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I've met some guys from Star Trek. That's it. They're filming some movie on my block today, though. Like right outside my door. I'm not sure if it is Stranger Than Fiction or The Break Up, but if I run into Queen Latifah or Dustin Hoffman or Will Ferrell or Jennifer Aniston or whatever, I'll let you know lol.

[QUOTE=Morpheus]1. In Avril Lavigne's "My Happy Ending", they edited "all the s** that you do" to "all the stuff that you do". The lines meaning was comepletely ruined there. 2. In MCR's "I'm Not Okay 'I Promise' ", "I'm not O f***ing kay" was changed to "I'm really not okay". The line wasn't destroyed, but when I heard the actual track online, It made a hell of a lot more sense.[/QUOTE] See, when I see both of those, I honestly don't see any difference in the meaning aside from the edited being less aggressive. You're making it sound like you didn't even understand what was being accomplished when the word stuff was used... which just seems bizarre lol.

[quote name='wrist cutter']I like Japanese music because the Japanese are the coolest race in the world and their music is therefore superior to that from any other country.[/quote] :animesmil I like some of it. I prefer the more progressive groups I've come across such as The Pillows or Melt Banana. I just don't really have a thing for groups singing what generally amounts to 80s hair rock in another language. I'm not saying it's all like that at all, but a lot of what I've heard certainly has been. I also find the continually and randomly changing images of the lot of the groups I see somewhat distressing. It makes you feel like the image is just for attention and they'll shed it as soon as something else gets more popular. If people love the stuff, that's cool. I've always been bothered by the fact that many people will hunt out something as obscure as a random Japanese rock band but then turn around and say all music from Western countries suck just makes no sense to me. Why can't you bother to look beyond the radio in your own country? I'm generalizing here (I wouldn't even say a majority of people do that), but it still has bothered me. There's so much stuff that people don't even attempt to listen to before dismissing the entire area as a whole. People like wrist cutter are another story in general. I'm not into the things he is into, but he is genuinely into what he listens to and knows a good deal about it. It's not a "I heard this in an anime thing and I want to be connected to all things Japan!!" like you see sometimes. I respect that sort of thing.

Woo, boy, this will be closed soon if it remains a simple listing. I'm going to try and put some basic opinions along side this stuff. I listen to entire albums at a time. I don't really pick one song and loop it. Very rarely. So I'm just going to list a few albums. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll: A great Bristish rock/punk album wish some really catchy, yet abrasive, songs with really funny subjects that include not being able to get it up, hating modern art, young love, subscribing to US stereotypes, etc. Really great album. Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die: A really enjoyable rock album with some electic qualities to it. I really enjoy the tandem between the female and male vocalists and some of the very unlikely instrument usage. It has this really fun childlike, innocent quality to it in some ways. Say Anything - Is a Real Boy... : I've been listening to this a lot again lately, despite it coming out earlier last year. A really good rock album with some of the best lyrics of the last several years, if not ever. I particularly love the small jabs at hipsters, scensters and emo stuff. They're on an emo label, but I'd never label them as such.

The problem is that Law and Order is a show that is always advertised to contain a more adult type of content. Meanwhile on MTV, a song about having sex with someone's mom or killing yourself can be adjacent to a song about wanting to have a baby or loving someone genuinely. It's also played at any time of the day or night, unlike something like Law and Order that is primetime and not aimed at a general group. It's not really so clear cut, I think. I've never been a supporter of censorship, but I don't know that taking out the word "cut" is really that detrimental to the overall message of that song or anything it is trying to accomplish. Edits always sound weird and I can see how it might ruin the flow, but that's about it. Removing that basic word isn't stopping the band from making an important statement or doing something important or whatever else (regardless of what this specific group is trying to accomplish, I'm just talking generally). Sometimes I think the idea is taken a bit too far. There's a difference between not letting someone say cut or **** a few times in a song compared to cutting out entire sections that speak of some political or social action/comment the network doesn't happen to agree with (like with NIN on the MTV Movie Awards). I'm not going to run out and buy edited CDs or anything (there's no way in hell), but networks are just held to different guidelines that are based on viewership. MTV just happens to largely attract a group of people who are perhaps more impressionable. I suppose all you can do is buy your CDs unedited and enjoy the music how it was meant to be. As long as the option exists, I personally just deal with it. If that option was taken away (as in all CDs would be required to be edited, like Tipper Gore wanted way back when they established the explicit lyrics thing on new music), then I'd be taking a FAR different stance on this.

[quote name='Midboss']and if you do not know who At The Drive-In are you should not even be listening to TMV.[/quote] I don't see why. It's kind of an elitist viewpoint, really. Obviously The Mars Volta has two of the same members, but it also has two different ones. To listen to a new band putting out new material doesn't require you to know everything about their past... especially when The Mars Volta really goes for something totally different in overall scope, in my opinion. Still, more people should be listening to At the Drive-In in the first place anyway. I can't disagree with that. There's always Sparta too, but I don't care for them much.

The band doesn't expect to be at their same level of popularity as they were when Millenium came out. At least they know where to set their expectations, which I can respect. If people want to buy it, then that's cool by me. There's certainly far worse groups to listen to. Hell, I even like "The Call", personally.

I figure this was all just really a ploy to help their solo careers. When they more or less split up and Beyonce got really successful, it put the other two way in her shadow. I feel like this way, being more amicable among other things, gives them a far better springboard into doing other projects.

Superman is Superman. He's the archetype. I think it's hard to compare other superheroes to him in that sense because he has to maintain the ideal. Marvel has had some characters that are pretty much just as up there as far as invincibility goes. Despite this, I can't stand most Superman comics and I don't really care for the character. The enemies within the series are some of the worst ones that come to mind. Your other mention, Batman, pretty much fights directly against the idea of all DC characters being invincible to begin with... He doesn't have super powers, he's just a mortal man. That very idea has been something toyed with during the entire run, with him and his friends/allies/enemies within the comics. Either way, I don't really have any preference overall. You can't really think simply in terms of the main superheroes anymore because there's so much other stuff from both publishers right now, whether it's from them or another company under them. My favorite comics right now are published by Image (The Walking Dead) and Vertigo. The latter is owned by DC and publishes things like The Books of Magic, Hellblazer, Ex Machina, Fables, Y: The Last Man, Life During Wartime, etc. Every one of these goes against the "invincible superhero" idea. I don't think it's a valid excuse anymore. If you prefer Marvel's comics just from an enjoyment standpoint then that's cool by me. Personally, I don't know that I prefer one or the other. I don't really buy based on brand, I buy based on what is getting a good buzz and looks good. I'd say, overall, I have bought a pretty equal amount of comics between the two.

[QUOTE]Therefore, it's impossible to reject this truth when one thinks about it in a reasoned and logical manner, instead of sticking to familiar preconceptions.[/QUOTE] The funny thing is that if I thought in a "reasoned and logical manner" I'd disagree with that article in almost every way to begin with.

Personally, I no longer care for the group. Around the time of Casually Dressed they basically went away from the hardcore-ish sound and turned into a more pop-punk group. They're good at it, surprisingly, but it's just not anything I want to listen to personally. Hours kind of just solidified that. I wouldn't consider them hardcore at all anymore, it's really just their past now. Strangely (although probably not surprisingly) they seem more popular now lol.

With The Odyssey, you're comparing a several hundred page epic poem to mostly screenplays. I don't exactly understand how any decent comparions can really be made in that sense. The Shakespeare thing is more arguable since many movies are really nothing more than taped plays with "better" sets (among other things)... But again, I don't really understand why you're using random movies as comparisons considering how many absolutely excellent plays and such have been written in the last several decades.

More people have had to listen to this group than just three people here. :animesigh

If anything, I try instrumentals. Anything with vocals in it is distracting and I find myself paying too much attention to sleep. So, something like A Whisper in the Noise or A Beautiful Machine or whatever. Ambient stuff, I guess.

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[quote name='Zabuza][COLOR=Blue][SIZE=1]Your memory must really hate you because [SPOILER]You fight 'God' your second time through the game.[/SPOILER] and as for people knowing about Disgaea, it was an under the radar hit. Not TOO many people even know about it. Even to this day you'll be hard-charged to find lots of fans.[/SIZE'][/COLOR][/quote] I hardly meant the game sold three million copies or something, but you're comparing it to [i]Lunar[/i] of all things. That's my point. In any case, if you prefer the boss fight in one game it seemed strange to me to list another one simply because a handful more people know of it. It's not like comparing Final Fantasy to Stella Deus or something. There isn't a huge buyer difference. Lunar hasn't sold amazing well on this side of the ocean compared to anything else either. Disgaea at least made it onto top monthly sales charts and did well enough for Atlus to make a second production run, which they don't generally do. Both games are painfully unrepresented on OB though. I'm glad someone likes them enough to mention them in here, honestly lol.

Are you just trying to display one of these randomly whenever it loads up? If your server can use PHP (I know some free ones can't), there are far better ways to go about this.

I don't know how anyone can think any of those movies is just for children... The Incredibles in particular, considering it has a lot more adult themes and some pretty intense action/violence at times. I've never sat and watched a Pixar film and thought it was just like all their other work. It's the equivalent of thinking every live action film that isn't aimed solely at adults is all the same thing. To each thier own, I guess.

I've not played it yet, myself, but it seems like most people were not very impressed with it, yourself included. I guess that's a sign to forget about it. It's a shame too. I thought the original Playstation game was a total blast. One of Square's better action/adventure titles.

[quote name='Lord Dante']Yeh i guess so. but i used to have it on my old acorn RISC600, so it's just a nostalgia thing for me i think. i reckon it's the kind of game that's a laugh to play every once in a while.[/quote] Yeah, I can understand that much lol. Have you played the sequel? I heard it was better, but I never even saw it in the stores.

I only know what I've read about it. I didn't know it actually aired yet, but yeah. I don't really watch the channel to begin with. I did read about the Breakfast Club thing, which I thought was cool. I like all those old Molly Ringwald-ish films. I agree with their importance, largely because it's one of original movies that actually had [i]teenagers playing teenagers[/i]. Apparently that was a strange idea back then, don't ask me :rolleyes: lol. I'd like to hear the Yellowcard bit. I don't care for them, but Don't You Forget About Me is a great song. Foo Fighters played instead of Nine Inch Nails. NIN's new single "The Hand That Feeds" is basically about George Bush. They wanted to display a big, unaltered image of him behind them as they played, but MTV wouldn't allow it. Works for me, since what I've heard of the new Foo Fighters album owns the new NIN album anyway, in my opinion lol.

[quote name='Baron Samedi][size=1']And god damn, if it isn't better than wherever you're from.[/size][/quote] You're there. It automatically sucks. Zing. Anyway, I live in Chicago. I'm originally from California, but I've been here a vast majority of my life. I really love the city as a whole. I find most people who have never been here figure that Chicago is downtown (Sears Tower, etc) and that's the end of it. A vast majority of Chicago is really just normal neighborhoods. Regardless, I live very close to downtown and maybe a block from Lake Michigan. The place is full of obnoxious yuppies and their rat-sized dogs, but I still like it. It's great living in a busy area that's full of all sorts of different people. Even compared to the rest of Chicago, the area I'm in is really just kind of anything goes. Boystown (the section of the city that is pretty much focused on gay men for whatever reason) is very close, for example. I could honestly see it being far more of an issue in different parts of the city. So yeah, I like it here.

I bought this game way, way back on the SNES when it first hit that system. I know it originated on something strange like 3DO or something. Honestly, I think the game is a subpar platformer that feels more like a shareware PC action game than anything I'd consider "great". The game has its moments, but overall I think it's just a mess of stupid enemy designs, dumb levels (the first one looks like candy and cake, whatever) and needlessly mazelike layouts (particularly the later stages). Obviously I don't care for it, but it's slightly better than something like Bubsy... which is probably its closest comparison.

[quote name='dankata']i have an action replay 3.3 version.i am playing pokemon fire red and i put in some codes for pokeballs tms complete pokedex.... and they work.but when i tried to put the encounter codes the codes that you get pokemons they didnt work.i tried with 5-6 different codes but with no effect.i want to ask where will the pokemon that i want appear.thank you[/quote] You didn't get a response before... which probably means no one really knows. I'd suggest checking out GameFAQs and seeing if anyone on their Pokemon Fire Red message board is having the same problems. Most of the time that sort of stuff is answered there somewhere.

[quote name='Dagger]Yet there are also times when I encounter a show or movie that makes me wonder how someone could possibly enjoy it [i]without[/i'] admitting that it sucks. Liking a series because it's a guilty pleasure (for whatever reason) is normal and all, but I am sometimes baffled at how people try to seriously defend so-and-so as groundbreaking entertainment or a brilliant work of art.[/quote] Yeah, totally. I wasn't referring to situations such as that because, let's face it, some things really just are not very good no matter how objective I'm trying to be. However, a lot of the examples in here are more along the lines of "I don't like the theme this show has so it's freaking awful!!!" I don't see how that works. As for the "It's made in some Asian country, so it can count as anime!" argument, I don't know. A vast majority of animation is not done in the US anymore. It has become increasingly difficult to really say what should be what in that regard. To me the most important aspect is where the premise and designs originated from. When animation is generally outsourced because major US companies are basically just [i]cheap[/i], I'm not exactly sure why it should be considered anything other than what it is.