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i made a wallpaper that may be a spoiler for people not reading the manga.

hmm, i decided to play around and so i give you a gift it only took about 5 or 10 minutes.

the last shot looks like murakami is putting his hand inside kenji's head. these latest works would be harder to colour. the way i did the first two anyway. If i were to do these later ones, I wouldn't be able to make it look exactly like the anime, but it would be a lot easier to colour as a result of that and quicker too. because she shaded a lot of it, i would use block colour with not so hard edges and create an atmosphere for it. can't wait to see guyot

i'm the same, got it on rotation. I like this one.

the lamp in that last piece really dominates the left side of the work, and works at balancing out the whole image. at first i felt the domination of this piece of furniture was perhaps a mistake but then when looking at it overall, the balance of the whole image is very pleasant. that lamp is interesting. reminds me of a triffid.

thank you very much, that is most kind and very cool! I won't use the icon as it is, as i feel it is a little bit too overbearing as it currently is. I was hoping for something a fair bit more understated so as not to stand out too much. it is a lovely design though and i totally appreciate the work you did on it. I don't want you to go out of your way to do more on it though, my request was totally on a whim and it's not something I am desperate for. if you decide to work on it some more, that would be very kind and i would appreciate it but I won't expect you to do more.

i think we are lucky in the uk that we don't get the extreme effects of continental weather. it doesn't go as cold and it doesn't get as hot.

what am I supposed to be looking at there? I'm not familiar with the game.

it's possible some of you haven't seen this, it's very thought provoking.

i'm disagreeing again. this time, I want to bring up the issue of word origins and etymlogy. let's look at night. then consider the word nigh. seeing the spelling of a word, let's you know roughly where it's come from and what it is related to. when a word comes from a different language originally, if you can see the spelling you can recognise the word as coming from that other language and it can help in learning new words by decoding it according to spelling and other word relations. if a person knows the word 'recognise' and comes across a new word 'cognisant' and nobody tells them exactly what it means, they can actually link it to 'recognise', but if you start changing spelling of words, you lose that. ------------- base: reactions stem: reaction (s) root: (re) act (ion) (s) a possible simplification of reactions, could be reaxunz. a bit skewed but it serves the purpose. how do you understand the root of the word? by looking at it, you might think of 'axe'? how do people start making links in the language? I do this form of word breakdown a lot, and is how i understand a lot of the new words that i learn. and i mean truly understand, which is different from remembering the dictionary definition. so many people in the world are illiterate and i don't see how messing with the spelling of words would help literacy. p.s. yeah i know this has happened a lot in many languages, english included. who knows if it will happen more. these things occur naturally over time. I see no sense in forcing it though, i only see confusion occurring.

your spelling is normally good though. I'm not sure about having to memorise spelling of certain words (I noticed you spelled ludicrous like that performing artist ; ). my spelling always came sort of naturally. I think as long as you understand how certain words behave in certain situations, you can pretty much figure out the spelling. like.. I know the theory behind ghoti, but actually, in practice, it is incorrect. yes, 'ti' can make a sound like 'sh' but only within certain letter groups. like 'action', or 'station' or other similar words. but at the end of a word, it will NEVER make a 'sh' sound. and yeah of course you are right, there will be different standards of schools all around the place. and of course, my spelling is good but not always perfect. it's why i have a spellchecker enabled on firefox but then you do have to know the difference between words that are Homophones.

I'm disagreeing with you there though dude. the tendency you describe.. to 'simplify' the spelling of the words is seen by many as 'dumbing down' and is probably one of the originators of the myths of 'dumb americans'. now, I know plenty of very intelligent americans, but the general view of people is that americans are stupid. it is the opinion of some people i have spoken to that the american spelling of words exists because the people aren't intelligent enough to spell properly. you could thank this webster person for that. I mean, take these following words. grey, armour, laser, these are not tough for me to spell, and i would imagine that they would not actually be tough for any american person to spell. but these words have been effectively 'dumbed down' probably by this webster person? I see a lot of bad spelling from american people on the internet and i think it is an attitude that spelling is not important. i think perhaps the schools do not put emphasis on spelling and so you get a lot of very poor spelling. if you remove common instances of certain spelling conventions, such as the o-u-r in armour, then when people come across words that have not been altered, you get more confusion. this is why you see non-english speakers, when they learn english, they do it better than native english speakers. reely, iz it eny wunder that sum peepul get it rong? if there not tort proply? anyway, with specific reference to those words you mentioned, the way they are spelled, actually effects the pronunciation. if you spell it kernel, it sounds different from if you spell it colonel. see, with an 'r' in the word, I am prompted to pronounce an 'r', but with no 'r' in it, I do not pronounce any 'r'. I pronounce colonel, very similar to 'cone-l' but the 'o' is changed by the addition of the extra 'ol' it is less rounded and drawn out a bit. is this important or not? well yes. I say of course it is important because when a person says 'kernel' to me, I think of a seed. the pronunciation of wednesday.. well the way that is spelled produces a lightly audible 'bump' in the word. it's subtle but it's there. and if it wasn't there, it would sound dumb. i think maybe it would sound like a child was saying it?

it's been a while, but now i have done it.

heh heh, well (most notably in english), EVERYONE has an accent if you speak like a british person, americans will hear a british accent. if you speak like an american, british people will hear an american accent. even japanese... if you speak to a person who was raised in tokyo and they say you have no accent, then people from kansai will say you have a tokyo accent. although i am sure you would be very skilled at adapting to the accent of the person you are talking to? or maybe you are similar to me in that your accent is very well balanced between all available accents. my accent is actually quite balanced and results in some strangers thinking i am canadian. not sure why they say canadian.. probably because they can tell i'm not american or australian but they think i don't sound british... so they pick an accent they think might sound like british or american and choose canadian which they probably haven't heard much of.

I love accents. I sometimes analyse a different accent and think about the sound they are actually making, is completely different from the sound i make. and yet it is recognisable? very cool. kinda like an advert on TV has some jamaican guys, and the one word i listen to an awful lot is "always" and so i tried to mimic their accent. well taking my own accent into consideration, the noises i have to make to sound like the jamaican guys would sound more like "I'll where's" in my own accent. i suppose to those guys, if they listen to my normal way of saying it, it may sound something like "ole wiz" or something like that.

the English name for some other languages... France - French Germany - German Spain - Spanish Italy - Italian South Africa - Afrikaans Thailand - Thai China - Mandarin hmm.. interesting thought on that last one, a lot of people in the UK would say that Mandarin is the name for the language spoken as the 'official' language of China.. and would think that 'Chinese' would be insulting or somehow improper. however, most of the actual Chinese people i have spoken to, would say their language is Chinese. although, actually the majority of Chinese people i have known have been from around Guangdong and thus spoken Cantonese more than mandarin.

what's this? what, is this the latest episode? oh i think i remember the preview. never mind. i have never had to 'deal with' fillers before. it's no so bad, it's not like the manga has fillers so it's not like i was relying in the anime to get the story. I watch it for the drama and i think fillers can do that good sometimes. I don't care about animation. remember guyver tv? any qualms about bad animation just don't seem to matter to me anymore.

lordspleach, we're not sure yet i think we'll probably get a big post about it when it's been totally confirmed but we did get the character names didn't we? I mean, in those fan videos, they had character names so if we look at their colour, we can guess? i'd like to know too, I'd like to get more information soon.

Gmod idiot box....omfg I'm just thinking to myself 90% of the time "omg why?" and then splitting my sides laughing.

the apostrophe is pretty awkward though. a lot of people have even talked about scrapping it altogether. I'm pretty good with english and i don't even know what stupid rules there are for an apostrophe. see, "its" just seems wrong to me. because it is possessive. and the way i learned, a posessive, is a contraction of "has". so "it has" - "it's" in my view. but apparently i'm wrong. so this compounds the fact that english is awkward. not to mention the bloody pronunciation. half the words come from french, half from latin, half from germanic, half from somewhere else.. meaning that you have completely mixed pronunciation rules.

I'm pretty happy with that video.

i think it is possibly to do with filesize. not the dimensions, but the actual mb filesize. i'm really not sure to be honest. I've never had an issue with it. and i'm actually not sure how to check on these things. the wiki software is very unwieldy when it comes to admin actions and documentation. edit: i checked the website for mediawiki, by default, php does not allow uploads of more than 2mb. dimensions is not mentioned. anyway, i did click on the historical link to the raw file you uploaded. actually the image file itself has uploaded to the server. the issue must be that the wiki software cannot handle it. hell knows why.

english is a very awkward language. every week when i teach english, we have various exercises going over different grammar, verb inflections and all that. most native english speakers do not realise how tricky it can be. it's when your mind is working with a different language, that is when it becomes apparent how contrary english actually is. a lot of people who may have english as their second language, are very self conscious about their ability. even though a lot of the time, their english is better than many native english speakers. an interesting fact for you here... I can not tell the difference between lend and borrow. it's not because i'm stupid or lazy, it is because i am welsh. the welsh language has no different word for lend and borrow. just one word. benthyg. and so anyone who comes from this area simply has no distinction between the concepts of lend and borrow. so even for native english speakers, you will find it's not always simple.

wasn't sure whether to put this in funny videos or not.. in the end i put it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq6IFNWLR4k&NR=1

looks like there is a major error with that file. i cannot view the image, it throws me a blank page. not sure what's happened. I'll need to look for way to clear it. edit: ok what i decided to do was to do a fresh file upload and name the resulting file as guyver gigantic. this overwrote the problem file. the file i uploaded was actually yenstui but now that can be replaced with the correct image. further edit: it seems the guyver systems page had also become corrupt and was throwing me a blank page. i solved this by performing a rollback on your last edit. I don't know what the issue is, but it is possible to review your edits by doing a history comparison. final edit: noticed 2 versions of the same file, one with a capital G and other with lower case g. the second version was causing an issue also in the guyver gigantic page, so I have overwritten that file, then deleted it and replaced the image with hte one with a lower case G. anyway, I restored all pages after clearing up the issue. it should be as you left it. only with a working (albeit wrong) image.