blog.TiltedFish.com Comments http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com Tue, 06 May 2008 16:58:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Beetle http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-75 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:36:07 +0000 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-75 Having spent so much of my life watching TV from American culture, it all starts to seem the same to me. But repetitive formulaic TV from another culture (e.g. anime) is interesting, under the "if I haven't seen it, it's new to me!" doctrine. I'm saving "running around trees in India" for after college. I recall a complaint somewhere (Something awful, maybe) about a computer game where you play paintball or lasertag or something, which raises the same issue. Having spent so much of my life watching TV from American culture, it all starts to seem the same to me. But repetitive formulaic TV from another culture (e.g. anime) is interesting, under the “if I haven’t seen it, it’s new to me!” doctrine. I’m saving “running around trees in India” for after college.

I recall a complaint somewhere (Something awful, maybe) about a computer game where you play paintball or lasertag or something, which raises the same issue.

]]> by: kenny http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-74 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:58:53 +0000 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-74 I think the surging popularity of anime/manga generally is very cool. However, there is bad in anything, and the fact that there are literally cartoons about playing cards bespeaks a certain laziness in the adaptation process. So when you play the card version in real life, you are pretending to... play a card game? That is like if Monopoly were about being a board game player. Where is the metaphor? I think the surging popularity of anime/manga generally is very cool. However, there is bad in anything, and the fact that there are literally cartoons about playing cards bespeaks a certain laziness in the adaptation process. So when you play the card version in real life, you are pretending to… play a card game? That is like if Monopoly were about being a board game player. Where is the metaphor?

]]> by: Kevin! http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-73 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:31:06 +0000 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-73 Anime has gotten way out of hand in the past few years. It used to be just Dragonball, which was bad enough, but at least confined to people who liked standing around saying 'Arghhh!' Now entire walls at B&N are covered in crappy Manga. I'm wondering if this is good or bad. Good because they do have multi-episode plot sagas that involve some level of involvement and comprehension. Bad because the plots are so, so stupid, and every character has some variation on a DSM-IV syndrome. Anime has gotten way out of hand in the past few years. It used to be just Dragonball, which was bad enough, but at least confined to people who liked standing around saying ‘Arghhh!’ Now entire walls at B&N are covered in crappy Manga.

I’m wondering if this is good or bad. Good because they do have multi-episode plot sagas that involve some level of involvement and comprehension. Bad because the plots are so, so stupid, and every character has some variation on a DSM-IV syndrome.

]]> by: Anna http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-72 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:32:27 +0000 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/a-random-post/#comment-72 Yeah plus some cartoon are really rude and innappropriate. Yeah plus some cartoon are really rude and innappropriate.

]]> by: Miles http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/08/08/another-year-another-dollar/#comment-71 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:39:14 +0000 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/08/08/another-year-another-dollar/#comment-71 sounds like someone needs a candy alligator sounds like someone needs a candy alligator

]]> by: k http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/09/09/new-scoop-ac-transit-slashing-buses/#comment-70 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:58:47 +0100 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/09/09/new-scoop-ac-transit-slashing-buses/#comment-70 I complained to AC transit about sucky Northbound 51 service and how whenever a bus does roll by, I get waved off to the ever-elusive "next bus" (among other things that irk me about AC Transit). I also mentioned this tip about fewer buses, which they promptly and vehemently denied. They added that, later this year, they plan to "perform a study of the 51 line," "potentially add new buses in late Spring," and "speak to drivers about making greater efforts to accommodate more passengers during peak hours." ...So from the secondary horse's mouth, your sources were wrong? Or AC Transit's lying... I complained to AC transit about sucky Northbound 51 service and how whenever a bus does roll by, I get waved off to the ever-elusive “next bus” (among other things that irk me about AC Transit). I also mentioned this tip about fewer buses, which they promptly and vehemently denied. They added that, later this year, they plan to “perform a study of the 51 line,” “potentially add new buses in late Spring,” and “speak to drivers about making greater efforts to accommodate more passengers during peak hours.”

…So from the secondary horse’s mouth, your sources were wrong? Or AC Transit’s lying…

]]> by: jo'c http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/10/19/a-really-perfect-example-of-why-the-writers-guild-exists/#comment-69 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:02:47 +0100 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/10/19/a-really-perfect-example-of-why-the-writers-guild-exists/#comment-69 I think of Studio 60 when I think of this issue. Gets a garbage share, but kills on iTunes. I think of Studio 60 when I think of this issue. Gets a garbage share, but kills on iTunes.

]]> by: Kevin Young http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/08/12/mr-monk-visits-uc-berkeley/#comment-68 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:17:54 +0100 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/08/12/mr-monk-visits-uc-berkeley/#comment-68 Monk is one of my favorite shows but this one wasn't one of the better episodes. Monk is one of my favorite shows but this one wasn’t one of the better episodes.

]]> by: tiltedfish http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/09/09/new-scoop-ac-transit-slashing-buses/#comment-67 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:08:28 +0100 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/09/09/new-scoop-ac-transit-slashing-buses/#comment-67 It was fine the first week and a half that class was back in session, then mysteriously halfway through the week every single bus is as packed as I've ever seen it. Also are you calling my two sources liars? In which case you're calling me half a liar! ... wait, or, maybe, you're calling me a ... fuck, fractions are hard. It was fine the first week and a half that class was back in session, then mysteriously halfway through the week every single bus is as packed as I’ve ever seen it.

Also are you calling my two sources liars? In which case you’re calling me half a liar! … wait, or, maybe, you’re calling me a … fuck, fractions are hard.

]]> by: Beetle http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/09/09/new-scoop-ac-transit-slashing-buses/#comment-66 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:34:36 +0100 http://tiltedfish.blogsome.com/2006/09/09/new-scoop-ac-transit-slashing-buses/#comment-66 Are you sure it isn't just those damn college students (i.e. all of them except us) coming back? Are you sure it isn’t just those damn college students (i.e. all of them except us) coming back?

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