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Is Legend of Galactic Heroes any good?

A lot of people seem to think it's pretty good, yeah. Near as I've noticed it's often mentioned as one of the better pieces of epic sci-fi in existence, anime or not.

share the same religion/language/culture

... and here we see one of the major contributing attitudes to why the western world has consistently buggered up their interactions with the middle east. If you actually believe saudi arabia shares the same religion/language/culture as all, or even a majority, of the folks trying to get into europe, your understanding of the middle east is flawed to the point of farce.

That the article in question suggest the same means it is pretty much useless, and presenting a picture of the situation in question so inaccurate as to be grossly misleading.

... to add to that, the suggestion that 100k tents sitting around, intended for use annually over a ~week long period, means a country has the logistics in place to support three million refugees indefinitely is so mindhumpingly stupid I don't even know how to properly respond...

Saudi Arabia could probably do more than they are (which puts them in line with basically everyone), but statements like that article is making are ridiculous.

... this is how they make haggis nowadays, isn't it? It explains so much.

... on one hand, zangi's description peaked my interest. On the other hand, the description reads like the intro to a vore fetish series, which, uh. yeeeaaaaah. Imouto got ate by a dragon, is being slowly digested. I can see the inside shots with the tentacley bits from here ;_;

Will give a looksee, though.

E: Okay, having gone through most of the first chapter, I'll tentatively offer recommendation as well. If nothing else, the dwarf dude is kinda' awesome, and it's significantly less squicky than the initial conceit would lend itself to. Also @neo, only very faint hints of any romance, thus far!

E2: Though I am still getting an only somewhat subtle fetish vibe from what I'm reading, so, uh...

E3: Okay, on one hand, yeeeaaaaah. Kinda' what I'm talking about. On the other hand,

What do you mean by "thread"? Isn't that the same as a "topic"?

It's basically like your average OS file system. If you were looking at a folder on your computer, you'd have the main folder (the initial post), with each reply to it being its own folder. Replies to replies nest down another level.

It... honestly, it's not much better for readability or usability than what we have here, t'me. It's different, and it has some advantages in keeping track with one line of discussion, but when you've got several or a lengthy back and forth it frankly becomes ruddy annoying to navigate, and multiple discussions branching off the same topic doesn't so much lead itself to coherent discussion continuing as discussion dying quickly as no one is quite sure what everyone else is saying. It's maybe better for something with major traffic (though it leads to just as much being lost as something like simple machines), and it's alright for really small discussions with only a few branches, but basically everything else, well.

It's a lot like trying to navigate a particularly convoluted game directory looking for a specific file or folder, with every bit of awkwardness that entails.

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Not sure what a better system would exactly entail, really. I do like what Xenforo is doing with threadmarks, at least. Took a while to get used to, but it can make thread navigation significantly easier (providing the OP is staying on top of things, anyway). What an improvement would probably boil down to would be multi-format integration (allowing for the OP or maybe particular subforums to use different formats), or maybe just a preference option to change the format for the individual user.thread

Seven crab surprise.

... over 4300 songs in my playlist, and shuffle manages to hit the one I use for one of my alarm clocks (One of borderlands' unnamed combat tracks) three songs into listening for the night. The odds >_<

Best thing, though, is that it promptly hits a different song I used to use as an alarm clock (cthonic's Linear Groove, a tetris remix) immediately after. Shuffle RNG, it's not time to wake up.

E: ...goddamnit now I realize that was what you said in the first place. Never mind, you win.
E2: Well, not exactly. But they're close enough.

To be fair, certain premises are definitely harder to work with than others. It's pretty substantially more difficult to make an interesting story using shallow, uninteresting characters, et al. It's just not impossible :V