[QUOTE=ewitwins;35487999]Wow, so today was the day that I realized that I don't like Japanese pop-culture :v:
Seriously though, the traditional version was, in my opinion, far more enjoyable, and the singer had a far better voice.[/QUOTE]
Hey, not disagreeing with ya, there's only a handful of arranges of touhou music with vocals that are actually good(out of thousands of arranges), the vocals for that one wasn't made for that specific arrange though.
[QUOTE=1nfiniteseed;34474346][IMG]http://voxy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/110329-VOXY-HARDLANGUAGES-FINAL-565x19931.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
What the hell? Portuguese is MUCH harder for an English person to learn than Japanese. Japanese may have lots of characters to get used to, but sentence structure is simple compared to English. Portuguese sentence structure can be really confusing, it's like... a mix between Spanish and French sometimes.
And this is coming from a Portuguese person who has learned English and is now in the middle of Japanese.
[QUOTE=*Freezorg*;35488830]What the hell? Portuguese is MUCH harder for an English person to learn than Japanese. Japanese may have lots of characters to get used to, but sentence structure is simple compared to English. Portuguese sentence structure can be really confusing, it's like... a mix between Spanish and French sometimes.
And this is coming from a Portuguese person who has learned English and is now in the middle of Japanese.[/QUOTE]
As a dane that knows english(duh), some spanish, dutch, and some japanese(Enough to be useful in a japanese guild in ffxi :v: ) I feel danish would be more annoying to learn, our sentence structure is retarded, so is our number system, for example 50 is halvtreds, means half sixty, how the fuck does that even work.
Does anybody have anymore modern architecture stuff?
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;35484572]Nothing particularly important or anything, but I thought this building looked cool as hell
[t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13796438/images/1332773304046.jpg[/t]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Carre%C3%B1o_Cultural_Complex](it's a theatre)[/url][/QUOTE]
Now [b]THAT[/b] is lovely.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough when I said I didn't like "bullshit artsy modern architecture", I guess :v:
did anyone say
[b]MODERN ARCHITECTURE?[/b]
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[editline]9th April 2012[/editline]
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[QUOTE=Crimor;35488595]Hey, not disagreeing with ya, there's only a handful of arranges of touhou music with vocals that are actually good(out of thousands of arranges), the vocals for that one wasn't made for that specific arrange though.[/QUOTE]
Touhou, so that's what it's called. Yeah, I've heard bits and pieces of it before, I guess I was taken aback by the vocals in this one because it wasn't as...well, without sounding culturally insensitive, whiny.
[editline]9th April 2012[/editline]
Wait shit Touhou is the pop group isn't it.
[QUOTE=*Freezorg*;35488830]What the hell? Portuguese is MUCH harder for an English person to learn than Japanese. Japanese may have lots of characters to get used to, but sentence structure is simple compared to English. Portuguese sentence structure can be really confusing, it's like... a mix between Spanish and French sometimes.
And this is coming from a Portuguese person who has learned English and is now in the middle of Japanese.[/QUOTE]
Um.. The chart was created for English speakers. It's not meant for people who have other languages as a first.
Besides, I would think having to learn a new script instead of a few accents would be a mite harder.
Man, we've been overdosing on modern architecture lately. Anybody got some good Gothic or Neo-Classical?
[QUOTE=gman003-main;35490130]Man, we've been overdosing on modern architecture lately. Anybody got some good Gothic or Neo-Classical?[/QUOTE]
is this what you mean?
[img]http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m25zlg4Bkd1qckz0lo1_500.jpg[/img]
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those are so inspiring
this one is modern, but I loved it:
[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0swmfxvKH1qbf93ro1_500.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;35490245]is this what you mean?
[img]http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymorjZVRx1qg0kk9o1_500.jpg[/img]
[/QUOTE]I don't usually like this kind of architecture but this is beautiful.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;35453097]Okay, so
I know I'm an Architecture student, but seriously
[b]Fuck neo-artsy modern architecture[/b]
That shit's way too hippy abstract for me.
[editline]6th April 2012[/editline]
I'll roll with Frank Lloyd Wright any day, though.[/QUOTE]
My uncle is actually building a Frank Lloyd Wright themed house.
[img]http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/s/Sam-Burrell-DSC_2537_1333745483.jpg[/img]
Antarctic Moon Halo with Diamond Dust.
[url=http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Sam-Burrell-DSC_2537_1333745483.jpg]Source[/url]
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Die all of you
I see your military dogs and raise you a military cat
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[QUOTE=1nfiniteseed;35489978]Um.. The chart was created for English speakers. It's not meant for people who have other languages as a first.
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I dunno, man... I actually use English just as much as Portuguese, and I'm learning Japanese based on English and not Portuguese so it's not like there's much difference.
Another xkcd infographic:
[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lakes_and_oceans_large.png[/img]
That's really cool. The shit about the sperm whale freaks me out though. I went to the dead sea and it feels really different there, your ears pop as you drive there.
Please tell me the James Cameron thing is a joke.
I don't have time to be a slave to Cthulhu at the moment.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;35500938]Please tell me the James Cameron thing is a joke.
I don't have time to be a slave to Cthulhu at the moment.[/QUOTE]
It's only a half joke, he's told everyone what was behind it in a conference yesterday, we're just waiting for the details to be reported at the moment.
[QUOTE=jaykray;35500704]That's really cool. The shit about the sperm whale freaks me out though. I went to the dead sea and it feels really different there, your ears pop as you drive there.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/gyLU9.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iymVS.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/af7TV.jpg[/img]
I'm sorry.
Oh, and that's only a Giant Squid. Colossal Squid are bigger.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/An1zB.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=OvB;35501796][img]http://i.imgur.com/gyLU9.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iymVS.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/af7TV.jpg[/img]
I'm sorry.
Oh, and that's only a Giant Squid. Colossal Squid are bigger.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/An1zB.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
Has a colossal squid ever been found? Pictures of squid don't scare me, they're not frightening creatures really, and you can't get a sense of scale in the pictures anyway.
I'm pretty sure there's no evidence of colossal squids existing.
At least there wasn't, the last time I googled it
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;35501919]I'm pretty sure there's no evidence of colossal squids existing.
At least there wasn't, the last time I googled it[/QUOTE]
Wikipedia sez;
[QUOTE]1925 – Species was first discovered in the form of two tentacles found in the stomach of a sperm whale.[9]
1981 – A Russian trawler in the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica, caught a large squid with a total length of 4 metres (13 ft), which was later identified as an immature female of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni.[10]
2003 – A complete specimen of a subadult female was found near the surface with a total length of 6 m (20 ft) and a mantle length of 2.5 m (8 ft).[11]
2005 – A specimen was captured at a depth of 1625 m while taking a toothfish from a longline off South Georgia Island. Although the mantle was not brought aboard, the mantle length was estimated at over 2.5 m, and the tentacles measured 230 cm. The animal is thought to have weighed between 150 and 200 kg.[12]
2007 – The largest recorded specimen was captured by a New Zealand fishing boat off Antarctica. It was initially estimated to measure 10 m (33 ft) in length and weigh 450 kg (992 lb). The squid was taken back to New Zealand for scientific study.[13] A study on the specimen later showed that its actual weight was 495 kg (1,091 lb), but that it only measured 4.2 m (14 ft) in total length as a result of the tentacles shrinking post mortem.[14][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=wulfe8857;35491312]I don't usually like this kind of architecture but this is beautiful.[/QUOTE]
I don't wanna sound like a ratings whore, but how did ^this post get more ratings than the post the picture he quoted is in?
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;35501951]I don't wanna sound like a ratings whore, but how did ^this post get more ratings than the post the picture he quoted is in?[/QUOTE]
For some reason, the more pictures there are in a post the less inclined I feel to rating it.
[QUOTE=mac338;35501944]Wikipedia sez;[/QUOTE]
I was about to say, haven't they accidentally dredged several?
And had them wash up?
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;35501919]I'm pretty sure there's no evidence of colossal squids existing.
At least there wasn't, the last time I googled it[/QUOTE]
There's plenty of evidence.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/e2MFt.jpg[/img]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09UD7b8lSCo[/media]
You can tell the difference between a giant squid and a colossal by their tentacles. Giant squid have suckers and Colossal have hooks.
Colossal Squid:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/gf3Un.jpg[/img]
Giant Squid:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/2bla5.jpg[/img]
I wouldn't dismiss it even if there was barely any, because we've probably only discovered 20% of aqua species out there, there's a fuckton of mysterious and amazing creatures at depths we don't dive often.
It's crazy to try and imagine what sort of creatures exist, in high pressure low-to-no light environments.
Probably creatures we can't even imagine. So a colossal squid would be nothing.
But whatever's down there, there's likely something that pales the oddness of the deep-sea fish we've discovered in comparison;
[IMG]http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/images/2/25/Fig3a_600.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/images/thumb/0/0b/Fig3b_600.jpg/500px-Fig3b_600.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/images/thumb/8/86/Fig3c_600.jpg/500px-Fig3c_600.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=mac338;35501944]Wikipedia sez;[/QUOTE]
All of those are smaller than the giant squid though.
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