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My Friends page has been very slow today, so I'll fill the gap with another gigantic post that I've had saved up.
In my spare time between building and moderating websites and writing dull security policies and reports on search trees, I discovered by chance the anime Ranma ½ on the latest inexplicably-named Internet trend, YouTube. Whitney had previously told me of the general idea of it, but I hadn't seen it for myself.
Being a computer science student, I didn't feel like just watching the video like everyone else, so I tried my normal methods of grabbing video from a website. None of them worked, so I slightly embarrassedly used a script that someone else had written for copying videos specifically from that site, discovered it was in the totally useless FLV format, and pulled it through a downloaded convertor. This allowed me to store the video at only double the original disk space. But still.
Even though I knew the vague idea of the series I found the first episode hilariously strange, and I have laid out a summary of the most eventful moments for your perusal.
( A summary of the most eventful moments for your perusal )
It does go on, including a scene where a man with an outrageous Chinese accent (and a star on his cap) explains why the two of them have the inconvenient properties of morphing into girls/pandas, and a bit slightly later on when Ranma is repeatedly thrown into a pond and hit with a table, but the whole thing defies description, really. On the whole, from an objective viewpoint, it's cheesy, awkward and slightly embarrassing to watch.
I've already started downloading the first series.
In my spare time between building and moderating websites and writing dull security policies and reports on search trees, I discovered by chance the anime Ranma ½ on the latest inexplicably-named Internet trend, YouTube. Whitney had previously told me of the general idea of it, but I hadn't seen it for myself.
Being a computer science student, I didn't feel like just watching the video like everyone else, so I tried my normal methods of grabbing video from a website. None of them worked, so I slightly embarrassedly used a script that someone else had written for copying videos specifically from that site, discovered it was in the totally useless FLV format, and pulled it through a downloaded convertor. This allowed me to store the video at only double the original disk space. But still.
Even though I knew the vague idea of the series I found the first episode hilariously strange, and I have laid out a summary of the most eventful moments for your perusal.
( A summary of the most eventful moments for your perusal )
It does go on, including a scene where a man with an outrageous Chinese accent (and a star on his cap) explains why the two of them have the inconvenient properties of morphing into girls/pandas, and a bit slightly later on when Ranma is repeatedly thrown into a pond and hit with a table, but the whole thing defies description, really. On the whole, from an objective viewpoint, it's cheesy, awkward and slightly embarrassing to watch.
I've already started downloading the first series.
