The Keeping it 1600 podcast the day after the election was awesome . They were so smug going into the election they reminded me of the South Park episode where the people sniffed their own farts . Listening to them eat crow was very entertaining <| sep |> It ' s possible ! I didn ' t notice the combattraining graphix , but I also wasn ' t really looking for them , and it may have been happening without them appearing . Hopefully enough anecdotes can be collected that it will start actually turning into data . . . <| sep |> I hope you washed the gopher blood off before you ate that strawberry . <| sep |> So does this have a monthly membership ? <| sep |> I think you ' re jumping to conclusions here . To use either is limiting and doesn ' t promote any form of understanding . It ' s far easier to work from the character and outward to determine it ' s appeal , and when we consider preference we have to take other characters into account . It may just not be that Rei is superappealing , but it could also be that other characters lack appeal . Particularly the blank space consideration should be laid dead . While I know it ' s an efficient writer ' s tool for hooking people , it doesn ' t apply to Rei because the character already has a defined story . Secondly , Rei ' s lack of emotion and interest in wordly matters is in itself a defining trait . Staying with in Evangelion , for examples of actual blank space characters look no further than the new Rebuild . Here you have a lack of consistent story , backgrounds and development , but only small and superficial character traits . The vast blank spaces inbetween these is where people may make up traits . It ' s not a case of emotive vs nonemotive , an emotive character may very well be a bigger blank as some examples from Evangelion now shows .