Jesus, sorry I mixed up her elementary school years with her teenage years. From your response you’d think I’d murdered your dog or something.

Where’d you think those rare English copies came from? Battle Royale had an official (as in, theatrical and discs) release in Europe and did passably well. And Collins grew up in Europe and has relatives there, meaning that it wouldn’t be unreasonable for her to travel there from time to time. I don’t think she ripped…

as if it were some us cultural icon in the states when 95 percent of Americans at that time had probably never even heard of it

Regardless of whether it was influenced by/a rip-off of the Battle Royale book/manga/film, you’re not even close. The Hunger Games was published in September 2008. The first Battle Royale movie was released in December 2001, and the book came out a year before that. Hell, Battle Royale II premiered in May 2003 at…

Given that age is legally calculated from your birthdate, you remain 27 years old (happy birthday by the way).

Sorry, can’t hear you over Amazon Prime’s 20% discount on pre-orders.

People actually use the menu?

I’ve got at least 50 tabs open at all times (a bunch of pinned stuff, productivity stuff, remote, papers I can’t save to disk, etc). I’d rather just leave it all open. I have a 256 GB SSD and a 4 TB HDD for bulk stuff; why not use it?

He’s been dead to me ever since he refused to recognize his daughter from an extramarital affair and doubly-dead since he started shilling for the CCP. “I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.”

Mutual Defense Treaty provisions are triggered by armed attack and confirmed through formal protocols. They do not come into play just because of some dredgers. And they certainly don’t suddenly grant the U.S. standing in an international court.

When you say anime, are you referring to the the original animated movie, the Stand Alone Complex series, or ARISE? Because she looks different in all three, and you’re kidding yourself if you think she looks white in all of them, especially when she was a kid.

How will they handle it? They won’t. Look at what happened to All You Need is Kill. As for the romance, well, Batou having an unrequited love for the Major wouldn’t be entirely without precedent...

I read the original. They didn’t look white to me.

the Major is a synthetic human, and to my knowledge it is never clearly stated that she is of Asian descent.

The Major is a cyborg.

Nope. She was 100% human before the plane crash. ARISE is the only adaptation to claim that she never had a real body.

The students clean it up after the graduation ceremony. The students at the school have been doing it for a decade.

More like a Neato Botvac. Roombas just bounce around pseudo-randomly.

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