Category Archives: Kampfgruppen of Shame

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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 [...]

Also posted in Assorted Anime Reviews | 30 Comments

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 [...]

Also posted in Life | 20 Comments

Premptive Lunar New Year Rantings

By Crusader | Published: January 25, 2009

My Alto-hime was so Yakk DECULTRE that I simply had to have a Hime-Custom of my own. I blame ghostlightning for this he made me jealous. At least that extra scratch I get for being an E-5 will cover it. So yeah my VF-25F Hime-Custom arrived earlier this month and given a small sliver of time [...]

Posted in Kampfgruppen of Shame | 24 Comments

“If I Were To Have That Hairstyle” In Real Life

By lelangir | Published: January 19, 2009

Hynavian did a great post of this from a girl’s perspective, so I thought I’d complement her post with one from a guy’s perspective. Same rating criteria too. Fashion Sense – My personal grading system for the style; whether its original, stylish or just plain weird. [A scale from 1 to 10 where the higher the better] Styling [...]

Also posted in Thematic Studies | 29 Comments

On Courtship: The Legend of the Galactic Suitors

By Crusader | Published: January 18, 2009

Designation: Liberty Prime. Mission: the Liberation of Mankind from Tanuki Propaganda. Primary Targets: Any and All Red Japanese Harem Leads. Emergency Communist Acquisition Directive: Immediate Self Destruct. Better Dead than Red. While it has been some time since I last wrote on this subject it was Stripey’s heinous Jominian efforts to spread a spate of lies [...]

Also posted in Gundam 00, Macross Frontier, Minami-ke Okaeri | 16 Comments

The Team Concept, and You are a Pirate [now with lelangir's brief, appended thoughts]

By Crusader | Published: January 9, 2009

After lelangir poked holes into the notion of a team blog as being a team I started reading about pirates for 18th Century English Literature. Certainly even here at THAT and elsewhere we are not a finely tuned military machine (blog) that ensures the best cooperation between all arms (members). There are many things that [...]

Also posted in Editorial | 41 Comments