In Rockstar's own words, "Princess Robot Bubblegum" features the hallmarks of more than a few animes: "Incomprehensible narrative, wretched dialogue and creepy, misogynistic sexuality." See it all in the trailer above.
In Rockstar's own words, "Princess Robot Bubblegum" features the hallmarks of more than a few animes: "Incomprehensible narrative, wretched dialogue and creepy, misogynistic sexuality." See it all in the trailer above.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:28PM (Unverified) said
It's always fascinating to me to see what left-wingers think is 'balanced'. GTA4 has a radio channel completely devoted to a blowhard, obvious Rush Limbaugh mockery; various commercials making fun of stereotypical 'Republican' talking points on other channels; the 'Republican Space Rangers' show ... and that's balanced by ... what exactly? Oh, yeah, they make light fun of hippies.
I mean, it's a game and all, but don't pretend it's equal mocking of 'both sides'. This is Obama-style 'bipartisanship', or as the rest of the world knows it: partisanship.
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I mean, it's a game and all, but don't pretend it's equal mocking of 'both sides'. This is Obama-style 'bipartisanship', or as the rest of the world knows it: partisanship.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:32PM DeepFriedSushi said
+1, nice quality post, just when i was about to give up on this site.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:32PM (Unverified) said
Republicans make it too easy to make fun of them, that's why.
That rush limbaugh parody was spot on though, pulled off flawlessly. I look forward to the next one when they have an escaped psychotic inmate playing Glenn Beck.
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That rush limbaugh parody was spot on though, pulled off flawlessly. I look forward to the next one when they have an escaped psychotic inmate playing Glenn Beck.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:36PM Vegeta has a ps3 said
"Republicans make it too easy to make fun of them, that's why."
Exactly what I was thinking. I don't think it really has anything to do with Rockstar being against republicans and all to do with the fact that not only are Republicans easy targets, but it's pretty damn funny.
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Exactly what I was thinking. I don't think it really has anything to do with Rockstar being against republicans and all to do with the fact that not only are Republicans easy targets, but it's pretty damn funny.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:45PM Snake Robot Podium said
Who is pretending this game is balanced? This whole game is about deconstructing the American myth. I fully support its homosexual/communist agenda.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:56PM copa said
"don't pretend it's equal mocking of 'both sides'."
What the fuck are you talking about? Rockstar has never, ever claimed that they are trying to "equally mock both sides." You are the only person who has ever said that. They are not goddamn Jay Leno.
They make fun of idiots, and I absolutely guarantee they don't give a shit if you think they are "fair and balanced."
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What the fuck are you talking about? Rockstar has never, ever claimed that they are trying to "equally mock both sides." You are the only person who has ever said that. They are not goddamn Jay Leno.
They make fun of idiots, and I absolutely guarantee they don't give a shit if you think they are "fair and balanced."
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 7:09PM AoE said
I can see why you call yourself Douche.
Just so we're on the same page here... you think that video games are supposed to have a balanced worldview and what... journalistic integrity?! What exactly are you going for here... did you just want to piss and moan about the fact that the game made fun of your political beliefs more than it did other people? Grow up and don't play the game if it offends you that much jerky.
And don't bring politics into it, it's a game that indulges criminal fantasy, your attempts to politicize things and draw parallels between politics and this game are pathetic at best. Do you do the same thing with children's television? I ask because it's equally appropriate, moron.
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Just so we're on the same page here... you think that video games are supposed to have a balanced worldview and what... journalistic integrity?! What exactly are you going for here... did you just want to piss and moan about the fact that the game made fun of your political beliefs more than it did other people? Grow up and don't play the game if it offends you that much jerky.
And don't bring politics into it, it's a game that indulges criminal fantasy, your attempts to politicize things and draw parallels between politics and this game are pathetic at best. Do you do the same thing with children's television? I ask because it's equally appropriate, moron.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 9:58PM (Unverified) said
Keep in mind guys this game is scottish and would have no real political interest as say an american producer would have on american politics.
Its just light hearted fun
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Its just light hearted fun
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 11:46PM (Unverified) said
They're a Scottish developer. Outside America, the entire damn world laughs at the Republicans. American politics are a joke, and your party is the punchline.
Maybe you should join a party that isn't led by the certifiably insane?
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Maybe you should join a party that isn't led by the certifiably insane?
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:35PM (Unverified) said
is it just me or does this anime look REALLY GOOD!? i'd watch!
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 8:22PM Unoriginal Beef said
The low framerate of the in-game TV perfectly matches the anime pan and scan technique
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 10:51PM Scratchcard said
What does pan and scan have to do with framerate?
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:41PM Snake Robot Podium said
I forget how funny that game was. This makes me hope they also update the talk radio stations.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:37PM (Unverified) said
What an insightful comment.
For me, the funniest thing about left-wingers is the fact that they think there's nothing funny about their beliefs ... just like the devotees of any other religion.
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For me, the funniest thing about left-wingers is the fact that they think there's nothing funny about their beliefs ... just like the devotees of any other religion.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:42PM (Unverified) said
There's nothing wrong with being conservative, but we don't have
Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O Reily and Michael Savage...all people who are ignorant, hateful, racist, and stuck in some 1950s America that doesn't exist anymore. If you're an actual conservative you should do yourself a favor and cut yourself off of them, because those people are why a majority of people laugh at republicans nowadays.
The tea party people didn't really help your guys' case either.
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Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O Reily and Michael Savage...all people who are ignorant, hateful, racist, and stuck in some 1950s America that doesn't exist anymore. If you're an actual conservative you should do yourself a favor and cut yourself off of them, because those people are why a majority of people laugh at republicans nowadays.
The tea party people didn't really help your guys' case either.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:45PM Vegeta has a ps3 said
I'm sorry but where did anyone make a post saying that left wingers beliefs aren't funny.
Dude stop being a....well, a douche.
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Dude stop being a....well, a douche.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:46PM (Unverified) said
No you just have Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Chris Matthews, Anderson Cooper, and a never-ending list of smug, preening jackasses who routinely misportray their ideological opposites to feed the tiresome, juvenile stereotype that anyone who is Conservative is 'racist' and 'bigoted', all in service to the worst President this country has seen.
Seriously, get over yourself. Those 'hateful' people you're talking about uncovered and deposed a 9/11 truther and helped expose the corrupt organization that is ACORN. And if you ever bothered to listen to or read any of them you'd undoubtedly find out that the lies you've been fed regarding them are explicitly designed to keep you from ever questioning the neverending stream of left-wing propaganda that comes down the mainstream media pipe.
And attacking the tea partiers? That just shows how ignorant you are. So in your mind people peacefully and respectfully protesting massive government spending is 'hateful' and 'crazy', but hippies throwing bricks through Starbucks' windows over the WTO - that's rational. Throwing pink paint on Condoleeza Rice? Perfectly sane.
But no, lefties aren't funny. No way.
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Seriously, get over yourself. Those 'hateful' people you're talking about uncovered and deposed a 9/11 truther and helped expose the corrupt organization that is ACORN. And if you ever bothered to listen to or read any of them you'd undoubtedly find out that the lies you've been fed regarding them are explicitly designed to keep you from ever questioning the neverending stream of left-wing propaganda that comes down the mainstream media pipe.
And attacking the tea partiers? That just shows how ignorant you are. So in your mind people peacefully and respectfully protesting massive government spending is 'hateful' and 'crazy', but hippies throwing bricks through Starbucks' windows over the WTO - that's rational. Throwing pink paint on Condoleeza Rice? Perfectly sane.
But no, lefties aren't funny. No way.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:46PM LaughingTarget said
Depends on who you call the tea party people. If it was those of us that were throwing them since 2007, then you've got it wrong. If you mean those who decided to jump on the bandwagon but were Bush guys, then, ya, those guys are lame.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:53PM (Unverified) said
Really? Then what does that make the people who protested under Bush, but refuse to protest the many-fold spending of Obama (or the many other Bush-era policies he has kept which, when Bush was president, were TERRORISM!!!!).
But of course there's no reason that someone would protest spending now (largest deficit and most spending by a president in HISTORY, on NOTHING except crony kickbacks and pork projects) versus then (large spending on two wars approved by Congress and enthusiastically backed by the American people at the time of their undertaking). Nah, no difference.
Give me a break. Left-wingers are not rational. Then eventually you grow up and become Conservative. Or you go on welfare and complain for the rest of your life.
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But of course there's no reason that someone would protest spending now (largest deficit and most spending by a president in HISTORY, on NOTHING except crony kickbacks and pork projects) versus then (large spending on two wars approved by Congress and enthusiastically backed by the American people at the time of their undertaking). Nah, no difference.
Give me a break. Left-wingers are not rational. Then eventually you grow up and become Conservative. Or you go on welfare and complain for the rest of your life.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:54PM (Unverified) said
"So in your mind people peacefully and respectfully protesting"
http://trueslant.com/ethanporter/files/2009/09/6a00d8341c61e653ef0120a5c1aad8970c-pi-300x241.png
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cHhMa7ARDDg/Sq1fD-Eh0cI/AAAAAAAABHw/1_N3hNB51-M/s400/Best+Tea+Party+Protest+Sign+Yet.jpg
http://del1357.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/phoenix_tea_party_05.jpg
Real respectful and totally not ignorant at all
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http://trueslant.com/ethanporter/files/2009/09/6a00d8341c61e653ef0120a5c1aad8970c-pi-300x241.png
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cHhMa7ARDDg/Sq1fD-Eh0cI/AAAAAAAABHw/1_N3hNB51-M/s400/Best+Tea+Party+Protest+Sign+Yet.jpg
http://del1357.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/phoenix_tea_party_05.jpg
Real respectful and totally not ignorant at all
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:55PM (Unverified) said
It amazes me how ignorant lefties are, and how they have to constantly be fed information.
Did you now know that Cooper pretty much invented the 'teabagger' insult, while cackling away with a guest about how stupid the people out protesting the government were?
Did you not see Cooper's week-long, shameless puff piece visiting 'slave camps' in Africa with Obama?
But you're right - a more condemning name would have been Rachel Maddow. But there are so many crazy left-wing commentators it's hard to remember them all ... but yeah, it's "the right" that has all the problems. Sure.
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Did you now know that Cooper pretty much invented the 'teabagger' insult, while cackling away with a guest about how stupid the people out protesting the government were?
Did you not see Cooper's week-long, shameless puff piece visiting 'slave camps' in Africa with Obama?
But you're right - a more condemning name would have been Rachel Maddow. But there are so many crazy left-wing commentators it's hard to remember them all ... but yeah, it's "the right" that has all the problems. Sure.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:58PM (Unverified) said
Am I talking to Saul Alinsky? You think three pictures discredit an entire movement? Naturally you'll be registering as a Republican over this then:
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
The hundreds of thousands of people who showed up across the nation to peacefully (if sometimes loudly) state their opposition to this left-wing government obviously terrify you. This is why you have to marginalize them. It's why left-wingers always try to marginalize Conservatives, which is why it's so hilarious that you always fail. It's a center-right country, no matter how much you try to drag us left.
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http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
The hundreds of thousands of people who showed up across the nation to peacefully (if sometimes loudly) state their opposition to this left-wing government obviously terrify you. This is why you have to marginalize them. It's why left-wingers always try to marginalize Conservatives, which is why it's so hilarious that you always fail. It's a center-right country, no matter how much you try to drag us left.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 7:01PM Snake Robot Podium said
Coming to a gaming blog and saying that Andersoon Cooper was the the first to connect the dots on "tea-baggers"? You've offiically convinced me that you're trolling.
Either way, it doesn't surprise me that CNN to make fun of a movement completely funded and organized by their competitor Fox News.
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Either way, it doesn't surprise me that CNN to make fun of a movement completely funded and organized by their competitor Fox News.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 7:02PM (Unverified) said
The problem you're not understanding is the media does that because none of you even try to dis-associate yourselves from those crazy people. Whether or not you follow Limbaugh and all those other racist hatemongers I listed, the point is you don't shun them or try to kick them away..but rather let them be the vocal leaders of your party.
Which is why it seems like everyone hates republicans nowadays. You can't let crazy, hateful people lead your party and expect to not be made fun of.
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Which is why it seems like everyone hates republicans nowadays. You can't let crazy, hateful people lead your party and expect to not be made fun of.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 7:10PM (Unverified) said
Cooper was the first to make the slur on the air, and he widely popularized it. He's also (like Chris Matthews) very open about his political bias, so stop playing deaf.
And the only reason people think Limbaugh & Beck are 'racist' and 'bigoted' is that people like you keep repeating the lie, even stooping to repeating faked quotes (as did MSNBC, CNN, and many other 'news' sources) to back up this position. Neitehr are 'racist' or 'bigoted', and neither are any worse in how they approach their job than any left-wing talking head.
The difference is that Limbaugh and Beck are EFFECTIVE, which is why your type want them destroyed.
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And the only reason people think Limbaugh & Beck are 'racist' and 'bigoted' is that people like you keep repeating the lie, even stooping to repeating faked quotes (as did MSNBC, CNN, and many other 'news' sources) to back up this position. Neitehr are 'racist' or 'bigoted', and neither are any worse in how they approach their job than any left-wing talking head.
The difference is that Limbaugh and Beck are EFFECTIVE, which is why your type want them destroyed.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 7:14PM (Unverified) said
And that's hilarious - 'funded by Fox News'. None of us got our checks. Meanwhile, all the big protests against Bush were funded by Media Matters, MoveOn, and so forth. The SEIU and Democrat Underground provided matching shirts and signs and bussed people in to protest FOR ObamaCare. Nothing to see there, right?
But analyze what you just said: you think it's fine for CNN to attack Fox News. That's not biased. Noo.
But you're not funny! No way.
Fox #1 in ratings. The term 'liberal' in the gutter, the term 'Conservative' the most popular political self-description. Obama below 50%, domestic agenda tanking ... if we can survive his disastrous foreign policy, this 4 years will be the greatest gift given to Conservatives since Jimmy Carter. We're certainly laughing.
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But analyze what you just said: you think it's fine for CNN to attack Fox News. That's not biased. Noo.
But you're not funny! No way.
Fox #1 in ratings. The term 'liberal' in the gutter, the term 'Conservative' the most popular political self-description. Obama below 50%, domestic agenda tanking ... if we can survive his disastrous foreign policy, this 4 years will be the greatest gift given to Conservatives since Jimmy Carter. We're certainly laughing.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 8:02PM Ryuk said
wow I feel like I'm not wanted here on this site because I have a slightly SLIGHTLY conservative viewpoint. people here are pretty liberal, not that it's a bad thing I'm just pointing it out, I'd rather keep politics OUT of this site, because it alienates me, and sometimes it can get insulting. i don't associate myself with anyone on the list of people named above by the way, the only one i respect is michael savage, and i'm not really a fan lol
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 9:54PM maveric101 said
douche, some of what you're saying has a point, a some of it doesn't. but at this point anything you say is going to be downvoted. you should probably just stop.
tmac: assuming i call myself a republican, exactly how am i supposed to distance myself from those people you mentioned? they're the ones with the talk shows, running around calling themselves republicans. it's really the democrats fault. you're the one pointing to those guys, not me. you're the one perpetuating the republican stereotype. (on a side note, where do you get off calling them ALL racist? ALL ignorant? i don't know all of them, but i'd bet they're not racist, and that they know a lot more politics than you, making them less ignorant than you)
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tmac: assuming i call myself a republican, exactly how am i supposed to distance myself from those people you mentioned? they're the ones with the talk shows, running around calling themselves republicans. it's really the democrats fault. you're the one pointing to those guys, not me. you're the one perpetuating the republican stereotype. (on a side note, where do you get off calling them ALL racist? ALL ignorant? i don't know all of them, but i'd bet they're not racist, and that they know a lot more politics than you, making them less ignorant than you)
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 11:14PM The Artist Formerly known as Jes said
What the hell is going on?
All I see is a never ending sea of white.
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All I see is a never ending sea of white.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:37PM (Unverified) said
That's pretty much a spot on parody of everything I see when I see clips of anime or commercials, which is a big reason(s) why I don't watch it.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 10:33PM maveric101 said
that's too bad. you're missing some great shows by not watching anime. judging by your comment you'd be more apt to like Death Note (my second favorite), but my favorite is Code Geass.
and if you care you can respond to my comment in douche's second thread.
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and if you care you can respond to my comment in douche's second thread.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 11:27PM (Unverified) said
Please note that very few good anime get brought to America, so I can understand your reluctance towards it. You're probably better off anyways since most good anime are based off a superior light novel, visual novel, or comic(manga) so you're doing yourself a service by not subjecting yourself to an inferior version with added service. (Umineko no Naku Koro ni is a prime example of this. It is a terrible adaption with added sex appeal for otaku while sacrificing crucial story elements/atmosphere that made it enjoyable in the first place.)
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Posted: Oct 27th 2009 1:42AM The Blank Mage Returns said
Any relation to Higurashi no Naku Koro ni? 'Cause that show was awesome.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:39PM HighFiveJesus said
yes, why i don't watch most anime. creepy as hell.
great parody.
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great parody.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:39PM fauxcivility said
Joystiq, I'm sorry but I hate clicking through all those years on the age restriction. Drop down plox? =[
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:43PM ch3burashka said
@Joystiq:
Better yet, incorporate age into the account, so as to not to do it EVERY SINGLE F*CKING TIME.
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Better yet, incorporate age into the account, so as to not to do it EVERY SINGLE F*CKING TIME.
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