Being my seventh year going to Fanime, I have learned one important thing; It gets to be very expensive. A weekend pass cost $55 if you pre-register and about $65 if you buy it at the door. The most expensive thing is if you plan to reserve a hotel room and it also depends on which hotel you stay but the average for most hotels around the ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, we watched part of a Bladerunner and this brought up the question of what it truly means to live. Do robots or android feel pain or love ( Read more... )

During the week, we read “Liar” by Isaac Asimov. Herbie, a robot with the ability to read peoples minds, doesn’t care for data or theories but is rather fond of fiction as he says the interaction between humans interest him. While reading this story, Herbie almost seemed human in  a way because it felt like he  understood human emotions and wanted ( Read more... )

In our readings for class, “reason” by Isaac Asimov, Cutie asked about his existence, yet refuses to believe the answers he is given. After giving much thought to what could have created him, cutie comes to the conclusion that a higher being that he calls, The master, is his true creator; just as some people look to a higher power or being for ( Read more... )

How do I know I'm human? I could say because I breathe and sleep and eat and feel that I am human. I love my family and friends. i feel pain when stabbed and when my heart is broken. Does that make me human? Am I human when I repeat my life everyday. When I wake up everyday wondering what I'll do, only to repeat my actions from the day before and ( Read more... )

With all of our class discussions on robots, it reminded me of some past anime i have watch and how they relate to our current topic of robots. While both these readings and the animes share the similar theme of robots and trust, these animes also go into the question of love and friendship between man and robots.

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I decided to try something different and make my own top 16 list song.
Now, I'm a big Dragon Ball Z fan and wanted to do something involving that. When i first saw Dragon Ball Kai, i was suprised to see that they had a new opening song by another singer instead of Hironobu Kageyama. Kageyama has been doing Dragon Ball Z songs since the Z series ( Read more... )

For the past two days in class we've have been talking about robots. After reading Reason by Isaac Asimov, and Can Robots Be Trusted bt Erik Sofge; it's seems like we are still far from creating the Artificial Intelligence that we fear of from science fiction. Actually, I became very interested in reading Reason and my do so if i ever get through ( Read more... )

Well, i'd like to introduce everyone to my personal Avatar: RADITZ!

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So there's only 16 days until fanime.
so i already have a idea (actually it's like a list) of things i want to get while i'm there. the first thing that came to mind was the Freedom Gundam model kit.
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