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Happy New Year everybody! Here’s my top 5 album’s for 2008.

5. Mindless Self Indulgence – If

MSI refer to themselves as an “Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk” band. Confused?

At first I was dissapointed, but after I realized I was comparing it to their previous album too much, I started to like this album. It’s their second best album after “You’ll Rebel To Anything”.

Highlights: Never Wanted To Dance, Lights Up

4. Teenage Bottlerocket – Warning Device

Contagious Ramones “Three Chords” style pop punk. A simple album which is short, fast, loud and a lot of fun.

Highlights: In The Basement, Social Life

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I’m so happy to see Obama win the election. This is a historic day for us all, it’s so great to not only see someone of a racial minority get elected for leadership in a country that has had such a long history of racial conflicts, but also to see such a progressive, inspiring man for president. I hope to see Obama hold onto his ideals and his promises during his term in office, and hope that he doesn’t get corrupted or have to compromise on his core beliefs

It’s nice to see so many Americans realizing how important this election is and actually going out to vote. It’s important to get your voice heard and you can make a difference. Surely even the cynics can agree that Obama couldn’t possibly be worse than Mccain, so at least have the attitude of voting for who sucks the least. I sort of lost faith in American voters when Bush got re-elected, but I can say now that my faith in you guys has been restored.

I watched Obama’s victory speech live on TV today, and the man certainly knows how to make a brilliant speech. I actually cried, and I’m not even living in America.

Dude, that’s not what I meant at all. In any case I gave myself a bad name because I misinterpreted my own point, and got confused and acted like an idiot. Of course non-white people can be Oztaku if they’re Australian citizens, for example I extended the word to describe Blissmo from Yukan Blog, who is Asian by the way.

I’m not helping myself at all and I should probably make my article die in a fire. As if I haven’t got enough things to be depressed about.

- NewGeekPhilosopher on “What Is An Otaku?”

I don’t know whether I should be angry at you or not….
Which makes me angry!

Do I give a shit about you already having enough things to be depressed about? How am I supposed to know you have other shit going on? This is about your stupid article and nothing else. Don’t go looking for pity.

“Oh, Punktaku! Please don’t criticise me because I’ve got enough shit to be depressed about”

And you expect to hear – “Oh I’m so sorry, I never realised. How careless of me” well, don’t expect anything like that from me. Now I’m really pissed.

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Response to NewGeekPhilosopher’s article “What Is An Oztaku?”

1. An Oztaku is someone from Australia who is a fan of anime and manga.
2. Oztaku don’t consider themselves complete losers like Otaku, because they aren’t obsessed and anti-social.
3. They believe that Otaku is a derogatory term and people may discriminate against them, despite the fact that we don’t get biased media attacks on Otaku in Australia, and your average Australian doesn’t even know of Otaku.
4. An Oztaku wouldn’t want to scare away his Anglo Saxon friends with some weird Japanese word, so they feel the need to add “oz” to the title so it doesn’t feel too multicultural and far away from home.
5. Race plays a big part in the Oztaku scene. Being an Anglo Saxon Australian automatically gives you credibility.
6. Oztaku don’t use their hobby as a counter-culture unlike Otaku who show their distaste for the system by consuming endless amounts of figures, games, DVD’s, plushies, manga and wallscrolls. Otaku also protest for the freedom to marry their favourite anime characters. Viva La Revolution!

NewGeekPhilosopher should reconsider his name. People discriminate against geeks all the time.

“I bet you spend hours of your time playing Dungeons and Dragons and reading fantasy novels you geek! You seriously need to get out more”

But do you really care what those morons think? Do you really?