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| OYashiroForever
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|  "Did I mention life is a wonderful thing?"
, posted Thu 10 Apr 23:12
(or Why it's a great time to be a geek)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, life is a glorious journey filled with splendor and beauty. Sure, you step on a pebble every now and then. Every once in a while the pebble is jagged and cuts your foot impeding your journey. However, if you walk through the pain long enough, you can get back to admiring the view. And oh what a view it is.
Why all of the flowery prose and ham-fisted metaphor? Well, I just came back from a date with a beautiful woman (not trying to piss on anybody's parade, just stating facts) and what did I come home to?
1) The final Matrix: Reloaded trailer has FINALLY arrived (my thanks to whomever posted the link).
2) My copy of Final Fantasy Origins had shown up in the mail. (Final Fantasy 1 + 2 remixed and redone with minimal load time AND in English?? Uhh, yes please!)
3) And here's the kicker: I saw a commercial for my all-time favorite sadistic Japanese game show, Takeshi's Castle, and it is coming to American television. Frankly, I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight.
* If you know about Takeshi or aren't interested skip the rest of this post *
For those who don't know, Takeshi's Castle was a game show from the early 1980s. A fairly simple premise, the story was that the king of the castle, Takeshi-sama, was defending his castle from enemy invaders. Who were the invaders? A couple hundred contestants per show.
So, every episode poor, innocent Japanese were thrown in to the most sadistic obstacle course ever invented. If anyone got through the obstacle course, they were to be paid a handsome sum of money. In the 2 or 3 years and nearly 100 episodes the show ran, NO ONE EVER won. Add in the fact that the games/obstacles have a VERY Japanese flavor and the fact that eventually people started dressing up (some even cosplay in later episodes) to compete and you've got a gaijin's dream come true.
* Show description over *
For anyone who's interested, the show will be premiering on TNN in America on Sat., April 19th at 9:00 pm and is called "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" (yeah, I know, shoot the guy that came up with the name). Hopefully TNN won't cut out all of the things that made the show great (people getting hurt, cool costumes and players like the Chinese Ghost, and some of the more quirky Japanese games).
I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who likes quirky Japanese stuff.
Yes, my friends... life is good.
"I haven't slept for 10 days because that would be too long."
"Your denial is beneath you and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs I see through you."
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| HazZan 1193th Post
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| "Re(1):Did I mention life is a wonderful thing" , posted Fri 11 Apr 03:42
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(or Why it's a great time to be a geek)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, life is a glorious journey filled with splendor and beauty. Sure, you step on a pebble every now and then. Every once in a while the pebble is jagged and cuts your foot impeding your journey. However, if you walk through the pain long enough, you can get back to admiring the view. And oh what a view it is.
Why all of the flowery prose and ham-fisted metaphor? Well, I just came back from a date with a beautiful woman (not trying to piss on anybody's parade, just stating facts) and what did I come home to?
1) The final Matrix: Reloaded trailer has FINALLY arrived (my thanks to whomever posted the link).
2) My copy of Final Fantasy Origins had shown up in the mail. (Final Fantasy 1 + 2 remixed and redone with minimal load time AND in English?? Uhh, yes please!)
3) And here's the kicker: I saw a commercial for my all-time favorite sadistic Japanese game show, Takeshi's Castle, and it is coming to American television. Frankly, I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight.
* If you know about Takeshi or aren't interested skip the rest of this post *
For those who don't know, Takeshi's Castle was a game show from the early 1980s. A fairly simple premise, the story was that the king of the castle, Takeshi-sama, was defending his castle from enemy invaders. Who were the invaders? A couple hundred contestants per show.
So, every episode poor, innocent Japanese were thrown in to the most sadistic obstacle course ever invented. If anyone got through the obstacle course, they were to be paid a handsome sum of money. In the 2 or 3 years and nearly 100 episodes the show ran, NO ONE EVER won. Add in the fact that the games/obstacles have a VERY Japanese flavor and the fact that eventually people started dressing up (some even cosplay in later episodes) to compete and you've got a gaijin's dream come true.
* Show description over *
For anyone who's interested, the show will be premiering on TNN in America on Sat., April 19th at 9:00 pm and is called "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" (yeah, I know, shoot the guy that came up with the name). Hopefully TNN won't cut out all of the things that made the show great (people getting hurt, cool costumes and players like the Chinese Ghost, and some of the more quirky Japanese games).
I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who likes quirky Japanese stuff.
Yes, my friends... life is good.
This sounds great mang.
I can't wait.
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"I am the one and only true master"
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| Time Mage 1356th Post
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| "Humooor Amarillo!!" , posted Fri 11 Apr 04:45
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3) And here's the kicker: I saw a commercial for my all-time favorite sadistic Japanese game show, Takeshi's Castle, and it is coming to American television. Frankly, I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight.
* If you know about Takeshi or aren't interested skip the rest of this post *
For those who don't know, Takeshi's Castle was a game show from the early 1980s. A fairly simple premise, the story was that the king of the castle, Takeshi-sama, was defending his castle from enemy invaders. Who were the invaders? A couple hundred contestants per show.
So, every episode poor, innocent Japanese were thrown in to the most sadistic obstacle course ever invented. If anyone got through the obstacle course, they were to be paid a handsome sum of money. In the 2 or 3 years and nearly 100 episodes the show ran, NO ONE EVER won. Add in the fact that the games/obstacles have a VERY Japanese flavor and the fact that eventually people started dressing up (some even cosplay in later episodes) to compete and you've got a gaijin's dream come true.
* Show description over *
For anyone who's interested, the show will be premiering on TNN in America on Sat., April 19th at 9:00 pm and is called "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" (yeah, I know, shoot the guy that came up with the name). Hopefully TNN won't cut out all of the things that made the show great (people getting hurt, cool costumes and players like the Chinese Ghost, and some of the more quirky Japanese games).
I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who likes quirky Japanese stuff.
Yes, my friends... life is good.
That's one of the best shows I've ever seen!
It was aired here around 1992, and was amazingly funny. The obstacles, the hits and falls of the contestants, and more important the cheesy dub/commentaries invented here for the show, made it uber-funny.
Examples: The sow was called here "Humor amarillo" ("Yellow humour"), they always called one of the contestants (usually the dumbest/funniest of the day) the "Chino Kudeiro" ("Kudeiro the Chinese"), and so many other stupid dubs, with no real relation from what was really said in that moment, but... Funny as hell...
Vanessa Z. Schneider!!
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| Juke Joint Jezebel 1802th Post
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|  "Re(1):Did I mention bakla is a wonderful thin"
, posted Fri 11 Apr 10:53
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And no, I'm not moved in any way after reading the entries on both sites. Life is good.
YOU NEED TO READ MORE THAT'S WHY >:o
HERE
taken from a random vampire journal:
my soul is the pain that flows through my wounds, the wounds of humanity, i will strike at your divinity, and give you the curse of immortality! i know now that this gift is more unto a curse, my spirit burns with every spell and each irreverent verse! (children in the background) ALL WILL FALL ALL WILL BURN ALL WILL FALL ALL WILL BURN WE ARE THE FALLEN! NOW IN THE PITS OF HELL I SEE, AS MY MINIONS FLOCK TO ME, I'VE BEEN PROPHECIZED ALL THROUGH TIME, I AM THE ANTICHRIST THE WORLD IS MINE (CHILDREN IN THE BACKGROUND) ALL WILL FALL ALL WILL BURN ALL WILL FALL ALL WILL BURN WE ARE THE FALLEN I'M THE ONE THAT MAKE YOUR CHILDREN SCREAM, AS I STALK THEM IN THIER LITTLE DREAMS, IF AT NIGHT YOU CROSS MY PATH, YOU SHAL KNOW A DEMONS WRATH! (CHORUS 3 TIMES)
by the way, that song is copyrighted. so you better work something out with this guy before you go out and start making money off his/her/its song
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| OYashiroForever
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| "Re(3):Did I mention bakla is a wonderful thin" , posted Fri 11 Apr 17:45
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And plus, I've gone through the whiney Ikari Shinji period in my early teens. That's why I hate it so much. Hate hate HATE! :)
But still, Sandman is my favourite comic though.
Actually, it's exactly because I went through that same whiney, self-absorbed, "woe is me" stage that I try to tolerate irritating, attention-starved teenagers. Yes, they can be INCREDIBLY grating on the nerves, but it's a phase most folks go through. They feel awkward and insecure so they come up with all kinds of interesting ways to boost their self-esteem. Whether it's participation in clubs, playing sports, or withdrawing and writing "cry for help" poetry and wearing black, it's all just desperate pleas for attention.
It's the people who don't mature past that stage that you ridicule and hate. :)
"I haven't slept for 10 days because that would be too long."
"Your denial is beneath you and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs I see through you."
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| OYashiroForever
153th Post
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| "Re(3):Did I mention life is a wonderful thing" , posted Fri 11 Apr 18:01
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ANyways, oh yeah, that game show. They're going to show original Japanese episodes or is this a whole new American version? SOunds enticing.
They're showing the original episodes. An American version would be horribly castrated (fear of lawsuits from people breaking bones and generally making total asses of themselves). The only thing I'm concerned with is how the show will be edited and dubbed. Some of the obstacles were VERY Japanese in nature and probably wouldn't go over with the pro-wrasslin', Dukes of Hazzard viewership on TNN. This would be a shame since some of the distinctly Japanese games were some of the best ones.
Plus, I fear that the Chinese Ghost probably won't make it and he was frankly the most amazing thing I ever saw. Imagine a guy in full Chinese Ghost costume and makeup (flowing garb and everything) competing and doing it IN CHARACTER... read: hops on one foot doing intensely difficult physical challenges like log rolling, pole vaulting, and hopping on rocks... and winning. It's absolutely insane and anytime I watched it with friends, people would be screaming and cheering for him by about the 3rd obstacle. The most insane part is that he almost won. I just pray he finds his way on the American show.
And to the person who mentioned people winning, no one ever passed all of the obstacles. EVER. Several people came very close. (Shocking since several of the obstacles were simply dumb luck) When the guy who was trying to sell it to the networks showed it to us, the fact that no one won was one of the highlights of his sales pitch.
"I haven't slept for 10 days because that would be too long."
"Your denial is beneath you and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs I see through you."
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| OYashiroForever
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| "Re(5):Did I mention life is a wonderful thing" , posted Mon 14 Apr 12:07
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Somebody won! I distinctly remember one guy winning... In the last obstacle, the "tank battle" between the invaders and Takeshi, the contestants all rammed their tanks into Takeshi's tank and one guy accidently punched a hole into Takeshi's target.
Yeah, that was the final obstacle. Well, it's certainly possible that the "salesman" guy could've lied to us. (Salesman lying?? NOOOOOO!) Just seems like a stupid thing to lie about. Ho well... if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong.
Anywho, I hope everybody gets a chance to watch it this Sat. (for those living in the US and have cable/satellite) at 9:00PM EST on TNN. (They'll be running the first 2 eps. back to back)
Hooray for kitschy Japanese game shows!!!
Oh, and FF Origins is a lean side of beefy "old-school" goodness. Simply getting to play FF1 again after ALL these years (10+) without all of the things that irritated me about that game (can't buy more than 1 of an item, attacking deceased monsters, etc.) is worth $30 alone. FFII is just gravy.
"I haven't slept for 10 days because that would be too long."
"Your denial is beneath you and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs I see through you."
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| Megane
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|  "Re(2):Takeshi's Castle"
, posted Tue 15 Apr 00:40
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The only thing I can remember from this show is a faint memory of people running into doors painted on the side of a wall...
Thanks for the link. There are too many hilarious obstacles to even begin to mention them all:
1) Pole vault from the top of a 20-25 ft. hill and try to land on a tiny little platform in the middle of the water. (Imagine guys racking themselves on the pole)
2) People running across a river on rocks. You have to stay on the rocks... can't go in the water... the catch? Some of the rocks are fake. (lots of people getting hurt)
3) The door thing that Sabo mentioned was simple: 3 doors... 1 is paper, 1 is a regular door, one is solid rock. You have to run head first... (plus there's random "Oni" looking fellas waiting behind some of the doors not unlike American Gladiator)... oh yeah, you have to do it 3 or 4 times.
Too much fun. Only 5 days away!!
All-Star Bowling: 10 players pick a card randomly, where the card determines their position as "pins". Then they wear giant bowling pin costumes, go to their positions, and wait for a gigantic bowling ball (around 7 feet in diameter) to run them over. Whoever's still standing moves to the next level... that is, if you can actually survive 7 feet diameter of rolling foam destruction!
Karaoke: They are forced to sing in front of a "Yakuza" boss, and if the guy isn't pleased, the bouncer kicks you out of the room.
I can't even begin to describe the Flying Spinning Mushroom obstacle... too good! =)
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"Not in my recollection :)" 
guess another project will cover that. over the next few months, i'll slowly collect all the Final Fantasies ... slowly!!
"Did I mention life is a wonderful thing" 
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