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Jan 23, 2015 10:56
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Mister Chief posted:What about Smell-O-Vision? Combined with Game Center SEX?
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Jan 23, 2015 13:24
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Acer Pilot posted:Combined with Game Center SEX? But I already know what poor life decisions smell like!
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Jan 23, 2015 13:40
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Kakaricho posted:I think they're usually aimed at people who are looking to take a domestic trip. That, and the "Cool Japan/Endless Discovey" the tourism people have been rallying behind for a while now. Cool Japan is very similar, but with actual foreigners thrown in the mix so we can watch them exclaim, "Wow! Japan really is the best!" No, thanks. (And this is coming from someone who's been there for anywhere from a week to five months at a time, 21 trips over twenty years. I love it there. I just don't love the  on these kinds of shows.)
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Jan 23, 2015 14:36
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Hirayuki posted:(And this is coming from someone who's been there for anywhere from a week to five months at a time, 21 trips over twenty years. I love it there. I just don't love the I am extremely jealous. My lifelong dream is to be able to make semi-regular trips to Japan like this.
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Jan 23, 2015 14:47
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univbee posted:I am extremely jealous. My lifelong dream is to be able to make semi-regular trips to Japan like this. dont worry univbee, someday miku-chan will be yours
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Jan 23, 2015 15:03
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I can easily tune out any excessive exuberance when it comes to these sorts of food culture shows so long as the intrigue and ingredient lust factor is strong---the edutainment and appetite-stoking powers of Dotchi Ryori are terrifyingly boundless! Only seen a bit of Japanology, but odds are if the subject matter is interesting and/or a blindspot for ya---it'll stand as good a chance at a watch as anything else.
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Jan 23, 2015 15:06
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Lurdiak posted:I guess I just don't think taste can be communicated through the medium of television. You can watch stuff about things with no intention of ever partaking in those things. I love watching Arino run around Japanese amusement parks, and while I know I'll probably never go to them it's entertaining to watch. And I like learning about what people in other parts of the world do and eat without any real intent to visit those places. If it were just video footage of international foods without context, set to elevator music, then yeah you might have a point. There's other reasons to watch travelogue shows besides just planning what foreign foods you might want to eat some day.
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Jan 23, 2015 15:48
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univbee posted:I am extremely jealous. My lifelong dream is to be able to make semi-regular trips to Japan like this.  I'm very lucky.
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Jan 23, 2015 16:13
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This thread reminds me of something: NHK please translate newer episodes of Project X! I wish I knew Japanese sometimes.
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Jan 23, 2015 17:00
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ExiledTinkerer posted:I can easily tune out any excessive exuberance when it comes to these sorts of food culture shows so long as the intrigue and ingredient lust factor is strong---the edutainment and appetite-stoking powers of Dotchi Ryori are terrifyingly boundless! Oh my god, I can't watch Dotchi without drooling everywhere at the end of the episode. I both hate it and love it for that. Those tuna vs beef and onigiri vs maki (and the hayashi rice, jesus) episodes especially, god drat. Somehow knowing exactly how the ingredients are obtained makes it that much more appetizing. About to make a trip to Japan myself, to visit the in-laws.
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Jan 23, 2015 18:31
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Hirayuki posted:I stopped watching Begin Japanology when it devolved into a pure chauvinistic circle jerk. This happened at around the same time they ran out of broad topics to talk about, so then you got forty minutes on scissors and why Japan made the absolute best scissors in the world that were smaller, sharper, faster, shinier, more specialized, and either cheaper or more expensive than literally any other scissors in the entire world. Next week, replace "scissors" with "elevators" and swap in the appropriate superlatives. Week after that, same thing. I already have to cope with small-island syndrome from my NZ in-laws (from a country that admittedly has far, far less to offer); I don't need to pay to see it on my television, too. The Koshien episode was the first and so-far only episode of Japanology I've watched, so I can't really comment on other episodes. Similarly, I've only seen bits of the Cool Japan show on NHK, I only really know it as a tourist slogan. Also, for most travel shows/Himitsu no Kenmin Show, I record them so I can fast-forward through the eating/exclamations on how good the food is, saves time. Kakaricho fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Jan 24, 2015 02:28
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Lurdiak posted:I guess I just don't think taste can be communicated through the medium of television. Speaking as a cooking show addict, there's a lot to be said for presenting the concept of the food well. I can go, "Oh, that sounds tasty!" and make it myself or seek out someplace that makes something similar. Hirayuki posted:(And this is coming from someone who's been there for anywhere from a week to five months at a time, 21 trips over twenty years. I love it there. I just don't love the There's a line between the "this place is culturally interesting and has cool stuff" and "this place is so loving awesome and magical!" that some people can't help but run across.
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Jan 24, 2015 02:44
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They do tend to get a bit Glorious Nippon a lot of the time, but if you can look past that there's usually something interesting to get out of it.
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Jan 24, 2015 03:05
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Other good NHK shows to check out are Journeys In Japan and Train Cruise.
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Jan 24, 2015 03:32
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mikeycp posted:They do tend to get a bit Glorious Nippon a lot of the time, but if you can look past that there's usually something interesting to get out of it. When your job is to breathlessly promote something, you can`t help but sound like a bit of a fanatic. (I have to do a lot of presentations about my company in English, so I get it.)
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Jan 24, 2015 04:57
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I can't believe that in a thread about a show where you watch someone else play video games that we'd need to be explaining shows where you watch someone else eat. 
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Jan 24, 2015 15:27
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Kakaricho posted:When your job is to breathlessly promote something, you can`t help but sound like a bit of a fanatic. Oh yeah. I completely understand. It just causes a bit of eye rolling when you're on the receiving end of it.
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Jan 24, 2015 19:49
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Id watch a show where someone eats but he keeps on making horrible mistakes along the way. "Oh no! I managed to splatter this spaghetti on all over my face again!" "Oh no! While I was once again congratulating myself on a meal well eaten, my desert was placed in front of me and then a dog walked by and stole it!"
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Jan 25, 2015 03:30
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Gutcruncher posted:Id watch a show where someone eats but he keeps on making horrible mistakes along the way. "Oh no! I managed to splatter this spaghetti on all over my face again!" "Oh no! While I was once again congratulating myself on a meal well eaten, my desert was placed in front of me and then a dog walked by and stole it!" He defeats the last course in a final face-to-face battle! Gutcruncher: "Oh, here we go, the ending." Gutcruncher puts down his knife and fork. And then a waiter brings out another plate. And then... Gutcruncher: "No way!" Of course this would happen! The true last battle. Gutcruncher: "So I gotta eat this , right?" AD: "Good luck" He starts the battle with the last true course.
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Jan 25, 2015 03:56
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Konsek posted:He defeats the last course in a final face-to-face battle! I would pay a pretty penny to eat in a GCCX theme restaurant if they did stuff like that.
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Jan 25, 2015 11:57
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what's the best place to get the english gccx dvd? is it still amazon? i'm in australia and amazon gouges for shipping... 
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Jan 26, 2015 10:52
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Corridor posted:what's the best place to get the english gccx dvd? is it still amazon? i'm in australia and amazon gouges for shipping... I'm in Australia and got the DVD from another site...the companies website or something? I'm sure someone in the the thread knows. I don't think shipping was too bad (Or I wouldn't have got it, of course)
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Jan 26, 2015 12:48
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There's a new segment on the GCCX Channel: Famicom Karuta (Karuta is the game they also played in "To Catch a Catch-Copy") Basically, Arino, Abe and Fujimoto face off against two random Swedish guys (Dennis and Pontus, they've been in Japan since last April, apparently). Yanai reads the name of an NES game, and they have to guess which Famicom game it is. The prize is undecided, but Abe's request was Swedish porno. The first part mainly just introduced the segment and the new guys, and they'll actually start playing next time.
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Jan 26, 2015 13:48
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what's gccx channel
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Jan 26, 2015 14:09
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Mace Bacon posted:I'm in Australia and got the DVD from another site...the companies website or something? I'm sure someone in the the thread knows. I don't think shipping was too bad (Or I wouldn't have got it, of course) The publisher's website used to have free worldwide shipping. My DVDs took like a month to arrive to Mexico, but I blame that on having the world's shittiest postal service. However, it appears they only ship to the USA and Canada now. Fake edit: 
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Jan 26, 2015 14:23
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Corridor posted:what's gccx channel
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Jan 26, 2015 15:10
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The Kins posted:It's a Japan-only subscription-based mobile app that offers up cut footage, behind the scenes clips, and segments that are either new or things they couldn't fit on the show for some reason.  Pentaro posted:The publisher's website used to have free worldwide shipping. My DVDs took like a month to arrive to Mexico, but I blame that on having the world's shittiest postal service. However, it appears they only ship to the USA and Canada now.
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Jan 26, 2015 15:40
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I guess your best bet is eBay or Amazon. It's well worth the price though, I think I paid 25 € for mine but that was when it was released.
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Jan 26, 2015 22:26
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In the Family Jockey episodes, they kept on talking about Ogawa in relation to him winning at the Budokan, but I couldn't figure out how it related to Family Jockey. Can anyone explain how they tried connecting Ogawa in Derby Stallion to Family Jockey?
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Jan 28, 2015 22:09
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Next challenege is against Wizards and Warriors.
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Jan 29, 2015 02:03
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Kakaricho posted:Next challenege is against Wizards and Warriors. This game series is one of my favorites. I really played a lot #2 Ironsword.
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Jan 29, 2015 02:36
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Wizards & Warriors games are terrible, but as long as they grant my wish to have them photoshop Arino's face onto Fabio's bod...
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Jan 29, 2015 02:39
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Kakaricho posted:Next challenege is against Wizards and Warriors. There is pretty much no way he's not going to get stonewalled on the last boss.
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Jan 29, 2015 02:44
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univbee posted:There is pretty much no way he's not going to get stonewalled on the last boss. Now I kind of want to see Arino struggle on all the lovely jumping in Ironsword: Wizard and Warriors 2.
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Jan 29, 2015 04:04
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I know it's not GCCX related, but I just got my "Save or Kill" glow-in-the-dark T-shirt in the mail this morning and it is the most  thing I own. As someone who did the whole "circle the Metroid swag in the Nintendo Power catalog and then leave it conspicuously on the kitchen table" thing, you have made my inner child very happy.
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Jan 29, 2015 04:24
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univbee posted:There is pretty much no way he's not going to get stonewalled on the last boss. The description says Yanai isn't there, the game baffles him, and he's being pressured by "a certain female staff member". Should be a good episode!
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Jan 29, 2015 09:32
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cubeboy posted:In the Family Jockey episodes, they kept on talking about Ogawa in relation to him winning at the Budokan, but I couldn't figure out how it related to Family Jockey. Can anyone explain how they tried connecting Ogawa in Derby Stallion to Family Jockey? Cutting it down, but basically Arino - "When it comes to horse racing games, I think so long as the jockey is named Ogawa, I can reach the ending screen. When they said I'd play another horse racing game... I dunno." Kan - "He remembers the Ogawa Miracle, but can he repeat it? "
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Jan 29, 2015 14:20
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joek0 posted:What is the new segment from the 2nd half of season 18? It seems to be like last season where Arino play and discuss games from MSX.
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Jan 29, 2015 19:50
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Kakaricho posted:Next challenege is against Wizards and Warriors. That's a weird one for the show. The Japanese version is... well... completely and utterly broken. It's missing significant number of enemies. I kind of hope that they make him play the NES version... Fabio wasn't until the sequel so sadly no buff-Arino. And the sequels were never releases in Japan.
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Jan 29, 2015 19:55
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