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$68 million budget 5 years in development delayed 8 months for "polishing" this is kind of sad lmao

NB basically killed themselves when going visual kei lmfao I agree with whoever said that today's music industry is awfully outdated, especially in Japan. There are not a lot of artists in VK that distribute their stuff digitally, and when they do it's only in the Japanese iTunes store. Websites like HearJapan offered cheaper digital releases compared to other digital distributors, so I think the website was for a good cause (especially since they also offered bonuses and higher bitrates). It's a shame that not many people bothered to pay less than 500 yen for a full album they actually really enjoyed; most full lengths on iTunes cost 2000yen, physical copies usually 3000yen. With HearJapan gone, in order for fans to buy digital copies now, they'd have to make a Japanese iTunes account and buy Japanese iTunes cards online; purchasing the physical copy from CDJapan therefore is much easier, even though it costs more (of course there's also amazon, but we don't talk about amazon's digital quality lmao). Besides, I know people similar to me who prefer to have the music in the bitrate they desire; iTunes offers 256kbps rips that sometimes sound like shit, especially on high quality headphones. Websites like bandcamp offer a solution to this, and perhaps putting their music on bandcamp costs less than putting it on iTunes, but I wouldn't dare state this as fact. These artists keep complaining about overseas fans that download their stuff while they're not even their target audience. If my target audience was Japan and I had people outside of Japan buying my stuff here and there, I'd see it as something nice on the side, unless these people would encourage my Japanese audience to buy less. If that's what's going on, then I understand why bands like NB are upset. If not, I don't see how they're making huge losses from it if they're not putting any sort of money into promotion outside of Japan. Not everyone can buy everything, but most musicians understand that; most visual kei fans are teenagers who are still in high school and have no income except for their montly allowance they get from their parents, and you can't blame them for not spending that allowance on CDs every single time. If you however DO have the money to support your favourite artist, I feel like you should. I know not many VK fans feel up to that, but how can you make people purchase more? I feel like Korean pop companies found the answer to that question and it's called packaging. EXO for example sold more than 1 million copies of their first album, and even though Kpop has a way bigger target audience because pop music is just more mainstream than VK is, I wouldn't deny that the packaging and price have something to do with it. I know that in Japan prices for CDs are just regularly high, but Korean pop CDs usually cost about 15 euros and are packaged in boxes, books, metal cases etc. with the CD, a thick photobook, a card signed by one of the band members and usually a big poster for free as well. I love buying Kpop CDs because of this; of course I buy a CD when I think it's good, but that fantastic packaging just gives it a little bit extra. I can understand some indie VK bands can not afford this kind of packaging, but I know plenty of bands can. Make it desireable to purchase the CD, give it extra things that a downloaded copy could not give you. If VK is so oriented on looks, why not add in a seperate photobook, for example? You'd have to pay extra for a photographer and the printing, but if it made you sell more copies in the end and raise the profit, why not? Though selling more copies in general only enriches the record company, not so much the artist, as we all know. In Europe, 25$ for a newly released CD is a normal price and the least you can do (legally) is listen to 30 second samples in the store itself (if it even offers that option). That alone is not going to make me buy an album. Anyway this became way too long and doesn't make any sense probably but I hope you at least understood what I was trying to say lol.

your art is wonderful ;3; also +10 creds for drawing commander handsome

Pre-ordered BUCK-TICK's Arui wa Anarchy, type D (uhuhuehue). I just went to check the price on CDJapan only to realize that the regular edition (the only one under 22 euros and which will NOT give me tons of customs to pay, at least, if the euro doesn't drop too much in the upcoming 5 days) only had 1 pre-order copy left and came with a first press bonus of a poster, so I took the last one before someone else could. Now praying for not too many customs and to finally have luck in my life for once.

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country" =_______________________________________________________________________________________= what the fuck is up with that do I have to take a fucking plane to the US to see certain videos is2g youtube

Thanks for your input on Watch Dogs! I was planning on getting it for 360, but seeing the reviews it has gotten so far I think I'll wait for a price drop. My expectations were really high from what I've seen and I don't think I can give a fair judgement until I've actually played the game myself, but I'm afraid it'll be a similar experience to AC4. I was really hyped about that game, but when I got it I played it for about 5 hours and then never touched it again

I usually am too impatient for albums over an hour long unless they're really good, so I hope it will be! I think I'm going to be a fucking loser and pre-order this album anyway. OH WAIT THIS RELEASES NEXT WEEK? /smashes pre-order button

Anger often gets in the way of judgement, so I think I'm not going to put any more effort into debating this subject with you. I could pull out tons of examples on why feminism is incredibly misunderstood (we want equality, not superiority, but both feminism as MRA have their nutcases), but I'm not going to put any sort of energy into it, while I could be using it for something else. On the last point though I need to explain myself some more, becaus I worded it a bit odd. He was of course mentally ill, but the word tends to be used quite broad. Take an anxiety disorder to a person like this kid. An anxiety order isn't nearly as damaging (though it can be to the person who has it) to others as it was whatever this kid had. He was a danger for people around him. Compare one to a cold, the other to a broken rib. He mentally ill yes, but they're not wording it very effectively. And that's all, really.

^ That's the kind of question you should be asking about terrorist attacks. That's where an individual's actions extend to a group he chose to join. For example, Muslim people are not violent on their own, these terrorists are, they're extremists. However, I'm not sure if you've done any research into the Men's rights activists, but I can tell you that their entire movement is based on the concepts of misogyny and sexism. Those two are never, EVER okay, whether it's in an extreme case like the Santa Barbara kid, or a guy whining about how a girl rejects him because she's "only into assholes". Also, regarding mental illness, let's be honest here: do you really, REALLY think if it had been a black guy, that the mental illness argument would've been thrown in? Mental illness, which so many people deny is a serious problem? Let me tell you son, I've got friends who have been fighting depression for years, and they often got to hear "you're just bummed out" or "why don't you feel happy?" Now the same people are calling this kid mentally ill. It's not only unfair, it's a awful insult to the other mentally ill.

Not to mention that thing that happened last week with that kid in Santa Barbara who killed 6 people because he couldn't get laid. He even made a (really creepy) video about how the day would be his "day of retribution" and he was also part of the Men's Rights Activist group online. He felt like women OWED him sex because he was nice to them. The MRA isn't just for jokes anymore, it's actually killing people. The worst feminism does is make white teenage boys angry on the internet, jfc. The major press seems to be trying to push the whole misogyny issue to the background by saying he was "mentally ill" and that this is the reason why he did what he did. I won't deny the kid must've had some sort of illness but that doesn't change the fact that the action was fuelled by misogyny/hate for women. It's funny how people only tend to recognize mental illness as an actual legit thing when they're doing it to protect a white guy. Terribly sorry for going off-topic, but since we're talking misogyny anyway...I hope the girls get well soon and I hope they'll get all the medical and mental care they need to let this go.

Bought Bioshock Infinite yesterday, because I heard a lot of good things about it (and because it was on sale, lmao). I've never played a first person shooter before, so I guess this will be my first experience with them. I guess I haven't played many first person games in general, even in Skyrim I prefer to use the third person option (though I only have like what, 3 hours of Skyrim gameplay?). Still playing Tomb Raider Reboot, currently about 70% done with the main story, and I really REALLY love this game. I used to die quite a lot of times in gunfights because apparently the Leeroy Jenkins-method does not work very well in most of them, LOL. Apparently taking a few guys out with the bow before starting the gunfight is my best bet of survival (though I somehow can't keep my hands off the grenade launcher, uhuehuehue).

AAI is my favourite out of the series! Edgeworth was always my favourite character because of his amazing sarcasm. I really liked how you could fully investigate crime scenes in a new manner, and how you could use Logic instead of speculating/bluffing the way Phoenix does (though everyone loves the good old Phoenix Wright bluff).

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Alright, this is not a fucking therapy session. Stay on topic, and with that I mean the discussion we had earlier (the influence of glam metal/rock in visual kei) or any other topic related to the statement "New VK vs. Old VK". Everyone's free to disagree and discuss there, as we like to promote healthy discussion. Whether or not blackdoll worships Lycaon, or if Miyuu has a degree in psychologic analysis is not relevant, so drop that for now. Irrelevant/trolling posts will from now on be deleted.

Ironically: lycaon's guitarist Anyway, it's fairly obvious that there used to be a glam metal influence in visual kei. If it weren't for glam metal, visual kei probably wouldn't even have found its origins. The most obvious example is DEAD END. DEAD END wasn't visual kei, they were a glam metal band out of WHICH visual kei originated through other bands. DEAD END, Color, BUCK-TICK, BOOWY and X-Japan were all bands who weren't/aren't exactly visual kei, but still inspired the movement because they laid down the origins of its creation by, indeed, being a glam metal/rock band.

Anyone seen the season finale yet? Basically:

I honestly don't give a shit in which year a song was made as long as I enjoy listening to it. Each generation had/has their heaps of shit and their good stuff. What you consider nice to listen to or pure shit is dependant on the person (and then I'm just talking about the listening experience, not about bands that are technically awful/great). There are people who like new VK and hate the old, there are people who like the old but hate the new (though like Ikna said, sometimes I feel like the polarization between these two fanbases goes a bit too far), and there's nothing wrong with that because WOW PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE A DIFFERENT TASTE IN MUSIC GUYS! The second people only shit on what they hate and feel like they have to mention that in every single post (as demonstrated in this thread somewhere) that's where it isn't about an opinion anymore, then you're just being ignorant. Debating is something else than talking shit without any decent argument.

Lmfao this. It's not like people get hurt when two gay people marry. "BUT HOW DO I EXPLAIN THIS TO MY CHILDREN", really simple, the way my mother did it: sometimes people don't like people from the other gender but from the same gender. That's it. THAT'S REALLY IT. People talk about it like it's some difficult math formula but it really isn't. Also people who claim it ruins "the sanctity of marriage" bc marriage should be between a man and a woman is a load of shit because 1) Britney Spears got married once for 7 hours while drunk and that's not ruining the sanctity of marriage while a gay couple who has been together for 10 years that wants to get married does? 2) These people always yell that the bible forbids it but hey the bible also forbids you to do a lot of other things but they don't seem to care about those lol. In short: being homophobic isn't freedom of speech, it's being a douche and highly illegal.

These have actually already been executed! Kai made this post on January 13 2013, and we upgraded from PHPBB to IPB a few days later (I'm sure CAT5 clearly remembers this as well, or more like, his last.fm shoutbox probably does lmfao). IPB came with its own mobile version, so there was no reason to make an app anymore because the mobile version worked just fine

Revolutionary within its genre, it brought a real tear to my eye. Obviously Maria Cross is one of the best undiscovered artists out there, no idea why he doesn't have a contract with avex trax yet tbqh.

Currently playing the Tomb Raider 2013 reboot, it was on sale, got it for around 10$. This is one of the first non-JRPG I'm playing and I'm really enjoying it. The story is really captivating and Lara's character is really believable and loveable. I'm enjoying the gameplay and the unexpected quicktime events.

I consider Asagi one of those vocalists who's got a fantastic natural voice, but strains it in all the wrong ways to create sounds that are just not pleasing to the ear. If he would cut down on the screams and falsettos in most of D's later material he would sound a lot more bearable lmao.

[NBC] THE BLACKLIST (2013 -) Anyone else who watches this great new show on NBC? The first season is finished, and I heard they've been renewed for a second one. I think it's a fantastic crime show, it's really been keeping me on the edge of my seat, definitely one of NBC's better shows of the past few years.