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At first I was all "Hail Satan!" Then I was all "Hail.... bunny rabbits?"
Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
I saw that on Metal Hammer last week.
Oddly Awesome.
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Wow... I laughed quite a lot, but by the gods I love japan
Apparently (according to the band's Wiki page) , this is a fusion of "idol pop" and metal, known as "Kawaii Metal" - I'm not sure if I love it or hate it, but it's stupidly catchy, that's for sure...
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I think Dutch people are weird, Americans even more so, but Japanese people are really on a completely different level of weirdness...
Now I am confused... Do I like this or not?
But to fully reach the full heights of confusion it requires the unintelligible dialogue of Jeff Bridges!
North Fork Tracts Canadian...with the Crick bag whistle hogs? Them boys...making me hard on again
That is not weird! It would have been weird if there would be an American who could actually speak clear, intelligible English Sorry guys, I just like making fun of Americans and I really have no right of speech here, as I tend to ghave a rrratherr gheavy slavic aksent and found it hard to make myself understandable in the UK
I was going to say it has cute Asian girls, but upon closer inspection they looked even younger than normal...I looked up their ages. 16, 14, 14...
I'm going to pass on this one, thanks...
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Breotan wrote: Hang on. It starts out as metal then polymorphs into j-pop?
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And then back again... several times.
Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
Oh Japan, what on earth is going on over there? Like Iron Captain said, everyone sees everyone else as being different, but Japan just takes it SO much further.
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nwabudikemorgan wrote: Oh Japan, what on earth is going on over there? Like Iron Captain said, everyone sees everyone else as being different, but Japan just takes it SO much further.
I think this cracked article sort of explains why people perceive Japan as strange.
To our Western sensibilities, it looks like Lovecraft went anime, but most Japanese viewers probably reacted with a shrug before flipping back to their tentacle porn.
This line is just golden
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It's probably a testament to Cheesecat's point that Westerners are so familiar with tentacle porn even thought it makes a very small faction of the total porn produced in Japan
How do I know this... Hats know things... That is all.
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well, people tend to remember stuff that's different.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
I spent 3 years there ... let me assure you, the only ones who will understand are those of Asian heritage. They have a mind set much different than what I was used to. I had to beg my GF to walk side by side with me when we would go to Hachinohe mall. They have Beer machines like we have soda pop machines, all out in public for anyone to buy.
OT: I actually was digging the music until it turned to some sort of Kesha song, but it went back to the hateful gak again after a bit. Not bad really.
Now, we like big books. (And we cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny, a book flops open with an itty-bitty font, and a map that’s in your face, you get—sorry! Sorry!)
Wth was that. The dancing manoeuver with the pointing at the head ? Have I time travelled back to the 80's glam metal era, where the bands have been replaced by overly young girls ( truth be said most glam metal singers looked like ugly girls) . I think I need to find some drugs to take away any memory of this...thing i just saw.
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
I don't see how Japan is really much weirder than America. Simply being different doesn't necessarily means that it is weird. Kawaii is a big deal over there as well as in China, RoK, and other Asian countries to a lesser extent. There isn't really a fascination with cuteness in America. America is really the opposite. There is definite fascination with violence and hyper masculinity in various media.
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