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Post by Kyashi on Sept 20, 2010 20:43:25 GMT -6
We should have a real venting thread! So, say whatever about whatever... That's why this thread is here... I'll start... > Capcom, I hate you! You suck! Westernizing Japanese video games is a dumb idea, since we like your games BECAUSE they are Japanese, and not western. Get a friggin' clue... Oh, and give me back MY Dante, or you're screwed. SCREWED! You cannot have Devil May Cry without the real Dante.
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Post by tynged on Sept 20, 2010 23:55:52 GMT -6
I just watched this video blogger and anime reviewer's ragging on things lost in translation. It's a little too ranty for my taste, but then it shows this scene from Pokemon where Brock points to a set of oni-giri and insists that "These donuts are great! Jelly filled are my favorite! Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut!" OMG LAWLING FOR EVER my childhood is now complete. ;D That is such a perfect gem of awkwardness. ... Huh? Oh yeah, rant. Hey, I can understand not wanting to leave the audience out of the loop when it comes to certain cultural references. I can understand, if I don't agree with, making those two Sailor Moon guardians very close cousins. I can even understand Mr. Popo being so blue that if they'd made movie!Dr.Manhattan that blue I wouldn't have looked twice once at his member actually couldn't Mr. Popo have been just a little less bright blue? No? That's fine, that really is completely and totally okay by me. But why was eating rice considered one of these risque/obscure cultural things? Why are proper nouns like people's names considered another? I mean, there's translating-- a noble and effortful profession that we owe so much of our enjoyment to --and then there's... well... and then there's this, coming off as patronizing, ethnocentric jerks. This is probably beating a dead horse, I've seen and appreciate how most translators seem to've gotten their bearings since the 90's... right?
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Post by Unger69 on Sept 21, 2010 7:40:41 GMT -6
I have a feeling this thread is going to be used a lot. Which is good...I think.
Anyways. I need to vent about a few things.
First: I'm majoring in Music Ed. Which I knew was going to be stressful. Heck, what isn't stressful. But throwing three instruments and telling me to be able to play a piece on one of them, and master the other two...I can't do. I don't have the time. In which they beg to differ. Claiming I never practice and all I do is hang out with friends. Which is false. The only time I see them is if we have the same class or when I eat lunch and supper. Or if we randomly decide to go somewhere to waste time. Which is always late at night. After homework has been done or is close to being done. Last week one of my friends found out we have to give a recital in front of a panel of judges. Alone. Would have been nice to find that out right away instead of a few weeks into the program. She told me and my instructor for my independent flute studies hasn't even mentioned it. Which she is the one who is supposed to tell me. Cause she would be the one to help me prepare for it. I've always loved music but DANG. If this keeps up, I might just go crazier.
Second: I have two groups of friends here. But they don't hate each other, but they don't get alone. One group has the same major so we help each other out with homework and practicing but the other group is just some people I really get along with. However, they both ask me to do the same things or conflicting things and it's getting irritating. I don't want to make people mad but it's getting real old.
Third: There is this person I know who has been ranting about things that really should't be mentioned. Like she has been trying to get a friend to see her way but the friend refuses. Well you can't change their actions and my friend doesn't seem to understand that. She freaked out once cause we never gave her advice or anything. Which what advice can you give her except to move on? Which she doesn't do. And it's frustrating.
Fourth: Le sigh. This might get long. Beware. Not that it's long and full of ranting already. XD My dad (he might be here in this thread a lot) looked at my car a while ago and said it was great and shouldn't have any problems. When he looked at it two weekends ago, he told me that if we didn't get this part replaced super soon, my tire would stop working. Now mind you, he never told me until I was leaving for my dorm. 3 1/2 hours away. He looked at my car, that morning. It was late evening when he told me. He never forgot, he said it himself, he just didn't feel as if I should know. So I left and came back this last weekend to get it fixed and he told me that if we don't get another part replaced I might lose my steering wheel. Which has happened before. It wasn't fun. Again, he told me as I was walking out the door to drive back to my dorm. And I realized the next weekend was Anime Crossroads. So I asked my dad if my car would be fine for that. And he told me if anything happens he would be shocked. I've never had car issues until I got my second car. My first one was like a dream car. While it was older, I never had any problems with it. Minus the day that confirmed I needed a new car. The steering went out on it. Hence why I'm slightly panicing about my car. I really don't want to have another broken steering wheel. It's not exactly on my list of things I want.
*sigh* My apologies for it being long. I just have tons to say today. ^^'
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Post by dyzzispell on Sept 21, 2010 12:13:34 GMT -6
So sorry you've got so much stressing you, Unger. Vent all you want. You deserve to. As for me, I made the mistake of sort of taking on a "padawan", if you will. Basically, over at the Christian Manga forums, this college freshman from the college I went to sent me a PM asking how I came up with the story for my "Work In Progress" comic. So I told him. He responded, "Wow. That was really in depth." And then he proceeded to tell me about his fanfiction ideas. The problem is, he is so much influenced by the cartoons he grew up with - most of which were Disney - that he doesn't seem to have his own imagination. Being so much older than him and not knowing most of the cartoons he watched, I couldn't really relate to what he was talking about when he described what he wanted to do with his stories, but I sort of did a stupid thing and encouraged him. Then, there was this anime I grew up with called Superbook. Well, he's writing a fanfiction taking the children from that story and making them teenagers. Sounded good to me. He said it would be kind of like a Goofy Movie (which I also didn't see). Whatever, you can use that as a model if you want. He posted his introduction (which he initially called an "epilogue," by the way) last night. After reading it, I was curious, so I looked up the Goofy Movie on Youtube. The kid basically scripted the entire beginning of the movie, dialogue and all, inserting the Superbook characters for the movie's characters. I don't think I've ever seen someone with less imagination in my life, and I feel so bad for the kid. Besides the fact that he can't write - grammatical and spelling errors everywhere - his descriptions are horribly repetitive. Like, "Beams of light beamed lightly on his bed in his bedroom." What?? Oh, and he took the cute little dog from Superbook and turned her into an old bag monster dog who eats everthing. (Ruffles could never have turned into what he described. She was a very small, yappy dog, but cute.) In the beginning, she eats the main character's cell phone, so he goes fishing around inside her mouth to dig it out. He then says, "This is why dogs cannot have cake." I DIED laughing when I read that, because I have NO idea what that has to do with anything! XD So I asked my husband what to say to him, and he said, "Don't say anything". Sure, except he'd already sent me a message on DeviantART asking if I read it yet. So I couldn't avoid him. I had no choice but to crush his spirit. But rather than tell him what I really think - that he doesn't know how to write - I told him I didn't think anyone would want to read the script to the Goofy Movie when they could just go watch the original. And I told him to be more creative. The moral of this story? Sometimes, being nice to people SUCKS.
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Post by tynged on Sept 21, 2010 12:34:43 GMT -6
Unger, that's wild. I'm struggling with just knowing how to press the keys and look at the notes at the same time. At least instruments and grades are mostly objective. Social drama, on the other hand... Dizzi, in my opinion you said exactly the right thing. Reason's usually better than a soul-crushing personally targeted sweeping statement, even though both would be better than silence.
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Post by avyquinn on Sept 21, 2010 12:42:43 GMT -6
Kyashi. You poor thing. ; ; Don't let the anger and bitterness get the best of you! XD Remember Dante as he was.. a beautiful white haired stallion of a man. <3 Tynged RAWR! I HATE when things are dumbed down (or changed) for the north american audience!! All that's left to do is learn Japanese. ... Yeah, cause THAT'S a snap. (X.x) Unger! Play one and master the other two? WTF? Wowza. Do you have to ask to go to the bathroom too? One of the things I've learned is that if you try to please anyone you'll just hate yourself for it. I'm sure you're probably getting to that point now.... as for your ranting friend who doesn't seem to be able to make her own decisions? I agree with you when you tell her to just get over it. Sorry she's being annoying. :/ I hope everything works out with your car, sweetie. I am looking forward to meeting you and I hope it all works out. It's really too bad you're not coming up from south of us. You'd be more than welcome to stay at our place to give yourself a driving break. Sometimes, being nice to people SUCKS. QFTSorry, Dyzzi. It's hard to be nice to people and say sugar coat something that shouldn't be sugar coated. Your padawan isn't gonna learn if he doesn't know, and the best thing you can do is provide unbiased feedback - which is pretty much what you did. He sounds like a kid, and I'm sure he'll get over it. Don't beat yourself up. As for me... I don't have much to rant and rave about at the moment. If people didn't get what I was ranting about yesterday... Long story short: I asked a friend (not a good friend or anything, just a girl I hang out with casually) to look in on my yorkie while we were gone to anime crossroads this saturday. 20 min job tops. She said ok. Cool beans. She calls me and tells me her and her man are going to TN for a week next monday. She asks if I can watch her black lab mix. Big, hyper dog. I said ok, for how long. 3 days, she says. (!) (that's a little longer than 20 minutes......) I don't drive (can't drive legally anyway) and she lives on the other side of the city. I offered to stay at her house because her dog would destroy mine. Her man's mother lives next door to them and yet I have to hang out at their house for 3 days.....? I think I got taken. -.-; Let me reiterate Dyzzi's earlier point. Being nice to people DOES suck.
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Post by dyzzispell on Sept 21, 2010 13:15:07 GMT -6
You said it, Avy. That's totally wrong, that they have someone next door but still ask you. Unless the mother-in-law is as fragile as my mom or her sisters - then there's no way she could handle the dog. But seriously, there's NO ONE else closer she could've asked? That's a bit of an uneven favor-return...
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Post by avyquinn on Sept 21, 2010 13:34:59 GMT -6
You said it, Avy. That's totally wrong, that they have someone next door but still ask you. Unless the mother-in-law is as fragile as my mom or her sisters - then there's no way she could handle the dog. But seriously, there's NO ONE else closer she could've asked? That's a bit of an uneven favor-return... His mom is looking after the dog for the rest of the week that I don't have to. So idkwtf is up with that. There's a guy they're friends with who lives a helluva lot closer than I do and he drives, but I didn't ask if they asked him or not. No sense in bitching about it if I'm not going to do anything about it though. XD
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Post by Kyashi on Sept 21, 2010 18:26:36 GMT -6
QFT! Avy, you always describe things in the BEST way!! Yes, this is what I want to remember him by, word for word... I've got nothing else to rant about, atm, so I'll just go around validating y'all, if you don't mind... @unger: I hope your car situation gets fixed soon. Social drama sucks and your friends will change over time, naturally, but it sucks when you're stuck in the middle of it all right now. @dyzzi: I feel for ya, hun. I've had to be in similar situations, myself. You just have to be honest in a kind way. He will appreciate it because he will not receive this sort of kind criticism in the future, so he'll remember that you were unusually kind to him about his lack of talent. @avy: You're dealing with a swindler here, through and through. She sees an opportunity, and she runs with it for miles. It sucks, but you'll just have to put up with it this time, but don't let her take you, again. Don't make any deals with this person EVER again. You've learned...
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Post by Unger69 on Sept 21, 2010 22:07:14 GMT -6
Alright. So in one of my classes, we are giving constructive criticism to our fellow classmates as they give speeches. I do not do well at being constructive with my criticism. I prefer to be blunt with it and could care less how they feel about it. My teacher, begs to differ. She doesn't want us to be blunt but nice about it. Which is understandable. But still. Did I mention we are getting graded on our criticism? Cause we are. And I think its bull.
I like bluntness, she doesn't. It's gunna be a LONG semester...
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Post by dyzzispell on Sept 22, 2010 13:19:39 GMT -6
Wow, GRADED on criticism?? That's the weirdest assignment I've ever heard. So that's what they're teaching in college now? How to sugar-coat things? Huh. And... the purpose of that is...? I definitely feel for you, Unger. That's just not right. I tend to be more blunt, too. Sometimes TOO blunt. But I hope you're able to get through it without too much trouble. My "padawan" seems to have survived my criticism. I don't know if I was blunt or not, but it sure felt like I was tearing him to bits. Anyway, he's asked me now for help to rewrite his story, and I have to tell him I don't have time to help him. I so hate letting people down. On top of that, we've now had 2 out of 3 open houses where not one single person showed up. (We just had one today that I had to clean the house for.) I know the market's bad, but really! It's so frustrating!! Plus I went and put all the stuff I had out in preparation for NYAF back upstairs in storage for NOTHING. How annoying.
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Post by Kyashi on Sept 22, 2010 19:09:45 GMT -6
You're selling your house, dyzz? You poor thing... Good luck with that, seriously...
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Post by dyzzispell on Sept 22, 2010 22:18:50 GMT -6
Yeah, trying to sell and get a mother-daughter with my mom... It doesn't help that this whole area was underwater earlier this year with all the flooding that got lots of news coverage. (We weren't underwater, but a lot of the area around us was, so people watching the news would've thought the entire area was under.)
I have another thing to rant about that I just discovered. So NY Anime Fest and NY Comic Con merged this year. But they decided that the dealers would all have the same exhibitor space on the same floor, and the Artist Alley and panels for NYAF would be downstairs. Not happy about that, but whatever.
So now I just looked at the floorplan to find Kinokuniya bookstore and I discovered that all the Comic Con and Anime Fest exhibitors are mingled together. There's no set area for one or the other. And being that the dealer area is sooooo huge, there's no way I'll have enough time to get away from my table to look through anything. I mean, I usually get away once in a while to walk around, but with a floor that big and crowds and such to go hunting and pecking through, I'll never find anything I want.
So I'm really annoyed that I probably won't get to enjoy much of the convention. I hope the NYCC/NYAF staff find that this aggravates fans of both American and Japanese comics so much so that they never do this again. Depending on how this year goes, I may never go to NYAF again. If it even exists after this year, anyway.
I'm probably not as mad as Kyashi about Dante, but I think it's pretty darn close at this point...
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Post by AllyKatt on Sept 22, 2010 23:06:27 GMT -6
HAY i don't mean to derail your rant, but ... if you get the chance to break away, look for the "vampire freaks" table in the dealer's room. and ask for annabel. she's one of my best friends in the world!
if you see her, give her a BIG hug for me. she's a gorgeous blonde goth chick, can't miss her!
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Post by Kyashi on Sept 22, 2010 23:54:09 GMT -6
@dyzz: Then I feel your pain, hun. Believe me, I do...
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