Musopticon?

Nokturnal Mortum - The Taste of Victory yeah, nsbm

Ouran Kokou Hosutobu! It's ragingly hilarious, so you've probably already seen it. Another is KareKano(His and Her Circumstances), just a damned good romance there, with Anno-awsumness. The supporting characters are a hoot as well. As you've probably guessed, right now I'm on a shoujo-binge, just started Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge(Perfect Girl Evolution). Yes, yes! I admit my failure as a man, but I'm having a great time! On the other hand, if you cannot stretch your manhood thin enough to stomach these, there's always Honey and Clover and arguably the best anime ever, Noir.

luv

Yeah, I'm not a Chopin fan as such, I just like the minimalistic touch he has. Beta Satan - Sunken Empire Cleaning Women - Hypercleaner HY-per HY-per, HY-percleaner! HY-per, HY-per, HY-percleaner! HY-per, HY-per, HY-percleaner! HY-per Hy-per, TURN IT ON!

+Transmetropolitan=awsum

Spice and Wolf. Man, it's sweet.

Yet another assumption: No work is currently being done on K3, because these images were released into the net instead of being used in the game development. How's that Jorian? Bold enough?

Yeah, I'm a living, breathing calque!

Chobits is a great manga, it's CLAMP's alumni right there. Can't say much abou the anime though, I heard it has a lot of filler.

Melechesh - Caravans to Ur(+hidden unnamed)

Cleaning Women - Altea

Yeah, I know. There are the players to be considered, however. It's a game, not an evisceration simulator.

11 hours in Eternal Sonata. I freaking love the combat.

Mastodon - Blood and thunder

Wait, what?

Freedom or the Isle of Man! Liberty for

I'm playing Eternal Sonata. I haven't played a jrpg, a challenging one, in ages. That was great!

I'd like to voice an opinion here, perhaps even correct some stuff : First of all, Saxons and Norse(or "Danes", as the group was called back then, despite the region of origin) were from the same root stock of Germanics, but the Saxons you(Nightandshapedude) refer to, the ones that conquered Britain and assimilated the earlier population of Romano-British and Gaels, were by the time that the Danish incursions began(8th century, with Lindisfarne 711) a very different blend of people. Essentially, the cultural synchretism displayed by Anglo-Saxons was complete enough that by the time Danes arrived, the languages had branched off each other completely, cultures had nothing in common when compared to Jutes and Saxcis of the 5th century, etc. True, once the Danelaw was set in and cultural exchange began, borrowing and phonemic change in languages, and constant intermarriages and land deeds in the realms helped the two cultures to blend together. Then again, it was the Danes that got assimilated, not the Anglo-Saxons. Anyway, it really didn't matter by the time that idiot William got mixed in it. Second thing, Christianity's effect on Medieval Europe was two-fold: It was a major force both culturally and influentially. The church, or rather the monastic orders, had worked as shelters of Antiquity. They were the only place, despite several renaissances throughout periods(check for instance the Carolingian renaissance) and courts, that still cultivated written word and actual learning, while the rest of Europe(with the exception of perhaps Byzantium and it's "colonies" like Venice) was pretty happy going gun-ho over whatever plant of land or un-converted tribe was hot back then. Like a culture trips actually, just with twohanders and hauberks. It's true that you really didn't get access to the knowledge without backing or a foot inside an order, but it's not like there was much interest for people anyhow, they were too busy trying to not get killed or eaten by diseases/witches/whatever. However, without convents and monasteries, we wouldn't have medical schools, or libraries or indeed universities, they were the root of learning(once things got a bit more settled and Europe wasn't burning), here in the hinterlands of Eurasia. Cultural depots were one thing, the other wasn't so photogenic: Christianity was an easy banner to huddle under. Just like today, people got mad with religion and alcohol and they usually had some kind of armaments. And they often appeared in massive hordes. It's an interesting thought however, that sword-conversion wasn't started by the Church initially. At the end of Rome, the Empire had practiced a policy of anything-goes and Christianity wasn't preached with swords, it crept gradually into conquered regions, brought in by officers and soldiers alike. Later on, I think it was Charles the Great that started to forcefeed the faith, started with the baptism of thousands of Sax tribesmen held at sword-end. Awful business that, but Charles understood how ideologies could band people together. He wasn't even a devout himself. In any case, medieval conversion was a relatively peaceful matter, in the early periods, when the church wasn't centralized yet and tribal chiefs could baptize their whole realms with just their word. Similarly, the first missions were done by groups of unarmed(unless you call spades such) monks from Ireland and Scotland, into Frankish Europe and Norway. Of course, once Europe started to get borders in place, religion got into politics, which were mostly about succession and wars back then, and suddenly Rome had armies and nothing much to do except start to bust up heretics. Because priests, and especially popes, are people as well. People, who had got their hands in Iberian gold and smelt the heady scent of relics Averroes and Avicenna unearthed. Sorry for the topic devolution, I'll go babble somewhere else.

mo ikkai!

I prefer Chopin. Not that they can be compared, him composing for piano and that bearded thing for full orchestra, but damned I got preferences! Frederic Francois Chopin - The revolution etude

Uh... I just finished Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesman. Absolutely gripping, I read it in two sittings, I could hardly put the book away. My order of Keat's Collected Poems arrived, but I have yet to peruse is, except lightly. I'd actually immerse myself in it right away, if it weren't that the book is in Tampere and I at Kouvola. Currently, I'm in the middle of Moor****'s The Skrayling Tree, my second Elric book ever, it's very decent, even with so little of the albino prince himself. Then there's The Dragon Waiting(a Masque of History), by John M. Ford! Part of Fantasy Masterworks binge, with Lieber and others, this is probably the best thing I had read in months, besting even the latest, very decent, Robin Hobb book. There's just something engrossing about the world and characters Ford has written. The premise sounds like an awful anachronistic history cliche - what if Byzantium didn't fall to Ottomans - but I haven't read so good a fantasy setting influenced by Renaissance Europe since Guy Kavriel Kay's last book - and that had only elements of Italy and Southern France. The Dragon Waiting is such a lost classic, I can't believe I had missed it so completely.

I think it was "last known jedi", instead of just "that last jedi".

Thanks a lot, De, I have a gig of RAM and Geforce 6600, otherwise ours are pretty similar. Now I can't wait for the demo!

It is kind of sucky, to be honest. But not enough to ruin the game for me. Some of NG's platforming was just horrid, especially given the 3D camera. I hate hate hate the Crypt level, just before sacrificial chamber. And Military Depot isn't much better. I hope they streamline it out of NG 2. I mean, let me use the freaking chain staff already! Who gives a heck over bunnyhopping?