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Jan. 25th, 2008 10:07 pmDark green planty hatchling
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Pale green minty hatchling.
Oh, Guardian bless. I am such a nerd. Not content with being hooked to Avatar: The Last Airbender, I've gone and started watching Full Metal Alchemist. Hey, I heard good things about it. And so far it looks like I've done worse.
The thing is, I'm watching free episodes online. Do you know how damn hard that can be?! How much searching I've done? Pisoga, so helpful with Avatar, says that it has the whole set of FMA, but all the videos have been removed because of copyright infringement. So I followed a link in the comments which said it had links to all the episodes.
It was at about fourteen when they stopped working. By then it was too late. The dub is not as good - these translations are excellent, but the constant whining repetition of "Brother" is a lot more annoying than "Niisan". Odd language/culture thing, I guess. Here, sibs almost never actually call their big brothers "Big brother". Nor do we call slightly older males "brother". It's fine in sub, but in dub it's kind of annoying. Also, I hate the dub voices.
I could not find ep. sixteen on Google Video. Well, I could, But the subtitiles were in French. I actually brought up a new window, went to Babelfish, and started translating each line. Such idiocity, such hubris! Agggh. I'm lucky this is such a popular anime; I found more English subs here. They seem to be translated differently - National Alchemist instead of State Alchemist, for instance. Frankly, I liked the first style best; the ones here are slightly cruder. But they seem to have all the episodes, and you know the saying about beggars and choosers...
I was browsing
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baxil
's flist and I saw this... Motivational posters for super villains... heh...
This one just makes me giggle. So true!
Oh... there is a button that lets me LJ-cut right in the menu... Guardian bless, I can't believe I never saw that before. Well anyway, I lined up some of my other favorite posters here. -->
Incidentally, Dead Rising came in the mail. I'm still waiting for "Trials and Tribulations", but now I can't find "Justice For All"! Agggh! I just beat the first game again; where in the nine Corellian hells did the sequel go?!
A thought; when I was little, maybe third grade, I was getting terrible grades in school. My dad took me to this one place in the city, I don't know where. It's not a very strong memory, but they had me do things. Put a block puzzle together while blindfolded and this weird computer-clicky puzzle, that's all I remember.
Years later, they told me that this was an IQ test. I scored high. The "bell curve" of the IQ test puts "absolute average" at one hundred points, "low average" at eighty points, and "high average" at one hundred twenty points. My dad says I scored one hundred twenty. So evidently I'm supposed to be smart.
I don't know. Over the holidays I stayed with my grandmother; when we were at a restaraunt she showed me this little game. It's a triangular board with a bunch of little holes in it, and almost as many pegs. One hole was open. The goal is to jump pegs over each other; the jumped-over pegs are removed. Supposedly, you were very smart if you could make it all the way and have only one peg on the board. Grandma was chuckling over how much time she and some of my cousins would spend at these things, trying to go all the way.
I gave it a try. And I solved it, on my first try. Got stuck for a few seconds now and again, and I had to do some several-step planning, but one try, one solution. Frankly though, I suspect this was a combination of luck and video game savvy. The food came right then; I don't know if I could have duplicated the feat.
If I'm supposed to be smart... shouldn't there be more evidence than that and my mad, leet testing skills-with-a-z? Like... you know, ability to do things that are actually useful?
. Pale green minty hatchling.
Oh, Guardian bless. I am such a nerd. Not content with being hooked to Avatar: The Last Airbender, I've gone and started watching Full Metal Alchemist. Hey, I heard good things about it. And so far it looks like I've done worse.
The thing is, I'm watching free episodes online. Do you know how damn hard that can be?! How much searching I've done? Pisoga, so helpful with Avatar, says that it has the whole set of FMA, but all the videos have been removed because of copyright infringement. So I followed a link in the comments which said it had links to all the episodes.
It was at about fourteen when they stopped working. By then it was too late. The dub is not as good - these translations are excellent, but the constant whining repetition of "Brother" is a lot more annoying than "Niisan". Odd language/culture thing, I guess. Here, sibs almost never actually call their big brothers "Big brother". Nor do we call slightly older males "brother". It's fine in sub, but in dub it's kind of annoying. Also, I hate the dub voices.
I could not find ep. sixteen on Google Video. Well, I could, But the subtitiles were in French. I actually brought up a new window, went to Babelfish, and started translating each line. Such idiocity, such hubris! Agggh. I'm lucky this is such a popular anime; I found more English subs here. They seem to be translated differently - National Alchemist instead of State Alchemist, for instance. Frankly, I liked the first style best; the ones here are slightly cruder. But they seem to have all the episodes, and you know the saying about beggars and choosers...
I was browsing
baxil's flist and I saw this... Motivational posters for super villains... heh...
This one just makes me giggle. So true!
Oh... there is a button that lets me LJ-cut right in the menu... Guardian bless, I can't believe I never saw that before. Well anyway, I lined up some of my other favorite posters here. -->
Incidentally, Dead Rising came in the mail. I'm still waiting for "Trials and Tribulations", but now I can't find "Justice For All"! Agggh! I just beat the first game again; where in the nine Corellian hells did the sequel go?!
A thought; when I was little, maybe third grade, I was getting terrible grades in school. My dad took me to this one place in the city, I don't know where. It's not a very strong memory, but they had me do things. Put a block puzzle together while blindfolded and this weird computer-clicky puzzle, that's all I remember.
Years later, they told me that this was an IQ test. I scored high. The "bell curve" of the IQ test puts "absolute average" at one hundred points, "low average" at eighty points, and "high average" at one hundred twenty points. My dad says I scored one hundred twenty. So evidently I'm supposed to be smart.
I don't know. Over the holidays I stayed with my grandmother; when we were at a restaraunt she showed me this little game. It's a triangular board with a bunch of little holes in it, and almost as many pegs. One hole was open. The goal is to jump pegs over each other; the jumped-over pegs are removed. Supposedly, you were very smart if you could make it all the way and have only one peg on the board. Grandma was chuckling over how much time she and some of my cousins would spend at these things, trying to go all the way.
I gave it a try. And I solved it, on my first try. Got stuck for a few seconds now and again, and I had to do some several-step planning, but one try, one solution. Frankly though, I suspect this was a combination of luck and video game savvy. The food came right then; I don't know if I could have duplicated the feat.
If I'm supposed to be smart... shouldn't there be more evidence than that and my mad, leet testing skills-with-a-z? Like... you know, ability to do things that are actually useful?
