It goes without saying I expect giant military mechas to follow soon.

"A Japanese company by the unfortunate name of tmsuk has just announced the world's largest robot capable of carrying a person - the 3.5m tall, 5 ton T52 Enryu HyperRescueRobot. Their product site is in Japanese, but here's a few fun facts: it's 10m wide with its arms fully outstretched, is powered by an onboard water-cooled three cylinder direct injection diesel engine, has a maximum speed of 3Km/h, and carries seven 680,000-pixel CCD cameras with a separate monitor for each camera. If no whiny 14-year-olds are available to pilot it, it can be remotely controlled (with a dummy plug in the cockpit, presumably)."

Link to company

A picture of the mecha

No I am not a otaku for mecha :( I'm way down on the totem pole. Remeber it isn't what you do it it's what you don't do that pisses everyone off. If you spend time say playing videogames, and you don't bathe, clean your room, or eat that will piss everyone off rather then that you play video games. Well that is my interpretation of things.

I don't think it is the games you play (D and D or video games) but how obsessed you are with it. The japanese have a term for the uber obsessed it is Otaku. A Otaku basically waste their whole time looking for information and anything they can get on a paticular subject. In japan it is okay to play games or even dress up as characters form anime or video games. However when you start obsessing about it and can't think of anything else then it isn't okay. You can be a otaku of anything, they seem to have a disgust for a person uber obsessed with something rather then what they are obsessed about. When you become an otaku then you lose functionality because you can't concentrate on your job. I don't know if this adds anything new to this little discussion you guys are having but maybe.

And at least 3 pages on here! :)

I have now written 38 pages worth of papers and one short story in fourteen days.

That's funny - I read an interview with a D&D gamer durning my research who said that he and his buddies (all male) would have some female characters in the group so they could role-play having sex. There's definately a link between role-playing games and sex.

I don't like the war games - I'm a terrible strategist (sp?).

No... I haven't played any roleplaying games in a couple years now. I got into war-games and then even ran out of time for stuff like that.

We had a lecture about ScriptEase in Cmput301... my project group and I were joking around calling it scrip-Tease ... since all of the profs characaters that he was demo-ing with were scantily clad chicks.

Are you playing with anyone right now Ed?