First, you might want to know why I am calling this The Home for Infinite Losers? I could say that the title describes my house, but I’d like to give a more accurate explanation (although the title really does fit my house, there is another reason). See, for those who don’t know, in Dragonball Z, during one of the many times Goku dies (everyone in that show dies at LEAST once, usually more like five times), he must travel along Snake Way. But he falls off, and ends up in Hell. Well, one of the outer levels anyway. See, it WAS run by a couple of demons, but the entire area was a nice, open, sunny, field. The kind romance movies are always in. The demons even took the little souls out on camping trips. Not exactly fire and brimstone stuff.

Anyway, in the English dub by Funimation, they basically butchered the entire show. This got all the hardcore DBZ fans really mad (duh. There is no wrath like that of a subbie scorned). However, the important part of this story (not the important part of DBZ, mind you; there’s only a couple of those even though the series is about 700 episodes long) is that when Goku fell into Hell, it got turned into HFIL, or Home for Infinite Losers. For some strange reason, the entire angry DBZ purist community rallied behind that single thing. You can’t go to a DBZ website without seeing people getting angry over that one stupid name change. I know you’re wondering, "David, why did you name your page after something that a lot of people are really angry about?" Well, the answer is this: Because people are really angry about it. Hey, I didn’t tell you there was a GOOD reason, did I?

For those of you who are vaugely interested, my name is David Schwager and I'm a junior in high school (Ithaca High, in case anyone cares) with far too much time on his hands. I'm mildly obsessive-compulsive and "suffer" from Aspergers Syndrome, which is a mild form of autism. People affected with Aspergers are generally really smart (especially at math), bad at social interaction, and extremely obsessive about a particular subject. That subject can (and does) range from things like stoves to animals to military vehicles. Me? I got drawn to video games (RPGs in particular) and anime, and haven't looked back since.

I live in Ithaca, which better known as "the place where Cornell is." Ithaca is sort of like a coal mining town, except that instead of a mine we have Cornell. Both my parents work there, as does about half the rest of the town. Shopping is... limited. The best anime store we have is a couple of shelves at the back of our local EB, right under the game boy games and three inches above the floor. Very demeaning to browse.

Those of you who are very observant (or are just nitpickers) may have noticed that I type my alias in caps (the alias in question would be SLADE). It should probably be noted that anytime you see a person with the name SLADE or SLADElv99 online, chances are it's me. Feel free to shout out, talk, whatever. But enough of these digresions, back to the point. The reason for the caps is because, a few years ago, I ran a pretty crappy website called THE RPG HOMEPAGE. It got about 20 hits a day, so I guess it wasn't a complete failure, but anyway. See, when I made the first page I wrote the title all in caps for no particular reason. Subsequently, I wrote all the rest of the page names in caps, as well as my own name, and it became sort of a running gag. Don't you feel more educated now? History lessons are good.