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Technically, although home has an XBox, which has not led to much productivity. So this week so far hasn't been fun, because I'm doing what I should have been doing the last three weeks. >> Oh and did I complain about how I ordered a book for it off Amazon and they sent me a children's book called Penguin? Which kept making me giggle while complaining about it which is annoying.

AND YAY LIVING

Ah that's not fun. Good plan. Hope you get through it all alive.

Oh also, I hate LK, because he encouraged me to actually listen to Lady Gaga and enjoy her music rather than just assuming it was another pop thing I could safely ignore. Well, not personally, but you know. Although Eric Cartman is also partly to blame, lolz.

@JK: True enough.

I swear they've referenced DBZ at least a few times. XD It's one of my favorite anime, so I always get excited when they do.

Ah, yeah, I can kind of see the mouth full thing.

@Morgey: Oh, you poor baby, not having anything to get angry about. XD Good to see you posting again.

@Hawk: Well, I haven't had the Gaia Towns theme in my head for quite a long time (though now it may just decide to get stuck there), but I have had the Punchout training music stuck in my head for a few days, and by the training music, I mean the eternally repetitive version with extremely racist lyrics that someone made up. I hate and love it at the same time, because it's so terrible. XP I just don't like such a nasty word (and when I think a word is horrible, it's a pretty bad one) constantly repeating in my head... ugh.

@JK: It was an Ekans. =D Yay Pokemon nerdiness.

@Morgey: Heehee, I had a friend who liked Lady Gaga when she released like... her first song, so she showed me the music video and I got into her right away as well. I didn't even realize she was pop or anything; I just loved how friggin' weird she was, and how catchy her songs were. Also her fashion designs. Epic. Then she became all popular and associated with pop and stuff, and people started not liking her and calling her a man. Oh well, in the words of one of the crappiest shounen ai anime ever's title, "Suki na Mono wa Suki, Dakara Shouganai!!"

@JK: Well, I've used Amazon quite a few times and have never had anything short of great service/shipping/results. So I'm guessing it's the UK shipping that messes up a lot. How sad. ^^;;

And yeah, the Snot Him thing seemed more like something that could've been vaguely amusing from a random Youtube user, but I honestly expect a bit better from LK.

Um, I think at least once Ghost Nappa actually showed up... it was Nappa, but he was all white-colored... so I don't know if that's actually from a part of the show I missed, or if someone just edited it or something... aw, but I do love One Piece. XD That's probably gonna be the next big anime I start watching all of after I finish Yuugiou. Almost done with the first series now; just have three more episodes.

Haha, poor Amazon UK.

Yeah, that'd be great, but it's not like LK hasn't made stupid videos before, like that v****a one.

Okay, so it was bothering me and I looked it up. XD Nappa never is a ghost in DBZ, but in Team Forestar's Dragon Ball Z Abridged, they created Ghost Nappa as a main character, and he haunts Vegeta. Gosh, it sounds funny. Maybe I'll start watching DBZ Abridged now.

And that is a lot to watch. I'm just gonna watch those last three episodes of the Toei series, then Capsule Monsters, Genex, and 5D's. Then the new movie thing, then I'll go to One Piece. From what I have read/seen of One Piece though, I definitely prefer it over Bleach and Naruto and all those other big series. It does things more in arcs, like DBZ, so you don't get this one villain haunting the entire series, and it never gets old before they switch to something new.

And for the new LK video, I liked it a lot. XD I cracked up at the foot massage part.

So I watched DBZ Abridged (there's only like nineteen episodes so far, most of them around 8 minutes, which is friggin ridiculous because so far they've covered over 60 episodes of the show; DBZ is just really good at doing elongated battles and filler, much like Naruto, though with less recaps), and wow, I love it. I'm honestly putting it on par with YGO Abridged, which is saying a lot, because I've always counted every other Abridged Series I've seen as significantly worse than YGO. And you know what? I can see why they turned Nappa into a ghost to haunt Vegeta after he died, because Nappa was, somehow, by far the funniest character in the series, even though he was a super minor character in the original. Though really, even LK really likes it; he's actually voices two large roles in it, as well as some minor ones (including the narrator and probably the most well-known villain in the series). So yeah, that's my two cents on DBZ Abridged.

That is insane... 100 episodes of recaps is like four times as many episodes as the average anime series has in the first place. That's... kind of sad. ^^;; I can understand how that gets old sometimes though. DBZ didn't recap so much as they just made time seem to slow down... I remember there was one point where they had a five minute count down until a planet blew up... and it lasted I believe eight episodes. It was ridiculous. So of course, if five minutes lasts eight episodes, you can only imagine how long it takes them to finish one fight, and there's a lot of fights and in-between time in that show. I don't know why I'm so patient with it and love it so much. Hell, I don't think I'd even get rid of the ridiculous amount of time if given the option. And now that I think about it, I do have the option, because they came out with a cleaned-up version of DBZ that was trimmed to be shorter and only include the important parts, and I have not watched it.

Yes, there's actually two videos after Snot Him now. The first ones pretty good, the second one, not so much to my tastes, but not necessarily a bad video.

Gosh, I know, Winter Break just went by like that. School starts Tuesday for me, and I'm all angsting that tomorrow will be my last day of freedom. Glad you didn't have to deal with that drama though.

Yeah, I've tried a few Abridged Series here and there. YGO and DBZ amazing, Avatar and Pokemon were decent, and the rest were terrible. I've only watch all of the first two though. But yeah, the DBZ one does run and joke on the assumption that you've seen the show. It is kind enough to actually include parts where they explain the plot and why characters are going here and such though.

Ghh, that would drive me crazy. Especially because I'm also OCD and would need to watch all the recap parts. I don't mind a recap here and there, and even that one recap episodes completely dedicated to Jounouchi recaps that Kaiba and Yuugi didn't actually witness was quite enjoyable, mostly because of the commentary in between. But I would hate having to watch each episode three times just to finish the series.

Haha, I remember being so into DBZ, then finding out a lot of anime fans didn't like it because of how drawn out it was. I never even noticed how crazy long and repetitive it got until someone pointed it out to me, and I realized I preferred it that way for some odd reason.

Fun times. That does suck you got homework over winter break. But I do hope things are better for you this semester than last. I don't think my semester will be too great; I'll be applying myself to school from 8AM-6PM on Mondays and Wednesdays, 8AM-10PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 8AM-2PM on Fridays. Oh just kill me now. On the first four days I only get one hour break on each of those days, as well as break time I get on the shuttle rides there and back. And then I'm gonna have the same Japanese Sensei as last semester, so I know I'll get piles and piles of homework. *cries*

Yeah, I agree. I do notice on the few parts of Yuugiou (or now, DBZ) that are quite sad are always never as funny and kind of awkward when Abridged. Like Kaiba losing his duel to Pegasus, or Piccolo dying.

Oh yeah, I won't deny Yuugiou had it's fair share of overdone recaps. That one with Yuugi's soul and then (I don't think the dub actually suffered this one so much because 4Kids completely changed this scene) where Jounouchi gives Yuugi Red Eyes and tells him he wants to be a true duelist. I honestly think that was the most-played flashback in all of Battle City. And then there was the Freeza Battle in DBZ... that one was like recap nightmare; at least it was different parts of the fight, and they only showed the same part of the fight like... four times maybe? Then another 800 of various other scenes from that fight? XD

Haha, yeah, sometimes I would think the duels were overly-long, but it was more from a, "It's weird and unlikely they take this much time to announce and decide this one spell card" kind of thing, rather than a, "Just get on with the plot already" kind of thing. In Yuugiou card games are the plot! XD

Yeah, I try to tell myself it will go quick, but today was such a long day and I'm tirrrrreddd... *whine* I still haven't figured out when I'll find time to eat lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Ah well.