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I really hope there was at least a 3% margin of error. I also wonder how this survey was conducted. 87% of the time they give the child permission to buy a game does not equal 87% of the time an underaged gamer gets a mature title, the parent approves. Was there any sort of link to the study itself?

Umm...read the poll question, smart guy.

Not ALL Hentai is like that. There are some with actual plots that make some sense (for instance, Kite and Perfect Blue). To be honest, I think your example is poor to begin with. If it's inspired by an H-game, it's at least borderline hentai, whether it's been toned down a lot or not. Kind of like those toned down Marilyn Chambers movies they used to show on USA late at night. It's not really porn, but come on. Oh, and GoldenBoy, though borderline hentai (it's way too much fan service to be simply a fan service show, but not quite outright hentai), is one of the funniest anime EVER. You have to watch it. Everybody. A good example of a "mature" anime would probably be something like Samurai Champloo. No explicit showing of sex, but there is some nudity and a lot of innuendo, and violence. Plus a lot of mature themes, including drug use, child pornography, prostitution, and piracy (like ARRGGGHHH!, not BitTorrent). In fact, I haven't watched the editing job CN has done for it, but I really wonder how they got it (and NGE, as well) to pass censors. I know cable broadcasts aren't censored after 10pm or so, but still, CN has some standards. I really doubt either show would make it uncut. NGE on Anticipation, though? Rock on. That should be some hilarious stuff. You just going to go on the last episode or the movies as well?

I've seen ones I've liked better. This one was really good though. I thought the lip-syncing was just a trick though. I've seen lip-syncing close to that in at least several other AMV's.

I don't know Jack, it depends on the games you buy. If you buy only say NES, SNES and Genesis games, it should hold well over 100 before you need to look for external storage. That's enough, I'd think. Only the hardest of hardcore will want more, and they won't really have problems paying for more memory cards. Yeah, it'd be nice to have more, but solid state memory still isn't all that cheap, and it's probably a cost decision more than anything at this point. If the average consumer isn't going to fill up 512MB, why raise the cost for them to add features they won't use? And cvskin, could at least find a source that backs you up on that XBox thing? Not that Nintendo really gives a fuck right now (even if it were true). They can't make enough DSLites and DS's to satisfy JAPAN's demand, much less America's once we get the DSLite. And I remember when people said the PSP was going to trounce the DS.

Guild Wars: Factions

Luxons are pathetic. They'll be annihilated by the Kurzics soon enough. Not the Luxons I'm talking about. I'm with you on the Kurzicks though. Those Luxons are godless sand bugs.

Don't you mean that the other way around? The Wookies never developped space travel independently and were later enslaved by conquerors from other worlds, in large part due to the invaders having superior weaponry. If it's an individual battle between a member of each species, the Wookies. But the question was that of an all out war, so the Klingons. The Luxons would lay waste to both at the same time though.

Not to nitpick or anything, but I REALLY don't think The Punisher or The Hulk should be here. oh, and DUKE FUCKING NUKEM.

So yeah, the 42% was just last year. Not the last 3. Though I'm kind of curious what it was in 2004. First of all, I agree that the government SHOULDN'T have to step in and regulate. Parents should be taking a more active role and every retailer, national, local or whatever should not sell these games to minors. But, in 2003, nearly 10 years after Mortal Kombat and the ratings system was implented, more than 2/3 unaccompanied children could buy M-rated video games. That's really not acceptable. If they ran a story on Dateline or something saying that 2/3 unaccompanied children could buy Rated R movies or porn, people would flip, yet for whatever reason they don't have the same reaction for video games. San Andreas has a lot to do with it because both EB and Wal-Mart are being sued in that Jack Thompson case. So instantly, every outlet of those chains has to start carding (though, yes, they already claimed to card to begin with). They are self-governing themselves because it is now financially beneficial to do so because they might be held legally responsible for the stupid shit their customers do, not because it's the "right" thing to do. And like I said, 42% is not good. It's a start, but it's nothing to be proud of. And certainly not a number that would suggest to me that further regulation is unnecessary. And your statement was ridiculous because you are making assumptions. Yes, the number is lower than it was in 2003. Is it at an all-time low? Is it even lower than 2004? We don't know, and yet you offer this 42% as proof that the current system is working and just needs more time. It's not necessarily wrong, but it's a stretch. And if you're just paraphrasing Halpin, he's got as much of an agenda as the politicians do.

God, that's such a ridiculous blanket statement. Especially considering everything that happened with San Andreas last year. You knew retailers were going to shape up AT LEAST for the short term. If the numbers keep going down, then fine. Still, 42% is way way way too high for my tastes. So, good news? Yes. Will it cause governments to think harder about enforcing policies themselves? Yes. Definitive proof that they don't need to? No. It's only a year, and a highly out of the ordinary one at that.

It's being reported that the charges against the girls are being dropped. Though I can't find a link to an actual news source about it.

Yeah, I can't see the network lasting much longer anyway. When you take over another, more successful network, why do you erase nearly everything that network was doing, and replace it with your shit that was going down the tubes? It's a fucking idiotic way to run a business. Plus, it's kind of a weird thing that Kevin Rose's podcast is more popular than any of G4's. I mean, if you let the most popular guy on your network who doesn't drive a car go, what exactly is motivating your programming choices?

Most certainly.

I didn't reply to this? Hmm.... Vash the Stampede. Though in Initial D Stage 4 Bunta Fujiwara makes a strong run for the top.

I'm 85% Spider-Man. But looking at the list of possibles, it'd be him or Green Lantern, who was tied for second.

What was the joke: the article, or the creation and placement of the boxes? After a little more research, another more journalistic source has revealed it not to be an April Fool's joke. Here you go. Still, it's hilarious to me that people overreacted to the point that it turned into a bomb squad thing. Here's the original site.

Here you go. :happy:

Kellen, you are a very angry young man. I mean, damn son. That was just...wow. I also realized why I have a hard time getting into your segment, I can't follow what's going on at all (in the anime itself), your descriptions can get cumbersome (it's also 2:30 am here, so that maybe part of it). It's a lot of fun to hear you rant, though. Especially since James said you sounded like you were shouting across the room at your mic in your first segment, it just puts a hilarious image in my head. Ghostbusters, yeah. I don't really have a lot to say. I watched it over Christmas (it was on one of the Starz! channels), and I kind of agree that the content was a bit mature for a PG rating, but, what are you going to do. They can't realistically go back and watch every PG and R-rated film from before the PG-13 rating and see which ones should be PG-13. As far as the Super Mario Brothers thing goes, firingsquad.com says it wasn't an April Fool's Day joke, but I'd take that with a grain of salt. It's still hilarious either way. EDIT: Used "follow" too much.

Super Mario Brothers is not so innocent. See, these video games have been corrupting our children for YEARS! DECADES EVEN! More ridiculous hysteria, plz.

Yeah, if this was best, I'd probably have to vote Miyazaki. Got to recognize the skills even if I'm not a huge fan.

So, who are your favorite anime/manga creators? For me, it's probably Shinichiro Watanabe. Probably the "popular" answer or whatever, but I don't care. The man is responsible for Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop and the fantastic Samurai Champloo (which I'm just getting into), not to mention the other stuff he's had a hand in. It's just ludicrous how good he is. Yasuhiro Nightow is probably second. Trigun is beyond awesome, and Gungrave is really good, but he hasn't done anything else, so it's hard to give him more credit. Miyazaki would probably be third. I know, blasphemy. I just can't get in to most of his work for whatever reason. Mononoke Hime was brilliant, but I'm not a big fan of the rest of it. I don't know why.

Greatest video ever? (Warning: It's pretty graphic, if Kill Bill was way too bloody for you, don't click.) I must learn the ways of this ancient art.

Great, now I'm not going to be happy until Alan Moore writes a Super Moby Dick of Space comic. A question unrelated to Alan Moore, is the rest of British talk radio as depressing as it sounds? I mean, "40 years later, friends and family remember Churchill's funeral" doesn't exactly sound like a lot of fun.

Gibson and Fender?