Don- otakus/bows


to ranma@ml.usagi.org
from Brad Clark <bradster@iglou.com>
subject Don- otakus/bows
date Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:59:06 -0400
Don:
(what brought this on?)

>    I've been thinking about this some time, and I think I dislike those who
>are *otakus* (not limited to just Anime, though) more than those that are
>just stupid.

Problem is, you've got the people who think 'otaku' is a bad thing, people
who think it's a good thing, and the subset of the former who make sure to
draw the 'otaku' line so that THEY'RE not one of them, no matter how
obsessed they are.


> Now if you've
>done any amount of fansubing you know the quality is horrendous.

This is pretty funny... some hardcores on a message board I frequent swear
by fansubs over any commercial release unless the picture and sound drop
out on a regular basis, and refuse to buy commercial releases because
they're inferior.   Personally, I think they just want their anime free and
right off the Japanese TV set.


> And yet otakus
>will always say the original is better even though it's always that same old
>10 or so people with most probably the same generic tone you've heard a
>gazillion times (e.g. the Megumi Hayashibara voice, the Inoue Kikuko voice,
>etc...)  

I really like the English Faye Valentine voice (for instance), and can't
even imagine why someone would prefer 'Motormouth' Hayashibara instead,
unless she's so radically different from her normal VA type that you
wouldn't recognize her.


>Actually, it seems like to the Otaku, Japan is associated with the
>realm of the Gods.  Everything is possible in Japan, 

This has been my major pet peeve for quite a long time.  Reading MB posts
with little high school (and some college) punks whining about how much the
U.S. sucks, and how they're going to move to Japan as soon as they can.
Even hearing from Colin and Pierre about how that's nearly impossible
anyway, it still frosts me.  Do they think they'll be welcomed as a
brother/sister just by saying they like anime?  (and the fact that many of
these people are staunchly anti-hentai is a stone riot)  Do the guys
realize that Japanese companies appear to frown on single employees, and
marriage might very well entail getting rid of your collection?

<forces self to cut rant short, though it could have gone on longer>
========

>Don, who thinks the whining Amazons deserve to have the bow bug slapped in
>their face.  They were balanced with everyone else (Bars are a lost cause)
>and they now want to do 3 times more damage than everyone else so they can
>become the 2nd Bar class.  No way.

Well, there's a difference between whining about a nerfed special ability,
and having a bug screwing up the damages of a whole class of weapon that
you must use unless you want to get rid of an entire TREE of special
abilities.  I mean, it's pretty frustrating when you can't trust your
listed damage to be correct, and have to shoot at a scrawny NM zomie at
least 10 times to kill it, when it should be 5 at most.  Having said that,
I'm currently only playing with a hacked Sorceress because the game got
pretty tiresome a while back.

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