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I'm sure there are still people that buy videogame magazines on here. I used to be one of them until i read the Arc the Lad review Play did and didn't actually mention anything about the game. I knew that was the time to give it up and stop wasting my money (plus the reviews can be found on their site anyway :-D)
But the other day i was watching gamertv (a quite good videogames show on Bravo, mostly up-to-date unlike gamepad which still thinks centipede is a major step for gaming and it keeps the crappy jokes to a minimum, unlike cybernet and doesn't have two 'bad ass rudeboy' muppets that gamezville has, though it's still nowhere in the class of gamesmaster)
Anyway they ran a feature on Famitsu the japanese videogame bible, which has basically the power to make or break a game in Japan because it's opinions are so respected. During it the editor and a few other people stated they were looking into branching overseas and publishing their magazine worldwide.
Now i've read a few copies of it because my contact in Japan occasionally sends me some over and it is just as good as they say, funny, great features and the reviewers actually review games instead of spending 2/3's of the review making some lame ass joke about something or telling us what he had for dinner the other night. So if it does start getting a worldwide publication i think this would be a really good thing. No more having to put up with the crap that is around at the moment, just proper journalism that gives the gamer facts about a game before going out and wasting their money on it.
I just hope it actually comes to fruition
But the other day i was watching gamertv (a quite good videogames show on Bravo, mostly up-to-date unlike gamepad which still thinks centipede is a major step for gaming and it keeps the crappy jokes to a minimum, unlike cybernet and doesn't have two 'bad ass rudeboy' muppets that gamezville has, though it's still nowhere in the class of gamesmaster)
Anyway they ran a feature on Famitsu the japanese videogame bible, which has basically the power to make or break a game in Japan because it's opinions are so respected. During it the editor and a few other people stated they were looking into branching overseas and publishing their magazine worldwide.
Now i've read a few copies of it because my contact in Japan occasionally sends me some over and it is just as good as they say, funny, great features and the reviewers actually review games instead of spending 2/3's of the review making some lame ass joke about something or telling us what he had for dinner the other night. So if it does start getting a worldwide publication i think this would be a really good thing. No more having to put up with the crap that is around at the moment, just proper journalism that gives the gamer facts about a game before going out and wasting their money on it.
I just hope it actually comes to fruition
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anyway speaking of gamertv, it seems like i've given it a little too much credit seeing as they repeated the episode with the feature on Gundam in it for about the 4th time this fortnight today
Hmmmmm.............. o............k *strange scrunched up look on face as if to say what the hell have i stumbled into* :-D
Anyway far as how literate i am in Japanese, well i only started about a year ago after i met my friend over in Japan and she taught me the basics. Realising i don't want to stay in this god forsaken country any longer than i have to and trying to help my dream of teaching and living in Japan i decided to really get into it (plus also i wanted to play all the import games a good 6 months before you lot :-D) and it's been a side hobby of mine ever since plus also aiding me in my job efforts over in the land of the rising sun.
I can read most Japanese but i do struggle still sometimes, i do find myself reaching for my japanese book a couple of times during my videogame sessions (front mission 4 being the latest culprit) as far as speaking it goes, i'm not that good yet but as long as i don't meet a chatty japanese person i should be alright :-D But by the time i leave for Japan in either a few months or a couple of years depending on how my Uni decision goes i should be very fluent in it
Anyway far as how literate i am in Japanese, well i only started about a year ago after i met my friend over in Japan and she taught me the basics. Realising i don't want to stay in this god forsaken country any longer than i have to and trying to help my dream of teaching and living in Japan i decided to really get into it (plus also i wanted to play all the import games a good 6 months before you lot :-D) and it's been a side hobby of mine ever since plus also aiding me in my job efforts over in the land of the rising sun.
I can read most Japanese but i do struggle still sometimes, i do find myself reaching for my japanese book a couple of times during my videogame sessions (front mission 4 being the latest culprit) as far as speaking it goes, i'm not that good yet but as long as i don't meet a chatty japanese person i should be alright :-D But by the time i leave for Japan in either a few months or a couple of years depending on how my Uni decision goes i should be very fluent in it
lalakersrule is going to come back to check on this thread to wonder what all the replies are sometime and his first thought will be "WTF?" when he tries to make sense of it all. Which I find quite funny.
OK, so we got an edit button, where's the "delete my self-incriminating posts" button?
Obviously I just happened to glance at the fansite looking over my mum's shoulder as she surfed by there and it's my cat that has a subscription to Playgirl monthly, before anyone asks.
*cough*
*cough*
Could be right, it might have been the Julian Clary fansite come to think of it... anyway, it's a moot point. The question remains:
Just how much Japanese can lalakers actually read?
Just how much Japanese can lalakers actually read?
FantasyMeister wrote:
> P.S. I saw this thread recently:
>
> "Memorandum! stands for all that we love and adore in
> men."
> Source - Playgirl Monthly.
I think you have your sources befuddled.
> P.S. I saw this thread recently:
>
> "Memorandum! stands for all that we love and adore in
> men."
> Source - Playgirl Monthly.
I think you have your sources befuddled.
:)
Love you too.
Love you too.
Memorandum! wrote:
> FantasyMeister wrote:
> A lot.
>
> You know I wasn't having a dig at you, right?
> I was trying to point out to Icarus that he felt Nash needed to be
> called a smartass for asking a perfectly valid question, yet he
> didn't see any reason for making a dig at you for concurring with his
> question.
Oh I seeeeee! Sorry, you have my apologies and I've re-edited my post for you ;)
*FM is having a bad day*
> FantasyMeister wrote:
> A lot.
>
> You know I wasn't having a dig at you, right?
> I was trying to point out to Icarus that he felt Nash needed to be
> called a smartass for asking a perfectly valid question, yet he
> didn't see any reason for making a dig at you for concurring with his
> question.
Oh I seeeeee! Sorry, you have my apologies and I've re-edited my post for you ;)
*FM is having a bad day*
FantasyMeister wrote:
> A lot.
You know I wasn't having a dig at you, right?
I was trying to point out to Icarus that he felt Nash needed to be called a smartass for asking a perfectly valid question, yet he didn't see any reason for making a dig at you for concurring with his question.
> A lot.
You know I wasn't having a dig at you, right?
I was trying to point out to Icarus that he felt Nash needed to be called a smartass for asking a perfectly valid question, yet he didn't see any reason for making a dig at you for concurring with his question.
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