Y’know, I couldn’t give a shit about manga or okatu, whatever those words mean (memo to those who would explain it: don’t bother). It’s when you post things like this that people become ever so slightly irritated.
You have a BA in Japanese. That doesn’t make you a “scholar of Japanese studies.” Do you have an advanced degree? (Apparently not.) Do you have any publications? Do you have a particular area of expertise in which you are considered an expert, and do you have the credentials to prove it?
In point of fact, there are several “scholars” in various areas hanging out on the Board, but they would never dream of referring to themselves as such. They let their expertise speak for itself. If you are in any doubt about this point, refer to GOBEAR’s post above.
Oh, and UBER OKATU? I don’t know who you are and I don’t care, but kindly stop dissing the Board. CHAS E. is not the only one who posts here, and IMO your problem with him does not excuse insulting the rest of us.
Trashy, indeed. You start ONE thread about Dolly Parton wigs and line dancing and people never let you forget it. Jeez.
You know, somewhere around on my home machine, I think I may have saved a link to the honest to god… word. word, please… Patent! Patent Office registration and designs for half the early transformers. May. I don’t know. If anyone wants to see them, I think I can find it again, with a bit of hard searching. US Patent Office Website. Search for something like robot toy truck.
Not that it matters… but the real question here is, what are you saying you saw?
A: The designs for the toys?
(Interesting fact: Every transforming toy that was not bought from an existing line, like Jetfire, which is a lightly modified Macross (Robotech) Valkyrie (Veritech (Which is why it was a different animation model and named Skyfire on the TV show), has been designed by a japanese company named Takara. All of them. Except, I believe, the 1-2-3 Transformers, and possibly Rescue Roy the Tonka Transformer, toddler toys. Oh, and the recent pull-back and let go platforms and the small animals that turned into weapons. Deployers, which were made by the same part of Hasbro that makes the 12" Star Wars Figures.
B: The designs for the comics?
C: The animation models for the TV series?
All three are significantly different. And there are some amusing missteps between them.
Chas: Was this watch that ‘locked up’ in the ‘heavy magnetic field’; wind-up, automatic, or quartz? Could you be more specific than the term ‘locked up’? I’d like to know if it stopped, kept bad time, went backwards, etc. and whether the effect was permanent. Just curious. Those whacky physicist must have been quite malicious to subject a person to a field that strong without consent; not to mention using massive magnets, what with the inverse square law and all.
I know you don’t care, but…manga are Japanese…comic books, but “comic books” have the wrong connotation (lots of it doesn’t deal with people who wear their underwear on the outside). But if I call it “graphic literature” I’ll sound pretentious and you’ll look at me funny.
As far as I’ve gathered, “okatu” are fans of Manga, but apparently it has a negative connotation along the line of “comic-book geek”. I’m not positive about this part.
Fenris, ever happy to be helpful about issues that no-one cares about.
I think the very essence of geekdom is being defined.
Transformers - Not Japanese - Are too - Are not - Oh yeah? - Yeah - I know the inventors - I’ll kill you - I know you are but what am I?
I’m just waiting for a slide-rule fight to break out.
Anyhoo …
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think I’m going to start hanging around in Usenet. Death threats and restraining orders? Because of a fucking cartoon? Now that’s entertainment. I’m anxious to see what kind of meltdowns must go down daily in political groups.
A modest amount of research will tell you Chas E.'s real name. A quick search on his name will tell you that the way the rest of the world perceives him is very similar to how he is perceived here.
Waverly, I don’t recall with precision how fast or slow my windup watch went because this was 20+ years ago. The jeweler said it was magnetized and was completely ruined so I dumped it. Now THAT I remember.
Andros, after some thinking, I have come to the belief that your top secret source doesn’t know anything about 1960s technology, since he is clearly speculating on the basis of the van der Graaff generators he fiddled with in high school. Please ask him a couple of questions for me that he should be able to calculate despite his inexperience. How large a fixed magnet is necessary to deflect a vertical 2MeV electron beam into a horizontal one? How big a magnet do you put over the horizontal plane containing the target to deflect the collision products into separately detectable streams? Your friend seems to have forgotten about the targets of the beam, which use magnets to move the electron beam.
Bill, you should know better than to drag in off-board squabbles onto SDMB, and you should recall that you also received UncleBeer’s stern warning. But if you must know, your “quick search” will primarily show one particularly bizarre usenet idiot who did everthing possible to defame me by stacking the search engines with his messages so they would appear before all other entries. He was a notorious anti-American bigot, and had an irrational hatred for Americans who spoke Japanese, he was even nominated for Kook of the Month back before that award was discontinued. He harassed dozens of people besides me, and eventually got arrested for internet harassment (not by my efforts).
Chas: True. I wouldn’t be able to remember either, unless perhaps, is was particularly nice watch. It likely ran fast when the mainspring was magnetized. If it were valuable, I’d be awful angry with my jeweler, though. All he needed was a demagnetizer and the wherewithal to use it properly. Prior to the proliferation of quartz, this should have been common knowledge. I hope he lost your business.
Just popped a name into google groups… and I can’t believe what came out.
[buncha links deleted]
If Charles has done some of the things he claims, he’s managed to pull off some very hard work. If only he didn’t come off as such an abrasive, opinionated, sixteen year old know-it-all, he’d be really interesting to have around.
Erk. Instantly after posting that, I had second thoughts. If these links are too personal, or whatever, can a mod yank them? I don’t see why they would be, I got the name from earlier in the thread, and they clearly show a pattern of harrassment by crazy otaku boy… but hey, might be needed.
Well, if you’ve posted something you think you shouldn’t have, your best bet is to immediately e-mail a mod and ask for them to either look at it or remove it, or both. Simply posting a request sometimes isn’t good enough; they may not see it for quite some time.
Erm. I’ve enjoyed the thread up to this point, and after reviewing some of the claims presented by Chas, I am also very dubious.
But even if I am the only one who feels this way, I’m compelled to point this out: We should not be linking, discussing, or posting the real life identities of dopers without their permission. It’s invasive and irrelevant. If at some point Chas gave his consent for this, I’ll stand corrected, but if not I humbly submit that this is wrong.
I was just about to post the same thing as Waverly. I thought it was against board etiquette (if not policy) to give the real name of a user without their permission. I seem to recall simlar issues in the past.
ESabbath, everyone knows you’re not supposed to bring off-board squabbles onto the SDMB. You really should email the mods and ask them to pull your message. But then, you never should have posted that in the first place. At least you seem to recognize you went too far, albeit a bit too late…
Oh if only people could use their time in a fruitful manner, instead of wasting time trying to find skeletons in my closet. Instead, you dredge up an argument I had with a notorious anti-american bigot from Japan who eventually got arrested for harassing people via the internet, and a petty squabble I had with some fool over city vs. country living. Maybe if you search really hard, you can find the usenet thread where I chastized a woman for spamming a request for help finding her lost parrot that escaped out a window. I told her she wasn’t going to find it by spamming the 99.9999999% of the internet that didn’t live in her city, but she might find it if she walked out her front door.
The board needs to highlight threads like this to make sure they don’t get missed. This one hasn’t reached the epic proportions of the FormerAgent debacle, but it is pretty damned funny.
…and I was afraid that things would be getting boring around here without the ole WB.
No, I specifically objected to this, and mailed the mods to ask them to pull the personal info from this thread. And this info was posted in this thread by someone who knew better, and had posted this same personally identifying info about me in a previous thread, resulting in it being pulled by a moderator.
But the damage is already done, and the posters knew this when they posted. It is too late now. Another shining moment in SDMB history. Will people stop at nothing when flaming someone? I would never do this to anyone. I think these flamers should be thinking long and hard about their behavior in this thread. I may be abrasive, I may even flame people occasionally. But the difference between being abrasive and being a jerk is when you cross the line and do something damaging that you can’t take back. At least I’m not a jerk.
'fraid you might be disappointed, the only reality in which I made a death threat and where there’s a restaining order against me is in Chazzy’s head. Still waiting to hear from the police about his complaint, although I doubt they’ll do anything. I’ve done nothing illegal. Lightheartedly ribbing someone on a public forum can hardly be considered harrassment.
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