And my copy of Love Hina (old but a classic) is just as funny whether I watch in Japanese or English.
It took me about five episodes of the english dub to decide to switch to the original jap with subs. The voice acting wasn't bad, it just sounded wrong, somehow.
Not to mention the one english dub I actually liked, Ranma ½. All the characters seemed to be voiced perfectly. Then season 4(?) hit, and they decided to change the main characters voice actor. The new guy wasn't bad either, but I'd flinch every time he started talking. After a short break, I switched to the japanese version and rewatched the whole thing.
I usually prefer fansubs anyway. They tend to stay true to the original to a much greater extent than the "official" stuff.
Yeah, youtube wouldn't stop bitching about me using an older version of firefox (to escape the craptastic "awesome bar") on every. single. fucking. page.
I finally had to resort to changing the general.useragent.extra.firefox to 3.6.
As much as I hate these jerkwads for this and understand the "get them with whatever law could even remotely apply" mentality, is child porn of all things really a good idea?
Do we have any evidence that they were actually trying to created "child porn"? For all we know it's just the usual big brother BS.
We have enough people being locked up for "accidental child porn" as it is, even without making it the go-to crime whenever we feel that someone should be punished more than is possible under the current laws.
It's just another stupid law among many that they throw at people to make sure something sticks, like making it illegal not to report stolen property when doing your taxes.
Why not just increase the maximum penalty of every crime to life in prison then? Because that's where we'll be soon.
There are so many things morally wrong with this, it's not even funny.
How is it really any different from "creating" normal human children and implanting kill-switches?
If whatever they cook up is even close to us intellectually, using it like they plan to is nothing more than slavery.
You don't like slavery, do you, you slavery liker, you.
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Pedophile != child molester
And my copy of Love Hina (old but a classic) is just as funny whether I watch in Japanese or English.
It took me about five episodes of the english dub to decide to switch to the original jap with subs. The voice acting wasn't bad, it just sounded wrong, somehow.
Not to mention the one english dub I actually liked, Ranma ½. All the characters seemed to be voiced perfectly. Then season 4(?) hit, and they decided to change the main characters voice actor. The new guy wasn't bad either, but I'd flinch every time he started talking. After a short break, I switched to the japanese version and rewatched the whole thing.
I usually prefer fansubs anyway. They tend to stay true to the original to a much greater extent than the "official" stuff.
And permanently removing part of someones penis doesn't seem like a decision that should be left to the individual?
What the hell is wrong with you?
The vegetarian animal rights hippie in me thinks this is a great idea.
The rest of me is going on about slippery slopes as usual.
Without DRM:
Management: Lets not put DRM in our software so that everyone can play the game without problems!
Pirates: Awesome! We can copy the game and play it for free with no problems!
Customers: This game is awesome!
With DRM:
Management: Let's spend a lot of money on DRM instead of improving the game.
Pirates: Awesome! We can copy the game and play it for free with no problems!
Customers: WTF? Why won't this stupid game work?
I'm already paying taxes to save peoples lives after they do stupid, dangerous shit. I'm not paying to fix their computers.
Let's cut peoples hands off if they are caught stealing too, that'll learn em!
Same thing will happen as every other time they've tried to use intrusive or annoying DRM.
Sales will plummet, piracy will be blamed.
Yeah, youtube wouldn't stop bitching about me using an older version of firefox (to escape the craptastic "awesome bar") on every. single. fucking. page.
I finally had to resort to changing the general.useragent.extra.firefox to 3.6.
Is that the best you can do? I'm barely offended and not at all shocked. This is Slashdot for Thor's sake. We pride ourselves on our trolls.
As much as I hate these jerkwads for this and understand the "get them with whatever law could even remotely apply" mentality, is child porn of all things really a good idea?
Do we have any evidence that they were actually trying to created "child porn"? For all we know it's just the usual big brother BS.
We have enough people being locked up for "accidental child porn" as it is, even without making it the go-to crime whenever we feel that someone should be punished more than is possible under the current laws.
If only there was some way to obtain these games without the DRM...
It's just another stupid law among many that they throw at people to make sure something sticks, like making it illegal not to report stolen property when doing your taxes. Why not just increase the maximum penalty of every crime to life in prison then? Because that's where we'll be soon.
There are so many things morally wrong with this, it's not even funny.
How is it really any different from "creating" normal human children and implanting kill-switches?
If whatever they cook up is even close to us intellectually, using it like they plan to is nothing more than slavery.
You don't like slavery, do you, you slavery liker, you.
Yeah, we can't trust the government with our data, but we can trust them to decide who lives and who dies.
"He was in/near my house" is not a reasonable answer to "Why the hell did you shoot that guy?".
http://miscellanea.wellingtongrey.net/2008/02/18/enginneers-vs-sociologists/
It's all in the wrist, just... like... this!
Yes. Yes it is.