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I post here because I need to fill the void inside myself with reactions from people who I do not know, and for the greater part neither respect nor care about. It is not adequate to imbue my meaningless, hollow existence with purpose, but it does so better than most other pursuits.

If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born.

I kept losing LAN connectivity. I went and replugged the network cable at the switch and at the back of my computer to see if there's any improvement (so far no more disconnects, which means the cable is up for replacement). Note to self: next time, turn off any running games before going anywhere near the Death Star's thermal exhaust port. Ouch.

What happened:

I think you two have been reading too many posts by Abeloth if you think that 'best trash since Lexx' was criticism.

Incidentally, there's a virus scan running on my uncle's laptop right now. He brought me the thing saying that no matter what he does, he's constantly bombarded by pop ups featuring nude ladies. It is a Lenovo ideapad, with a lightning fast AMD A4 something or another CPU, a 1 TB Western Digital hard disk and, what's kind of weird, apparently 6.67GB of RAM, which leads me to suspect that there's something broken beyond having caught some porn adware, but maybe it's just a strange readout on the UBUNTU LTS distribution I just booted up. I had to look up which key to press to get into the BIOS to set the boot order to include USB drives. For this particular model, it is F2, and lo, it did not work the first time around. Actually, and get that, Lenovo's official support statement is to retry until it works, and to make sure that you hit F2 like mad from the moment you turn on the thing. It needed thirty minutes to boot Windows just so I could shut it down because the last shut down was incomplete and the scan software complained about not wanting to scan a Windows set to Hyperboot mode or with a pending repair. Took another 15 minutes to update virus signatures. Currently running ESET, with ClamAV and F-Secure still in the queue. I have no idea how long that will take, but seriously, I just want to accidentially spill coffee on the blasted thing so it goes where notebooks like that belong, into the great beyond of horribly slow hardware, where it and whoever designed it is forever tortured by watching it boot Windows for all eternity.

Sorry for the double post, but this warrants one. This is how awesome Nephrite is in PGSM: This is shaping up to be the best trash since Lexx: The Dark Zone. Just, uh, PG-rated. edit: Usagi, Rei and Ami are at a costume party. Usagi has a full body bear costume, Ami has a cat maiden outfit and Rei shows up in her Miko gown with a red mask. I give up. This is simply too much, that has to be intentionally ludicrous. Luna is also absolutely snarky. Nephrite is being inconspicuous. Today's monster is a giant, spiky vulva-shaped cactus.

I stand corrected. Man, that's normally my job, being right about minor details. People to this day still comment about how romantic Chibi-Usa and Pegasus were on YouTube videos. There are videos out there who rate them highly amongst the best power couples, so no, it is not just back then. By all accounts, Ikuhara and company made Pegasus worse than he was in the manga. Previously, they filed off the rough edges, like changing the Black Lady/Prince Endymion kiss into an illusion and removed the implied rape, dropping Usagi's suicide attempt from the first arc, making the Sailor Guardians less of a blood thirsty band of murderers, and instead introduced a bunch of other stuff, like actual character development. They also had the good sense to remove Tuxedo Mask's super creepy early behaviour (kissing a drunk and passed out Usagi, watching her transform after urging her to lose no time, stalking her and simply showing up at her open window) and Mamoru's 'romantic' reaction to Usagi showing up and basically accusing him of desiring Chibi-Usa 'like a woman' which was to kiss her and pacify the hysterical woman by giving her his love rod, showing her what he really desires. Usagi is all happy, glowing and fine with Chibi-Usa the next day, only to go back to being jealous a bit later. Typing this out makes me look like I engange in hyperbole, but I really do not. I wish I was. I also wish I would have never watched Crystal and Eternal, and never read any of the manga chapters, but here we are. However, credit needs to be given where it is due, the manga was still really progressive for Japan in 1992. It is just that the anime was better in every regard, unless for some reason one prefers the storyline and dislikes the 'slow moving' filler episodes or dislikes that the stoic and man-hating Rei was changed into a fiery, passionate and boy crazy girl that likes to yell at Usagi but still would do anything for her. I went looking for a Rei hug gif, and found only madness. There's an entire Shipping wiki, and endless material dedicated to UsaRei. The anime fandom is in dire need of a cleansing. Back to the Dream Arc / SuperS: the Amazan Trio, for instance, does not get 22 episodes of raping innocent women, men and - to make that even worse - children. They attack the Guardians and simply get taken out. Their assaults are also not as overtly sexual, they're 'just' trying to seduce the girls with their own insecurities - insecurities that looked an awful lot like Ms. Takeuchi adapted them from Sailor Moon S, but that might just be coincidence. The Pegasus romance is still creepy simply by virtue of him being a horse most of the time and the age difference between him and Chibi-Usa, but he also makes clear that he's more like a thirteen year old boy stuck in this form, and there is none of the pedophile grooming behaviour he exhibits in the anime, but that is partially also because these issues are all really short and there is just no time for anything in the manga. It is hard to see all of that and not think it intentional. Ikuhara and company were fed up with Toei's interference in their work, but how they got what they wrote and animated past quality control or TV censorsphip, I have no idea. That might also be due to the production schedule, they just had to air what they made, in the first few episodes they did not even have all of the stock footage yet, as evidenced by reusing Chibi-Usa's film transformation scene and the curious lack of their combined transformations. Pulling the plug on an episode would have meant not airing an episode of their cash cow franchise, so we got what we have with SuperS. Rape allegories and a pedophile horse, in what Toei wanted to be aimed at younger children than Sailor Moon R and Sailor Moon S were. No wonder almost the entire creative team was changed afterwards. What is really interesting to note is that Toei just managed to find a team that then proceeded to make Sailor Stars. Stars took a hit in character design, but everything else was pretty good. Some of the show's best episodes are in that season. The only story arc worth a damn is there, and half the basis for Steven Universe.

Was that the transformation pen? I thought that was just a costume and a different hairdo, but could be...

The manga did not either, although to its credit, they did use the disguise pen in the third arc to infiltrate Dr. Tomoe's acedemy. Although by the time of Sailor Moon S, the anime writing team ignored most of the manga, just making use of the characters and general plot points. With good reason. Indeed, the primary point for most of her insecurities. Which is a little strange in an anime with typical anime hair shapes and colors, but that's why they made her super tall and super strong too, so it is more readily noticable. Well, how strange. The picture of Berly telling Jadeite that she is not a merciful queen and Tuxedo Mullet did not?

Random observations about Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Usagi's pen she uses to disguise herself early on in the series is a gaudy looking mobile phone she uses to take a picture of whoever she wants to disguise herself as. That seems somewhat more limited in use than the pen. Usagi's mother is insane. She brings coffee to Ami and Usagi, then starts wrestling Usagi on her bed, yelling: "Get your coffe, Ami!" Rei is scary, but understandably the only one who even remotely looks like her counterpart. Unlike in the manga, Rei does not immediately burn Jadeite to a cinder. That's a win in my book, although with Nephrite in the preview for the next episode, I'm guessing he's toast either way. The sound effects are hilarious, sometimes Usagi just walks around and the ninja fighting sounds are playing.

I am disappointed that Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon episode three does not have Jadeite's magical bus to abduct the girls, there's just a portal that appears and a monster grabs them with terrible looking CGI arms. Rei's crows look pretty terrible too. The amount of unintentional comedy is gold. I don't know, perhaps it is intentional... Beryl telling Jadeite something important:

I guess it is too late to back out now: I have all Manowar albums up to and including Warriors of the World, and I listened to them a lot when I was a good deal younger, and I know most of their lyrics by heart. They also have 'fantastic' cover art, and in various metal magazines the cover of Into Glory Ride was ranked rather highly in 'worst cover art of all time' lists. For me, Manowar's biggest draw is Eric Adams, and insfoar they share something with Evanescence - neither group would be all that remarkable without their charismatic and talented vocalists. I do not know how it is nowadays after their split (rather nicely put, considering he was fired after being accused of posessing child pornography, for which he was convicted and currently serves prison time), but in the days of yore a good Manowar concert was one where Karl Logan only hit a couple of wrong notes. Anyway, while All Men Play On Ten is inherently silly, there are Manowar songs with worse lyrics. Kill with Power from Hail to England comes to mind, or the infamous Pleasure Slave from Kings of Metal. My favorite performance is the live version of Master of the Wind from Hell On Stage. Song in spoilers because the cover art is slightly not safe for work. Not very surprising, it puts Eric Adams front and center, and puts the band where it belongs, in the background, playing along. Joey de Maio likes to take credit for that, after all, amplifiers that go up to eleven appeared after the album was released, but it is much more likely they came out in response to This Is Spinal Tap than Manowar, both the album and the mockumentary were released in 1984 after all. Sigh. Another post like that and I might lose my street credibility as poster of utter drivel, although Manowar could easily be argued as drivel when one does not like heavier rock or metal. Hm, how to offset that? I time coded the video to the song part, feel free to watch everything: Although the lullabye is catchy as hell and the lyrics are hilarious. Cascada's cover of How Do You Do should suffice: Fantastic 'live' performance.

Can't beat that price.

Their must simply be a way to add all abortions to left wing violence . We can all agree that is murder and countable ? That sounds preposterous do you have a link for that ?

Yes, that's just perfect. Come on Japan, just a couple more seconds!

Do you have any links for that ?

Surly Twitter is only a good source when it confirms my bias ?

Can't beat Yannis Papadopoulos (can a name get any more Greek than that? He might as well be called Greek McGreekface) when it comes to sounding masculine. The lyrics are fantastic too.

It looks like I misunderstood the common statuses in Teams and other collaboration platforms. I thought "away" means the person is currently not at the keyboard and "busy" means the person is currently, well, busy with something important. Clearly that cannot be right, otherwise I would not have three missed (internal) calls after being away from the keyboard for five minutes. I suspect continuous use of coke might cause color blindness. Semi in-joke here, but the department in question is always on major overdrive to the point where we started calling them the coke smurfs, and they always want red lines drawn with green ink and ideally now. Going to make myself a coffee now and go have lunch before changing my status back to online, then we can talk about inflating a baloon in the form of a kitten. Maybe.

But what about the damage to business by the antifa ? Surly that must count for one life per dollar ? Their must be a ratio !

It sure looks like the showrunner(s) expected to adapt the entire manga. The series is pretty condensed but otherwise fairly faithful. Seems strange that it never got finished, but on the other hand, it allegedly gets worse in the later manga chapters. It's probably unfit for adaptation as a series.

They're the Shadow Play Girls from Revolutionary Girl Utena. They appear once per episode and provide a very vague allegory for the plot of the episode. What they are or represent is a matter of personal preference, they're either literal aliens, self-aware shadows or Bodhisattvas - or whatever other explanation works for the viewer.