OT - With Sony ownership, whither these forums?

Peyton wrote on 6/18/2003, 1:13 PM
These forums are incredibly valuable, and have helped me climb the learning curve with ease. Will they continue here, move, or be discarded when Sony actually takes over?

Browsing these forums and looking at the support helped convince me to buy Vegas. I'd sure hate to have to do without.

Cheers,
Peyton

Comments

TorS wrote on 6/18/2003, 2:53 PM
If you were Sony, would you drop these forums? No? Have you reason to think Sony people are less smart than you are yourself? No? OK, the forums will stay. Forever.
Tor
BillyBoy wrote on 6/18/2003, 3:50 PM
The forums will stay;

but ....

you'll have to learn to speak and read Japanese.

or...

at the very least take off your shoes and eat Sushi.


Just kidding. :-)
Cliff Etzel wrote on 6/18/2003, 5:32 PM
Sushi - The Official food of Freedivers world wide... ;-)
JonnyMac wrote on 6/18/2003, 5:38 PM
Will all due respect, that sort of racist kidding really isn't appropriate in a public forum. Wakarimasuka?
FuTz wrote on 6/19/2003, 9:57 AM
I'm a little confused here : can I still remove my shoes to eat sheppard's pie at home? What's confusing is that back home in french, we call it "pâté chinois" which is, word for word "chinese pie". And it sure has NotHinG to do with some sort of chinese food. And the Japanese sure have nothing to do with Chinese, although there's sure been some sheppard in both countries since there must be sheeps and goats everywhere in the world ... ?:/

Mmm, what's the meaning of "wakarimasuka" JMac? Went to Japan twice, love sushi (in fact if I was rich I'd eat these at least 4 times a week!) and the more we learn, the more... we know. As long as "worldish knowledge" is some kind of a value... ;)

Easy guys... don't start a war; there's video games on line / LAN parties for that! :)
JonnyMac wrote on 6/19/2003, 10:14 AM
"Wakarimasuka?" means "Do you understand?"

Hey, I'm as jokey as the next guy, but there is no joke that justifies racial or cultural slander.
BillyBoy wrote on 6/19/2003, 10:43 AM
Johnny, in my opinion you are WAY too sensitive and see "racism" and "slander" under nearly every bush. There's nothing racist about anything anybody said in this thread or in the others you commented on in the past. Please...lighten up. If we can't laugh at others, their customs and ourselves, (and I routinely make fun of myself here, you can too, be my guest) its a sad world.

After all, I'm just a late middle aged white guy with a receding hairline, failing eyesight, diminished hearing and a growing waistline with a declining sex drive. In other words... a mess. Still, I have fun. Well sort of. <wink>
FuTz wrote on 6/19/2003, 11:40 AM
"...see "racism" and "slander" under nearly every bush"

Lol! you'd just put a capital "b" at the right place and THAT would be a real joke! At *least* in the MiddleEast !
BillyBoy wrote on 6/19/2003, 12:18 PM
LOL! Yea, but then I'd be accused of being politically incorrect. Maybe I should have used shrub. Maybe I should just shut-up.
busterkeaton wrote on 6/19/2003, 2:26 PM
I'm with BillyBoy, there was nothing racist about his post.

The focus of the humor was not about Japanese customs, the focus was he wasn't worried about negative consequences of the Sony purchase. Exaggerrated consequences was the device of the joke, not the focus.