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Bryce Fox - Burn Fast (Louis Vivet remix)

Dragon Age Origins I like it a lot so far. I'm playing as an elven mage and it's been an enjoyable ride so far. The only problem is that games in 3rd person apparently make me a tad motion sick And I can't decide who I want to romance. The straight guy's a partially emotionally compromised dork, but the bi girl... I like her a lot too though. ...gonna have to decide soon

I gotta say, it's really cute how positive this thread. The Gundam forums and subreddit are occasionally really negative, and SEED and SEED Destiny get almost nothing but negative attention over there, so seeing people say they liked it and thought it was a nice experience is a nice breath of fresh air. Haven't seen 00, SEED, nor Destiny yet as I'm currently knee deep in UC stuff. I've heard 00 introduces aliens, so I might skip it. I plan on watching SEED, but I might skip out on Destiny because I'm impressionable As for UC stuff, 0079 was alright, Zeta was great, ZZ's been ok so far, Gundam-san was cringey, Thunderbolt's fantastic, 08th MS Team wasn't as good as I was expecting, 0080 was also great, and I have yet to see CCA, late UC stuff, 0083, and the Origin ovas, but I plan on starting the Origin ovas soon and finishing ZZ so I can go ahead and watch CCA, 0083, and Victory (and maybe F91 eventually too)

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B1A4 - Solo Day

Can we talk about upcoming anime here? Orange just got confirmed an anime for this summer. The manga was really good, so I'm excited for the anime. I wonder how much of the manga they plan on covering. They could probably do the whole manga in 25 episodes, so maybe they'll do that....? It just got announced, so there's not much information yet, but I hope they'll cover the whole story. I am however just a little worried because the main love interest is canonically depressed and perhaps the most well known depressed anime character, Shinji Ikari, gets crapped on constantly. (Or at least used to. I've noticed less people giving him flak about that recently) While there is a chance of that happening, I'm more so worried the opposite will happen and this will romanticize depression to a concerning degree. The manga did romanticize it, and while it was irritating, manga in general is less popular than anime and usually only get popular once they recieve an anime adaptation. So I'm just worried the anime itself won't fix that issue and that the soon-to-be much larger fandom (or at least parts of it) will see it being romanticize, think it's ok, and run with it. Or perhaps worse, give off the impression that falling in love will miraculously cure one's depression. Still looking forward to it, but I'm worried... On a lighter note, Love Live Sunshine will also be airing this summer. We know very little about the new characters aside from voice actresses and small bios, but going off character designs alone, I think they're gonna be pretty cool. (..probably excited for Watanabe You and Ohara Mari the most) The plot sounds like it's going to be similar to LL's, but honestly, who watches LL for the plot? The new main idol group will be called Aqours and they've already started being added to the Love Live School Idol Festival app. The main reason I'm excited for them is because the voice actresses were chosen a bit more carefully so Aqours' harmonies sound really good. Muse's harmonies aren't bad, but some of the voices stick out occasionally and just sound off. Some people have been complaining Aqours' character designs are too similar to Muse's, but it's the same art style so it's not surprising some characters might look similar. It's a little disappointing Muse stuff is already being retired so the franchise can shift to being mainly Aqours focused though. And then there's Amanchu. It's by the author who did the Aria series, so hopefully this'll be just as good. I've only seen the first season of Aria, but based off the short synopsis and art style, it just looks like it'll be just as nice if not more. It also sounds like it might be a little gay, just a little. Reminiscent of Class S genre gay. That genre has it's problems, but non-pander-y gay subtext... The third Gundam the Origin episode will be out in May/June too. I think the 3rd episode is going to be mainly about Char and Garma's teen years at the military academy. The Origin ova itself only has the new content from the Origin manga, but, if I'm not mistaken, the flashback(..? I think that's what it is. I haven't gotten to this point in the manga yet) to them as teenagers is a fan favorite so hopefully it'll live up to the hype! Garma's also one of my favorite characters from UC Gundam stuff so it'll be nice to see more scenes with him. I don't think Origin's technically canon, but Garma wasn't given much character development in 0079 so I'll take what I can get. tl;dr summer anime looks really neat, I'm excited And of the things I'm watching that are currently airing, Diamond no Ace had some tense moments in the newest episode and it was great. It also made me realize that the sports genre doesn't have enough drama in it. I hope this means more drama will come into play in the future. The current game against Yakushi is certainly reaching it's peak now that Yakushi's ace, Sanada, has been put on the mound. I'm honestly not really sure who's going to win. Furuya's hurt, and from what I've read, it sounds like he keeps getting hurt too, so without their ace pitcher being able to perform at his best, and Sawamura and Kawakami needing to improve a lot to stand on equal footing with him, it's hard to say how any games Furuya can't pitch in will go. Miyuki's also hurt and Kawakami can't pitch because he sustained a slight injury to his hand. The mangaka doesn't seem to be afraid of making the main team lose either, so the next few episode will certainly be interesting.

Gundam Thunderbolt episode 2 They didn't waste any time and it was just a great 17 minutes. The jazz is used really fittingly and does at great job at setting the tone. Thunderbolt's also incredibly pretty like holy crap Ep 2 certainly upped the grittiness factor and it tread further into that gray area UC Gundam usually sits in of "war is bad, everything is awful, people on both sides, both soldiers and civilizans, are suffering in one way or another. Not everyone fighting for Zeon is a bad person, and not everyone fighting for the Federation is a good person either." And ep 2 especially drove that message home with what happened to Daryl n' all the poor kid's really in need of a break Episode 3 is due out in March and I hope it'll contain more flashbacks since the two in Ep 2 were great and added some background story to the two main characters. It's incredibly disappointing this'll only be 4 episodes long, but it's hard to complain after the first two episodes were such a high quality. If it just keeps going up from here, Thunderbolt might over take 0080 War in the Pocket as my favorite Gundam ova.

Homemade cookies

I see, that's really interesting!

Bastion OST - Setting Sail, Coming Home

...I'm admittedly still a little salty Jessica was seemingly kicked out of SNSD. She wasn't my bias, but she harmonized really well with the rest of the group and songs sound a little emptier now that she's gone.

so cool!

Dear anonymous, You're mad and have every right to be. I'm sorry I've gotten to the point where "sorry" doesn't even mean much anymore because after so many consecutive mess-up's, I've just started to sound like a broken record. Hope you can forgive me and we can work past this. --Glad to hear you've been doing well at least! c: ---------------- Dear anon, You missed our tacky valentine exchange of valentines we found on google images. There were so many puns. u rly missed out --I'll remember this for next year....

When you and your friends unintentionally get into the same show at the same time \o/

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I wonder what this coming summer will be like...

Foster the People - Macchu Picchu

I found out both Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were only 5'5"

"I suppose that's one of the ironies of life, doing the wrong thing at the right moment." --Charlie Chaplin

Fox Stevenson - Another Way Down

That's true, you have an idea of what you're looking for though so that narrows down your search by a lot. Cold showers supposedly offer different health benefits than hot showers so maybe you'll realize you ultimately prefer them You're always too hot or too cold

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