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In Skies of Arcadia Legends on GameCube, what is the name of the bounty hunter that is after Vyse?

Man, no one at OB seems to play many RPGs outside of Square junk heh (although I thought Legend of Dragoon was awful, so guess that doesn't matter). The 107th race was the Winglies, I think. The new main female lead in Silent Hill 3 is named Heather. I don't even know a clear reason for her being in the Silent Hill "world" honestly. It has something to do with her trying to run away from this detective guy that's creeping her out asking her odd questions, and when she jumps out a window the transition from the real world to the Silent Hill one is complete. That's about all I know about it. I've heard nothing new about it since then heh.

Including everything Japanese... Famicom, Famicom Disk System (addon), NES, Gameboy, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Light, Virtual Boy, Gameboy Color, Nintendo 64, 64DD (addon) Gameboy Advance, GameCube and the Gameboy Advance SP which hits Japan this week. There were also the Game and Watch games, but those are not consoles... Technically the handhelds aren't either.

I'll look into it tomorrow and I'll talk to James about doing it when I get the chance to. It isn't a big deal, it will just take time (if I'm even allowed to heh). Edit - If we're looking at the same thing... They aren't even using an image map. It's a bunch of images put together that each link somewhere, which would do that anyway and will show the alt tags (that's the underlying text you are seeing as you know). There are alt tags on our image map, and I'm not sure the reason for them not showing up in a browser. If I can change that I will, but I've never really had to... so I'm not sure of the best way to go about it if it's possible. Looking at big sites that use image maps, they don't seem to have underlying links either. Anyway, in the meantime... If you turn off images, you can still see the arrow turn to a hand over the links on the banner. If you hold it there long enough, a little tool tip should pop up and tell you where it goes (since the alt tags are there).

Thanks for adding injecting some rational and objective sanity into this thread :D. Just look at it as useless comics. No one has to buy them, and if no one does... Well they'll go away. End of story. Seriously, I don't know how much manga the average person here has read... But I guarantee you that a good deal of the existing stuff is far, far worse than this will most likely turn out... especially considering Tokyopop's involvement (depending on how major or minor it is). Anime and manga aren't perfect art forms. I'll never understand the Disney hate on these boards. And [b]no[/b], I don't want an explanation. I've already read plenty of them here. It just seems so irrational to me. For all anyone here knows, this was mostly Tokyopop's idea.

Sounds to me that he's asking why you can't view the banner as text links... Basically meaning that if someone turned off the images, you'd see the text instead (which otherwise would be covered, in simple terms). It has nothing to do with adding seperate text links, so people with images on wouldn't even see them. Anyway, that's the impression I'm getting. I'm personally finding all these posts somewhat confusing as I'm not feeling very well haha.

Well thinking about the future is totally different than thinking about simply death. I've talked about this with people before... whether or not I'm afraid of death. The answer is simply no. It's not something I ever think about, and it has never concerned me. Death is inevitable, it's something I can do nearly nothing about. When I die, I die and that's the end of it. I don't care if it's anything more or less than that. That's a summary of it anyway. I tend to be more in detail about it in a one on one conversation where I can actually [i]speak[/i]. I've had people tell me that this is a sad outlook. Really I don't think it is. I'm not suicidal. I think I've had a good run so far, and have no real regrets. Good enough for me. This isn't really what the thread seems to be about, but it seems to be where it's headed lol. In terms of the first post... Such a thing would be simply impossible. Even if someone could predict the future, people still make choices that affect other things. I don't think seeing the future would worry me that much knowing that.

Only game coming out that I'd say I care about remotely is Fable. The concept is cool... although I honestly am not trusting it will be great due to Molyneux's involvement (that and the characters look horrible in my opinion - gorgeous otherwise). If it turns out like I've read, it will be a very good game... So I'm looking forward to it :).

Heh. Well then throw the age stuff I said away. I'm 20, and I have plenty of girl friends that are all sorts of ages (I'd say 17 to 24 on average). I'd have to say there is more to it than they are telling you. Unless these guys are like 28 or something, I don't know what their problem is.

People are just stupid. You'll learn this more and more. Who knows what their reasons really are. Somehow I think there'd have to be something else they aren't telling you If that's what they really think, they're going to have some big problems when they want a girlfriend. I guess it also depends on your age... Boys kind of completely change the opinion that girls are gross/stupid/whatever eventually (if they even think that as it is). Most of my friends are girls, so in my life something like that wouldn't be true generally speaking... I guess it just depends.

You can't have a rational explanation that really works, because none of that is really possible in the first place. I suppose it could be rational compared to the other stuff happening in the anime lol. All I know is that I'm glad they never show all this stuff you guys are coming up with lol. I don't even want to think about how that'd look.

(Can you guys cut back on the FFX questions...? :bluesweat)

Haha... the Quizmaster. We had one of these before, except it was multiquestion. No one seemed to be able to answer my quiz and the thread just died lol. Anyway, the answer is Bleeding Gums Murphy, although I'm lead to believe she is now good friends with Allison Taylor... who also played sax. What is the name of Homer's autobiography?

Chain letters aren't even allowed into my thought process. I delete the damn things the second I get them. I tell everyone not to send me them if it comes to mind. I've been much happier and email doesn't suck as much :D. Now if I could just do something about all the stupid porn spam... heh

It's all quite funny considering the director of the game supposedly [i]hates[/i] Disney. It is definately coming, although I've heard [i]nothing[/i] about it being on PS3 instead personally. The only person to even mention games on PS3 to my knowledge is Kojima.

He completely changes. Just like every other character in the show. When Ranma turns into Ranma-chan, there are no "left overs" lol. The entire external appearance and voice is changed. It's not like... it pops in and out. It just goes away. There is no real rational explanation for it lol.

Anyway... This reminds me of the True Stella Awards (named after that lady who won a lawsuit after spilling coffee on herself). I just got the winners by email heh. [quote]#7: Attorney Philip Shafer of Ashland, Ohio, flew on Delta Airlines from New Orleans to Cincinnati and was given a seat, he says, next to a fat man. "He was a huge man," Shafer says. "He and I [were] literally and figuratively married from the right kneecap to the shoulder for two hours." He therefore "suffered embarrassment, severe discomfort,mental anguish and severe emotional distress," he claims in a lawsuit against the airline. Shafer figures this embarrassment, discomfort, mental anguish and emotional distress could be cured by a $9,500 payment from Delta. If Shafer isn't careful, that might be dwarfed by the divorce settlement his "huge" (seat)mate might demand. #6: "The Godfather of Soul" James Brown has a "grudge" against his daughters Deanna Brown Thomas and Yamma Brown Lumar, they allege. They say Brown "vowed to the media that his daughters will never get a dime from him" and "James Brown has kept his word." So they have done what any kid would do when cut off from their rich daddy's bank account: they sued him for more than $1 million, claiming that they are owed royalties on 25 of his songs which, they say, they helped him write even though, at the time, they were children. For instance, when Brown's 1976 hit "Get Up Offa That Thing" was a chart-topper, the girls were aged 3 and 6. It's enough to make Brown switch to the Blues. #5: Utah prison inmate Robert Paul Rice, serving 1-15 years on multiple felonies, sued the Utah Department of Corrections claiming the prison was not letting him practice his religion: "Druidic Vampire". Rice claimed that to do that, he must be allowed sexual access to a "vampress". In addition, the prison isn't supplying his specific "vampiric dietary needs" (yes: blood). Records show that Rice registered as a Catholic when he was imprisoned in 2000. "Without any question we do not have conjugal visits in Utah," said a prison spokesman when the suit was thrown out. Which just goes to prove prison life sucks. #4: Every time you visit your doctor, you're told the same old things: eat less, exercise more, stop smoking. Do you listen? Neither did Kathleen Ann McCormick. The obese, cigarette-smoking woman from Wilkes-Barre, Penn., had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and a family history of coronary artery disease. Yet doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center "did not do enough" to convince her to work to improve her own health. Unsurprisingly, she had a heart attack which, she says in a federal lawsuit, left her a "cardiac invalid". In addition to eight doctors, she's suing their employer -- the U.S. government -- demanding a minimum of $1 million in compensation. #3: In 1997 Bob Craft, then 39, of Hot Springs, Montana, changed his name to Jack ***. Now, he says that MTV's TV show and movie "Jackass" was "plagiarized" from him, infringes his trademarks and copyrights, and that this has demeaned, denigrated and damaged his public image. No attorney would take the case, so he has filed suit on his own against MTV's corporate parent, demanding $50 million in damages. If nothing else, Jack *** has proved he chose his name well. #2: Hazel Norton of Rolling Fork, Miss., read there was a class action suit against the drug Propulsid, which her doctor had prescribed to her for a digestive disorder. Despite admitting that "I didn't get hurt by Propulsid," Norton thought "I might get a couple of thousand dollars" by joining the lawsuit. When her doctor was named in the suit, he quit his Mississippi practice -- where he was serving the poor. He left with his wife, a pediatrician and internist. That left only two doctors practicing at the local hospital. So while Norton wasn't harmed by the drug, all her neighbors now get to suffer from drastically reduced access to medical care because of her greed. AND THE WINNER of the 2002 True Stella Awards: sisters Janice Bird, Dayle Bird Edgmon and Kim Bird Moran sued their mother's doctors and a hospital after Janice accompanied her mother, Nita Bird, to a minor medical procedure. When something went wrong, Janice and Dayle witnessed doctors rushing their mother to emergency surgery. Rather that suing for malpractice, the lawsuit claimed "negligent infliction of emotional distress" -- not for causing distress to their mother, but for causing distress to THEM for having to SEE the doctors rushing to help their mother. The case was fought all the way to the California Supreme Court, which finally ruled against the women. Which is a good thing, since if they had prevailed doctors and hospitals would have had no choice but to keep YOU from being anywhere near your family members during medical procedures just in case something goes wrong. In their greed, the Bird sisters risked everyone's right to have family members with them in emergencies.[/quote] Another good one was about a women who tripped and broke her ankle at a furniture store. She was suing for lots and lots of money, and actually won. The weird part was that she didn't trip over the furniture, she tripped over her own son who was running around uncontrollably.

The VHD books are novels, in the sense that they are actually written. As far as I know, Amano just did various illustrations for the books, they are not manga. There is a manga version though, but it's rather old and out of print. I've never personally seen it. The author of the books is Hideyuki Kikuchi. Apparently, the first novel is actually translated into English. The translator is still negotiating with Kikiuchi's publishers, but Kikuchi himself wants the books to be released here very much. Amano is also working with DC Comics to produce a manga adaptation of the novels.

I've always been hoping that the remains of Mother 3 would show up somewhere. At this point, I don't care if it's on GC or GBA. Earthbound is my all time favorite RPG, and I really wish more people realized how great it was. Starmen.net is one of my favorite sites, so of course I signed the petition several months ago. It's nice to see that it got this many signatures, although I'm sure it took far longer than was expected. Anyway, we'll see what happens. Hopefully Nintendo will see there is a market for this game here... Even if it was never completed or released, maybe they'll get their asses in gear and finish something.

There are already threads on the current big Sega games for GC. Favorites threads aren't allowed, especially when you've not said anything as to why you picked it.

If we're talking about the same things... Macrovision made something called the CDS system, which basically screws up a lot of stuff. I've heard a good deal of Japanese CDs have it now. There are other versions of it as well. I've not heard about them not playing in a standard CD player, but there generally is a problem with them playing in a computer CD player. Either it won't let you, or it makes you fill out some forms and such before it will work (I've only dealt with the second kind, but it played fine in my Panasonic stereo CD player the entire time). So I'd have to say people are exaggerating all that... Although, anything is possible I suppose. The people playing them might even have older CD players, which cause problems in general anyway lol.

Well in terms of tweaker... Each vocal song is heavily influenced by the style of the singer. Linoleum is based off David Sylvian's strengths as a vocalist. I'm sure no one here knows him, but he is a rather famous person in his scene. As such, each of the vocal tracks are rather different (although the Wedren ones are similiar). But yeah... They are all rather mellow, although I'd say Linoleum is the most laid back of them.

We've had these threads before, and I've basically been told to direct them to the Console War thread in the Sony forum and close these. That thread basically talks about the ins and outs of everything you could want to know. People have mentioned the good and bad aspects of the systems and games in there. As Alexus Bing mentioned there is also a decent sized thread on just the Xbox - [url]http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19613[/url] and [url]http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19227[/url] So just go check that out, as I'll have to close this :) And for the record Kingdom Hearts sucks :p (in my opinion hehe).

Somehow I think you'd be much more happy in a communist country... lol. There are a lot of homeless people who simply don't want to work... I have no idea how many, and I doubt anyone else does either. Since when do people ask the homeless what they think of things or what they really want out of life? Or even why they are homeless in the first place? They don't. Still there are many that simply cannot work. How can these people be given jobs, when there are many many fully qualified people who can't get a job either. It just doesn't work like that. I think most of the flaming came from the impression that Harry simply wants these people out of his face so they'd stop bothering him, rather than him actually wanting to help. I have no idea if that's how he feels, but it can be read that way. I understand both sides, especially considering I deal with these same people everyday when I go downtown. Sitting on a computer bitching about it isn't going to do anything though. Making basically impossible suggestions won't either. People just have to get more involved and help those who actually want it (a hell of a lot of people don't want any help in the first place).

Well I'm not sure if people are confused or not (it's hard to tell on boards sometimes)... Only ONE episode looks like Aeon Flux. They are all done by totally different studios. The movie I linked to is very standard looking anime, and I thought it was simply gorgeous. There is another that is fully computer rendered. Anyway, I'm surprised more people aren't interested in this... Hell, this is providing you with a free download of Part 1 of a full episode. It's very worth the time. Oh well, though.