Yeah E3 was disappointing this year, the only things that kept my interest was the new Castlevania, Assassin's Creed, and Tomb Raider games. The rest was pretty much meh. Give me something other than a FPS for once, at least the new Rayman Legends kept me entertained. Also no E3 updates on No More Heroes 3 makes me sad face...
Contrary to popular belief, no these cannibalistic homicides are NOT the start of a zombie apocalypse. People who believe in that stuff either have watched too many horror films, survival horror genre games, or have lost sense of reality altogether. Heck people have done stuff like this before in the past especially with ancient cultures like the Maya and the Aztecs with their rituals to "appease" their said Gods. The kind of stuff these criminals are doing doesn't really serve any purpose at all.
Cannibalism has always in most cases usually been associated with lone survival, sure survival of the fittest does play a role in our society when the stakes are high and we are left to the brink of being left with no choice to do the one thing that is inhumane. To see cannibalism as a crime nowadays is just saddening cause it degrades us as a species in our society. There's a very good reason why you don't see cooked human meat at your local grocery store in the meat department, it's sick and wrong.
The media nowadays is filled with so much zombie fiction that the majority of people actually believe in that stuff to where it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy heck look at that Reality TV Series "Doomsday Preppers" and you'll see what I'm talking about. I get annoyed when journalists on the Internet these days take grotesque crimes like these being committed to try to scare people just to make money. Sure they'll do anything to get a story but this isn't how you do it.
But most of those Anime you can already watch online with no commercials or even in Japanese Subs. What's wrong with Naruto you ask keysle? Have you been living under a rock in the last decade? The Anime is horrible, Manga well mediocre at best I suppose.
Nah, I'd keep DBZ the way it is. Toriyama's 57 years old now give the guy a break, he's mainly busy doing illustrations for the Dragon Quest games in Japan as well as doing animation short-clips for that Dragonball Hoshi Arcade game there as well too.
I found a loophole where even If Toriyama ended the series after the end of the Frieza Saga, Goku would still be brought back to life by the Namekian Dragonballs and here's how. First off they do to Goku just like what they did to wish back Krillin by sending him to Earth's Check-In Station since Planet Namek was destroyed by Frieza they would have no place to be wished back on.
King Kai at first thought that it would be impossible to wish Krillin and Goku back to life with the Namekian Dragonballs until Vegeta mentioned about the Earth's Check-In Station which apparently King Kai didn't know about. So King Kai must of thought that reviving someone with the Dragonballs meant that the revived person had to be on the planet that they died on but they don't have to be as long as they are revived at the Earth's Check-In Station.
I wonder what people would think of DBZ today had the series ended after Frieza Saga like Toriyama originally intended. Sure there was growing support from fans to keep the series going after Frieza Saga but was it really necessary? Sure Gohan's purpose in the series would've felt like it was shoe-horned into it but still I would've been fine with it. But just like every good Anime in the late 80's and early to mid 90's they HAD to milk it for what it's worth.
Goku was always the main protagonist in the Dragonball series and becoming Super Saiyan was in a sense a life time achievement compared to all the training and hard work he'd been through since the 1st Dragonball series (where he's a kid) to get to that point. With Cell Saga that sort of throws that logic out of the water with more than one
Super Saiyan and it got worse with Buu Saga as well where Goten and Trunks didn't had to work hard to become a Super Saiyan like their predecessors did. There are so many plot holes in the series it's not even funny.
Not that I have anything against Toonami, the problem now is that with the Internet people can watch what Anime they want Online via Japanese Sub/Dub instead of watching their content on TV. Some people say that one of the reasons why Toonami died back in 2008 was because Naruto (English Dub) got poor ratings when it was really the Internet that did it in.
As for that Anime Line-Up most of it is just reruns and this "Toonami Revival" as you so call it is nothing more than Adult Swim 3.0 that excludes the Non-Anime material that Adult Swim airs like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies, Superjail!, and other crap shows. Sure there were some good one's like Venture Bros., Robot Chicken, Family Guy, and American Dad but I digress.
Deadman Wonderland and Casshern Sins? What about Oh I dunno an English Dub Broadcast for Cardfight!! Vanguard or One Piece by FUNimation instead? CFV is getting pretty big in the U.S. with the English Dub being exclusive to Singapore right now and I'm sure alot of people would love to see an English Dub for the series to hit here in the States. One Piece is overdue for an English Dub revival despite what happened with the Simulcast incident that happened awhile back and of course 4Kids for ruining it before.
So CN's excuse for not airing this new Toonami reboot during the Daytime on Weekdays like they used to is because they don't want kids of younger generations to get into Anime like we did? What kind of stupid logic is that? Why air it on Adult Swim when they are probably going to troll us as hard as Capcom does with their DLC shenanigans? -___-
Perhaps what might have contributed to the downfall of the Ancient Roman Empire was that they sinned against God with the gay bath houses and brothels which might of contributed to Constantine forming the Catholic Church, The Vatican, and converting his own empire to Christianity. I could be wrong on this so feel free to correct me...
Crazy theory I know but that could have been the case for why the Romans might have stopped accepting that sort of behavior If they ever did at all. But then again homosexual marriages may have still been around back then and the Romans didn't get punished for that behavior after Constantine converted Rome to Christianity with Catholicism.
The Fall of Ancient Rome more or less had ties to their economy, debt, and biting off more than they could chew in terms of conquering land masses that they couldn't afford keeping around. So the gay bath houses and brothels more so or less had little to do with the Empire's woes which is likely to be the case here.
Yeah I definitely went about this debate the wrong way and again I'm sorry for doing that. Civil rights are always an important political issue it doesn't matter If it's convenient it's just that I didn't expect it to extend to Gay Marriage the way it has recently in the media especially with Women's Contraception. I wasn't thinking straight when I posted my opinion on this apparently, and it wasn't my intention of starting a flame war on this thread to anger anyone here which I already have against you, Teia Rabishu, Solaran X, and Quirkiness101. Nobody's perfect and I already acknowledged that I made a big mistake that I'm regretting.
Look I have nothing against homosexuals and gay people and I do my best to respect their rights (respect doesn't always mean agree but I do try to respect most of their rights at least which I do agree with) I just sort of feel like marriage crosses a thin line with that in terms of homosexuals and we sort of went from a society that the majority of America accepts marriage between man and woman to basically half of America accepting same sex marriage which I still find awkward but sure you could say it's ridiculous for religion to pass judgment on whether marriage equality is acceptable or not but I just didn't expect to offend people who support Gay Marriage. I didn't post here to literally offend people, I expressed my opinion on this issue, and the next thing I know I'm the one who has to carry the guilt and burden for it.
So... you claim to respect everyone's opinions and yet say it's "unnatural" for two people of the same gender to get married? Calling something "unnatural" is not a part of respect. What you're doing is kind of the gay marriage equivalent of someone who says, "I'm not racist, but <racist statement>."
Wha? Well what I meant to say earlier was that with an issue as controversial as Gay Marriage it's very difficult for me to respect everyone's opinions on it so while I tried to get to a bipartisan solution to this I'm not saying "unnatural" as a sign of disrespect toward others who are homosexual but like I said my religious beliefs are to blame for why I believe that Gay Marriage seems unnatural to me. If you and other people find that offensive then I'm sorry, I'm not here to make enemies.
I hated the sheer amount of filler in the original Dragonball Z. At least Kai cut some of it, but the series just drags out at times.
In terms of the English Dub by FUNimation, Dragonball Kai was horrible. They replaced the original voice actors for Gohan, Frieza, and Bulma not to mention that they changed the Opening Theme from the Japanese One in terms of the voice overs. They should have left it alone like they did with Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood where you can still hear the Japanese singing instead of English singing in it.
It still doesn't beat the "Rock the Dragon" Opening for Dragonball Z by Ocean/Pioneer back in the day and the only other Anime Opening that comes close to it's epicness is the 4Kids Pokemon Opening Theme by Jason Paige either that or the DiC English Dub Opening of Sailor Moon. Since then I don't think recent Anime could top that when Moe has almost ruined the Japanese Anime/Manga Industry in the last decade.
If you're going to watch Dragonball Z I highly recommend watching The Saiyan Saga by the Ocean/Pioneer English Dub in it's entirety until you get to Season 2 with the Namek/Frieza Saga and switch over to the FUNimation version of the Dub. Or you could just watch the whole series again Remastered and Uncut like what I've been doing. Kai is just God awful, trust me I've seen it and it's nowhere near as good as it should have been.
Dragonball GT is all filler with no Manga Adaptation as it was originally made to promote a PS One game that came out in 1997 called "Dragonball GT: Final Bout". Akira Toriyama originally ended the franchise after the Buu Saga and that's why that DBZ Special, "Yo Son Goku and His Friends Return!" doesn't pay any attention to all the events that occured in GT and to further prove that Toriyama denies the existence and abomination that is Dragonball GT he created a MMORPG exclusive to South Korea called Dragonball Online that takes place 1,000 years after the Buu Saga in DBZ. In the game you can also time travel back to the past to meet and interact with your favorite characters from the Dragonball franchise.
I'm wondering why we have been discussing a moral issue like this including women's contraception and turned it into a political issue just to avoid the real problems of the United States like I dunno the U.S. Economy and Jobs? Unemployment is still at 8.1% and all Obama, the Liberals, and Democrats want to do is talk about an issue that has no significance in the upcoming election?
I think the real problem with Gay Marriage is that religion is divided against it and possibly for good reason too. The Holy Bible condemns Gay Marriage for a specific reason while other religions like Islam give Gay Marriage a free pass unless they don't prove me wrong otherwise. There might be other religions that have condemned Gay Marriage like Christianity has, infact I question why it's a political issue at all. Now you see the problem of turning a moral issue into a political issue.
Why try to legalize an issue that infringes on people's freedom of religion? It shouldn't be up to the U.S. Government to decide for everyone that Gay Marriage is okay cause we live in a society where people's differences on the issue are tied to their religious beliefs. Personally I don't see the problem as to why the States can't decide on Gay Marriage instead of force feeding a constitutional law making it okay for everyone who doesn't think marriage equality is okay.
Look I know this topic is very controversial and I'm not one to pick sides on this matter. I respect everyone's opinion on this issue as well, so don't get the wrong idea. It's not that I don't like Gay Marriage I just tend to find it unnatural for some odd reason but I think it's my Christian beliefs that are to blame for my judgment on the matter. This topic sort of reminds me of the issue of abortion, people try to find a bipartisan solution to it but it keeps dragging on like a dead horse with no clear end in sight.
Cardfight!! Vanguard is starting to get big in my area and in my area we got a small playerbase that's slowing growing throughout each expansion and starter deck being released until the U.S. catches up to Japan and Singapore. Right now I'm hoping the Vanguard Anime will get a U.S. English Dub Broadcast on Cartoon Network instead of 4KidsTV getting their hands on it.
My area recently got the new Starters from Season 2 of the Anime series with Gold Paladins (the new deck Aichi Sendo is running) and the new Dragon Clan that Kai is running for the Vanguard Circuit. Definitely looking forward to running Gold Paladins since ya know the main protagonist is running the same deck of course. Season 2 is interesting so far, I'm wondering how they'll unseal the Royal Paladin and Kagero Clans...
Speaking of which I haven't even played a deck with multiple clans in this game. How is it any different from running a deck with just one Clan? If it's the same then I can see the argument as to how the triggers and topdecking make this game too luck based.
What's interestingly strange about the Vanguard TCG is that you can add cards to boost the power of your Clan(s) in any way you like but you can still lose against a Preconstructed Starter Deck that's completely unchanged despite all those updates due to lucky triggers and topdecks made in the game.
It actually makes the game incredibly balanced because it makes it to where both players are on equal footing with eachother instead of who spent the most amount of money on their deck that determines the winner. I've played other TCG's where Preconstructed Decks that come in Starters usually lose to well built decks 9 times out of 10 but the Vanguard TCG blows that logic out of the water.
I don't watch as much Anime as I used to mainly because Japan has been making less good series to watch. Most of it is just slice of life and fanservice junk and I'm sick of it. I want creative Anime back again and sadly we won't ever get it again... -___-
The Anime I watch nowadays are One Piece, Cardfight!! Vanguard, Pokemon, and as for Western Cartoons The Legend of Korra, Thundercats 2011, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and I think that's it. Yeah not much I know, it's a global recession what do you expect?
Cannibalism has always in most cases usually been associated with lone survival, sure survival of the fittest does play a role in our society when the stakes are high and we are left to the brink of being left with no choice to do the one thing that is inhumane. To see cannibalism as a crime nowadays is just saddening cause it degrades us as a species in our society. There's a very good reason why you don't see cooked human meat at your local grocery store in the meat department, it's sick and wrong.
The media nowadays is filled with so much zombie fiction that the majority of people actually believe in that stuff to where it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy heck look at that Reality TV Series "Doomsday Preppers" and you'll see what I'm talking about. I get annoyed when journalists on the Internet these days take grotesque crimes like these being committed to try to scare people just to make money. Sure they'll do anything to get a story but this isn't how you do it.
I found a loophole where even If Toriyama ended the series after the end of the Frieza Saga, Goku would still be brought back to life by the Namekian Dragonballs and here's how. First off they do to Goku just like what they did to wish back Krillin by sending him to Earth's Check-In Station since Planet Namek was destroyed by Frieza they would have no place to be wished back on.
King Kai at first thought that it would be impossible to wish Krillin and Goku back to life with the Namekian Dragonballs until Vegeta mentioned about the Earth's Check-In Station which apparently King Kai didn't know about. So King Kai must of thought that reviving someone with the Dragonballs meant that the revived person had to be on the planet that they died on but they don't have to be as long as they are revived at the Earth's Check-In Station.
Goku was always the main protagonist in the Dragonball series and becoming Super Saiyan was in a sense a life time achievement compared to all the training and hard work he'd been through since the 1st Dragonball series (where he's a kid) to get to that point. With Cell Saga that sort of throws that logic out of the water with more than one
Super Saiyan and it got worse with Buu Saga as well where Goten and Trunks didn't had to work hard to become a Super Saiyan like their predecessors did. There are so many plot holes in the series it's not even funny.
As for that Anime Line-Up most of it is just reruns and this "Toonami Revival" as you so call it is nothing more than Adult Swim 3.0 that excludes the Non-Anime material that Adult Swim airs like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies, Superjail!, and other crap shows. Sure there were some good one's like Venture Bros., Robot Chicken, Family Guy, and American Dad but I digress.
Deadman Wonderland and Casshern Sins? What about Oh I dunno an English Dub Broadcast for Cardfight!! Vanguard or One Piece by FUNimation instead? CFV is getting pretty big in the U.S. with the English Dub being exclusive to Singapore right now and I'm sure alot of people would love to see an English Dub for the series to hit here in the States. One Piece is overdue for an English Dub revival despite what happened with the Simulcast incident that happened awhile back and of course 4Kids for ruining it before.
So CN's excuse for not airing this new Toonami reboot during the Daytime on Weekdays like they used to is because they don't want kids of younger generations to get into Anime like we did? What kind of stupid logic is that? Why air it on Adult Swim when they are probably going to troll us as hard as Capcom does with their DLC shenanigans? -___-
Crazy theory I know but that could have been the case for why the Romans might have stopped accepting that sort of behavior If they ever did at all. But then again homosexual marriages may have still been around back then and the Romans didn't get punished for that behavior after Constantine converted Rome to Christianity with Catholicism.
The Fall of Ancient Rome more or less had ties to their economy, debt, and biting off more than they could chew in terms of conquering land masses that they couldn't afford keeping around. So the gay bath houses and brothels more so or less had little to do with the Empire's woes which is likely to be the case here.
Look I have nothing against homosexuals and gay people and I do my best to respect their rights (respect doesn't always mean agree but I do try to respect most of their rights at least which I do agree with) I just sort of feel like marriage crosses a thin line with that in terms of homosexuals and we sort of went from a society that the majority of America accepts marriage between man and woman to basically half of America accepting same sex marriage which I still find awkward but sure you could say it's ridiculous for religion to pass judgment on whether marriage equality is acceptable or not but I just didn't expect to offend people who support Gay Marriage. I didn't post here to literally offend people, I expressed my opinion on this issue, and the next thing I know I'm the one who has to carry the guilt and burden for it.
Wha? Well what I meant to say earlier was that with an issue as controversial as Gay Marriage it's very difficult for me to respect everyone's opinions on it so while I tried to get to a bipartisan solution to this I'm not saying "unnatural" as a sign of disrespect toward others who are homosexual but like I said my religious beliefs are to blame for why I believe that Gay Marriage seems unnatural to me. If you and other people find that offensive then I'm sorry, I'm not here to make enemies.
In terms of the English Dub by FUNimation, Dragonball Kai was horrible. They replaced the original voice actors for Gohan, Frieza, and Bulma not to mention that they changed the Opening Theme from the Japanese One in terms of the voice overs. They should have left it alone like they did with Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood where you can still hear the Japanese singing instead of English singing in it.
It still doesn't beat the "Rock the Dragon" Opening for Dragonball Z by Ocean/Pioneer back in the day and the only other Anime Opening that comes close to it's epicness is the 4Kids Pokemon Opening Theme by Jason Paige either that or the DiC English Dub Opening of Sailor Moon. Since then I don't think recent Anime could top that when Moe has almost ruined the Japanese Anime/Manga Industry in the last decade.
If you're going to watch Dragonball Z I highly recommend watching The Saiyan Saga by the Ocean/Pioneer English Dub in it's entirety until you get to Season 2 with the Namek/Frieza Saga and switch over to the FUNimation version of the Dub. Or you could just watch the whole series again Remastered and Uncut like what I've been doing. Kai is just God awful, trust me I've seen it and it's nowhere near as good as it should have been.
Dragonball GT is all filler with no Manga Adaptation as it was originally made to promote a PS One game that came out in 1997 called "Dragonball GT: Final Bout". Akira Toriyama originally ended the franchise after the Buu Saga and that's why that DBZ Special, "Yo Son Goku and His Friends Return!" doesn't pay any attention to all the events that occured in GT and to further prove that Toriyama denies the existence and abomination that is Dragonball GT he created a MMORPG exclusive to South Korea called Dragonball Online that takes place 1,000 years after the Buu Saga in DBZ. In the game you can also time travel back to the past to meet and interact with your favorite characters from the Dragonball franchise.
I think the real problem with Gay Marriage is that religion is divided against it and possibly for good reason too. The Holy Bible condemns Gay Marriage for a specific reason while other religions like Islam give Gay Marriage a free pass unless they don't prove me wrong otherwise. There might be other religions that have condemned Gay Marriage like Christianity has, infact I question why it's a political issue at all. Now you see the problem of turning a moral issue into a political issue.
Why try to legalize an issue that infringes on people's freedom of religion? It shouldn't be up to the U.S. Government to decide for everyone that Gay Marriage is okay cause we live in a society where people's differences on the issue are tied to their religious beliefs. Personally I don't see the problem as to why the States can't decide on Gay Marriage instead of force feeding a constitutional law making it okay for everyone who doesn't think marriage equality is okay.
Look I know this topic is very controversial and I'm not one to pick sides on this matter. I respect everyone's opinion on this issue as well, so don't get the wrong idea. It's not that I don't like Gay Marriage I just tend to find it unnatural for some odd reason but I think it's my Christian beliefs that are to blame for my judgment on the matter. This topic sort of reminds me of the issue of abortion, people try to find a bipartisan solution to it but it keeps dragging on like a dead horse with no clear end in sight.
My area recently got the new Starters from Season 2 of the Anime series with Gold Paladins (the new deck Aichi Sendo is running) and the new Dragon Clan that Kai is running for the Vanguard Circuit. Definitely looking forward to running Gold Paladins since ya know the main protagonist is running the same deck of course. Season 2 is interesting so far, I'm wondering how they'll unseal the Royal Paladin and Kagero Clans...
What's interestingly strange about the Vanguard TCG is that you can add cards to boost the power of your Clan(s) in any way you like but you can still lose against a Preconstructed Starter Deck that's completely unchanged despite all those updates due to lucky triggers and topdecks made in the game.
It actually makes the game incredibly balanced because it makes it to where both players are on equal footing with eachother instead of who spent the most amount of money on their deck that determines the winner. I've played other TCG's where Preconstructed Decks that come in Starters usually lose to well built decks 9 times out of 10 but the Vanguard TCG blows that logic out of the water.
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The Anime I watch nowadays are One Piece, Cardfight!! Vanguard, Pokemon, and as for Western Cartoons The Legend of Korra, Thundercats 2011, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and I think that's it. Yeah not much I know, it's a global recession what do you expect?