[Tom Yum Goong]

  Is there no Mushishi this week? I don't see anything on Animetake.

Haven't seen anything either :/

 

[Elsie]

Is it going to have Quake and/or Unreal Tournament? Good LAN must have at least one of them.

Spoiler

Also, jelly.

Probably since they're will be a few PCs there, but it's mostly Halo 3 we're playing I believe

 

[Tom Yum Goong]

I already own a 3DS XL but.....******* Kirby style!
http://www.destructoid.com/celebrate-kirby-triple-deluxe-s-european-release-with-pink-white-2ds-274978.phtml
I'm so hyped for this new game :3


 

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That really is quiet mysterious :|
http://kotaku.com/nobody-knows-what-these-mysterious-youtube-videos-are-1577645061

 

[mechgamer123]

 
Not just bacon, sugar-cured bacon to make it crispy and slightly sweet. : D

I have more pictures of snacks but then you guys would get more hungry. XD
You should come to the hall of potential energy (AKA MGH or Mary Gates Hall) at 14:00 to visit me and mah poster.

 
Wait, I thought you said 17:00, not 14:00???

 

[vantt1]

  I didn't even know you were around back during that time. No offense and sorry
 

My very first post here was about how I wasn't going to read the last 6000-ish pages. It didn't leave much of an impression I don't think.

   
Learning from animations/tv shows help quite a lot 

I remember a lot of common words/phrases here and there like '我慢してくれる' (gaman****ekureru), '止まりなさい' (domarinasai), '気にしないで' (kinishinaide), '何でもない' (nandemonai), '別に'(?) (betsuni), 'めんどくさい' (mendokusai), '困ったもの' (komattamono), '奇跡' (kiseki), '現実' (genjitsu), '真実' (shinjitsu), '取りあえず' (toriaezu) and of course the obvious 'ばか!' (baka!), '変態' (hentai) and 'あほ' (aho)...these are currently the only ones I can think of off the top of my head. I can recognize a lot more than I can recall.
 
They sound familiar to me, but it takes me a while to remember the meaning and the Kanji is either pretty much Chinese or completely nonsensical.

 

[kn19h7]

  I know more than 1500 Kanji, but that doesn't mean I can read it in Japanese! I read Hiragana/Katakana the way they are meant to be read, and read the Kanji in Cantonese. Genius!
 
For some reason, I feel like Japanese will never establish itself as a language in my brain like English and Cantonese/Chinese has. I'll read/hear a Japanese word/phrase and desperately try to remember its English equivalent. All in all, it takes at least 5 seconds for me to understand it, or it rings a bell but I don't understand it and have to look it up in the dictionary.
 
Conversely, I can easily read English (a second language for me) in cases like these:
 

 
Curses!
 
 
I remember many trivial things like that, and remember very little from Uni lectures

I am like the opposite case of you. I always need an intermediate language for understanding English, despite of having learned and been using it since primary school years (English is a main language in the education system I went through). But for Japanese I can do almost natively, and I only got into anime after high school graduation. Personally I think having no need to learn a language in a systematic way helps a lot.
 
 

Regardless of what Hyouka might do to me, Chaika seems to do everything inherently right, but I just can't put a finger on why. Maybe it's the characters

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

(at first I'm a bit leery with Red Chaika, what with her being feisty and slightly a bit more sexier, but I kind of like her by ep. 6.)

, maybe it's the "what does a mercenary worth in a time of peace?" theme going on, or maybe just the ecchilessness of it all that's to be expected in most fantasy anime recently. And especially more when that fantasy setting has lolis in it. The fight scenes are also very well done: highly dynamic, and at times very hectic, but done so well that I had no trouble following it all.

It's a wholesome package that's seemingly complete with a nice balance of likable characters, not too complex plot, enjoyable fights, and real funny banter (not the sorry excuse of conversations in Brainhill in the derpness, according to screenshots of QUALITY dialogue).

Other than JoJo, Chaika is my most looked forward to anime, moreso than Sidonia at this point.

Orz
So far only thing I like about that Chaika show is the way she talk... but on the good side, I haven't find something especially bad in that show
Not to mention I couldn't stand JoJo for that character design...

 

[vantt1]

  I am like the opposite case of you. I always need an intermediate language for understanding English, despite of having learned and been using it since primary school years (English is a main language in the education system I went through). But for Japanese I can do almost natively, and I only got into anime after high school graduation. Personally I think having no need to learn a language in a systematic way helps a lot.

妬ましい (netamashii)...is another word that I recognize when I hear it!
 
But in all seriousness, I envy those who still have the ability to learn with such efficiency. Sure, I can fluently speak Cantonese (possibly even better than some HK local youths who speak with what we call "懶音" (laan5 yum1 (I think)) (pronouncing 'ng' sounds as 'm', slurring the beginning/end sounds of a two character phrase)), but I can only read/write comprehensively at a Year 4-5 level, and know bits and pieces of high school level vocabulary.
 
Cantonese is just one of those languages that you can understand a word when it is spoken/heard, but not necessarily know the character(s) of. Especially given that Cantonese has a seemingly infinite amount of colloquial spoken particles! (HK'ers will know what I'm talking about)

 

[kn19h7]

  妬ましい (netamashii)...is another word that I recognize when I hear it!
 
But in all seriousness, I envy those who still have the ability to learn with such efficiency. Sure, I can fluently speak Cantonese (possibly even better than some HK local youths who speak with what we call "懶音" (laan5 yum1 (I think)) (pronouncing 'ng' sounds as 'm', slurring the beginning/end sounds of a two character phrase)), but I can only read/write comprehensively at a Year 4-5 level, and know bits and pieces of high school level vocabulary.
 
Cantonese is just one of those languages that you can understand a word when it is spoken/heard, but not necessarily know the character(s) of. Especially given that Cantonese has a seemingly infinite amount of colloquial spoken particles! (HK'ers will know what I'm talking about)

I can recognize netamashii too!
 
Yeah I get what you mentioned for Cantonese. I can speak/listen a little bit Cantonese, due to having watched some HK dramas long long ago. But I won't try to understand every single word/sentence when reading through online HKer forums, as I don't really recognize those characters..

 

[bowei006]

  Spice and Wolf. Probably the anime series which I've most enjoyed watching so far. Currently has the most fleshed-out romance plot I've ever seen in an anime which makes it all the more enjoyable. 

Yeah, another one of our members - TYG I believe - watched it recently and also loved it. 
 
I loved that show as well. 
 

I personally would buy squid tech earphones.

SQUIIID...teeexh?
 

 

  Just make one up or copy one from MAL.

 


I am an honorable otaku, I would never do something like that. Plus I like to write them when the show is fresh in my memory.


...you Germans, I swear.

@Bucket; Yes, it's quite rare to find a (real) anime fan that didn't like Spice and Wolf.


...golden chance to show off my correction genga of Holo :3
   
 
 
 

 
 Where do you find this pre-production stuff?

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  I'm going to a LAN party tonight, should be pretty fun.

 
Remember, LAN parties aren't complete without that one guy playing a pron video in the middle of it and acting like everything was normal.

 

[miceblue]

Ugh...how does one play a VN for fun? I tried playing Narcissu and I fell asleep. All you do is read text, push the enter key, and listen to the same looping music. Occasionally I have to press the up or down arrow key. If I wanted to do that, I'd just read a book while listening to some brown noise while tapping on a keyboard key. >.>


Also, don't watch JoJo episode 7 on the public bus. Just What.

 

[Smugsie]

Ugh...how does one play a VN for fun? I tried playing Narcissu and I fell asleep. All you do is read text an listen to the same looping music. If I wanted to do that, I'd just read a book while listening to some brown noise. >.>


Also, don't watch JoJo episode 7 on the public bus. Just What.

 
VN's are fun because I lack social interaction, harem VN's are also fun getting to 100% completion. For the most part, you ARE right. VN's are reading with pictures and voice acting.

SPEAKING OF BUS TRIPS. I remember coming home last year from the convention with a pick-up-group and then some. A few of them had body pillows in their arms. I didn't, but I absolutely loved having a hatsune miku plushie sit in my hoodie

Ahhh... the disgusted looks of normal people on the bus were quite satisfying.

 

[miceblue]

One can play any other single-player video game and get more out of that than playing a VN though...XD

 

[akiroz]

Ugh...how does one play a VN for fun? I tried playing Narcissu and I fell asleep. All you do is read text, push the enter key, and listen to the same looping music. Occasionally I have to press the up or down arrow key. If I wanted to do that, I'd just read a book while listening to some brown noise while tapping on a keyboard key. >.>

Well VNs aren't for everyone... no worries if you can't enjoy VNs, find something else that you like more.
The beautiful artwork, voice and music means everything to me, I'd never read a book without those.
 
For me, Anime ≥ VN >> Manga >> any other forms of entertainment.

 

[Exesteils]

One can play any other single-player video game and get more out of that than playing a VN though...XD

True. Like Dark Souls 2, for example. Such enjoyment, much death, wow.

 

[akiroz]

One can play any other single-player video game and get more out of that than playing a VN though...XD

Not for me.... the only other type of game I play are rhythm games because
 
FPS -> keeps dying in single-player, gets ****ed in multi-player
RPG -> never ending loop of running around, talking, killing monsters