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Posted by Gaisuto - 06-02-10 08:47 - 44 comments - Read - Edit
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 | Subs are superior to dubs.
| So for the past few weeks I've been slowly watching the anime series known as Hunter x Hunter. The story of Gon Freecss, becoming a Hunter to search for his father, Ging Freecss! I've read the first ten volumes of the manga so I decided to watch it instead. I prefer moving pictures to the still ones. So I look up Hunter x Hunter the series online and decide to check it out. I see it's dubbed but hey who needs to listen to anime of your own language when you can just read the amazingly perfect never wrong subtitles!
So I've made it established to myself through the manga that their names are Gon and Ging of the Freecss family. Right out the gate the subs are spelling out his name as Gon Freaks. Okay we're off to a great start. Shortly after we're told of his amazing father, "Jin Freaks".
 Okay, instead of Ging Freecss we've got Jin Freaks. This too will bug me but hey, it's the first episode. I'm sure they'll fix it as it goes on like most anime, right?  So we move on into a few episodes, and here we see him called by Jin again. Haven't fixed their mistake yet I see. Keep in mind that the anime's a year and a half older then the manga, where all manga sub groups have been spelling it right. Anyway....so now we're at Episode 31. The hunter exams are over and our hero Gon is now an officially licensed hunter! Huzzahs are in order! One of the first things Gon and his friends end up doing is using their new class to look up information of his father on the internet. Great idea, I'm sure his dad exists. Let's look up Jin Freaks on that ol' internet!    Did you catch that? Here, let me point it out.   In closing: Subs are indeed superior to dubs. Always. Thank you for your time.
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UPDATE: I am now at Episode 47. As I'm sure you all remember, it was only episode 31 where the anime spelled his correct name out, yet the subs still got it wrong. 16 episodes later, did they fix it!?
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 Nope! =D |
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Posted by Gaisuto - 14-02-09 23:27 - 34 comments - Read - Edit
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| | Money...
| I'm not even going to try to make this neat or organized, I just need to rant and say shit as it comes off my mind, so I'm just throwing it down here.
I'd never think that money would ruin us this badly. My entire life we've had money. For the majority of my life I've been spoiled rotten. We've always had it. A new game came out, I'd get it. My brother wanted to go to a sports event, he got his ticket and some for his friends too. Ever since my massive asthma attack when I was eight years old, my folks always protected me and made sure I never really had to do anything. Fast forward to 2007, where my dad died in September.
From that point on everything changed. Almost all of our income ceased. At this time, the people living here were myself, my mom, my brother, and our friend. No one in his family wants him so he was left with us. Mom constantly has her pity feelings going on so he ended up staying with us. We were living at a condo owned by my dad's best friend who promised to help us out with dad gone. He ended up being full of shit, as I've posted about here before.
After the "friend" ended up being a gigantic douche to us, we ended up needing to move out. Using help from a family friend, he said we could live in his old (OLD) home off one of the state roads. So we moved there in April. We couldn't stay there for long. Allergies were flaring up there, the toilets kept breaking, there was so much wrong with this house. This is the point where our money income was getting at a serious loss. The only one with a job was mom. But it cost so much in gas to get her there every day, it was almost not worth it. During our short time there, we all started looking for jobs. My brother and friend managed to get one - each within walking distance. Here was where I realized I was going to struggle to find one. Mostly because of my past laziness, it's gotten to the point where no one has attempted to hire me. 19 years old, never held a job before, no car or license to get around. I remember applying at every place I could, even a gas station and the nearby Publix but no go from either. The money the friend got from his work was few because he only worked weekends but it helped us at time. He was the main reason mom was able to get to work. My brother.... He always spent his checks on himself and his bitch girlfriend. Not surprising but he could of helped out more. He's a whole other story that I don't feel like getting into.
We had to get out of that place asap so in September we moved to where we are now, this two bedroom apartment with four people in it. And this is where everything's going wrong. To put it shortly, the only income there is now is what mom earns from her work. My brother has officially gone into his own little world and insists on not searching for a job. My friend is a pulling a half assed attempt, but he's trying. Me? I'm still failing. There is an entire shopping center across the street that opened a few months after we got there. A Mcdonalds, Super Target, Gamestop, some cloth shops, Petsmart, a bunch of stores in there. No one is hiring or took me. I mean for god's sake even McDonalds turned me down. No one's hiring the 20 year old with no experience. Everyone claims I'm not trying when I am.
We have no car anymore. The car we were given, the registration on it has run out. We can't afford to renew it. Mom's license ran out, can't afford to fix it. Brother's is suspended - can't afford to fix it. So many bills and debts my mom's racked up somehow, can't afford to pay them off. The rent, the electric, we can barely pay those off. Our electric was actually off a few days ago and we only got it back yesterday. Every attempt to make money we can, my mom has pawned off every single game system I have spare for my PS2 (which is only because it wouldn't even net $30) and my PSP (which was pawned before.) I've lost my DS, the Wii, and the 360. Essentially my life was thrown away for a three day temporary solution. All the games I've gotten since such as L4D and Soulstorm and SF4 were all from trading in games I already have or borrowed from people. Hell for god's sake there's actually money I borrowed from someone, just a measley $8, and I have absolutely no fucking way to pay him back now. I feel like a total jackass about that. I can't even afford eight fucking dollars!
Now the whole shit that just happened here, I'm not going into details, but now friend has finally been told he has to leave. I feel like such a heel, I was the one who had to tell him. Me? I've always wanted to leave, but I have nowhere to go. I have no money to support myself, no one is hiring me so no one in their right mind would take me in, I have no car or license to get around... Not to mention if I left my mom would have a breakdown and go into an even more depressed state than she already is.
I have no idea what to do. Mom's insisting that we're going to get kicked out of the apartment here within the next month and if that happens it's over - We have nowhere else to go and we can't afford anywhere else to go. I have no idea what to do, no idea what to think of.
Please, someone slap me into reality. If someone thinks I'm making excuses, call me out on it. Please. I don't want this old bad habit dragging me down... |
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Posted by Gaisuto - 10-12-08 09:35 - 8 comments - Read - Edit
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| | I plan on building my own MAME/Emulation Cabinet.
This should be interesting.
| I am a man of a ton of interests. Maybe some of you noticed or so, but I ask a lot of questions. I like to try out a lot of things. Too many things I've tried to list, I have a ton of interests, more so than most people. I like new things! So a good buddy of mine (Heran Bago lol) tells me he's making an Arcade Cabinet. After talking to him about it, I want to do one of these things too!
I don't have an ideal look for it in mind yet, but I know what I want basically. To be honest I think acquiring or creating the cabinet from scratch will be the most difficult part of this entire thing for me. For all my friends we're going to want to put together a four-player control panel. Each Player gets a Joystick and six buttons. Heran showed me some little gizmo called the I-PAC which you wire the sticks and buttons to, which connects via USB into the computer. Seems pretty simple actually, even to me. I was just going to use a TV with S-Video input and some old computer speakers for audio and video. As far as the machine powering the thing...I decided on a setup.
I'm going to want this cabinet to run a lot of different games from a variety of platforms. While it'd mostly be MAME on this thing of course, I'd put SNES and Genesis stuff on here too. On an Arcade Cabinet I'm sure some games would work. Some would be kinda awkward, but they'd work. But I also want this to run more powerful systems/future PC games so I need a strong machine. I don't have the funds to make another good gaming machine with this, so I'm taking a shortcut and using the powerful laptop I have now. Just plug the video and speakers in when I intend to use the thing. As I type this, I'm downloading a Dreamcast ISO to test how well Dreamcast emulation has come around. If this works properly...Marvel vs Capcom 2 on a cabinet. Hell yes. Another interesting prospect is with this running through my PC, I could get Street Fighter IV (The PC version) running through this. That'd be absolute greatness and you'd be lying if you think it isn't.
Obviously this is gonna cost me a bit of money, and it won't be done anytime soon at all. But it's a project me and a few friends think will be really fun to do, and in the long run we'd play this thing to death! I hope I can at least get started on planning for this shortly. Thanks Heran Bago for the idea! You guys should check out his machine in progress, he's doing pretty good I think.  |
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