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Oh cool. I also just started reading the book. This should be a fun topic for both of us.

Did you see the Battle Royale movie by any chance?

I did not! I wanted to go into the book blind. If you're ahead of me, please don't post any clues!

Or the strangling. So much strangling.

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Moops?
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Some reasoning: I posted most of the girls behind most of the guys, because unlike the Hunger Games I'm assuming these are just random 14-15 year old kids, and I'd take a random boy over a random girl at any point.

1) One of the characters names has a word I can't post on GameFAQs, which in my opinion hurts Yopooptoki's chances of winning. His parents didn't even love him enough to give him a non banned name, so his death will be quick, and probably related to poop.

2) A couple exceptions to the boys>girls rule. One of the characters last names looks suspiciously like "katana". I can only assume someone has accidentally entered a sword into the contest. I like the swords chances, but she will eventually be undone by Johnny Gunkablamo.

3) Two Nakagawa girls. I'm assuming they are sisters, but I could be wrong. I know very little about Japanese culture, so maybe Nakagawa is like Smith in Japan. They will both drop in the next rankings if it turns out they aren't related, because I'm assuming they will be protecting each other at first. Even if they aren't related, I'm still assuming they will team up, because if I was ever entered in a random death match, I would immediately form a gang with people having my last name, and then kill the rest of them off, thereby gaining their power. I AM THE ONE.

4) A couple of guys actually have something that sounds like "hero" in their name. Definitely helps. If a guy has the name "Hero", that is almost as good of a sign that he is the main character as his name being "Player 1".

5) Another girl has the last name ChigUSA. I can only assume she will enter the fray with an assortment of firearms, bravado, and a desire to murder anything non-American. I love her chances.

I will now answer questions.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

So far, I've read the two intro portions, neither of which feature any of the characters at all! Some crazy guy is in love with wrestling way too much and explains a battle royale to me like I'm an idiot. Then, we get a TOP SEKRIT GOVERNMENT MEMO about how someone has hacked into their super secret child murder death club and might know about their plans for the next program, but everything is probably cool anyway so go ahead with the plans.

BOOK ABOUT TO ACTUALLY START HYPE HYPE HYPE

Here is my pre book rankings, based purely on names and sexism:
Pre-Book
42. Yoshimi Yahagi
41. Yukie Utsumi
40. Hirono Shimizu
39. Fumiyo Fujiyoshi
38. Haruka Tanizawa
37. Mayumi Tendo
36. Mizuho Inada
35. Yuko Sakaki
34. Satomi Noda
33. Megumi Eto
32. Yumiko Kusaka
31. Kayoko Kotohiki
30. Kaori Minami
29. Chisato Matsui
28. Mitsuko Souma
27. Izumi Kanai
26. Tadakatsu Hatagami
25. Yuichiro Takiguchi
24. Yopooptoki Kuninobu
23. Keita Iijima
22. Tatsumichi Oki
21. Yutaka Seto
20. Kazushi Niida
19. Shogo Kawada
18. Sho Tsukioka
17. Mitsuru Numai
16. Shuya Nanahara
15. Ryuhei Sasagawa
14. Hiroki Sugimura
13. Yoji Kuramoto
12. Kazuo Kiriyama
11. Toshinori Oda
10. Noriko Nakagawa
9. Shinji Mimura
8. Yuka Nakagawa
7. Takako Chigusa
6. Yoshio Akamatsu
5. Hiroshi Kuronaga
4. Sakura Ogawa
3. Yukiko Kitano
2. Kyoichi Motobuchi
1. Kazuhiko Yamamoto

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

No spoilers for the book please. Or I'll strangle you.

So apparently my appetite for young people murdering each other was not quenched by the Hunger Games trilogy. One of my friends who hates popular things was all like "Grumble grumble Hunger Games better when it was called Battle Royale IMHHHHHO" when I was reading the Hunger Games books.

While I had intended to ignore him, I had a lot of problems with the Hunger Games trilogy, especially the later books in the series. MY BLOODLUST WAS NOT QUENCHED.

So, I took him up on his assertion that Battle Royale would be the more enjoyable read (even though he had never read Hunger Games or Battle Royale and was just posting things he read off of gawker), and purchased the book. I'll be giving my impressions after each chapter! Or whenever the hell I feel like it.

Something that I do like about this is I get the full class list off the bat, so I was be giving my projecting rankings for each characters finishing spot at points throughout the story based on how likely I think they are to survive.

And while I would appreciate no one else posting spoilers to ruin the book for me, I will be posting tons of them. SO BE WARNED.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Is this real life?

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Moops?
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But everyone in NY thinks the Knicks can... Oh wait.

Haha.

But everyone who likes basketball knew this series would be over in four or five!

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Wow.

Fantastic game. At least one of these first round series will be interesting!

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Love that the Knicks got blown out. The amount of overhype they have had this season is absurd. Once they get swept, maybe NY fans can keep their trap shut next year until they actually do something.

Devastating that Rose got hurt. He looked like he was finally coming back and I was looking forward to a semi-competitive Eastern finals. Now I think Heat will end up beating Boston in five or so.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Is there a better beard in sports than Harden?

Don't say Wilson. His is inferior.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Mockingjay took the awesome plot twist ending of Catching Fire and ruined it completely.

See, I hated the twist ending of Catching Fire, mostly because it made no friggin' sense.

"Hey lets tell everyone involved of our plan except for the two most important people, because they might do something that looks suspicious. Herp derp."

I mean, at least give them a heads up that part of the forest spews poison that kills you instantly. They were about two seconds from their whole plan being ruined. I get that it was written this way to emphasize the DRAMA and save the plot twist until the very end, but it just didn't make much sense.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

The scene near the end where they're discussing holding another Hunger Games and Katniss actually supports it pretty much cemented her being awful for me.

I have tons of problems with Mockingjay, but it is pretty obvious in this scene she isn't actually supporting another real Hunger Games. The "Hunger Games" she is referring to is the confrontation between her, Coin, and Snow at the end of the book.

My real problem is that just because Coin and Snow are gone does not mean everything should be automatically good, like the book assumes.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

but to make a post like that, you have to be confident that everyone you know is either not going to care, or that they'll agree with you. It's crazy to think that people can exist like that in North America.

I think you greatly overestimate the self restraint of morons.

I think it is highly likely that they know what they are saying will offend people, and simply don't care.

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Moops?
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NO BARTENDER NO!

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Moops?
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Has anyone posted this yet? I didn't search the last topic, but just in case this is the only good think the Canucks did during the entire playoffs.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/canucks-kevin-bieksa-does-entire-interview-ryan-kesler-204302315.html

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Mark Sanchez > Canucks

Ryan Kesler's acting ability>Canucks

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

To be fair though, Quick had an amazing series so I can't fault the Canucks as much as I'd like to for another post season collapse.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Tim Tebow>Canucks

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Moops?
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D. Sedin
Carter

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Moops?
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Jones
MacDonald
Rothwell
Torres
Hominick
Alessio

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Moops?
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I actually wouldn't be surprised if the Coyotes make it past the Blackhawks rather easily now. Without Hossa and Shaw, they lose a lot of their scoring threat with the obvious exception of their top line. Q might end up juggling the lines now to try and even it out a bit, especially with Sharp struggling, but I just don't think it would do much good at this point.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

I want a picture of Swift being thrown into a lake full of frogs.

Swift said you couldn't because you weren't the real creator of tornadolayzers and he was. I said he was wrong and that you'd do this picture to prove it.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Hahaha chants of "Crawford" were immediately followed by "Mike Smith sucks".

Playoff hockey.

The best.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

I thought I hated Vancouver.

Turns out I just really, really hate Torres. The United Center was so loud after the Kane goal that you couldn't even hear the horn. Crazy.

Also aw yeah Crawford warning Smith to stop being a punk.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Ehh...I take that back. I'd favor the Preds over them as well.

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Moops?
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Quick has also been absurdly good this whole series. Blues are the only team that I think would match up really well against the Kings at this point.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Schneider is playing really well, but I still don't really agree with the Luongo benching. He had been one of the better Canucks the whole series. If they benched anyone, it should have been Kesler. I know they never would, but he has had one of the worst series of anyone on the Canucks.

And it would figure that the one time I root for the Canucks, they would play terribly. My hopes of the Hawks/Nucks re-re-rematch are looking pretty slim right now. If the Hawks even get past the Coyotes, that is...

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Brook

Wyrwal

Reyes

Hazell

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

It took me two seconds to do this search, and I'm sure I could find more if I wanted, but here.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/13/police-have-arrest-warrant-shooting-near-white-hou/

I would like to point out that I cannot completely dispute what I think your basic claim is here, because I did another cursory search for Sotomayor and "white-Hispanic" and couldn't find any results. It could just be because the first fifty or so results I found were all about the case she ruled on involving white and Hispanic firemen (which in and of itself divided the two into two separate categories and didn't say white and white-Hispanic firemen), so I suppose it could be in there somewhere. I wouldn't say it is never used, but my preliminary results seem to indicate it is somewhat infrequently used. I am far too lazy to dig through the entirety of newspaper headlines to see what percentages stories about Hispanic Americans also mention their race, but I know it is at least more than zero.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

I guess me actively rooting for Hawks/Nucks rematch part 3 is going to doom both team to first round losses, huh?

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Hartlova

Hewitt

Boufhal

Hendricks

Underwood

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Aw yeah, Hawks get the win, but do so in overtime to ensure Detroit still finishes ahead of them and the Blackhawks will be able to avoid Nashville in the first round.

Best possible outcome, imho.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

also, bulls attempting to choke away home court advantage? just saw they lost to the rockets... damn...

I'm not sure you can call it "choking away" when their best player has missed more than twenty games this season, their second best player has been playing with one good hand for the last three months, and their third best player has only played in a dozen or so games the whole season.

The fact that the Heat aren't ahead of them would be absurd, but Wade has had his own injury problems and Lebron had a shaky stretch there as well.

Luckily for both teams, the rest of the teams in the conference aren't better than either the Bulls or Heat b-squad.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Wow these all got taken down super quick.

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Moops?
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Smashburger is still my favorite, but Five Guys is a close second.

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Moops?
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I only want $999. Is that possible?

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Obviously he was about to call Obama a "nigromancer", then realized that the term stopped being used 500 years ago in favor of "necromancer", so it would be kind of tacky.

yeah i still don't get the whole death panels thing people were flipping out about when barack obama has been a long time proponent of reviving the dead

EVERYONE STOP POSTING THIS TOPIC HAS OFFICIALLY REACHED ITS APEX

...but yeah, I doubt it was his intention to use any sort of slur. But what he says, combined with his extremely awkward reaction afterward are hilarious.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

There is no way that is real.

Still funny though.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Has anyone brought up the fact that the new black panther party is offering a 10,000 bounty on zimmerman's life?

Stewart

The only way to bring this lone vigilante to justice...IS A VIGILANTE MOB!

Yes...that'll do it!

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

bob punching

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Moops?
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Yeah, Boko never joined so we'll have to move this.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

I think I will probably miss it, but if it works out better for most people this way I have already adjusted the rankings so I should be ok.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

cant tell if serious

pretty sure not serious

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Moops?
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Kazakhstan's prostitutes: CLEANEST IN THE REGION

This is hilarious and I can't believe this actually happened.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/opinion/please-stop-apologizing.html?_r=1

Wow, I hate Maher but this is well written and 100% correct.

Also:

Wow, Ron Paul has a complex and nuanced view on abortion that isn't either "no abortions for anyone ever" or "abortions for everyone with no restriction".

No wonder he isn't winning the nomination.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

No higher than a B, no lower than a D.

So this makes sense for grades...I guess. I mean, at least logically. You want your grade not higher than a B (so no As) and no lower than a D (so no Fs).

When you get to boobs it all falls apart. You want boobs (I'm assuming cup sizes) no higher than B. A higher cup size would be C, D, etc, meaning you DO NOT want any cup sizes larger than B. However, you also say you want to cup size lower than D. Cup sizes lower than D cups include: A, B, C, etc.

So you've created an impossibility here.

Unless I'm reading something wrong. I am quite tired.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Obama going retro with that old school flat top for the election, I see.

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Moops?
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Libertarian nerds: "uh oh an opinion that doesn't go along with my disgusting worldview, imma ignore it and make petty remarks."

I feel like if you remove your editorializing, this could literally be said about 99% of the population.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

I can adjust my schedule a little bit depending on the day, but Wednesday or the weekends would work best.

And also this is the worst I've ever done in one of these bracket things. WOOPS.

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Moops?
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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/jeremy-lin-starting-role-ny-knicks-coach-mike-woodson-point-baron-davis-guard-article-1.1040128?localLinksEnabled=false

Woops forgot to post the link.

No way that happens...right?

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."

Can the third topic title be "Where Jeremy Lin stops happening"?

Or will he have been relegated to backup duty for too long by that point to even be relevant?

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."