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All I know of the Canadian law enforcement comes from Due South, so why are they having APCs and not white dogs?

Fixed that for you.

Guess that explains why/how my mother's credit card was hacked recently. The bank called and cancelled the transactions on their own (go decent customer service) and sent a replacement card. Good job, Peter Thiel & Elon Musk brainchild company.

Some of my favorite TV shows were anthologies (Outer Limits) and mostly episodic (X-Files, Andromeda was sort of a hybrid where the episodic content contained a clue or two or a storyline beat in between) in addition to the animes, that's fine. I just didn't really enjoy the episodic parts of Cowboy Bebop all that much, with or without Faye. Oh, you don't even have the annoying kid the other character on the crew yet, do you? I hope you keep watching to at least the episode with the space monster, because I'd like your opinion on that one. I'd rank it amongst the worst episodes of anything I've ever been subjected to.

Do something fun, like COBOL.

I don't think it works that way.

Good news then, because Breaking Bad starts off as character driven black comedy in the first season and then becomes an angry dark drama. One might actually think the parallels are intentional. Although, well, even at the beginning Breaking Bad had much bleaker moments than the initial Better Call Saul episodes.

Great news, now please kindly send me your billing address so I can bill you for my time spent testing, the time for writing the bill and the time for this joke post.

After, like, the first four or five episodes of Noir, I thought Noir was rather like that episode from Cowboy Bebop too, particularily when they get to the church/catacombs early on, but Noir turned out to be a little on the, uhm, let's be kind and say underwhelming side. (am I really fixed?.) ".".." "move " "(dir c:\\windows"); True, but then - I feel like I enjoyed the first few standalone episodes less than you did. That episode was such a nice contrast to the... boredom of the rest.

From what I remember I found that episode to be fantastic because it had character-driven elements for a change. I desperately wanted the series to continue like that, but it's back to episodic stuff until the midpoint of the series. However, I have to say, that shootout in the cathedral was amongst the best looking animation I've seen. Everyone on the creative team sure knew how to set a scene and write more interesting takes on the characters, the question is, why didn't they do that more often?

Nitpick: there's no blood in the meat. The color comes from the meat's myoglobin, the more myoglobin it has, the redder the meat is. Meat eventually turns greyish as myoglobin contains iron and is no longer repaired in dead tissue, thus naturally undergoes oxidation. To prevent that, stabilizers are added more often than not, particularily for sausages - a rather common one used is ascorbic acid. Hilarious fun fact: Some sausages contain more vitamin C than (citrus) fruits. Anyway, it's not blood coming out of a rare steak, just water with myoglobin.

That only works if the cliffhanger is a simple sequel hook that does not have to be realized, or if that final episode provides some manner of closure that is a vage 'enough', and what the final episode really does, or attempts to do. Point in case, once again, is Lost, where I was perfectly fine with the ending in spite of what everyone else was raving on about. It served as enough of a closure to the show that it worked for me. It still wasn't a good ending to the series, of course, but it tied the really necessary parts up fine enough. In a way that's similar to NGE's original ending. It provides an ending to all the truly necessary things, just not one to the narrative. That would serve as an amplifier for the issue. On the other hand, it is better for a series to simply end with no resolution than to be retooled and made worse for the wear. Bonus points when it happens to a series that feels like having been specifically created for you and you alone. Sigh. Stupid Kevin Sorbo. I didn't particularily care for Stargate Universe, but the series was cancelled just as it picked up a little steam and had a streak of decent episodes, and it ended on a cliffhanger to boot, because the series creators expected another season, at the very least. Syfy killing Dark Matter? Can everyone involved in that decision please go die in a fire? That would have sucked. Tonight's nightmare: Steven Universe without a proper ending. Ugh.

I originally wanted to post this because YouTube suggested it for rather obvious reasons: Like a minute into this travesty I realized that the "animations" of the video reminded me of Joel Veitch's work, so I just went ahead and listened to some rathergood...ness. Best known and no longer available for licencing reasons, apparently. Sure still is on YouTube, just not from rathergood. I realized my taste in music has changed from the days where this animation was new. I used to listen to Immigrant Song on repeat, but now? Yeah, nope.

Sure, except that feeling of never getting any proper closure that makes you waffle between wanting to scream your heart out, cry all day or put a pump gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. Walking into a cancelled show with a cliffhanger ending? No, thanks. I'd ratner not knowingly walk into a minefield with no equipment to find them.

+1 for tomahawk steaks.

Dry eggs are a slippery slope guys, stop paying attention and you'll wake up eating well done steaks some day. Just say no to dry eggs, and embrace the warm and wonderful runny, gooey goodness. You could try to get a Japanese snack box. There's a pack with all sorts of KitKat flavors that apparently sprang from the mad mind of someone who stopped experimenting on prisoners of war after World War 2 and picked up candy creation. No, you don't want to know what all that is. Really. All those wonderful flavors. Sake, wasabi, maccha (matcha) tea, houjicha (green tea leaves roasted over charcoal), red bean paste sandwich? As for seafood - curiously enough, it's the other way around. I enjoy shrimp sashimi, but most cooked seafood - including shrimp - is nigh uneatable. It's not the taste, but the texture much of it gets by cooking. Outside of (most) fish as long as it is not overcooked, eating it is so unpleasant that I just can't. It's the same thing that makes many mushrooms impossible for me to eat, never mind something that always seems to have an overly chewy texture, like octopus.

CCS' voice acting has a way of really growing on you while watching. Once I had watched Perfect Blue Tomoyo was distracting for a while, and Sakura was kind of annoying at first - until at some point during the episode where she trashes her father's work, it just clicked, and I guess Tomoyo's singing tided me over. Still have to chuckle when I think back to the post about the episode where Tomoyo breaks her initial camcorder and I made the text and spoilers read like the show killed a main character off for real. Could feel the death glare through the screen. Good times. Seems like a decent enough director then, but my watchlist way too long already. Random tangent: my maternal grandmother and her mother once started culling their chickens because they thought they got sick, until they realized that they were just drunk out of their minds from the alcohol-preserved sour cherries they threw on the compost heap. The chickens actually ate them. So, yeah, keep foodstuffs containing alcohol away from children and small animals.

Experience.

Why do people insist on having calls to discuss issues that could easily be explained in a two line instant message or e-mail? Hey, there's a wrong line break in X. Or... - Find a time where everyone is available for a spontaneous call - Send out invitations and hope everyone sees and accepts in time - Set up hardware - Connect - Wait for everyone else to resolve their headset/cam/connectivity issues - Meet and greet even if you've talked to each other for ten thousand times - Smalltalk - Talk about a wrong line break for two minutes - More smalltalk - Goodbyes You'd think these people get paid by meeting count. Sheesh. There's a reason the OSS field manual for sabotage operations suggested setting up as many meetings as possible to bog down decisions and workload.

I can live with that. Probably not. It is hard to explain how groan-worthy the really terrible parts of Tamao Love Story were without the context of the series and the rest of the movie. The worst part about them was that the film was actually pretty great. I liked the characters, the 'plot' (surprisingly, it's a love story, who would have thought), it was thematically great in the way it was in juxtaposition to the events of the series when it comes to depicting Tamako's life as ever the same and suddenly there's a rush of change that she simply never truly perceived. The film is also really, really, really good with its scene composition. And then... then it goes and tries to tell the audience that Tamako is still completely oblivious, by telling her guy-best-friend who she is in love with but doesn't realize it yet (i.e. the entire plot of the film, then and there) that she ran into giant breats at the bath (complete with saying BOING when she does) and wondering if boobie shaped mochis would be a good idea and by grabbing her gal-best-friend's butt to feel if it would make a good shape for mochi rice cakes. Tamako's autistic friend (a character you'd probably love ) even narrates the latter by talking directly at the camera about how we can see the perverted mochi girl going for some fine ass. Well, not entirely in these words, but perverted was definitely a part of it. The breast part at least I could have lived with, to be honest. It's still strange to talk to Mochizō about it rather than to Midori, but if the aim is to show that Tamako is still not thinking about romantic and/or sexual topics in general, which is a huge stretch at her age in the film, but not impossible, then that would have worked. Touching Midori inappropriately in the light of Midori's unrequited love for Tamako is not only degrading to the character, it's downright hurtful for no good reason, and nothing really comes of it either. Overall I enjoyed the film, probably too much in light of that scene. It is such a stain on an otherwise great work. It made me like a romantic comedy, and that takes a lot. Sigh. The film's character models and designs came out of the same factoy as well.

Quotations seem to work now, as per my post above, but parantheses still break the post:

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The text is not disappearing, when you try to post you get a white screen with request blocked: The issue is potentially linked to some validation attempts where the posted string is checked for signs of scripting attacks, because when it happens it is related to certain characters appearing close to a submitted HTML tag and certain key words in quotation marks. Steps to easily reproduce the issue and for further information: Then there's the ever present problem of the forum being hungry and simply not posting what you typed after hitting submit. This is a separate issue from REQUEST BLOCKED, but the current issues can be used to reliably trigger the post eating behaviour. Basically if anything causes a 403 Forbidden error, the next post before reloading the page is going to disappear into the void without error message: