Well, it’s more like ‘Arcueid come back!!!!’ and also it’s more like ‘Nanaya Shiki come back!!!!’

It’s so amazing how whenever I play each character’s route, I feel like I’m so totally in love with these characters. No - they make me feel so in love with these characters, by the end I’m already genuinely caring for those characters, and when that happens, getting to the True and Good/Normal endings is easy as pie. And when I finally finish one character’s route, and start to think ‘Okay, time to conquer the next girl’s route’ something just tells me ‘it’s wrong’. something about fidelity and the like. I don’t quite like to listen to it, but I can’t quite continue with the game like I did before. That is why I have several saves from January when I completed Arcueid’s route. I probably won’t be finishing this game anytime soon.


This is also why Tsukihime is such a great visual novel.
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Yes, what a random topic, isn’t it? Blame rollchan, who defaced my in-depth Byousoku 5cm review! You’ll pay for this…

So he lined up 4 cases: the Thermaltake Armor+, LanBox, Coolermaster Cosmos S, and Antec 900. All of these seem like decent cases for highend computers except for the LanBox, so it seems he’s confused as to what to buy.

If you want a high end PC, somewhere around or above the Mac Pro, get the big cases.
Reason: when you want two sockets, 8 CPUs, 16GBs of FB-DIMM RAM, 6 hard drives and 2 burners, things are going to get real hot in there.

Choosing between the big cases: well, you simply choose whichever one suits your aesthetic taste. That’s how I’d go around buying those cases if I were to build a monster computer. Oh sure, no screws, being made of aluminium, whatever whatever, those are nice, but they’re not really necessary. Oh, and if they don’t come with a power supply, get a Tagan power supply. I know the Cosmos S does, but the last Coolermaster PSU I bought said ‘quiet’ and really wasn’t.

If you want a normal PC - two/four cores, up to 4GBs of RAM, a single fast/midrange graphics card, get the SFF LanBox:
The great thing about technology nowadays is that you can cram so much into a little box. Lots of people I know have Core 2 Duos and X1900XTs and stuff… but how many have their computers crammed into a small case and still have room for two hard drives (wait, the LanBox supports 3!? damn) and are light enough to bring anywhere? Plus do you ever use all the hard drive/5.25″ bays in your normal beige ATX case? No.

So yeah, if you don’t want to bring the PC around, though, just get a normal ATX case. If you’re lugging it around, get something small. If you want a whopper of a bragger, get a huge one. There’s really not much to say, seriously. Cases aren’t that important - just make sure the power supply is a good one.

I went into this movie expecting an improvement on Voices of a Distant Star and came away impressed and very touched. You see, it’s nothing like Voices of a Distant Star, which was rather out of touch with reality and at one point even ripped off Vandread, my first favourite anime.

No, the reason I love Byousoku 5cm is because it resonates within me. Byousoku 5cm is a colleciton of shorts, Oukashou, Cosmonaut, and Byousoku 5 Centimetre, each a tale with Tohno Takaki as the subject. We see him braving a 6 hour train journey to see Akari, his childhood friend (or should I say lover?), then a scene from his high school life after he moved away and lastly, several years into adulthood.

Spoilers ahead. (more…)

I went off to dinner with the happy thought lurking in the back of my head that this was yet another Sunday that gg hadn’t missed - Code Geass R2 episode 6 would be waiting for me on my computer. What a lovely day. Then after dinner I’d come back and watch Ep6, and figure out Drupal’s basics.

I came back, watched it, and found myself so depressed I couldn’t even begin to start work. You may call me lazy… I don’t mind. Spoilers ahead.

First of all, Nunnally is now on Suzaku’s side. That was the biggest part of the depression - and the fact that I get depressed empathizing with the protagonist says a lot about CG. She still doesn’t know Lelouch is Zero… given a few clues, but still not enough. One of the reasons Lelouch might not reveal his identity to Nunnally is because she might just reject it… and he’s come along this far now. We see that his judgment is correct. Nunnally, another Suzaku wannabe, but in fact more powerless, is no longer by his side, and who’s to say she would support him even when she knows he’s Zero? As much as I hate to admit it, Lelouch’s empire is crumbling from the foundation.

That is, unless something happens in the next episode. Obviously, he has to get a new reason for going against Britannia. The most plausible option would be to hate Britannia for taking away his sister, thereby prodding him to take up the mask again, or deciding to ’save his sister’ from their clutches or something aloing those lines. Or Nunnally could somehow find a way to talk with him after finding out his true identity… but that might not be that plausible, plus Nunnally is probably a peaceful person. I’d go with the first one. Not a formula that results in a happy ending, mind you.

And there’s Rollo. And all the fronts he’s putting up. I don’t know about you, but having that many fronts up eventually got to even Light in Death Note. And look what happened to him. Fatal execution in the last minute, and with all the fronts he’s putting up, what’s to say Rollo won’t switch over at the worst possible moment? First of all, there’s the contradiction that he’s searching for his sister while he says he loves Rollo… and I’m sure Rollo didn’t forget what Lelouch said about making him into a pawn. Rollo knows Lelouch’s situation, judging by the scene on the rooftop. And there’s no way he isn’t mulling it over in his little boy head.

Knowing Nunnally, she’ll probably have her way. Zero will ally with her again in the Specially Administrated Zone of Japan, or won’t… either way he’ll lose his other reason to rally people against Britannia and eventually fade away, and it’s not obvious that Zero will do anything about it. No, he probably will. There wouldn’t be much to show if he didn’t, plus it’s just not like him.

Something interesting is going to happen again with the Specially Administrated Zone, and Lelouch is eventually going to lose out. This is only the second ’smart guy’ anime I’ve watched… I’d really hate for it to become a genre in its own right, but it seems that the formula is smart guy builds up a tower, falls at the critical moment thanks to chance.

No, I’m not taking into account Lelouch Geassing Nunnally. What would really be nice for him, though, is gain another ally with another Geass… and Rakshata better get some new technology onto all the Knightmares, not just the Guren Mk. II.

And here I was just saying days ago that it sucked. Well I took a look at it and decided that even though it may not be such an improvement over the previous one, it does look pretty good in its own right… except when the post is very short, like this one, and there are no comments.

The only challenge, though, after I got it setup on this site, was to fill out the widgets bars. There’s a widget bar both on the top and the bottom of this theme, and it might be pretty hard to imagine, but there’s really not much to put on there. Once I got the Categories, Pages, Archves and Links on the bar beneath Rin and Saber, there really wasn’t much to put up left. See, the Statpress plugin is just tiny. If I were to put any more on it, you guys might think I was stalking you or something… so I’ve decided to just keep it that way.

I still need to add styles for code and blockquotes and get the random image banner going but I’m really hungry right now. Eating a large bowl of porridge just isn’t going to keep me satisfied, it seems.
n.p. 116. m-flo and various artists - [m-flo inside #12] Fantastic Plastic Machine Spectacular
EDIT: Some comments may have a PHP error above your name/email. That’s what the AJAX Edit comments plugin is for… you probably screwed something up while typing your website’s address in. Fix it.
EDIT2: At this point, I would also like to say that I really am glad I moved over to Wordpress. And thanks, Randall! A rather conspicuous link is on the banner just for you.
EDIT3: To transfer blogroll links from one Wordpress installation to another, simply go to http://yourdomainhere.extension/wp-links-opml.php and save the result as a xml file. Then go to Write->Link->Related: Import Links and there you have it. It’s not very obvious… the Wordpress devs need to work on that.