@Monkey:
How the fuck do we have TWO Icelanders.
What the fuck.
That's statistically insane.
It's three times more likely to have other people posting from MY COUNTY lol.
And how did this other Icelandic person completely keep themselves hidden from me this whole time! Chances are we've met in real life you know, oh no, maybe he's been lurking this entire time posting every comment of mine and picture on facebook for the whole Icelandic community to laugh at!!! Woe is meee
@wolfwoof:
So basically you're saying you are Scandinavian lol
Icelandic people can be weirdly nationalistic, I think it's the whole island mentality thing. It's mostly the older generation though.
@wolfwoof:
I suck at math, statistics and all that but when it's a country as small and as anglicizied as that aren't the odds in favor of them seeking out international English forums
Yubb, since there's no icelandic manga forum or one piece community (we have literally one store where you can buy one piece) the place we'll end up on is the one you'll find by googling i.e. this one.
@Panda:
Indeed! I'm assuming Monkey is referring to the relative populations of his county and Iceland, but that presupposes that the conditional probabilities of someone using this forum, given either being from his county or being from Iceland, are equal, which there isn't exactly data to support.
Thing is, it can be fun playing the numbers game, how on earth can Iceland with a population of 320 000 manage to have blank
@Monkey:
Are you suggesting that a japanese rubber pirate comic may have insanely higher penetration in Iceland than a mostly well moneyed series of suburbs and small cities virtually next to New York City with at least four barnes and nobles and a books a million within it? And quite a few more in driving distance from outside, in the country where the domestic publisher is headquartered?
Every (only a slight hyperbole) young person here has a computer good internet and a yearning for a culture other than our own. I suppose that largely explains it.
@wolfwoof:
Well the manga boom hit Scandinavia really hard. And after it died down One Piece was the only one that stayed around
So if an Icelander is even vaguely into manga i'd assume he's into OP
But who knows, maybe New York is manga central USA. Or maybe Iceland is that odd one out in Scandinavia that never latched onto OP
One Piece isn't really big here, but then again there isn't really any manga series that's big, manga as a thing has a following but no specific series, just the phenomenon.
@Foolio:
There's another Icelander who used to hang out in the IRC channel a lot. I don't see the statistical significance of 2 people from Iceland being on the most popular English-speaking OP forum there is.
Heh Sinkleir, I like him.
PS: Foolio that has to be the most random Icelandic thing you could have posted I swear.