I think your wrong. I agree that many US cartoons are episodic, however many Japanese cartoons are episodic. The fact that there is a exponentialy larger amount of animation output coming from Japan compared to the US lets us end up seeing more serial shows from Japan then are made here in the US.
Samurai Jack for instance is a mix of both. Most of the episodes are episodic in they dont directly tie rom one to the next, but something that happened or is learned earlyer in the series will be shown in all later episodes. Like when Jack learns to jump "real good", after that he uses this ability quite often. On the other side of the coin Anime like Digi-Carat or Urusei Yatsura are pretty much episodic.
WOW. you sure angry at the world, stabbing out from from your pee-cee.
Seriously has it occured to you that it is possible to be a fan of and support animation no matter what the skin color or ethnic background of the creator?
You do realize that most cartoons we have seen for the last 40 or so years here in the US (longer actually) have been imported from Japan or some other country (like Canada).
And last there is no "anime style". While there are some styles that are common to some anime or only used in some anime, every supposed feature of anime (big hair, big eyes small mouth, big robots kicking each other) has as many counter examples where that thing does not exist as sources where is does exist. If someone only watches one type of anime they may feel it's all the same but thats a failure on their part and they should broaden the scope of what they view before complaining it's all the same or only has 4 FPS.
I agree with ya on that. I think one problem is at least in the US it's almost impossible to legitimately buy 1/10th of the cartoons ever made that we enjoyed. I would lay out nearly any amount of money for a goof legit DVD set for cartoons like Freakazoid or Earthworm Jim (just to name a few). Sure we got Batman TAS season 1 (after how long?) and a few other things, but the lack of availability of stuff IMO is why people turn to anime and then forget that there were other things as well.
Sadly I posted so I cant mod your insanity down (and there is no mod that would be appropriate).
If we never revisit the past no one will ever learn from it. The past has some pretty keen stuff to it that the world would be a poorer place if people like you controled what was made.Sure this particular retro timeline never came to pass, but besides a blade runner style future-soon where else can we have a fun bit of escape? If every film is like Equalibrium then what is the point of any other film in those constraints? In this version he gets a kitten not a puppy.
The stargate music thing has been addressed, and you must be new to the whole world of movies, but film teasers and even trailers have been using music from other films and such for as long as they have been made. I suppose you are going to stupidly claim that all movies using Carmina Burana in it's trailer is trying to ride on the coat tails of opera? Or all the movies that use Green Onions in the trailer are trying to ride on the coat tails of Booker T. and the MGs.
Another reason I think you should be modded down is your insane presumption to speak for all the rest of the people reading slashdot. I'm sure you speak for the people who think like you, and thats fine, but not all of us only want what you describe.
I hope that your theater experiances live up to your expectations and you get everything you want in films.
Upset because something with "Final Fantasy" in the title had a thin plotline? I like the FF movie and games but they are not exactly deep or even thought provoking most of the time.
I'm not saying don't be wary of this movie, but you might want to get a few more reviews and see how it does on rotton tomatos befire staying away.
For more games with high flying fun check out: Skygunner on the PS2 (we need a version on a more powerful console so we loose the slowdowns in some spots). Propeller Arena for the Dreamcast (never released, leaked to the underground). Great fun fast and good looking as well.
I remember the first time I saw a "free speach zone". It was at a stop for GWB's first run back in 2000. I dont know if his people came up with them but clearly each party likes them enough to use em.
Looking at Japan, back before the rise of DVD, some of the best media players (Pioneer HLD-X9) were made and the media was incapable of any copy control. Still a lot of films were made and kept in print on a media that was easy to generate top quality rips from.
Because most DVD players up to generation 3 were nover made to conform to all of the DVD spec. Usually the more expensive players worked with everything, but everyone bought the cheapest player they could from some no name (at the time APEX was unknown cheapo player).
I have the THX discs, but it would appear that in these while I enjoy the clean up of the boxes around ship models, Lucas started adding CGI I think. I say this because I dont remember some droids that are badly added to the start of the Mos Eisley scene (in the THX LD they are bright orange and stick out). I could also be mis remembering the original but I dont think so. Can anyone who has the original version and the THX one compare and let me know if I'm just insane?
I thouhgt I was the only one getting that kind of treatment.
For over a year I was being hammered by machines in the RR business class domain name range and even with my firewall logs I got nothing but those rejections.
Is it just me or is this article an example of how out of touch the "business world" is from the technical world. People have been hacking consumer electronics for decades, and mechanical hacking has been going on well over a century. If this is worthy of front page news (I submtted an article about this but it was rejected) on the WSJ that just now people are hacking hardware no onder techies are ignored int he marketplace.
Seems you didnt play the game in question, or pay any attention to the stuff outside of the act of killing.
Your character is a cold killer who was to be put to death. This character is grabbed while his execution is faked so a rich man can create snuf films using some gangs of criminals as killers for the prey he brings in.
There were virtually no innocent people involved (the reporter, your family, cant recall any others), even the cops you run into for the most part are on the masterminds payroll. All the "innocents" who get killed were killed at the hand of the gangs or the guy running the place, if you follow the events in the game.
The game via the Mastermind and plot forces you to kill,and the only excessive thing I can think of that Rockstar might be guilty of is the more graphic your kills are the more you unlock of special stuff. Most areas are set so the next will not become accessable until you get rid of everyone in the current area.
I dont think it was the best game ever, it had it's moments, and frankly I enjoyed The Suffering much more for story.
As for your hollywood movie example go rent Natural Born Killers and get back to us about how hollywood wont make a movie like that.
There are 3 LD versions I am aware of. The first version is as it was originally released. The second version is the THX one where they cleaned up the ship overlays and lucas started adding small experamental clips of CGI (obvious droids in Mos Eisly, and some other stuff). This is the version I own. And the third version the so called "special edition".
The above isnt "proper Engrish" it's closer to proper Japanese. Shamelessly stolen from usenet:
Here's a little song to help you remember the rule.
THE JAPANESE SINGULAR/PLURAL NOUN RULE SONG (sung to the tune of "The Banana Splits" theme song)
Tra la la! La la la la! Tra la la! La la la la! Tra la la! La la la la! Tra la la! La la la la! Tra la la! La la la la! Tra la la! La la la la!
One Gojira, two Gojira, three Gojira, four Four Gojira rising from the murky ocean floor See them crushing Tokyo, breathing smoke and flame Even though there's more than one, the noun is the same
(That applies to Pokemon)
(Even when there's more than one)
(You still call them Pokemon)
Tra la la! Japanese nouns! Tra la la! Don't change their form! Tra la la! Japanese nouns! Tra la la! Don't change their form!
Check out William B Davis (Cancer Man) and James Hong (who I like to call the Asian Cancer Man (I know he is from Minnesota)). They are frighteningly alike as evil masterminds.
Funny how everyone has a different take. I have a 4 GB IBM "deathstar" that has served me well for about 7 years now, and a 60GXP (60 GB) that has so far served me well for about 4 years.
I have had other IBM drives and never experianced problems out of the ordinary.
From reading technical articles the 75GXP line was the one plagued with problems and thats why the 60GXP was introduced.
I'm not saying no IBM drive has failed before it's time or that certain runs/sseries of drive were not plagues by unusually high failures.
If we all swore off of a HDD manufacturer every time they had a bad batch no one would be able to buy a HDD.
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I think your wrong.
I agree that many US cartoons are episodic, however many Japanese cartoons are episodic.
The fact that there is a exponentialy larger amount of animation output coming from Japan compared to the US lets us end up seeing more serial shows from Japan then are made here in the US.
Samurai Jack for instance is a mix of both. Most of the episodes are episodic in they dont directly tie rom one to the next, but something that happened or is learned earlyer in the series will be shown in all later episodes. Like when Jack learns to jump "real good", after that he uses this ability quite often.
On the other side of the coin Anime like Digi-Carat or Urusei Yatsura are pretty much episodic.
WOW. you sure angry at the world, stabbing out from from your pee-cee.
Seriously has it occured to you that it is possible to be a fan of and support animation no matter what the skin color or ethnic background of the creator?
You do realize that most cartoons we have seen for the last 40 or so years here in the US (longer actually) have been imported from Japan or some other country (like Canada).
And last there is no "anime style". While there are some styles that are common to some anime or only used in some anime, every supposed feature of anime (big hair, big eyes small mouth, big robots kicking each other) has as many counter examples where that thing does not exist as sources where is does exist. If someone only watches one type of anime they may feel it's all the same but thats a failure on their part and they should broaden the scope of what they view before complaining it's all the same or only has 4 FPS.
I agree with ya on that.
I think one problem is at least in the US it's almost impossible to legitimately buy 1/10th of the cartoons ever made that we enjoyed. I would lay out nearly any amount of money for a goof legit DVD set for cartoons like Freakazoid or Earthworm Jim (just to name a few). Sure we got Batman TAS season 1 (after how long?) and a few other things, but the lack of availability of stuff IMO is why people turn to anime and then forget that there were other things as well.
The correct term from Super Troopers is "Afganistanimation" a jab at people who say "Japanimation".
Is it wrong to correct the spelling of a mde up word?
Sadly I posted so I cant mod your insanity down (and there is no mod that would be appropriate).
If we never revisit the past no one will ever learn from it. The past has some pretty keen stuff to it that the world would be a poorer place if people like you controled what was made.Sure this particular retro timeline never came to pass, but besides a blade runner style future-soon where else can we have a fun bit of escape? If every film is like Equalibrium then what is the point of any other film in those constraints? In this version he gets a kitten not a puppy.
The stargate music thing has been addressed, and you must be new to the whole world of movies, but film teasers and even trailers have been using music from other films and such for as long as they have been made. I suppose you are going to stupidly claim that all movies using Carmina Burana in it's trailer is trying to ride on the coat tails of opera? Or all the movies that use Green Onions in the trailer are trying to ride on the coat tails of Booker T. and the MGs.
Another reason I think you should be modded down is your insane presumption to speak for all the rest of the people reading slashdot. I'm sure you speak for the people who think like you, and thats fine, but not all of us only want what you describe.
I hope that your theater experiances live up to your expectations and you get everything you want in films.
Upset because something with "Final Fantasy" in the title had a thin plotline?
I like the FF movie and games but they are not exactly deep or even thought provoking most of the time.
I'm not saying don't be wary of this movie, but you might want to get a few more reviews and see how it does on rotton tomatos befire staying away.
Sounds like a good companion to Flesh Gordon.
For more games with high flying fun check out:
Skygunner on the PS2 (we need a version on a more powerful console so we loose the slowdowns in some spots).
Propeller Arena for the Dreamcast (never released, leaked to the underground). Great fun fast and good looking as well.
Are you saying in the liberals from South Carolina should use caning to prevent the confirmations?
I remember the first time I saw a "free speach zone". It was at a stop for GWB's first run back in 2000.
I dont know if his people came up with them but clearly each party likes them enough to use em.
Looking at Japan, back before the rise of DVD, some of the best media players (Pioneer HLD-X9) were made and the media was incapable of any copy control. Still a lot of films were made and kept in print on a media that was easy to generate top quality rips from.
Well, Greedo, he's just this guy, you know?
Starship troopers a "classs act"? Shit. If I had mod points I'd set you to funny.
Please enlighten me as to how it qualifies.
Because most DVD players up to generation 3 were nover made to conform to all of the DVD spec. Usually the more expensive players worked with everything, but everyone bought the cheapest player they could from some no name (at the time APEX was unknown cheapo player).
To bad they stopped making the HLD-X9 the only player worth investing $$ into.
I have the THX discs, but it would appear that in these while I enjoy the clean up of the boxes around ship models, Lucas started adding CGI I think.
I say this because I dont remember some droids that are badly added to the start of the Mos Eisley scene (in the THX LD they are bright orange and stick out).
I could also be mis remembering the original but I dont think so.
Can anyone who has the original version and the THX one compare and let me know if I'm just insane?
Texas? Diebold is based out of Ohio.
I thouhgt I was the only one getting that kind of treatment.
For over a year I was being hammered by machines in the RR business class domain name range and even with my firewall logs I got nothing but those rejections.
Is it just me or is this article an example of how out of touch the "business world" is from the technical world.
People have been hacking consumer electronics for decades, and mechanical hacking has been going on well over a century.
If this is worthy of front page news (I submtted an article about this but it was rejected) on the WSJ that just now people are hacking hardware no onder techies are ignored int he marketplace.
Because they are all whored out?
Seems you didnt play the game in question, or pay any attention to the stuff outside of the act of killing.
,and the only excessive thing I can think of that Rockstar might be guilty of is the more graphic your kills are the more you unlock of special stuff. Most areas are set so the next will not become accessable until you get rid of everyone in the current area.
Your character is a cold killer who was to be put to death. This character is grabbed while his execution is faked so a rich man can create snuf films using some gangs of criminals as killers for the prey he brings in.
There were virtually no innocent people involved (the reporter, your family, cant recall any others), even the cops you run into for the most part are on the masterminds payroll. All the "innocents" who get killed were killed at the hand of the gangs or the guy running the place, if you follow the events in the game.
The game via the Mastermind and plot forces you to kill
I dont think it was the best game ever, it had it's moments, and frankly I enjoyed The Suffering much more for story.
As for your hollywood movie example go rent Natural Born Killers and get back to us about how hollywood wont make a movie like that.
There are 3 LD versions I am aware of.
The first version is as it was originally released.
The second version is the THX one where they cleaned up the ship overlays and lucas started adding small experamental clips of CGI (obvious droids in Mos Eisly, and some other stuff). This is the version I own.
And the third version the so called "special edition".
The above isnt "proper Engrish" it's closer to proper Japanese.
Shamelessly stolen from usenet:
Here's a little song to help you remember the rule.
THE JAPANESE SINGULAR/PLURAL NOUN RULE SONG
(sung to the tune of "The Banana Splits" theme song)
Tra la la! La la la la!
Tra la la! La la la la!
Tra la la! La la la la!
Tra la la! La la la la!
Tra la la! La la la la!
Tra la la! La la la la!
One Gojira, two Gojira, three Gojira, four
Four Gojira rising from the murky ocean floor
See them crushing Tokyo, breathing smoke and flame
Even though there's more than one, the noun is the same
(That applies to Pokemon)
(Even when there's more than one)
(You still call them Pokemon)
Tra la la! Japanese nouns!
Tra la la! Don't change their form!
Tra la la! Japanese nouns!
Tra la la! Don't change their form!
(repeat and fade)
Check out William B Davis (Cancer Man) and James Hong (who I like to call the Asian Cancer Man (I know he is from Minnesota)). They are frighteningly alike as evil masterminds.
Funny how everyone has a different take.
I have a 4 GB IBM "deathstar" that has served me well for about 7 years now, and a 60GXP (60 GB) that has so far served me well for about 4 years.
I have had other IBM drives and never experianced problems out of the ordinary.
From reading technical articles the 75GXP line was the one plagued with problems and thats why the 60GXP was introduced.
I'm not saying no IBM drive has failed before it's time or that certain runs/sseries of drive were not plagues by unusually high failures.
If we all swore off of a HDD manufacturer every time they had a bad batch no one would be able to buy a HDD.