06-04-2003, 08:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2003, 08:31 AM by Steve_the_Talking_Pie.)
Quote:Originally posted by Arcon
Shibo:
Do as all a favor & stop with expressing your personal opinion as news ... These 2 rant's belong in the general anime discussion forum, not as a hk dvd shop's news ...
That R1 rant on the news page alone was more then enough, sinds it looked more then hypocritical when a shop that's dedicated to HK Bootleg DVD's is defending R1 Company's (and attacking some of the customers there opinions in the process - what in my eye's, is not smart business sense).
Sincerely,
ArconX
One of the main points that Shibo was making was to stop your bellyaching (Not at you ArconX), on the prices of R1 prices. People suffer much more than that not only in the anime community. People sound so stupid when they cry over things like DVDs when there are far worse problems. I'd rather think about the $50 I lost on an R1 copy of Maison Ikkoku set than how my uncles died while I was attending their funerals. Did you know that over the past 10 years the Gorilla population is down 83 percent? They will be extinct in another 40 years. Rainforest is being burnt by the acres. People are being slaughtered by the thousands in many countries, and AIDs is claiming more and more victims in Africa. Some cop about 45 minutes from my house, blew away his wife, in a car while waiting in the grocery store parking lot. Then he shot himself in the head while his children were in the back seat. An elderly man riding a bike right by my house, was stopped by a car full of kids in their mid-twenties. They jumped out of the car and beat him with 2X4 boards/baseball bats/lead pipes, for what?!? 5 Dollars. A friend in my English class came from Albania. Her brother had to fight in urban combat when he was only 15. He was shot and permanently crippled (he has to use a cane). Many people in America don't even know where their next meal is coming or if they will live to see another day. Godammit in America and other first world countries (a term a hate), we live better than 90% of people in the world (that does depend on your socio-economic status). Most people in the world can't even watch anime because the country is too poor economically, too much of a totalitarian society or occupied with other strife. The point is if you aren't dealing with any of these problems why argue over a stupid 5-spot.
Sincerely,
Steve_the_Talking_Pie