Goodbye Stranger

I am Fortress Maximus!

Valiant, courageous, and powerful beyond measure, you are a warrior without compare, but one whose most fervent wish is never to have to fight again. Your desire is to build, but when war comes, you will not hesitate to turn your gifts to the ways of combat. Though you do believe that if the war does not end soon, you will lose your own identity to it. You wish for there to be peace among everyone and the only reason you continue to fight is to put an end to all of the senseless conflict. You are also binary bonded with Spike Witwicky.

Take the Transformers Gestalt / Citybot quiz by X-Warlock

Funny story for anime fans. My supervisor, Frank, was telling some of us about his nephews. They asked him to fetch some Yugioh cards. Of course, he has no clue what Yugioh is, and he goes to the cigar store and picks up a box of Fudgeeos. He tells his nephews, "Oh yeah, I got you a box of that stuff you wanted!" So imagine the poor kids' fallen faces when they got cookies instead. Wait a minute. Overpriced cards versus a box of chocolate cookies? Kids really are getting stupider.

Japanese must be a hellish language to learn. Not only do you have the Japanese factor ... you have to deal with random bits of Chinese and a good helping of mangled English.

I mention this because I got the same Megaman X5 manga Tabby got some time ago. It's entirely in Chinese. With Japanese mangas, I can at least understand "X", "Zero," "Damn," "Sigma," "Bastard," "Die," "Huh?" and "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" That usually carries me through half the story. But the X5 manga? Not a chance of understanding one measly panel. Which is too bad, because I am really itching to know what's going on. There's a lot of X, a bit of Zero, almost no Dynamo ... and a tribe of hippie Indians who wear thongs and garish vests. At least, I thought they have a hippie factor there somewhere ... most of 'em have long hair and bandanas with happy sunny faces on them. But then one of them whips out a handgun and brings down a tiger (the rest of the tribe seems fond of spears) and there goes the peace and love thing.

Uh ... I don't know. Anyone read the same manga? I'd love to know what the hell is up its ass. It's just weird. I'll have to scan it someday.