Mukashi no jutsu - Doug DeRenzo

**sten** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 4:24pm

Originally Posted by Jeff C.

No, I think you are right bro, upon further reflection. This thread has been surreal.

Jeff Cook

Glad to have put some interest into your, what must be dull lives if this stuff is "surreal". Get out into the "real" world.

**sten** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 4:46pm

Originally Posted by Yoj

It's mukashi, done badly, I can't copy and paste from my dictionary. Ah, i could of course use the internetz:

http://japanese.about.com/blkod346.htm

I've been taught how to write kana and kanji, I'm not very good, especially at kanji, but hey, I had real lessons, someone here didn't. Yet another faked skill :D

So i guess when you write , it looks like a typewriter did it? Have you ever seen handwritten japanese?It doesn't resemble words from a book, as most peoples handwriting doesn't. let me see you paint vertically, in kanji and see how perfect it looks. What childish gibberish.
"OHH, look, he painted a letter crooked, he must be a lousy teacher. " This is like comedy hour for the mindless. I cannot wait to read a review if anyone does view my class. i can only imagine. If you put half of the time you spent here on doing something positive, instead of just "grasping at straws" to qoute another of the haters that is fond of the strawman phrase, you might amount to something. Yoj , you don't list your location. Are you in New York? perhaps you would like to have a close up look at the writing on the wall.

**Cy Q. Faunce** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 4:52pm

Originally Posted by sten

"OHH, look, he painted a letter crooked, he must be a lousy teacher. "

Look: You're LARPing. That's the only reasonable interpretation of the crappy videos and half-assed cliches you've spouted here. You've asked us to judge your art on its own terms, and that's what we're doing.

As a LARPer, you still fail. You're getting details wrong that would embarrass an SCA member, a World War II re-enactor...hell, I've seen fursuiters who were more convincing as tigers or wolves or whatever than you are as an old-school Japanese badass. Jesus Christ, the guy in the Holstein costume out in front of the Chick-Fil-A is more convincing than you are.

**Dsimon3387** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 5:05pm

Originally Posted by sten

So i guess when you write , it looks like a typewriter did it? Have you ever seen handwritten japanese?It doesn't resemble words from a book, as most peoples handwriting doesn't. let me see you paint vertically, in kanji and see how perfect it looks. What childish gibberish.
"OHH, look, he painted a letter crooked, he must be a lousy teacher. " This is like comedy hour for the mindless. I cannot wait to read a review if anyone does view my class. i can only imagine. If you put half of the time you spent here on doing something positive, instead of just "grasping at straws" to qoute another of the haters that is fond of the strawman phrase, you might amount to something. Yoj , you don't list your location. Are you in New York? perhaps you would like to have a close up look at the writing on the wall.

No Sten I don't think you understand this critiscism so lets be totally clear:

When you write what is called Kanji it is not merely drawing pictures, there is actually a form to it, a rhyme and reason if you will.... Spend 20 bucks go into the city for a day and get a basic lesson in Kanji for 20 minutes... it will help you immensely.

You will learn that where you start the character, the direction you go and the order in which you stroke the character all effect the way the character looks when it is finished. Most people take the idea that Kanji is a picture representation entirely too literally. Even Katakana is partially based on principles of writing Kanji properly.

You dig Dougie?

**cam4276** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 5:10pm

So how did this asshat end up in YMAS and not being investigated?

Is this just as temporary thing until someone goes out?

I hope so as i agree with Cy. He seems to fail even as a larper.

**catfishaggie** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 5:32pm

Originally Posted by sten

I am not a swordsman.

Then why do you post pictures trying to insinuate that you do? If your brown belt is not practicing sword work, what is he doing then? Praticing switch hitting?

**Sri Hanuman** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 5:35pm

Originally Posted by sten

So i guess when you write , it looks like a typewriter did it? Have you ever seen handwritten japanese?

It doesn't need to look like a typewriter, it still looks legible and intelligent. Yes, I've seen Japanese handwriting, and it looks the way it is supposed to. What you have up looks more like the scribbling of a 2 year old.

Each stroke has an order, and when completed even by an amature, it looks a certain way, has a defined shape. What you did reminds me of my high school days when I would go online and randomly copy cool looking characters just because they looked cool on my wall. Similar look.

It doesn't resemble words from a book, as most peoples handwriting doesn't. let me see you paint vertically, in kanji and see how perfect it looks. What childish gibberish.

I take it you never took a writing class... or you would have known that anyone with even basic skills writes legible. Your arguement is seriously flawed.

"OHH, look, he painted a letter crooked, he must be a lousy teacher.

No sir, it just proves you are a larper.

If you put half of the time you spent here on doing something positive,

In the words of IIF which bare repeating, do some research.

instead of just "grasping at straws"

Says the man grasping at straws...

to qoute another of the haters that is fond of the strawman phrase, you might amount to something. Yoj , you don't list your location. Are you in New York? perhaps you would like to have a close up look at the writing on the wall.

For once I agree.
Yoj,だれが。。。デレンゾウにあいて下さい。そんなLARPINGは許せないんです。

**Sri Hanuman** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 5:38pm

Originally Posted by catfishaggie

Then why do you post pictures trying to insinuate that you do? If your brown belt is not practicing sword work, what is he doing then? Praticing switch hitting?

Major red flag in my book.

**sten** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 6:02pm

Originally Posted by Dsimon3387

No Sten I don't think you understand this critiscism so lets be totally clear:

When you write what is called Kanji it is not merely drawing pictures, there is actually a form to it, a rhyme and reason if you will.... Spend 20 bucks go into the city for a day and get a basic lesson in Kanji for 20 minutes... it will help you immensely.

You will learn that where you start the character, the direction you go and the order in which you stroke the character all effect the way the character looks when it is finished. Most people take the idea that Kanji is a picture representation entirely too literally. Even Katakana is partially based on principles of writing Kanji properly.

You dig Dougie?

I don't claim or aspire to be an expert kanji writer as I am sure you don't go to penmanship lessons for your english writing skills. You dig Dimon?

**sten** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 6:04pm

Originally Posted by cam4276

So how did this asshat end up in YMAS and not being investigated?

Is this just as temporary thing until someone goes out?

I hope so as i agree with Cy. He seems to fail even as a larper.

Don't know what a larper means.Why don't you swim over from ireland and look.