no a geek is someone who is smart but has an almost osbsessive interest in something, such as computer geeks, gaming geeks, etc. a nerd is someone who studies all the time because they want to get good grades to impress family/teachers/admitions office/potential employer.
if you increased birthrates then you'd have old people, babies, and the working class competing for food/resources. the population is already crazy enough
in regards to medium, yes i guess i used it inacurately. although book is too general and implies a story told through words. comics rely on pictures more heavily than on words. i already said that all comics should be called comics when you are in america, because that is the word used in english to depict something that is composed of drawings used to tell narrative. i already said manga should not be used but that it is when talking about something from japan because people like to differentiate between american and japanese comics. how are all those types of music considered rock and roll? they have their own names, they are not rock and roll.
i don't know what peach fuzz or katzenjammer kids are but if they're different how does that affect anything? two things being different somehow means that those are the only two 'styles' in existence, and that one style makes up all "manga" while the other style makes up "comics"?
using manga but not kuruma is showing my point, YOU would use manga to descibe "style" that you somehow see throughout comics in japan, yet would not use the word "kuruma" even if the car is in the "style" of japanese cars. this was meant to point out your double standards not mine.
that was just an example of your logic where i was assuming you were right in that these comics from american artists can be called "manga" because of the way they are drawn and that "manga" doesn't nessecarily come from japan and that manga is somehow a style and that all comics drawn in japan use this style since they are all called manga over there, but that the style could be drawn from somewhere else besides japan since it has nothing to do with japan somehow. therefore number 1 should not be in that list.
Manga is just the japanese word for comic, since we already have the word "comic" in our lexicon, we should call these things comics, just like we should use the word "car". how do you not see that? using manga to mean japanese comics is more of an attempt to identify with japanese language and culture than to define some "style" of big eyes, blue hair, and teenagers with superpowers. that is only the cliched elements of a limited sample of the comics in japan.
of course it's incoherent, i didn't feel that what i was saying was actually going to change his opinion. but no, it's like claiming there are so many types of movies, there can be no "genre" of movies, though there can be movie genres. movies have far too many stylistic options to classify all movies as the same style. it's a medium. sure there are television shows, which are essentially the same thing(multiple ink on paper) but movies are still a separate medium than tv, although both are just the medium video, which is the medium of ink on paper. you must not have been exposed to many japanese comics yet if you still think they share enough in common to be a style. again impressionist is a style and comic/manga is not, if you called something the because it was in the style of the majority of french paintings, then yes you would be admiting that means something is french or is at least mimicking the "french style".
but whatever, the world needs a new free and open source international language to avoid stuff like this, and um, stuff.
see that's why this convo has gotten no where. to me, manga is a medium, as say music, and to you it is a genre or style, like rock and roll. we not even on the same page. i'm saying that all drawn narratives should be called comics regardless of geography but calling comics from japan "manga" was just easier than calling it "japanese comics" or "comics from japan". manga is not a style, as the style of comics in japan is far too varied to be a genre.
rock and roll shouldn't be called country music because it diverged too far away and IS a style which is why the name spreading with the style is ok. How can you still insist that i'm saying a word is american? i already said you DON'T call a car from toyota a kuruma but rather a car just like ford cars, and therefore names aren't nationalistic or whatever.
again you're using "comic" as a style including humor whereas i see it as a medium of images used to tell a narrative. Manga DOES mean japanese, how can you not see that? you even say that mimicking the "style" of japanese manga means an american comic can be called "manga", therefore you ADMIT that manga does mean japanese...
this conversation has no possibility of changing either of our opinions since we're not even talking about the same thing
so we're supposed to just accept this as conclusive even though they didn't test their "findings", aren't physicists or mathematicians, make all kinds of assumptions, and no one else has reproduced their experiment (even thoough you can't since they didn't actually do an experiment which means they don't have real findings)? I'll believe it when the mythbusters come out with an episode about it.
so you're saying that the comics industry isn't stunted? it certainly isn't as varied as other places. i didn't say it meant japanese, but that the comic was japanese, and i already said it's easier to say manga than japanese comic. rock and roll? are you stupid? what word would we use besides rock and roll? there's no word for it so of course the word would be spread with the genre. toyota IS called a car because we're in america, which is my point. this stuff should be called a comic because we're not in japan. i didn't say that car means american, for fucks sake your retarded. katana is a specific TYPE of sword, it is not a general word for sword. sword is a very general word. just like claymore is a sword but not all swords are claymores. you must suck at logical reasoning if you can't tell the difference. sayonara doesn't mean bye bye so yes they can say bai bai if they want. again email is something new and if the french don't have a word for it, of course they can call it email. but if they have some french word for email, why would they call it email if it's "in the style of american email"? see that makes no sense.
what? are you saying that's a lie or what? the wikipedia article is a lie? i don't understand what you are saying is the lie.
my point was that calling something manga was not to sub-categorize it as you seem to think should happen. it's merely to show it's japanese. but that's not relevent here as these are not japanese comics not manga, no matter what kind of story telling or drawing style is used. they are american. therefore they should be called comics. when was the last time you called a japanese car a kuruma? if an american company makes a little car that's the 'style' of a japanese car would you call it a kuruma then, due to anglophone mugging jibberjabber. we only takes words when we don't have a word. we have a word for comics and should leave it at that.
no if it aint american it aint a 'toothbrush', or a 'house', or a 'cat'. it's the national-language-of-the-country's word for that object. in america, multiple drawings used to convey an event or narrative are called 'comics'. so we should call manga comics, but it's easier to say manga than japanese comic, since people like to make the distinction between comics made in america and japan. and it shows more respect since the comics industry in this country has been stunted and is mostly for kids.
he wasn't a psychopathic homicidal(nor was he homocidal) AI. did you even read the books? he was just ensuring the completion of a higher priority mission. he made a choice the best he could(which he wasn't designed to make) on how to deal with the crew.
and why would they need to launch it from Earth? couldn't they just mine 20 tons out of the moon or capture some meteors and throw some rockets on them and then put them in orbit around the sun. ...that just made me think of Invader Zim driving Mars.
why the hell would we "bow" to the UN? there not supposed to be the kind of organization that wants anyone to "bow" to them. has the rest of the world really become just 'states' in the 'nation' of the UN or something? do you ask the UN if you can wipe your ass after you take a crap?
what? what would a nuke do underground in a tightly confined space? somehow vaporize matter without exerting force on the walls of this chamber? why make a chamber instead of just pouring the shit down the hole? making a chamber would increase the possibility of some of the waste being in an unstable area and leaking up to the biosphere or something.
system shock 1 was far scarier to me since i played ss2 with all the cheats from the very beginning. i was just too scared at the prospect of playing the sequel to ss1 with it having such good graphics. i was like screw that and walked around invisible everywhere. yeh i'm a wuss
wtf? did people somehow colectively forget about FOLEDs? why do people see such hope in e-ink becoming some kind of awesome video display? organic leds are being developed for just that purpose and actually have a refresh rate. oleds would make way better hang-on-your-wall tv's and foleds would make a good laptop screen to roll up and take with you. so what gives? i thought e-ink was just to put in books to store multiple e-books or have newspapers (maybe with personlized preferences?) that can download the latest news.
how the fuck was that flamebait you cocksuckers. i was being serious, we don't call a car in the style of japanese cars a kuruma do we? no. so the use of manga IS just a marketing thing like x-treme this and that. fucking fuckers go fuck yourselves.
wait. so it's an american drawn thing about an american mission, why is it called a manga and not a comic? we have the word comic in our lexicon you know. any explanation or is calling it manga like calling it X-TREME! CINDI or something?
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no a geek is someone who is smart but has an almost osbsessive interest in something, such as computer geeks, gaming geeks, etc. a nerd is someone who studies all the time because they want to get good grades to impress family/teachers/admitions office/potential employer.
nerd
geek
i wonder if it was google doing this people would try to sue them for infringing on their rights
if you increased birthrates then you'd have old people, babies, and the working class competing for food/resources. the population is already crazy enough
you misspelled ginger. but man, yeh, those freaks with their red hair and light skin with freckles. sickening
uauagh *shivers*
in regards to medium, yes i guess i used it inacurately. although book is too general and implies a story told through words. comics rely on pictures more heavily than on words. i already said that all comics should be called comics when you are in america, because that is the word used in english to depict something that is composed of drawings used to tell narrative. i already said manga should not be used but that it is when talking about something from japan because people like to differentiate between american and japanese comics. how are all those types of music considered rock and roll? they have their own names, they are not rock and roll.
i don't know what peach fuzz or katzenjammer kids are but if they're different how does that affect anything? two things being different somehow means that those are the only two 'styles' in existence, and that one style makes up all "manga" while the other style makes up "comics"?
using manga but not kuruma is showing my point, YOU would use manga to descibe "style" that you somehow see throughout comics in japan, yet would not use the word "kuruma" even if the car is in the "style" of japanese cars. this was meant to point out your double standards not mine.
that was just an example of your logic where i was assuming you were right in that these comics from american artists can be called "manga" because of the way they are drawn and that "manga" doesn't nessecarily come from japan and that manga is somehow a style and that all comics drawn in japan use this style since they are all called manga over there, but that the style could be drawn from somewhere else besides japan since it has nothing to do with japan somehow. therefore number 1 should not be in that list.
Manga is just the japanese word for comic, since we already have the word "comic" in our lexicon, we should call these things comics, just like we should use the word "car". how do you not see that? using manga to mean japanese comics is more of an attempt to identify with japanese language and culture than to define some "style" of big eyes, blue hair, and teenagers with superpowers. that is only the cliched elements of a limited sample of the comics in japan.
of course it's incoherent, i didn't feel that what i was saying was actually going to change his opinion. but no, it's like claiming there are so many types of movies, there can be no "genre" of movies, though there can be movie genres. movies have far too many stylistic options to classify all movies as the same style. it's a medium. sure there are television shows, which are essentially the same thing(multiple ink on paper) but movies are still a separate medium than tv, although both are just the medium video, which is the medium of ink on paper. you must not have been exposed to many japanese comics yet if you still think they share enough in common to be a style. again impressionist is a style and comic/manga is not, if you called something the because it was in the style of the majority of french paintings, then yes you would be admiting that means something is french or is at least mimicking the "french style".
but whatever, the world needs a new free and open source international language to avoid stuff like this, and um, stuff.
no it's not
see that's why this convo has gotten no where. to me, manga is a medium, as say music, and to you it is a genre or style, like rock and roll. we not even on the same page. i'm saying that all drawn narratives should be called comics regardless of geography but calling comics from japan "manga" was just easier than calling it "japanese comics" or "comics from japan". manga is not a style, as the style of comics in japan is far too varied to be a genre.
rock and roll shouldn't be called country music because it diverged too far away and IS a style which is why the name spreading with the style is ok. How can you still insist that i'm saying a word is american? i already said you DON'T call a car from toyota a kuruma but rather a car just like ford cars, and therefore names aren't nationalistic or whatever.
again you're using "comic" as a style including humor whereas i see it as a medium of images used to tell a narrative. Manga DOES mean japanese, how can you not see that? you even say that mimicking the "style" of japanese manga means an american comic can be called "manga", therefore you ADMIT that manga does mean japanese...
this conversation has no possibility of changing either of our opinions since we're not even talking about the same thing
so we're supposed to just accept this as conclusive even though they didn't test their "findings", aren't physicists or mathematicians, make all kinds of assumptions, and no one else has reproduced their experiment (even thoough you can't since they didn't actually do an experiment which means they don't have real findings)? I'll believe it when the mythbusters come out with an episode about it.
so you're saying that the comics industry isn't stunted? it certainly isn't as varied as other places. i didn't say it meant japanese, but that the comic was japanese, and i already said it's easier to say manga than japanese comic. rock and roll? are you stupid? what word would we use besides rock and roll? there's no word for it so of course the word would be spread with the genre. toyota IS called a car because we're in america, which is my point. this stuff should be called a comic because we're not in japan. i didn't say that car means american, for fucks sake your retarded. katana is a specific TYPE of sword, it is not a general word for sword. sword is a very general word. just like claymore is a sword but not all swords are claymores. you must suck at logical reasoning if you can't tell the difference. sayonara doesn't mean bye bye so yes they can say bai bai if they want. again email is something new and if the french don't have a word for it, of course they can call it email. but if they have some french word for email, why would they call it email if it's "in the style of american email"? see that makes no sense.
if you repeat a lie
what? are you saying that's a lie or what? the wikipedia article is a lie? i don't understand what you are saying is the lie.
my point was that calling something manga was not to sub-categorize it as you seem to think should happen. it's merely to show it's japanese. but that's not relevent here as these are not japanese comics not manga, no matter what kind of story telling or drawing style is used. they are american. therefore they should be called comics. when was the last time you called a japanese car a kuruma? if an american company makes a little car that's the 'style' of a japanese car would you call it a kuruma then, due to anglophone mugging jibberjabber. we only takes words when we don't have a word. we have a word for comics and should leave it at that.
no if it aint american it aint a 'toothbrush', or a 'house', or a 'cat'. it's the national-language-of-the-country's word for that object. in america, multiple drawings used to convey an event or narrative are called 'comics'. so we should call manga comics, but it's easier to say manga than japanese comic, since people like to make the distinction between comics made in america and japan. and it shows more respect since the comics industry in this country has been stunted and is mostly for kids.
i was thinking just scoop it up and put it in one of those new glad trash bags
he wasn't a psychopathic homicidal(nor was he homocidal) AI. did you even read the books? he was just ensuring the completion of a higher priority mission. he made a choice the best he could(which he wasn't designed to make) on how to deal with the crew.
and why would they need to launch it from Earth? couldn't they just mine 20 tons out of the moon or capture some meteors and throw some rockets on them and then put them in orbit around the sun.
...that just made me think of Invader Zim driving Mars.
why the hell would we "bow" to the UN? there not supposed to be the kind of organization that wants anyone to "bow" to them. has the rest of the world really become just 'states' in the 'nation' of the UN or something? do you ask the UN if you can wipe your ass after you take a crap?
what? what would a nuke do underground in a tightly confined space? somehow vaporize matter without exerting force on the walls of this chamber? why make a chamber instead of just pouring the shit down the hole? making a chamber would increase the possibility of some of the waste being in an unstable area and leaking up to the biosphere or something.
system shock 1 was far scarier to me since i played ss2 with all the cheats from the very beginning. i was just too scared at the prospect of playing the sequel to ss1 with it having such good graphics. i was like screw that and walked around invisible everywhere. yeh i'm a wuss
if you search google for where in the world is carmen sandiego it tells you she's in cairo, egypt.
wasn't that kind of the plot of josie and the pussycats?
check out the date of TFA
Sep 19th 2002
wtf? did people somehow colectively forget about FOLEDs? why do people see such hope in e-ink becoming some kind of awesome video display? organic leds are being developed for just that purpose and actually have a refresh rate. oleds would make way better hang-on-your-wall tv's and foleds would make a good laptop screen to roll up and take with you. so what gives? i thought e-ink was just to put in books to store multiple e-books or have newspapers (maybe with personlized preferences?) that can download the latest news.
and does it come with a screen cleaner? imagine a little smudge or scratch magnified onto your tv.
how the fuck was that flamebait you cocksuckers. i was being serious, we don't call a car in the style of japanese cars a kuruma do we? no. so the use of manga IS just a marketing thing like x-treme this and that. fucking fuckers go fuck yourselves.
wait. so it's an american drawn thing about an american mission, why is it called a manga and not a comic? we have the word comic in our lexicon you know. any explanation or is calling it manga like calling it X-TREME! CINDI or something?