Damn. What do you mean I can only post vids after i post 5 posts, huh? Current post number: 2.
NOOOOOOO!!!!!! And i won't tell you the forums i'm using...
My com has a crack on it's lcd, and it's really scary to look at it....anyway
A female-to-male transsexual woman who deceitfully pretended to be a man in order to seduce a schoolgirl somehow avoided a prison sentence.
The 20-year-old woman, a resident of Essex in the UK, is intent on becoming a man and is currently undergoing “gender reassignment.”
Accordingly, she decided to date a 15-year-old girl, hiding her breasts and her transsexual status from the underage girl and pretending to be a man.
However, the girl spotted mail addressed to “Christine,” and not “Chris” as her “boyfriend” was called, and soon became suspicious.
Soon the lolicon affair unravelled and she found herself facing potential charges of statutory rape.
Faced with prosecution, the woman admitted sexual activity with a child, and courts ordered her to undertake 80 hours of community service and to sign on to the Sex Offenders Register.
Just whether the pair actually consummated their relationship sexually, and how she escaped detection if this was the case, is not clear
Okay....cracked LCD making me very very nervous and creeped out. *pokes screen*
A bear which viciously mauled 9 people in an unprovoked attack on mountainside resort has itself been gunned down.
The beast invaded a mountainside lodge in the backwater prefecture of Tochigi packed with dozens of tourists; encountering several tourists near the lodge, it began attacking and chasing them, throwing one to the ground and maiming a man who came to his aid horribly with bites to his face.
The only defence visitors and staff could muster was throwing rocks and making loud noises at the bear, which only served to utterly enrage it.
Soon the alarm was raised and patrons fled into the lodge and attempted to lock it out, but the bear chased after them and slipped in before they could shut it out; it then began attacking them in the building, raking them with claw and fang, and causing a hysterical stampede out of the building.
Eventually the facility was evacuated completely, patrons by bus and wounded by helicopter; 9 people received injuries in connection with the incident, the worst having their faces badly bitten or their bodies terribly clawed.
Hunters shot the bear, still loitering about the lodge, some three hours after its rampage began; it was a male Asian Black Bear of but 90kg.
Bear encounters are said to be growing in Japan’s increasingly depopulated rural areas, with a lack of stewardship or access to firearms doing little to reassure visitors to the wilder areas. People encountering rampaging bears are advised to try scaring them off with a small bell.
Via the Gifu Shimbun.
Breast reductions:
Men concerned about the size of their breasts are opting for breast reduction surgery in record numbers, delighting plastic surgeons.
A meeting of UK plastic surgeons was told that over the past 5 years breast reduction surgery for men has increased 1000%, with the operation now the fifth most popular cosmetic surgery for men.
Plastic surgeons are delighted by all the new business:
“We are seeing men of all ages coming in to have their breasts made smaller. They are losing their inhibitions about the operation and deciding to undergo an operation which previously was a women’s operation.”
In 2008 alone a thousand men underwent the procedure, which costs in the region of $1,700.
The other top operations are nosejobs, eyelifts, ear corrections and liposuction. The popularity of penis modifications is not mentioned.
The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world, with 2003 UN estimates suggesting 23% of the population is obese, only beaten by Mexico with 24% and the US with some 31%.
For some reason the plastic surgeons fail to mention the utility of losing weight in reducing breast size…
Via the BBC.
Halo anime:
The newly released preview for the upcoming Halo Legends anime (below) has impressed many, but some can’t help but notice some curious discrepancies between the anime and the game, such as the complete absence of ranged combat in favour of lots of jumping around and punching…watch the vid in youtube: Halo Legends - The Babysitter(preview) (Spike tv)
The studios involved have previously attracted attention with the liberties taken, and with this latest trailer it certainly appears they are in no mood to be constrained by the setting of the original game, though whether this is to the advantage or detriment of the anime remains to be seen.
Ninja GAiden (renamed to Oppai Gaiden due to it's.....ah...revelations)
A graphical comparison of the new PS3 version of Tecmo’s breast physics engine Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 to the Xbox 360 original reveals the PS3 version to be spectacularly superior to the Xbox 360 version, just as some had suspected.
Whether this is a case of Tecmo not bothering with the Xbox 360 version, or, as many will doubtless like to claim, the PS3’s capabilities being superior to those of the Xbox 360, is an interesting question.
It might be wondered why they do not highlight this rather spectacular difference in their marketing efforts…
The game is due worldwide October/September.
Via Hachimaki.
Me:
Going well. 4 pages into Chapter 2. Oh yeah! However, Project 1D is left abandoned.
Another school has been thrown into chaos with the surprise announcement that a 9-year-old boy will henceforth be a girl.
Under circumstances all but identical to a previous case involving a 12-year-old boy, a 9-year-old boy at a UK primary school suddenly returned to school at the start of the new term as a “girl,” in the vain hopes that nobody would notice.
The school, together with the boy’s parents, decided to sidestep any tricky explanations and simply lie to children and tell them the boy had been replaced by a similar girl, which unsurprisingly did not fool the children at all.
Parents were stuck trying to work out what happened and how to explain matters:
“My son came home from school and asked why one of his friends had become a girl. I thought he was joking, but he kept asking – that’s when alarm bells began ringing.
The pupil’s classmates were told he had left and that a new girl would be starting in his place this term.
We have had to deal with the fall-out from all this. It’s not a situation I or other parents are comfortable with and we’ve not been given any help from the school about how to handle it.
My son is too young to really understand the significance of what’s happening. It’s hard to explain to him.
He doesn’t understand the differences between girls’ and boys’ bodies yet. I’m terrified he’ll ask me if he can become a girl as well.”
The boy will apparently be sharing toilet facilities with female pupils, a situation sure to create further interesting situations when he reaches puberty.
“Doctors” and the boy’s parents apparently decided that his wishes to become a girl should be indulged. A source at the school reports that “the boy had always been rather feminine.”
A “gender counselor,” whose trade revolves around promoting sex-changes, is unsurprisingly supportive:
“People should not be surprised that a child so young has these feelings. What is more of a surprise is that the child has been able to express them openly, and that because of changes in society those around the child have been so supportive.”
However, an actual organisation of transvestites and transsexuals doubts the wisdom of this:
“This child is vulnerable to bullying and teasing. They and their family have been seriously misadvised. It is hard enough for an adult to change gender.”
Although the boy is doubtless on the fast track to a sex-change operation and hormonal treatment in order to turn him into something approximating a female, he must wait until he is legally an adult before any actual operation may take place.
Via The Sun.
Me:
Oh, my dear head is hurting. People nagging at me all day long is seriously not doing any good to me, you know. At least something's good. I have progressed to Chapter 2 after 12 pages. Project 1D is still not going well. It's only come to zero sentences, zero words, zero pages, etc. I mean....I can't play my PSP, I can't enjoy myself a bit, I can't listen to music......I mean....What da heck?!
Like, she's so hot even if she's a mechanical doll.....Info: She's an unlockable character in SC IV and her weapon is UBER COOL! She is also rated one of the more cooler characters in SC.
SUPA CUTE SONG WITH SUPA CUTE CHARACTERS!
Note: Watch out for pantsu part at 1:20 or so.
I found this pic where they teach you how to draw breasts.
Yeah
DUMB.
No post today.
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah...
Here's a pic for you. Read if you dare.
Katanas:
A serial burglar was spectacularly slain with a katana after he broke into a man’s home; the man hacked off the burglar’s hand and slashed his neck, killing him.
Police have not charged the killer, as he was judged to be acting in self-defence.
The man whose home was invaded was a medical student at the esteemed John Hopkins University in Baltimore, living with several other students; he had recently reported a similar break-in in which laptops and a PlayStation were stolen.
Being confronted by another intruder, a 40-year-old career criminal just released from prison, with a long history of burglaries, he was in no mood to back down.
The burglar was discovered breaking in via their garage, and whilst police were summoned the burglar was confronted by the student, who was armed with a katana.
Police describe the burglar lunging at the student, who “then retaliated by striking him with a samurai sword, severed his left hand and gave severe lacerations to the upper torso,” fatally injuring him.
Police politely skirt about his unusual choice of weapon in a nation which prefers to commit homicides with firearms:
“I think everyone has the right to first of all defend themselves and defend their home and if this individual felt that a samurai sword was an appropriate tool to do so, I’m not in a position to say that’s good or bad.”
Self-defence and the right to bear arms, whether sword or otherwise, are of course highly cherished liberties in the USA.
Via SMH.
A “sexual healer” who has treated some 10,000 patients estimates she has had sex with 1,500 men over her 23-year career, charging $165 a go, and seeing as many as 5 customers a day.
Qualified sex therapist Mare Simone, now 54, has now helped thousands of UK men with their sexual problems by having sex with them for money:
“I am helping improve and change the sex lives of thousands of men, which means I am also helping improve the sex lives of their wives and girlfriends.
Some women become baby surrogates because they want to help women who can’t have children. In the same way, I feel drawn to helping others have an intimate sex life.
My job is so fulfilling and enjoyable. Seeing my customers leave with a new-found sexual confidence is a wonderful sight.”
Of course, she makes large amounts of money in the process of her healing antics:
“I see about four or five people a day and charge around £100 for a session.”
She describes her days of sex:
“My clients are all ages, shapes, sizes and professions. They have either been recommended to see me by a sex therapist or former client or they seek me out through sexual surrogate organisations.
The men generally need help with erection and premature ejaculation problems or have been sent by their wives because they weren’t pleasing them in bed. Before they see me, they all have an STD test, and must always use a condom when seeing me.
I also have some women come to me. Their problems are usually that they can’t orgasm or have had bad lovers. I show them how to pleasure themselves and make them love their bodies.
Some visit me for a few sessions, while others have around 12, depending on the extent of their problems.
All of my sessions start in the same way. We start by chatting while I caress their hands to make them feel relaxed and confident with me.
During the next few sessions I move to giving them back and shoulder massages, so the client relaxes further while talking about their problems.
Following that, we do a mirror exercise. This is where the client and I will both take off our clothes and look at our bodies in the mirror.
Usually, they feel very timid about their bodies and find it difficult to look at themselves. But when they realise I am not judging them, they begin to open up and feel confident.
At that stage I move on to front body massages. I take over ‘down below’, showing them how they should be touching themselves.
Finally, it’s time to put everything into practice. This is the stage of lovemaking, so they can learn how to control themselves and solve their sexual problems.
Sometimes I will have sex with a husband in front of his wife, to show them both how to be more sensitive lovers. Often, couples find just talking openly to a stranger about the problems in their love life helps in the bedroom.
My job is basically to make people realise their problems are not just physical. They are in the mind and have a lot to do with self-confidence.”
I am a sexual healer and so proud and happy that I found my dream job.”
In the 20 years I have been doing this job, I have never felt miserable about going to work. I love what I do and have no plans to retire within the next ten years.
She describes how, after being raped at the age of 19 by a friend after taking a lift home from a party, a failed marriage a decade later convinced her she needed to tackle matters:
“My fear of sex put a huge strain on my marriage and I knew deep down it was due to the rape.
It was then that a friend recommended I start reading about tantric sex and sexual surrogacy.
Learning about this unknown world of sexual healing made me feel that there was hope for me to get my sexual confidence back.
It was fascinating and during the course I also realised, for the first time, that the rape I had endured a decade before was not my fault. I could enjoy sex without feeling dirty, ashamed or guilty.”
Regarding the legality of her profession, she insists that having sex for money is not prostitution as it is “healing”:
“I earn my living by sleeping with other women’s husbands or boyfriends. But I am in no way a prostitute as sex surrogacy is legal, as long as it is done in a therapeutic and healing atmosphere.
People are paying for counselling and to cure their problems – not sex.”
Truly a marketing genius.
Her site may be of interest.
Via Heaven.
BTW, she's definitely NOT hot. Got a pic.
PS3 game : Tales of Vesperia:
Responding to the complaints of Xbox 360 Tales of Vesperia beta testers, a developer has laid bare the not so shocking truth of just how Namco was paid off by Microsoft to secure an “exclusive” release, but instead merely used the Xbox subsidy to reduce development costs on the PS3 version, which it expected to sell better.
However, Sony intervened and blackmailed them into adding massive amounts of new content if they wanted to be allowed to go ahead with the PS3 release at all…
He goes into considerable detail on his blog:
“First off, it was easier developing for the Xbox 360. This is to do with the games I was involved with, but basically if you sign an exclusive contract with Microsoft (you won’t release it on other hardware for a year or similar), they will give you a lot of cash for development.
Their support is also very fast and complete in these cases.
SCE don’t really give much cash out (any at all perhaps). Their support is confused and unreliable. When I was doing it at least, the 360 was easier to develop for, which lowers costs.
As a result, first you develop for the Xbox, reducing development costs. But the Xbox version won’t sell [in Japan], you can’t recoup even those lowered costs at all.
So they ported to the PS3, it’s cheaper as you already have the game done, but then Sony came back and told them ‘We won’t recognise it if it’s the same as the Xbox 360 version. Make sure you put in a lot of extra stuff!’
If we didn’t then they wouldn’t have let us pass their check…”
He claims that the developers all wished to produce the best possible game with this opportunity, and had no intention of deliberately putting out an incomplete game; they were instead keen to produce a version that “even Xbox 360 players could enjoy again.”
He also claims traces of later additions found in the Xbox code merely fell victim to pressures of scheduling…
He goes on to pour cold water on the notion of a DLC Xbox 360 version, saying that it could take another year to convert all the development resources back onto the Xbox, making it impossible in practical terms.
This news seems to suggest that Microsoft has been cunningly funding the development of PS3 games by allowing developers to develop cheaply on its platform, accompanied by a huge grant paid for each “exclusive” release, with the developers then cheaply porting onto the PS3, with additional features as required…
From that post i got another X-Box girl pic.....or not....
Futa?:
Upcoming Square Enix game series NieR, to be comprised of NieR Gestalt on the Xbox 360 and NieR Replicant on the PS3, has already attracted attention for the revealing attire of some of its female characters, but it seems it has more in store: one of the main “female” characters in NieR Replicant, Kainé, is revealed to be a futanari…
Too many pics to post. They're all japanese posters anyway.
Her introduction runs along these lines:
Kainé
A female warrior and partner of Nier, she was part-possessed in a demonic attack, and became a hermaphrodite (futanari).
As a result she was bullied from an early age, and out of resentment came to emphasise her female characteristics excessively through her choice of clothing. However, her demeanour, attitude and speech are extremely rough and masculine.
NieR Gestalt is thought to be an effort to appeal to international markets, though what the addition of a futanari says about Square’s hopes for the Replicant PS3 version is not entirely clear, though certain recent releases seem to come to mind…
Random game:
The pool of Japanese Xbox 360 “exclusives” appears to be shrinking fast with the news that ero-RPG Star Ocean 4 is to come to the PS3, its exclusive status having apparently worn off in much the same way as with the imminent Tales of Vesperia.
The news comes by way of a leaked release schedule indicating that “Star Ocean 4 The Last Hope International” will be due in Japan on February 2010.
Confirmed features so far are voices switchable between English and Japanese, and what look to be minor cosmetic changes and gameplay tweaks.
The language options presumably mean a dual language English version will also be released, and the game has indeed appeared briefly in the release schedules of some US retailers.
With Square Enix having betrayed the Xbox 360 so flagrantly, we can but wonder what awaits in a PS3 version, and whether the Xbox 360 release will turn out to be but a beta version as in the now notorious Tales of Vesperia fiasco.
Assuming of course that it escapes the wrath of a Sony check...
Me:
Me:
I;m so happy, i;m eating four grapes in one mouth!!! YEEEEEEEE!!! I can finally post pictures!!!!! I;m effing happy!!!!! I Love you blogger!!!! But if this happens again, i WON"T LET YOU OFF (said in a smiling face)!!!
Did you know the artist for ghost in the shell is also a reknown hentai artist? He made several posterbooks....and no, i don't have them, if that's what you're thinking.
Project RA is going VERY well. Project 1D has been set on Reverse gear, and my previous Projects shall be included in the latter. Plot(partially): Nicholas(yeah, me) finds his bunch of long-gone notebooks and somehow (i'll think of a way) sets all of the characters from within them out. Random stuff happens. What. I did tell you it's partial!
it is time.
and here's one for saggitarians
On Cats and Women:
Japanese men are said to be increasingly abandoning women in favour of relationships with their cats, and these men are being told they need to aim for untaken older women if they are to have any chance.
These “cat loving men” (猫好き男子, or “neko suki mens” as the Engrish has it) are now said to be a common fixture of neko cafes, and enjoying a steady increase in numbers.
Such men are said to treat women as they do cats, observing them quietly from afar without pursuing them for stroking action.
As such these men are branded a type of “herbivorous” man, concerned with harmonious relations and unlikely to pursue women.
These useless men are advised to pursue older women in their thirties, “as most of the women past 30 with no lover are gone, they may have better luck here.” They may find a “rare and exquisite bloom.”
Naturally, 2ch has much to say about all this:
“Getting rid of all those leftover women is hard, eh?”
“So you want them to marry some old biddythen.”
“WRONG: Cat men should aim for women over 30.
RIGHT: Cat men, please take what’s left over from the past it crowd.”
“Cats >>>>>>>>>>>>> Women in thirties”
“Overstock bargain sale?”
“Cat men should watch out for women in their thirties, is it?”
“I like cats, but old women are a bit…”
“I sometimes think it would be better to marry my cat. Humans cost money and are a hassle…”
“Desperate to create a boom for the sake of these leftovers aren’t they?”
“Cat lovers are a bit like lolicon really.”
“Cats totally won out in this thread.”
“Real woman vs Cat:”
“Cats are cute even when they are old. Women on the other hand…”
Via Itai News.
On mangas:
A survey asking manga fans which titles they would like to see continued anew even after concluding yields some not entirely unsurprising results, although in some cases it is hard to see how the events of the story lend themselves to any continuation…
The survey, conducted by Oricon, took in 1,000 Japanese men and women in equal numbers, evenly distributed amongst those in their teens, twenties, thirties and forties.
The results:
1. Slam Dunk
2. Hana Yori Dango
3. Dragonball
4. Death Note
5. Hikaru no Go
6. Touch
7. Itazura na Kiss
8. Love Com
9. Candy Candy
10. Rurouni Kenshin
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OH YEAH!!!
AND PICS ARE BACK IN THE GAME!!!
Ultimate Teachers that I wish were ours:
A teacher who raped and indecently assaulted as many as 27 of his pupils a total of 95 times has received a 30 year sentence.
The 43-year-old man formerly taught at a Hiroshima elementary school, and from 1989, the year after he started teaching, his true calling of hentai teacher began.
Over this 19 year career he was found to have violated 27 schoolgirls, aged 9 to 12, at least 95 times, blackmailing and violently coercing them into indecent acts with him. He faced charges relating to ten of those victims.
The prosecution demanded he receive the maximum possible punishment of 30 years, saying “He abused his position as teacher to fullest possible extent in order to satisfy his warped lusts; only the greatest possible sentence is appropriate.”
His defence begged the court’s mercy with the rather improbable “His chance of reoffending is slim!”
The judge would have none of it, passing down the full 30 year sentence:
“By telling these girls that if they did not accede to your demands you would not teach them, you exploited their immature minds, repeatedly and brutally defiling the sacred ground of an educational establishment.
The cruel damage you wrought is excessive, the social harm inflicted grave. Considering the circumstances and motive there is no reason to spare you.
As you bear the gravest of responsibility for disrupting the lives of these young girls, I can only pass the maximum sentence allowable.”
Via ZakZak.
Once again, a case where the failure of police or school to intervene earlier raises as many questions as the conduct of the teacher himself.
Darwin:
A recent movie celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth has ignited a storm of criticism in the superstitiously minded US, with creationists denouncing the movie, reversing the balance of opinion seen in other developed countries.
So much so that the producer has opted not to even bother releasing it in the USA, saying Americans are “not ready” for such a work.
Though American attitudes to evolution are nothing new, the all but universally scathing reaction of Japanese online is interesting to behold, particularly considering the Japan is hardly free from superstition itself.
2ch holds forth on the subject unsparingly:
“Americans are just too stupid.”
“There are no gods. Gods and demons are just the products of the fevered imaginations of men.”
“That the US, so full of idiots, can maintain a scientific and technological lead is the real mystery here…”
“America is really a cult nation.”
“They don’t really believe this, do they?”
“Those intelligent design guys. They got teaching evolution banned in some schools y’know.”
“Nice joke!”
“God didn’t make man, man made god.”
“It’s the 21st century and these idiot Christians still believe these fairytales. How long will they keep believing this rubbish…”
“Truly the land of the free.”
“What is the US, some kind of huge kindergarten?”
“I use to believe in evolution but lately I feel it might be plausible that aliens made man.”
“So who made the aliens?”
“>Only 39% believe in evolution.
What kind of idiots are they… God made it all – ridiculous.”
“But some Japanese do believe in an afterlife.”
“Americans love massacres so it’s fitting they are all Christians.”
“There are idiots in Japan who believe in spirits too, so we’re really in no position to laugh at these fools.”
“And these idiots make a fuss over a few whales…”
“This is just the protestant right making a fuss. Most Americans don’t even know what evolution is.”
“This is a matter of faith. God is necessary to maintain American society. Pure reason can’t maintain a human society. Religion is necessary to reassure people in the face of all the crime and death.”
“Saying ‘Are there really people in the US who actually believe God made man?’ to an American might be a bit dangerous…”
“What can we say about America…”
“You should put up one for blood type fortune telling too…”
The same sort of thing goes on over the thousands upon thousands of posts spawned in response to this news.
Via Itai News.
Anime:
Occasional oppai anime Canaan has branched out into that most taboo of fetishes, necrophilia, with the latest episode apparently showing a madwoman having sex with a corpse.
This is certainly a subject rarely seen in anime, something many perhaps are thankful for…
Me:
Ah well. News is getting better and better nowadays. How I wish one of our teachers are like the aforementioned, so we would have a shortage. Anyways. Project RA is going well,in the state of Drive gear, thanks to ideas posted in my head by the song 'Elisabeth'. Meanwhile, Project 1D is still in Neutral gear(refer to table below this post for reference to Gear meanings) And here are the percentage of the decision.
70% - Restart
20% - Proceed with different ideas that my complicated mind had thought of.
10% - Abandon all hope.
And the latin phrase of the day is....
De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Of the dead, speak naught but good.
Drive - Progressing well
Neutral - Making decisions
Low - Progressing well, but slowly
High - Progressing, but unsure
Park - Abandon all hope
Reverse - Restart
Projects:
Blade - Park
Shade - Park
RA - Drive
1D - Neutral
SH1D - Park
Arachne - Park, but elements in it will be used.
I;m working on homosexuality in my recent books, so don't be surprised. I've been thinking about hermaphrodites too, so.....yeah.
Mothers:
A mother who stalked and seduced the biological son she gave up for adoption some ten years ago has been charged with rape.
The 35-year-old Detroit woman, pictured, tracked down her teenage son (age withheld) using the Internet, after giving him up for adoption and not seeing him for 10 years.
Once she tracked him down, she is alleged to have seduced him; whether the boy knew the woman he had sex with was his mother is not clear.
Police got wind of incident and charged her with criminal sexual conduct, as the boy was underage; it seems likely the “rape” she is charged with is statutory rather than forceful.
The woman denies the charges, and was released on bail after surrendering to police.
A local psychiatrist clearly has not read any hot incest ero-manga, or at least is not a fan of such:
“Our first reaction to hearing about something like this is that this is every man’s nightmare. It’s an abomination.
I’m at a loss for words because it’s something that we consider to be so out of the normal, so prohibited in every culture that it unnerves every man just to think about it.
This could be his first sexual experience, and his first sexual experience could be something so conflicted, so unusual, so prohibited that it will stay with him for life.”
Via Fox.
China ripping off certain lame animes:
China’s top state run broadcaster is being accused of plagiarising elements of Pokémon and Naruto in its latest children’s anime, not long after it was discovered to have shamelessly copied 5cm Per Second wholesale; the broadcaster obstinately denies the charges, saying there is a difference between “plagiarism” and “imitation.”
Chinese Central Television (or CCTV), under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department, recently began airing 恐龙宝贝之龙神勇士, loosely “Dinosaur Baby Holy Heroes,” but Chinese anime fans soon spotted the fact that the anime was copying character designs, story and music from a variety of Japanese anime, most notably Pokémon, Digimon and Naruto.
The director of CCTV’s Children’s Channel was soon confronted over the issue, but he angrily denied all wrong-doing, saying it was a matter for the studio responsible, and then asking those doubting the work to “consider the difference between imitation and plagiarism.”
With the government having banned non-Chinese anime from TV due to fear of foreign influences and to foster homegrown anime, domestic producers have struggled to satisfy demand, generally producing anime of very low quality, loathed by many Chinese for its highly propagandistic nature.
This difficult position, coupled with the lack of respect for copyright the mainland is notorious for, seems to have led many studios to simply plagiarise Japanese anime, frequently passing it off as “100% domestic,” and often doing so in direct collusion with the state.
More China:
Chinese visitors to a notorious village street in Hubei province were recently met with a shocking scene.
With no municipal waste disposal service whatsoever, and no initiative on the part of residents, the garbage is simply dumped on the side of the street, abutting a river (itself already polluted).
However, dense clouds of flies soon form, so someone sets fire to the refuse to drive them off.
This causes the rubbish to burn slowly for days, spreading a disgusting miasma of smoke from burning filth and plastic throughout the area, which happens to be used by children on their way to school and students on their way to university.
After the rubbish is burnt off, fresh rubbish is dumped on top and the cycle repeats.
This “waste management” approach has apparently been used for many years, with no end in sight.
Suing Bibles:
A homosexual is demanding $70,000,000 in damages from Bible publishers for printing a book which dares to condemn homosexuality as a sin.
The man, unsurprisingly an American, claims two Bible publishers “manipulated” their translations from an ambiguous condemnation of “abusers of themselves with mankind” to an explicit condemnation of “homosexuals.”
The King James Version of the bible, to many English-speaking Christians “The Bible,” exerted considerable influence over the English language as a literary masterpiece. However, its admonitions are frequently ambiguous, and its translation politically motivated or disputed.
For example, the King James Version renders a condemnation of sexual deviancy in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 obliquely as:
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind… shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Modern editions tend to favour much less ambiguous wording of the same passage:
New International Version:
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders…
New American Standard Bible:
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals….
New King James Version:
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites…
English Standard Version:
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality…
The man claims that the publishers of such Bibles caused him “demoralization, chaos and bewilderment,” by deliberately publishing “homophobic” versions of the Bible, entitling him to huge damages.
One publisher has denounced his claims as “ridiculous,” pointing out that they neither translated nor own the rights to the version they publish.
Most major religious texts take a dim view of homosexuality, so it seems he may have a very long string of lawsuits ahead of him.
Via Carnal Nation.
Rubber Duckies:
A 10m tall rubber duck has been sighted on the waterways of Osaka.
The prosaically named Suito Osaka Rubber Duck Project, designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, has seen a 9.5m tall by 11m long rubber duck statue floated on the city’s waterways, for no particular reason. The duck has previously menaced other cities, but this is its first appearance in Japan.
Internet Slaves:
Nine women held captive for two months after being tricked into thinking they were in a reality TV show have been rescued; their captors sold scantily clad images of their prisoners online even as the public voted on which they preferred.
The group of 9 women, the youngest being only 15, were recruited to attend what they thought would be the filming of a “Big Brother” style reality TV series, set in an Istanbul villa.
However, the women quickly realised all was not as it seemed, and asked to leave; they were refused, and a period of incarceration lasting two months ensued.
During this time pictures of the women exercising and in bathing suits were sold online, with votes held on which were most sexy.
Turkish authorities eventually got wind of the scheme and military police launched a full scale raid on the villa, freeing all of the girls.
Via AP.
Runners getting stripped off meadals for gender stuff:
A “female” gold-medallist athlete is in danger of being stripped of her medals after tests revealed she is a hermaphrodite.
The 18-year-old South African runner, Caster Semenya, became a victim of her own success when a spectacular 800m win in the recent World Athletics Championships caused race authorities to order tests on her.
She is said to have biological characteristics of both genders, with female genitalia but no ovaries and internal testes.
However, legally she is quite female, and still passes hormonal tests as a female.
An official with the body ordering the tests explained the complexity of the situation:
“There certainly is evidence now that Semenya is a hermaphrodite.
But the trouble is the IAAF now have the whole ANC and the whole of South Africa on their backs.
Everything is going to have to be done absolutely by the book, no question of a challenge to our findings.
There’s all sorts of scans you do. This is why it’s complicated.
In the past you used to do a gynaecological exam, blood test, chromosome test, whatever.
That’s why the findings were challenged, because it’s not quite so simple.
So what they do now is they do everything, and then they can say look, not only has she got this, she’s got that and the other.
The problem for us is to avoid it being an issue now which is very personal: of the organs being a hermaphrodite, of not being a ‘real’ woman.”
Proud South Africans decry the doubts as “racist and sexist.”
Her family is particularly outraged:
“It is God who made her look that way but she is a girl.
I believe Caster is normal, inside and out.
What does it matter whether she can have babies or not? Many people cannot have children, why else do parents adopt? Are those women not women also?
We are a normal family who looked at a child when she was born, saw that she was a girl and raised her as any other family would do. Are we now being told that we are wrong?
We are very humiliated by what has been said and do not understand how it can be true.
This is a woman who was raised a female. She will always be female, no matter what people say.”
Via Heaven.
Me:
Ah bother the freak FYE. Referring to both books as Project 1D and Project RA. Project 1D is on restart mode due to character clashes and RA has only reached 2nd page....so it isn't going as well as many would think, so shut up. Cor aut Mors, Heart or Death.
the romance/action novel(la?) DOES NOT INCLUDE ANYONE FROM THECLASS IN CASE YOU'RE INTERESTED! anyway. It has characters which are from my imagination, thank you. and the names are better than before, i must admit. And THEY ARE DEFINITELY NOT RELATED TO ANYONE OF YOU, MIND YOU.
damn typos.
Inability to post the objects mentioned in the title is making me very, very, very frustrated. If thou doth encounter a similar setback, do inform me over sms, so we can form a "Hate you blogger until the end of this 'inabilty to post photos'" group. Going to search for news now.
Anime:
All the newly created episodes of the current broadcast of Haruhi have been exhausted with the latest episode, leaving only further repeats.
Newtype has already published official schedules indicating the remaining four episodes are repeats from the original series, so unless the final episode is modified in some way (or replaced entirely), a prospect which Haruhi-ists will doubtless cling to until the bitter end, the “Disappearance” arc initially promised for the new series has entirely disappeared.
There is some speculation that continuations may come by way of a new PSP game or the entirely hypothetical Haruhi movie, but otherwise it seems the franchise will be dead for another three years, if indeed it ever revives…
game Consoles:
A chance observation by 2ch has led to the surprising discovery that some Japanese movie theatres are actually playing their films from PS3s.
The tale begins with a 2ch denizen’s visit to a Sendai cinema, where the audience’s viewing of Kara no Kyoukai was rudely interrupted by the appearance of an onscreen warning to recharge their controller.
Opinion was quickly split as to whether this was a fine advertisement of the PS3’s capabilities or a rather miserly move on the part of the cinema.
Soon the news spread through 2ch-watching blogs and was picked up by a site which apparently managed to confirm by way of Aniplex that the showing was indeed using a PS3, though not using Blu-ray as some had thought.
It transpires that full HD at 1920×1080 was being stored on the PS3 HDD, with the quality apparently indistinguishable from more typical projector-source hardware.
A number of cinemas are apparently using this method, though it might be hoped they are rather more careful about keeping their controllers charged
Women:
New survey results compound previous findings with the news that 46% of Japanese women admit to cheating on their partners.
The survey, conducted by StyleWalker, asked 2,000 Japanese women in their teens and twenties “Have you ever cheated on someone?”
23% confessed to some prior acts of infidelity, giving the usual creative excuses or remorseful vows never to do it again until the next time.
A further 9% admit to “unintentionally” cheating, giving such highly convincing excuses as “I was dating someone, but he confessed to me and I couldn’t refuse…” and “I fell for someone else even though I was dating him.”
4% actually acknowledged they were currently cheating on their man, some even with more than one person…
However, 54% of women asked would not admit to cheating on their partners, though whether this implies innocence or discretion is certainly open to question.
These results seem extraordinarily similar to another, previous survey; that put the proportion of cheating women at a close 45% of the total, suggesting the results may be quite reliable.
Hatsune Miku...oh sorry, Hachune(????) Miku:
Hachune Miku, the chibi version of virtual idol Hatsune Miku, will be launched high into the heavens in a rocket this month.
The rocket, along with the Miku figurine, is taking part in the eXtreme Performance Rocket Ships (XPRS) contest, held by NASA in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada from September 18th to the 21st.
The project is being handled by Social Media Satellite Development Project (SOMESAT, formerly HAXA), the members all having met on NicoNico Douga, itself famous for popularising Hatsune Miku.
Somesat’s eventual aim is to launch Hachune Miku into space, though this launch will see them aim for a lesser altitude of some 2km.
The figure will showcase some technological advancement, which includes an electronic mechanism that is used to “wave” its signature “negi”.
Sales Disaster:
When confronted about its mockery of the remaining Haruhi fanbase with the four disc Endless Eight DVD release, even Kadokawa itself can only say “it would be nice if they sell.”
Their animation department responds to enquiries thus:
“Even in the company hardly anyone knows why it took eight repeated episodes spread across 4 DVDs with two episodes each in order to unravel the mystery thoroughly. We are aware of the fan reaction, but…”
When asked directly about whether they think these tactics will result in sales at the level of the first season, even Kadokawa is less than enthusiastic:
“Well… All that can be said is that it would be nice if they sell, wouldn’t it?”
Weird sculpter:
The same enigmatic chainsaw carver who previously sculpted Nagi-sama and Hatsune Miku from blocks of wood has turned his hand to creating a wooden idol of Mio, with quite spectacular results.
Apparently, he resembles like Jason from that horror movie. If only i could post photos.....oh well.....
"Jason-san" in action, i suppose...
Me:
Tiring days.....tiring days....my head is throbbing from thinking too much...
As you know, i write. And writing has always been my passion. Lately, however....writer's block has been...well...blocking my way....
Now i'm torn between my romance/action novel(la?) and my current fantasy one which features almost all of our outstanding people in our class, namely Marin, Jen Yang, Keith, Wayne, MK and yours truly. It also includes our beloved people (reasons are stated behind their names, Haffidz (a truly great group member), Low Yu (for his attempts, and failures, to try and increase his randomness level to fit my expectations), Naunidh (for.....well....his turban?), Zheng Jie (for his amazing like-ness to Mr. Tay) and Hong Sheng (for being named HL Milk in the beginning of the year. Just kidding. For being a total dartboard for my insults).
Guess that's all. Long live Moemon. Long live Vocaloid.
By the way...for anyone who knows the vocaloids....
Hatsune= hatsu+Ne = Hatsu(first)Ne(sound)
Megurine= Meguri + Ne = Meguri(Circulate)Ne(Sound)
Kagamine= Kagami + Ne = Kagami(mirror)Ne(sound)
Hatsune and Kagamine have a relation to their characters.
Hatsune Miku is of the very first vocaloid, so thus Hatsune.
The Kagamine family comprises of Rin (originating from the english word: Right) and Len (Left) Kagamine. as they are twins, thus Kagamine, Mirror + Sound.
however.....Megurine remains a mystery to why she is named so.
By the way, Rin's the girl, even though Right sounds very male-ish. And Len's the guy, even though Left sounds like a female-ish name.
It might be fast......but hey.....you get what it's about, rite?
Here's the full list...though it is only revealed aronund 30 sec plus into the show.
BTW, i have no idea why nidoking is also a female....
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