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We have a new wireless router and its been working fine. But I was wondering if I could turn off this Easy Link Advisor program? I turned it off on my main computer and my network connection fucked up on this computer. I don't have this program running on my other computers hooked up to the router, so why should this one need to run? Has anyone else used this program?

Welcome to AC!

5eatyou5

That boxing episode was great. The flashbacks with Lee and Cara were good, but I just don't understand why she went and married anders afterwards.. what a cheating bitch move that was.

I can't believe they killed off Kat. She always pissed me off in those viper episodes were she kept trying to knock Starbuck from the top, but now that shes dead, I miss her.

Viz or Funimation would do a good job with it. Funimation would probably do a good job with it too. Considering that Funi grabbed up Slayers and are (last I heard) re-releasing it in better quality and re-dubbed just like they are doing with DBZ, I could see Funi doing the same with One Piece.

I've come to the realization that the majority of InuYasha's characters seem to be based off of Ranma. Has any one else noticed the similarities?

InuYasha seems roughly like Ranma, the main character of the story, InuYasha was cursed, Ranma is cursed. Both have a love interest in the main female character but try not to show it or even deny it. Also, both are extremely powerful and in the latest episode that I've seen of Ranma 1/2, Ranma learned a new move that uses the fighting spirit of the opponent to create a powerful backlash attack in the form of a tornado. The more powerful the enemy the more powerful the super move. Just like Inuyasha's backlash wave.

Kagome is similar to Akane, because of their relations to the main characters of the respective series. Also, they constantly try to deny the love they feel, but always show it in different scenarios.

Koga is just like Ryoga. In love with the main female character and always aching for a fight against the main character.

Myoga is like Happosai, except instead of an obsession with panties, he has an obsession with blood. These two even look alike. Hell, Miroku is also like Happosai. Powerful and obsessed with the ladies.

Theres various other similarities as well. Of course the overall plot of each show is different, but the personalities of the characters of InuYasha seem like they were completely based off of the existing characters from Ranma 1/2. I've seen quite a bit of anime, but I've never seen so many connections between any two series.

If you've seen both series, whats your opinion?

What I've seen from playing it and watching you play it, this game is pretty good. I'm just glad that Naruto only says "Believe It!" maybe once or twice in the entire game. *has flash backs of Clash of Ninja*

http://www.ancientclan.com/content/view/439/85/

TV Tokyo's official website for Naruto has officially stated that Naruto Shippuden (Wind Saga), will begin airing in early Spring 2007. Also, a movie based on Shippuden will be hitting Japanese theaters in 2007. Finally! The time skip will take place and new episodes will begin!

Sources: Anime News Network | TV Tokyo

Thank god!

http://www.ancientclan.com/content/view/438/85/

4Kids has canceled production of One Piece. With a total of 104 episodes of the series dubbed into English (78 of which have already aired in the United States), 4Kids will not continue dubbing the series. Whether or not 4Kids will sell off the license to the series is unknown at this time. I honestly hope Viz can get their hands on it and release an unedited version, but for all we know, 4Kids may just sit on the property and let it die.

Source: Anime News Network

Yatta!

I hope another company will pick it up tho. I wonder if all the negative feedback about 4Kids' dubbing job is what made them decide to cancel.

Heres the other topic complaining about 4kids:

http://forums.ancientclan.com/showthread.php?t=2943

and yes, 4kids actually omitted probably 1 or 2 entire seasons worth of episodes up to this point in the english version. they skipped the entire little garden island arc with the elbaf giants and dinosaurs, which actually lead to nami's illness which is why they needed a doctor on drum, and because ussop met the elbaf giants on little garden, he was able to recruit the giants on enis lobby to battle the marines. oh, and they also skipped all the episodes where they were actually in the calm belt with the sea kings, and the entire dragon arc (about 12 eps). and all those multiple editing jobs they did were 4 or 5 episode battles were shrunk down to 1 edited fight scene that always has a happy ending.

Chapter 333, oh shit. Shikamaru's plan was starting to break down, but it looks like Kakashi has already killed kakuzu. I wonder if theres more to that guy or if Kakashi really did get the complete jump on him to finish him off. Good chapter. Do you think Naruto's new jutsu is just a big bang attack ala Vegeta or do you think Naruto will be able to actually harness his new rasengan/nature manipulation move into something more useful than just a finishing move?

What do you think of Lee and Cara's relationship now after they beat the shit out of each other? Think they'll hook back up? or maybe just be friends?

Hmmm I don't have this, and I couldn't find it under 'Options' either, I guess when the time comes to upgrade to a higher version I'll un-install and re-install the whole thing.

You can check to see if its working by shutting down your computer without shutting off firefox first. Me and lady use two seperate logins on our main computer and if I left firefox on on my setting with 5 tabs open, then she shuts down the computer while I still had firefox running, the next time I load up firefox it asks if I want to reload my previous session including all my tab windows I had loaded.

5eatyou5

I'm not pleased with everyone's new looks. \ Naruto's is a good change and Neji and Tenten looks fitting, but Hinata's looks crappy and her long hair doesn't seem right. Inos new outfit is pretty blah too. Choji looks like his dad! X'D which is pretty cool actually. Sakura's looks decent and her face is more womanly, and Kankuro looks good too. eh, I think the best improvement was definitely Naruto and Sakura.

As for Sasuke, I was never a fan of the open shirt male look. X'D

They've shown two instances in the manga/anime where 'grand line science' has lead to inanimate non living objects 'eating' devil's fruits to create weird living weapons. That gun/dog from the alabaster story arc, where Mr. 4's gun was said to have 'eaten' the dog fruit, which created a living dog/gun creature. And Spandam's funkfried sword, where they had a sword 'eat' an elephant fruit, which created a living elephant/sword creature that could transform between the two/mix with weird attacks.

Anyway, if grand line science can do that, then couldn't they mix inanimate objects with non-living based devil's fruits? What I'm getting at is that wouldn't it be interesting if Zoro were to get a new sword that had a devil's fruit power? That one random DF user marine he fought had the ability to shatter his sword on impact, a DF power like that, eaten by a sword would result in a sword with a shatter effect. If Zoro had something like that, then he'd be pretty f*cking unstoppable.

Maybe Ussop could feed his Kabuto that bomb fruit. He'd be able to launch devistating infinite bomb shots from his weapon at will without having to worry about ammo (not that he worries much about ammo now tho). Oh, or he could get that noro-noro beam ability. He could slow time all over the place to help save his ass more without having to worry about becoming a hammer.

What do you think would be a good weapon DF combo?

Do you think that devil's fruit powers could be hereditary? They said in the manga that Dragon is Luffy's dad and it seems pretty obvious that Dragon has a devil's fruit power. Do you think its possible that Luffy and Ace could have already had a genetic/dormant devil's fruit ability from their father?

Not once in the series have they ever mentioned about devil's fruit parents and their offspring, about whether or not their powers and abilities could pass to their kids.. but I think it could happen. A devil's fruit changes a person on a genetic level, altering their body and dna. Couldn't that cause their offspring to have their traits then? But if that was the case, wouldn't the curse carry over as well?

And thats what got me thinking... nowhere in the manga or anime have they ever shown a flashback or mentioned Luffy or Ace ever swimming when they were kids. Of course Shanks gave Luffy the entire spiel about never being able to swim again once he ate the devil's fruit, but maybe shanks didn't know Luffy's dad or if Luffy could even swim anyway.

What if Luffy is a twice cursed man? and if Luffy had a kid, would he have an actual bouncing baby?

What do you think about all this? Possible?

oh, no kidding. it makes sense too.

Are the controllers tethered there? The ebgames I went to said if they didn't do something like get driver's licenses people would run off with their controllers. Maybe it also has to do with the fact that the store I went to is usually understaffed with maybe one or two employees ever there at once.

ah, thats right, the seal has been weakening too. *shrugs* you never know.

btw, I was a bit disappointed in the Naruto vs. Orochimaru fight. All he did was go kyubi and loose complete control. I was hoping to see Naruto bust out all these new amazing jutsus Jiyra would teach him, but it looks like all he did was kyubi train for 3 years.

Well considering his lack of control, if someone told him to train like that in the early days of his inexperience he'd have probably turned into 9 tails and destroyed the village.

I remember the old days of Street Fighter 2 and all its many incarnations. For the longest time the greatest combo hit was to jump at your opponent with a medium kick and then follow with crouching quick kicks and then a foot sweep or dragon punch. Ah... memories.

heres something interesting. I talked to one of the employees from ebgames today because they had a Wii demo station setup.. but it wasn't on. The employee told me that they were waiting for their nintendo rep to stop bye and drop off the controller and demo disk. I was disappointed because I wanted to try it out. I did notice that there was no tether connection on the demo stand and the guy told me that there will be no tether for the wii demo. The only way they'll hand out the controller to someone to test out the system is if they hand over their driver's license first. So in other words, kids that want to try out the system are going to have to come with an adult with a license.

Yeah, I've noticed that too. It's really nice

For all you Firefox users, is there a way to delete the bookmarks toolbar folder under the bookmarks tab?

As far as I can tell, you can't delete the folder, but you can take it off your main window. Click View > Toolbars > and then uncheck Bookmarks Toolbar.

Is it just me, or was anyone else disappointed with the overall objectives of akatsuki? When the leader explained it to hidan a few chapters back, I kept thinking... "thats it!?" wtf. He basically said... "over the next 20 years, we'll establish a ninja base and slowly take over the world by playing an active illuminati role in global politics..." I think thats a load of bullshit. I bet that akatsuki leader actually has an entirely different motive and that was just a cover story to keep everyone semi-informed. I dunno tho, what do you think?

I finally finished reading all the Naruto manga up to the latest chapters. Poor Asuma sensei.

Shikamaru is using those chakra blades pretty damn good. I wasn't expecting to see him cast independent shadow bind jutsus like that! who else thinks Kurenai is going to show up to finish those two akatski bastards off?