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Fire can be our friend. Whether it's toasting marshmallows or raining down on Charlie.

The Princess Tutu group I ran into in the elevator made my day. I fanboyed all over them. The person cosplaying as Edel even had a working music box.

Yes. I kept being mistaken for a Japanese tourist.

What do you see yourself doing in 5 years?

I feel bad for South Africa...host nation and I don't think they are gonna make it to the round of 16 with France and Mexico with them.

Easiest way to make friends when you're 19 is at school. Join a club or something. And you shouldn't really be so picky as to not make friends with people older than you. If you really don't have ANY friends here at all just roll with it and take what you can get.

http://dracil.smugmug.com/gallery/9307508_3cWD2#622151295_qnEWj

Pics of the IRC Fanime group meetup.

http://dracil.smugmug.com/gallery/9307508_3cWD2#622151295_qnEWj

Pics of our meetup at Japan Town for the opening of the new building. Good times. We had booze, sukiyaki and just general screwing around.

I found it odd that EVERYTHING was closed on tuesday...Plus that tea place was closed on the 1st Tuesday of the month...which was the day of the meetup...

we got channel stats!  ;D

haha

Haha I didn't realize I was so active...

I got Fate Unlimited/Code with the Saber Lily figure. 150 bucks...And yes...it was worth it.

I went to fanime this year on my birthday of May 24th and all I got was a Happy birthday from the people doing check ins. Unexpected and much appreciated.

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US women's fencing takes all medals!

as soon as they said china was hosting 4 years ago, shit instantly went down the drain.

7 years ago.  :) and i don't think it'll be shit.

and aznmagic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China
says communism is the ruling political party of china.  care to elaborate? ^_^ IIRC, it's because of communist rule that the government was able to enforce all of the pollution regulations in beijing.  they shut down the factories, forced taxi drivers to learn SOME english, and banned half the cars on the road.  That's not something a democratic government could do so easily, if im not mistaken.

You need to take plsc101 man. China is Communist IN NAME ONLY. Cmon...free market reforms, private ownership of property and cancellation of government quotas in most products. Hell, North Korea calls itself Democratic People's Republic of Korea. I dunno bout you...but they don't seem very democratic. Names are tricky like that...

You need to give me solid facts, because you're throwing these tidbit factoids with no explanations of their significance to the discussion.  free market reforms answer what?  private ownership means what? what does this prove? the corporation that owns the factories decided to lose 45 days worth of money for the good of the country?  I'm sorry but I have never known modern corporations to do things that cause them to lose over a month's worth of revenue just for the good of the country's image.  What political system are they?  just running around saying they aren't really communists gives me ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA on what political system you're inferring that they are. So please give me a better reply.

*sigh* yeah...those things I said...communists aren't supposed to do those things.  You know the whole state ownership stuff? China got rid of that years ago and turned it to private ownership. State ownership of industry is supposed to be a communist/socialist kinda thing. A rather important facet of communism in fact. Calling a country communist when it adheres to so many capitalistic principals is...well...uneducated to put it nicely.

If you want to pin a political system on China, I guess you could call it a single party, oligarchical state with bits of socialism mixed in. But take into account that France is more socialist than China and you have an idea just how socialist China is.

I am not naive. I know most of the stuff you have said like the corruption, the criminal activity, etc. going on within China. However, it is only in the recent years where all of this stuff is happening. Only recently is when China is becoming industrialized. Only in the recent years where criminal activity is becoming a problem.

...Recent problems in China huh? Nationalism sure can be blinding...right Comrade?

as soon as they said china was hosting 4 years ago, shit instantly went down the drain.

7 years ago.  :) and i don't think it'll be shit.

and aznmagic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China
says communism is the ruling political party of china.  care to elaborate? ^_^ IIRC, it's because of communist rule that the government was able to enforce all of the pollution regulations in beijing.  they shut down the factories, forced taxi drivers to learn SOME english, and banned half the cars on the road.  That's not something a democratic government could do so easily, if im not mistaken.

You need to take plsc101 man. China is Communist IN NAME ONLY. Cmon...free market reforms, private ownership of property and cancellation of government quotas in most products. Hell, North Korea calls itself Democratic People's Republic of Korea. I dunno bout you...but they don't seem very democratic. Names are tricky like that...

Well communism gets to control.... well... everything.
It's nothing new that their internet is controlled, but to ban an OLYMPIC athlete?! COME ON!!
Still watching the games regardless. XP

China....COMMUNIST?!?! What's with all the private ownership and free market reforms? You might wanna gain a better understanding of communism before you start labeling countries as communist...