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I think Spirited Away is the worst. Nothing happens!

That's funny, because Spirited Away is one of the best.

Like I said, "it all comes down to opinion." Here are my top five favorite Miyazaki movies.
1: My Neighbor Tortoro.
2: Princess Mononoke.
3: Spirited Away.
4: The Cat Returns
5: Howl's Moving Castle.

Thing about assuming something is it only makes an "ASS out of U and ME".

Nah, really you were the only one it made an ass out of.

It's an old expression and I meant it to be funny.

Also what is this "Lucky Star VS The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" thing your talking about? I have no idea what either show or movie your referring to is about.

We concur to remain civil, and express our opinions?

No offense, but that is not his fault.

Actually, it's entirely his fault.

Claws in much? Reow!

A good film can be made out of a bad novel, and a bad film can be made out of a good novel.

I agree with you on this point, only I reverse your opinion that he did a bad job.

Also, Laputa: Castle in the Sky is an original story by Hayao Miyazaki. Castle in the Air is a completely different story (it's about a genie). Only the title is similar.

Alright then. I read her Howl, and watched his Howl. I watched his Castle in the Sky and ASSUMED it was the same case. Thing about assuming something is it only makes an "ASS out of U and ME".

I guess it all comes down to opinion. You disliked Howl, I liked Howl. I think he is a great director and knows how to illustrate imaginative stories. We concur to remain civil, and express our opinions?

I just wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions, and for being very polite. I will leave Ya'll alone now.

You can stay you know. It's always nice to have fresh faces every now and again in here.

I will take that offer if it it is still available. You guys were so nice and helpful that I wanted to come back. Anyway, thanks for the invite.
*Scans page for something to relate to*

A friend suggested I should watch Howl's Flying Castle.

I always thought Howl's Moving Castle was the worst Miyazaki film ever.

No offense, but that is not his fault. As the movie is based off of his favorite author Diana Wynne Jones. He has done several of her books already, Howl's Moving Castle is just the most recent. Remember Castle in the Air/Sky, another of her books he made into a movie. So if the story is what drags the movie down, blame Diana Wynne Jones, not him.

He is a phenomenal director and animation master, but he has a unique taste when it comes to picking out story's to portray. I mean seriously look at his track record: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's delivery service, The Cat Returns, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and now Ponyo. The only thing all of these masterful creations have in common is they are extremely imaginative, and they all incorporate flying scenes somehow.

Yeah Berserk is a good one.
Excellent excellent. The remastered version is excellent.

My Berserk DVD set arrived today! I ordered the Hellsing complete set, and the Ghost in the Shell: SAC box set.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions, and for being very polite. I will leave Ya'll alone now.

Major win right there. Pretty much everything you need to know has been said aside from Berserk. But I don't know if you'd like it.

Yeah Berserk is a good one, I watched a few episodes online. I technically do not own Berserk yet, but I ordered the complete DVD set a few days ago. It will arrive soon.

Also, why only dubs and do you just watch the dubs on your DVDs or do you prefer the subbed? I can understand if it is for the purpose of supporting the series and companies.

Like I said I am picky. I don't understand a word of Japanese. I like to watch movies where I can understand what the characters are saying. Whenever its subtitled I keep having to pause the movie because I am a slow reader.
I try to weed out good anime from bad anime by watching whatever I can find online. But the problem with that is free videos usually come in bad quality, subtitled, variety of languages, and missing large chunks sometimes. So when I find something I like I try to buy it in the format I desire.

Sorry to intrude, I hope I'm not interrupting anything.
How can you possibly interrupt anything? This is a bulletin board system.

I figured as it was a "club" I would be polite. I was unsure whether open comments were welcome.

Cowboy Bebop

I've seen a few episodes, I'll check it out.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

I have the movie, did not know there was a show, Thanks.

Hellsing (OVA)

I totally forgot about that one, defiantly buying.

Thank you so much.

Sorry to intrude, I hope I'm not interrupting anything. Most of you guys seem to know what you are talking about so I feel it's best to ask your club. I'm trying to find some new Anime shows or movies that are good. I wanted to get some suggestions. Here are some of my preferences and shows I already own.

I only watch already translated [dubbed] Anime. I try to get complete box sets to save having to get all the separate volumes. I hate "high school" genre Anime and anything Dragon Ball related. I guess what I like is a good story, an actual plot or overall goal. Any suggestions or comments would be helpful.

I own ALL the Slayers seasons, OVA's, Games, and Movie. I look forward to Revolution.
I have the original Neon Genisis Evangelion, Death & Rebirth, and End of Eva.
Miyazaki dubbs, Cat Returns, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki Delivery, Tortoro, and Mononoke.
Vision of Escaflowne, and the movie.
Complete Witchblade series.
Record of Loddoss War, don't have the squeal series.
Nightwalker OVA complete.
Kite, Gantz, and Mezzo Show and OVA Forte.
Ninja Scroll older movie and newer show.
Complete Soultaker.
Excel Saga.
Chobits.
Some of the volumes to Vampire Princess Miyu.
A few volumes of Noir.
Complete Kimba show and movie.
Complete Lain.
Finally, Tenchi: Muyo original and Muyo New, In tokyo, and the Mihoshi/Pretty Sammy OVA.

Sorry for taking up so much space, I just wanted to make sure you guys did not suggest something I already had. Thanks.

I have very few words as to what these are... Clay Mudkip... Mudkip... Badly Drawn Mario....
I wash my hands of this kid. It's up to the mods now. I don't care what you guys do, but don't make him cry.

You all seem very dedicated to keep the AP safe. Why do you do what you do?

Because it raises my spirits, it makes me feel good about my own crappy B-works.
Lets me know that even though my works are not good, they are my own.

Flag up on Genicide-sk8r.... again.... 3rd time is a charm I guess....
Same "arts" as before, same lesson she has yet to learn.

I have found one NG user who recently joined the art portal. His name is Genicide-sk8r. I find SOME of her stuff to be portal suitable, but she has ALL of his works in the portal to be viewed.

Yesterday, I reported this user. Now I really suggest an investigation on the same user. I have done everything within my power to lurk and obverse possible thief. I have this gut feeling something is wrong, and I have patrolled as far as I can for the past 6 hours, but to no avail. Because there is an Diviant account very similar to the NG one, it is hard for me to find evidence through standard means. The person who is in control of the NG account has little to no idea how the images were made. So maybe it's another complete identity theft kind of deal, much like the Egoraptor incident, only less public, and the user has no mod powers.

I can't find any people who are stealing arts, posting photographs, or tracing. But I have found one NG user who recently joined the art portal. His name is Genicide-sk8r. I find SOME of his stuff to be portal suitable, but he has ALL of his works in the portal to be viewed. Stuff like this for example, Lion. I don't feel he needs to be unscouted, but a polite PM from a Mod saying he should segregate his not so good stuff. I really am grasping for straws to be reporting this... geez.

Double posting after almost a week? What?

Art Portal "awards". It came to my attention that a few of my friends received art portal awards much like the one issued in the flash, audio, and game portal. I had no idea that a person could win awards in the art portal. Its a huge step in the right direction, and I am very happy for my friends who received the awards. I just wanted to know a little bit more about them, I knew that they existed, but I don't know what criteria must be met to earn one.

I wandered around the art portal and unscouted section for a good hour today everyone seems to be behaving. Yay.

Flag up on BenTheHobo for the pic BooHoo 1st its a photo, 2nd it had 26 results via Tineye, you do the math.

Flag up on Spinbob32 for stolen photograph Bomb Puppy, 2 tineye results. I will admit the bomb photo shop is convincing but its the art portal not the photoshop portal. Also for stolen Gif
da lady that is 4 Tineye results.

Flag up on plasmaelite22. I know for a fact he stole this.

Sorry for the double post but I was amazed at how fast you guys deleted it. 10 mins after thread post. Its like lightning. Keep up the good work everyone! : )

Flag up on plasmaelite22. I know for a fact he stole thiswithout Tineye or Diviant searching. It may sound a bit odd coming from me, but I know my Eva hentai. This was originally page 12 of Ayanami Rei book 2. The goth version was a Halloween edit from 2006. As a formality though, Tineye came up with 4 hits.

Flag up on Roland7749. Before when I reported recreated pixel art of already existing Nintendo stuff it was excused. This time however I believe the guy stole a cheap pixel art and is says that he remade it. Naturally it is the main screen of a Zelda game so TinEye came up with a 9 similar results, not much proof. However I can tell that it is stolen is because the guy forgot to crop the right side. You can see a sliver of white along it. If he really spent "hours" making this he would have noticed the mistake.

At 9/21/09 09:20 AM, LegolaSS wrote:

Stuff about scouting.

I dislike the whole scouting branch system. But what can we do about it? We can complain, but I really dislike doing that, I like to solve the problem rather than make more drama out of it. Like Ornery and Captain said the admins are re-tweeking the scouting tree manually to the way it was before the "little hiccup". So I am just going to not get involved with the whole mess. When it is fully restored, like when someone says "all clear" or after a week time period, I will become involved with scouting new talent again. Until then I will be monitoring the portal for people misbehaving and reportingNG users.

Speaking of which: I am reporting the NG user CybNexusMkII. He has an "alright" handle of drawing but he is sending photos of his drawings instead of scanning them in. None of his stuff is stolen I TinEye'd them, no results. He is unscouted so his stuff is not causing problems, but they are photos of drawings so I was unsure if he was breaking any rules. He has been a member of NG for a while now, and he seems to behave throughout his BBS posts. Not sure if him taking pictures of drawings is a problem but I figured I would report it before someone scouted him.

At 9/20/09 04:06 AM, Captain-Ben wrote:

At 9/20/09 01:28 AM, LinaInverseFan wrote: I am unsure about the user Lilvampire66.

More than likely they are probably legit, it is very easy to copy/create pixel art in MSpaint. Since it's just copying sprites it doesn't really need to be in the portal, but I'm willing to guess that they were legitimately made.

All right. Like I said they were really close to the originals so I was unsure. As long as she doesn't start the whole "vote 5" B-S I'm cool with her. : )

The portal is still going a few tweaks here and there from the little hiccup that happened a few weeks ago. A restore is being done to make it as close to how things were before the problem. So don't be surprised if some scouts get rerouted to their original scouters.

For the most part it really doesn't matter who scouts who, as long as the good artists are scouted. Its nice and all to have some of the most popular artists or your favorites on your branch, but ultimately be happy that they are scouted, don't worry about who has them.

I like how you called it "little hiccup", LoL.
I agree with you, doesn't matter who scouts who. It is sort of a let down, but I'll get over it.

In other news:
I am unsure about the user Lilvampire66.
She is only a few days into NG, and posting rehatched pixel arts of pokemon. The pixel arts she does are completely similar to the game's images even down to the very small pixel size. She even posted them in their numerical order. Tineye and Deviant does not have any leads on her pixel arts so she may very well have made them with MS Paint like she claims. But they are exactly like the ones in the game, which is why I have my suspensions. I really do not know what to think. She is unscouted so her stuff is not in the portal, maybe it isn't so bad, again I do not know. This one toes the line so close I can't figure if she crossed it or not. Maybe you guys can dig something up? I am not trying to make this a witch hunt, but like I said on my end I can't make heads or tails of this.

Something happened to my scoutees...
I had 7 scoutees yesterday now I am down to 1.
I was really careful in picking them out from the lists you guys gave me.
They all seem to have been rescouted, so is this a system adjustment or something?
I am not upset, but I am confused as to what happened.
Just thought I should mention it, as I was scouting them under your guys orders.

At 9/18/09 04:43 PM, LinaInverseFan wrote:

At 9/17/09 11:56 PM, JKAmovies wrote:

Stuff

I think you might have overlooked my DC pic by accident. It's okay, I just asked if it was good enough to get into the collab. Because if it is, I will need to put a transparent background on it. I also was trying to find out how exactly I could do that. I have tried MS paint, Word, Powerpoint, and Image expert (which is for photos only as it turns out) any other suggestions?

At JKAmovies wrote:
Stuff

I guess I can take a hint, its been 2 days since I posted the D-C pic. You haven't said yay or nay yet, so odiously it is nay. That was my last submit, so good luck with collab and let me know the release date before hand. I am looking forward to it! : )

At 9/17/09 11:56 PM, JKAmovies wrote:

Stuff

I think you might have overlooked my DC pic by accident. It's okay, I just asked if it was good enough to get into the collab. Because if it is, I will need to put a transparent background on it. I also was trying to find out how exactly I could do that. I have tried MS paint, Word, Powerpoint, and Image expert (which is for photos only as it turns out) any other suggestions?

Okay here is my latest work for the collab.
Donkey Crosse, lets face it its the only sport Nintendo has not made a game out of.
Its pixel dimensions are appropriate, but it needs a transparent background. I do not have anything that can make the background transparent... I tried to find something in MS Paint, and I even tried to do it in Word because a person suggested it once before.

At 9/16/09 12:55 PM, ornery wrote:

Well the super obvious ones at least
Ill save you the trouble

And that's not even all of them. Bunch of lazy slackers, those took me only 10 minutes to find.

At 9/16/09 12:55 PM, ornery wrote: Ill save you the trouble
Oh one thing though, I haven't checked all of those for theft, so scout at your own risk.

I already looked at most of these guys in the unscouted section. Some of them I liked and wrote there addresses down, others I dismissed. I'll be sure to study this list very carefully so I don't scout a thief or tracer. Thanks for posting another list! I really admire your endurance. It would take me forever to compile this many links. : ) Thanks.

At: 9/16/09 06:04 PM, Captain-Ben wrote:
I know SwampLord9 is a thief, so avoid that like the plague.
Scratch that, EX-thief, forgot we proved that he just traces everything.
Which is also incredibly lame.

I will be sure to avoid him "like the plague" hehe.
I saw some of his stuff beforehand, I never would have thought it was traced... but if you say so. You have a sort of eye for catching these guys. I will follow in your command. : )

Feel free to do detective work, it makes our job easier than just saying "stolen" and giving no other info. But don't try PMing the user or you might fuck up a potential snare. Its best to just flag a piece and leave it to the mods to handle the rest.

Here is a guide for detective work. (The next step assumes that the previous failed to produce results)
1.Tineye
2. Do they have a deviant art? If yes check there. Does it match the work?
3. Search deviantart anyway, use similar titles or characters (search by popularity seems to get faster results, because people steal good stuff most of the time)
4. Is there a signature on the piece? Does it match each piece? Can you read the name?
5. If they have a name listed, google it, look for a real artist website.
6. If you find their real website, you can either flag it and use that as a link (most real artists will link to their official website) or PM a mod and have them look into it, it is possible that the website is old and its not a thief, but mods have their own secret tricks for telling. Please don't PM the possible thief, it just makes our job harder.
7. If no website is found but you are still sure search other art websites you frequent, you'd be suprised what comes up.
8. If you are still sure its stolen but cant find any proof either flag it so that we are alerted, or post a link in here and other users might have better luck. We will let you know if we find out that it is a legit artist so that you all can relax.

Thank you for the tips. I will be sure to memorize them.
I have already gotten used to using TinEye, it helped me to flag two other people before.
I am familiar with deviantart, but I do not frequently visit. I only ever go there to view friends arts they post there. Maybe I should make an account and use it to lurk there in secret. I want to be helpful, and reliable, sometimes I get carried away. Its a good thing I caught myself this time, it could have ended up pretty messy.

In other news, LegolaSS, I just snagged two more. Kevinsano and SunnyRays. So far my scouts are really freindly and grateful for the scouting. So thanks for taking the time to make the lists you and Ornery made.
*Hugs*

At 9/14/09 11:55 PM, LinaInverseFan wrote:

At: 9/14/09 10:17 PM, Furrysowhat wrote:
my art was stolen through flash here's the fake:

That's very uncool...
This is exactly why I hate spammers. I wish I could help, the best I can do is leave a review saying that he stole the art. I am not a mod so I cannot personally fix this. Hopefully Captain or Ornery will see this soon.

At 9/14/09 11:39 PM, EJR wrote:

Oh, guys I hope you aren't forgetting to do this when you see stolen art, too.

Pretty sure some of us have forgotten every once in a while.

I will be sure to do that as well on the flash.

Sorry to double post, I take back what I said. My reason PM'ed me last minute telling me not to get involved. Let the mods take care of this. My bad....

:At: 9/14/09 10:17 PM, Furrysowhat wrote:

my art was stolen through flash here's the fake:

That's very uncool...
This is exactly why I hate spammers. I wish I could help, the best I can do is leave a review saying that he stole the art. I am not a mod so I cannot personally fix this. Hopefully Captain or Ornery will see this soon.

At 9/14/09 11:39 PM, EJR wrote:

Oh, guys I hope you aren't forgetting to do this when you see stolen art, too.

Pretty sure some of us have forgotten every once in a while.

I will be sure to do that as well on the flash.

At 9/13/09 02:30 AM, LegolaSS wrote:

At 9/12/09 11:54 AM, ornery wrote: Getting up would imply that i actually go to sleep.

i knew it... your a vampire!

anway... the list is looking rather thin now... so here it is... get them while you can!

Vampires sleep to you know, in coffins. Or at least the traditional ones I grew up with did, you kids today with your twilight and underworld. Not saying that it is bad to put a new spin on something old, but the whole VS theme is getting old.

Anyway I just snagged RobLovelett and FortressRubbish.
I keep finding talented people in the unscouted section, but then it says that they are already scouted when I look at there profile. Here is an example I am sure you will find interesting. Here are two a screenshots of TurkeyOnAStickin the unscouted section and here is his one of his profile. I know it probably is a glitch from the maintenance. I just thought that I should mention it. I will still be on the look out for any more talents in the unscouted section and suggest adding them if I find any worth mentioning.

I also can't find anyone stealing art, posting photos, or messing with the age limit to get more views. Everyone is behaving tonight.

At 9/12/09 11:54 AM, ornery wrote: Also great job on the scouting guys. A tip would be after this list is done is to check the back pages first of the unscouted section, and then go through each page from there to find hidden gems.

Thanks and I will be sure to do that.

Also I am reporting the NG user 54uR0n, for being a pedophile. He has been sending "check out me profile" comments to anyone who recently posted news. I know we can't handle 54uR0n's actual account, but we can make sure that he does not post anything like This under arts again. JFYI "loli" is short for "Lolita" which was the user name of one of Americas most prolific pedophile rapists. Posting "loli" on a pic of a innocent looking girl is like saying "check out the fresh meat". Its absolutely disgusting!

At 9/12/09 07:03 AM, LegolaSS wrote: look donna kebab... your artwork is lacking alot of things... try spending a bit more time... ad some shading... not just single tones... right... anway...

heres angry zelda... stupid link always forgetting things

- LegolaSS

I'm in love with this art work....