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I have been trying to run Portal on my PC since like three days ago (I have been loading it since like a month ago), and don't know how to solve the error I'm having. Apparently it has to do with this other game, Half Life 2, that I have to install too to make it work ('solutions' found in Google haven't work). I hope I'm successful with this. *sighs* I seriously will cry or something if that doesn't work either.
I was watching some vids (even if they take forever to load for me), and found this one: "Gloria", of The Sarah Connor Chronicles fandom. Amazing I tell you, and great song too. It amused the hell out of me because they made Sarah/Cameron. A vid about Sarah and Cameron that seems almost plausible, and hot as hell. And because AHAHAHAHA THAT'S MY NAME.
Because Tsubasa spoilers blew off my mind, I am re-reading XXXholic. ... What?
You know? Watanuki doesn't even think twice when he sees TRC!Sakura and Syaoran for the first time at Yuuko's shop. He is all, 'the kids came out of the sky!' and all that jazz. He doesn't look like he is in front of people that look familiar to him.
But we don't even know when Watanuki gave off his memories about his parents as a price to Yuuko because it happened off-screen (which I think is a pretty unusual way to play with Watanuki's POV), but we know he still remembered them back then because CLAMP made him talk about his father's cooking (or at least, remember it). So really, weird and complicated and confusing are all understatements.
I'm thinking right now that maybe XXXholic's universe isn't the same as CCS's. I think Yuuko mentioned once that the shop wasn't even in XXXholic's world (maybe she was talking about something like an astral plane, but I don't care). Of course, we are supposed to think that CCS's Sakura and Syaoran are TRC!Syaoran's parents, and CCS's-world-isn't-the-same-as-Holic's wouldn't exactly explain anything; but it would make me feel better about Touya's cameo in Kobato (which I'm pretty sure takes place in XXXholic's world). ETA: Oh, forget it. Yuuko just said to Watanuki "in the world where we live exist two persons called Sakura and Syaoran who are Clow's descendants"* (emphasis mine). God damn you. Hm. I would like to know if that was in present tense in Japanese.
Daughter of ETA: Watanuki: "Does that mean that I exist in other worlds too?"
Yuuko: "Exactly." What, Yuuko? What .......
Grand daughter: Yeah, Watanuki calls them by their names. Still. doesn't. make sense, Clamp.
Holly hell, Aren't we just jossed every week with this manga? ("We" includes Ohkawa. Maybe.)
I just re-read the arc about the lady obsessed with her computer. I laughed. The Internet-obsessed housewife touched my buttons, even with all that 'is pathological!' thing. I forgot how unusual of a female character Yuuko is, and I think I like how the moral in this particular story worked. I liked the "it doesn't matter what your son, or your husband think; what matters is what you want to do" thing. What I did not like was that she has to decide between pleasing her family, or pleasing herself. But whatever. (Oh, I know some people will tell me 'she wasn't pleasing herself, she was an addict!' well, people don't exist in vacuum and housewives who are neglecting their families because of Internet are... well read as neglecting their families because of Internet. What I mean with this is that when the only hobby of a housewife that doesn't have anything to do her family is portrayed as pathological because it keeps her away from 'family obligations,' I won't like it.)
*All those quotes are my translations from my scanlations in Spanish if you want to know.
I was watching some vids (even if they take forever to load for me), and found this one: "Gloria", of The Sarah Connor Chronicles fandom. Amazing I tell you, and great song too. It amused the hell out of me because they made Sarah/Cameron. A vid about Sarah and Cameron that seems almost plausible, and hot as hell. And because AHAHAHAHA THAT'S MY NAME.
Because Tsubasa spoilers blew off my mind, I am re-reading XXXholic. ... What?
You know? Watanuki doesn't even think twice when he sees TRC!Sakura and Syaoran for the first time at Yuuko's shop. He is all, 'the kids came out of the sky!' and all that jazz. He doesn't look like he is in front of people that look familiar to him.
But we don't even know when Watanuki gave off his memories about his parents as a price to Yuuko because it happened off-screen (which I think is a pretty unusual way to play with Watanuki's POV), but we know he still remembered them back then because CLAMP made him talk about his father's cooking (or at least, remember it). So really, weird and complicated and confusing are all understatements.
I'm thinking right now that maybe XXXholic's universe isn't the same as CCS's. I think Yuuko mentioned once that the shop wasn't even in XXXholic's world (maybe she was talking about something like an astral plane, but I don't care). Of course, we are supposed to think that CCS's Sakura and Syaoran are TRC!Syaoran's parents, and CCS's-world-isn't-the-same-as-Holic's wouldn't exactly explain anything; but it would make me feel better about Touya's cameo in Kobato (which I'm pretty sure takes place in XXXholic's world). ETA: Oh, forget it. Yuuko just said to Watanuki "in the world where we live exist two persons called Sakura and Syaoran who are Clow's descendants"* (emphasis mine). God damn you. Hm. I would like to know if that was in present tense in Japanese.
Daughter of ETA: Watanuki: "Does that mean that I exist in other worlds too?"
Yuuko: "Exactly." What, Yuuko? What .......
Grand daughter: Yeah, Watanuki calls them by their names. Still. doesn't. make sense, Clamp.
Holly hell, Aren't we just jossed every week with this manga? ("We" includes Ohkawa. Maybe.)
I just re-read the arc about the lady obsessed with her computer. I laughed. The Internet-obsessed housewife touched my buttons, even with all that 'is pathological!' thing. I forgot how unusual of a female character Yuuko is, and I think I like how the moral in this particular story worked. I liked the "it doesn't matter what your son, or your husband think; what matters is what you want to do" thing. What I did not like was that she has to decide between pleasing her family, or pleasing herself. But whatever. (Oh, I know some people will tell me 'she wasn't pleasing herself, she was an addict!' well, people don't exist in vacuum and housewives who are neglecting their families because of Internet are... well read as neglecting their families because of Internet. What I mean with this is that when the only hobby of a housewife that doesn't have anything to do her family is portrayed as pathological because it keeps her away from 'family obligations,' I won't like it.)
*All those quotes are my translations from my scanlations in Spanish if you want to know.
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As for Portal and Half Life 2, it may have to do with the fact that Portal is literally packaged as an expansion pack game of Half Life 2 within the Orange Box set. Maybe you have to have the Half Life 2 part on there to make it work. ^^;
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I knew that, but it was weird because other people told me it worked for them without the other games, so I was hoping that it wouldn't come that (my internet sucks). Damn. XD Thank you!
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Also, I think CLAMP secretly hates the internets and computers, with the way they always portray them XD
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You know, I have big troubles with gender treatment in Holic, but now that I think about it, maybe it's because CLAMP tried to do what could be called a... gender-blind manga, or the opposite of what is traditional: a manga where most of the characters are women (I mean, it pass Bechdel test like whoa). But thanks to that it has other problems: all of the characters who are 'pathological' are women, and most male character are... not bad at all. So in a medium where most characters are male, have big roles, and are glorified... well, you know is not a very good way to read female characters.
That's why gender blindness doesn't work (I know I can't know what CLAMP tried, but whatever XD), but it still better than women treatment in most manga (and comic) because in Holic women exist not only for male characters.
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Oh, no. I know CLAMP isn't thinking that. Well, I don't know, but that doesn't really matter. The important thing is how it will be read in a sexist, male-dominated society. And heck, XXXholic isn't a bad manga at all. I have problems with it, but I like it more than that. XD (And heck, I didn't know they said that, thank you for clarifying it. XD)
Damn, this was more ramble than anything, and I'm sorry if it bothered you. ^^; I'm not insulting Holic or anything, but I definitely think it has issues, like most of the things (and good things even) out there.
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Y como te han dicho arriba, necesitas el Orange Box para jugar al Portal y probablemente el HL2 tambien, el Portal es una expansion, un 'mod'.
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Y sip. :/ Gracias! Es que son muy pesados esos juegos para mi pobre conexión. XD
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tiene que andaaaaar! T_T debes jugarle!!!!! T_T buaaa
XDD en fin....saludos...
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