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Deleted User Banned                 Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6294 days |
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| Thanks to Kawa a while back, and my gathered knowlege, Windows XP has something called an OS-Tan.
Let me tell you right now, that I lovvum. <3 <3 <3 Is there any -Tans you have a pic of and like to talk about? (Note: If this turns into a flamewar about the OS's themselves, I will... um, do something thats painful and makes you think about what you've done.  Thank you.  )
Edited note for appropriateness (edited by Tristis on 07-02-06 05:17 PM) (edited by Tristis on 07-02-06 05:18 PM) |
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Pasgeti_;   560     Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6333 days Last view: 6304 days |
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| ...... You don't know what OS-tan means don't you? (edited by Dragon master + on 07-02-06 05:39 PM) |
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Duh, I know what OS-Tan means! Why would I make a thread about it? Expectations about me too low? Sheesh.  |
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Pasgeti_; 560 Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6333 days Last view: 6304 days |
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Originally posted by Tristis Then explain what you mean in that sentence. Just to check that you are right. |
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Deleted User Banned Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6294 days |
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| Windows XP has a mascot type girl called an OS-Tan. |
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Pasgeti_; 560 Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6333 days Last view: 6304 days |
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| What did you say she were called? The name OS-tan is for every OS-tan ever made.
Like CE-tan XP-tan ME-tan 98-tan. I did have an complete set of all the windows-tans as my desktop for not so long ago. |
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Tarale 2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata  Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| OS-tans are female "mascot" characters to various Operating Systems. There are also OS-tans for systems like Mozilla lololol (despite this clearly being a browser, not an OS).
The characters originally appeared on... one of those Japanese imageboard places, afaik. The "-tan" honorific is not really a real Japanese honorific -- it's more how a little kid might say "-chan". I guess it's to up the whole "cute" factor another notch. My favorite little piece of OS-tan artwork features XP-tan with a big bowl of Memory, which she's eaten, and she wants some more.  |
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Cynthia Uh-huh.  Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| The OS-tans came from Futaba, and they're one of the only imageboard fads that I like.
And how can you not like Wikipe-tan? |
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6294 days |
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oooh...wikipe-tan is nice...but not as cute as her: MS-DOS
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Kyoufu Kawa Intends to keep Rom Hacking in one piece until the end  Since: 11-18-05 From: Catgirl Central Station Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| I am so cool, I hacked my XP startup screen to have XP and 2k on it.
Not an easy feat to do in 16 colors... |
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Kawachan The other kind of tentacle... Mistress of Blocklayout Since: 05-13-06 Last post: 6399 days Last view: 6399 days |
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| And ofcourse, 2003 Server-tan. A mermaid because of the homophonity of "saaba" the fish and "saaba" the server. | |||
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| Given the fact it's 16 colors... Nice, ugly or somewhere in-between?
I mean, I know startup screens are limited but I'd think some trickery would be involved. |
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Tarale 2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| Why is it in 16 colours anyways? I thought startup screens were capable of more than that? They were last time I hacked one.... (edited by Tarale on 07-06-06 06:56 AM) |
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asdf Link's Awakening ಠ_ಠ  Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| Goddamned Japan. They ruin everything. They even managed to fuck up G.I. Joe by putting him in a Japanese cartoon. He's a real AMERICAN hero, not another subject of your lame-ass shows with more clichés than a Hollywood movie.
Also, I despise anyone who calls them by that accursed name in the topic title. They're regular girls from japanese cartoons drawn in a certain size with colors and clothes that match the theme. Stop speaking in half-japanese words and stick to English, please. Most of us struggle enough with that. On another note who the hell makes this stuff anyhow? And why? This ties in with the Cars hentai I was talking about before. Why do these Japs and/or Japanophiles spend their time desecrating whatever hasn't been desecrated? I mean, when you start seeing fucking MISSINGNO. hentai (it exists - believe it), you know someone out there is fucked up in head. The same applies to this, although not on as an extreme level. Why don't you just look at normal girls in that art style instead of a bunch crappily modeled after an operating system or a website? What's so special about these ones; a so called "brand-name"? Our childhood memories have probably already been shattered, there's no need to destroy our current ones. ... ... ... *whew* Got that off my chest. But seriously, minus all the swearing, that is my stance on this. I ask you, all of you: Why do they make this? Why do you like all this when they are clearly just normal japanese cartoon girls, occasionally with decorations from what they parody? I mean, what's so special about them? Why do you speak in half-japanese? (edited by asdf on 07-06-06 04:59 AM) (edited by asdf on 07-06-06 05:00 AM) |
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Tarale 2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| Personally, I don't mind the OS-tans in the original context I first came across them.
It seemed to me that somebody with a sense of humor about computing created a bunch of female, anime-styled characters with personalities based on the flaws and strengths of the Operating Systems they represent. These characters were then depicted in little gag-strip style manga where they poked fun at these flaws. From that start though, the fandom did go somewhere that I don't like as much -- where the characters seem not so much to have personalities and such as much as they are just yet another anime sex symbol. Then came a bunch of other -tans with even less substance behind them. I liked the nerdy jokes to start with though. I was particularly amused that Norton was a pervy old doctor... seems in keeping with what Norton does to Windows in reality  And ME-tan's ditziness is appropriate.(edited by Tarale on 07-06-06 06:56 AM) |
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Koneko Plasma Whisp  Since: 11-17-05 From: Tartarus. We get faster internet than you. Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| Thank you for stereotyping an entire nation and all the people within it.
Now that I know you despise people on the basis of one facet of their speech, I can better judge your character. The funny thing is that I had considered you to be a pretty level-headed person, with few prejudices. You live and you learn... |
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asdf Link's Awakening ಠ_ಠ Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6294 days |
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Originally posted by Koneko *shrug* It was more of a spur of the moment thing (combined with stress from annoying thunderstorms keeping me off my computer). I didn't actually mean all that racist-related stuff either. Also, have you ever gone into a thread, read it, start a really long post, then just say "forget it" and not post it? Yeah, I do that a lot (too often, in fact), and that time, I instead thought "what the hell, why not?"
Although Tarale's explanation of Norton has reassured me that there is some sanity in these drawings. |
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Tarale 2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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Originally posted by asdfOriginally posted by Koneko Well, like I said, the original concept I came across at least. I much preferred it when there was that element of humor and fun to it. I actually rather dislike the sex-symbol thing it's turned into, with the characters depicted more or less as Windows-branded flesh.
But the original idea was so much fun! It was a cute way of poking fun at all the screw-ups of Windows and other OSes and software! With XP-tan always needing to eat more memory, and ME-tan microwaving things she shouldn't....  (I think it was a can of beans or something... it went boom) |
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6294 days |
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Originally posted by TaraleFor some reason, Microsoft felt 16 colors was enough for the start up screen for Windows XP... As for why the Japanese do this? It's their culture...they like cheesy, corny, silly things to name a few things. They like seeing their celebrities humilated on TV (and the celebrities don't mind that). That is something rarely seen in America. asdf, you should consider the flip side, there are things Japanese think all Americans ruin... |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| I take the OS-tans at the same level as Taryn does. Embrace them for what they're meant to be, not for... what certain artists decided to do with them. |
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