Strider Hiryu

You want drama go watch ef -a tale of memories-, fricken drama ridden as hell (and I'm currently rewatching it because I love it so much). So good. I'm sure you'll love it (that is if you haven't seen it yet).

Other then that you'll have to comb my anime list to see whats on there for drama titles. I'm rather forgetful of what I've seen in the past thats got a lot of drama.

/smack

Focus man, focus. Slayers first, Fruits Basket last. *shakes head* Seriously, what am I going to do with you?

I must be the odd man out because I actually prefer the English VA's for Slayers (only because my friends dvds had problems and I couldn't watch it in Japanese).

*pats GG on the head* Thats a good boy. Enjoy them fully for they are full of epic win and awesomeness (though I do agree with slippers, season 3 was oddly disappointing).

Once I start actually working at my new job and have some excess funds I'm putting together a new external (have a case right now, just need to get two internal hdds). After the new one is up and running (1 TB worth is what I'm shooting for) I'm going to go see if the data on Chikane-chan can be recovered and if it can be I'm going to see if they can transfer it all over to the new one. Thats a while off from now though as I'm broke as a joke and don't start working until Monday next week.

Chikane-chan decided to commit ritual suicide shortly after I moved down to Arizona thus making me lose about 400 gigs worth of anime (I cried, seriously I did). I've been trying to get a new case for her but no one sells ATA Dual HDD cases anymore so I can't repair her. Right now her two hdd's are sitting in a box

When it comes to drama related series I'm always right My only peeve right now is waiting for the OVA to get subbed so I can watch that too. It's already been aired but no fansub groups have touched it nor has there been any news on whether it's been licensed or not.

Grats Cabbit!

Freaking awesome show, but thats just my opinion. I'm a huge drama whore and this show is just full of drama and suspense so if you're into that this is perfect for you. I've never seen Monster but by the sounds of it they're roughly the same. It starts off relatively slow and then starts hitting you hard with information as it gets going (I'll admit, I didn't like it at first myself but it grew on me. I only wish Chikane-chan didn't die on me because I really want to watch it again )

Strider~kun, go easy on the H~games X'D.

Pssttt, how the hell do I make them work?!

Sadly GG I haven't touched an H-game in 4 months (I know, wth really).

Whats this summer vacation you speak of? I vaguely remember them from high school but it's all just a haze.

With that said I've still got class (my college is year round so no 3 month summer break for me) and work. Outside of that there will be plenty of the usual (watching anime, reading manga, playing WoW and any other video game that currently interests me).

Hah, I was smart enough not to get caught (hint: games were my cover story).

Uh-oh, Lady was a bad girl growing up.

yah but you guys got to remember u got a nice dry heat as to where us over here on the east side get stuck wit humidity and have to get all stickey!!! it's really gross! you cant even drink something wit out the glass/bottle/can condinsation geting all over ur hands!

Lived in North Dakota for 22 years AMI where you can experience true humidity. Right now the dry heat is nice but we're not in the hot months yet. If I had to equate it to anything right now it feels like it would in North Dakota on an 80 degree day and thats bad enough for me. I miss my cold.

*opens windows* *enjoys the 55-70F Degree weather* ^^;

North Dakota (none of you know what Cold is, except Strider, as he used to live here) *cough*-60+F in the winter with a windchill*cough*

Finally someone who knows what I lived with all those years. Yay!!!! I'm envious though, I want 55-70 degree weather or some rain damnit. This all sun all the time shit down here has got to go.

You don't know heat yet goku. Come to Arizona now. The normal temp as of late has been 100+ and I fear this hot weather Dubie speaks of in August cause I hear it's deadly in Arizona.

As Dubie said pack early and pack only what you really need and are afraid of being sold when you leave. It helps in the long run, believe me. Don't really know how to handle the stress of moving. When I moved 8 months ago I was stressed beyond all belief until the night before I moved (in which case that was my birthday and I got pretty drunk, helped a bit but being in the vehicle next day was not fun with a hangover). Other then that prepare for anything, moving comes with a lot of problems that only seem to pop up when you least expect it or right before you move, god knows I ran into plenty.

Sigh, speaking of which I'm still not fully unpacked yet.

Bah, lets see:

Gameboy (the original)

Gameboy Color

Gameboy Advance

Playstation

Playstation 2

Xbox

Xbox 360

Still own every single console except the original Playstation. Parents sold it to a family friend. Don't let that fool you though, I've been gaming since the Nintendo days and even the Atari days.

Tell anyone someone is like Hitler & the 1st thing that comes to mind is WWII; not the years before.

Actually no Myk. Any intelligent person would not think of WWII when Hitler is mentioned. Hell I knew exactly what DX meant when he first stated it (and not because I'm a history fanatic). Don't go throwing everyone into a stereotype much like your trying to say DX is doing with Ron Paul.

Yes I know this has no relevance to what this topic is about but really this argument is getting extremely childish. Just agree to disagree and move on please. I think this is the reason we don't see many political topics here, they always degrade into something similar (and no I'm not singling anyone out here. Yes I'm siding with DX only because I actually understand what he's trying to say).

Sigh, I turn you back to your regularly scheduled topic. Please ignore anything I might have said that derail this topic, we all know I can be a little crazy.

Well it's another damned if you do damned if you don't situation (much like last time). McCain was a given as he really had no one to run against Republican side. Not to surprising Obama won it Democratic side.

Either way I'm not liking our future prospects.

Actually Home can do it if you download Style XP, Ruri-ruri runs off of Home and I switch visual styles all the time on her.

Mikan-chan is set at 1920x1200 (default and max for the video card it has in it). Really nice when playing WoW I must say (I'm used to 1280x800 which is Ruri-ruri's default and max res).

XP Pro. I use Style XP to change visual styles and what not on my laptops (in fact both have different visual styles on them). I got my new laptop through the college I attend now and they use XP Pro so I haven't upgraded to Vista yet (might when I get a desktop, who knows).

Desktop for Mikan-chan (my new laptop).

Desktop on Ruri-ruri.

Not surprising. It was bound to happen eventually considering the price of the 360 compared to the Wii (because we all know the games aren't selling the system, it's the price).

Try a pimped out M134 X'D. After we beat the game and unlocked all the primary weapons, we screwed around a bit. Thats how I got the 1 minute at full aggro achievement. The man issue we ran into was that sometimes, it just didn't work. Even though I was on full aggro, the enemy would still pay attention to my partner that was trying to flank, before he even fired a shot. It didn't happen a lot, but it did happen.

LOL. Man I put my mic on, and turn the earpiece volume all the way down when I play COD4, unless I am playing in a party. The Kids are annoying, its times like that, when I wish kids couldn't play M rated games.

Heh, I got the aggro achievement on a turret gun (roommate said it was the easiest way to get it). Frick man the pimped out M134 is a death wish. I was running around with that on level 3 on professional difficulty. Made life a living hell for both my roommate and I. Yea the aggro system was touchy with that, we had a lot of problems with snipers taking out my roommate while I had full aggro (same with the last stage, they seemed to like killing me even though my roommate had full aggro).

I generally do the same thing except when I'm playing Search and Destroy, I try to keep the volume up on the mic ear piece so I can hear whats going on with my teammates. Sadly though Search and Destroy has become the little kids playground now like Team Deathmatch is.

Yeah I don't think the aggro system was terrible, I just expect it to be more refined in a sequel. If they make one, I have pretty high hopes for it, because this was a killer concept.

Yeah I wish COD4 had co-op campaign as well, but IW admitted they wanted all the attention to be focused on the multiplayer developement... and we both know that payed off very well. The only fault I find in COD4's multiplayer is the dipshits that complain about how you killed them 1000 times and how you must be camping, because they are too stupid to watch the kill cam and see what is going on. But thats just about the unavoidable downfall of all multiplayer games. Nothing the developer can do.

True, true. The aggro system was too touchy for really conventional play (especially with pimped out weapons, gah it's hard to pull aggro off a guy with a pimped out AK).

Heh, yeah COD4 did good in the multiplayer aspect (I'm addicted, frick I'm prestige 4 already (still trying to decide whether or not I want to go beyond that)). Not just those people but have you run into the little kids, gah they're freaking annoying as hell. Make me wish I never bought COD4 sometimes when I get on. Heck I think I have half of all the people that play COD4 on 360 muted and on my avoid list.

Heh, I enjoyed the game and I'm sure you probably noticed that I have a good majority of the achievements done on it. I didn't buy it but my roommate did.

The only real faults I found with it was it's shortness. I thought the aggro system was rather well implemented for it's first time being used in a game and the game type used (of course this is only with a friend playing with you, playing aggro tag is the only way to get through Professional difficulty (especially the last level)). Final boss fight was lack luster, I mean seriously he's made out to be a freaking bad ass through the whole game yet he's not even that strong when you finally get to fight him.

Overall it wasn't a bad game. I'd like to try out the online aspect of the game but haven't had a chance (more or less because I played the game 4 times through in two straight days and just really can't go back to playing it). Some things could definitely be changed or better implemented and the whole aspect of this being a two player game only (come on, the AI sucks) makes it for a great co-op game (something that COD4 could of really used, it's fun and all but it would of been a lot better with co-op)

Personally, I'd go with the Western Digital (I swear by them) then again this is also from a guy who's never used a Seagate product (I don't know I hear so many bad things about them, then again I hear the same about WD but I've had nothing but good experiences with WD drives so far (have 2 120's that have lasted me for the last 3 years and haven't gone down or anything yet).

The Seagate one will run you $167 + tax (at newegg.com and $224 + tax at Best Buy) if you order online (hence why I gave the Best Buy price also).

As I said it's entirely up the preference but even if the WD only has a 1 year warranty they are known to last a long while (plus Best Buy usually tries to talk you into taking an extra warranty on top of it with them (or so they roped me in with my laptop and my printer purchases)). Plus it keeps you in the $154 price range. In the long run I think WD is the way to go (there I go sounding like a spokesperson for them).