Chuckman wrote:I read magazines backwards.

On some forums, I will read from the last page of the thread backwards.

Some time ago, I discovered the joys of DVD closed captioning as an antidote to dialogue that is difficult to hear, ambiguous, or spoken with weird (to my ears) accents and dialects. Not to mention, when you share a home with two easily excited Spitz dogs and a noisy parrot... My habit spread to my parents, who found it useful even before my dad's hearing took a nose dive. I wonder how common use of closed captioning by the not-actually-hearing-impaired is.

Monk Ed wrote:Blood-related things shake me that badly. Despite my current title and love of vampires, I can't stand even the thought of blood in certain contexts.

I was in the shower one time, and the ceramic soap dish in the wall fell out and broke on my foot, creating a huge, bleeding gash. I was more shocked by the falling soap dish than the bleeding. I managed to be perfectly composed about the situation. I felt kind of like Timmy in Jurassic Park, looking at my foot like it was a dismembered Gallimimus and thinking, "Look at all the blood...!"

I'm sure my response isn't incredibly unusual. I'll blame my dad for this. He's always been getting injured doing work around the house, and treating some pink-with-blood towel wrapped around his head or a grotesque gash like it's nothing.

C.A.P. wrote:Am I the only one here who's seen animation before the 80s? Like, stuff from the 1920s-1950s?

What a thing to ask! They're still showing classic Looney Toons and Tom & Jerry on cable. The Disney classics are in constant circulation at public libraries. As a child, I saw all kinds of Fleischer cartoons, the old Mickey / Donald / etc. shorts, Silly Symphonies, even some Terrytoons.

Princess Asuka wrote:Who eats cereal without milk?

If Cinnamon Life, then yes.

riffraff11235 wrote:Starting to think I'm the only person in this forum who doesn't enjoy seeing Shinji dressed in drag....

Speaking as the one who created this thread, I have to say... you would be wrong.

Some time ago, I discovered the joys of DVD closed captioning as an antidote to dialogue that is difficult to hear, ambiguous, or spoken with weird (to my ears) accents and dialects. Not to mention, when you share a home with two easily excited Spitz dogs and a noisy parrot... My habit spread to my parents, who found it useful even before my dad's hearing took a nose dive. I wonder how common use of closed captioning by the not-actually-hearing-impaired is.

I'm one who, for the most part, with some exceptions, HAS to put on captions for anything I watch. Be it a certain film or television series on TV or home video, it's an absolute requirement for me. Reading the dialogue actually helps me concentrate with what's going on in the film or television series. I'm just glad somebody else here does it.

Reichu wrote:some Terrytoons.

Holy crap, I thought I was the only guy here who knew who this was.

Reichu wrote:Some time ago, I discovered the joys of DVD closed captioning as an antidote to dialogue that is difficult to hear, ambiguous, or spoken with weird (to my ears) accents and dialects. Not to mention, when you share a home with two easily excited Spitz dogs and a noisy parrot... My habit spread to my parents, who found it useful even before my dad's hearing took a nose dive. I wonder how common use of closed captioning by the not-actually-hearing-impaired is.

I always use captions when I'm watching TV. Granted, it's mostly because I broke my old remote so I can't turn them off, but even when I could, it looked weird to not have them on.

I also always watch my DVDs with subtitles on, no matter what. It's also fun when you're watching a DVD in English, with subtitles for the hearing-impaired and it's missing parts of what they were saying. Worst I've seen so far was one of my Doctor Who DVDs I think there was like three whole sentences not transcribed in the subtitles.

Aiko Heiwa wrote:I also always watch my DVDs with subtitles on, no matter what. It's also fun when you're watching a DVD in English, with subtitles for the hearing-impaired and it's missing parts of what they were saying. Worst I've seen so far was one of my Doctor Who DVDs I think there was like three whole sentences not transcribed in the subtitles.

Oh God, yes! In some my DVDs and Blu Rays of certain films and television series, there are cases where the captions do not even match the actual piece of dialogue spoken! Then, on more a rare occasion, there are cases where the captions appear after the dialogue that has already been spoken!

I've got used to watching with subtitles because my wife is part deaf. It does have it's benefits, I agree.

Am I the only one who likes to drink something hot and sweet after eating something spicy? Something about the sweet burningness just gets to me :)

Possibly -- I do like chilli hot chocolate, though, which does it all in one hit.

Am I the only one who likes to drink something hot and sweet after eating something spicy? Something about the sweet burningness just gets to me

Possibly -- I do like chilli hot chocolate, though, which does it all in one hit

I love the intense overstimulation of spice and heat and sweet.

Am i the only one who cuts out a segment of lemon and just bites down on it hard and fast?

Am I the only one who thinks that nerddom needs to chill its tits about adaptations taking certain kinds of liberties? It's an adaptation in a different medium, obviously it's going to be different. If you want the source, go to the source. I'd be more excited by the fact that someone is trying to find new creative possibilities in an old work - and if it sucks, if it doesn't pay off, if it ends up taking the wrong kinds of liberties, the original is still there.


*glares very hard at the Rebuild subforum and people shitting up /co/ with MAN OF MURDER threads*

I'm totally cool with adaptations, especially when they work. I loved the Dark Knight Rises version of Bane, and I say that as someone for whom the Bane episode of Batman: The Animated Series was a very memorable part of my childhood. So no, you're not the only one. And hopefully no one will reply to this in a way turning it into a tangent about anything Batman, or if they do, they will take it to the appropriate topic, such as the Dark Knight Rises topic in the Film forum.

chee wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that nerddom needs to chill its tits about adaptations taking certain kinds of liberties? It's an adaptation in a different medium, obviously it's going to be different. If you want the source, go to the source. I'd be more excited by the fact that someone is trying to find new creative possibilities in an old work - and if it sucks, if it doesn't pay off, if it ends up taking the wrong kinds of liberties, the original is still there.


*glares very hard at the Rebuild subforum and people shitting up /co/ with MAN OF MURDER threads*

Adaptations are shit by definition. Your complaint is invalid. Now put god helmet on your head and proceed to study electrically newspeak.

chee wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that nerddom needs to chill its tits about adaptations taking certain kinds of liberties? It's an adaptation in a different medium, obviously it's going to be different. If you want the source, go to the source. I'd be more excited by the fact that someone is trying to find new creative possibilities in an old work - and if it sucks, if it doesn't pay off, if it ends up taking the wrong kinds of liberties, the original is still there.


*glares very hard at the Rebuild subforum and people shitting up /co/ with MAN OF MURDER threads*

I hate nerds.

Xard wrote:Adaptations are shit by definition.

I refute you thus : Ghost in the Shell StandAlone Complex.

Lies, SAC doesn't capture the lesbian sex of the original.

Am I the only one that has this mental threshold where manga/anime is either easily understood or absolutely incomprehensible? There's no in between. It's either total understanding or "What the fuck is this what the fuck is going on what's happening".

Chuckman wrote:Lies, SAC doesn't capture the lesbian sex of the original.

Am I the only one that has this mental threshold where manga/anime is either easily understood or absolutely incomprehensible? There's no in between. It's either total understanding or "What the fuck is this what the fuck is going on what's happening".

Seeing how you managed to discover that Evangelion was an actual work of magic, and completely cataloged every single bit of symbolism, I'm surprised there's anything you don't understand.

Are you implying that Evangelion or Chuckman make any sense?

Mr. Tines wrote:I refute you thus : Ghost in the Shell in general.

ftfy

moonwolf2024 wrote:You're not the only one. I'm constantly having conversations with myself. I try to catch myself and not do it in front of people.

Yup, same here.

Does anyone else live in their head? When I say that I mean creating worlds and characters... the whole shebang. Total escape from reality

I go one step further: I use RPG systems to organize the whole thing and give it rules and such. I've been doing this since I was a teenager, starting with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (back when it was kinda cool). I built fantasy settings for three iterations of D&D, played around with three versions of Star Wars RPG (which is odd, since I've never been all that hot on the setting), did stuff with Eclipse Phase and Blue Planet and various supers systems, was positively obsessed with Werewolf/oWoD for a bit, did a little bit with the Macross II RPG, and for one brief period got distracted by the idea of Transformers who used a gadget seen in a couple of episodes of the G1 cartoon series to transfer their minds into human bodies. That got way more serious than it probably should have. There were some others as well that don't immediately come to mind. And now, of course, there's Eva, but that's just fanfic (no RPG system there, no point to it).

So no, you're not the only one. ;)