What to do if you aren't a rich mofo...?

[bobbias]

Ask for anime on your birthday. Ask for anime on Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanza. Ask for anime on other major holidays.
If you ask enough, you will get it.
Believe me.

Good suggestion... Problem = if I were to ask for some anime like the cardcaptors movie, I'd be bugged non-stop for about a month after getting it.... (my damn brother...)

Also, buy bootlegs.. Go on eBay, and get HK DVDs. After some practice, you will get to know which HK "brands" don't have hard subtitles, and fi you're just buying the anime for footage and not your own enjoyment, it doesn't matter if the subtitles or audio timing is off.
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Hmm, maybe there should be a thread called: What to di if your parents are gredy bastards and you have no money... I couldn't convince my parents to let me get anything off any internet store if my life depended on it...

[quoye="SQ"]
How to get more money for doing nothing:
If you don't get money for your grades, try and work something out. My older brother failed most of his classes, so in an effort to get my grades up, my dad bribes me by saying I get 20 USD every A I get....
You kind of can't be a straight A student to get your parents to pay for your grades, but if you're someone who gets C's and B's, try talking to your parents and sayign something like "If I got an A, would you give me 20 dollars?" or somethign like that...

Hmm... I'd try that if i could actually manage to get some good marks...

As a last resort, ask if you can do extra chores around the house for money. That way, you don't have to find someone's kid who needs babysitting, or rely on someone else for a gig... You can ask your parents ANY TIME if they need help with something, and most of the time they will have something for you to do...

That may work... if I actually DID chores... I manage to get my allowance by sitting on my lazy ass doing nothing... major problem... I can't offer to do MORE chores... so I'd have to work that much harder to even "earn" my money.....

Beside,s it's good helping out your parents, anyway. The more you help, the more they love you, and the more stuff they buy for you on major holidays. =P

Uhh.. I guess you dont know my parents... even if I help them, it'll just be wainsting my manual labour... and since when did my parents "loving" me more mean they'd buy me more anime? My family is a bunch of pricks that don't actually seem to like anime at all... I can't even get my bro to watch some of the maazing AMVs I've found on this site...

[Milliardo]

What to do if you aren't a rich mofo...?

Rob a Liquor store, then sue when the cop shoots you in the spleen. With (mis)judges these days, it is flawless. A guaranteed winner.

Yeah, you know, because cops aim for the spleen.

Also, buy bootlegs.. Go on eBay, and get HK DVDs

That's not any diferent than downloading them off Kazaa or a DC hub or something. I wouldn't recommend it.
I liked your other ideas though.

[Rorschach]

Well, I don't know what lovely tests Doom9 ran or what material he used, but what I do know is that I've seen a lot of stuff get seriously screwed up for no good reason with DivX 3. Whether you get the thing to work right or not, the end product still has too much ringing in it and I still see the odd ghost artifactin old pieces people made with that codec. Citing an authority doesn't cut any ice with me: DivX 3 is outdated and one does best to steer clear of it.

Considering I can get nice clear results from a 35MB SBC encode with 160kbit MP3 audio, you can't encode.

*Ahem* That's quite an ego you've got there, twerp. FYI, one particular DivX 3 screw-up I recall didn't even involve encoding. I was merely joining two videos together, and at the point where I joined them, the lower half of the video suddenly went gray and started to scramble around like melted plastic. None of my other codecs ever did that! (When I converted both vids to DivX 5, of course, they joined beautifully without a hitch.) DivX 3 is still crap, and I've got the blocky ringing error-stricken vids that others just like you encoded to prove it. (Scryed Episode 10, anyone?)

[Rorschach]

So, you can sue somebody for translating and distributing your stuff even if it's in a nation where you don't have it licensed yet? That's news to me. What law says that? Since when do we bow to the whims of foreigners?

*cough*

WIPO, eh? (Heh Heh. Had to turn off my PeerGuard before I could access that site) Well, I guess with all the Orwellian commie crap going on at the UN and other places, that was to be expected. Far as I'm concerned, though, WIPO can go WIPE itself if you know what I mean. Same goes for the UN and all the other one-world fascist orgs out there. Thanks for the tip, though. I swear, if these international "laws" get one iota worse, I'm going to join the John Birch Society.

[NicholasDWolfwood]

Well, I don't know what lovely tests Doom9 ran or what material he used, but what I do know is that I've seen a lot of stuff get seriously screwed up for no good reason with DivX 3. Whether you get the thing to work right or not, the end product still has too much ringing in it and I still see the odd ghost artifactin old pieces people made with that codec. Citing an authority doesn't cut any ice with me: DivX 3 is outdated and one does best to steer clear of it.

Considering I can get nice clear results from a 35MB SBC encode with 160kbit MP3 audio, you can't encode.

*Ahem* That's quite an ego you've got there, twerp. FYI, one particular DivX 3 screw-up I recall didn't even involve encoding. I was merely joining two videos together, and at the point where I joined them, the lower half of the video suddenly went gray and started to scramble around like melted plastic. None of my other codecs ever did that! (When I converted both vids to DivX 5, of course, they joined beautifully without a hitch.) DivX 3 is still crap, and I've got the blocky ringing error-stricken vids that others just like you encoded to prove it. (Scryed Episode 10, anyone?)

Considering most fansub encoders can't encode for shit, I don't blame you.

[Pierrot Le Fou]

Buying HK bootlegs is fine as long as you dont mind helping to fund the Triads' operations in drug, weapon, and people smuggling.

[jonmartensen]

So, you can sue somebody for translating and distributing your stuff even if it's in a nation where you don't have it licensed yet? That's news to me. What law says that? Since when do we bow to the whims of foreigners?

*cough*

WIPO, eh? (Heh Heh. Had to turn off my PeerGuard before I could access that site) Well, I guess with all the Orwellian commie crap going on at the UN and other places, that was to be expected ... Same goes for the UN and all the other one-world fascist orgs out there. Thanks for the tip, though. I swear, if these international "laws" get one iota worse, I'm going to join the John Birch Society.

Well Heaven's forbid that someone's original works such as; novels, poems, plays, reference works, newspapers and computer programs; databases; films, musical compositions, and choreography; artistic works such as paintings, drawings, photographs and sculpture; architecture; and advertisements, maps and technical drawings, be protected by copyright law.

"Orwellian commie"
You do realize that is an oxymoron, don't you? It is in the same sense as "The Republic of China" is an oxymoron.

Far as I'm concerned, though, WIPO can go WIPE itself if you know what I mean.

WIT-TAY



Go crawl back under your bridge and put the tinfoil hat back on, the sun is frying your brain.

[Rorschach]

<Well Heaven's forbid that someone's original works such as; novels, poems, plays, reference works, newspapers and computer programs; databases; films, musical compositions, and choreography; artistic works such as paintings, drawings, photographs and sculpture; architecture; and advertisements, maps and technical drawings, be protected by copyright law.

"Orwellian commie"
You do realize that is an oxymoron, don't you? It is in the same sense as "The Republic of China" is an oxymoron.>

Uh... dude... that's not an oxymoron at all. Anything totalitarian these days is generally known as "Orwellian" and the commies were and are very totalitarian. Also, an oxymoron is a contradiction of word meanings, not of claims and reality. The word you're fishing for there with "The People's Republic of China" is "misnomer."

Given the kind of "protection" we were talking about here, Heaven forbid it indeed. Apparently, if I download fansubs of things that aren't going to be available here for years in any other form (such as Kodomo no Omocha), they're going to send some goons to hit me in the head with a board. Last I checked, we were still allegedly a sovereign nation. Perhaps you'd like to live under globally imposed Islamic law? Or maybe under global feminism? I know I don't want to live under international regulations of any kind. National regulations are asphyxiating enough as it is.

<Go crawl back under your bridge and put the tinfoil hat back on, the sun is frying your brain.>

Speak for yourself. What side of whose bed did you wake up on, man?

[jonmartensen]

communism

\Com"mu*nism\, n. [F. communisme, fr. commun common.] A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all

com·mu·nism (kmy-nzm) n.
A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.

Or·well·i·an (ôr-wl-n) adj.
Of, relating to, or evocative of the works of George Orwell, especially the satirical novel 1984, which depicts a futuristic totalitarian state.

ox·y·mo·ron (ks-môrn, -mr-) n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra (-môr, -mr) or ox·y·mo·rons
A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.



I'm sorry if the ommision of one word in my entire previous post threw your train of thought off course.


If you find laws that protect people's rights of ownership a threat to your freedom, meh! Nothing I say is going to change that (I'm not very eloquent when it comes to persuasive writing.)

[Rorschach]

If you find laws that protect people's rights of ownership a threat to your freedom, meh! Nothing I say is going to change that (I'm not very eloquent when it comes to persuasive writing.)

No problem with protecting people's rights to hang on to what they've got. It's just that people apparently think some of these laws extend them the right to get a hold on whatever I've got as well. As I recall, there's a particular law on the subject of unreasonable search and seizure that might just come into play here...

And yes, I know what the dictionary says. I think those definitions bear my claim out: communism=(totalitarian) system for redistributing (stealing) wealth=something very similar to what goes on in Orwell's novel. If I'm guilty of anything, it's redundancy. (Orwellian communism? What other kind is there?) Now If I'd said "free commie state," that would definitely be an oxymoron. I didn't mean anything special by stating the title you left out of China's name. Don't get your shirt all in a knot over it.