excellent stories: (1) the story of a young woman and a high school boy who know one another and who also happen to be teacher and student. The story fits the "conservative-dress girl takes advice to wear slightly...

Episode 43 was very good. It has enough action, I hope, to please the action fans, but it shines most brilliantly in its advancement of the plot and the characters' development. As something of an aside, I wanted to see how far into the manga we were at this point, so I went to Wikipedia. Looks...

The point isn't "piracy is bad." The point is "trying to create rules whereby you may pirate another's work but not have your own be pirated in kind is both hypocritical and base." The discussion goes well beyond Akiba-Online and is applicable to file piracy in general. And let us please call a...

No one has to ask your permission to mirror something you flat-out stole. If you're not going to ask the author's permission to mirror his work, why should they ask your permission to mirror your mirror? If you think you're upset, imagine how upset he must feel! As for the mafia comparison, I...

If a bot is cloning all of your posts verbatim, regardless of file uploads, then I think it is a legitimate concern and I would hope that the staff agrees and helps you out. But this doesn't appear to be the case. The post that he wrote is very similar but also clearly different from the one...

Just watched 42. Pretty good. (Not great, but above or about average for the series thus far.) It deals mostly with three story arcs: (1) deciphering Scar's brother's manuscript, (2) Van Hohenheim's preparations for war with Father, and (3) the finishing touches for the nationwide transmutation...

This is more or less for Hentai Ben. Click "hide" if you want to read it as well. Around 24:57, the guy asks her, "Does it feel good, Ichikawa? You dirty whore!" She responds, "N-no. I'm being forced to do this. You're making me have sex. That's why--" and she cuts off, moaning. The guy angrily...

Title: "True Form of the Wife (Bitch*) I Do Not Know" Watashi no Shiranai Tsuma (Mesu) no Katachi 私の知らない妻（メス）の貌 Thoughts: This one had an interesting opening scene, then a rather boring sex scene between a beautiful, slutty wife and her naive, normal-guy husband, but it took a turn for...

Personally, I'd love it if there was only one thread per JAV, anime episode, manga volume, etc. and inside of this thread you could find all of the links at the top of the first page. But you're absolutely right that it's unimplementable without being a major and never-ending chore for the mods.

The argument here arose because two different people posted two different links to the exact same copy of data in the exact same subforum. If you're sympathetic towards the first uploader (i.e. the one who is complaining about theft), then please consider the following: First, let's look at...

Anyone who partakes in internet piracy has zero right to complain about file mirroring. That's my stance summed up pretty succinctly. In more detail... You're saying that Guy #1 posted them to Akiba-Online first, and then Guy #2 downloaded them from Guy #1 and later re-posted them in a thread...

I don't. Xenosaga isn't an RPG so much as it is a cinematic experience. I love good stories. (Shenmue, Xenosaga, Phoenix Wright, et al.) To you, Xenosaga is a JRPG. To most people, it's a sorry excuse for a JRPG with 1 bit RPG for every 9 bits movie file. To me, that suits me juuuuuust fine so...

+1 Xenosaga fan. Still haven't gotten around to beating 2 or playing 3 yet, though. :( (I own all three games. Hell, I pre-ordered both 2 -and- 3! And bought all three before I ever even owned a PS2!)

Kara no Shoujo was a bust. Even if the main guy winds up taking down the r**ist, the r**ist is still a r***+murder r**ist, and they show it in multiple 2-second snippets. Very offputting. Almost (almost) thrusts Kara no Shoujo into "anime snuff porn" territory. Also, it was pretty confusing with...

I watched Aki Sora. It was a cute story, and I'm all for older sister hentai, but (a) the main dude is Shota City and (b) nothing particularly amazed me. Not the animation, not the sex scenes, not the voice acting, not the plot ... nothing. :\ It was cute. I enjoyed it. But it wasn't awesome.

If you really care that much about reputation, go to HongFire instead. They luuuuv rep wars. :goodmood: How to give positive reputation on Akiba-Online: 1. You click on the "Thanks!" button on somebody's post. 2. You click on the scale on somebody's post, fill in the radio button which says...

41 was a solid episode right up until the end. When I reached ~17:36, I moved my mouse to see how much time was left and was delighted to see that, in an unusual break from tradition, the episode was far from over despite the development of a major cliffhanger. Unfortunately, the resolution to...

Nothing's changed for me since the last time I posted. FMA episode 40, KnT episode 15, and that's it. Nothing else has been acquired in months. I mean, seriously, if we excluded KnT and FMA, then the last anime episode I got would have been the last of the new ones for Haruhi which was ... what...

What the heck. How I missed this last night, I don't know, but ... ... THAT'S THE NAUTILUS FROM DISNEY WORLD'S 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA RIDE! Actually, it looks 10x better. While the original ride is probably more historically accurate for what the Nautilus was capable of being back...

The lottery doesn't have to cheat to still hose people. It's pretty simple statistics, really. If I offer to sell you a lottery ticket for $1, and I tell you the jackpot is for $1,000,000, but I tell you that the odds of winning are only 1:1,000,000,000,000, then it's already obvious that I'm...