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At 8/18/10 12:53 PM, giveupyourwaffles wrote: At 8/18/10 08:26 AM, Sense-Offender wrote

wow really? I knew about Kimba and Lion King ripping it off, but that takes some big ol' balls right there.

yeah, Walt disney was horrible at legal stuff and pretty overprotective.

Walt Disney died in 1966. The Lion King was released in 1994. He couldn't have been directly involved with the litigation; he just set a bad precedent.

This.
It's one of the few examples I have that isn't synthesized.

So is the rumor that if someone hits level 60 they're automatically promoted to administrator status true?

At 8/17/10 07:10 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:
what? Why would it be banned?

For similarities to Inception.
Although the latter movie is a blatant ripoff, historical precedent will tell us that if anyone tries to screen or release Paprika outside of Japan now, Warner Bros. will sue to block it on copyright grounds.
I know this because a similar case happened in 1998. We all know that Disney stole the concept for The Lion King from Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor, better known in North America as Kimba the White Lion. (Proof for non-believers.) In 1998, when the Toronto FantAsia Film Festival tried to screen the 1997 Jungle Emperor film, Disney sued and blocked it claiming the film infringed on their copyright.

At 8/17/10 10:04 AM, TheMaster wrote:
I'm always afraid of getting a non-legit one when trading. I've been careful to make sure everything I have so far isn't hacked.

You can't send or receive any non-legitimate Pokémon via the GTS.
I learned this by trial and error: I have a few Darkrai (all obtained via Action Replay) stored up and tried to trade one away the other day when it gave me an error message saying the Pokémon could not be offered for trade.

At 8/17/10 01:12 PM, WeHaveFreshCookies wrote:
Woah... That's a serious accusation that you're making and frankly, it isn't true. The Christian faith has complete tolerance for homosexuality.

Not where I'm from, it doesn't.
The vast majority of Christian churches in my area are militantly anti-gay, some even going so far to declare homosexuality to be demon possession and some pastors will even perform exorcisms.
It's somewhat to be expected, since the South and Southwestern United States are some of the most socially and politically conservative in the nation (as you probably know because of all the shit that's been flung around about Arizona) and homosexuality is simply not tolerated as well as it is in other parts of the country and the developed world. In high school I even heard a classmate (whose credibility was questionable at best) state he believed that we should execute gays like we did in "the old days."

At 8/17/10 02:14 PM, Gobblemeister wrote: I watched Paprika recently

It was really interesting and visually it's like nothing I'd ever seen before.

So they didn't ban it after the release of Inception?

At 8/16/10 11:23 PM, Mendou wrote: Geeze, this is like the 2nd/3rd time we've discussed Death Note and Light in not even the last 2 months, 'sup with that?

There's nothing to talk about around here.
The anime industry is in ruins, so all we ever do is reminisce about how it used to be and discuss whatever shit we're catching up on.
Speaking of which, I have to finish Haruhi and Mermaid Melody.

At 8/16/10 10:01 PM, TheThing wrote: This is a tough one, but I have to agree with the judge.

While I find Westboro Baptist to be a bunch of bigoted assholes, they do have the right to protest what they want, where they want. As long as they aren't trespassing on private property (the cemetery/church), they should have the ability to express how they feel about the issue.

I mean, as far as I know, in the eyes of the law, a funeral is no different a ceremony than the opening of a public park.

My thoughts exactly.
About 65% of Christian churches these days are preaching that homosexuality is to blame for the decline in our morals as a nation, and if we ban Westboro Baptist Church from protesting, other churches will be up in arms. It's a lose-lose situation.

At 8/15/10 01:31 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: That "tradition" has been dead for, like, 20 years. In fact I'm not sure boys that correspond to Tails's age are allowed to do voice acting anymore.

The Sonic franchise hasn't even been around for 20 years yet.
The tradition started in 1993 with Christopher Ian Welch (AoSTH) and Bradley Michael Pierce (SatAM) and continued unchallenged and unbroken until 4Kids' hostile takeover in 2005.
And yes, 8-year-old boys are allowed to voice-act. Disney has used actors even younger.

Hmmm... Was this child special needs?
'Cuz not very many 5-year-olds I've known have had the balls to beat up and piss on their grandmothers.

As they say, don't bite the hand that feeds you. No kid would knowingly cut off their supply of candy.

At 8/16/10 12:38 AM, MudkipsPiano wrote: Supposedly it hurts so much you can't talk.

I was under general anesthesia (via an IV) for it, so the actual operation didn't hurt.
But the real pain began a few hours later when the anesthesia wore off; I could barely eat or swallow for several days. I had to take a cocktail of prednisone to relieve swelling and hydrocodone to numb the intense pain.

At 8/15/10 11:48 PM, Alex-Cortes wrote: Prepare to get raped in your mouth.

Seriously though its painful for about 2 days and theres alot of saliva and blood mixed up so be ready for that too.

That and it's a totally useless and unethical procedure.
All human beings have the right to a whole body, which includes their teeth, and removing them prophylactically with no present evidence of discomfort or harm is abuse. I should know; my mother famously forced me to undergo the surgery in July 2007. I hate her until the day she dies for making me go through with it.

I have been against the practice of routine infant circumcision (RIC) since I was a child. I adapted Intact America's support banner design to NG's current signature size (they have it ready-made in the old size) and link back to their website in hopes that some curious souls here on NG will click on my sig and learn the truth and hopefully join the fight.
I have other links if anyone wants further info.

I have a Gateway 2000 desktop from 1993 which originally ran Windows 3.1 (we had to upgrade it to Windows 95 for one of my games back in 1997-ish) stuffed away in a box in my dad's home office closet.

I'm an ex-furry. Hibiscus Kazeneko is the name of my old fursona.

The sad part about this is that the city council is willing to ban McDonald's from selling Happy Meals, but they also allow raw sewage to be fraudulently sold and used as "organic fertilizer." They need to get their ducks in a row.

At 8/15/10 01:27 PM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote:
Also I wonder who's gonna play Tails. I hope they went back to the old Sega of America tradition of using young boys.

Fuck.
But at least she has some power, unlike Amy Palant.

Now if only they gave Amy someone new...
Lisa Ortiz just makes me want to barf...

At 8/11/10 08:08 AM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote:
If Scout was a little more high-pitched, yeah, he'd fit perfectly. But Sonic's new voice actor's been confirmed for a while now. I can't remember his name, but he's Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKF_L81QP b0&feature=related

His name is Roger Craig Smith.
But as long as he's not from 4Kids, I'm satisfied.

Also I wonder who's gonna play Tails. I hope they went back to the old Sega of America tradition of using young boys.

Just go down to your local animal shelter and see what cats they have.

In b4 they develop a "vaccine" for it.

Ugh.
That's what high school was like for me.
I barely managed to graduate because I got so fed up.

Would anyone here name their kids any of these names?
Honestly, I probably would. IMHO, Sakura pwns Mackenzie by a longshot.

Here's a better idea:
You let your GF carry the baby to term and give it up for adoption if you can't afford to care for it.

I'm working on my international Pokédex now that I have access to Nintendo WFC (the nursing home my mom is staying at has unsecured wi-fi). Today I got two French Pokémon: a Bibarel (Castorno) and Chatot (Pijako). I almost had a Spanish Burmy and a German Chikorita, too.
So if anyone wants to trade with me, now is your chance. BTW, I've forgotten how to procure a friend code in D/P/Pl/HG/SS. Can someone refresh my memory?

At 8/10/10 06:15 PM, farfenwaffle wrote: I do not pee.

So are you catheterized or something?
'Cause the urine has to come out of your body sometime.

At 8/10/10 08:05 AM, Sunset-Hero wrote: Guys... I think Sega did something right...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMLi4xen8 Oc

Graphics and gameplay: good.
Theme: bad.

Also I want to knwo if Sonic has a new voice. Heck, Nathan Vetterlein (the Scout of Team Fortress 2 fame, if you don't already know) would be more savory than Jason Griffith.

I can see some diabetics might spring for this if it means they no longer have to prick themselves every few hours or so to test their blood glucose.
There's still the obvious bugs that need to be worked out, such as body rejection or allergic reaction.

At 8/10/10 06:05 AM, Drakim wrote: You cannot stop freedom of speech. It's perfectly right for them to have a burn a Quran day.

Point partially taken. However, burning sacred texts is in a totally different ballpark from burning secular books or records. The backlash could be catastrophic.

Vote with your attention. If nobody cared, it would just be a few sad guys burning books alone in their basement.

You seriously don't even know what we're up against.
The Dove World Outreach Center is a fairly large and powerful church, at least in their area. If their plans go through, they'll draw national and international media attention and possibly prompt a violent response from Al-Qaeda. That's what I'm afraid of.

At 8/10/10 06:08 AM, schumaccercat wrote:

At 8/10/10 05:46 AM, arcansi wrote:

"Hi I'm a mac, I'm trendy and I am SO trendy I sit in Starbucks on my mac with my hipster ear piercings"

Fixd

That's ironic, considering most hip and crunchy people (at least the ones I've convened with) won't even come within 50 feet of a Starbucks.
Or Wal-Mart, or McDonald's, or anyplace else that most of America takes for granted.