MissDeviling
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Yeah, I've seen it several times.
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Asian-GAF: We're all the same, like Stormtroopers |OT| |AT|
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Seductivpancakes
Member
She's probably family. Either her parents or uncle/aunt runs the place.
I use to work at my uncle'ss lottery store. I worked out front dealing with the small newspaper stall. Worked and ate at my post.
Both my parents have taken me to their work place when I was much younger to help around a bit. My dad worked at a fishery, and my mom worked at sweat shop.
Warrior_Keoni
Member
I think it's a matter of getting used to it after a while in order to enjoy it. The smell itself can be repulsive at some point, but eventually you just get used to it.
We don't buy durian anymore, due to how expensive they are.
One of the reason why I'm reluctant to study abroad to Europe is about the food. Even if I able to found asian food there, I bet the taste will be different lol.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to get durian in North America for reasonable prices these days. Hopefully the price will come down since oil is dropping like a rock.
Septimus Prime
Member
Durian tastes like chalk to me. It's not bad, per se, but it's not worth dealing with the smell.
Warrior_Keoni
Member
Seems there are benefits to eating durian as with any other fruit (as long as you don't overdo it).
Here's the website I was looking at: https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/fruit/health-benefits-of-durian.html
Septimus Prime
Member
So...is anyone planning to watch Fresh Off the Boat? I think I'm going to, though I don't expect it to be any good.
Gonna try to, just to support some Asian people actually being on TV in a starring role, but I typically don't follow TV shows other than sports.
IAmtheFMan
Member
Yeah will watch, although the trailer didn't do much to instillconfidence that this will make it a second season.
Warrior_Keoni
Member
Looks okay from the trailers. I think the only "Asian" show I've recently watched was Marco Polo. In terms of setting historical Asian characters (although it could do without the flashy "kung-fu" stuff), I thought the main cast did their job quite well.
IAmtheFMan
Member
If anything, the interviews with Eddie Huang about the show have been really interesting to read through.
This interview from Vulture tells his thoughts on the show.
He really seems mixed; you get the sense that he's deathly afraid that this is gonna be a completely watered down family sitcom with an Asian-y flavor that skews actual Asian-American experiences for typical tropes, but also realizes the importance of a show like this and in the end, still seems hesitantly proud.
On a somewhat related topic, I've gotten back into watching a lot of Asian TV again. Mostly variety shows along with some jdrama & kdrama. I watch Running Man on the regular. I also just started watching Switch Girl!! which is an extremely guilty pleasure.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
I always figured Chitownbuffalo would make this thread, but I think he stopped posting.
Jet Li should make more appearances in music videos y/n?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEF_-IcnQC4
Jet Li should make more appearances in music videos y/n?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEF_-IcnQC4
Zoe
Member
What's the point if he doesn't get the girl >_>
IAmtheFMan
Member
He's been gone since the Boston Bomber incident.
Have to hand it to him that he was good at organizing stuff. He organized the Chicago GAF meet up.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
.___.
That thread on sex drive in Japan is making me a bit subdued. I'll just curl up in here for a little bit, I think.
Feels like outsiders looking in zoo cages and trying to explain why the subject monkeys are not having sex with each other.
*takes solace in the glorious food porn thread that is this thread*
That thread on sex drive in Japan is making me a bit subdued. I'll just curl up in here for a little bit, I think.
Feels like outsiders looking in zoo cages and trying to explain why the subject monkeys are not having sex with each other.
*takes solace in the glorious food porn thread that is this thread*
Septimus Prime
Member
Well, to ABC's credit (I guess), I did watch a little bit of Black-ish, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't really do much to pander to the white demographic. Of course, that also means that some of the jokes just weren't all that funny to me because I didn't relate.
family members working in the same place
CapNBritain
Member
I'm interested because the show/book seems like a lot like my own life, just on the opposite coast. But the previews do make it look pretty terrible. And yes, that article is very interesting. I'm not really a fan of sitcoms, so it's sad to me that the sitcom format is the only way that a story like his and mine can be told in 2015. Still, I'll give it a shot.
I think Black-ish is pretty funny, but also very problematic. I mean, it's a show about an African-American family trying to hold on to its culture in the wake of newfound success and societal change, but that's all undercut by the fact that they're disgustingly rich. It's basically, white people problems, if you are black, if that makes any sense. I feel like it caters to the multi-millionaire African-American market and is weird otherwise. The recent MLK episode when the son gives a speech about being in the back of the bus was very weird. If it's supposed to be an absurdist comedy, then they're doing a bad job of getting that across because it seems pretty straight-forward to me.
On the other hand (and off-topic), the new FXX sitcom Man Seeking Woman is the opposite, where it is definitely an absurdist comedy, but it seems to re-enforce the worldview of a mid-20s sadsack male. It's a worldview that doesn't really need any enforcing, and the jokes aren't that great either.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Asian thread, eh?
Seductivpancakes
Member
You are awesome dude.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
Too much slurping in Japanese pr0n. and the crying am I supposed to be turned on or concerned?
Sometimes i am both
Septimus Prime
Member
Yeah, I only watch white people. Cause, you know. America.
I dunno, man. Skin Diamond, Lucy Thai, Nyomi (or was it Naomi?) Marcela, Veronica Rodriguez and Jynx Maze are all pretty awesome.
It's just that Riley Reid is better than all of them.
no i'm not serious
Valkerionseven
Member
It's more a sign of where you get your porn than anything haha. Or the stuff the people who upload it are into...
Now the stuff I like
-pointsatavatar-
I love a good porn discussion though. Such an interesting topic, probably the Soci major in me though. Seriously though, I know western porn is all about the stereotypes but damn... you would think after all this time the "dirty girl, in a repressed asian life" would be done by now... also choked and slapped in the face at some point... because asian chicks are into the dirty stuff apparently. -eyeroll-
Not to mention there only being one(?) full time asian male porn star >.> that does actual porn, not that taking pictures shit.
Between this and the bear in your avatar, I think you may be part of another GAF community. ;D
pls dont hurt me im kidding oh god
also fuck hyper augment rune drops
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Yeeah, the movie's ending is kinda fucked considering it's supposed to be a Romeo and Juliet analogue. It's not without merit though, this fight scene always makes me laugh. When I rewatched the movie about a month ago I had forgotten that DMX was in it, so when his face pops up in this scene I'm all smiles. First line out of his mouth is really something.
He was good at posting whatever asian thing as topics in the OT. People gave him shit for it but I appreciated it.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Sex threads on Neogaf are always awesome.
InsaneZero
Member
Japanese sex threads on NeoGAF are pretty much indistinguishable from each other nowadays. You've got your sunset airplanes and snide anime porn comments and the typical conversation about how Japan's workforce is pretty much fucked in a strictly figurative sense.
Some people don't understand how tough work can be.
Either their work is too easy, or they're not working.
Also the combined racism and misogyny are real in those posts.
What happened to him? He was representing Colorado CFB GAF.
Dead Prince
Banned
that's true. i saw it in asian porn.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
oh you :>
Valkerionseven
Member
I've learned to not even bother with them, oh hey one is in the top posts tonight... yup exactly what we thought. Whats worse is they are all the same damn news story just posted 3 weeks in between by different sites.
Seductivpancakes
Member
The anime comments eats at me. Its always some sort of generalization about how anime is the most predominate aspect of Japanese culture, and how disgusting/weird anime is so therefore Japanese culture is disgusting/weird.
Sex threads is the best off-topic GAFs have to offer.
That's every Japanese thread ever. But when someone posted "good" anime, suddenly those people are gone.
The way people stereotype is so disgusting, it makes these threads hard to go through a lot of the time.
Went down in the thread covering the Boston Marathon bombing. RIP.
Troubled Bat
Member
Okay, what's the main topic now? I have been in the zone, drawing things.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
Troubled Bat
Member
But I can't draw well, and I cannot draw! (´･_･`)
*pokes back*
*pokes 10 more times*
Edit: I don't really keep my drawings, when I do end up drawing it's for somebody, so I no longer have them with me. But luckily I still had this on my Flickr account.
It was for my Ex. (〒︿〒
I did it in mechanical pencil, my personal choice.
IAmtheFMan
Member
Holy crap. Just read through that Japan-sex thread.
Shit gives me a headache. I needed to shut off the window otherwise I probably would've made some comments that would've gotten me banned.
Shit gives me a headache. I needed to shut off the window otherwise I probably would've made some comments that would've gotten me banned.