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Among my various criticisms of anime is that never once have I seen an anime with a strong male character.  Strong as in personality and psychology that is.  As you can probably guess from my avatar, I respect a guy who takes whatever's dished to him.  Male characters in anime are almost exclusively whiny milksops, aloof bitches, or the rare super-macho comic relief.  For that matter, I like to see female characters with the same qualities, but even they're pretty few and far between.  The Japanese don't seem to find good-humored endurance a laudable trait.

Man, I wasted a ton of time in this last night trying to figure out electricity, and wondering why my "ingenious" system wasn't working.

As I was taking my first wobbly steps into the game, I wound up making a box of solid wall filled with noble gas.  I marveled at the increase in pressure inside the box, and then I saw the little tidbit that noble gas turns to plasma when given a charge.