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Japanator AM 10: Dolphins and whales are assholes


10:00 PM on 03.25.2010
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Technically, you could call this a political episode since we spend a fair amount of time talking about the whaling issue, however once you start discussing the possibility of receiving whale calls via Twitter, you probably lose the right to use important-sounding words like "political." You can listen to it here.

We've got the full cast this time around, and while it's one of those wild-and-crazy listener questions episodes, we discuss quite a lot of stuff. Also, Jtor AM now has a proper feed! Or at least a feed that works for me! Hit the jump for show notes and sundry.

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Oh, and what's this? ITUNES!!!

News:

0:02:10- Tuesday Otaku Debate results

0:04:56- Twilight:GN lettering; a legitimate excuse to bash the thing

0:13:00- Bonus Durarara!!! Extra Exclamation point for awesome! Also, the Japanese DVD industry

0:16:08- Uh, we kind of got off topic for a couple of minutes, but lets just call it "Otacon News"

0:19:13- Atlus makes money, THANK GOD someone is doing well lately

0:24:15- Dolphins and Whales are ASSHOLES

0:33:25- Break

SPOILER TERRITORY!!!!!

Topic of the Week:

0:34:18-  OMG ENOUGH WITH THE WHALES ALREADY

0:36:47- Listener Questions!

Currents:

0:59:39- Game talk: FFXIII, Yakuza 3

1:08:10- MANDATORY Durarara!! segment

1:10:26- K-ON! and gay nazis

Notes on notes:

If you're at all confused about the chronology, the reason why I mentioned that we had not had a post about the Twilight GN on Japanator was because we recorded this before I went and made one.

Also, here is the offending page to which Ben was referring:

 


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Oh my... it's Twilight. It has reached us here in the Philippines as well. Truth be told I never liked it. Thanks for bashing it. It made my day.
iTunes? Fuck yeah!

Will listen to this later.
OI

Demon's Souls is KICKASS.

theres nothing better than kicking teh ass of a monumental fire demon with nothing but a shield and a sword.
so i got to ask retard question and stroke your ego's to get a question answered? fine. . .

Also the ending was abrupt.

Whale talk was actually pretty funny, also are you guys shortening the podcast down a intentionally ?
Ok. Now. I know this might be a surprise to you, but NOT EVERYONE HAS AN IPOD/IPHONE. Some people just want to listen to podcasts, that mean's .mp3. Who the hell gives .m4a only?

People, you disgust me.
@GFC
Cool it.
AAC works just fine on just about any player.
Didn't have time for the mp3 to encode for an hour. AAC takes 15mins.
Just because your does - doesn't mean everyone's do.
It's not like if you post this an hour later the world will end. What am I supposed to do without any audio software?
Every single podcast on the planet dishes out mp3. Some (read: almost none) of them also add other formats as an option. Why is this one so different?
I have to agree with GFC, mp3 works fine with any Icrap stuff, so that extra 1hr of work would really help others.

Also i would like Japanator to re-hit the subject on whether you "would go to con's a lone?" It was an interesting subject yet you guys kinda de-rail the topic into fornication. I think all of can agree that otaku or not people are having intercourse, can we just move past it now?

Coletta said yes, she would go a lone, cause chances are you will probable meet someone you know. However, say if your new to the city and it just so happens that a con is near by; would you attend ?
iTunes, nice. I'll take this episode out for a spin.
FINALLY ON ITUNES!!! Good job people!
Convenient iTunes-ness is GO!
What friday is here Already yes

and with a itune suprise no less
You didn't know dolphins were assholes?
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dolphin_punch
This was the best episode of Japanator AM EVAR! I may be in the minority but I love podcasts like this when they go off topic. More like this Karen, less structure!

And Demon's Souls is an awesome game. It makes you hate it so much that even the smallest victory is a triumph.
Yay iTunes!
I didn't realize the mp4 thing was going to be an issue- I can re-upload it as mp3. Sorry, it was a mistake, not an attempt to switch formats permanently or anything.

@Shin_Ra: I really don't know what you're referring to, honestly. Also, the podcast ends up being all different lengths more or less randomly, we're not trying to make it longer or shorter.
Ah, I just noticed that episode 7 was missing from the iTunes feed before I posted. Just FYI!
Demon's Souls is like the boot camp of video games. It is going to punish you for any notion of hand holding that you've grown accustomed to from most games these days. You think you're going to fight a 20 feet tall demon toe to toe without dodging? Splat. You think you can run around randomly mashing your way through fights the regular enemies? Stab Crunch. In Demon's Souls, you have to always be aware of where you are, what you're fighting, and how you're going to fight what's coming. The game is a challenge to your skill, and the feeling of accomplishment from going through it several times is the satisfaction and fun people get out of it.
@Karen: About 57min in, you spent like 1min discussing* it, however, only Colet actually gave a real answer, an answered which she elaborated.

It's a question which I'm contemplating, I hardly know any one else interested in Anime, and having a hard time decding if i should attend this year AnimeExpo. Not only that but it's running through july 4th again ~sigh~

*Not really
Hi there AM cast! I finally made a Japanator account just to thank you for putting the podcast up on iTunes and for even running it in the first place, it's great and hilarious stuff. ^^ Thanks again! ::runs off to listen to the podcast::
LOL at the Cromartie Humming tune. I just watched that episode yesterday
i STILL SEE no Kimi ni todoke.


and i predict Kiss X Sis will be more awesome than Ladies Vs Butlers.
@Shin_Ra: Well, given that I've never been to a convention by myself and have no plans of going to one, I couldn't really say much- I assume everyone else was in the same boat. When in doubt I'd say go, just because you never know who you might meet, but that's an uninformed opinion since I've never done it.

@sakesushi: Thanks man!

@HaloZ: We're saving KnT for it's own episode, since it'll be over shortly and we can't discuss it now without spoiling it for those who are behind.
Loved the episode maybe you can get to my question next time. Just finished reading Norwegian Wood tonight loved the book, but I thought the ending was to up in the air.
Appreciate the answer to my question about going to cons alone. It's not that I don't have friends who are into Anime, it's just that all of them already have plans to hang out with specific people for Cosplay and such, and even if I went with them, I'd feel like a 5th wheel...or a 19th wheel, so it'd sort of be similar to just going alone.

I'll probably end up going to my local con, just for the experience, but probably just for one day. Maybe I can snag some (I'm guessing overpriced) swag in the Dealer's Room.
@rurouniranger: That's another one I have to reread- I remember loving the ending to that one though.

Oh, and it's an MP3 NAO.
You guys should change the tagline into "A bunch of genuinely hilarious, yet slightly perverted people talking about anime"
Also, I HAVE to know what that ending songwas. I'm almost sure I heard Yui's voice there!
I'd like to see how intelligence would be defined in a study that claims whales are smarter than humans. Humans are already amazingly terrible at even approximating a decent definition of intelligence when it comes to our own species. When it comes to animals it gets even worse and just exposes how much of an anthropic bias we have because we judge their intelligence basically along the lines of how human they act. I'm open to things being smarter than humans but when you get down to the only measures that truly make a difference (ability to make hostile environments tolerable and the ability to kill as many enemies as quickly as possible) humans have clearly got whales beat and something smarter than us would probably be able to at least get away from us.
I tried to download the show but it doesn't play on my mp3 player just to let you know I never had problems downloading it so far.
I noticed the dump on the Gimp, it was cute and the person who said it did say it in jest.

But to others not in the know, Photoshop CS5's latest touted feature has actually been available in The Gimp for a long time.
Finally got to this episode after being gone for the weekend. It's great how, even when things to off-topic, the atmosphere is fun enough that I laugh, knowing you guys are having a great time.

The main thing to say about this week's show is that I definitely agree with everyone who said that, when playing an RPG, the biggest factor in whether I like it is if I can connect with the characters. Beyond all other factors, that's what'll make me remember a game long after the credits roll, and what will make me recommend it to friends. It's interesting that FF12 should come up in that discussion too, because that's a great example of a game where I liked a lot of things, especially the world design, architecture, bestiary, and various lores, but since I thought the plot was a snooze and never connected with any of the characters, the game ended up as a net-negative for me in appeal (even though my file has something like 118 hours on it). It's true that most game genres can feature fleshed-out stories now, so RPGs are no longer unique in that regard among games. But it's still primarily the realm of the good RPG to deliver characters that we grow attached to and have that connection with.
FUUUCCCKK! The iTunes isn't working for me! T___T I hate apple.

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