Shy

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Mitch [/i] [B][color=red][size=1] But hey--Shy did...=_=[/size][/color] [/B][/QUOTE] [size=1]Nah, I asked you to get married. Marriage and dating are completely different things. But I have been asked to go out on dates by women quite a few times. I don't think it's weird for the girl to ask the boy out, sometimes guys are more nervous about these things. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]No, I have never had a real paying jobs. I'm editor-in-chief of my school newspaper, so that is a lot of work. But it doesn't count as a "real job" Last summer I applied to about 6 different businesses around my community, but none of them wanted to hire someone as young as I was. After I graduate from high school I will need to find a job that goes well with my new college schedule. -Shy[/size]

[size=1][b]Name:[/b] MacBeth [b]Race:[/b]Human [img]http://www.dabo.de/gargoyles/macbeth.jpg[/img] [b]Strength/Power:[/b] Immortality. Not bad, eh? [b]Favorite Weapon:[/b] A pair of laser/electric pistol things. [b]Background info:[/b] MacBeth was cursed with immortality by the three Weird Sisters in 1040 A.D. His life and soul were bound with Demona's, and he cannot die unless both he and Demona kill eachother. Since then MacBeth has hunted down the beast for centuries, hoping to find some solace in his demise. My RPG posts will mainly focus on this aspect of MacBeth. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]Effective immediately, all anime "fan club" topics will be closed and de-stickied. No intelligent conversation or friendly atmosphere has been spawned as a result of these threads, and many have been stagnant for months. All they do is clutter up the dead forums they inhabit. This decision was made by me, so please do not complain to the other mods about it. I will leave this thread open for a few days, just to hear everyone's thoughts. -Shy[/size]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Mitch [/i] [B][color=red] Erm....Shy, where is [b][i]Poet Laurete[/i][/b]. I might have missed them, but...[/color] [/B][/QUOTE] [size=1]Oh, oops. I swear I wrote them in. But I guess I forgot. I'll have those posted as soon as I get home. My mistake, sorry everyone. But I'm pretty sure that you won Mitch. -Shy[/size]

[SIZE=3][FONT=century gothic][COLOR=crimson];) Because of how large the awards have gotten, it has been decided that only the [b]top two members[/b] for each category will be posted in this thread. Special thanks to everyone who helped to count the votes: [b]Juuthena, Nerdsy, Ajeh, and Mitch.[/b] Congratulations to all of the winners! [b][u][I]General Awards[/I][/b][/u] [b]Overall Member of the Year:[/b] James: 17 Juuthena: 12 [b]Male Member of the Year:[/b] James: 8.5 Shyguy: 8.5 (tie) [b]Female Member of the Year:[/b] Juuthena: 29 Queen Asuka: 10 [b]Most Improved Member of the Year:[/b] Spikey: 5 Tommy Vercetti: 3.5 [b]Thread of the Year:[/b] Who would you like to meet IRL?: 12 Otaku Big Brother 2: 6 [b]Silliest Thread of the Year:[/b] Otaku Big Brother 2: 15 Competition?Who Has the Best Chat Convo?: 2 [b]Silliest Username:[/b] Mitth'raw'nuruodo: 10.5 Jesus Chicken: 10 [b]Member Most Likely to be Here in Two Years:[/b] Adam: 11.5 James: 9 [b]Funniest Member:[/b] Crazy White Boy: 16 Break: 12.5 [b]Avatar of the Year:[/b] Crazy White Boy: 14.5 DeathKnight: 5.5 [b]Signature of the Year:[/b] Semjaza Azazel: 20 Crazy White Boy: 18 Sara: 18 (tie) [b]Best Otaku Couple:[/b] Queen Asuka and PiroMunkie: 23.5 The Harlequin & Ravenstorture: 9.5 [b]Clique of the Year:[/b] Clique Against Cliques: 8 ½. The Es Clan: 5. [b]Best Newbie[/b] Cyko: 8. Tommy Vercetti: 8 Kenji: 8 (tie) [b]Best Oldie[/b] Sephiroth: 16.5 James: 14 [b]Best Otaku Related Site:[/b] Otaku Pike (by Shyguy): 29. The Many Faces of Otaku Boards (by Queen Asuka): 16 [b]Most likely to become a Staff Member[/b] Juuthena: 25 Deus Ex Machina: 7.5 [b][u][I]Otaku Writers[/I][/u][/b] [b]Writer of the Year:[/b] Crazy White Boy: 9.5 Mitch: 9 [b]Role Player of the Year:[/b] Raiha: 18 Final Flash: 9.5 [b]Brawler of the Year:[/b] Medra: 20.5 Raiha: 6 [b][u][I]Social Otakus[/b][/u][/I] [b]Otaku Social Member of the Year:[/b] Juuthena: 20.5 James: 4 [b]Otaku Entertainment Member of the Year:[/b] Semjaza Azazel: 6.5 Wrist Cutter: 5 Endymion: 5 (tie) [b][u][I]Otaku Anime[/I][/u][/b] [b]Otaku of the Year:[/b] Rick Hunter: 28.5 Shyguy: 7.5 [b]Dragonball Guru:[/b] PiroMunkie: 13 Jinzouningen17: 12.5 [b]Digipeep of the Year:[/b] Devidramon: 16 Digital Monster: 16 (tie) [b]Gundam Member of the Year:[/b] Altron Gundam: 7 Domon: 4.5 [b]Yu-Gi-Oh[ Member of the Year:[/b] HyperShadow: 11 Solo Tremaine: 7.5 [b][I][u]Otaku Gamers[/b][/u][/I] [b]Gamer of the Year:[/b] James: 11.5 Crazy White Boy: 10 [b]Nintendo Mario Award:[/b] James: 32 Semjaza Azazel: 8.5 [b]The Sony Award:[/b] Crazy White Boy: 16 Sephiroth: 7 [b]Xbox Gamer of the Year:[/b] Alexus_Bing: 9 Big Cajones: 8 [b]PC Gamer of the Year:[/b] DeathKnight: 11 RicoTranzrig: 3 [b][I][u]Series Otakus[/I][/u][/b] [b]Series Member of the Year:[/b] Desbreko: 16.5 Break: 7.5 [b]Chocobo Award:[/b] Tasis: 15 Break: 6 [b]Liberty City Award:[/b] Neo Cactuar: 12.5 Medra: 6.5 [b]Mushroom Award:[/b] James: 28 Desbreko: 8 [b]PokePlaque[/b] Lady Katana: 19 Nerdsy: 8.5 [b]Triforce Award[/b] Desbreko: 30.5 Break: 6 [b][u][I]Otaku Artists[/b][/I][/u] [b]Best Graphic Designer:[/b] Syk3: 15 Kinetic: 8.5 [b]Best ?Traditional Artist?:[/b] GinnyLyn: 15.5 Topaz: 5.5 Sara: 5.5 (tie) [b]Best Spriter:[/b] Final Flash: 16 DBZ Man: 5 Alexander: 5 (tie) -Shy[/color][/size][/font]

[size=1]Please don't play mod everyone. We [i]do[/i] have two of them in this forum. Yeah, this belongs in the sticky topic at the top of the page. It looks as if anyone can post Gundam bios in the sticky at the top, so please do that from now on. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]This should be excellent news for anime fans, the people who have obsessed with DBZ for the past 4 years will get a chance to see some of the better shows out there. The average CN viewer will become more educated because these new addition to the CN schedule, which is great. There is no problem with Eva or Nadiesco becoming mainstream, it is greedy to think that only "hardcore" fans deserve to see such great series such as Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Eva, etc. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]Babygirl, you [i]do[/i] look like Michelle Branch. I thought that was a picture of her while I was scrolling down the page. Me? Oh, I don't look like anyone famous. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]For the record, this is NOT what I had in mind when I made my character. I have no intention of ripping off BtVS, but this is the most suitable pic that I have been able to find. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]We generally don't allow favorites topics on these forums, because thye lead to short and pointless posts (a.k.a. SPAM). You can discuss G Gundam in the "G Gundam: Your Thoughts" thread, which you can find conveniently located in this Gundam forum. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]It's Monday, and the voting closes [b]now[/b]. Winners will be announced on Saturday. Thanks for all of your support everyone. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]I have the Japanese soundtrack, but I'm not sure if it is available in the US or not. My version is 2 discs, and has every song that appeared in the game (that's what soudtracks are, heh.) This is definitely not worth your money. I didn't realize that I would be sick of the music after playing the game for 30+ hours. Stupid ol' Shy... -Shy[/size]

[size=1]Read the rules before posting on these forums. Posts like this are definitely not allowed. If you want a direct conversation, try visiting [url]www.theotaku.com/chat[/url] -Shy[/size]

[size=1]If I were the type of person who liked to show off his body, getting a tattoo might be a possibility. Maybe a smaller one, but I have no idea what it would say. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]Could we have a Bosko smiley instead? I'll be your best friend if you let us have it James. [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=344497[/img][img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=344497[/img][img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=344497[/img][img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=344497[/img] -Shy[/size]

[size=1]"Angry Student" is the name of my blog, and the name of my regular opinions column in the school newspaper. I complain about several things usually. I don't know if these are rough drafts or what, these are basically just what I found lying around on my hard drive. Enjoy... [b]September 2002[/b] ?I?m not popular enough to do drugs,? It was a simple response, and my parents were just curious. It wasn?t as though they thought I was actually doing anything. My answer surprised them more than I thought it would. When they were in high school ?druggies? were made fun of and criticized, but this is 2002, and the times have definitely changed. They wanted to know why the school was not doing anything to try and prevent this from happening, but the sad truth is that they were. 10 years of Red Ribbon Weeks and D.A.R.E. may have influenced me, but the programs were not as effective to everyone else. Nearly one in ten high school students regularly does one of dozens of different types of drugs -- and by the end of the year 10,000 die because of it. The good news is that I never had to worry about them. My popularity is my anti-drug. I don?t speak to many people in my classes, so the chances of ever being offered to ?go rave? are pretty slim. Unfortunately not everyone is as gifted with social awkwardness as I am. The ?in-crowd? at ALHS is forced to fend for themselves. Football players, cheerleaders and even the academic overachievers have been known to experiment with these controlled substances. I?m not concerned with alcohol, although far too many students celebrate the end of the week by spending an evening with Jack Daniels. Would my parents even notice if I started smoking pot or injecting myself with Heroin? Probably, but that doesn?t mean everyone else?s would. This issue has gone unchecked for so longs that many people begin to forget that it is an issue at all. In every one of my classes there is at least one person who is a shining example of how drugs cause brain damage. Sobriety is not as easy to spot as one would think, but when I overhear a conversation about the finer points of bong-usage I can make an educated guess. So the real question is, if this problem persists, who is to blame? It would be wrong to blame the parents, because they are so busy working that they do not have the time to care for their children. We can?t blame the school, because the D.A.R.E program does an amazing job of getting students out of class to watch videos. And of course, we can?t blame them ourselves, because that would just be ridiculous. -------------------- [b]June 2002[/b] What is going on with the Powerade at our school? Every day in between second and third period I go to the Powerade vending machine located by the quad to get a drink, but there is always something wrong with it. Half of the time it is sold out, but when I do manage to catch the machine with some drinks left in it, they always give me the wrong one. I press the yellow Powerade button, and I get the red one; I press the blue Powerade button, and it gives me a bottle of water. I am not trying to waste my dollar on a ?Powerade Slot Machine,? I have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting the correct flavor of Powerade I want. Lately the weather has been hot, so I need to get a drink at lunch as well. But I have noticed that during lunchtime the Powerade machines are always sold out. This is not a strange coincidence, because miraculously the machine is in stock with Powerade by the end of the day. Where does the Powerade go during lunch? The student store! The school?s student store sells Powerade during lunch at the inflated price of one dollar and twenty-five cents, the people at the student store must have very little faith in it?s customers intellects. ASB has nothing better to do than a organize Powerade-Laundering operations, they spend all of fourth period making posters! Unfortunately these attempts to earn money do not stop at Powerade. Huge price increases of everything from dance tickets to candy bars have spread throughout campus, and they are getting worse all of the time. Senior ?Grad Night? was moved from Edison Field to Scandia (cough,) but the seniors sill didn?t care because of the price of tickets. Everyone realized that fifty dollars is too expensive for a night of miniature golf and go-karts, and eventually it was canceled because of its popularity. Nobody wants to pay seventy dollars to spend their homecoming in an abandoned warehouse, people can protest the choice of dance locations by not going, or talking to their student government officers instead of crying about it afterwards. The mess of this year?s ?Grad Night? is a very important event at ALHS, because for the first time it shows that students on campus can make an impact on what happens at their schools. Finally people are learning that ASB stands for Associated Student Body, and that if they don?t like something they can protest it by not participating. ASB needs the student?s money a lot more than the student?s need their posters, the organization is only as important as individuals allow it to be. The truth is that students are just as responsible for trying to fix things at ALHS as the student government is. If nothing is said about the needs and desires of the population, how can its elected officials know what to do? It is the responsibility of every person to take an active role in politics and government, before power hungry facists end up building weapons of mass destruction, or raising the price of my favorite sports drinks. Things can get better in the future, but until that day I am getting my Powerade from the supermarket. -------------------- [b]Unpublished as of yet[/b] After doing miserably in the last round of standardized tests, our high school has decided to strike out against illiteracy and overall stupidity. A new course of action has needed be taken for years, but this would change not just how people do on standardized tests, but how they learn and spend their free time. Slowly it has spread like wildfire across the nation, and Alta Loma High School was next. For weeks we had seen the posters and flyers, anxiously we awaited its entrance, but when it came, it arrived with a cough rather than a boom. What exactly was SSR supposed to do again? Every day the entire student body of ALHS engages in required reading for the newly enforced SSR program. The idea is simple enough: if everyone reads for fifteen minutes a day, their reading skills will improve and the school will be able to bask in all of high test scores that would follow. But nothing has gone according to plan. There are the students who use this as an opportunity to enhance their spiritual awareness through meditation. By phasing out all of the distractions around them they are able to achieve true Zen, and I am told that the fifteen minutes pass by much more quickly than if they were actually reading. Some try to not-so-secretly finish their homework from the day before while others choose to pretend that they are reading, wildly flipping through the pages of whatever they have in their backpack for the duration the time. What do these people have in common? None of them are reading! But the truth is that the biggest obstacle facing SSR is that it allows everyone to read whatever they want. Now, you must be thinking, ?But isn?t that a good thing?? No. While the more advanced students (who have never had to worry about their testing scores in the first place) are enjoying this extra time to catch up on research projects and essays, for everyone else this is a colossal waste of time. And of the slight minority who actually do read, only a few of them are reading something that will improve their reading skills. The beauty and the flaw of SSR is the limitless choice that it gives. One could read ?Crime and Punishment?, while another could be reading an issue of Maxim magazine (they have great letters to the editor, by the way). Generally, the same types of students who willingly read in order to challenge themselves are the kind who the school never has to worry about falling behind in their reading ability. If people are not going to read their class work and assignments, what makes anyone think that they are going to read something that they are not graded on? Of course, if the school wanted SSR to succeed they would try to emphasize its importance. Aside from a book drive at the beginning of the year, very little has been to encourage this. Twice a week, SSR is regularly cut short so that the daily announcements could be read over the PA system. They must have decided that fifteen minutes of reading was too much for our students to handle. Considering that this is only the first quarter of SSR, I begin to wonder if this will be able to last past the first year. There is no clear-cut solution to this problem, but the best way to encourage reading is by forcing people to read more in their English classes. Education is a process done in steps. You have to start small, and then you can eventually move on to larger projects. If I was able to notice any sort of discrepancy between the reading habits of freshmen, and the reading habits of seniors I could be satisfied. Everyone reads at their own rate, but someone should be urging students to find reading material that is better suited to their ability. ZPD scores (which measure a person?s reading level) seem more like helpful suggestions than anything else. It bothers me that same freshmen are reading the same ?Goosebumps? books that entertained me while I was in third grade, and it bothers me when a program full of promise, like SSR is not able to live up to its potential. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]Even though the poll seems to be closed, I vote for Sara. She did the best job at writing for Percy, and I'm biased. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]This thought has popped into my head several times, but I'd be more than willing to die for [i]any[/i] of my close friends and loved ones. I couldn't imagine living without them. I've never even had a real boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever, but I only assume that my devotion to them would at least be the same. -Shy[/size]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by James [/i] [B][color=#507AAC]Nobody has yet reached the highest rank, however. Even Raiha is less than halfway there. ~_^[/color] [/B][/QUOTE] [size=1]That is the most fightening thing that I have heard all day. Do you think we have nothing better to do than sit around and post all-- [i]..never mind.[/i] ;) -Shy[/size]

[size=1]Thank you for the Duck Tales one CWB. It brought tears to me eyes... ok, not really, but it was still good. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]We don't need two of these things running around. Thread closed. -Shy[/size]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Mitch [/i] [B][color=red]But I'm not condemning you, either. We all have our flukes.[/color] [/B][/QUOTE] [size=1]What's wrong with you people? This is a masterpiece. CWB, you have made something wonderful. The beauty of this could only be surpassed by a similar rap/poem about Duck Tales. I urge you to rise to the challenge though. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]We don't really allow this sort of thread, because it leads to off-site advertising. I checked, and our sponsor, [b]DiscountAnimeDVD.com[/b] does not carry it.. but I'm sure that it could be found on eBay or something like that, assuming you keep your eyes open. Also, downloading anime is illegal, which is another reason why this topic should be closed. Welcome to the boards, but please read the rules. -Shy[/size]

[size=1]As a general rule, we do not allow favorites topics because they tend to lead to simple responses *points above*. But I'll give this one a chance, and maybe some discussion can come out of it. 8th MS Team is my favorite Gundam series. It had some nice characters and an interesting story during those 13 episodes. The love story was well done. Or, at least it was a lot less sappy than most other Gundam romances. -Shy[/size]