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Do you ever see something, and then just repeat the word 'sick' over and over in your brain and maybe out loud too? That happened to me today when I saw a video linked on Planned Parenthood's 'Info for Teens' Facebook page instructing abused teenage girls how to use makeup to disguise bruises.
The girl in the video suffers from a black eye and split lip, and she matter-of-factly shows the viewer how to layer makeup appropriately to hide any injuries occurred as a result of domestic abuse.
Among other advice, the video host recommends using concealer to "hide any splits from watches or rings" and wearing a scarf for covering any strangulation marks on your neck. As for her black eye, she remarks, "If you've got a lot of bruisin' from being pushed hard against a coffee table, you can gently apply layer after layer, and you will cover it up slightly ... it might hurt."
The video ends abruptly as a noise is heard off camera, and a message is shown --
65% of women who suffer domestic violence keep it hidden ... don't cover it up.
The video is intended to be part of a campaign to end domestic violence, but the way it is promoted on Planned Parenthood's Facebook page -- how to look your best the morning after -- is appalling. They make no effort in the post to change the title of the video or comment on its hideous inappropriateness. As LifeNews.com points out, "That headline makes a world of difference to young teens who run across the video."
Screenshot of Planned Parenthood's 'Info for Teens' Facebook page
Whether or not this video was intended for shock value to raise awareness, or as an actual instructional piece, I think it's abhorrent. It's like reading a teen magazine article about anorexia or bulimia full of tips and tricks on how to better starve yourself and/or hide your symptoms. There are ways to raise awareness about issues without giving girls instructions on how to go further down a destructive path.
Watch the video and see for yourself:
Do you think it's appropriate for Planned Parenthood to put a link to this video on their 'Info for Teens' Facebook page?
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So did I. Great to see many jokes are about recent happenings.nekoocz wrote:I enjoyed every episode so far
That would be fun!BehindBreakaway wrote:I loved it. Sad but beautifully done. I hope the actress changed her mind. She could come back as a ghost and haunt Karen.
Should Will and Grace be sitting down watching TV knitting?Hugo wrote:I've enjoyed all the episodes, but it's missing something. The characters still act like they're in their early 30s, I mean the entire cast is close to or well over 50.
Omg yes. Lorraine is HILARIOUS!!Wayne wrote:I was in hysterics during the Lorraine/Karen scenes.
"I heard as soon as I came"
Haven't caught up with the eps yet, just felt compelled to watch the most recent one given it was Rosario's send off. Watched it here: https://putlocker-hd.is/episodes/will-g ... episode-6/
They never were scared though, and why should they be? The worst happened - it ended and this is just the encore. Plus, when the POTUS is besties with Karen Walker, it's all fair game:RayRay wrote:So did I. Great to see many jokes are about recent happenings.nekoocz wrote:I enjoyed every episode so far
I'm surprised how they're not scared of what they say.
Its everything just not boring or ventured.Simon89 wrote:I have to say that when I watched the first 2 episodes I found it boring and ventured, I didn't like the elimination of all the last season... I thought that it would have started with Will and Grace's sons and with them married with Vince and Leo... after two episodes I accustomed to the story and I found it funny.. the last one was hilarious. I loved the Karen's "sorry I'm late I came when I wanted to" ahahahahah


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A geologist and physicist, John Lister, performed over 14,000 experiments in the Oregon Vortex in the early 1900's. He took copious notes and photographs of his findings, even corresponding directly with Albert Einstein regarding his hypotheses. But just before he died, Lister declared "The world isn't yet ready for what goes on here," and subsequently burned all of his notes.
Either Lister found something absolutely amazing, or he found absolutely nothing. We will never officially know. But since Lister was also an uncanny businessman (opening the site for tourism in 1930) the loss may be for the best. This dubious lack of information keeps thousands of visitors pouring into the rural backwoods town of Gold Hill year after year.
There are many industries that require a sense of mystery to support and sustain them. A magician never reveals their secrets. A chef never gives away his recipes. Even a good stripper knows how to leave a little something to the imagination. This mythical aura—no matter how scantily-clad the profession—keeps people curious long after skill and creativity run dry (witness the lasting power of the reclusive Wachowski brothers, despite every botched project before and after the original Matrix).
Just like magicians, chefs, and strippers, video game producers need to implement a similarly calculated sense of mystery to their advantage.
The constant onslaught of developer diaries is the gaming world's equivalent of reality TV.
This demystifying process, this peek behind the Wizard of Oz's curtain, is only hurting the game development industry, which is indeed becoming a Hollywood-sized industry itself.
Gaming companies are pushing their public relations agenda and adapting a "more is more" philosophy when it comes to putting out product information. As a result, instead of creating a buzz, they're creating a clamor.
It's hard to blame the small developers in this regard: Any amount of exposure for their product is an obvious godsend when competing with the big dogs. But on the other hand, big-name productions do themselves a disservice when they give away too much too soon. Reading months of developer diaries before a game launches is like watching "The Making of" DVD extras before watching the actual film itself. The movie-making (and game-making) magic is irrevocably dispelled.
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A glimpse at your local video store will easily confirm this. Pirates of the
When employed properly, secrecy creates a bigger buzz than full-spread coverage. Consider how tight Valve kept the lid on Half Life 2's technological advances (despite the leakage). Or consider how surprised you were when you found yourself in the Covenant's shoes in Halo 2. On a tangential note, how many of you are now resigning to an Xbox 360 now that you've finally heard about the PS3's astronomical price point?
But this constant feed of information is where popular culture is at right now.
Since this is the aim of all well-choreographed marketing, it sounds like business as usual, right? Yes, it certainly does. But in the not-so-distant past, coverage for video games was left in the hands of the print publications through interviews, technical coverage, previews, and reviews. These were gamers' equivalent to Consumer Reports. These magazine editors strove to bring unbiased, level-headed coverage to the video game market.
But as increasing amounts of actual coverage are handed back to the developers, the more these purportedly objective magazines and websites become pages and pages of advertising banners. A developer diary may be a couple thousand words longer than a popup box, but they serve a congruent purpose to such banner advertising. Your favorite gaming website may, as we speak, be programming more of this propagandizing filler onto its loading page.
During production, both Black & White 2 and Bard's Tale had at least a dozen developer diaries each. The Lord of the Rings Online is currently weighing in at over 30, and its release date is still only tentative for sometime this year. It makes you wonder if there will be any Middle Earth left for players to explore. Especially when it comes to a household name like Lord of the Rings, overexposure sounds like an out-of-breath inevitability—with the overly-familiar franchise cannibalizing its own sales before the game even goes gold.
Perhaps, as an unexpected roadside attraction, the developers of LOTR Online could throw in a place filled with illusory terrain and gravitational anomalies, like the Oregon Vortex: just as long as the game designers keep a trick or two up their sleeve and maintain a sense of wonder and mystery about things.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to watch Making the Band 3 before I burn my diary that says how much I heart P. Diddy.
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WC writes: Great games come along few and far between and when they do it's cause for excitement. But even great games often make you suffer frustrating levels. That's what this article aims to discuss; those levels that almost made you hate your favourite games. That nigh on forced you to rage-quit, for fear that the next failure would bring a red mist down on you which'd see you awaken in a field days later with a trail of death and destruction in your wake.
So, let's get right down to it shall we?
... the Library level, where we encounter The Flood.
I HATED that level so much, I never played beyond that.
I hated that too. I rage quit countless times, with at least month between playthroughs.
Horrible list, allot of these weren't even infuriating MGS3- The End is one of if not the greatest boss battle of all time.
Also learning to fly in GTA SA was incredibly easy, does anyone remember the Zero missions they almost drove me to suicide.
The Water Temple in OoT was a nightmare it should have been on the list instead of PH, and speaking of water levels, does anyone remember MGS2 when you have to rescue Emma apparently someone that works in the middle of the ocean can't swim , on top of that the swimming controls were awkward and you have to watch her oxygen meter as well as yours.
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Well, I know you can read since you managed to read the list... but you failed to notice it's NOT MY LIST!!!! It's the list contained in the article! You're welcome for saving you 11 clicks and ads :P
....people had THAT much trouble with the library level?
... Having to click 'next' to see each game in the list!
EDIT: Props, bubbles, and my appreciation to the guys who have eased the pain by posting the list in their comments!
You can simply run in that game...that's how I finished the game lol.
Horrible list - I agree, MGS3 has the greatest boss battles, so magnificently designed. Anyone who calls the sniper shootout with The End "boring" has their head up their a$$ and doesn't know how to play the game proper. You need to use your brain and hunt him down while he hunts you, it was invigorating from start to finish, however if you're a shlub and you just sit there waiting I can see what that would be boring - because you're stupid and not proactive.
But does anyone remember the Hell level from God of War 1? Or the Scimitar wielding half goat half men from God of War 3 that bounce of the walls? Or the annoying guys who scrounge underground and fling at you with blades in the God of War series? Those were the only things that were wholly frustrating with that series.
The Library was a true test of skill. Try beating it on legendary. Very difficult.
While I do think the level design was simple, I think people are forgetting one important thing; IT IS A LIBRARY. It is supposed to be repetitive. Although that is convenient considering it was very repetitive, I still enjoyed it.
It was basically same room different floor, but it is MUCH easier in Anniversary, as there are more lights showing the right direction and the overall lighting is improved so you can see much better.
Maybe people were expecting a wide open space, which is funny as "The Library" is what I think most people would guess as a linear, indoor level.
In closing,The Library was an excellent stage for the memories and the play-style it demanded of you (at least on heroic or legendary), although it was rubbish level design (intentionally so). Still one of the best games ever made, despite the hate that level gets (understandably so).
Also, kudos to the author for mentioning Victory Road. I was thinking that before I read the article. It's like arriving at an Ice Cream shop on a 50 degree celsius day and all the ice-cream is locked up. AAAARRRGHHH.
The library sucked at first, but now on replays I know what to expect.
The level "Cortana" in Halo 3 really sucked. I didn't know where to go as everything looked the same and all those flood types, wow that was a hard one.
I LOL at victory road. Even as a kid, that as very easy. And I LMAO when he said hes going to have the best team ever. He sounded like a little kid that thinks that 6 legends at lv 100 is the best team ever and it makes you invencible.
Agreed. That level was infuriating and very boring. It almost made me hate Halo 3. Actually, I did hate Halo 3. Then ending was one of the worse endings I have ever seen in a game.
You're not supposed to say anything bad about Halo.
Man. That level in the pic is from Final Fantasy 8. The D District prison escape. Was extremely annoying if you didn't have Encounter-None or Half turned on.
I just loved that game. FF8 was the best IMO.
Final Fantasy Tactics - One of the last bosses who controlled a bunch of animals and had some kind of laser gun. Now that was difficult. Loved that game though.
Final Fantasy Tactics was one of those games that was really difficult or really easy, depending on how much you level up and who you use (really, that's true of most FF, or really most JRPG games). Yes, Orlandu was vastly overpowered, but with the right build, Ramza was even stronger. If you didn't over-level and didn't use Orlandu, the game could actually be quite difficult. One of my favorite games.
Definitely agree, well my first playthrough of 8 was ok. But on my other playthroughs it go annoying, especially when you can't remember if you were supposed to run up or down.
MGS3 and the end boss fight was a weird choice though, actually on normal settings I never even struggled with that fight at all, was pretty easy if I remember correctly.
i remember playing split screen of that halo 1 level when i was like 11. lol that level was epic!! we went through it in our first go. i remember it being creepy and epic rather than a hard level.
yh i hate the flood soooo much i really didnt think halo 1 was going to turn into a damn horror game lol
i don't remember GTA:VC mission the only one that was hard was in the mall you had to go rob or shoot stuff
but the plane mission in SA made me totally quit twice lol. i heard that in pc version they were removed i hope if we ever get a HD collection that those missions are removed
other than that nothing to complain about
also in GTA:SA you can enter the cheat to slow down the time to where those plane missions shouldn't be hard
The Driver mission was pretty hard but i think you are right, i had way more trouble with the mission where you had to go to the mall and smash all the windows. However both those missions made me put the game down for a few hours.
Not this website again.
I'm not going to click on ten different pages >_>
That's what i dislike about WhatCulture.
I was expecting to see the water temple from Ocarina of Time. :)
Lol hell yeah. I remember way back in the day I was stuck at the water temple. I eventually decided to go get a strategy guide.
Well, when I got home I decided NOT to use it. I still actually have the book. I never did anything with it aside from *admiring the gorgeous illustrations.
When is the last time that you played through it? I played a few years ago and felt like a god when I plowed through aqua-hell. Lol :)
It's funny. I remember when I got my first Zelda OOT cart, it was second hand. It had a save file on it and the guy was stuck in the water temple... lol!
Being a weird kid I beat it for him and completed the game from there, then completed back to that point after I'd beat Ganon to experience the full thing. :P
When I was playing Ocarina of Time on an emulator, I got lost so I looked up a walkthrough video on youtube, then the guy doing the walkthrough got lost. I don't think I've ever seen someone doing a walkthrough get lost anywhere other than the water temple.
As tough as that was, I think the Water Temple in Majora's Mask was BRUTAL. In fact, I didn't beat that game, because I couldn't pass that part. So infuriating.
I currently suffer from Posttraumatic stress disorder after playing through that level.
I recall ff, crash and the pod racing. It's mad how although these where a long time ago for me that this has brought back that evil nostalgia lol. The pod racing I only played in arcades as a kid so could have been cranked up for people too spend more.
Star Wars Episode I Pod Racing is a "great game" now?
sure is, one of my fav racing games of all time.
also id add in......
-the end of star ocean 4.
-the final level of super meat boy.
-the area of castlevania sotn where the medusa heads are
-most of demon souls lol ( although for soem reason i couldnt love that game any more )
-final boss level in armored core master of arena ( never beat it without cheating )
-almost any old school mega man game
Ah. Never played it, just thought everything associated with Star Wars Episode I turned to runny monkey vomit. My bad.
Having looked it up it actually got pretty good review scores!
haha no, it was one of the few things to come out of that trilogy. course were wonderfully designed and complete with multiple routes, game was blazing fast, upgrading your racer was fun and the difficulty was near perfect until the end lol
the sequel on ps2 wasnt very good though. came out in like 2002 or something, done by rainbow studios. having loved the first so much, it was a major let down
-.- are you kidding? The End boss fight is AMAZING. I like it a lot, as you can tell from my avatar.
That's my favorite boss fight in the series.
I don't see how it's frustrating at all. I guess since you aren't constantly shooting people in the face this guy didn't like it.
The End was stupidly easy. Far from frustrating. Hell, if you utilized the Konami Code the entire thing becomes a joke.
1) Konami Code
2) 70%+ Camo
3) Move Slowly
4) Stay Downwind
5) Profit!
The d-mic helps too, you can find the bird and hear him snoring when he falls asleep lol. If you're patient it's not that hard to hold him up and get his photosynthesizing camo.
Ghouls and ghosts anyone? How about Heart of Reich on waw on veteran :).
I never did complete Ghouls and Ghosts. I loved it, but it was damn hard.
TMNT on NES? I thought this article was "10 Infuriating Levels That Almost Derailed Great Games,"implying that other than the level in question, the game was otherwise good. TMNT wasn't; it was awful. It was a glitch-filled, infuriating mess of a game.
Listen: I won't harp on how abysmal Final Fantasy VIII is in general. Lord knows that has been done enough at this point. That game aside, every other game on this list has redeemable qualities – except TMNT for NES. Saying that the underwater level from TMNT almost derailed the game, is like saying "that shit sandwich was alright until I bit into some corn."
TMNT on nes rocks! I almost completed it a few weeks ago. Man that was a blast from the past. It's quite enjoyable to play all the great nes-games with my kids after all these years. Yesterday we played SMB 3. last week we played Metroid. A few months back I completed Section Z and almost completed Gun smoke.
We are obviously thinking of two entirely different games. Are you talking about TMNT II: The Arcade Game? Or TMNT III: The Manhattan Project? Those were good games. The original TMNT from 1989 though? Awful. There is no other way to describe it.
I could sit here and describe all of the reasons why it isn't a good game, but there isn't anything I could say that James Rolfe (AVGN) hasn't said already:
LOL it seems the guy in your link really hates TMNT. It is indeed the game I was referring to. I guess it has a sweet spot in my heart cause I played it so much as a child.
The key player was indeed Donatello. You had to make sure to keep him alive always. It is easy to switch turtles when you need his reach.
The game is too hard I give him that. For a child to complete it it takes months of work if you manage to play it an hour a day or so atleast.
The Technodrome is the only place that is truly HARD. Other places have certain things you can do to make things easier. The entire last level is hard as hell and once you reach technodrome it gets even harder at the end there. I tried to complete the game with my kid but I died JUST outside the room where you have the last battle with Shredder. Gotta try again sometime.
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I kind of agree with you, but if you take them on with a summon it makes it a hell of a lot easier.
Now trying to solo them is a different story. It's hard to try and split them up. I have great respect for people who can do it, because it is a challenge and a half.
Yes, I tried it solo and got destroyed but summoned and did it first try as one guy attacked fatty whereas me and the other guy got skinny.
Ugh I literally spent a week at that mist gate cuz I was too afraid to fight them alone and each time a summon popped up someone else would grab it. And not only did I want to beat them but wanted to kill smough first so I could get Ornstein armor, and leaving Ornstein to become a giant was a pain. Eventually I just put on Havel Armor and dragon tooth and somehow kicked Ornsteins ass.
without help, yes, but i actually breezed right through with a partner.
No. The opposite of this in fact. Ornstein and Smough is my favorite boss fight of all time. Epic.
The End and both GTA missions are out of place in my opinion. That sounds more like the OP just doesn't have any patience.
MGS4, following the Resistance member in act 3. I liked it the first time I played the game, but why can't I just run to the destination on my 15th playthrough?! That part is not even challenging even on the hardest difficulty, it's just plain boring after the first few times.
I just platinumed MGS4 about a week ago and DEAR GOD, YES! The trailing the resistance member slows everything down so much I wanted to smash my head in... And I played thru 9 times!! (1 for just the love of the game+ the flashbacks, 2 was the 35+ hr "Chicken" run, 3 was for the BBE, and the rest was cleanup.)
When it comes to the GTA games, there was 1 mission in GTA San Andreas that I would consider to be the most infuriating ever: that one where you have to fly a model planed to a certain destination and come back, all in limited time. I thought I would break that disc in two. That made me realize just how great, and overrated at the same time, the GTA games could be. Well, certainly not perfect enough to warrant gathering all those 10/10 scores across the board.
Another one was the 1st mission in the underground parking lot in Driver 1. I made it back then, but can't do it anymore now.
...actually, coming to think of it, the 2 first Driver games on the PSOne pretty much only consisted of infuriating levels that made you regret buying those games.
challenge 6 in vanquish. i loved that game but absolutely hated that challenge. i doubt anyone beat that on their first try. if you did than you are a GOD.
But Challenge 6 is what made Vanquish such a great game. It was virtually impossible to beat unless you knew what to do, so you had to constantly readjust your plan to pull it off. Adds a real sense of accomplishment if you do finish it too.
D-district prison wasnt bad, it was longer than I would have likes but It was fun and good grinding.
Okay I would like to add the bike level in Battle Toads. And I still don't understand why people always complain about the Hoover Dam level on TMNT and the Water Temple in Zelda OOT. Those levels are nowhere as hard as people keep claiming they are. I didn't even have to use a walk-through guide or anything and didn't have to ask anyone anything to beat these levels and yet people constantly talk about how hard or crushingly hard they were. They really were not that hard.I am not kidding or boasting or anything. They were no problem for me at all.
The hoverbike level in Battle Toads? Yeah, good point; why isn't the impossible Battle Toads level mentioned? lol
I absolutely agree on battletoads. That game in general is hard as hell. That is the first game to ever make me rage-quit before the word even existed.
Demon's Souls Valley of Defilement...pretty much the entire world.
You're forced to run around some raggedy ass tree huts while numerous...things stabbed at you. And after all that, THEN you end up in 5-2 which is one of the worst (as in good but incredibly frustrating) worlds in gaming.
The entire level is acid soup that slows you AND poisons you, but all enemies remain unaffected, including the Meat Cleaver wielding black phantom that usually one shots you...
i loved working through that area, i died soooo many times.
I found 5-1 incredibly easy, since by the time i got there most of the enemies could be felled with one or two blows. 5-2 I think was a different story. Had to use many lotuses and exercise patience only to have my character struck down by that giant red-glowing nub with the club (on the "island" right before the ascending wooden pathway with the flying bugs). That was hard until I devised a sound strategy. What an amazing game though :]
Loved both Deamons and Dark Souls and happily got the plat on them both solo running everything that didnt require summons etc.
However trying to get soul tendency to pure black was hell. In that swamp the women Selen Vinland not only charges at you when you engage but also has the weapon "Blind" which ignores armour completely. So fighting her meant you couldn't run and you couldn't block
As for Soul Sucking well that was seen as cheap by the developers evidently so if you were to sneak behind her and do that you soul tendency wouldn't change which essentially meant you had to get another playthrough to get Pure Black soul tendency
While on Demons Souls - anyone get Pure Bladestone remember that nightmare. 1 enemy drops it in a 1/200 chance in 4-2 pure black world tendency about 3/4s away through the level as a black phantom duel wielding skeleton with 2 other black phantom giant skeletons just before that guy. Yes I'm cheap and used the go to 4-3 back track and soul suck him trick
You know, I had a buddy that tried for months to get a pure Bladestone to drop and finally plat. Platting that game is a true test of will.
Forgot about Selen. I use to bring like 400 arrows and shoot the faint light glowing in the darkness. Got her down to maybe a 3rd health without her healing before hopping off a high ledge to finish her off. So she predictably hits me with the magic sealing both our magic so I pull the moon sword (rolled a faith build and can't remember the swords name..) and hit her once taking her to almost no health. She must have sensed how cocky I was and somehow killed me before I could even touch her again...lol
Was funny but kinda pissed me off...


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EA on the fence about pre-owned; Next-gen not backwards compatible; Market will never be 100% digital
Publisher EA has admitted that it would in some ways like to see an end to pre-owned games, but has also admitted that the market could suffer were they to vanish.
That's according to chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco that retail is still very important to publishers.
"It's one of these classic double-edged swords," he admitted. In one way the used game business has been critical for the health of the retail channel, and having a healthy retail channel is an important thing for us. The business will probably never be 100 per cent digital.
Bandwidths are a constraint, and will continue to be a constraint for many years to come, which hold back the ability to do full digital downloads of some games.
"So having a healthy retail channel out there like GameStop or Best Buy or others is important, and to the extent that used games is important to them, I think that's a positive.
"Would we like to sell everything at full price and not have a used game market? Sure. But I think the used game market's a little like any other kind of market where it creates liquidity. The fact is, that liquidity benefits us in some fashion. So if someone goes in and trades in a game, there's a good chance they're going to buy another one of our games. And so if there's a liquid market, I think that that's not a bad thing at all."
The comments come in the wake of claims that the Next Xbox will utilise tech that blocks users from playing pre-owned games, although EA refused to be drawn on the factual accuracy of these claims.
"I can't really comment on where the next generation boxes are going to be relative to used games," Jorgensen said. I will say that the trend in the business is to have that always-on connectivity and connect with a customer, and to the extent that the software identifies a certain customer is going to create some issues going down the road in the used game market.
But I do believe that the consumer likes it, and it's been good for the retail channel."
Jorgensen also said that he thinks it's unlikely that either the Xbox 720 or the PS4 will be backwards compatible with existing software. And that, he argues, could lead to a slower uptake of next-gen machines.
"An important thing to remember is that next-gen consoles will most likely not be backwards compatible," he predicted. And if you [play] multiplayer on a game, you'll most likely not be able to play with someone on a different generation. And so if you're a FIFA player and, and the soccer season's starting in August, and all your friends are playing FIFA, you're going to want to be on the same box that they're on.
So if they all go out and buy a gen-four box if it comes out at Christmas, then you'll most likely do it. If they all hold on and continue to play on third-generation, you'll probably not see that box purchase until after the soccer season's over."


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|2007-08-14, 20:46
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IT Support
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Tsujiura Institute
Age: 27
Favorite moments in Mai-HiME/Mai-Otome?
I've only ever seen the first three episodes of Mai-Otome, and here are my favorite moments so far...
1. From Episode 2, when Arika gives herself a cerebral contusion on the top of the futuristic bed that she rests on. Could not stop laughing at that part.
2. Also from Episode 2, when Arika goes to tell Mashiro off, but trips on the sheet and executes a spectacular faceplant on the unforgiving tile floor...
3. From Episode 3, when Nagi dupes Mashiro into allowing Arika and Nina's Mai-battle. (Proof positive that Nagi is awesome)
|2007-08-15, 02:26
|Link #2
Urd Fangirl
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Europe
For me it would be a very long list as I have a lot of favourite moments. For example...
- first appearance of Gakutenou
- the whole Cake Wars episode
- all the (known) HiMEs prepare to save the school in the middle of the series
- the final flight of all HiMEs
- all the Materialise sequences and all the Otome fights
- Haruka's first appearance in Zwei
- Chie's fangirls in Zwei
- dinners during hiking test
And all the humorous extras for both series.
|2007-08-15, 03:59
|Link #3
Going Bonklers
Join Date: Jul 2007
Age: 29
mine would be..
everytime natsuki materializes.. it looks so cool.. and the episode when arika found where nina's weak spot is.. hehe
maybe the battle between shizuru and natsuki.. and the last episode coz its a happy ending.. haha
|2007-08-15, 11:18
|Link #5
Undersea Lolcano
HiME -
-The first time Mai sees Natsuki on Fuuka campus; her reaction was just priceless there.
-The early Shizuru-Natsuki scenes (ie. the computer scene in episode three) - there was just so much there and we all MISSED it until we went back and watched it again.
-Chie + Aoi's conviction that Takumi was gay. With Akira. Greatest. Scene. Ever.
Otome -
-The first Nao-Shiho scene was priceless. It was then you realized that Nao hadn't changed that much, she was just not quite so crazy.
-Shiho's face during the 'field exam episode' when Arkia feeds her that... thing.
-Shizuru's line : "I like taking people from behind, but I have to admit this is the first time I've been taken," to Miyu. LOL
-Kruger's 'proposal' to Nao // Giving her her GEM.
Zwei -
-Haruka in Episode Two. I doesn't get much better that that.
-Natsuki's talking to Shizuru in episode three even when she's not there. So sad, so touching.
-Sarah Gallagher, who is the greatest character ever, knocking Haruka out with a Giant MALLET. WIN.
|2007-08-15, 13:05
|Link #6
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Wow this is so much for me to chose
Hime (so far)
Mai awakening her powers
Kagutsuchi appering for the first time
Shizuru revealing her powers
Nastsuki vs. shizuru
I have plenty more for hime but can't remember right now.
The materializing scenes. that's about it for otome
|2007-08-16, 15:06
|Link #7
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Italy
- The death of Tate and Takumi
- The fight between Natsuki and Shizuru
- The Cake Wars episode
- Nina's tentative to seduce Sergay
- Every time Nagi or Mashiro are on scene, in particular here
|2007-08-16, 15:55
|Link #8
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Mai Otome was just too much ridiculous fan service it was never even felt serious while Mai Hime was pretty serious once the first arc officially started.
|2007-08-16, 18:31
|Link #9
Join Date: Jul 2007
- The death of Takumi, and Tate.
- When one of the childs (I forgot who's I think Midori's) Chipped a piece off of Julia and it went spiraling into Nao's eye.
-Cake Wars episode
-Lingerie episode, when Natsuki's skirt got blown up w/ no panties on. So funny
-any moment with the head guy of the Kendo club lol Overwhelming youth!
- Nina's weakpoint and yelling at arika for it "AR---RI---KA!!",
-Death of Erstin, I loved that whole episode
-Arika when she meets Lena in episode 25, it was sad for me.
-Ending, Arika vs Nina in space
-Nagi shooting Sergay in the back of the head, he sounded so deviant and devilish when he was talking to Sergay as he was falling to the ground. "that's too bad Sergay"
-meeting with Mikoto and Mai in the Black Valley. Mai tickling Mikoto xD
-Nagi in Episode 26, Keeping calm while the city is being overrun. "What cheaters. They're all breaking the rules" lol so calm, made me laugh
- Haruka in episode 2 lol, almost everything with her was funny.
-Nao asking Nina if she was still a virgin lol it was outta nowhere
I'm sure there is more but I can't think of anymore atm
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|2007-08-19, 01:00
|Link #11
Enigma of Nothing
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Seattle WA, USA
In Mai Otome mine were when:
Nagi had papers sprawled out on his desk and started cackling like a madman.
Nina was worried about Arika when she didn't return home and it was really late.
The morning after Arika tickled Nina who b**** slapped her and hurled her to the ground.
The final battle between Nina and Arika. (Since I'm a huge fan of that pairing.) XD
Mashiro finally went through some character development and when from a horrible ruler to someone capable of being one.
I actually have one in Mai Hime: It was when Tate "died." XD
|2007-08-23, 12:49
|Link #13
Last Engage
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Florida
-Midori's magical girl-esque entrance. Excellence.
-Any instance of "Load Silver Cartridge!". Natsuki makes it sound cool.
-The karaoke party
-Cake Wars. Not even the Orphan will eat that cooking.
-Arika's Materialization in 17. Real surge of excitement there.
-Haruka ignoring the laws of gravity.
-Natsuki and Nao's hitchhiking adventures
-The end of 17. There's no greater "WOW" moment than a huge explosion.
-The entire scene with Haruka and the candidates. Because Haruka rules.
|2007-09-01, 23:12
|Link #14
Courageous Guardian
|2007-09-02, 10:22
|Link #15
Sister of the Forks
Join Date: May 2006
The first battle with Natsuki and Mikoto
Tate and Takumi's death and Mai's reaction to it (I actually said "Holy shit" during that scene)
Alyssa's death scene and Miyu crying (it broke my heart)
Natsuki being rescued from Nao by Shizuru
The first scene with Lena
The hiking episode (especially Tomoe and Nina)
|2007-09-02, 17:10
|Link #16
>_< Too many favorite moments!
+ The first scene of fighting between Natsuki and Mikoto.
+ When everyone called element.
+ Mai burst on her power. (She flied among flame.)
+ Mai's recall , her childhood and responsible.
+ Cake wars episode.
+ Karaoke episode. (esp. Mikoto's Swan- dressed...= =)
+ When HiMEs knew that they would lost theirs very important person.
+ The battle of aggressive Mai and Mikoto.
+ Whole passion of Shizuru through Natsuki.
+ Last battle scene.
+ Rena's appearance
+ Every scene of Materializing.
+ Every battle scenes.
+ Camping episode.
+ Erstin's death. (Relationship between friends)
+ Feeling of Nina and Arika.
+ When Mai used her element for cooking.
+ Miyu's system and her weapons.
+ Arika decided to destroy Rena's body.
+ Arika turned to 'Shoten'. ( Combine with Rena.)
+ Arika and Nina in the last episode.
+ The same as Otome : every materializing and battle scenes !!
|2007-09-03, 10:19
|Link #17
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Just remembered some more
-Midori's first apperance as a hime
-Mai pissed of at mikoto and attacking her
-The girls vs. Alyssa, Miyu, and the sears co. for the school, basically eps 14 and 15
-When the girls are told by nagi their true destiny as hime's in ep 16
-Akane's first (and last) fight we see as a hime
-Final battle between Natsuki and Shizuru.
and alot more i can't think of right now
|2007-09-04, 19:13
|Link #19
-The death of Shizuru and Natsuki. The embrace was very touching.
-Cake War episode-great stuff.
-The death of Takumi
-The rebirth of the HiME's during the final battle
-Shizuru and Natsuki in general- I know I'm a geek.
-Any scene with Shizuru and Natsuki. They balance eachother very well.
-The final two episodes. I really felt the final battle was awesome. From the music to the return of Mai.
-Shizuru's battle with Midori in Episode 10
-Anytime they materialize.
-Aoi falling from the cliff, especially the look she gives to Mashiro
-Natsuki with Nao when they were trying to hitchike back to the city and Natsuki has to give the sexy pose. I cracked up laughing.
-The battle between Arika and Nina for the decision who stays at the school and who leaves.
|2007-09-09, 17:27
|Link #20
Gun Bunny
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Oz
Age: 38
There are to many to list but one of my all time favourites is when Mai snaps after her brother is killed
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In this blog, I've talked about annoying co-workers and obnoxious bosses who can affect your productivity. But what about the physical attributes of your workplace?
In the April 2009 edition of Scientific American, there was an article on neuroscience by Emily Anthes titled "How room designs affect your work and mood." In the piece, Anthes tells the story of how Jonas Salk claimed he wasn't able to solve the puzzle of polio until he left his basement lab and went to clear his head in a monastery in Assisi. He claimed the architecture and serene views gave him the right mental conditions for the creative and intellectuals leaps he needed to make.
There have also been studies done on the affect of colors in the office on moods and productivity.
There are other factors to consider besides productivity, however. What if you want your offices to attract members of Gens X and Y, who have grown up with the stimulation of video games and mind-bending movie special effects? A lot of companies are starting to realize that offices don't have to be staid, cubicle farms, that a workplace can be visually stimulating but still be a place to work.If you want to see some far-out creature comforts, you can look at our gallery of office shots from the international offices of Google. It seems to me that European companies are more daring in office design than their American counterparts. For one example, take a look at this atrium in Google's Dublin office (Figure A).
Figure A
Some companies might not look kindly upon such amenities, seeing them as just a means of distraction for workers. But who's to say that a little distraction can't amp people up when it's time to put the nose to the grindstone?
To see more images of Google's offices, click here.
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This article originally appeared in the June 2012 issue of Architectural Digest.
Some filmmakers, especially those known for uplifting dramas or screwball comedies, would no doubt be happy for their lives to imitate their art. But M. Night Shyamalan? His eerie works, filled with unthinkable monsters and unshakable frights, do not exactly go hand in hand with domestic bliss. So it may be surprising that, not long after completing The Village, his unsettling 2004 thriller, the writer/director/producer chose as his home a property rather reminiscent of the movie's setting.
Eight years ago Shyamalan and his wife, Bhavna, bought Ravenwood, an idyllic 125-acre estate in the rolling horse country west of Philadelphia, not far from where he grew up. Clad in aged red brick, the handsome 1937 Georgian Revival house felt centuries away from the modern world, and yet a major turnpike snakes by just a mile down the road.* The Village,*for those unfamiliar with the plot, takes place in a seemingly preindustrial hamlet whose inhabitants are unaware that beyond the fearsome woods and the wall that surround them are (spoiler alert) present-day suburbs.
Seated in Ravenwood's oak-paneled library, Shyamalan smiles at the parallel. "It seems so obvious now, but we didn't think of it at the time," says the youthful auteur, whose cheery manner is quite at odds with the ominous bent of his work. (He is currently filming After Earth, starring Will Smith.)
In fact the couple's real-estate quest began with a humble goal. For years they had kept a weekend retreat in the Pennsylvania countryside, but they needed a larger, year-round house for their growing family (they have three daughters). When Shyamalan happened upon Ravenwood, a deal was under way with another buyer; nonetheless he fell instantly in love with the six-bedroom home and declared to his broker, "I am going to buy this." Miraculously, the sale fell through, and buy it he did.
"We just wanted to do a little renovating," Shyamalan recalls of their initial plan for the house. They also wanted it to feel more romantic. Film producer Scott Rudin introduced the couple to Richard Cameron, a designer who specializes in historically mindful projects, and before long "a little renovating" mushroomed into a total reinvention. Cameron had just returned from England, where he had marveled at the charming tradition of what might be called architectural accretion—that is, the piecemeal process by which many country manors were expanded in the style of the day. He suggested to the Shyamalans a chronological reversal of the process: joining what looked like a 17th-century structure to the 18th-century-inspired one already there. They went for it.
That was in 2004. Over the next four and a half years, 12,000 square feet were added to the existing 15,000-square-foot home, most of it in the form of a two-story gatehouse. Linked to the original structure by an orangerie (also new), it contains Shyamalan's office, a gallery for displaying movie props, and a duplex guest apartment. The new construction itself is a kind of coup de théâtre, with a half-timber façade, turrets, and an arched passageway leading to a courtyard. All that's missing is a moat.
The interiors of the main house were extensively renovated to harmoniously blend Anglophilic architectural elements and styles. The foyer, once curvaceous, now possesses a rectilinear Elizabethan mien; the kitchen has an Arts and Crafts influence, with hand-hewn beams crisscrossing the ceiling and a rectangular bank of windows along one wall; and the library wing, which Cameron created at the end of a long, formal stair hall, is classically Georgian in spirit. Despite all these historic allusions, Ravenwood still has plenty of playful touches, including a swimming pool, a basketball court, and a billiard room, the entry to which is hidden behind a white-oak bookcase. There's even a capacious home theater in the basement (much more Old Hollywood than Olde England).
Outside, New York–based landscape architect Barbara Paca devised an impressive scheme, which, like Cameron's, references English manors. Among the traditional spaces she conceived are a field bordered by an allée of fruit trees and a sunken flower garden. Fashioned as a haven for the resident young princesses, the latter is a fairy-tale delight, with three distinct "rooms"—one circular, one rectangular, and one oval.
Though it's hard to believe, given all that was accomplished, part of Shyamalan's master plan was to leave Ravenwood unfinished. Interior designer David Kleinberg, with whom the couple had worked on their Manhattan apartment, was hired on a casual basis to bring in key furnishings, including the library's upholstered seating, the master suite's four-poster, and the stair hall's gilded chandelier. The family, however, wasn't interested in rooms that were "done." What they wanted was a house they could decorate over the decades.
"Night really thinks of this as a kind of ancestral house," Cameron notes. "He'd say, 'I plan to stay here for the rest of my life. This is my home, and I want it to be my daughters' home.'"
Says Shyamalan, "My hope is that someone will visit us here one day and just see two old people living in peace."
It's certainly not a difficult scene to imagine. On the most basic level, Shyamalan's mission was to make Ravenwood a sanctuary—a word he is fond of using. And what is a sanctuary but a place that keeps the specters out and the happy endings in?
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SimCity Always-Online DRM Lets Hackers Play Godzilla With Anyone's Cities
from the go-go-godzilla dept
Well, hello, childhood fantasy o' mine. I didn't see you standing there.
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Yes, as Kionae alerts us, one (unplanned?) consequence of requiring online saves for your SimCity games is that anyone with a bit of hacking skill can visit your city, put some Blue Oyster Cult on in the background, and wreak the kind of havoc normally reserved for Japanese nuclear monsters. See, you can, were you so inclined, enter the save game city of another person, and then completely edit or destroy their loving creation like some kind of digital psuedo-god.
Pictured: Omnipotence
Just so we're clear, this is only possible because of the EA always-online requirement.
It's still awesome because this hack is only as destructive as it is because of EA's decision to make the game always-on. If the game hadn't had always-on DRM then this hack wouldn't be half as devastating as it is. Having EA delete these kind of topics from their forums is great damage control but don't be surprised if there's another furor when people start raging on the forums when some hacker decides to go through and Godzilla everyone's town. Enjoy.Enjoy indeed, as long as that enjoyment happens outside of EA's forums. As noted above, the company is enforcing their TOS rules on their forums and deleting all topics relating to these kinds of hacks. Why? Well, because when a dingo is chewing on your arm, the best defense is to place your noggin lovingly into some sand to make it all just disappear. Or, if that doesn't work, you could always just apologize for what is becoming the greatest video game debacle this side of a Duke Nukem game, but I'm not holding my breath.


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I'm not sure why I didn't go between then and now, perhaps I was overly excited with Japan and busy moving from one end to another, then career, marriage and baby all happened and I just never made time for it. I also think that subconsciously, I knew going back to Seoul was going to be difficult in some ways, so many memories and people and things left behind. I remember saying when I left Seoul back in 2009, that I had left my heart in Seoul.
Seoul is the place where it all started. The blog, that started from just a few musings written in my afternoon work break and pretty much led me to where I am today. The wonderful people I met there, including those that encouraged me to go to Japan and grow up. The friendships I still have to this day, the friends that now live all over the world, and those that won't ever be forgotten.
Being back in Seoul felt like home, it felt like I had never left even though the city itself changed completely. I was shocked at how different it looks, how modern, how trendy. It moves so fast, perhaps too fast, but that was always Korea and something I love about it. It also felt huge- Seoul is a large city, but even coming from Tokyo, I found Seoul even bigger. Maybe it is actually bigger, or more spread out perhaps.
I had such a limited time (and work to do) in Seoul, but I made the most of it. One of my favourite things was walking around my old neighbourhood of Hoegi-dong with my friend Il-Pyo, whom I had met at the local gym back in 2008. He was the friend who invited us to his family home for Chuseok (a type of Korean Thanksgiving), to share a lavish meal with his entire family- and one of my most cherished memories of my time in Seoul. He's doing so well now and it's amazing to see.
Hoegi was a pretty local, low-key neighbourhood when I lived there, but it's now filled with cool little cafes and shops, and tons of beauty shops. My good old Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf has been replaced with a Starbucks (the irony) but everything else, like the big corner Burger King, was still there. My old, horrible, cockroach-infested apartment has been torn down, which is probably a good thing but it felt strange not to see my home there.
I also saw my lovely friend Claire, who was my favourite coworker back at that elementary school I taught at, we laughed and reminisced of those times and our students over samgyeopsal, the grilled meat wrapped in lettuce leaves that I love and miss so much. We tried to FaceTime Jaclyn (the original reader of this blog!) but failed to do so due to the time difference.
I revisited Apkujeong, Gangnam and Sinsa, my favourite places to shop and have coffee (and birthplace of my friendship with Rita, who lived in the posh part). Back when I lived in Seoul, the tree-lined Garuso-gil street of Sinsa was very little-known, especially among foreigners. I remember my friend Gina introduced me to it as she always knew where to find the best cafes, so I used to go there a lot but it was not popular. Fast forward to now, it's so trendy and touristy, but it's still my favourite place in Seoul. It has all the best cafes and shops, and it made me wish Tokyo had something like that. Tokyo has no shortage of great cafes, of course, but it somehow does not feel as relaxed.
Which brings me to my next point.... Seoul is so relaxed in general. Or perhaps I'm just more relaxed there. I always say I'm a block of ice in Japan, and as soon as I exit the country I feel myself melting. Korea does that to me and it feels so good. I think Japan is just a place where you have to be extremely self-aware at all times in order to properly follow all the rules and ensure a smooth cultural experience. And I also adore Japan for that, as when you play by the rules you can really enjoy living here and all the conveniences offered by the country, but I also realize it's a lot of stress in the long run.
Back to Seoul... I just ate kimchi at every meal, drank so much coffee and never had a bad-tasting one (Seoul now has such a strong coffee scene), took taxis from one end to another (for a fraction of the Tokyo prices), stocked up on beauty and skin care products (because Korea), got my nails done, and just enjoyed every moment of it. It was odd to be back there by myself- I still felt like my old self, pre-baby pre-everything, but I also felt grown up, like in an "I told you so" kind of way. Oh, the things I would have told my 20-something self.
When I left Korea in 2009, it was one of the most difficult times of my life. Going back home to Montreal was so hard after the excitement of living abroad, I missed Seoul so much it physically hurt. But what came next (Japan!) was the best thing ever, and brought me everything I've ever wanted.
I won't lie, I was extremely sad to leave this time as well, and I still feel some sadness about the whole thing. But it was good I went, it made me feel refreshed, and going back to my roots gave me some new ideas about what I want next.
And just like that... once again I left a little part of my heart in Seoul...


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Invisible Kingdom, The(Part I of the Invisible Kingdom Trilogy)Rob Ryan
published 2016 9" x 12.5" • 64 pages • full-color ages 8 & upISBN 9781566560771 • hardback • $19.95 •
"British artist Ryan... offers a fanciful modern fairy tale illustrated with a whole sheaf of his intricately detailed cut-paper silhouettes, including a poster on the back of the dust jacket. The hero, a young prince, lives in a palace in the middle of the city, trapped by protocol. ... Its the first of three volumes, and readers will long for the next book."Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Visually stunning... Ryans hand-drawn, screenprinted, and cut-paper illustrations, filled with intricate patterns, detailed cityscapes, and numerous black silhouettes, are placed on watercolor backgrounds ranging from bright yellow to dark gray hues... VERDICT An intriguing fantasy that pulls readers right into the story with its enchanting plot and eye-catching artwork."School Library Journal
This is a story about a prince. He lived in a palace that seemed to have been specially designed to make someone who already felt small feel even smaller. He rarely saw his parents, who were always busy being the King and Queen; and, unlike other children, the Prince never spent time dreaming about what he would be when he grew up because he knew that when his father died, he would become King. It was his destiny. The only person who treated the Prince like a normal child was the Bootman. Understanding that everyone needs something to call their own, the Bootman gave the Prince a pen with invisible ink and a special flashlight that allowed him to create a world that only he could see. One night, as the Prince was drawing on the curtains that surrounded his bed, he noticed a small hole and beyond that a trapdoor, which led to the attic. And in the attic he found a window and a way to sneak out of the palace and experience the real world.
The Invisible Kingdom is an exquisite book about a small boy, a big imagination, and learning to be your own person."When I was young we moved from place to place almost every year. Drawing was a friend I didn't have to try and make all over again." Rob Ryan studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic before going on to an MA in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. After several years as a painter, he began creating paper-cuts and screen prints, which led to collaborations with Paul Smith, Liberty, London's Fortnum and Mason and many others. He has exhibited in New York, London, and Japan and has a store, Ryantown, in London. He is the author of This Is for You and A Sky Full of Kindness and illustrated The Gift for Carol Ann Duffy. The Invisible Kingdom is the first book in a trilogy.
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If anyone's in the Boston area, I'll be part of a trunk show for the book Brave New Knits this Saturday, September 11, from 12-3 at Windsor Button. Come see all the samples, try them on, talk to Julie, me, and probably some other Boston-area designers, and the vast selection of yarn at Windsor Button.
Now that the book samples are done, I found the time to knit some socks! They're my adaptation of Nancy Bush's Hiiumaa Mismatched Mates, striped in such a way as to use remnants of two skeins of sock yarn. They're a gift and are out the door this afternoon... I owe a lot of people a lot of things for helping me with the book!
Did you know: In addition to being a graphic designer, my Lil Sis creates crocheted accessories and garments without patterns? I'm working with her to write down some of her notes so that maybe others can make them, too. I mean, look at this!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Brave New Knits trunk show Saturday!
Posted by weaverknits at 9:54 AM
5 comments:
- nicole said...
Well, it looks like talent runs in the family. I LOVE those socks. The colour combo is fab.
- September 9, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- jsdknits said...
The hat is fantastic!
- September 10, 2010 at 3:09 AM
- jsdknits said...
The hat is fantastic!
- September 10, 2010 at 3:09 AM
- choo choo knits said...
Um, I WISH i was going to be in the Boston area this weekend (in general, I wish I lived in the Boston area though). Good luck with the trunk show!
- September 10, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- Gitte said...
Hi - just to let you know that I finaly got to knit your Honeycomb Shawl - and I love it.
It is knitted in thin wool (3mm)
I knitted mittens to go with the shawl as well.
Thank you for your fine pattern ;-)
- September 11, 2010 at 3:46 AM
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Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
Suigintou's Koyoi mo Ennu~i (radio)
Perhaps it is time for foreign anime fans to make the next big jump - listening and writing to seiyuu radio shows. And what better way to start off that honor with a radio show on Rozen Maiden?
Suigintou's Koyoi mo Ennu~i (lit. trans: Suigintou's It's Ennui Again, Tonight) will start re-airing via internet radio on January 5th, 2007 on Lantis Web Radio.
Technically, it is Tanaka Rie (seiyuu for Gin-sama) who is hosting the show. However, she's acting out (quite brilliantly) as if Gin-sama has her own radio personality show.
Details from lantis web:
Regular e-mail
Junk ni Shite Ageru! ("I'll make you a junk!")
Suigintou will straighten you up for wussy problems that you send in.
Watashi no Kuroi Tenshi-sama ("My dearest black angel-sama")
Suigintou is accepting quotes from you. Will you be successful in making a strong impression on her to accept you as her medium?
So if you are a masochist who likes to be called a junk by Gin-sama, send in your comments through the mail form on the web page listed above. Who knows? Your e-mail may get read by Gin-sama! www
clarification: Koyoi mo Ennu~i will be a CD included in the Ouvertüre DVD.
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|2006-12-26, 12:59
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Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
It airs...when the website updates itself daily ww Hence, for Koyoi mo Ennu~i, that would be sometime on Friday JST.
Personally, I would love to hear "I can't read Japanese," in which Gin-sama balks back "Obakasa~n."
|2006-12-26, 13:04
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Canada, Ontario
aww, too bad i dont know how to listen to japanese. It'd be awesome to listen to this show. Tanaka Rie is one of my favorite seiyuu out there. Probably because, she voiced in GSD as Lacus Clyne and sang all those amazing songs in there as well. Plus, she even voiced as Suijintou xD (getting hyped). Ahhh well, might as well listen to it anyways even i dont understand.
But, when it comes out, where would i listen to it? like....where do i go in the internet to click here and there to listen to the radio show?
|2006-12-26, 13:05
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Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
2. Find your favorite program.
3. Choose your preferred format: Real Audio or Windows Media.
4. Listen.
5. Laugh.
6. Finish listening.
7. Go back to a yet another dull day.
|2006-12-27, 01:35
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Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
|2007-01-05, 19:10
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Seeker of Power
Learn Japanese and then tell me. I could only pick out bits and pieces. BTW, is this some sort of introduction to Suigintou's ennui? Because two minutes is really short...
|2007-01-05, 20:28
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~ You're dead ^__^* ~
Graphic Designer
whow O.o...go gin sama! *cheer* and i swear i can hear her talking about "buy the DVD"...which i will even without the encouragement
edit: and im all moe over her laugh "ahahahaha!"
|2007-01-06, 00:20
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Rain lover
Join Date: Apr 2006
Age: 34
Though it's just a kinda preview, listening to her "Ennu~i" and laughs is already enough
The things that she said should be similar to the one kj1980 has mentioned. Last part if i heard correctly, her DVD (Ouverture) should be out on February 11th.
Nice to hear another fan of Gin-sama's moe laugh
|2007-01-06, 12:15
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The Necessary Evil
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Peeing on Stinku's Grave
Junk: "Now let's start with our first letter"
Dear Gin-sama,
I'm a average teenage who has a crush on a girl but I have no idea how to confess to her. Could you give me some advice?
Junk: "Baka~ Who do you think I am, a love doctor? *Ahem* Anyway offer her lot and lots of Yakult as a gift, women just love~ those lactic acid goodness down their throat. If that fail I suggest you jump down from the highest level of a skyscraper because no one will love you. *Evil Laughter* *Ahem* Next letter..."
Girl: "Wow... it's really great that you gave me all this....Yakult. But I already seeing someone else. Hontoni Gomenasai." (Bows and runs off)
Boy: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~!" (Heads to the roof of a skyscraper and jump off.) "GIN-SAMA BANZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIII-" *SPLAT!*
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- NASA could make it rain when it tested space shuttle rocket engines in the wetlands of Mississippi. Hydrogen fuel burned with oxygen produces water, but just adding water to the atmosphere doesn't necessarily produce a rainstorm. [url]
- China tried to control the weather around Beijing before the Summer Olympics of 2008. "Tried" is perhaps the key word, since weather modification isn't quite an exact science just yet. But then again, it didn't rain during the opening and closing ceremonies in 2008.... [url]
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In a recent report, investment bank Goldman Sachs & Co. published a list of the stocks with the greatest upside potential. MarketWatch's Laura Mandaro discusses what stocks made it on the list. (Photo: AP)
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While John Cena and The Rock continue their verbal sparring, maybe getting lost in the storyline was the push for Cena to capture hatred — to turn against his fans, turn against what he stood for.
The agitators obviously weren't reading his shirt — Rise Above Hate.
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As one of the faces of WWE, Cena has become a poster boy, an image WWE would be reluctant to crush.
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My autumn wedding dress
Added Nov 8, 2011
by itetein
Helsinki, Finland
I wanted to sew my wedding dress. Such an important day so the dress needed to be special as well.
I already had drawn the pattern pieces to another model but after seeing this pattern (a dress here on BurdaStyle by nouvellegamine) I couldn't get this out of my mind! With the help of my mother I sewed the dress and I am really pleased how it turned out.
Belt is hand crocheted by my godmother about 20 years ago.
Pattern is 116 from Burda 3/2008.
Material Notes
Crpe satin
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Aug 17, 2015, 08.11 AMby sewing fanatic
Very impressive! Amazing job :D
Oct 27, 2013, 10.11 AMby kelly botterill
Hi, I don't know if you still check this post, but I have just seen it and your dress is beautiful! I am hoping to make my wedding dress and have been struggling to find a pattern I like. I have tried to find the pattern you used, but cannot seem to find it online. Do you know where I could find it?
Jul 18, 2012, 02.34 PMby woman
WOWWWWW. This is seriously one of the most gorgeous wedding dresses I have ever seen. You and your mom did an amazing job! And what joy it must be to sew the dress with her! :)
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Jul 19, 2012, 06.40 AMby itetein
Ooh, wow. Thanks. It was really nice to sew with my mom. She truly is my sewing heroine :)
Jan 23, 2012, 06.34 PMby Wendy Maxwell
I think it's an extremely elegant gown … & I hope that you won't be offended, & as I've already done my share of marriages, I would adore this as a night gown in something like a Swiss Voile, or very fine cotton … Your comments about it being a little too loose when you were fitting the gown made me feel relieved, as there's no way I could wear it as a night gown firmly fitting. It's just so gorgeous! I've actually considered the same thing about another gown that was selling as a wedding gown … It was so pretty … & again, as I couldn't have it as a wedding gown, I decided to try making it as a night gown! :)) I'm sure that you will make a stunning bride …. & the reason you enjoyed making it was because you were putting all the love you have for your fiance, into the gown as you worked on it … & that's another reason that you will glow when you wear it on your wedding day! :) Best wishes for the wedding.
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Jul 19, 2012, 06.38 AMby itetein
Thank you! I think the pattern is really versatile. It would look cute also with shorter hem or as night gown as you said.
Jan 4, 2012, 11.12 PMby corarae
You look amazing. Great job on the dress!
Dec 28, 2011, 10.44 PMby sen28
This is gorgeous! Where can I get the pattern?
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Dec 29, 2011, 02.15 PMby itetein
Thanks you! Pattern is from old Burda. Issue 3 from year 2008.
Dec 13, 2011, 12.35 AMby sala22
This is the prettiest dress I have ever seen! Congratulations on your wedding and on making the dress!
Dec 11, 2011, 05.48 PMby suzan518
this gorgeous how can i get the pattern?
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Dec 13, 2011, 06.56 AMby itetein
Thanks! I borrowed my magazine from the library but I quess you could find old Burdas for example in Ebay.
Dec 8, 2011, 02.11 AMby Cjasmin
soo beautiful nice fit bet u looked gorgeous :)
Dec 7, 2011, 04.05 PMby AmyNicoleStudio
wow…so beautiful!
Dec 7, 2011, 04.05 PMby AmyNicoleStudio
wow…so beautiful!
Dec 7, 2011, 09.40 AMby nevina
So elegant! :0)
Nov 25, 2011, 04.08 AMby pie-83
Such a beautiful dress! Congratulations!
Nov 22, 2011, 04.34 PMby ichigogirl
Gorgeous! It reminds me of Wallis Simpsons wedding dress, another favourite. Come to think of it the English royals have great taste in wedding dresses. Congratulations, btw!
Nov 21, 2011, 02.00 AMby susanne2011
This is an awesome dress. I had already seen nouvellegamine's version and added it to my favorites. Your version is beautiful as well. This is definitely a candidate pattern for my own wedding dress? Was it asy to make? And the material your worked with, was that easy to sew?
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Nov 21, 2011, 07.34 PMby itetein
Thanks! As I am not that experienced in sewing I would say it was something between easy and difficult to make. The material was easy to sew, but it was maybe because I did lots and lots of basting. I wish I had the patience to baste in my future projects as well :) Fitting took some time because the pattern was a little too big for me. I really liked to sew this dress because it was for such an important event. I don't if I could have done it for something less important though.
Nov 20, 2011, 11.58 PMby ktmcp
How beautiful and elegant. Better than any wedding dress I've seen. Just perfect.
Nov 20, 2011, 10.48 PMby froggylonglegs
AMAZING!! So so beautiful, congrats on your marriage too!
Nov 20, 2011, 03.09 AMby mudersville
This is so pure and elegant. Would look beautiful in a deep emerald for an evening dress.
Nov 20, 2011, 02.43 AMby Chrissie Bee
This dress is phenomenal! Very nice work!
Nov 20, 2011, 12.59 AMby gaviccaabri
Holy beautiful/gracefulness! {GASP!} Your dress is amazing! Congratulations on your marriage, and on this marvelous piece of work.
Nov 19, 2011, 08.39 PMby Lea Bishop
So beautiful. The dress is so simple and elegant. I also love the choice of hair accessory and red shoes! You did a great job.
Nov 19, 2011, 07.52 PMby meelia
Todella kaunis puku, tuon tyylisen hääpuvun haluaisin ehkä itsellenikin, sitten joskus. Ja hääraanun. (Vai mikä sen nimi nyt onkaan.)
Simply adorable! I love the old glamour style of the dress, and your hair is beautiful too.
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Nov 21, 2011, 07.29 PMby itetein
Kiitos! Suosittelen mallia kyllä lämpimästi. Ainakin itselleni se oli juuri täydellinen ja saimme äiti kanssa sen istumaan hyvin. Vaikka aluksi tosin kovin epäileväinen olinkin sen suhteen, että onnistunko ompelemaan hääpukua :)
Nov 19, 2011, 04.34 PMby mountainhoney
Your dress has more style and flair than the one Pippa wore to Kate Middleton's wedding. Love it!
Nov 19, 2011, 05.03 AMby benew
I NOTICED this before the feature! You deserve it, I kept having to come back to the page.
Stunning. Just stunning. Did certain parts of the construction or fitting give you any heartache?
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Nov 21, 2011, 07.27 PMby itetein
Thank you!
The dress was quite nice to make. Fitting was something that took some time as the pattern was a size too big for me. I had to take in from various seams. I'm so lucky I had my mom to help me, the fitting would have been impossible without her :)
Nov 19, 2011, 12.16 AMby jem1022
Too Stunning
Nov 18, 2011, 10.37 PMby mollykatherine
wow! what a stunning dress – its magical!
Nov 18, 2011, 07.41 PMby wildcatspow
This is so, so beautiful! Nicely done (and congratulations)!
Nov 18, 2011, 06.59 PMby Saeriu
Absolutely love your dress. You did an amazing job on it. :D
Nov 18, 2011, 06.31 PMby mic9970
OMG – that is stunning. Beautifully made and a gorgeous style. One the nicest wedding dresses I've ever seen. You should be incredibly proud x
Nov 18, 2011, 06.29 PMby katexxxxxx
So simple. So beautiful.
Love the hair and shoes too.
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