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So I used to roleplay on the MS Paint Adventures forums because I was into the fantroll community (I'll note that I'm not a Homestuck, and in fact strongly dislike them, but I do find all the worldbuilding they put into the trolls fascinating and got into that scene). They used to have a "cafe" thread there where people could randomly drop in and RP their characters with other people. It was all really fun, until it gradually got taken over by douchebags.

After a while the mods started being actively hostile towards the RPers there and started raising shit-fits because they didn't like the trolls that some people were playing. A lot of times this was because they contradicted their fanon ideas of what trolls were like, regardless of whether or not this was backed up by canon. They started up a blog to bash the characters of people who used their thread (keep in mind these were the moderators). Eventually they made it so that you couldn't post in the thread unless you submitted your troll to the mods and they thought it was "good" enough (even though the entire point of this thread was that it was supposed to be a casual RP with no applications). That was the point that I finally quit, but honestly, looking back, I'm surprised that I stuck around as long as I did because the people running the thing were absolutely insane.

A brief list of things they thought were unforgivable in a character (some of these may not make any sense to those unfamiliar with Homestuck, but trust me, they're frickin' idiotic reasons to keep someone out):
  • Trolls with snake themes (thought they were overdone and all the same)
  • Subjugglators (thought they were all the same and invariably Gamzee ripoffs no matter how well they were written individually)
  • Trolls who weren't assholes (thought they were "not real trolls" and "grey humans". I do acknowledge that many of the trolls we see in canon ARE assholes, but the comic makes it clear that this is far from universal)
  • Anonblood seadwellers (in one case I actually saw one of the mods kill off a user's anonblood seadweller. Just because they thought the concept was overdone. Mind you, the user in question agreed to this, but in other cases they killed other people's characters without permission)
  • Female trolls with large breasts (thought they were automatically vapid, personalityless fanservice bimbos regardless of how they were actually played)
  • Sprites that were well-drawn (thought that people were showing off if their art was too good or that it "didn't fit the style")
  • Sprites that came from a generator on dA (this may admittedly be fair, but many of them didn't even look that bad)
Last I checked the thread they had also put in a rule saying that trolls couldn't talk to trolls of different castes because "trolls wouldn't do that" (despite the fact that they often do in the comic), which frankly makes it almost impossible to actually RP. This was long after I left, though.

One last note: At one point I brought it up that my character was the troll equivalent of Jewish. I will establish that I had decided this for quite some time now, it just hadn't come up in the RP, and that the author of the comic did allude to it being something that existed before. The admin of the thread - not a mod, not some random retard, but the admin - messaged me saying that he was offended because my character "didn't act like a Jew". Yeah, that was something that happened.

EDIT: Oh, I nearly forgot! The aforementioned troll ended up on that blog because someone thought that I had copied another user's troll just because they looked similar. I created said troll before I even knew of the cafe thread's existence, no less that of the troll everyone thought I had stolen.
 
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TV-Nihon, a prominent toku fansubbing group, has a lot of problems. Sometimes their subs inaccurate (Kamen Rider Blade is, according to a professional translator, only about 70% accurate), they leave Japanese words untranslated, they use Japanese sayings with a note about their meaning (which means you have to pause the video and read a note to understand what is being said), they ban people for voicing complaints on their forums, their quality checkers are expected to be yes-men (in the words of someone who did quality control), their subs take about a week while other groups can have them out in days, they bullied smaller sub groups into quitting, poorer video quality, ugly graphics and fonts used to add flavor to the series, their 1:1 translation leaves much to be desired in terms of characterization...

You get the idea. The fact still remains that a huge chunk of sentai and Kamen Rider have only been completely subbed by TV-Nihon. I've personally enjoyed a few of their projects in spite of flaws. It's not TV-Nihon I want to talk about.

It's the zealots that white-knight TV-Nihon.

See, for the above reasons the fan community has issue with TV-N and their practices. There's been people calling them out, a tumblr pointing out problems, even one of TV-N's translators left to find his own subbing group. Naturally, some TV-N fans get upset with this. And naturally, some sperg in their defense. Here's some of the shit I've seen.

"Leaving words in Japanese helps me learn Japanese."
"Other groups have problems and yet you don't go after them."
"TV-N releases the material right the first time. They don't need V2s."
"Those graphics enhance my enjoyment of the series."
"My friend who speaks/is Japanese says TV-N's closer to how the Japanese talk."
"Don't like? Don't watch."
"Localization is bad" (This refers to the process of changing what is being while keeping the meaning. Like substituting a Japanese expression for an English one. This is done for various reasons, such as keeping with the spirit of the work or for the benefit of the more general audience. However, this has lead to some issues when groups are a bit liberal.

For instance, in Kyoryuger there are these cyborg Dinosaurs called Zyudenryu in Japanese. This translates as "Electric Beast Dragon." TV-N left Zyudenryu intact while the other major subbing group localized it as Voltasaur. Some people HATE this)
"Why would someone watch a Japanese show if they didn't want to learn Japanese?"

You get the idea.
 
Kamen Rider Black RX said:
TV-Nihon, a prominent toku fansubbing group, has a lot of problems. Sometimes their subs inaccurate (Kamen Rider Blade is, according to a professional translator, only about 70% accurate), they leave Japanese words untranslated, they use Japanese sayings with a note about their meaning (which means you have to pause the video and read a note to understand what is being said), they ban people for voicing complaints on their forums, their quality checkers are expected to be yes-men (in the words of someone who did quality control), their subs take about a week while other groups can have them out in days, they bullied smaller sub groups into quitting, poorer video quality, ugly graphics and fonts used to add flavor to the series, their 1:1 translation leaves much to be desired in terms of characterization...

You get the idea. The fact still remains that a huge chunk of sentai and Kamen Rider have only been completely subbed by TV-Nihon. I've personally enjoyed a few of their projects in spite of flaws. It's not TV-Nihon I want to talk about.

It's the zealots that white-knight TV-Nihon.

See, for the above reasons the fan community has issue with TV-N and their practices. There's been people calling them out, a tumblr pointing out problems, even one of TV-N's translators left to find his own subbing group. Naturally, some TV-N fans get upset with this. And naturally, some sperg in their defense. Here's some of the shit I've seen.

"Leaving words in Japanese helps me learn Japanese."
"Other groups have problems and yet you don't go after them."
"TV-N releases the material right the first time. They don't need V2s."
"Those graphics enhance my enjoyment of the series."
"My friend who speaks/is Japanese says TV-N's closer to how the Japanese talk."
"Don't like? Don't watch."
"Localization is bad" (This refers to the process of changing what is being while keeping the meaning. Like substituting a Japanese expression for an English one. This is done for various reasons, such as keeping with the spirit of the work or for the benefit of the more general audience. However, this has lead to some issues when groups are a bit liberal.

For instance, in Kyoryuger there are these cyborg Dinosaurs called Zyudenryu in Japanese. This translates as "Electric Beast Dragon." TV-N left Zyudenryu intact while the other major subbing group localized it as Voltasaur. Some people HATE this)
"Why would someone watch a Japanese show if they didn't want to learn Japanese?"

You get the idea.
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Who care's if something gets localized? I'd like to understand what the characters are saying than have a bunch of Japanese terms get thrown around (plus Electric Beast Dragon sounds awesome IMO).

Don't they also add in swear words and the like to make the shows sound cooler too? I heard somewhere that apparently the characters in Super Sentai and Kamen Rider don't actually swear at all. I could be wrong though.
 
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Kinda.

You see, there are no swear words in Japanese. There's different TONES, but not actual swear words. TVN(and other sub groups, mostly anime ones) takes a word that could easily be translated as "jerk" and makes it "bastard" instead. So yeah, a lot of subbers at swears when they don't have to.

And when it comes to our swear words, they're seen as exotic foreign words even in kids shows. Kinda like how Himura in Eyeshield 21 referred to people as "fucking (nickname)." In Kakuranger, Ninja Black said "dammit" in English (mostly because they hired a Japanese-American who couldn't speak Japanese). Stag Buster said "oh shit" in English. In Kamen Rider 555, they had an uncut Busta Rhymes (Jump Jump)

 
Kamen Rider Black RX said:
Kinda.

You see, there are no swear words in Japanese. There's different TONES, but not actual swear words. TVN(and other sub groups, mostly anime ones) takes a word that could easily be translated as "jerk" and makes it "bastard" instead. So yeah, a lot of subbers at swears when they don't have to.

And when it comes to our swear words, they're seen as exotic foreign words even in kids shows. Kinda like how Himura in Eyeshield 21 referred to people as "fucking (nickname)." In Kakuranger, Ninja Black said "dammit" in English (mostly because they hired a Japanese-American who couldn't speak Japanese). Stag Buster said "oh shit" in English. In Kamen Rider 555, they had an uncut Busta Rhymes (Jump Jump)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zbqSzH9VIec
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Gao Yellow said "Godu damu." He's still one of my favorite characters.
 
Kamen Rider Black RX said:
Kinda.

You see, there are no swear words in Japanese. There's different TONES, but not actual swear words. TVN(and other sub groups, mostly anime ones) takes a word that could easily be translated as "jerk" and makes it "bastard" instead. So yeah, a lot of subbers at swears when they don't have to.
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Thanks, that's really interesting.
 
So there was an idiot at my college a few years back who was being accused of assaulting some girl he was at a party with. What does he do? He calls in a fake shooting hoax and puts our college on lock down with the SWAT arriving and searching room to room. His reason? So he would be hailed as the hero and show that he's a good person that would never harm a woman.

http://articles.wdbj7.com/2013-01-28/martinsville-man_36533479
 
EleSigma said:
So there was an idiot at my college a few years back who was being accused of assaulting some girl he was at a party with. What does he do? He calls in a fake shooting hoax and puts our college on lock down with the SWAT arriving and searching room to room. His reason? So he would be hailed as the hero and show that he's a good person that would never harm a woman.

http://articles.wdbj7.com/2013-01-28/martinsville-man_36533479
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He isn't actually a hero but rather an attention-seeking jerk for that foolish act.
 
There is this LOLcow that I have known for a long time. She is stupidly paranoid that if her friends and family go OOC, she sees the worst them, thinking they are depressed or dead, it gets out of hand, I think they avoid her deliberately as a result.
 
Now I know that most of you have heard about Project AFTER (and more so due to Yaoi Huntress Earth's presence on this site). I'm also sure some of you may have known that some of the member have their own podcast called "The Other Side". Now you might be wondering what this has to do with me (or not, I don't really care), Well you see, back when they did their episode on Kill la Kill (a series I have a love/hate relationship with), I posted a comment voicing my opinion about the show and how I didn't like it. For those wondering where I'm heading with this, here's the link to the episode: http://anime3000.com/krap-la-krap-the-other-side/.

If you're wondering why there's a huge-ass comment section on that one episode, here's why, or at least part of the reason why: This guy named Devin Wolfe, who seems to have a vendetta against those who insult the show or himself. Now where do I fit into all of this you might be asking? Well I posted a comment (under the name Normality) just talking about my views on what I saw of the series. Unfortunately, this led into a comment war not only between Devin and I between the animation (which is average at best, and substandard Flash-type animation at worst), but between him and literally almost everyone else in the comments. And not once did he even back up his opinions on why he liked the show in the first place (Which got me a little more than just angry). Instead posting stuff like:

You do or you appear to not know what you are talking about.If you can't laugh at the humor in Kill la Kill you are possibly humorless. The animation is fine nothing wrong with it. If Anime Southpark(Inferno Cop) is "good" then Kill la Kill should be excellent. The fanservice is part of the plot. There is an underlying theme about why she is the way she is.
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About my views about the animation and his "Opinions":
"This show's perfect and anyone who says otherwise is wrong"

I never said it was perfect and I never said you where wrong I just said you where stating your opinion as if it was the only way the world is.

"Stuff like the slipshod and lazy animation; the majority of the character designs choices (like Satsuki's masculine looking face and Ryuko's overdeveloped chest); the overused and hyper-sexualized fanservice; the inclusion of the Mako character and the fact that it tries to be over the top yet fails to do"

What validates these opinions as the way things are? That's what I'm getting at. What makes these "fact" outside of your own head?
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And after I told him that I watched the series, somehow bringing up streaming videos into the discussion:
"I've seen the show, I have tastes, and I happen to be an animation buff (Tweening and noticeably choppy movements do not make good animation). Also, you may not think the characters look off, but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one when I say that Satsuki's eyebrows need to be trimmed."

You might notice things like that when you're streaming the anime where as myself I download a torrent and watch it with VLC also different characters have different characteristics.
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My stuff is in the quotation marks by the way.

Unsurprisingly, after all that, he resorted to just dropping insults (poor ones at that):
"Devin just wants me in the worst way."

Not really not very into walking skeletons.

"That's what this is really about."

What its really about is I find it fun poking holes in peoples logic.
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Not even sure I can call the above a failed insult. But long story short, the dude gained the ire/annoyance of the entire comments section (or at least the sane ones, there was a few others backing him up). Oh, and one last thing, part of that comment war between him and I? That stemmed from when he didn't realize, that a nude silhouette is still a nude silhouette. No matter how you do it.

One final note I forgot to bring up initially, he's still acting like a moron in the comment sections of other episodes.
 
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So, would the majority of people featured on Cops qualify? That show is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine because, well... good lord do police run into crazy on a regular basis. One I'll never forget was this enraged hambeast of a woman that claimed the reek of drugs on her was from a Snickers bar she'd eaten.

However, my favorite are the ones who go for the "these aren't even my pants" excuse when police find something on them. I mean, maybe I'm the weird one for not sharing my pants with people, but I doubt it.
 
LaptopGeek said:
There is this LOLcow that I have known for a long time. She is stupidly paranoid that if her friends and family go OOC, she sees the worst them, thinking they are depressed or dead, it gets out of hand, I think they avoid her deliberately as a result.
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Wait, what? She thinks that they are playing characters? (If OOC = Out Of Character in this context)
 
TheRedRanger said:
This guy.
He pops up on Gaia Online every now and again, posting the exct same thing, spamming the role playing forum with up to 12 identical threads at a time. Judging by his name changes, I'm guessing he's been banned, but keeps coming back.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b86/destruction_pancake/WG0_zpsf968439f.png

On day, I decided to go deeper into the rabbit hole, and see exctly what I was dealing with. What follows is a tale of awkwardness, illiteracy, obvious autism and hints of loveshy-ness.
Screen caps following soon...
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Oh God! He's back, and he's getting worse!

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I'm not sure if I posted this before, but I'm going to throw in Brooke McEldowney. He's both a comic strip and webcomic artist. In a way, he's kind of like Aaron Diaz (Dresden Codex) if he was in love with the jazz age (or anything before 1954), had a possible reverse Electra complex and went for political wit instead of social justice. Both are pretentious, better-than-you know-it-alls who fancy themselves as geniuses, love "unique" (aka cluttered and hard to read) panel layouts, both have protagonist-centered morality (though Brooke's is more Randian), both exalt their nerdom (Diaz is a traditional geek while Brooke is the uptight, "intellectual" nerd-type), both will accuse others of being "perverts" while drawing "sexy" or fetishy pics of their female protagonists (75% of Brooke's women are single-minded nymphos), can't stand criticism no matter how civil and neither can plan their stories out well.

Like Tom Batiuk (creator of Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft) seeing how far his car-wreck of work can get more creepy and pretentious. I'm even doing a go through of McEldowney's work here. Then again, the comic strip industry (like webcomics) has a decent share of creators with major issues.
 
I just remembered a lolcow I know personally at my school. I don't see him often, since I live off campus and don't have any classes with him, but at one point I was in the dorm lounge to meet some classmates for a group project while he was sperging away, and that was all I needed to know.

To sum things up, the guy is obsessed with 1940s-era music. He has an excessive knowledge of songs and artists from the period that he does not hesitate to brag about at any opportunity (and sometimes completely out of context). When I saw him, he was carrying his iPad around with him wherever he went, blaring old-timey music loud without headphones and singing along to the lyrics. One time he even paused to do a DJ-type spiel introducing a song and talking about how much it "reflected his personality" before treating us to his unsolicited serenade. Later that night he pulled out his iPad and demonstrated how he had found a way to get Siri to swear at him, and he made it clear to us that he thought this was the funniest thing ever, even after we already got the point. Also, whenever he talked to Siri he would talk to and about her as if they were an old married couple in a somewhat disconcerting fashion. To top it all off, his voice sounded frighteningly like Chris's, and he looked quite similar as well (though thinner and with better fashion sense, thank god).

I also have two second-hand stories, although since these didn't happen to me I don't have all the details. For the first of these, my girlfriend told me about how at her old school there was a kid who was essentially a proto-Jace. He threatened people with a plastic knife and once talked about how he could shoot up the school if he wanted to when he got a headshot when the two of them were playing Call of Duty. One headshot, mind you. On campaign mode.

The second one comes from when, for my first day of college, I had to listen to one of the professors give a speech about making smart decisions in college life. He did this by telling us a story about a student he had who got drunk the night before class and ended up shitting his pants in the middle of lecture. That became a running joke around me for a long, long time.
 
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