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crystallized-teardrops: edgaralanfrog: glencocoabutter: son,...

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:52:45 -0400

edgaralanfrog:

glencocoabutter:

son, your mother and i are very concerned

i never laughed at two cats harder before

i have never wanted to own a cat so much in my life

ryface: nepetaquest: angelfire93: Alright, if you’re a...

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:52:23 -0400

ryface:

nepetaquest:

angelfire93:

Alright, if you’re a consumer and you’re considering picking up the new Xbox One console, then please, take a moment to listen to me. Before we begin, no, I am not a fanboy or a hater. I have no console Bias. I have a PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and a Gaming PC. Each has their pros and cons but now onto business.

DO NOT BUY AN XBOX ONE. Why? See the reasons below:

Xbox Requires an internet connection. Here’s how it works: Every 24 hours your Xbox will try to connect to Microsoft’s servers for verification. If it is unable to connect, sucks to be you. You’re blocked from playing even single player games until it can connect.

Source: http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-does-require-internet-connection-cant-play-o-509164109

Do you like renting games, lending them to a friend, or even borrowing them from a friend? No longer possible. Every Xbox One game you get must be registered to your Xbox live account to be played. After that point it will only work for you. No one else can use it unless they pay a fee. Essentially it works like this. You pick up a used Xbox One game from somewhere or someone, pop it into your console. The system verifies it’s been registered to your account. Uh-oh, it isn’t! In order to play it, you have to pay Microsoft a fee, which is currently slated to be full retail price. Doesn’t matter how scratched up it is or how cheap you got it at gamestop or from a friend. You aren’t just buying the physical copies anymore. You’re paying Microsoft for a LICENSE to be allowed to play that game.

It is worth mentioning Microsoft is exploring ways for you to trade in and resell your used games. This is rumored to mean that you can sell your digital license to play the game (registration) back to microsoft, likely for microsoft points. You can then trade in the game at gamespot for some cash if you like. Either way, as it currently stands, the new owner would still have to pay a fee on top of the price of actually buying the physical copy.

Source: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-fee-for-buying-used-games-full-retail-price/

Is it worth mentioning that Microsoft if shafting Indie Developers as well? Where as on Playstation Network or (whatever the Wii has) Indie Developers can self publish their content easily. Playstation even encourages this. Microsoft however forces these Indie Devs to enter publishing deals with them to be allowed to market their content. You don’t go through them, you don’t get to sell what you developed.

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/indie-devs-cant-self-publish-on-xbox-one

I’m not quite done yet! Now, I’m sure you heard a lot about “TV TV TV TV SPORTS TV TV SPORTS SPORTS TV.” Yes, the Xbox is slated to be able to stream live tv, live sports, etc. So let me ask you this. You obviously already have something like cable or DirecTV. Do you really want to shell out hundreds of dollars more and pay a monthly subscription fee to have another television provider? Yes, I said hundreds of dollars, and I don’t mean the cost of the console. To view live TV from the Xbox you are required to purchase ANOTHER separate device for it to work. Why would you even consider shelling out more money for something you already have anyway? Even if you didn’t, DirecTV is cheaper. Or you could even subscribe you Hulu.com and watch live tv on your computer. FOR MUCH CHEAPER. You essentially have to buy another cable box if you don’t have one. And if you do… what do you need the Xbox One for?

Source: http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-live-tv-available-in-us-only-at-launch-requires-separate-device/

So far we’ve discovered that the Xbox One is not really a gaming console, at least… not a consumer friendly gaming console. It’s being marketed as an all-in-one home entertainment system. Something to replace all of the other devices in your house. But there are drawbacks even to that. Put on your tin foil hats for this part folks. Take from it what you will, all I’ll say is… possibilities…

The Xbox One’s features will not function unless the Kinect is plugged in and active. This is not an optional piece anymore.

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/21/xbox-one-will-not-function-without-kinect-attached

So imagine your Kinect piece breaks? Tough luck, no more Xbox for you. But you know what’s worse?

Pay attention, because this is important. The Kinect is always watching. Always listening. Even when the system is off.

Yes. One of the ways to turn the system on is to audibly say: “Xbox On” while the system is off. The Kinect, which is always on, hears you and turns it on. Now this might seem like a cool feature, but did you know Microsoft patented a feature that would allow the Kinect’s camera (It’s no longer just a sensor, but a camera) to spy on you for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America?) While they may not actually do this, it is actually possible for them to do this now. It has a camera, and a microphone. The Kinect is always on. It is ALWAYS listening, ALWAYS watching.

An idea has been tossed around that by using this feature, it will allows game developers and movie produces to set a limited amount of how many people can be allowed to view the entertainment. So as a hypothetical example, you and three friends are watching a movie, which is the maximum allowed. A fourth friend enters the room and the Kinect’s sensor registers the fourth individual. The movie stops and you a prompted to pay a fee so that the extra individual may also view the film. Again, that is NOT currently the case, but these are the ideas currently being tossed around with the system’s current capabilities.

Source for listening: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352596/the-xbox-one-is-always-listening

Source of spying: http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-microsofts-new-kinect-patent-goes-big-brother-will-spy-on-you-for-the-mpaa

Now, just two more things and I’ll be done here!

This isn’t really a good or bad thing, but it’s annoying. It also explains how they can prevent you from playing a used game if you didn’t pay their fee. Xbox one no longer plays games off the discs, you HAVE to install them to the hard-drive in order to play them. I believe PS3 also has you do this (on a number of games but not always it seems), except that PS3 isn’t trying to Nickle and Dime you at every corner. It also seems according to this article there is something related to the Online portion at the beginning of this post. The option is there for Developers to require the Xbox to always be online to play their particular game. Well, it seems PC gamers and console gamers have one thing in common now… DRM.

(At least pirates on PC can bypass DRM easily. Not an option for Consoles.)

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352314/xbox-one-hard-drive-game-installs

And last but not least, another annoyance… Xbox One will not be compatible with any and all current headsets. Nope, companies will either have to make new headsets altogether specifically for the Xbox One, and they have to adhere to what Microsoft wants. Look forward to price gouging.

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/xbox-one-incompatible-with-current-gaming-headsets

Oh, one more thing… If you have an Xbox 360, don’t get rid of it. Why? Well if you want to keep playing your old 360 games you’ll need it. The Xbox One isn’t backwards compatible. At all. Not only that, but President of Microsoft’s Xbox Division Don Mattrick insults the very notion of backwards compatibility! He calls it: “Backwards thinking.”

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350662/new-xbox-has-no-backwards-compatibilty

Source of insult: http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/22/4355984/xbox-one-backward-compatibility-backwards-thinking-don-mattrick

That is all I have to say currently folks, and I hope you took the time to read this far. I’ll conclude with the following… please… PLEASE do not buy this console. Paying for this supports greedy and anti-consumer business practices. Speak with your wallet, and pass up the Xbox One. No matter what games it might have that you want, even if they are exclusive. Do the right thing and make a statement. Refuse to be nickle and dimed like this. Refuse to be seen as a mindless consumer who will buy anything tossed to them.

We won’t know much else until after E3, but as it stands now, the PS4 or a decent gaming PC is the best way to go.

If you are willing to do so, please spread this post around. Liking is not even remotely necessary, but do please share it if you agree with and acknowledge what you’ve read here. The more people know, the fewer of them waste their money.

Thank you, kindly.

~Dylan Jordan

(Originally posted on Facebook by one of my friends. He brings up many valid points. Mind you, I haven’t been a fan of Xbox in a long time and I will most likely get a PS4. But this confirms further for me that I won’t be getting an Xbox one any time in the foreseeable future.)

TL;DR —The XBOX One is going to be a piece of shit and you really shouldn’t even remotely think about getting one.

I’ve had some of this explained to me in ways that make Microsoft’s business decisions make sense (like backwards compatibility — they’d have to hike the price up further to put a 360 inside the One, because the One runs games completely differently), but the YOU HAVE TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET burns me enough that, yeah, I agree with the notion of Don’t Buy This.

fandom-mused-fandom-games: 1 note = 1 pixel for your fandom’s...

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:58:37 -0400

fandom-mused-fandom-games:

1 note = 1 pixel for your fandom’s symbol (shown above) in an art piece I’m making

If you would like to see all of the fandoms, look through these posts

IF YOU DON’T SEE YOUR FANDOM, send me a message saying what fandoms I missed and I’ll add them

If you would like to know more about the project, read this post

FOLLOW ME TO KEEP UPDATED ON THE PROJECT/SEE THE FINISHED PROJECT

Photo

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:31:01 -0400

oldmanyellsatcloud: ninehellsofanime: This image is from a...

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:54:09 -0400

oldmanyellsatcloud:

ninehellsofanime:

This image is from a manga called Peepo Choo and has been making the rounds quite a bit. What I find perturbing are the rather strange knee-jerk reactions to it that’ve been flooding my dash. Some things to consider:

1. The author of this is Felipe Smith, a man from the West (listed as Argentinian, Jamaican, and American). He was a part of Tokyopop’s OEL manga maketing drive back during the anime boom and was published in the States in a compilation called “The Rising Stars of Manga”, nevermind that the term manga is a publishing distinction and by definition cannot apply to comics originally published outside of Japan.

2. The entire point of this marketing campaign was to ride off the Cool Japan sentiment that had come with the anime boom wherein Japanese cultural products were immensely popular in the West in general and the United States in particular. A common and nearly overwhelming sentiment among anime and manga fans at the time was exactly what’s reflected in the comic above, namely that Japan is some sort of wonderland for Otaku, anyone anywhere could draw “manga” (which I must reiterate is NOT an artistic style), that everyone in the Far East is exceedingly courteous and into nerdy things, and so forth.

3. Felipe Smith eventually went to Japan and trained to be a published manga author, ultimately resulting in the publication of Peepo Choo. Peepo Choo is semiautobiographical, meaning that many of the sentiments and traits of the characters in this manga are derived from Felipe Smith’s personal experiences, though there are obviously many fictitious elements. You want to know why the main character Milton is Black? That’s because Felipe Smith is too and Milton is a self-portrait of sorts. That’s it. That is literally the only reason so those Tumblr-ers reading racism into the choice of race can find something else to nitpick.

4. The theme of disillusionment with the reality of Japan is a response to both the unquestioning and superficial Western Otaku infatuation with Japan during the anime boom and his own experiences living what many of his peers would have considered “the dream” of becoming a legitimate manga-ka, only to realize the grueling, merciless schedule and competition among those in the profession.

5. Consequently, the manga in question deals with a lot more than just “hurr durr American Otaku are fucking dumb”. At minimum, it also accounts for the exoticization of things like American gangster culture in the form of an American-obsessed Yakuza member who runs around speaking in broken Ebonics, mashing random gang signs together because they look cool, and whatnot. In essence, the reckless generalization of foreign cultures is portrayed as a two-way street. I bring this up in particular because at least one person has complained that the above panels are equally as bad as a walking caricature of American stereotypes, which is clearly and definitively dealt with within this manga.

May I humbly request a signal boost on this so we can derail the indignant train of people who see this one image and interpret it as an unmerited attack on Otakudom? If you see something on your dash, guys, don’t just accept the statements as fact without regard for context and don’t use other people’s mindless reblogging of “rageworthy” subjects as an excuse to get angry and fly off the handle.

It also sounds like a super-interesting read. Plus, a guy of international flair getting his stuff published in Japan? Thats a kudo right there.

animeasuka: THERE ARE CHILDREN ON THIS SITE

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:59:11 -0400

animeasuka:

THERE ARE CHILDREN ON THIS SITE

bitchitrice: derych: brucefuckingbanner: mishasminions: RELEV...

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:55:46 -0400

bitchitrice:

derych:

brucefuckingbanner:

mishasminions:

RELEVANT TO HUMANITY

Relevant to tumblr.

Relevant to existence.

screams this from the top of the matterhorn

there's something wrong with your lovestory baby: Cats & Dogs Living Together: A Response to the Kindle Worlds Announcement

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:54:36 -0400

there's something wrong with your lovestory baby: Cats & Dogs Living Together: A Response to the Kindle Worlds Announcement:

saathi1013:

Your fandom weather report for the day: The sky is not falling, but you’ll want an umbrella, because we’ve got a heavy shitstorm settling in for the duration.

Okay, so I woke up today to the news that Amazon is now launching Kindle Worlds. [ Press Release ] [ Kindle…

URGENT!

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:45:07 -0400

blisteredblood:

xere-the-sun-risesx:

WESTBORO BAPTIST IS ACTIVE IN NORMAN TODAY, AND THEY ARE BY NO MEANS WELCOME. THEY ARE PLANNING TO PROTEST THE FUNERALS OF CHILDREN KILLED IN THE RECENT TORNADO. SHOW THEM WHAT AN ANGRY OKIE IS LIKE, Y’ALL!

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG!

NOT ON MY MOTHERFUCKING WATCH. SIGNAL BOOSTING THE ABSOLUTE FUCK OUT OF THIS.

animesuplex: Illustrations by K,Kanehira » Featured on...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:08:33 -0400

animesuplex.tumblr.com

animesuplex:

Illustrations by K,Kanehira » Featured on ANIMESUPLEX

loloyoloham: jalambert: ankoart: kukkimon: Leafie, A Hen...

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:22:40 -0400

loloyoloham:

jalambert:

ankoart:

kukkimon:

Leafie, A Hen into the Wild (마당을 나온 암탉)

a.k.a. That Bishounen Duck Movie

OMG Lauren, you made an animation and didn’t tell anyone?!

LOLOLOL!!! //dies

I’VE BEEN FOUND OUT

gundma: if you attack trans* people for having fun and being open about their gender and not...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:51 -0400

gundma:

if you attack trans* people for having fun and being open about their gender and not wallowing in self hatred and shame and tell them theyre hurting ACTUAL trans people who have REAL problems number 1 you are garbage and number 2 you are garbage

mediaite: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:47:59 -0400

mediaite:

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’

I once dated a writer and

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:08:35 -0400

Writers are forgetful,

but they remember everything.
They forget appointments and anniversaries,
but remember what you wore,
how you smelled,
on your first date…
They remember every story you’ve ever told them -
like ever,
but forget what you’ve just said.
They don’t remember to water the plants
or take out the trash,
but they don’t forget how
to make you laugh.

Writers are forgetful
because
they’re busy
remembering
the important things.

doublemooncrab: kneelift: The Rock somehow manages to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:13:31 -0400

doublemooncrab:

kneelift:

The Rock somehow manages to photobomb someone’s candid photo of him.

If you needed any more confirmation that Dwayne Johnson is a perfect person

andrysb24: when we went to see Jurassic Park in 3-D my sister...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:07:55 -0400

andrysb24:

when we went to see Jurassic Park in 3-D my sister leaned over to me and whispered, “the raptor bride is coming up”

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:07:52 -0400

fat-birds: mustardhills: My bird, Cinnamon. We call her Beepers...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:06:17 -0400

fat-birds:

mustardhills: My bird, Cinnamon. We call her Beepers ‘cause she beeps.

i literally cannot with this bird

tattiosala: sarahtheanimenerd: Birds in hoodies BIRDS IN...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:36:17 -0400

tattiosala:

sarahtheanimenerd:

Birds in hoodies BIRDS IN HOODIES BIRDS IN HOODIES!

this is so cute It hurts

oooooOOOOOOOH THAT COCKATIEL! AND THE A-GREY!

brittneykay92: I don’t care if it’s “not your type of blog”,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:36:41 -0400

brittneykay92:

I don’t care if it’s “not your type of blog”, I’m shocked and disappointed that my dash isn’t flooded with prayer and best wishes for all of those in Oklahoma.

You still have a home to sleep in tonight, and your life is not literally uprooted. Let’s have some decency here and let everyone effected know that all of America is rooting and praying for them to come out on top of this disaster.