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Imagine how stupid Crouching Tiger would have been had it been dubbed

it was dubbed, and it sucked! i saw the dubbed version on a friend's computer after i had seen the subtitled version on the big screen. subtitles are so much better-- gomers who complain about having to read instead of watch need to learn how to read faster, that's all. dubbed translations always try to fit the words to the character's mouths, which is pointless anyway but leads to some really bad translations.

i don't know if any of you remember the old dubbed version of akira, where masaru (the little blue kid in a bubble) says "this chapter's finished" instead of "to the east of here". what the hell? what, i say, what the hell?

to try to get back on topic, i think the japanese people deserve a true japanese language version, but if that can't happen, don't bother dubbing it...

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okay. the biggest issue i have with online comics is that, damn it, i don't want to read them online. thinking of the internet as a medium with which to replace other mediums is utter stupidity, i believe. the internet is less a replacement of paper than it is a replacement of voice; instant communication brings us one step closer to telepathy, not one step further from a sheet of paper. therefore, things like comics (and i mean comics as in comic books, not as in peanuts) should remain as they have always been: printed on crummy paper, with a fusion of word and art on the page. viewing these types of things on an illuminated screen just doesn't do it for me.

it seems, however, that it does do it for other people, so i wanted to raise the point that pay-per-view works better for comics than for virtually anything else except porn or sports: readers of print comics have the opportunity to purchase each comic individually or get a subscription. most seem to purchase individually. the problem lies in the fact that the internet is not a store: you cannot walk around, peruse different books and choose what you want after checking out a few anime wall scrolls. it's the screen, the bits and the bytes, that screw everything up-- stop thinking of the internet as another place to peddle your wares, people! use it for what it's meant for: communication, education and perhaps even *gasp* enlightenment.

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grizzo

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They claim that a crowded marketplace in conjunction with the large number of ports will lead today's consoles down the same road as the Atari 2600.

god, i fuckin' hope so, because the atari 2600 is the only system i have right now because i bought one when they got cheap! if people are throwing away their playstation 2's in a few years, you can bet the smart kids out there will be nabbing them up for when they make their "retro" comeback. and the dumb kids, like me, will be sitting at home giggling with a beer in one hand and a controller in the other, because nothing feels better than playing kick-ass games you got for real cheap.

grizzo

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microsoft isn't going to collapse until the day bill gates rolls out of bed and thinks to himself, "i hate my company. i'm going to dissolve it today."

windows is the new crack.

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grizzo

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anybody who knows anything knows that "war room" is simply a euphemism for "bong parlor". the reason people are more productive is because they're all too baked to talk to one another, focusing their energies on programming instead (which, as everybody who knows anything knows, is really easy to do stoned).

the old cubicle system didn't allow for huge hookah-parties, thereby forcing employees/programmers to smoke out of their own small pieces, which didn't really get them that baked, just enough that they couldn't concentrate on anything anymore.

as a side note, picking the music is never difficult in a bong parlor-- no matter what you pick, everybody will start bobbing along to the groove and saying, "dude this is pretty sweet. what is it?".

love,
grizzo

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i don't know about the rest of you chumps, but i've worked lots of temp jobs at places like rental companies, gas stations, and shitty shitty "alphabetize these" jobs. personally, benefits or not, i'd go temp at microsoft! shit, who could complain about not getting benefits when you're not having to say "have a good one" after every fill-up?

context! context!

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redubbed? does that mean, new dubbing??? if it does, i will be more excited than i could possibly handle: there is nothing i want more than to see the line "this chapter's finished" stricken from the script! that is one of the worst cases of poor translation any anime has ever seen!

also, for all you kats who can't figure the movie out: pull your head out of your ass (since the movie's not that tough) and read the comic books. they were released in america and epic did a much better job of translating them into english than the movie guys did-- even added color! the movie has huge cuts in the plotline that the comics help to clear up.

and finally, may i just say that there is no "mecha battle scene" out there that can come close to the fleshmonster at the end of akira. i mean, he envelops his girlfriend!!! how sweet is that?

love,
grizzo

(do me a favor. bust a groove on over to grizzo.com and experience my insanity... i like that)

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redubbed? does that mean, new dubbing??? if it does, i will be more excited than i could possibly handle: there is nothing i want more than to see the line "this chapter's finished" stricken from the script! that is one of the worst cases of poor translation any anime has ever seen!

also, for all you kats who can't figure the movie out: pull your head out of your ass (since the movie's not that tough) and read the comic books. they were released in america and epic did a much better job of translating them into english than the movie guys did-- even added color! the movie has huge cuts in the plotline that the comics help to clear up.

and finally, may i just say that there is no "mecha battle scene" out there that can come close to the fleshmonster at the end of akira. i mean, he envelops his girlfriend!!! how sweet is that?

love,
grizzo

(do me a favor. bust a groove on over to grizzo.com and experience my insanity... i like that)

www.grizzo.com
it's 100% grizzo

listen chumps.

nothing is going to change. if you had the moxy to go out and make another "troops" then you could very easily post it on your very own website and if it turns out that people like it, it'll be bigger than anything on lucas' "official" website. the only difference these days is that star wars parodies will be easier to find and lucas will be making a little bank (he's trying to make up for everything he lost in the jar jar merchandising flop).

so do everybody a favor and shut up. george lucas making money isn't going to crush the open source movement.

love,
grizzo
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