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[COLOR="DarkOrange"]By your definition, then, I'd say Ergo Proxy, Gilgamesh, and Texhnolyze will be fitting truly. Which should be enough - the first 2 are 26 eps and the latter is 23. So I'd say go finish those (or watch as much as you can stomach, lol) and come back for more recs if you still want to see more. I'd definitely say to start with Ergo Proxy. I've only seen 4 eps, but it gave me a very The Matrix feel (and I'm a pretty big Matrix Trilogy fan)[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Dammit, I knew that is Dagger has been here all the good recs would be done XD Although I'd never consider Gunslinger Girl even remotely cyberpunk... it's modern-day and all, and even theough the girls are cyborgs, you don't usually see them running on rooftops or anything (until season 2 that is!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!) Boogipop also takes place in modern day, but Lain does have a really big technological edge. I doubt it's what James is looking for though, but since it's one of my alltime favorite anime period he should watch it anyway XD I still can't wrap my brain around how you can dislike that series... Anyway, while I also don't think it could be called cyberpunk, Gankutuou probably deserves to be metioned since it's got uber-future technology and some just-plain-awesomeness stuff. Can anyone say The Count of Monte Cristo 3000 years in the future? Yeah, that's the good stuff. But yeah, I second Ergo Proxy and Texhnolyze since they're prolly more what you're looking for. though within the 4 eps I've seen of each, neither impressed me at all. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]The world wants to know, what does Digital Boy look like in his natural habitat?! *the world being... well, digitalboy himself* digitalboy surfing the internet... AKA 90% of his life. [IMG]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/MetalSonic700/Photo160.jpg[/IMG] He seems to be reading something that's caught his interest... or is just really long and he can't sit still through reading all of it.... [IMG]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/MetalSonic700/Photo161.jpg[/IMG] He seems to be expressing either rage or mere awe at the author's proposal. That or aomeone just got knocked the **** out and he's lke 'OSHI~' or maybe he's looking at a 4chan gif... who knows [IMG]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/MetalSonic700/Photo162.jpg[/IMG] Either he's deep in thought... or he figured out there's a camera on him... [IMG]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/MetalSonic700/Photo163.jpg[/IMG] ...does he think he looks sexy?![/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Boss, it's funny you should post right when I was about to go look for some great rap songs, so I'm glad you posted. Anwho, I looked up Hieroglphics and ended up listening to a joint they did with Del the Funkee Homosapien... and then ended up listening to a whole bunch of Del songs XD but what can I say, Del kicks ***. "Think about it, fo' I boot you in the cerebellum and make ya brain ooze out ya noze" XDDDDDDDD[/COLOR]

[quote name='Aceburner']Says the guy with the Johnny Bravo avatar (jk. I kinda miss ol' Johnny.)[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]JB had DONNY OSMOND. It even had an ep with Donny AND Weird Al Yankovic!!! That sow was an unsung hero. JB and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy are like an adult's saving grace on CN. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Konata']I have OCD when it comes to turning in assignments. [/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]>_> I'd really like to strangle the guy who made that into a turn-of-phrase... anywho, ATM I'm suffering a major cold. I'm sick a lot - maybe I don't bathe enough? Either way, it has a lot to do with the weather changing and my weak immune sysem -_- I only just recovered from allergy season and now the sudden biting winds have gotten me. Even so, I type and read through the tears and bite back the burning in my eyes... ugh, I'm about to go take a nice loooong shower T_T ...I sneezed so hard earlier I actually think I turned my throat inside out XD EDIT: Sinc this post isn't nearly immature or retarded enough yet, here's a joke I spent too much time making: How is a cold like prostitution? It sucks because you blow a lot![/COLOR]

[quote name='Goodbye, Face'][font=arial][size=1]Deus, I almost like you as a person now. Almost. :D Circle went through a huge line-up change with delayed their album that was supposed to come out this year, I was pissed, but I completely understand. The new members supposedly do their respective jobs very well, and Drew and Kathy are still in the band, so what do I care. So, hopefully, they'll have a new album next year. As the Roots Undo as a whole is epic, and you should get it. However, it is not epic enough to last for five years, and I really wish they at least got an EP together or something instead of just going back on their word every year. And I feel awful that I missed another completely WRONG statement by Nomura. ;_;[/font][/size][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Oh come now, i still call TMV the best band ever, so you can't start repecting me and stuff or you might ruin your image XD In any event, after having heard all the songs on their myspace, purevolume, and website I can safely call them epic-amazing-magic. All of their songs are just brutally beautiful - my favorite is probably Non-Objective Portrait of Ruin (I think theat was it) though the entire second half of Same Shade of Concrete would havve been the most epic win evar were it not for that utterly annoying repetitive WTFeverthatis noise ringing over everything >_

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]I?ll never be able to post like [url=http://omo.serenana.info/2007/11/13/captive-audience/#comments]Omo[/url], but I gotta say, ef 6 continues to strengthen my opinion that this may be the best show airing this season. The bigges thing ef has for me is inspiration - between Kyousuke and Hiro are some of the best characters I?ve gotten to see in anim in quite a while, EXPECIALLY in comparison to other school show characters. They just don?t make romance anime like this - **** they just don?t make anime like this period. And I have to say, I?m happy that someone is taking the opportunity. So for some reason when I watch this show, it always reminds me of the light novel Boogiepop and Others. Well, it?s probably something in the self-referential nature of the ideals which you can tell are the writer?s personal feelings being imbued into the television. The people who wrote this stuff experience/d it themselves and they really, honestly appreciate these situations. In this way, it makes the truly motivational scenes really moving. And the bottom like is that these are cahracters who are regular people - KNOW thier limitations, are JUST as constrained as you and me bt they STILL do what most are afraid to do facing all the trials and tribulations. Honestly, I can?t remember seeing characters like this in a realistic situation before. But of course, ef isn?t only a self-referential oddity full of motivational power, but like Boogiepop, it DOEs have a story to tell. (and in this case, it?s a romance) so it?s natural that the actual romance needs to be judged as well and it stands up to other anime of it?s kind and even goes at least above-average, so you could say that the show is really ?ahead on all fronts?. Amazing is a word I wouldn?t mind using.[/COLOR]

[quote name='Goodbye, Face'][font=arial][size=1]Portugal. The Man is fantastic. I just bought Church Mouth a few weeks ago and I was really impressed by it; but just so you know, I like Waiter: "You Vultures!" much better. So, if you're going to get into the band, I suggest Waiter first. As for what else I've been listening to, there's the new Dillinger Escape Plan record, which is just mindblowing. No one can hate the band after hearing "When Acting As a Wave." I'm so happy the instrumentals are back. Also, I've pretty much been listening to the whole Neurot Records catalogue, y'know, Isis, Neurosis, Red Sparowes, Battle of Mice, Made Out of Babies, etc. I heard Red Sparowes are recording right now and they are saying it's their best work yet. :D:D:D Also, I haven't heard anything by Neurosis until recently, they're not my favorite band or anything, but I like it.[/font][/size][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Oioi, indeed, their stuff on their myspace was fantastic. i expected a little more techno stuff, but what I got was still astounding. BTW did you see my Circle Takes the Square introduction in the heavy music thread? Anywho, while listening to it, I produced a full-on review of Tiger and the Duke which I intend to put on my music blog, but since that thing gets pecisely 0 hits per day, I might as well post it here. Act One: Chasing Suns Prior to hearing this album, I'd already heard Act IV which opens with the same riff, and confused me the first time I heard this song, but after a moment it gets into a verse with a very different sound and we first start to hear the insane level of guitar-over-guitar-over-guitar vocals-over-vocals action going on here. I can safely say that it would be literally impossible to pick up on everything going on here without listening to it at least 10 times. Around halfway through the first instrumental comes in and TSOAF shows us what it's like to hear guitars played at high speed without loosing their emotion. As well as how many guitar tracks can be stacked onto one another to get right on the edge of just enough without being too many. This music is so hyperactive that even one with a ridiculously short attention span such as myself has to focus just to keep track of it all. TSOAF also take their interludes seriously. In a lot of ways it harkens back thoughts of Dredg's Leitmotif where the in-between tracks have an experimental sound and a genre all their own. This song might feel at home on a techno album or somewhere, but what makes it truly impressive is that on some albums (such as Leitmotif) the interludes might be little things you pay no mind to and probably often skip, but in this case the songs are worth listening to. Act 2: All is Ash or the Light Shining Through it begins wonderfully leading into the song with a delightful piano intro and the feeling of a coming epic as we near the fast part - and it happens. This song has some real catchiness to it despite the oddity which is amazing. We still have so much to listen for, too. "The flesh is heretic - my body is a witch - I am burning it" is a line made of pure win, both here and on the next album in The Heretic. the instrumentals in this song remind me a lot of The Mars Volta where you can tell that there's something going on here, you just have to figure out what. the first time you listen, everything seems miscellaneous, but time and time again you learn what's really happening. Another amazing thing about this track is that even in the slow moments there's a ton going on. It doesn't reduce itself to a twinkle and soft vocals, it does that with guitar echoes and chimes and so much background noise. It's like the song itself is too jittery to sit still on one sound. The second interlude features prominently the weird sounds TSOAF seems to love as well as some trippy keyboard stuff. Some people actually could be prompted to skip this, I just like it because it's a soothing break from the maniacal madness surrounding (though the typewriter noise begins to eat into your brain). I don't know if you've ever played The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, but there's a song in that game that is a lot like tis, and I always think of the dungeon with that song when I hear the interlude. Act 3: Modulate Back to the Tonic is all about techno voice guy hehe. this one can be a little mind-numbing, simply because the combination of the droning speaking, the techno vocals, and drums seem to create a weird effect, however when we break into the chorus we see more of the former strength of the tracks. This is actually my least favorite song on the album for the only reason that it seems a bit pensive, or maybe it's that the drum routine gets old, and the song is more formulaic than the other. However, like all of their songs, there are a lot of intricacies that enhance the experience. I think that the problem with this song is having heard it a few times and knowing that the second time the chorus comes around it is much better, so you want t already hear it the first time. This probably sounds contrived, lol. In any case, this song's instrumental also reminds me of the Mars Volta but TSOAF condenses it down to reasonable length whereas TMV tends to go on forever with their parts of this nature. Not to say i don't like the wat TMV doe sit (I do) but it's definitely different. The third interlude has a cool drum routine, and once more, nice airy music so that it would sound at home on a techno album. I'm tempted to make two different playlists of their songs and listen to either wen I'm more in the mood for them, because hearing the techno can sometimes detract from the other songs (in the sense of 'hey, what am I listening to again?') you sort of loose the focus of the album (same problem I have with Leitmotif.) Act 4: You Don't Need a Witness was the fist song I'd heard from the album and remains my favorite for the reason that it features the most sheer badassery. The song oozes coolness from start to finish and the vocal work just plain works. Both verses are memorable and the combination of great drums, guitar, and piano is amazing. Plus the parts where the guitar does violent stabs in the music and the occasional bad-*** bass riff bring a tidal wave of 'WIN' over everything. It's hard not to get this song stuck in your head. The biggest problem with The Tiger and the Duke is that it's simply downright short, coming in under 30 minutes and you don't have much time to really appreciate all the crazy **** that just happened, however, you can always leave the album on infinite loop and bask in the glory XD[/COLOR]

[quote name='Desbreko'][color=#4B0082]I was seriously disappointed by ep3. The first two episodes were great and got my hopes up that maybe, just maybe, the censorship wouldn't bother me too much. Then it went and ruined ep3 for me. Ep3 had the potential for much hilarity but instead we got a full screen censor box. That was so not cool.[/color][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]I haven't seen past ep 3 pretty much for this reason - that I might as well not watch the show when I can't see half of it. Considering I have to much else on my pallette, I'm willing to push this back to wating for the DVDs. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Fyxe'][size=1]In my school, there only real "clique" is the so-called popular people. Everyone else just sort of hangs out with whoever, because they don't care who they're seen with. All my friends tend to either be gay, a vegetarian, or a hardcore weed fiend. It's fun to eat bacon in front of my veg friends. :)[/size][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]That's kind of how myschool is. We don't really have definitive cliques. People just talk to who they talk to It helps that my school is so insanely lazy - we don't have the energy to hate each-other XD. The only time you see any real seperation is in the courtward were everyone hands out - there's one area where the goth kids and more strange nerds collect and that's where I hang out and on the other side of a large tree is where the more conventional nerds (NARUTARDS) hang out, and they interact with the former. Therre is a mass of popular/emo/whateverthehellyoucallthems to the side and just looking at them you can tell they're talking about something stupid o myspace XD However everyone seems to know everyone regardless of atyle or whaever and I see people talking to each other who I'd never expect to see doing so, so yah. I guess black kids kind of form a clique since most of them don't hang out with white people, but there's a pretty good amount of nerdy black dudez who I roll with too. Laaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiid back :catgirl:[/COLOR]

[quote name='Dagger']I find this fascinating (my friend and I were just talking about it the other day, as a matter of fact). Consensual sex scenes in JP games and manga--be they het, BL or yuri--frequently involve the more-submissive party (male or female) getting really embarrassed for no particular reason. S/he'll say "stop" without meaning it, because s/he doesn't want to be the first to lose control, doesn't want to seem vulnerable, fears being judged by his/her partner, etc., etc. And it does get tiresome; sometimes I just want to tell them to relax and enjoy themselves, darn it. It's so different from American live-action porn, which (and someone please correct me if my generalizations are off the mark) is more likely to involve the sub talking dirty & begging for more. ~Dagger~[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]hopping in, since this doesn't really only apply to video games and I've been watching a LOT of anime porn lately which almost always falls right in tune with what you're saying. I've pointd this out to myself as well, 90% of the reson I hate American porn is because the chicks are always talking dirty nd doing it for the camera and stuff. Anime chickzors are usually submissive, and like Lunox said, otherwise evil lol. We all know the real reason for this - otaku dudez crazy softness. They need moe. The need 'soothing' and cute. They want to see the submissive girl who says stop but can't defend herself. Even better if she's a cute little sister who's so embarassed about being seen naked by onii-san and now she's saing 'don't look!' but you know that inside she wants to be one with onii-san and soon they're... okay, I'm done verbally masturbating now XD Personally, I still find it annoying. I get tird of the porn rhetoric real quick - oh yeah, I find t hot, unlike showy disgusting American porn, but I srill get annoyed. You can only hear 'wait... .don't cum there!!!' and 'that place is dirty! don't put your mouth there!' 'ieeeee~!' so many times before you say '**** it, just take it dammit!' This is why I love good ol' consensual sex most. When both parties look like they're really enjoying it. Cuz lets face it, they're more coordinated that way, anyway. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]I feel absolutely obligated to bring up Circle Takes the Square. I first heard of them from Goodbye, Face who calls them his favorite band, and I think I tried to listen once long ago and went 'eww screamo' or something, but I was listening to Portugal. The Man and discovered that they were going on tour with Circle takes the Square, so I decided to give the ol tic-tac-toe another try. i gotta say, I'm blown away. Kill the Switch is on of the most epic things I've heard in a while, and interesting. I don't find the vocals annoying at all - they are quite viceral and cool, and the songs are just all-around heavy-hitting. For a segment of Kill the Switch I simply had to stop all else and listen to it solely - blown away I might say. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Listening to my most recent purchase The Tiger & The Duke remastered by The Sound of Animals Fighting. The album contains the remastered versions of each track as well as an equal number of remies of songs from their second album, Lover, The Lord Has Left Us... The Tiger and the Duke reminds me a lot of the Dredg album Leitmotif. Only sped up, played forward and backward over itself, and injected with heroine straight into it's brain. the whole thing is goddamn magical. The maniacal guitars will eat into your brain - you know, I've listened to this album about 20 times by now and I'm still wrapping my brain around all of it. he experience is downright [i]different[/i]. Like it's not just music, but something even more intense. Now, we have Lover, the Remixes. I really like the remizes, and considering they measure out to much longer than the actual album, I've been hearing a lot of them. The style of the remixes is a lot like the more magical songs on the Gorillaz albums, which to a lot of people means "oh, jeez" but as a huge Gorillaz fan it has me excited (a lot more than their new D-sides which is mostly crap). Anyway, it's the sort of electronic music I get excited about. Especiallly the ones done by Portugal. The Man who I may have to listen to more of now. So yah, excellent album. Also, Horses in the Sky is one of the scarce songs that's even better live. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Aceburner']First of all, welcome back, Chibi. I haven't really had a chance to say it yet, but there it is. Anyway, I think considering his age, DB is either in Junior or Senior High (bets on junior) if his school system is a typical one and there's no "middle school" like over where I live. Other than that, I basically concur with the above statement.[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]I'm in 11th grade you (I expected this to get cenned XD). Anyway, I didn't say anything before for the sake of thread continuation, but he and her stopped whatever they had (I'm still unclear on it) last Friday and I haven't seen her since, lol. I knew it had happened when he spent a day being semi-emo and then had time to be at my house all weekend XD. So yeah, you've all been typing for no reason, but it was worth FOR TEH LULZ![/COLOR]

[quote name='Sandy']Yes, so very ugly... *Sigh*

[quote name='Dagger']Re: the current season, I'm down to Shugo Chara, ef, Clannad and Gundam 00. There aren't enough hours in the day for KimiKiss, and I'm not going to prioritize Ghost Hound until I get my technical difficulties fixed. I'm writing a term paper on the relationship between [b]Bakeneko[/b] & traditional kaidan (ghost/monster stories), so I'll be re-watching both the Ayakashi and Mononoke versions of it for a while... ~Dagger~[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]watching ef obsessively - may be my favorite of the season and Blue Drop is at the top of my list of importance as well. CLANNAD, shugo Chara, and KnJ are 'need to catch up, but not by much', Minami-ke and Sketchbook I managed to catch up on and am loving, GHOST HOUND hasn't been around long, but is great. the shows that i want to watch but have only seen 1-2 eps of are Genshiken 2, Mokke, Bamboo Blade, and Moyashimon. I might drop Kimikiss cuz ef ruined it for me, and since my bro is never available to watch, I'm likely dropping Night Wizard. Shana season 2... I'll watch the rest cuz it's Shana but.... :animesigh[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]I have never found another man attractive. Men are ugly, generally. Especially naked men. And the penis is just plain [i]creepy looking[/i]. The way it sticks out from the rest of the body feels like it just doesn't belong there. I joke with friends about gay **** a lot - a lot of my friends would bet an arm and a leg on my homosexuality. But I am far from gay. Would I have sex with a guy if you paid me? Hell yeah. Money is money. Could I fall in love with a guy and have sex with him? Probably. I might have to go look at some porn to get ready for it, but love is love. Of course, I could never love a guy that way. I just find them too ugly. Do I find women sexually attractive? Yes. In fact, i find some women attractive who aren't even really attractive at all, but I find some way to make them seen attractive. There are definitely a lot of preferences I have toward women. I am a very picky person. But it goes without saying that I am (fairly easily) aroused by women. So yeah. I'd say I'm completely not gay. EDIT: [quote name='prem'](Happened this saturday... my first kiss wth a girl!)[/quote] OH MY GOD I'M BEING BEATEN BY PREM?!?!?!?!?!?[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Manabi Straight is among the top 5 shows this year, and oen of my alltime show ever. Maybe now that you're watching people will actually go watch, since my months of advertising did NOTHING.[/COLOR]

[quote name='DeathKnight'][color=crimson]He's actually my illegitimate child.[/color][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]I was going to say how sexy your pic was, but now I'm going to look like I have a father complex XD I finally saw Konata's face! I wonder if this means I can die happy now?![/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]While Fyxe can do whatever she wants to my nuts, Prem, you do not have the right. Not until you have surpassed me or become my equal. Now return to your training!!! Anywho, Blayze, I'd pay you to kick me in the nuts, but if you're willing to do it for free, you can go ahead. Make sure you kick them hard enough to make them inert at least, so I can go up to everyone and say "THE BALLS ARE INERT!" and then go get a sex change >_> For a billion dollars i'd do anything. Period. I'd ****ing amputate my arm and get raped with it, I don't care. For a million, hell, I'll be your ***-slave for eternity. I like money. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]I'm so glad I created this thread XD ya'll can be ****ing hilarious sometimes. Anyway, I wouldn't have been surprised if she liked me, since she said she wanted to rape me or whatever. Anyway, as for 'calling myself gay' why in the name of god would that help? And besides, everyone knows I'm gay O_o As for the actual situation... oh hell I won't say anything, I want to keep reading your awesome advice XD[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Copypasta~ Well, I was a pretty big fan of Avenged Sevenfold. I think that most people who hated it didn't give it a good enough listen, cuz it was quite excellent. Seeing this thread, I decided to go find some songs from their new album... wow. This is total ****. I'm not kidding, it's not even that it's bad, it's flat out amazingly terrible. I cannot tel you how disappointed I am - I didn't have very high hopes since I hadn't heard good things about it, but this is total crap. In all honesty, I'm saying this after only 3 songs... but I don't know if I can listen to more. I'm not even going to talk about Critical Acclaim which was a critical blow to my health... Almost Easy was epic fail. The instrumentals are downright horrid and the guitar solo has NO emotion. I mean, I listen to Bat Country and I can feel the evil screeching down the fretboard and the whole thing just has that attitude that can't be beat. This song had nothing of the sort. Sream was also godawful. The music was just so drab - they completely lost all of the energy from CoE. Dear God and Gunslinger both appear to be some country ********... yeah, I can't handdle any more of this. I'm glad I decided to check it out before I would have ended up buying it. This has been a pretty ****** year for a bunch of great bands...[/COLOR]

[quote name='Gunslinger'][COLOR="77656"]"At the boment of beng hanged, many observers have noted, the victim, if male, often has an erection and may even ejaculate." [/COLOR][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]This completely explains this one hentai I was reading... though that one had a lot more decapitation. And heads talking >_> Sometimes the guro tag can be fun. Facts? Fact: Another lady who lived over 100 years attributed it to a routine of sleeping 2 days and staying awake 2 days as her sleep schdule. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Japan_86'][COLOR="DarkRed"]I've had experiences where women are sneaky and annoying ditzes. You need to work like them to get them to stop. Teachers are people too and who knows you might get those D's raised up a grade or even make a new friend. I've had troubles with people like this before in college and in high school. The best way is to avoid and chill around teachers and/or tell them. You can easily keep your male pride by being near teachers. You are not telling on her yet if they see her tormenting you, success. Or she may not have the guts to do it around the teachers and it will stop. Trust me. Just try it.[/COLOR][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Come to think of it, what's weird is that our table is in the back of the cafeteria near the security lady and she usually gets pissed if we talk too loud or if I get glomped my another dude. I wonder where the hell they were today... :animeangr[/COLOR]