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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Why is there a million fansubs of episode 69 of magical lolicon robot mecha adventures or whatever but no love for Arino? Sci-Fi and Anime just push people's "fandom insanity" buttons and those tend to be able to get away with a lot more "commercially" than other genres, like how they were able to sell every individual episode of Star Trek on VHS in the early-90's basically until VHS died, while any other TV Series if it were blessed enough to get a VHS release at all, would just get random "best of" episode collections where even if you bought them all you maybe only had a half-season's worth of random episodes. It's kind of similar to why there are 8 million fan edits of Star Wars and there are like 6 of every other movie combined. The pretty 2D ladies do funny things to our lizard brains and due to all sorts of weird circumstances therefrom, you can simultaneously have some anime boxsets in Japan costing more than a decent used car, and people back in the mid-90's making fansubs with university equipment and selling them in Chinatown and/or disseminating them on an IRC server on an ISDN line in God's true format, RealPlayer. Coupled with Hokuto's point (and subtitling on-screen stuff gets messy fast  ) subbing GCCX is pretty up-there in terms of difficulty (and this applies both to the translation itself and the technical requirements of the subtitling which are more demanding than most anime) and depending on your reasons for doing the subtitling, may be less appealing than an anime (due to perceived download numbers, "cred" in the subbing scene or any other reason you can think of).Caitlin posted:Frankly your friend's problem was going hyper-niche anyway; dedicating a shop exclusively to renting anime titles was destined for failure. Well it wasn't just Anime titles, he also had a ton of Asian cinema in general, but yeah, he definitely only really carried stuff that interested people who knew how torrents worked. univbee fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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univbee posted:A friend of mine with an anime rental shop went out of business because his clientele was overwhelmingly far too internet-savvy and by the time an official DVD release or whatever would happen, the show would be a year old or more and completely passé. I think this is a problem with any nerd focused retailer. I see this all the time with board game shops who are often sustained solely on whatever card game is popular among the elementary school set at the moment. univbee posted:Coupled with Hokuto's point (and subtitling on-screen stuff gets messy fast Continuing this: it seriously isn't a joke that the trivia episodes are absolutely overwhelming top to bottom to do, to use the obvious example. And there's a reason that nobody is champing at the bit to do Captain Tsubasa.
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Random Stranger posted:And there's a reason that nobody is champing at the bit to do Captain Tsubasa. I'm not a soccer fan, so technical issues aside, I'd have to learn all about soccer, as well as about the franchise as a whole. I'm a baseball/Koshien fan, that's what made that challenge do-able and fun. univbee posted:Coupled with Hokuto's point (and subtitling on-screen stuff gets messy fast My examples, when Arino mutters in Kansai-ben (didn't realize how spoiled I was by his mic at the Budokan/the smaller studio usually used for challenges until I was working on the Super Mario Maker Live Challenge), and when a bunch of people are talking while others are shouting and laughing, and when you stop for a good hour to research a game that got an official release to make sure 3-4 lines of dialogue are using all the correct terms, and... But yes, it's an interesting challenge, that's part of why I keep doing it. (and if I had to compare his accent to Hamaguchi's, Arino is the Kelsey Grammer to Hamaguchi's "man hits angry mountain lion with banjo", that's why I'm in no hurry to do more GCDX.) Hokuto posted:With people delivering lines from a script. I think I might have done with first GCCX fansub with something resembling a script earlier this week... Kakaricho fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:GCCX needs more Watanabe Pantsu shots. They really had something with the Gayme Center CX segment but Toujima got cold feet and that just ruined everything.
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Kakaricho posted:I think I might have done with first GCCX fansub with something resembling a script earlier this week... Actually, the entire first season (the interview season) has transcripts in the first GCCX book and we've used them to help out with those episodes. But don't tell anyone we're cheating like that. 
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Kakaricho posted:when you stop for a good hour to research a game that got an official release to make sure 3-4 lines of dialogue are using all the correct terms This doesn't go unnoticed, and it's really appreciated.
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Random Stranger posted:Actually, the entire first season (the interview season) has transcripts in the first GCCX book and we've used them to help out with those episodes. But don't tell anyone we're cheating like that. What about a script you wrote yourself... Pastry of the Year posted:This doesn't go unnoticed, and it's really appreciated. People doing play-throughs on Youtube are the unsung heroes. Especially people who don't talk while playing. This is the face of a man who's heard Sega be insulted for the last time. 
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I was just trying to watch the trailer for the night of the sickle weasel remake and saw a bunch of GCCX with Russian subs on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEeyzYErE18 Didn't realize the Kachou had fans in Russia!
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TeaJay posted:I don't know WTF the new Famillionaire segment is about (the prices and all) but those "straws" they used in the show were absolutely hilarious. Basically, three questions right, he gets the prize revealed in sequence from the bottom. One mistake, the prize revealed from the top goes away. Acer Pilot posted:Didn't realize the Kachou had fans in Russia! Putin arrived in Japan for a very important meeting this afternoon, and I don't believe in coincidences...
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Kakaricho posted:Putin arrived in Japan for a very important meeting this afternoon, and I don't believe in coincidences... Yeah. First zari-gani goes to Japan, and then Putin right afterward....  zari-gani, be careful of people carrying umbrellas! And don't drink the soup if it tastes polonium-y!
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Gutcruncher posted:You talk like she hasn't been the one pulling the strings all along... Hmmm, Putin, Kan, and zari-gani... ...! Wait a second!  Illuminati confirmed!
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Ho you fakas, if there's at least three, four of us going tomorrow, let's do ghetto goon meet I know a grear curry place in Akihabara and if that ain't your guys' thing, there's always Jack In The Donut from the japan.jpg thread
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The White Dragon posted:Ho you fakas, if there's at least three, four of us going tomorrow, let's do ghetto goon meet For those of you going, Kan just tweeted that you need to buy another copy of the book to get it signed by Nina as part of the agreement with Softmap letting him use the event area.
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The White Dragon posted:Ho you fakas, if there's at least three, four of us going tomorrow, let's do ghetto goon meet What time?
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I was planning on catching an early train, maybe check the crane catchers, and then show up there around the time the event starts--11:30 or thereabouts. I still prefer the western noonish lunchtime, but hey, it helps you beat the 1:30 lunch rush Kakaricho posted:For those of you going, Kan just tweeted that you need to buy another copy of the book to get it signed by Nina as part of the agreement with Softmap letting him use the event area. I'm okay with this because when I ordered my book the first time, I wasn't 100% on it with my Japanese mail system yet and it ended up getting cannibalized in some storage facility.
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I'm up for whatever. Not keen on buying another copy of the book but it's better than having to buy a DVD set.
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If anyone is interested, there's a hashtag and official Twitter account for the event today. https://twitter.com/gccx1217 https://twitter.com/hashtag/gccx1217?src=hash Arino sends the best balloons. 
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Ahhh what a magical evening. After the signing, I did the stamp rally and went to the wrap-up dinner where I sat next to Arino and talked to him most of the time. Thanks to the guys in this thread that came to see me. It was a pleasure meeting everyone. The funniest part of the signing was learning that most of the fans assumed I was male until they saw me.
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Apparently that's because doujin artists often use female names in Japan. Apparently.
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One thing I've always hoped someone would do is make a compilation of all the Arcade trip visits and paste them into one long video file. That would be a good watch for days like these when I got the flu and a fever. Maybe I have to do it someday.
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zari-gani posted:Ahhh what a magical evening. After the signing, I did the stamp rally and went to the wrap-up dinner where I sat next to Arino and talked to him most of the time. I don't know why, but the staff using the official Twitter to show you meeting Nakayama for the first time cracked me up.
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Posting this exchange before I forget: me: "Gamers overseas tend to lose their temper playing games, so your patience is very respected and inspires viewers" Arino: "Then maybe next time I should try throwing the controller and going 'FUUUUUCK'"
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zari-gani posted:Posting this exchange before I forget: Arino, friend to the common man.
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zari-gani posted:Posting this exchange before I forget: I love this man I've never met.
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zari-gani posted:Posting this exchange before I forget: Did he literally say gently caress for the sake of American viewers or is there a Japanese equivalent? I only know "kuso" which I understand is kinda mild and more like drat or crap?
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zari-gani posted:Posting this exchange before I forget: He has obviously been watching streamers in order to keep tabs on the competition. A true professional.
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zari-gani posted:Posting this exchange before I forget: Arino truly is just a treasure.
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zari-gani posted:Arino: "Then maybe next time I should try throwing the controller and going 'FUUUUUCK'" - Throws controller - Shorter cords yank the system off the table, game crashes with the system - Kan voice-over to a segment worrying if he can recover
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Stefan Prodan posted:Did he literally say gently caress for the sake of American viewers or is there a Japanese equivalent? I only know "kuso" which I understand is kinda mild and more like drat or crap? "fakku" is present in the odd thing. It was, of course, used prolificly in the dubbed version of the South Park movie, but I have seen it in Japanese-made things too, even the trailer to Visitor Q (which is mostly stickmen because basically none of the movie is acceptable viewing to general audiences) credits one character as "fazaafakkaa" (Fatherfucker, something the character does two minutes into the movie).
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It did not shock me when I learned that "gently caress" is a distinctive word which peppers Anglophone speech enough that other people readily associate it with us.
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Kakaricho posted:- Throws controller You laugh but I broke a PS1 this way playing Marvel vs Capcom
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zari-gani posted:Posting this exchange before I forget: Beyond jealous that you experienced such a magical moment. Tatsujin posted:You laugh but I broke a PS1 this way playing Marvel vs Capcom I once threw a Gamecube controller at the Gamecube, breaking both.
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Lurdiak posted:I once threw a Gamecube controller at the Gamecube, breaking both. Thank you for posting on our forums, Dr. Banner.
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