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Well, it's final.

When I redid my computer, I lost:

- all my documents (essays, fanfiction, school documents, everything)
- all my bookmarks (every fan page, every torrent page... I wanna cry)
- all my screencaps for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Cowboy Bebop, and Witch Hunter Robin
- all my downloaded programs.

Which consists of at least:

• BulletProofFTP 1.10 + crack


• RealPlayer Gold 8.0 + crack


• Quicktime


• Goldwave + crack (my favorite sound editor!)


• WinAmp


• Kazaa Lite


• Windows MediaPlayer updates


• PowerDVD


• DivX codec pack


• Matroska pack


• .Ogg files pack


• VobSub


• VirtualDub


• Spybot


• AdAware


• Semagic


• Nero + crack

Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. I guess I have a lot of searching to do to get them back.

And I have to rebuild my links list from scratch, both fun links and school links. And I lost all my essays and term papers from the last two years in school. Many of those I *don't* have paper copies of anymore. Damn; I just don't understand why the disks I saved aren't reading anymore.

Naruto #100

Damn! Chibi!Lee was, like, normal. Poor thing.

And, by the way, I love Kakashi.

Spoilery note: ( Read more... )

Episode 101 promo: Oh my god! They're going to do the manga scene with Kakashi's mask! I know it's a filler episode, but I'm kinda excited. I loved that little manga scene thingy, but I never expected it to be in the anime.

well, I'm now up to episode 47!

Things I Learned From Watching Full Metal Alchemist

• everyone dies eventually


• no character you meet on your journey is so minor they can't make their way back to screw with your life yet a third time


• science is trippy


• science is dangerous


• family reunions are often unhappy


• you're really better off not knowing that the person who killed your family is a well-intentioned nice guy that's friends with your best friend


• everyone dies eventually


• explosives are cool


• explosives are dangerous


• the geek that made you is probably smarter than you


• taking things without permission can have unintended consequences


• watch where you step!


• guilt is a bad bad thing you don't want

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On the boars at adultswim.com, there is a thread about FMA and someone brought up Harry Potter in half-hearted comparison. "Kind of sounds like Harry Potter... Philospher's Stone, heh."

These were my thoughts.

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On the Harry Potter comparison:

Hah! That actually amuses me. But I have to say, no, not like HP. Not really at all. Most of the characters are adults, for one thing, and even Ed & Al try their best to act like adults and are treated like adults most of the time, and feel more comfortable around adults than other kids (especially Ed), which is not surprising due to their experiences.

Also, the tone and mood of FMA is very different from HP. HP is mostly a friendship and adventure story, mixed with old fashioned mysteries. It's comprised of self-contained books/episodes follows a reliable formula: each book is a school year, in which the characters must solve the mystery, learn cool stuff, and put off the end of the world one more season.

FMA is a quest story. Beyond that, it's a political/war thriller. It's not about the young heroes discovering something about themselves, it's about them recovering something they lost (physically, their bodies; symbolically, their second chance at innocence), and ultimately searching for a reason to exist, a reason for alchemy to exist (since alchemy is their life). Most of the characters in HP are fighting the expectations of themselves, what other people want them to be. The characters of FMA--- from the battle alchemists like Roy & Armstrong to the civilian alchemists like Ed, Al, and Izumi--- are trying to escape or change what they are, what they were, what they know themselves to be.

To put it another way: HP frequently capitalizes on the theme of recognizing the best in oneself, and getting strength from that; FMA capitalizes on recognizing the worst in oneself, and dealing with that in a productive manner.

FMA has considerably more humor in it than HP. Also, hella more sadness than HP.

The wizard comparison kinda amuses me, cause I was thinking about it earlier. At the stage that Edward, Hohenheim, Dante, and Izumi are at, they are a lot like magicians. A magician is, traditionally, kinda like a wizard/sorcerer who uses science and trickery in conjunction with magic, and often makes use of illusion. Edward, Hohenheim, Dante, Izumi... they all do it so effortlessly, like breathing. It's not a science for them anymore as much as it is an art, a talent. It's almost as if performing a botched human transmutation, and [( Read more... )

] (<<<click for spoilers) elevates one beyond the science of it to such a deep understanding it's more like an art or a talent or an ability. There's a pretty clear skill line between alchemists like those I just listed, and the others like Roy, Armstrong, Lyla, Kimbly, Tucker, etc.

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On a better (ignoring my last post), I just got my present in the mail from octopedingenue and riddering! Me loves. Cause NaruSaku is the future, y'all. Resistence is futile.

EDIT: Oooh! I almost threw away the plastic bag, but my mom noticed something inside and stopped me. It's Kyo! And Ein!

::happy dance:: Thank you!

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So I was trolling amv.org and I came across a few videos to the Modest Mouse song "Float On." The one only one with an anime I recognized was a FLCL vid. To me, that sounds like a perfect match. "Float On" would be a hard song to make a video for in the first place; FLCL is just random and absurd and visually stunning that a video would work well.

Of course, the vid was terrible. Long clips, no effort to time any bit, and worst-- subtitles.

That always happens. I come across what looks like the perfect marriage between song and source material, and what happens? The person who made it puts in less time than I take when going to the bathroom.