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Der Shovel posted:Holy poo poo, I couldn't believe Arino's blind fall through that ninja cavern. The way he flew right through that one ninja caught me by surprise. I guess they can't one-hit kill you during their invincibility frames? Either that or the game liked Arino way more than any other game in the show's history.
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Watching the New Year's 'Special', I'm curious: why does the sound quality go to hell in the last couple minutes? Anyone know?
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FredMSloniker posted:Watching the New Year's 'Special', I'm curious: why does the sound quality go to hell in the last couple minutes? Anyone know? Until someone else contradicts me, I'm blaming it on Inoko MAX, but I immediately forgive him.
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FredMSloniker posted:Watching the New Year's 'Special', I'm curious: why does the sound quality go to hell in the last couple minutes? Anyone know? It's a problem we noticed from the master video. The volume suddenly jumped to absurd levels at that point in the video. We normalized it but it jumped so high that a lot of the range got cut as a result. Given the options this seemed the better choice. Edit: I am so glad that there's only one more standard definition challenge after this. Or at least one more broadcast SD challenge. There's still a the Nintendo Channel ones that aren't in a widescreen format and a few of the DVD challenges... Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jan 1, 2013 |
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Silentman0 posted:The way he flew right through that one ninja caught me by surprise. I guess they can't one-hit kill you during their invincibility frames? Either that or the game liked Arino way more than any other game in the show's history. I'm not 100% sure what happened here either, but the ninja he went through ended up taking his life down from 5 to 3. Maybe hitting them with a bomb reduces the amount of damage they do so they don't instakill? Maybe the bomb hit temporarily stops them from being an instakill sprite, and touching any other part of the enemy's body instead of the sword does less damage? I dunno, just throwing out ideas. Truly another Arino "Miracle Play". edit:  Man, Inoko MAX can't do anything right!
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Shock Trooper posted:I'm not 100% sure what happened here either, but the ninja he went through ended up taking his life down from 5 to 3. Maybe hitting them with a bomb reduces the amount of damage they do so they don't instakill? Maybe the bomb hit temporarily stops them from being an instakill sprite, and touching any other part of the enemy's body instead of the sword does less damage? I dunno, just throwing out ideas. Truly another Arino "Miracle Play". Maybe the bomb's blast hurts the player as well, reducing him to 3, and the temporary invincibility after that damage let him pass through.
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I have learned something about Abe that I had forgotten. Apparently he's a closeted philatelist.
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Gutcruncher posted:
I will be giving this a go at 11:55. The TV is just making me cringe. 10 minutes to go. Edit: That was pretty cool. The syncing 5 minutes in advanced worked perfectly. orochi fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jan 1, 2013 |
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Jan 1, 2013 05:46
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After watching the 2011 New Year's Special, it makes me want to see the Iwate Special subbed so we can see Arino finish the Pilotwings challenge for good.
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Jan 1, 2013 06:30
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Obeast posted:I would actually love a vending machine that did put out a small bowl of ramen or dried chicken noodle soup and filled it with hot water to cook in a few minutes. I actually ran into one of these in a hotel in City of Industry, California. The water wasn't hot enough and it wasn't filtered very well/at all. Disappointing.
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Jan 1, 2013 09:24
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Allen Wren posted:I actually ran into one of these in a hotel in City of Industry, California. The water wasn't hot enough and it wasn't filtered very well/at all. Disappointing. Even if the vending machines suck, they still never cease to amaze me. Human beings suck a lot of the time too at making food. I had a teacher in high school (quite a few years ago at this point) who said all of the low end jobs like making food and grocery cashiers would soon belong to robots. The pre-engineering/robotics teacher to be exact. It seems more relevant every passing year.
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Shock Trooper posted:edit: Now I really want to see the Tecmo Wrestling segment Inoko MAX and the other AD did on that live show. Has it been translated?
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orochi posted:Even if the vending machines suck, they still never cease to amaze me. Human beings suck a lot of the time too at making food. I had a teacher in high school (quite a few years ago at this point) who said all of the low end jobs like making food and grocery cashiers would soon belong to robots. The pre-engineering/robotics teacher to be exact. It seems more relevant every passing year. I saw a vending machine at... atlanta international was it?... that makes a no-poo poo pizza in like three minutes from flour, yeast, water, tomato paste and toppings. Cook it in an IR oven right in front of you, I was like  for five minutes.(the pizza was quite awful, but it was fast!)
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Der Shovel posted:Now I really want to see the Tecmo Wrestling segment Inoko MAX and the other AD did on that live show. Has it been translated? Yes, it's part of the Lemmings Live highlight reel. (LE3, I think?) "We'll never show it again."
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Der Shovel posted:Now I really want to see the Tecmo Wrestling segment Inoko MAX and the other AD did on that live show. Has it been translated? Yeah, the Nakayama and Inoue match is in the 24 hour special with a special guest appearance by Emoto. vgperson posted:"We'll never show it again." And when they found out that fans outside of Japan knew about it, "How'd they find out about that? Wasn't it an exclusive clip?"
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Oh awesome, now to look that clip up. Also until recently I thought Inoko MAX had done some amateur pro wrestling in some minor league somewhere, but apparently he was in a pro wrestling club in high school  How many different clubs do Japanese schools have!?
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The Dullest new years special was great  @ Die Schaufel As far as I know they are organized by students, so theoretically there is an indefinite number of clubs, of course limited by space and number of actual students. 
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Random Stranger posted:I have learned something about Abe that I had forgotten. Apparently he's a closeted philatelist. I was surprised to learn recently that Abe got married at the age of 40, during the show's run. For some reason I thought he was married longer than that. Also, Abe is an expert on everything. ETA: I managed to squeeze in one more translation before the new year 
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Jan 1, 2013 11:45
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zari-gani posted:Also, Abe is an expert on everything. Abe may be the only man in the universe who's could honestly answer the question of "What's your biggest weakness" with "I have no weaknesses." That, or that his awesomeness is not strong enough to penetrate Arino and thus turning him into an expert game player.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Abe may be the only man in the universe who's could honestly answer the question of "What's your biggest weakness" with "I have no weaknesses." That, or that his awesomeness is not strong enough to penetrate Arino and thus turning him into an expert game player. Well, we know he's not that good at Street Fighter II, at least. On the other hand, if they ever had Abe play one of the quiz games, he wouldn't need any help from the staff. Or any extra continues.
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The White Dragon posted:I grew up in Hawaii so rice cookers were literally everywhere including McDonald's, but I eventually had to learn how to cook rice without one. And then I spent some time on the mainland and me and rice, we kinda fell out. Bread is good, though, everyone should know how to cook that. You can make bread in a rice cooker!  Came out pretty good too... And that water heater I linked is pretty pricy, you can find much cheaper ones, still not optional 
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Cemetry Gator posted:Abe may be the only man in the universe who's could honestly answer the question of "What's your biggest weakness" with "I have no weaknesses." That, or that his awesomeness is not strong enough to penetrate Arino and thus turning him into an expert game player. Abe is not a gamer and he doesn't know the who was the hero and who was the villain in the movies he's seen. On the other hand, he is a cameraman, chef, comic artist, motorcyclist, fisherman, and expert in nearly any other thing that has come up on the show...
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victrix posted:You can make bread in a rice cooker! I see someone has watched Yakitate Japan as well.
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Ineffiable posted:I see someone has watched Yakitate Japan as well. Which what where? My SO is asian, and loves to bake, so it was her creation 
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victrix posted:Which what where? My SO is asian, and loves to bake, so it was her creation Oh fair enough. But it's an anime series about baking all kinds of bread, and they have a live action segment where they show you how to make bread inside a rice cooker in one episode.
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Ineffiable posted:Oh fair enough. But it's an anime series about baking all kinds of bread, and they have a live action segment where they show you how to make bread inside a rice cooker in one episode. This bears investigation - she loves cooking tv in general, so she might well like that if it actually has real cooking stuff in it
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Ineffiable posted:But it's an anime series about baking all kinds of bread
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Pyrovile posted:Japan continues to make the craziest things. I think it had like 52 freaking episodes. And almost every episode had some different bread in it. victrix posted:This bears investigation - she loves cooking tv in general, so she might well like that if it actually has real cooking stuff in it Be warned, the live action cooking segment is like only 3-4 minutes at the end, but it does at least show you what you need to make it, and a quick rundown of how to cook it. The anime itself is actually pretty decent and she might enjoy it. It's got almost nothing very groanworthy that comes out of most anime these days. I think a lot of the breads in the anime series can actually be cooked so it'll introduce her to some interesting ideas. Plus, this is a character that pops up pretty much every episode: 
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I pretty much completely stopped watching anime when whatever crazed batch of assholes took over and started producing weird creepy poo poo became the majority. Maybe there's some good stuff out there, but the last few years that I looked... most of the stuff was just  and the rest was formulaic in the extreme.I'll check that out though, it sounds fairly benign.
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victrix posted:I pretty much completely stopped watching anime when whatever crazed batch of assholes took over and started producing weird creepy poo poo became the majority. Maybe there's some good stuff out there, but the last few years that I looked... most of the stuff was just It is, and if you want to play a joke on your SO one day you should introduce her to the Absolutely Tasty series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLXb2A7saLs Sorry for the derail from GCCX. Actually, to make it on topic; Arino and Abe and the rest of the ADs should have some kind of game corner segment with Absolutely Tasty. Make a meal that helps you game!
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Ineffiable posted:I think it had like 52 freaking episodes. And almost every episode had some different bread in it. It did have 52 episodes, although episodes near the end of the series are somewhat worse than the preceding due in part to the anime catching up to the manga and them having to come up with new poo poo on the fly that wouldn't undermine the author's work in progress. Also the taster judge dude is the best dude. Returning back to GCCX talk, watching the Mighty Bomb Jack episodes made me want to play it, and it turns out that they were quite right about the gambling-esque exhilaration one gets when going for repeated warps.
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Oops! Triple post!
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zari-gani posted:ETA: I managed to squeeze in one more translation before the new year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKUSyEQF7Zw Here is a link to the 2013 GCCX New Year's Special. It follows the same format as the 2012 New Year's Special that was just subbed. Zarigani says that it will be subbed if there are no spoilers in the video. I wonder if this is what she translated for the last of the year. joek0 fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Jan 2, 2013 |
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Oops! Double post!
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Random Stranger posted:Abe is not a gamer and he doesn't know the who was the hero and who was the villain in the movies he's seen. On the other hand, he is a cameraman, chef, comic artist, motorcyclist, fisherman, and expert in nearly any other thing that has come up on the show... You say like that not being a gamer is a weakness. Also, as to your point about not knowing who the heroes and villains are: I would contend that Abe is able to see the moral shades of grey in the movies he watches, and cannot make blanket statements as to who is good and who is evil. He can see the good in the evil and the evil in the good. Also, which episode did that occur in?
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Episode 25 (Quiz - Feudal lords' ambition) where Abe got the movie question wrong and was corrected by Producer Kan (?) Much hilarity ensued.
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Cemetry Gator posted:You say like that not being a gamer is a weakness. He just needs to know who to kill.
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Cemetry Gator posted:You say like that not being a gamer is a weakness. That reminds me of an exchange I saw in a chat somewhere that I felt rang true. "Why is Abe so cool?" "Because he's not a gamer."
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Took me a bit of Googling to find, but if you're wondering what that mini-cartridge Arino picks up in the game guessing segment, it's basically a plug-in roster update cart for the main Nantettatte Baseball game: This is the only real clear shot I found online of the slot on the back of the main cartridge where that mini cart goes in. Cool idea by Sunsoft, I haven't seen anything like that before.
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Outside of his undeniable charm, charisma and overall machismo, is there any precedence for Abe always being included in these little vignettes on the couch? I understand Kan, Kibe and Fujimoto, but cameramen aren't usually considered in that authoritative of a position. Clearly, I'm not complaining, I just wondered if there was something to it besides Abe potentially beating the crap out of people if they didn't let him.
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