Gavin

[quote name='gallowsCalibrator' date='04 June 2010 - 02:35 AM' timestamp='1275615341' post='694496'] [font="Comic Sans MS"]Upon seeing his image in the concept art, I was planning to marry him when I got the game. Upon learning his name, I curled up in a corner and shivered for three straight hours.[/font] [/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"] Bigot. [/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Rectangular avatars have always been OB's thing, obviously if people want square ones they can do so within the limits of resolution offered. I still think 150x100 is fair as it allows people to use 100x100 square avatars while still keeping the board standard at rectangular style, that said the 150x150 profile pictures don't strike me as overly large either and would allow for a bit more individuality. [strike]What are the new max signature image dimensions BTW Jeh ?[/strike] Nevermind, found them. 600x200 for anyone wondering.[/size][/font]

[quote name='gallowsCalibrator' date='04 June 2010 - 02:22 AM' timestamp='1275614534' post='694493'] [font="Comic Sans MS"] So I figured you'd all appreciate this: [center][url=http://gabzillaz.deviantart.com/art/Naruto-497-crack-166273579][img]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/154/d/e/Naruto_497_crack_by_gabzillaz.jpg[/img][/url][/center][/font] [/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"]*Thumbs up*[/size][/font]

[quote name='Rebellion' date='03 June 2010 - 09:33 PM' timestamp='1275597234' post='694441'] When I first saw him I thought he was a guy. However, season 2 I think I walked in and saw him in a dress.... That through me for a loop... I need to finish the 2nd season because I'm still lost with that one lol.[/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"]True enough, I saw him first in the concept art a mate showed me before 00 aired and figured she just had a slender figure, then came the voice and I was like "Oh, OK male then".[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]*Shrugs* Honestly I don't really mind which way we go, although I think Rebellion has a point when he says that because the layout of the boards are wide, wider avatars make sense. Perhaps a middle-ground of making the avatar size 150x100 ?[/size][/font]

[quote name='Rebellion' date='03 June 2010 - 07:24 PM' timestamp='1275589497' post='694415']I won't deny that almost every fight felt contrived. For Zommari to get matched up against Byakuya was just a case of bad luck or something... But because it was Byakuya and I like to see him dominate, I can't really say anything negative about the fight outside of Zommari. Halibel and Hitsugaya, as I've mentioned countless times before was probably the biggest copout ever done by Kubo (I'm still bitter about that). Stark being taken down with just a shikai still don't sit well with me. Don't get me wrong though, I completely understand why you and other people are so disappointed with this arc. (And I do as much complaining as the next person lol) But I was still entertained by majority of the fights. The only fights I didn't really care for were Soifon and Barragan, VC's and Allon, Ishida, Renji, Mayuri vs Szayael and then there's the former espada fights.[/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"]I admit that all the fights were visually quite nice and exciting from a reader's point of view, it's just that when you go back and look at it in context you realise that had Kenpachi ended up fighting Zommari or Byakuya fighting Szayel that things would've ended very differently for the Shinigami forces in Hueco Mundo. I suppose that fact that none of the Espada, with maybe the exception of Ulquiorra came anywhere near living up to the hype generated around them was what annoyed me considerably as well, Kubo seemed to want to make the Arrancar and Espada his mirror to the Shinigami in terms of power (I was honestly half expecting Las Noches to look like Seireitei/Rukongai in terms of having an Arrancar/Hollow populance) and for each of them to last much longer. I'd actually forgot about the Allon fight, but then I don't really give a rat's rear-end about the VCs, their fights against Barry's fraccion were enough.[/size][/font]

[quote name='Rebellion' date='03 June 2010 - 10:04 PM' timestamp='1275599080' post='694452'] That's refreshing. So that boy that travels with the main character's not as bad as people are making him out to be? I was under the impression that he was almost as annoying as Shinji (EVA) and I dread that boy.[/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"] Nahhh Raki's nowhere near as bad as Shinji, bit unsure of himself yes but far more tolerable by comparison. I've sort of kept up with the Claymore manga, giving the most recent chapters (last six or seven) a glance and filling in the blanks via summaries online. Followed the anime a lot consistently and rather enjoyed it.[/size][/font]

[quote name='Aberinkula & Fitch' date='03 June 2010 - 08:36 PM' timestamp='1275593768' post='694423'] [center][img]http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a358/teh_killer_kitten/lolItrollu.jpg[/img][/center] [/quote] [center][img]http://www.homotron.net/images/homotron/258Troll_spray.jpg[/img][/center]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"][b]Leonard Testarossa - Full Metal Panic![/b] [img]http://www.jasms.de/anime/fmptsr/leonard01.jpg[/img] No, it's not Tessa... Seriously, it's not. [b]Tieria Erda - Mobile Suit Gundam 00[/b] [img]http://zeitgeistglee.250free.com/Tieria.jpg[/img] Quite a number of the Innovade's count I suppose, Tieria's twin Regene and Healing/Hilling Care.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Wow. Some startling revisionism going on there, eugenics, McCartyism, international organisations attempts to undermine the U.S. [/size][/font]

[quote name='Sara' date='28 February 2010 - 03:52 AM' timestamp='1267325560' post='691251'] [font=secret font!][size=3]Fizzy drinks! That sounds so charmingly old-fashioned.[/size][/font][/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"]You're right, pretty much the only time you'll hear it these days is from someone in their 60s and above (my grandmother uses it frequently). Most other people call them soft-drinks or the particular brand in question.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Not really. Every fandom has some vocal extremist fans which you're going to have to just take as par for the course. Of all the anime fandoms I've lurked/been part of none of them come anywhere close to the vitriol of Star Wars fans with a bone to pick, Lord knows the migration from Bantam to Del-Ray probably desensitised me to anything less than all out war.[/size][/font]

[quote name='Allamorph' date='03 June 2010 - 01:24 PM' timestamp='1275567867' post='694391'] [FONT=Calibri]Incidentally, the first portion of your current callsign does in fact have a sort of unfortunately permanent stigma of omgzorzIrontehinterwebz attached to it. Might I suggest looking him up in the members list?[/FONT][/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"]For a moment, before I realised it was Ace I was dreading he'd actually returned.[/size][/font]

[quote name='Korey' date='03 June 2010 - 11:04 AM' timestamp='1275559449' post='694385'] [color="#000080"][size="2"][font="Garamond"]Texans, at least where I'm from all refer to soda as "Coke", even if it's not actually Coca-Cola.[/font][/size][/color] [/quote] [center][img]http://facepaw.net/facepaw.jpg[/img][/center]

[quote name='Lady Shy' date='03 June 2010 - 02:18 PM' timestamp='1275571119' post='694394'] This is not a bug, but it bugs me. (HA, PUN) I tend to correct my posts as soon as I post them. Back in vB, if you edited within a small amount of time, you wouldn't get the "last edited by" thing going on, but now I do. This isn't an issue, but it's a rather huge line. Is there a possibility that to change it to size 1 or summin? [/quote] [size="2"][font="Tahoma"]Agreed. The "YOU HAVE JUST EDITED THIS POST" is a bit in your face at the minute.[/font][/size]

[quote name='Rebellion' date='03 June 2010 - 02:33 AM' timestamp='1275528799' post='694337']Err... I kind of have Matsumoto tagging along with them. Her getting up and running around can't be for nothing. (It better not be) I kinda want to say that I see Unohana going as well. I've heard some rumors stating that Unohana is gonna be fighting, so.. yeah.[/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Maybe. I'd like Matsumoto to go back to her original characterisation rather than the caricature of a Shinigami she's become over the last while. I'd like to see Tessai show up and have him and Hachi take over the healing so the team heading to Soul Society is effectively Isshin, Ichigo, Unohana and possibly Urahara and Yoruichi (Maybe Ryuuken too if he shows up). I just don't want to see the entire cast head off again to Soul Society or it'll be another four years before we finish this arc.[/size][/font] [quote name='Rebellion' date='03 June 2010 - 02:33 AM' timestamp='1275528799' post='694337']Hmm. Yes, I'm glad this arc seems to be done with. Definitely some disappointments. (Top 3 espada, Yama-ji, only 2 bankai's revealed.) Up and down rollercoaster moments, but I did enjoy the fights and characters, and for me that's what ultimately matters. If I don't enjoy the fights then we have a problem. [/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"]My big problem is that so many of the fights felt contrived or plotkai'd, almost every one of the Espada seemed to be matched up with an opponent that had specific abilities to defeat them, Szayel and Mayuri, Nnoitra and Kenpachi, Byakuya and Zommari, Halibel and Hitsugaya, Stark and Kyouraku the latter two were particularly frustrating to read. Soifon/Hachigen and Barragan was probably the most even fight, but even Hachi's ability to teleport a piece of his own body inside Barragan came off as cheap, I mean why didn't he just teleport Soifon's cruise missile inside him ? Ichigo's fights weren't too bad, but still relied a little too much on last minute power-ups for me. The Espada went from being "Shit this guy just tore Ichigo a new one and he's a captain-class fighter" to "Ho-hum, Espada huh ? Probably don't need to go past shikai for this". Then we got to boring invincible villain Aizen who single-handed pwned every Shinigami with the exception of Yama, then got a power-up and proceeded to do the same again. Maybe it's reading Psyren where the fights all seem to have much better pacing, but I'm really hoping the next arc goes back to the Soul Society arc style of having just a couple of characters and focusing on them. The extermination of the Espada seems to have been "Damn, got waaaay too many characters to deal with and still have to introduce Division 0 and Royal Family and possibly Vasto Lordes, need to kill off a bunch of characters really quickly!". Heck despite having the manga focus on characters aside from Ichigo and co for weeks we fought out SFA about most of them. /End Rant [/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]I've been following (SW)TOR for nearly eighteen months at this stage, and despite being a huge Star Wars nerd I'm going to reserve judgement until E3 to say whether or not TOR will prove to be the WoW-killer EA are proclaiming it to be. While we know the eight classes on offer, there's still precious little hard information about class mechanics and abilities, especially on the Republic side which has been suffering from a huge lack of released information in comparison to the Empire for a long time. How the game will actual be composed i.e. PvP/RvR, raiding, crafting etc as well as the split between personal storyline and group storyline and how those two will interact is also pretty much unknown. From past experience the Bioware and SW fan in me want to say this probably will be the MMO of the decade, but prior experience with Mythic's Warhammer Online, which was also an EA MMO and Mythic have been working with Bioware (though not specifically on TOR) makes me a bit leery about whether or not we're going to get a game which really could've used another 6-8 months in development/beta before it was released (despite it's long development time already). At least the servers are all being managed directly by Bioware this time, GOA's service with WAR in Europe was nothing short of dire. All that said Pumpkin is right, what's always kept me in a game are the other players, whether my own guild, my faction or the server community as a whole.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]The "devour" line certainly seemed to come out of nowhere, sure we've known Aizen is interested in Ichigo but really going all Hannibal Lecter on him is just a tad creepy. Kinda curious about Isshin telling Ichigo to open the Senkai gate, we've never seen Ichigo even hint he had the ability to open a gateway and really as Isshin is the veteran Shinigami here you'd think he'd be the one to do it. Seems that it's only going to be Isshin and Ichigo going to Soul Society too by the way he was talking. Thank God at least this arc is over, Fake Karakura has been one long drawn-out disappointment with terrible pacing. [/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"][center][img]http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/2420/24889437.jpg[/img][/center] And supposedly she's still alive. What a twist![/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]For great science![/size][/font]