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Made a new avatar and signature set. onion-run

Schools and academies are featured in many anime titles, with each institution usually having their own distinct school uniform! Which anime titles have your most favourite school uniforms, and why?

@valerauko, do you know if the original Japanese cast will be returning for the main characters? And of course if there is an English dub, there'll be that question too. Though that will be a much later question of course.

Soy milk is definitely a great alternative, except I don't particularly like the taste by itself it's alright.. But mixed with tea or coffee, it's not a taste I'm used to yet. Do they have different types of soy milk?

I've been trying to make our website load quicker all weekend and I believe we finally making some progress: onion-run

During the week I don't often have much for breakfast, the most I'll have is a coffee and a choice of either a museli bar or banana. I used to have cereal a lot but these days it seems I am slightly lactose intolerant which gives me a mild headache if I drink too much milk.

Ah yes, the Coke Glasses. Mighty fine glasses if I may say so myself. Back in my McDonalds days I remember unpacking them from their shipping boxes. Some customers were mighty fussy on what colour they wanted. I also remember seeing a box every now and then appearing on Ebay, probably due to some naughty employee or supplier "misplacing" a box here and there. And before you ask, no I didn't take any. onion-relax

That's awesome news! But it does make you wonder what took Toei so long to consider making a follow up series to Adventure? Needless to say the original Adventure/02 series has a really strong fan base even after all this time. Really look forward to it. Be good to see the old crew in HD too. onion-glasses

Good point @NightDancer, however this is solely for tech stuff. I also noticed the Technology forum section was feeling a little quiet so why not spruce it a bit? ouchthis-excited -- As per @FearInCube's request: I recently upgraded my Home Theatre audio, definitely very expensive but I'm super happy with the result. Watching anime definitely has more impact now. Especially when my previous system was a Sony Muteki 7.2 HTiB (home theatre in a box) system... Nothing bad against the Mutekis as they're definitely bang for buck - it's hard to beat an AVR and 7.2 speakers for $1,000 range but you're definitely limited in an upgrade path as those speakers were only 4ohms and wasn't sure if the AVR could handle 8ohm ones. So I went for a Yamaha and B&W 5.1 match. Was tempted by Denon and Polk combo but found it a bit too "bright" for my liking. Would definitely recommend popping down a proper Hi-Fi shop as the staff are much more helpful, they let you play your own movies (I brought my Evangelion 1.11, Man of Steel and Tron Blu-ray discs to test) . Also no pressure to make you buy things *cough* such as Harvey Norman, JB Hi Fi. ouchthis-hush Amp: Yamaha Aventage RXA3030 Fronts: B&W 683S2 Centre: B&W HTM61S2 Surrounds: B&W 685S2 Wide View Just need a new cabinet or table to fit the new Centre speaker, it's humongous!

As cute that picture is, unfortunately I don't see how it relates to The Walking Dead. Sorry.

Slightly off-topic but Kotobukiya is releasing a Sinon figure: Definitely on the want list!!

My most recent gaming consoles are PlayStation 3, PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS. To be frank though my portable handhelds haven't been used for a long time due to me almost never taking the train or bus. My PS3 has the most usage at the moment due to it being an awesome Blu-ray player.

Has been active for a fair while now thanks to you suggesting it earlier. We could definitely expand it more though. Perhaps instead of it displaying our avatars we could change it to a dedicated anime character (different ones for male and female members). So I'm curious on character ideas. Also making the background more colourful and/or bubbly could be an option too.

Out of curiosity how much do McDoubles and Big Macs cost over there these days? Big Macs here in Australia are approaching the $5 AUD mark.. I agree I wouldn't use it often for home delivery, but during work I might use it more often. Slightly off-topic but I remember during late night university group meetings we would order Dominoes Pizza to be delivered on-campus for dinner. Ah that was convenient. onion-relax Ah but you have Starbucks Coffee which is pretty good. onion-cup

Ooh interesting topic! Here's my result: I used to be on an ADSL2 connection via Telstra infrastructure at our old place, synced at around 17 mbps from memory and 1 mbps upload. In a new development now with NBN (recent new Fibre network that was being deployed throughout Australia)... a little costly at $94.95 per month for 300 GB quota a month . But definitely much much better value than the old Telstra ADSL2 connection which we were paying $50 per month. To be honest for normal website browsing, it loads around the same speed, which is expected as most websites we access are outside Australia so we transit through the submarine cable towards Singapore from Perth... It is however definitely more responsive and more bandwidth to go around when other people are using it at the same time. And the upload speed definitely makes working on our website much easier when I upload the galleries. onion-roll That's super quick download and your upload is definitely higher than ADSL2... are you on Cable? Overkill. You Dutch overdo everything. onion-stunned

Bumping this topic. I've been going to McDonald's for work lunch about 2-3 times a week mainly for the coffee at McCafe. Good coffee and convenient. As I work in IT, you generally want to eat away from your desk as you'll keep getting interrupted even during your break.. onion-wall I recommend the toasted Turkish Sandwiches and coffee combo at McCafe. Good value for $8. A photo of one I had today, this was a chicken, pineapple and red onion Turkish sandwich with a Cappucuino. onion-blush Ooh, any update on this?

Hello @Arashiko Yuuno, welcome to the AN Community Forums.

Asuna went through a lot in both SAO and AO, let's cut Asuna some slack. After all she was held captive for most of AO so perhaps she's just happy things are settling down. I suspect though Asuna's tone will probably change when Kirito inevitably enters GGO... wonder how she will react? On a side note how you finding Sinon's character (Shinnon)? She seems pretty badass. onion-blush But she seems to exhibit the feeling of having a burden on her shoulders? Be curious to learn more about her real life story. onion-stress I've updated the Episode Guide on the main website to include Episode 02: Ice Sniper.

Computer support telemarketing scams... amusing but definitely a time waster when they call. Makes you wonder how they can continue to thrive on scamming others like that. ouchthis-shy.gif

Admittedly I didn't watch much of the World Cup this year, just glanced at the news highlights. Grats to Germany for their win. Anyone else notice though that World Cup games seem to be getting more controversial since South Africa? As in the general evictions of poorer people to create the venues and infrastructure. I hope the next World Cup has less controversy, Russia is the next host right?

I recently boosted a Sword Art Online II post to help promote our episode guide. Budget was $5 across five days. So $1 per day (though it ended up taking about seven days to fully deplete. Very affordable. We received 82+ likes within 1-2 days for that post as it really boosts it on our follower's News Feed. The reality is though @katyC has been active in posting many things, our reach is limited because only recent posts (within a few hours or so) will appear on someone's News Feed. And of course you're competing with "Sponsored posts" and the usual Friends posts, and "Friends of Friends". This was the end result of our boost: For website and forum owners, Facebook is definitely something we can no longer ignore due to its immense popularity..