Oh, and they still don't post articles about the teleplay project at www.bananachan.com -- that online epic deserves recognition too (it's a much better story than broken saints. Yeah, Broken Saints is pretty, but c'mon):)
I guess if I were to post an article about Banana Chan, I'd say that their next major epic begins on May 3rd.
The purpose of spam has always been to annoy people so much that they'll go to your web-site, or buy your product. It's cheap advertising, and effective if done correctly; however, it's intrusive, and often pornographic, and therefore legal limits should be forced upon spammers. Me telling people about my anime web-site in virtually every post I make to Slashdot, I guess, falls into the category of spam; however, at least I'm not a) advertising porno. b) e-mailing you. c) e-mailing you badly composed haikus about porno! Some of the spam I get is just plain weird; it's like "let's play a fun game/at my pornographic site/so come in it's fun!" Seriously, I get stuff like that in my inbox. Kids have e-mail accounts, and they shouldn't be bombarded with that stuff, but they are. I remember when it used to be that when you turn eighteen, you start getting that kind of spam in your Hotmail (proof that Bill Gates sells e-mail addresses to spammers); however, it's not
like that anymore. My seven year old brother Sam started a YAHOO! Mail account so that he could talk with his older brother, but now he's seen things on the net which -- well, to put it lightly, he's probably more aware of...err...human nature... than I was at that age, all because of the evils of spammers. They should go to hell...the porno ones should go to hell, I mean. My anime site is rated PG.
I am your Captain, and I am giving you a direct order: get influenced by my fiction. Well, I'm not a Captain, so you don't have to follow the order; however, I read Orson Scott Card's how-to book about writing sci-fi before I wrote my fiction; therefore, there's gotta be at least one or two cool ideas in it which can influence someone cool to do something cool, eh?
My conscience tells me to admit that my previous post was just an excuse to mention my site. My mind is telling me that certain interpretations of my post make it on topic. My ass is telling me that Peter Jackson's richer from the writings of an old dead dude than I can ever hope of being through my writings; therefore, my previous post is justified in some weird definition of the word "justified." However, though I have plenty excuses for my previous post, nothing can excuse this one.
That's nothing. I've delayed posting my BANANA CHAN anime scripts to the internet since 1995; that's when I started planning the first storyline for my site, so Peter Jackson can kiss my boot:)
Wow! I'll finally be able to see it in theatres just DAYS before its release to video (April 15th, I think, is its video release date.) When spirited away was first being made, I read a lot of things about Mayazaki on the internet, and those things inspired me to write my own anime-based fiction. It's the most popular movie EVER in Japan, so it's a good bet that SPIRITED AWAY will be in North American theaters for a VERY LONG TIME, and hopefully it spawns anime to be on prime-time TV. If NBC, CBS, UPN and FOX, would each have one anime program in their weekly prime-time line-ups, the world would be a much better place. Knowing FOX, they'd be the ones to show RANMA1/2 which is quite possibly the best anime ever made for TV...heh heh.
Wow, mentioning my site's address in "on topic" context brought a flood of people to it tonight! Thank you, Slashdot! And I'm sorry for all those times when I mentioned the site in "off-topic" context on these message boards -- those times hardly brought anyone:)
MORAL OF THE STORY: Trolling gets your site no visitors; however, if mentioning your site is on topic, you'll get a s**tload of visitors. From now on, I'll only mention my site when talking about my site fits in with the topic of conversation, and I hope others take my example.
Yeah, but... well, your idea is good in theory, but the thought of killing irks everyone, especially heroic people, so your idea is... well, it's a good idea, but like must sci-fi, its real-world applications aren't there.
My link did not contain goatse...whatever that is. Oh, you must mean goatsex -- yeah, there's tons-a-that...NOT! My point: why did you lie about my link? I don't even know I, or do I, Anonomous Coward. Your last name, Coward, says it all...you coward.
I design www.bananachan.com
The site hosts a sci-fi anime story which I wrote, and I like to imagine the interface as LCARS-esque. Actually, I like to imagine the entire internet as LCARS-esque. I can't be the only nerd who's familiar with the term LCARS, can I?
VR was released too early for its time, when most games were 32 bit. PS1 quality games were the first-wave of VR, whereas Dreamcast quality games should have been the first wave of VR. If SEGA made VR versions of ANY of their first person shooters from Dreamcast, they would be immediate hits! Dreamcast graphics are potentially four times as good as PS1 graphics...maybe more, yet they released PS1 quality VR games at a time when it WAS possible to make Dreamcast quality VR games. 32 bit games were far more economical to make for VR at a time when VR was widely experimental, but now 128 bit VR games which come with a helmet should be part of every new wave console's library; they'll be hits I tell 'ya. All ya gotta do is tweak existing first person shooters. Just thinking about a VR-helmet version of MGS2 gives me multiple orgasms:)
Yeah, Wallace and Gromit was a technical achievement for claymation, but SpongeBob's funnier... We should see more Slashdot stories about SpongeBob, like about that cartoon on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago -- that was funny.
Sega Dreamcast's wonderful canon of amazing products contains a virtual fish-tank called Seaman. Seaman is FAR SUPERIOR to this fish tank of which you speak...or so I assume. To digress, I can't wait for DCX which is SEGA's re-release of the dreamcast...then I'll be able to play all my discs again.
I remember seeing previews on TV for SPIRITED AWAY. I remember the clips I saw on the internet, and the teary-eyed feeling I got from the plot-synopsis I read on an un-official web-site. I remember the burning urge to see it, and the feeling of personal achievement I got when I wrote a fanfic which was based on the plot summary which I read on the internet. I remember seeing ads on network television, and waiting eagerly for it to be distributed nationwide to movie theatres after viewing its official web-site. I live in the biggest city in my province (provinces are the canadian version of states), and NONE OF THE MOVIE THEATRES in my city screened Spirited Away. It disgusts me to no end that the translation of the most popular anime movie of all time did not get screened at all in my city. On a side-note, I rented PRINCESS MONONOKE and KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE, and they were far more fulfilling movies than any of the Disney fare which was available on the big-screen at the time. Mayazaki IS one of the best film-makers of all-time, and his work deserves to be shown on big-screens all throughout North America. The spectre of his panoramic motion-paintings is insulted on the small screen whereas the landscape of the largest movie screen in the world would almost do his work justice.
They should just make a syndicated TV show called "Awards"; it should include all the award shows, and be placed in a single time-slot. The only downside to that would be the summer, december, and february hiatus' in which we'd have to watch repeats of "Awards."
My name is Alan Holman. I'm the head-writer of BANANA CHAN, a web-based series of anime scripts and manga with a plot which is carefully calculated, by me, to use ideas from EVERY anime. I know it seems like a lofty goal, but my innovative scripts are pulling it off quite well, and they tell a unique, compelling sci-fi story about "folding time", and about the evolution of a town and its people. I've been working on this project for more than a year, and the research which I've went through has made me an expert on anime plots -- I've read more plot summaries and scripts than anyone else on the planet!...probably. My point: If anyone is hiring people to teach these classes, don't hire a fan; instead, hire someone like me, someone who has taken the time to make a web-site like my web-site: Banana Chan. Ten episodic scripts are on the site so far, and the story will continue on February 15th. [The second manga is coming sooner.]
behind all thegirly anime family values stuff, banana chan ( http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ ) is compelling sci fi about the evolution of a town called Rain, Japan.
I'm sorry for my earlier comment. And yes, I'll agree with some of you who repied to my comment: you're right that GOLDEN CITY does suck. It was a learning experience, and now I should delete it from the web, because it casts a horrible shadow over Banana Chan which kicks ass.
William Gibson is an author well-known enough that his tenure merits him a Slashdot article. I'm an unknown author whose lack of tenure merits me neutral (soon to be bad) karma on Slashdot. William Gibson most-likely sleeps on a double bed with his wife. I sleep on a single bed which makes noises every time I make the slightest movement, and it's annoying to the rest of my family who sleep in "kinda-devided" so-called "rooms." William Gibson's novels sold millions! My novel GOLDEN CITY never got published aside for on a hardly-ever-visited web-site. Both William Gibson and Douglas Adams have had articles posted about them on Slashdot. I've tried to have articles posted about my sci-fi comedy novel GOLDEN CITY (which friends say is funnier than The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy), and I've tried to have articles posted about my web-published series of anime teleplays called Banana Chan (which friends say is a brilliant tale about how characters relate to the beginning of the story.) Bah humbug.
Anyway, here's the part that's gonna get me the bad karma: People have called me boastful, and selfish. I do that to survive! Yes, my stories are great, and no I'm not just saying that. William Gibson got the right people to read his stuff -- he knew folks in the biz, or he marketted himself the proper way! For me, I can't market myself the proper way, because sending a manuscript of Golden City, or a set of scripts of Banana Chan, to a publisher is impossible because my family can't afford a printer which works properly. Hell, I'm using a rigged 286 to post this comment to slashdot! This computer was donated to my family because my family is poor. It's a pre-windows computer. I'm using a browser called LYNX. Anyway, people say I'm boastful and selfish when I try to get people on the internet to read my stories -- well, it's the only way that I can get people to read them because I typed most of them up on crappy computers at home, and I posted them to the internet on public access computers in
libraries and whatnot. I've been failing job interviews since may because I try to "sell myself to the employer" and my true passion lies on writing my stories, and acting -- not burger-flipping, or mopping... That's why I don't focus during those job interviews; however, maybe I come across as a little desperate during those job interviews, and maybe that's why I don't have a job. But wouldn't you come across as desperate if the reason you wanted a job was so that you could quit waking up from nightmares about getting raped, only to find out that the dreamed-of rape was the same pace of the sound of your parents conjugal rights in the next room!!!!... well, as I said earlier, they're not rooms...just divisions of... well, sub-sections....hard to explain, but... well, to make a long story short: read my anime teleplays called Banana Chan at http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ I write those teleplays in order to escape from the pain of reality -- maybe that's also why William Gibson writes.
Honestly, I don't even know who the hell William Gibson is, aside for the fact that he's a published author, and I'm not! You know, I had two plays produced by amateur companies -- two plays which I wrote. The purpose of the amateur companies was to get recognition for local playwrights and donate the proceeds to charity. In other words, I got paid nothing for giving LARGE audiences nights of enjoyment. Oh, did I mention that I got kicked in the nuts on a reality tv show called THE ULTIMATE PARTY QUEST? If I knew a lawyer, I'd find some way to sue the bastards who film that show. Hell, whoever's doling out the Karma for this one should read my online diary at http://www.ncf.ca/~eq524/ before they decide that I deserve -5 points for this long rant. I hate published authors because I'm not one of them. Damn J.K. Rowling -- her Harry Potter books reek of the type of talent I had six years ago, yet she's published because she can afford to get a print shop to design a cool manuscript for herself to
impress publishers. Just like William Gibson! And what can I afford: nothing. But I continue living because of faith in my goals.
Yup, it is ironic, and it's a large chunk of life that was wasted, and that we're wasting by searching for the things -- but sometimes we find one that's fun!
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Oh, and they still don't post articles about the teleplay project at www.bananachan.com -- that online epic deserves recognition too (it's a much better story than broken saints. Yeah, Broken Saints is pretty, but c'mon) :)
I guess if I were to post an article about Banana Chan, I'd say that their next major epic begins on May 3rd.
Yet another great anime movie which won't be shown in my city. I'm still waiting to see SPIRITED AWAY on the big screen in Saskatoon.
Thanks. Your comment justifies my method of expressing myself on the internet. I wish certain others understand what you understand.
The purpose of spam has always been to annoy people so much that they'll go to your web-site, or buy your product. It's cheap advertising, and effective if done correctly; however, it's intrusive, and often pornographic, and therefore legal limits should be forced upon spammers. Me telling people about my anime web-site in virtually every post I make to Slashdot, I guess, falls into the category of spam; however, at least I'm not a) advertising porno. b) e-mailing you. c) e-mailing you badly composed haikus about porno! Some of the spam I get is just plain weird; it's like "let's play a fun game/at my pornographic site/so come in it's fun!" Seriously, I get stuff like that in my inbox. Kids have e-mail accounts, and they shouldn't be bombarded with that stuff, but they are. I remember when it used to be that when you turn eighteen, you start getting that kind of spam in your Hotmail (proof that Bill Gates sells e-mail addresses to spammers); however, it's not ...err...human nature... than I was at that age, all because of the evils of spammers. They should go to hell...the porno ones should go to hell, I mean. My anime site is rated PG.
like that anymore. My seven year old brother Sam started a YAHOO! Mail account so that he could talk with his older brother, but now he's seen things on the net which -- well, to put it lightly, he's probably more aware of
I am your Captain, and I am giving you a direct order: get influenced by my fiction. Well, I'm not a Captain, so you don't have to follow the order; however, I read Orson Scott Card's how-to book about writing sci-fi before I wrote my fiction; therefore, there's gotta be at least one or two cool ideas in it which can influence someone cool to do something cool, eh?
My conscience tells me to admit that my previous post was just an excuse to mention my site. My mind is telling me that certain interpretations of my post make it on topic. My ass is telling me that Peter Jackson's richer from the writings of an old dead dude than I can ever hope of being through my writings; therefore, my previous post is justified in some weird definition of the word "justified." However, though I have plenty excuses for my previous post, nothing can excuse this one.
That's nothing. I've delayed posting my BANANA CHAN anime scripts to the internet since 1995; that's when I started planning the first storyline for my site, so Peter Jackson can kiss my boot :)
Wow! I'll finally be able to see it in theatres just DAYS before its release to video (April 15th, I think, is its video release date.) When spirited away was first being made, I read a lot of things about Mayazaki on the internet, and those things inspired me to write my own anime-based fiction. It's the most popular movie EVER in Japan, so it's a good bet that SPIRITED AWAY will be in North American theaters for a VERY LONG TIME, and hopefully it spawns anime to be on prime-time TV. If NBC, CBS, UPN and FOX, would each have one anime program in their weekly prime-time line-ups, the world would be a much better place. Knowing FOX, they'd be the ones to show RANMA1/2 which is quite possibly the best anime ever made for TV...heh heh.
Wireless LAN -- yet another way to avoid that large brown pollution cloud which hangs over much of asia!
Wow, mentioning my site's address in "on topic" context brought a flood of people to it tonight! Thank you, Slashdot! And I'm sorry for all those times when I mentioned the site in "off-topic" context on these message boards -- those times hardly brought anyone :)
MORAL OF THE STORY: Trolling gets your site no visitors; however, if mentioning your site is on topic, you'll get a s**tload of visitors. From now on, I'll only mention my site when talking about my site fits in with the topic of conversation, and I hope others take my example.
Yeah, but ... well, your idea is good in theory, but the thought of killing irks everyone, especially heroic people, so your idea is ... well, it's a good idea, but like must sci-fi, its real-world applications aren't there.
My link did not contain goatse...whatever that is. Oh, you must mean goatsex -- yeah, there's tons-a-that...NOT! My point: why did you lie about my link? I don't even know I, or do I, Anonomous Coward. Your last name, Coward, says it all...you coward.
I design www.bananachan.com The site hosts a sci-fi anime story which I wrote, and I like to imagine the interface as LCARS-esque. Actually, I like to imagine the entire internet as LCARS-esque. I can't be the only nerd who's familiar with the term LCARS, can I?
VR was released too early for its time, when most games were 32 bit. PS1 quality games were the first-wave of VR, whereas Dreamcast quality games should have been the first wave of VR. If SEGA made VR versions of ANY of their first person shooters from Dreamcast, they would be immediate hits! Dreamcast graphics are potentially four times as good as PS1 graphics...maybe more, yet they released PS1 quality VR games at a time when it WAS possible to make Dreamcast quality VR games. 32 bit games were far more economical to make for VR at a time when VR was widely experimental, but now 128 bit VR games which come with a helmet should be part of every new wave console's library; they'll be hits I tell 'ya. All ya gotta do is tweak existing first person shooters. Just thinking about a VR-helmet version of MGS2 gives me multiple orgasms :)
Yeah, Wallace and Gromit was a technical achievement for claymation, but SpongeBob's funnier... We should see more Slashdot stories about SpongeBob, like about that cartoon on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago -- that was funny.
Sega Dreamcast's wonderful canon of amazing products contains a virtual fish-tank called Seaman. Seaman is FAR SUPERIOR to this fish tank of which you speak...or so I assume. To digress, I can't wait for DCX which is SEGA's re-release of the dreamcast...then I'll be able to play all my discs again.
I remember seeing previews on TV for SPIRITED AWAY. I remember the clips I saw on the internet, and the teary-eyed feeling I got from the plot-synopsis I read on an un-official web-site. I remember the burning urge to see it, and the feeling of personal achievement I got when I wrote a fanfic which was based on the plot summary which I read on the internet. I remember seeing ads on network television, and waiting eagerly for it to be distributed nationwide to movie theatres after viewing its official web-site. I live in the biggest city in my province (provinces are the canadian version of states), and NONE OF THE MOVIE THEATRES in my city screened Spirited Away. It disgusts me to no end that the translation of the most popular anime movie of all time did not get screened at all in my city. On a side-note, I rented PRINCESS MONONOKE and KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE, and they were far more fulfilling movies than any of the Disney fare which was available on the big-screen at the time. Mayazaki IS one of the best film-makers of all-time, and his work deserves to be shown on big-screens all throughout North America. The spectre of his panoramic motion-paintings is insulted on the small screen whereas the landscape of the largest movie screen in the world would almost do his work justice.
They should just make a syndicated TV show called "Awards"; it should include all the award shows, and be placed in a single time-slot. The only downside to that would be the summer, december, and february hiatus' in which we'd have to watch repeats of "Awards."
That scene was the most powerful drama I've seen in a long time.
My name is Alan Holman. I'm the head-writer of BANANA CHAN, a web-based series of anime scripts and manga with a plot which is carefully calculated, by me, to use ideas from EVERY anime. I know it seems like a lofty goal, but my innovative scripts are pulling it off quite well, and they tell a unique, compelling sci-fi story about "folding time", and about the evolution of a town and its people. I've been working on this project for more than a year, and the research which I've went through has made me an expert on anime plots -- I've read more plot summaries and scripts than anyone else on the planet!...probably. My point: If anyone is hiring people to teach these classes, don't hire a fan; instead, hire someone like me, someone who has taken the time to make a web-site like my web-site: Banana Chan. Ten episodic scripts are on the site so far, and the story will continue on February 15th. [The second manga is coming sooner.]
behind all thegirly anime family values stuff, banana chan ( http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ ) is compelling sci fi about the evolution of a town called Rain, Japan.
I thought the headline had something to do with Banana Chan, but I am the only person who would think that.
I'm sorry for my earlier comment. And yes, I'll agree with some of you who repied to my comment: you're right that GOLDEN CITY does suck. It was a learning experience, and now I should delete it from the web, because it casts a horrible shadow over Banana Chan which kicks ass.
William Gibson is an author well-known enough that his tenure merits him a Slashdot article. I'm an unknown author whose lack of tenure merits me neutral (soon to be bad) karma on Slashdot. William Gibson most-likely sleeps on a double bed with his wife. I sleep on a single bed which makes noises every time I make the slightest movement, and it's annoying to the rest of my family who sleep in "kinda-devided" so-called "rooms." William Gibson's novels sold millions! My novel GOLDEN CITY never got published aside for on a hardly-ever-visited web-site. Both William Gibson and Douglas Adams have had articles posted about them on Slashdot. I've tried to have articles posted about my sci-fi comedy novel GOLDEN CITY (which friends say is funnier than The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy), and I've tried to have articles posted about my web-published series of anime teleplays called Banana Chan (which friends say is a brilliant tale about how characters relate to the beginning of the story.) Bah humbug. Anyway, here's the part that's gonna get me the bad karma: People have called me boastful, and selfish. I do that to survive! Yes, my stories are great, and no I'm not just saying that. William Gibson got the right people to read his stuff -- he knew folks in the biz, or he marketted himself the proper way! For me, I can't market myself the proper way, because sending a manuscript of Golden City, or a set of scripts of Banana Chan, to a publisher is impossible because my family can't afford a printer which works properly. Hell, I'm using a rigged 286 to post this comment to slashdot! This computer was donated to my family because my family is poor. It's a pre-windows computer. I'm using a browser called LYNX. Anyway, people say I'm boastful and selfish when I try to get people on the internet to read my stories -- well, it's the only way that I can get people to read them because I typed most of them up on crappy computers at home, and I posted them to the internet on public access computers in libraries and whatnot. I've been failing job interviews since may because I try to "sell myself to the employer" and my true passion lies on writing my stories, and acting -- not burger-flipping, or mopping... That's why I don't focus during those job interviews; however, maybe I come across as a little desperate during those job interviews, and maybe that's why I don't have a job. But wouldn't you come across as desperate if the reason you wanted a job was so that you could quit waking up from nightmares about getting raped, only to find out that the dreamed-of rape was the same pace of the sound of your parents conjugal rights in the next room!!!! ... well, as I said earlier, they're not rooms...just divisions of ... well, sub-sections....hard to explain, but... well, to make a long story short: read my anime teleplays called Banana Chan at http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ I write those teleplays in order to escape from the pain of reality -- maybe that's also why William Gibson writes.
Honestly, I don't even know who the hell William Gibson is, aside for the fact that he's a published author, and I'm not! You know, I had two plays produced by amateur companies -- two plays which I wrote. The purpose of the amateur companies was to get recognition for local playwrights and donate the proceeds to charity. In other words, I got paid nothing for giving LARGE audiences nights of enjoyment. Oh, did I mention that I got kicked in the nuts on a reality tv show called THE ULTIMATE PARTY QUEST? If I knew a lawyer, I'd find some way to sue the bastards who film that show. Hell, whoever's doling out the Karma for this one should read my online diary at http://www.ncf.ca/~eq524/ before they decide that I deserve -5 points for this long rant. I hate published authors because I'm not one of them. Damn J.K. Rowling -- her Harry Potter books reek of the type of talent I had six years ago, yet she's published because she can afford to get a print shop to design a cool manuscript for herself to
impress publishers. Just like William Gibson! And what can I afford: nothing. But I continue living because of faith in my goals.
Yup, it is ironic, and it's a large chunk of life that was wasted, and that we're wasting by searching for the things -- but sometimes we find one that's fun!