It’s a man’s life in the modern army.

It’s a Man’s Life In the Modern Army. No really, it really is a man’s life.

If you see this post, it means I’m kinda stuck on an Island, living a man’s life. And by living I mean not dying.

See you weeaboos in 2 weeks. Or earlier, if I can hack it. Hrr.

Animé is dead. Long Live Odex. Long live the PAP.

Animé in Singapore is well and truly dead.

Long live Odex.

Long live Mediacorp.

Long Live the MDA.

Long live Norio Wakamoto the PAP.

Long live all that is evil.

There is no good left in this country.

(If anyone knows what this really means, well… … … You get the picture.)

Koihime: I’m sorry, I just cannot sit through it.

Every once in a while, you will come across a show that doesn’t deserve to be bashed horribly (I’m looking at you, Code Geachu Geass), and yet, it’s bad enough to actually pass

I’m sure there’ll be a rabid pack of fantards who’ll chew my ass out for bashing their favorite show, but…

I’m sorry guys, I just cannot sit through an episode of Koihime Musou.

I’ve got to be honest with you here. I have not seen anything that could condemn the show, unless you count the SACCHARINE SWEETNESS mixed in with the 300 METRIC TONS OF CHEESE and THE POT FULL OF CLICHES as being bad. Heck, I enjoy my cheese, cliché, and sweetness, but this show…

There’s nothing potentially wrong with the show, really (unless you happen to be either a Chinese national, or a Chinese History Buff, or someone who didn’t catch Rule 63 of the Internets.). It’s not eye-jarringly horrible, the ridiculous story actually has a bit of a backbone to it, and the gratituous fanservice (granted, it’s not as bad as Kanokon, but…) makes this a rather pleasing watch (male hormones, so sue me.)…

But for some reason, it feels completely and utterly wrong.  And you can’t seem to pinpoint where the show has gone off the deep end or something. It’s one of those horrible feelings you can’t shake off.

THEY’RE DOING THE SPEARFIGHTS WRONG

I dunno, I’d really love to bash the show, but I have to be intellectually honest here. There’s nothing wrong with the show itself. It’s bad, but not so overly horrible I have to gouge my eyeballs, declare myself a heretic, and light myself on fire just to even begin to think of opurging the taint.

Unless the mere existence of the show itself means that it is possible to divide by zero. In a very horrible manner. That could be very bad.

I mean, it’s based off a game which involve gender-bending characters from the Three Kingdoms Period in Chinese History… … … AND SEXING THEM UP. HOW COULD ANYTHING POSSIBLY GO WRONG.

Shit, I’m feeling so confused right now. Maybe I’ll go rewatch the Watchmen trailer to clear it all up.

Ze Watchman, it has a trailer!

So Tsund- EPIC.

The Watchmen is one of the few things to surpass animé and manga in it’s epicness. So there. Go read The Watchmen.

It’s a lot better than 90% of the stuff that comes out of Japan.

Fansubs (again) and the unnaturalness of it all

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 3:14-19 (King James Version)

It may seem odd that I’m using Genesis to draw everyone’s mind to what is happening right now but it’s actually a logical chain of events once you’ve got all the pieces together.

If you read the above verses, you’d notice that I’ve bolded some of the phrases. Specifically, the last part of verse 16 and the start of verse 19. These are the phrases I’d like to use to point out what is wrong with the industry (and the world as a whole).

You see, after the fall of man, man has been forced to work his butt off to gain sustenance. Nothing wrong with a bit of hard work, but they could have avoided it all. (That’s another story for another time and audience.)

Working hard for sustenance also implies something sinister; taking control of one’s life. Since man assumes that if he can control his life. he can tame the ground, nature and other things, he can make his life a bit easier and he doesn’t have to work as hard.

Under the delusion that one is fully capable of controlling his life, man then turns to trying to control forces he (or she) cannot control. Man has been trying to control nature to grow more crops, animals to feed his greed, the oceans for profit, and people, to prove once and for all he does not need anyone or anything to shackle him (or her) to some arbitary standard. After all, if you can control everything, who’s going to stop you?

Which brings us to our fansub debate.

Frankly the whole issue feels like a ton of spam to me.

The existence of fansubs means only one thing: You can’t control the will of people, and you certainly cannot control evil, since it is what lurks in everyone’s hearts. (Also whoever has reasoned with an evil being?) After all, we are a fallen creation, doomed to spend eternity in a fiery pit. (4chan was right with the “Kill it with Fire” cry. We are all going to be killed with fire, heretic, mutant, 4channer, newfag, blogger, flamer, troll, moralfag and furry alike. Our fate is all the same. Killed with fire. Oh the hilarity and tragedy of it all.)

The worrisome state of the industry can only mean one thing: Even the guys in suits making your purchasing decisions are realizing that if drastic measures are not taken they could very well lose their jobs. And control over their revenue. They are not adapting to the market, but rather, fighting a losing battle against a much greater evil: the hedonism and selfishness of the consumer.

In my passioned (and somewhat disgruntled) plea to the industry to get serious and kill the consumer, I was only stating a truth. If you want to retain control, you have to resort to drastic measures to do so, like murdering the consumer in cold blood. Lawsuits don’t cut it, hiding behind the full weight of the Berne Convention won’t help you, and certainly sentencing one person for hard labor solves absolutely nothing. It is by taking away one’s life that you make people stand up and take notice, for no one ever dares question a leader who’s willing to kill.

Once you surrender your freedom of choice to that guy in the suit, you also become a defender of freedom from choice. And if you want to defend evil, then you have got to march that path into it’s end: death to anyone who does not hold true to that belief.

I ask people like Scott, Greg Ayres, Stephen Sing and Peter Go one question: Are you willing to kill people like me to maintain control over your flagging profits and protect us from the freedom of choosing what to buy? Are you willing to kill a hundred consuumers to maintain control over a few hundred thousand suckers? Are you going to see this crusade against freedom of choice to its bitter, bloody and ultimate end?

I’m not even challenging anyone. It’s the logical chain of events that will eventually happen. The only thing is to see if anyone has the guts to see it through. Sadly, the toughest I have seen is hard labor. It does seem no one is willing to kill in the name of capitalism. Pity, really, these half-hearted and hypocritical efforts.

PS: Here’s another thing to note. Once you give up the right to choose to the guuy in the suit, you also give up the right to air your grievances if said product is substandard. Since you already implied that you’d like to have freedom from choice, it also behooves me to say that you also have no right to complain. i am not advocating fansubbing in any manner, I am just pointing out something that may be completely erroneous or true.

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSFEEEEEEEEEEEST

So, Cosfest.

Right off the heels of the Singapore Toy and Comic Convention.

I could rant on and on about a lot of things, but then again, no one wants to hear that.

Needless to say, it was a ton better than STCC, and the latter con was supposed to be nice and fresh. Missed out on the first day, though, and I missed some broken nutbladders [read: POST THOSE PICS UP ASAP WHOEVER TOOK THEM], the Meet-the-bj0rn booth and the wacky pedotrain. Caught the pedotrain, tho it was nothing special :V

Yes I caught the “fuck yes you are the best Exia cosplayer evar” cosplay. I mean, fuck, it’s a 1:12 scale Exia without plastic injection. With working lights and interchangable weapons.

I still can’t believe Cosfest is a ton more fun than STCC.  The mind boggles.

And I’m still the antisocial jerk who rarely appears. I feel horrible.

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Holy shit Ranka is QUEEN BITCH of the Zer- errr… Vajra

Yep, that’s right, Ranka, pissed at not getting any from Alto-hime (whom we all suspect is either a flaming homosexual or very, very tsundere for her) has gone the way of Sarah Kerrigan. She’s become the QUEEN BITCH of an alien hivemind species.

If Alto-hime still has any feelings for her, it’s obvious that he’s a furry, and must be purged. With fire. Or meet up with jim Raynor, and get tips on how to ruin his life with alcohol.

Ranka will now ZERGRUSH KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE and OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM her way to Alto-hime’s heart, or else. It also helps that she controls more than just flying space bugs. I mean, she’s got the freakin’ ZERG and the TYRANIDS. Frontier is sooooooo screwed.

Also Hanyuu counts as a lolifex. Only without all the claws and everything that makes a ‘nid a ‘nid. Shit be so cash.

Your favorite animators, rankinated!

We can has 2ch threads

Main screen turn on.

It’s you!!

Don’t ask me how I got the info. I just got it, okay?

Edit: Teh great Zepy, he says it is a lie, just like delicious cake. THOSE LIARS. I will have someone’s head for this!

To anyone who gives a flying fuck about fansubs and piracy (yes that means you, Mr. Greg Ayers)

Get this.

Lawsuits and your so-called ’soft methods’ don’t fucking work.

Insulting people and threatening to sue them also didn’t fucking work. See Odex.

What’s left to do, you fucks?

Here’s what I suggest.

START KILLING POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS.

Yes that’s right. There’s no other method you can use. You can’t fucking sue them, can’t fucking scare them, can’t fucking jail them.

That’s right. You have to pick up your pansy-ass 9 milimeter Glock and blow their brains out. Because that’s what’s going to make them buy your outdated goods. Your greed cant beat the giant-ass tidal wave of the consumer’s selfishness and hedonism, so get serious and kit up for wholesale genocide. It’s the only way to get anyone to buy your goods.

…What’s that you say? Don’t want to kill potential customers? Don’t want to make the PR work overtime? Too late you fucks. They’re not customers anymore, they’re enemies. People whose only wish is to see you die a horrible death. People who’d probably piss on your grave and hold a party at your wake.

…What? You say you’re taking the whole IP matter sreriously? You hypocritical cowards. You claim to take it seriously but I’m not seeing ANY ONE of you go the whole nine yards. Or if you are doing so, you’re not trying hard enough.

There’s only one way to fight the wave of growing selfishness and hedonism, and that’s to kill them all. Don’t want to do it? Enjoy your dwindling profits, fuckfaces. Your feeble cuntish methods will never get you anywhere.

If you’re not going to take a leaf out of the Koran (and follow the example of Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups) then you’re not serious enough. Screw dying for a cause, it’s time to kill. And there’s no better time than now.

The Chainlink fence:

Hinano (Is that all?)
Scott (The way i see it, the hypocrite is you.)
omo (I am hungry)
That other guy (Not unless you kill them)
zaitcev (You dick.)

PS: I’m so sick of the whole issue that it makes my blood boil. Not literally. If you’re not going to treat IP like physical property then sod off. Your methods are half-hearted, senseless and hypocritical.