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Post by Tassatul on Feb 21, 2007 20:45:32 GMT -5
For ebay some sellers require paypal. I thought.
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Post by daft alchemist on Feb 21, 2007 23:16:55 GMT -5
Some of them do, I think. I can't remember if I've bought from any, but I would've taken notice anyway I guess since I use it.
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Post by BugHunter on Feb 22, 2007 0:19:48 GMT -5
I've only gotten a few things online thus far
Why is everyone slammin on Buu? He was one of my favorite characters. I get the same reactions whenever i use him in Bodukai. Those whiney complaints stop when i turn them to chocolate.
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Post by daft alchemist on Feb 22, 2007 9:19:39 GMT -5
That's when my whiney complaints would start.
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Post by zoner on Feb 22, 2007 22:17:38 GMT -5
fat buu is the only funny one. One or two human snacks and he turns into the muscular "Rarr me kill you and eat you and I'm so outwardly overconfident about my powers that I'll put a hand behind my back to fight, but I'm so insecure I'll start a two-hour dialogue to stall confrontation." enemy that everyone ese loves (A.K.A every DBZ baddie, or for that fact most heroes.) Not to put down on DBZ, I love it, but The weakest one I can think of is hercule and I don't remember him saying more than four consecutive sentences, he just runs in and gets blown up. All the others just talk and gamble and threat and think aloud forEVER.
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Post by daft alchemist on Feb 22, 2007 23:47:08 GMT -5
Hercule sucked so hard. "I'm the greatest, they're just magicians, the camera loves me, overblown laughter!" Geez. My favorite bad guy was Cell, actually. I don't even remember why. He just looked so cool and stuff.
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Post by BugHunter on Feb 23, 2007 1:08:29 GMT -5
hehe, i thought it was amuzing that they gave Hercule a jetpack in Bodukai.
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Post by Jalathas on Feb 23, 2007 11:04:25 GMT -5
Hercule sucked so hard. "I'm the greatest, they're just magicians, the camera loves me, overblown laughter!" Geez. My favorite bad guy was Cell, actually. I don't even remember why. He just looked so cool and stuff. Yeah, I liked Cell and fat Buu. Until Cell started spewing retarded mini-mes out of his tail. That looked disgusting and I stopped liking him.
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Post by Tassatul on Feb 23, 2007 12:10:36 GMT -5
fat buu is the only funny one. One or two human snacks and he turns into the muscular "Rarr me kill you and eat you and I'm so outwardly overconfident about my powers that I'll put a hand behind my back to fight, but I'm so insecure I'll start a two-hour dialogue to stall confrontation." enemy that everyone ese loves (A.K.A every DBZ baddie, or for that fact most heroes.) Not to put down on DBZ, I love it, but The weakest one I can think of is hercule and I don't remember him saying more than four consecutive sentences, he just runs in and gets blown up. All the others just talk and gamble and threat and think aloud forEVER. Only in the anime, however. The manga is much more streamlined, with like, not six or so episodes of powering up and talking *gasp* just admitted i've read some of the manga *hide* *comes back* Also. It has come to my attention that Chris Cornell has left Audiosuc-er, slave. This leaves only Brad Wilk, Tom Morello, and Tim Commerford. It has also come to my attention that the remainder of Audioslave is doing a show in California in the near future. With Zach de la Rocha. For those of you who havent already guessed. . . with their powers combined, they are RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. I can't get the grin off my face.
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Post by Cobra5 on Feb 23, 2007 14:16:52 GMT -5
The only thing I know about any of that is Cass said she liked Audioslave.
I don't listen to a lot of modern music... I want to, some of it I really like, but I don't really have the means (I don't even have a CD player).
But, my mom just bought Sirius satellite radio. Which is cool. So far I really like it.
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Post by daft alchemist on Feb 23, 2007 15:34:43 GMT -5
You know, even with satellites and MP3 players, I still think that CDs are probably the best source for music out there. There's no timely downloading (depending on your connection), you can listen to all music from one band whenever you want. They're pretty sweet. That and mini-disks. I don't know much about them since it was a friend of mine who owned a player, but apparently each disk could hold as much music as a single MP3 player, so that's pretty cool. And what's even cooler is the disks look like tiny floppy disks, and that's just cute. ;D
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Post by zoner on Feb 23, 2007 17:21:21 GMT -5
Only in the anime, however. The manga is much more streamlined, with like, not six or so episodes of powering up and talking *gasp* just admitted i've read some of the manga *hide* I like reading manga, the older series (how do I spell plural series?). It's fun watching people give me stares through the corner of my eye as I turn the pages in a direction they're not used to. Takes some getting used to not reading left to right, though.
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Post by daft alchemist on Feb 23, 2007 18:50:29 GMT -5
I adjusted pretty easily with the "backwards" reading. I dunno why, but it just came really easy to me. I prefer reading manga to watching anime, because a lot of really dumb anime shows are really good manga series. No one will believe me ever, but the Inu Yasha manga rocks very, very hard. The anime is total crap though. I can't stand to watch it.
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Post by Cobra5 on Feb 23, 2007 20:55:58 GMT -5
Yeah, I can't believe you when you say that.
Besides the fact that the only reason you ever cite for it being better is that its more gory, it suffers hard from two (in my mind) fatal flaws: It really emphisizes the "super unique" thing we all talk about, and that results in 1-dimensional characters, and its second flaw, its got that whole "Coming-of-age-romance" story which is really, really not my thing...
The whole "feudal japan" setting goes against my palette as well, but that's my own tastes and not the show's fault.
Speaking about anime. Am I the only one who feels that the animation quality is very low in anime? Even shows like Futurama, which don't even really focus on looks, their characters may be less detailed, but their animations are so much more fluid.
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Post by BugHunter on Feb 24, 2007 0:09:57 GMT -5
YES!!! In a lot of anime's, especially the factory canned ones like Inu Yasha, Yugioh, (and even DBZ) have very very little real animation. My animation professor was notorious for hating anime's for that reason. He was the one who opened my eyes to this fact as well and this plays in part the reasons why i am drifting away from anime as well. Unless they're made by the great animation masters from down there, a lot of Japan's anime's consist of a lot of drawn out dialogue which then results in the characters mostly just standing still and most won't even bother getting the mouth movements fluid either. In Japan, they want to get their shows out the door in development. Not to mention all the faces are the same. And it doesnt help that the style promotes hack artists who can't really draw. I mean, unless this is your time of learning, copying isn't that bad for study, but if you're still drawing the same cheap anime faces for more than 10 years, its time to move on. And I too am not liking the majority of stories that come out that are all lovey-dovey, touchy-feeling anime's. That and the "I'm all full of angst and am a rebel teenager, shut up don't talk to me or else I'll run away in teary-eyed anguish!!!" stories. Koreans seem to have a better reputation in making animated shows (Futurama and the Simpsons are animated by Koreans), but this might be because they chain them down and dont let them out until the show is fully done. I dont know about their animated movies though. In fact, a lot of the American cartoons we see are animated by Koreans. We design them, then we export it out to Korean labor . At least this was the formula at Curious Studios that I visited down in Manhattan. They're the ones who do Codename Kids Next Door (which just ended its time of production by the time i visited them, which was last month). They're also aligned with several other shows that appear on Nickelodeon. You wanna see some real animation, check this out, its called "The Thief and the Cobbler": www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=55EE5872FE454FBAIts from the three-time Academy Award winning animator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Richard Williams (he's also the author of my animation textbook "Animator's Survival Guide". This is his unfinished animated masterpiece, so it has some animatics edited in of the unfinished parts and some linework isn't colored. But whats left is still so phenomenal! Its like from the 70's. It was worked on for 26 years! It was also part of the inspiration for Disney's Aladdin. If you watch it all the way till the end, u're just gonna be baffled by the end sequence. I was blown away when i saw this. And its ALL animated by hand drawn work!! Richard Williams was a true master animator of the Western world. He's up there with Katsuhiro Otomo who did Akira and Steamboy. These are the true artists we study.
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