2010DigitalBoy

[quote name='2008DigitalBoy'][COLOR="DarkOrange"]The other night I spent about an hour explaining why I named myself 'dogotal boy' to Konata so I very do not want to type the whole thing again. However, I remembered that I'm currently calling myelf [B]Deus ex Machina[/B] so I'll explain that. Deus ex Machina is one of my favorite terms evar and the name of many cool things (such as a very awesome song by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez) but I chose it as my username because of a character in the manga Mirai Nikki. Deus is this bug *** shaman lookin dude who is essentially god and gives the main character his powers. Because of my beliefs that I am at the center of the universe and thereby, in fact, god, I named myself Deus ex machina, because I can do anything.[/COLOR][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]okay, I'm mad that I made that post only days before changing my name, but whatever... The new name was a gift from Dagger for Xmas. I've been updating it yearly, starting in 06 and now up to 08. the name originally came from the song 21st Century Digital Boy by Bad Religion because I iked the song. However, since I found a deeper symbolism in it, I continued to se the name even after I stopped listening to the song as much. I am a digital boy in the strongest sense - I have a strong reliance on computers and such technology, and my hobbies are al media-related. you could say that my life is based around the computer hehe. As for 'boy' it's because even though I'm mature for my age, I think I am very childish and haven't become a man at all. I'm a romantic dreamer and I have a bit of naivety, so I don't consider myself grown up yet (I'm willing to bet most of OB agrees lol) I like to update my year because it keeps wih how I live for now, and how, like a good, digital boy, I'm always up-t-date. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Jakehammaren']Electric Wizard sucks because they don't record in frostbitten forests beneath the ancient Northern fullmoon amidst weeping oaks and silent pines that are cloaked in the white robes of winter while the wolf howls cryptic tales of forgotten misery to eldritch gods upon astral thrones of antediluvean grandeur. Have you all learned nothing? And don't steal any of that. I think I'll use it as lyrics.[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]That's the most beautiful thing I've ever read, Jake, I had no idea you were so linguistically talented. Reading it while listening to The Misshapen Steed is perfect. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Dagger']Indeed it was. The unlicensed Kino material consists of a pilot episode ("The Tower Country," 12 minutes long), the first movie ("Life Goes On," 30 minutes long) and the second movie. Everything but the second movie--which seems to have just come out on DVD, anyway--is either subbed or licensed. ~Dagger~[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Mm. I mst have been confused by the gap between when I DL and when I didn't DL, because I can remember searching for subs, but I was probably looking for streams. Now I have a new hunt on which to embark![/COLOR]

[quote name='Dagger'] [B] The original director came back[/B] for this one, but the animation studio is [B][SIZE="4"]SHAFT[/SIZE][/B] instead of A.P.P.P.[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]!!!!!!!! Subbers best get off they *****!!!! Come to think of it, was the first movie ever even subbed? I still haven't seen it T_T I need to rewatch the series soon, too.[/COLOR]

[quote name='songsofsorrow']the point was they were great back then, and maybe if we at OB weren't older or more childish ( o god answer my prayers) then they wouldn't be so bad. and yes i know the original JAPANESE versions are better, but in america they're childish and panache is right they are aimed for more so 10 year olds and around there and unless your watching adult swim (which still has censored one piece) you don't get to watch the better less censored anime till about 11 o'clock. and i am an honors student who doesn't finish till then, and teachers get mad when you sleep in class. so i can't do that. I know that I might not be the greatest go to cosplay conven and to the end of the earth to get anime fan. the anime here is aimed for 10 year olds and watered down.[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]1. Learn to spell 2. Pay attention to what people are saying. the shows were already for little kids. Most of the stuff on [AS] is shounen too, I mean look at Bleach... 3. One Piece has never been on [AS] you dolt. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Kanji, I promise you that Wolf and Spice will be up your alley. I've read some of the manga (****ing awesome BTW) and it reeks of something you'll love. Also, the character designs for Gunslunger Girl S2 are horrible. If I didn't know Yu Aida was directly supervising the series, I'd be panicking. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Dagger']So Ikuhara is remastering Utena. Possibly even in HD! :love: I don't care what it costs... I'm so getting this the instant it comes out on R2 DVD (or, er, whatever format it comes out on). As much as I'd love to think that the remastered version will get licensed, I can't say that the chances of it seem very high to me. ~Dagger~[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]I just got a hard-on :O best news in forever, especially since Utena DVDs are too many and too hard to come by. This will be t3h **** no doubt!!![/COLOR]

[quote name='Desbreko'][color=#4B0082]:animeblus E-mail me the full res version plz. The Motteke! Sailor Fuku Re-Mix002 album was released recently (yeah, I didn't think the 001 on the first one meant anything either, but I'm not complaining) and its cover art is pretty awesome. Konata's outfit reminds me of Sora's from Kaleido Star when she's doing the Angel Act. Also reduced resolution from the original scan and with a blur filter run on it to smooth the colors out: [URL=http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sailorfukuremix002nb8.jpg][IMG]http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/623/sailorfukuremix002nb8.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/color][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Those outfits are amazing, even if it only serves to accentuate the flatness of Konata's chest, not that I'm complaining since that's like my favorite thing about her XD still, I like the sort of artsiness of the pic. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Dagger']While we're still on the subject of swag... [url=http://www.griffon.co.jp/products/pvc/haruhi/haruhi_g.html][u]Goth loli Haruhi figure[/u][/url] from Griffon, 1/7 scale, no release date yet. I must say that this is much more my cup of tea than any of the other Haruhi-related figures that have been announced to date (and there have been a lot of good ones, like Alter's [url=http://www.amiami.com/shop/ProductInfo/product_id/86017][u]swimsuit Yuki[/u][/url]). Probably wouldn't get it unless they did all three girls, though... I like smaller figures better anyway. ~Dagger~[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Release date has been set by ToysLogic to the end of May, I', totally preordering it. That thing is beautiful, definitely the best Haruhi figure I've seen (most I find rather ugly. They always make her face creepy...[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Well, now that I know it's about New Years, it will proably not be unlike the rest of my holiday week, AKA playing lots of video games, only my glasses of mountain Dew will be replaced witht the one hting sbetter, sparkling cider, and after the countdown my brother and I will ddo our yearly routine where we go outside and yell things off into the night. this has b een a tradition ever since the year my cousin and I went out and did a pseudo-radio show yelling random things, and ever since we like to go outside and holler about. 2 years ago I lived in a house where my room had a would-be balcony and my brothers and friend blasted Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden and held our own fake concert on the balcony. The house I'm living in now doens't have any really high place to stand on while we yell like my last 2 did, so maybe I'll climb up in a tree and to it. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Dagger'][URL=http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=koxd2.jpg][IMG]http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8629/koxd2.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Kagami x Konata wedding poster from the latest issue of Megami. (I reduced it somewhat from the super high-res version.) Twiddling my thumbs and waiting for more news on the DVDs... ~Dagger~[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]*looks at pic* [COLOR="Red"]////[/COLOR] *hearts start floating over my head*[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Haven't heard of it? I can't even conceive a tim burton or johnny depp film that the whole of OB is fauning over like crazy. I always figured that was one of the siite's things. I'm excited about this, since I love the Tim/Johnny combo and I love dark stories and I love good musicals. It's like they pooled all the most awesome things possible into one film. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Panache']Nah I just don't like the definition. I don't think it makes sense to say cartoons from certain parts of Asia made by asian people should be called something else. If that's the case if I wanted to make my own anime one day I would be ****** because I am A not Asian B not living in Asia. So yea. I don't like defining anime as Japanese cartoons. They are just cartoons. So call me a Douche or Elitist otaku or whatever the **** you want. I don't give a damn. That's what I think. I've argued my *** off about it before. And that isn't fun. So from now on if I say something is anime and you disagree either Pm me or ignore me. And if you have something to say about this whole paragraph pm me because if you respond you will throw the thread off track even more. But damn we are like...way off topic. So I figure I will put some helpful links here. You wanna find mature anime? Look at these top review sites. [URL="http://www.themanime.org/reviewlist.php"]http://www.themanime.org/reviewlist.php[/URL] [URL="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/"]http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/[/URL][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]An elitist otaku is what I am. They would never consider it anime.[/COLOR]

[quote name='Panache']Manga=japanese word for comic. But since I know that there is no way in hell anyone will agree with my definition of anime I will go ahead and say you are right. Even though I think you are wrong. Because if I don't one of the most useless discussions in the world will occur.The definition of anime...(yes it is a discussion as many people disagree on the definiton). Oh yea and if they ever put case closed back up you should watch that. That's a damn good show.[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]You can logically define the Boondocks as anime, it just makes you a douche. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Premonition'][COLOR="77656"]No Panache, no. Not all good metal bands are satanists. And who siad soome of them are, it could just be a scene thing. Who knows, there could be a super good band out there and the message they send is love Jesus. Anyways, enough about what makes good metal, time to talk about a metal band. Ahem, I bought Blood Mountain today, even though I procrastinated most of the time, I finally got it, with a DVD too. Right now I'm half way through Capillarian Crest, and teh whole album is amazing so far. Can't wait for the last song which is clocked at 22 mintues and counting. I'll post a full review when I'm finished.[/COLOR][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Sorry to disappoint, as I was, bbut that song is only 7 minutes, then you wait the remaining 15 for a dumb message, lol. Still on eof the best songs on there thuogh. Capillarian Crest is a riffgasm.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Rewatching Haruhi almost exactly a year after I finished it was an enriching experience. The show is just as amazing as I remember, which also means that it doesn't hold up to my overblown love for it a year ago, lol, however I'd say the show is pretty timeless since it never gets old (I am a person who cannot STAND to rewatch things unless I absolutely love them, this being the second time I did so for part in addition to reading the first novel.) What struck me most prominently is how much I can completely relate to Haruhi, which is funny because her unrelatability is what turns a lot of people from the show. However, watching her actions really touched me - it has that overbearing, well, melancholy all the way through. It definitely gets points for touching me on an emotional level. Episodes 12 and 14 still give me ****ing chills. The God Knows performance never ceases to amaze, and I swear to god I have never listene dto that song without getting that feeling, and I do listen to it frequently. The last episode (yes, in broadcast order you **** (EDIT: We can't say **** on OB?!)) has to be one of the best last episodes ever, probaby resting in my top 5-10. Getting back to how I relate to Haruhi, it's especially interesting to look at it from the perspective of the past year. Back when I first watched this show, I'd say that where I was is the same as where Haruhi was when she first 'created the world' in sixth grade. I had begun to recognize my place in the world, and everything seemed very bleak and melancholy to me, and it was around then that I first decided to start changing my atitude. At the time, that scene where Haruhi explains her past was most important to me because I saw it as what I was going through. When I watch the show now, it feels as though I have fully adopted Haruhi's persona. I'm energetic, spastic, always dragging people into my ideas, stubborn, self-centered, and don't understand my emotion well but tend to show them without realizing it. The only thing that seperates me from Haruhi is my wariness of all these aspects of myself, including the most important aspect in that I am actually aware that the entire universe revolves around me and that my wishes are granted by it. However, I wouldn't be honestly surprised if Haruhi actualy did know about these aspect of herself in some way. But as for my godliness, I am also like Haruhi in that I have a conflict of emotions toward the world. There are times when I find it boring, dull, and lacking in any reason to go on, and I epress my desire to kill everyone at once. However, there is also a side to me who has great hope for the world and has fun in his life, which might be what's stopping me from destroying the world like Haruhi has a tendency to do. However, I can't help but wonder if falling into complete dispair would cause me to eradicate the universe, and I actually know, for a fact, that I have the ability to do just that. In some ways, I almost feel like I created this show to help me understand myself and help me understand the world even more through the reactions of others toward this show. Oddly enough, the first time I watched this show, I didn't care for haruhi as a character much, especially favoring Kyon and, of the girls, Yuki (who I still think is the cutest) howevevr now I see Haruhi as one of my favorite characters ever if only because she is the one I identify with the most. [/COLOR]

[quote name='Premonition'][COLOR="77656"]Today, I was happy as **** when I got 10,000 Days by Tool. But now I want to take the CD And brake it into shards. Who's idea was it to make the CD in a pocket? Because of the thin pocket thingy, it scraped my CD when I tried to get ot out. Now the ****er won't load tracks Rossetta Stoned and beyond onto my Windows Media Player! I only have songs up to Lost Keys, and that's it! Or it could have been my nieces shity CD player, the stupid thing. I just hope tracks 8, 9, 10 and 11 suck hard balls, that way it's not a bad thing that the other songs won't work.[/COLOR][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Heh, are you sure that's th problem? My old comp could never play the last 2 tracks. The resaon being my version of real player didn't have the ability to play ceratin instruments used or something. You might just need to update your software. Oh, and tracks 8 and 10 are the only songs I like on the whole album, lol[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Anime, and otakudom in general. My friends all make fun of me for being too much of an otaku and get pissed at all my anime spewing babble. Hell, even this site picks on me for being an otaku (they need to change the ****ing name of this site...). Anime is simply my way of life, and it's the same way for millions of other people out there (expecially in a certain other country) and there's no one on the outside who understands it. Everyone has their owwn way of hating it, from the douchebags who think culture integration is for fags to people who yap on about how retarded a 2d Complex is when they don't know the first thing about it. Otakudom is one of the most hated things one can have, regardless of where you live, only because most don't understand it. I'm glad, however, to have a friend who's a biger otaku than me, or I'd go crazy =_= [quote name='taperson']My favorite is when I'm driving. I HAVE to turn my radio up ALL THE WAY, & I HAVE to sing louder than it. At all times.[/quote] XD that's so me and my mom. When we drive the music is always blasting and we duet all the songs at throat-destroying levels. Good fun...[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Listening to Deltron 3030 which is one of the coolest rap projects aorund. It's mostly just Del the Funkee Homosapian and Dan the Automator spittin rhymes like they always do, only it's with a sci-fi concept taking place long in the future. Some of the most excellent beats I ever heard on these tracks.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Yuri is indeed an awsesome badass, and it's a shame that his interactions with Gepetto are les and less frequent as tha game continues becaue they were hilarious, and Gepetto basically becoems unseen... I always liked Nicolai becuase he is my favorite kind of villain, and I think his last name was Conrad lol. Plus he was hot >_> Kato is pretty cool, too. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]I got and my family got exactly what I wrote int the wishies list. My dad had given us money to buy presents, and he was very pleased that we thought to buy him a new Shuffle whch was ccool and he got my mom a rediculously expensive camera with a bunch of attachments that she's been playing with all day. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]You are behind, and no, it's not, it's getting less childish, and go watch subs naow. If you know how th einternet, it should be no problem.[/COLOR]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff']How do you figure that? New Year's Eve won't happen till next Monday. Anyway... Unless my plans change, I'll be spending it with my girlfriend and friends. We haven't really made any set plans just yet, but we will be doing something together, whether it's to have a party, watch movies, play games, etc. We just know that we will do something together next Monday to celebrate the New Year. :catgirl:[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]O_O I totally thought it said Christmas eve....... I need to pay attention......[/COLOR]

[quote name='Kam']Slayer, not worth talking about? Go hang yourself. If not for Slayer, you wouldn't have most of the extreme metal out there. I don't care if you don't like them, but don't disrespect Slayer. You want someone who pairs reggae influence with metal influence? Go buy [i]City of Evil[/i]. Yeah, it's stupid, but it's there. I feel like Jake. And that's not a bad thing...at least, not for me. But some of you guys are awakening the Beast. Slayer...not worth talking about...I need a cigarette. -Justin[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Well what do you want me to say? 'they were influential' that's about the discussion that I hate THE most out of all discussions ever. EDIT: I.... got my hands on Diadem of 12 Stars by Wolves in the Throne room and it's pretty ****ing incredibly awesome. I didn't really know what to expect sicne I couldn't find ANYTHING by them, but I gotta say, this **** is incredible. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]I want to ask first, mods, are you going to close this? I don't want to type 148 answers only for this to be closed. [/COLOR]