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agesboy
07/23/2025
12:21 AM
#402
Questionmarktarius posted...
This had better end with someone getting tossed into a volcano.
i'll do you one better- they already pulled that joke off with the announcement trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyD40Yq7uP0
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Questionmarktarius
07/23/2025
12:23 AM
#403
agesboy posted...
i'll do you one better- they already pulled that joke off with the announcement trailer
starting that way is also acceptable, yes.
I_Abibde
08/02/2025
03:23 PM
#404
I need to dig back into Gundam X on Tubi, but I also need to get through all of 00 first. Might attempt AGE again if I feel adventurous.
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keyblader1985
08/05/2025
08:32 PM
#405
Got another Comic Con this weekend, and I'm having a lot of trouble deciding whose autograph to get. I get two free autographs for volunteering, but there are so many great guests that I can't get just two.

I'm getting Vicki Lawrence (Mama's Family) for my mom, and among the ones I'm considering for myself:

  • Joshua Seth (Tai from Digimon)
  • Sean Astin
  • Billy West
  • Maurice Lamarche (The Brain, Kif, etc.)
  • Kel Mitchell
All four of the original Ninja Turtles and April will be there too, but I haven't watched that show in like thirty years, and it would be too expensive to get all of them.
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Revelation34
08/05/2025
10:37 PM
#406
keyblader1985 posted...
Got another Comic Con this weekend, and I'm having a lot of trouble deciding whose autograph to get. I get two free autographs for volunteering, but there are so many great guests that I can't get just two.

I'm getting Vicki Lawrence (Mama's Family) for my mom, and among the ones I'm considering for myself:

* Joshua Seth (Tai from Digimon)
* Sean Astin
* Billy West
* Maurice Lamarche (The Brain, Kif, etc.)
* Kel Mitchell
All four of the original Ninja Turtles and April will be there too, but I haven't watched that show in like thirty years, and it would be too expensive to get all of them.


Sean Astin and Billy West.
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YoukaiSlayer
08/07/2025
12:30 AM
#407
Just caught up on to be hero X. Was like 8 episodes behind. The show is really good. The second half of the season shows 1 characters story at a time that all end at the same central event. Kind of reminds of the train robbery in baccano. In some ways its even better here because new information recontextualizes a lot that we already saw.
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YoukaiSlayer
08/08/2025
05:32 AM
#408
Somehow I actually don't have enough to watch. Caught up on bad girl, it's fine but I wish it more overtly yuri like no freaking way I'll be your lover is. The kindergartners are also really annoying and I wish they just weren't the show.

Watched 1 episode of ruri rocks. Nothing wrong with it and it looks visually good but also didn't hook me at all. Definitely feels like it's just not for me.

Maybe I'll try gachiakuta.
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keyblader1985
08/09/2025
02:29 PM
#409
Anybody know a character that looks exactly like Saki Yoshida (177013)? I saw a cosplayer that I swore was her, but she said it wasn't, and I didn't get a chance to ask who it actually was.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAB95qJWoAAevQd.jpg

Like this, but with slightly purple hair. Even the uniform was the same.
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Questionmarktarius
08/09/2025
02:51 PM
#410
keyblader1985 posted...
Anybody know a character that looks exactly like Saki Yoshida (177013)?
i dunno... Wednesday Adams?
keyblader1985
08/09/2025
08:28 PM
#411
After some agonizing I decided on Sean, Vicki, and Joshua. But then I just noticed today that Cristina Vee, one of the guests this weekend, is the voice of Shantae, among several others. I've always been a big fan, so I think I'll have to get her too.
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keyblader1985
08/10/2025
03:49 PM
#412
This has got to be one of the most boring volunteer experiences I've had. Since I have experience in a lot of different departments I was put on the Floater crew, which just sends a person into any department that needs an extra person (registration, line control, safety, etc.).

We were told we wouldn't be in any position for very long because they'd rotate us in and out for breaks and such.
nstead I got placed at one particular door for bag/weapons check, and have been here for almost the entire time. The funny part is that almost all attendees are getting checked at a different table. Yesterday it was me and another person and we barely had to do anything, and today I'm alone and only had to check one person so far.

My department head has basically ignored any requests I've made for the entire convention; for replacement, breaks (which I don't really need since I'm just sitting here), or even my autograph vouchers. I had to get a whole different person to get me those.
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You only need one T-Rex to make the point, though. ~ Samus Sedai
keyblader1985
08/10/2025
04:45 PM
#413
They said they would give us time to get our autographs, but since I have zero trust in them at the moment, I just went AWOL and did it myself. Turns out it varies by person what a volunteer voucher will get you; some will do whatever, some will only do selfies, and some don't take vouchers at all. Sean Astin was the latter, and $80 for an autograph, so I just dropped him; I've spent too much already, since the ones I wanted the most also required payment for autographs.

So right now I've spent a lot of money, have a voucher that I don't know who to use it on, and apparently Kel didn't show up at all today so he's not even an option.
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You only need one T-Rex to make the point, though. ~ Samus Sedai
keyblader1985
08/10/2025
06:08 PM
#414
Yep - nobody talked to me, I went to the celebrity area fifteen minutes before closing, and almost all of them were gone. I got an autograph from Rob Paulsen (Raphael, Pinky).
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dragon504
08/10/2025
08:04 PM
#415
I get why celebs will charge for an autograph, but it just seems so shitty. Sorry you didn't have a better time at this con, hopefully the next one is great.
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adjl
08/11/2025
11:46 AM
#416
Especially the crazy expensive ones. $80 to spend six seconds writing on something? That's just ridiculous.
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keyblader1985
08/12/2025
09:58 AM
#417
Aside from that, I heard nothing but good things about him; he was great with fans and would keep on going as long as the line kept coming, despite being on a time crunch and having his own personal business to attend to.

Handling the line is an important task for that reason; there is an infinite number of people who want to meet the guest, but they can't do it forever so you have to hold or cut off the queue at the right time especially if the guest is too nice to do it themselves.
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You only need one T-Rex to make the point, though. ~ Samus Sedai
I_Abibde
08/14/2025
09:06 PM
#418
I get too shy around celebs to enjoy that aspect of a con. Any time I go, I just go to the merch tables. ^_^; Then again, I have not been to any kind of con since ... 2011? 2012?

Almost done paring down the manga collection. Just a small handful of greatest hits now.
-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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keyblader1985
08/15/2025
08:21 AM
#419
Oh, I definitely get awkward and tongue tied around them. But at least an autograph leaves a better takeaway than an awkward interaction.

Also, why do I want these shoes so much? I'm not even a shoe guy.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2025/8/14/nike-yugioh-joey-wheeler-sneakers

Im definitely a big fan of the character, and those shoes were his first claim to fame in the manga.
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adjl
08/15/2025
12:01 PM
#420
To be fair, early 2000's shoe design was pretty peak, and they seem to capture that.
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Zeus
08/18/2025
03:04 AM
#421
A few weeks back, I started watching One Piece again on a whim after seeing a clip in my feed where Luffy arrives on Kuja Island or whatever, and then decided I wanted to watch to the end of that arc... and then to the end of Impel Down for a few key moments. However, it wasn't until right at the end of Impel Down that I really noticed how much filler this show has. Whole episodes could be done in five minutes or less instead of the twenty it sometimes takes to do something basic.

The other tough thing was recalling when certain things happened since I haven't seen/read some of the arcs before this (ie, Water7/Enies Lobby, Thriller Bark, and... well, basically everything from Skypiea to I think just before Sabody) and after this (I dropped off early during Fishman Island), as well as remembering what Luffy is able to do at this point in the story.

Also, the attention to continuity is terrible. Luffy "learns" Jinbei is a warlord like 4 or 5 times and acts surprised in each instance.
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YoukaiSlayer
08/18/2025
07:23 AM
#422
It has the most insidious filler because it's crept it's way into every episode that also has important shit you can't cut out so you can't just skip the filler episodes. Gotta watch one of them edited down version like one pace to not have a torturous experience.

I've been doing a bit of experimenting with reading lately. My illness makes reading webtoons/manga cause me bad symptoms pretty quickly and even reading forum posts or programming lines for too long gets me sick and it's quite a nuisance so I've taken to doing some actual experimentation to try and figure out if I can mitigate it to some degree. I've been reading shadow slave while trying different text sizes and colors/background colors. It's definitely much better on my body with large text and not having to scroll constantly like webtoons manga but I have yet to find a way to truly be free of this misery (outside of just not reading anything). Still, some improvement is better than nothing and shadow slave has been really good. I'm 677 chapters in (of a bit over 2500 and counting). Assuming my health holds out, I'll probably read till the end.

Makes me wish there was some kind of mix between ark survival evolved and dark souls where you have the open world (ish) ecosystem of ark thats very deadly and unsafe to explore in but you have the aesthetic, gameplay, and mysteries of dark souls. Elden ring doesn't really cut it because the areas are pretty sequential in the power level of their enemies. Doesn't give you that sense of difficulty to survive and traverse knowing you will have to avoid things like ark does. You can pretty much just obliterate everything in your path and only hit a few road bumps.
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Xbox_Anime
08/18/2025
05:45 PM
#423
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/364295-kingdom-hearts-iv/80760663?page=1

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/691088-xbox-one/80970718
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/691087-playstation-4/78895875
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/691087-playstation-4/79374521?page=4
Zeus
08/23/2025
03:16 AM
#424
YoukaiSlayer posted...
It has the most insidious filler because it's crept it's way into every episode that also has important shit you can't cut out so you can't just skip the filler episodes. Gotta watch one of them edited down version like one pace to not have a torturous experience.

tbh, I feel like I'll probably have to do that eventually. Especially since it makes the show borderline unwatchable at times and stretches stuff out to a laughable extent.

Because I'd kinda dropped off near the end of Skypiea (and there could probably be a pun about that), I wound up deciding to watch the remainder of the arc from near where I left it (although I guess I must've skipped a few episodes because it was into the trials... and I generally couldn't remember what led to them being involved in those, so I wiki'd that). I figured it'd be a great way to do it since I saw an edited version of the fight between Luffy and Eneru (which looked amazing... for the early parts). However, I just realized how many episodes that's across -- partly because they cut to other people doing pointless stuff (common in anime, sure, but I swear just one episode involved Colnis trying to warn people to run , which is insane). So yeah, I'm definitely leaning in that direction -- especially for some of these arcs.
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agesboy
08/24/2025
09:54 PM
#425
umamusume just got a yandere horsegirl in jp so i guess i'm keeping a spark on hand for the next two fucking years until she comes out

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YTVXhkQZwk4
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YVojor8q55c
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1oma1-gRqaM
https://imgur.com/LabbRyN
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Revelation34
08/25/2025
01:21 AM
#426
I'm waiting for the next two Honkai releases. I want all 3 of the leaked units. I think one is going to be free though.
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YoukaiSlayer
08/25/2025
04:46 PM
#427
I tried out the blue protocol:star resonance beta. Game is bad. Most of the conversation is around p2w but frankly thats secondary to the combat just being bad. It's barely an action rpg. It functions more like an extremely basic tab target mmo that just automatically hits target closest on screen every frame. Enemy animations are some of the worst I've ever seen, the hitboxes are beyond atrocious, the enemy and boss AI makes them robotic and lifeless, and everything has a near instant no animation AoE thats like the entire screen.

I can't believe that more people aren't talking about how utterly awful the combat is and in fact most reviews seem to list that as one of the games few good points. If thats what they think is good combat, what the hell do they think is bad?

Quite disappointing all things considered. I really really want an MMO with good non tab target combat but the industry absolutely refuses to make one. I don't even need great combat, I'll settle for good, I just want the social aspects in a game that doesn't make me miserable to actually play.
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TigerTycoon
08/25/2025
05:28 PM
#428
When You Finally Decide To Watch One Piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpPA8P8CD6U
YOU COULDN'T AFFORD IT!
keyblader1985
08/30/2025
09:41 AM
#429
No MOTHERFUCKING way

https://youtu.be/AkGPhVXJWo0
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YoukaiSlayer
08/30/2025
07:50 PM
#430
That's crazy. That's one of the two manga I struggled through despite my dislike for manga's lack of color. I kinda hope they rework the last like 3rd of the story though. I wonder why it's getting an anime now?
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heIly
08/30/2025
07:51 PM
#431
they ran out of generic isekais to turn into an anime probably
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Revelation34
08/30/2025
08:17 PM
#432
I'm just waiting for a 20th Century Boys anime.
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I_Abibde
09/01/2025
03:21 PM
#433
Banana Fish got animated, Rev. Anything is possible.
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YoukaiSlayer
09/02/2025
10:12 PM
#434
I'm still reading shadow slave (chapter 2082 currently) and I'm reaching a familiar point in progression fantasy/cultivation stories. Why the hell are lower tier soldiers even involved in war? The higher tier people could easily solo all of them. If our main character fell asleep in the middle of 1000 tier 2 people, they couldn't do anything to him. Why are they here? In fact, they are less than useless, because they serve as essence batteries for our main character to claim whenever he feels like it.

When you have people that are incorporeal and effectively a walking nuclear bomb, why do you have normal people with swords and spears involved in the same battle? And it's not just this story, I see it all over the place in fiction. Authors seem to for some reason underestimate how strong their characters are and then suddenly they stop using their cheap incredibly potent AoE abilities to just eviscerate the common foot soldiers in an increasingly illogical war plan. It feels like they had a few cool ideas about what to write in a war but failed to logically attach it to their story.

I'll be happy to see more kingdom next season as it's the only competent war story that I'm aware of (outside of sorta LotGH).
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heIly
09/02/2025
11:11 PM
#435
i view it as feature creeping

at first it's like, a huge deal for the ultras to exist. like the first arc would have like one

and then how do you keep the tension up? you keep introducing more and more and more to the point where the super rare is now super common

imagine bleach or one piece or naruto, in that over time the end is just an entirely different sort of story that was first presented, with a cast that just grew exponentially because it had to top the last time a crew of people showed up. it's comical how much it goes from vibes and struggle and triumph, to just these comedically large threats

the original last arc of bleach, the aizen stuff, the almost end of the last arc just introduced like 30 new people, and what did the final final last arc do? introduce a billion more people
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Xbox_Anime
09/03/2025
08:07 PM
#436
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JGlZvq6PCBc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UN-EllR-z3s
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/691087-playstation-4/78895875
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/691087-playstation-4/79374521?page=4
keyblader1985
09/03/2025
08:44 PM
#437
I always liked that Final Fantasy commercial. But I actually didn't watch any trailers or anything for Kingdom Hearts III, because I wanted to experience everything fresh. I do have fond memories of commercials for classic Kingdom Hearts games though; those were what initially got me interested in the game.
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Entity13
09/06/2025
02:13 AM
#438
Kingdom Hearts makes me roll my eyes hard at the best of times, and sick to my stomach at the worst of times. People going gaga over it doesn't improve my disposition with the series. I even tried the first game once just to say I've done it, and really wasn't impressed by the whole experience, personally. I remember, in high school, hearing from friends how much they dreaded fighting Sephiroth as if he was some terrifying monster in the game, and then I got to him and realized he just has one cheap trick he uses at opening and periodically in the fight, but is easily countered if you know to keep an eye out for the necessary countermeasure (aka., healing right away before the follow-up attack).

I also recall, by the time I played KH, even my little sister had heard about the then-famous song from the game. Then she forgot about it a few months after I beat the game. *shrugs*

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Zeus
09/06/2025
04:06 PM
#439
I loved the first KH other than a few small things, but still haven't played any of the sequels (except Chain of Memories, which was terrible even before realizing the battery in my cartridge was faulty... oh, come to think of it, I also played DDD, which was alright other than being a little forgettable) despite owning most or all of them.

It was one of those franchises where I was like, "Wow, that's a cool concept," but the pull wasn't there after a while... especially after learning about all that other nonsense where they go heavy on SE elements in the story.
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YoukaiSlayer
09/06/2025
08:04 PM
#440
I remember enjoying 1 as a kid but I've never been into disney so the key appeal isn't really there for me.
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ConfusedTorchic
09/07/2025
04:21 PM
#441


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a5131c8c.jpg

nice
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agesboy
09/07/2025
06:06 PM
#442
i thought kingdom hearts 1 was straight mid, but 2 had some REALLY cool moments and was overall a worthwhile experience (even if a lot of the spectacle moments are just mashed or timed button presses). 3 took way too long to come out on steam so i never touched it
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dragon504
09/07/2025
06:14 PM
#443
KH is one of those series I just never got into.
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YoukaiSlayer
09/08/2025
10:40 PM
#444
Man, No way I'll be your lover is pretty goated. I'm sad the show only has a few episodes left. This is the first legit yuri harem anime I can think of outside of that short triangle thing that sucked. I hope Renako gets a harem ending even though she'd probably be the one who wants that the least.
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keyblader1985
09/09/2025
01:08 AM
#445
Just found The Girl in Twilight and I'm digging it. It's like a mix of Persona and Abenobashi, and the opening is a banger.
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YoukaiSlayer
09/09/2025
09:16 AM
#446
Watching mikadono sisters and it has a really good insert song that I cannot find anything about, not even the song name. Why do they do this? It costs nothing to just publish the OST digitally.
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keyblader1985
09/10/2025
06:35 PM
#447
keyblader1985 posted...
Just found The Girl in Twilight and I'm digging it.
Damn, why is it impossible to find this show online? I feel like I've searched everywhere.
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ConfusedTorchic
09/10/2025
07:04 PM
#448
it's on hidive

but not hianime
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keyblader1985
09/10/2025
07:10 PM
#449
I meant online, like, yo ho ho.
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ConfusedTorchic
09/11/2025
12:22 AM
#450
i know i'm just saying i couldn't find it either except for there

anyways digimon time demo wheeeeeee

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f8e0db11.jpg

it's a single player game who fuckin cares
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ConfusedTorchic
09/11/2025
01:26 AM
#451
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a57ea476.jpg
https://imgur.com/a/870sIOm
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