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Silence is broken
02 years ago
Since returning from Panama, work has been non-stop busy. But the month from hell is just about over, so now I may resume posting. I’ve found motivation once again to really focus on my Japanese classes, so I’ve been focusing more on that when I’m at home. Oh, and playing Street Fighter IV.
Street Fighter IV has been a blast thus far. It’s easy to pick up for a few mins (which oftentimes turns into hours).. sort of like most DS games. Pick up for a few mins, play, put it back down. Of course, it takes a huge commitment to become really good at the game. Lots of precision timing and learning to read opponents is required.
Confession
03 years ago
by Chris Valdez
in Anime
I used to be a self-professed otaku. I was really into anime and was, what one might call, a weeaboo. Thankfully I got out of that phase of my life, and it was at the right time too. I stopped paying attention to anime around the time it started to become the mainstream (is it considered mainstream now?) phenomenon it has become.
I watched things like Ranma 1/2 (I even had some of the $30 tape that contained only two episodes), Neon Genesis, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, etc. I felt that most things around then (late ’90s, early 2000s) was of good quality. But when it became popular and less underground, companies started bringing more and more shows stateside.
It used to be that there were 0 – 5 DVDs released a week. Now? I have no clue, but the market is saturated. Whenever I watch a show now that someone recommends, most of the time it’s crap, but people like it because it’s the hip thing. In reality, the quality, I feel, just isn’t there. It’s sad. Before, I could trust the localization companies to bring out quality shows I’d enjoy, now it’s rare.