Earth to Jaden. Page 5 preview, The Vigilant Issue #1

This is addressed to all of the following, although this is by no means an exhaustive list: (more…)

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My favorite sci-fi series of all time is Joss Whedon’s masterpiece, Firefly. Why that is will be a subject of a future post, but for now, I leave you with the gag reel from the show. Apparently Nathan Fillion is quite the joker.

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Staggering back from my deep undercover mission as a Normal Person, I surveyed the damage to my otaku cred. I wasn’t going to be the Otaking in this state, not with my complete ignorance over most anime that came out in the time I was on my away mission. I had no idea what Full Metal Panic was. I hadn’t seen a single episode of any anime other than Initial D in a long time. And as far as RPGs went, I hadn’t rolled a non-six-sided polyhedron in years, let alone orchestrate a hypothetical scenario for multiple persons where random number generation was used in conjunction with predetermined stats to generate results and determine outcomes. (“Run a game.”)

Otaku are notoriously snobby people, see — not in the sense that they’re mean or aloof, though. It’s just that they will test your knowledge in their area of expertise. Heaven help the poser who is trying to bluff his way through a field the otaku knows by heart.

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