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Devilman Crybaby has been pretty good. The weird, crappy animation looks bad during the normal scenes, but it blends well with the transformations and action scenes. I might check out some other Devilman series at some point.

Oh, plus they had a slam poetry scene in English instead of Japanese so now I kinda wish they had done the earlier rap/slam poetry scenes in English (then again, I wouldn't have known how great they sounded in Japanese)


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Finished Blue Exorcist s2. The narrative was a lot more tightly focused -- probably due to the length of the season (although there was a bit of padding) -- so the story felt more continuous. The only things that kinda bugged me was that you had the separate battles across multiple episodes at the end (which is *always* annoying) and the whole thing had kind of an anime movie vibe to it (probably because the story was focused to a fault and had too many damn callbacks to shit that happened earlier in the season).

I liked that it had the trappings of lore, though, when it starts to reference the Demonic Table of Elements and talking about a connection to the King of Rot or whatever.

Because I don't start anything super long atm, I've decided to watch Devilman Crybaby... and I was immediately taken by the animation, which looked kinda cool at first (particularly the car stuff) before realizing that it kinda gives the show a cheap look later on.

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Blue Exorcist s2 is on NF. Hadn't really expected a second season after watching that first one... and, in general, I can't remember much about how s1 ended. I remember the last scene from the season but a lot of the stuff around the devil-possessed brother is kind of a blank, other than it dragging on and revealing the devil's relationship with the boys' mom. I *still* can't remember why one bother is demonic yet the other brother was the compatible host for the devil. Plus it's showing some flashbacks I don't remember (although right after that it goes to an exposition flashback I remember a bit of)... and then right after that they have some exposition where people are treating that like some new revelation when it was previously discussed many, many times in s1.

In general, it's one of those guilty pleasure anime; it's mostly derivative crap, but it's fun.

likehelly posted...

i started reading a new manga, and more than a few times i get hit with massive deja vu, like ive read it before, but i cant think of anything that happens in it further than what ive currently read

Possibly because they reuse so many damn tropes... or maybe you did read part of it. I've had it happen to me as well at times. It's a little unnerving.

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GGuirao13 posted...

5,647

That's your karma, not your AMP.


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Finished Toradora. It was pretty good, other than starting a little weak and fading a bit by the end. (Not to mention going the stereotypical safe route with characters running away then immediately coming back.)

Once again, though, it's an anime with a kinda open-ending which is starting to piss me off. I checked and, because it was originally based on a light novel, the manga doesn't seem to go any further (and if the wiki is correct, the manga was covering the same shit as the anime way later than the anime?). I suppose it's also just a matter of commercialism getting in the way of artistry, since so many of these series leave shit on the table in the hopes of being able to continue the story. (Which, on an unrelated note, is what really pissed me off about You Will Hear the Voices of the Dead because the mangaka *knew* that there was no hope of that continuing yet the series basically ends on a massive cliffhanger that she pretended was an ending.)

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Ryugi's almost father-daughter relationship with Taiga in Toradora reminds me how often there's a kinda weird vibe like that in a lot of these slice-of-life romantic comedies where you have a significantly more mature male character almost acting like a caregiver or some shit. Other than that, it seems pretty okay so far.

keyblader1985 posted...

Not really topical, but I started reading Amazing Spider-Man recently.

If only there was also a geek topic or something =p

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Going to finally watch Toradora! Had been considering watching it on CrunchyRoll, but today found it on NF. Almost didn't notice it because of NF's terrible placard and the stylized letters for the title.

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Finished Episodes. The third season kinda sucked with the Castor whatever crap, except for his presentation in the final episode of that season. Surprisingly great show, though, far more fun than Friends. Some elements felt off-type for LeBlanc (I had a hard time seeing him as a ladies man), but on the whole kinda wound up liking his involvement

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Terrible game, okay poster. The free mode was pretty fun, though. Could just fly around and had unlimited energy for attacks.

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SpeeDLeemon posted...

in the last four days with minimal posting, my AMP only fell from 596 to 568.

Well, considering most of your posts are in this often-bumped topic >_>

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Started to watch Episodes starring Matt LeBlanc. It's actually a bit more promising than I thought it'd be, particularly after the shitty opening minutes.

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Cool. Ridiculous from the standpoint that it's clearly Vader's modified fighter and those ships are close enough to bump each other, but cool.

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In the 4 days I was warned, my AMP only fell to 725 (from a bit over 800 or 850).

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Still on Always Sunny. Finally hit s14.

Favorite episodes from the more recent seasons include:
-"Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer" (probably my favorite episode in general)
-The Family Feud episode
-"Time's Up for the Gang" (the sexual harassment episode -- which are generally funny; it's also one of my favorite episodes of The Office. Also always great? Gun control episodes.)
-ThunderGun 4 (more for the moderator and film bits than their side discussions)

JixHedgehog posted...

Simpsons, season.. 29

You know they're out of ideas when they bring back the Monorail, reboot the PinPals etc in an attempt for a giggle.. which not only backfires, but makes the original episode look cheap and nasty :/

Last season they went back to Kamp Krusty :\

idk, I kinda liked the monorail callback.

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ChronxDaHemphog posted...

Day 31: Sim City
Volume 23

I love the design. It's both evocative and oddly appropriate, even if it isn't necessarily the best representation of the general gameplay (although using the disasters was fun)

ChronxDaHemphog posted...

Day 32: Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal
Volume 85

I don't even remember that game. Oo

Cool poster, but it's just got a comic feel

ChronxDaHemphog posted...

Day 33: Banjo-Kazooie
Volume 99

Functional and informative, albeit a little bland.

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I had a dream a few nights ago that Again!! was trolling with that "ending" and the series actually continued =(

Kinda makes me not want to finish a few other manga I started years ago.

I_Abibde posted...

There is a growing case of sliding standards in the Social Justice regions of fandom. There are now people who literally believe that anybody under 25 -- when the brain is supposedly done developing -- is "underage". I've seen it over in Fire Emblem fandom (e.g. people calling Sylvain underage in Three Houses when he is canonically 20 before the timeskip).

To say that things are getting out of control is a bit of an understatement.

Sounds like a great time to move the voting age to 25. Kinda overdue, really, since the period of adolescence is far longer today.


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Finished Again!! and I'm confused as fuck. What a weird ending.

I had read up to where the scanlation ended last year (when they're preparing to cheer at a marathon) and picked it up from there, re-reading the last chapter I had read (or maybe the one before it?).

Things had kinda been progressing up until Imauru randomly falls and wakes up in a distant future -- past his original timeline -- where he died in the fall... and then after centuries of being dead, he somehow triggers an Again (possibly via an accidental fall off a cliff?). Then the shit ends with him returning to his previous Again where things left off, deciding to kiss a bunch of women to wreck the future he saw, and then becoming a passive guy again... before deciding to Again again and jumping down the stairs, hitting the captain. Then it flashforwards to the beginning of the series, but this time Fujieda falls and hits the captain. And the captain runs from Imaura because... reasons? She says some weird shit. I'm not sure if she flash-forwarded when she got hit by Imaura in the past but, then again, she was weird the last time he appeared in the present.

Is it too much to ask for manga to just give a satisfying, concrete ending?

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The one thing I hate about manga is that you sometimes have what amount to empty chapters. There's so little going on that it doesn't even feel like filler.

Frigging Again!! was killing me with a few of those before jumping into another "what's going on?!" moment. You sometimes almost forget the supernatural angle, only for it to be shoved into your face in shocking fashion with a series of chapters each with a major cliffhanger.

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Judgmenl posted...

That defeats the purpose for me. I play games to enjoy myself not to be caught up with hunting achievements. And I don't remember the last time I played a game more than once tbh. Too many things to do these days to be caught up in just one thing (well unless that game is a persistent online game, and there are very few good ones now).

If I like a game enough to complete it once and there are achievements, etc, I missed, I'll likely play it again. While time has generally been an issue, it also comes down to motivation for me. I have an easier time continuing (including restarting) a game than starting a new one, given the investment of time getting into the game (learning the mechanics, getting used to the gameplay, becoming engaged in the story, etc)

Unless I really like a game -- or there's a specific benefit in-game -- I tend to avoid pigeon hunts, though. Infamous 1's and SR4's pigeon hunts both were tied to unlocking/upgrading powers iirc which made them more tolerable.

But yeah, having to look for shit while playing (meaning checking a guide) kills the experience... especially when shit is hard to find. The unlockables in XMO:Wolverine pissed the fuck out of me, especially because they unlocked alt costumes (and specifically comic costumes) which I'd rather use.

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Last geek topic purged. Overnight I went from 990 AMP to 850. Guess I kinda bumped that topic a lot over those 3 months.

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deoxxys posted...

I tried watching One Piece starting with the Skypiea Arc and was loving it at first but the pacing really started to drive me nuts, so I started alternating between the manga and the anime but when I noticed even canon arcs had filler (long ring island had double the amount of matches), thats when I mostly dropped the anime.

It's tough because the arc is all kinds of awful yet Eneru is one of the best things in OP. They go most of the arc before Luffy finally confronts him and then instant hilarity ensues.

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helIy posted...

one piece just needs to end already

we are like halfway into the current arc and i've already forgotten what the fuck is happening, and the arc started back last year

It just needs shorter arcs and not to have 10-episode fights

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Kinda starting to try to follow up on the manga I had been reading prior to Mangafox going legit-ish. In the case of Witchcraft Works, when I reached the end of the scanlation in September, they were still on the Alcina arc. All this time later, apparently only *two* new chapters have been uploaded (supposedly within the same day) and it looks like we're nowhere near close to finishing this arc. Oh, and the translation is still absolute shit. I assume it has to be a literal word-by-word translation from a dictionary because man is it bad. It's annoying because, like many scanlations, the early going was translated reasonably well. Now it's occasionally unreadable.

At any rate, I still gotta read the end of that one Ouendon series or whatever about the kid who travels back in time and joins a cheer club.

deoxxys posted...

Currently watching Inuyasha for the first time

Oo

deoxxys posted...

and really liking it.

The early episodes are good, but it hits a point of stagnation eventually. The series' villain is introduced relatively early and isn't particularly great.

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At 952 or so, which I'm like 90% sure is the most I've ever had thanks to a few long-running topics including that last geek topic which *still* hasn't cleared out. I still need to go back in there to take a few notes about stuff to check out, etc.

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Did he like have a spring power in that game or...?

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dragon504 posted...

Just slowly watching Conan until I can figure out what else I want to watch. Up through ep 122 so far, so a billion more to go. Being episodic makes it easy to watch an ep or two, but hard to watch a ton in a row. Though, I've found spacing out each ep, even if only by 20-30 mins of doing other things makes it easier to keep watching. Guess I just need a brief reset before starting a new case. Looking forward to exiting the SD era and entering the HD era for it, but that should still be quite a ways off.

For some reason, I have a much easier time binging the manga than the show. And the dub I can watch a lot of episodes in a row, but the sub I can only watch a few before wanting a break.

keyblader1985 posted...

That's right around where they stopped doing the English dub, and just before a major character is introduced.

Who? Is that when Ai is introduced?

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I love Detective Conan, but the full intro is way too awful and long (specifically the Japanese ones). Is it done as a deliberate filler to pad out the run time on some episodes? >_>

At any rate, lost electricity for a while so watched a few eps I had stored on my phone. As always, I greatly prefer the dub to the sub, both for the VAs -- particularly Richard/Kogou -- as well as being able to pay more attention to the suspect reactions which are always great.

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Realized Hulu's dickwad decision to remove the Lethal Weapon 5 episode fucked up the Always Sunny continuity for me. I thought it was strange how one episode ends with him still being the school janitor and then things are back to normal in the next, although I chalked it up to it just being done for comedic effect. However, I guess that episode explains how he wound up back with the gang =x

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Still occasionally playing Pokken. Currently getting thrashed by Braixen. Switched to try out Lucario, still getting beat. It also made me think about what a terrible design Delphox is that they went with Braixen (which is actually a kinda cute design) rather than Fennekin's final form.

And... finally tried out Suicune. Suicune was one of the bigger draws for me and, all things considered, I was a *little* surprised to see it in the roster since he doesn't fit the theme as much. I've long been a Suicune fan and I'm pleasantly surprised to find that he does seem pretty damn powerful... although absurdly slow-moving. In the lore, he's known for having tremendous speed. In Pokken, his movement speed seems like crap. However, he seems to make up for it with some insanely powerful-looking projectiles. Oo

In general, though, the gameplay just seems wonkier and wonkier the more I see how things are done.

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RCtheWSBC posted...

I'm watching Flavor of Love season 2 with @ Jen0125

The show starring Flavor Flav? Oo

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SpeeDLeemon posted... idc Zues. Thanks for the paragraph that I did not read, though.

Because you're too busy talking to yourself to read other peoples' posts? >_>

But that paragraph was nothing compared to the next monster.

MeteoricBurst posted...

Seriously. Before corona I never got over 100 and still felt like I was posting a lot. Now I'm on my way to 300 smh.

Which is a social boards thing. Because social boards have a high purge rate, you could have 25 posts per day -- 175 per week -- and never rise above 200 AMP total. However, the second you step off a larger social board, even averaging 4-5 posts a day can give you an absurdly high AMP over time because the posts stay around for a much longer period of time. (Although even on a social board, you'll have some topics that stay active for a few months -- when I finally take a hit from the last geek topic going away, I should lose about 70-80 AMP.)

You could have three people start at the same time. One who posts only on CE, one only on PotD, and one only elsewhere. The CE poster could average 50 posts a day and, because CE purges after 3 days, his AMP probably wouldn't ever exceed 200 or 250 (accounting for some longer-running topics). You could have a PotD-only poster post 30 posts a day and, because PotD has a 7-day purge, his minimum would be 210 -- despite posting far less than the CE guy -- although he probably wouldn't exceed 350 (accounting for long-running topics, which can last longer on PotD because they don't 500 as fast). Finally you'd have somebody who posts off the major boards at a rate of 5 posts per day. Many boards take as long as 6 months to close topics, and a long-running topic can go years before 500'ing. So while his initial AMP would be lower than the others, he could easily hit the thousands over time despite having a far lower activity level. Even one month of posting would put him at the same 150 AMP as the 50-posts-per-day CE poster, despite the fact he's a tenth as active. And that's why AMP is a bullshit metric. Even on PotD, I have AMP from a year ago. On other boards, some of my AMP goes back 2 years because those topics are still running. It's how also how Slayer -- who did this shit deliberately -- was able to still have a monstrously huge AMP (what was it, like 12k?) despite not even logging in for half a year.

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I went through the first two tutorials in Pokken (and accidentally clicked through the explanation of how to leave duel mode, but I guess I'll figure that out later) and then tried using Empeleon again... and still got my ass kicked by the CPU. I then tried out Blaziken and won 9/10 or 10/11 matches against the CPU (winning both games out of most matches and then losing one match (1-2) vs the CPU's Scizor)

I keep hitting back to block instead of R, though, since I'm used to that being the default in a lot of fighters. I've kinda had that same issue in any fighter with a separate block button.


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Finally started to play Pokken Tournament DX and, let me just say, the VA-work is so bad I wish they had just stuck to text. I'm not sure why they have VA-work at all. They could have had a producer's kid read those lines better.

Also it's one of those wonky fighters where I'm going to have to learn some actual mechanics instead of figuring things out as I go along. I hate those.

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SpeeDLeemon posted...

I don't just post on Poll of the Day. I would destroy you if we left for two weeks!

What, do you take me for Dirt? Most of my AMP isn't on PotD. I could be gone two months and my AMP probably wouldn't fall much under 700 because most of my AMP is crazy old (although I'll be losing a bunch of AMP because the last Geek topic closed). Like I mentioned earlier, some of my AMP is over 2 years old at this point. You have a ton of AMP tied to this topic and, if you weren't around to bump it, that AMP would vanish in a week (and you have *at least* 100 AMP tied up in this topic). I have AMP in places where it takes months for a topic to inactivity-close. If we both went dark in some weird AMP contest, you'd be slaughtered. If you were lucky, your AMP would only be cut in half.

Also, Slayer closed his account. Truly the end of an era.

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Yassssss.... Wicked poster. They kept it simple. The only thing that looks a little off is the logo which shows the roster. tbh, I'm half-tempted to bust out my SNES tonight and... oh right, I can't find the remote for my old tube tv so I don't think I can switch it to the right channel to play it.

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Power and internet is being a little spotty due to the storm. If I lost power, it'd probably be the worst time for it since I'm furloughed and the pandemic has shut a lot of shit down. And even after the storm ends, I won't really be out of the woods for several days because damaged trees could still fall and down power lines, among other issues.

I have a bunch of devices fully powered, but my laptops will only last about an hour or so. My Chromebook is a bit better, but there's not much I can do on that. The Nintendo Switch -- have I mentioned how much I hate this thing yet? -- will only be good for 2-3 hours. My 3ds (which I need to charge) should last 4-6. I gotta find and charge my DS (or DSes?), which could late 5-10. And my GBA-SP could be good for 6-14 hours. Then my original gba runs on batteries, so that doesn't have a time-frame... but it also doesn't have a backlit screen. If I do lose power, I'll probably traditionally game more than I had in the past 6-7 months.

I misplaced my portable DvD player, although that I think lasts 3-6 hours.

Outside of electronics, I have a ton of books, manga, and a few TPBs sitting around, although it'd be a little inconvenient reading when it's dark out. While I've sometimes remarked that I might own 30 years' worth of entertainment, a lot of that requires electricity.

At any rate, on a happier note, apparently this is a thing:
https://hasbropulse.com/products/x-men-legends-marvel-s-sentinel

I'm not sure I've spent over $300 on a non-essential in a few years now (probably not since I bought a ps3 slim to replace my YLOD'd ps3), but I was sold on this the moment I saw it... so much so that, when I first saw it on BBTS for $500, I was going to just buy it there before deciding to see if that was the actual MSRP.

It's a staggering 26-inches tall and makes Hasbro's previous 16-inch Sentinel look small by comparison (side-note: I think I paid $70 for a comic-con Sentinel and then I later found some at TJ Maxx or Marshall's for $30 each. I had wished I had just bought all they had instead of getting an additional two, but this blows them out of the water). It's also more in the style I had wanted all along. The only downside is that this is kind of a one-shot production so I have to decide now whether to just get one or buy multiples (the order limit is 5, but I probably wouldn't go with 5). While I would want multiples for a display in my front hallway, the size may be kind of an issue.

The Wave Master posted...

"28 Gedks Later."

Usually I would just assume that's a typo >_>

The Wave Master posted...

Maybe even start the process of adopting a little rugrat since I can't have kids the natural way any longer.

Oof. Sorry to hear that, but there are a lot of kids in the system who need a good home.

Personally, I think if I ever adopted, it would be so they'd support my natural-born children (ie, an extra pair of hands around the house or something). The kinda cool thing about adopting can be the choice factor (albeit with older kids) whereas natural birth can kinda be a lotto.

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Should be tied now. At any rate, let's both leave the site for 2 weeks and see who's winning then! Imagine most of your AMP would purge.

Granted, the Geek topic is nearing its end so that'll close+purge before long which is going to knock me down 150+ AMP. Do I lose the AMP immediately when it 500s? Or is there a lag time?

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Nightwind posted...

this is a good place to hide a post, to keep active posts.

Some of Oguri's long-running posts are better since they get bumped more slowly >_>

At any rate, today I realized I still have some active posts for over 2 years ago.

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I loved the original when it came out (what was that, like 20 years ago at this point?), but I haven't had any interest in Progressive.

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I love how they have the villain collab dialogue right in the poster.

ChronxDaHemphog posted...
Couldn't make the file size small enough for the pic unless I cut a lot out so had to use imgur

Love the included mascots which has a whole "One of these characters is not like the others, one of these characters does not belong" (and it's not the baseball player >_>)

Even at the time, Killer Instinct didn't really feel like it was going to be a standout franchise, and history has kinda proved that right since not much has happened with the franchise in its over 25-year history. (And speaking of fighters consigned to the dustbin of gaming history, I'd still love to see another Primal Rage. Of course, the proposed sequel was just fucking stupid because it was going to replace the giant dinos/monsters with human avatars, making it just like any other fighting game except with PR's wonky control scheme.)

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Was cleaning and found my copy of The Halloween Tree. I've long been a Bradbury fan, I love Halloween, and I'd heard the book mentioned like it was a big deal... but it didn't grab me immediately and, when I wiki'd the details last year, it kinda looked shitty so I put aside and then it was lost in a growing pile of books and DVDs that I hadn't got around to sorting. I need to put up some extra shelving at some point, or get rid of some stuff.

At some point, I'm going to have to look around to see which short story anthologies I have sitting around; tempted to read/re-read some of them. (Not specifically Bradbury, although I think I have a Bradbury anthology or two.)

Oh, and the subject of Halloween and the earlier topic of merchandising, it looks like Sam from Trick 'r Treat is getting even *more* collectibles (unless NECA is re-releasing some). For a character from a relatively recent, lesser-known cult classic that couldn't even secure a theatrical release and whose sequel plans have always been pie in the sky, they manage to swing a lot of merch. Wouldn't mind trying to get that kind of success.

I_Abibde posted...

And I could've sworn we've had that one before.

idk, it might just be a matter of it being so obvious that we *think* we must have used it before, but I can't recall it being used in the 5 or 6 years I've regularly been coming here (prior to that, my visits to PotD were too sporadic to notice). I'm sure Wave has a list of topic names, though, and he can check.

Revelation34 posted...

I Am Geek?

I am geek, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore / And I'm too hungry to... that's all I've got.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Do we ever agree on a title?

I seem to recall at least three nods for 28 Geeks Later.

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I_Abibde posted...

Maybe I'm just getting old, maybe I'm at the point where I'd rather have a good localization than a direct translation, but 'good enough' is generally good enough for me, and I'm saying that as a (former) language major.

Yeah, people get too hung up on what they think is a direct translation or what might be the most accurate translation. I just want a story told in reasonably good English where I don't have to re-read a dialogue balloon several times to figure out exactly what a character is saying.

That said, subs and dubs not matching will always be a pet peeve of mine.

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The Wave Master posted...

Well, you're a legend. How about you pick the topic title, and we go with it for the next topic? Sounds fair to me.

Wow, you're REALLY opposed to going with 28 Geeks Later, aren't you? >_>

Why do you hate the name that much?

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Missed an earlier post >_>

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But my point is more that I have yet to see a single commercial for the game that tells you anything meaningful about it.

Kind of a weird learning metric. Because I ad-block, I can't recall the last time I saw a game commercial period.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

(Tangentially, though, I will say I didn't really appreciate Ladyhawk, Dragonslayer, or Legend at the time either, so maybe I just had a certain antipathy towards certain types of fantasy. It's hard to really parse out when I'm looking backwards from 30+ years later and trying to remember how I felt about stuff, and why.)

Seriously? Not even with Tim Curry as the Lord of Darkness?!

You at least liked Willow, right? Tell me you liked Willow. Because if I also hear you didn't like Willow, I'm going to lose my freaking mind over here.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

To be fair, they actually kind of address that in-game. The explosion at the end of the game puts you in a coma, and you required reconstructive surgery to fix everything, which justifies why you might look different than you did in SR1. Which includes gender (which seems more fluid in the Saints Row universe at the best of times).

Honestly, it seems like something of an oversight in the first place although I suppose they were working on a much tighter budget with the first game.

ParanoidObsessive posted... Weellll. If we're going to be honest, Eliza Dushku's career was ever all that (what's the opposite of "faded"? Bright?) in the first place.

Only with the benefit of hindsight. At the time, she seemed poised to be big.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But she was recording her lines for SR2 right between Tru Calling and Dollhouse

I loved Tru Calling -- although it was admittedly shit -- whereas my brother was a Dollhouse fan. It's a shame that nothing she was involved with (other than Buffy obviously, but even then she in a more supporting role) seemed to last.

And interestingly enough, both Tru Calling and Dollhouse were 26 episodes long although the episode count per season was different.

Oh, plus I just realized she played Rubi in WET. How did I not realize that? >_> I loved WET, although it was a clunky, kinda-bad game.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The real impressive thing was that NPH was willing to come BACK to voice lines for SR4 (though Eliza Dushku either wouldn't or wasn't even asked), after his personal stock had increased.

That's what makes him a nerd saint. Of course, in Dushku's case, they didn't even keep her in SR3.... and now I'm curious which side decided that, since it would probably give a reason for her not being back in SR4 as well.

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SpeeDLeemon posted...

there is a difference between Blocking and Ignoring .

Which is what makes it a lot easier to tell when you've been blocked than when you've been ignored.

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The Simpsons clip topic is *still* going (it was started over a year ago, making it the longest-running post on PotD... and a great example of why AMP isn't always a great indicator of activity) which I think has 40-60 of my AMP right there. Surprised it isn't gone. It'll close in under 50 posts, though.

The Geek topic has 100-150 of my AMP and should close within the next week or two. It ended quickly this time since it'll finish before it hits 3 months. Usually it seems to more go 4-5 months.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

ive never blocked anyone on this website

The lie detector determined that was a lie.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

also, I know you cant read but its actually DBS

Says the guy who never gets other peoples' names right.

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The Wave Master posted...

Did we agree on a topic title yet?

I thought everybody except you agreed on 28 Geeks Later. Otherwise, I can't even remember what else I suggested, let alone the ideas that others put out that didn't garner much interest.

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agesboy posted...

https://i.gyazo.com/24ec2c4fc2db57212a9dd58df62c2aa7.png

you legitimately think this is the proper route

Yeah, that's fucking ugly and distracting. And doesn't really add any value.

I will note that You Will Hear the Voices of the Dead had a few notes regarding Japanese lore, which is the kind of thing that's helpful rather than just notes regarding the translation itself. The only time something like the notes about "Mo" would be helpful would be if it was prefacing something they intended to use throughout the series as like a running joke or catchphrase.

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The Wave Master posted...

I was on the way home from dialysis and wound care when I read an article about how Michael Jackson wanted to play Professor X in the 2000 X-Men movie. He said he didn't care that Xavier was an old white guy, and that he was willing to wear make up to become an old white Professor X.

Technically he was already transwhite at that point so he'd just need to shave his head. I have a hard time believing that story, though. I think it was probably just a joke.


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