Mick

So, I completed Lucky Star today. You are free to laugh Also, High School of the Dead any good?

Death Note.

He's going to the big Police Academy in the sky. . .

Pretty sure mine is .000 Ruki, is the site (no naming) the one I'm thinking of the one that a mutual friend uses?

Ugh, I totally forgot Golf. At least in NFL the millionaires are beating the piss out of each other

I've always been a big fan of the NFL, and as time has gone by, it's been the only sport I really enjoy. I was raised to love Michigan too, for college, but moving down to Florida in 1989 and having FSU and UF (and occasionally Miami) crammed down my throat just really made me despise it. It's still bad with FSU and UF, even though FSU is shit now and USF is good. With the total clusterfuck that is the BCS, I can't stand college football at all. Others: Baseball: Tampa Bay didn't have a sports team until 1997, and the Rays were so shitty for 11 years, by the time they were good, I just didn't give a shit. Hockey: The Lightning had a decent playoff run, went to shit, then got better. Though I enjoyed the year they won the Stanley Cup, the subsequent lock-out killed any interest I have in hockey. Basketball: I hate basketball on every level. Why? All the asshole kids in elementary school liked it. NASCAR: Always thought it was dumb, gave it a fair chance a couple years ago. Yep, it was dumb. Everything else: Meh.

Finally getting around to watching Samurai Champloo. Hope this is good.

Knocked out Claymore, now debating what to watch next.... Norro and Ruki were right; this was good.

So, I have finally gotten around to watching Claymore, and I've just started the 10th episode. Really enjoying this story, the last episode definitely had a holy shit moment in it. I think my plan until school starts is going to be serious anime, comedy, serious, etc. So, to balance this out, I've got GTO and Lucky Star to choose from , then I'll follow it up with Samurai Champloo or uh Ahem. Gurren Lagaan.

It's the 48 hour rule; Spoilers till 48 hours have passed since the original airing.

It was good in the sense of watching things get blown to shit Spoiler warning here, I will not spoil the actual results, but the new stuff on the show they have.

I still need to watch Brotherhood... I watched all of FMA, then the movie, then started on Brotherhood but stopped because I realized it was more or less the same story (Yes, I know Brotherhood is better, just work with me here), and then I saw how many episodes it was. I decided to put it off Still need to watch Claymore and Samurai Champloo, as well as the second season of Darker Than Black; currently working on Great Teacher Onizuka (When I have time), and debating how much I want to watch Lucky Star Thankfully, I'm done with the semester tomorrow and I have a month to do nothing but wait.

That's one aspect I don't care for much; oh sure, it's an awesome benefit, and it does help make the nations stand out (versus Civ II, where the only distinction they had was how aggressive and eager to expand they were, and even then it didn't matter much), but as much as I love cranking out a shitload of Praetorians and curbstomping the first couple Civs as I encounter, some of them are just plain gamebreakers, and some are just plain dumb. By just plain dumb...unique buildings that expire. Wow, way to stay unique By Gamebreakers, well, the aforementioned Praetorians, and there's already my thoughts on the impact of religion in the game, which is doubly effective by giving you a jump start in your nation as well as being able to totally cripple other civilizations through denial... Maybe they should've thrown in multiple examples of different kinds of religions, limiting each civilization to one from each tech that grants one? (i.e Polytheism grants Pantheism or Hinduism, your choice; there's certainly a lot of ancient religions that can be split into the six techs). As far as specialized units, Benji, if you want sick, you should have seen how it was in Alpha Centauri. You have a Unit Design Workshop; there's a few different basic models for each unit type, and you can specialize it based on the technology you receive. This can lead to insanely messed up units that the designers probably didn't imagine. Take the game's spy unit, the Probe Team. Probe Teams don't require any support at all; as a result, you can design a Probe Team with the heaviest armor you have, and give them the Police special ability, meaning that they serve both as a garrison, anti-spy unit, and makes unhappy citizens content, all the cost of production. The fact that the AI doesn't design any units (they still get new designs, but these are pre programmed) puts it at a serious disadvantage.