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Posted: Mar 17th, '04, 03:31
by iceberri
beer wrote:Actually the fact that BT isn't very technical is puzzling. The first time I installed it it tried like hell to run it, without realizing all that was expected of me was to click a link. the simplicity of the original client is... scary.
LOL! :lol I'm so glad someone understands! I felt like a *moron* after realizing that all BT initially required was clicking a link! T_T I think I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to fiddle with things... installing, un-installing, installing... *scratches head*

hehe, I admit that now, but a few months' ago - shortly after I learned how to use BT - I was still in vehement denial that I could do such a stupid thing................... :whistling:

Posted: Mar 17th, '04, 04:30
by Daijoubu
I'm a guy. After seeing My Sassy Girl and Summer Scent, I just had to find more sources for foreign movies and drama. I found the link for this site from AZNV.net. How many girls would actually sit down at a computer and search for a website that allows one to download these movies and dramas?

On another note, the only reason I learned about BT was through downloading anime. And it's pretty obvious to me that most anime are intended for a male audience. For example, DBZ, Love Hina, Gundam are three anime from different genre that were probably made for guys.

That's my 2 cent for my first pointless forum post,

Q

Posted: Mar 17th, '04, 05:11
by iceberri
Daijoubu wrote:I'm a guy. After seeing My Sassy Girl and Summer Scent, I just had to find more sources for foreign movies and drama. I found the link for this site from AZNV.net. How many girls would actually sit down at a computer and search for a website that allows one to download these movies and dramas?

On another note, the only reason I learned about BT was through downloading anime. And it's pretty obvious to me that most anime are intended for a male audience. For example, DBZ, Love Hina, Gundam are three anime from different genre that were probably made for guys.

That's my 2 cent for my first pointless forum post,

Q
I would like to disagree on your comment that girls do not watch anime. That's what shoujo anime are for! Although there are some 'guy animes' there are an equal number of 'girl animes'... Off the top of my head, I've watched Cardcaptor Sakura, X/1999, Scrapped Princess, Rurouni Kenshin, Naruto (disputably a guy anime, but I love it). To be quite honest, from what I've seen, most animes tend to be aimed at a wide audience, often overlapping girl's and guy's tastes.

Plus, I always thought girls were supposedly to be more into "soaps" than guys. :P As pointed out by our poll that this is not the case, I still think your comment, "how many girls would actually sit down at a computer and search for a website that allows one to download.." is invalid. Although it seems that guys are in the majority on d-addicts, girls definitely do hold a significant percentage, don't you think? By doubting that girls would visit websites to search for dramas... I find that slightly offensive because isn't that an implication that we're computer illiterate? I didn't know much skill was required to browse through websites and search for things.....

Hrmm.... my friends always say I'm overly sensitive when it comes to sexist issues..... :unsure:

Posted: Mar 17th, '04, 06:12
by Daijoubu
Sorry, I didn't want you to take it the wrong way. I wasn't trying to say that girls are computer illiterate. In my personal experience, most of my girl friends think it's boring to sit at the computer searching for movies to download. However, they don't seem to mind when I burn the movies for them .

Anyways, you're probably right on the anime issue. I just usually don't watch shoujou anime :D , so that thought slipped my mind when I first replied to this post. My girl friend, who introduced me to anime, would probably give me a good beating if she read that line :-( . She also taught me how to use irc, find fansubs group, and for a good 3 years, was my main source of anime. I'd would still be dependent on her if it weren't for BT.

So please don't be offended; I have no reason to pull a sexist comment when I'm spending most of my cable's bandwidth downloading, for example, Hotman :P .

BTW - I got hooked on anime because of Kenshin

Q

Posted: Mar 17th, '04, 21:59
by xkpxbabeex
haha i 'alwayss' thought there would be more girls than guys
but i guess im worng,, :glare:
hmm..
i dunno, i can't imagine guys interested in..dramas and stuff..:P
anywayss,, me a girl :D

-yoon

Posted: Mar 18th, '04, 02:06
by iceberri
Daijoubu wrote:BTW - I got hooked on anime because of Kenshin
Mmm... isn't it amazing? That was the first anime that got me totally hooked too! I especially loved the Kyoto arc series . . . I thought that was absolutely ... :w00t: Simply no other way to describe it. ^_^ To this day, it remains one of my favorite anime series. I found that the historical content only added to the series... not to mention Kenshin AND Aoshi. :wub:

Posted: Mar 18th, '04, 02:28
by Daijoubu
iceberri wrote:...not to mention Kenshin AND Aoshi.
Hmmm...

I prefer Tomoe from the OVA Trust and Betrayal :mrgreen:.

Seisouhen OVA was a major disappointment :glare:.

Posted: Mar 19th, '04, 13:36
by Shin
I'm a male.

Posted: Mar 22nd, '04, 18:43
by Matto4297
Daijoubu wrote:
iceberri wrote: I prefer Tomoe from the OVA Trust and Betrayal :mrgreen:.

Seisouhen OVA was a major disappointment :glare:.
Seisouhen was a big disappointment!!! I've never seen the Kenshn TV series. I started with the OVA and was really impressed by the depth and bleakness of the whole thing

that makes me sound like a goth doesn't it? :P

btw I'm a guy from the UK, I'm 21 (and not a goth!)

Posted: Mar 23rd, '04, 03:55
by iceberri
I hardly think appreciating the darker side in things is considered goth. ^__^ I really enjoyed the TV series, although it is very different from the OVAs. The TV series in general, is much more light-hearted... especially in the beginning episodes. It gets really awesome around the late 40s to 60s? I forget... it's been a little while. =P

Posted: Mar 24th, '04, 03:42
by SmallFurryCreature
DeathAtSight wrote:hmmm, last time I checked, I'm a guy.

Am I the only one using Mandrake Linux and Mplayer while reading slashdot?
I use gentoo you insensitive clod. :P

<i>Non /. readers, this is a running gag.</i>

How do you use mplayer to read slashdot anyway?

<i>Non linux users, mplayer is a media player and slashdot is a website</i>

Oh and I am male.

Posted: Mar 28th, '04, 22:19
by okumasama
Male...

Posted: Mar 28th, '04, 22:45
by Meli
Female 8)

Posted: Mar 28th, '04, 23:51
by vibius
SmallFurryCreature wrote:
DeathAtSight wrote:hmmm, last time I checked, I'm a guy.

Am I the only one using Mandrake Linux and Mplayer while reading slashdot?
I use gentoo you insensitive clod. :P

<i>Non /. readers, this is a running gag.</i>

How do you use mplayer to read slashdot anyway?

<i>Non linux users, mplayer is a media player and slashdot is a website</i>

Oh and I am male.
Me Linux too. It good. Yay.

Slashdot is crap. Don't go there. Your brains will melt.

Posted: Mar 29th, '04, 01:43
by bludawn
i am female =P

hmm i'm surprised so many guys like dramas. if only i could get my older brother to watch haha

Posted: Mar 29th, '04, 17:13
by philly
Daijoubou wrote
How many girls would actually sit down at a computer and search for a website that allows one to download these movies and dramas?
a lot
And it's pretty obvious to me that most anime are intended for a male audience.
i'm a girl-see my avatar :blink :P
I got hooked on anime because of Kenshin
saint saiya, ranma, doraemon baby :)

Posted: Mar 30th, '04, 01:04
by Kira
Female ^ o ^

Posted: Mar 30th, '04, 01:57
by krisse
i'm a guy, a duuuuuude!

Philly, that's a great avatar you got! you wouldn't happen to have a full size picture of that now would you??

Posted: Mar 30th, '04, 02:39
by philly
ya, krisse, you can get it at http://www.animeonline.net/gallery/v_sh ... ryid=10536 if you're a registered member at animeonline :)

btw akai rocks (the person who made this wall)

Posted: Mar 30th, '04, 15:32
by krisse
great! thanks a lot!! :)

Posted: Apr 8th, '04, 23:04
by nighto0
Guy here.. Wow this topic is hella long :x took me a while to skim thru all the posts

Hmm normally i would assume there is more females into dramas then males, a lot more in fact, but this is the internet(ex. torrent) and requires a little more work.

Only reason this site isnt 100:1 male to female, like irc, is because its drama lol :P

my excuse for liking drama is my mom/sister, they watch those kdrama soaps with a sad story which brings anyone into tears. Gets u hooked :unsure:

I like movies in general anyway so whats a little wrong with drama soaps :crazy:

Posted: Apr 8th, '04, 23:24
by Kuroimaho
iceberri wrote: I don't see too many liberal arts/history/english majors around here................... O_o I wonder why that is.....
I wonder my sis who major english does not come to eng sites when I do with my crappy eng skill. BTW girl.

Posted: Apr 8th, '04, 23:51
by puccakiss79
Kuroimaho wrote:BTW girl.
i assumed so :) who is that in your avatar, Kuroimaho?

Posted: Apr 15th, '04, 22:44
by Kuroimaho
Well that's me.

Posted: Apr 15th, '04, 22:53
by BT-Slut
Kuroimaho wrote:Well that's me.
Seriously? Nice! Very cute indeed. :P

Posted: Apr 15th, '04, 22:57
by bunnysaki
im not really surprised that an online drama place would have so many guys. i mean most guys, atleast the guys that i know, wouldnt be too enthusiastic about everyone knowing that they like dramas so they would go to a place where they can do it privately. either way its all good.
girl, if you couldnt tell by the corny name.

Posted: Apr 15th, '04, 23:19
by puccakiss79
Kuroimaho wrote:Well that's me.
정말 아름답군 (i hope i did this right, i'm not too good w/ honoriphics...pls correct me if its wrong)

i agree, BT-Slut. When i first saw Kuroimaho's avatar at FSC i thought it was of an asian actress, but i've never seen any other pics of her posted so i thought i'd ask. Go figure its you Kuroimaho :P. Pretty eyes.

Posted: Apr 15th, '04, 23:34
by benjiteoh
a guy who knows nothing about computer technology.. :wub:

Posted: Apr 15th, '04, 23:35
by neefo
i am asexual.
:cry:

Posted: Apr 15th, '04, 23:47
by saturn
I'm a girl currently in Com. Science with only boys :cry:

Posted: Apr 15th, '04, 23:48
by BT-Slut
puccakiss79 wrote: Pretty eyes.
Yes indeed. It's those lovely, huge eyes. Like ones straight out of a Japanese anime. :P

I thought her avatar was of an actress for sure. That's also a very nice picture. Whoever took the photo is a good photographer.

Posted: Apr 15th, '04, 23:52
by neefo
saturn wrote:I'm a girl currently in Com. Science with only boys :cry:
now.. that's scary

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 00:05
by Orca
I'm a girl, Electrical Engineering major. 95% of my friends from school are guys :glare: wish i had more friends that are girls :P but i love techy stuff!!

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 00:10
by iceberri
Kuroimaho wrote:Well that's me.
You are so pretty! :D I love the color of your eyes... do you wear color contacts or is it naturally that color?

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 00:14
by hakurey
Kuroimaho wrote:Well that's me.
I thought that was a screen shot of Im Soo-jung[/] in Tale of Two Sisters. Looks very young
:)

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 14:03
by niko2x
help! i'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body! (LOL!)

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 15:31
by hakurey
niko2x wrote:help! i'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body! (LOL!)
QUICK someone liberate this lessman :lol

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 15:50
by neefo
no worries .. its niko2x. even deeper inside .. he is gay, who is trapped in a lesbian dream trapped in a mans body.

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 16:52
by miriko
I am a girl... And i seem to be the only girl here who isnt technologically oriented:( I am definetly not good with computers... It took me almost 1 month to figure out this whole BT thing.... espcially since I have a mac and playing avis with subs is complicated (to me anyway).... I think I had to cycle through, 15 payers before I found one that would do the job,,,

I have an interest in asian things because I sort of acquired an asian family recently, but I am from Canada.

But what I really want to know is WHERE all of you are from??

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 16:56
by puccakiss79
miriko wrote:It took me almost 1 month to figure out this whole BT thing....
me too! :P
miriko wrote: But what I really want to know is WHERE all of you are from??
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2448where are you from thread :)

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 19:57
by Kuroimaho
puccakiss79 wrote:정말 아름답군 (i hope i did this right, i'm not too good w/ honoriphics...pls correct me if its wrong)

i agree, BT-Slut. When i first saw Kuroimaho's avatar at FSC i thought it was of an asian actress, but i've never seen any other pics of her posted so i thought i'd ask. Go figure its you Kuroimaho :P. Pretty eyes.
Thanks, was funny that the first PM I got on this forum was from a 0 post person and asked hey who is the woman in your av ? But some people thought that it is an actress.
BT-Slut wrote:Yes indeed. It's those lovely, huge eyes. Like ones straight out of a Japanese anime. :P

I thought her avatar was of an actress for sure. That's also a very nice picture. Whoever took the photo is a good photographer.
Well maybe it depends on the angle but some people said my eyes are scary, but right now when it really hurts I wish I had smaller. But still have to work on that tracker, sigh. The pic was taken with a webcam by my sis, but I will tell her she is great. ^^
hakurey wrote:I thought that was a screen shot of Im Soo-jung in Tale of Two Sisters. Looks very young :)
Thanks, I as Im Soo-jung wow I feel honored. ^^

Posted: Apr 16th, '04, 21:54
by Scyth3r
Woah. I always figured you were a guy with some Japanese actress in your avatar...

"Hey baby" :wub:

Bwahaha I'm j/k.

Posted: Apr 17th, '04, 21:54
by ShaolinMunky
I'm a guy, and does anyone like my avatar? Bonus points on what scene it's from. (^-^)

Posted: Apr 17th, '04, 22:17
by xiaryx
Kuroimaho wrote:
puccakiss79 wrote:정말 아름답군 (i hope i did this right, i'm not too good w/ honoriphics...pls correct me if its wrong)

i agree, BT-Slut. When i first saw Kuroimaho's avatar at FSC i thought it was of an asian actress, but i've never seen any other pics of her posted so i thought i'd ask. Go figure its you Kuroimaho :P. Pretty eyes.
Well maybe it depends on the angle but some people said my eyes are scary, but right now when it really hurts I wish I had smaller. But still have to work on that tracker, sigh. The pic was taken with a webcam by my sis, but I will tell her she is great. ^^

^^
Wow that picture is taken using a webcam?..and I was so sure that was the picture of a Japanese actress.....

Posted: Apr 17th, '04, 22:31
by MeaningOfLife
I have a penis.

Does gender matter?

Posted: Apr 18th, '04, 18:05
by Attila
Well, obviously I'm more than 100% guy.... :D anyway, it's a simple nature that guy has dick and girl has.....well, you figure it out, then, okay?

Anyway, I also find out that technology is no longer a male privilege, and I'm so glad about that by getting along with the presence so well in this very century, hmm, at least we can have new fresh competitors..... :P

Posted: Jun 3rd, '04, 09:24
by R K e 1 C A
Man

Posted: Jun 9th, '04, 22:05
by babyguh
i was soo bored i read all 9 pages! hahaha how bored can one get during summer time! now i hav all da time to go and surf the net! anywayz

hmmmz imma gurl hehe hence babyguh anywayz i knew of this site cuz of my bro he likes to d/l anime and jdrama whereas i never really liked jdrama(until now) and he accidentlally d/l a kdrama which was bright girl and it got me thinking of i can d/l other types of dramas. then i searched around.
one needs patience searchin fo the d/l suff
and my family didnt let me hav internet fo a while so i didnt kno anythin bout forums and stuff ehhe
my bro only gave me the link to the torrent page(b4 this setup) so i never figured out to post and stuff. with time i learned many thngs about computer even putting in my own burner! haha i was so happy
but wenever i hav probs ill just ask my bro haha like the BT things
and almost in college but my major wll b liberal arts heheh

haha i said alot dunt mind me but there was a poll like this at jdorama and it was always the guyz but now guhz can do anything the guyz can right jus takes time prob cuz i had to read all the FAQ bout everythin and also prob most guhz are out and dunt like to spend time posting and searching fo the stuff they want....

Posted: Jun 10th, '04, 09:27
by zdoon
I'm a guy.

The poll results are interesting but they're not revealing. I get the feeling that the majority of the people who are downloading are girls, more specifically, girls who post regularly at female dominated sites like soompi.com. So it's like they come here, they download, they go there, they post, but they don't post as much over here.

That's my grand theory. :lol

Posted: Jun 18th, '04, 22:13
by ichigo
I'm a girl too :P and i'm 18
J-Drama aareeee sooo cute I cry on every single one I listen :roll and i'm also a big fan of Kimura Takuya tooo cute when he smile! I want it here..with me =P .... :wink: :wub:

Posted: Jun 24th, '04, 18:29
by kerky
Wow, everywhere I go, there are more males than females. I'm female, btw. :)

Posted: Jun 24th, '04, 19:01
by babyxdorkii
man i always thot girls are most krazy over dramas and stuff and there's actually more males!!

Posted: Jun 24th, '04, 19:46
by lindaatje
I'm a girl, 23 years old :)

Posted: Jun 24th, '04, 19:53
by pear
I browsed thru the 9 pages in btw England n Portugal match..
haha.. bt i'm a gal.. n surprisingly, i didnt have much of a prob using BT becoz i chanced on the links first and later gt to know i have to use BT client.. so i didnt have the "installing and uninstalling" processes to undergo..
hmm.. hw cum there's no lawyers and doctors here??
btw i'm 22yrs old and majoring in accountancy (rare field here)!! :roll

Posted: Jun 24th, '04, 22:09
by venusling
Well, I'm a gal 23, chinese, majoring in computing. I do teach some guys to download using bittorent and install codecs to watch it. Actually gals and guys nowadays are almost the same level in technical issues. :P

Posted: Jun 26th, '04, 17:36
by kazuki
Image

Posted: Jun 26th, '04, 18:09
by rainidy
i'm a girl. wow, can't believe that there so many guys into dramas and stuff. hehe :D

Posted: Jun 28th, '04, 01:01
by kimutaku
nanba wan yori onri wan??!!...nanchatte :P
ohh...btw..otoko desu...23 desu...gakuseisan desu...kikai kougakka desu...
kakkoiizo..orette...nanttene :P

ps: im not in romantic,'girly' stuff n all that but just loooove to see another chick
get bang by kimutaku...hehehe :P

Posted: Jun 28th, '04, 01:48
by vampiresaru
rainidy wrote:i'm a girl. wow, can't believe that there so many guys into dramas and stuff. hehe :D
well here's another guy into dramas... but my sis and my friends consider me a wannabe japanese school girl trapped in a white skinhead looking boy's body so it might not count. that should bring some fun pictures to mind o.O

Posted: Jul 1st, '04, 18:10
by Kazanko
i'm a girl too...... :) :w00t:

Posted: Jul 1st, '04, 19:15
by alyussium
I'm a guy (with long hair, oki :P ). I think I'm a net-addict, as well as japanese language addict :roll ... and I'm from France ...

Posted: Jul 3rd, '04, 06:51
by sugarbloodsuckers
Female and addicted to sappy drama's. I'm glad I found this site :D

Posted: Jul 4th, '04, 17:22
by Alyssi
Girl :P , and can't wait for the next SOTW

Posted: Jul 6th, '04, 04:23
by starlitedr3amer
I am of the female race lol...is that not normal on this site? :lol

Posted: Jul 6th, '04, 05:01
by koolau
I'm a guy, but I don't really like watching lots of sappy dramas. For instance, I cannot stand any korean dramas. My mother rents them by the truckload, and they all center around love triangles with Korea's national disease (cancer) infecting the female lead. Plus, Koreans all love to smack each other around and cry every 5 minutes. I remember seeing some of Beautiful Days (Chinese girls forced me to) and the girl as well as the guys in that drama cry so much!!!!
I prefer the comedies of jdramas.

Maybe guys are on D-Addicts more often because they don't want people to know they watch asian dramas and so don't bother renting and watching with friends. Or maybe, we are all cheapskates who don't want to buy the videos. Or maybe, guys are more in tuned with internet sites and tech.

Whatever, as long as the dramas keep coming in, I'll be happy.

Posted: Jul 6th, '04, 22:05
by jholic
koolau wrote:Maybe guys are on D-Addicts more often because they don't want people to know they watch asian dramas and so don't bother renting and watching with friends. Or maybe, we are all cheapskates who don't want to buy the videos. Or maybe, guys are more in tuned with internet sites and tech.
ha! all of the above + we have females in the household who figured out that we can dl this stuff, and now are demanding that we bring in more of it.

Posted: Jul 13th, '04, 03:59
by dna2212
well im a guy, 27 is yr, who loves watchin doramas..have been collecting and watchin them for the last 6 yrs or so.... but kdramas is really the limit for me.....too many episodesmakes it too draggy and everyone loves to cry..... :blink maybe if they shorten the dramas to 10 episodes or so i'll consider watching :lol

Posted: Jul 13th, '04, 06:51
by Pegasus
I'm a female and I Iove watching anime until I came across Summer Scents. Now, I'm totally hooked on dramas as long as it's not to cheesy. :P

Posted: Jul 14th, '04, 01:19
by Carn
Haha, I'm the same way as Pegasus..now I think doramas are more interesting than anime.

Anyway, I'm a 18 year old girl from southern California, and I mostly agree with the guys using BT more than girls, but man! I didn't attribute the girl-icons to guys, I always thought that more girls would like the sappy cutey-love stuff. ^_^ No offense, yo!

Posted: Jul 19th, '04, 02:52
by Pale-MuN
O_O MORE MALES THEN FEMALES? ... o.o; That suprises me... xD

Posted: Jul 26th, '04, 17:18
by stephy
i'm a girl~

Posted: Jul 27th, '04, 11:29
by lisy04
well,can't say that i am a computer geek here,cos up till now,i still dunno (and am afraid) to try and take my pc apart to do upgrading stuff.

but i m juz an ordinary 23 year old girl who juz happened to find this great file sharing called bittorrent and at the same time,introduced to great k-dramas by a new tv channel,and have been addicted ever since. :D

Posted: Aug 7th, '04, 00:49
by Kai Lien
I'm an 18 year old CA girl. Totally not a comp geek though. Although I find myself very attached to my computer these days. In fact, I used to hate computers and I wouldn't even touch computers for the longest time until my cousin built me one. Most of my friends don't watch dramas and since I'm such a d-addict, I searched the internet about them and somehow got here. :D

Posted: Aug 7th, '04, 01:02
by AsianblueX
more guys than girls ......thats funny....

Posted: Aug 7th, '04, 01:33
by clouds421
I'm kind of surprised that there's more guys than girls as well. My brother likes action stuff, my ex liked horror movies...both avoid romance stuff like the plague :lol