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 Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:19 pm
Tsukasa Elric Hmmm... I walked into the bathroom, look in the bath and think "That's a big spider. It's also quite yellow and looks kinda like a rubber duck". Funny story, it was a rubber duck. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:21 pm
Lord_Bob I still got the fishy in my sig! Yes, yes you do. whee
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:23 pm
Oof. Skizz, I accidently bought a hat from the mad hatter. sweatdrop
I gotta go now..but I'll contineu with my trying to level you later. D:
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:26 pm
dot_com Pah...-____-; Begin rant. Dad bitching about SAT's again. This is so unfair! He says I never do any work, and yet, here I am grabbing beginners physics books to study over the summer for a little bit and try to surprise him that I'm actually doing something that involves math and science and s**t. I bet, even if I told him, he wouldn't give a damn. I hate being around him, all he ever says to me ALWAYS goes back to SATs. Every single damn argument, let's forget the fact that he can't argue for s**t, but he tries to find a tie to me not studying for SATs my entire life. "You didn't empty the dishwasher! It's because you don't study for SATs! You'll be a failure for your entire life! Blah blah blah!" And he won't even listen to me when I tell him that animation studios care more about the reel of film and portfolio that you send them and not so much about the resume and the SAT scores. I've heard it from every animator that I've talked to! Animating skills isn't something that you can just prove through taking a test that scores math, english and now writing. He won't even let me concentrate on what I DO want to do or where I WANT to go, which would be Cal Arts. He keeps pulling out some bullshit about Carnegie Mellon. Well great, yeah, I said I wanted to do programming there, and as much as animating and programming as a combo can get you a job faster, I'm NOT doing STRAIGHT programming my entire freaking life! I said I wanted to back in like...7th grade when my sister visited there and I found out they had a Japanese teacher. Jesus, get OVER it! This is what everything in my life has pointed me to, all job tests, all counselors, all teachers agree that I'm fit for animating. I've even got a mentor who I'm going to work with over the summer and try and cut out the basics of animating before I get to the nitty gritty. I WANT to do this and yet he can't respect that, and probably never will because he's already blinded himself by his hope for me to go be something that HE wants me to be. Great, yeah. And then I'll turn into some freakish cross between happy and unhappy like my sister. She was such a great artist and musician, but since she couldn't do what SHE wanted to do, she got pressured and molded into doing what my parents wanted her to do, biomedical engineering and neuroscience. Well, that's fascinating, but I can tell, she only does it to impress them. I'm NOT going to do that, because I'd never be happy doing it! She got pressed into doing it because she'd never get into the New York Philharmonic, or that straight up art school may not be as successful for her in the end as she had hoped in terms of getting a job after graduating. I hate the fact that I'm trying so hard to impress him other ways by trying to get a job, and trying to work out dates to meet with my mentor, and trying to study and get ahead in physics while at the same time having to read 6 summer reading books.
And I hate the fact that he's never happy with anything I can try and dish out. He wasn't even that excited when I made Regionals, just more surprised that I even got in. And I hate the fact that he's so obsessed and blinded by the inflated importance of SATs that he can't even see through his illogic that if I get a 2400 on SATs and fail my first semester of English 10 and World History AP because I didn't do the required reading, I'll still get into Carnegie Mellon and go do what he wants for my entire miserable life. He's not happy with my mentor, he won't let me sit in peace for two seconds at the computer without hounding about how I'm playing games when I'm really just about to get up and go read, and he'd probably b***h about how time spent studying to get ahead in physics is time wasted that I could have been doing his ******** SATs.
The worst thing is that now, he and my mother have my sister on their side. She acts like such a ******** adult, trying to suck up to my parents. "Really, do your SATs now." Babyface, animating school don't inflate the importance of SAT scores like other schools do. Creativity isn't achieved by taking a 3-hour test, unless you found some artistic pattern in the answers, which is highly unlikely aside from the grouping of the difficulty rages of the questions (mentioned in the book). She used to be like my and say that SATs are inflated. Getting a good SAT score is nothing compared to maintaining a 4.0 GPA through junior and senior year. THAT's more important, really, yet Indian parents need something to brag about. I swear, sometimes I hate the fact that I have to be Indian. I feel like a piece of meat that's carved and hung out to dry so everyone can pile around and look at it and compare it to other Indian kids. And here, the big question is, "what's his/her SAT score?" not really "oh, well what are their other accomplishments?" They don't care about that. Indian people are so ******** shallow that words cannot even express it. I HATE it. And I HATE THEM. The stupid Bengali shallow society. God, I don't even feel like I'm even supposed to be someone's kid sometimes, and more like I'm supposed to be some sort of a trophy, or show dog. How shiney can I get? What's my SAT score? The other showdogs all got 2500...and that's not even possible, but they did!
Screw SATs. Screw SATs to hell. They don't prove any ******** difference between someone who actually knew all the knowledge, and someone who was just really ******** good at guessing.End rant. Well, if you need any assistance (not that, from this account, it'd do any good) we're here to say just how little the SAT's matter in relation to classes and the like, especially for art schools. And I can give a personal account of how Studying for the SATs to the extent you're implying that they're hounding you, doesn't work. You'd think that might be common sense...
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:28 pm
Lecu Oof. Skizz, I accidently bought a hat from the mad hatter. sweatdrop I gotta go now..but I'll contineu with my trying to level you later. D: S'alright. :3 Thanks so much.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:30 pm
Streamjumper Skizzors Streamjumper Skizzors Okay. Scanlation etiquette s**t law stuff question gar. gonk Manga is not licensed, being scanlated. Manga gets licensed. I plan to buy the volumes of the manga as they're released, and then delete the files that are covered in that volume. The scanlation is already pretty far in, and the English releases won't catch up quickly enough. Am I allowed to download new chapters, as long as I keep buying the new releases and deleting their respective files? Or no? x__x; Legally? No. The material has been licensed. This means that any distribution in the english langauge of this product by anyone other than the licenseholder is illegal. Ethically? Not really either. You're not being a total scumbag since you intend to buy it, but you are going against the intent of fan translations. The group continuing to scanlate it is committing an even greater transgression, as they are violating the spirit of fan translations even more and on a greater scale. And before someone says it, yes, I understand that scanlations and fansubs are indeed illegal even before licensing occurs, which in my opinion makes a highly ethical approach to things all the more importatnt. Damn. Ah, well. How quickly does VIZ release things, then? They don't seem half bad at it. I think their usual rate is about 1 volume every other month. Not always though. I've found Viz can be somewhat umpredictable as to the frequency they release stuff. Furthermore, their site is near incomprehensible if you're looking for release dates. That's my main issue with Viz. I still like the complany and collect manga from them, but it does seem to take them a while (especially on some series) and it's really hard to find their release dates, unlike Tokyopop or Darkhorse or whoever.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:31 pm
Tsukasa Elric Suyo Musuu Uhm, did anyone tell Mala that her avi was on the AX screen at the Gaia Meetup? I was waiting for somebody to point that out... Zero mentioned it in his long post. Where was Zero's long post? I didn't see it.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:39 pm
Zelyhon Tsukasa Elric Zero mentioned it in his long post. Where was Zero's long post? I didn't see it. It was in this thread. I won't even try to estimate how many pages ago, since I'm sure I'd be wrong...
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:48 pm
Zelyhon Tsukasa Elric Suyo I was waiting for somebody to point that out... Zero mentioned it in his long post. Where was Zero's long post? I didn't see it. Somewhere on a page between 4000 and this one. confused
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:49 pm
Zelyhon dot_com Pah...-____-; Begin rant. Dad bitching about SAT's again. This is so unfair! He says I never do any work, and yet, here I am grabbing beginners physics books to study over the summer for a little bit and try to surprise him that I'm actually doing something that involves math and science and s**t. I bet, even if I told him, he wouldn't give a damn. I hate being around him, all he ever says to me ALWAYS goes back to SATs. Every single damn argument, let's forget the fact that he can't argue for s**t, but he tries to find a tie to me not studying for SATs my entire life. "You didn't empty the dishwasher! It's because you don't study for SATs! You'll be a failure for your entire life! Blah blah blah!" And he won't even listen to me when I tell him that animation studios care more about the reel of film and portfolio that you send them and not so much about the resume and the SAT scores. I've heard it from every animator that I've talked to! Animating skills isn't something that you can just prove through taking a test that scores math, english and now writing. He won't even let me concentrate on what I DO want to do or where I WANT to go, which would be Cal Arts. He keeps pulling out some bullshit about Carnegie Mellon. Well great, yeah, I said I wanted to do programming there, and as much as animating and programming as a combo can get you a job faster, I'm NOT doing STRAIGHT programming my entire freaking life! I said I wanted to back in like...7th grade when my sister visited there and I found out they had a Japanese teacher. Jesus, get OVER it! This is what everything in my life has pointed me to, all job tests, all counselors, all teachers agree that I'm fit for animating. I've even got a mentor who I'm going to work with over the summer and try and cut out the basics of animating before I get to the nitty gritty. I WANT to do this and yet he can't respect that, and probably never will because he's already blinded himself by his hope for me to go be something that HE wants me to be. Great, yeah. And then I'll turn into some freakish cross between happy and unhappy like my sister. She was such a great artist and musician, but since she couldn't do what SHE wanted to do, she got pressured and molded into doing what my parents wanted her to do, biomedical engineering and neuroscience. Well, that's fascinating, but I can tell, she only does it to impress them. I'm NOT going to do that, because I'd never be happy doing it! She got pressed into doing it because she'd never get into the New York Philharmonic, or that straight up art school may not be as successful for her in the end as she had hoped in terms of getting a job after graduating. I hate the fact that I'm trying so hard to impress him other ways by trying to get a job, and trying to work out dates to meet with my mentor, and trying to study and get ahead in physics while at the same time having to read 6 summer reading books.
And I hate the fact that he's never happy with anything I can try and dish out. He wasn't even that excited when I made Regionals, just more surprised that I even got in. And I hate the fact that he's so obsessed and blinded by the inflated importance of SATs that he can't even see through his illogic that if I get a 2400 on SATs and fail my first semester of English 10 and World History AP because I didn't do the required reading, I'll still get into Carnegie Mellon and go do what he wants for my entire miserable life. He's not happy with my mentor, he won't let me sit in peace for two seconds at the computer without hounding about how I'm playing games when I'm really just about to get up and go read, and he'd probably b***h about how time spent studying to get ahead in physics is time wasted that I could have been doing his ******** SATs.
The worst thing is that now, he and my mother have my sister on their side. She acts like such a ******** adult, trying to suck up to my parents. "Really, do your SATs now." Babyface, animating school don't inflate the importance of SAT scores like other schools do. Creativity isn't achieved by taking a 3-hour test, unless you found some artistic pattern in the answers, which is highly unlikely aside from the grouping of the difficulty rages of the questions (mentioned in the book). She used to be like my and say that SATs are inflated. Getting a good SAT score is nothing compared to maintaining a 4.0 GPA through junior and senior year. THAT's more important, really, yet Indian parents need something to brag about. I swear, sometimes I hate the fact that I have to be Indian. I feel like a piece of meat that's carved and hung out to dry so everyone can pile around and look at it and compare it to other Indian kids. And here, the big question is, "what's his/her SAT score?" not really "oh, well what are their other accomplishments?" They don't care about that. Indian people are so ******** shallow that words cannot even express it. I HATE it. And I HATE THEM. The stupid Bengali shallow society. God, I don't even feel like I'm even supposed to be someone's kid sometimes, and more like I'm supposed to be some sort of a trophy, or show dog. How shiney can I get? What's my SAT score? The other showdogs all got 2500...and that's not even possible, but they did!
Screw SATs. Screw SATs to hell. They don't prove any ******** difference between someone who actually knew all the knowledge, and someone who was just really ******** good at guessing.End rant. Well, if you need any assistance (not that, from this account, it'd do any good) we're here to say just how little the SAT's matter in relation to classes and the like, especially for art schools. And I can give a personal account of how Studying for the SATs to the extent you're implying that they're hounding you, doesn't work. You'd think that might be common sense... *hugs* Poor dottie... And I second what Zely said.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:50 pm
2,000,000 members, huh?
I bet 80% of the members are Phoenix's mules. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:53 pm
3.14 2,000,000 members, huh? I bet 80% of the members are Phoenix's mules. 3nodding Only 80%? Also, I agree with Zely on the SATs... A little studying for review may help, but most of it is the kind of stuff that you either know or don't, by this point. Studying doesn't make a great deal of difference. A little review of maths if you haven't had that in a while, and enough to understand how the test is set up, and that's all that's really useful. At least, in my opinion. ...And you can trust me. I'm a doctor. cool ...I love saying that.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:56 pm
3.14 2,000,000 members, huh? I bet 80% of the members are Phoenix's mules. 3nodding Only 80%?
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:58 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:59 pm
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