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I wish Coffee Prince were a man, so I could marry it. We'd be happy together making beautiful latte art and raising lots of musically inclined children.
……Coffee Prince is a GIRL?!?!
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Eun Chan still comes to work despite being told to quit. She approaches the still-angry Han Gyul, who gives her three minutes to talk. After that, she'd better leave because she's fired.
Eun Chan: "In the beginning, I never thought you'd like someone like me. It seemed like you liked Yu Ju. She's so beautiful that I can't compare with her, so I thought I was better off being seen as a man. When I asked how you would feel if I were a woman, you said you weren't going to date around anymore, that you'd marry a nice woman from a nice background, someone your grandmother and mother approved of. I'm not womanly or pretty, but if we were sworn brothers, I could be with you all the time. When we goofed around, and you treated me so well… I liked it so much I couldn't tell you the truth."
Han Gyul: "I really hate this. Why am I always betrayed by loved ones? Why didn't my father tell me about my birth mother? Why couldn't you tell me the truth? I thought about it so much my head felt like it would burst — it was because you couldn't trust me. My father and you both. And I loved you so much. But you couldn't trust me."
Eun Chan: "It's not that I couldn't trust you, I couldn't trust myself."
Han Gyul: "When I said I liked you even as a man, I didn't care what the world would think of me, disregarding my friends, family. I went through a lot of pain getting to the point where I decided those things didn't matter. Go Eun Chan, I need someone who trusts me. Even if everyone else curses at me for being useless, I needed someone who'd believe: 'Choi Han Gyul just didn't have the opportunity to show himself. He's a guy who does what he puts his mind to. He's just someone who hasn't yet found what he wants to do in life, but he truly can accomplish what he sets out to do.' I needed someone to have that kind of faith in me. Not like you, who deceived me even in love, worrying over being found out."
Eun Chan: "I didn't have the confidence. I didn't want that to happen… I wanted to tell you, but I was afraid you'd wouldn't see me anymore. But the reason I'm telling you this now… is because I want you to see me as a woman. If you hate me, I can't do anything about it, but I'm so sorry, and I know I was so wrong… But I like you. I love you. If you tell me to quit, I will. If you don't want to see me… couldn't you still see me anyway?"
Han Gyul: "I don't have the confidence to continue. I don't know who you are. The Go Eun Chan I knew was always honest with me, who trusted and liked everyone, facing the world just as he was. I wanted to be like him. But you… You aren't the Go Eun Chan I know. Let's not meet again."
Phew, way to reduce me to a sniveling mess in the first five minutes.
Han Gyul tells Mr. Hong that Eun Chan will be leaving, and Mr. Hong scolds him for his behavior. Yes, he gets that Han Gyul went through a harder time than Eun Chan, but why is he so angry? She's a girl, and they like each other — that's a cause for celebration. Mr. Hong can't stand working there like this, so he leaves. Ha Rim tries to convince him to stay, and Han Gyul tells him he'll be gone in a month anyway. Mr. Hong says, "Fine, then I guess I'll be back in a month," and walks out.
Eun Chan packs her things and leaves. Han Gyul watches her go.
Han Gyul has no desire to talk to his cousin, but Han Sung calls and says all he has to do is listen. He explains that he first met Eun Chan when she delivered milk to his house, and yes, she was the girl he took to Yu Ju's exhibit.
Han Sung: "That day, she was really beautiful. But by the time I started to see her in that way, she already had feelings for you. She cried as she told me how much she liked you."
Han Gyul: "This is annoying. How long do I have to listen to you?"
Han Sung: "She wanted to tell you, but she had no confidence in herself, because she felt like she wasn't a woman or a man. She sobbed her heart out. I'll be honest with you. I was swayed toward her. But since she liked you, I decided to just be friends. I'm not even sure why I wavered. That's really all there was. The fact that Eun Chan told you the truth even at this late point is because she has faith in you."
Yu Ju apologizes for not telling Han Gyul about Eun Chan, and explains that she's leaving. Han Gyul asks if it's because of Eun Chan. Was the relationship between Han Sung and Eun Chan serious enough to drive Yu Ju away? Yu Ju explains: "Their relationship wasn't a matter of how far they went. It's just that Han Sung's feelings swayed toward her, and even then it was just a short while. So forgive Eun Chan."
Han Gyul asks why she's leaving, and she answers they've got a lot of issues between them. Yu Ju was always the one depending on Han Sung, and he was the one to comfort and accept her. She'd thought his anger was something exclusive to her (born of love): "But I realized that's not true. I know I'm not being mature about this, and I can't be cool either. I'm really horrible, I know. But my feelings don't listen."
Han Gyul wonders how Han Sung felt, knowing how he liked Yu Ju all this while, and concludes that Han Sung didn't worry about losing Yu Ju to his cousin because he trusted her — so much that he waited for her even after she left for another man. Yu Ju: "Then you don't have faith in Eun Chan."
Han Gyul says he'd always felt that Yu Ju and Han Sung were so rock-solid that he never had a shot of squeezing himself in between them. For Han Sung's sake, he asks her not to go: "If you do, I think I'd hate you."
Eun Chan and Han Gyul spend the next several days moping. Han Gyul recalls Eun Chan's words from the first scene, and also thinks of Mr. Hong's words: "Ask yourself carefully if you can live without Go Eun Chan."
Han Sung drives Yu Ju to the airport, and tries to convince her one last time not to go. Their argument spills over onto the sidewalk when Yu Ju tells him to pull over. Han Sung yells: "You strayed too. Why is it okay for you, but not for me?!" He put up with so much — he knew she was lying about DK even before they broke up — but he forgave her.
Yu Ju counters — if he'd been so accepting all this time, why is it now that he faltered? She watched him lie to her face when he said Eun Chan was merely a cute little kid. Han Sung admits that he made a mistake, but it wasn't love. Yu Ju can't tell the difference.
As she turns and walks off, Han Sung begs her not to leave, shouting after her, "Don't go. Don't go!"
[Side note: The scene was okaaay, but felt a little… acted. Usually this series does amazing things with letting scenes breathe (like in Episode 7 when Yu Ju waited all day in Han Sung's house, and Han Gyul dealt with the aftermath of his fight with Eun Chan), but this felt suffocated. The emotions seemed prepared, not in-the-moment (which is what I loved about their fights in Episode 11). And perhaps a little overacted. Okay, criticism over.]
At the airport, Yu Ju finds DK waiting for her — but stays at a distance. They have a wordless exchange — and, realizing Yu Ju's not leaving, DK goes alone with a rueful wave. Han Sung races to the airport to find her, but he's too late, and thinks that she's already gone.
Now jobless, Eun Chan keeps herself occupied peeling chestnuts and sewing doll eyes. Taking a break to go to the convenience store, she runs into Han Sung, who can tell she hasn't been doing so well.
Han Sung: "It's because he likes you so much. That's why he's so angry. Although he doesn't look like it, he's someone with deep affections, and once he gives you his heart, he gives it all. So just wait a little."
Han Sung assures her Han Gyul will understand, but tells her not to tell Han Gyul about their kiss — because he's found that when you tell someone something to ease your own guilty conscience, sometimes it only brings the other person pain. She thanks him and tells him again that he's like Santa, and Han Sung responds,
"I'm the one who should be thankful, for being able to be Santa to you. So even if it's difficult, be strong. Han Gyul has really fallen for you."
At the cafe, Han Gyul is confronted on all sides with appeals to forgive Eun Chan. No matter how mean Ha Rim was to Eun Chan, when talking to Han Gyul, he plays the part of pacifier, asking to hire her back. Min Yub has heard from Eun Sae how poorly Eun Chan is doing these days, eating badly, not sleeping well. Sun Ki tells him, "The way I see it, it was really hard on her too. She's young. And don't you think she was afraid things would end up like this?"
Han Gyul goes to see his cousin. At first, the mood is strained, as Han Sung asks Han Gyul to forgive him for having feelings for Eun Chan: "If you really don't want me to see her anymore, I won't. I'll do my best so that we don't even happen to meet by chance."
Han Gyul apologizes for hitting him, for overreacting to learning the truth about Eun Chan, and also for passing off his feelings for Yu Ju as mere friendship. He invites Han Sung to hit him if it'll make him feel better.
Han Sung informs him of Yu Ju's departure: "But don't worry too much about us. Yu Ju and I have ten years of history. There's something between us that you wouldn't even be able to imagine. We won't just end like this."
Han Gyul: "Yu Ju really loves you. She'll come back to you. It was a really good thing it was you that she loved. If it were anyone else, I'd have stolen her away. I held back because it was you. I like you a whole lot more than you think I do, you know."
(Aww for brotherly love! These cockles, they are warmed.)
(Somebody needs to give the writer a raise, because I love this next sequence like you wouldn't believe. I love it so much it makes me sad I didn't write it.)
That night, Han Gyul goes to Eun Chan's home, looking up at her window. After staying there for a while, he drives away.
At the same time, Eun Chan waits outside Han Gyul's apartment. It's getting late, so she starts wheeling her bicycle away, unaware that her burlap sack is leaking chestnuts.
When Han Gyul arrives home, he finds the chesnuts on the ground, leading him like a trail of breadcrumbs. He follows the trail, and starts to pick them up, just as Eun Chan discovers the torn bag and starts collecting the chestnuts from her end.
And thus they meet in the middle.
Sitting side by side on a park bench, they remain silent for a while as they try to decide how to handle this. But Han Gyul's anger has been slowly subsiding over the course of the episode, and he tells her to come to work tomorrow.
"I'm still angry, I still feel resentful and I can't completely understand… And so, I asked myself if I could live without Go Eun Chan. Could I separate from her like this? And it turns out I can't."
He sees her tearing up and chides her for crying so much: "From now on, you'd better only cry in front of me. Don't you dare cry like this in front of other men, or you're dead." He reaches over and wipes the tears from her eyes.
Eun Chan apologizes again:
"When we played around, when I acted as your dongsaeng, that must've been so awful for you. I only tried to keep myself from being hurt, and looked for a place to run away. I didn't understand how you felt when you made me those toys, how much you were hurting. When you said let's go as far as we could, I was just happy, and didn't even think of your struggles. I'm sorry."
Han Gyul apologizes too:
"When I kissed you at the cafe and said it meant nothing, I did that to hurt you. It was because I was angry — but I absolutely didn't mean it. I'm immature for not thinking of how hard it was on you. I'm sorry. I apologize. Forgive me."
Eun Chan tells him it was her mistake from the start, so it's okay.
Han Gyul rests his head on her shoulder, saying:
"Go Eun Chan… I'm glad you're a girl."
Eun Chan quickly turns her head to kiss him, and they stay like that, together in silence.
The next day, Eun Chan's back at the cafe, and Ha Rim, for all his bluster and aggravation, is genuinely happy to see her back. When Han Gyul arrives, they all watch with bated breath, not quite sure of the situation.
Han Gyul pretends to ignore Eun Chan, although he steals looks at her while the others are too busy speculating over the status of the relationship. They ask Eun Chan if something happened the night before to cause the change, and with a shy smile, she nods. The Princes whoop in glee.
They accost her for details, and Ha Rim jokes that they should use her phone to send Han Gyul lovey-dovey text messages. Ha Rim says they don't even need her phone since they can send it with his, and starts typing a message. Eun Chan stops them — and hands over her phone: "Send it with mine."
The Princes watch Han Gyul receive the message, which reads: "Thank you ♥." He smiles (and the Princes are thrilled).
After going on their coffee bean deliveries, Han Gyul and Eun Chan enjoy a walk through the park, and Han Gyul is adorably playful. As he walks hand in hand with Eun Chan down the street, he excitedly turns to strangers to tell them, "She's a girl. She's a girl. A girl!"
Han Gyul: "See, you should've told the truth from the start, so we could've held hands like this."
Eun Chan: "I really didn't know you liked me."
Han Gyul: "Are you kidding me? I even went to the hospital because of you. Are you a dummy?"
Eun Chan: "Hospital? I thought you just saw me as a cute younger brother. And I had nothing to assure me you'd like a girl like me."
She tells him when she first saw him, she thought he was incredibly good-looking. He's pleased to hear it, until she clarifies that their first meeting wasn't at the purse-snatching, but when she delivered food to his apartment. Han Gyul exhibits a belated sense of modesty.
Han Sung finds out about Yu Ju not going to New York from DK: "I thought work was the most important thing to her, but it seems there's something you have that's more important."
Worried, Han Sung tells Han Gyul that he hasn't been able to locate her. Far from being angry, Han Sung realizes he didn't know as much about her as he should have: "I don't know where her mother's house is, or have phone numbers of her close friends."
Later that night, Eun Chan and Han Gyul talk on the phone, and he wonders why she's so interested in Han Sung's business. He tells her Han Sung had liked her — and she, remembering Han Sung's caution, pretends not to know: "No, that can't be." He asks if she'd had feelings for him, and she admits that at first, she did like Han Sung, but then she started liking Han Gyul more.
Han Gyul pretends to be miffed, asking why she picked him over his cousin, who's nicer and warmer: "Be honest. You like both of us, right?" Eun Chan takes his teasing for real and insists, "Han Sung is just a nice ajusshi, and you — I don't really know the reason, but I just… like you."
Han Gyul enjoys her reaction while carrying on his mock indignation, telling her he's still upset: "My anger just won't go away." Left with nothing else to say, Eun Chan says, almost defiantly: "I love you. I love you! I really love you!"
That catches Han Gyul totally off guard, and in an instant, he goes from playfully happy to completely stunned. His legs give out and he sinks down on the couch, catching his breath. (The song is "Coffee Is" by Cloud Cuckoo Land".)
He covers, accusing her (in bluster) of playing with words and being a smooth talker:
"Hey, you jerk! You could've said so openly, comfortably, and we could've been insanely happy together. Why didn't you tell me, and put me through all that suffering? Bad Go Eun Chan! You punk!"
Eun Chan smiles in relief, and then he tells her sternly, gruffly:
"Listen to me carefully. I love you more."
Both are stunned at their mutual admissions — you can almost feel their visceral reactions to their words — and then, overcome with giddy happiness. Eun Chan jumps around her room, yelling, "He says he loves me! He loves me!"
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This episode was pretty epic, and one of all-time favorites.
That being, the criticism I have for it:
* Ash used have used his entire Hoenn team (Pikachu/Corphish/Torkoal/Sceptile/Swellow/Glalie). I mean Heracross was a strategic pick but he already got a battle before, and Gible featured heavily against Conway. Corphish and Glalie should have been used instead. Corphish/Torkoal/Swellow/Glalie should have taken out Darkrai with Glalie getting the win. Glalie/Sceptile should have taken out Latios with Sceptile getting the win. And Pikachu should have drew against third Legendary.
* Torkoal has battled a Legendary before in Brandon's Registeel and almost beat it. No way it should have died that easily.
* Swellow losing to Latios that quickly was complete PIS considering Swellow built a reputation for stamina and toughness. I would have loved to see an aerial duel before Swellow got KO'd.
Credit: FairyWitch and American--Pi
Takuto is surely insane since his Darkrai wins all but one battle. I think Darkrai learning Reito Bimu is not necessary since it is an ice type move and done little to develop Darkrai. Takuto should command Darkrai to use Nightmare which is much better suit in my opinion.
Dream Eater is literally Nightmare with a bonus. It's the better version of Nightmare basically. It'd be pointless to have no the moves in Darkrai's moveset. That'd be like having Ember and Flamethrower instead of discarding Ember for a better move or one with more type coverage
Last edited by Lord Trollbias; 25th August 2014 at 7:06 AM.
Well, I liked that we got to see Sceptile battle again. And Pikachu vs Latios was pretty epic.
The rest sucked.
I can't help but wonder if Tobias was used on purpose as a deliberate mock of those players who use nothing but legendary pokemon in WiFi battles. If so, then they should have given Darkrai and Latios their shiny colours. That would have been the icing on the cake.
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This episode was the WORST EVER. I mean seriously Tobias walks in out of nowhere and brings out a Darkrai and Latois who in the games are classified as Uber Pokémon and aren't allowed in competitions such as the Battle Tower or the Pokémon world Tournament. It's totally unfair. He cheated using those Pokémon. Whatever happened to cheaters never prosper. and Tobais didn't even get any character development. He's just this big silent mysterious guy who everyone seems to soil themselves whenever he comes by. I mean if I were Ash and I knew he was competing in the league I would have just quit and tried again the next year. It was almost heartbreaking to watch Heracross, Torkoal and Gible fall without any real fight and Ash become all sad and frustrated when he realises how badly he is going to loose. Thought it certainly wiped the smug smile off Tobias's face when Sceptile beat Darkrai - but then he just pulls out Latios and goes on to knock out Sceptile and Swellow really easily. Then we get to Pikachu who puts up a really decent fight although almost gets killed when they fly so high above the stadium. I'm kinda glad the tied because it gave Ash a sort of positive note to finish on.
But seriously people like to have a go at Cameron from Unova when he beats Ash with only five Pokémon. This bloke Tobais takes out Ash's entire team with only 2 Pokémon which were both legendary. Ash never even had a chance. That's just downright humiliating. At least with Cameron they were evenly matched and both sides put in their all, and Cameron clearly had a strong bond with his Pokémon (especially Lucario). Tobais was just like, Dark void - Your dead Haracross, Dark void - lights out Torkoal, Peekaboo I KO you Gible. Now Darkrai. What's this my Darkai has been knocked out for the first time ever. Oh dear. I'd just better pull out one of my other legendary Pokémon so I can mop the floor with Ash, hurt his best friend Pikachu and crush his hopes and dreams. And it's not even 10:00am. I must say. Not a bad morning. I mean what on earth were the writers thinking. A bloke with legendaries just demolishes Ash and destroys all his hard work and the fans love it despite Tobais cheating, and yet when Ash's friend and kindred spirt Cameron battle their all and Ash looses they hate it despite Cameron having earned the win.
On a positive note, as a romantic Pikashipper I liked the way Ash got a bit of confidence back when he saw the determined look on Pikachu's face and was able to make a reasonable come back with his best friends (or more) assistance. Ash and Pikachu were very much in sync in that last battle. It was a strong finish to an otherwise ridged and unfair match. And then he does the usual of making sure Pikachu is okay and giving him a hug and telling him he did well. It's very sweet. But other than that this was a terrible ending to Ash's journey in Sinnoh. Tobais is easily one of my most hated characters because of this.
Games=/=Amine. There is no such thing as Ubers or Smogon tiers in the anime so that excuse that Tobias "cheated" has absolutely no ground to stand on. If the man went through the effort of capturing not just 1 but 2 (potentially more) Legendaries why shouldn't he get to use them? He captured them. He did the work. So what sense does it make in handicapping himself for the League? Nobody gives Brandon **** for using the Regis. Its not even as if Legendary Pokemon=Instant Win as Heatran trainer didn't even make it to the finals. Fact of the matter is Ash is just 10 years old while Tobias is likely in his 20s or 30s. When Ash is older then he'd stand a chance. They're always going to be stronger trainers than Ash. And no I'm glad they keep Tobias a mystery. That was done on purpose. Better than the usual status quo we got in the 4 other regions where Ash becomes best friends, right before the League, with the trainer who will eventually knock him out.
People have a go at Cameron because it was a terrible battle which just made Ash look terrible after it. At least here Ash took down TWO LEGENDARY POKEMON, one of which the entire Sinnoh region couldn't touch. Hell even the announcer's shock when Sceptile KOs Darkrai says it all. He may have lost here but he goes out with far more credibility than losing, with a handicap, in one of the most tactically devoid and annoying battles in the anime history. Tobias doesn't need to show any shock , surprise or agitation because he's confident enough in his victory. No point in losing my head or panicking when your 4th Pokemon is in a critical state and I have 5 left. And again if it was cheating, Tobias wouldn't have been allowed to compete in the Sinnoh League.
People enjoy Tobias because even despite the loss it still shows Ash's progress as he manages to a.) achieve his highest League rank b.) shows skill by beating 2 Legendary Pokemon in the same battle c.) showcased that Ash was probably the strongest trainer in the Sinnoh League d.) shows Ash still has another level to go reach and that his current end of region DP level can still be bettered leaving room for improvement in BW
which incidentally pisses people off about the Unova League, especially Cameron because it completely regresses not just Ash's DP level, but also his constant improvement in all the previous sagas.
And again you keep mentioning cheating when there was none involved so there's that.
Last edited by Lord Trollbias; 19th January 2015 at 4:54 PM.
I actually thought the battle in this episode wasn't as bad as it seemed, in fact I thought it was pretty epic that Ash took down 2 legendary Pokemon when no one has ever beat Tobias' Darkrai. It was also clear that Ash was the 2nd strongest in this league and he only lost because the writers needed to keep him in the anime at the time. I honestly wouldn't mind a repeat of this battle if Ash needs to lose in a future league.
Credit goes to Satomine Night
I wished Ash picked different Pokemon. He should have went full Hoenn team, instead of using Heracross and Gible again (even if they were good picks, they already got battles at the League). And I can't forgive how Swellow got shafted; it's as if the writers didn't watch AG.
Great battle that made Ash look impressive, although it wasn't perfect.
Credit: FairyWitch and American--Pi
Well first of all we don't know anything about Tobais or how he happened to catch 2 legendary Pokémon. He comes out of no where with no backstory and no real reason to be there. He was a character designed to beat Ash and nothing more. With Cameron, and every other rival Ash has lost to there has been a large amount of character development and there was a bond between them. Ash seemed to regard Cameron as a kindred spirt and Cameron embodied a lot of what the Anime stands for - that is friendship and kindness. He won because he had a strong bond with Riolu and Riolu evolved to make Cameron proud of him. Cameron did not make Ash look terrible. They both battled their best and Cameron happened to come out the winner - thats just the way things are sometimes. At least Cameron earned that victory whereas Tobais just pulls out his Uber Pokémon and crushes Ash's hopes and dreams without batting an eyelid. Also Ash did not take down two legendary Pokémon. Latios was a double KO.
And while it's not unreasonable Ash loose to a trainer he's never met before, why did have to be a totally over powered trainer with legendaries. Tobais was always going to win. We knew it going in. Even if Ash were the strongest in the Sinnoh league it was still unfair he got whipped out by a legendary user. Tobias showed connection or bond with his Pokemon. He didn't say anything nice to Latios whereas Cameron was happily spinning Lucario round and round. It was cute. Tobias just look like he was using them as battle slaves. He gave off a harsh and cold demeanour. When you saw him taking the cup it felt like the wrong person had won. When Virgil won in Unova you had a good feeling. Sort of if Ash didn't win at least someone who deserved it did.
I don't see the fact that Ash obtained a higher ranking in Sinnoh than Unova as a good enough excuse to have a go at Cameron. Ash was just lucky that he didn't have to face Tobais until that point in the competition. If he had had the misfortune to meet him in the preliminary rounds it would have been all over red rover before the match even started. I agree a better way to have done Unova would have been to have Ash face and loose to Cameron in the Semi finals or finals (and possibly have Cameron win the league) and have Ash defeat Virgil in the Quarter finals (which I think he could have done with his Unova team). I don't actually think Ash was any better in Sinnoh than Unova. His Pokémon were relatively high powered and able to pull off some impressive feats. I think it's perfectly plausible that Snivy could have defeated Darkrai. She as strong as Sceptile or at least has the potential to be.
As for cheating. Yes he was not stopped from entering the league with the two legendary Pokémon but I have to wonder what the writers were thinking when they created a character who uses legendary Pokémon. To me using legendary Pokémon in a regional championship (in which all the other Pokémon are not legendary) would be like Ian Thorpe entering the Weet-bix Triathlon and blood doping to improve his performance. Given it's rare in the games for someone to use legendary Pokémon and even the champion does not it's almost a little insulting to fans of Ash and Pikachu to see a bloke with 2 bloody legendaries come in and mop the floor with the entire tournament and destroy everyones hard work effortlessly. Ash worked so hard to be in the league he did not deserve to get owed by some unknown bloke with legendary Pokémon. The legendary or legendaries that the player obtains are always linked to the story line or are caught as event Pokémon post game. For goodness sake, not even the elite four or Cynthia use legendary Pokémon and they are the strongest trainers in Sinnoh.
Yes, Brandon did use the reggi trio but Brandon is a special case. First of all he is identified as a very strong trainer who only the best take on. This is true in the games as well - you have to defeat the battle frontier to battle him. Secondly Brandon received some character development and aside from his tough guy act it was clear he had compassion for his Pokémon. Thirdly Brandon uses other Pokémon not just three legendaries and he was not competition in a competition that seemed like it was mostly for children. Finally Brandon was an archeologist so it's not hard to see how he obtained them. With Tobias it is never explained and I personally believe it could have been fraudulent.
Last edited by Pikachu52; 20th January 2015 at 9:48 AM.
Say hello to Ritchie, Harrison, Tyson and Cameron. Only difference was that the writers decided to forgo the usual buddy buddy route that they did with the aforementioned four. Cameron didn't make Ash look bad? Snivy, Oshawott, and Unfezant were made into cannon fodder and Ash lost to a guy who didn't even bring 6 Pokemon and thought you needed 7 badges to enter the League. It wasn't even as if he was treated as a genius savant, he was just an idiot period. There is a reason Ash vs. Cameron is almost universally referred to as the worst League battle in the anime's tenure. Cameron earned that victory? And Tobias didn't? You're right Tobias should just have coddled Ash's hands and weakened hmself and his team to make it a fairer fight amirite? F that. Ash's fault his Pokemon weren't on Tobias's level. Tobias isn't meant to care about Ash's dreams and aspirations. Its a competition. He's there to win. Not as if Ash didn't do the same to all the opponents he baet or Cameron to Ash when he beat him.
What Tobias was supposed to sweet talk Latios during the battle? Its a battle. Big shock he's focused more in battling at the time than "showing connection or bond." Being more focused on the battle makes his Pokemon battle slaves then. Ok. Great conclusion from the nonexistent evidence.
If you're really comparing a loss to a possible Elite 4 tier opponent who destroyed an entire region to a loss to a guy who can't even figure out the Unova League is suppossed to take place in Unova then I'll be here laughing.
Ash in Unova was a blatant regression from his DP, hell from his BF and AG days. Ash didn't have the misfortune. So what? Fact remains he still obtained his highest rank to date in a Pokemon League competition in Sinnoh and regressed from that Top 4 rank in Unova. And Snivy, the same Snivy that was treated as a punching bag for most of the BW series, the same Snivy that has the 2nd worst W/L ratio out of all of Ash's Pokemon, would have beaten Darkrai? Please.
Sucks for Ash and everyone in the League then. There's nothing stopping them from going out to catch and train Legendary Pokemon of their own now is there? No. Then good on Tobias for deciding that is the best path to victory and going and completing the arduous task of obtaining said Legendary Pokemon.
The E4 and Cynthia don't use Legendaries? So what. There is not a said defined path to becoming the strongest now is there. And this is not even touching upon how strong Tobias's Pokemon would have to be to even stand a chance when he went to capture said Legendaries in the first place. The conventional route to facing the E4 is through the League. Ergo he wants to beat the E4 and challenge Cynthia for her spot. So yes he's going to bring his OP team through the League to win it and gain acess to battling the E4 and possibly Cynthia.
The blood doping example holds no merit since it is not cheating to start with no matter how much you try to claim it is.
I personally didn't care for Swellow and Torkoal being destroyed so quickly (Swellow because it can do much better, and Torkoal because it loses a lot) but that's forgivable for obvious reasons. It was a good episode and the Pikachu vs. Latios was really enjoyable.
But just because the episode was enjoyable, doesn't mean the episode should have happened. There are some aspects that were really bad. Firstly the writing was kind of lazy. How much sense does it make that someone could use one Pokemon to sweep through a competition designed to find a champion? If his only competition is so much weaker than he is, then how did he get that strong in the first place? You could argue that instead of making Ash look good, Tobias made every Sinnoh gym and every competitor in the Pokemon League look awful.
This episode also really made it clear that Ash was never going to win a Pokemon League, and the fact that the main character will never succeed is not something you want to convince your viewers.
One other problem I had was that Pikachu and Latios looked dead when the battle finished. I don't think the Pokemon should have to battle until they look like they're about to die. Battles can still be enjoyable without the overly brutal scenes. >_>
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Better loosing to a person with 5 Pokémon than a bloke with just 2. It was more humiliating that Ash lost to legendaries than to Cameron by far. Also I'm not denying that Ash vs Cameron is not disappointing in many ways but better loosing to Cameron than to an totally Over Powered trainer without any backstory. That really is taking the Pi**. My comment was that I'm surprised people are more upset with Ash v Cameron than Ash v Tobias. I have expressed misgivings about Ash v Cameron but it was no where near as unfair as Ash v Tobias and I don't the hatred directed at Cameron is fair given the circumstance. To some extent Cameron is probably a better trainer than Ash as he was shown to have a strong diverse team and a good strategy for the most part. He even had a Hyrdriegon which was at least as strong as Ash's Charizard and knocked out Oshawott and Boldore the same way Darkrai did. Some of it came down to luck but thats jus the way things are sometimes. Tobias on the other hand didn't even need to try. He had the victory handed to him on a platter before the league had even begun thanks to Darkrai. I'm not suggesting Tobias care about Ash in that way or weaken himself. What would have been nice is a fair match up like every other battle in the league so far. I mean Tobias must have realised his victory was assured from the very start. Everyone else goes it knowing the next battle could be their last as did everyone Ash lost to previously. The whole stadium knew Tobias was going to win and at one point Ash looked like he was seriously considering a forfeit. Brock even suggested Ash should do just that.
I did not suggest Tobias was supposed to sweet talk Latios. A look of concern, some friendly encouragement, something that made him look human would have been nice. All we got was the cold and almost arrogant demeanour from a long haired pillock. All I was asking for is that he stroked Latios's head and thanked him the way Ash did Pikachu. The fact he shows no emotion or concern even when his faithful Darkrai was knocked out is what I base my comment about battle slaves on. That is all. And at least Cameron has an interesting personality. The fact he was a bit quirky and forgetful was funny and made people smile. Tobias did nothing but look coldy at the battle and terrify anyone who dare approach him.
And I am comparing The Tobias and Cameron battles in that it's odd people are happy with Ash loosing to a bloke with two Pokemon but not one with five and that Ash lost to a character only writen to win. A Tobias is is a symbol Ash will never win a league. Furthermore if he is a cheater then he is hardly elite four material.
Snivy was not shown to be a weak Pokémon. She was strong enough to take out Trip's Servine on one occasion, She beat Clay's Palpitoad without taking a single hit and she one of Ash's most used Pokémon in the series. Her win loss ratio is not that much worse than sceptics. Also sceptile has the same win loss ratio as Oshawott. Maybe Oshy could have beaten Darkrai. Furthermore Pignite has a better win loss ratio than Sceptile and given the type advantage could possibly have taken out Darkrai.
Just because Ash finished one step behind in Unova than he did in Sinnoh does not make it a regression. He's not going to do brilliantly all the time and it's more realistic to see him do slightly worse the next time round. Can anyone involved in any form of high level competition honestly say they have constantly improved without any exception. The main thing to do is to learn from your mistakes and try to improve for next time. Not an unreasonable point for the anime to make given it is a children's show. His Pokémon are not any better or worse in terms of their achievements in Unova than they have been in any other region and nobody seems to have consider that the level of competition in Unova, with the exception of Tobias may have been much higher than in Sinnoh, evidence by the fact that Ash finished a run lower there than he did in Sinnoh. Cameron is probably a better trainer than Paul given he has a team of six fully evolved Pokémon and he is show to treat them with kindness and respect, where as Paul did not and relied on strength and cruelty.
You suggest that Tobias caught the legendary Pokémon himself. There is no evidence to support that as we don't know anything about Tobias other than he has Darkrai and Latios. For all we know he's a rich kid who hired Pokémon Hunter J to track down and capture them for him. Given she is the only person in the show to capture legendaries other than Brandon it's not a unlikely scenario. As for other competitors capturing legendaries - the anime on some occasions has suggested that you aren't meant to. In the movie Pokémon 2000 the plot revolves around the fact that Lawrence III's attempts to capture the 3 birds causes an imbalance to the forces of nature and puts the world at risk. When Team Rocket tries to capture Landerous, Thunderous and Tornadus on Milos Island it causes destruction to the entire island. In the Chronicles series, the Legend of Thunder Eugene explains that trying to capture of tame Raikou would hurt it. Furthermore Team Rocket's attempt to capture Cresselia in Sleepless in Pre-battle it's seen as a bad thing even though said Cresselia was wild. As Cresselia is part of the lunar duo with Darkrai it doesn't seem any more reasonable that Tobias should have Darkrai than Jessie, James and Meowth should have Cresselia. When Team's Aqua and Magma tried to control Groudon and Kyogre it was a disaster. Why is Tobias any better for having Darkrai.
The comparison I am making is that it is odd that fans will hate on Cameron for winning with 5 Pokémon when Tobias did the same thing with 2. The inclusion of Tobias was completely unfair and I do consider the use of legendaries in this context cheating for the reasons I have explained.
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People seem to put a lot of emphasis on how much of a feat this was. Yes it was impressive on the part of Ash but he still lost to a trainer with only two Pokèmon. And yet everyone hates it when he looses to a trainer with five. Although Ash fought the good fight it was still a horrible loss and totally unfair a trainer with Uber Pokémon was allowed to compete
2 Legendaries>5 Pokemon (3 of which were essentially sacrifice (Samuwott and Swanna vs. Pikachu? Really. Ferrothorn vs. Pignite? A piss take in its own right)). This Uber stuff you keep talking about doesn't exist in the anime so stop trying to bring Smogon tiers into this.
In Ash's battle with Tobias Heracross, Torkoal, Gible and Swellow were also essentially sacrifice. Even more so than Samuwott and Swanna given that Heracross and Torkoal went down with 1 hit despite Heracross's type advantage. It wasn't that impressive. The only interesting parts of the battle where Sceptile vs Darkrai, which was over quite quickly, and Pikachu vs Latios at which point the battle had already been decided anyway. And even at that Sceptile wasn't that interesting. He gets hit by dark void, wakes up and manages to knock out Darkrai. Against expectations granted but more sheer luck than anything. Ash probably should have forfeited and saved Pikachu the effort (and Brock did speculate whether he should do just that). Even if the Smogon tiers aren't cannon in the anime the fact remains that a trainer enters the league with 2 or more legendaries with no backstory and no explanation as to how he obtained them. If that isn't a massive piss take then I don't know what is. It would have been better if we had a) found out a little bit more about Tobias's past and b) got to see more Pokémon. Every other time a trainer uses legendary Pokémon more explanation is given. Bradon is an archeologist who studies myths and legends so it's easy to see how he obtained the reggi trio. Nolan from Battle Frontier is stated to have befriended articuno and it seemed that Articuno just fought for him as a friend rather than having been captured. Tobias is a minor character who comes out of nowhere and will most likely never appear again. Now that is taking the piss.
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This episode has some great dialogue that I caught on a rewatch.
Jessie: Is it me or is Darkrai strong?
James: What a keen grasp of the obvious.
Also Tobias taunted Ash so hard. When he revealed Latios he said "To think I'm using my 2nd Pokemon here in this Pokeball!" The emphasis on Pokeball was heavy. Having a Latios is no big deal. Catching it in a Pokeball? You're done Ash.
That was a good episode. I think Ash should've used his Charizard, Infernape, or something instead of Torkoal. Plus, I think Ash should've gotten an award for being the first one to defeat Tobias' Darkrai.
I wonder what the last guy's other Pokemon were besides Magmortar?

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Free Reservation System is an online travel agency Web application for hotel reservations. It allows users to reserve hotels through a Web application and allows hotels to publish availabilities and rate plans through a backoffice applet. It incorporates online maps from OpenStreetMap, Google, and Nokia. Login is supported with Google Identity Toolkit, XING, and Mozilla Persona. It also offers a framework of connectors for the GDS and CRS backends used by the travel industry. Currently, only one connector has been implemented, and it is not currently available due to licensing restrictions. This software is not suitable for the computer illiterate, and may require some programming skills to maintain the system and to tweak it for individual goals.
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So, what's with this tendency in the last few years to jam two words together into one? I don't mean "moreso" and "nevermind." Those I can grudgingly accept, since they'll probably be standard informal English within a decade. I'm talking about people writing "anymore" when they mean "any more." Both are correct, but they have different meanings. Or "everyday" (which is an adjective, as in "These are my everyday clothes") instead of "every day" (e.g., "I wake up every day at 8 o'clock"). And then there are the NON-WORDS that are just plain wrong. Like "alot." There is simply no such word, yet I see it several times a day on the internet. Or "infact." Or "noone." Wasn't he the lead singer of Herman's Hermits? Just had to get that off my chest.
Irregardless of your pedantry I think your right. It's rediculous how the nazis ruined everything with there smooshifying.
I know it's not precisely the same thing, but the ones that piss me off are things like "chillax" and "guesstimate". "Guess" and "estimate" are so similar in meaning anyway that nothing is gained by combining them that couldn't be described perfectly well by one or the other. It's utterly pointless. And I can't even tell you the number of times I've gone up to the gate attendants in American airports and told them that there is no such word as "deplane." .
I don't care so much for pedantry. Language evolves and changes; 'tis the nature of the thing, and there's a sort of tiresome "Get off my lawn!" attitude that comes with people who get hugely upset by that change. Chaucer's English is barely recognizable as the same language as modern English -- words change meaning, are removed, added, morphed, mushed together, and torn apart all the time. I mean, seriously, of course there is such a word as 'deplane' -- just because one dislikes it doesn't mean it is not a valid word. I know what it means to deplane, and most English-speakers will also know it's meaning; it certainly seems to fit the criterion for being a word. Whether or not a word is a word is not limited to it's appearance in a certain edition of a specific dictionary! What a dull world it would be if language was static. I am also especially fond of portmanteaux. They are a fun and funny way to play with language. The most recent one I heard that I like is "sexposition" -- a term describing the tendency for characters in "Game of Thrones" (which I still haven't seen, I just read an article about it) to remove their clothes during long, expository scenes, in order to keep the viewers watching. I myself become pedantic only in the very specific circumstance where a word is so badly misused that it obfuscates the speaker's meaning, like using infamy or notoriety when one really means fame, or when the misuse of the word means losing the only word in the language that has that specific meaning, for example, using disinterested when one means uninterested.
"Guess" and "estimate" aren't the same thing. An estimate is an approximate calculation. A guess is something you pull out of your ass. In any case, there's nothing wrong with using the portmanteau word "guesstimate" in colloquial English. When the majority of educated native English speakers accept it and it appears in dictionaries, then it'll be a word. Which will be never.
I suspect there are a few words you accept and use freely about which some snob whined 150 years ago. What's your cutoff point? Like, do you have a year? "All words entered into the OED prior to 1928 are real, and all those that came later are not." Isn't this a bit arbitrary and really about taste, rather than language?
Yeah, see, that's the conservative approach to language, but it's simply not realistic. Words don't come from dictionaries, words end up in dictionaries. It's the end of the process, not the start. If we had to wait for "educated" speakers to catch up with the evolution of language, English would simply dry up and stop evolving.
The real question is does it really matter if you know what the person is trying to convey? I say press on and don't sweat the small shit, life is too short to get worked up over a few words.
Language may indeed be a democracy, but it isn't anarchy. There have to be authoritative sources on usage, grammar, and orthography, or else we all become like Humpty-Dumpty. And this source, along with every other writing guide on the web, says "alot" isn't a word.
Coming up milhous? Is that rhyming slang? I love rhyming slang, though, being American, I hardly understand a word of it. On an episode of QI Stephen Fry gave an example of second generation rhyming slang: somehow Listerine meant anti-American -- something to do with antiseptic...so brilliant, but I forget how it worked.
That's not true at all. That's like saying music doesn't exist unless you know how to read and write the notes. As someone pointed out already, you've got it backwards. The language evolves before the rules. Instead of reading guides on grammer why not read about the development of language and linguistics? It's way more interesting and might correct some of the misconceptions you seem to have. Try Steven Pinker, he's always a fun read, and a member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.
It's a bit convoluted, but it may have to do with the fact that "seppo" is Australian slang for an American -- from "septic tank," which rhymes with "Yank." As for the Milhouse thing, all I know is that he's a character on The Simpsons.
That was it! It was septic tank -> yank, anti-septic ->anti-American, Listerine=antiseptic. Freaking brilliant! Yeah, I knew the Simpsons Milhous, of course, named after Richard Milhous Nixon. I was trying to think of rhymes for dicky, dick, etc.


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Maybe not my favourite, recent photo, but it is my favourite of the ones I haven't scrapped.
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A Happy Haunting Collection Biggie, designed by Jo Corne,
Hallow's Eve Collection Biggie, designed by Brandy Murry,
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501, designed by Sarah Batdorf,
ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 12x12 Album Series 14 Mini, designed by Angie Briggs,
I'm there with you...not too many (recent) photos to scrap. Guess I haven't been taking photos lately. Much harder with camera shy teenagers. The flag/triangle shaped papers on the side are a nice addition.
Cute photo! I love how she's looking at the spider in your layout, and the vivid Halloween colors look great with the black and white.
This is darling.
Love the way youve incorporated the Halloween theme in the papers and the cluster. Love the little witch surrounded by her ghouls.
How sweet! I love how it looks like she is looking at the spider. Love the patterns and of course, that adorable photo!
Fun page! I love how she is looking at the spider:) Very cute!
Cute, cute, cute! LOVE those beautiful eyes.
oh Valerie, this is just darling. I love how she is 'looking' at the spider and THANK YOU so much for using my A Happy Haunting Collection, I think it is my favourite (and I don't even celebrate halloween, lol)
Really clever the way you placed the spider! Another really cute photo of your little princess witch!
Very cute! I like the B&W with the colorful papers. The elements add to the fun, especially the little dangling spider that she appears to be looking at.


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Alexander The GreatTough, resolute, fearless. Alexander was a born warrior and a ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 B.C.E. at age thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled--he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities, and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. the myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Robin Lane Fox's superb account searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, it brings this colossal figure vividly to life. |
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Arabic readers recognise words in a different way from readers of other languages, a new study suggests.
This doctoral research at the University of Leicester is analysing the reading differences of individuals as well as across languages -- and has shown dissimilarities in how Arabic readers recognise words.
Conducted by Abubaker Almabruk from the School of Psychology, the study has shown there are clear differences in how the right and left sides of the brain recognise Arabic words.
Almabruk's study is one of the first to examine the cognitive and physiological processes underlying word recognition and reading in Arabic, providing important insight into the effects of direction of reading, the form of the script and the construction of the language.
His research reveals the intricacies of an everyday behaviour that most people find relatively easy and will help explain why some people find it difficult to read and provide insights into how these difficulties might be remedied.
Almabruk commented: "Differences in left and right brain function influence the recognition of words each side of where a reader is looking on a page but only when these words are outside of central vision -- this reveals both left/right brain specialisation for reading and evidence that the two halves of the brain collaborate when making sense of words in central vision. Native Arabic readers recognise Arabic words most efficiently when they fixate these words at their very centre."
"This shows that where we look in a word is very important for reading and the findings for Arabic are different from findings for English and other western languages, which are read most efficiently by looking at a location between the beginning and middle of the word."
On the possible causes for the reading differences, he said that "this might have happened because Arabic is read from right to left and words are formed from cursive text (i.e., the letters in Arabic naturally join together, even in printed formats, much like hand-written text in English)."
Dr Kevin Paterson from the School of Psychology added: "Arabic is one of the oldest and most beautiful languages, and the second-most widely used language in the world, yet how it is read and understood has received surprisingly little attention. The experimental approach that Abubaker has taken in his research promises to reveal a huge amount about how this language and other languages are read and understood."
This research is being presented at the Festival of Postgraduate Research on Thursday, June 16. The annual one-day exhibition of postgraduate research offers organisations and the public the opportunity to meet the next generation of innovators and cutting-edge researchers. More than 50 University of Leicester students will explain the real world implications of their research in an engaging and accessible way. The event is open to the public and free to attend. More information at http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/sd/pgrd/fpgr.
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We recently launched on Nintendo's new Wii U game console. Like other Netflix UIs, we present TV shows and movies we think you'll enjoy in a clear and fast user interface. While this UI introduces the first Netflix 1080p browse UI for game consoles, it also expands on ideas pioneered elsewhere like second screen control.
Virtual WebKit Frame
Like many of our other device UIs, our Wii U experience is built for WebKit in HTML5. Since the Wii U has two screens, we created a Virtual WebKit Frame, which partitions the UI into one area that is output to TV and one area that is output to the GamePad.
This gives us the flexibility to vary what is rendered on each screen as the design dictates, while sharing application state and logic in a single JavaScript VM. We also have a safe zone between the TV and GamePad areas so we can animate elements off the edge of the TV without appearing on the GamePad.
We started off with common Netflix TV UI engineering performance practices such as view pooling and accelerated compositing. View pooling reuses DOM elements to minimize DOM churn, and Accelerated Compositing (AC) allows us to designate certain DOM elements to be cached as a bitmap and rendered by the Wii U's GPU.
In WebKit, each DOM node that produces visual output has a corresponding RenderObject, stored in the Render Tree. In turn, each RenderObject is associated with a RenderLayer. Some RenderLayers get backing surfaces when hardware acceleration is enabled . These layers are called compositing layers and they paint into their backing surfaces instead of the common bitmap that represents the entire page. Subsequently, the backing surfaces are composited onto the destination bitmap. The compositor applies transformations specified by the layer's CSS -webkit-transform to the layer's surface before compositing it. When a layer is invalidated, only its own content needs to be repainted and re-composited. If you're interested to learn more, I suggest reading GPU Accelerated Compositing in Chrome.
After modifying the UI to take advantage of accelerated compositing, we found that the frame rate on device was still poor during vertical navigation, even though it rendered at 60fps in desktop browsers.
When the user browses up or down in the gallery, we animate 4 rows of poster art on TV and mirror those 4 rows on the GamePad. Preparing, positioning, and animating only 4 rows allows us to reduce (expensive) structural changes to the DOM while being able to display many logical rows and support wrapping. Each row maintains up to 14 posters, requiring us to move and scale a total of 112 images during each up or down navigation. Our UI's posters are 284 x 405 pixels and eat up 460,080 bytes of texture memory each, regardless of file size. (You need 4 bytes to represent each pixel's RGBA value when the image is decompressed in memory.)
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To improve performance, we tried a number of animation strategies, but none yielded sufficient gains. We knew that when we kicked off an animation, there was an expensive style recalculation. But the WebKit Layout & Rendering timeline didn't help us figure out which DOM elements were responsible.
WebKit Layout & Rendering Timeline |
We worked with our platform team to help us profile WebKit, and we were now able to see how DOM elements relate to the Recalculate Style operations.
Our instrumentation helps us visualize the Recalculate Style call stack over time:
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Through experimentation, we discovered that for our UI, there is a material performance gain when setting inline styles instead of modifying classes on elements that participate in vertical navigation.
We also found that some CSS selector patterns cause deep, expensive Recalculate Style operations. It turns out that the mere presence of the following pattern in CSS triggers a deep Recalculate Style:
.list-showing #browse { … }
Moreover, a -webkit-transition with duration greater than 0 causes the Recalculate Style operations to be repeated several times during the lifetime of the animation.
After removing all CSS selectors of this pattern, the resulting Recalculate Style shape is shallower and consumes less time.
Delivering great experiences
Our team builds innovative UIs, experiments with new concepts using A/B testing, and continually delivers new features. We also have to make sure our UIs perform fast on a wide range of hardware, from inexpensive consumer electronics devices all the way up to more powerful devices like the Wii U and PS3.
If this kind of innovation excites you as much as it does me, join our team!


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The Steamboat Springs No. 4 doubles team of Dylan Roberts and Brian Behrman noticed a few things about their opponents in the playback semifinal at the Class 4A boys state tennis tournament Friday. First was the size of Niwot seniors Dillon Cruden and Justin Higley, who were nearly a foot taller. Next was their power, as they sent balls skyrocketing off the courts at Pueblo City Park.
Finally, Roberts, a 5-foot-6 freshman and Behrman, a 5-foot-5 sophomore, sensed a bit of cockiness. The match began and Roberts and Behrman made up for their lack of size with speed and skill to defeat Cruden and Higley 6-2, 6-4 to advance to today's third-place match against Cheyenne Mountain's Evan Engle and Ethan Taylor.
"After the first set they realized they'd better start playing," Behrman said. "We knew they'd eventually make a mistake."
Which they did, in bunches, after Roberts and Behrman fell behind 4-1 in the second set. "We just had to work as hard as we can to put pressure on them," Roberts said. "They were tough. It was hard to get the ball over them. And they had power -- one ball bounced up like 8 feet."
The match came just 30 minutes after Roberts and Behrman took a grueling 7-6, 2-6, 7-6 win over Pueblo County's Ryan Carlino and Jason Parker. After not scoring a point or winning a first-round match in last season's state meet, Steamboat Springs has five points.
Kent Denver is the leader going into today's finals with 57, followed by Cheyenne Mountain and Ralston Valley, who are tied at 31.
"Our problem is inexperience," said Steamboat Springs coach John Aragon, who has helped guide his team to six straight regional titles. "We need a little more depth and for our top lineup to play year-round tennis."
Also for Steamboat Springs, Jonathon Solomon fell to Pueblo South's Beau Fresquez at No. 1 singles and Alex Griffing and Nick Ludolph lost to Niwot's Brian Brooks and Justin Bolton in the No. 1 doubles, first-round playback.


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The actor who has worked in a fiction show on TV and judged reality shows, says she will return to the small screen, if she finds anything interesting
"Maybe I will do TV again. I like to pick and choose what I do. So maybe I will, if something interesting comes up," said Karisma Kapoor.
The 38-year-old actor made her TV debut in 2003 with Karishma – The Miracles of Destiny, and then judged reality shows like Nach Baliye 4 and Aaja Mahi Vay.
After reigning the Hindi film industry for over a decade with hits like Judwaa, Hero No. 1, Biwi No.1, Raja Hindustani and Dil To Pagal Hai, she quit showbiz in 2003 post her marriage with Delhi-based industrialist Sanjay Kapur. Last year, she made her comeback into movies with Dangerous Ishhq. Now she will be seen in Bombay Talkies, releasing on May 3.
Talking about Bombay Talkies and 100 years of Indian cinema, she said, "I think the entire film fraternity wanted to be a part of the 100 years of cinema, and I think it's great that all the actors took out time to be a part of it. Because we all love cinema and acting. It's a great way to celebrate the 100 years by giving something back to the audience for appreciating all of us for so long".
Karisma also mentioned that she enjoys looking back at roles she has done. "It's great. I enjoy them. The stars climb the ladder to reach the top, but when you are there, you wonder what's next. It was a great learning experience. Working really hard and doing four shifts a day," she said and pointed out that today's actors enjoy a very different life than that. "But I think I also enjoyed the whole experience," she added.
Karisma, a mother of two kids – Samaira and Kiaan Raj Kapoor – says now her priorities are her children. "It's all about your priorities. And my priorities will always be my kids." For new moms, she advised: "Don't worry, be stress free and you are a great mom."