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Title: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 26, 2007, 12:53:58 am
In the past, some of those who called the pig over Skype were unable to understand the answers he gave in full.  Therefore the pig's responses to the questions you ask are posted here, in full, in plain english, for reference.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 26, 2007, 01:24:07 am
2007-mar-14 20:47PST:  Reference number A047.

The full answer to your question is quite complicated.  In short, there was more than just one reason, but here is the major one.  After the release of the original Disgaea, the group split into two factions, the Etna faction and the Flonne faction.  This alone was not enough to cause any noticeable schism in the group, until Disagea 2 was released and [deleted] professed his love for Hanako over Etna.  This naturally put [deleted] at odds with both the Etna and Flonne faction.  Tension built until it was discovered that [deleted] was actually taking orders from Yuebing, a female netherlands dwarf bunny who runs Shinsen through her pet "Vincent".  Needless to say, this made the action that followed necessary. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 26, 2007, 01:40:01 am
2007-mar-16 08:47PST:  Reference number A048.

No.  Your first rumor, the one that stated that Tofu was turned into a pig, precisely the black pig occassionally seen on the pigcam, by, at the time, a member who was a practicing and capable witch; this rumor is absolutely ludicrous and patently untrue.

As for your second rumor, there is no definitive answer.  There is a note in her file that says her favorite food was cheesecake and that her favorite color was violet, but no information beyond that exists. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 26, 2007, 01:47:32 am
2007-mar-20 6:23PST:  Reference number A049.

Animal Yokocho.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 26, 2007, 02:02:55 am
2007-mar-24 23:19PST:  Reference number A050.

If one looks at the language and events using [critical thinking], Yamanami-san could actually be her father, playing along with or into her fantasies via stuffed-animal play.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 02, 2007, 05:49:07 am
2007-apr-01 8:03PST:  Reference number A051.

With everything given so far, it's not possible to determine truth or fiction beyond doubt.  There is supporting evidence for both cases, even a total skeptic has to admit it _could_ in theory be true.  Likewise no one should fool themselves into thinking it can be proven at this point.

If it is fiction, he's certainly more consistent and realistic than most.  If it is true, he has a superior memory of interpersonal acts and does his best to maintain plausible deniability and to stay anonymous.  He doesn't seem like a fetishist, he seems like a rather usual person in that profesion, reasonably new (5-10 years experience?) and relating his unusual story. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 28, 2007, 05:30:15 am
2007-apr-01 8:03PST:  Reference number A051.

With everything given so far, it's not possible to determine truth or fiction beyond doubt...
Follow-up to the above:

Clearly at this point one can point out some major inconsistencies.  For one, the part that strikes one as most unreal is the passage of time between the OP and her being able to walk out of the hospital and walk around.

While the OP was a simple one, like relocating a dislocated organ or repairing trauma damage to the digestive tract, it still required cutting her open, moving things around and/or repairing damage, and then sewing her back up.  As typical and routine as it might have been, the passage of time after the OP seems most unrealistic.

NK indicates that he was there throughout the OP and afterwards she was moved to the recovery room.

In the recovery room, 2 hours passed.  She woke up and quickly went back to sleep.

Another hour and a half passed.  She awoke again, and was released with the blessing of the nurse.

Then NK takes her for a 'walk in the park'.
Even if the OP was purely exploratory (just surveying damage, not fixing it), I still find it unreal that she would be allowed to walk out of there within 4 hours and that he would take her for a walk in the park afterwards.  After an OP, esp. to the chest cavity, is not one to avoid any possible strenuos physical activity for at least a few days? 

I'll check with someone I know who was a nurse for many years.

- Minimum time, OP to discharge
- Post-OP recovery instructions

But right now, I'd say that, this guy isn't the real (since the incedent at the zoo) or he's been fibbing all along.  Not much else to say about this. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 29, 2007, 05:20:18 pm
2007-apr-29 7:45PST:  Reference number A052.

It is actually really simple.  You mix olive oil and water in a cup 1:1 or 1:2 ratio.  Then you add crushed chili peppers, a few drops of wildflower honey, and swish it back and forth a while to stir it.  Just stir-fry with that as usual.  You don't get the sweetness of the honey as much as the aftertaste, so use a good honey not the 'clover' shit found in most grocery stores.  Some people whine about honey being an animal product, but bees were never that cute, who cares. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on May 09, 2007, 05:41:08 pm
2007-may-09 9:12PST:  Reference number A053
The link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_rabbit
As you can see, rabbits are actually quite ferocious and dangerous, not the cutesy or adorable creatures that some people mistake them for.  They can attack without provocation or reason, and once enraged they will often fight to the death rather than flee.  Keep this in mind when dealing with Yuebing.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: bobby6 on May 09, 2007, 07:58:29 pm
I'm surprised, I actually didn't realize there was a type of rabbit that could swim well. :o
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on June 22, 2007, 05:48:51 am
2007-jun-19 12:47PST:  Reference number A057

Not even loosely based on reality, there is no way the ABG concept vessel would carry over into spacecraft.  The ABG dreadnaughts were certainly above the non-ABG ships of the pre-dreadnaught era, but this design clearly reached the end of its usefullness by the second world war.  Spacecraft would either be an extension of the modern supercarrier, or some new concept altogether, but definately not a return to the super-dreadnaughts of the early to early-mid 20th century. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on July 06, 2007, 12:31:43 pm
2007-jul-03 12:47PST:  Reference number A060

If you are paying too much, just stop running the air conditioner.  You can cut your energy bill 10-20% this way.  If it's too cold, put on an extra layer of clothing.  If it's too hot, remove a layer of clothing.  Open the windows on each side of your house so that you can get a steady breeze going through.  It's not too hard really, people have it easy. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on August 22, 2007, 10:50:09 pm
2007-aug-21 21:30PST:  Reference number A064

His latest attempt to compare the current situation to the EOJ or ROK is just a re-hashing of previous messages.  And a horrible comparison at that; during the war the EOJ was a clear agressor, and following the end of the Showa era and subsequent occupation, other than Okinawa, the people of Japan were unified and not fighting a civil war against each other. 

The people and culture of Japan remained largely unchanged at the end of the Showa era.  The change was the lifting of the oppression imposed by the fascist, militaristic government.  The occupation imposed and supported democratic government once again allowed a people and culture to flourish.  The occupation was drawn down due to the subsequent war in Korea and this brought about its de-facto end long before the treaty of San Francisco was formally signed.

The same can hardly be said for the middle east.  The middle east is not a single culture, it is a hodge-podge of different cultures and peoples divided between countries with artificial boundaries.  Iraq alone has three major distinct groups and many more minor ones.  What the president has done in Iraq would be like if the US were to occupy post-war Japan, Signapore, the Philipines, and Japan-occupied China and insist they were one country, one unified people, and must remain as such.  This, compounded with the evolutionary gap (modern inferiority?) between most of the predominant middle eastern cultures as compared to post-Showa Japan, leads to the current untenable situation.

Those who doubt this evolutionary gap or modern inferiority need only look at the development of postwar Japan, and what that culture produces today as compared to those in the middle east.  From the most modern robots or other 'gadgets' to art -- anime, manga, drama shows, etc. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on August 27, 2007, 10:01:11 pm
2007-aug-26 20:30PST:  Reference number 065

"Homely" is misused in this case.  To refer to a girl as 'homely' is an insult, at least in the US.  If you have seen ****'s wife, *****, in public, that is an example of 'homely' girl.  She doesn't even try to look good in public.

I know what they were getting at, but for him to basically say "I prefer a homely girl" outright like that is wrong.  Basically he is trying to say he prefers a simple, straightforward, honest, laid-back, carefree, unassuming girl.  In constrast to a scheming, seductive, outlandish girl who engages in risky behavior just for the hell of it. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on September 08, 2007, 12:17:25 am
2007-sep-07 22:14PST:  Reference number 067

That is not a question I can answer.  Perhaps you should ask ******.

NOTE:  I don't remember the exact timeframe or details, but since it came up, here's what I can remember of it.

This was around or prior to mid-1998.  SM was going to, or had already been pulled off the air.  I don't remember whose original idea it was, nor was I ever a member of SOS.  SOS had a petition to keep SM on the air and after that, proposed the now-infamous 'procot'.  To me, it was patent nonsense from the beginning, the rationale never really made sense.

Basically the idea was the reverse of a boycot, that if fans demonstrated their loyalty by buying a certain item advertised on the show, that advertiser would pressure the channel to keep the show on the air.  They took some kind of online vote and the item that was chosen was 'strawberry pop tarts'.  For those who are unfamiliar with these sugary, processed breakfast-foods go here. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-Tarts

Pop tarts had made news about 5 years before when it was found they were among the list of 'combustible breakfast foods' and could literally explode if over-toasted, shooting flames feet in the air.  After this, all pop tarts carried a label warning against over-toasting.

SOS made many oddball claims like that for every box of strawberry pop-tarts people bought, SM would stay on the air for 22-point-something minutes longer and therefore if X number of pop tarts needed to be sold.  Fans were encouraged to buy multiple boxes, way more than they would ever need, and the buying was to be done on a certain day(?) or week(?) in order that it would be noted by company executives.  The plea to buy strawberry pop tarts was posted to many anime MLs and websites to the point where some MLs had to forbid messages like it and ban any offenders.  SOS made a bad name for SM fans everywhere and if challanged their answer would be things like 'at least we're doing something'. 

The procot came and went with much fanfare in SOS but little elsewhere.  In the aftermath, not much happened.  SOS posted lots of self-lauding appraisals, vague statements like "my friend in the industry says we definately made a dent".  But the sales numbers came and went, SM still got pulled off the air, and after the fact, many people who had supported the idea wondered just what had gotten into their heads.

SOS, however, never really learned their lesson.  When Irwin got the latter half of SMR back on the air, in an attempt to sell more of its toy line, SOS claimed the procot had been a great sucess.  In reality the two things were completely unrelated, the decision to finish the latter half of SMR was already made by Irwin and in the works long before the day the procot took place.

So every once in a while, SOS would declare a procott on some other item like lunaballs or lunchboxes in hopes that more merchendise would come out, that the show would go back on the air, or something like that.  They claimed responsibility for every SM-related sucess and when the procots failed, they blamed the fans for talking them down or not buying enough of the item.  If you want to see more the lunacy, just do a search on google for 'pop tart procott'.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on October 11, 2007, 02:08:07 am
2007-oct-09 18:41PST:  Reference number 074

No.  It is generally a very bad idea.
There may be times when this can be beneficial, but most of these are special cases.

Most of these books/talks/audio CDs/etc. tend to be 'hard sells' similar to the way timeshares or strange types of mortage loans are sold.  You might hear testimonials from people who have been using the strategy to 'make 3-5% return (income) every month' but notice how few of these people have been using the strategy for very long and still willing to talk about it.  Not only are statements of 3% income every month outlandish, but anyone who uses this strategy for a long time stands to lose a significant portion of the principal.

There are different variations of this scheme and most seek to capitalize on the fact that derivatives will generally lose value as they approach their expiration date.  Most of these variations involve selling derivatives and then buying them back at a later time (once the value has dropped). 

Why are some people today pushing this scheme?  Most of these schemes involve buying and selling derivatives only a few months out, and in a volatile market these derivates may be bought and sold quite often as the asset value moves up and down (in an attempt to alleviate 'risk').  Like with those funny 'mortgage of the month' loans, the people who stand to make the most money from the scheme are the brokers who handle the buying and selling of these derivatives.

The reality is that people who use this scheme may typically make 3% on the first month (where they are only selling derivatives and not buying any back) and then 1% every month thereafter, but with significant added risk and no greater upside potential.  More explanation would be a waste of time, let's just say it's a sucker sell and leave it at that.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 07, 2007, 04:49:28 pm
2007-nov-06 07:30PST:  Reference number 80

No, it is just an 'erroneous first frame'.  It is in no way a subliminal or secret message.  There are enough subliminal/secret messages as it is.  For instance, read the lyrics for the opening song.  Fortunately, the MC* is very perceptive and can pick up on things a lot quicker than most people.

Note:  'MC' in this context means 'Main Character'.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 09, 2007, 08:34:22 pm
2007-nov-08 08:46PST:  Reference number 82

It is not possible.  No one is perfect and anyone will eventually make a bad decision.  Hence, the need for checks and balances based on others, and the discipline to fall back to these checks when they are employed.  This is why ultimately some kind of structure is important if an organization is to last a long time.  Even nature has structure, it may not be immediately obvious, but it is there on some level. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 20, 2007, 04:58:01 am
2007-nov-17 12:17PST:  Reference number 87

Alright, this may seem like a serious matter, but there is no need for alarm.  Certain countermeasures or 'stealth measures' could prove effective.  There is legitimate traffic out there.  For instance, it is well-known that Blizzard's WOW, used by an estimated 8 million worldwide, uses it to distribute patches and game updates.  Linux distributions like Fedora* use it to distribute the otherwise unwieldy distribution.  Fan groups use it to distribute fan-films and other homemade media.  In the future, by disguising one's own releases as legitimate traffic, it will be possible to fool the inspectors and slip 'under the radar'. 

Note:  This is what the pig is refering too:  http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 26, 2007, 09:59:10 pm
2007-nov-25 18:52PST:  Reference number 93

In a standard plastic cup, 1cm or less extra virgin olive oil, then add 1 teaspoon agave nectar, 1+ tablespoon wildflower honey, crushed red peppers, less than 1 teaspoon wasabi, and ginger spice.  Mixed together, of course.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 26, 2007, 11:50:00 pm
2007-apr-01 8:03PST:  Reference number A051.

With everything given so far, it's not possible to determine truth or fiction beyond doubt.
Additional follow-up to the above.
This question comes up time and time again, and I don't have the time or care to investigate it myself.
But if you want a starting point to investigation, here is a good one.
There is a rather extensive database of vehicular fatalities online.
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
It is perfectly probable that NK has given enough specific information which, if true, could link to a single or a few instances in this database.  Do a database search based on all relevant information and approximate time frame.  If there are no such instances, there is clearly some fibbing going on.  If you can narrow it down to one instance or only a few instances, then you are almost there.  Record those instances, cross-reference with other data like orbituaries and articles of accident reports in local papers.  Then you have a name (at least a surname), a place, a date, an approximate time, etc. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 30, 2007, 10:53:34 pm
2007-nov-30 08:47PST:  Reference number 95

It has to be Shion.  There is one scene that pretty much says it all.  When Shion throws the pawns to determine who will go first in the game between Ayumi and that guy's brother, look at the scene that immediately follows.  She is able to find enjoyment in even the most (seemingly) mundane actions, while other characters are always getting too wound up about other "stuff" to be happy.  Just like the young girl in the Yotsuba anime.  Those advertisements that say "Enjoy... everything" and show her doing some 'kid' thing and enjoying it immensely.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on December 06, 2007, 11:13:15 pm
2007-dec-05 22:12PST:  Reference number 114

One day the main received a phone call from some legal or lawyer sounding guy saying he represented so-and-so and wanting the main to return his call.  This later got pushed into the background as he had to deal with a more important episode of the girl getting appendicitis.  But once the girl recovered, this guy showed up at the main's door and said he represented the girls' father who was doing time and wanted to meet her.  The main was very insistent on saying no but the girl wanted to see her father anyways.  So the main was obliged to go along with the girl's wishes, and in the end would simply feel obliged to go along to the prison with her.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on December 28, 2007, 10:46:35 pm
2007-dec-27 08:05PST:  Reference number 119

Injury Severity (-1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 9)
Fire Occurance (1)
Number of Occupants (3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Display:  State, Case Number, Vehicle Number, Person Number, Age, Injury Severity, Number of Occupants, Extrication, Sex, Number of Fatalities in Vehicle

No Display:  Fire Occurance

Then scan the list, with additional critierion.  For example: look for 3 related individuals with the same case number.
1) injury severity = 4, age > 16, sex = 1
2) injury severity = 4, age > 16, sex = 2
3) extrication != 0, injury severity != 4, sex = 2, 4 >= age >= 8

For 2006, no relevant entries found.
For 2005, no relevant entries found.

I guess you can go back farther, or try turning off the "Fire Occurance", if you are willing to spend a lot more time searching.  But look at what he says very carefully.  Is it really worth the trouble?  This alone should demonstrate that something is not proper.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on January 03, 2008, 11:48:28 pm
2007-jan-02 06:27PST:  Reference number 121

All the pigs gathered at a local site, this time it was a park within walking distance of "The Daily Pet" to ensure that hay, romaine, and other foods and refreshments were nearby.  At the beginning of the event, the pigs congregated into different "preference groups" to indicate which bunny they felt inclined to support.  The next thirty minutes was largely a free-for-all, with pigs wheeking, cooing, rumbling and strutting around to show their support for an individual bunny and try to convince those in other groups or yet undecided to also support the bunny they had chosen.  After the initial free-for-all, a tally was taken and the big surprise was that support for Yuebing, who lives with Vincent (of Shinsen), had declined to a paltry 4%.  Quite a surprise for a bunny who had been favored in local surveys and dubbed a 'frontrunner' by other bunnies and even prominent pigs.

Jo-Jo 35%
Holly 33%
Min-min 16%
Mr. Sparkles 12%
Yue-bing 4%

So Yuebing was eliminated and another 30 minutes followed where many Yuebing supporters joined with "Mr. Sparkles" supporters, Vincent's oldest rabbit.  Min-min of h-b fame saw her support fall as her supporters were defecting to the tier 1 race between Jo-Jo and Holly.  Another tally taken
reported:

Jo-Jo 39%
Holly 38%
Mr. Sparkles 19%
Min-min 4%

Based on these numbers, delegates were appointed, Min-Min 1 pig, Mr. Sparkles 3 pigs, Holly and Jo-Jo each 6 pigs.  After this most pigs left to go to "The Daily Pet" while the few remaining pigs wrapped up the event.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on January 10, 2008, 07:22:50 pm
2007-jan-08 08:12PST:  Reference number 127

It is not necessary that she actually "went/jumped back in time as an adult" to explain the ending.  Remember that Rika claims to have spent around a hundred years in a time loop.  In the end, the time loop collapsed and ceased to exist, but consider the effects of this.  The Rika that had spent a century (or more) had not aged at all, definately not a hundred years.  To make this possible in reality, something else must have happened as to not create a logical / temporal paradox.  That 'something else' has to do with the shadow (dark) Rika.

My explanation was that the shadow Rika naturally moves 'backwards' through time while the normal Rika is like everyone else, moving 'forward' though time.  When they both occupied the same space, in the time loop, neither one moved through time at all, both cancelled each other out and were 'frozen in time'.  When they exit the loop at the end, they seperate again and normal Rika will return to the standard forward path through time.  Like in [physics, ie. atomic fission], shadow Rika returns to a negative path through time and momentum is conserved.  In the end, we are around 20+ years back in time and Shadow Rika meets with her as a young girl.  That is my explanation.  Nobody ever 'went back' in time, they just travelled through time like they normally do.  Shadow Rika must have been 'born' at some point in the future.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on January 14, 2008, 10:16:14 pm
2007-jan-12 07:15PST:  Reference number 129

A possibility, but highly improbable.  Certainly it cannot be ruled out, but at the same time, there's no reason to suspect her.  Think about if this were true -- it would change everything about the story -- completely. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on January 17, 2008, 02:50:09 am
2007-jan-12 21:57PST:  Reference number 131

There is a perfectly good reason for that.  The sequence is A B C D E F G H J K L M N P R T U V W Y AA AB AC D AE AF ... .  The missing letters resemble numbers too closely and are omitted to not lead to errors.  For instance, AI1 vs. A11.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on February 19, 2008, 01:09:44 am
2007-jan-16 18:24PST:  Reference number 137

That was released on or about valentines day 2-14-2008.  There are no choices to make so you can't really call it a 'game'.  You can download the torrent or direct download here.

http://trueremembrance.insani.org/get.html

If you want one with choices try ADoS.

http://at2006.haeleth.net/game.php?id=16

or OMGWTFOTL.

http://www.insani.org/omgwtfotl.html
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on February 20, 2008, 04:43:14 am
2007-jan-19 19:30PST:  Reference number 141

Not who 'he' says he is.  Yue-bing, the bunny who lives with Vincent, Shinsen's Vincent, recently acquired one of those small-animal keyboards and has been chatting up on IRC like mad.  Vincent already tried to put a stop to her, but he's too busy to watch her 24/7 so there's really not much he can do about it. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on February 20, 2008, 10:27:54 pm
2007-jan-20 08:51PST:  Reference number 142

It makes perfect sense, just keep in mind Yue-bing's psyche and vocabulary.  Yue-bing is still fuming over how she was eliminated early in the bunny caucus and her supporters were so few that the only end result of her candidacy was to push Mr. Sparkles above Min-min.  Likewise, when Yue-bing refers to 'my girlfriend' she is really refering to Vincent and when she refers to 'a client from the Pentagon' she is really refering to Mikey, Jojo's right-hand-ferret as Jojo is the neighborhood 'tough bunny' and has appointed Mikey with keeping the local snake and coyote problem at bay.  Last week Mikey met with both Min-min and Yue-bing to discuss his new plans to build on the gains made against the snakes in the last few months, due in part to a local rainy season.  It might seem strange that Yue-bing, who has built herself up around her human followers like Vincent, is now trying to ally herself with the local bunny population.  But she might have her eyes on the next bunny caucus, and her lack of a following or a base among the native small-animal population is a major reason her showing at the caucus was so poor. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on February 29, 2008, 12:40:35 am
2007-jan-27 21:13PST:  Reference number 145

A recent example would be "Sketchbook:  Full Color".  An older show would be "Kino's Journey".  A show like "Yotsuba&!" is also a good example*.  Each one of these shows is a perfect example, though in different ways.  Semi-examples would be Animal Yokocho or even "Clannad", but these also diverge at points, not a true thematic piece.

* I know it hasn't aired yet.  Sometimes he refers to future things as if they have already happened.  If it's a problem, take it up with him over Skype. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 13, 2008, 11:36:20 pm
2007-mar-12 19:16PST:  Reference number 152

Yue-bing's proposal, to use the time dilation created by non-inertial reference frames in order to lower the necessary amount of time to sub a show, would offer minimal time gains, so nominal they may not even be detectable.  Her plan, the one involving gathering the fansubbing team in a giant elevator and lowering the elevator down to the center of the earth might work in concept, since neither the people are the surface of the team in the elevator are in what is technically an inertial reference frame, but in reality the numbers are so small that the time differential would be so negligeable it could probably not even be detected in the time it takes to normally sub an episode.  Not to mention all the technical hurdles to overcome in doing that.  Let's face it, Yue-bing is patently insane, but you probably already knew that. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 01, 2008, 10:51:07 pm
2007-mar-29 08:17PST:  Reference number 157

No.  And no.  That much alone should be obvious by watching it.  I dare say that even Shinsen, in its current state being run by Yue-bing, could not achieve that level of lacking QC and edit.  I think I know what is happening, but it's totally unrelated to anything we did. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 04, 2008, 12:50:04 am
2008-apr-02 12:17PST:  Reference number 158

It will crystalize over time.  There is nothing you can do.  Do not allow it to freeze as that can speed up the process.  Your best bet is to keep it at a steady temperature and don't buy more than you can use in three to six months time.  Once it starts to crystalize you can typically heat it to break it down but it just won't be the same. 

*** NOTE:  There is a typo in some of the dates above, it should be obvious which ones, the 2007 should be 2008, sorry about that.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 04, 2008, 12:21:17 pm
2008-apr-04 03:20PST:  Reference number 159

(#19)

p: It's a beautiful song!
kenji: Hi. Isn't it a good song?
p: Yes!
kenji: But it isn't completed.
kenji: It doesn't have words yet.
p: Then, I'll write words.
kenji: Thanks, but, maybe later.
P: You think I'm still a baby.
P: Papuliko! Love, love, lovely, twinkle!
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 18, 2008, 10:04:35 pm
2008-apr-16 07:48PST:  Reference number 163

I guess you could say it is okay.  Definately not above the other ones though.  Quite lacking in dramatic tension (unlike the others) or maybe just taking way too long to get off the ground.  Unfortunately there is little suspense, only a passing sense of mystery and not much of a reason to look forward to each new episode.  This particular formula can work -- look at something like 'Sky Girls' where it worked well from the beginning. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 21, 2008, 10:35:59 pm
2008-apr-20 18:21PST:  Reference number 165

Yes, I'll agree with you there, later on it does improve quite a bit and for the latter half, it's more what it should be. 

As for your second question, it would definately make sense to say that, especially when you consider that scene at the beginning of #14, and the subtleties therein.  Watch it several times, it should become pretty clear from the looks, glances, and reactions. 

Now the technology in the show seems really 'oddball'.  It's not really too well thought out, it's obvious someone is making it up as he goes along.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 24, 2008, 06:57:10 pm
2008-apr-23 16:48PST:  Reference number 166

No need to panic.  Just don't buy it.  There are pleanty of alternatives.  I don't recommend hoarding it (basically buying lots at a high or inflated prices) as it does not last forever, and supplies will be increasing in the next several months.  Shop around, and always keep alternatives or substitutes in mind.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on May 05, 2008, 11:20:03 pm
2008-may-04 12:18PST:  Reference number 171

If you read the notes, the poll was moved here: 
http://forum.live-evil.org/index.php/topic,1488.0.html
so you can vote for it there instead.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on May 06, 2008, 03:42:58 pm
2008-may-05 19:55PST:  Reference number 172

Yeah, we're in agreement here, don't even get me started.  (10:42) we can clearly see it has both a surface gun and an AA gun, and 2 masts, (13:22) it is moving far too fast with respect to its size, a diesel-electric of the time while submerged and not snorkeling, think 5 kts, maybe 10 kts max when running off the batteries.  Also note the twin screws (and in 12:25).  Now here's a big one, (13:37) even if the sub had a radar, it would not be used underwater; he would be using high-frequency sonar for ranging and sonar is not going to sweep like that.  (14:30) Lights?!  etc.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on May 09, 2008, 09:45:33 pm
2008-may-08 15:37PST:  Reference number 175

It is, it glorifies violence (by not depicting realistic consequences to violent acts), encourages teenage (or youth) delinquency, and dubious morality, thievery for one's own apparent benefit, and a secretive support organization to help further their own ends.

Shion is probably a better example, about antithetical main characters meant to be empathized with regardless of their oddities.  And an villian who is up there among the most twisted, devious, and evil villians in a contemporary show.  A truly evil person, so obsessed with an end that he can justify double murder and child cruelty for, what, in the end, amounts to nothing more than his own selfish needs. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on June 22, 2008, 05:47:50 pm
2008-jun-20 09:30PST:  Reference number 197

Finally this is a reasonable question.  In the past, Yue-bing had used a simple but effective tactic to gain a group of 'supporters' during prior bunny caucuses. 

Yue-bing was dutifully given a number of carrots per day by Vincent, and while she would eat them occasionally, most of them she saved.  When she had accumulated a number of carrots, typically several, she would give the carrots to one of her supporters who would then attempt to bribe a pig into supporting her in exchange for the carrots.  Most pigs would accept this offer on the spot, causing her base of supporters to grow to levels where she could dominate the caucus with their sheer numbers.

This tactic developed problems in early 2008. 

1) Jojo had his own tight network of supporters, and often held meetings where their concerns were to be discussed with him.  One night, several of his supporters aired concerns about bribes and revealed they had been asked to vote for Yue-bing in exchange for several carrots.  Now pigs are typically given carrots once a day, if that.  So the temptation of having several carrots is so great that most pigs would simply accept that offer on the spot.  Jojo didn't get angry, he was quoted as saying "Seven carrots in a day is great, but a carrot a day is also great.  Rather than choose, take them both."  In short, Jojo was running on a carrot-a-day platform and he was telling his supporters to take the bribe if it it was offered to them, but on caucus day ignore the bribe and vote for him anyways.

2) Later in the run-up to the early 2008 caucus, several member of Yue-bing's inner circle were either incapacitated or 'otherwise involved'.  She was often forced to rely on Barney, who was among the most flaky of her supporters and he would often lie to her, saying he used the carrots to bribe a pig while in reality eating them all himself.  She was fooled so completely by this ruse that many of her attempts to bribe pigs never actually happened. 

This caused a near-total breakdown of the tactic in early 2008, basically causing her to drop out of the political scene altogether and even her position as Shinsen's mascot was replaced by Tuan Tuan. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on June 26, 2008, 01:46:46 pm
2008-jun-25 07:47PST:  Reference number 199

I did a quick search and this is what turned up.
BTW he has never given 10 oinks to anything, here are the 8's and 9's though.

Zero No Tsukaima (1+2) (8 oinks) setting
Asatte no Houkou (9 oinks) drama
Kimi ga Nozumu Eien (9 oinks) drama
Suzumiya Haruhi (8 oinks) wierd
Clannad (9 oinks) drama
Higurashi (1+2) (9 oinks) unique
Nanoha (A's only) (9 oinks) cute
Air (9 oinks) drama
Monster (8 oinks) suspense
Nana (8 oinks) characters
Aishiteruze Baby (8 oinks) drama
Ashita no Nadja (8 oinks) cute
Wellber no Mongatari (8 oinks) setting
Da Capo (1 only) (8 oinks) drama
Sky Girls (8 oinks) cute
Chokotto Sister (8 oinks) cute
Les Miserables (8 oinks) cute
Shion no Ou (8 oinks) suspense
W-Wish (8 oinks) drama
Lamune (8 oinks) cute
Strawberry Panic (8 oinks) cute
Nijuu Mensou no Musume (9 oinks) action
Comet-san (9 oinks) cute
Fushigi Boshi no Futago Hime (8 oinks) cute
Kami-chama Karin (8 oinks) cute
Moetan (8 oinks) cute
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch (8 oinks) cute
Puchi Puri Yushi (8 oinks) cute
Petopeto-san (8 oinks) wierd
Sketchbook: full color (8 oinks) life
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on August 04, 2008, 07:42:14 pm
2008-aug-04 07:47PST:  Reference number 212

Not everything is direct.  Other than the active / direct type, you have indirect (with immediate feedback), you have indirect (with delayed feedback), you have passive / perceptual, implied, etc.  This is explained in-depth in the video pigcast #59.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on August 27, 2008, 08:04:41 pm
2008-aug-26 08:52PST:  Reference number 220

Not recommended.  Among small animals, some of the features work fine for bunnies, but nothing works well for pigs.  Mr. Sparkles was over the other day and he was able to complete the short track for the simple run just by hopping around repeatedly.  Maybe next he will challenge Yue-bing to play in 2P mode.  Anything beyond the short track he gets tired out though, he got about halfway through the long track and less than a third through the island loop track before giving up. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on September 03, 2008, 08:30:43 pm
2008-sep-02 03:17PST:  Reference number 224

This is not true.  Relative prices have stayed the same or decreased.  Rumors of a shortage are being perpetuated by Yue-bing but the reality it is a non-issue. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on September 05, 2008, 09:47:03 pm
2008-sep-05 06:51PST:  Reference number 226

Afterward he attended the Charity Meet for Tuan Tuan and was shooting away with his camera until the memory card filled up.  He entrusted the task of dumping his memory card to Mr. Sparkles (who in reality volunteered for this task) but should have known better b'cos Mr. Sparkles is a compulsive nibbler who instead quickly nibbled up his memory card.  So I'm guessing they were all lost, unless he managed to recover any of them but that is somewhat unlikely considering the condition the card was when he finally was able to retrieve it from Mr. Sparkles.  The lesson here is obvious, don't trust a compulsive nibbler to dump the data off your memory card, or trust him to hold on to your memory card at all.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on October 15, 2008, 10:41:40 am
2008-oct-14 13:15PST:  Reference number 239

The reason that most people miss is an overdependence on the CG that is somewhat pervasive today.  Sure the first one had it too but it found ways to keep it low-key and non-disruptive.  The problem with this is that too often the frames seem like a collection of different overlayed things rather than drawn how a true scene is with some sense of coherence or connectedness.  They take shortcuts, ie. perspective is applied to the background but not the characters, or just inconsistently, to some characters and not others.  First season, they did the proper thing to apply perspective to the whole scene, not just the background. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on October 23, 2008, 07:20:49 pm
2008-oct-23 08:11PST:  Reference number 243

No.  Human-sized bunnies do not exist.  Probably, what you saw was a person (or some other person-sized animal) in a bunny outfit.  Not a real bunny. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 05, 2008, 09:32:11 pm
2008-nov-04 16:12PST:  Reference number 247

Most are hit-and-miss, yawners, though there are some good ones like number 6 which are comparable to the original.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 14, 2008, 11:31:41 pm
2008-nov-12 07:24PST:  Reference number 251

Totally untrue.  It is actually quite anti-violence in nature.  The violence is depicted more brutally and realistically than the often-cited 'cartoon' violence that is so popular today, with blood, realistic injury modeling, and mortal injuries resulting in death (rather than miraculous recoveries).  Not to mention real consequences when the plot is understood in full.  Though this takes time, many people don't care to watch enough episodes to make an informed decision. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 29, 2008, 09:07:20 am
2008-nov-28 20:27PST:  Reference number 258

No problem.  All the pigs are fine.  I don't know of any small animals that were injured in the attacks.  "Mr. Happy", a chinchilla, was taken hostage at some point but he managed to overpower his captors and escape to safety.  There is no apparent linkage to Yue-bing, but Mikey has pointed out, it's way too early to tell. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on December 01, 2008, 09:52:15 pm
2008-dec-01 07:31PST:  Reference number 264

Please stop asking about this.  Five people have asked about this already in the past day since it came out.  There is absolutely no relation between the two.  How could there be?  None.  Nothing.  Absolutely not.  Period.  It's purely coincidental.  There's no way it couldn't be.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on December 24, 2008, 08:19:31 am
2008-dec-23 22:59PST:  Reference number 270

That is misinformation.  Totally untrue.  Being labeled a certain way does not make something true beyond doubt.  Only a fool believes everything he reads to the letter.

There is priority, and it will be done when possible.  But, incognito, it is difficult to accomplish.  This is just the way things are.  Get used to it. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on January 02, 2009, 12:25:07 pm
2009-01-02 NA:  Reference number 275

[Several people have inquired as to the pig's use of 'OODA' in a recent pigcast, this is not slang, it is an acronym, wikipedia it for details.]
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on January 09, 2009, 07:09:46 pm
2009-01-09 09:17:  Reference number 278

There was no altercation.  Jojo commented that after installing it, the black dots were gone, after which Mr. Sparkles retorted, "I'm gonna miss those little guys."  A few of the other bunnies stopped hopping around long enough to laugh at his little joke, and then they started hopping again.  That's all that happened.  No one got in a fight or had hurt feelings.  That's it.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on January 13, 2009, 11:35:15 pm
2009-01-12 20:31:  Reference number 281

(http://a.imagehost.org/t/0409/shion_2a.jpg) (http://a.imagehost.org/view/0409/shion_2a)
(http://a.imagehost.org/t/0283/shion_2b.jpg) (http://a.imagehost.org/view/0283/shion_2b)

Here are the pics he mentioned in the last pigcast.  Please do not ask the pig who the characters are or what their relation to Shion is.  He knows just as much as everyone else.  He was sent these pics by Skippy, a bunny living in Japan.  Sadly there is a bit of a language barrier; Skippy only knows bunny-Japanese so no one can understand him at all.  From the pics one can infer it will be a 3-character show, similar in format to the original. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on February 19, 2009, 10:07:05 pm
2009-02-18 18:16:  Reference number 293

Rather than 'what' why not ask 'why should it matter?'.  There is absolutely nothing this person can do that would affect you in any way.  The very definition of irrelevant.  Just ignore it and deal with the things that actually matter or make a difference to you.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 04, 2009, 09:42:56 pm
2009-03-03 12:57:  Reference number 300

No.  It's just not done.  There's no truth to that.  I've heard the rumors too.  But it just doesn't make sense.  There are too many risk factors for anyone to seriously consider that. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 10, 2009, 12:10:02 am
2009-03-08 20:08:  Reference number 303

This is a difficult question and I am not sure there is just one answer.  The biblical nature is not lost, the statement itself is as if someone is hearing the words of god.  We do not know the context for these words, we can guess at it, but ultimately we do not know it.  The words are simply given.

> Do you know what is the sin?
> It isn't because you ate the forbidden fruit.
>
> Do you know what is the sin?
> It isn't because you listened to the serpent.
>
> You still don't know what is the sin?
> Then, that itself is your sin.

If you read the original storey, 3:12, man, confronted by god, blames woman.  3:13, woman, confronted by god, blames the snake.  My immediate view here is that neither one admited guilt, ie. "I was wrong, please forgive me."  They tried to justify their misdeed, this is why they were punished.  Had they admitted guilt, that in itself would be punishment enough.  The sin is 'pride'.

By another interpretation, the sin would be non-temperance or 'lack of judgement', but this would be paradoxical since neither man nor woman could be expected to practice judgement before the act.  Both had will, but no judgement.  So the first interpretation seems the most obvious.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 13, 2009, 01:05:51 am
2009-03-12 09:28:  Reference number 305

I don't feel sorrey for them.  Really.  To me they are both stupid.  It is just a matter of who is more stupid.  Right or wrong is beside the point, I'm tired of listening to the whining. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 16, 2009, 10:00:38 pm
2009-03-15 07:16:  Reference number 307

It's not what you think it is.  He has pleanty of time.  It's deeper than that, it's the overall message.  He's got complications with that overall message, hence it doesn't get done.  Think of it this way, if you are told to do something, but that 'something' conflicts with your own sense of who you are, how the world works, your beliefs on right and wrong, etc., it puts some people into a state of cognitive dissonance where the act itself is never done.  Excuses might be given, but those excuses are not real, they are made-up, decoys to justify their avoidance of the act.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 20, 2009, 01:33:16 am
2009-03-18 23:39:  Reference number 309

It was a delicate situation.  Letting her run wild with her plans, not putting a stop to them immediately, would only invite further damage.  When we put a stop to her scheme, we did find one already in the works.  Sure, we could have put someone new in her place and kept operating, at least until a release was made.  But those kinds of things are neither our field of expertise nor how we operate.  And no, I don't know what they'll do with it now that the whole boondoggle has been revealed.  Look at it from their perspective, they never intended to do this to begin with, so they'll probably just throw it away. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on March 25, 2009, 11:19:16 pm
2009-03-24 07:12:  Reference number 312

To even act this way shows a total lack of perspective.  It's like the old saying among pigs, don't get in bed with a cat and then complain you got bitten.  The numbers cited alone should show this complete lack of perspective. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 08, 2009, 10:33:59 pm
2009-04-08 08:37:  Reference number 319

[WARNING:  possible spoilers]

It can be looked at any number of ways, but her final words confirm the most obvious interpretation.
A shared dream between two people, one, up to and including the moment of being born, the other, in doubt and questioning the past.  Of course there are other interpretations, but that is the most obvious and sensible one.  The theme should also be made obvious around the same time, if not already (I guessed it in the previous episode), to have faith in one's own past doings, not doubt. 

[end]
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 18, 2009, 01:24:46 am
2009-04-17 07:03:  Reference number 324

That they had memos to begin with is part of the systemic problem.  Memos are bureaucracy.  They are written by bureaucrats who are detached from the work at hand.  They are rarely, if ever, used in practice.  The bureaucrat writes it so he can say 'look what I did'.

In the uncommon case where real documents are used for, or applied to, a task, these documents are typically 'white paper' or 'working documents'.  These are much more readable than 'memos' and if you have read the memos in question you should agree.  But in most real cases, problems like these are handled as-you-go.  When Bob the rat's treachery was revealed, we didn't have a protocol or document or anything formal like that.  We didn't ask for one either.  Granted they were going to feed him to the cat, but so what. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on April 28, 2009, 12:49:58 am
2009-04-26 21:01:  Reference number 332

It is worth watching.  Complaining 'it is not accurate' is really not valid, 3K is far from accurate to begin with. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on May 09, 2009, 12:21:14 am
2009-05-08 06:21:  Reference number 338

It cannot be applied in every single situation.  In fact most everyday situations, it can't.  But in situations where it is relevant, it is absolute and transcends all other things.  It's not a complicated thing, really.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on May 22, 2009, 01:52:51 am
2009-05-20 11:41:  Reference number 347

Probably in the mid-late period of the year, think around July to September. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on July 01, 2009, 12:45:31 am
2009-06-30 12:17:  Reference number 361

Yes, September 2009 for real.  #1 through #5 will be re-released also.  Wolf and spice should also be out by the end of the year.  
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on July 06, 2009, 11:59:42 pm
2009-07-06 06:41:  Reference number 362

Absolutely nothing happened.  In reality everything went as normal.  Real people can confirm this.  Do not listen to rumors / online innuendo.  No, that is not yelling / shrieking you hear in the background. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on July 07, 2009, 12:15:09 am
2009-07-06 06:45:  Reference number 363

Yes.  Basically this is what happened.  At the "last minute", Mr. Sparkles decided he wanted to host a small animal mascot meet-and-greet where the mascots could meet the fans and industry, sign autographs, take questions and all that.  Not as any kind of fundraiser or charity event, but, "just because".  Basically just your everyday, garden-variety panel. 

Now this was kinda late notice, Ben was kinda iffy about pushing this through at the last minute until he saw the fan and industry response and some people who wanted in on it, ie. to be there, pressured him to push it through.  It was really rushed, last-minute, so the only timeslot Ben could find for the panel where a large enough room was available happened to overlap with the industry/fansubbing panel.  And when the industry execs who were considering attending that panel heard about the small animal meet and greet, they badly wanted to attend and suddenly that created a conflict in their schedule.  I'm sure you can figure out the rest from there. 

So honestly there is nothing there.  It is not that they (Funi or anyone else) hates anyone.  They'd just rather be somewhere else.  Sorrey if it causes anyone troubles, but that's just the way things sometimes turn out.  Bad luck, it happens. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on July 27, 2009, 07:37:55 pm
2009-07-27 06:45:  Reference number 366

Yes. 

NOTE:  Thanks for pointing this out to the pig.  I'll look into it tonight. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on July 31, 2009, 06:16:14 pm
2009-07-31 8:51:  Reference number 368

The reason Vincent wasn't there (*) was b'cos he died a few months ago.  Everyone was really sad, here is the memorial video that was made shortly after he died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY0FjWW5MNA

(*) The pig is refering to the 'small animal mascot meet and greet' panel at Otakon.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on August 07, 2009, 11:53:24 pm
2009-08-07 18:13:  Reference number 371

She is just fine.  Nothing is wrong.  Mr. Sparkles was chatting with her just the day before yesterday.  Things should be back to normal in anywhere from a few days to two weeks.  Mr. Sparkles said she felt it kinda strange that people were going bonkers over the whole thing.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on August 11, 2009, 10:56:27 pm
2009-08-11 08:33:  Reference number 373

The official policy is to neither confirm or deny statements like that.  If you feel this is the case, you should wait for an official announcement from Yamaha corporation. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on August 19, 2009, 07:13:30 pm
2009-08-19 07:57:  Reference number 377

Designing those adds is one of Mr. Sparkles 'side jobs'.  They are supposed to be offensive, eye-catching.  He said he felt a bit guilty b'cos he felt it might put whales in a bad light, though.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on August 26, 2009, 10:09:47 pm
2009-08-25 16:19:  Reference number 387

No, you saw what everyone else saw.  It cut out due to technical difficulties.  Mr. Hops got a little too excited and decided to have a little chew on the cam's power cable.  Anyways I won.  The final sequence was:  B4, [C7], B5, [F2], B3, [F3], B6 for the win.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on August 27, 2009, 04:09:25 am
2009-08-26 18:41:  Reference number 388

Yes.  We're on it.  We're familiar with his MO and recently he's been drawn to the early-warning 'honey pots' that Mikey had set up months ago.  Thank you for your concern.  Give us some time to deal with the matter.

As far as the main, yes.  He is too much of a wussy for my liking.  It is a constant drag on the game.  There is a time for 'cowboy diplomacy' or implicit threats of violence and this time has come up more than once.  But the main prefers to just buy people off with money. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on September 17, 2009, 04:15:05 pm
2009-09-16 07:28:  Reference number 397

I know.  Please do not worry.  This is an ongoing operation and everything will be explained in detail in the aftermath. 

I can't say that everything went according to plan, but there was a plan in place before the whole thing started and everyone was able to follow it pretty well.  There was a bit of a rush at the end but everyone got what they came for.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on October 07, 2009, 10:53:00 pm
2009-10-07 06:31:  Reference number 408

All right.  It is actually a very simple analysis and I think anyone who takes some time to think about it can figure out the right answer.  The important thing is to look at each relevant time point from the very beginning and ask yourself 'does this person's actions make sense' or 'is this person acting in a reasonable way'?  From this type of analysis, it becomes obvious as early as t = 1 that [DELETED] was not really acting in good faith.  People lose contact all the time.  [DELETED] had very unrealistic expectations, two weeks of trying to contact someone whose profile states they had not logged in for more than 3 weeks and then taking it to the next level is just uncalled for.  When [DELETED] then chose to go forward, it speaks for itself and anything that happened after that point is pretty moot.  [DELETED] had probably planned out the whole thing to unfold that way from the very beginning. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on October 15, 2009, 07:53:15 pm
2009-10-15 08:11:  Reference number 437

Yes.  Everyone is aware of the problem, and the staff have been informed of it.  There is no need to worry, give it another 24 hours or so and if it's not fixed by then, then you can start to seriously worry.
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on October 21, 2009, 09:37:09 pm
2009-10-21 07:31:  Reference number 445

[This one came in this morning and I am going to answer it in lieu of the pig.]

Yes, I do remember that.  I can't say a saw the whole thing, but I saw part of it.  This was AX2008.  It was maybe halfway through the "Pop Shock Masquerade" event.  I was leaving the event to catch my train (I was only there for one day that year) and as I left, at the far door leading into the event, there were 3 girls in bunny costumes standing facing the door, backs to the hallway.  Presumably, they were waiting for the cue to enter. 

Now I start to head for the exit of the con, which naturally leads past them.  I'm just about to pass them and 'out of nowhere' a short, bald guy with a camera appears and asks to take their picture.  One of the girls told him no b'cos she explained they were on cue to enter the event.  As they pass, I hear her telling him to come back after the event if he really wants their picture.  I thought little of it and just kept on walking. 

While the guy had a slight resemblence to Mr. E, I knew (at the time) that he wasn't Mr. E.  Not to mention his MO is different than Mr. E. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on October 28, 2009, 10:11:51 pm
2009-10-27 17:40:  Reference number 450

Individual non-small-animal tickets are not sold.  The way it works is that a normal admission ticket will allow the named small animal as well as one non-small-animal in at the time of admission.

In essence if you want to bring in two non-small-animals, you need to buy two small animal admission tickets. 
Title: Re: Answers from the pig (responses to questions asked over Skype)
Post by: Sindobook on November 05, 2009, 09:52:16 pm
2009-11-04 17:11:  Reference number 459

This is actually perfectly normal.  Everything is in order.  What you are seeing is the results of the machine being in full gear.  When he [Mr. Sparkles] said "we've hit critical mass now", he wasn't fooling.  Just sit back and relax.  They're easier to control when there's a lot of hate, paranoia, and loathing all around.