OK, I agree that not all anime is good, but I am a big fan of Fist of the Northstar. Although I prefer romantic comedy anime mainly, I used to be one of these sad freeeeeks who liked anime for the gore, violence, naughty tentacles and stylized *everything*.
Anyway, I still think Fist of NS is good- the English dub has some absolutely hilarious lines in it.
"A little sloppy, but interesting technique"
"These belong to you?" (Re: someone's arms)
"As a matter of fact, you're already dead."
Ok, it was funnier "down the pub" as we say in England, i.e. these quotes are much more amusing in context.
The extra special thing about FONS is that it features highly entertaining bad dubbing. The fascinating thing is that it's not simply "bad acting", but the special sort of "US anime dub-acting" at its height. The lines are delivered in a special bad sort of way, not exactly hammy, but with undue emphasis on every single line, and stylized. Hard to explain, but delightful to experience.
So, in summary:
a) yes, not all anime is good.
b) FONS has many redeeming qualities
c) (I point I didn't actually make, but I put it in the summary anyway)- as someone else said- we tend not to get much bad anime sent from Japan, so what we see is of a higher quality on average.
d) Another point I didn't actually make, but I just thought of it: Lots of people in this forum are seemingly suprised at how so many people canbe into anime: the giveaway point is that they say "Yes, so akira was very good, but...". The point is that they have only seen the first sort of anime brought over en masse from Japan- stuff with big guns, gore, tentacles and rock music. They've probably never seen for example, Tenchi Muyo, Fushigi Yugi or Oh! My Goddess...
The fact this post got modded down to -1 is a joke. The poster makes a good point about ease of use but gets slammed for being pro MS. I know someone not long ago made a point about the moderation of pro vs anti Sun comments, but I think this needed to be pointed out too.
I think we have established that/. has a lynch mob mentality.
But seriously, billions of geeks are too lazy to walk long distances because they could just get a bus or taxi, arrive quicker and start coding again. Anything that takes a programming junkie away from his keyboard is Very Bad.
OK, so we'll all die of heart attacks real soon now, but we don't give a shit.
"The only real differences between men and women that are not socialized have to do with the production of children."
...duh, like what about the cortical differences, i.e. men on average being better than women at spatial reasoning vs women being better on average at language? It's a right brain/left brain jig m'dear.
If you don't like slashdot, go write a book on "Gender Studies", wear dungarees with a wrench in your top pocket, cut your hair real short and have huge dangly earrings.
"forcing a clone to grow up as you is child abuse. "
But this is what all parents do- try to force their children to grow up as them, or as an idealized them, anyway, a clone of them that learned to play the piano and didn't swear in front of their grandmother.
So anyway, you seem to have a weird (i.e. different to everyone else's) definition of child abuse. You're probably one of these "save the whale", "recycle your lemurs", "'hymns' is a sexist term" kind of people.
"Do you mind providing a link to the story about the "chappie" with no brain? I for one don't buy it. "
Refraining from making any jokes about students on Social Policy courses, I will mention that this story probably got created chinese-whisper style from the one where some oxford undergrad had half his brain removed because of epilepsy and still passed his degree.
(But how do you have the heart to fail someone who's lost half his brain?)
Heh, tell you what, mate, you're right about animals having souls and personalities and all that.
Let me tell you, my dog, Bob, right? He's such a character! When I pick up the lead to take him for a walk, he gets all excited like, and runs about me feet... he loves it!
And I swear he knows psychically when I'm about to come in the house, because you can see him at the window when I come up the path! You can! Aye....
Me best mate, Matt, he says right that it's all Pavlovian SR conditioning, but Matt's always been a bit of a queer cunt for stuff like that.
Oh, yes, Bob? Had him for years now... He must be, let's see. about 412 in human years now.
Yes, so don't you uninformed young 'uns try to tell me my dog's got no soul. Because I'd say, "Then how does he smell?", and you'd say "Fucking terrible, mate!" ahahah the old ones are the best ones. It were funnier down the pub...
". To me there is no ethically justifiable killing, even in self-defense"
It amuses me that people choose to constrain their actions based on some fabricated system of morality or ethics. Opinions on "moral issues", e.g. abortion, execution, cloning are for teenagers, who haven't yet realized that objective right and wrong are a myth, much in the same way that father christmas exists for small children, and god exists for people with mid-life crises.
". If someone knows how it feels to be punched in the face, why would they ever do that to another?"
Some people like the feeling of punching someone in the face- some people enjoy being punched in the face. Pleasure and pain are not the hard, black and white things your naive "moral system" requires.
Richard Dawkins had it right. He da man, and that.
Human beings seem to have been GPLd by God- you can change the DNA (either with prebuilt scripts (normal child), or programming (genetic engineering)), but you have to release the source, where the rest of the world can further change it. hehehe
Isn't division bell the one where David Gilmore masturbates continuously while taking lots of coke and getting other ppl to tell him how great he is?
Ahhahah thhhhhey downt mayke pynk floooyd like they use to. when i were a lad it were all "point me at the sky" and "arnold layne"- aahaha decent songs, *they* were. real lyrics that didn't mean anything, not like them modern pink floyds lyrics full of self-pity and roger waters "oh me dad died in't war- i'nt life tragic" bollocks forty times a friggin' track.
>>VNC performance is slow, response is sluggish, even on a ADSL or cable connection.
Subjective- but it's no worse than pcanywhere, IMNSHO
>>This is because the processing is all done on the server end. This distributed technology like.NET puts the program on the client side for fast response, it's just that the program is lightweight and stored on a remote server (along with the data, presumably).
.NET distributed programs wouldn't allow you to run a unix program on windows, or a macos one in linux...
>>VNC also requires that you have a VNC client, which although ported to many OS's is not as ubiquitous as a web browser.
VNC does not require you to have a VNC client, you can use a web browser, if the server is set up to let you do this.
>>Big whoop, I've been doing the same thing on Windows computers with PCAnywhere since 1996 or 97... that's not the point.
PCanywhere costs money, vnc is free. don't you know that/.ers lynch anyone advocating the use of software you have to pay for?
I don't know which sponge-for-brains modded you up, maybe one of your "friends"?
Please tell me this was a troll. If not it's time to stop reading/. and start staring at the wall instead. (no need for a scroll bar! less rants! more insightful! less biased!)
this is not feasible at all. imagine having to support every single gfx card and sound card when lots of them don't even have port info available, yet alone open-source drivers. all this on the notorious tight deadlines of games programming.
also it would still only run on x86, or are you proposing writing a custom os and complete set of drivers for all other cpus too?
yes it does, and so does nt4. it's just that the registry entry by default sets the completion keyboard stroke to something ridiculous rather than 9 (tab)
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OK, I agree that not all anime is good, but I am a big fan of Fist of the Northstar. Although I prefer romantic comedy anime mainly, I used to be one of these sad freeeeeks who liked anime for the gore, violence, naughty tentacles and stylized *everything*.
Anyway, I still think Fist of NS is good- the English dub has some absolutely hilarious lines in it.
"A little sloppy, but interesting technique"
"These belong to you?" (Re: someone's arms)
"As a matter of fact, you're already dead."
Ok, it was funnier "down the pub" as we say in England, i.e. these quotes are much more amusing in context.
The extra special thing about FONS is that it features highly entertaining bad dubbing. The fascinating thing is that it's not simply "bad acting", but the special sort of "US anime dub-acting" at its height. The lines are delivered in a special bad sort of way, not exactly hammy, but with undue emphasis on every single line, and stylized. Hard to explain, but delightful to experience.
So, in summary:
a) yes, not all anime is good.
b) FONS has many redeeming qualities
c) (I point I didn't actually make, but I put it in the summary anyway)- as someone else said- we tend not to get much bad anime sent from Japan, so what we see is of a higher quality on average.
d) Another point I didn't actually make, but I just thought of it: Lots of people in this forum are seemingly suprised at how so many people canbe into anime: the giveaway point is that they say "Yes, so akira was very good, but...". The point is that they have only seen the first sort of anime brought over en masse from Japan- stuff with big guns, gore, tentacles and rock music. They've probably never seen for example, Tenchi Muyo, Fushigi Yugi or Oh! My Goddess...
Graspee (anime geek and proud)
The fact this post got modded down to -1 is a joke. The poster makes a good point about ease of use but gets slammed for being pro MS. I know someone not long ago made a point about the moderation of pro vs anti Sun comments, but I think this needed to be pointed out too.
/. has a lynch mob mentality.
I think we have established that
"Java's WORA hype"
That would be Write Once, Run Away ?
This is not Great Britain they are talking about, but Tokyo.
/.ers to read articles!"
"PDAs affect ability of
Cool- I'm very rare!
But seriously, billions of geeks are too lazy to walk long distances because they could just get a bus or taxi, arrive quicker and start coding again. Anything that takes a programming junkie away from his keyboard is Very Bad.
OK, so we'll all die of heart attacks real soon now, but we don't give a shit.
But the first person to get cloned can make all the money back by selling their story to the newspapers...
(not my original idea- heard it on tv somewhere)
I guess you meant "aisle 6", but "isle 6" is more of a John Brunner "Stand on Zanzibar" kind of tie-in whatsit irony.
"Take some sociology classes."
...if you find psychology too hard to understand
"The only real differences between men and women that are not socialized have to do with the production of children."
...duh, like what about the cortical differences, i.e. men on average being better than women at spatial reasoning vs women being better on average at language? It's a right brain/left brain jig m'dear.
If you don't like slashdot, go write a book on "Gender Studies", wear dungarees with a wrench in your top pocket, cut your hair real short and have huge dangly earrings.
"forcing a clone to grow up as you is child abuse. "
But this is what all parents do- try to force their children to grow up as them, or as an idealized them, anyway, a clone of them that learned to play the piano and didn't swear in front of their grandmother.
So anyway, you seem to have a weird (i.e. different to everyone else's) definition of child abuse. You're probably one of these "save the whale", "recycle your lemurs", "'hymns' is a sexist term" kind of people.
"Do you mind providing a link to the story about the "chappie" with no brain? I for one don't buy it. "
Refraining from making any jokes about students on Social Policy courses, I will mention that this story probably got created chinese-whisper style from the one where some oxford undergrad had half his brain removed because of epilepsy and still passed his degree.
(But how do you have the heart to fail someone who's lost half his brain?)
"perhaps there are even folks out there who would think it would be cool to have the worlds first headless child. "
Heheheh. You'd save a fortune in hats, for a start. And haircuts.
Your child couldn't get pierced ears in order to rebel against you.
Then when they took a "head count" on school trips they'd always be one out.
The child's peer group would always be taller "by a head".
Just think of the embarassed looks when someone started to say "You'd lose your own head if it weren't... oh, dear, sorry..."
How would your child keep a scarf on?
I'm sure there's more.
Apologies to all parents and relatives of headless children for the offensive caused.
Heh, tell you what, mate, you're right about animals having souls and personalities and all that.
Let me tell you, my dog, Bob, right? He's such a character! When I pick up the lead to take him for a walk, he gets all excited like, and runs about me feet... he loves it!
And I swear he knows psychically when I'm about to come in the house, because you can see him at the window when I come up the path! You can! Aye....
Me best mate, Matt, he says right that it's all Pavlovian SR conditioning, but Matt's always been a bit of a queer cunt for stuff like that.
Oh, yes, Bob? Had him for years now... He must be, let's see. about 412 in human years now.
Yes, so don't you uninformed young 'uns try to tell me my dog's got no soul. Because I'd say, "Then how does he smell?", and you'd say "Fucking terrible, mate!" ahahah the old ones are the best ones. It were funnier down the pub...
". To me there is no ethically justifiable killing, even in self-defense"
It amuses me that people choose to constrain their actions based on some fabricated system of morality or ethics. Opinions on "moral issues", e.g. abortion, execution, cloning are for teenagers, who haven't yet realized that objective right and wrong are a myth, much in the same way that father christmas exists for small children, and god exists for people with mid-life crises.
". If someone knows how it feels to be punched in the face, why would they ever do that to another?"
Some people like the feeling of punching someone in the face- some people enjoy being punched in the face. Pleasure and pain are not the hard, black and white things your naive "moral system" requires.
Richard Dawkins had it right. He da man, and that.
Human beings seem to have been GPLd by God- you can change the DNA (either with prebuilt scripts (normal child), or programming (genetic engineering)), but you have to release the source, where the rest of the world can further change it. hehehe
Isn't division bell the one where David Gilmore masturbates continuously while taking lots of coke and getting other ppl to tell him how great he is?
Ahhahah thhhhhey downt mayke pynk floooyd like they use to. when i were a lad it were all "point me at the sky" and "arnold layne"- aahaha decent songs, *they* were. real lyrics that didn't mean anything, not like them modern pink floyds lyrics full of self-pity and roger waters "oh me dad died in't war- i'nt life tragic" bollocks forty times a friggin' track.
mod this up! do it! do it now!
p.s. can u make me a wizard?
damn- ac should be disallowed for fps
nice point actually about satisfying gpl with encrypted source code. i should try that
no caps, not because i am such a 1337 unix user but because i am eating pizza and only my little finger is not greasy...
"so Linus is free"
He must like you. He charged me $200 an hour. (And while counting it, he *intoned*: "My name is Linux Torvalds, and I pronounce it 'Linus'")
>>VNC performance is slow, response is sluggish, even on a ADSL or cable connection.
.NET puts the program on the client side for fast response, it's just that the program is lightweight and stored on a remote server (along with the data, presumably).
/.ers lynch anyone advocating the use of software you have to pay for?
Subjective- but it's no worse than pcanywhere, IMNSHO
>>This is because the processing is all done on the server end. This distributed technology like
.NET distributed programs wouldn't allow you to run a unix program on windows, or a macos one in linux...
>>VNC also requires that you have a VNC client, which although ported to many OS's is not as ubiquitous as a web browser.
VNC does not require you to have a VNC client, you can use a web browser, if the server is set up to let you do this.
>>Big whoop, I've been doing the same thing on Windows computers with PCAnywhere since 1996 or 97... that's not the point.
PCanywhere costs money, vnc is free. don't you know that
I don't know which sponge-for-brains modded you up, maybe one of your "friends"?
Arseholes like opinions. Everyone is one.
Please tell me this was a troll. If not it's time to stop reading /. and start staring at the wall instead. (no need for a scroll bar! less rants! more insightful! less biased!)
Are you as gullible to trolls as you sound?
this is not feasible at all. imagine having to support every single gfx card and sound card when lots of them don't even have port info available, yet alone open-source drivers. all this on the notorious tight deadlines of games programming.
also it would still only run on x86, or are you proposing writing a custom os and complete set of drivers for all other cpus too?
you need windows for pc games. deal with it.
Also, dosemu is faster on linux than the dos emulator built into nt4- check out the difference running EDIT...
yes it does, and so does nt4. it's just that the registry entry by default sets the completion keyboard stroke to something ridiculous rather than 9 (tab)