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Lucki said:
You're just mad that I saw the pics of you and Foosk IRL :wink:









(and saved them :spiteful:)
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I love that picture.

Its been nice knowing you, though. You're probably going to die now. At least get severely maimed.
 
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Lucki said:
BRB, searching for some wiki articles.....
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Found one!

Wikipedia said:
Failure (or fail, phail or flop) in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.


Criteria for failure

The criteria for failure are heavily dependent on context of use, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. A situation considered to be a failure by one might be considered a success by another, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. As well, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.

It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria, or heuristics, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.


Flavors of failure

Failure can be differentially perceived from the viewpoints of the evaluators. A person who is only interested in the final outcome of an activity would consider it to be an Outcome Failure if the core issue has not been resolved or a core need is not met. A failure can also be a process failure whereby although the activity is completed successfully, a person may still feel dissatisfied if the underlying process is perceived to be below expected standard or benchmark.

Failure to anticipate
Failure to perceive


Commercial failures

A commercial failure is a product that does not reach expectations of success, failing to come even close. A major flop goes one step further and is recognized for its complete lack of success.

Most of the items listed below had high expectations, significant financial investments, and/or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Due to the subjective nature of "success" and "meeting expectations", there can be disagreement about what constitutes a "major flop."

For flops in computer and video gaming, see List of commercial failures in computer and video gaming
For company failures related to the 1997–2001 Dot-com bubble, see Dot-com company
See also Vaporware


Fail internet meme

FAIL is a popular internet meme where users superimpose the word FAIL on embarrassing or compromising photos.[1][2][3] G4 has a web feature called "Epic Fail" that denotes major gaffs in popular culture - a mainstream play on the meme.[4] FailDogs, an animal version, made the front page of Digg in February, 2008. [5]


Other failures

For military disasters, see List of military disasters
For events that were highly anticipated but either did not happen or turned out to be disappointing, see Non-event


See also

Cascading failure
Debugging
Failure analysis
Failure rate
Failure mode
Forensic engineering
Murphy's law
New product development
Non-event
Power outage
Product
Product management
Single point of failure
Structural failure
Tensile strength
White elephant
System accident


References

^ http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1306942/memes_help_keep_internet_interesting/index.html
^ The Fail Blog
^ FailDogs.com
^ G4: The Feed
^ Made Popular
Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, New Tork: Basic Books, 1983. Paperback reprint, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-00412-9
Sandage, Scott A. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-674-01510-X, ISBN 0-674-02107-X
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Janko likes me naked. D:< God what a homo
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Yaoi (やおい) is a publishing genre which focuses on male/male relationships. The genre originated in Japan and encompasses manga, anime, novels and dōjinshi. Yaoi directed toward women, the subtype most well-known outside of Japan, is called BL or Boy's Love. Despite the genre being called Boy's Love, the males may be of any age, the term for works focused on actual underage boys being shotacon. Yaoi has spread beyond Japan; yaoi material is available in the United States, as well as other Western and Eastern nations worldwide.

Yaoi began in the doujinshi markets of Japan in the late 1970s, mostly as parody works; but male same-sex love had previously been presented in shonen-ai, june and tanbi works. BL authors and fans are careful to distinguish BL from “gay manga”, which is created by and for gay men. There are a small number of male mangaka who create BL but not gay manga.

The main characters in yaoi usually conform to the stereotypes of the older, masculine seme who pursues the younger, feminine uke.

Pronunciation
In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-morae word, IPA: [jaoi]. However, it is frequently heard with only two syllables, [jaoi̯] .

In English, yaoi is commonly pronounced /ˈjaʊiː/ YOW-ee.


Etymology
Yaoi (やおい) is derived from an acronym of the Japanese phrase 「ヤマなし、オチなし、意味なし」 (yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi), often translated into English as, "no climax, no resolution, no meaning," or as the catchphrase, "No peak, no point, no problem." However the term is not always used that way.

The term appears to have been originally used in Japan, perhaps as early as the 1970s, to describe any dôjinshi that was a bizarre, playful parody; however, it has come to refer solely to sexually explicit male-male homosexual material. Yasuko Sakata and Rinko Hatsu were part of the doujinshi market in the 70s that coined and popularised the term yaoi. Yaoi is not a common term in Japanese; it is specific to the otaku subculture.


Usage
The 「ヤマなし、オチなし、意味なし」 (yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi) phrase refers to how yaoi has more emphasis on the symbolism and stylisation of the characters (see Seme and uke) and their emotions than a plot.

Yaoi is an umbrella term for all male/male comics in Japan; as well as male/male comics made in the west. The actual name of the genre aimed toward women in Japan is called 'BL' or 'Boy's Love'. BL is an extension of shoujo and josei categories, but is considered a separate category. Yaoi is used in Japan to include: commercial and amateur works, works with no sex, works with sex, doujinshi about adolescents with little or no sex, works in all types of media - manga, anime, novels, games, and drama CDs with male/male content, and characters of all ages in male/male content. Terms such as BL, shounen-ai, tanbi, June, and original June, are all referred to in Japan, as 'yaoi'. However, it does not include gay publications.

Contrary to the belief of many English-speaking fans, "yaoi" is not the primary name of this genre in Japan. Originally much of the material was called "june", a name derived from a publication of the same name that published male/male tanbi romances, stories written for and about the worship of beauty using particularly flowery language. Eventually the term "june" died out in favor of "BL" or "boys love," which remains the most common name.

Another term for yaoi is 801. "801" can be read as "yaoi" in the following form: the "short" reading (on'yomi) of the number 8 is "ya", 0 can be read as "o" - a western influence without doubt, while the on'yomi for 1 is "i". For example, an Internet manga called Tonari no 801-chan, about an otaku guy who wants to date a fujoshi (yaoi fangirl), has been adapted into a serialised shoujo manga and a live-action film. 801-chan, the mascot of a Japanese shopping centre, is used in the manga.

Yaoi and shōnen-ai are terms that are sometimes used by western fans to describe the contents of one title in the genre. Here yaoi is used to describe titles which contain sex scenes and other sexually explicit themes. The counterpart, shōnen-ai, is used to describe titles that focus more on romance and do not include explicit sexual content. This definition of yaoi sometimes clashes with the usage of the word to describe the genre as a whole and the subject is often a cause for debate.

While shōnen-ai literally means "boy's love", the two terms are not synonymous. In Japan, shōnen-ai used to refer to a now obsolete shoujo subgenre that told stories of prepubescent boys in relationships ranging from the platonic to the romantic. The term was originally and is currently used to describe pedophilia. Boy's Love, on the other hand, is used as a genre's name and refers to all titles regardless of sexual content or the ages of characters in the story.


Seme and uke
The two participants in a yaoi relationship are often referred to as seme ("attacker",攻め or せめ) and uke ("receiver",受け). These terms originated in martial arts and do not carry any degrading connotations. Seme derives from the Japanese verb semeru (“to attack”) and uke from the Japanese verb ukeru (“to receive”). Though gay males are often referred to in English as "tops" or "bottoms," seme and uke are more nearly analogous to "pitcher" and "catcher." Anal sex is a prevalent theme in yaoi, as nearly all stories feature it in some way. The seme and uke are often drawn in the bishōnen style and are "highly idealised", blending both masculine and feminine qualities.

The seme is often depicted as the stereotypical male of anime and manga culture: restrained, physically powerful, and/or protective. The seme generally has a stronger chin, shorter hair, smaller eyes, and a more stereotypically masculine demeanour than the uke. The seme usually pursues the uke. The uke usually has softer, youthful, feminine features with bigger eyes and a smaller build, and is often physically weaker than the seme. He is usually less experienced with romance or sex and his interactions with the seme often make for his first homosexual experience. The storyline where an uke is reluctant to have anal sex with a seme is considered to be similar to the reader's reluctance to have sex whilst still a virgin. Another common trope is where the seme pursues the uke to the point of rape, as "an expression of love". Despite this, the seme is shown as being truly in love with the uke. Another stereotype that is criticised is that the protagonists do not identify as gay, but rather are simply in love with that particular person. This is pointed to as avoiding having to address prejudices against people who consider themselves to have been born homosexual. Newer yaoi stories have characters that identify as gay. There has also been criticism of the uke in particular - that he has stereotypically bad "girly" behaviour.

Though these stereotypes are common, not all works adhere to them. For example, some of the anthologies published by Biblos feature stories on themes such as "younger seme" or "ribariba/reversables." The "height rule," the rule by which the taller character is the seme, is also sometimes broken. There is also the term "gekokujō" referring to when the character with more uke characteristics (be it physically or emotionally) actually plays the seme role in the sexual elements of the relationship.[citation needed] The term means "lower slays higher" and comes from feudal times when a servant would slay his lord in order to gain power

Doujinshi
The doujinshi subculture has been considered the Japanese equivalent of the English-language slash fandom, especially as they both do not have typical "narrative structure" and science fiction works are particularly popular in both. Typical yaoi doujinshi features male-male pairings from non-romantic, published manga and anime. Much of the material derives from male-oriented shōnen and seinen works which contained male-male close friendships and are perceived by fans to imply homosexual attraction, such as with Captain Tsubasa. However, yaoi fans may ship any male-male pairing, sometimes pairing off a favourite character, or creating a story about two men and fitting existing characters into the story.

Though collectors often focus on doujinshi based on particular manga, any male character may become the subject of a yaoi doujinshi, even characters from non-manga titles such as Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean. Video games have also been parodied, including titles like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy. Popular yaoi pairings are usually refered to by a word that combines the first two characters of the seme's name followed by the first two of the uke's e.g. a Sasuke and Naruto pairing is widely refered to as SasuNaru. Recently, popular yaoi pairings are refered to as character Ax character B, when there's not a distinguished seme and uke, e.g. Yagami Raito and L become RaitoxL or LxRaito.

Most doujinshi is created by amateurs who often work in "circles"; for example, the group CLAMP began as an amateur doujinshi circle. However, some professional artists, such as Kodaka Kazuma and Maki Murakami, create doujinshi as well. The bulk of yaoi manga is doujinshi, and some publishing companies have used doujinshi published in the 1980s to spot talented amateurs, such as Biblos hiring Youka Nitta.

Important characteristics of the early yaoi doujinshi were that they were amateur publications not controlled by media restrictions, the stories were by teens for other teens, they were based on famous characters who were in their teens or early twenties, the same age as the yaoi fans. During the early 1990s, doujinshi played a part in popularising yaoi.


American yaoi
As Japanese yaoi gained popularity in the U.S., a few American artists began creating gay-themed original English-language manga referred to as "American yaoi." What started as a small subculture in North America, has, in the last three years, become a burgeoning market, as new publishers began producing male/male erotic comics and manga from creators outside Japan. Because creators from all parts of the globe are published in these original English language works, the term 'American yaoi' is not used; the term 'Global BL', is considered more acceptable.

Current North American publishers of 'Global BL' are Yaoi Press, who currently have over twenty titles on the market, Iris Print, as well as licensors DramaQueen and Seven Seas Entertainment. DramaQueen debuted their 'Global BL' quarterly anthology RUSH in 2006.


Publishing
The earliest magazine about Boy's Love was June, which began in 1978. The Japanese publisher Biblos (from the mid 90s) was once the most commercially successful publisher of yaoi in Japan,[citation needed] but their bankruptcy due to failure of their parent company caused them to fold in April 2006, and provided an opportunity for competitors to take up a larger share of the professional yaoi and BL manga market.

Japanese yaoi and BL works are sold to English-speaking countries by companies that translate and print them in English; companies such as Digital Manga Publishing with their imprints 801 Media (for explicit yaoi) and June (for "romantic and sweet" yaoi), as well as DramaQueen, Kitty Media, and Tokyopop under their imprint BLU. The earliest officially translated yaoi manga sold was in 2003, and as of 2006 there were about 130 English-translated yaoi titles commercially available.
 
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