Its not so much the violence in shows that DBZ that worries me. Its pokemon and digimon that are far more insidious. These shows demonstrate that kids should collect small animals and make them fight to the death for their own amusement!
We call this cockfighting, where I'm from.
I bet you'll find some sort of cockfighting association is behind the rise in popularity of Pokemon. 5 years from now, The World Cockfighting Federation will replace pro-wrestling on the networks. "Red Rooster, I choose you!"
Warning; plenty of spoilers in this summary- if you care, heh. 1. Paper and other wood products can survive a thousand years and still be readable. 2.It only takes seven days to become proficient at flying Harrier jets by flying a simulator. Also, the simulator teaches dogfighting. 3. Harrier Flight Simulators have their own internal source of power that lasts longer than a thousand years. 4. Alien races obsessed with gold will overlook our nation's biggest collection of it when they invade. (And probably the rest of the world too) 5. Aliens powerful enough to conquer the universe will be unable to tell the difference between dogs and people. 6. Harrier jets can not only hover and zip around like helicopters, they have some sort of stealth mode too. 7. The sole purpose of women is to be captured and used as a bargining chip by the alien overlords. The Lesson: don't get attached to anyone if you're going to take them on. 8. Radiation from uranium deep underground causes their gas to react badly, but a nuclear bomb doesn't cause the gas to react until detonated in a clever climax scene, giving the martyr a chance to wipe some tears from his eyes and do other crappy dramatic things. 9. Alien women have extremely long and sexy tongues. Yowza! 10. John Travolta looks stupid in giant clogs. 11. People in the future are more convincing cavemen than the people in Flintstones Las Vegas. 12. UGH UGHH UGHHH! UGHHHHHH! (Translation: Me speak good english sometimes, use animal grunts when theatrically useful). 13. It doesn't take a creativity or talent to make a box-office success in Hollywood. It takes marketing, and lots of it.
I could go on and on and on. This was the most horrible movie I have ever seen, plot hole wise. As a friend said, this movie had plot holes that you could learn to fly a harrier jet in under seven days through!
I didn't really understand this article. I don't know if I'm just stupid or something, but I just couldn't figure out what Katz was saying about interactivity- I couldn't see how showing the inner workings of something is interactive- it sounds more like post modernism to me. Anyway, I decided that I would translate the beginning of his article into French, then into German, and then back into English with Babblefish to see if it could make heads or tales of it. Here are the results:
Oscarcast Sunday night could be the usual length, inquiry and affair individu congratulatory. But there were the different characters, which are mutual effect regarding contents, not simply the means of supply begins to creep in same this arrogant culture. Read more.
If you could remain aroused by infinite posturing and the infinite friendship demonstration, Oscarcast likewise indicated the increasing effect of the mutual effect on the culture and creativity of small ways.
Excluded the fact that the stencil of more Oscars marked, any film excluded the American beauty of large winner, was obvious it that the producers of the exhibition have for the first time at least incorporate one of the primary principles of the mutual effect: open the doors and let the persons within the process see.
Nope. Doesn't make a darn bit of sense. But it sure is a lot funnier! -JeremyT http://www.conspiracygame.com/tughouse/
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I have, and you're right. I shouldn't apply my metaphor to Digimon, necessarily.
Its not so much the violence in shows that DBZ that worries me. Its pokemon and digimon that are far more insidious. These shows demonstrate that kids should collect small animals and make them fight to the death for their own amusement! We call this cockfighting, where I'm from.
I bet you'll find some sort of cockfighting association is behind the rise in popularity of Pokemon. 5 years from now, The World Cockfighting Federation will replace pro-wrestling on the networks. "Red Rooster, I choose you!"
Shameless TUGHouse plugSo what? A bowl of lime jello hooked up to an EKG gives the same readings as a human brain. Weird, but true, I think.
-JT
Warning; plenty of spoilers in this summary- if you care, heh.
1. Paper and other wood products can survive a thousand years and still be readable.
2.It only takes seven days to become proficient at flying Harrier jets by flying a simulator. Also, the simulator teaches dogfighting.
3. Harrier Flight Simulators have their own internal source of power that lasts longer than a thousand years.
4. Alien races obsessed with gold will overlook our nation's biggest collection of it when they invade. (And probably the rest of the world too)
5. Aliens powerful enough to conquer the universe will be unable to tell the difference between dogs and people.
6. Harrier jets can not only hover and zip around like helicopters, they have some sort of stealth mode too.
7. The sole purpose of women is to be captured and used as a bargining chip by the alien overlords. The Lesson: don't get attached to anyone if you're going to take them on.
8. Radiation from uranium deep underground causes their gas to react badly, but a nuclear bomb doesn't cause the gas to react until detonated in a clever climax scene, giving the martyr a chance to wipe some tears from his eyes and do other crappy dramatic things.
9. Alien women have extremely long and sexy tongues. Yowza!
10. John Travolta looks stupid in giant clogs.
11. People in the future are more convincing cavemen than the people in Flintstones Las Vegas.
12. UGH UGHH UGHHH! UGHHHHHH! (Translation: Me speak good english sometimes, use animal grunts when theatrically useful).
13. It doesn't take a creativity or talent to make a box-office success in Hollywood. It takes marketing, and lots of it.
I could go on and on and on. This was the most horrible movie I have ever seen, plot hole wise. As a friend said, this movie had plot holes that you could learn to fly a harrier jet in under seven days through!
-JeremyT
http://tughouse.tuginternet.com
How goes this whole Microsoft thing? I'd like to see an update on that story. -JeremyT Tughouse http://tughouse.tuginternet.com
Oscarcast Sunday night could be the usual length, inquiry and affair individu congratulatory. But there were the different characters, which are mutual effect regarding contents, not simply the means of supply begins to creep in same this arrogant culture. Read more.
If you could remain aroused by infinite posturing and the infinite friendship demonstration, Oscarcast likewise indicated the increasing effect of the mutual effect on the culture and creativity of small ways.
Excluded the fact that the stencil of more Oscars marked, any film excluded the American beauty of large winner, was obvious it that the producers of the exhibition have for the first time at least incorporate one of the primary principles of the mutual effect: open the doors and let the persons within the process see.
Nope. Doesn't make a darn bit of sense. But it sure is a lot funnier!
-JeremyT
http://www.conspiracygame.com/tughouse/