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Yay, one edit: I'll quote it for the new page Shock Trooper fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Shock Trooper posted:Yay, one final translation for 2012! Sure
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Dec 31, 2012 06:41
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Gutcruncher posted:Sure 23 hours, 9 minutes...
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xamphear posted:23 hours, 9 minutes... It's almost as if we planned this...
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Dec 31, 2012 06:51
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Someone please explain the panties.
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Dec 31, 2012 07:25
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xamphear posted:23 hours, 9 minutes... Beep boop boop beep... Ore wa Jack Bauer~ Seriously though, thanks as always.
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Dec 31, 2012 07:41
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Mister Chief posted:Someone please explain the panties. What exactly do you mean? Did you never notice the panty focus in Anime/Manga, like a running gag kinda thing? Or do you mean where the focus on it originally comes from? Probably from the fact, that in japan every depiction of primary sexual organs have to be censored, even in actual porn only sold to adults. This law actually came because of the west, since they saw the japanese as barbaric perverts.. mainly because our prude european aristrocrats and missionars were shocked about things like mixed baths, the acceptance of homosexuality and the light clothing used in the hot parts of japan by the physical laborer. but yeah, I guess this law also is mainly responsible why porn in japan got so twisted..
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Dec 31, 2012 10:05
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Having panties as a prize in an arcade is loving weird and sorry, all of Japan's weird sexual fetishes and hangups are entirely their own doing and predate any possible western influence.
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Dec 31, 2012 10:16
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I do love his "wait, what" expression when he realizes he's rubbing his face with panties. Also that fried cracker thing looked amazing.
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Dec 31, 2012 11:42
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Panties from a prize game made me double take. What? Even if it's Japan, that caught me by surprise. About Nakayama: What is with Nakayama and these female announcers? First the retro read-aloud announcer treats him so badly it makes me feel bad (not even looking at him and speaking like he's not even there) and now Takeda even gets scolded by Arino to be nicer to him. (although they did compliment him for making a good argument for Yie ar Kung-Fu). TeaJay fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Dec 31, 2012 12:37
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Mister Chief posted:all of Japan's weird sexual fetishes and hangups are entirely their own doing and predate any possible western influence. That's very dismissive of you and pretty much entirely incorrect. Modern underwear wasn't even really a big thing in Japan until the middle of the last century. Before then women didn't really wear much of anything underneath their kimonos, aside from a waistcloth, which were a still a majority staple until the 1950s. Coming fresh off WW2, poverty was everywhere and underwear was still foreign fashion. This basically meant the only women wearing panties were part of rich families, or the well off prostitutes. At the same time, occupying forces were basically telling the Japanese women they should be ashamed of their vaginas and to purchase underwear. The birth of a fetish starts here. Tentacles are also a thing, the result of getting around censorship, because of the result of the same Western shaming. Japanese art had zero problem depicting nudity and sexuality before.  It's not even the first(or last) time that European ideals have left their mark on a culture in a way like that, so why is it so hard to believe? Skaw fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Dec 31, 2012 12:40
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That obscenity law was introduced in 1907 which I think might have been before WW2. Look up The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife and tell me that Japan needed to be sexually repressed by the evil American imperialists in order for them to want to see women loving things with tentacles. EDIT: All I'm saying is that law had nothing to do with the west and was just an extension of the Japanese government trying to restrict the flow of information. Mister Chief fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Dec 31, 2012 12:59
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Mister Chief posted:EDIT: All I'm saying is that law had nothing to do with the west and was just an extension of the Japanese government trying to restrict the flow of information. Japan, at the time, was in a hurry to industrialize itself. That need had nothing to do with WW2 and everything to do with trying to open up (read: Westernize) the society to appear civilized in the eyes of the baka gaijin. This effort included everything Skaw already explained. Personally I'm tired of the "wow japanese sure are weird" argument. It's a country with a huge population and that definitely will, statistically speaking, include a bunch of weirdos and perverts. Pointing at a panty UFO catcher as an example for Japanese being weird and perverted is akin to generalizing American populace's religious views to Westborough baptist church's. This generalization is not fair to the cultures involved and is very much indeed prejudiced.
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Dec 31, 2012 13:23
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Jyrque sums it up pretty quickly. Only thing I would add is that citing The Dream of The Fisherman's Wife as the start of a fetish is pretty far fetched when tentacle porn stuff didn't take off for another century and a half. Saturn Devouring His Son didn't cause Paternal cannibalism of their offspring 40 years ago.Blackchamber posted:I think we are focusing on the wrong thing from the arcade trip... there is a machine that makes hot (cold) ham and cheese grilled sandwiches and one that dispenses a bowl of noodles that looks better than you'd expect out of a vending machine. My favorites are the ones that reward ice cream. I would be so broke, and unable to move away from the machine if we had those here. Skaw fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Dec 31, 2012 13:35
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I think we are focusing on the wrong thing from the arcade trip... there is a machine that makes hot (cold) ham and cheese grilled sandwiches and one that dispenses a bowl of noodles that looks better than you'd expect out of a vending machine. I want those machines.
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Dec 31, 2012 13:36
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Blackchamber posted:I think we are focusing on the wrong thing from the arcade trip... there is a machine that makes hot (cold) ham and cheese grilled sandwiches and one that dispenses a bowl of noodles that looks better than you'd expect out of a vending machine.
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Dec 31, 2012 13:47
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Obeast posted:I would actually love a vending machine that did put out a small bowl of ramen or dried chicken noodle soup and filled it with hot water to cook in a few minutes. Hell, I've had coffee from vending machines at rest stops during the number of road trips I've taken in my life that were actually pretty good, so I can see something like a small bowl of soup being popular with people travelling during the colder months of the year. Literally every household should own one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-CD-LCC30-3-0-Liter-Electric-Dispensing/dp/B00009K3TE Instant tea, hot cocoa, ramen, you name it I would also argue every household should have a rice cooker, but that's my own personal preference. The permanent hot water dispenser is not optional! Speaking of ramen, find your local asian market, you can buy some stuff there that is miles better than the lovely stuff on the american grocery store shelves. It's still much worse than actual properly prepared fresh noodles from a good asian restaurant, but its much better than the usual starving college student fare.
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Dec 31, 2012 13:54
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victrix posted:I would also argue every household should have a rice cooker, but that's my own personal preference. The permanent hot water dispenser is not optional!  The only downside is that it's not portable. Perfect for both the Japanese and NZ (read: tea) backgrounds in our family.
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Dec 31, 2012 14:48
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Mister Chief posted:Having panties as a prize in an arcade is loving weird and sorry, all of Japan's weird sexual fetishes and hangups are entirely their own doing and predate any possible western influence. Well, from an european point of view, the american weapon and soldier fetish is also weird. And their "Violence is good, sex is bad" attitude doesn't help either. Europe isn't even a bit less perverted than japan, but gets very rarely bashed for it. But we have, like the japanese, the "sex is good, violence is bad" thing, so games/movies/etc. that depict nudity are no problem, while game/movies/etc. that depict violence is often and repeatedly a big thema. Besides, westernization began somewhere around 1850, also in a cultural department, by western literature and art. Just read some books from Soseki or later Tanizari Jun'ichiro. Way before the second world war, japan was already westernized. The problem after the second world war, was the switch from fascism and the completely destroyed country after the war, like in germany, not that they were behind. Their zeros wouldn't have been such a pain in the rear end at the beginning of the second world war, if japan wasn't completely industrialized already. Also western clothing was already pretty common before the first world war, their soldier and police forces as well as salaryman already wore western clothing then. Women probably wore kimonos a bit longer, but it wasn't anything strange anymore to see people in western clothing. Just look at Devil Summoner, that's between the two world wars, they already were westernized pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEGtvdjBI64 Cudgeon fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Dec 31, 2012 14:55
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Hirayuki posted:We have an instant hot water dispenser hard-piped into our kitchen sink. And that you have to clean it regularly, because they can make the water taste like total rear end real quick.
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Dec 31, 2012 15:19
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Cudgeon posted:Just look at Devil Summoner, that's between the two world wars, they already were westernized pretty well. I don't think that's an accurate representation of how things were historically in Japan. I didn't watch the video, but being a fan of SMT games I have an idea of what's in it.
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Dec 31, 2012 15:56
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This is a good episode. The game looks interesting and the travel segment is just pure from start to finish. Arino is so happy riding on that electric bike.
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Dec 31, 2012 17:10
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What, no Tamage of going to see Harry Potter after lunch?
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A lot of people tend to confuse the media's focus on Japan's "nerd" culture and apply it to the entire nation, but stuff like panties obsession is actually rather isolated to specific groups that usually heavily consume anime/videogames. Your average 30-40 year old Japanese salaryman probably wouldn't give a crap about that. It would sort of like be getting your mental image of Americans from Star Trek Convention goers.
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Dec 31, 2012 17:35
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Davzz posted:A lot of people tend to confuse the media's focus on Japan's "nerd" culture and apply it to the entire nation, but stuff like panties obsession is actually rather isolated to specific groups that usually heavily consume anime/videogames. Your average 30-40 year old Japanese salaryman probably wouldn't give a crap about that. It's just foreigners latching onto a particular aspect of a nation's culture, it doesn't matter if it's Japan or the US. I'm sure the Japanese believe plenty of dumb poo poo about Americans. Hell, we had Japanese exchange students at my high school they thought yelling Kangaroo was loving hilarious.
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cat doter posted:Hell, we had Japanese exchange students at my high school they thought yelling Kangaroo was loving hilarious. It isn't?  edit: So I'm going through GCCX from the beginning and whats the story behind the dude in the Secret Trick Jet Stream and the running gag of "You're extremely popular with the fans" Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Dec 31, 2012 17:55
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KildarX posted:It isn't? Tani?
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KNITS MY FEEDS posted:Tani? Yea.
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Dec 31, 2012 18:03
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Holy poo poo, I couldn't believe Arino's blind fall through that ninja cavern. Also this episode answered one of my big questions: the identity of the person who laughs by basically saying "HO HO HO" loud. It was the guy sitting next to Arino during lunch!
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Dec 31, 2012 18:03
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I didn't realize how deep of a voice that D Fujimoto has. I think it makes him sound cool compared to the rest of the staff. However, it does not trump the coolness of Arino, P Kan, and Abe. I like it when D Fujimoto is on camera and I wish he would be on camera more during the show.
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Dec 31, 2012 19:22
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 How will you all spend your New Years Eve? Partying? Drinking? Watching the ball drop? Me, Im gonna watch japanese men hanging out and rambling in The Dullest New Years Special In History! This whole shindig got translated by Zari-gani. For best results, begin watching at exactly 11:55 PM tonight Download torrent81 (1 file; 120.48 MB) View torrent stats http://depositfiles.com/files/xw5dr3n4s
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Dec 31, 2012 20:19
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I'm gonna have to find a way to fit this in with listening to conspiracy theorists predict weird poo poo that will happen in 2013. I know I can watch it after 11:55, but I want the full effect.  Either way, I can't wait to watch this later tonight! 
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Dec 31, 2012 20:27
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It's no surprise that in the last stage of Ninja Spirit Arino was able to dodge the ninjas on his way down, seeing how he also dodges the platforms in the cliff-stage.
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Dec 31, 2012 21:06
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:What, no Tamage of going to see Harry Potter after lunch? There's actually a funny epilogue to this. During the bus trip quiz in the USA special (DVD director's cut), Kibe quizzes him on what he said at the end of this episode. It seems Arino went home to pick up his kids after lunch and left the staff hanging. Kibe lets him know the entire staff thought they were going to see Harry Potter; Arino had no idea. Kibe and Kan reprimands him on his thoughtlessness, to which Arino replies "I wanted to see my cute daughters, not hang out with some old fogeys." miscellaneous14 posted:I do love his "wait, what" expression when he realizes he's rubbing his face with panties. He knew exactly what they were before he even opened the capsule. About the New Years Special: that one is from last year but they're doing it again this year with the exact same format. I will translate that ASAP, unless it contains significant spoilers. zari-gani fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Dec 31, 2012 21:10
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victrix posted:I would also argue every household should have a rice cooker, but that's my own personal preference. The permanent hot water dispenser is not optional!
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Dec 31, 2012 21:10
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Just to give an example of how failing to pick up on a single syllable can completely alter a line, I noticed a small mistake I made in Ninja Spirit. What I heard: A, katana anka (あ、カタナあんか) "Oh, they have swords" What Arino actually said: A, katana akanka (あ、勝たなアカンか) "Oh, I have to win" Japanese...!  ETA: Actually this is a great example of why kanji, hiragana and katakana matters. zari-gani fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Dec 31, 2012 21:52
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After having a terrible night and day from being sick, this is exactly what I need to end the year. You are my chicken noodle soup SAGCCX!! Happy New Years.
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Dec 31, 2012 22:10
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victrix posted:Literally every household should own one of these: I expected a home-sized vending machine and you're linking an overpriced water boiler.
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Dec 31, 2012 22:33
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Katana Gomai posted:I expected a home-sized vending machine and you're linking an overpriced water boiler. Wow no kidding on the expensive price, but those things are freekin awesome. You will never wait for hot water for anything. Want some tea asap? Sure thing!
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Gutcruncher posted:
Is this the New Year's Special where we see Arino with Abe and D Fujimoto having a nice end of the year chat! I would really like to see more of D Fujimoto! zari-gani posted:About the New Years Special: that one is from last year but they're doing it again this year with the exact same format. I will translate that ASAP, unless it contains significant spoilers. I was wondering if there was going to be a New Year's Special this Year. joek0 fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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