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Hot diggity damn we're back for another year!

Want to learn about our choice for vice president? Interested in knowing how Cthulhu views the current financial crisis? Curious about why offshore oil spills are a red herring?

Most importantly: WANT A FREE CTHULHU FOR PRESIDENT BUTTON?

If so, come to the Cthulhu for President panel! All your insignificant mortal issues will be answered!

Aren't you missing the fifth stage of a relationship: Marriage/long-term commitment?

law students get lockers too!:)

They also get massive student loans and debt :|

If anyone is looking for excellent ramen, Kahoo around the corner from Mitsuwa is superior in every way. Just sayin'. c:

Grah, I beg to differ, but ramen preferences are more contentious than political views. I think that the Meiji restoration might have been caused by a disagreement over ramen broth. In any event, I think we can both agree that people should visit both and make up their own minds!

Also, I would be remiss to my co-worker if I did not mention that Santoka ramen at Mitsuwa is one of the few places around to get a ramen/natto combo. Not that I recommend natto <vomit>

A few things I've found in my time in downtown SJ, both during and outside of Fanime...

Bijan's Bakery - This place is down from the con across from the fountains of Caesar Chavez plaza. They're good for breakfast, but their real treasure is their princess cake. My wife and I almost got our wedding cake from here, but it was a little too expensive. Their single slices of cake are awesome and pretty cheap. They also make good coffee.

7-11 - There is a 7-11 only a few blocks from the con, so you can get snacks and drinks without having to pay a fortune inside of the con. Look them up online.

Hydration - I don't know how secret this place is, but they have excellent bento boxes.

For those on a budget who drive to Fanime - Park in the lot across from the Hilton. It's cheaper than underground and has in and out rights. You can take mini breaks and not go too far to get excellent food. I highly recommend taking a 15 minute drive to either Mitsuwa off of 280 on Saratoga for delicious Ramen or to downtown Mountain View to visit either Ryowa or Maruichi for more Ramen. I find all of them are much better than SJ Japantown sadly :(. There are also lots of other good places (honest to goodness BBQ on Bascom) that range from expensive to cheap. Not that I'm saying people should leave Fanime, but it is sometimes nice to get away for an hour and get GOOD food nearby.

Final reminder: less than a week before the submission deadline!

Reminder: Only 16 days remain until the all submissions must be received! You can't win if you don't play!

If you have submitted and haven't heard from me, please contact me either on the forum or at [email protected].

Sailor Star Dust: If you want to know more about why the rules are as they are, feel free to email me at the above address.

UPDATE:

The website and the submission form are now online. Please feel free to start flooding me with videos.

PLEASE FLOOD ME WITH VIDEOS OR I WILL FEEL LIKE A FAILURE

After much ado about nothing (and losing a crapload of time due to getting married), the rules have finally been posted! See the original post above!

In order of awesomeness

The Pillows
Tsushimamire
OMODAKA

Hentai amvs contest from cathulu for president

Cthulhu for President! if you please sir. The last intern who misspelled it, well, didn't come back in one piece...

Oh come on, over a week and no one has anything to say?

You'd actually need to contact The Escapist as they control Zero Punctuation.

[Below are the official contest rules]

The Cthulhu for President! campaign is proud to announce that it will be hosting the Hentai Music Video Awards at Fanime 2010!

Hentai Music Videos will be shown! Prizes will be given away! Laughs will be had! Peace in the Middle East will not be found!

Prizes will be given away for various categories and audience picks, ranging from money to trophies and hentai DVDs.

The Best of Show will be awarded a very special prize to be cherished and shown to friends and loved ones.

Below are the official contest rules
These rules are subject to change without notice by FanimeCon or the
Contest Director if deemed necessary.

All videos will be screened and may be disqualified for failure to
follow any of the rules or guidelines, for violating the general
concept of the contest, or for any reason FanimeCon or the Contest
Director may see fit.

Limit of five (5) videos per entrant/group.

Videos must have been created on or after May 28th, 2003

Videos must be no longer than eight ( 8 ) minutes long.

All videos must be in the possession of the Contest Director by
midnight on May 14, 2010. All videos will be tested and any errors
must be corrected by May 21, 2010.

All entrants and members of groups submitting videos must be over 18.

Awards that are chosen by the Audience will be chosen by auditory
voting. In the event that method is unclear by the determination of
the Contest Director, the audience will physically move into groups to
signify their vote. If, after such physical groupings, the voting is
still unclear, the prize will be split between the two highest
entries.


Content Guidelines:

No Yaoi or Yuri
No Guro
No Scat
No Bestiality
No Futanari
No Real-Life Porn. This means no pornography of actual human beings in the flesh
Nothing Illegal
Keep any violence and/or abuse to a minimum
BDSM - Wax, whipping and bondage are allowed. Bloodplay is prohibited.
Due to the variety of BDSM, any other kind of BDSM must be approved by
FanimeCon and the Contest Director in order to be permitted.
Use of regular anime is allowed, but the primary spirit of these
awards is for hentai music videos. Insufficient hentai is terms for
disqualification. Videos must be at least %50 hentai.
Tentacles are allowed and encouraged!

Awards/Categories

Cthulhu's pick (Chosen by Contest Director)
Audience's Overall pick (Chosen by Audience)
Best use of Tentacles (Chosen by Audience)
Best use of Music (Chosen by Audience)

Technical Rules

The below has been copied from the FMV rules for 2010. If there is a
discrepancy between the two, treat these as authoritative.

Submitting your videos
Visit http://www.cthulhuforpresident.org for instructions on
submitting your files.

File Formats
We are only accepting files that are formatted in MPEG2, AVI, MP4, or
MOV. If you choose to select a format that is different from the one's
listed we will contact you and ask that you change it's format.
Please, when exporting your files stay within official resolutions
720X480 or an HD size of 1280x720 and with stereo audio.

General File Settings
Video:
29.97 Frames Per second
Encode with an aspect ratio of 16:9, 4:3 is allowed but might be
stretched during our conversion process.
If your original source was film or 24fps add a 3:2 Pulldown this will
convert it to 29.97 fps
Please encode your video as deinterlaced. Interlaced is OK but we will
deinterlace the video for the contest.
Video size must be either 720X480 4:3 Format or 1280X720 16:9 Format
Single pass set to a variable bit rate and select 16 megabits per second
If you use two pass VBR set to 2 megabits as the minimum, 8 megabits
as the average, and 16 megabits as the maximum.

Audio:
Use Layer-II or Layer-III audio at 224 Kilobits per second or better
Choose stereo over joint stereo for best quality
Sample at 44.1Khz

File size is rarely an issue, so try to make your video as high
quality as possible. Unlike the FMV contest, the Contest Director does
not have the ability to convert files for submitters. Submitters
should take responsibility for ensuring that the video is playable.
You can find information on file conversion in the FMV 2010 rules.

If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected]

As far as traveling, I highly suggest getting tickets with Southwest Airlines if possible. San Jose airport is a major SWA hub and they take up almost half of the airport. They're usually pretty cheap, especially if you reserve ahead of time. SWA only accepts reservations 6.5 months in advance, so you'll want to check their website in December. You can then take the light rail from the airport to the convention center.

Cthulhu for President!

Of course, I am biased.

http://www.youtube.com/user/AndreVSWorld

I'm still working on getting video from the actual presentation online overlaid with the audio, but the audio keeps disappearing.

Do you honestly think Cthulhu cares if it is an election year or not? The Cthulhu for President campaign continues! Learn how Cthulhu was unfairly defeated! Learn about Cthulhu's stimulus plan and how you can help! Learn new ways to consume the flesh of infants! Cthulhu for President! No More Years!

This year, we even have buttons!

Saturday at 6pm! Be there or be eaten*!



*Attendance or the lack thereof will not prevent you from being eaten

I enjoy funny comments. The problem is that the majority of comments aren't funny.

Look, yelling out a phrase over and over that everyone has heard before isn't funny. It isn't clever or entertaining. At best it is just noise, but more commonly it is annoying.

I remember the first few years of the hentai room, when it was really entertaining. Now it's just a bunch of 4chan dipshits who are unoriginal and merely spout things others have said before.

H night needs:

Less idiots running around with megaphones
Less 4chan quotes
Less unfunny comments by the audience

More control over the audience
More "classical" hentai