It depends... You cant compare the quality of an average Sailor Moon episode with a movie like Ghost in the Shell or Akira.
Some made-for-tv anime definietly suffers from repetitive scenes and low framerates, just like US-made animation, however most Anime movies and made-for-video episodes generally have very good quality work.
And of course, theres the occasional studio like Gainax, who make an art out of saving frames... There are lots of scenes in Evangelion where movement is non-existant and 2 or 3 minutes can passby, creating wonderful tension in the audience.
Toy Story benefited from techniques perfected in Japan... For an example of magnificent emotion portrayal in animation, please make your local Hells Angels group watch "Grave of the Fireflies" and see them all cry within the first 20min *
--- * Of course, you would have to tie them down for a few minutes, until they get hooked on the story!
You need blind faith in the scientific method to accept a scientific "fact", the same way you need blind faith in the Torah/Bible/Quran to accept a religious "fact" such as the flood.
Science just happens to be a slightly better, less chaotic way to explain the world, but even the greatests minds in science wont claim to have all the answers.
No it is not... Science is just like Religion: a way to explain the universe.
You have to choose what to believe in, and not just accept blindly what your Doctor/Priest/Scientist/Voodoo-lady tells you.
Now if you choose who or what to believe in, you must accept that there will always be someone that will think otherwise. The urge to shut them up will arise, but we must not give in to those impulses.
Stop reading Starship Troopers! If you cant see that it was actually a cautionary tale and _not_ a serious political platform then you need to read something else
Al-Qaeda receives some funding from illegal drugs, but this is mostly from middle-eastern opium.
Marijuana (at least the one you see in the States) comes mainly from Mexico, grown by poor farmers that have no other choice but to grow pot for the Tijuana and Tamaulipas drug-overlords.
So if you smoke pot, you are supporting the drug cartels, who are mainly concerned in mantaining the current US status quo. They were certainly pissed at the 9/11 attacks, because sales went down and border patrols went up!
Also it has been decisively proved now that marijuanna induces schizophrenic like symptoms among a majority of users. Most often these present as a particularly violent form of schizophrenia.
Sorry, but could you back this up with a link to a respected research paper? (not funded by the US goverment)
Well, let me ask you: Would you rather die of cancer knowing that we are not alone in the universe, or would you rather die of cancer because you cannot afford the treatment that you helped develop?
There is already a msxml.dll file in windows... It is used by Internet Explorer to parse xslt documents in a non-standard way, driving me nuts...and forcing me (again) to program websites for two (sometimes three) platforms instead of one.
I think the ultimate weapon of mass distraction for Microsoft is this... everybody in Mexico has a pirate copy of that one... Has already surpassed solitaire and minesweeper in terms of lost productivity
AShadeOfGrey talks about RMS: Like it or not... it isn't hard to argue that rms is the single most important person in the developments that brought each and every one of us the choice of Freedom. Worship him? Make him god? no.. but don't forget... the man deserves a tiny bit of credit here...
I wont deny the man credit, but he really thinks he must be worshipped
Thats nothing... I know several people in the Comic/Anime/Etc community here in Mexico and when a local Comic Convention wanted to have McFarlane come here to sign autographs and do a conference, the guy demanded (aside from his pay) that he and his family be "awarded" a one week vacation in Ixtapa Zihuatanejo, with all expenses paid.
The Convention guys agreed, bought them the air tickets, booked the hotel... everything. So McFarlane comes to the opening of the Convention, signs 2 hours of autographs, and then leaves the friggin place!
Turns out that once he had the tickets, he called the airline and the hotel and changed the dates on his reservation! The guy just ignored his contract (Which required him to stay 3 days at the convention and do a conference) and took the vacation and the money! The Convention organizers tried to sue, but of course, this involves international law and treaties and it would have been far too expensive... So they decided to just drop matters...
Of course, the year after that, they invited Will Eisner, and he was absolutely great... He spent more than 3 hours talking about his work and answering questions... he even showcased work by local aspiring artists and gave them some good natured advice, and pointed out to the audience what he liked and disliked about the pieces.
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How about the latest Mandrake to Mexico City?
I'll mail you back the blank CD-Rs to replace the ones you used and some postcards, along with your small fee.
It depends... You cant compare the quality of an average Sailor Moon episode with a movie like Ghost in the Shell or Akira.
Some made-for-tv anime definietly suffers from repetitive scenes and low framerates, just like US-made animation, however most Anime movies and made-for-video episodes generally have very good quality work.
And of course, theres the occasional studio like Gainax, who make an art out of saving frames... There are lots of scenes in Evangelion where movement is non-existant and 2 or 3 minutes can passby, creating wonderful tension in the audience.
Toy Story benefited from techniques perfected in Japan...
For an example of magnificent emotion portrayal in animation, please make your local Hells Angels group watch "Grave of the Fireflies" and see them all cry within the first 20min *
---
* Of course, you would have to tie them down for a few minutes, until they get hooked on the story!
You need blind faith in the scientific method to accept a scientific "fact", the same way you need blind faith in the Torah/Bible/Quran to accept a religious "fact" such as the flood.
Science just happens to be a slightly better, less chaotic way to explain the world, but even the greatests minds in science wont claim to have all the answers.
Both Religion and Science require faith in basic building blocks, like the Scientific method, or Karma.
And both can only be the truth to one that believes in them.
Ah! the vigor of stupidity... The extatic feeling of a loaded gun in your hand... the certainty of the lack of value in the lifes of others...
You would make a great suicide bomber, my boy!
No it is not... Science is just like Religion: a way to explain the universe.
You have to choose what to believe in, and not just accept blindly what your Doctor/Priest/Scientist/Voodoo-lady tells you.
Now if you choose who or what to believe in, you must accept that there will always be someone that will think otherwise. The urge to shut them up will arise, but we must not give in to those impulses.
Stop reading Starship Troopers!
If you cant see that it was actually a cautionary tale and _not_ a serious political platform then you need to read something else
Al-Qaeda receives some funding from illegal drugs, but this is mostly from middle-eastern opium.
Marijuana (at least the one you see in the States) comes mainly from Mexico, grown by poor farmers that have no other choice but to grow pot for the Tijuana and Tamaulipas drug-overlords.
So if you smoke pot, you are supporting the drug cartels, who are mainly concerned in mantaining the current US status quo. They were certainly pissed at the 9/11 attacks, because sales went down and border patrols went up!
Also it has been decisively proved now that marijuanna induces schizophrenic like symptoms among a majority of users. Most often these present as a particularly violent form of schizophrenia.
Sorry, but could you back this up with a link to a respected research paper? (not funded by the US goverment)
I drive a Hyundai Atos, sold by Dodge here in Mexico.
Small and efficient (1 liter engine), with awesome fuel economy (20.8 kilometers per litre), and also the most inexpensive new car you can get here.
I use all the money I save in gas to pamper my two loves, my computer and my wife... not necesarily in that order!
Wonder Woman could always fly.. the invisible jet is IIRC a TV invention ("Superfriends" gadget to sell toys)
Well, let me ask you:
Would you rather die of cancer knowing that we are not alone in the universe, or would you rather die of cancer because you cannot afford the treatment that you helped develop?
Mhmmm, that's a tough cookie!
Thanks for the info, I will investigate
And that's a Good Thing(C) most of the times!
There is already a msxml.dll file in windows... It is used by Internet Explorer to parse xslt documents in a non-standard way, driving me nuts ...and forcing me (again) to program websites for two (sometimes three) platforms instead of one.
I think the ultimate weapon of mass distraction for Microsoft is this... everybody in Mexico has a pirate copy of that one... Has already surpassed solitaire and minesweeper in terms of lost productivity
Sorry, the obfuscated perl in your sig made me think that maybe Mel had finally given in and exchanged Hex for perl's "expressiveness"
</tounge>
Mel??? is that you?
Give it up, Mulder... Not everyone is out to get you
AShadeOfGrey talks about RMS: Like it or not... it isn't hard to argue that rms is the single most important person in the developments that brought each and every one of us the choice of Freedom. Worship him? Make him god? no.. but don't forget... the man deserves a tiny bit of credit here...
I wont deny the man credit, but he really thinks he must be worshipped
Actually I have been receiving many suggestion to extend my sig...
MPG -> Makini, Papua New Guinea,
OGG -> Maui HI,
SQL -> San Carlos CA,
Basically the ammount of airports in the world is such that you can find -almost- any three letter code in the IATA directory
Thats nothing... I know several people in the Comic/Anime/Etc community here in Mexico and when a local Comic Convention wanted to have McFarlane come here to sign autographs and do a conference, the guy demanded (aside from his pay) that he and his family be "awarded" a one week vacation in Ixtapa Zihuatanejo, with all expenses paid.
The Convention guys agreed, bought them the air tickets, booked the hotel... everything. So McFarlane comes to the opening of the Convention, signs 2 hours of autographs, and then leaves the friggin place!
Turns out that once he had the tickets, he called the airline and the hotel and changed the dates on his reservation! The guy just ignored his contract (Which required him to stay 3 days at the convention and do a conference) and took the vacation and the money! The Convention organizers tried to sue, but of course, this involves international law and treaties and it would have been far too expensive... So they decided to just drop matters...
Of course, the year after that, they invited Will Eisner, and he was absolutely great... He spent more than 3 hours talking about his work and answering questions... he even showcased work by local aspiring artists and gave them some good natured advice, and pointed out to the audience what he liked and disliked about the pieces.
Sorry to be pessimistic, but it seems that you forget the golden rule: He who's got the gold, makes the rules
I dont think anybody (short of a goverment, such as South Africa did) would be able to fling the finger at Big Pharma
I didnt know that Hawaii had finally gotten rid of the white man... What was their home-brew, anyway?
There's things I liked (Boromir in general, the scenery, the orc makeup), and things I didnt like (Galadriel's temptation, the wizard's duel)
However in the balance of things I think its a better movie than what anybody else could have done