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I think I can say based on my following of the BB10 OS, that it is a solid OS. iOS restricts you to their design while Android allows you to customize. To put it clearly, iOS tells you what your phone should be, while you tell Android what your phone should be. BB10, I think, is a little in between. All that I'm looking for in a phone is just to do the basic functions like calling and sms. All the other features are just plus to me. Well, I do use my phone as a sports tracker, so a GPS would do nicely. But all the common smart phones have all the features that I need. It all comes down to user experience.

Apparently there have been leaked images on the web that shows the ending of the comic. The writers are already getting death threats from fans because of this. Even caused some piracy issues and marvel is investigating this. Man, that's just screwed up. Let's see how long before Marvel reverts this back. Or do you think this is just some publicity stunt, and the actual ending is really different. Man, Doc Ock? Really? I find that hard to believe. I'm guessing this is something similar to how they killed cap.

Well, let's do consider superheroes that ARE married. Superman is married, worked out pretty well. Oh wait, New 52, so he's a bachelor again. Hmm.... come to think of it, aside from the pre-new 52 superman, I can't seem to remember any superhero that stayed married. I think the gauge would be "which superhero stayed married the longest time?". Their spouse is either divorced, estranged, never existed or majority of them, dead. Could this play a major influence on the society of Americans where marriage can be easily dissolved with just a simple paperwork?

I know a lot of people see RIM's Blackberry as a dying platform, but after following the development of the BB10 OS, and having seen the leaked images of the final product, I'm starting to have this urge to want one myself. I find the finish to be very sleek, and having experienced the QNX platform in my playbook, I can say that it is a stable OS that I can be comfortable with. Not to mention that it will be my first touch screen phone if I ever decided to get one. But the problem is I don't want to shell out another $500 or more for another phone since both of my current phones are working perfectly fine. My personal phone, which is my Nokia E66, is already having glitches and can be considered to be replaced, but I don't have a data plan for that line which will make it pointless to go blackberry. On the other hand, this would work very well with my work phone that has a full data plan. But I just got my phone this year and I don't see the necessity of changing phones. Predicament, predicament....

I'd do exactly what Cronos did. Take over the world.

Figuarts are usually faithful replicas of the characters, you can actually call these the official figures of the characters. SIC on the other hand are renditions of the sculptors Takeya Takayuki and Ando Kenji, based on how they imagine the characters, hence the label "Super Imaginative Chokogin". It is how they "re-imagine" them. SIC figures are usually much more grotesque or dark compared to the figuarts counterpart to fit the horror genre. You can clearly tell the difference on the earlier SIC models versus their Figuarts counterparts. But more recent SIC has either toned down their "grotesque" style, or that the designs of the characters themselves have grown "darker", which is probably why you might have difficulty telling them apart.

I've seen the LOTR trilogy and I doubt that I'll be seeing this movie since I'm not much of a Bilbo Baggins fan. Although I'm an avid book reader, I've read the entire LOTR trilogy in just a few pages from the Silmarilion, so I cannot appreciate the movie much.

I prefer SIC over the figuarts. I'd like to expound further, but thinking of toys at the moments upsets me as my favorite PG 1:60 Zeta Gundam had it's antenna broken.

Oh, finished watching episode 24. Looks like the end is finally coming. Also, I think they cut off the Joutenheim part in the ALO arc. That's the place Leafa and Kirito took to reach the world tree. I guess it's not really significant, but would be relevant if they decide to do the side stories of how Kirito "legally" acquired Excaliber.

It's been a long time since Hollywood released any good giant robot movie. Heck, I don't even remember them releasing any good giant robot movie. Robot Jox just didn't quite cut it for me. I'm looking forward to this.

I prefer Bleach, you just can't clean stains with Naruto.

Ah, sorry for the confusion. The cyclops I was talking about is in all new x-men. I got confused with the uncanny avengers. But that young scott and old scott thing is currently in the issues of all new x-men. But yeah, the broody cyclops began after the events in the twelve which altered his personality and prompted his psychic affair with Emma Frost. Damn, Marvel, how many marriages are you going to screw with?

Odin, the thing about cyclops is that he is really a cool guy, a level headed leader and probably a good role model. Krucifer, blame it on Quesada for screwing with Spidey's relationship. I am also in the same opinion that Peter should have remained married to MJ. I actually though that there were hints that they would get back together after one more day. I mean, during that storyline, it hints that MJ knows Peter and is keeping something from him. I'm not a close follower on Spiderman, but can you give me an idea what conditions MJ whispered to Mephisto was?

*shudder* That I would have to agree. Dammit, at least give the guy some peace. I don't see AVX as a heroes vs heroes deal, it's more like cosmic entity vs heroes. The other mutants did find the methods of the phoenix 5 to be somewhat excessive. This is reminiscent of the Dark Phoenix Saga. The phoenix entity did corrupt them and turned Cyclops into what he is today, I guess. I'm interested to see what young Scott has to say about adult Scott. I never liked Cyclops since after that whole the twelve incident with apocalypse. I hope there is someway to bring back the Scott Summers of old. Hopefully the young scott would knock some sense into his older self. I'm wondering if you have any news of our cosmic adventurers. Thanos Imperative was the last I've ever heard of our so called guardians of the galaxy. I became a fan of Nova when I read the annihilation. Hopefully Marvel brings something like that again.

Ever since the new 52 started, I have a distaste for what they did to the DC universe. I mean, how many more times will they have to reset everything? I thought they resolved all these parallel universe with the countless Crisis they had, only to bring them back and then wipe them all out. I just don't get it. Flashpoint was great. I loved it. But after that, meh. I only read Justice League because it was drawn by Jim Lee. After he left the penciling duties, I stopped reading it. As for Marvel, well, I'm quite happy with their direction. AVX was fun and I liked it. I'm a bit torn about bringing cable back minus the techno-virus. Never touched the spiderman issues as I'm more of an avengers/x-men reader. I'm also interested in Spawn, but their comics has been elusive to me. I never did learn what happened to Al Simmons when he blew up his own head. The new spawn doesn't seem to be growing on me. I am following the Savage Dragon. It has pure and simple story telling which I really liked. No sub plots or any of that complicated stuff. Just plain story telling. And also the only remaining image comic that is still being drawn by one of the original founders.

Don't worry. If you want, I can provide you with a comedic script for you to edit just for fun. I actually want to try this new setup. We maintain the html setup, and we do a scanlated version using funny scripts. Let's see if the other sites are desperate enough to host those chapters. Would be priceless to see the faces on the readers while they read the chapter. Of course, we leave those chapters clean of any markings, and put a fine print in the last page of the chapter telling the readers to come here if they want the real translations.

Pretty nifty guyver lego. I love it. I love lego, but is too expensive for me. We had the much more cheaper version of it, the china made "ligao".

Want to screw over those sites? What better way than to do a screwed up translation and force feed it to them? Remember that Colonoscopy bit that Agito had when he had the Navigation sphere? I remember that bit either pissing a lot of people off or making a lot of people laugh.

Ryuki, it's not that I don't care at all about the cause. This kind of thing just happens to me a lot of times, that I have grown accustomed to it. At the moment, I don't have a lot of energy to do most of the things that I usually do, so given that, it would only waste my energy to get upset over something that does not physically affect me. It is also my principle to not do anything when upset, as anger tends to make people do extreme things. Better to calm down a little before doing anything drastic. I'm all for championing the cause, I just don't like to do it in a blind rage. I would agree to the watermark. Being a leecher myself, I don't mind having watermarks on the comics that I read as long as I can still understand what is happening in what I am reading. Also consider the original intent of the Guyver Advocacy. To be honest, when I first stumbled on to theguyver.net, I was itching to read the guyver manga even though I don't have the actual books. Back then, it was hard for me because I don't own the actual books. Since I don't own the books, there is no way for me to read the manga since each volume requires a password that can be obtained when you have the actual books. But given the current resources, such method would no longer be effective simply because raws are readily available when you know where to look. To this day, I have never read any of the Guyver manga aside from the ones that the advocacy gave me to translate. I have not read any of the volumes that does not have my name on it. And I have never stored any of the guyver scanlation in my hard drive. So imagine how happy I was when the TV series was aired on cable television back then. You can see why I translated the TV series despite my apprehension to translating anime. That's how much I support the cause. But no matter how much you support the cause, once you scan, translate, edit and post the manga into a public forum, you are no different from any other scanlation group out there, no matter how much disclaimer you put to buy the books etc, to me, those are just excuses to scanlate the manga. Even this site we are talking about, they have links on the bottom of the manga that allows the reader to purchase the books that shows it supports the author, but look how much we lambaste the site. I am asking, is the Guyver Advocacy better than any other scanlation groups out there? If yes, how so? If we are to maintain the spirit of the original advocacy, my suggestion is to post only the translations, and only host a select few chapter of the manga, not all. If you give all the chapters to the leechers, what would then push them to buy the manga. Come on, do you really expect 90% of the readers of the guyver manga to go out and buy the book given that everything is already in this site? chances are, majority of that 90% won't even give a rats @$$. I'm sure you have the statistics based on the traffic of this site Ryuki. Tell me that I'm wrong. Pardon the blunt words, but my initial reaction to this is neutral and I got worked up while thinking about what the cause once stood for.

I will have to reiterate that anything you posted in a public forum is already considered as public domain. We all chose this path, so it would be lying to say that something like this was not expected. I will admit, after all these years in the service of fans, I have grown somewhat numb and immune to these kinds of things. Be it ripping your work off, bashing your work or any kind of offending remarks or actions, I've already been through all of that. Whatever you do, it's not going to change the fact that it has already happened, and nothing we can do to have it undone. That's the internet for you.

Making it harder for people to get the goods just makes people push harder in acquiring them. It's the bane in all society, everyone wants what's illegal. It also affects the rule of supply and demand. If the goods are considered hard to come by, some people might be willing to pay for a premium amount to get it. And I'm not talking about the actual books. Was the site notified about the scanlations of how the people involved in it feel?

I said that? Well, I probably did but don't remember at the moment. In any case, if guyver becomes popular and the translated manga is put out of the public's reach, somebody else is bound to release a translated chapter sooner or later. You have to admit, the raws aren't exactly hard to come by. Some new group will bound to acquire the raws and do a speed translation. It becomes bigger and sooner or later, they'll end up being served by cease and desist orders from some digital copyright firms. Worst, it becomes so popular that Tokyopop decides to pick it up and screw with the translations. without realizing it, everyone will be calling Sho "Joe" and Agito will be named "Khan" and Alchanfel will be refered to as "Mighty Man". Maybe history will be changed that Guyver Zero drove out the Advents with his heroic acts and the Unit G has since been handed down to generations and generation, only activating once the threat of the "Alien Invaders" becomes apparent again.

My childhood home is not really that far away from where I currently live. Probably about 20 kilometers. Though not that far away, it's already in another city. Going to another country to find a career is entirely different than relocating because of a career. I mean, it is very difficult to find a job when you relocate. Unless you have a job waiting there, I advise you to hold it off. Unless you are really confident that you'll be able to land a job immediately, it might prove difficult to wait it out on a foreign land where you have no one to support you. I tried relocating to a foreign country to look for a job once, pretty much like most of my college friends did. But I had to comeback immediately due to personal reasons. Some of them managed to find jobs in a matter of days, while a few took an entire two months before going back home empty handed. You really need skills and a lot of luck for that. I'm not discouraging you in any way. I am just saying for you to be ready when reality bites you in the back side. And working in Japan? I'd imagine thousands of westerners having the same goal. You'll be having a lot of competition. check out Dannychoo.com. That guy may have had it made, but he may have inherited his father's entrepreneurial skills (His father is Jimmy Choo, you'd know who he is if you are a girl), not to mention bringing with him lots of contacts from his previous works. Business contacts can make you go long ways. Also, what I don't like about him is giving his readers delusions on how easy it is to relocate to Japan. But I have to admit, I am impressed with what he has done.

It so happens that Akihiko Kayaba is that good of a programmer that no one else can penetrate his work. Even after the SAO incident, nobody was able to duplicate his work. I have read the light novel and you are actually right about the involvement of the Government. They did setup an agency specifically for those involved in the SAO incident. Think about it, how else did Kirito managed to find Asuna?

When relocating, you always have to have a reason as to why you would relocate. Also, if you relocate, will you be able to sustain your livelihood to the place you are going to relocate? It is never a good experience if you are forced to relocate. But if it is on your own volition, then it is somewhat exciting at first. You get to see new things, get to meet new people and a whole lot of new experience. If you have a strong tie to your original home, then sooner or later, you will feel homesick. Depending on how deep you missed your home, you might be able to get used to it in time. Personally, relocating due to work is always an exciting part of life. I have friends who relocated and never came back. As long as you get to live the life you wanted and managed to sustain it, I don't see any reason why you should not relocate. If you get bored easily, or tire of things quickly, then I do not recommend for you to relocate. It will only make you suffer horribly in the long run.