So as we all know, I’m one of the lazier staff members around. -points to blog-
Amazingly though I do do some work, today alone I’ve had the following and thought I’d share….
Mod work.
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Category Archives: Rant
A thought about Easter
Well, with the German Easter holidays approaching, I started to wonder why there never was an Easter special in the animes I saw (at least I don’t remember). There is a focus on every little day that I barely heard about (e.g. St. Whites day, St. Patricks Day) but I saw an anime covering Easter? Why could that be?
The H-Bomb: Hentai
To every other non-Japanese fan of anime, more often than not he or she gets ridiculed for watching “silly cartoons”, and this is normal. If you have not, I salute your awesomeness.
For every other non-fan of anime, he or she sometimes will make the association between anime and hentai, and then you wonder, “How the heck did you make that assumption?” Well the answer is that for some reason, the stereotype exists that all anime fans watch hentai, that “tentacle rape” stuff. I blame “Urotsukidoji” for propagating the hentai stereotype… not! That reminds me I need to watch “Urotsukidoji” myself to see what all the hype’s about. Continue reading
Weekly dose of fail
This past few weeks we really gave us a hard time choosing the winners of the “Fail of the week contest” because of great interest and massive number of applications received…
Reading the Wiki is quite hard, but apparently typing is no cinch either…
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I am smrt coz I google
We weren’t originally planing to blog about this guy, but he really kept pushing it – well I guess we just went ahead with it.
Protip: don’t tell us your plans to (attempt to) cheat:
I made this account because my real account (i previously told you it was my bro’s account) in my own PC was suspended because i logged in from a friend’s account and i cant access the Web IRC thingy. Page doesnt load after the 3-line disclaimer. I made this account to take links of animes and dl them as a public leecher and just to dl a few GB of hentai and get banned and then i would never come to BBT again. But i guess everything changed. Now let me google “How to change your IP”.
Fail of the week
Been a while since we had something interesting to post for this section, not because the amount of fail has decreased or disappeared altogether but rather because we stopped being surprised by it and thought we had seen it all… We were wrong…
It’s amazing how some people will always find new ways to fail.
Where did someone manage to find a new way of failing you ask? It was on the wiki this time 🙄
A Day In the Life
As any admin/mod knows, you will always be insulted for doing your job, no matter how conscientious, hardworking and good-natured you are (not that we are all of the above three, but I’m sure we fit at least one of them ;x). To the admin/mod-to-bes, here’s what you can expect if you ever take up such a position:
Via PM:
I didn’t think that Anime Discussion was the appropriate board because I was asking information on the torrent, not the anime itself. Also, I figured that “Identification” meant identifying something about the torrent. Take your elitist bullshit somewhere else, actually, whine about it some more. I’m here to leech anyway, I don’t care how asspained you get.
Thanks for the over 1TB of Anime absolutely free. 😉
Later faggot.
To fansub or not to fansub
For the few of you who know me (or rather, the few of you that actually care), you know that I have gotten into fansubbing lately. It was partly on a whim, and partly to see just what it’s like to be a fansubber.
Technically I’m part of two groups who have taken different approaches to fansubbing. I can’t really say which is better, or which I like more, but I can’t say it’s all bad either.
Anyway, so I’ve worked on a few projects so far and I’ve gotten better along the way. So now I’ve reached the point where I wonder why I still do it.
I initially didn’t want to do fansubbing just because I didn’t think that I would have time to work on it on a weekly basis, but thankfully one of the groups let gave me the opportunity to try without the weekly deadlines to deal with. Then I joined another to work on a side project that didn’t have weekly deadlines either. Fast forward a few months and here I am, working on a series on a weekly basis -__-. This is actually my second series that I’m working on. The first one I was somehow convinced to QC even though I never signed up to do that, and the second one I’ve been made to edit because the editor has gone permanently AFK it seems and somehow I ended up editing another series next season.
Anyway, that’s just me ranting since I know I’ll quit at some point, and then deal with all the attempts to guilt me back that will probably happen (you know who you are). Fansubbing isn’t particularly FUN to me or anything, but it seems to be another thing that I just end up doing for some unknown reason and then continuing for some amount of time.
Anyway, there’s no real point to this point since it’s just a rant, so…. yeah….
Actually, for a rant, it’s pretty short >_>
Anyway, I blame you! (You know who you are).
Regression
Ok, so I’m many months late on this rant, but anyway.
13 years ago, Madhouse animated Tetsuwan Birdy. This is what it looked like:
This year, in 2009, A1 Pictures animated Tetsuwan Birdy DECODE 2. This is what it looks like:
Ok, so it’s a 13-ep series vs an OVA. Madhouse vs A1. Digital techniques vs traditional handrawn techniques. And admittedly DECODE didn’t look that bad consistently, I just picked on it at a low point. BUT STILL! We are regressing unacceptably!
Whatever that sorry excuse for an image is, it’s atrocious.
(No, “artistic direction” is not a valid excuse.)
Ughh, downtown
I hate going downtown. There’s nothing to see there, the pedestrian walkways stink of automotive exhaust and fucking cigarette smoke, and people walk so slow they’re like chibis with fucking stumps for legs. Each time I go for a few hours and come home with a sore throat from all that air pollution >.< And let’s not even get started on noise pollution.
Maybe that’s why city people are so cranky – cities are just horrible places to live in.