Disqus - Friends of gympanzi

Re: TGS 2007: The Echocrome Girl

Made in DNA — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:52:14 -0000

Campaign girls are the girls who just stand there and look pretty, but I am not aware that girls who help you play a game are called Companions. I am a little dubious about this because it is used as a sexual term here in Japan. 'Companions' are girls you hire to go on a date with you.

Re: Final Thoughts: Tokyo Game Show Bigger, More Irrelevant Than Ever

Made in DNA — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:59:49 -0000

As a resident of Japan and an event-goer, I think the real problem with shows like this is that Westerners expects them to be conventions. They aren't. Which is sad because the more you involve the event-goers, the more exciting. But Japanese companies haven't caught on to that yet, and they may not, because Japanese event-goers don't expect anything. The idea seems to be to just enjoy the blinding lights and obnoxious noises, and the cosplay girls in the areas between the actual showcase halls. There is very little for sale. It's good for about an hour, and then you start wondering why you spent 2 hours and several thousand yen getting there.

Re: American Manga: Wired's downloadable mini-comic explains the history of the form

Made in DNA — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:39:12 -0000

Brng.

Re: Dumbledore pride tees

Made in DNA — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:41:14 -0000

Extremely weird. Why on Earth would Rowling even bother mentioning he was gay? The question to her was 'will Dumbledore find true love?' 'he is gay' is not an answer. What does being gay have to do with finding true love? Is Rowling suggesting gays can't find true love?

Re: Twitter As a Conduit For Fiction?

Made in DNA — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:52:40 -0000

This is very cool, but it only takes one jerk (probably one of the guys above who rant throwing about words like "web 2.0" as if they invented it) to flub it for the entire group. I'm interested in seeing how this works out, and how they keep the Victorian Era Web 2.0ers at bay.

Made in DNA (aka JunkDNA Fiction @ Twitter), Twitter author of BUKKAKE BRAWL and MEDIA WHORES

Re: In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are Written On Mobile Phones

Made in DNA — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:45:19 -0000

"I can’t see anyone in Western nations waking up tomorrow and seeing mobile phone composed novels on the top seller lists, but usually Japan is years ahead on many tech fronts; mobile phone data services were available and popular in Japan years ago as the rest of us are only now catching up."

While certainly I agree with this first part (no one in the West is going to wake up to a bestseller mobile novel), but I disagree with you on the "but usually". After a decade of living in Japan, I can tell you that the Japanese are NOT ahead of the West technologically, but what most Westerners perceive as advancement is glitz (ie. they are just very good at making things blink in various shades of 'wow'). The Japanese are complete end-users with no idea how to manipulate the world around them.

Mr Jose Miguel Cansado makes a very good point, the Japanse are special in their habits, and this is because they don't expect anyone else but the Japanese to understand Japanese people, culture or ways. While this is certainly not the case, it is an island nation of isolation. Japanese cell-phones don't even work overseas because they work on a completely different protocol; one that the Japanese purposely built to keep non-Japanese cell phone competition OUT of the market.

Finally as for the reasons to why Japanese "mobile phone data services were available and popular in Japan years ago as the rest of us are only now catching up": they are way behind in personal computer technologies and usage. Most Japanese familiies didn't even own a single computer until the early 2000s. Most Japanese over the age of 25 rarely touch the family computer at home. Yes, they may know how to use one, and probably use one at work, but they don't use computers for leisure, like in the West.

Re: HARDCORE JUDAS

Made in DNA — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:40:09 -0000

Godzilla on a three-wheeler. NIce.

Re: giacherio, paul - About

Made in DNA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:03:55 -0000

Hi, where is the follow and reblog buttons? Please bring them back!

Re: Museum Theme - Test

Made in DNA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:08:27 -0000

I don't see this feature in my version of Museum, and I started using it AFTER feature was added. I would like this feature please. How can I add it to my existing Museum theme?

Re: Museum Theme - Test

Made in DNA — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:13:11 -0000

Well, actually, it looks like my version of Museum DOES have this MORE+ function, so why doesn't it work?

Re: The Moped Ronin: My World Wide Weird

Made in DNA — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:04:22 -0000

Koji, I didn't say they weren't made and sold by real companies. I'm saying there is no referencing BACK to the actual companies (which there should be). So until then it's hard to say whether these are Japanese companies (which the writer is implying via his anime comments), or Chinese or Korean (which the ads seem to suggest a possibility of them being in the strange ads on the third party page -- which for your information is not a viable source of information as she is merely taking third-party orders to make money for herself). As it stands I'm ALL FOR the links to the companies. Smacks of jealousy? Hardly. Bad posts are bad posts my friend. You need to learn to read.

Re: Idiot Android | found via Google Images under “assignment tokyo”. ...

Made in DNA — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:08:12 -0000

Sexy.

Re: Please help us test Tumblr v4! We’re getting... | Tumblr Staff

Made in DNA — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:39:19 -0000

Hmmmmm, seems a lot of people have said what I wanted to say, but I will say this... the bigger font made me happier. I don't have the best of eyesight. Yes, I realize I'm in the minority, but I like it. Other than that, somehow I expected something different. It doesn't really seem like you changed anything. I wanted more tumblr themes, I wanted the OPTION to include replies WITHOUT having to add DISQUS or a third-party inline reply system. I wanted the option to change the number of entries on the page and their layout (3 per line, 3 lines or 2 per line, 4 lines, or classic tumblr, etc).

Re: http://hardcorejudas.tumblr.com/post/46106340

Made in DNA — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:03:45 -0000

awesome.

Re: Stephan de Prouw

Made in DNA — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:16:36 -0000

Creepy. Love it.

Re: betaworks

Made in DNA — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:17:20 -0000

Sounds about right, but there does need to be an understanding among the workers that it can only go so far. Name-calling, going overboard, or sexual references in mixed company are dangerous traps waiting to be sprung.

Re: Plan9

Made in DNA — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:43:40 -0000

friggin rock

Re: http://plannine.tumblr.com/post/47137544

Made in DNA — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:42:48 -0000

awesome!

Re: Humoresque of a Reanimated Robot

Made in DNA — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:15:33 -0000

oh baby, dr strangelove meets mccain... reality sets in.

Re: Humoresque of a Reanimated Robot

Made in DNA — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:16:17 -0000

if this is a true story, it's pretty heartbreaking. as a parable, it's mighty nice.

Re: 在宅派

Made in DNA — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:01:16 -0000

sweet.

Re: supersonic electronic

Made in DNA — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:29:54 -0000

Ahhh, Shibuya. It was as wonderful then as it still is today.

Re: m1k3y hunts and gathers

Made in DNA — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:39:51 -0000

Nice work, will reblog. Have you seen my "Take My Doll, Please" article? I think you'll get a kick out of it.

Re: m1k3y hunts and gathers

Made in DNA — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:41:58 -0000

HEARTBEEPS is a great movie. Also stars that wacky broad, Valerie is her name I think. She was in THE PRINCESS BRIDE as Max, the mircale maker's wife.

Re: m1k3y hunts and gathers

Made in DNA — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:32:39 -0000

"assemble-from-parts anime dolls you apparently get in vending machines"

you mean figures that come out of 'gumball' machines?