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oohhh.. now thats interesting. I'll have to check those teasers again.

What do you think about the new time slot? Do you think SciFi is trying to expand it's fanbase? or maybe they're trying to kill off the show? I keep thinking back to when Farscape was getting amazing reviews, it was even declared the best scifi show of the year and then SciFi cancelled it. Do you think the same thing could possibly happen to BSG?

I really liked the Bleach Sealed Sword Frenzy OVA, and the new movie looks like it should be even better than that, so I'm definitely looking forward to it. I wonder if the new season will actually resume where the manga left off or not.

damn. So they busted out with the movie opening just like they did with the latest Naruto movie a while back.. The movie looks pretty damn good then, considering the amount of action scenes hinted at in the just an opening. I just hope they bring back the animation quality to the series. Watch a couple episodes back in season 1 or 2, the quality of the current episodes are horrible in comparison. The fighting actually pissed me off more than anything! All the characters are portrayed as idiots in every battle. Lets all attack the indestructible doll instead of the bounto guy thats just standing there.

Thats one helluva nice laptop! :tup:

Nice. If it has a 120gb+ hard drive with it then you could easily have enough space for a couple season torrent downloads going at once. you probably wouldn't even need an external hard drive to go with it either. and with that much memory you could play some good games and run programs like photoshop easily.

Steven King's Stand it's an old book I inherited from my dad's collection

it's actually pretty d+mn scary but that's why I like Steven King

Stay away from the expanded version of The Stand. While its uncut and complete, it adds hundreds of pages of storyline that doesn't really need to be in the book. Amazing story tho, I loved it.

Looks like dell is having a financing sale through tomorrow, pay in full within 12 months and have no financing charges.

http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/cto_inspn_1501?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

We are a few episodes behind in bleach.. but the last episode we saw, they were just about to finish up the bounto filler arc and they made a new opening. Even tho it is going to be another season of filler, at least the animation quality looks like its getting better and it'll contain more fight scenes. I swear, as the bounto season continued, the animation quality turned to shit. Did anyone else notice that?

All those poor televisions. X'D

Nintendo has an official form for replacement straps:

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/strapreplace.jsp

I saw a pic on gamespot comparing the straps and the new strap is probably twice the thickness that the original was.

The episodes coming up are pretty intense and they last for a while too. ^____^

do NOT get a gateway... trust me. They are complete crap. There customer service is so good because their stuff continually breaks. I've known 3 different people that had gateway laptops and they all were just a real POS.

Stick with Dell or customize your own at ibuypower.com and that way it wont come loaded with all the BS shareware and other promotional crap. I bought my PC from there and its the best one I've ever owned. I also have a Dell laptop that has lived its life (its about 5 years old), and its still going strong.

ah, good advice. After hearing that, I'm leaning more towards Dell alright.

*goes to check out ibuypower*

Financing is a good selling point. I suggest you check Dell's website next week or even the week after for a really good deal. Many stores will have a christmas eve, christmas day, or day after christmas sale. I'd suggest checking all the different websites your interested in buying from on all three of those days for possible day only sales. Also, new years sales the following week are also popular.

Gateway is a pretty solid company, I never heard any bad press about them and they even used to have multiple stores open all over the country until they decided to just sell their products in electronics stores/online/over phone only. They always used to ship their computers in boxes with a cow pattern.

yep, it comes with a DVD and CD writer 2 in 1 drive:

Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL media

IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interface and 4 high-speed USB 2.0 ports for fast digital video, audio and data transfer

http://www.gateway.com/about/news_info/awards.asp

if you do end up ordering this one thru bestbuy, don't forget to click their little links for freebies and follow the directions to get the free usb thing and shipping.

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I dunno if its just for the free shipping, but this deal might be a two day only sale. ; Sunday-Monday.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=category&id=pcmcat28700050014

oh shit! look at this deal:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8177297&type=product&id=1162594467103

$200 off! its a gateway with a 15.4 inch screen, Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2050, wifi, 120gb hard drive, 1gb ram, dvd r/w / cd r/w drive for $650. because its an online special it also comes with a free usb 2.0 hub and free shipping. That looks like a pretty damn good deal to me. You should look up some reviews for this one and think about getting it. Also, if bestbuy is having one on sale like this, check their competitors too! they're probably having good sales this week because of christmas right around the corner.

My recommendation is to buy the local Sunday paper. Sunday papers come with a huge ads section which shows all the week long sales at pretty much every store. Also, check for some online specials, like Dell and some other direct stores.. compaq, hp, etc. Dell had an intel 1.60ghz, 1gb ram, 60gb hard drive, wifi, dvd/cd r/w, 15.4 inch for $500 during the day after thanksgiving specials. Keep checking around until you see something on sale for a good amount ($100 or more off).

btw, heres an example of bestbuy's current sales for this week. these expire on saturday because the new specials start on sundays.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=category&id=pcmcat28700050014

any recommendations for a good psw?

I'm not good at picking out stuff like this.. I'm running a Pentium 4 2.40 GHz in the machine and I don't know what kind of power supply I should buy. \

Dell's official website has been having some good deals lately, most with free shipping too. You could always check a best buy or circuit city store. Both will probably be having after christmas and new years sales.

I have a midsized tower ATX case and I think my power supply is going. Its extremely loud. I was thinking about getting a new power supply, but it might be that my case just lets all that noise out. eh. Any recommendations on a new case with power supply? or a new quiet power supply? (this fan is hella loud)

Well, I won't need to run a computer just for a firewall/router because this program isn't needed on another other computer connected to the network. If I shut of the computer with the 'linksys ease link advisor' then it doesn't affect the connectivity of the rest of the network. It just seems odd to me that I have to have this program running in my system tray to keep this one computer connected correctly. You'd think I'd be able to turn it off and when I go to troubleshoot the network, I'd be able to to turn it on when I feel like it. \ I'm assuming if I uninstall it, I could just restart the computer and everything would work fine.. but I don't know if I want to try that theory just yet. I don't want to screw up my network when I don't have the time to troubleshoot it if it comes to that.

Bleh. Everyone says linksys is the best, I have my reservations about that. I use one, and any change you make in the factory settings seems to screw everything up. I tried to do a couple things to optimize the connections to other computers and the damn thing would keep dropping the connection to other computers until i changed it back.

I've used a D-Link wired router for the longest time with great results. I think when you buy linksys, you're buying a good product, but its over priced because of the brand name. I got mine on a day after thanksgiving sale. it was on sale and it came with a $20 gift card too. If not for that I would have bought another D-link.

Rumiko Takahashi runs out of ideas so she cannibalizes her old ones. Nothing too unusual there. Look at the recent seasons of the Simpsons, they're redoing tons of their old jokes and plot ideas.

I didn't even realize both were made by the same person. At least it makes more sense now.

I came across this Final Fantasy Versus 13 trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZdj4KTp80

Its the actual thing, except to view it on square's website, I guess you have to be a member of their japanese site and login to see it. eh, youtube works just as good.

I haven't watched anything dubbed by geneon in a long time. Didn't they re-release trigun as a signature series? Does that mean they re-dubbed it/remastered it?

I have a feeling that if 4kids does sell it they'll sell it to viz because viz already has an agreement with 4kids for releasing the dvds. If viz gets the license, they'd be in complete control of the property.

Wow, its like Kakuzu can summon hallows. I wonder how these guys can actually die. Maybe after all of Kakuzu's hallow masks have been destroyed, he'll drop dead.. but Hidan seems pretty nervous when he doesn't have his curse jutsu going on.. but then again, its probably all a ploy. Kakuzu even said before that Hidan just doesn't die.. so maybe he really is immortal. I bet if they're both incinerated into ash, they'll both die tho.

i heard about this like almost 3 weeks ago...where have you been

I saw a page about it in one of the mangas, but it was in Japanese so I didn't want to jump to conclusions.