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Southern Americas in the Playground (from Mexico all the way down!)
Hello, playgrounders.
If you're from anywhere in Latin America, let's gather up and chat a bit. :smallsmile:
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Re: Latin America in the Playground
You know, I've always wanted to start a thread like this; but for some reason or other I never did. In any case I was curious on how many latinos posted here.
Greetings from México in anycase.:smallsmile:
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Due to the amount of these threads that would exist, such threads are limited to continents. Other than the fact that Latin America seems to be missing a small portion of South America (EDIT: and, on closer inspection, some countries in Central America and the Caribbean), I like this division. But, the question remains if our Mexican members would rather be included in this group or, say, North America.
But, perhaps rename it something like Latin America (+ others) in the Playground to show that they are included.
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I think officially Mexico is part of North America; but I believe we are closer to other latin american countries than our northern neighbors. Having said that which part from South America is missing from the Latin America? I've never heard about something like that.
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To be honest I've never bothered to look for an official mapnor anything like that; I've always assumed that all countries south of Mexico were part of Latin America. But now it think it islogical that some countries like the French Guiana aren't considered part of Latin America.
In any case if changing the thread title to Latin America (+ others) in thr playground means the thread stays open. I say go for it; but it seems ThiagoMartell isn't online at the moment.
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Well, strictly speaking, Latin America is not a region. It's the Spanish, French and Portuguese-speaking countries in the Americas. Mexico is part of the geographic region that is North America, as are Greenland and the island countries in the Gulf of Mexico, but it's also part of Latin America. So this includes us as well.
Either way, also Mexico from here, though living in the US.
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Dusk Eclipse
To be honest I've never bothered to look for an official mapnor anything like that; I've always assumed that all countries south of Mexico were part of Latin America. But now it think it islogical that some countries like the French Guiana aren't considered part of Latin America.
I can't see why French Guiana wouldn't be a part of Latin America... I mean, French comes from latin, same as Portuguese and Spanish.
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Haruki-kun
Well, strictly speaking, Latin America is not a region. It's the Spanish, French and Portuguese-speaking countries in the Americas. Mexico is part of the geographic region that is North America, as are Greenland and the island countries in the Gulf of Mexico, but it's also part of Latin America. So this includes us as well.
Latin America, to me, always seemed to be "America, minus US and Canada".
I mean, all the other countries have Portuguese, French or Spanish as official language... even when it isn't the case. Looks like in Paraguay most people speak some sort of advanced Tupi.
Haruki-kun, Dusk Eclipse, greetings from Brazil! :smallbiggrin:
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Re: Latin America (+others) in the Playground
You could always rename it "Southern Americas in the Playground (from Mexico all the way down!)". :smalltongue:
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ThiagoMartell
I can't see why French Guiana wouldn't be a part of Latin America... I mean, French comes from latin, same as Portuguese and Spanish.
Latin America, to me, always seemed to be "America, minus US and Canada".
I mean, all the other countries have Portuguese, French or Spanish as official language... even when it isn't the case. Looks like in Paraguay most people speak some sort of advanced Tupi.
Haruki-kun, Dusk Eclipse, greetings from Brazil! :smallbiggrin:
Because I suck at geography and the French Guaina was the first country I recognized in the map Rawhide linked. :smallredface:
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Re: Southern Americas in the Playground (from Mexico all the way down!)
Now that I think about it, isn't French Guiana actually a part of France? As in, like Hawaii is a part of the US?
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According to wikipedia, yes it is an overseas region Of France, so I wasn't that off.
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Why there are only the three of us in this thread, 100% of Latin America in the Playground is into anime :smallwink:
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The adorable Smee is the first thing that leaps into my brain whenever someone mentions Brazil.
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Not to mention that you have Coplantor(not sure if he still goes under that name) from Uruguay!
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Let's hope Smee and Coplantor both show up here, then
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ThiagoMartell
Why there are only the three of us in this thread, 100% of Latin America in the Playground is into anime :smallwink:
At least in Mexico duringbthe 90's we saw a lot of anime in open TV, so I grew up watching more anime than american cartoons :smallwink: nevermind we have cons pretty much every other month so yeah.
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Dallas-Dakota
Not to mention that you have Coplantor(not sure if he still goes under that name) from Uruguay!
Inhaven't seen Coplantor in a looong time, so I am nit sure if he is still active on the forums. Smee being s mod I guess will eventually post here I guess.
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Dusk Eclipse
I think officially Mexico is part of North America; but I believe we are closer to other latin american countries than our northern neighbors. Having said that which part from South America is missing from the Latin America? I've never heard about something like that.
Suriname speaks Dutch (a West Germanic language) as the main language and Guyana speaks English (a frankly who cares language).
THE MOAR YOU KNOW.
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Originally Posted by
Dusk Eclipse
At least in Mexico duringbthe 90's we saw a lot of anime in open TV, so I grew up watching more anime than american cartoons :smallwink: nevermind we have cons pretty much every other month so yeah.
Dragon Ball Z, Digimon, Ranma 1/2, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, and Pokemon. I don't remember any other anime on TV. ._.
Also, I have contact with Coplantor every once in a while, but I don't see him on the forum. I'm not sure if he's still around.
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Originally Posted by
Dusk Eclipse
At least in Mexico duringbthe 90's we saw a lot of anime in open TV, so I grew up watching more anime than american cartoons :smallwink: nevermind we have cons pretty much every other month so yeah.
Same here. We have anime events about twice a month in my city.
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Kid Kris
Suriname speaks Dutch (a West Germanic language) as the main language and Guyana speaks English (a frankly who cares language).
THE MOAR YOU KNOW.
Then my hunch that latin america refered to countries which speak a language derived from Latin was mostly right...though fir sime reason I was sure french was't:smallredface:
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Haruki-kun
Dragon Ball Z, Digimon, Ranma 1/2, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, and Pokemon. I don't remember any other anime on TV. ._.
Also, I have contact with Coplantor every once in a while, but I don't see him on the forum. I'm not sure if he's still around.
You are missing a few like Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Slam Dunk, Dr. Slump and Samurai Pizza Cats... maybe there were't that many and my younger self just prefered anime to american cartoons even then.
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Didn't see Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Slam Dunk, OR Dr. Slump. I'd forgotten about Samurai Pizza Cats. I was too young, I suppose.
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Haruki-kun
Didn't see Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Slam Dunk, OR Dr. Slump. I'd forgotten about Samurai Pizza Cats. I was too young, I suppose.
Saint Seiya was so awesome back in the 90s when I first saw it. Now... well... everyone has noticed the problems in the original and Omega sucks.
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I haven't seen Omega yet; but a friend of mine, who is the biggest Saint Seiya Fan I know" agrees that it sucks (apparently somethingn to do with the cosmos now being element based) so I am not sure if I should givr it a go or not.
Haruki-kun, I think you missed the ones that aired on Azteca 7 back then (local channel) :smalltongue:.
Still I find a bit curious that apparently there are only 5 latin american posters in the forum.
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I'm from Mexico too. I only knew about Haruki being from Mexico before. Nice to see others from the bigger part of America (not just from the one country that thinks it's ALL of America)!
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Oh nice! I used to had Mexico City as my location; but an avatar change merited a change and I never bothered to correct it then :smalltongue:. Still it might also be cause I dom't frequent Friendly Banter too much.
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Dusk Eclipse
Still I find a bit curious that apparently there are only 5 latin american posters in the forum.
There's a couple others who haven't showed up yet. Crimmy, for example. Fostire, Skippy (who hasn't been active in a while...)
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Haruki-kun
There's a couple others who haven't showed up yet. Crimmy, for example. Fostire, Skippy (who hasn't been active in a while...)
Larkas is brazilian too, so is Jumilk. There was another guy, but I forgot his name. Aes-something.
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And once again I stand corrected :smallredface:....hmmm this has been what? Third time in this thread alone? I'm beggining to see a trend here :smalltongue:
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Hey! All the way from Costa Rica! :smallsmile:
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Aurenthal
Hey! All the way from Costa Rica! :smallsmile:
Welcome, Aurenthal! You're the first playgrounder from Costa Rica that I know of. :smallsmile:
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Buenos días, Parque de Juegos!
Yeah, in any case, Crimms the Avatarist here, from Central/Southern México. I didn't imagine there would be more than 3 Mexicans in here (save for Skippy, 'Ruki and meself) so it's refreshing to see more. It's also quite good to see there are more Latinamericans and spanish-speaking Playgrounders out there.
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So, how are your countries doing the olympics?
Brazil is losing everything it should win :smalltongue:
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Mexico's about to win a medal, be it Silver or Gold, in Soccer. Already won Silver and Bronze in Archery and two Silvers and one Bronze in Diving.
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I hope they get the gold. I mean, come on. Our natives played ball for their gods, we gotta excel in soccer :smalltongue:
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Not the same ball, weight, nor piece of body used to propel said ball.
Though if there were a wilderness survival competition... we would still lose, as Africa has the best survival experts.
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Well, we are known as the Country of Soccer for a reason :smallcool:
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ThiagoMartell
Well, we are known as the Country of Soccer for a reason :smallcool:
That's cheating. Just because your babies are born with a soccer ball, and are naturally, genetically imprinted to play with them. :smallamused:
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ThiagoMartell
losing everything it should win :smalltongue:
What? Australia is not in the Americas!
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Crimmy
That's cheating. Just because your babies are born with a soccer ball, and are naturally, genetically imprinted to play with them. :smallamused:
It's funny how this cultural reference really shows up.
I'm not a very good soccer player (my sport of choice is basketball; I played it in high school). I'm average at best. I can play defense reasonably well and I'm somewhat good with passes, but my ball control is horrendous and my aim at shooting could be better.
Last week I played soccer with a few japanese friends. Dude, I felt like Pelé. :smallamused:
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Brazilian dude who played soccer, and was good? Yes.
I don't really follow our own usual stereotype: I dislike soccer. Okay, I do watch the World Cup, but that's because it's on a whole different level than our average mexican soccer matches.
Also: I hope you realized it was all joking. I wouldn't forgive myself if you thought it was serious talk (you know, the soccer thing).
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Crimmy
I don't really follow our own usual stereotype: I dislike soccer. Okay, I do watch the World Cup, but that's because it's on a whole different level than our average mexican soccer matches.
To be honest, I kinda really, really, REALLY hate soccer. I only watch the World Cup and had the Olympic matches in the background. And even then I only watch Mexico's games.
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Crimmy
I don't really follow our own usual stereotype: I dislike soccer. Okay, I do watch the World Cup, but that's because it's on a whole different level than our average mexican soccer matches.
Yeah, World Cup is awesome.
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I especially loved the last one when Mexico went against France and the French were all angry and doing the most godawful things ever. That was so great.
... I do have to wonder why Mexico's team is doing so well on the Olympics... but generally does such a.... mediocre job... on the World Cup. They don't even play badly, they just have dreadful aim.
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bluewind95
I especially loved the last one when Mexico went against France and the French were all angry and doing the most godawful things ever. That was so great.
... I do have to wonder why Mexico's team is doing so well on the Olympics... but generally does such a.... mediocre job... on the World Cup. They don't even play badly, they just have dreadful aim.
Olympics is for younger player. Each team is limited on how many players above 23 they can bring into the competition (I think it's 2 or 3).
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bluewind95
I especially loved the last one when Mexico went against France and the French were all angry and doing the most godawful things ever. That was so great.
... I do have to wonder why Mexico's team is doing so well on the Olympics... but generally does such a.... mediocre job... on the World Cup. They don't even play badly, they just have dreadful aim.
@^: What he said. Also, I get the feeling that it goes to their heads when they turn pro, which most of the olympic players (that I know of) aren't.
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It's all about the ego. Think about Cuauhtémoc, or the Matador. The only ones who have ever mattered were the "Conejo" Pérez, and Oswaldo Sánchez. And those are goalkeepers.
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Gold Medal in football!!!!! :biggrin: and it was a great match.
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Man, I still can't believe Brazil has yet to win a gold medal in soccer. 5 world cups... no gold medals.
Great match, tho :smallsmile:
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So, what brought you to the playground?
I've been reading OOTS for a long while, basically from when it was released. I only came to the forums (as a lurker) around the time they closed 339 and only registered after that. How about you guys?
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I came in after #400 came on. It took me about two weeks to read it all, and then I signed in.
I liked the custom avatars, so I wanted one, then I wanted to make them.
Story of my Avataring.
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Got linked to the comic by a friend of mine, decided to read it while I was bored on a trip. This was circa 2006, and IIRC the archive ended at 365 at this point.
I joined shortly after the New Year, January 4, 2007. My avataring didn't start until a couple months into 2008.
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A former friend of mine linked me to the comic. Said it was pretty awesome. So I read it. Then I lurked the boards. Then I eventually just joined them.
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I started reading the comic in 2009 because a friend of mine made an OotS reference at the gaming table and everyone but me laughed so I asked and was told about the comic so I started to read it. Then a few weeks later I was looking for info on the Duskblade and found some threads in the forum... and well I lurked for a time before registering,
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Well actually my DM introduced my group to the comics around azure city battle. And I have read the whole collection about 2-3 times and after a few lurks in the forums I decided to join and learn how to actually build a druid (current character, lvl 5 ELF druid)
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Aurenthal
Well actually my DM introduced my group to the comics around azure city battle. And I have read the whole collection about 2-3 times and after a few lurks in the forums I decided to join and learn how to actually build a druid (current character, lvl 5 ELF druid)
Hey Aurenthal you're new to the thread, right? Where are you from, man? :smallsmile:
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ThiagoMartell
Hey Aurenthal you're new to the thread, right? Where are you from, man? :smallsmile:
Please check the guy that is from Costa Rica... Thank you! :smallcool:
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Aurenthal
Please check the guy that is from Costa Rica... Thank you! :smallcool:
Man, talk about a gaffe... sorry buddy. :smallredface:
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ThiagoMartell
Man, talk about a gaffe... sorry buddy. :smallredface:
It's nothing :smallbiggrin:
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Where are you from, Aurenthal? (:smalltongue:)
Thinking now of Costa Rica, I remembered that a lot of people have totally the wrong idea about what cities are like in Mexico. I've had people ASTOUNDED that I know what a supermarket is, and that people here travel in cars and that we have big buildings and malls and a lot of the products sold in the US. Heck, they were surprised I had INTERNET, and not dial-up and that I don't have to travel to the US to get a computer or laptop.
Somehow people thought it's all just like the "pueblos" they see in Hollywood movies. They thought it's just a bunch of old little houses, with dirt roads and that people travel by donkey or horse. And the internet is all, at best, dial-up...
Has anyone else come across these stereotypes?