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Wow. Something that doesn't have filters all over it and doesn't have things stuffed into it to the point that it's cluttered, just so it doesn't look "plain". How different from the norm here. Anyway, I've had classes like this... Specifically Layout heh. I see no real problems with any of it. The font choices work for the magazine I'd say. The only real problem I have is with the bottom half, where you have that green text with the black borders. It's somewhat hard to read, even over the dog. The "Special Training Issue" part seems out of place as well. Like you didn't know what else to do with it almost lol. The photo is nice too. I like the overlapping ear part. The dog looks like he's rather indifferent though heh.

It's hard to not speed. If one person does then others do... I know if people speed up, I tend to as well without realizing it. I'm simply trying to keep up and not looking at the speedometer. I don't know what you mean by public road... On most side streets and main streets I tend to not do more than 10 MPH over the limit if even that (the average limit here is 35). I don't want to hit some random kid that runs into the street or whatever else. Chicago has a lot of people that know that if you hit them, you'll be the one who gets in trouble... regardless of how it happened. On highways, I average 10 to 20 over the limit, which is generally 55 or 65. Most other people do as well. I'd say the fastest I've personally gone on the highway/freeway is about 125 MPH. My car at this current time doesn't go over that heh.

I simply like animation. I like cartoons. Anime, Western or otherwise... really, it's all the same stuff in the end. Like most American animation, I think most Japanese animation is total tripe. I won't even touch most of it, and what's bad is generally made even worse by poor localization and voice overs. Every once in a while though, you get something amazing. Most of it, for me personally, seems to come from Studio Ghibli. I really am not a fan of Princess Mononoke... but Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service and Grave of the Fireflies are all just excellent, excellent films. There are also various series I really enjoyed. Serial Experiments: Lain is a good one for so many reasons. Ranma 1/2 is one of my favorites as well. It just does what it does well, and for me, it's repetitiveness never really gets in the way. Currently, I'm very into Hale Nochi Guu... which is fan subbed at this time. I'm hoping it gets a full release here in the states so more people can see it. It's a wonderful somewhat morbid, comedy series. I also really love Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (the series people claim Disney ripped off for Atlantis... There are simliarities, but they are quite different). If you haven't seen this series, I think you should. It's lighthearted, but still surprisingly dark at times. I think my main interest in anime is that it seems to be taken so much more seriously than most animation here. You'd most likely not see anything made here that's anything like Ghost in the Shell or Lain or whatever else... and if it was made here, it's generally something horrible like Heavy Metal. Even shows aimed at generally younger audiences sometimes tackle much more heavy themes than cartoon series here. I remember a time several years ago when a character totally dying in a cartoon was an incredibly rare occurance. I don't remember any shows during most of the 90s that even brought that up, other than Dark Water and a few others... All of which simply died off. So I guess it's many reasons.

Noooo, Ohkami. I actually know the character... Oh well. And Toadstool? His name is Toad... heh. Or Kinopio if you want the Japanese name :p [img]http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/cad/deadjoe.gif[/img] [b]Character name[/b]: Bang, some sort of secret agent, from my favorite NES game ever... Clash at Demonhead. [b]Reason for choosing character:[/b] Bang is just an all around cool guy. Like I said, he's a secret agent. He's called while on vacation to rescue Professor Plum, who has been kidnapped to make an evil doomsday bomb. Bang is trained in all sort of weapon and equipment usage too. He has many types of ammo, all of which work perfectly in his trusty gun. He's able to use Jet Boots to increase his speed; a jetpack to obviously fly around; an underwater suit that allows him to stay under for long durations and depths; a space suit, made of strong armor that can sustain high temperatures and submersion in many liquids (lava, water, etc). [img]http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/cad/swim2.gif[/img] Bang eventually meets a Hermit who teaches him many force powers (his force energy can be replenished with a Protein Drink), such as being able to shrink to tiny sizes, teleport to previously visited areas, levitate, regenerate health and become invincible for short periods of time. Of course, Protein Drinks aren't cheap or easy to find and each force power takes quite a bit of energy. Bang also has a pretty hot girlfriend, and obviously he rescues Professor Plum, deactivates the Doomsday Device and saves the world. He also has some crazy friends... one of which is a fairy. Another is this crazy miner named Micheal that gets possessed by a demon and so on. So yeah, he rocks. He's perfect. [b]My Knowledge of this character:[/b] Well, I just typed all that up from memory and I've not played the game in god knows how long... Plus it's my favorite NES game ever. I think I know plenty heh.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Turkey [/i] [B]I sold it for $40, and I found out recently that the game is worth over $300. [/B][/QUOTE] Maybe completely sealed... but who knows. You can't really judge the worth of a game based on some rich kid splurging on ebay or something either heh. I remember the day I bought this game. It had just came out, and back then SNES games were expensive as hell. People try to tell you that we didn't have really expensive carts until N64, but that's a bunch of crap. Target wanted $69.99 for the thing. Well I had the money... I asked the lady to get it out, and she rang it up. It came up for $24.99. Don't ask me why. I paid her a shut up. I thought of getting more, but I was afraid it was some fluke in the system and didn't want to take a chance. Anyway, the game is good. One of Square's better games. I always find it interesting how many people love this game, but turn around and complain about RPG length... The game could be beaten in like 12 hours, and that's with all the side quests. The extra endings didn't really add much incentive for me... I mean, really, most are pretty useless. I did wind up finding them all though, since it honestly was fun to just check them out for yourself. I personally preferred Chrono Cross, and I find some of people's problems with it rather strange... but what can do you.

I don't get these questions in general. I'm not very philosophical. If you're not sure that you exist... how can you be sure that anything you interact with does? How can you be sure the feelings you feel, such as pain, are even real? If you don't exist, yet you are able to see and touch yourself and other humans amongst you in your everyday life... why in the world would pushing a rock or knocking over a tree prove anything? The only one that ever has made sense to me was "I think, therefore I am." Really, if you [i]didn't exist[/i] why would you even be able to question your existance?

I really like mangos when they are in season... but when they are not they taste like pine trees. Well, at least what I imagine pine trees to taste like. Otherwise, I love cheesecake. I don't like those weird varieties all that much... just the normal, plain cheesecake. It's ambrosia. I won't touch that Eli's or Sara Lee crap though. Least favorite? Tomatoes more than anything. I don't mind stuff made from tomatoes like ketchup or pizza sauce... but anything with a big piece of it, or especially raw tomatoes, I won't touch. I hate the taste. I hate the smell. I hate the texture. I don't even like looking at one sitting on a cutting board all sliced up. The actual vines on the plant smell even worse. Ugh.

Well, there aren't many that are great compared to the DVD ones. The two best are [url]www.cd-tracker.com[/url] and [url]www.guzzlefish.com[/url] based on my experience. Guzzlefish being the better of the two... it lets you search and organize easily. It also keeps track of both DVDs and CDs.

I don't think it's that hard to hear similiarities overall. A few are heavily redone, but many are nearly exactly the same. I was always bothered that the fact that the Rito couldn't even get their own song.

If I don't like the teacher to a large degree... I simply drop the class. If I do it within the first few weeks, I don't have to pay for the class and it's really no loss for me. Sometimes you just have teachers who shouldn't be teaching or are hard to understand or whatever else. For the most part, my teachers in college have rocked. My audio teacher, Bernie Mack (not the comedian) was excellent. He is a big part of a successful recording studio outside of Chicago, and so he obviously knows what he's talking about. The audio lab is pretty loaded here, and the guy just teaches well. The other really good teacher that comes to mind is Chris Leather. He has worked at a few companies here in Chicago, such as Flux. They've done commercials for Gatorade, Sprite, National Geographic and so on. He mostly teaches our Design Symposium classes (portfolio) and is quite knowledgable and a very good person to talk to. And lastly Mark, whose last name I forget. He teaches the video classes... Premiere, Media 100 and various taping, digitizing and whatever else (blue screening was fun). Good teacher and again, a nice guy. Other than that, mostly pretty average heh.

They look pretty dull so far. The guy sure has a lot of work to do, that's for sure. Good luck to him heh.

I like the GC controller... If button configurations are laid out properly most any game can be well suited for it. I admit there are some genres that just don't work well on it, but I've gotten used to anything I've played on it eventually. The PS2 controller is most suited for nearly anything, but the GC one is hardly bad. And honestly I think Metroid Prime, Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil, SSBM, Super Monkey Ball, Pikmin, various multi-console games and some of the other upcoming stuff is all worthwhile (F-Zero, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, Killer 7, Viewtiful Joe, RE4, etc). Despite that, I think GBA is the best pure fun gaming system since DC, and before that probably my SNES. I play it far more than any of my other systems, especially now that I have an SP.

Well regardless of what I consider mature or not... The general opinion seems to be games that are targeting an older audience without any consideration of those in the younger/family audience. It doesn't have to mean gore or sex or drugs... however, it often does simply because people just don't equate those things with children or family activities. It can obviously be mixed in with intelligent storylines or good gameplay though. Silent Hill, Eternal Darkness, Deux Ex and Metal Gear Solid are all very good examples of mature orientated games that I feel got it right. Really though, sometimes you don't want to sit and think or be provoked in some manner. You just want to shoot stuff and that's that. I think these games are stuck in the mature category for obvious reasons... simply because they are the equivalent of slasher films. You don't send little kids to see them, as ridiculous as they may be. The same with Conker's Bad Fur Day, which while immature, is still in the same category as South Park or Beavis and Butthead... something I doubt most small kids should be seeing heh. Whether or not kids are the ones buying these games is really another story and you could go on about it for quite some time. Obviously, I'd say a good deal of people here at OB are under 17, yet they still watch a good deal of R rated movies and play M rated games. There is no avoiding it. So, in relation to Nintendo... Did Nintendo have a lack of this? Well on GC and N64, I'd say no. However, they always have been stuck into this stereotype for a couple reasons. The main one is that they have always made family friendly games. On the NES perhaps it wasn't really obvious. They had so much 3rd party support, and the only competitor was basically ripped apart in Japan and the US (Sega with it's Sega Master System, which did well in Europe actually). When Sega brought out the Genesis/Mega Drive they were smart enough to hit upon this and release things that took advantage of Nintendo's only real weakness. The fact that they didn't do games that simply appealed to people that had since grown up. People who wanted great sports games or gritty looking characters. Sure, Sega had their family stuff, but they mixed it up far more than Nintendo ever did. This was never really a problem until Mortal Kombat. I'm sure most people remember Nintendo making Midway censor this thanks to the requests of parents and the image problems they thought they would receive. Of course, this backfired. Sega became the cool system here. The SNES was the equivalent of Sesame Street. You might not think so now, but go look at any kids/teen magazine... Nintendo was just not cool. This bit them in the ***. Censoring games like Wolfenstein 3D and others... while Sega was allowing nearly anything. Nintendo wound up backing off and allowing the gore in MK2, which obviously helped them quite a bit. Sega lost their edge in that aspect... However, I'd say the damage was done. Nintendo would always be a kids toy company. And so Sony played off this and now MS is playing off this. Nintendo makes child's games. They make toys. They don't care about electronics because they don't over a complete multimedia experience that plays DVDs and washes your dishes... and whatever other crap you can come up with. So is this something Nintendo can get out of? Eventually. N64 was lucky enough to have support from a few companies that were putting out more adult orientated games... meanwhile, Nintendo was still releasing family orientated stuff. And while they were great and sometimes amazing games, it wasn't helping this image they have been forced into. This image exists simply thanks to Sega, Sony and MS's PR departments and advertising. People bought into it, and so developers have to as well. They have to follow their consumer base, whether it's real or simply assumed. Recently, Iwata (the current president of Nintendo) has addressed this and is aware of their image and hopes to even it out some... and I think in a way he is on the right track. Nintendo has done things lately that never would have happened a few years back. They are strengthening 3rd party ties despite lower game sales on the GC by comparison. They are securing exclusives and games from companies that haven't touched Nintendo consoles in several years. So I think it can be fixed... However, the only one that can do it is Nintendo. They have the games coming, and their 2nd parties are helping out in the maturity department. It's really just a matter of capitalizing on it. I think their main problem at this point here in America is their advertising agency, Leo Burnett. The agency is simply awful... I mean they greenlighted that Super Mario Sunshine commercial lol. It's a long process... and perhaps Nintendo can do something about it... perhaps not. I guess we'll see.

A Perfect Circle? heh That's Maynard James Keenan from Tool. He just wears a wig when he's singing in A Perfect Circle. I don't really think that he or Davey really sound or look anything alike, although they both have a slightly higher tone than many current vocalists. APC has more of a style simliar to Opeth than most anything else, I'd say. I still have yet to pick up the DVD. I probably should, as I doubt it will be around all that long compared to the normal CD. I'll wait on the CD though, as it still randomly goes on sale. I just have to decide between the red or silver covers haha.

There's been rumors of the next game for years... but I'd say it's mostly crap. People were even saying Square would be putting it on Xbox, so that should tell you how useless the rumor even is. Either way, it's always been referred to as Chrono Break.

Well I will say nice job homing in on one part of my post and totally ignoring the part where I say not everyone is like this. I think I know my friends well enough to know their likes, dislikes and so on. And I have spoken to enough "fanatical" people to know that I believe what I said. Whether or not there are tons of exceptions is a valid argument, and there most certainly is. I right out said it. However, you cannot tell me that there aren't a good deal of people who have some morbid fascination with the country to the point that they think nothing goes on there but what the more realistic anime shows us. I've seen enough anime and talked to enough people in my lifetime to know that there are a LOT of these people. People who think they can right up and leave, go to Japan and somehow fit in because they can say a few words, read a couple signs and know the difference between different types of anime. Seriously, half of my post is practically agreeing with you if you read it well enough. I'm sure you've noticed the vast array of people who know nothing close to even what you are mentioning here. I will say yet again, that my last sentences (and even some above) are right out saying that there are people like you and otherwise. However, the question you are trying to present is not even what this thread was asking. It's asking what anime fans think... not what someone who is well versed in their culture thinks. I honestly do think that, far and away, most fans know very little about the country, it's culture or anything some subbed anime throws at them. And as I've mentioned several times in just this post, there are many exceptions. I don't, however, feel they are anywhere near the majority.

I think it looks fine with the black background. However, so far at least people have given better descriptions as to why they think it doesn't work, which is nice. It made me think of this... A trend that has driven me nuts is the idea that a banner or image has to be stuffed to the brim with backgrounds and designs and everything else. Every single section of the image has to be covered in something, otherwise people think it looks wrong somehow. To me, that's just clutter. You don't need to use any more imagery than what gets your point across and still makes a clean design. Sticking some weird background in your first one would kind of ruin its effect. The Samus pic looks like it belongs alone in the darkness. I think it kind of reflects the game... where she's basically all alone against the aliens. As for the second one... I don't really like the logo in the background for some reason. It feels too stuck in just to have something there. The "or hunted..." font is really jaggy to the point that it kind of pushes you away from it too, so maybe you could do something with that. Nice job otherwise.

Nearly anyone I know who is really into anime has some unexplainable hatred towards US animation. Even classic Disney films from decades ago. And it's not just not caring for them, it's attacking them about things they just don't understand and backing that up with inane, stupid opinions. I've even seen it here to be honest. I'll never forget the day I read someone's thoughts as to why Sleeping Beauty's animation sucked. I honestly don't think anime fans are more open minded. So you like some anime and manga... good job. Suddenly you're obsessed with their culture to a very superficial extent, yet still think you're well versed in every aspect of their lives. I know a lot of people like this. The same people who mix Japanese words in their sentences for absolutely no reason (and often times it's used incorrectly). The same people that think typing "cool" in a Japanese font actually [i]means[/i] cool. The same people that compare thoughtless, fun cartoons like Ed, Edd and Eddy to anime like Evangelion and Gundam and wonder why there is such a huge quality difference (I've never understood this. If you think American animation and comics have that little to offer, you're looking in the wrong places). I do understand people have different tastes and perhaps they prefer anime to western animation... but some of the bad things I've heard are far more close minded than the bad things I've heard people say about anime. Not everyone is like this of course. I know some people who genuinely are interested in all aspects of Japanese culture, it's expected. However, I don't feel that most anime fans are even close to this.

The movie came out in theaters months ago. Rob Zombie did direct it. I don't know what you mean by "graphics," but some of the makeup and blood effects in the movie are excellent and pretty much above the norm. There wasn't really a scene in the movie where I felt the gore looked overly fake. How freaky it is depends on who you see it with. Watching it alone very loudly in the dark of course heightens it... but overall it's basically a b-movie tribute at heart and a lot of it is pretty comical. Anyway, this thread is pretty old... but it has the impressions of the few people there that seemed to care when it came out. Worth checking out: [url]http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=382676[/url]

Yeah, this was useful. Please read the rules. No real discussion could come of this thread other than attacks back and forth and other nonsense. It's basically spam. Please try to post something a bit more thoughtful in the future.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Num_Tee [/i] [B]I have a giant keiju in my pants [/B][/QUOTE] And I have a giant banstick in my pants. See you later. I'm sure people don't appreciate you persisting in ruining their threads and RPGs. Edit to the guy below: I'm referring to another thread when I said that. This wasn't the only one. Strange you are both from the Netherlands.

I know you aren't, that's why I said no one here in particular lol. Your post reminded me of all the people who seem to want to stick them into that grouping suddenly though. Like the person referring to them as "crybaby sellouts" and so on. Sorry for the confusion.

Personally, I won't miss it. It feels like we talk about this every couple months. People present their points, which mostly are straight out of text books or uninformed in some way (of course, there are many exceptions). Then we wind up with really, two clear sides on the argument and it goes [i]nowhere[/i] for pages. I see no point in dragging it out, and really that kind of makes it worth not even starting up in the first place. We live in a huge world with tons of unknowns. There has to be something worthwhile to debate other than that. I'm starting to feel this way about some of these religion threads as well. I find them interesting, but am I the only one that feels like every other decent sized thread here has been about that? It's getting monotonous. And while people make good points, it's starting to feel like the same ones. There are people here that will [i]always[/i] be highly religious and people who will [i]never[/i] give a damn, and nothing will change this. I think there is a point where it's just like, is this ever going to end? So no, I really have no problem with it being closed in that sense. However, who knows where it would have went... but history shows us it rarely goes anywhere worth waiting to find out about. I suppose it's better than all the damn depression threads from a month back though.

I think it's a bit much to expect this. You can't force people to write certain ways... by that standard a good deal of the people here would be gone by now. If it's easily readable I don't mind. I don't care if people don't use caps or abbreviatons (within reason - I see no problem with fav, but u is always annoying), as long as there is a good amount of punctuation and everything else. I think there is a line between encouraging good post quality and simply being too strict. Of course, that doesn't mean I like seeing "ya u like it 2? coofee rulezzz1!!" However, I think forcing the way I, or some others type, on here is a bit much.

This isn't directed at anyone, just a random statement based on various people I know. AFI has been around for years and always been doing the same thing. I hate how they, and The Ataris (who are being stuck into the "The" band category and largely ignored - although the new CD is pretty bleh) and a couple other bands, who have been struggling and putting out solid material for several years are suddenly plopped into this "MTV punk band" grouping. Blame the big labels they finally managed to get onto making them some decent videos and pushing them into larger recognition. To me there isn't even any comparison between that and a group that basically came out of nowhere and is all over the place due to a Blink182 pop punk influenced sound. To say that about AFI makes little sense to me, unless all you've heard is the singles off of Sing the Sorrow.