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At 11/12/10 10:14 AM, OMGhaxedlol wrote:

At 11/12/10 10:13 AM, SqueezyLemon wrote:

At 11/12/10 10:12 AM, OMGhaxedlol wrote: just smoked some random stuff, now im seeing fucking rainbows and cats... WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST SMOKE!

Look at it and figure it out.

just looked at it... how the hell did i smoke a mushroom?

Some people actually smoke shrooms, believe it or not.
I remember when I was part of the Clock Crew one guy was talking about smoking shrooms in lieu of eating them and another guy injected V8 into his veins to get high. I tell you, people will find the most bizarre ways to get a buzz.

Gentlemen.

And the accompanying image.

Run screaming from the house.

At 11/11/10 02:53 AM, Genocide wrote: if you can't properly install a browser, stick with IE.

Or Safari, whichever the case may be.

Dickweed mods.
Spam Flash artists.
Those who make malicious Flash.
Trolls.

Need I say more?

The dartos muscle.

Kudos to anyone who can name where it's located.

Splintery if you insert handle-first.
Potentially deadly if you insert head-first.

At 11/9/10 04:24 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote:
Good to hear you've managed to sort out your technical difficulties. I can't imagine how annoying that would have to be.

I didn't actually do much of anything; I just stopped playing for a long time and the problem was fixed.
Now lag varies from server to server, just as it should be. No more universally being dragged down (at least for now; I'm watching and waiting to see if they do anything for Christmas/Hanukkah/whatever).

At 11/9/10 11:07 PM, KermitTheMuppet wrote: Hibi the sexi cupcake is correct in this case <3

Cupcake, you say?

Also where's that scan from? Obviously not an anime-savvy publication, but still...

Radical Edward is a GIRL! Herp derp!

At 11/8/10 11:33 PM, DeIirium wrote: I don't understand how people can like moe shows, the characters are annoying and the humor is always completely retarded. Shows like that are a bunch of shit.

That's what I've been trying to say this whole time!
And frankly I have to credit Kermit for declaring this the "No Moe Shit" thread, despite all he's done.

At 11/8/10 09:55 PM, Aigis wrote:

At 11/8/10 07:32 PM, LoliTastic wrote: But K-on? Seriously? You do realize it is a moeshit piece of crap right?

I hear way more people spouting hate for these shows than I hear people's love for them.

That's because there's not much to love.
I've seen the first season of K-ON! and part of the second, and there was little to no plot. It seemed like the only thing the show was there for was to project images of the girls being teenage girls, nothing more. There were only song sequences in two episodes.

I don't know what it means, but you'd think people would get tired of using words like 'moeshit'.

It's called calling a spade a spade.

Report:
As you probably all know, I had a shitload of technical difficulties, so I was unable to get much out of the Halloween event this year. But I did get the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head and the Unusual Haunted Metal Scrap. It just so happened that I had 6 class tokens in my backpack, so I had everything I needed to make the Unusual Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker.
Here's how I did it for whoever's curious:
I took 3 class tokens at a time and made Reclaimed Metal with them.
I had a Reclaimed Metal already, so I smelted the 3 together to make a second Refined Metal.
I had two Scotsman's Skullcutters, one vintage, one recent. I used the recent one for obvious reasons :P
I smelted them all together with the haunted metal and BAM!
There you have it.
It's in my backpack if you want to see it.

At 11/8/10 03:26 AM, Aigis wrote:

At 11/7/10 11:24 PM, firemaker60 wrote: A quick question to everyone here: Does anybody know a place, whether online or otherwise, where a person can pick up and purchase the soundtracks and CDs for different anime? Like, I know that one could just go onto any website and get songs, but I'd like to actually get and collect the CDs.

Any ideas?

Amazon.com.

That or Amazon.co.jp (where I get most of my music nowadays :P), or CDJapan, Play-Asia or YesAsia.
I'd be cautious about what you find on US Amazon; some companies license anime soundtracks and re-release them with romanized tags, lyrics and whatnot. (Proof below.)
If you want unadulterated soundtracks, make sure to look for the tag "IMPORTED - from Japan."

Can we see pictures of the costume?

Oooh boy...
PETA's gonna have fun with this one.

Old story is old.
Did you not see the timestamp on that story?

Also I read it when it was fresh. :P

Bring back All That, cancel The Adventures of Fanboy and Chum-Chum.

As long as I don't get it directly from him and it's clean, maybe.

Just don't open the door for them.
Or put a "No Soliciting" sign on or near your front door. If you have one up, they can be prosecuted if they persist to bother you.

At 11/4/10 03:45 PM, poxpower wrote:

At 11/4/10 02:52 PM, RightWingGamer wrote:

It's cheaper than sugar. If the gov't didn't tax the living fuck out of these companies, they'd be able to appeal to the consumer interest (real sugar) instead of using cheapo BS.

This has nothing to do whatsoever with the subsidies.
The point is simply made that consumers are easily fooled by a simple name change on a product.

And that simple name change can prove disastrous or even deadly.
High-fructose corn syrup is a product of genetically modified (GM) corn. That genetic modification has been shown in rodent studies to cause long-term health problems as a result of irreparable DNA damage. Consumers are now getting the picture and avoiding GMOs like the plague. The companies that use HFCS are feeling the burn and rather than replace the sweetener (since doing so would likely be too expensive because Monsanto already forced them to shell out a fortune to use the GMO corn) they are renaming it "corn sugar" to trick consumers into thinking they're getting a healthier product when they aren't. It's called "greenwashing," and it solves nothing, only making us consumers look stupid.

It has nothing to do with the government, it's simply one in a billion examples of how easy it is to trick people into buying stupid and dangerous shit.

Believe it or not, this DOES have to do with the government, though not in the way RWG thinks it does.
Monsanto, the company that holds the patents for HFCS, has the government wrapped around its little finger and can and will force Congress to pass laws tricking and forcing the public into buying its deadly products. Since this is SUPPOSED to be a free-market economy (yeah, I'm looking at you Pox) consumers should have the right to choose what they want to purchase to put into their own bodies. The way things are now, that choice is rapidly being taken away from us by large corporations so eager to squeeze every last penny out of us that they deliberately force us to purchase and consume products they know will cause us harm so they can make new products that claim to rectify the damage they did themselves while causing more long-term harm and so on and so forth. Greenwashing is yet another deceptive means designed to ensure this end. They clearly do not care who or what they hurt, as long as they make money while spending little to nothing, as evidenced by the lead toys and melamine milk cited earlier in this thread. We can no longer rely on our government to protect us from grabass companies; today's career politicians are too scared of not being elected that they will take hush funds from Monsanto, AquaBounty or whoever just so they can secure their jobs. We as consumers have to stand up and fight back or else our whole food supply will be tainted.

Probably this.
Enka and metal don't mix.

At 11/3/10 07:47 PM, Aigis wrote:
A lot of the gym leaders are caricatures. Lt. Surge is a stereotypical 'American'.

I can't dispute this one, since I've played the Japanese version of HeartGold and read the dialogue. There is still a negative stereotype in Japan of Americans being barbarians bent on destroying everything in their path using military power. In the US version, this was redirected slightly to make him look like a Midwestern roughneck not unlike the Soldier from Team Fortress 2.
It should also be noted that Fantina from Diamond, Pearl and Platinum was an American stereotype in the Japanese version. (Her original name was Melissa.) She did not depict the same notion of violence as Mathis/Lt. Surge, yet she still had the same broken Japanese. In the English version, she is a semi-stereotypical French character. (Her name even comes from a character in the novel Les Misérables.)

Giovanni is a stereotypical Italian gangster (and as far as I know, there aren't any other Italians in the games. Why not complain about their racism towards Italians?)

He wasn't Italian in the Japanese version. (His original name is Sakaki.) He was just a mysterious yet diabolical entity like a real-life yakuza boss. The Italian part was probably just tacked on so Americans would be familiarized with the level of evil he represented, while at the same time making references to pop culture icons most people would recognize. I seem to recall there being a couple of Scarface and Godfather references being thrown into his dialogue; please correct me if I'm wrong.

Yakon is a stereotypical Cowboy.

What most of the world (and even most of America) perceives as a cowboy is largely an image invented by Hollywood. It has rarely if ever been used as a negative stereotype against anyone. In fact, some people see it as a symbol of pride. I'm from Texas and here you see people walking around dressed like John Wayne and most of us think nothing of it.

The fact is, the people that make these characters just suck at characterisation so they draw on stereotypes rather than developing the characters themselves.

Again, I can't disagree with you on this. In fact, they're so obviously bad at it that they sometimes get their stereotypes mixed up, as they did with Juan. In the English version, he sometimes utters French phrases, though his name suggests he should be speaking Spanish instead.

Jynx I can understand because not only did she look like a blackface character, she also looked like a goober.

A goober? Sorry, but I don't get this one. I tried Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary, but they were no help. The only Goober I know of is from The Andy Griffith Show, but that's obviously not relevant.

With this character I can't see any actual racist intent, even if it is drawing on an out-of-date racial caricature. To take issue with this character is to keep old racism alive, even when that stereotype should have long since turned to dust.

Sad, but true. The roots of racism run deep.

At 11/4/10 01:29 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote: Honestly, I think you're all having kittens over nothing. If Resident Evil 5 gets in fine, where you're blowing the heads off of Black people, one small Gym Leader, which as Aigis said, is a position of power and esteem in the Pokemon universe, isn't going to do much.

There's a big difference: the Resident Evil series has not historically been marketed toward as young an audience as the Pokémon series has, so there's a bit more wiggle room regarding violence and offensive content.

You're always going to get those minority nutjobs, but you have to have faith that common sense will prevail.

In this case, "common sense" may be defined as "erring on the side of caution." The last thing Nintendo needs is a further blow to their image after what's been going on over the past couple of decades.

At least your censorship laws aren't nearly as bad as the ones I have to deal with.

They may not look as bad right now, but just you wait until someone tries to trip them by importing something perceivably obscene (such as the Pico series). There are provisions in the laws we have right now that could create an environment akin to Australia's in the case of a moral panic. Remember the Christopher Handley case? It's those laws (which are actually provisions of the PATRIOT Act) that we have to worry about. I predict that in 10 years, we'll all be living in a full-blown police state.

At 11/4/10 01:59 PM, Skeepsis wrote: Surely that's impossible.

It's not. A girl can become pregnant anytime after she has reached puberty, even before menarche.
In this age of girls hitting puberty at younger and younger ages, we may see more of these cases every year.

At 11/3/10 12:17 AM, Aigis wrote:

At 11/3/10 12:02 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote:

...evident in various forms including the censorship of Mr. Popo from Dragonball Z and Ella from Sonic X.

There was censorship of Mr. Popo? I've never seen him censored.

His lips were digitally shrunk down in the Viz prints of the manga and in the Dragonball Z Kai broadcast on The CW 4Kids (surprise surprise) he has been (badly) recolored blue. See below.

But yeah, aside from the similarities between the character and the stereotypical black maid/cook from the 30s, the character itself just looks like a normal person. With green hair.

True, but even that may be too much for some.

Also, the character IS a gym leader. It's not as if she's being depicted as subservient or anything.

"Natural-born Mama" by definition means relegation to homemaker status, which is considered subservience among certain groups.

At 11/2/10 09:33 PM, Aigis wrote:

At 11/2/10 09:12 PM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: At this rate, "localization" may mean an outright ban.
If not, they'd either have to redraw Aloe or eliminate her altogether, which will cause problems will the gameplay. So a ban would be more justified.

Do you not realise the problems that would happen if a game was banned simply because it included a black cook?

What problems? Sure fans would revolt, but the general public would rejoice. Did you not read the article I referenced earlier? The author, Carole Boston Weatherford, published this follow-up article 4 months later and eventually took her case to court claiming Jynx was part of joint plot between Nintendo and Sony to force-feed racism to American children. She lost, but the impact of the case was immense. Every company handling Japanese imports had to tread on thin ice from then on, evident in various forms including the censorship of Mr. Popo from Dragonball Z and Ella from Sonic X.
And let's not forget this infamous edit:

I'd announce my new fetich for ladyboys.

Ireland, believe it or not.
Cool weather, nice people.

I said "believe it or not" because some people would expect me to say Japan. They're high on my list but take a back seat to Ireland for political reasons.

At 11/1/10 04:03 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote:
I doubt they give a shit. Like most corporations, they'd just let their American branch (in the case, NoA) deal with localisation.

At this rate, "localization" may mean an outright ban.
If not, they'd either have to redraw Aloe or eliminate her altogether, which will cause problems will the gameplay. So a ban would be more justified.

Note, this has nothing to do with being Japanese, but everything to do with them being in a capitalist culture.

If they truly cared about profit, they wouldn't have pulled this stunt. Most Western nations have strong taboos about this sort of thing, so much so that we have attempted to erase the past by outlawing old cartoons that depict racist stereotypes (most notably the Censored Eleven). They knew full well that we might outlaw the games, but they released them anyway. Japan has fewer target customers than the rest of the market (i.e. North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand) so the idea that it was intended only for the Japanese market is bullshit.

At 11/1/10 09:02 PM, Bacchanalian wrote: Is he trying to spell "cerebral"?

It's quite possible.
This thread has digressed into such mindless drivel that spelling errors are the least of its problems.