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I can do that. I wouldn't have made any more write ups anyway, these were just to accentuate my... irritation with what I was seeing.

The manga features a whole bunch of them. Like Ceres. Well now that that's out of the way, have a look at the title of the next episode. It's all spoilery and you're immediately going to see it anyway once you start watching.

Doorknobder was great, yeah. It is done. I'm done. Done with SuperS, I mean. I knew from before that the anime didn't manage to follow up Sailor Moon S all that well, but like I said, it was a year in between the airing of S and SuperS, and being happy to see the girls again and go on adventures with them outweighed the dip in quality entertainment. Watching the seasons back to back made really obvious: Nothing in SuperS is as good as in S, except the animation. The show sure never looked as good before. That much is noticable right from the start with the new intro, which is actually fantastic, if you ignore the bit where all the girls and Pegasus go skinny dipping in his dreamlake. In hindsight, that should have been the first indicator that something's going to be seriously wrong. Next up, after I get some sleep and work done, perhaps an episode guide on how to skip most of the Amazon Trio while still seeing the better episodes. This is going to be an awful lot of work though, so it might take a while. Let me know if you plan on watching the entire run anyway (I would recommend that, if only for the sheer alienation you feel), then I won't bother.

Uh, wishful thinking or typo, or are you really connected directly to the BCIX?

But you haven't seen SuperS or Sailor Stars yet. Don't take my irritation for gospel here. However, on a whole, even though you're not done with S yet, you can already appreciate how that must have been a really tough act to follow (and in my opinion, it didn't quite work). edit: S was also really strong thematically, with some excellent writing in the serious mode episodes (and even in those that were silly). Everything has a decent set up, and a payoff, it's not on the nose but still noticable and it generally practises a good amount of showing, not simply telling.

That is a good idea.

I wonder if there's any way to watch these Sailor Moon musicals. Not going to lie, I'm not a big fan of musical theatre, but from the images alone they look bad enough to be really entertaining. Like that live action show that looks like it had a ten dollar budget. Heh. They also already got enough of a talk down from fans and the mangaka involved when changing Rei's personality. Deviating that much with the entire backstory wouldn probably not have been accepted at all. But that's really just a minor quibble, the show's really good as it is when it depicts the problems and rigors of daily life with its signature combination of humor, commentary and complete ridiculousness while giving you a good character piece every now and then. Plus I think it is really at its best when it just depicts everyone interacting. Generally Sailor Moon S does a decent job with getting more interesting monsters (but not more interesting battles, but that's not what Sailor Moon is about). Ideally they're a minor culmination at the end, like in that episode with the Japanese tea ceremony (Usagi being completely oblivious to her own culture is also hilarious, the things she does... like blowing her nose in public, showing affection for Mamoru and even fighting with Chibi-Usa over him for everyone to see).

Yeah, pretty much Nemesis where the Black Moon Clan lived, although the hypothezised Nemesis is a brown dwarf.

For a while I entertained the notion that Mamoru is secretly Usagi's sugar-pup (disturbing as that may seem), and in all the episode where she complains she has no more spending money beause her allowance is gone is simply because, uhm, she already spent it all on frivolous pursuits. But that doesn't work at all, she beings the show with not having enough money to buy discount jewelry, let alone being able to afford a college hunk for fun.

There's one thing I've always wondered about Sailor Moon. It's not really a deal breaker (because who cares, it's Sailor Moon) but the only one who has an explanation for having these kinds of funds is Ami with her mother, who as a doctor would certainly have the financial resources. The properties they all seem to own in the Juuban district of Tokyo are worth hundreds of millions of Yen (per piece!). How come Rei* is the only one of them that goes to a private school, while from everything we have seen she should be the poorest of them (with her grandfather having a Shinto shrine, and those commonly are supported by charity and the selling of a trinket or two)? *Well manga Rei's father is a successful politician who abandoned her when she was little, presumably he pays for the tuition, I guess. Oh, and @Bartimaeus, welcome to the KaineParker signature quote club.

Double spoilered the interesting parts, you can probably guess that you're not too far away from the reveal anyway. Just don't click or come back and read this post in handful of episodes. Actually, no, don't read this. I just deleted everything.

Ideally, the state would rent you a bootstrap, then you can pull yourself up and pay back with interest.

Man... the envy is real. Episodes 20, 21 and 22 are kind of a three parter. 20 is kind of contained in terms of an "ending", but they're related. 21 is also probably the best serious mode episode in the entire run of the show (and still occasionally fun - like once or twice).

Your roundabout logic is astounding. If I'm incorrigible, how are you going to help me? I mean even if I felt even a tiny bit of remorse for something I did 25 years ago that hurt nobody at all, which spoiler: I don't, and it's by far not the worst thing I or my friends did at school. Now that I think back, I'm more convinced than ever that you're actually right. Or at least, maybe we even were a group of sociopaths. Shared drives or folders are a joy, especially when they're buggy. Also back in school, since it was '96 and disk space was still at a relative premium, we had very small quotas for our users (first grade got an awesome 2MB, second graders 8MB, only in third grade you got a quota of like 100MB). The school used Novell DOS 7 with a NetWare backend at the time and had some computers with Windows NT 4.0 for students in higher grades. That combination also had some really weird bugs like when you set your password with Novell DOS 7 and exceeded a certain amount of characters it would work perfectly fine when logging on Novell DOS, but no longer with Windows NT 4.0. You had to log on with a Novell DOS client and change your password to something shorter. That was a bug the entire class once used to make sure we don't have an exam because the hapless professor had no idea what was going on and had to wait unil support showed up. Anyway, each student group had a shared drive on the backend. When you copied a file there it would be subtracted from your quota, and the system subtracted the file size from the user who last saved the file, i.e. when you put a text file on the shared drive and someone edited and saved, it would read as that user's file and cost him space from his quota. Which was fine, I mean, at least you couldn't abuse someone's shared files to mess with their quota. Or could you? Turns out that telling the operating system to open a file in append mode instead of write mode caused the operating system to leave the file owner alone, but freely allowed you to add content. Not only could you use that to make users have embarassing or questionable content on the share (as long as they had at least one file there, and we all did, if only to play multiplayer Quake during school time), but you could of course make them use up their entire disk quota, down to the last byte. Which caused all sorts of fun issues (especially when they were using NT to log on at the time, Windows never dealt all too well with a sudden drop in free disk space on the user's home directory). We used that to regularily blow up someone's files to the point where NT stopped opening any programs, crashed randomly, the user had issues logging in, caused professors who had no idea what they were doing to try and help, only to quietly delete the file at some point where everything went back to working fine, and of course you could always use that to handily cause jocks and bullies to fail their exams. Ah, such a pity. We had networked computers with a 10Base-T coaxial bus setup, so whenever we felt like the admin was an annoying asshat - which was pretty much always when he found out we hacked (well more like stole, by making a fake Novell DOS login screen that would run from your own user, would perfectly mimic three failed login attempts, write down the user name and password entered and then cause a crash that forced a reboot) a professor's password (because they had, for no reason, up to 10 GB of disk space and like NEVER used it, and it was impossible to install Command & Conquer in sub 8MB file chunks) we'd go around and stick pins through the network cables and cut the top and bottom part off with a wirecutter, which caused all sorts of funny network spasms. We started by removing termination resistors but that was way too easy to figure out. Funny for us. Less so for the guy running around trying to figure out which cable was broken, while it was somewhat easy to calculate in which general vicinity the signal broke, it wasn't that easy to figure out which cable part was the actual problem. Especially when you can't see any obvious damage. And then there was the time where we found out that you could actually write small programs that you could hook to an operating system interrupt that kept on running even after you logged out. Novell DOS apparently didn't take care to not allow useres to modify system memory at will. Needless to say, from that point on we ALWAYS made sure to hard reset any computer we were logging on to. Looking back, I guess I can see why our teachers despised us - that were just the stunts we pulled on the network, not counting practical jokes like the one where we hid an entire classroom's furniture in its ceiling* or hid an entire week's worth of account group work in an envelope and wrote MAIL BOMB** on it and attached it underneath a table. *Not a ceiling in the traditional sense. The school was a repurposed factory building with an added office complex, and therefore the ceilings were just really light, removable ceiling elements that covered steel braces, they EASILY supported to load of a couple of desks and chairs. So we just removed the ceiling elements, heaved the desks and chairs onto the steel bracing and put the elements back in place. **That was in VERY bad taste. +1 points for sociopaths, ey?

They need to leak at least something in the next 48h otherwise it becomes suspicious. Like way back when Valve had their uncompilable Source engine source code "stolen" and "leaked" on the internet and was immediately free of all the flak they'd have otherwise gotten for delaying Half Life 2 even more than they already have. That reminds me of the time I faked a hack at school when I learned that they kept no backups (because some poor SoB really had all his precious files trashed by someone malicious douchewaffle and they told him they can't restore his files). I snuck into the computer room, logged in, deleted everything, logged out and pretended to have come into class to an empty user directory and could therefore not turn in the homework I never wrote in the first place. A quick log check confirmed a strange login at a point before I came to school, so yeah, sucks to be me, huh? Even took the train an hour earlier to get there on time.

Psh, they probably hacked themselves in an attempt to buy more time to come out with patches.

Well... right. That problem should have gone away when Disney acquired Fox. Then there no longer is a licencing issue at all, and they just kept calling her Wanda for the fun of it. I mean, the show even made joke out of her not having a nickname (and that was due to Marvel not being allowed to call the two by their X-Men names when they showed up in Age of Ultron, unless various articles lied to me ).

Cured and warm smoked spare ribs. Regular spare ribs, not baby back or St. Louis cuts, that were specifically made to simmer in hot water until soft (45+ minutes), they're not edible without further heating. I'm not sure how that would come out if you used short ribs, eating beef ribs isn't very common here, but I'm also not exactly sure if you can get these ribs in your area - or in the US at all. Could be, Germans got something similar they call Kassler, but like everything that's related to food and Germany it's... yeah, well, it's like German beer. Everyone thinks its good for some reason, but it isn't, or at least it's better in other parts of Central Europe.

I have no idea what you're talking about. They even made sure to point out that Wanda isn't Scarlet Witch. Just Wanda! No fancy name or callsign, or anything!

Tender and juicy. Any direct application of a lot of heat is unecessary because the taste is enhanced by it being cured and smoked. You don't even want the water to boil, just to simmer along a bit. Like you would for sausages, just... a lot longer, obviousy. Unless you want to use some sort of pressure cooking pot. It comes out better if done slowly, but while there's a difference there's nothing inherently wrong with using a pressure cooker. Most people probably wouldn't even notice the difference.

Semantics schmemantics, but point conceded.

At that pace you'll finish the entire show before me, and I had almost a three season headstart.

@BartimaeusYay, new thread. I find myself being envious. I want to watch Sailor Moon S for the first time too. At least I only have 4 episodes of SuperS left.