Kodansha has been doing this on their English website since 2000. There's a wide selection of various manga that Kodansha publishes that you can look at, including titles such as Akira and Love Hina. However, they haven't updated it in a couple of years, and I can't seem to get the translation thingy to work. (The MDN site works fine for me, though.)
No, no it hasn't. The typical bookstore around here (Tottori Prefecture) is about 2/3 regular books, 1/3 manga. Admittedly, Tottori is pretty countryside; I couldn't tell you about the bigger cities.
As for young people, whenever I see them reading, it's usually manga, but I do see a fair number of kids reading stuff like Harry Potter or Earthsea.
This is just what I'm seeing, though -- ask someone in Tokyo or Osaka, and you might get a different answer.
Now that I think about it, one could say that Japanese literature, such as the authors you mention, or classics such as the works of Natsume Soseki, don't appeal to a young audience in Japan. I must ponder this...
Somewhere in that rather long thread you'll find pictures that Cole took of the received merchandise.
Butch and Co. keep track of things through the DHL website, and they've also talked to people at DHL, who now are in on the scambaiting to some extent. (The scambaiters have been asked to notify DHL when one of these shipments is going out, so as to reduce the amount of puzzlement at the DHL distribution centers.)
Apparently, the Nigerian division of DHL only accepts cash, as they've been burned too many times on other payment methods.
This guy has been on the hook for over a year now, always scrounging up the money to pay shipping for what he thinks is a load of laptop computers (paid for with a stolen credit card, way back when), but is actually a box full of broken crap.
After the first few freight baits, the baiter resorts to sending broken appliances with Photoshopped pictures of the scammer pasted all over them...and Cole is still willing to pony up for the next shipment!
Even Japanese salespeople steer people away from Sony.
A few years ago, when I was shopping for my first digital camera, a friend and I went to a large electronics store in Kagoshima City. A nice salesman, who didn't speak much English at all, did his best to try and help us. When we started looking at the Sony models, the clerk went from polite to frantic, shaking his head and waving his hands, saying "No, no, no!"
After a few moments, he recalled enough English to firmly state "Sony...evil!" He then explained with simple Japanese and gestures that if you buy a Sony camera, you need Sony memory, and it'd be best to have a Vaio...
Yeah, I get tired of hitting "Attack->With my Sword" a gazillion times too. I just hope there's a way to override the player's actions in battle when you want them to do something unusual.
Yes. The circle button always brings up the standard menu. Changing your action -- even targeting another enemy -- causes your ATB meter to reset, though.
Also, if the system is not sophisticated enough it could be a problem. Say I run up on an ice creature, normally I'd have the mage cast "fire" on it. Is there going to be a rule like "Target (Fire Weak) creature"?
Yes, I assume so. Although you can't do more than targeting "enemy in front of me", or "enemy in front of leader" at the start, as you progress you can buy more targets to use in gambits. There are a lot of open "target" slots in the gambit menus. My educated guess would be that specific creatures (like flan/purin) will be available targets, and "cast (specific spell)" is definitely one of the available actions.
(I haven't gotten that far yet, so take this w. a bit of salt)
I'm referring to the whole "unit must contact the mothership once a month or you can't play" concept. The "DIVX-Enhanced DVD players had to do the same thing, communicating your viewing habits and such back to Circuit City or whoever. For many, this invasion of privacy was one of the (many) strong reasons not to go with DIVX.
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Wow. That sounds a lot like "Digital Video Express" (the original DIVX)...and we all know how well that went over.
The iPod was designed to be a lowest-common-denominator kind of player in the same way that eight tracks were targeted at people for whom flipping over a cassette tape was too complicated.
That analogy only makes sense if you ignore the fact that the 8-track predated the cassette tape by almost a decade.
1. Hang your robe on the hook, covering the hole in the wall.
2. Put your towel over the drain.
3. Put Ford's satchel in front of the Robot panel.
4. Put your junk mail on top of the satchel.
I think that was everything. You push the button, the fish shoots out, hits the robe, falls to the towel. A cleaning robot comes out, hits the satchel, sending the mail flying. Another robot flies out, cleans up the mail. Somewhere in all this, the fish lands in your ear. Anyone else remember how this went?
Sorry, I'm not following you here. Are you saying that because Japan is more densely populated, lines like this happen all the time? Or are you saying that it's only because the population density is so high that there were lines for the DS Lite? By that logic, shouldn't there have been similar lines for the XBox 360?
If there's a correlation between high population density and the popularity of the DS, you certainly haven't demonstrated it. Please clarify.
Oh, and by the way, are you saying that everybody in Japan lives in these "apartments so small [you] wouldn't have a dog live in one"? Have you ever actually been to Japan? I've been living here for the past six years, and I can tell you that that's a crock as well.
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Kodansha has been doing this on their English website since 2000. There's a wide selection of various manga that Kodansha publishes that you can look at, including titles such as Akira and Love Hina. However, they haven't updated it in a couple of years, and I can't seem to get the translation thingy to work. (The MDN site works fine for me, though.)
No, no it hasn't. The typical bookstore around here (Tottori Prefecture) is about 2/3 regular books, 1/3 manga. Admittedly, Tottori is pretty countryside; I couldn't tell you about the bigger cities.
As for young people, whenever I see them reading, it's usually manga, but I do see a fair number of kids reading stuff like Harry Potter or Earthsea.
This is just what I'm seeing, though -- ask someone in Tokyo or Osaka, and you might get a different answer.
Now that I think about it, one could say that Japanese literature, such as the authors you mention, or classics such as the works of Natsume Soseki, don't appeal to a young audience in Japan. I must ponder this...
Somewhere in that rather long thread you'll find pictures that Cole took of the received merchandise.
Butch and Co. keep track of things through the DHL website, and they've also talked to people at DHL, who now are in on the scambaiting to some extent. (The scambaiters have been asked to notify DHL when one of these shipments is going out, so as to reduce the amount of puzzlement at the DHL distribution centers.)
Apparently, the Nigerian division of DHL only accepts cash, as they've been burned too many times on other payment methods.
I dunno...I find the saga of Cole and the Anus Laptops (warning: NSFW) to be more entertaining.
This guy has been on the hook for over a year now, always scrounging up the money to pay shipping for what he thinks is a load of laptop computers (paid for with a stolen credit card, way back when), but is actually a box full of broken crap.
After the first few freight baits, the baiter resorts to sending broken appliances with Photoshopped pictures of the scammer pasted all over them...and Cole is still willing to pony up for the next shipment!
They're now on their tenth go, amazingly enough.
Even Japanese salespeople steer people away from Sony.
A few years ago, when I was shopping for my first digital camera, a friend and I went to a large electronics store in Kagoshima City. A nice salesman, who didn't speak much English at all, did his best to try and help us. When we started looking at the Sony models, the clerk went from polite to frantic, shaking his head and waving his hands, saying "No, no, no!"
After a few moments, he recalled enough English to firmly state "Sony...evil!" He then explained with simple Japanese and gestures that if you buy a Sony camera, you need Sony memory, and it'd be best to have a Vaio...
My friend and I decided on Canon cameras.
Yes. The circle button always brings up the standard menu. Changing your action -- even targeting another enemy -- causes your ATB meter to reset, though.
Yes, I assume so. Although you can't do more than targeting "enemy in front of me", or "enemy in front of leader" at the start, as you progress you can buy more targets to use in gambits. There are a lot of open "target" slots in the gambit menus. My educated guess would be that specific creatures (like flan/purin) will be available targets, and "cast (specific spell)" is definitely one of the available actions.
(I haven't gotten that far yet, so take this w. a bit of salt)
I'm referring to the whole "unit must contact the mothership once a month or you can't play" concept. The "DIVX-Enhanced DVD players had to do the same thing, communicating your viewing habits and such back to Circuit City or whoever. For many, this invasion of privacy was one of the (many) strong reasons not to go with DIVX.
Wow. That sounds a lot like "Digital Video Express" (the original DIVX)...and we all know how well that went over.
That analogy only makes sense if you ignore the fact that the 8-track predated the cassette tape by almost a decade.
1. Hang your robe on the hook, covering the hole in the wall.
...my god, I just typed all that from memory.
2. Put your towel over the drain.
3. Put Ford's satchel in front of the Robot panel.
4. Put your junk mail on top of the satchel.
I think that was everything. You push the button, the fish shoots out, hits the robe, falls to the towel. A cleaning robot comes out, hits the satchel, sending the mail flying. Another robot flies out, cleans up the mail. Somewhere in all this, the fish lands in your ear. Anyone else remember how this went?
Sorry, I'm not following you here. Are you saying that because Japan is more densely populated, lines like this happen all the time? Or are you saying that it's only because the population density is so high that there were lines for the DS Lite? By that logic, shouldn't there have been similar lines for the XBox 360?
If there's a correlation between high population density and the popularity of the DS, you certainly haven't demonstrated it. Please clarify.
Oh, and by the way, are you saying that everybody in Japan lives in these "apartments so small [you] wouldn't have a dog live in one"? Have you ever actually been to Japan? I've been living here for the past six years, and I can tell you that that's a crock as well.