I would've guessed she was fine. I mean too kill her off in a way that's so anti-climactic would be rather stupid.

This is the only time i wish i could read the moonrunes, there's something going on between the clone girls and Tsumugi, and some probably evil plan by Ochai or w/e his name is.

Btw did you know the clones had pink hair? i didn't, thought they were blonde the whole time.

I'd say less evil and more focused on survival regardless of the cost. It's more based on morality and ethics whether it is evil or not, but I assume he has a plan for the likely survival of humanity at the cost of part of what makes humanity human. It's a very common cyberpunk theme which is why I'm putting it as my guess.

And yea, I thought they were blond too, that's kind of weird to see them like that now.

Have you seen the raws for chapter 45? he looks like he's planning something evil, although he always looks like he's planning something evil, i thought he was going to kill everyone when he made Tsumugi so who knows.

I told you it was the best one, did I not?

6 is the worst one so have fun with that.

I is good.

Ya, I kinda just stopped going to the Skype chat, and I don't like going to the social board so I kinda disappeared.

How about you?

Oh, on the Skype aspect, I'm in there everyday, but I'm starting to post on the social board less.

I suppose I'm doing good, now that it's a weekend and all.

I'm basically spending the entire weekend either doing work, or talking to both sets of grandparents (who are visiting on different days because they apparently want to kill my free time) about my trip to Thailand.

It feels terrible.

I just don't go to the Skype because you're basically the only one there I want to talk to as the people that I came to talk with rarely are on there anymore.

Looks like this.

Dammit, it was meant to look like this.

Has to do with the size of the monitor as yours is larger than mine. If you download the codefix file that is imported into the CSS code at the very top will be a section titles #inlinecontent. In here add the code "background-size: contain;" and see if that works.

How does mine look for yours as it may affect me as well.

This is yours as I see it.

Heh, it actually looks nicer than on my screen.

Also ignore what I said completely, it is pretty dumb. My recommendation if it is possible with your header is to cut off everything to the right of Kino. The image positions iteself to the right so cutting this off will get Kino's head outside from under the menu bar.

Also, your header might not work too well as it helps to make it pretty wide. Mine is 1920px wide as to support all common screen sizes. If the screen size is wider than the image it will just cut it off when the image ends.

This is the image I cropped out so it only goes up to 1920, unfortunately.

What's the size of the image with the right cropped out?

About 1560x420

Would something like this work? It's a bit dodgy in some areas since I kinda just threw it together in GIMP with a little bit of touching up to get rid of most of the easy to see errors.

I would've tried but GIMP still doesn't work.

Hmm...I'm gonna try it.

Alright, it works good now for me and my tiny monitor.

In comparison mine is really far to the right, jesus. How small is that monitor?

1366, it's not that small really, normal for a laptop.

Ooooooooooooh

That's why.

You don't know that.

And the hookers in Thailand are ruthless. If you make eye contact for a second you get swarmed.

It's a hard game for money out there, man.

Basically it's like this.

Oh great.

If you take the .css file for the header images, save it to a new file, and upload it to dropbox that would likely fix it.

...I think, who the hell knows anymore.

It may just be a user to user thing, so I'm gonna check it with two other people later between our lists. I haven't done anything with mine and no one said anything about missing headers.

Alright, be sure to let me know.

My current hotel has wifi so I was able to check.

I'm completely okay with this. Preparing myself for lesbians, bears and storms.

I am too, but I was hoping for more Penguin and was a little disappointed.

As much as I loved penguindrum I am glad that Ikuhara is doing a new project as while there are unexplored plot points I feel there is not enough for another series.

I was thinking more like a movie.

Even then it might be too much time for the content that needs to be explored. Utena was stretched too long as a series and I do not want the same to happen to penguindrum.

Oh well.

Your list is broken btw. You can fix it by just moving the CSS code into a different list then switching it. Don't know what caused it.

Just checked it on my computer now that I'm home, what exactly is wrong with it?

Also, I can't type after two weeks of no computer. It took me a minute to write that.

I'm not sure, something with MAL. Happened with me too, all I had to do was switch the CSS code to a different list and then it worked fine. Just needed a reset.

But I didn't do anything and I can't see what is wrong with mine visually.

This is what I see.

Is it fixed?

Nope

;_;

Not in the mood to figure this out tonight, I'll fix it tomorrow.

Wait, if yours isn't working...Is mine working?

Yours is fine, but you are still using my opendrive links which makes it load very slow.

Slow load? That's weird, because it loads just like any other page.

Actually, the only slow thing on MAL is my profile, not my list. Weird.

Also, not every picture on the top bar is there.

Really? Huh. The only ones that don't have pictures are a few on my PTW and those are all ones that haven't aired yet.

I meant this bar, two of the images on yours are missing.

Which ones?

While for the most part the animation was good in the movie (though I prefer nakmura's style in the tv series more), the cg was pretty bad.

Also, what was your favourite episode? So far I have found no one that shares the same on as me.

I don't even know if I have a favourite
they were all pretty great.

The ones I liked the most though were the one with Kino's past and the "THERE IS NO REAL BLUE SKY" Episode.

Never mind, got it. I've been trying to make a Kino MAL for like, the past three days but it keeps coming out too much like the one I have now so I'm going off of yours but more green.

You may want to wait a little bit as mine is still a work in progress. There are a ton of elements of CSS that I just set as invisible (tags, category totals, etc) while I try to find out what to do with them. For this reason it isn't very optimized and loads pretty slowly.

Okay...

I've been trying to practice and what I'm trying to do is get one like you have, but each section has it's own Kino background and unlike how you have every picture up, it's in regular list format but when you scroll over them the image of it comes up.

.hide {
background-size: auto;
height: 310px;
margin-left: 0px;
background-position: left top;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
display: inline-block !important;
margin-top: 5px;
position: relative;
width: 245px !important;
}

Add this to the bottom of your code. Then add this to the top (It's a list some guy made for the images of the 4500 most popular anime. If you didn't use this you'd have to add every image individually).

@import url(dl.dropbox.com/u/49469857/MAL/premade/anime.css);

Add this to the one I'm working on or your version?

My code is so far out of standard list format it would fuck it up greatly, so add it to whatever one you are working on. Also completely ignore the code I gave you as it is the one that will always have the images appear. If you want it to do it when you hover over the title you need these at the top. First one is the 4500 titles thing, second is a standard block for the images to appear in.

@import "dl.dropbox.com/u/78340470/animetitle.css";
@import "dl.dropbox.com/u/78340470/CSSforCatgirls.css";

Then add this to the bottom.

/*
Alter the second value to change timing (in seconds)
*/
.td1, .td2 {
transition: line-height .5s ease .1s;
-o-transition: line-height .5s ease .1s;
-moz-transition: line-height .5s ease .1s;
-webkit-transition: line-height .5s ease .1s;
}

.td1, .td2 {
line-height: 35px;
}

/*
Alter the value if you want to change line height after the picture loads
*/
tr:hover .td1, tr:hover .td2 {
line-height: 340px;
}

.animetitle + small {
position: relative;
line-height: 1px !important;
}

td:nth-of-type() {
line-height: 20px !important;
}

I had already done that last night but I was having an error where the title just sat in the middle of the image, plus I didn't like the images that were used. Liked the ones you had more. Now apparently it's not working at all.

I am using the exact same set of images for mine, they are just cropped and bordered. If you want to do that you need to copy and paste the .css file (dl.dropbox.com/u/78340470/CSSforCatgirls.css) into a notepad document. In there you want to change the first value of the background-size: line to 100px, from 225px. This will make your images thin like mine.

Then you want to add the line;

border-radius: 13px;

This will give you the curved borders where the value given is how many pixels away from the corner it starts the curve. I forget the actual value I used but trial and error should lead you to something good.

Now you want to save this file under the "all files" option (not .txt which is what it auto sets to). Then you need to save it as <filename>.css (the file name can be whatever you want. Upload this to dropbox or some other file sharing site that offers the streaming of files (so not mediafire or other ones that only offer downloads). Copy and paste the link to this into the original @import "dl.dropbox.com/u/78340470/CSSforCatgirls.css"; line.

As for the issue with the title, do you mean that the list is not expanding, or just that the title is over the image?

The title is over the image. I'm going to try cropping that in notepad in a little bit.

It's an issue with the z-index

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_zindex

When you edit the notepad code add;

z-index:<Value>;

Change the value to any integer, just keep going up until it appears on top of everything else. Either that or change the number to like 1,000,000 or something high like that, but that does look kind of silly.

Doing it all in notepad is great especially with dropbox as it automatically updates the link meaning that when you save the notepad file it automatically updates your list to fit the changes. My entire list is done through that so I no longer have to go into that tiny text box to change things.

Wait, so I paste dl.dropbox.com/u/78340470/CSSforCatgirls.css into notepad and then how do I change the size? I add the z-index:Value in and set that at 100?

z-index alters the depth of the element. Basically if you set it to something high it will appear above everything else and you won't have the title issue anymore.

To change the size you alter the two values in the background-size line (first is width second is height).

background-size: 225px 320px !important;

CSS is fucking confusing. I think I'm just going to try to learn it from the very beginning instead of jumping this far ahead and not make any of those changes.

Once you understand CSS it is actually fairly easy it's just that it is designed in such a way that understanding all of its stupid syntax and stuff it nigh impossible.

I just spent a week or so going through everything on this and that helped quite a lot.

www.w3schools.com/css/

I'll probably start going through that once I get my project for English done. I mean, I'm only trying to make small changes, not start from scratch.

Like, everything from yours but some changes, like images and such

Just re-watched Penguindrum, so I feel like I've had my heart sent through a meat grinder.

A meat grinder doesn't even begin to explain it.

Never has there been a character that I have disliked so much at first but then became such a bro by the end.

;_;

He died a hero's death.

I wonder. What did you think of the last episode? Because I didn't like it too much. Suddenly there was action and that doesn't really fit Kaiba, and I don't think it was wrapped up completely.
If you do like it, how would you defend it?

I've said several times that the ending of Kaiba is shit. It is largely out of nowhere and really does not fit the theme of the show. The series really hits its peak once Popo gets to the palace and then starts to slide downhill.

The biggest defense for the final episode is that Kaiba (The plant thingy) actually works pretty well as a metaphor for Warp himself in the sense that both of them absorb memories to ease their loneliness but this just increases their loneliness driving them to absorb more memories. This is represented by Kaiba's growth and by the hole in Warp's chest growing as well.

The problem with this is that even though it works well as a metaphor they end up developing Kaiba into the antagonist which forces you to look at the fight as a plot point rather than a metaphor. And as a plot point the fight with Kaiba is shit and does not fit the series at all.

Oh, I didn't think of it that way before, actually. I think that actually says it pretty well.

And yeah, I don't think maiking Kaiba the plant into the antagonist was a smart move. It was pretty much established that Warp was, but once we find out he's actually Kaiba and he has no real powers that sort of kills it. If anything Popo should have been the villain. He's the one who altered the memories of his subordinates, takes over his town's religion-thingy and he even breaks the rules of said town. But whether that would work or not since he'd developed to be sympathetic is up in the air.

Also, I have to go to class now so I can't talk for an hour.

The thing is, I don't think I'd want Popo near the end as the scene with Cheki towards the end would have been nowhere near as powerful had he not been created in a sympathetic manner. Truly, I can't think of a better way to end it, I just don't like it.

If you want to perfectly understand the metaphor thing, just listen the lyrics of Tree Song as that is really the heart of the show.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ammbdMsHnU

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, it would not work because Popo was a sympathetic as he was.
I guess the only thing left is that there should be no antagonist, really. At that point in the story the series had really become about Kaiba's and Niero's tragic love story about how they could not be together because someone messed with their memories. It didn't really need an antagonist, just more time devoted to showing the relationship between the two.

And thanks for that, I'll save it for later.

Wait, do you mean the Steam chat, or we doin' crazy shit with Skype now too?

naw not steam, just a group /anime/ skype chat

Well I need to be added to it before I can join.

Add me then sniffy552
Then ill add u to the group

Because no one tells me this shit

I just finished re-watching it last night because I was bored.

Shit gets good at episode 3, shit gets amazing at episode 7.

The first 6 episodes are basically there to develop the world and explain what can and cannot be done with the whole memory thing so that when everything comes together it doesn't feel like it is pulling shit out of its ass.

Right, well then, it's a good thing it has as interesting a setting as it does.
Also did they have sex in that second episode? what the fuck

Yes, basically that woman loaded her memories into Warp's body so that they would have sex with each other (shits mad kinky).

The episode is basically there to explain that two bodies can have the same set of memories but even with this is it does not mean that they are the same person as Warp (well it isn't Warp because he is the hippo now, but his body) killed the woman at the end of the episode.

This concept has a huge purpose towards the end.

he came so much she exploded
really? You say the show's a master at foreshadowing but is it something you have to pay close attention to?

Everything with the exception of the final 10 minutes can be explained in the first 6 episodes.

Oh, so it's not like there are very subtle hints thrown around here and there, but more the lines of each major event in those episodes have some importance at the end?

Pretty much, I guess foreshadowing isn't really the right word, more that it is brilliant at establishing parameters. The first set of episodes basically each explain something that will be very important in later episodes. Though surprisingly they are still able to keep you emotionally invested as you might find pretty soon.

Noted. I'll look forward to it
Although I will say that I udnerstood more of it than the first two epieosdes of Mononoke

Mononoke is basically Mushishi on LSD. Don't bother trying to fully understand just let it do its thing.

well I was already sort of aware of that, though I hope it will have as big an impact on my as Mushishi

I don't think it is as emotionally impactful as Mushishi but seeing as how much I enjoy "acid trip" anime, I found it more enjoyable.

also it seems my "+" tags were deleted
motherfucker

I can forgive you.

But where did you go.

It was like you were there. Then "poof" you ran away.

Sounds good.
Let's say that basically i left the board, i felt like there was really nothing for me there, but as you can see i was wrong, i wanna apologize with both, you and sirchris. sirchirs

I was my fault and my fault only, and i'm deeply sorry ;_;

No need to apologize so formally over it bro. Besides, it's the internet man, tell us to fuck off or something.
okay don't do that.

Posting this here because fuck you boyddamilkman. hue

Fuck off.. gently ? <3 Don't
I guess you're both right.

Cucumber-Sama!

No fuck you

It's funny, I started SEL so long ago but just had to come back after I watched more anime.
Kino is obviously going to be started soon.
Kara no Kyoukai is something I would love to watch but all the torrents have no goddamn seeders...pisses me off.
Mononoke is something I'll watch when I get around to rewatching Gankutsuou
Mushishishishishi is another anime that is an obvious watch pretty soon.

Looks like we are on the same thoughts in some way.

I remember the first time I tries to watch Lain, I was still in my shounen-fag stage at the time. I was not a fan to be blunt.

Also, I saw you liked Tatami Galaxy a lot. You should totally watch Masaaki Yuasa's other stuff because so many people love Tatami and never watch his other masterpieces.

Same shit here, I just couldn't get into the pacing or the lack of action. After watching Tatami, NHK, and HoFL though, I realized an anime doesn't need action to be amazing.

Oh Jesus god, I just looked him up and Kaiba is definitely a must watch for me. I want to watch Kick-Heart too. They both look interesting as hell.

I'm re-watching Kaiba currently. It is just fantastic in so many ways. I honestly forgot how goddamn well the foreshadowing and the overall theme is done in only the first few episodes and I know it just gets better later on. It is without a doubt my favourite sci-fi anime ever.

Mind Game as well, even though I claim it to be absurdly mindfucking, which it is. The movie is still surprisingly well constructed and extremely interesting.

Kemonozume is very good, just has far more flaws than any other of his works. Still has great art and one of the best OSTs I have heard (though it still hasn't been released).

And yeah, Kick Heart looks real neat and it is really cool that he was able to make an anime through fan-funding alone through kickstarter.

Lately I've been getting into more abstract anime and storytelling anime than action or supernatural anime. I don't know, maybe that top 5 did it to me, but Kaiba's summary just made me want to watch it. I feel drawn to it because I know it can make a great story.

I can enjoy mindfuck, but at some point it eventually gets to me. I mean, just looking at Mind Game ad I can already tell I'm going to be eating ice cream through a snorkel while wearing a cat suit by the time I finish it.

Kemonozume also seems like it has a Shakespeare feel to it, with the forbidden love and what-not. I like Shakespeare though, so an anime with that feel shouldn't be too bad.

Mind Game is the most coherent mindfuck there is. It is absolutely insane but in some weird way the entire movie makes perfect sense. Every scene of it is unique and serves both a storytelling and thematic purpose. But yea, visually it just wants to play with your head.

And yes, Kemonozume is very Shakespeare. Very, very Shakespeare.

So it makes perfect sense, it just gives your mind visual orgasms and confusion throughout. Kind of like this bug sex gif?

I'll check it out sometime then.

Kind of like the scene in which God is a goldfish.

But God is a goldfish because humans cannot properly give form to a god and as such cannot decide on a single form.

See, everything makes sense.

I actually understand this in some way I cannot fully comprehend. Oh well. I have to finish Kaiji, Akagi, Slayers, and 12 other anime before I can begin anything else...

Alright, have fun with those then, i need to sleep now though.

Yeah, should take me a while. Thanks though and night man, see ya later.

Can you do this one too pls? pls?

God dammit boyd!

You seem to have fun with my mascot though, how about this one if you want?

You know, if this shit was in the anime, I would have rated it a 12/10.

They should have hired me to draw the noses.

I could have made it way better.

Dude if you would have drawn the Yaichi's nose, the anime would look so much more realistic.

Mine have charm instead of just drawing a Toblerone on his face like they did.

It looks more like a shark is swimming through his face.

Depends which pic. The nose is slightly curved in that one making it look more shark-y. The previous picture you posted however, is full on Toblerone.

www.funnyjunk.com/user/boyddamilkman/143

This one is like a Toblerone too.

They could have at least been consistent with their noses!

By the way, can I see your MAL/Anime Planet/Whatever you use? I still have no idea what your tastes are other than that you have a thing for misshapen noses.

You just reminded me to start updating it again. Some of the anime I've seen I will be rewatching so I can score them better.

I updated everything to Yaichi because fuck you.
www.anime-planet.com/users/sirchris

Please tell me that profile pic is stretched.

Oh god, yes it is stretched. The art isn't going to make you THAT angry.

You should check out what I plan to watch and give me a top 5 in your opinion.

Well, to be purely opinionated

1. Serial Experiments Lain (u shocked)
2. Kino's Journey (Another shocker)
3. Kara no Kyoukai (KnK 5 is well above Kino though)
4. Mononoke
5. Mushishi

Shh, is all good, we love you.

Though I did spend a week listening to this while staring at a picture of Mio.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o

B-but what i did has no pardon.

Shh, no tears bby.

Yus.

ad me nao.

sirchris806

Someone sure knows how to sweet talk don't they.

Anyways, I was uploading the folder but Mediafire decided to be a slut and kill it. Give it a couple minutes.

i am more than willing to give my body to you after this.

Well I was doing this assuming that anyways so...

Mediafire is an enemy of freedom right now.

it's down for me too.

it's okay, just let me know whenever it decides to stop being homo.

Will do.

muchos gracias.

www.mediafire.com/?xrsjps641rpyjbh

All good now, seems the site went down after it finished uploading as well. I guess it is possible that the upload might have screwed up because of that, so let me know if anything is corrupted

thank you very very much.

No problem. I seem to have basically turned into a folder-whore today anyways.

a folder whore? haha i know how you feel, it happens to the best of us.

I felt so violated.

shh, shh, it's okay, i've been a folder whore as well.

B-But, they took EVERYTHING.

we can rebuild, milkman-chan.
we have the technology!

But it will never change what happened...

let us never forget.

01/29/2013

The day my innocence disappeared forever.

a moment of silence.

What, with the whole meetup at the ending thing?

No. I got that she "resetted" the world. But I'm talking in general. Who exactly was Lain? Was she always an Omnipresent being? Or did she get her powers right when she got her computer?

Lain was essentially a piece of software created by Eiri before his death to basically have control over the wired. The original Lain was released into the wired however without an understanding of humans and as such could not properly aid them (this was the alternate personality "Lain of the Wired"). Tachibana Labs saw the use for a system such as Lain however realized that she needed to be able to understand humans and placed with a human body into the Iwakura family (the father worked for Tachibana Labs).

As for whether she is omnipresent, well technically she isn't truly omnipresent as she only has control over the wired. However with the whole "protocol 7" thing that they talk about several times throughout the series the wired ends up being merged with reality basically giving Lain control over everything (memories, etc).

So, Lain was created to be omnipresent, though she only got those abilities once the border between the wired and reality started to disappear.

Alright alright. And what about the Knights? Who were they? Were they trying to reveal who Lain was? And what does the alien mean?

Basically once reality and the wired mixed, that kind of conspiracy became mixed with reality.

The Knights were basically Eiri's followers after death. It was mentioned somewhere that he inserted his consciousness into the wired before he died and is able to communicate to people through the wired. This is why the Knights idolized him as a god of the wired. The Knight's goal was essentially Eiri's goal, the destruction of reality and ascension into the wired. So basically they were trying to get Lain to break that border between the wired and reality.

The alien is really not important to the plot and I have seen many interpretations. I view it as representative of the mass hysteria and conspiracy that exists online and outside of reality. Aliens themselves are the most recognizable conspiracy theory out there thus making excellent symbolism for this. Also, in one of the earlier episodes Lain is talking with people on the wired and someone says that a "little man in a red and green sweater" is watching them.

Ok I see now. It makes more sense now

Hmm to my understand, I thought they were hinting that the Wire was created due to the technology of the Aliens.

But nonetheless, thanks Boydd for clearing this up for me

So, did you enjoy Lain?

Yes Overall. I enjoyed it greatly. Even though it was ahead of it's time I loved how it attempted to talk about subjects like reality, communication and identity and how our society will evolve. A bit confusing but I enjoyed it greatly nonetheless. Solid 9/10

Nice, and yes it was extremely ahead of it's time.

You will never have as hardcore of a computer as Lain...

It;s a shame that it's scored low on MAL Guess not many people cant appreciate it.

;__:

MAL can't appreciate anything once it gets remotely psychological (Outside of EVA).

myanimelist.net/anime/323/Mousou_Dairinin
myanimelist.net/anime/770/Pale_Cocoon
myanimelist.net/anime/10893/Kyousougiga

I don't even look at ratings there anymore, it hurts my soul to see so much good stuff rated relatively poorly compared to other things.

Well good thing these things were already in my backlog then.
I'll get to them sooooon.

Pale Cocoon is still one of the single most visually gorgeous anime I have ever seen.

I don't even know what to watch next, my backlog no longer interests me. ;_;

Well I promised Ollie after Cereal Lanes I would watch Mawaru Penguindrum so I have that for now

Pingus was my favourite before I watched Lain, it's glorious. Hope you enjoy it.

Ollie showed me some youtube clips. It was really random so I think I would haha

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ZqfvphxQ4

It's random a lot of the time but when it gets ready to bring shit together it does it magnificently.

Alright, I'll start it now since im hyped haha

Have a fabulous max time.

It gets a little dry in the middle, but don't worry some of the best episodes are the later ones.

I didn't rewatch Penguindrum for the holidays.

Feels so bad man.

;_;

funnyjunk.com/anime/392873#392873