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[SleepyD]

@Sleepy: Well that is one idea down the drain...

Which idea? I said a lot. XD;

I had a faster connection, I might not mind the current direction of "download everything" as much, but as it stands, anything that screws over those who live in an area with shit-tier internet is something I'm strongly against; given how I'm insecure about my crappy 64KB/s connection :\

This is understandable. I'm hoping that private companies like Google Fiber spur other telephone/cable companies to provide connectivity to all. At the very least, decent DSL speeds for the entire nation. It's just so much more beneficial to the economy to give the entire nation access to high speed internet, despite the high initial costs.

I don't understand why anime torrents have to be 10-30GB when I've seen torrents that are like 2-4GB that have awesome video quality. Anyway I'm currently looking for Slayers 1-26 torrents that aren't bigger than 4GB

It depends on your monitor. Watching an SD episode on a 1080 monitor isn't a pleasant experience full-screen.
It also depends on who does the encoding. Fansubbers who are knowledgeable about encoding can keep file sizes down to a minimum while preserving quality.
And knowing anime fans, they want to have the best quality on their computer. So you will find a lot of 1080/720p format than SD format anime episodes nowadays. Which means downloads of at least 10GB for full seasons. This is normal for new series.

[LeaflameSD]

@Sleepy: The one on learning Romanized  Japanese. Also my monitor is 1280x1024. Also... I guess the anime torrent sizes are understandable.

[Dr. Kraus]

This is understandable. I'm hoping that private companies like Google Fiber spur other telephone/cable companies to provide connectivity to all. At the very least, decent DSL speeds for the entire nation. It's just so much more beneficial to the economy to give the entire nation access to high speed internet, despite the high initial costs.

Google Fiber is going to take some time since they JUST started installing stuff in Kansas City, which won't be finished for quite some time. Hopefully Google will start to shift from gear number 1 to gear number 2 some point this year and will be getting into other cities.

[SleepyD]

@Sleepy: The one on learning Romanized  Japanese. Also my monitor is 1280x1024. Also... I guess the anime torrent sizes are understandable.

Well, I do encourage you to learn the hiragana. Take a gander at the first few pages of this:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/writing

And the more you see the characters, the easier it will be to remember. I'm not too keen on rote memorization myself. Shall we start a learning Japanese thread? I've never actually studied japanese, and I figure I need to have some structure to learn it properly.

Google Fiber is going to take some time since they JUST started installing stuff in Kansas City, which won't be finished for quite some time. Hopefully Google will start to shift from gear number 1 to gear number 2 some point this year and will be getting into other cities.

And when they do so, I hope enough people switch providers that to Google Fiber all the other tele/cable companies move to create more extensive networks, thereby connecting the US population to high speed internet much faster.

[LeaflameSD]

@Sleepy: Thanks for the hiragana page. And I'm typing Japanese words into a text file just in case. Downloading the PDF file. And you know what? I've always thought of making a thread like that.


*Makes thread*

[Bella]

HEY, OSC, Y'ALL ARE CREATIVE PEOPLE SO YOU CAN PROBABLY HELP ME OUT:

Get yer buns to the OS-tan Theory Thread and help me figure out what the hell artificial intelligence is in OS-tan universe terms.

[NejinOniwa]

It seems like I'll be getting Featured whenever I update Wandering from now on.

I AM OK WITH THIS.JPG

[Chocofreak13]

@games: download only is a sucky option for those of us who don't have access to a good connection, or have bandwidth caps on the download/upload speed. not to mention i hate social media games and i'm willing to bet i'm not the only one. WHY WOULD I WANT TO GAME WITH IDIOTS WHEN I CAN GAME WITH THE BRAINY LIKES OF ME MYSELF AND I? (lol)
steam is a good platform for indie games, and i'm not against download titles for games that would otherwise not get released, but my worry is that EVERY game on the market (indie or mainstream, american or japanese) would turn into a download-only title. not that i have the consoles to play them anymore, but i like physical copies of things considering how many computers i've lost over the years. things don't seem tangible enough to me unless you can hold it in your hand.

@japanese: i'm game, it'll help keep me on track. as for the giant filesize leaf, if you're talking about the program i sent, it has 2 seasons and the textbooks (as far as i know). each season also has about 24 episodes each. so that sounds about right.

@os-tan theory: eh, sure, why not...

[SleepyD]

download only is a sucky option for those of us who don't have access to a good connection, or have bandwidth caps on the download/upload speed.

Yeah this sucks, I'll admit. It's worse when there's no competition between service providers in your area, since there is no incentive to remove such limitations. Generally in urban areas there's usually some choice (even if just one or two), but even I just had the choice between TWCable or AT&T DSL. There's another big cable provider here in San Diego, but they don't service my particular area. That's why I'm hoping Google will shake things up. I also hope it would get Verizon to hooking up fiber to more places again (they've since stalled on expanding their networks).

not to mention i hate social media games and i'm willing to bet i'm not the only one. WHY WOULD I WANT TO GAME WITH IDIOTS WHEN I CAN GAME WITH THE BRAINY LIKES OF ME MYSELF AND I? (lol)

I've tried one before on facebook. Fairly recently I might add. It's enjoyable for a time, but I found it was only enjoyable because the other option (work) was less enjoyable. The constant need to share and interact with friends in order to progress got irritating at times. Eventually I lost interest, but still it sits there.

And I didn't watch the event, but I hear that they were really hammering this idea down everyone's throats. But I don't think that every game will be a social media game like those on facebook. I think what's going to happen is that many (if not all) games will have social media functions. So even your single player RPG will let you tweet to the world "I BEAT KEFKA!" or something else stupid like that. As long as they let me turn off the feature, I won't mind. And if other people and my friends do it? Well, I generally ignore such things anyway so it doesn't bother me.

steam is a good platform for indie games, and i'm not against download titles for games that would otherwise not get released, but my worry is that EVERY game on the market (indie or mainstream, american or japanese) would turn into a download-only title. not that i have the consoles to play them anymore, but i like physical copies of things considering how many computers i've lost over the years. things don't seem tangible enough to me unless you can hold it in your hand.

Yeah, somehow, I think download-only is something that's going to happen in the not-so-distant future. As networks grow faster and connecting more and more people to that high-speed network, it would make business sense to use this cheap distribution network without incurring all the costs that normally come with physical distribution.  Look what happened to music. the large majority of music purchases are now digital. When a larger number of people are connected at Gigabit speeds, I feel movies and games are going to follow suit. 

I can't say I'm too keen on the idea myself, but I feel this is something that's going to happen anyway, just using music and mp3s as historical precedent.

[alfonso_rd_30]

true, yet most of us still want our physical discs too... that was a complaint on capcom unity about the new darkstalkers compilation.....

in an unrelated note... who's the richest guy in the world?

[stewartsage]

Some Mexican telecom exec I think.

Game downloads annoy me immensely.  That's all I'll say.

[LeaflameSD]

@Stew: I'd rather just buy the game in disc form than to wait 8 hours for it to download.
@Alfonso:... B...B...Bill Gates?

[stewartsage]

Exactly.  When I go to the trouble of buying the game in the store, I want to play install it off the damn disk and play it, not wait six hours for the game to download.

So this Starbound game is apparently a thing.

[Pitkin]

I prefer downloading to physical copies ever since the games went the ingame-tutorial-instead-of-manual way. While my download speed is not astronomical, it's enough to be tolerable. I hate having DVD boxes without any other mission than taking up shelf space. However, since I detest DRM, I don't really purchase new games but play older ones. Not that the new games really look interesting anyway...

[LeaflameSD]

Also the physical games can be bought at a steal, when your computer crashes you can get the disc out and install, and... you'd be supporting the companies ^z^ And I like the older games too, but that's mainly because I have a 2004 computer.