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RIP IN PEACE RIP Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:58 am
I've been alright. Just trying to hurry up and finish FF13 so I can be done with it.
Other then that, just been contemplating whether I want to just get a new EasyCap, or kick in the extra $40 for a Dazzle. Kinda want to go the EasyCap root, just because my old one worked (mostly) fine and for $10 it got the job done. But, the dazzle has far more features, more connectors, and the model I was looking at had a built in splitter.
Also, end of the month BlazBlue Continuum Shift hits. Kinda pissed that we're not getting the Limited Edition bundle; I wanted that art book, and Noel figure.
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:03 pm
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RIP IN PEACE RIP Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:49 pm
I threw up. Literally. Next on my to-do list: KILL the Japanese. After I kill everyone in America, that is.
Seriously, as if Dragonball Z wasn't bad enough, Naruto has actually gone and become even more of a burnout than that series. Not to mention, it still eludes me how people can be so horrificly obsessed with the series. Then again, it's just another teenage fantasy that caters to wannabe Japanophiles. It's not really that different from the vampire emo fantasy or the zombie goth fantasy they are pointless and annoying.
On a different note, I beat Gabriel Celeste on SO4 today. I actually didn't have to much trouble, I had Sarah and Lymle as healers, and Arumat as my main damage dealer, while I manually controlled Bacchus as my tank/stunner. I actually went back right after saving and took on his four-winged form. I plan to take on his six-winged form once I hit 150, or after I beat the Queen, whichever comes first.
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:57 pm
Wow. Just wow. I can understand the town capitalizing on this, like the Japanese do so much and so hard. Lets face it. They capitalize on EVERYTHING. And Japan is such a brand related society that those will probably be huge. But why would anyone buy currency on eBay? That's like selling a 10 dollar bill for more than its worth. Which is what will literally happen with those. If anyone is actually willing to buy those, it better be at the exchange rate for a 1000 yen note. So as of right now, those notes are worth, about $8.75. I mean really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9RkQg1HecMLook what they spend their money on. Why not make Naruto money so they can spend it on water drawing machine things.
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:18 pm
It's not so much that they are making fanbase currency. Yes, it is the fault of the idiots of our country who are willing to spend $100 to buy that Naruto bill worth only $10, but I think Japan takes advantage of how obsessive this country has become with their culture and their entertainment products. After all, this country is laden with not only obsessive Naruto or anime fans, but Japanophile period. It's alright to be interested in the culture or even like their products(Ryu, you and I have had this discussion before, I believe) but sadly, many people, especially teenagers, and introverts who live with their parents and have no outside life, are too obsessed for their own good, and I do think that Japan capitalizes on these obsessions, which is wrong. And Naruto is still a burnout regardless. I will give it one thing though, at least it isn't Twilight.
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:13 pm
Yeah, but you're skimming over the fact that Japanese people will line up for a new cell phone dangle of Mario hours before the store opens, simply because its a Nintendo product. Not just otaku. Normal people. There are so few foreigners in Japan that I'm lead to believe that either they printed those to either be bought over seas by fanatical Narutards or they're doing it simply because its a commemoration of a hit product that has the same name as their town and they're capitalizing on it to bring in interprovincial tourism. I mean s**t, they're like 2 hours from Tokyo on the Shinkansen and another hour on some other train.
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:52 am
While you do have a valid point, the fact still remains, that while the Japanese pay not be the one's who will be stupid and they may just be doing this as a celebration, this will still get out of hand as far as the obsessive idiots over here go. They will nag and plead and bug the hell out of people to sell them the goods, just to be a collectible, even though this stuff is supposedly meant to be used as what it is: currency. A solution, though not perfect, would be to make it illegal to buy it any way except to go to Naruto, Japan and buy it yourself, forcing those who actually want the goods to deal with the fact that they will not be able to feed their obsession, or for the few who are not idiots, and are simply fans, to go to Japan to buy the goods if it means that much to them. Of course, as I said, this would not be a perfect solution, as the stuff would still be sold online and whatnot anyway, regardless of laws or rules, but it would at least cut down on the obsessive idiots ruining the decent reasons behind this event.
I know that people waste their time waiting in such lines, even over here. I remember you had to wait to have a chance to get a stylus for Pokemon Diamond/Pearl on it's pre-order release. I think that is ridiculous, not on your part, but on the part of those who made it so you had to wait in such a way to have a chance to get an item that should have been included in the game package itself. Such line-waiting I find to be ridiculous and a waste of time, though in some cases, like yours, it is understandable. But then again, Asia period has been known to be stupid in terms of gaming issues. Parents who let their kids die home alone of neglect because they can't be bothered to leave their games at an internet gaming place, people who die from waste poisoning from holding their s**t in too long for the same reasons, children who stab each other over CCG's, it is sad that such idiots make Asian gaming look worse than it actually is. I play Perfect World International, which originates fro Perfect World China. The original had an issue with mass botting to sell the ingame currency to people online for real money, and I guess it was so bad that China has made botting in games illegal, and the PW developers made an ingame change to combat it, that unfortunately adversely affects the international version players. Sad thing is, the International version does not have this issue, but since it does not have it's on team of developers, it is up to the Chinese original dev team on what gets dome for the game. Pretty sad, a lot of online MMOs are like this. Also too, are they bad with their little cash shops, which force players to either waste lots of real life money to buy exclusive stuff that without, makes the game near impossible and pointless. While many who play these are kids who's parents can somehow afford to spend hundreds of dollars on their children's cash shopping, I find it annoying and disgusting that games are catered to such people. I personally would rather pay a monthly fee to play a game than deal with unfair cash shop bullshit. It is why I left ragnarok for a time, because private servers run off their cash shops, since they cannot charge monthly fees like the official, and $15 a month was a bit much for a monthly fee. But after seeing how bad cash shopping is all around, I would be more willing to pay $10-20 a month of a fee than deal with unfairly unbalanced gameplay due to not being able to waste hundreds on cash shopping.
The gaming world has gone downhill, I only hope Microsoft stays decent, at least they seem to be coming up with good games and reasonable offers.
Sorry for the long rant, I'm on my period. stressed
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:06 am
Have a small problem with your wall of text: your solution to the Naruto currency is essentially a strangulation of the free market system, thus defeating the purpose of producing, and selling a product to begin with. If people want to spend an insane amount of money on collectors items, where's the harm? Cash is flowing, like it should, and in return they get something they want. Granted, I have some bias in that, I am a collect as well; I've gone out of my way to make purchases on various items that I could have gone with out, and hell, I'm still wanting to put down the $100 for the Bioshock 2 LE bundle (for example), but again, that's the idea. Keep the cash moving hands so that in the grand scheme everyone comes out on top.
As for the gaming portion, the gaming world hasn't gone down hill at all: the consumer base has changed, is all. Games actually can make money now, so now companies actually invest in game production, meaning games become far more cookie cutter. Sure, this causes less originality, in terms of retail releases, but digital download services are still brimming with creativity and fun, mostly due to the cheaper nature to create and publish.
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RIP IN PEACE RIP Vice Captain
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Trashy Cinnabon Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:58 am
True, but there is a difference between you spending $100 on that Bioshock stuff, and Narutards spending their food/rent/bill money on currency that will some day lose popularity, and most likely eventually be sold to keep them out of debt or fuel a different, possibly new obsession in their future. It is all about how much people are willing to pay, unfortunately, and some people are beyond help. Once again, as you said, it is humanity itself that is getting bad.
That is also what I meant about gaming. I suppose I worded it wrong; when I said downhill, I did not mean the games themselves, so much as the people playing them, and those in charge. It is sad that nowadays people put games above the bare necessities in life, and there is no excuse for such bad prioritizing, especially when you let your own children starve to death alone in a dirty apartment because you cannot leave a game. But the problem then, lies as well in the games and companies themselves; not because they make good quality games, but because it is no longer about customer satisfaction, for the most part, but about getting as many customers as they can to make more money in the long run. It has become quantity over quality, hence why the gaming world is now primarily about online play and milking as much cash out of people as possible. You pay to be online, then you pay to be part of the gaming online world, then you pay for this particular content, then you pay for that particular content. And the content itself has gone downhill, compared to the gaming itself. Plus, it gets to the point, where nowadays, many online games require you to shell out some serious cash to be able to enjoy the game. That is why nowadays most games are quoted as "free to play" while in reality, that is a charade designed to trick you into joining, then forcing you to make the decision to either, deal with the cash shop BS, or quit.
This is a big problem. No matter what, there will always be those who are stupid enough to keep this enabled. So you choose to quit? At least 100 people will enable them for every person who quits. If you choose to stay and deal with it, you either pitch in and enable them as well, or you do without and still play the game, which still enables them
Therefore, you are right, it is, in the end, the consumers who cause the gaming world to stay focused on quantity and money, but the companies are in equal blame; because they know there will be consumers who enable them, so they know they can get away with it.
At least Microsoft seems to be focusing more on quality. Many games I have played for the 360 have content for purchase that is not game-breaking. They are not forcing you to choose between paying for content, or settling with a less enjoyable gaming experience, thereby increasing how many people get enjoyment out of their gaming experience. A smart move as well, IMO, as people who just want an enjoyable gaming experience get that, and then are willing to try out future games, while others can enjoy the extra content if they wish. That is another point i wanted to make. You buy a game, you expect the game to be complete. You don't usually expect to have to purchase half of it later for more money. Extra content, on the other hand, is different. You already have the full game, extra content just adds to it.
Really pissed off now, some phone number keeps calling every 5-10 minutes, and it does this for hours almost every day. I looked it up, it seems to be coming from out of a call center in Lexington, KY. Which means it is likely a telemarketer, and since Jayson had our number placed on the National Do Not Call list, this is a problem
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:56 pm
That's the thing. People already spend a s**t ton of money on currency. You do know coin collectors spend hundreds of dollars on coins that cant be circulated. Other than collocters value, they're worthless. I mean s**t, you can buy every state quarter for like $50. That's a dollar a coin. A 400% increase on the value of the set quarters. There are people that spend $25 on a dollar coin that cant be used. I mean regardless of what you spend on it, it's still collecting. It's for the sake of owning a little bit of history. For someone who dislikes the show, it seems pretty stupid. But for someone who likes it, and who wants that bit of history, it's obviously not.
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:21 pm
For persons like you, that may be the case. I don't really have a problem with collectibility, when it is done in moderation. I just don't see this taking a very good path; I see it going straight downhill due to all of the obsessive Naruto fans; honestly, even if it was One Piece material, I would still have the same views on it, even though I myself am quite a fan of the series. Because obsessive fans ruin everything for potential fans and make the current fans look bad in the eyes of others. Honestly, I thought Naruto was alright for the first couple of chapters, but for me, it just quickly became boring, much in the way Dragonball Z did for me after having already read all of Dragonball. But I have no problem with fans like you, because you don't integrate it into every aspect of your life, and you don't shove an immature obsession down everyone's throats. Of course, I still think Naruto and DBZ aren't nearly as bad as FF7, in terms of obsessive fans and being a burnout.
I guess I posted more irritably than I actually felt on the issue; as long as it doesn't get ridiculous with the obsessive fans, it's fine.
Otherwise, have you gotten around to beating SO4 yet, Ryu? I'm busy prepping for the Ethereal Queen, so a lot of Magical Clay farming. You get a skill called Duplication for Faize/Arumat at the end of Gabriel's dungeon, it lets you use 1-11 magical clays to duplicate almost any item in the game
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 2:34 am
Not ever close. I got to En and then put it on hold for school and haven't picked it up since. Then Warhammer hit and yeah. I just haven't had time to pick it up.
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:44 pm
Ouch. EN II is the second difficulty spike in the game(The first being the Cardianon Mothership) No Guard or Thunder immunity/absorption will be your friend. And the two mining points there almost always give Magical Clay, which is the item required to duplicate items post-game
On that note, beat the EQ a few hours ago, she was actually a challenge, yet she wasn't cheap and bullshit like Gabriel and Lenneth/Freya were in SO3. I used Bacchus, Arumat, Lymle and Sarah, all at lvl 255 with fully synthed gear and super-duper tri-emblums.
Getting to 50% BTs for them to raise the max lvl cap to 255 also got me their first extra voice sets. Sarah's is amusing, especially with some of her spells:
Lightning Blast: "Lightning....um, uh....something!"
Radiant Lancer: "Um......this is a spear of light!"
Seriously, I think the devs intended for her to be a dumb blonde, cuz she acts like one.
Speaking of voices, it has always amused me, how weeaboos feel the need to piss and moan about the English voice-acting, then bash people who disagree with them. I never figured that out anyway, I never found the Japanese voices in games and anime to be any better(Except in some god-awful cases like Grownlanser) not to mention, it's not the sound of the voice that should matter, it is how well the voice portrays the emotion and personality of the character, as well as their visual character(Adults should sound like adults, not ADHD children)
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Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:47 am
I try to keep it all Japanese since i need to work on my comprehension. But I still think my favorite ditzy character was Plum. She made me laugh so hard for so long.
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Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:02 am
you mean Plum from Chobits?
Yeah, that's different though, you are doing it to assist you in your studies of the language. I mean the weeaboos who moronically bash anyone who doesn't agree with their warped "opinions". I will admit one thing though, Koda Kumi and Utada Hikaru have that deep, sexy, womanly voice, at least when they sing anyway.
What are your thoughts on the woman known as Shakira?
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