Echo Binary

For those of you anime lovers out there, you might have heard this catch phrase “Datte-ba-yo” in some animes. The most recent and probably the most popular anime that I can think of is Naruto. Naruto overused dattebayo like hell. He puts dattebayo in almost all sentences that he utter.

I did a small research about this word and to my surprise it does not have a concrete meaning. It only give more emphasis to the sentence. For instance it’s like giving a strong stress to that sentence like if i say “Kore wa hon datte ba yo” it would translate as “How many times do I have to tell you that this is a book?” or “This is a f*cking book!” Hehehe. Lol, Naruto is pretty rude as he use it very often.

At this moment I’m using PLDT 1995 and my download speed should be around 55 kbps. I’m very lucky that at some point my download speed reaches up to 93kbps (sustained)

Here’s the proof:

My girlfriend has finished watching around episode 120+, and this coming school holidays I’m playing catching up on watching the TV series of Naruto. At first I’m really frustrated and disappointed because she didn’t lend me a copy of few episodes -_-; Her reason was “the quality on some episodes were poor”. I don’t really care how blur and/or fugly the episodes are as long as I can read the english subtitles, really. Luckily I was able to get clear copies Naruto from episode 1 to 139 (and still counting…) I’ve already watched it until episodes 10. I could have watched more episodes today but I’m waiting my brother from school so we could watch together. Nevertheless I’m beginning to like Naruto after all the trouble it caused between me and my girl… *pufff*

Anyway “Naruto vs. Sasuke” crossed my mind and searched Google. I was really amused how many topics covering this argument showed up on my search. Here’s my favorite argument, taken from AnimeNation:

Poster 1
OK, beyond that, I have a few things to point out. If you look at where both Naruto and Sasuke started and where they are now, Naruto has seen a much greater rate of growth. From being unable to create Bunshins to Kage Bunshin to control of Kyuubi and summoning of Gama Bunta to Rasengan, Naruto has grown an indescribable amount. Sasuke has used the same Grand Fireball no jutsu since early on, although he has gained and improved other powerful abilities such as Chidori, his taijutsu, and Sharingan. However, Sasuke’s most powerful technique, Chidori, has a limit to it’s uses. Naruto’s new (but not most powerful) tech, Rasengan has greater power and a limit only to the amount of the user’s Chakra. Plus, if I were Naruto, I would just use the ultimate technique, the FROG DROP! Nothing says victory like droping a several ton frog on your opponent.

Poster 2
Yeah, that’s kind of the point of Naruto. For him to grow, starting from a nobody to an eventual good ninja (Hokage is debatable, however). Sasuke is there to be Naruto’s ultimate goal, to earn his respect and be seen as an equal ninja. Sasuke began knowing everything, plus the talent to become more powerful, with less effort. Naruto, OTOH, has to work hard to catch up. It’s a cat and mouse game, IMO.

Poster 1
You’re exactly right. The number one reason why Naruto is so strong: he has the show named after him. (Plus, I wouldn’t want to watch a show called Sasuke: Arrogant Ninja ^_^). I would be surprised to see Naruto become Hokage unless there’s like a five years hence thing. Even at the rate he’s progressing, Jounin would be a huge accomplishment for Naruto to make. Unless the DBZ production team gets involved with Naruto… then Naruto could achive Super Hokage Level 3 by the end of the 500th episode… -_-;

LOL

Grrr… I can’t imagine that other classes do not have any kind of project while our class has a dump of research work and a demanding project??? Life isn’t fair… really, thanks to my sadist professor.

As posted by GM-Phage in the pROSE boards:

Prose Open Beta Moved To June 30, Client Upgraded.

In order to implement new game changes to pROSE Online, we are moving our Open Beta test to June 30, 2005.

Gravity has provided us a new client which we are currently testing to ensure a smooth shift to open beta.

However, in line with this, all of the pre-distributed demo beta CDs are no longer valid. We are now producing a new batch of CDs for distribution.

We apologize for this inconvenience. Soon, we shall be announcing additional outlets where you can get a copy of the new pROSE CD installers.

Again, we’re sorry for this inconvenience. Thank you for your tremendous support for pROSE Online.

So there you have it… by that time I’m already enrolled in 1st quarter, S.Y. 2005 - 2006 (my last year in college) so I doubt I can pursue playing pRose that much. Well, I guess my little brother will. Hehe.