On the topic of Old Chinese, landscape, complaints management and stereotypes. @2007-10-26 19:45:40
listening to: Masanori Oouchi, Masanori Adachi, Aki Hata, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane - Rocket Knight Adventures - Stage 3
So I once again spent half the night clicking my way through the ill-organized, redundant and surprisingly large-scale linguistics-related article web of Wikipedia, entirely forgetting to prepare for a geography test and only getting 4 hours of sleep as a result. Great success. <_<
Either way, Linguistics is awesome. Sometimes I wish it wasn't madness for me to pursue anything other than a computer science degree.
This is a truly delightful read, unless you happen to be in the lower half of an MMORPG's population ORDER BY iq DESC.
On a further note, I never expected the anime fansubbing trade to be so tedious.
Burner, from the Janus IRC channel, offered me a position and, unable to refuse to anything as usual,
I accepted without even knowing what series it would be. Well, I was soon to
find out. The setting of the show appears to be one of those typical
butchered European middle age themes - in particular, the historical event that inspiration is obviously heavily drawn from is
the invasion of the Turks/Ottoman Empire, which is represented by islamist-looking, turban-wearing fanatics calling themselves the
"Sabulum Empire" and worshipping some kind of unrevealed relic (?) referred to as アルケ. (We rendered it as "ark", but its pronunciation
clearly distinguishes it from the "ark" in the series title.) The real-world story, however, had smelly old men poking at each other with poles and swords.
You can imagine that's a rather hard to market concept... but no worries.
They didn't stick to it.
Suleiman I: "Fuck yeah, I wish I had giant humanoid battle robots back then."
Now that sounds like a massive point of concern, however the "western world" - which seems to be a wild mashup of
fairytales, Germany, England, France and Russia - has quickly conscribed its own flavour of secret weapon: a squad of magic-wielding, saucer-size-eyed mostly
female knights in sparse armour that can't be quite considered suitable for practical combat usage.
Now we just need some nurses and catgirls and we will have all anime clichés united into a single hyperdimensional chimaera that nourishes
on the fabric of spacetime itself.
Or maybe your brains.
Oh and, by the way, as you might have noticed, the blog is back.
Well if it's any consolation there's no catgirls. And paradoxically enough, despite there being girls' physicals, and several trips to the infirmary, there are no nurses. In the game at least.
Ailure[!8a5bcda98a @2007-10-27 16:18:10
Stupid anime cliches. At least some animes are making fun of them. :)