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We’ve Been Hit, Keep Nahu In Your Thoughts

Sol — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:46:18 +0000

Unfortunately the team has been struck with the H1N1 virus a.k.a. Swine Flu. Outside of our utmost commitment to the DDN community; there are times we need to take care ourselves and each other.

I’ll have more to report as I know, but keep Nahu in your thoughts. The staff are close friends and I’d like to think our little, but growing community is close as well.

- Sol

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Down with the sickness, H1N1, Nahu, Swine Ful

Warning: Keep Web Server Out Of Reach Of Nahu, Could Cause Downtime

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:42:19 +0000

Well apparently I cant seem to learn and once again, on the exact same date as last year I caused the site to go down for a long while. Sorry for the trouble, feel free to mock my webmastery ways in the comments.

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In Case You Missed It: The Month In Review – September

Sol — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:50:37 +0000

After taking a much needed vacation, I seemed to miss a lot around here. Whilst I was relaxing, taking in the waves; you all were busily sharing your thoughts. We seem to hit on a lot of topics this month, but I found the common thread to be based is societal differences. Here’s what you had to say:

“Video Games Are Evil”

After Gundam creator, Yoshiyuki Tomino told gamers “video games are evil” and are the harbinger of death to the planet, the DDN community provided their own analysis which proved to be a very lengthy and spirited debate. I recommend reading some of the comments. Videogames can be treated as a hobby and hobbies give way to culture. Keeping this in mind Velcor provides a poignant saying, “A person without culture is just another potato sack that eats and shits!”

Movie Night: The Mindfuck Is Over, Perfect Blue Is The Winner!

After much debate, Perfect Blue was chosen as our first foray into a community movie night. Furiously chatting away we laughed, gave our own theories of Mima, but most importantly had lots of fun….at least that is for the ones who could make it… Ninjaarashi laments: How the- what th- argh… I had this sinking feeling that something, somewhere there was awesomeness that was being had. I totally missed out.

Have You Seen Sadness? It Looks Like This

All I can really say is I ♥ Estelle:

more YAOI!… Or, wait, would this be considered yuri? Oh no, he probably still has his penis.. so yeah, it’s gonna have to be yaoi! Although, I’m not too sure why anyone would want any of that. I mean, c’mon! Those tight garments aren’t flattering at all.

Ah well. It’s still a well planned-out invite for some ‘hawt’ yaoi. LOL, if Link’s a boy, he’s welcome to give the man his well-deserved medicinal of dose of YAOI <3

… Yaoi! lol

Anime Reunion? Here’s A Good Start.

Velcor gives it to us straight: Let’s say we [fans] can play among ourselves and keep wanting more. . .The Verdict: A somewhat-balanced geek gathering that can be more if it introduces actual anime to the mix.

Clearly a much better experience than the previous debacle.

Movie Night: Cyborgs, Time Travel, Dogfights And Condiments

The resounding success of our first movie night gave us the opportunity to wanting it to be a reoccurring theme (we try lots of new things around here to find the ones you like the most). So movie night – round two is planned for this Friday. Stay on top of the news for the event and join us in watching The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

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Monthly-Review, Movie Night, Wrap-up

It’s Housekeeping Time & We Need Your Help!

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:46:51 +0000

No, we’re not going to ask you to clean your closet or take that cereal bowl to the kitchen (it’s nearly sentient now!), we need your help with a little housekeeping around the site.

You see, there’s been some issues with the site reloading automatically on its own indefinitely but we haven’t been able to replicate it. So if you are experiencing this issue let us know as well as what browser and operating system you’re running.

In fact any other issue, bug or general grievance you have with the site please do let us know and we’ll try to take care of them as soon as possible. If you have some free time and wanna go bug hunting through the site we’d be delighted as sometimes we don’t even see the issues anymore.

From grammar to dead links to navigation issues, anything you think needs fixin’ is fair game, we’ll get it done. Let’s get cleaning!

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Movie Night: Cyborgs, Time Travel, Dogfights And Condiments

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:51:33 +0000

At last the time has come for the 2nd movie night! The candidates have been selected and the poll is ready for you to rock the vote. For those of you who missed our first movie night, it was a complete blast and a ton of fun was had. This time around we’ve got Ghost in the Shell as the returning runner up as it finished 2nd on our last poll as well as 3 new candidates. Cast your vote, let your voice be heard and we’ll keep you posted!

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

Anime, Features, Movie Night

Movie Night: Perfect Blue Is Today, Watch This Space

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:02:29 +0000

MOVIE NIGHT WILL BE HELD HERE: http://darkdiamond.net/theater.html

Hello kids, quick note, our first movie night is today at 7p.m. PST. Subscribers will find further instructions on how to get into the event ahead of time at the bottom of this post, for everyone else, watch this space at around 5 or 6 p.m. for an update with instructions on how to enter the feed.

Bring popcorn!

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Let’s Watch A Movie! Vote For Your Favorite!

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:54:17 +0000

Ok kids we’re trying something new this time! If you’re in school you probably just went back to classes and between all that ~~studying and partying~~ staying indoors on the internet, if you work you’re probably stressed to hell. So we’re going to get a bit more social in here and watch a movie together, like friends. Now, don’t you worry about how or why or having the MPAA on our asses. Leave the magic to us.

For now just pick your favorite from the poll below and soon we’ll announce the winning title and more info about when and how. After this first one we’ll be counting on you for recommendations but for now… we’re sticking to a few classics.

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

It’s obvious we’ll start small but we’re hoping to make a tradition out of this one, so make history and make sure you attend the first one! Are you excited? We’re excited!

Anime, Movie Night, Movies

At Long Last, The Contest Is Over! Did You Win?

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:55:29 +0000

Woah, time flies around these parts! Remember when I said the contest would be extended a couple of days and it became nearly 2 weeks? What? You do? Damn… You guys don’t forget anything do you?

Anyway, its finally time, the contest has come to a close and its time to find out if you won!

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Attention Contest Participants, Resend Your Emails

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:25:31 +0000

Hello I’m Nahu and I suck at managing email.

There was a slight problem with the set-up of our mail server and we could not get all of your emails. Please send them again to info@darkdiamond.net just to make sure we have them all.

We will extend the deadline for a couple of days to make up for this issue. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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A quick Note Regarding The Contest

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:34:44 +0000

Since we didn’t make it clear enough and since this was a holiday weekend we’re extending the contest deadline until July 7. For those who subscribed look below for the questions. That is all.

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It’s our Birthday And We’ve Got Presents For you! Join The Contest!

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:11:30 +0000

It’s our birthday! Three years ago we started what is now Dark Diamond and white a ride it has been. Of course, it’s all for you dear readers, without you we’d just be a bunch of opinionated fools instead of consummated internet journalists… well that’s not true, we’re still just opinionated fools, but we do it for you!

And what better way to celebrate than by giving you guys some nice presents. That is why today we’re launching Dark Diamond’s Birthday Contest 2009! It’s really easy to enter and win, hell some of you reading this are already participating and you don’t even know it! Lets begin!

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The Weekend Is Here! What Are You Watching? What Are You Playing?

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:48:11 +0000

What are you buying? What are you selling? Ok I’ll stop channeling the RE4 merchant. Anyway, friday has come once again, isn’t it weird how its always every 7 days and ALWAYS after thursday? Suspicious if you ask me. Time to relax and take it easy, join us in the comments and tell us what you’ll be up to this weekend!

I’ll be watching some Eden of the East, a classy anime as you can see above, writing a first impressions on it and other cool stuff. How about you?

Open Thread

Congratulations On Your Wedding Sol!

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:21:27 +0000

Its a special day for all of us here at Dark Diamond, and while we’re not ones to get personal today we’ll make an exception. We’d like to congratulate our very own Sol who today got married to his high school sweetheart. They are taking a nice long honeymoon that includes a stay at Hotel Tomo which we’ve covered before. Please join us in wishing them the best!

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We Heart Facebook!

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:29:37 +0000

We try to be hip and cool here at Dark Diamond (since we cant pull that off anywhere else) so since you kids are all into that social networking in the intertubes thing we thought we’d let you know we have a small group dedicated to Dark Diamond on Facebook. Join us, invite your friends, share your favorite stories.

We’re also very interested in what other social networks you guys love, we’re setting up on twitter so expect that soon, let us know where else you hang online so that we can stalk you in every posible way we can… because we love you.

[Dark Diamond Group]

Facebook, Social

Happy V-Day! Enjoy An Open Thread

Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:56:12 +0000

Happy valentine’s day dear readers! All of us here at DDN HQ are either about to party, some with friends, some with a special someone, or about to engage in some ritual of self pity involving lots of alcohol and/or comfort foods. Which of those are you doing? Tell us how you’re spending (or spent!) your Vday in the comments!

Again, happy Vday, and remember, at the very least… we love you.

Love, Open Thread