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After months of work, chanelqueen17 has created a gorgeous scene of Alice and Oz from Pandora Hearts, using scans that didn't even feature both characters together. Even after spending so much time on matching the details of the characters to their new looks, chanelqueen17 didn't stop there and went all out on the background too! This wallpaper definitely needs to be seen!
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☆Bantam
29 minutes ago
Bacon cheese burger was here and I missed it! T_T
$virus9009
44 minutes ago
meh meh
~baconcheeseburger
1 hour 56 minutes ago
Hey guys!!
~SereneMidnight
2 hours 36 minutes ago
I sort of agree with rabbitking. I lik popcorn as much as the next guy, but I hate the kind that's over-buttered.
~Loleta
2 hours 46 minutes ago
I kind of agree with Rabbitking, I don't popcorn. But rabbitking, that sounds kind of harsh.
$rabbitking
3 hours 4 minutes ago
I hate the smell of popcorn because it's associated with fat slobs shoveling handfulls of popcorn into their mouths
~Loleta
3 hours 12 minutes ago
Hello again Mysticmom2. Rabbitking, Libby is an nick name for Loleta (doesn't make sense, I know).
~Mysticmom2
3 hours 16 minutes ago
Hey everyone!
~Loleta
3 hours 24 minutes ago
....I'll ask Loleta (my little sister).
$rabbitking
3 hours 28 minutes ago
I did ask that, loleta.
Would you date your self?
1 week 5 days ago
"I would never date myself - even if I met a similar female counterpart. I don't really know why, but I don't like myself (okay there are different reasons I'd rather not talk about on here, but the main reason is none of those). If I were dating myself, the only thing I'd be doing is agreeing on this, agreeing on that... and that's (from my experience and from what I read and heard) not really what a girl likes.. besides you can't have a proper chat if you're agreeing on pretty much everything.It's pretty good to have some hobbies or things one does or has in common, but it's also good to have some points where you totally differ - not the most important ones, but stuff like food or favored color or even hairstyle or actress/actor/movie etc.
It causes the relationship to become more lively in my opinion.
divStar."
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How important is money to you?
2 weeks 4 days ago
"I know it sound's clichee.. but money is actually not everything.Money is - without a doubt - VERY important. It helps you manage daily stuff. And depending on how much money you have you can go either easily through your life - or not so easily.
I've never been spoiled, so I'm not rich. I had a rich girlfriend once and it felt .. so unreal.. as if you'd have cybersex :< which also (probably) feels unreal. Almost all of my "wishes" were easily granted.. but if they are easily granted, one doesn't really know the value of the item. It's the same with items inside a multiplayer online roleplay game. If you buy items (or money) off a botter, you don't really know its value. And the items you purchase later on don't mean that much to you.
So yeah.. money is important.. but it's important to keep standing with both feets on the ground so that you don't forget how to value items, relationships or anything else.
I'd also like to have some more of this good (money) so that I can buy something sometimes and don't have to count almost every euro I earn. But then again.. if I remember how happy I was (and still am) when I bought the playstation portable for my earned money (I don't get financial help from anyone). I still value this item (psp).
And finally there's stuff you simply can't buy with money. You can't buy true love - if you are rich, you can buy the feeling of being in love (maybe), but as soon as you don't have enough money to pay the girl / guy - he/she might simply drop you. That's what hardly would happen if you'd be really in love.
Money has to be there, but stay what it is: a help to get through life. Not more, not less.
dS."
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Vote here for VectaDesu Contest #2
3 weeks 2 days ago
"I love 6 and 1.6 is just pretty.. I love I''s and it reminds me of Video Girl AI a lot (for some strange reason). I'll consider using it in a wallpaper.
As for 1 (Rei) - she's a classic. Her pose and suit are too. She's very pretty and looks cool in BW or color. In this case: absolutely clean vector with a soft, outlineless touch to it.
However: all works here are great. It was hard to decide and as to the quality - probably every one of these vectors has amazing quality to it. The decision was really only about personal preference. Good job all of you :)."
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Do you agree or against pirating
4 weeks 1 day ago
"Well .. most of the things here have already been said.However: I believe this is really an important question as due to this "problem" especially european governments cut the human rights of their citizens.
It's correct that piracy - in general - is a problem. But it's wrong to count the way the music industry and all the other industries do: every downloader was a potential buyer. It's just wrong.
First: why the hell does the industry have to trick us into buying a pig in a poke? Why aren't we allowed to fully test a product before we actually decide on whether to buy it or not? If it's software, I demand the software to run 30 days at its full potential. If I don't like it by then, I'll uninstall it - if I do like it, I'll most likely buy it.
If it's a song - I want to listen to the full version! And several times even. And that applies to all songs. I want to be able to grab the songs I like and only pay those - or just delete all. I don't want to pay an album just because I like 2 or 3 songs out of it.
I don't want to be paying cinema tickets for a movie I am not convinced in. I want to be sure that I'll like it before I go there - the tickets cost about 10euro (7-12euro) depending on where and how. This is a huge lot and thus I can't afford to be let down. The problem is: this is VERY often the case. The reviews are not enough though, because a movie like "Kei hei hup (metallic attraction)" was considered pretty shitty, but I'd have watched that in cinema if it were here, because it's awesome in my opinion. Trailers lie pretty often as well (e.g. Terminator 3, which was a huge let down).
So if you consider all this.. then you can say that the piracy is not one-sided - the media pirate us too, they take our money and promise us everything just to lure us into cinemas or into buying music just from listening to 30 seconds of it (or only particular "good" songs, while making us pay for the rest as well).
If these media groups don't change their attitude and distribution systems - nothing will ever change.
I do pirate stuff - especially, because it's easy to get ones hands on it if you're russian. In Russia (or Ukraine for instance) you can buy software on original looking (not burned, but factory-pressed) CDs. They contain keys, cracks and whatever it needs for the software to run.
However: I earned a huge lot by using Photoshop and thus I already bought PSD CS1 - just because it's incomparable to anything (yeah I know many of you folks will start saying "take a look at Gimp, Paint.NET, Corel Painter" etc.. I did - it all is not nearly as productive as PSD is). I invested some hundrets of Euro into that, because it's intuitive (not easy to use, but easy when you know how stuff works) and the results are industry-standard.
I further got a legal license of Windows 7 and Office 2007 - simply because the software is good in my opinion (and it was cheap at that moment).
So bottom line is:
if the music and video industry wouldn't mock us and would make interesting movies and good music and offer fair pricing models, I'm sure there would be less need to download torrents. People would buy the songs they want while trying all songs. I wouldn't even want to spare some space for songs I don't like - so I certainly wouldn't keep them.
As to anime: just an example: Mai HiME came out in Germany about 2 years later than I watched it from Static-Subs (and I downloaded it when it was already finished) --> about 2,5 years difference... this can't be - or this shouldn't be.
Another thing is: all people talk about globalization etc. But how am I supposed to buy stuff if I don't know Japanese and don't want to pay those horribly high shipping costs? I saw but one DVD (Japanese R2, Tenchi Muyo in Love! Special Edition, 9600yen originally, I payed 70euro) that offered English audio and subtitles right off the Region2. This shows how ignorant the Japanese are. They are not really interested in selling the shows world wide - except they are already very successful in Japan. So I don't feel guilty in the slightest if I pirate those movies/anime and don't buy them from ADV or something. ADV themselves offer bad synchronization and subtitles - most fansubbing groups have better fansubs and those are even colored.
So as long as Anime DVDs that come out in Germany won't have simply amazing advantages in terms of translation- and sub-quality as well as dub-quality over the fansubs, I'm not buying any of those. I'd rather donate to a fansub group or even buy a bootleg (need to be careful here though, because many bootlegs are pretty to look at, but the quality sucks TERRIBLY - best example was Ayashi No Ceres: nice box, shitty video quality, just average audio quality and utterly bad subtitles).
Sorry for my long opinion - but that's just what I feel about this topic.
dS."
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Why do guys prefer long hair on girls or is this an incorrect generalization?
1 month 3 weeks ago
"It really depends on the girl's face.There's another approach to it though, a scientific one. At least in Germany scientists tried to figure out if it is possible to completely predict who matches who the best - and why.
In our past, human tended to chose their coupling partners by looking at their body or listen to their voice or even smelling someone. So when women started to walk straight, it wasn't enough to just attract men (coupling partners) with their hips and well - her sexual organs. Thus their breasts grew bigger (that's why many male people prefer big breasts over smaller ones, because smaller ones seem to resemble a child rather than a mature woman (which is wrong, but that's how it is)).
I somehow guess that this very situtation is also applicable for long vs short hair. It adds to it that girls, who have a short hair cut, really seem to tend to be rather masculine than fill the traditional caring mother figure.
I personally don't have a preference in this matter. If a girls face - you might think I'm lying, but I assure you I don't - looks beautiful and meets my taste, then I go for her character and then for her body. Actually I would lie if I said that character comes first... you have to like the person you talk to - and this is achieved best if the person you talk to looks cute (that's my opinion though).
There are beautiful girls with short haircut - and some with long one too.
As to anime characters: Ai Amano (Video Girl Ai) is one of my most favorite girls - and she has a short hair cut. I also do like e.g. Black Lagoon - where the girls rather have long hair (same applies for many other anime too).
But in the end I think it's all a matter of taste... it's just that there MIGHT be more men liking girls or women (real life or not - doesn't matter) with long hair than those liking girls or women with short hair. I think however that these men often don't chose on purpose, but rather their instincts choose for them.
my 50 cent :),
dS."
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Vote here for VectaDesu Contest #1
1 month 3 weeks ago
"First of all: GREAT WORK EVERYONE!Really... in terms of a normal vector every vector here wins. However... I've chosen #9 and #11 as the vectors I'd like to vote for.
Reason: the hair of the girl in #9 is simply splending! Amazing gardients create the illusion of #9 being a scan rather than a vector (of course there are parts where one can see that it's a vector after all). The author did an amazing job on post processing the vector.
#11 is simply unusual in my opinion. It has an interesting, almost drawing/painting style and thus is one of my favorite.
The other works are nice too, but I had to decide soo... :).
I'd need to get those onto my hdd ^_^;; but I won't be using them in a wall anyway, because I think I became rather a collector over the years.
dS.
EDIT: added #4 to my fav list.. so it's now #9 (my most favorite), #11 and #4."
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