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Ahhh, she sparkles

Back this week with less angsty slice-of-life and more perverted Kanako antics. Plus, a healthy dose of Ayari, and she’s quite sparkly~ Just kind of gloss over the lessons on Christianity.

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Why yes I would gladly open that up…

Well it will be the final stretch in the coming weeks for schooling and sadly the lab report on Azotobacter and the English Paper took precedence over Minami-ke. Well I suppose winding down a hellish week with finals in about two weeks. Uchida seems to be hitting puberty with full force last time she was using area denial ops against Touma and now she’s doing recon on Yoshino. Kana has been trying to run female development courses with the primary goal being how to attract men and to this end all of Chiaki’s soda is brought out. I am not sure how the inability to open a can of soda is moe, but I do find in irritating enough that if I see someone one who’s having trouble my multi-tool usually does the trick. Uchida fails at feigning weakness while Yoshino is a consummate actor.  Maki seems to have tried to use that gambit back in her middle school days though it seems she suffered a string of defeats. Atsuko is really that weak and has to ask Maki for help. Maki and Kana lock on target and start hounding Atsuko who promptly GETS FRIENDLY with Haruka and hides behind her. Chiaki returns and snatches back a can of her soda from Kana, like an idiot she opens it and gets a face full of high fructose corn syrup. Kana adriuotly lays the blame on Atsuko and her witchcraft. All in all it seems that Maki, Kana, and Uchida form an unbroken line of succession for BOSS. Still Chiaki is going to get fat after drinking all that soda laden with high fructose corn syrup which bypasses one glycolytic pathway.

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So with convention season reaching a fevered pitch during the spring and summer I thought that it would be fun to introduce the finer points of one of my convention staples, the MRE. Now I know that the thing says COMMERCIAL RESALE IS ILLEGAL, but there is no actual law that I have seen and they sell the things at the Travis AFB commissary anyways so if one wanted to one could get these things, even the manufacturers sell them directly though you have to buy a whole case at a time. Still at about $7.25 (there is a Tailored Operational Training Meal that goes for about $4.22 that has less calories, though is not nearly as impact resistant) a pop it’s not nearly as bad as those hotdogs, hamburgers, and small bowls of chili that the hotel or convention center tries to sell you, I am sure usagijen is going to have a fit at what I am about to say, but there certainly are benefits to having a light weight lunch that is rated to be shoved off C-130s. Besides it tastes just as good if not better than the standard convention food, and at least when you make it is fairly hot and not mildly warm to cold. If you can get a hold of these and your venue won’t have reasonably priced food I’d recommend getting an MRE especially if your schedule is packed, less time spent eating means more time doing other stuff. Besides it’s a better option than eating fast food at every meal or getting that $1.50 1 oz. bag of chips. So yeah I had one that was getting a bit old and decided it would be fun to open it up just for fun.

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I take it that he forgot to lock the door…

Rina: I spent a day at the Eiji’s Studio once in the dark it’s a hell hole, covered in raw sewage, guards breaking some idol’s fingers with a hammer out just out of pure fucking meanness. People die of starvation there all the time. I saw Haruka’s brother in the opposite cell catch a rat with his teeth because they have them handcuffed 24 hours a day for two months. He couldn’t eat, seeing some one do that…he was weeping as he crushed it to death in his mouth. See it in his eyes, his face. It’s madness. He was dead three days later.

Haruka: What killed him?

Rina: Realization of what he turned into.

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From Martin:

Here’s my attempt at irony: a recently-established blog that somehow tries to draw attention to other blogs. Heh. Actually the reason I’m posting the links here is that I’ve started to find I’ve been moving more and more feeds on my feedreader into the wittily-titled Hiatus Disease folder; a feeling shared by others if this is anything to go by. Fresh meat for your feedreader is important so without coming across as arrogant (I know I rule but that goes without saying, right?) I want to see more posts like this one from the rest of you. Hit me with your Recommendation Stick!

Might as well go all out.

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Sherry’s got the Gundam, Hughes is in the truck, and if we are lucky the Zeke will take a Kampfer. If not he’s a loser.

Well I am not sure if this is new or not but here’s some pics some gentle/m/en dug up recently. Well I can’t read moon, but judging by the hubbub it seems it will be a UC series or OVA (HELL FUCKING YEAH UC) and will be set between 0080 and 0083 in 0081. I suspect that the girl Sherry Allison will be the pilot for the RX-78-7. At least the characters barring the Zeke look older than 16. Hughes (Feddie Officer) clocks in at a nice 32 years of age, Sherry at 24 (mai hunni!), and the Zeke twat comes in at 20, though it still seems like a far cry from the old looking dudes like South Burning. Still aesthetics aside I hope that because it is the 30th Anniversary Project that it will be great, after all the RX-78-7 looks like it was based off of Alex from 0080, and the tentative pilot seems to be a girl rather than some pretty boy twat, so the stars might be aligned for this one. Let’s not forget how great things were when a woman was allowed to pilot the only Gundam in her series.

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That should have been Katie’s 3rd Fleet!

God bless democracy! I approve of it highly but suffer from it extremely. This incidentally is not for quotation. – Captain Revive Revival Letters to Anew

Many celebrities and self-appointed authorities have returned from quick tours of war zones (some of them getting within hearing distance of the shooting) and have put out their personal theories to batteries of photographers and reporters. Some say the Federation soldier is the same clean-cut young man who left his home; others say morale is sky-high at the front because everybody’s face is shining for the great Cause.

They are wrong. The combat man isn’t the same clean-cut lad because you don’t fight a terrorist by Marquess of Queensberry rules. You shoot him in the back, you blow him apart with energy beams, you kill or maim him the quickest and most effective way you can with the least danger to yourself. He does the same to you.

He tricks you and cheats you, and if you don’t beat him at his own game you don’t live to appreciate your own nobleness.

If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The Federation Army still had to learn that. The A-Laws understand it. Prince Ali understood it. I always admired Prince Ali. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get the Kurds out of their ruined hovels. – Captain Revive Revival

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