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I finished my Butthole Surfers listing earlier today. Same deal. I kept it small, but not as small as the Misfits site. I felt that if I did make a normal sized page, there'd be too much empty space. I'll probably do a full sized page for my Ultimates Fanlisting, which I'm doing next. There's codes and such on the codes page. Any comments would be nice. [url]http://www.slownerveaction.org/fanlistings/bhs/[/url]

The little turning images... I didn't change them at all. I got them off their official Weird Revolution LP site. I'll play around with them and see what happens though. Thanks for posting :)

Whenever I make something, I try to convince myself that I should never, ever just put something in because I don't know what else to do with it... but I did that with this. I had the background just black, but it was just too plain. For lack of ideas, I stuffed in their skull logo. I was thinking that I should probably just make the image more spaced out. It'd look a bit nicer that way... but now that the site isn't going anywhere, I probably won't bother. Maybe later tonight. Edit - I changed it around some... lol. I'm working on a Butthole Surfers one as well. I kept this one small, just because... well, just because. I attached an image of it. I've only been working on it for about 20 minutes, but I think it's looking decent. Their logo always seems to be in Arial. I can't find a typeface that matches that Weird Revolution text image... If anyone knows what it is, please tell me. I would be very grateful. We'll see what happens. [IMG]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=493906[/IMG]

Eggman is Robotnik. It was his name in Japan before he came to the US, where he was renamed. If you've played any Sonic game since 1999, he's been called Eggman lol. They changed back in Sonic Adventure on DC.

Well, I had applied for a fanlisting. Unfortunately I was beaten to it by a matter of days. So now I have this useless website that basically will just sit there and never be seen. I spent a few hours on it though, so I figured I might as well show it here and get some thoughts on it. [url]http://www.slownerveaction.org/fanlistings/fiendclub[/url] The main question is this... Most fanlistings seem to try to make everything as small as possible. Even I did it with this site, I compressed everything into a small area in the center. Is this fine with people? Is it too small? Should I make a full sized site for any future fanlistings? So yeah, that and any general opinion. There's a bunch of banners and such on the page marked "codes" ([url]http://www.slownerveaction.org/fanlistings/fiendclub/codes.html[/url]). Just want general thoughts and ideas on all of this so I can keep them in mind for the next few fanlistings I'm applying for. It's fun, since I can whip out new layouts in a day's time. Yay! Edit - Links fixed.

I used to play. I haven't in a very, very long time. I never was serious about it though. It was something I enjoyed collecting, and some random friends of mine and I would play it in study halls in high school. I always thought it was a great game.

[spoiler]It's Sephiroth. It's made rather obvious later on in the trailer when he touches the person in the wheelchair and has a flashback to Nibelheim. Same as in the other photos as well.[/spoiler]

Well, I've not really looked into it for over a year now, I think. It was never below $30 to begin with, lately I don't even see it for under $40. I import enough other stuff to know how the prices usually go, but I'm broke lol.

For those that cannot see the trailer... this is what it shows: [spoiler] The meteor crashes into their planet and the screen fades out. The words "two years later" appear on the screen. Cloud is racing down some sort of highway on his motorcycle. You see Sephiroth in the distance who casts a spell directed at Cloud. He flies off the bike, which then crashes and explodes. Sephiroth and Cloud do battle... and then it shifts to scenes of Cloud alone at a beach and a Church. It also shows Sephiroth meeting with some older person in a wheelchair, as well as the famous scene of him walking through the burning town.[/spoiler] It specifically says "This is not for playing" at the start of the trailer. It also says coming Summer 2004. Here are some screengrabs I took myself from the trailer for those who cannot get it (they're not in the order they appear in the trailer, sorry). They don't show much new over the other stuff, so I doubt anything is spoiled by them. EDIT - Removed my images because there are better ones now. Scroll down....

Cibo Matto has been a favorite group of mine for quite some time. Ever since I first heard the live version of Birthday Cake around 1996. I wound up getting Viva! La Woman a few years later, which was pretty good stuff. One of the better releases of that year. Super Relax soon followed in 1997. I never bothered to buy it, as it was just an EP filled mostly with remixes. The acoustic version of Sugar Water is good though. In 1999 they released what would become their final album, Stereotype A. Thankfully, Stereotype A was even better than Viva! La Woman. I played it constantly then and still do now. It wasn't as guitar driven as Viva! La Woman. Instead concentrating more on beats, samples and other odd sounds to an even greater degree than their last LP.. Really, really great CD. The group is made up of Miho Hatori on vocals and Yuka Honda who does most of the music. They also have different people work with them, among which was Sean Lennon. I'm sure some people know Miho from that Gorillaz song 19-2000. She's that one that sings that "Get the cool! Get the cool shoeshine" part. She also worked on a side project called Smokey and Miho, which I thought was pretty cool. They basically just play random songs together. They're all in French though. She sings surprisingly well in other languages, perhaps even better than in English. She has a Japanese accent when she sings English. There were others like Butter08, but I doubt anyone know of them. So any Cibo Matto fans around?

FFX sold extremely well in Japan. FFX-2 did something like a million copies in sales in a few days. FFX obviously sold well enough here as well. There are a few reasons though. The main one being that making a sequel to FF7 would be a lot of work, especially graphically. Square has said this in the past. If they ever did something, they want to do the first game justice. They have too much on their plate as it is and that would take a lot away from the FFX, on the other hand, was made for the PS2 in the first place. The engine is already there. The basic models and programming and everything else were done and could easily be shifted into FFX-2 and improved upon. FF7, meanwhile, doesn't have this luxury. They'd have to do a new engine, new models, new cutscenes, new areas, new music, new everything. That's really the biggest reason, I'd imagine.

I'm not a fan of country on a whole... It really seems to me that the country that is popular now is only popular because it sounds more like pop rock than actual country. However, I do suggest people check out Will Oldham. He's a lot darker in subject than most country music lately. He has a really far reaching influence too. He did a song with Chris Vrenna for tweaker and I remember reading how Shirley Manson of Garbage looked up to him.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Shinmaru [/i] [B]Most of his work I've heard is either from early on his career or his more recent work (like the stuff he did with Nine Inch Nails...awesomeness). Most of his early work I've heard because of the oldies station my mother listens to.[/B][/QUOTE] Depends what you're talking about. Bowie and NIN obviously worked together in I'm Afraid of Americans. The normal version that hit the radios and MTV is basically a duet of sorts between Bowie and Reznor. Has a really good music video too. Reznor follows Bowie throughout the whole thing. There's a lot of cool effects in it, especially the taxi being shot at near the end. The rest of the I'm Afraid of Americans single is pretty awful. I'm not into any of the remixes. Reznor also did versions of Scary Monsters and a couple others... they're not as easy to find though. They are worth hunting out. I'm Afraid of Americans really isn't lol. I really wish I could have seen that NIN/Bowie tour years back. That would have been a great thing to see. At least there are some decent bootlegs about, and some of it does appear on the Closure release.

[IMG]http://www.dccomics.com/comics/images/September2003/pic_lrgcatw23cvr.jpg[/IMG] Here's a better one (I don't like the art on #2 lol). Comparing Catwoman to Aquaman makes little sense to me. Everyone knows Catwoman, she's one of the bigger female comic characters. The current Catwoman run is really damn good. They already played with her costume a bit, but it still works. They should have done something with that instead of this terrible Halle Berry thing. Maybe she can do an accent through half of the film and then forget all about it in the rest. She seems good at that.

Well there's obviously opening for a sequel if they're making a movie that takes place a couple years afte FF7 ends. I guess they can kind of do whatever they want, in that manner lol.

TGS 2003 is past heh. There's a full trailer from Ruliweb, unfortunately all the links I've found for it around are all dead. edit -- Here [url]http://www.anime-domain.de/ff7ac01.mpg[/url] That link works, but it is very slow to start. I recommend using something like Flash Get to get it going.

I've been watching this game closely for about a year now. If any game will get me interested in online RPGs, this will be it. Game is going to be awesome if they live up to what they've promised. Based on the shots and videos I've seen, they have. The amount of customization for your characters is amazing, and it just sounds like a lot of fun. I would not mind paying an extra $10 a month for it at all.

Fine, stern undermining tone :p lol Well, it's not as if people who listen to mostly Western music don't go through the same thing. I don't exactly have an easy time getting anyone I know to listen to anything I like. lol Getting people to even overcome their unexplainable hatred for Marilyn Manson is always a chore. Trying to explain a band to someone and then having them tell you they're not interested based only on one word you used or a single song title. I know how this is. I'm sure many people do. It's not just a cultural thing, as you know. I've had countless band threads that I've created just fall down the list into nothingness. Bands whose threads I'm interested in generally have the same problem. The Misfits are a recent example. I'm expecting that Bowie thread to die too, honestly. Then there was Curve, tweaker, godhead, Butthole Surfers, The Soundtrack of Our Lives and a few more that I posted. Plus random ones from other people. All faded to obscurity. Somehow the Dream Theater and Manson threads actually went somewhere, although half the Manson thread wasn't even about the CD. I think only a few people who posted even heard the damn thnig lol. Getting people to try something they've not heard of is even harder... and we're talking languages they can actually understand. Japanese is a whole other more difficult matter. Hell, any other language is (outside of Spanish to an extent). I'm still surprised that Rammstein even overcame that bridge, honestly. I think, in general, people want to be able to sing along with lyrically based songs. Most people just cannot do that with Japanese music. I must have listened to Akino Arai's Voices or Faye Wong's Up to the Brambles a million times, but I still don't know a single word in them (and those are relatively slow paced, easily followed songs unlike some of the rock stuff I've tried). Obviously that's just part of the issue though. There are a lot of other factors. For me, personally, it's that a lot of Japanese music that is recommended to me just sounds really dated. Obviously I don't have tons to compare to, but that's my thought on it all so far. It makes me reluctant to go all out to find other groups. Anything else I want to try (such as Inugami Circus-dan) just isn't easy to find... I don't know what more to do about that lol. I don't know. I guess that's another thread altogether. I've already said my thoughts on it all at myOtaku in the past, and some people agreed, some people jumped at me. What can you do? Nothing, I guess heh. Let it out sometimes and just deal with it the rest of the time. That's all I've managed to find that works. I'm done lol

Personally, my favorite song is Happy Bivouac. Same title as the CD. I've managed to find most of it online, but I've never bothered to get the import. I've not seen it below $30 and I just don't have the money. They'd be cool just because they have a song named after Kim Deal, the bassist for the Pixies (vocalist for the Breeders too).

Well if you expect people to break this mold, you can't just yell at them and tell them they are stupid and ignorant every time it comes up. Personally I just don't care for 95% of the Japanese music I've bothered to listen to, which is apparently how you feel about most US music. Doesn't matter, it's all subjective. I know most people know these bands. Makes no difference. I posted my opinions and thoughts on them, and so did some others (with exceptions). I'm obviously annoyed when all people talk about at this place is LP, but at least there were a few differences mentioned in here. Besides it's not as clear cut as "I hate them." or "I like them." as evidenced by most of the posts here -- even yours. I still managed to come up with a decent post, I thought. So basically, since people have talked about these bands before (some many times, a couple rather rarely) it can never be brought up again? The poster of this topic is a rather new member and thoughts can change. It's obviously another story when we have a new LP thread every month, but that's not all this was regulated to... thankfully lol. Oh well.

Yeah, it's definitely not a rumor. I don't know why so many people feel some need to challenge things I state as facts... but that most certainly is a fact lol. When you have something as popular as FF is in Japan and an anime of it can't even pull them in... well, that's saying a lot. As for the differences... games are one thing. When you make an anime based off a game series, I think you should at least include something to do with that game. There is nothing in this anime. It could be called Monster Battlers and no one would have known the difference. The name is on there to make money, simple as that. Making an anime based on a specific game would have made a lot more sense.

Obviously she stops being a summoner as it is (they're no longer needed and the former enemies of Spira are now working together), but who cares. It had nothing to do with my point. She stopped being a summoner right? Yes, she did. So I am not stating something correctly? lol Everyone knows the next logical thing for someone of her past it to sing in a concert. It just makes sense. Give me a break. It's totally moronic. I don't really know what could make that be any less dumb. It just is. I don't know how anyone else feels about that, but that's my opinion and that's all this thread is about. RPGs live off story (even moreso than gameplay in most cases... FF has barely changed in the past decade at its core), and this does not leave me optimistic. Yes. I know it's not [spoiler] the real Yuna. However, there is a point in the game where she sings about herself with her own voice. Meh.[/spoiler]. I was exaggerating. That's my fault. She still gets on stage and does it, which is what I was referring to sarcastically in the first place. Whoever told me it was only 10 hours is apparently wrong. Looks more like 30 hours or more, which is good. I admit I'm interested in the battle system (actually sounds like the best one so far) and I am happy about the return of the job system on some level... but the game just seems so dumb. I realize it's supposed to be really light hearted and non-linear... but for someone like me, who wasn't a fan of FFX in the first place, it is very hard to be optimistic about it.

The Pillows are one of the few Japanese bands I've listened to that I really liked from the start. I checked them out awhile back because someone compared them to the Pixies. They're nothing like the Pixies. Nor do I really think they're like any 60s music I've heard... but they are very good and I liked all that I've heard so far.

It's not as if Halle is known for all her wonderful roles as it is. She has been portrayed as a sex object in a good deal of them, so this is nothing new. The main exception was obviously Monster's Ball. This thing looks like a really bad Photoshop job. Too bad it isn't. [IMG]http://www.mv.com/ipusers/dolls/jpg2/catwmn2.jpg[/IMG] Could be worse, though.

It's fan service nonsense based on everything I've seen. Honestly, in a game were Yuna stops being a summoner to become a pop singer... how much can you expect? There are some neat things it is trying to do, but they're not enough to convince me to buy it. It actually has some cool ideas, but they seem to be negated by all the things in it that I'm just not into.The extra costumes are nice, but it seemingly is mostly there so you can dress up Yuna and friends however you like. Cosplay, fanservice, whatever. Plus, I'm hearing it averages about 10 hours all the way through. I don't know how true that is, but I've heard it from people I find trustworthy.