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[SIZE="1"]Glad I'm not the only one who spotted the Sasori/Pain similarity there, though really how could anyone not spot it. ^_^; Meh actually I thought this chapter was Kishi slipping into his old pattern of giving us bad fights again. I'm not saying Kakashi should be able to take two Pain's alone, nor should the Akimichi Twin Fists of Death be able to kill SasoriPain but really we're not getting any development story-wise, it's just all Pain-rules and then Kakashi realises something and doesn't bother to tell us. Also Tsunade won't fight because the hag knows she'll get killed, so she sends dozens of her underlings to their deaths. Yeah yeah she's a healer not a fighter, Sakura is the same and out there killing giant centipedes. We all know Sarutobi would be out there with Enma kicking *** at this point. God she's such a Failkage. Jiriaya you should have become Hokage then none of this would've happened. Hopefully next week Naruto will be back, and then we can look forward to seeing his power-up in action, likely followed by Sasuke arriving, saying yo and then being a dick and trying to destroy a village that's already been nearly destroyed. Actually his face is going to be amusing in that scene. "WTF ?! I was supposed to destroy Konoha..."[/SIZE]

[quote name='Phenom']I think it's hard to rank every known character in SS simply because of the espada gettin beat by low class [strike]trash[/strike]shinigami. Rukia being the main one. She draws against an espada. It takes 3 people to take down Szayel. (4 if you count Nemu.) Kira, Yumichika, Hisagi (They're not low-class btw lol) beating fraccions in a jiffy and as far as we know none of them has acquired bankai. Yet Renji and Hitsugaya has the hardest of times against Grimmjows fraccions. I know... 80% of their power has been cut, but I don't know if I'm really going to accept that excuse anymore. I suppose I shouldn't compare it, but I'll do it anyway because I'm unfair. (It is Byakuya afterall, lol) Byakuya also came to the human world (with Renji) and 20% of his power was still crazy. Take it back further, Kira lost to Matsumoto. Yumichika beats Hisagi. How do you rank something as tipsy as that? And now the new chapter. Omaeda turned out to be a surprise factor, while he's still an idiot and I don't like him, I was pretty shock to see that this guy can actually do some stuff. Still don't see any reason why he's a VC though. Soifon is an idiot. One thing these people need to stop doing is explaining their zanpakuto's abilities. If they're going to explain it, atleast do it at the opportune times. I.E. Byakuya vs 7th espada whose name escapes me.[/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]Well the thing to remember about Rukia is she's been purposely kept out of a seated officer position by Byakuya. Now I'm not insinuating that makes her a lieutenant class fighter, I'm just saying she's not just some random unranked Shinigami who killed an Espada. Plus really that kill was both pure luck on Rukia's side and pure stupidity on Aaroniero's, he knew all her zanpakutou abilities from Kaien and yet went close enough so she could reform her sword between his eyes. As for ranking other fighters, I've really given up on it at this stage, as with all fights relative strength as against comrades makes up only a small percentage of the fight, and Kubo loves to give people power-ups for no consistent reason. One thing I will say about the Arrancar being beaten is that people are assuming they're naturally stronger than relative levelled Shinigami. The only guys we know should be stronger than the average-strength captains are the Vasto Lorde's and there's maybe only four or five of those among the Arrancar's ranks (I believe Neliel is a Vasto Lorde myself). Maybe of course Kubo has decided to disregard his original estimations of the Espada's and Arrancar's general strengths given that Soul Society's Shinigami have won every fight against them so far. I still think that it would have been more interesting to have them retain that far gretaer strength thereby forcing Soul Society to look at Hollowification of it's own soldiers to become Vizards to level the playing field. Moving on to the current chapter, well you know I'm not a Soifon fan already and I'm sure the Secret Mobile Corp and 2nd division have lost a lot of their respect because of the people at the top as compared with 100 years ago. Honestly I think Omaeda's death would've been Kubo just throwing us a bone after all the "KILL SOME SHINIGAMI" statements flying around out there. Equally though I dislike the idea that some relatively nameless Fraccion should be as fast as Soifon who appears to have become nearly as quick as Yoruichi, this after of course Zommari Leroux (the Espada who fought Byakuya) was declared to have the fastest Sonido of them all. *Scratches head* Yeah there's really just too much inconsistency going on to make any kind of judgement call there. On the plus side, at least we're getting close to the Byakuya/Zommari and Kenpachi/Nnoitra fights in the anime. I'm actually looking forward to the former more than the latter for some reason.[/SIZE]

[quote name='Phenom']I'm still lost about Pein though. So the piercings in his body sends off signals. So... What is Pein?[/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]Basically his six bodies act as receivers for the instructions of the [I]real[/I] Pein through the use of the piercings acting as antennae. At this stage Pein may literally be just a disembodied spirit, or possibly have transcending physical form through his Rinnegan in control of the bodies without a real on of his own. Of course that's just a guess, at this point we really just don't know what Pein is. Interestingly Yahiko-Pein possesses Force powers and Kakashi hasn't bothered to try using his Mangekyou Sharingan despite the fact that he knows Pein answers to an Uchiha. [/SIZE]

[quote name='Indi'][COLOR="Indigo"][FONT="Arial"]No way in hell. Unless you wish for me to murder you. [/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]Try coming over to my side of the Atlantic and saying that Crys, otherwise I still consider the "hell-spawn" to be yours. :p[/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"][CENTER][IMG]http://vizer.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/intro.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] OK, so technically that should be "still watching now" because I've not been able to go a day without a few minutes of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann epicness since I started the series two weeks ago. This series really just blew me away, and really not since I started watching anime with DBZ eight years ago have I been as hooked.[/SIZE]

[quote name='Darren']Let's just say that Aber is more like a pet that you really can't help but feel sorry for so you keep it around. :D (I kid)[/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]Given I encountered just such an animal at lunctime at the university, you have no idea how apt that sentiment is. I'm just a sucker for dogs that look at you like that when they're hungry. :animeswea[/SIZE]

[quote name='PWNED']I am looking quite forward to this, I do hope that when released that the only way you pay is when you buy the game ala Guild Wars.[/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]I doubt it to be honest, Guild Wars is pretty much the only MMO that I know that doesn't charge fees and I can't see the LucasArts and EA money-making machines passing up the ability to make even more cash from their fans. That said, if it's relative to the other big MMOs for the content, I'd say it's well worth it, this is a Bioware RPG after all. Oh something I forgot to add to the original post, May 4th is almost undoubtedly going to be this things release date, probably next year, maybe the year after that but definitely a May 4th. :animesmil[/SIZE]

[quote name='Allamorph'][CENTER] [IMG]http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/10/12/128682944313493255.jpg[/IMG] [/CENTER][/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]You sir are a genius. I, and the Ministry of Silly Walks applaud you. :animesmil[/SIZE] [CENTER][img]http://fc91.deviantart.com/fs15/f/2007/038/a/7/Bizarro_Phoenix_Wright_by_spacecoyote.jpg[/img][/CENTER]

[SIZE="1"]Given how big my OB Family was only a couple of years ago, I don't even want to imagine how many relatives I have now, even if a lot of the originals aren't online much any more. ^_^;[/SIZE] [quote name='Darren'][SIZE="1"]And I guess, if Raiha's my aunt, that makes [B]Gavin[/B] my uncle... Since they're married.[/SIZE][/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]I guess it would, wouldn't it ? Heh, well no worries, I'll teach you how to be cool and Irish, although that's really just the same thing. ^_~ Oh and as far as I'm aware Raiha and I only adopted two kids, the infamous Siren/Papa Smurf/etc and Ezekiel so they'd be your only first cousins on this side. Which means then that Aberinkula is Indi's kid. :p[/SIZE]

[font="Tahoma"][SIZE="2"]After months of speculation it's been confirmed, KOTOR is being given the MMORPG treatment by role-playing gods Bioware (now owned by EA) with LucasArts support and rechristened simply The Old Republic for this new outing. Star Wars Galaxies and Sony be damned, we're finally getting the SW MMO we've all wanted where a couple of thousand Jedi and Sith running around the galaxy brandishing lightsabers doesn't look retarded if you know the timelines. We've yet to have confirmation of races and classes, but it's definitely going to be a lot, given their activity in the last two games I'd say we might even get playable Mandos in this one. Oh and yes, we're getting the Jedi Academy on [B][I]Tython[/I][/B] people, if you call yourself a Star Wars fan and haven't just cried manly tears of joy over Bioware's love of fans through the use of SW lore then you need to go commit seppuku with your plastic lightsaber right now. [url=http://www.swtor.com][B]Link to main page.[/B][/url] [b][Edit][/b] Added a few polls.[/SIZE][/font]

[SIZE="1"][CENTER]*Chuckle* [IMG]http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/political-pictures-front-yard-confederate-flag-folksiness-sarah.jpg[/IMG] There were definitely lewder captions to this one. :animesmil [IMG]http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/political-pictures-barack-obama-bama.jpg[/IMG] lol [img]http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/political-pictures-john-mccain-womens-health-vote-too.jpg[/img][/CENTER][/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"]Heh heh, I really love the drama this thread has generated, makes a nice counter to the abortion thread just next to it. As for who I would "do", to use the euphemism, said women already know who they are and such claims are mostly made in jest depending on my mood. :animesmil [/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"]You know normally I would bang my head off my desk several times in horror this thread has reappeared, proceed to quote several people and then engage in the pointless debate. This time around I'll skip the second part like most other people and just make my point and watch the drama unfold. I'm personally against abortion in all but the most serious cases, for example where the carrying of the child to term will result in the deaths of both mother and child. I oppose abortion primarily because it acts most often as a convience tool to relieve people of their own stupidity when it should only be available to those in the most dire of circumstances. This abuse I think really undermines any serious dialogue between the pro-life and pro-choice movements. I don't feel this way because of any religious inclination or political alignment, I just really believe that the destruction of human life is not something which should be held up as a "right" to be affirmed. I find such a concept to be genuinely repugnant. Equally I find the idea of debating life based on things such as cell-count or stage to be ludicrous given the examples that have already been used in the thread.[/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"]Speaks for itself really. Vote Tate 2012. [CENTER][YOUTUBE="Terry Tate Approves this Message"]07kO9TtHYzQ[/YOUTUBE][/SIZE][/CENTER]

[quote name='Nathan'][FONT="Arial"][CENTER][IMG]http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/political-pictures-arnold-schwarzenegger-definition-irony-conservative-complaints-foreigners-jobs.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER][/FONT][/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]This may have had something to do with it. [CENTER][IMG]http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/9/1/arnold_voteforme.gif[/IMG][/CENTER][/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"]Bets that this article was written by Jack Thompson anonymously anyone ? :animesmil It's definitely just a joke, although given how technologically ignorant some people are today, let alone nearly seven years ago, I wouldn't be surprised if there were elements of truth to it.[/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"][CENTER]*Snicker* Admittedly I actually do enjoy watching this show. [IMG]http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/lance-bass-lacey-schwimmer-i-do-believe-i-just-tore-my-scrotum-in-half.jpg?w=400&h=400[/IMG] [IMG]http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/oj-simpson-totally-screwed.jpg?w=500&h=445[/IMG][/CENTER][/SIZE]

[quote name='Ikillion'][SIZE="1"][FONT="Trebuchet MS"]This one is for all you Gainax fans out there [CENTER][IMG]http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/7606/37feuf6.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER][/FONT][/SIZE][/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]Made of so much win Ikillion, nice job. :animesmil [CENTER][IMG]http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/political-pictures-henry-paulson-ben-bernanke-receding-hairline1.jpg[/IMG] Next he'll start with the Chirac jokes. [IMG]http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/political-pictures-john-mccain-john-kerry-long-face.jpg[/IMG] Because too much change changes too much. [img]http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/political-pictures-barack-obama-beliefs-believe-sign.jpg[/img][/CENTER][/SIZE]

[quote name='Katakidoushi']Apparently the director has signed a three picture deal that will extend the films deep into Dragonball Z. This is the classic problem when the studio thinks something will fail, so they put a half-*** effort into it and surprise... it sucks.[/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]...I think I just died a little inside on reading that, in the same way I died after seeing the recent Clone Wars movie. Given how badly they've screwed up a Dragonball adaptation, I don't want to even imagine how they're going to change the concept of Saiyans and Androids (which given they've probably skipped Gero and the Red Ribbon Army shouldn't even occur).[/SIZE]

[quote name='SaiyanPrincessX'][SIZE="1"]I'd like to quote the person who wrote the review of the trailer on that site. "Fail."[/SIZE][/QUOTE] [size=1]Agreed, but I'm going to throw "epic" behind it in order to show my full contempt. Given that we had Forbidden Kingdom not that long ago, I fail to see the logic in doing a shite adaptation of another adaptation. God I hate Hollywood sometimes.[/size]

[quote name='Raiyuu']Naruto's having happy fun times chopping the tops off mountains - that should make a mess of Pain, mehopes.[/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]Indeed, bets that his new super-Rasengan variation will actually be too powerful for Fat Pein to absorb thus leading to a TTGL-style Giga Drill Breaker moment ? God it would actually be awesome to see Naruto do a Simon-style speech to Pein about Jiraiya being dead before the GDB. Damn it Kishi you borrow ideas from other series the whole time, do it right for once. [img]http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/250/manlyqr5.gif[/img] *Manly Gai tears* [/SIZE]

[quote name='Drizzt Do'urden']I wish I would have heard it before reading this. Because I'm not sure if I'm hearing "islam is the light" because it say it, or because all the hype about it and then listening to it.[/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]Agreed, I'm pretty sure I hear the "is the light" part but that first word is just a little too garbled for it to be clear enough to say one way or another. Honestly though people are blowing this way out of proportion, it's probably just some prank pulled by a bored employee out in Fisher Price for a laugh to see if anyone would notice.[/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"][CENTER][IMG]http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/political-pictures-polar-bear-meanwhile-sarah-palin-rifle.jpg[/IMG][/center] And sorry Al, I'm voting Vader in 2012. [center][IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/501467765_dd60ed45c2.jpg?v=0[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/1261825_5d1367277e.jpg[/IMG] [/CENTER][/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"][CENTER]The scene after this was likely not pretty for the bunny. [IMG]http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/funny-pictures-cat-asks-if-he-knows-the-rabbit-who-is-being-rather-forward.jpg[/IMG] I don't know, I laughed. ^_^; [IMG]http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/funny-pictures-cat-poses-as-an-owl.jpg[/IMG] Borat Cat thinks it's nice. [IMG]http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/funny-pictures-cat-is-at-your-party-and-stealing-your-high-fives.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER][/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"][I]"Save me Tom Cruise."[/I] I laughed quite a bit at that for some reason, but yeah, that really well done parody of that fight...well except that it's not really a parody and more of a summary. ^_^; Are you sure there's no Naruto this week Ace ? There's spoilers and translations over on NarutoFan's forums for the next chapter since Wednesday.[/SIZE]