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At 7/6/10 11:23 PM, Maverick-Alex wrote: People can only be too picky about a game when they will not try it because of voice acting.

It's a legitimate concern in games with a lot of dialogue. RPGs for example.

In Sonic 4, however, I'd be surprised if there was any voice acting outside of the title screen.

Yeah, lemonade is pretty good.

At 7/5/10 11:53 PM, Gobblemeister wrote: For the longest time I've never actually found a decent site to watch anime, I'm fairly certain there are legal databases of the shows to watch.

Well I'm watching Soul Eater on Youtube.

Funimation seems to have uploaded the entire series onto Youtube. I don't know how that makes them money.

At 7/5/10 09:40 PM, IlikeKorn123 wrote: radio head fucking suck dude.

boring ass music without any talent or substence it's really boring hah

Excuse me.

We're talking about you, not to you.

At 7/5/10 09:36 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: 13, eh? I know I had the bad taste, but I refuse to believe I quite had the horrible attitude.

I think when I was 13 I had the tendency to respect my elders.

And looking back, I think I had pretty good taste in music when I was that young. As far as I remember, my favourite band was Radiohead.

Apparently mine was:

"I wanna be a leotard."

At 7/5/10 09:23 PM, IlikeKorn123 wrote: you just like shit like metallica, who are hasbeens.

fuck off right now asshole and don't disrespect my choices.

I do love the blatant hypocrisy.

I wonder if I was this annoying when I was 13.

At 7/5/10 07:32 AM, JohnnyWang wrote: A transsexual that has started transitioning; the hormone treatment, dressing as their chosen gender (not that there are also Female To Make transsexuals), at some pont I would consider them to be the gender they identify as.

I treat people as what they want to be treated. Identity shouldn't have to be decided on external appearance.

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I think it makes
Every post I make
Look like poetry

There is a certain
Mellifluous quality
To my posts
I think

Posting like this
Really brings out
The poet inside me
Inside everyone

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You shouldn't hit anyone.

Diplomacy is the new brutality.

At 7/5/10 02:02 AM, Alphabetetical wrote: There's your problem. It's not steam. Macs aren't made for games.

I play Team Fortress 2 on my Mac through Bootcamp. The game runs just fine.

At 7/5/10 12:03 AM, IlikeKorn123 wrote: hellsing ripped off vampire huntered, all vampire series are boring.

It has a similar premise, but I wouldn't say it 'ripped it off'. They're very different in terms of content, style, and tone.

The monster who fights other monsters premise has been used in a bunch of things. Vampire Hunter D can't copyright that idea.

Off the top of my head I can think of:

Hellsing
Soul Reaver
Angel
Blade
Blood+
(True Blood?)

And the idea was inevitable. It's just "Hey, what if in Dracula, van Helsing was also a vampire?"

At 7/4/10 11:30 PM, LaForge wrote: I never said Avatar shouldn't be discussed, I said it doesn't qualify as true anime. Anime comes from Japan. I mean, it's where the word "anime" was derived. It's short for "Japanimation".

Actually, anime is short for 'animeshon'.

At 7/4/10 11:17 PM, IlikeKorn123 wrote: I know I'm right, I made many points to say why these shows should be called anime for they're styles except for the fact that they're AMERICAN.

The word 'anime' doesn't describe a style in which an animation is drawn. It just describes the country of origin of the animation. That is, Japan.

It just so happens that Japan is particularly unoriginal with the styles of its animation.

Just go to My Computer and click on the PSP icon.

At 7/4/10 10:40 PM, IlikeKorn123 wrote: Anime can still be made by america and it would just be american anime.

You're misunderstanding the meaning of the word 'anime'. It means 'animation made in Japan'.

At least, that is the Western meaning of the word.

Saying anime can be American is like saying American animation can be Japanese.

Room.

At 7/3/10 11:29 PM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: I've never heard that, but I did hear that Nick Simmons' OEL manga Incarnate stole content from popular manga like Naruto and Bleach. Is it possible you got some stories mixed up? I get that all the time.

I believe he is talking about this.

At 7/3/10 10:30 PM, firemaker60 wrote: It's sort of like Garfield; how certain events that happen may or may not affect the characters in the future, and they tend not to.

It's also like Garfield in that it's really unfunny.

At 7/3/10 10:20 AM, JohnnyWang wrote: And that makes me sad. Seinen should mean things that mature and adult, not stuff that panders to manchildren.

Not everything that males aged 18-30 watch is mature. K-On! isn't any less mature than, say, Family Guy.

Silly internet internet.

Silly internet internet.

At 7/3/10 03:21 AM, AwesomeSaurus wrote: Sorry I'm jacking all the eggs!

Ew.

At 7/3/10 04:39 AM, Gobblemeister wrote: I guess, they do have odd censorship laws there, like the bars in the hentai manga they sell publicly.

That's not really relevant.

But I've never liked when a series is heavy on fanservice, but I think ti would be a good idea to ease myself into the whole 'Slice of Life' genre. I've always read shonen or more mature iterations of it like Naruto or Gantz. I've done some psychological stuff like Parasyte and Uzumaki but never the lighthearted 'real life people' kind of series.

It's not really heavy on the fanservice. There's just a little bit of fanservice involved.

I'll check out the manga if I can find it before I try finding the anime.

Why?

I find that Kyoto Animation usually improve their source material. For example, the Lucky Star manga is simply terrible (I'm not planning on getting into a discussion about how 'the anime is terrible too' by the way).

At 7/3/10 04:14 AM, Gobblemeister wrote: Why would it be targeted to older males? From what I've heard it's just girls starting a band, and they look far too young to be legally put into sexually compromising situations. Even Ecchi looks like it would be pushing into Loli territory.

Yes, well this is Japan we're talking about.

There is a decent amount of fanservice involved. Beach episodes, and the like.

When I watched it I just ignored the stuff they threw in there to appeal to that audience.

At 7/3/10 03:52 AM, Gobblemeister wrote: I'm not a fan of shojo on any level, well maybe Cardcaptor; but either way it looks like your typical shojo with some unique plot elements. I don't see any reason why someone who likes that stuff wouldn't want to see it.

It's not shojo. It's seinen.

At 7/3/10 01:35 AM, Mendou wrote: Who the fuck would watch K-ON! here in the states? Besides retarded weebs.

God, you're such a fucking idiot.

At 7/2/10 10:11 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: They can cut the scene or just not put out a subbed version at all.

There's practically no chance that they wouldn't put out a subbed version. It's fairly obvious the sort of person that K-On! caters to in the Western market.

As far as I know, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC, the folks who regulate all electromagnetic transmissions for the United States) has a rule that states that product placement can only take place in live-action prime-time programming or something to the effect. It has to do with reducing the ways companies can market to children (alas, the old "cartoons are for kids" myth).

I love the idea that they'd be worried that expensive vintage guitars are being marketed to children.

Can they regulate television shows that are going straight to DVD?

At 7/2/10 02:36 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: The girls' instruments and equipment are actual models produced by real instrument manufacturers, and digitally airbrushing them out would ruin entire plot lines. For example, one of the episodes centers around Yui trying to purchase a guitar from a local music shop, and the main reason the guitar is so expensive is it's a Gibson Les Paul Standard.

If they actually say 'Les Paul', then there's no way to censor the subbed version. 'Les Paul' in Japanese is the same as in English.

If they don't, then it's not an issue. It doesn't matter that the guitar is a Les Paul. It just needs to be an expensive, vintage guitar.

I can't imagine it would take them a lot of effort to get permission to use that brand in the show, though. It's not as if the show's a barrage of product placement.

At 7/2/10 12:39 AM, REDSPADES wrote: There were so many more fight scenes and it was so heart wrenching to see Bella choose Edward when Jacob lays his heart on the line for her.

SPOILER ALERT.