http://www.creature-corner.com/dvd/feb02alienquadjapanese.php3
Take a look at that. That is the box for the Alien Quadrilogy, and it is only being released in Japan... damn them! >:(
How awesome would that be to have as a DVD box/case thingy, you want to watch the movie and you have to open up it's bloody head to take one... but I wouldn't want to have it near your bed when you wake up, probably have a heart attack or something.
That, and Japanese women are hot...
You could probably just buy the head-case from eBay, and then get English copies of all the DVDs.
But you should still move to Japan...You can't get the chicks off ebay...
Well, I live in Hawaii and there's a lot of hot Japanese girls here. American-Japanese.
So move to Hawaii, instead of Japan. ;D
But Hawaii the last few weeks has gotten a shit load of rain. Myself, I like Iowa. That Ashton Cockhead seems to be popular and he's from Iowa... I retract my previous statement, I'm moving to Japan...
Oh man, I thought this was going to be one of those "I love anime and I want to be Japanese and live in Japan!!! BAKA!!! ^^" posts. I am very relieved.
Quote from: remixor on Wed 04/02/2004 03:13:02
Oh man, I thought this was going to be one of those "I love anime and I want to be Japanese and live in Japan!!! BAKA!!! ^^" posts. I am very relieved.
:'(
What's wrong with wanting to live in Japan for the anime?
Chinese girls are better :p
I wholeheartedly disagree...
(http://www.punahou.edu/js/gradek/f/thisyear2001/hallo01ninjas.JPG)
And I just posted this to make my post have some sort of content...
Quote from: Femme Stalk Mode on Wed 04/02/2004 03:16:52
Quote from: remixor on Wed 04/02/2004 03:13:02
Oh man, I thought this was going to be one of those "I love anime and I want to be Japanese and live in Japan!!! BAKA!!! ^^" posts. I am very relieved.
:'(
What's wrong with wanting to live in Japan for the anime?
It goes a long way towards making you a Japan nerd (http://maddox.xmission.com/anime_nerd.html"). Seriously, buddy, there's plenty of anime here, and in a language you can understand to boot. The only real reasons to go to Japan are the vending machines that contain beer and porn.
Quote from: Squinky on Wed 04/02/2004 03:30:55
I wholeheartedly disagree...
(http://www.punahou.edu/js/gradek/f/thisyear2001/hallo01ninjas.JPG)
And I just posted this to make my post have some sort of content...
It's White Ninja: Kindergarden Years!
Also, that headcase (ha!) is totally cool.
I remember wanting to live in Japan. Then, I didn't.
Awww just all come to The Netherlands... we have it all here!
- almost every day rain/wind
- lots of good looking chicks
- for those that are F***ED up, we can legally smoke weet
- if you are bored, goto one of the lots of hookers
- our political president is Harry Potter himself
Hey, this thing is pretty cool... Why do the japanese get all the cool shit? They get all the cool video games that we never see or hear of too (anyone ever heard of Live A Live?), and that makes me kind upset...
Quote from: Squinky on Wed 04/02/2004 00:32:55
That, and Japanese women are hot...
*Sully nods his head and smiles...
That and you can play p0rn games on your playstation (that's pretty sad when you sit and play with a dating simulator just to see a nekkid woman... er, cartoon woman).
I pity the school kids though... no summer break?!?!?! WTF! I would have shot myself a long time ago if americans had to go to school everyday all year round.
Make sure you take into account the classes you take after school, and the 4 hours of study each night.
Grade school is hard.
QuoteIt goes a long way towards making you a Japan nerd. Seriously, buddy, there's plenty of anime here, and in a language you can understand to boot. The only real reasons to go to Japan are the vending machines that contain beer and porn.
Well, what do you mean by "here"? Eh, EH?
I live in Australia, and for me getting anime is ridiculously hard, or maybe it's just that I'm looking in the wrong places. I don't own a video player, only a DVD player, and every single anime DVD I bought cost me between 20 AUD and 45 AUD. Some cost more.Most anime I found was on VHS. I could join the Brisbane Anime Society, but traveling by train and walking home at the times some of their late meetings finish would be unsafe for a teenage girl, I bet if I was a guy mom would let me walk home alone at those times >:(
Quote from: Dr. Jekyll?~MR. HYDE! on Wed 04/02/2004 07:22:06
I pity the school kids though... no summer break?!?!?! WTF! I would have shot myself a long time ago if americans had to go to school everyday all year round.
or we end up being a lot smarter or having a better work ethic not expecting absurdly long vacations all the time
Yeah, it may be about 3 months worth of time off, but still, they're just kids... (I mean gradeschool kids, not junior high, or high school level).
All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy.
You're looking in the wrong places Femme. That or Brisbane is devoid of DVD shops in any form, but I know you have a JB's.
On another matter.
America has absurdly long holidays in school and all and has an economy going nowhere.
Japan has little holidays, an extraordinarily strong work ethic and highly educated students.
...and has an economy that is going nowhere, and hasn't for a decade.
bah, fuck the economy, i'm talking about besting Ohio State at the 4th annual BATTLE OF THE BRAIN comeptition! WE CAN DO IT THIS TIME!
Nah, it's not going to happen. You guys are screwed. Just move to Japan or something.
Scott, I doubt you have to buy English versions of the DVDs if you buy that head, they most likely include the original audio track and English subtitles.
But if you can afford to import that thing you most certainly can afford the English collectors edition as well.
If you're only after the women, just go to college. My school has so many hot foreign chicks, and they would love to have American citizenship..err.. boys.
Quote from: Jackhammer on Wed 04/02/2004 12:31:28
If you're only after the women, just go to college. My school has so many hot foreign chicks, and they would love to have American citizenship..err.. boys.
Same thing here.
I decided a month ago: I'm going to Japan to teach English.
I'll get to travel overseas, earn some cash, and can say afterwards that I have done something interesting with a few years of my life.
BONUS!
Plus, I might get me that Alien Quad box, which will make it all the more sweeter.
If not Japan, then Korea or Taiwan.
Plus, I may get to meet Gilbot!
Quote from: DGMacphee on Wed 04/02/2004 13:31:19
I decided a month ago: I'm going to Japan to teach English.
I know people who have done that. You are going to make some
bank.
Well, it's a plan so far.
But I've spoken to a few people who have done it or knew something about it.
I'd like to take one of those Jet programs -- people recommend them highly, but they're very competitive.
But the plan so far is: (a) learn as much as I can about the programs, (b) complete my degree, (c) apply for one of the jobs, (d) go to England and see my Dad, (e) go to Japan, teach English, and check the place out!
I feel like going on an adventure -- a real one! :)
After I do that, then I'll plan (f) my next adventure!
/me makes DGMacphee's Japan quest in time for the 2004 awards
Don't you need to be fluent in Japanese though?
As far as I know foreign English teachers in Japan are expected to talk nothing but English when they're at the school, even in the teachers' lounge. At least the ones from programs like JET. Some schools may be more lax than others of course.
Aye, that's what i heard too.
I'm going to learn some Japanese anyway -- Gotta order food somehow!
Actually, speaking of the next AGS Awards, I don't think I'll be able to do them, so I'll need to organise a replacement later this year.
I had a friend with red hair and blue eyes who went to Japan on an exchange when he was 15. He kept getting offered sex, in the street, in restraunts, at the schools etc. by women up to their early 30's.
Now excuse me whilst I try to think of something less attractive than red heads.
(http://www.cmfnow.com/images/products/aaron/carrot%20top.jpg)
this'll help
edit: Well, thanks Eric. Had to edit it so it didn't sound like I was getting jollies over Carrot Top. :P
I think that would be any guys fantasy. To go to another country, and have hundreds of chicks asking you for sex.
Doh! My real reason for going to Japan has been exposed!
And I would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids and your dog!
Quote from: MrColossal on Wed 04/02/2004 07:51:43
bah, fuck the economy, i'm talking about besting Ohio State at the 4th annual BATTLE OF THE BRAIN comeptition! WE CAN DO IT THIS TIME!
what?? OSU did something good? I was accepted into my local branch of the college, and have gone on many vists of the main branch (I used to want to go there)
OSU is a shithole jock school. football...football...riots...thats it.
frankly i have no idea, i was just making a joke about being smarter cause i want to win in a fictional smartest man alive competition that colleges on The Young Ones held or something...
and by that I mean
GO OSU!!!
If you're talking about University Challenge, that's a real show... Been running for like 30 years or something.
Wow, Japan doesn't have summer break from school? Man!
I would hate to not have a (sizable) holiday from school. A week here and there for midterms is great but not enough to work on your own projects and suchlike. However, I think our summer holidays are wayyyy to long. I'd much rather have only a month off school, maybe only three weeks. Why? Well, because it gets boring as HELL, and then you completely lose your ability to study over summer. And that month should be in September, the nicest month of the Irish Calender.
And what is with everybody wearing different shoes? Everybody must wear the same shoes. And blazers! And cravats. And fedoras!
Heil me!
bored on summer holiday? are you mad?
In the US (N.Carolina & Cali at least), lots of schools have a year-round program. I gather, however, that when you refer to the Japanese schools as being in session the entire year, you mean without any significant breaks. Our year-round schools have something like a 4 week-long, 1 week off kind of schedule with a couple weeks in the summer & a couple around holiday time.
Japan's a place I have wanted to visit for some time. Sure as hell wouldn't want to live there, though. Based upon Karate Kid III, Okinawa must be a cool place, maybe it's Martial-Art-ier than the mainland. Watched Lost in Translation last night. Nobody challened anybody to a karate duel and there were absolutely no ninjas (perhaps debatable, the guy in the rainbow suit could've been some sort of ninja I guess). Japan seems like a strange and scary place. The fact that they still think of karaoke as a worthwhile pasttime frightens me. To the core of my being, I have no desire to hear someone shriek out a Pretenders' tune off-key in Engrish, well, at least not more than once for sheer comic value.
Quote from: MrColossal on Thu 05/02/2004 05:29:54
frankly i have no idea, i was just making a joke about being smarter cause i want to win in a fictional smartest man alive competition that colleges on The Young Ones held or something...
and by that I mean
GO OSU!!!
oh...my bad. I thought Ohio State actually won some acedemic quiz bowl contest or something.
*stabs eric with his UM Knife
Yes, bored on a summer holiday. I don't know about you, but where I live, in Ireland, there's nothing to do.
Then go to Japan! ^_^ Kawaii psycho-chan!
...
:o
I shocked myself there. Ignore me, I'm still high on nail polish remover fumes.
Quote from: DGMacphee on Wed 04/02/2004 13:31:19Plus, I may get to meet Gilbot!
You might not have to much luck meeting Gilbot in Japan. From what I hear, he's in China. :)
DG may be suggesting something radical like visiting other countries in the vicinity, including HK.
I plan to visit him in Hong Kong while staying in Japan through the magic of cloning!
(or what I meant was what Narangas said)
I would likle to live in Japan but Cartoon porn is creepy
LOL!
You don't have to look at hentai unless you want to :p
Cartoon porn exists everywhere else, but the Japanese variety is more widespread.
I advise people see Battle Royal before they dream about japaneses school life. That suit guy, he rocked!
Also be carefull, bird dieses is rushing throught the whole asian region, so now might not be the best time to go over.
Cartoon porn exists in any country.
Where would the world be without such classics as The Flintbones or Scooby-Doo fucking Daphne.
I rest my case.
By the way, you do know Battle Royale was just a movie.
Everyone knows that Japanese school life consists of starring at women's breasts, being in the swim team, and having classes that last for about two minutes.
Oh, yes and having magical abilities to defeat forces of evil -- can't forget that!
Well, if you do go over, remember to follow the Rules of Life (http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/Issues/mn7807/dating.html)and you should be fine. :D
Heheh.
Though, the article forgets to mention that rape is an acceptable form of wooing a girl, as long as you say during intercourse "Your mouth says no, but your body says yes."
Now is the time when we come to ask ourselves "Where has this topic actually gotten us? Where emotionally? where physically?
Have we actually emotinally matured during the course of this topic? Are we actually any closer to the light than we were when this was started?"
The answer for many of these questions is no. So now I say "If I am too lazy to get away from this computer and get a life, then you people should at least get one for me."
So there.
Let's see...
The thread started off as an "Alien Quadrilogy DVD pack" thread and ended with my declaration of going to Japan next year to teach English, and then all of us mocked stereotypical Japanese game exports -- and we all had a good laugh!
In other words, yes the post has matured.
Now let me ask another question: Why is it that you've contributed sweet-bugger-all in this thread and then have the audacity to question/comment on our level of emotional maturity on said thread's development?
You walk in here, tell us all to get a life, and then end with a "So there".
It's very rude and presumptuous, and I'm a little offended that someone would even think of writing such a thing.
Sorry Dg if I offended you, it was meant as a joke, I don't have a real life, except for ags, so therefore I can't actually come in here and tell you to get a life. I am sincerely sorry, please accept my humblest apologies.
Friends?
No worries, man.
I didn't realise it was a joke cause, as anyone here will tell you, I'm an utterly humourless bastard.
Well then, what the fuckeroo? Do we have to put a damned smiley after every post just so DG's slow ass will "Get it?" ;D <---- Post is a joke, see the smiley?
I completely forgot about the "Your mouth says no, but your body says yes." rule... :P
Quote from: YakSpit on Mon 09/02/2004 04:43:19
Well then, what the fuckeroo? Do we have to put a damned smiley after every post just so DG's slow ass will "Get it?" ;D <---- Post is a joke, see the smiley?
SLOW ASS!! HOW DARE YOU, YOU FUCKING BASTA... Oh wait, a smiley, you were only joking.
Ah ha! It does work. Now if only we had a smiley that properly portrayed the differences between being patronizing and condescending.
Or maybe just having a bit of a laugh? ;)
Hahaha You guys make me laugh...
;D ;D ;D<---3 for extra laughs!