Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[noobish hat]

Akira is one of the worst anime films ever made, excluding the festering Ghibli monuments to dead end storytelling.

[cutmymilk]

People who think Blu-Ray anime is worth purchasing.

2D animation benefits sooo much from Blu Ray. Even the old disney stuff looks stunning. I hate the film but Simpsons movie looks great, as would South park though Ive not seen it on blu yet.

[randombs]

Akira is one of the worst anime films ever made, excluding the festering Ghibli monuments to dead end storytelling.

Next you'll be telling us El Topo is the pinnacle of modern cinema

[noobish hat]

I've never even heard of it.

[teddymeow]

Akira manga > Akira film.

But then, I'm pretty sure even I couldn't squeeze 1000 pages of religion, philosophy, genetic experimentation AND an awesome motorcycle and laser bazooka into a 2 hour film so something would have to go!

PS: I love the film too.

Anime on Blu, when done right (Paprika, Tekkon Kinkreet, Ghost 2 Innocence) is stunning. It's just Funimation in the US putting out lousy upconverts. I love Samurai Champloo so will buy it on Blu when I've got some spare cash. If Bebop / Evangelion / Haruhi / Lucky Star were ever released I'd be all over it like a rash, throwing money at their publishers but only if they were done properly (hell, I paid ?60 for the film on Blu) but for general watching purposes it's fansub all the way.

[Decider-VT]

PSN premium avatars being locked to the purchasing account- why? I fancied a nice new avatar from the US store as I had a few cents left in my wallet and now I find that I can't use it with my main account.

Edit: to add to that irk- paying for avatars in general!

[Bort]

Akira is one of the worst anime films ever made, excluding the festering Ghibli monuments to dead end storytelling.

You better go find your polystyrene gloves as you are hankering for a spankering.

[sj33]

People who think Blu-Ray anime is worth purchasing.

Well, the idea that animation does not benefit from a higher resolution is a myth though, based on the false assumption that animation has less detail than what an SD frame can display. Pretty much any new animation will demonstrate this to be not the case. As someone who watches fansubs, surely you've seen plenty of HD encodes? (Mind you, the amount of fansubs I've seen that claim to be HD yet are merely HD sources encoded to a sub-HD resolution is depressingly high).

[Number45]

I don't think I've ever watched a single piece of animé.

EDIT: Also, that the web version of Twitter doesn't track what you've already read like the iPhone app does.

EDIT2: Also that you can't tell the iPhone to ignore a wireless access point. I hate the iPhone.

[randombs]

Re: EDIT2

Not sure if this is what you mean, but I got fed up of being on the train or street using the internet and having my iPhone keep popping up a list of nearby access points when I was on the internet. Go to Settings, click the Wifi bit and at the bottom set 'Ask to Join Networks' to OFF. I did that and it still joins my saved networks automatically as usual, and still shows nearby spots in the settings menu itself, but no longer as a pop up.

[Number45]

Ah, I thought that would just stop you from joining all networks. Thanks.

[Darwock]

Another Japan related irk.

It's pretty much the peak of the summer heat right now.. I might as well be burning alive - the air conditioner doesn't even seem to work as it just chills the outside but inside I'm still boiling.

That's not my irk though - the irk is the old ladies and housewives who dress up like Darth Vader at the first hint of sunshine. Black arm covers, black gloves, black visors pulled down over their faces. It's the complete lack of logic that annoys me - black absorbs heat!! How nobody has cottoned on to this fact in such a hot country is a complete mystery to me.

It actually makes me doubt my own view of the world when I come across this kind of blatant difference in perception. Have I been wrong all these years?

[Dirty Sanchez]

You have obviously failed to observe the desirability for white skin. It's nothing to do with the heat, it's to keep their skin from looking like a paddy field worker.

[randombs]

According to Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park (the book, not the film), black is the ideal colour to wear in the heat, which is why he wears all black clothing. As it's the colour that absorbs the most heat, we interpret that to mean wearing white clothes are best in the heat because white will reflect the sunshine, but black's absorption works both ways, so it's the best at transferring heat away from the body, whereas white would reflect it back in.

I don't get that theory, as I'd have thought pigmentation affects light absorption/reflection, and not heat itself (your body isn't exactly emanating light). I also may have got it completely wrong, but it was something along those lines. I don't have the JP book with me right now to check.

[randombs]

Ah, I thought that would just stop you from joining all networks. Thanks.

So did I, until I tried it to see what would happen...