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At 6/5/10 12:13 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: If it's used that way, it typically is. "Big sis" works just fine.

Do people ever actually say 'big sis' in English? Because whenever I see that I just think it sounds awkward.

Something about Yatterman.

If I was translating that, I would have tried to find some sort of equivalent in English.

I'm not great at Japanese, but I know that 'ara' and 'hora' are both words. As in, they are both exclamations that mean something like 'oh my'. I'm sure you could find some sort of random English exclamation that carries a similar meaning.

Most of us don't have $30 a month to slap down.
I can't even afford a $7-per-month Crunchyroll membership.

I guess you need to get a better job.

At 6/4/10 11:07 PM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote:

At 6/4/10 07:47 PM, Aigis wrote: Luckily it didn't occur that often.

Darn.

If that's really what you're wanting, as I remember there are two episodes where they all go to the beach.

At 6/4/10 11:52 AM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote: Heard many good things about it, including the "perverted fanservice" you mentioned.
Always a nice touch.

I just found it really annoying. Luckily it didn't occur that often.

Finished the first season of K-On!

I actually really enjoyed it, in the end.

It was funny, I liked the characters, and I was able to fairly easily suffer through the more annoying repeated jokes (Mio's constant cowering, for example), and the occasional fanservice, which makes me feel like a pervert considering the girls are supposed to be 15 or 16 or whatever.

I like to think of the show as just one big 'fuck you' to musicians, and the hard work they put into learning how to make music.

"Oh, but I don't know how to play guitar. I've never played a musical instrument."
"No problem, we'll just buy you a guitar. You should be able to play it professionally within about three weeks, I'd say."

"Oh shit, we don't have any lyrics for our songs"
"Whatever, I'll just write them tonight in twenty minutes or so"
"Ever written lyrics before?"
"No, fuck that it's not hard."

"You think we need to practise our songs?"
"Fuck practice. Musicians don't need to practice shit."

What I did find strange was that none of the characters pointed out that their teacher is a pretty creepy lesbian.

Even after lines like:

"I can't tell the difference between you two without glasses. I guess I'll just have to tell by comparing breast sizes."

What the fuck?

And then the girls keep asking about whether she has a boyfriend. Yeah right.

At 6/4/10 03:57 AM, puddinN64 wrote: So, here's a funny article talking about shitty gaming shirts. Who here honestly owns one of them?

I used to own a Crash Bandicoot shirt back when I was around seven years old, I think.

And I reject that article's statements on text on shirts.

My "Hey Let's Go Do Fun Stuff" shirt was awesome when I bought it, and it's still awesome today.

At 6/4/10 04:22 AM, ZuluCS wrote: thanks for the comment.. it's my first time trying out this exaggerated style, still need to get the hang of it. it's tough to maintain the "sexy" when it's so cartoony, and im a terrible judge of my own drawings

As I stated before, it would probably look better if the torso was a little shorter.

E.g.

I guess I'm not allowed in this since my partner and I didn't do anything for the last one.

At 6/3/10 09:23 PM, orangebomb wrote: I may be in the minority here, but I generally don't like fansubs at all, partly because the majority of the fansubs are generally catered to the "Weeaboo" crowd with abuse of random cursing and words like nee-sama, kawaii and baka.

To be fair, Japanese honourifics don't have a direct English translation. I remember seeing the dub of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and they translated the 'Suzumiya-san' said by Kyon as 'Miss Suzumiya', which was quite awkward.

Of course if I was translating it, I'd just replace 'nee-sama' or whatever with the character's name. Unless it was particularly important to the meaning.

I'm not sure if I've ever seen a fansub that didn't translate words like 'kawaii' and 'baka'. Except for that dumb image I keep seeing that says 'TL Note: 'Hai' means 'yes'.

The only time I would watch fansubs would be if the show I like will probably never get dubbed. I put my faith in accurate subbing {and dubbing} in the hands of professionals, {i.e Funimation}, plus you would supporting the anime industry by buying anime DVDs, posters, games, etc.

There are a lot of great fansub groups out there. A bunch of people that learned Japanese and then are left thinking "shit, what can I do with this language?"

At 6/3/10 09:33 PM, Deadly-Shadow wrote: But they're extremely expensive and only sold at specialty stores like HMV and Best Buy

I'm signed up to an online DVD rental service. I can get out unlimited DVDs for 30 bucks a month.

I can get out 6 at a time, and when I finish watching one I just send it back.

At 6/3/10 04:04 PM, Mendou wrote: Why would you watch blurry garbage instead of decent to actual HD quality? Completely free and legal.

There's actually a pretty large number of high quality anime videos on Youtube.

About as high quality as I'd get downloading something from Veoh, with the added bonus of instant loading.

I only really use websites like that for fansubs though, because no matter what it's still better to watch this stuff on DVD. Or Blu-Ray if possible.

I find her voice hilarious.

It's like the wife of a gangster from the 30s just time travelled to the modern day, and the first thing she decided to do was record some pop music.

At 6/3/10 01:40 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Woman also are supposed to have a higher pain tolerance than men.

Only when they are pregnant.

Otherwise,

They feel pain a lot more than men do.

At 6/3/10 04:06 AM, Painbringer wrote: Pretty much all chicks-with-dicks are just guys who have taken a lot of female hormones and grown boobs.

Yes, if you had read the post that is the sort of person I was describing.

I hate the name. It doesn't roll off the tongue, and who wants to be told to shut up as soon as they go to a website?

The layout of the website is very boring. Just a white and grey blog site. Doesn't capture the imagination.

And these sorts of websites are a dime a dozen. It's just your average gaming blog. How are you going to convince people that they should go to your website for news rather than an actual video game journalism site like IGN or Kotaku or something?

Your articles aren't well-written enough for me to switch up my browsing habits. And when I'm reading about gaming news I really don't care about your life, do don't go describing the things that you did when you were young.

And if you are just getting your gaming news from other websites, why not just cut out the middle man?

At 6/3/10 02:05 AM, Oliver wrote: What, no Ninjas?

Son I am dissapoint.

Well, ninja are hardly in the same class as those groups of people aren't they?

If you were going for something Japanese to enter the fray, you'd imagine that samurai would be the most appropriate.

At 6/3/10 02:43 AM, Ragnarokia wrote: I'm not on about "I'm stuck in the wrong body I should be a girl" etc, I am on about actually having the operation done, then living with the fact you changed yourself that you are still, originally, a guy, that sort of thing probably just eats away from the inside.

Who's to say that not having the operation wouldn't eat away more?

My friends all listen to only the top 40, so really every band I try to talk about is this to me.

At 6/3/10 02:38 AM, Ragnarokia wrote: I agree, if you are a guy and you remove your penis and get a vagina that doesnt make you a female you are just a guy with a vagina, which I personally would hate being, Sure being born the other sex would be much better, but if you are born the "wrong" sex then live with it, make it great and go gay etc. Much better than ruining your body.

I don't think it's something you can really comment on if you're not actually a transgender.

I can't imagine what it's like feeling that you are stuck in the wrong body.

Of course that's not what this thread's about.

Well, nitric acid will dissolve silver.

For platinum you're going to need aqua regia, I believe.

Do you have access to concentrated acids?

A male-female transsexual who has not had an operation to remove his/her penis?

Or

A female-male transsexual who has not had an operation to edit her/his vagina? I don't know if such an operation exists, whatever.

Assume that both have been taking extensive hormone therapy and look more or less like the respective sexes that they want to be, rather than the sexes that they were born as. Only they still have the genitalia of the sex they were born as.

So:

Chick with a dick, or dude with a cunt?

I say go for something quirky.

I'm going to suggest One Hand One Bounce.

Happy birthday, Rag.

I don't have any cartoon gay porn on my computer, but I'd like to think that this post contains gay porn in spirit.

At 6/2/10 11:22 PM, ZuluCS wrote: er.. i meant mixed cuz some people said it was fine.. lol doesn't matter, thx for the crit

I was responding to the second half of the sentence, not the first.

Evelyn
Lillian (alt. Lily)
Seven

If I wanted to watch porn for the story, I'd watch hentai.

Specifically, I would watch La Blue Girl. That shit is hilarious.

At 5/24/10 03:05 AM, Aigis wrote: Rosalina's the Cosmic Guide.

She turns up sometimes and asks you if you want her to play the game for you.

Oh, and she also turns up for about twenty seconds in the cutscene after you beat Bowser for the last time.

I thought the film was hilarious.

I know it's dumb, but I thought the little girl killing a whole bunch of dudes set to happy music was hilarious.

And man, that was Nicholas Cage at his best.

It was much better than that shitty boring comic.

Of course the romance plotline was awful, but I forgave it.

If anybody's curious, here's the original version of Living in the Sunlight. For the comparison.

"Livin' in the Sunlight" (Maurice Chevalier, 1930)

He really changed it up.

At 6/2/10 02:46 PM, Gobblemeister wrote: It almost looks like a Miyazaki film but more about humanism than environmentalism

I would say that the film is humanist, but it's not about humanism.

It's about the horrors of war. And, to a lesser extent, why stubbornness sucks.

At 6/2/10 01:19 PM, ZuluCS wrote: i was getting mixed messages, lol, i don't think everyone meant "waist" as in the waist-line area

I'm fairly certain everyone means 'waist' as in 'waist'.

As in the area between the ribcage and the hips.

As in this area:

At 6/2/10 07:34 AM, Sensationalism wrote: Ha, his message is homosexuals eat poo. He should show them 2 girls 1 cup.

Technically 2 girls 1 cup involves two girls kissing each other.

That's kinda gay.