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I saw some trailer they played before Underworld, which was a bit odd. It was presented in a commercial format (for Umbrella's weird DNA cosmetics). Reminded me of Robocop, which isn't a bad thing.

I don't know. What I've read and seen about it over the last few months makes it sound like it's geared for mulitplayer and not singleplayer... which kills some of my interest already. I'll have to try it out obviously... but FPS games on PS2 are never enjoyable for me, as I don't feel the sticks work well enough. Hopefully they'll include mouse and keyboard support. That would be great. People have brought this up before, but the character designs are practically ripped straight out of Jin-Roh.

I don't understand why so many movies go one way or the other with the reflection issue. Yes, it depends on what myth you want to believe... but for me, it's very distracting to have to throw everything other movies use for vampires out the window for another movie. I saw League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and that girl could go out in direct sunlight. Why? Who knows, they never even attempted to explain it. Why even make vampires if you're just going to remove one of their main weaknesses? Honestly, I thought this movie was dull overall. The fight scenes were cool for the most part, but I had a very hard time even remotely caring about what happened to anyone in the film in the end. Even the ones with decent acting. I'm going to have to agree with Craven. I'm not even sure where this guy was from. Most of the time he had no real accent, but earlier in the film (maybe more) he gave himself this really odd accent. Plus the guy was just a pansy. He was terrible in every regard and really gave off no menacing vibes whatsoever. I wanted to hit him every time he pretended to get upset. He can't even act a basic human emotion out properly? The end of the movie basically said right out that Marius would awake and a new pact of sorts would be formed. Something to that effect. It closed itself well enough, I suppose. As for the wuss vampires... Victor is obviously annoyed with Craven's decisions, as he led their kind into a decadent lifestyle as opposed to their origins. Obviously, considering there wasn't supposed to be a real threat against vampires thanks to Craven and Lucian's deals, they had no reason to all be truly vicious anyway. I still don't get why that one girl just went on the ceiling and hissed though. Very, very average. I don't even think the style was all that impressive, mostly for the fact that it was generally very generic goth nonsense that I could have seen in Blade, or any other modern-setting movie like this for that matter, years ago. Her boots come to mind instantly.

The name tag thing was always my biggest problem. I've explained it to people who haven't worked at a simliar job, but they don't seem to get it. When someone makes me wait on them almost hand and foot (I've had to help a single person in excess of an hour -- what is wrong with these people?) or whatever else, it just is very aggrivating. "Oh, by the way *reads nametag* thanks Tony." I hate it. I don't know this person. I don't want to know this person. I'm not on a conversational level with people who generally treat me rather shoddily in my opinion. And sure, this might seem stupid... but it just bothered me. As for the rest... that's just how it is, I guess. Most people aren't going to treat you even like a person when you work at such places. For every nice person, there's several indifferent ones and one or two pure assholes. People that scream at you because they bought a CD with an Explicit Lyrics sticker on it and didn't realize it. People who bring back busted up vaccuums half a year after the exchange ended, and scream at you because you cannot do anything. People who PRETEND to be handicapped so you can push them around the store while they shop. People who throw **** at you, put words in your mouth, lie to your superiors and then storm out cursing you. People who destroy what you fixed up with no intent of even thinking about purchasing what was there. (I usually worked in clothes, and people would just rip up tables of folded clothes right after you did it). So many times I had gotten out at 1 or 2 AM because of these people. The freaking store closed at 10 PM. I had school the next morning, but I guess that didn't matter to the store. Plus you had these people who would come up to you and basically expect you to know everything about every product. These people couldn't even explain what the damn thing is well enough for anyone to figure it out, but you had to just know instantly. I had people come back to me and say "we found it", which is fine -- but I don't need the nasty attitude over it. As if I steered you in the wrong direction on purpose. How I can know what someone wants when they don't even know what it is, I have no idea. This was also a problem at the electronics and jewelery counters. People talk to us as if we're a specialty store. I'm sorry, but Target does not train us. Even in jewelery, I had to figure out how to do it all myself... and I was pretty good at it (watch batteries, links, etc). However, I just don't know how one camera comares to another in specific detail. We're not Ritz Camera or Best Buy, we don't learn this stuff. No one could ever seem to figure that out. I think the biggest annoyance for me in retail was the people who just act like you're not there. If you're in a uniform, you're secondary unless they need help. I've had people totally cut me off, people almost run me down, people just stop right in front of me... and normally, fine, I'm just walking. I can stop. However, this also happens when you're pulling a flatbed full of 1,500 pounds of stuff. I can't just stop it on a dime. It goes on and on. How these people function in a society, I don't know... and frankly, for what I made (it was about $7.65 at the time), I just stopped even giving a ****. I am not paid to take people's abuse in that manner. It was far worse than even what I've bothered to describe so far. I didn't let any of this affect me for about two and half years. I was one of the nicest people there, I worked my hardest and I was the fastest cashier in the store (with the highest overall ranking as well). Then I just couldn't take it anymore. I became a very jaded person, especially at work. I stopped putting up with people's ****, and if they were unreasonable with me, I stopped being disgustingly nice back. It got to the point where I cut my hours down to just the weekends... and I'd get off on Sunday and be like "God, I have to be back here at Saturday???" and it would seriously ruin my entire week. I quit awhile ago though, and I'm much better off I'd say. You're going to hate any job you have at this age. You're just part of the machine; a machine that will rip you apart as soon as you stop oiling it with all of its own bull****. It's part time to pay for **** I need so I can finish school and get a real job. It's not my career and I'm not ever going to treat it as such. Doesn't mean I'm going to be needlessly rude either, but I'm not a robot lol.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Munk-a-Dunk [/i] [B]Which album are you talking about? The self titled one? Or do the have another one? I want the newer one ^.^ [/B][/QUOTE] APC doesn't have a self titled album. He's talking about Thirteenth Step.

I've not used the program in awhile... but there is something that says "Saved Optimized" or something like that. You can play with the settings in there, and generally you can get a decent size out of it. I'd have to say you could get that down to at least half of what it currently is.

It's cool, but it's freaking massive. 600 something KB. I find it hard to believe that it couldn't be better optimized in Animation Shop.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by wrist cutter [/i] [B]Just how many times is this going to be brought up? I mean honestly. The same exact things are said every other week this thread comes up. It's always "there's no such thing as normal", "normal is just what the media wants you to believe", "I'm too cool to be normal" blah blah blah... we've seen the same statements made over and over and over again. Nothing has changed. I don't know why you people keep bringing this topic back up. [/B][/QUOTE] The same could be said of most of the topics here lately. Some even have the same damn thread titles... I can't complain much, as I'm not exactly making new threads in here either (I've only had one OL thread since I got here though).

I'd figure they gave her that accent in an attempt to make her sound foreign, because she obviously wasn't from the same area as the rest of the characters. Anna Paquin (Rogue in X-Men) did her voice, so I don't know why they made her make some accent instead of just letting her speak. The movie is also pretty damn old at this point, especially compared to Spirited Away. I think it held up very well. I've not watched it in a few months, but it's a favorite of mine.

I don't know how anyone can even be interested after the last one.

It's certainly better than 90% of the "horror" movies in the last few years. It knows what it is, and does what it does well. It doesn't try to be anything else. So you have your humor, your nudity and your gore... which, to me, is how these sorts of horror movies should be anyway. I don't have time to say anything else, but I'll probably say a bit more on it later.

Here is mine. I like to keep it as plain as possible most of the time. [IMG]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=487082[/IMG]

I've had the prerelease for awhile now. I mean, obviously it's not the best thing ever... but the raps are surprisingly not terrible. Just imagine him talking in rhyme. That's what it sounds like. Him not changing his voice at all for this is what makes it so great... mostly on a humor level heh.

Dysfunction and Tormented have a couple of the same songs (well some have slightly different spellings), and I can't really say that Tormented does those songs any better. Dysfunction is just so much more well thought out and so much more polished than Tormented could ever have hoped to be. Tormented also has a lot of odd qualities to it. I remember some guitar parts and such that just seemed out of place... and I remember some spoken as well as lyrical parts in the songs that were just [i]too[/i] mobid and depressing. To the point that they just sounded kind of funny. Dysfunction fixed all those problems, and is a surprisingly good CD. It's my favorite from them, although I honestly don't listen to them much at all anymore.

I'm just going to wait for Ultimate Six in paperback, if anything. To tell you the truth, I'm starting to get burned out from all these Ultimate series Marvel is doing. I just saw the cover for Ultimate Fantastic Four the other day, and I'm not excactly excited. I didn't get to go this Wednesday, so I went today. Figures that Outsiders #4 was already gone. I wandered around trying to see if anything else was worth getting... I stumbled across Runaways #6, which I didn't even know was out this week. Good thing too, because they only had two left. For whatever reason, it felt like a new issue of Possessed should have been out too... so I checked that section and there was the new #3. So two comics. No Outsiders. No Science Genius Girl (I've only seen it there once, I want it quite a bit).

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Queen Asuka [/i] [B][color=hotpink][size=1]Tony doesn't hate me at all. He's one of my love slaves. And he told me I was his hero.[/color][/size] [/B][/QUOTE] Well I don't know about being your love slave, but you're definitely one of my heroes and I love you for it :p And no, I don't really hate anyone here. The people I generally dislike have been disposed of, or are at least closely watched.

I'm guessing everyone is. It's probably just an issue with the server. I find that it only happens at high traffic internet times, and usually rectifies itself pretty quickly.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Shinmaru [/i] [B] Plus, he was really cool with me even after I made myself look like an *** those first few days after I came onto the boards. [/B][/QUOTE] When was this? I don't remember you ever even being a problem... lol

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Dan Rugh [/i] [B]I don't get why people make such a HUGE deal out of this. If you don't like the English voices, then don't watch it. Go spend all your money on DVDs if you're unhappy with the dubbing. If it weren't for dubbing in the first place, honestly, how many of us would be watching anime. [/B][/QUOTE] This makes a good point, but at the same time... I'm paying for this product. At one point anime tapes were like $30 to $35 (I don't know how many of you even watched anime back then) and other than the extreme nerd community, there wasn't really a way to find out what was done well and what wasn't. Many were simply blind purchases, because most people just didn't have the internet then. I'd like to not have to be concerned over something like that. The company is also paying a good deal of money to license and distribute it in the first place. It is that much to ask of them to at least put a decent dub on? I'm not even talking ones that are just passable. That's even fine... but there are some that are just terrible. They sound like they consist of people just reading a paper off in a rather monotone voice... and don't get me started on the horrible accents most of them try to do. If I have to hear another 40 year old woman do a child's voice or someone else do an "old lady" voice, I'll go insane. The worst dub I've yet to hear was for one called Gryzor's Wing, or something like that. So terrible that I couldn't even watch the anime simply because of it. Best probably goes to Grave of the Fireflies, I guess.

Many anime give men feminine features. It's not uncommon. I've only seen Inuyasha a few times, and I really didn't like it. That's besides the point. I had no past knowledge of it when I first saw it though, and I seriously thought the main character was a girl... until he talked anyway.

I forgot nep. There were plans to make this a word for all to use, but it never caught on. It's easy though, and somewhat logical. Yep = Yes Nep = No Makes sense to me heh.

There's a rather old thread on this movie that I made. I'm going to merge the two, if you don't mind. Not many people seemed to care originally, so might as well... gives more to discuss lol. You'll see that I loathed it :D

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by terra [/i] [B]I loved FF3/6 as well, but someone already talked about it :p. Hm ... Recently I started playing Earthbound again, another RPG. It's pretty enjoyable. The good thing about it is that it's not incredibly easy, which is what usually makes RPG's kind of boring for me. Also, the characters' speeches are pretty funny and slightly sarcastic, and the creators sort of poke fun at RPG's. Ness's mother will say things like, "It's not often a mother will let her young son go on an adventure all by himself ... But I'm going to." And characters will be like, "If you get hit, your HP meter ... oops! I mean, your [i]health[/i] will decrease." So yeah, I enjoy Earthbound. [/B][/QUOTE] I have said this before. That you are one of the coolest people here. But someone that enjoys Earthbound almost as much as I do? Well, they just are kick ***. You are amazing! lol [img]http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/16387/mrsaturn.jpg[/img] BOING!? No RPG reaches the humor that Earthbound did. The translation was unequaled at the time, and in some ways, still is. I never had such a fun time playing an RPG just because of how damn quirky it was. I remember all of it so vividly. I cannot wait for Mother 1+2 for the GBA.

I have many words I like to use. Snuh - Snuh is like a catchall word. It's kind of like a certain word that begins with F, in the sense that it can be used for everything (although generally in a negative sense), with nearly any context and any type of feeling. Examples would be a "Snuh..." of disappointment. A "snuh!" of disgust. A "snuh" just meaning no. "What the snuh!?" and so on. My phrase of the moment is "yellow fatty beans". It's what every person on this planet should call a banana, regardless of their language. That's about it (that I feel like mentioning). I'm not really a crazy, funny type of guy.

I've not lived up to my full potential since probably 4th grade, and then a few years of high school after that . I went to a Catholic school after that, which I hated. I then went to a High School that I loved, where I did rather well overall. Then went to another High School that I hated, where I stopped trying. In college now, I'm a bit better... but considering the classes I miss, the stuff I put off until the last minute, the stuff I turn in late and everything else... No, I'm nowhere near my full potential. I'm probably at about 50% on average.