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​The pinguin being slapped is called guy and asked a stupid question

I mean seriously, I'm aware of what good English voice acting is. It exists. In most cases, this just happens not to be in English-dubbed anime, for better or for worse. Natural sounding voice acting in the context of an entertainment medium, which I didn't believe required explicit word to imply.

Highlighting subtitles does not an argument make, even if the person in question who watches dubs. Not when there are a number of aspects of downloading anime that don't involve subtitling which are still superior to the alternative of streaming, and especially not when all material is available in dubbed format. Seriously, there's an extremely small of series that actually do get dubbed, so don't give me that. So no, it's still important either way. DDL is also a thing, in case you wanted to watch while you download something. And while I don't expect anime to sound like everyday conversational English/Japanese/whathaveyou, I do expect it to sound natural in whatever sense of the word which would fit the given context of this discussion. And by that I mean, I don't expect it to sound like my list of complaints. Albeit if said list of complaints is apparently not the norm, perhaps you would do well to direct me to a number of competently done dubs, because in my experience, that claim is rather far removed from reality. And as for the second part of that statement, Nakata Jouji hasn't sounded any more off to me regardless of the role he's playing, nor has Tomokazu Sugita. Although that being said, I can't quite say that I'm incapable of recognizing a mediocre or poorly done VA even when the characters are talking in moon. Or even just a comparatively worse VA job. There's a reason why there's a number of bit roles that seem to be given to people relatively few have actually heard of prior.

Bullshit, the language barrier is irrelevant. Inflection and tone are two things in voice acting which are self-evident. Even if that weren't the case? I know what natural sounding English is like, given I speak the language. The vast majority of dubs.. aren't that. I can't tell you how many times I've watched an English dub and sat there in awe at the ever present awkward pauses, sudden changes in tone and pitch, every individual sentence being spoken like it's a Bond one-liner, mispronunciations, unconvincing sounding dialogue which was intended to be emotional, lack of flow, miscast voice actors, etc. Especially when seemingly every dub has the same six actors because the licensing company can't bother to hire someone else. Now, that's not to say that there haven't been good dubs. Steve Blum did a pretty good job of playing Spike Spiegel, for example. On the other hand, Austin Tindle made for an extremely poor Accelerator, in a series where said character's voice acting was one of the few reasons why the adaptation was even worth watching. As for streaming, well.. No, I really can't see any justification for it. Want to watch something without waiting for it to download completely? There are ways to do that. And even if there weren't, I'd gladly another ten to fifteen minutes to download something for the sake of being able to choose my subbing group of choice, superior video and audio quality, the option of Blu-ray releases (which are highly important if you watching something that's animated by SHAFT, and even if not, is still better than using the TV release due to the studio redrawing certain scenes) that may or may not be on a given streaming site, and actual chapters than play a game of darts with streaming. Albeit in many cases, I find that the difference in time taken between streaming a given episode and simply downloading it is negligible. And yes, being able to choose subtitles is important due to differences in translations, editing, and typesetting between groups. More than once during my time streaming have I run into an episode that seemed to have been subbed by Hadena, which isn't so much a translation so much as a script ran through a combination of Google Translate and Babelfish. The extra amount of time taken to delete something is also negligible to the point of not being complaint worthy, and that's assuming you delete everything as opposed to saving it for potential rewatching. Space shouldn't be an issue either, hard drives are only getting cheaper, and I personally haven't had any issues with space despite not expanding and picking up shows from every season for over a year. If the difference in audio and video quality is nigh-imperceptible to you, then I don't really have anything to say to that. On the other hand, I can argue that there isn't much reason to not go with an objectively superior option in viewing animu if the ease/difficulty of doing so is the same as the alternative.

I seem to get that a lot.

How much attention do you honestly have to devote towards reading subtitles? Because I can assure you, it shouldn't be anything remotely significant.

No, that's just bullshit through and through. Moe has always been a thing, generic or not. Even back in the 90s, where it was perceived prevalent enough (along with the mecha genre, ironically) that people complained about there being too much moe and that the 80s were better. It's been as popular as it's always been, no more and no less. It's rather telling that despite the amount of new series produced within the last six years, the only slice of lifes that are "moe" which can be named with any consistency are K-ON and Lucky Star. You'd be lucky to see people claiming modern anime is primarily cute schoolgirls be able to name even things like Hidamari Sketch, much less a moe slice of life that's currently airing. Can't help it, it's true. Almost all dubs are awful, and the ones that are worth watching should still be watched alongside the original audio. Why the hell would I give up being able to listen to Wakamoto or Sugita in favor of hearing Johnny Yong Bosch in every damn series? Also, streaming is terrible and there's basically no excuse for not just downloading anime off of Nyaa or an equivalent site.

Most dubs, the mentality that the 90s was the golden age of anime and that everything released in modern times is K-ON and Lucky Star, people who stream their anime instead of downloading it, and other such shit. As for actual series I think are bad, I could go on and on.

I thought Corv was a maid.

What happened to the old one?

I have a new one, not a huge loss other than my lack of stars or rep.

No. Respectless Rubber Glove, it was my first hat drop. Corv. Pretty much everyone in this thread other than Verumae, and all of the itsurblog regulars. Pretty cool, but SPUF has pretty poor taste in anime other than a few certain individuals. Blue.

Your words wound me.

B-but it's hard!

I was hoping everyone would already know me. ;_; You mean like that SPUF fanfic I haven't written a second chapter for?

I was watching the stream in class. Very big mistake, my friend had to smack me because I was making really excited happy noises and everyone was looking.

Shadow of Mordor complete for $30

Necrodancer is launching in a week.

my neighbors are moving and let me have this rare pepe

HONK

There is no way to check newest unread messages of a thread on a mobile. Also the inability to use the desktop version on a mobile. Also, viewing a thread crashes my phone, but I think that's because it's outdated.

Thanks for not telling me about it, guys. I-it's not like I wanted to join or anything, stupid. I don't think I need to introduce myself (hopefully). I also have no idea what you guys do here on subSPUF, albeit I recognize a lot of names.

My tsun is reserved solely for Corv.