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Relaxation by °Tens 19 hours 22 minutes ago

Relaxation by °Tens 19 hours 22 minutes ago

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As an animation, Bakemonogatari has a simple, clean art style. But the guest illustrations for the series are anything but simple! So, it's great to see that °Tens took on a more complex illustration and made it his own with vector gradients so fine at points it more resembles painting that vectoring. Do have a look at this beautiful wallpaper!

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~Lelouch-0 12 minutes ago
I am doing really good today just wished i didnt have to work lol. But the bad thing is that I start at three and i have to get going now. So it was nice talking to you.Bye bye lol I'll see you later

~Roxie-Rae 16 minutes ago
So lelouch, how are you doing?

~Lelouch-0 19 minutes ago
Buh bye I start soon too

~Roxie-Rae 20 minutes ago
Bye kitty.

~kittylove 20 minutes ago
Well i'm gonna go for a while, bye guys

~Lelouch-0 24 minutes ago
Hello (n_n) lol

~Roxie-Rae 26 minutes ago
Hello...yes we are sistas.

~kittylove 26 minutes ago
Haha! yes this is my older sister, roxie-rae

~Lelouch-0 26 minutes ago
Wha? you have a sister. I've been goone a long time.

~kittylove 27 minutes ago
Oh good. meh i dont think so

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amai's Comments

Question

4 years 3 weeks ago

"If you want to integrate a background you would do it in the css.

Hover over User on the top, click on "Customize Userpage"

Find
body {
background: #A9BAC3;
font: 76%/1.5em Trebuchet MS, verdana, tahoma, arial;
color: #66737B;
}

Change it to:
body {
background: #A9BAC3 url(http://www.blahblah.com/yourimage.jpggifpng);
font: 76%/1.5em Trebuchet MS, verdana, tahoma, arial;
color: #66737B;
}

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp will help you out a bit if you want to do more with it.

xenohawk posted a thread about customizing your userpage further in General Discussion, so try there first if you have any additional questions."
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What programs do you use for graphics and website making?

4 years 1 month ago

"(Not sure if you still need answers, but just incase as your talk is on Wednesday)

I use Adobe Photoshop CS or CS 2 (depending on which computer I'm at) for all my design. I use Adobe Illustrator a little more now that I've figured it out. However, straying away from Adobe - I can't stand GoLive and try to avoid using it if possible for coding.

For web coding (php, html, xhtml) I use Notepad or Dreamweaver. If it's complicated, I lean towards Dreamweaver, especially if I'm re-coding someone else's work. Less chance of making mistakes. For CSS, I generally use notepad exclusively, because Dreamweaver doesn't really add too much to helping with that. "
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broken uploads leading to bad downloads

4 years 1 month ago

"Both of those scans worked fine for me."
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OCTOBER '05 RELEASE DISCUSSION

4 years 1 month ago

"Looking through the other thread, there doesn't seem to be much to be excited about. Probably because several are sequals and I never saw the originals.

Mai-Otome is the only one I'm definatly downloading. Hopefully it'll be just as interesting as Mai-HiME even if it's missing a few key aspects (and characters T_T) of the original series.

Was To Heart TV 1 any good? I adored the OVA, but heard mixed reviews about the TV and decided not to check it out.

Mushishi - The description is interesting... in some aspects. It seems like one of those shows that can either be really good and take you by suprise, or way too out there and be a flop.

Otherwise, I'm not too sure, this series seems to be lacking in the anime I generally watch. Although there are a couple other titles that may prove to be interesting like Paradise Kiss (I haven't read the manga, but I have a few friends that adore it).

I am going to miss Honey and Clover."
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Evolution VS Intelligent Design

4 years 2 months ago

"
I never said its been proven. If I have, I lied. It is SUPPORTED, not proven. The beggining of the world can never be proven, because we were not there. But TD is much more supported then Evolution. Supported means it has facts that lead to the logical conclusion of said idea. And that is what I was saying.

Now, I cannot prove God, and I have no desire to be the next pope. Nothing can solidly be proven. If you can solidly prove Evolution, please show me these facts.


ID can't be proven, as you said, as well as it is not testable - which is the key. It isn't falsifiable (a proposition or theory cannot be scientific if it does not admit the possibility of it being false) and that is even admitted by a supporter of ID. Evolution is falsifiable, which is why it's accepted as a scientific theory and is testable. As far as your previous comments, I'm really not sure how ID is even supported mathematically.

However, I would love to see actual support (as in not people saying it's the real deal) for ID. I haven't been able to find anything perousing the web. Everything I've found has had fairly solid arguments against it. Publications, peer-reviewed are necessary, especially in the scientific world.

ID generally referrs to some super intelligent being that controls what happens (be it the pyramids, stonehenge, etc.), however it has been adopted by christians and that may essentially be it's downfall. But, even if a super intelligent being did exist... how did they come to exist? Granted, you can argue on the other side and ask how did atoms come to exist and form the universe as we know it today? Even through asking those two questions, even though they can't be answered, I'm more apt to believe natural selection over ID as the super intelligent being had to come from somewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monsterism (just because)

(and, I did look at a bunch of other websites ^_^)

Evolution is supported through the fossil record, DNA, amongst other methods. (I'd expand more but I really should get back to reading peer-reviewed literature for class, perhaps later)"
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Hurricane Katrina

4 years 3 months ago

"
When I saw the weather channel, I thought the Katrina was going to hit Florida from the path but I guess it made a swift turn towards Louisiana. I hope the citizens in Louisiana and in the other states that were hit are okay.


While it did hit south florida as a category 1, I was definatly afraid that it would do a sharper turn and come for north florida. As selfish as it is I'm glad it didn't since that's where I am right now. x_x 2 last year was enough for me.

Hopefully the damage is less than expected (although, there is definatly damage of things that they weren't expecting - levees, superdome) and the death toll doesn't go up much more."
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Yotsuba!

4 years 3 months ago

"Links?

I still can't find anything about it anywhere, even on Azuma's site and he's the author. Just need something solid 'tis all."
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Yotsuba!

4 years 3 months ago

"... Since when has Yotsuba&! been made into an anime?"
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Evolution

4 years 3 months ago

"
Darkbread
Ok, explain to me how intelligence came forth from non-intelligence? How did self-consciousness come from something that which had no self-consciousness? How can an animal suddenly evolve into a human? It's illogical, stupid, and a waste of time. Admit it: evolution is completely flawed and no matter how much you try to prove it, it's a waste of time. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of species evolving into another species. There is no progression in the fossil record from simple to complex.


Are you saying humans are the only species on the entire earth that have intelligence? Apes don't have intelligence? They seem pretty intelligent to me. Their ancestors may have had less intelligence, their ancestors may have had less and so forth. Think of it as a backwards cascading affect. In the end we're all made of cells. If you look back, there's single celled organisms, then a cell with another cell inside of it - mitochondria so on and so forth.

Elephants have self-consciousness. They know when they come up on the bones of another elephant. They act sad and turn the bones over with their trunks. Do they do that for bones of other species? No. How do they know? Why do they act like that?

Let's turn this around and do the exact same thing you just did:

Please prove Creationalism to me. I would like to see hard evidence. Then and only then will I leave evolution behind. But - all you can provide me with is a book. A book that some are thinking twice about because they're asking questions about it "who wrote it?" "why doesn't this make sense?" How come all these people lived to be 900+ years have tons of kids, yet we can't survive to 100 for the most part without the aid of medicine.


Darkbread
I think I've made my point...


Really, it seems like you're a kid who's taking a class that's teaching you evolution and you refuse to even try to understand what it really means. Keeping an open mind as tate said will help you. You'll be able to see things around you on either side and actually form arguements that make sense. Not being able to even accept, scratch that, understand other things will hinder you as you won't be able to have a civilized conversation about anything.

Want me to admit evolution is flawed. Ok, fine. Happy? It's a theory! But ANY theory is inheritantly flawed. Creationalism is as imagineer pointed out.


RiceBoyInuyasha
Probably aliens from other planets are laughing at us when darwin said that making us look like lowlifes from a backwater planet.


Uh... how did the aliens get there? Funny, that's nowhere in the bible. (sorry, just had to ^_^)"
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Evolution

4 years 3 months ago

"Wow, how did I miss this thread?

Hi. I'm Amai and I'm a biologist. Oh wait, I also have a high respect for religion. Shocking eh?


Ryuu
yeah. . . if apes evolved into humans, then that means ALL apes evolved into humans, which in turn means that there would be no apes today... any apes that had a disorder and didnt evolve, would be long dead


Not necessarily. It could have been an isolated population that evolved into our ancestors. The theory doesn't specify that ALL of a species evolves into another, it's just a sub-population. It may have been the particular apes that had the disorder that evolved into our ancestors.


5stringDNA
All you have to do is look at the statistics for violent crime, promiscuity, STD infection numbers, and divorce rates, which all have gone up steadily since the mandatory induction of Darwinian theory in the public school system. If you eliminate the possibility of some higher intelligence, then you become responsible to only yourself and whoever can control you by force- people are full of themselves and hate being under authority, especially a universal authority, and that's the real issue when you boil down all this crap.


Uh, what? That makes no sense. There were wars and other hardships prior to the Darwinian theory. You can't accuse the introduction of Darwinian theory into the public school system of being the cause of what's going on today. There's alot more factors that affect that. Origin of Species was published in 1859. That's almost 150 years ago. The stuff you're accusing it of causing should have then started happening earlier. Much much earlier.



Darkbread
Furthermore, I don't believe in Darwinism at all. And there's definitely no proof whatsoever that evolution is true.


In all honesty all of these things are theories. They are meant to be pulled apart, looked at and put back together again in a different way. Creationalism is also a theory. We can't be certain of what happened. I believe in the theory of evolution. Why? Because there is more proof than there compared to creationalism. It makes sense to me. I've argued this point every which way. However, I don't knock people who believe creationalism is the one and only truth. (I just get annoyed as they are often ones with closed minds and don't accept any arguement other than their own "
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My Fisher Price First Wallpaper

4 years 4 months ago

"Ah, you don't need a grunge style, the style you used is fine as is (at least I think so XD)

You said his thoughts are all compacted on top of each other, why not compact the text more the phrases are way too far apart to go for the impact you're looking for. The text was compacted in the first version, but it was spaced equally. Maybe compact some of it, and space the last couple phrases out further from the rest. If that makes any sense at all."
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Manga Scanlations

4 years 4 months ago

"
==;; no one seems to have mermaid melody pichi pichi pitch scanlations .. >.<



http://mangaart.glasscastle.net/ has some, just the first 6 chapters though.

Does anybody know where Snoopycool went?



Seems their website is now one for pools :/ But their IRC channel is still up and well. #Snoopycool@irc.irchighway.net"
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abortion

4 years 4 months ago

"I am strongly pro-choice. Answering Wirhe's questions, they become life when born. I'm not for abortion after a certain amount of time (second trimester +).

Rape. Full choice. Heck, it wasn't the females fault.

Having unprotected sex, yes, it's stupid, but there's usually reasoning behind it. Kids may not be educated enough to realize what they are doing and what the repercussions can be. Don't schools allow parents to pull their kids out of sex education classes? These kids could be the same ones that haven't learned what happens.

A 14 year old having a child more often than not destroys both her life and her childs. She's not ready to have a child, she can't support it on her own, can't finish school to get the education needed to support it. The dad could be long gone and her parents might not support her. There's so many things that can be against a young mom.

Adoption is always an option, but you have to find someone that will take care of the child. There's alot of children in orphanages already though that would love to have a family."
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Have you guys ever watched porn on purpose?

4 years 4 months ago

"
bible black ALSO had a good story xD


lol, I watched bible black on purpose at a convention last year. I left a bit of my innoncence behind that early early morning.

That's actually the only hentai I've seen. On the other hand, I have seen a good amount of Yaoi. XD"
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some bugs suggestion with the scans

4 years 4 months ago

"
does official mean that only the artists who drew the anime character originally are the only ones able to produce them? or i should secure permission from someone?


You can draw fanart of the anime characters - just not submit it to the scans gallery here. I'd suggest uploading it to photobucket or your own webspace (if you have it) and sharing it in the fanworks section. That way you can get comments and criticisms on your work from members here. ^_^"
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Fruits Basket "What if" question

4 years 4 months ago

"There's only 17 (18 by the end of this year) books out so far... and... nothing concrete about Tohru and Kyou :/ Although...

Yuki x Kagura... doubtful. There's not even a hint towards that, ever.

If you've only read up through 6 so far... there's a whole lot more that you haven't even gotten to yet. Read up ^_^, heck you haven't even touched on the red hat very much. 10 was just released states-side."
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What's your favorite music instrument?

4 years 4 months ago

"Clarinet. Playing it for more than 13 years definatly made it my favorite. I also love the oboe.

There's something about reeds that I love. Most of the time I'm not a huge fan of the piano, it's too boring to me."
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where can i download Gravitation manga????

4 years 4 months ago

"Couldn't you just have the library get it for you through inter-library loan?

Or... as much as I hate when people do this - read it at the bookstore? If you really like it, you ought to buy it."
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Robot name!

4 years 4 months ago

"Mine would work perfectly alongside Dias' when he goes to do some sabotage:

Artificial
Machine
Assembled for
Infiltration"
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Manga Downloading sites

4 years 5 months ago

"
I'll also say this, people should stop asking for manga that's licensed.

Kare Kano: v10+ - there were only a few chapters of v10 scanlated and then M-U stopped doing it. No one has scanned the domestic released.


XD I was just going to say that.

Anyways, the best place to look for series that are being translated is http://www.manganews.net/ . They list where you can find nearly all the series that are being scanlated that are not licensed. It's actually a database of most manga titles, there will be some that have no information and others that will tell you what is and isn't licensed."
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Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle

4 years 5 months ago

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I know that the manga was supurb, which was differnet for me because I had never heard of CLAMP and all that other stuff. I never really liked Card Capture Sakura (i thought it was a girl show), so Tsubasa really suprised me. As for the anime, I've happened download episode 5 before the first four. I still waiting for them to download, but they say patience is a virture.


Tsubasa technically is a shonen (for boys) series, so that's no suprise. ^_^

I still prefer the manga over the anime by alot. I'm still bothered by how much energy Sakura has - it makes no sense, in the manga she kept falling asleep at random times and in the first couple worlds she was just there!! There are a few parts in the anime where they go into more depth than the manga did, eg. Chun yan's world with her mom which was neat. "
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Cleaning up scans/extracting images from scans

4 years 5 months ago

"There's several ways of doing it. One is to re-vector everything, where you trace the outline of a character and re-color it in photoshop or illustrator. There's a few sites with helpful tips on how to do that. Tama-neko's page at http://www.vectorage.com/ has lots of examples and some tips on how to do that in illustrator."
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o-o Yakitate Japan = bread

4 years 5 months ago

"I started reading Yaki!pan about a year and a half ago at the poking of one of my friends. Yeah, ok, a manga about bread, no way it can be good. Since then I've been getting as many as my friends to read or watch it as possible. One's being stubborn though.

It's great. There's tons of off the wall comedy in it. I often refer to it as a spoof of sports anime/manga and iron chef. Definatly worth checking out if you want to get into something that isn't filled with drama and mechs. Oh wait. There's a chapter with mechs in it. So... ignore that last part XD.

The only bad thing about the series - it makes you hungry for bread."
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The 4th of July!

4 years 5 months ago

"I've got two parties to go to this weekend. The one tomorrow I think there's going to be like 70 people at. @~1@ But there will be fireworks at both, and a bonfire at one! ^_^

On the actual 4th... no work, but I think I'm going to Miami and building a model of howl's moving castle http://www.i-love-epson.co.jp/ec/event/howl-circus/ . Then maybe some fireworks on tv XD"
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xxxHolic

4 years 5 months ago

"Tsubasa includes characters that look like characters from their past stories. So... there's a version of Chi, several characters from X, CCS, Clamp Campus Detectives, Rayearth, etc. xxxholic doesn't pull many characters so far. Just when the characters from Tsubasa (Tsubasa, CCS, Rayearth) stop by and with Mokona (Rayearth) and Clow (CCS).

If you want to get the most out of Tsubasa and xxxholic I'd recommend reading their other manga, just so you know the other characters that show up. But - it isn't necessary. They don't link up like xxxholic and Tsubasa do. I like knowing about CLAMP's other stories and how they fit in Tsubasa just because it's interesting to me."
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