The Spectacular Professor

[quote name='chibi-master'].....No witty response? COME ON, ACE! I PRETTY MUCH SET THAT ONE UP FOR YOU! I at least expected some sort of idiotic Bidoof quip, but nooo. Don't make me take back my nomination for funniest member, Ace, I have no one else to nominate! :([/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Go Hyper Beam a Magikarp.[/FONT]

[quote name='Boo'][font=lucida fax]Besides, it's not like I'm handing down HIV in the process.[/font][/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I dunno, Boo. Legally, it is regarded as stealing, and one form of stealing is petty theft, which as we all know is a leading cause of the AIDS.[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']Why does their database hate me?:confused:[/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]TV Tropes has been really fussy for the past couple days. I'm guessing it's either a server problem or they're updating something.[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']Guess who got their laptop and its friend the internet whipped back into shape?! 'S right. ME. *chibi victory dance* I got Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. Whose bright idea was it to[SPOILER] make the player fight as Bidoof?! AGAINST JIRACHI?![/SPOILER] If gum stays in our stomachs for 7 years, what would happen if someone ate a lot of gum everyday? Would their stomachs get clogged up, or what would happen?:confused:[/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Wait, don't the questions at the beginning determine what species you are in the game? LOLYERBIDOOF :B[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]While I'm not above bittorrenting and the like to watch anime, I always make it a point to purchase anything I absolutely love if it ever becomes commercially available. Case in point, I own the first 1/3rd of Gurren Lagann on DVD (don't have enough dough for the rest) even though I watched it first online. In this case, I would probably download it, then buy it when it came out. I can't speak for your morals, though. Currently, I've kind of got a reverse thing going on. Thanks to Disney's absolute refusal to make it commercially available, I'm watching Digimon Tamers fansubs.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][B]What is it?[/B] Why it's the Padded Room Party! [B]Why is it nifty?[/B] Because you can rant, you can laugh, you can sing, you can dance (if you want to. You can leave your friends behind) and you're never off-topic. Unless you post lolcats. [B]Who is it?[/B] 'Tis teh Boo! [B]Why be he nifty?[/B] He's our very own anthropomorphic blob of weird, a little Boo can spice up any conversation. [B]Who is it?[/B] Ambrose Burnside [B]Why is he nifty?[/B] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Ambrose_Burnside2.jpg/455px-Ambrose_Burnside2.jpg[/IMG] Because Gai Daigoji's pitiful lamb chops have nothing on this facial hair. Look at that, he could choke a mule with his mustache. 1) Member of the Year: chibi-master, she's energetic and peppy and against my better judgment, I've laughed at a lot of her material. 2) Male Member of the Year: Korey. Always helpful, always funny, always there to whack me one when I'm being a moron. Thanks, bro staff. 3) Female Member of the Year: Sangome. Just the right amount of barely contained crazy to manage to successfully utilize sarcasm on the internet as well as moderate a section bound to be filled with fangirls (being one might help.) 4) Staff Member of the Year: SunfallE. Between her work here and her work over at TheO itself, she's got her hands full, but she's really good a juggling, so it's all good. 5) Otaku of the Year: Robin Williams. I hear he'd volunteer to play Professor Oak if there was a live-action Pokemon movie. 6) Funniest Member: Allamorph. Half the time you don't even know why it's so damn funny for a good 30 seconds. 7) Storyteller of the Year: Raiha, both for being the only person besides me to actually contribute to the Anthology since I was put in charge of it and for somehow managing to retroactively traumatize me in one of her latest stories. 8) RPG of the Year: The Great Rebellion, the first RP I've actually been involved enough in to not make myself look like an idiot and/or ruin for everyone else (hopefully I'll be able to apply this to Almagest sometime soon.) Also, it's a fresh take on the Pokemon universe that manages to be both realistic and fantastic at the same time. 9) Thread of the Year: The Padded Room Party. See above.[/FONT]

[quote name='Gavin'][SIZE=1]This. If it were any other group bar PETA I might have some sympathy. Of course thanks to them I can now sell cat instead of fish in my stores. Mwahahahahaha. [/SIZE][/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Oh, speaking of that. we just got a new shipment of 'land fish' in today. What did you want me to do with that?[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']So Ace, I assume you had a bad encounter or something?[/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]TheO in general did. Just felt like my opinion ought to be out there on the subject. [YOUTUBE="Ridiculous Lucky Captain Rabbit King"]CJL00quNpAg[/YOUTUBE] Back onto the subject of cereal, were you aware that Lucky Captain Rabbit King Nuggets are for the youth?[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]There are people out there, allegedly human beings, who take advantage of the anonymity of the internet to be complete and utter douches. They have absolutely no redeeming qualities and seem to sustain themselves on the misery and hatred of their peers. They may or may not also know their way around a computer just enough to leave IP banning a non-option. These are not trolls, as trolling can be applied to serve a purpose if used correctly. These are diseases. This annoys me.[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']I looked up some old Trix commercials, and apparently, in a 60's ad, the rabbit actually got a bite of the cereal before the kids tied him to a tree and took his cereal AND the bowl he was eating it out of, even though they had been shown having two of their own. He then cut through the rope. WITH HIS EARS. LIKE A PAIR OF SCISSORS.[/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Oh, and their prejudice is also pretty much limited to the poor rabbit. There was one commercial where he dressed himself up as a police officer (which you will note is an occupation that children cannot hold.) They actually gave him a bite, at which point he spazzed out, his ears were revealed and SILLY RABBIT TRIX ARE FOR KIDS. Bull to the crap, Trix are for not you, more like.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Commercially, yes. You don't find many people suing newspapers for including photos of them unless the image is harmful to their public image, and even then they can only do that if its use is deceptive in nature, which would make it slanderous (which all leads back to hindering their financial situation anyway, so it's pretty much all about money at the end of the day.) The big issue here is that she was not consulted and not paid to appear in this ad campaign. You just don't do that. Unless you're PETA, but at that point you also create flash games depicting Colonel Sanders as a bloodthirsty maniac, so. On a semi-related note, those stock photos of scantily-clad women that [I]Evony[/I] uses to advertise could probably cripple the idiots if the ladies they depicted ever tried to litigate.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]...Where the hell do those things keep their lungs, anyway?[/FONT]

[quote name='John']This still doesn't top "sea kittens".[/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Best PETA smear campaign is a tie between Killing Mama and Canadian Syrup Farmers Kill Baby Seals, IMO.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I don't wear fur. Why aren't they seeking my endorsement? Sexist bigots.[/FONT]

[quote name='CaNz']what about the cookie crisp dog... you know... Cookie Crook! he steals the stuff and constantly makes a fool of the cookie cop. and chip the dog/wolf is just as bad, though less successful now.[/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Well, Cookie Crook is at the very least portrayed as a baddie. They treat Sugar bear like he's a good guy. Anyone seen that new ad for the Tony Hawk bikes/ scooters/whatever? Where the kids are awesome because they rob this stuff right out of the factory from the "lame" guy who was nice enough to give them [I]a tour of the effing factory?[/I][/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']He has one freaking box of it. The stuff's probably stale by now, but those terrible children are determined to have all the cereal.[/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]You only ever see him holding one box at the same time. It doesn't necessarily have to be the same box, especially since the box art has changed dozens of times even in his own universe. And ever notice how he creates every new marshmallow the cereal introduces and uses it to escape those kids? Yeah, the guy has an endless magical supply of this stuff. He'd have a lucrative business going if he'd stop being such a greedy jerk and at least make them available in the stores of whatever universe they're in. You know who's a real villain? Sugar Bear. He robs little old ladies and punches out random talking animals for nothing but a bowl of Golden Crisp.[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']You know these kids are probably the same little brats that hunt down that leprechaun with the Lucky Charms. Seriously, haven't they ever heard of a grocery store?![/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Lucky's different. Greedy little punk hordes it all and doesn't share.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I prefer it when the "chosen one" chooses themselves. Just something about the "screw destiny, I'm gonna go kick an *** or two" mindset that I like. And speaking of that: [CENTER][IMG]http://spiderdiaries.richmond.edu/grant11/files/2007/11/450px-ambrose_everett_burnside.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] This is Ambrose Burnside. Gai Daigoji wishes he could pull off mutton chops like that.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I think I just became retroactively traumatized. Proceed, O great tale-teller of ribaldry and violence.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]If anyone gets turned on by this, I'd say they need to be locked up on principle.[/FONT]

[SIZE="1"][B]“You've completed basic training, haven't you, Roland?”[/B] Cam, still a bit steamed about the previous revelation, answered in a less than respectful tone of voice. [B]“Yeah.”[/B] [B]“Watch your tone, Roland,”[/B] warned Claire as she marched onward. [B]“Look, Claire, I don't see-”[/B] Claire stopped abruptly, then turned and jabbed a finger directly into Cam's chest. [B]“Listen and listen well. You are now a member of what is essentially a militia. We may not be as organized as the League, but we have regulations to abide by. Do. NOT. Disrespect your commanding officers. From now on, you will address me as 'Ma'am', do I make myself clear?” “Yes, Ma'am,”[/B] grumbled Cam. [B]“Furthermore, you will speak clearly and calmly without a hint of sarcasm or dissent. If I detect any such mannerisms in your speech, you will quickly learn exactly how hard a taskmaster I can be. Now, do you want to try your reply again?”[/B] Cam was quick to note the glare the gym leader had fixed on him. [B]“Yes, Ma'am.”[/B] he replied as correctly as he could manage. [B]“Good, now come along. We're wasting time.”[/B] [CENTER]. . .[/CENTER] [B]“Roland, this is Colonel Robert Finn. From now on, he is your commanding officer.” “Pleasure to meet you, son,”[/B] the man greeted Cam, offering his hand. Cam took the hand and shook. [B]“Pleasure to meet you too, Colonel,”[/B] he replied, sizing up his new leader. He was a tall, broad-shouldered man with blonde hair and a strong jaw. He was not lacking in charisma and very friendly, but it was clear to Cam that this was a man who was far better to have as an ally than an enemy. [B]“Well, he seems polite enough,”[/B] chuckled the Colonel, addressing Claire directly. [B]“Really got to him, didn't you?”[/B] Clair ignored the jab, instead indicating smaller, black-haired, professional-looking man next to Finn. [B]“And this is Lieutenant Evan Hawkins. He is also your superior, answering to Colonel Finn, who answers to me.”[/B] [B]“Hello, Cam,”[/B] said the Lieutenant, also offering a handshake. [B]“Hello, sir,”[/B] Cam said as he accepted the gesture. [B]“Insubordination towards either of them will reap dire consequences, up to and including expulsion. You will not eat, sleep or blink without their approval, do you understand?” “Yes, Ma'am.” “Good.”[/B] Claire then turned to the Colonel. [B]“Finn, we've received news. It seems Bugsy has made his move on Ecruteak. Morty is under attack and in dire need of reinforcements, but fortifying Blackthorn's defenses has left us with little to spare. Your unit will fly directly to Ecruteak from here. With any luck, you'll arrive in time to prevent larger-scale catastrophe than the one already happening over there. You're to report to Morty and receive his orders from there.” “Understood,”[/B] nodded Finn. [B]“As for you, Roland, you will fall in with Colonel Finn's unit. You are now an official League resistance soldier at the rank of Private. Better get used to high altitudes.” “Yes, Ma'am.”[/B] Cam listened to himself say those words, wondering slightly how long it would be before he said anything significantly different from them again. [B]“Well, you heard the lady,”[/B] said the Colonel as Claire started back towards the Gym, [B]“fall in, son. We'll assign you a Skarmory and from there you'll get some hands-on training. We've got a long flight ahead of us.”[/B][/SIZE]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Actually, I'd say the real reason anime style seems generic and bland compared to some American animations is that there' s just not as much variation in styles. Western animation is full of different artists with individual art styles, such as Matt Groening and his buggy eyes and pointy faces or Butch Hartman and his thick outlines and enormous lady-hips. Contrast anime, which is typically better in production value (from what we get to see over here, anyway,) but bears some tends to go with the same visual style for a lot of the shows. Not to say that there aren't exceptions, though. Akira Toriyama may have hit every storytelling cliche in the book with DBZ, but he's definitely got a distinctive style. CLAMP and their noodle-people are also pretty much identifiable from 100 yards away, too. So yeah, my thoughts are that anime seems ugly and bland mainly because a lot of it is a lot of the same. Also, I think it's a bit unfair to judge a series' entire quality on how expensive it looks like the animation was. I still love to catch some [B]Fairly Oddparents[/B] from time to time (mostly the older seasons, though. Poof can go be the main character of a dead baby joke for all I care.)[/FONT]

[quote name='Sangome'][FONT="Microsoft Sans Serif"][SIZE="1"]As for New Years [I]Eve[/I]...well, I have no idea. New Years [I]Day[/I]? I might [I][B]finally[/B][/I] be able to see The Princess and the Frog.

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][IMG]http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n72/Aceburner85/awkward1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n72/Aceburner85/awkward2.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n72/Aceburner85/awkward3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n72/Aceburner85/awkward4.jpg[/IMG] Man, Takato. No wonder the poor girl got so messed up later on.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Incidentally, the anchor around his legs is hardly necessary. He'd take care of that himself.[/FONT]