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" @Tuffgong said:

" @Hailinel said:

" @Tuffgong said:

" I get it when a guy puts on an avatar of a cute/sexy anime chick.  I get that.  However they, in my opinion, are often painfully generic avatars and I think they are no different from other painfully generic avatars.  Bad/plain avatars suck and I'm confident in saying anime characters are no exception to that. "

As generic as a picture of a black guy with an afro? "

All I was saying is that Anime characters are just as capable of being generic avatars as anything.  That is my only problem with them is that often they give no distinct visual cue as to the user.  So do Master Chief etc.  I'm advocating equal opportunity avatar hating.  And if you knew anything about my main man Pete Rock, you would hold your tongue about Soul Brother #1. "

Pete Rock?  Who?  I'm about as knowledgeable about him as you are about anime (which is to say, not much).  To you, he has meaning.  To me, he's some dude with an afro and little other significance. "

" @Tuffgong said:

" I get it when a guy puts on an avatar of a cute/sexy anime chick.  I get that.  However they, in my opinion, are often painfully generic avatars and I think they are no different from other painfully generic avatars.  Bad/plain avatars suck and I'm confident in saying anime characters are no exception to that. "

As generic as a picture of a black guy with an afro? "

" @neoepoch said:

" ...I'm just going to throw this out there. Mother please. "

IM WITH YOU. 
 
@Hailinel said:

" @demontium said:

" @Whisperkill said:

" F Zero X was awesome, I could go for another "

won't happen. "

You sound incredibly certain of that for no particular reason whatsoever. "

because..... Fzero wont sell that well. "

Now I know.  Makes it much easier to hate the douchebags who put "GET HYPE" at the end of a post or thread title because I know how unoriginal or ignorant they are.
 
That and no one really remembers the original Street Fighter in the larger gaming world so I'm okay with not getting the reference.

I get it when a guy puts on an avatar of a cute/sexy anime chick.  I get that.  However they, in my opinion, are often painfully generic avatars and I think they are no different from other painfully generic avatars.
 
Bad/plain avatars suck and I'm confident in saying anime characters are no exception to that.

Flawed writer but insightful article.  Pretty much the consensus (sans Anime sucks vs. you suck arguments).
 
His best point is Japan needs one thing to shake up it's stagnancy (culture, art, whatever) is criticism.  People are so scared to make any criticism of any other culture these days simply because we aren't part of it.  If you are an ignorant person and decide to insult another culture, that doesn't make for a good argument regardless of who you are and what you've done.  However if another culture thinks it's a good idea to use placebo medicine over actually tested science-based ones, I'm gonna call them out on it.
 
Same thing here.  The impression I got from the article is that a majority of Japan's metropolitan culture (I bet rural is way different) is starting to fester and his experience really showed that.  Now he tends to whine heavily when it comes to smokers and food (god really?  You're complaining that you have to go through a smoking area to go to a non-smoking area).  Luckily he's a snob who learned the language and is willing to work there.  Japan is one area I've been meaning to study as a budding Sociologist and this certainly gives credence to my initial impression of Japan as not being as awesome as people assume.
 
That and I really hate Anime (for reasons that Anime needs to find something else but the same conventions to use over and over AND that they animate in 3's which gives a more stilted animation movement over American animation).  The Anime and Manga which has been a staple of the culture since the 80's, would be too much and given the corporate mistakes and cultural quirks I couldn't stand it.  My American way of thinking I suppose would be too individualistic for those who don't know any different to handle.  I see myself asking a lot of the same obvious questions he asked like "why do we have to say 'good morning' at the top of our lungs even if we're the first or second ones in the office, how does this contribute to anything?" and the instructor lady would say "you have to say it".
 
You wanna talk about people using capitalism in not-so-idea ways?  This is it.  The intrinsic freedom of the economic system has created a combined beast of complicated Japanese customs and business culture that isn't doing anyone favors so many years after it's boom.  I could really go all day but I'm getting kind of tired.  Japan!

" HOLY SHIT! the steam forum cracked the code from the pictures, turns out it is a BBS number (ask your parents kids). Using an old dial up terminal they got a response asking for a Glados login and password.  What the hell Valve? "

" @Tuffgong said:

How is this an admission of defeat?

I just think they're setting themselves up as the "alternative to MW2" instead of just letting the game stand on it's own. By making jokes like this, it's inviting criticism from MW fanboys and inviting comparisons when those comparisons probably aren't fair because the gameplay is supposed to be different.  The way this seems to be shaking down is that their intentionally positioning their game as the "FPS for people who didn't like MW2" instead of "a great FPS for people like FPSs". And doing that against the best selling video game of all time probably isn't a good idea.  From my perspective as more of a casual FPS player, I've enjoyed my time with MW2 for the most part  so I felt like BC2 wasn't "for me" so I haven't been very interested it in. I've only become interested after trying the demo on a whim (sadly only a few hours before they took it offline). "

How is this to be taken seriously?  Stuff like this should happen more often because it tells us that those developers aren't stuck in a bunker somewhere and pay attention to the world around them.  Not only that but it shows they have a sense of humor about their competition.
 
How is this an admission of defeat?  It's a funny jab at a popular game.  I think DICE respects IW and they probably know they can get away with it.
 
Certainly paints me a better picture about DICE than those soulless Battiefield games (not speaking about quality but they had no personality to them for obvious reasons, it was a realistic multiplayer FPS).