>>Tim Rogers

This is the same faggot that said that Gears Of War was game of the decade 00s and he thinks that the 2010s decade doesn't start until 2011.
He's a fucking moron, move along.

Kotaku is the /v/ equivalent of Sankaku.

>It used to be okay.

It never was okay.

-1/10

Slowpoke?

everybody knew that since like 10 years ago

this thread =
"/a/ was never good" threads

>tim rogers

FF fanboy

Anime was never good.

>Or else it's just guys with huge hair and impossible weapons shouting jargon.
>complements DBZ in next sentence

>>31702894

That's video games.

This is anime.

And he's completely right.

(about the anime part)

>>31703020

>READING COMPREHENSION

>Now there's the ADHD-addled Dragon-Ball-Z-inspired One Piece, a manga for the Twitter age if there ever was one.

At first I was just astounded at how retarded this was, and then I read that DBZ bit. Yeah, fucking retarded.

Anime was never good.
The rest of the article feels like a stupid cultural shock which shouldn't occur on that scale with a grown up man who travelled a lot (like he claims he did).

>Dragon Ball Z: graphically iconic, with a story

He was fine until while he was criticising moe.

It's when he started criticising modern mecha /action shounen that the comment fell to pieces.

http://forums.selectbutton.net/index.php

He posts there.

>>31703067

It's not cultural shock. Japan just sucks.

Don't throw words around if you're not going to use them properly.

Because One Piece is a new series and totally didn't start in 1997.

>>31703129
He was fine while he was criticising modern mecha /action shounen.

It's when he started criticising moe that the comment fell to pieces.

>>31703146
Sup Tim Rogers.
Name me a country which does not suck.

>It's just guys with huge hair and impossible weapons shouting jargon. Long ago, manga aspired to be like Dragon Ball Z: graphically iconic, with a story more coherent than it probably needed to be.

Confirmed for troll.

>>31703182
The US of fuckin' A.

>>31703231

>>31703149

What does that have to do with anything?

>Now there's the ADHD-addled Dragon-Ball-Z-inspired One Piece, a manga for the Twitter age if there ever was one.

Ah, someone who speaks the ever truthful truth.

tl;dr

...okay, actually I did read most of it, I'm kind of embarrassed to admit. But after I hit the heading about "template conversations," I just started skimming. It's all the same thing over and over and over again:

"Life is too much work and no one else's world revolves around my hang-ups."

I mean, the stuff about anime and humor is especially weird; you want more masturbation jokes, but fewer panty cartoons? But it's all variations on the same theme: Tim wants the dominant culture to cater to his personal quirks (e.g. strict diet requirements and broken sense of humor) all while refusing to accommodate said culture's quirks. The most insightful thing he's said is that he's probably one of those people who will hate life no matter where he goes.

I doubt this guy is trolling but he sounds like a whiny little faggot too so his opinion shouldn't mean anything to anyone. He complains how he's a vegetarian and how many things in Japan have meat in them.....

I'm not even skimming through that wall of text but knowing he's an alcohol-allergic (lol) vegetarian who hates smoking tells me it's not worth it.

Well you have to consider that this guys probably isn't that much of an anime fan as we are. He has a somehow video game related job and lives in japan and this way it's practically unavoidable to be confronted with this topic.

I read the whole post and while Tim seems to be a somewhat strange guy (vegan seriously? NEVER believed in Santa Claus or something like this, etc.) some of the issues he mentions make me think that japan might not be the great country I always thought it was.

And some of the stuff he mentions really explains some of the bad cliche and comedy parts most animes have.

Everything he says is true.

I shouldn't say this on /a/ because you fags will eat me alive, but DB represents the shit side of shounen that has been killing manga since the 80's.

HEY OP I DONT CARE

>>31702853
Did Ken-sama write this?

inb4kensamacopypasta

>Or else it's just guys with huge hair and impossible weapons shouting jargon.
>Long ago, manga aspired to be like Dragon Ball Z: graphically iconic, with a story more coherent than it probably needed to be.

Faggot has a point, I have to say.

>>31703376
You're trying to tell me Dragon Ball Z was graphically iconic with a coherent story. And One Piece is a manga on ADHD for twitter obsessed people? i think you forgot which show was about the grunting men who fly around and did the same thing over and over to get longer spikier yellow hair. Or maybe you're confusing One Piece (which was made at the same time as DBZ) with the more recent Ninja craze, Naruto, which i totally agree is for the crazed twitter crowd.

>>31703173

Get out moefag

lol'd hard at this article

>JAPANESE CULTURE ISN'T EXACTLY LIKE AMERICAN CULTURE WHAT THE FUCK??????

10/10 trolltaku

/a/ don't be so baka :(

Tim Rogers is a compulsive liar that you shouldn't take seriously at all.

Why's he picking on One Piece? It's hated outside of Japan for being completely unlike anything else Japan makes. Ugly art, vague story, NO ONE DIES LOL. And it's fucking ancient. Not new, not falling into the same trends he's bitching about in recent shows. What a 'tard.

>>31703571
Dragon Ball z ended airing two years before one piece started, started airing in 87.

Fuck I choked on my food

Hey, don't forget to read those comments which agree to this funny shit.

I have this strange feeling that this thread was also made on /v/. And that they're all in agreement with it.

>>31703519
I was always under the impression that /a/ didn't care much for Dragonball anyway.

Perhaps the same could be said of ALL Japanese Entertainment

>>31704063
Most of /a/ dosen't, theres just a few toonamifags who like it. They don't get bothered much because it's not like they flood the place with it.

This article is really, really good. You weeaboos should actually read this stuff.

I think I saw this thread already...

>>31704166
Go away, Tim.

That has to be a troll.

>WHY ISN'T JAPAN 100% LIKE AMERICAAAAA

There's no way he expects people to take that seriously.

Makes me think of this: http://www.jref.com/entertainment/superficial_Japanese.shtml

>The proverbs "money doesn't buy happiness/love" or "don't judge a book by its cover" have no significance in Japan

>BAAAAAAWWWW, I THOUGHT JAPS WATCHED NARUTO ALL THE TIME

>>31704215

His retarded fanboys eat up and crap he shits out.

>>31704259
tru

>One Piece
>Dragon-Ball-Z-inspired

Did anyone tell him it's mainly just kids that watch animu and read shonen comics?

He is probably a butthurt narutard. Mentally, any loli of the season should be more mature

>>31704090
But enough of that HAVE AT YOU

>American normalfag goes to japan
>whines about their customs
>complains that no one else is a dipshit vegetarian like him
>doesn't realize there's as much shit on US TV as in japan

sage for normalfag shit

>>31704259
Well, there's a reason the nips have such a massive influx of ronery young men who take refuge in shows about young girls that shower worthless male leads with unconditional love...

>>31704312

It is.

>If I buy a drink at a convenience store and say I don't want a bag, they insist on putting a little piece of tape over the barcode. Most of the time, they put it on sideways, instead of vertically — you know, the way that would prevent the barcode from being scanned by a rogue scanner. They do this so you can prove that you paid for the drink, should you roll into another convenient store glugging away.

loljapan

15k words on how much japan ruins gaijins.

don't feed the troll !!!

or he's going to be fat

>Long ago, manga aspired to be like Dragon Ball Z: graphically iconic, with a story more coherent than it probably needed to be

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh wow! Take off your nostalgia goggles faggot. I love dragonball z, but I'd call good (it's good in a sense, but it's not some fantastic work of art, especially when there have been many manga and anime better than it in the last 10 years. For instance Planetes)

Ah, the times anime was good.
<-related

HOLY SHIT TOO LONG DIDN'T READ

HE TYPED OUT A FUCKING 35 PAGE ESSAY

WHAT A FUCKING FAGGOT

I THOUGHT KOTAKU WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOAUT VIDEO GAMES, NOT A "BAWWW I HATE JAPAN" BLOG SITE

Why is he insulting One Piece though?
One Piece does everything different. Nothing about it is generic.

What a moron.

ITT: Butthurt OPfags

He goe have a point. Moe is the cancer killing anime.

He's lived in japan for so long and still doesn't know anything about anime, upsetting /a/ upsetting.

Bet he thinks studio ghibli is the epitome aswell.

>I don't like that people are allowed to smoke in my favorite little organic vegetable cafe, right there on the floor with the open kitchen. I don't want cigarette smoke near my organic vegetables! Hel-lo?

also now I think he's trolling.

>>31704411
DAT NECK

Oh look, some faggot whining because anime doesn't cater to his tastes.
I can see this on /a/ all the time, but without all the tl;dr...

It was never okay, fucking weabos just made it worse by embarrassing themselves by cosplaying or w/e shit they do.

>>31704526
Don't you have some algebra homework to do, Billy?

>>31704579

Yes I am doing things with my life unlike you who's rewatching Lucky Star for the upteenth time

>>31704541
japan != anime

>Now there's the ADHD-addled Dragon-Ball-Z-inspired One Piece, a manga for the Twitter age if there ever was one.

>at the very bottom of the article there is a link to his OWN FUCKING TWITTER PAGE

saged

He's automatically a faggot because he's complaining about everything having meat in it, fuck that's a reason to give live in Japan by itself.

>>31704549
AAH, A PERVERT!

>>31704749
Wah why doesn't mcdonalds have anything without meat on it D:

Apparently living in overpriced as fuck Tokyo as a non-drinking, veggie, foreigner and working for big corporations fucking sucks.

>kotaku

>>31704849
They do actually, but I don't see why anyone would go to McDonalds to buy a salad.

>>31704893
Also their entertainment is garbage, except for the music.

>this article

BAAAAWWW I DONT LIKE SOMEONE ELSES CULTURE AND DONT HAVE THE SAME TASTES AS THEM I DONT KNOW HOW TO PICK OUT THE GOOD ANIME AND I WANT EVERYONE TO STOP SMOKING THEY MAKE YOU GO OUT OF YOUR ROOM TO PARTIES TO HAVE FUN ILL BE DAMNED IF THIS COUNTRY HAS RULES I DONT WANT TO FOLLOW

guy who wrote that article sounds like a whiny bitch

He's probably right on many points but damn is he a complete faggot !

It's true that japan is a weird, annoying and sometimes scary place to outsiders who didn't grow up in their culture, but YOU CHOSE TO LIVE THERE, STOP WHINING DAMMIT

>>31705704
This.

>This was also the guy (or girl) who was always out all night Friday night, and never got home until around 2pm on Saturdays. His alarm clock, programmed to go off every morning at 5am, woke me up every Saturday.

Kick his fucking door down and tell him to turn the alarm off when he's not home. Come on now.

>I don't like people when they're smoking. I don't like how almost every restaurant has a smoking section, and you invariably have to go through the smoking section to get to the non-smoking section. I don't like that people are allowed to smoke in my favorite little organic vegetable cafe, right there on the floor with the open kitchen. I don't want cigarette smoke near my organic vegetables! Hel-lo? That makes them pretty much not organic anymore! You might as well just be buying them from a hobo, at that point.

Now, I don't smoke. I think it's unhealthy and that the use of tobacco products should be limited in public areas; however, the way he phrases this makes me want to smack the shit out of him.

the part about anime was accurate

the rest, wtf ???

complaining about people smoking, in the street???
complaining about drinking with your co workers??

vegan shit??

>Anime is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form
>Reality TV is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form
>Sitcoms are terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form
>Wrestling is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred gay sex in entertainment form
>NASCAR is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form
>Game shows are terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form

>Television nowadays is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form

Sure is butthurt weeaboos in here.

>>31705855
>>This was also the guy (or girl) who was always out all night Friday night, and never got home until around 2pm on Saturdays. His alarm clock, programmed to go off every morning at 5am, woke me up every Saturday.

After a work week in the corporate bullshit environment that he describes in this article I'd turn in Michael Douglas in Falling Down in no time if that happened to me repeatedly.

"Do they feel like they just scored a four-hit combo in Street Fighter IV?"

wtf? four hit combo? shit's easy

At first I expected to rage, but he's pretty right about anime. About 80% or more of anime is total shit that does pander to sexual deviants and perverts. I wouldn't say it all sucks, but if you're lucky you'll get ONE good show per season.

I think he made some reasonable points amidst all the whining.

But seriously, I do love this thread. Tear that shit apart!

lol cheap shot at One Piece out of nowhere.

>manga aspired to be like Dragon Ball Z

Ha. HA HA. HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Ha.

Yet another american faggot who grew out of anime so he decided he could say everything except DBZ and Cowboy Bebop are shit. his guy just doesn't realize anime isn't for him. Coherent plot, DBZ. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I'm not really too sure it's fair to call Japan weird. Reason being, any culture can seem weird to an outsider.

Let's take baseball for example.

Americans:
When their child strikes out, parents go "Oh it's okay, you did good".

Japanese:
When their child strikes out, parents go "What the hell are you doing"?

Not trying to bash anyone here. Americans tend to value high self-esteem where as the Japanese value modesty. Which is why the Japanese apologize much too often and talk down on their loved ones in front of other people as a form of modesty. It's a custom that people follow, and feelings usually aren't hurt (believe it or not) because people don't usually mean it.... unless you fucked up something big like being an engineer for Toyota and having hundreds of thousands of cars recalled due to an error on your part.

Fucking hell this thing is long, and he's basically complaining about how their society isn't up to his western standards.

I hated this article at the beginning. He's narrow-minded about anime (not that One Piece is good, but there is still good stuff), and bitchy about other stupid issues like office parties (though the "everything has meat in it" is actually relevant to me and has me reconsidering ever visiting Japan.)

But the further he got into it and was talking about weird ass business and social customs, and extrapolating them to gaming and Japanese culture as a whole, I got pretty engrossed. Some bizarre and fascinating stuff there that is worth reading if only for giving an impression of Japan that's radically different from that of the typical gushing Westerner (or that Azrael guy).

>>31706625
the faulty parts came from a czech factory.

>kotaku

this article made me laugh.
I mean, the guy is a vegetarian and doesn't drink?

>>31706689

Oh I didn't know, that wasn't really the point though. Just giving example for a 'big fuck up'.

>>31706182

>Reality TV is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form
>Wrestling is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred gay sex in entertainment form
>NASCAR is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it's not. It's inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form

These were always terrible.

>>31706654
It's not about that. It's about the fuck that it's faggotry, that's all. And I understand him, the shitty slapstick comedy, the constant apologizing/fake politeness... it's creepy.

>>31706549
DBZ has a very coherent plot. It makes sense, it's relatively simple and it's focused.
Do you even know what 'cooherent' means?

At least Dragonball z ended....the current big the are nothing but over inflated versions of DBZ. They go no where and are boring as fuck.

>>31706924
This. And DBZ made attempts to end earlier, it's just that you fanboys like to drag things on.

I mean seriously, 10 years for a fucking manga? Just put it out of its misery.

>Kotaku
>Criticizing anime when it's obvious he hasn't watched it in years
>"WHAAA, NIPPON ISN'T AMERICA"
>Tim Rogers
>Tim Rogers
>TIM FUCKING ROGERS

Sage'ing this douchebag into the ground.

I really don't care if he made one good point, you don't go to another person's home and complain about the rules they have for their house or about what food they got. You either leave or deal with it. Its useless to be butthurt over the fact that Japan culture isn't your precious American one. Their entertainment may cater to sexual deviants, and they may not cater to your stupid vegan needs, but tough shit, it's not your nation. You're a guest, you either follow their rules like a good guest or leave. Don't bloody rant and complain about it; it only makes you look like a greedy asswipe.

>>31706973
Who

>>31703712
>Why's he picking on One Piece? It's hated outside of Japan for being completely unlike anything else Japan makes. Ugly art, vague story, NO ONE DIES LOL. And it's fucking ancient. Not new, not falling into the same trends he's bitching about in recent shows.

Sounds like Western comics to me, right down to the years of continuity bogging down the series.

>>31706814
'cooherent'? No.

But I know what coherent means. And the protagonist warping back and forth between a little kid and an adult all series doesn't work for coherence unless you're LINK.

Tim Rogers has diabeetus, he mentions it in another article, which is why he can't eat meats.

tim motherfucking rogers

>>31707259

does he also has aids and that's why he is such a whinny emo faggot who nobody can't stand?

>>31702853
Let this be a lesson to us all. Don't get old and grumpy and start hating new things/everything because you sound like a cunt.

His points are right though, the japanese are terrible, terrible people.

I like their anime, manga, videogames and some flicks, but yeah, I would never ever want to live there. Vacation? Sure.

PROTIP: PEOPLE WHO BASH THE BIG THREE DON'T EVEN READ MANGA IN THE FIRST PLACE. THEY'RE JUST FUCKING EDGY.

>>31702853

what can we do, the damage is beyond repair, unless there are some anime being done in some other countries other than Japan, I think we should start looking outside Japan and maybe we can find something there

Too fucking long I did not read.

>>31707596
Agreeing with this. Would love to visit and see all the sites, buy random shit, and relax, but the culture is too different for me to be able to live there. If only Tim would understand this instead of staying and bitching endlessly.

>>31702853
I don't think this man has ever actually watched an anime.

If somebody tried reading One Piece and didn't like I think less of them as a person.

>>31707480
But he's a damn guest in their nation and the Japanese can act however the hell they feel like in their own nation. How would you like it if some guy came to your house, set up camp, and whined about every possible thing because your house isn't his and you don't have the things he wants and acted like he owns the place? I'd tell him to get the fuck out. It doesn't matter if you think the Japanese are bad. If that's the case, why the hell are you living in their damn nation?

Also, why the hell is he using a site made with the intention of video game discussion as a personal blog? Use your precious myspace, facebook, or twitter for that shit. This is one of the few reasons why I don't use Kotaku.

>Now there's the ADHD-addled Dragon-Ball-Z-inspired One Piece

I haven't read this one yet, but Tim has been doing this for years and years and years. He's an old hat about talking about Japan. Does this article feature his sexual adventures with Japanese girls, because a lot of them do. check out www.largeprimenumbers.com for further reading.

Also, really, really take every anecdote from Tim, every observation, and every conclusion with a grain of salt. He is a compulsive liar and just writes whatever he feels like writing, whether he personally believes it or not.

>>31708221

I can't believe I can read this kind of thing. Well we're on 4chan.

tl;dr version
insufferable faggot rants endlessly about a society not conforming to his narrow-minded way or his hipster-douche demeanor

>>31708391
Why? Do you disagree?

>vegitarien
> I don't want cigarette smoke near my organic vegetables! Hel-lo? That makes them pretty much not organic anymore!

i stoped reading b/c he is a giant fag.

>>31708520
to add on to this.

>Everything in Japan has meat in it

bawww not every one is a vegan like me bawww

>>31708442

One Piece is awesome but not to this point

Tim isn't as fun as he used to be. His ancient articles on Metal Gear Solid 2 and Super Mario 3 were really enjoyable and insightful and were what really started to propel him into becoming a "rock star new games journalist." Now, he seems to be a lot more of a douchebag than he used to be, and he's pretty much disowned the MGS 2 article.