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  1. ayase

    UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

    It appears that the idea of AL's Gundam Collection being a complete collection is already dead. My dream of having a nice matching set of UC shows feels like it's slipping away, unless AL managed to licence some of the other series' before Funicrunchymanga and their SODDING BLUE BAR SLIPCASES...
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    Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira: Episodes 1-4 (Complete) Yes, yes, yes! That OP was probably the best possible medicine to treat my post-Umineko depression. Higurashi might be shoving its way into 3rd place behind only Slayers and Bubblegum Crisis as the franchise with the most consistently...
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    What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

    I don’t blame you, 80,000 gold does seem like a lot to spend, unless it’s on a particularly unique skill.
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    Umineko no Naku Koro ni: Episodes 17-26 (Complete, I guess) WUT. Either I'm too stupid for this show or it's too stupid for me, I'm willing to entertain both possibilities. But I can't claim that was a particularly enjoyable experience. I knew going into Umineko that it seems very...
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    General Politics Thread

    Ladies and Gentlemen, please be upstanding for the new Prime Minister of Japan. At least we can be fairly sure that outfit wasn’t paid for by dodgy millionaire donors.
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    Umineko no Naku Koro ni: Episodes 9-16 THANK YOU. Unfortunately Battler's change of heart doesn't last long, I really don't know where this whole plot of "I'm going to prove the murders weren't committed by magic" is going. For a moment there it appeared to just be a red herring, yet Battler...
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    Umineko no Naku Koro ni or Agatha Christie's And Then There Were Boobs: Episodes 1-8 Eighteen characters introduced in the first episode? Eighteen? How am I meant to remember... Oh, that's made things easier, thanks. From the artwork for this show I thought it would take place in the...
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    Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei or Truck-kun visits Hinamizawa: Complete Yeah, I don't remember this at all. The central three episodes of this very short series and the two that bookend them is like reading a treatise on free will and causality hidden inside a Beano comic, but also reading the...
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    Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Complete (rewatch... kind of) "I don't have time to teach you how to operate a Kalashnikov" Edition Okay, so my memory isn't totally shot. I remember Hanyū (she of best character song and horns everyone is remarkably nonplussed by) and I remember that banging...
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    Rate the Last Film You Watched

    Alien: Romulus Finally managed to catch this on a decent sized screen at a reasonable hour of the day before it’s gone from cinemas. Overall I thought it did a good job of balancing the tension of Alien and the action of Aliens, I thought it was well paced and the design work was mostly...
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    Is the server getting sniffy?

    Any updates on this issue?
  12. ayase

    General Politics Thread

    No Dave, while I have no real knowledge of the process that does seem like a ludicrous sum. And now someone in your situation wouldn't even be allowed to have their foreign spouse join them in the UK since they've instituted a minimum income of £29k to obtain a spouse visa. "You must be this...
  13. ayase

    General Politics Thread

    Frankly, no. The taxation and benefits system is there to fund help for people when they need help. It's not a savings account, you're not supposed to get back what you put in. My household pays £130 in council tax every month but we certainly don't receive £130 worth of services in return, that...
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    General Politics Thread

    Right, here's the deal, to make things absolutely clear: None of my comments have been directed generally at people on benefits. In fact, none of my comments have been directed at people on benefits at all because those in receipt of pension credit are still eligible for the winter fuel payment...
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    What Music are you listening to? Discussions Welcome!

    Today I was in a shop and By the Way by RHCP came on. I don't entirely hate RHCP but I do hate By the Way, it's one of those songs where despite me not liking it, that droning chorus gets stuck in my head annoying me until I can flush it out with an even more powerful but actually good earworm...
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    What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

    First new DVDs I’ve bought for quite some time, but given that I think my blu-ray player can do a better job of upscaling than whoever did the official 1080 upscale I think I’m good. A steal at less than £13 from MVM’s clearance section.
  17. ayase

    General Politics Thread

    I think there's a perfectly reasonable argument to be made for doing away with means testing completely along with the state pension, universal credit and any other benefits and instituting a UBI, which if memory serves has even been calculated to work out cheaper than the current system anyway...
  18. ayase

    UK Anime Distributor MVM Entertainment Discussion Thread

    That’s exactly how I did it, replaced my old address since I haven’t ordered since I moved house. Update: Got back home and tried again from my desktop and the order went through fine. Seems to have been a mobile browser issue.
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    UK Anime Distributor MVM Entertainment Discussion Thread

    Uh… Perfectly valid UK address there MVM, I’ve tried moving the city up a line and replacing it with the county but no dice. Anyone else had this issue?
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    I will warn you @Vashdaman I’m not entirely sure how high your tolerance will be for the more cutesy/moe elements of the show but if you do watch it, please stick it out because I think the (intentional) tonal whiplash is worth it. Also please do post here after each arc, I would very much look...
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