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Anime & Manga / Re: US/Japanese manga publishers form Multi-National Manga anti-piracy coalition

« on: July 23, 2010, 12:11:15 AM »

Of course, like I said I'll wait til I'm older because as I said before I'm not fond of my town because it's really really small.

Think big, and don't set up near competition. Stores that give stuff to a certain niche are best placed on certain locations.

I'm not even sure if my genereration even has idealism because as far as I know they don't care about anything other than themselves and the people they text.  Honestly I'm not exactly sure if it's normal teenage behavior to be deliquents or just because there's nothing intresting in this town.

All good teenagers have idealism. It's what comes from within. Just because vapid, simple-minded people don't, it doesn't mean everyone who likes to think a bit more doesn't want to save the world when they're older.

As for the comics that's really good advice I had no idea it worked like that.

I know you're an honest person, but work by the definition of try-before-buy. I'll link you a few REALLY good comic downloads you can try out for meaningful stories and whatnot, and then you can decide if you want to follow them or not.

Back on topic, there really aren't alot of manga which people are sure that will sell in the US. Most of it is just niche stuff as it is. That's why it doesn't come over.

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Anime & Manga / Re: US/Japanese manga publishers form Multi-National Manga anti-piracy coalition

« on: July 22, 2010, 11:25:41 PM »

Don't worry I'll only start my business after I graduate from college with a Major in Plant Science and a Minor in Business, because I don't want to end up like my mom's boss his business is doing well but sometimes he has no idea what he's doing because he had no former business lessons, I mean you can run a business by only following your instincts but I'd like to get a former knowledge so I can get a better understanding of how it works. 

I want to learn about plants as well. I don't know if it'll be for the plants themselves to sell so people can have an alternative to getting food or simply so they can have cleaner air.  Or to use the extract of the plants to help people thereputicly with oils, bath salts, soaps and other things like Bath and Body Works but hopefully a little less expensive and a bit more organic since, well people are using it. 

I just want to help people either way because I'm a mostly honest person and I despise people who take advantage of others just for money. I mean I like money as much as the next person and I am a bit greedy but only because I want to be able to be happy I can buy or afford things, be it for food or recreation, without having to depend on others too much.  But this way in the future, I mean I'm only 17 for crying out loud I have plenty of time to find out exactly what I want to do.

As for the comics I need to find a store first with really old comics so I can start from the beggining, although I hope it won't be expensive.  I probably won't find one it's just wishful thinking on my part.

Ah, good. And don't forget the basics for a good location, space, distributors, etc.

That seems like a wonderful goal. A bit common for teenage idealism, but I hope you'll get there. =P Still, start thinking of your own life early. It's a good thing to do.

When it comes to starting certain comics, you don't need to start with the very first. Old comics didn't really have set stories or origins, and people who aren't familiar with them aren't really keen on going through years of Golden Age stuff. =P For example, you want to read Batman? Read the best arcs. Start with Year One, the canon origin, and go onwards to the rest. Wanna read Green Lantern? Start with Rebirth, and go through with it, since you don't need previous knowledge to know much about it. Marvel Cosmic? Start with Annihilation.
Thing about hero comics, is that there's alot of crappy arcs, and alot of good ones. And you don't need to know everything about the story to follow them, since they switch authors pretty often and they change moods, stories, canon and alot of other stuff. Just ask around for which are the best arcs, and enjoy them. Not from the first to the last like Manga, but by picking up small stories. Either that, or pick up a comic which has already ended and is guaranteed to be good, like Starman, Transmetropolitan, or Bone. It'll be more than worth it.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: July 22, 2010, 11:11:33 PM »

In other news, Prince of Power is AWESOME.

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Anime & Manga / Re: US/Japanese manga publishers form Multi-National Manga anti-piracy coalition

« on: July 22, 2010, 10:32:12 PM »

Eh I plan to own a business and I'm good with money so I guess it's natural for me to understand this.  Plus I'm tired of bookstores not having any veriaty in there manga selection, because I'm one of the few people who actually would buy the official release if they have it since I'd rather read it in my hands than a screen.  Yes America has their comics and I really should start thinking about reading some, if they have it, because for some weird reason thanks to my brother I'm really intrested in X-Men, and maybe get some Batman too since he's my favorite hero.  

But I grew up with manga and I don't like a majority of shojo since it's not really realisitic and a couple of them are yaoi.  I mean I don't mind light yaoi, heck 2 of my friends are bi, and God Child isn't that bad but I prefer strait couples thank you very much.  I also don't really go for a lot of main stream manga either, I prefer lesser known mangas like PhD Phantasy Degree, Gimmick! not Hot Gimmick just Gimmick!, and the Saiyuki series.  Okay Saiyuki is a bit more main stream but not a lot of people have any idea what it is.  But if I can't go to a book store to pick up a copy of Kami Kaze Kaitou Jeann or Dazzle to only find it's not there or it doesn't exist anymore than what can I do.

I only know about what nostagia critc does because of my brother because I don't know the name of the web adress and I need new speakers.
It's not really about greed per say it's more about stupid desisions on both sides.

It's good that you want to start your own business, but there's a whooooole lot of factors you have to consider before actually starting it.

...that, and if you plan on getting initiated on western comics, PLEASE ask for advice. I fell out of the loop in the 90's because I had a completely crappy taste. ake sure you go in reading something like some classy Vertigo thing, or something. Surf the wave into the awesome. (Franco-Belgian comics can also be excellent. I recomend)

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Gaming / Re: ITS MAHVEL 3 BAYBEE (The MvC3 topic)

« on: July 22, 2010, 09:26:10 PM »

Joe and Dormammu revealed in comic art related.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: July 22, 2010, 09:13:09 PM »

GOD DAMMIT BIRD.

WHY YOU GOTTA BE SUCH AN ASS?

(and man, does that art suck)

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Anime & Manga / Re: US/Japanese manga publishers form Multi-National Manga anti-piracy coalition

« on: July 22, 2010, 09:06:16 PM »

Considering I pretty much only read stuff that has no chance whatsoever of getting a western release, this is a gigantic kick in the balls. Manga scan sites should be a bit more careful with how they distribute stuff. Like comic scans. They pretty much move from blog to blog, and one dude posts all the links on the /co/ board at 4chan from time to time. Releasing everything in a big site with ad revenue in webcomic format with scans and translations attribuited to this and that guy is a dumb move.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: July 22, 2010, 08:16:54 PM »

Lemme rage a bit more here:

Aparently, what changed in the timeline, was that this guy who Spidey arrested, was let out of a police car BY A BIRD WHO LANDED ON A SWITCH, and later threw a brick at Spidey's head, which knocked him out for the day and made him miss his own wedding.

...also, Joe adds in a ton of insecurity and Peter constantly ranting to himself how this is a mistake. [tornado fang] you Joe.

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Gaming / Re: ITS MAHVEL 3 BAYBEE (The MvC3 topic)

« on: July 22, 2010, 12:48:44 PM »

Does Nova still jokingly yell BLUE BLAZES?

Yep. At least sometimes.

Why no Nova? ;_; Well, at least there's the chance of a Beta Ray Bill skin...

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: July 22, 2010, 12:46:40 PM »

Is this a recent trade?

Came out yesterday. It's Quesada's sequel to One More Day.

Is there anything sadder than cutting up parts of old comics and replacing it with the new digital crappy art they have, for the sake of a fanboy's new official fanfic? When I started reading it and saw the classic art, at first I thought "Hey, they made classic-style art for this flashback? Sweet!" It was later that I kinda got the truth. This is probably one of the most shameless stories I've ever read. The kind that could be perceived as a joke if made as a straight parody. I mean... even if they say they made this just so Peter could be un-married for awhile and experience stories he couldn't while he was married, they could have done something like they did back when they "killed" MJ in a plane crash, then brought her back some time later. Peter was, for all intents and purposes, "single" for awhile. And you could see it was a temporary thing. This? It's RUBBING IT IN. And revelling in the awful status.

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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"

« on: July 22, 2010, 12:46:06 PM »

That's too bad. Specially considering it's very difficult to get quality manga hi-res scans the way we do with comics.

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Gaming / Re: Legend of Zelda - The official Zelda thread

« on: July 22, 2010, 12:44:35 PM »

Skyward Sword will be an Ocarina of Time prequel

Wasn't that already said by Miyamoto when he announced it?

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Gaming / Re: ITS MAHVEL 3 BAYBEE (The MvC3 topic)

« on: July 22, 2010, 05:57:04 AM »

Been listening to the Comic-Con stream; Seth outright said there:

*no Emma Frost
*no Daredevil
*no Ghost Rider
*no Punisher (they felt he'd be a Chris clone)
*no Phoenix Wright
*no God Hand

There is no God. ;_______;

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: July 22, 2010, 05:56:09 AM »

In my opinion? Meh. Hipsters hipsting. It's filled with art which you can't distinguish one character for another, weak romance story that's too realistic in terms of personalities for it to be interesting, full of unlikeable characters and boring dialogue. It kept my attention, and the game and the movie are gonna be REALLY good, but I didn't find the comic that good. It's pretty much got the quality of a decent webcomic. And the game references are too [tornado fang]ing obvious for anyone to find endearing.

Also, just read Spidey: A Moment in Time.

It's basically Quesada cutting up parts of the original wedding comic, and inserting his own "PETER GOT COLD FEET 'CAUSE HE'S A SINGLE MAAAN AND CAN NEVER COMMIT TO ANYONE AND THAT IS PROVEN BECAUSE HE'S SPIDER MAAN" twisted version of the story while a drunk Mary Jane narrates and keeps saying "Let's be friends let's be friends" in the background.

One of the biggest cases of RUBBING IT ON OUR FACES that I ever saw.

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Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)

« on: July 22, 2010, 05:50:24 AM »

Canon for the series.

...canon.

...Sonic... canon.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>implying that beyond Sonic 1-2-3-&K and Sonic Adventure-Sonic Adventure 2 it's more than a series of mindless reboots.

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News and Announcements / Re: MEGAMAN UNIVERSE!!!!!! (PS3/360)

« on: July 22, 2010, 02:52:21 AM »

Necks of fruitful creators prosper.

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Gaming / Re: ITS MAHVEL 3 BAYBEE (The MvC3 topic)

« on: July 22, 2010, 12:50:39 AM »

I wanted Cosmic characters. ;____;

Where's my Beta Ray Bill? My Nova? My Star-Lord?

I wanna play as Groot and say one thing only. ;____________;

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Entertainment / Re: The Legend of Korra CONFIRMED!!

« on: July 22, 2010, 12:21:56 AM »

Oooooh boy, i can't [tornado fang]ing wait!

Steampunk metropolis?

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: July 21, 2010, 04:35:42 PM »

I'm of the opinion that it's probably best to do a little editorial shake-up at Marvel (aside from their cosmic titles) and that includes removing Joe Quesada as Editor-in-Chief, partially because this guy has held the job for ten years and he's as bad a micromanager as Jim Shooter was. From what I heard he ordered the deaths of Jean Grey and Janet Van Dyne because their spouses, Cyclops and Hank Pym, would allegedly be "more interesting" with dead wives and imposed a smoking ban on all characters, including Wolverine because his father died of cancer. Oi.

If I had creative control over Marvel, I'd be inclined to order a complete "Crisis"-style reboot but this time every title would start from scratch (unlike DC, where the post-CoIE universe was MORE confusing than the pre-CoIE multiverse because of the rampant retconning). But I'd be fairly hands off with the cosmic line.

Honestly, there wouldn't be a need for much of a retcon in the current environment. With the Heroic Age reboot, and after Marvel's been through constant events for years and years, they're being very wise to keep their butts out of events and go more traditional heroics recently. But after reading the current titles, I think everything's just more boring. The Avengers continue to be a group of self-righteous assholes who can't keep Earth in check all the time, Reed Richards is still the most unlikeable [Bumpity-Boom!] in history and the X-Men still haven't changed one bit after all these years. Here's what they'd need to do:

1- Spidey arc where Mephisto comes back, senses some kinda glitch in the whole OMD retcon process, Peter's aunt dies (AND KILL THAT [sonic slicer] DEAD), and as a result, Peter kicks Mephisto's ass with one of his ballsy moments, his marriage is remade, he moves to a family house in the suburbs, gets a big-pay scientist job and his daughter May is born.
2- The Avengers make worldwide coalitions, so they can weed out problems before they can occur, and become a fully sponsored UN group to protect the whole world instead of just the US. Other Avengers branches are created all over the world (there's certainly enough superheroes to go around, root them out of New York).
3- Reed Richards stops being an self-important egotistical narcisistic [dark hold], shares his knowledge with the world, kills a bunch of deseases, and the F4 title focuses on amazing time/dimensional/cosmic/space adventures in a sci-fi style.
4- Deadpool gets ONE TITLE. ONE. TITLE.
5- Wolverine gets to be one ONE TEAM. ONE. TEAM. (for that matter, Origins ends and he gets his regular title back)
6- The X-Men start again being about a school for gifted children, and a mutant team of heroes. And as the mutant team members get older, they retire, get out of the group and give way for a new team member from the school.

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Gaming / Re: (Super) Street Fighter IV Thread

« on: July 21, 2010, 02:50:09 PM »

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/07/21/super-street-fighter-iv-has-new-challengers/

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: July 21, 2010, 01:11:25 PM »

Urgh. Hate the fact that Peter has to ALWAYS be a teenager in the eyes of Marvel. Why? I mean, hasn't he done ALOT of growing up? Spider-Man used to be about teenage angst, while having a character that stood through all of the crap. Now? It's about Peter Pan's emo life. Peter never ages, even though he has to. He has more than enough qualifications to get a lifetime job at one of Reed Richards' labs, yet he doesn't just go and ask, he CONSTANTLY has to have bad things happening to him, all the time, every single time, so the sad outweighs the happy so damn much, and everyone always gets hurt anyway. The only noteable thing he's done recently was join the Avengers. And I don't imagine they're paying him much, with all the trouble that goes through his life daily. The one moment where I actually saw SOME growth, which was in Rhino's recent redemption tale, they went the sad route and [tornado fang]'d up his life once more. Nobody can ever escape. Funny how a villain like Rhino was able to show alot of evolution, while Peter Parker, the damn main character, hasn't left the same spot since he was created. He's still being supported by his aunt and making his way through life irresponsably. And being married? Eventually having kids? NO. He'd be HAPPY. Quesada can't let that happen, no sir! So, enjoy a comic about Lizard eating his own son. Heroic Age indeed.

Kinda why I usually read just DC and Cosmic. DC had a SPACE ZOMBIE WAR called Blackest Night, which I thought was gonna be a very depressingf event, and it ended up being a totally rad space lightshow. Marvel Cosmic is pretty much everything the Earth heroes aren't. Earth heroes have REEEAL issues and REEEEAL problems and have to deal with regular bullshit everyday. Cosmic characters suck it the hell up and go save the Universe from Galaxy-wide/Universal epic events. If they whine, it's due to story placing a hard moment on them, not due to making the characters angst for five issues to make them more approcheable.

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News and Announcements / Re: MEGAMAN UNIVERSE!!!!!! (PS3/360)

« on: July 21, 2010, 12:56:27 PM »

not just that, imagine the overall complexity they CAN have. multiple floors and pathways, with powerups and stuff on them. Yknow, give the impression of an ACTUAL futuristic building or something. to get that one capsule you see up on a ledge, you would have to find a way to get up there.

Like all 3D games have been for a long time, you mean. =P

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News and Announcements / Re: MEGAMAN UNIVERSE!!!!!! (PS3/360)

« on: July 21, 2010, 06:30:10 AM »

Ive always used the X-Buster quake mod as an example, and ill use it again.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/x-buster/images/

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-wsiyf-5jY" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-wsiyf-5jY</a>

That looks REALLY good. Seriously, why not a Megaman game like that? It'd be fun to have, and imagine the detail the futuristic levels could have overall.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: July 21, 2010, 06:28:44 AM »

I didn't really read Spider-Man before OMD, and BND never really piqued my interest aside from "American Son" which was more "Dark Reign" anyway. All Quesada ever succeeded was further fracturing the fanbase.

American Son was the ONLY good story to come out after OMD. Because it followed the classic Good Spidey Story Formula. At one point, he can't take it anymore, he flips out, gets serious, and [parasitic bomb] gets real. It's how Spidey atories get good. When Peter actually mans up and does WHAT HE HAS TO. He hasn't had any of those moments recently, which makes me sad.

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Forum Games / Re: Comment on the Previous Signature.

« on: July 21, 2010, 05:18:39 AM »

"Get this tiny red banana out of my mouth!"