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At 6/8/10 09:13 PM, Maverick-Alex wrote: Well shiot, have you been to Chernobyl lately?

Chernobyl didn't have an atomic bomb dropped on it.

At 6/9/10 12:39 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: Guys...
I have some important news.

You may never be able to read certain manga titles again...

I personally hate those sites anyway, but there are some people on here whom this would affect greatly.

I don't like reading comics on the computer.

But honestly, I don't give a shit about stealing comics when I live in New Zealand. The prices are ridiculous.

I'll look on the back of a manga and it will say that it cost $7 in America, but its price is like $35 in New Zealand.

And I'm not paying $35 for something I'll read in an hour and never read again.

However, I use the library where possible.

At 6/8/10 11:54 PM, orangebomb wrote: You do have some points, but if you look at some of the other dubs like Hellsing, Black Lagoon or Baccano, many of the VAs do have an accent to their respective characters, {i.e Alexander Anderson has a Scots-Irish accent, or the mobsters in Baccano having a New York accent} which for me makes it a little more believable and a little more accurate to the story and setting. Obviously in Japan, they would be in Japanese with no foriegn accents, now correct me if I am wrong here, but I haven't heard anyone speak Japanese with a British, Irish or any other accent, with the probable exception of a Korean accent.

That's not what I'm talking about. If they're supposed to be foreign and talking in English, then sure they should have accents. But if they're supposed to be foreign and speaking in their own language, then they shouldn't have their own accent, because that's just distracting and dumb.

Take for example, Metal Gear Solid 3. Snake's supposed to be speaking Russian for a lot of the game, but he still has an American accent and speaks in English when he does so. That's because it would be horrible having Snake speak in a Russian accent.

Of course the best thing to do is to actually have them speak in their language. If they're supposed to be speaking in Czech, have the voice actors speak in Czech and subtitle it in English. That's authentic.

At 6/8/10 09:04 PM, orangebomb wrote: You can't really go wrong with this one, although in the dub, it seems like everyone is able to speak English without a German or even a Czech accent, it just feels weird to me, considering it does take place in Germany and Czechslovakia.

Are they supposed to be speaking German and Czech?

If they are, I think they chose the correct path with not giving anybody accents. I hate 'English with an accent' as a tool for showing people are speaking in a foreign language.

It's just really annoying.

If people are speaking their own language, they should be speaking in their own accent. They aren't speaking it with a foreign accent. So if it's translated into English, it should be spoken with an accent native to an English speaker.

People these days...

Tools -> Options -> Files -> Default directory.

Here's mine.

It's a giant walking dick.

At 6/8/10 06:27 AM, Sawdust wrote: i like ak47 it good at killing terrorists

power 2 the military in iraq. usa!

Sawdust you suck at trolling.

At 6/7/10 01:12 AM, xenonmonkey wrote: "Glass of O- please"

I was wondering how they get enough blood to sell it as a common drink at a bar.
Then I decided to screw thinking and I gave a sarcastic laugh.

Well the whole basis of the series is that a synthetic blood was developed. Then a bunch of vampires decided they'd drink that instead of human blood, and 'came out of the coffin'.

So vampires became public knowledge. The drink is called 'True Blood' by the way.

At 6/6/10 05:56 PM, Makeshift wrote: 1930's.

Well, why the fuck not?

I dunno, the Great Depression and World War 2 maybe?

I'd be born in the 2100s, because hoverboards, dude.

At 6/6/10 12:31 PM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote: All done while in Stickcam.
Something I urge my fellow anime fans to consider looking into.
As it's fucking awesome.

I go on Stickam every so often, but the video and audio is hell on my internet connection.

Plus it's mostly a bunch of people having their own private conversations, so I feel like some sort of awkward 19th wheel or something a lot of the time.

At 6/5/10 09:24 PM, Jolly wrote: So if they took ET and made the graphics better you would like it even though it's considered the worst game in history?

Well I'd like it more.

Who hates Canada?

What a strange country to hate.

He says that it's all for humour at the start of the video.

And then advertises the website rather extensively.

His points were stupid, but I don't get angry at people for failing at humour.

I did find the idea that somebody could be elitist about pornography pretty amusing though.

"WATCH REAL PORN."

At 6/5/10 07:47 PM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: Wow, I had no idea Kuro and Aigis were the same person.

Yeah, woah, I was surprised too.

My "education" has been mostly a mishmash of copying down words off of imported Pokémon cards, reading textbooks and pen pal letters (to someone who is now deceased). Given time, I can write clear paragraphs, but I can't fully understand spoken speech and I choke up when trying to communicate with someone in real time.

Oh, I thought were meant you had been taking classes for 11 years.

Maybe I'll go to Japan after I finish my degree. See if I can improve my language.

They have Russian at my college too; I assume the situation is the same.
The possible reason there are no Japanese classes in my area is the amount of anti-Japanese sentiment left over from World War II followed by the Japanese industrial boom in the late '80s and since all of Japan's major industries crashed in the '90s and the 2000s (e.g. the anime industry) there hasn't been enough of a perceived demand.

Well the reason there was a Japanese class at my school was because my school was on good relations with a Japanese school, Toin Gakuen.

And because Japan is fairly close.

I think that market died with the dotcom collapse. Good luck.

Eh, I'm sure I can invent something that will set me for life.

Like a... Shoe... Fork...

At 6/5/10 06:37 PM, Kuro wrote:

Incidentally, that was the wrong account.

Yeah, thanks for that.

It's not a fallacy, it's a philosophy.

At 6/5/10 10:14 AM, ArmouredGRIFFON wrote: Was incredible; really made my philosophical head churn out so much. I even went through it just so I could read it and listen to the music of the game.

One of the things I like most about it is the joke it plays on its players. Specifically the players that set out to get the stars, or whatever they were.

You have to do some ridiculous things to get all the stars, including waiting like 7 hours for a cloud to move across the screen.

And this is in a game that is quite clearly about obsession.

At 6/5/10 10:43 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: All these solutions have to have x on both sides is the problem. Hmm...

What are you expecting? There's not going to be an arragement of the formula in terms of y that doesn't have x on both sides.

If you want an 'x =' arrangement of that formula the exponent has to move to the other side in some form. It's not going to just disappear.

Okay, I am going to do this based only on what I remember from high school 3 years ago.

If y = x^x then x = log x (y)

That's probably not how you do it, though.

Perhaps:

x^x = y
log x^x = log y
x log x = log y
x = log y / log x

That might not be right either.

At 6/5/10 08:10 AM, ArmouredGRIFFON wrote: Games may be fun, and they may have captured me for months, but my opinion is that; no game since 2008, nothing, to this day, has ever become a masterpiece. The fundamental value that a game must have to become 'art', is that it has to take my breath away. That when you step up, champion, it feels like a journey completed

Braid and Flower certainly took my breath away.

But I don't think that the term 'art' implies any standard of quality. I think you can have both bad art and good art. Art is a word that simply describes a thing that is made with creativity.

At 6/5/10 04:21 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: As do I. There is a Japanese class at my college, but there's only one section and it fills up fast. I've put it on my to-do list to register for the fall semester as soon as it opens up for people of my qualifications (or lack thereof) and from then on the race is on.

I've technically been learning Japanese for six and a half years.

I say technically because while I've been taking a Japanese class, I haven't exactly been learning the language. High school Japanese is far too easy for anybody to learn the language from it.

How so? I could easily call someone "Skapontan" and get away with it, because they'd think I was trying to cover up a swear word.

If it was in an anime, I would just think it was a Japanese word.

You can get in a boat from a nearby archipelago and cross the ocean.
That's what the "Boat People" (refugees from countries like Vietnam and Cuba) do to get into countries like Japan and the United States illegally.

I guess you could. There's probably a reasonable few of those people, but they're not affecting the job market. At least not the job market I'm interested in.

At 6/5/10 07:40 AM, Danopus wrote: Fuck, I meant to post this in the art forum. Delete this thread please, any mod that's on.

Too bad, you already posted it here.

Now you can get the real General treatment of a topic such of this.

At 6/5/10 07:36 AM, reviewer2 wrote: Either there is lots of rocket testing, or the entire planet is going Uzumaki.

Oh god I hope so.

At 6/4/10 06:24 AM, Havegum wrote: You go ahead, at least you've entered before. I on the other hand have failed twice ...
I may pass this one

Fine then, I'm in if it's allowed.

It is certainly horrifying.

But it's just too dissociated from my reality.

My brain just can't believe it.

I really like the Sennheiser PX 100s. They're not really noise cancelling but you get great bass for the price, and the mids and highs are no slouch either. They're also very comfortable to wear.

Plus, they're collapsible so they are extremely portable.

At 6/5/10 01:03 AM, MultiCanimefan wrote: Humans get a thrill out of taking risks.

Would the act have been less thrilling if he had been wearing a helmet at the time?

Gordon Freeman is barely even a character.

He's basically just a pair of arms, on puppet strings.

When I hear people go on about how great he is, all I can think is "what game were you people playing?"

At 6/5/10 03:27 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: It's kinda antiquated, but yes, people do say "big bro" and "big sis" on occasion.

Man, I've never seen it. Well, I've called my brother "big bro" before, but only ironically.

An equivalent of what? The title?

No, I was talking about the sentences.

Yes, they're both interjections. "Ara" is like "huh" like you said, yet "hora" is more of a "Look at that!"

I remembered what 'hora' meant a couple of minutes after I clicked 'post it'.

I really need to focus more on my Japanese studies.

Both make no sense in the context in which they're used. That's the important part.

Yeah, but they could have had some English phrases that made no sense in the context in which they were used instead. That way you could carry over the joke, rather than just having this sentence that would mean nothing to English speaking audiences.

Also, I failed to mention this before: There are two more nonsense words ("Sukapontan" and "Akapontan," respectively) from the series that don't carry a consistent and clear meaning. In the subs I've seen of the 1977 anime and 2009 movie, they translated these words as "Idiot" or "Pervert", depending on the context. Again, this works to destroy some of the original feel of random silliness that the original had.

Yeah, Japanese is a language that is much easier to make nonsense words with than English.

But if they were left untranslated, that would destroy the random silliness even more.

If I knew nothing about Japanese, I wouldn't think that those words were 'random' or 'silly'. I'd just think "why aren't those translated? What do they mean?"

I've obviously not thought about this much, but you could just make up words in the standard Japanese portmanteau way. Instead of 'idiot', you could say 'idivert'. Instead of pervert, you could say 'perviot'.

Uh, it's fairly obvious I'm not a writer.

I don't even have a paying job, and even if I did, I most likely wouldn't be able to afford a membership I would only use for 2 or 3 shows. Employers here in the 'States are extremely stingy and would much rather hire illegal Mexicans for all their part-time or even full-time labor because they can get away with paying less than minimum wage.

Not really a problem here. It's very difficult to jump the border when your country is an island. Well, two islands.