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How Kawamori Trolled Me in IRL – Round 01: Morning Musume

By Crusader | Published: July 19, 2009

Sometimes life can imitate art retroactively….this is the sea story of one such incident. Well seeing as at the time of writing I have been in ordered into a short exile by my employer I might as well rant about all the bullshit I had to endure at AX from asinine panels to the underwhelming Masquerade [...]

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Mecha is magnificent, but it is not war. (A response to ‘War Sucks!’)

By Crusader | Published: March 26, 2009

A Zeon worth fighting for. Well now that work is out of the way and I am currently waiting for orders during Spring Break I am finally able to fully address IKnight’s “War Sucks!” post in a fuller manner. IKnight raises an important distinction between the war sucks theme and the prevalent misnomer that it essentially [...]

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Convention Meals: Getting More Bang for Your Buck

By Crusader | Published: February 26, 2009

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 [...]

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Gundam 30th Anniversary Project: HELL YEAH more UC inbound!

By Crusader | Published: February 24, 2009

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 [...]

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How to Avoid Academic Failure in Higher Education (or How Fancy Lala Changed My Life/Moyashimon Gave Me Over Inflated Expectations)

By Crusader | Published: February 20, 2009

Soon this will all be behind me. So I got the news from my university Dean’s office about a week ago, I’ll get my degree early…but the catch is that I will be getting a B.A. in Microbiology with a minor in East Asian Studies and English, instead of the B.S. in Microbiology with a minor [...]

Also posted in Moyashimon, Random Stuff | 32 Comments

MS IGLOO 2 – The Type 61: This Tank is FIGHT!

By Crusader | Published: February 18, 2009

If only this warhorse had only to fight anything but Zakus… Well after IKnight posted about MS IGLOO 2 I figured I might as well, for those who don’t know each ep is a 30 min love song to a weapon that took part in the One Year War. As a rule there isn’t much of [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day/ Single Awareness Day/Adnan bin Saidi Memorial Day

By Crusader | Published: February 14, 2009

If Impz thinks he can get all rabu rabu while the rest of us are single he’s got another thing coming… – Lord Kitchener So once again it is Kimberley Liberation Day, the anniversary of the beginning of then Major General John French’s attempt to relieve the South African town of Kimberley that was the first [...]

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