ou missed my point entirely. Why on earth are there even rules for software? Why are they checking? Who's business is it but the team's? The idea that they're even checking software is ridiculous in the first place.
Because with digital engine management, you can (and do!) implement traction control, launch control, engine trimming and a whole bunch of other stuff right from the ECUs. Even cruise control can be done in-software.. my car does.
They tried banning TC not too long ago and had to put it back in -- because they had no way of policing TC-in-software. Everyone had it, but no one was using mechanical means. It was all in software.
Which is the whole point of Throttle By Wire -- the ECU talks to the engine, you talk to the ECU. The ECU may, or may not, like what you ask for, and will try to deliver as closely as possible what you asked for.
Well, do you know me? Same thing then, fuck off. You obviously got made fun of alot. Everyone who reads your comments can tell very easily. Also, the immature way in which you respond makes it seem like you're still in highschool. Just thought you'd like to know.
Fuck off, and get a better grade of 420, what you're smoking right now obviously impared you so badly you didn't realize I told c6gunner to shut the fuck up, not you. I *had* no beef with *you* past my initial reply.
But now, you earned it. Shut the fuck up. I was gonna thank you for the apology, but since I seem to have tripped your breakers... take your apology, stick it in your bong, and smoke it. I hope you cough lots doing so.
As for you Tiger-boy, what in the hell is your major malfunction? You got teased, so you wanted to go around executing whoever didn't like you? Generaly speaking, psychological counseling might have been a little more productive. If you'd seen a shrink early enough, you probably wouldn't have all these anger issues today.
Sheesh, some people just can't read.
If I wanted flames, I'd just say what you're saying -- I see YOUR post as flamebait of the finest caliber.
Do you know me? Do you know my experiences or my thoughts? No, right?
Then sit down, grab your coffee, and STFU. You're just adding noise to the signal.
As for shrinks, them and their drugs are about as worthless as our so-called school system. Been there, done that, quite a bit thank you -- it don't work for me. I refuse to become a sedated, drugged zombie just to conform to society's expectations. As I grew older, I lost my fantasies of rusty icecream scoops. They were replaced by fantasies of other kinds -- fantasies of an intelligent America.
Fun vs. revenge, both to feel you make better, no I don't see much of a distiction there, except the classical: "He did it first!" Also cut back on your assumtions, I'm still dealing with what I experienced in school. Bullying bullies however is no solution, the problem that need to be dealt with is the system that allows (encourages?) it, not stupid kids.
See, that's the thing -- mine were mere fantasies, fodder for my notebooks in the dark of night, just letting feelings flow from my fingers to the pen to the paper.
Had I *acted* on those fantasies, I'd be dead or in jail.
But I agree--bullying the bully doesn't change it, blowing up the bully doesn't change it, or even that wonderful Heathers tactic of blowing up the school help it.
How do you propose we change the system, when we can't even unfuck the patent office, or the FAA, or even get an agnostic pothead elected to office? The "normal" folks have this country by the yarballs, and the "abnormal" folk are either too scared or too apathetic to do anything about it.
Perhaps one day, the "abnormal" folk will rise up and wipe out pork, religion and good-old-boyism from gov't, and at the same time unfuck our school's atmosphere of 'mee-too' -- but that, I suspect, all of it, will take a couple of centuries. =o(
In the meantime, we all suffer, to one degree or another.
FWIW, I tend to assume little -- I may know now how to laugh at such garbage -- but I still bear the scars, physical and mental, of when I couldn't. I don't believe I belittled your experiences in my post, and if I did, well then -- domo gome.
I take it you're the type that likes to inflict pain, wether emotional or physical, on others.
Frankly, no. But when you're constantly being hurt, it gets to the point where all that hurt condenses into one very dense lump, threatening to to supercritical at any time.
I never intentionally hurt anyone physicially, and while I have hurt people emotionally, that type of hurting is unavoidable in friendships and relationships. I didn't have fun in those instances. It hurt me as well as them.
But to go out of your way to torment others, for FUN, mind you... just for FUN.. to get your rocks off.. that's when my fantasies would come out.
If you can't see the distinction, then you've never been on the wrong end of the stick.
People kept telling me I needed to learn to take a joke, too.
There's a difference between joking and bullying. "Can't you take a joke?" is the sign of the bully.
Not just the bully, herr Maynard. People who are wired "normal" tend to not understand how "gifted" people think and feel. They don't understand that some people feel with 100, nay 1000 times the intensity of "normal" folk.
It sound to me like this kid doesn't know how to handle people taunting him... You know the type, it just makes you want to make fun of the kid more.. I can hear him now, "Oh stop guys, stop, it's not funny, waah." Now, if he went along with it, maybe mimicked himself a few times, I think things would have ended up differently.
I take it you're the type that likes to inflict pain, wether emotional or physical, on others. Sometimes people aren't set up to just "handle people taunting him." People torment them more, till they either snap, or withdraw.
What if this kid just went and got a 30-06, and put one right between his tormentor's eyes? Such were *my* fantasies back in the day when the Earth was still cooling. I desperately wanted to bleed the ones who made life miserable with a rusty icecream scoop.
Now, 20 years later, I can laugh at such garbage. But then? Then I didn't know HOW TO DO IT. Then, all I knew is people hated me. People like you.
Yeah, I know your type well, if you're what I think you are. How's the gas-pumping business, ya fucking jock?
WRong and wrong! Jesus fucking christ, are people ignorant about the rotary!
Mazda licked ALL THE SEAL ISSUES by 1979.
Wankel produced TWO versions of his engine... DKM and KKM. DKM (the one you mentioned) was impractical. KKM is what we use today.
Wankel *ASSISTED* Mazda. He went to Hiroshima and helped them. Mazda developed the first twinrotor rotary. All of wankel's originals were single-rotor side-ports. Mazda came up with the twinrotor peripheral-port, and now has come full circle going back to side-ports.
FWIW, NO WWII aircraft used rotaries. Radials, yes. But not rotaries.
The problem with a cold-shutdown is fouling the plugs, preventing them from firing the next time. And this is not a widespread problem -- mainly those in northen climes. As of build dates of early 04 new ECU software runs less fuel at startup to minimize this risk.
This is colloquially called 'flooding' in rotary circles.
What you're yapping about is 'carbon-lock' and comes from driving like a pussy. Rotaries are meant to be driven hard, not babied like Gramma Jones in her Grand Marquis.
The Mazda 1991 Le Mans victory was an outright win, over all classes.
The ones you mentioned are merely class wins.
Want a spectacular outright win? 1947, Ferrari, with a very tiny 1.8 liter v-12... that little barchetta trumped all the bigger cars in higher classes to win the race outright.
Yeah, Ford bought 33% of Mazda in 1994, when Mazda was about to die a horrid death. Us mazda aficionados were scared that Ford was going to dumb-down Mazda... then something happened.
Mazda turned around. For the first time in its history, it's not teetering at the edge. Ford, on the other hand, is in very dire straits... and is looking at MAZDA to fix 'em! The guy who turned Mazda around is now in Ford, and poised to do the same to Ford.
What's more, the newer Ford / Mercury / Lincolns are...mazda. Ford has conceded they can't make a small car to save their lives, and will instead rely on mazda to engineer their small cars.. including the focus. (the new Focus, which we don't get, is allready a Mazda 3 / Volvo 40 derivative.)
Lincoln Zephyr -- Mazda 6
Ford Fusion -- Mazda 6
Mercury will have a 6 of their own as well.
For the record:
Mazda 3: Made in Hiroshima (and other plants). No US ford counterpart
Rx-8: Made only in Hiroshima. No ford counterpart.
Miata / MX5: Made only in Hiroshima. No ford counterpart.
Mazda 6: MAde in Flat Rock, MI, for US consumption. Made in other plants. Since ours are made in Flat Rock, I do not consider them to be a real Mazda... and the flat rock plant's product quality is very suspect in my view.
Mazda 5: MAde in Hiroshima. No ford counterpart
So ford != mazda. If anything Mazda is going to help save Ford's bacon.
Real mazdas are born in hiroshima. And I hope this always is. I refuse to buy a flat-rock, MI mazda. I refuse to buy a Japanese car built on US shores. I refuse to buy a japanese car built anywhere but Japan.
Baka... the rotary engine's problems were licked in the 1979 Rx-7. That includes apex seals, and side seals / scrapers.
Mazda NEVER dropped the rotary. They started selling the Cosmo 110 in 1967, and continously offered a rotary can in the US from 1970 until 1995, at which time the FD Rx-7 was pulled out of the US market -- but they still sold in Europe and Japan and Australia until 2002, when the production line stopped making Rx-7 to gear up for the upcoming Rx-8. So mazda never DROPPED the rotary engine.
The turbo cars had issues, mainly because of the sheer volumes of heat the rotary puts out. The last-generation Rx-7 (the FD) damn near killed mazda because of warranty claims.
HOWEVER... the atmospheric 12A and 13B, since 1979, have been extremely reliable engines. Just don't let them overheat.
The only 'problem' left to conquer is the pathetic mileage. This is mainly due to thermal efficiency (or rather, lack thereof.) In time, I'm sure mazda will lick that one as well.
Stuff like this makes me ashamed to live in this country. >.
Why not sue all the speaker makers? All the headphone makers?
This guy's a wank, and I hope he gets laughed out of the courtroom.
More disturblingly... France limits earphone-driven audio kit to 100db?! WTF?! What if I'm listening to some good ole angry Beethoven, where most of the material's around 70db but allasudden good ole Ludwig Van goes from a hush to ffff in one beat? Limiting to 100db HAS to make the music sound like ass...
Not that the public would notice anway.. all that compressed, limitied pop garbage they listen to simply doesn't *have* any dynamic range to speak of.
We see it from different perspectives. When I say "mass is the enemy" I'm coming from a purely performance (for the muggles: accident avoidance) perspective.
When I say "Mass is the enemy" it means a massive car may not be able to pull a "fast one" to get out of a jam without rolling over, or looping it outright.
I had a RWD '84 Rx-7 in Omaha. Yup, useless when there was more than a dusting on the road, even with "all season" Pirelli 6000s. Now, if I'd put a set of Blizzaks on it, it woulda been a diferent story. But noooo, back then I was still a muggle, so I just tossed 140 pounds with of sandbags in the back. Totally messed up the feel of the car... but dammit, at least I could climb the mild grade to my hovel. =oP Made it feel like a GLC (323), tho... bad bad bad. The rx-7, even in its first incarnation, had an almost 50/50 weight distro. Adding those 2 sandbags shifted the weight aft, making the steering and braking less effective, hence making the thing LESS SAFE.
Bullshit. That attitude makes for a Nanny State. The BUYERS need to educate themselves on what makes a good tire vs. a horrible one... and it has little to do with price.
You dont need *expensive* tires. Just really good tires. You don't need to blow megabucks to get decent rubber.
Right off the top of my head I can think of 3 tires which are sub-80 dollars a piece (on 14 or 15" wheels) and are fantastic rubber.
Lighter cars don't grip the road? How ignorant. Explain, then, the Mazda Miata, or just about any Lotus ever built? How about the old Porsche 914 and the little MGs and Triumphs? For that matter, how about a nice little crotch rocket with really sticky rubber? How come these sub-2500 pound vehicles can exceed the lateral G loadings of say a two-ton pickup?
The suspension design, its geometry, and MOST IMPORTANT, the tires determine grip. (for normal road cars. For all-out race cars, aero is another way to generate grip.. but aero grip goes away when you slow down.)
If you put 20 dollar Wal Mart tires on your car, you deserve to die horribly in a no-grip accident.
If you treasure your life, and that of those you love, then fer $DEITY's sake, put decent rubber on your car. And that' doesn't mean "all seasons". It means summer tires for when it's not snowing, and snow tires for when it is.
Mass is the enemy. Less mass makes for better driving cars. Better grip, better control, better handling. More mass, the American Way, just ruins everything. That's just one reason why EVERYONE builds better-driving cars than America does.
Of course, if you have a small weenie, then your psyche demands you get a big honking chunk of ill-handling, ill-stopping, ill-steering Detroit Heavy Metal. To compensate, y'know.
Could it simply be The Great Masses don't Get it?
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As in, it goes right over their head.
"It" being anime, of course.
As in, the typical Joe and Jane Sixpack are just too ignorant, be it willfully or otherwise, to comprehend anime.
The more of this stuff I watch, the more I discover its depth, its multilayer structure, its "certain somethign" which puts it on a plane above most crap made here in the USA.
I wonder if anime does better in Europe, where minds are freer, and where people don't cling to millenia-old dogma, as much as they do here. At least, that's the impression when I went to the UK, France and Italy.
I, for one, welcome our new anime overlords, and will stand and assist them on their assimilation of the planet.
No, really. Have Brain, Will Travel.
And there's nothing wrong with beeeeg anime eyes... kawaii! n.n
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Geeks with curiosity, knowledge and a hankering for tinkering have a choice.
Joe Muggle and his gramma and grampa don't have a choice. Not yet anyway.
Unless they buy a mac, that is. And then, they'll be at Apple's mercy.
Because with digital engine management, you can (and do!) implement traction control, launch control, engine trimming and a whole bunch of other stuff right from the ECUs. Even cruise control can be done in-software.. my car does.
They tried banning TC not too long ago and had to put it back in -- because they had no way of policing TC-in-software. Everyone had it, but no one was using mechanical means. It was all in software.
Which is the whole point of Throttle By Wire -- the ECU talks to the engine, you talk to the ECU. The ECU may, or may not, like what you ask for, and will try to deliver as closely as possible what you asked for.
Fuck off, and get a better grade of 420, what you're smoking right now obviously impared you so badly you didn't realize I told c6gunner to shut the fuck up, not you. I *had* no beef with *you* past my initial reply.
But now, you earned it. Shut the fuck up. I was gonna thank you for the apology, but since I seem to have tripped your breakers... take your apology, stick it in your bong, and smoke it. I hope you cough lots doing so.
Sheesh, some people just can't read.
If I wanted flames, I'd just say what you're saying -- I see YOUR post as flamebait of the finest caliber.
Do you know me? Do you know my experiences or my thoughts? No, right?
Then sit down, grab your coffee, and STFU. You're just adding noise to the signal.
As for shrinks, them and their drugs are about as worthless as our so-called school system. Been there, done that, quite a bit thank you -- it don't work for me. I refuse to become a sedated, drugged zombie just to conform to society's expectations. As I grew older, I lost my fantasies of rusty icecream scoops. They were replaced by fantasies of other kinds -- fantasies of an intelligent America.
Shit, that one won't happen either. x.x
See, that's the thing -- mine were mere fantasies, fodder for my notebooks in the dark of night, just letting feelings flow from my fingers to the pen to the paper.
Had I *acted* on those fantasies, I'd be dead or in jail.
But I agree--bullying the bully doesn't change it, blowing up the bully doesn't change it, or even that wonderful Heathers tactic of blowing up the school help it.
How do you propose we change the system, when we can't even unfuck the patent office, or the FAA, or even get an agnostic pothead elected to office? The "normal" folks have this country by the yarballs, and the "abnormal" folk are either too scared or too apathetic to do anything about it.
Perhaps one day, the "abnormal" folk will rise up and wipe out pork, religion and good-old-boyism from gov't, and at the same time unfuck our school's atmosphere of 'mee-too' -- but that, I suspect, all of it, will take a couple of centuries. =o(
In the meantime, we all suffer, to one degree or another.
FWIW, I tend to assume little -- I may know now how to laugh at such garbage -- but I still bear the scars, physical and mental, of when I couldn't. I don't believe I belittled your experiences in my post, and if I did, well then -- domo gome.
Frankly, no. But when you're constantly being hurt, it gets to the point where all that hurt condenses into one very dense lump, threatening to to supercritical at any time.
I never intentionally hurt anyone physicially, and while I have hurt people emotionally, that type of hurting is unavoidable in friendships and relationships. I didn't have fun in those instances. It hurt me as well as them.
But to go out of your way to torment others, for FUN, mind you... just for FUN.. to get your rocks off.. that's when my fantasies would come out.
If you can't see the distinction, then you've never been on the wrong end of the stick.
Not just the bully, herr Maynard. People who are wired "normal" tend to not understand how "gifted" people think and feel. They don't understand that some people feel with 100, nay 1000 times the intensity of "normal" folk.
I take it you're the type that likes to inflict pain, wether emotional or physical, on others. Sometimes people aren't set up to just "handle people taunting him." People torment them more, till they either snap, or withdraw.
What if this kid just went and got a 30-06, and put one right between his tormentor's eyes? Such were *my* fantasies back in the day when the Earth was still cooling. I desperately wanted to bleed the ones who made life miserable with a rusty icecream scoop.
Now, 20 years later, I can laugh at such garbage. But then? Then I didn't know HOW TO DO IT. Then, all I knew is people hated me. People like you.
Yeah, I know your type well, if you're what I think you are. How's the gas-pumping business, ya fucking jock?
My eyeballs.
/. and what do I see...pink. As pink as Kurumi's hair.
They burn.
I *just* got done putting in a new monitor, hit
My eyballs.
They burn.
You br0ke my new monitor, you bastards.
Feliz dia del pendejo, pendejos!
'this the flyback transformer you're hearing. I hear 'em too, usually on TVs, rarely on computer monitors.
The flyback whistle is right around 17khz, I've read. I believe it.
One more reason I was hootin' and hollerin' when I ditched my CRT TV in favor of an lcd projector. No scanlines. No flicker. No flyback whistle.
That's the kinda thinking which almost killed us in Vietnam -- "The Dogfighter Is Obsolete"
What rubbish. There's always a time when it comes down to a knife-fight.
And if it comes down to that, better to have a light, quick, agile platform with a big fast gun, and not some porcine, overweight "missle fighter".
Romy.... the cat? Good lord no. That construct was a tough read.
But better than dr. flingpoo....
...can I get one hell-bent on world domination, and one with the IQ of a North Dakotan Winter?
I just dunno what I'd call 'em...... NARRRF!
WRong and wrong! Jesus fucking christ, are people ignorant about the rotary!
Mazda licked ALL THE SEAL ISSUES by 1979.
Wankel produced TWO versions of his engine... DKM and KKM. DKM (the one you mentioned) was impractical. KKM is what we use today.
Wankel *ASSISTED* Mazda. He went to Hiroshima and helped them. Mazda developed the first twinrotor rotary. All of wankel's originals were single-rotor side-ports. Mazda came up with the twinrotor peripheral-port, and now has come full circle going back to side-ports.
FWIW, NO WWII aircraft used rotaries. Radials, yes. But not rotaries.
Bullshit.
The problem with a cold-shutdown is fouling the plugs, preventing them from firing the next time. And this is not a widespread problem -- mainly those in northen climes. As of build dates of early 04 new ECU software runs less fuel at startup to minimize this risk.
This is colloquially called 'flooding' in rotary circles.
What you're yapping about is 'carbon-lock' and comes from driving like a pussy. Rotaries are meant to be driven hard, not babied like Gramma Jones in her Grand Marquis.
None of the wins you mention are outright.
The Mazda 1991 Le Mans victory was an outright win, over all classes.
The ones you mentioned are merely class wins.
Want a spectacular outright win? 1947, Ferrari, with a very tiny 1.8 liter v-12... that little barchetta trumped all the bigger cars in higher classes to win the race outright.
You mean Ford is Mazda.
Yeah, Ford bought 33% of Mazda in 1994, when Mazda was about to die a horrid death. Us mazda aficionados were scared that Ford was going to dumb-down Mazda... then something happened.
Mazda turned around. For the first time in its history, it's not teetering at the edge. Ford, on the other hand, is in very dire straits... and is looking at MAZDA to fix 'em! The guy who turned Mazda around is now in Ford, and poised to do the same to Ford.
What's more, the newer Ford / Mercury / Lincolns are...mazda. Ford has conceded they can't make a small car to save their lives, and will instead rely on mazda to engineer their small cars.. including the focus. (the new Focus, which we don't get, is allready a Mazda 3 / Volvo 40 derivative.)
Lincoln Zephyr -- Mazda 6
Ford Fusion -- Mazda 6
Mercury will have a 6 of their own as well.
For the record:
Mazda 3: Made in Hiroshima (and other plants). No US ford counterpart
Rx-8: Made only in Hiroshima. No ford counterpart.
Miata / MX5: Made only in Hiroshima. No ford counterpart.
Mazda 6: MAde in Flat Rock, MI, for US consumption. Made in other plants. Since ours are made in Flat Rock, I do not consider them to be a real Mazda... and the flat rock plant's product quality is very suspect in my view.
Mazda 5: MAde in Hiroshima. No ford counterpart
So ford != mazda. If anything Mazda is going to help save Ford's bacon.
Real mazdas are born in hiroshima. And I hope this always is. I refuse to buy a flat-rock, MI mazda. I refuse to buy a Japanese car built on US shores. I refuse to buy a japanese car built anywhere but Japan.
How'd this get modded to +4?!
Baka... the rotary engine's problems were licked in the 1979 Rx-7. That includes apex seals, and side seals / scrapers.
Mazda NEVER dropped the rotary. They started selling the Cosmo 110 in 1967, and continously offered a rotary can in the US from 1970 until 1995, at which time the FD Rx-7 was pulled out of the US market -- but they still sold in Europe and Japan and Australia until 2002, when the production line stopped making Rx-7 to gear up for the upcoming Rx-8. So mazda never DROPPED the rotary engine.
The turbo cars had issues, mainly because of the sheer volumes of heat the rotary puts out. The last-generation Rx-7 (the FD) damn near killed mazda because of warranty claims.
HOWEVER... the atmospheric 12A and 13B, since 1979, have been extremely reliable engines. Just don't let them overheat.
The only 'problem' left to conquer is the pathetic mileage. This is mainly due to thermal efficiency (or rather, lack thereof.) In time, I'm sure mazda will lick that one as well.
Stuff like this makes me ashamed to live in this country. >.
Why not sue all the speaker makers? All the headphone makers?
This guy's a wank, and I hope he gets laughed out of the courtroom.
More disturblingly... France limits earphone-driven audio kit to 100db?! WTF?! What if I'm listening to some good ole angry Beethoven, where most of the material's around 70db but allasudden good ole Ludwig Van goes from a hush to ffff in one beat? Limiting to 100db HAS to make the music sound like ass...
Not that the public would notice anway.. all that compressed, limitied pop garbage they listen to simply doesn't *have* any dynamic range to speak of.
We see it from different perspectives. When I say "mass is the enemy" I'm coming from a purely performance (for the muggles: accident avoidance) perspective.
When I say "Mass is the enemy" it means a massive car may not be able to pull a "fast one" to get out of a jam without rolling over, or looping it outright.
I had a RWD '84 Rx-7 in Omaha. Yup, useless when there was more than a dusting on the road, even with "all season" Pirelli 6000s. Now, if I'd put a set of Blizzaks on it, it woulda been a diferent story. But noooo, back then I was still a muggle, so I just tossed 140 pounds with of sandbags in the back. Totally messed up the feel of the car... but dammit, at least I could climb the mild grade to my hovel. =oP Made it feel like a GLC (323), tho... bad bad bad. The rx-7, even in its first incarnation, had an almost 50/50 weight distro. Adding those 2 sandbags shifted the weight aft, making the steering and braking less effective, hence making the thing LESS SAFE.
Bullshit. That attitude makes for a Nanny State. The BUYERS need to educate themselves on what makes a good tire vs. a horrible one... and it has little to do with price.
You dont need *expensive* tires. Just really good tires. You don't need to blow megabucks to get decent rubber.
Right off the top of my head I can think of 3 tires which are sub-80 dollars a piece (on 14 or 15" wheels) and are fantastic rubber.
Lighter cars don't grip the road? How ignorant. Explain, then, the Mazda Miata, or just about any Lotus ever built? How about the old Porsche 914 and the little MGs and Triumphs? For that matter, how about a nice little crotch rocket with really sticky rubber? How come these sub-2500 pound vehicles can exceed the lateral G loadings of say a two-ton pickup?
The suspension design, its geometry, and MOST IMPORTANT, the tires determine grip. (for normal road cars. For all-out race cars, aero is another way to generate grip.. but aero grip goes away when you slow down.)
If you put 20 dollar Wal Mart tires on your car, you deserve to die horribly in a no-grip accident.
If you treasure your life, and that of those you love, then fer $DEITY's sake, put decent rubber on your car. And that' doesn't mean "all seasons". It means summer tires for when it's not snowing, and snow tires for when it is.
Mass is the enemy. Less mass makes for better driving cars. Better grip, better control, better handling. More mass, the American Way, just ruins everything. That's just one reason why EVERYONE builds better-driving cars than America does.
Of course, if you have a small weenie, then your psyche demands you get a big honking chunk of ill-handling, ill-stopping, ill-steering Detroit Heavy Metal. To compensate, y'know.
May the winds be at his back.
As in, it goes right over their head.
"It" being anime, of course.
As in, the typical Joe and Jane Sixpack are just too ignorant, be it willfully or otherwise, to comprehend anime.
The more of this stuff I watch, the more I discover its depth, its multilayer structure, its "certain somethign" which puts it on a plane above most crap made here in the USA.
I wonder if anime does better in Europe, where minds are freer, and where people don't cling to millenia-old dogma, as much as they do here. At least, that's the impression when I went to the UK, France and Italy.
I, for one, welcome our new anime overlords, and will stand and assist them on their assimilation of the planet.
No, really. Have Brain, Will Travel.
And there's nothing wrong with beeeeg anime eyes... kawaii! n.n
d'oh, skipped the part where parent said.."when you want to take the medium out and move to another room and resume in another player."
=o/