Geek Achievements

[Chrome Homura]

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Pirater.

I **** bought them off ebay.
Pirate I am not.

[AbstractOrigin]

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Oh, another moment I'm proud of is that I actually dented my X-Box's internal memory.

I have less that 50,000 blocks now.

[Chrome Homura]

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now THAT's a geek achievement.

[Magus]

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I **** bought them off ebay.
Pirate I am not.

Yes, yes you are!

[Valkysas]

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I **** bought them off ebay.
Pirate I am not.

You bought pirated DVDs. so yes. you are. those sets arent official. they're manufactured by random people in china.

[Toaster]

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[Red Dragon]

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HE isn't a pirate he just likes to grab a pirates booty!

[Toaster]

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HE isn't a pirate he just likes to grab a pirates booty!

Very true, but I still couldn't resist the opportunity to post a picture of a pirate.

[Kojiro v. 2.1.14r7b]

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You bought pirated DVDs. so yes. you are. those sets arent official. they're manufactured by random people in china.

My question: Were they infact manufactured in china? it's possible to get imports from Japan off ebay. I 've got an import of Whispers of the Heart. No English dubbing, but English subtitles.

[Valkysas]

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the number of discs were wrong for an official set. there's no way any official set of 26 episode series is just going to be 3 discs.

[Kojiro v. 2.1.14r7b]

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the number of discs were wrong for an official set. there's no way any official set of 26 episode series is just going to be 3 discs.

True, True...

[John Mora]

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My question: Were they infact manufactured in china? it's possible to get imports from Japan off ebay. I 've got an import of Whispers of the Heart. No English dubbing, but English subtitles.

All Ghibli movies in Japan have English subs. There's also the rare non-Ghibli anime that will have English subs (e.g. I think the Region 3 Odex releases of anime have English subs).

[thetruecoolness]

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Well I know I can get 13 episodes on one DL disc, recorded from TV, at pretty decent quality. So it is possible, but I imagine they're always going to use around 8Mb/s instead of 3.5 to encode and have a bunch of menu crap. Really there isn't much difference between 4Mb/s and 8 for normal resolution screens (720x480), but since people will think it's not as good if they use a lower bitrate just because the number is lower, . Of course there is also the mutliple and surround sound audio tracks, though audio really never gets that big. I really know way more about this stuff than I should, all just to learn how to get consistently good recordings from TV. All I know is mine are legal, as long as I don't give them to anyone or play them in a public venue, of course they're also edited but they're free.

[Kojiro v. 2.1.14r7b]

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Well I know I can get 13 episodes on one DL disc, recorded from TV, at pretty decent quality. So it is possible, but I imagine they're always going to use around 8Mb/s instead of 3.5 to encode and have a bunch of menu crap. Really there isn't much difference between 4Mb/s and 8 for normal resolution screens (720x480), but since people will think it's not as good if they use a lower bitrate just because the number is lower, . Of course there is also the mutliple and surround sound audio tracks, though audio really never gets that big. I really know way more about this stuff than I should, all just to learn how to get consistently good recordings from TV. All I know is mine are legal, as long as I don't give them to anyone or play them in a public venue, of course they're also edited but they're free.

yeah, but even recording from TV is practically considered pirating nowadays. TiVO had a little battle a while back, but TiVO settled out of court. It's a grey area. This is why places like AnimeSuki and the like, the reputable ones, tend to take downloads down when the show has been licensed in the US. Before it has been licensed, the download is legal.

(Edit) I think(/Edit) what Valk means is that commercial DVD retailers don't put so many episodes on a DVD as a practice. This would really mean less money. There is so much wasted space on DVDs, it's not even funny. You really think those little extras in FuriKuri or Blue Seed take up the whole DVD? I think not.

[Hikari]

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I'm confused. What is your definition of geek? According to Wikipedia:

Etymology
British dialect geck (fool); compare Dutch gek (crazy) or gekkie (crazy person).

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Pronunciation
gēk, /ɡiːk/, /gi:k/
Rhymes: -iːk
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Noun
geek (geeks) informal

(somewhat dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.
(colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
Why do you hang around with them? They're just geeks.
(colloquial) A person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby, generally at the expense of broader social interaction. Often used with an attributive noun.
I was a complete computer geek in high school, but I get out a lot more now.
Most famous actors are really just theater geeks at heart.
(colloquial) An expert in a technical field, particularly to do with computers.
My laptop's locked up again. I need a geek.
Do you think you need a hardware geek or a software geek?
(Australian colloquial) A look.
Have a geek at this.

With definitions like that, it doesn't have good connotations. Maybe you should reconsider the moniker. Also, it sounds like you have several hobbies/fields unless you principally mean gamer geeks.