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[Bella]

@Kari: I remember reading about that last year.

Superhero comics don't interest me, like, at all. I'm not familiar enough with any to judge them by their stories, though I AM aware that the different series constantly get spinoffs, retcons, retoolings, alternate-universes and series reboots, which would be bound to annoy the fuck out of me. Not to mention the fact that Western superhero comic art has never appealed to me and I tend to despise the repetitive character design ... e.g. big-boobed-and-butted-women-in-skimpy-outfits and ripped tall men in full-body suits of varying tightness.

[Nichi]

I haven't actively followed any current American comics. I like some of them (Deadpool comes to mind), but I tend to lean more toward manga; for instance, I could better tell you what was going on in Naruto, Bleach, or Fruits Basket circa '06 (Going by US releases) than what was going on in Spider-Man, Batman, or other American made series

[Chocofreak13]

when it comes to american comics, the only ones i like come in graphic novel format and are produced by small publishing houses. the big superhero comics have never interested me due to art style, lack of plot or character development, and the awkward tension i get whenever i'm in a comic shop (except for that one that one time, but that shop has closed down since ;^; ). i just never pictured them doing this to STARFIRE of all people. starfire, one of my childhood favourites, being turned into an emotionless piece of eye meat. HER POWERS ARE FUELED BY EMOTION, FOR FUCK'S SAKE. nevermind the wanton attitude she has now; in the series, she was so much more of a hero. i don't consider this starfire canon. they killed her and replaced her with this robot.

that said, when it comes to american comic reboots, that's actually more of a recent invention; with the market being threatened by the introduction of manga in the 90's and the resulting boom in graphic novels from small houses, comics needed to keep up, and the way to do this that they saw was to retool what they had to fit the current generation. ofc, they seemed to think that the "current generation" changed every couple of years, so they retooled them FREQUENTLY. :\

manga is more satisfying all around. there's more character and plot development, and the characters are so much realer than in the american comics. i look at a story like Kamichama Karin vs Batman, and somehow the one about the little girl who transforms into a goddess with the power of her dead mother's ring feels realer. :\
the style is realer, too. unlike american comics, which takes everything TO THE EXTREME, there are average-looking people. fat people don't look like walking bricks or balloons. people with muscles don't look like they're one vein away from completely exploding. ladies don't ALWAYS have huge tits (and even the ones that do are sometimes modest about it).

i think my point is clear. :\

EDIT: guys, check out what i found when i was looking for the pic i included with that post!
http://www.unwinnable.com/2011/04/30/43011-is-the-new-number-of-the-beast/
http://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/power-girl-and-girl-power-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bombshell/
http://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/barbie-is-53-and-im-not-feeling-so-young-myself/
(i love the poem on the last one. :3 )

[Nichi]

Cool links :3

[Chocofreak13]

considering teenage satan is interactive, i'm gonna suggest it to my sister, who has the iphone. :3

[Nichi]

Nice :3

I've considered getting an iPod Touch, if only because the Skype app would likely more useful to me than the PSP version ^_^;;

[Chocofreak13]

i'd like an itouch too. mainly for videos, but the apps they have are nice, too. -w-

[Nichi]

Ah :3

Well, I'm thrown for a loop right now. I went to bed, woke up at what I thought was 4AM, but Asagi claimed it was midnight; making me think my alarm clock was off and leading to confusion over how I can feel so well rested on what was barely an hour of sleep @_@

Turns out it was Asagi that was off; as next time I glance at the clock, she's showing 5:45AM. Maybe I need to swap her other battery...

[Krizonar]

Cheetah, Antares and Sonata need new batteries to keep their clocks going as well, but I've never had much of a problem with it since as soon as you plug them back in and turn them on, they reset their clocks to be right... besides Antares (since she doesn't know what the internet is) , who is surprisingly only one hour off so I think her internal battery may still function to some extent.

[Chocofreak13]

the reason speedy died the first time is because i tried to replace the cmos battery. ;^;

[Nichi]

The only members of my fleet I ever had to replace a battery like that in where TARDIS and Bulbasaur. All the others, the Yeti and it's funky "real time clock chip" included, have been fine

[Chocofreak13]

all of the computers i've encounted have had a cmos of some kind. :\

[Red-Machine]

He means that the batteries in the other machines never ran out, so he had no need to replace them.  I've never had to do it myself, either.

[Nichi]

Red explained it for me, while I was typing this ^_^;;

But, while most every computer I've run into uses a watch battery of some kind for CMOS (Generally a CR2032), the Yeti uses this weird thing called a "Real Time Clock Chip"; which I've never seen in any computer before or since. It makes me weary to think of what will happen when that chip finally dies; will I even be able to find a replacement without buying like 100+ of them from the company I stumbled onto? I mean, if that chip has lasted 16 years so far, I doubt I'd need more than 1 additional chip on hand

[Chocofreak13]

who knows. :\

to make up for it, have some reaction images, courtesy of my favourite (remaining) drag queen, Sharon Needles:






(she's won more main challenges than any queen on the series yet!! >w< )