General Questions Thread

[Kudryavka]

Originally Posted by Hasumi

Man I don't know if my English is not good enough or what because we're not picking up the same nuances here.

I understand exactly why you'd ask this. To you it seems like an impossibility that students would want to undertake such a task if they would only be hated. Did I get that wrong? Ofcourse not, I couldn't have.

Then There's the matter of certainty, at no point did I mean that it was impossible to know the answer for sure, I even dropped names just to make it very very clear, or perhaps not clear enough.

We all know they do much more than that, but I thought I'd already adressed that before.



^ Case in point, we absolutely must not apply the same standards to real life as to anime.

It goes without saying that even the most ordinary things in anime would not be the same as is real life, this is no different.

That is what I've been saying...?! That I won't apply the same standards to real life as to anime, so I won't automatically assume that??

Look at the forest. Understand what I was trying to say, I know you do. Don't nitpick because magic ninjas can't possibly exist on this earth. I think you're just picking up the wrong nuances.

tl;dr Why are you debating over a question??

[Hasumi]

Originally Posted by Kudryavka

That is what I've been saying...?! That I won't apply the same standards to real life as to anime, so I won't automatically assume that??

Look at the forest. Understand what I was trying to say, I know you do. Don't nitpick because magic ninjas can't possibly exist on this earth. I think you're just picking up the wrong nuances.

I only respond to what you say.

In the case of my comment on applying standards, I was replying to.

but I already said disciplinary committee in anime do way more than that

I didn't even mention the magical ninjas in my last post, an idea which I will remind you did not come from me.


Do I know what you're trying to say? I thought I did, now I'm not so sure what this is about anymore.

[Kudryavka]

I'm not either. If you want to discuss something with me that isn't answering questions, let's not poo up this thread anymore okay? Come to my talk page or something.

Or let's drop it, because this "why do you talk about ninjas" was getting pretty damn stupid anyway.

Question again: Why, in some anime, are school disciplinary committees run by students? It seems like the one extracurricular you'd do if you wanted to get your ass whooped regularly by other students. Maybe so the cast stays full of students? Or is it based on real life in Japan?

Originally Posted by Ridwan

Suddenly came up to me, but I wonder that whether there has been any Konfrontasi between Indonesian and Malaysian members happening on this board...

Because if not, then that's good.

I believe in individual people to respect one another in neutral settings. :')

[GenjiChan]

Originally Posted by Kudryavka

Or let's drop it, because this "why do you talk about ninjas" was getting pretty damn stupid anyway.

Question again: Why, in some anime, are school disciplinary committees run by students? It seems like the one extracurricular you'd do if you wanted to get your ass whooped regularly by other students. Maybe so the cast stays full of students? Or is it based on real life in Japan?

I believe in individual people to respect one another in neutral settings. :')

Probably part of the "learning process"? I'm not familiar with it since Hasumi and I are both from the Philippines that doesn't have that.... or am I mistaking Hasumi-san. The only disciplinary group or person I know is the Sgt at Arms Officer that is being elected together with the classroom officials ( I became one twice) in every classroom.

The school might want the students to be more independent... ( or rather the teachers are just lazy so they transferred their responsibility to the students)

[Kudryavka]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

Probably part of the "learning process"? I'm not familiar with it since Hasumi and I are both from the Philippines that doesn't have that.... or am I mistaking Hasumi-san. The only disciplinary group or person I know is the Sgt at Arms Officer that is being elected together with the classroom officials ( I became one twice) in every classroom.

The school might want the students to be more independent... ( or rather the teachers are just lazy so they transferred their responsibility to the students)

Me either. I am not familiar with it so it would surprise me a bit to find out it is true in Japan.

[~Yami~]

Originally Posted by Ridwan

Suddenly came up to me, but I wonder that whether there has been any Konfrontasi between Indonesian and Malaysian members happening on this board...

Because if not, then that's good.

nope.... I don't even know which one is Indonesian or Malaysian here...

There's nothing like Indon or Malon stuff here as far as I know

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Originally Posted by Ridwan

Suddenly came up to me, but I wonder that whether there has been any Konfrontasi between Indonesian and Malaysian members happening on this board...

Because if not, then that's good.

As far as I know (I'm quite a newbie here) such thing has never been happened here before, and I hope it will stay that way .

[Master Assassin]

Originally Posted by Ridwan

Suddenly came up to me, but I wonder that whether there has been any Konfrontasi between Indonesian and Malaysian members happening on this board...

Because if not, then that's good.

Speaking for personal experience... though for most of the time, I lurk, or read about it from someone else's experience.

I'm more of the kind of guy who prefers to avoid such things. I'm not going to hide it, personally, I hate it. When such things happen for either ends, you know it's going to be an easy ticket to banhammers once you jump into the bandwagon in the first place.

When such "confrontation" happens I'd like to put the blame on both sides for even trying to start. Usually, from what I've seen over the Net, it's usually a crazy barrage of ad hominem attacks against each other with neither side wanting to agree nor give in, and everyone who sees that knows there is no point trying to use reason, as all they want is: It's always about "Me awesome, you suck, I win, you lose", and there'd be no compromises. Always about proving who's superior as in... well, superior. Probably in the "When I'm awesome, I'm awesome. When I suck, I'm still awesome. When you're awesome, you suck. When you suck, you suck worse" for lack of a better description.

Taking this into the perspective of this board, if one ever breaks out, I'd suggest an immediate ban (with reason) for all sides involved, if I had the authority - and a thread lock so that it serves as a lesson towards anyone who ever tries to instigate such things.

[Guernsey]

Does every anime creator know some form of martial arts?

[Kudryavka]

Originally Posted by Guernsey

Does every anime creator know some form of martial arts?

Practice it? I doubt it.

Know of it? I'm sure. Who doesn't at least know what karate is?

[GenjiChan]

Originally Posted by Guernsey

Does every anime creator know some form of martial arts?

You might be trying to ask that "Are anime authors making action anime/manga have knowledge or actually does martial arts?

I go more on the NO side. They make researches or just do copy from other anime/manga for reference...

Anyway.

How could I add a srt to a video, make it a hard sub?

I'm using Handbreak... and currently finding a way...

>The original file is .mp4, but nothing happened when I tried importing it...
> Currently, I'm trying to convert it to mkv with importing then coverting back to mp4...

will that work?

Update:

>I managed to make one... but it needs 4 different applications during the conversion process to make it... anyone has an easier way?

[Azuma Denton]

Originally Posted by Ridwan

Suddenly came up to me, but I wonder that whether there has been any Konfrontasi between Indonesian and Malaysian members happening on this board...

Because if not, then that's good.

I dont even know which one is Malaysian in here...

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Azuma Denton

I dont even know which one is Malaysian in here...

I think that disgusting pro-fujoshi criminal MrTerrorist is.

[Raiga]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

You might be trying to ask that "Are anime authors making action anime/manga have knowledge or actually does martial arts?

I go more on the NO side. They make researches or just do copy from other anime/manga for reference...

Anyway.

How could I add a srt to a video, make it a hard sub?

I'm using Handbreak... and currently finding a way...

>The original file is .mp4, but nothing happened when I tried importing it...
> Currently, I'm trying to convert it to mkv with importing then coverting back to mp4...

will that work?

Update:

>I managed to make one... but it needs 4 different applications during the conversion process to make it... anyone has an easier way?

I'm not sure what counts as "easier" for you... What sort of output are you looking for? Do you care what type of video encoding it is, and are you very concerned about having good video quality?

I've never used handbrake. The hardsub methods I know both involve avisynth. The easier one uses VirtualDub to encode both video and audio, while the better quality one uses x264 to encode the video and ffmpeg to mux in the audio. An encoding expert could probably give you a better answer, but the methods I use should be sufficient for personal use.

I can give you a step-by-step if you provide more detail on exactly what you're looking for.

[RRW]

Originally Posted by Azuma Denton

I dont even know which one is Malaysian in here...

I kinda surprised how few Malaysian compare to Indonesia and Singaporean (and Pinoy to certain extend) even thought we are neighborhood and share similar general interest.

[Ridwan]

Originally Posted by RRW

I kinda surprised how few Malaysian compare to Indonesia and Singaporean (and Pinoy to certain extend) even thought we are neighborhood and share similar general interest.

Even the Indonesians are being rather worryingly quiet.

[Ridwan]

I don't appear like Indonesian, do I ?

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

I don't appear like Malaysian, do I?

(not Muslim btw. kinda annoys me that most ppl that I have met when studying abroad seem to think that Malaysians=Malay)

[risingstar3110]

Originally Posted by MUAHAHAHAHAHA

I don't appear like Malaysian, do I?

(not Muslim btw. kinda annoys me that most ppl that I have met when studying abroad seem to think that Malaysians=Malay)

They are not the same?!? D:

Joking aside, i really thought that Malays were just shorten version for Malaysians till very recently: "My friend, the Malays guys from Indonesia..."; "Wait, what, is he a Malaysian or Indonesian?"



Anyway, new question: have fast food's price increased a fair bit in last decade? I remember that it used to be 6$ for the largest meal 10 years ago. But it's now 10-11 bucks. That is like 70-80% increase within a decade. Don't think the inflation has been going up by that much in the same period (RBA said the inflation in the past decade in Australia is 28%)

[erneiz_hyde]

Btw, I have a question. Does anyone know the name of the voice actor who voiced one of the common thugs in Hitman:Absolution and also one of the thugs during Arkham City's tutorial with Cat Woman? It feels like I've heard him from somewhere, but can't quite remember it. If it helps, he's the one who speaks the line "he's the scalpel, we're the hammer" in Hope Fair mission in H:A.