So... CLAMP character designs....
...better than Death Note....
...sCRYed people involved....
...and I haven't watched this....
because...?
Of course once Adult Swim shows it it will be vomited all over everywhere. Must hurry!

I'm playing a few right now:
Xenosaga 1 (I'm soooo late)
Phoenix Wright 2 (RPG...? Yes? No.... also late)
FFX-2 (so I can sell it with a clean conscience.... it hurts)
FE: The Sacred Stones (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE)

Well now, there's "like" and then there's "obsession".
$6 million plus for one of those is not like.
It's obsession.
Obsession over a not terrible but quite frankly not as amazing as the legions of shrieking fans, bandwagon-jumpers, and Harry/Draco slash writers would like you to believe.
It's the same with people like Stephen King, where their "literature" has been so elevated that they can smear their vomit on a hankie and sell it to the willing masses.
....Not that I'm cynical today or anything.
....How did I end up skipping lines with each sentence there?
Odd.

I love the books. Truly, I do. The trailers all make me cringe.... "the last golden compass"? What the hell?! That's not the point, damn it. And Lyra doesn't look right. At all. It's just the sort of thing, I think, that wouldn't translate well into modern overly-CG fantasy movie crap. To answer your question, Ragnar, CG is okay sometimes, but in many cases it's just so overused where it doesn't really add anything and just looks dumb.
I don't know. Perhaps I'll watch it when it comes on our free movie channels. And cry. Cry for hours.

Hell, even if it's a scam, I like words. Level 41 before I got sick of it, and lots of rice. And if it's for real, well, good for the people who get the rice, right? I see no downside.

I'm asking here because Microsoft wants money for its support. *shakes fist at heavens*

So, I set up password-protected accounts on the family computer, because my brother and sister have been deleting each other's stuff and he tends to install stuff he shouldn't, which pisses my mom off. Hers is the admin account, but no matter what I do, when you restart or boot up the computer, it goes into it, no password required. I tried with the welcome screen on and off, switch user enabled and disabled, and nothing works. The log in screen won't come up. I really need to fix this, because now my brother can wreak havoc in the accounts through the admin. He hates the arrangement, and is pretty vindictive, so please help me out before he does something remarkably stupid.

Logging off before shutting down does nothing, and the issue is not with my brother's account. I just need the log in screen to come up every time the compie gets started up, rather than going into the main admin account, as it currently does.

I hate it when anime I like come over here, because it just seems to flood EVERYTHING.... thankfully I won't have to deal with my 10-year-old foster siblings ranting about how cool they are staying up watching Death Note on Adult Swim.... *eye roll*

As soon as I finish something, hopefully better than the last one, I'll do so. Sorry, misunderstood.

It turns up more in my writing, to be honest, and I can't find any isolated examples. The eye example given earlier was one.... I'll scrounge in my binders for specific text if you like. Maybe it's just turning up more glaringly than literary influences, which I usually only notice long after.
Surprisingly enough, anime has no effect on the movement of my body or mouth. Strange, that.

Alichino makes me happy. Then I note its status on the things I love that haven't been finished (next volume=supposedly the last) and die a little inside. YnM has too much sketchy, not enough stuff I care about, thus putting it below other sketchy supernatural series. But agreed, for the most part, on the CLAMP bit, though Rayearth was great.

Are there any specific things you tend to see yourself doing? I drew a lot of characters with black hair and freaky-colored eyes after doing an X layout with Kamui. Not that I'm a raving X fangirl or anything. Noooooo, never.

I have a tendency to be.... inspired.... by things I watch a lot of, but I found that anime and manga (mostly manga in my case, but whatever) tend to be the most easily discernible inspirations, even though I don't ordinarily watch/read much (I prefer manga, and $10 a pop? Ha.... no). For example, I love CLAMP. I love it soooooooooooo much it's kinda scary. I recently went on a little kick, watching Tsubasa, which got me rereading Tokyo Babylon, which got me back into X. That was a all well and good.... until I noticed that in not one but two of my recent works a character who was already more that a little batty had lost an eye and gotten even battier. Not that our good friend Seishiro left an impression on me or anything. Do you ever find this happening? How much so? Or perhaps I'm just batty myself.