The Bitching Thread

[Animeniax]

Just started watching Macross Frontier and I'm very disappointed after all the rave reviews, mostly from viewers here on GW. It's typical Japanimation these days, using a familiar world and archetypal characters with little character development. I guess they assume you already know the characters, like the brooding diamond in the rough, the mega super starlet who is completely accessible to her fans, the sweet kid sister who is 18 but looks and acts 12, etc. The animation is a mix of CGI mechs and poorly drawn characters that lack detail. At least the backgrounds are somewhat detailed.

I think it's even worse because these are bastardizations of the original characters, but completely unlikeable. The storyline feels like you've been dropped into the middle of the story with no reference points and random events that won't make sense until episode 20.
I'm on episode 3 and I doubt I'll finish past 4.

[Psyke]

I wasn't too keen on the animation and plot as well, but I loved the songs, which were awesome.

[Kraco]

I liked mostly the space battles. The songs started to get old after they have been replayed 85 times. And the plot certainly wasn't the strong point of the show.

[animus]

Just started watching Macross Frontier and I'm very disappointed after all the rave reviews, mostly from viewers here on GW. It's typical Japanimation these days, using a familiar world and archetypal characters with little character development. I guess they assume you already know the characters, like the brooding diamond in the rough, the mega super starlet who is completely accessible to her fans, the sweet kid sister who is 18 but looks and acts 12, etc. The animation is a mix of CGI mechs and poorly drawn characters that lack detail. At least the backgrounds are somewhat detailed.

I think it's even worse because these are bastardizations of the original characters, but completely unlikeable. The storyline feels like you've been dropped into the middle of the story with no reference points and random events that won't make sense until episode 20.
I'm on episode 3 and I doubt I'll finish past 4.

Until you watch the very last episode, and you realize how awesome it looks that the rest of the series didn't even matter!

[Xrlderek]

Looks like my 1TB external hard drive is dying. Doesn't make many sounds and appears to be working fine, but randomly stops a few select files when I watch them off it, especially the recently downloaded ones. Downloading is never a problem. Most of the files are easily downloadable(tv series and anime), I doubt I'll bother copying it to another drive, not to mention I don't have space for it anywhere. Sometimes it starts making sounds, but just restarting it removes the problem. 200Gb left of space on it. Bought it two and a half years ago or something. Still sad though.

[animus]

Lucky you, I have 2 old ass drives that total 150 gigs only =(

[Buffalobiian]

Looks like my 1TB external hard drive is dying. Doesn't make many sounds and appears to be working fine, but randomly stops a few select files when I watch them off it, especially the recently downloaded ones. Downloading is never a problem. Most of the files are easily downloadable(tv series and anime), I doubt I'll bother copying it to another drive, not to mention I don't have space for it anywhere. Sometimes it starts making sounds, but just restarting it removes the problem. 200Gb left of space on it. Bought it two and a half years ago or something. Still sad though.

What brand is it? I've been looking into a 1TB external drive myself, and the reviews for MyBooks seems to be split 50/50 between ultra-reliability and uber-fail. Wondered what your make was?

[Xrlderek]

What brand is it? I've been looking into a 1TB external drive myself, and the reviews for MyBooks seems to be split 50/50 between ultra-reliability and uber-fail. Wondered what your make was?

It was a Fantom Drives Gforce Megadisk. It has worked great up to now. It wasn't as bad as I thought, it still works now.. just randomly disconnecting, which is extremely annoying.
http://www.fantomdrives.com/general/...19&Cat=Product Didn't buy it from there, but that's the one.

[Board of Command]

My exam today was a triple anal raping.

OMFG

[Buffalobiian]

<...Visualises triple anal raping...>
<....OMGF....>

What subject was it BoC?

[Board of Command]

Linear Systems and Signals

Fourier Transforms, Laplace transforms, Z-transforms, filter designs, magnitude/phase sketching...etc.

Most of my classmates feel the same way. The prof made this year's exam way harder than before. I studied a lot and felt ready, but it turns out that nothing could have prepared me for that ordeal. It was ridiculous.

[RyougaZell]

O_O

Reminds me of Algorythm Analysis... (programming languages wise...)

[Board of Command]

Algorithm-wise, you probably did Fast Fourier Transforms. We only did the standard stuff.

[Buffalobiian]

Two hours ago I ate 3 mega-heaped plates of pasta.

I feel like I'm going to burst (>o<)"

[Xelbair]

Learning German is pain in ass for me, especially when there is guitar near me and 3 episodes and half series of anime waiting.

[Death BOO Z]

Art teachers: they have become far too rude for their position. they actually make kids bring A3 pictures of themselves and tell their students to buy the 'blue' brand of drawing pencils and not the 'red' brand. back in my days, art-class was the time where you goof around for two hours, and then the teacher leaves the room crying in the third one, because she has realized that she'll never amount to be neither an influential artist nor an inspiring teacher, and she'll always be sub-mediocre. and that would happen every week, every year until high-school.

also, people who buy shitty Mp3\4 players. what's wrong with them? is a 30$ discount a good enough reason to buy a complete shit player? sure, for the price of Sansa-clip you can buy an mp4 in the local language that promises the moon, but you're going to come to the store twice a week with complains, and have it spend at least two months a year shipping...
just put out a few more NIS and get something decent, dumbasses. and those are the people who buy an IPhone just to be 'IN!'. dumb cunts.


Edit: beer. spell check.

[XanBcoo]

also, people who buy shitty Mp3\4 players. what's wrong with them?

My mom wanted an Ipod for her birthday, but my brother and I didn't want to spend the money on one that we knew she wouldn't use. We bought her a Samsung MP3 player for almost literally half the price and she never used it again after about 2 months. Money well saved, in my opinion.

[saman]

Art teachers: they have become far too rude for their position. they actually make kids bring A3 pictures of themselves and tell their students to buy the 'blue' brand of drawing pencils and not the 'red' brand. back in my days, art-class was the time where you goof around for two hours, and then the teacher leaves the room crying in the third one, because she has realized that she'll never amount to be neither an influential artist nor an inspiring teacher, and she'll always be sub-mediocre. and that would happen every week, every year until high-school.

yeah! how dare teachers try to take their subjects seriously and actually attempt to make something meaningful out of their careers! and they are getting very particular about what they want. i mean, it's not like the rest of the teachers are doing the exact same thing or anything!

[Kraco]

The last art teacher I remember was a real artist. He had an opinion in everything and ruined some student works because he apparently couldn't swallow a student coming up with something he wouldn't have suggested (happened to me as well). At one point it was found out he had used the town hall's colour photocopier (this was before really good personal colour printers were that common) to make clones of some of his paintings and sold them as originals to different people for easy extra money. Shortly after he drove his tractor to a river with final consequences.

[complich8]

Lemme tell ya, that shit sounds like high school art class to me... you know, with the teachers being all like "you should use this type of pencil". In fact, back in high school I remember the teacher for drawing class insisted that we go out and get those Ebony pencils for the class. Of course, they were like less than a buck each, and had a nice wide semisoft lead that was just amazingly good for shading, but .... damn that teacher for making me spend a buck on the right tools for the job!


At my university, art classes were serious business though. You take the basic freshman-level art and design class and you just signed up for 10-15 hours of homework a week and about $250 in supplies. Lots of people who take that class end up taking a GPA hit because of it because they think "oh, art classes are easy A's like they were in high school"...