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Leave it to Larry willing to be uncomfortable doing sex on the floor if it meant not actually interacting with another person

Season 12 Episode 9: Ken-Kendra

Larry used to hook up with a person who became trans. They revealed that Larry had a trick to avoid cuddling which gets him in hot water with his ex-wife who left him like 15 years ago.

This episode struck a chord with me when Larry got covid and said "I avoided it for so long I thought I was special, now I'm just like everybody else boohoo" because I felt that exact same way lol.

Zootopia didn't miss.

Anyway there's Redwall.

Friend of mine never saw a goofy movie. Had to send him this:

https://youtu.be/cmo9p4R3UuU

I finished the 6 issues for Batman 89 and... overall I don't think I liked it much.

Pros:

- Initial presentation of Harvey Dent and African American struggle

- Idea behind "Drake Winston" as Robin

Cons:

Literally everything else. Story is contrived, weak. They start with a supposed turf war between gangs dressed up as Batman and gangs dressed up as Joker but go nowhere with that plotline. Batman being nothing like Michael Keaton's Batman or Tim Burton Batman is fine, if he weren't so incompetent and weirdly written. Return of Catwoman is not as exciting, despite brimming with potential.

The whole comic idea was full of potential but they really didn't do it justice to be honest.

Season 12 Episode 8: The Colostomy Bag

Conan Obrien was in this episode! Was hoping to see more of him, I like the guy's show.

The lawyer resisting the "I like it/I want it" gambit was the highlight of the episode. It's a joke that was even on Seinfeld 30 years ago (Jerry and that "space pen" which I just googled to see if still exists/still a thing)

Heh one of the many reasons why I'd never buy a used car is exactly what happened in this episode, if the former owner being a smoker who completely stunk up the car. In real life the smell is unbearable.

A mock trial though makes me think the show might really end the way I joked about... not that they haven't been foreshadowing it and throwing jokes about the Seinfeld finale every chance they can (which are always hilarious especially Larry's reaction to the subtle diss)

I'm reading the comic now and it does have some interesting ideas with Harvey Dent, and tying it to themes we've been seeing a lot in media (knowing where you came from, helping community, etc) but the way they did the Harvey Dent to Two-Face turn was just... incredibly contrived.

And this Batman was incredibly incompetent, like what were they even going for here. Literally got a kid killed

Season 12 Episode 7: The Dream Scheme

The idea of Susie being nice enough to not bring Jeff with her on a plane just because of a nightmare is surprising in and of itself.

I guess last minute planes don't have business class seats? These people are millionaires, if not even millionaires can avoid being stuck in economy what chance do the rest of us have

I remember that actress who's with Larry! She's from Smart Guy!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJG78_wWQAAfC6-.jpg

Always liked her, Smart Guy was a show I used to watch a lot as a kid. Total blast from the past.

Season 12 Episode 6: The Gettysburg Address

Larry parodies the Lincoln speech to get Lori Loughlin into the golfing club after she became a social pariah. This episode made me google to see if Lori Loughlin was in jail/ever sent to jail. Dark but funny episode, she was great in it and very self-aware. The college admissions bribery scandal was so huge that even others like Felicity Huffman got outed.

The rest of the episode was alright too. The Sienna Miller eating food while acting in every scene thing reminded me of a decades old Cracked article I once read about how Brad Pitt always seems to be eating something in his movies like Ocean's eleven or even Fight Club, and a joke about how this was done to make him seem "approachable" since he's otherwise so handsome he's off-putting.

rexcrk posted...

Its amazing to me that so many people saw it as some kind of punishment instead of using the opportunity to learn how to entertain themselves in other ways besides going out. Talk about a squandered opportunity.

Heck, it's not even just about entertaining themselves, since I know some people will simply never like video games regardless if it makes sense or not. It's also about finally having the freedom to work on yourself, admittedly if you're lucky enough to have the means and opportunity.

Like I finally learned to cook, really cook. I'm embarrassed that I've just been ordering food or had it already prepared in easy containers all my life, and the pandemic got me to cook. And I discovered that not only did I love it, I was good at it. Felt like a missing piece I found.

So between exercise and preparing meals and cooking meals and playing games and chatting with people, there was never a single second where I was bored.

But yeah I sometimes wonder how these people who were supposedly so bored still hadn't deigned to try video games, despite games being way more ubiquitous than they were even just 20 years ago. The interactive and engaging nature of video games could make hours seemingly pass by in the blink of an eye.

Season 12 Episode 5: Fish stuck.

Lol I know it's a running theme that Larry is always wrong (except for maybe 2 cases/scenarios) but obsessed about a fish? It's such a weird thing to harp on, but perhaps it makes sense for a super old, retired, rich dude with literally nothing to do all day to focus on even the most minute weird things.

Anyway took half the season but they finally got rid of Irma. Doesn't seem like Larry to stick with a relationship because he feels bad, I had to reskim season 11 to see if maybe she was blackmailing him to stay (which would make more sense in character and in universe) but I couldn't find anything

It both ruined my plans and yet also came up at the most opportune moment. Had just finished a major project at work and was finally negotiating with the boss to use up all my accumulated vacation days... and then bam March hit.

Used that time to get some exercise and basically played Breath of the Wild day and night. While so many around me and on social media were posting about how bored they were and how there's nothing to do, I was laughing in video games. It's funny just how immersive video games could be, you could be playing for 6 hours and barely feel more than 30 minutes had gone by. So many people don't realize this or just have no interest in video games. All things considered I had a nice staycation.

Can't believe it's been 4 years. Everyone else has long since moved on though, covid is little more than a blip on their radar or memory. Life goes on.

Season 12 Episode 4: Disgruntled.

Spartacus endings always make me chuckle. How many times is the Country Club owner Takahashi gonna threaten to kick Larry out, and didn't he already not kick him out because Larry saw that he was having an affair with a married woman who had a baby with him and was pretending to her husband that it's his?

I mostly liked this episode. I don't know how I feel about them showing that the therapist is being unethical and disclosing patient's information to others even her own husband. But more importantly isn't that... didn't that actress already guest star in another episode? I'll need to find it but wasn't she the wife of an inventor of a car periscope that Larry and Jeff were gonna invest in?

Week 3 Day 5: Ok so my theory was a bit off but I knew that blond high school looking Reaper Tsugumi was Shiki related... somehow. As soon as I saw the stuffed animal and fought her back in week 2 I was theorizing something like maybe that's Shiki who's been mind controlled. In the original TWEWY it was revealed that the Shiki we spent time with was not what she looked like, that was her best friend who she always wanted to be, and the actual Shiki looked more like... well, Nagi I guess, with the glasses but that's all I remember about her design. So I just thought once again someone transformed her into some blond and put her under a spell to be a mindless soldier, probably Shiba. We'll see.

Also I laughed so hard at the reveal of the "fairy princess" reaper and finally getting to interact with her, that entire sequence just cracked me up loved it. Rindo, Fret and Nagi being like "um what" and then the whole Neku and Beat banter. But they're describing events which took place that we the player don't know about either right? Because I don't remember this character shooting Neku at all from the original game so it's a new event that Neku and Beat are reminiscing about.

Week 3 Day 6 Preview: Wait holy shit this is the penultimate day, we're already here??!

TheSavageDragon posted...

That's only in TAS and in the comics about 15 years IRL after he became Robin. TAS Robin's look along with using a staff and computer skills were all lifted straight from Tim. And Jason's origin along with some of his attitude were transplanted onto TAS Tim.
He started wearing this as his first costume in '89. Jason's looked identical to Dick's old costume.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c4e719df.jpg

That's pretty damn cool. So it was Tim this whole time who started with the best design for Robin...

Tim had Staff, Dick has Batons right? Was that added in after-the-fact too

I think it's great from the beginning although it's interesting to see what season 1 was like. From the ancient references, to working out JD's fantasies and comedy, to the extreme abrasiveness of Jordan, to the Janitor initially being a figment of JD's imagination... just lots of things they were workshopping.

One of the first sitcoms of the 21st century to not have a laugh track, not to mention the single camera format that's better for viewers but much more difficult for the actual people behind the show to do, makes this a landmark show imo. It and Malcolm in the Middle are the first shows I think of that started the no laughtrack/better shot comedy show.

One of my favorite shows of all time. For a while was my comfort show, every other year would watch just a bunch of episodes throughout a season.

gamepimp12 posted...

carrot top pulled up in an episode and it just dated this whole show for me

You realize 2001 was not even 20 years ago, it's more? It makes sense to see a ton of references that are gonna feel ancient. It's the equivalent of watching Happy Days when scrubs first came out, which felt beyond ancient for our young selves.

TheSavageDragon posted...

That's literally just Robin (Tim Drake)'s costume in the comics at the time. Which everybody agreed to be a major upgrade to the OG speedos and pixie boots.
Batman Returns has jack to do with that being TAS Robin's design.

Huh. I know Tim Drake is Red Robin which is a red themed design where they removed the green (basically the best part) but I didn't know about that. I thought it was jason todd who first started wearing green pants instead of speedo. It took them that long...

Gonna see it once it releases on streaming, can't wait.

I for one like the human actors they've had in these movies, and in godzilla vs kong 1 I was really happy to see rebecca hall and alexander skarsgard. However, I don't care for the stranger things girl I don't really see why the critics or even audience love her. Hope she's not in godzilla vs kong 2.

Unironically thought Kong: Skull Island was good. Godzilla 2019 was kinda disappointing in that felt like they blew their load too soon introducing King Ghidorah the 3-headed dragon when I thought he was basically Godzilla's ultimate nemesis. Still fun popcorn movie.

godzilla vs kong 1 was just so dumb that throughout it I was like "yeah sure, that may as well happen" and I was fine with it.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Yeah, they even got as far as making a prototype figure of Wayans. The character was painted as white later, but...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/55eb7527.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/12a9d32f.jpg

It's interesting how similar the design is to BTAS Robin. Just another thing Batman Returns influenced. Always loved that design, a perfect blend of the red, green, yellow and black. Still the best one to date.

PeteyParker posted...

There's two sequel comics. Batman '89 and the currently running Batman '89: Echoes.

Not only that but later this year in October there's a novel coming out that takes place between Batman and Batman Returns called Batman Resurrection written by John Jackson Miller

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7e9942a0.jpg

What did you think of the comic overall?

_____Cait posted...

Not to mention, Andys character assassination

Lol this line always makes me laugh. Andy was always an ass. It's interesting how the show flipflopped between making him the ass we hate or the idiot we root for, like a mixture of Dwight and Michael.

Anyway I love Robert California, James Spader > Steve Carrel any day of the week.

Funny thing about the bus episode, they were apparently close to death in that episode, narrowly avoiding a tragic accident that could have caused an explosion. They talk about it on the podcast.

ArmieBuff posted...

and Hooktail is scared of frogs not crickets. You know what that means...

Hooktail is the dragon right? Why is that significant?

Wonder how many new players this port will snag. If more people knew about Paper Mario (the real Paper Mario) the better.

TheLiarParadox posted...

I would take any of those over cheese any day.

This

There was a Smallville "Season 11" comic book? What more could they write about. The 10th season was pretty damn final. They literally had him fighting all his villains, left nothing else, and resurrected Lex Luthor like 5 times in those 10 seasons, even bringing back Michael Rosenbaum

Reminds me of when I used to read novelizations of TV shows in my teens.

Also I just started so no spoilers but it would be hilarious if Larry David, defiant to the end, has Curb end the same way that Seinfeld ends with him going to prison, in a show of insistence that yes, the Seinfeld finale is good (which is a common running joke in the show)

Gotta say I'm surprised they kept that annoying old woman for this season with Larry, think she's played by tracy ulman. I only know her as the name of the show that first featured The Simpsons.

I must be the only person who didn't actively dislike Xenosaga 2. Oh there were some things I thought were jarring, like the sudden change in art style especially for Shion (not to mention the weird personality shift) among many things I didn't like about the game. But once I learned how to juggle enemies the battle system became super easy and fun. It's the same strategy every time and I'm fine with it.

Plus since I really liked Jr I was into the whole Rubido-Albedo backstory, facility experimenting on superpowered kids and how they break out etc.

That does raise a question tc how exactly do you deal with the Xenosaga 2 portion of the game where you only play as Shion?

https://i.imgur.com/mvNHUQm.jpeg

Further reinforcing the whole all American patriot and also the hidden Nazi Fascism symbolism.

mehmeh1 posted...

YUP, one of the hypest moments in the game. Now the endgame starts

teep_ posted...

I was waiting for you to reach that part. It's legitimately a great moment

It's everything I wanted and more. I have one more theory about a certain character but I'm gonna keep it close to my chest in case it's wrong/way off.

This is easily one of the greatest sequels of all time.

I don't even know what to be excited about first/most, seeing Neku again or the fact that I now have 6 party members! I'm going to destroy anything in my path, there is no way any Noise stands a chance against me. I don't have Ultimate difficulty yet, but when I do eventually get it I feel confident I can take them on, to get them pins so I can complete my Bestiary and 100% Records.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is the best one:

https://youtu.be/XmjOdFZw8uc

Also a little bit more history: Tim Burton had actually cast Marlon Wayans as a potential Robin candidate

Edit: ninja'd

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Batman_%2789_cover.jpg

https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Batman-89-Robin.jpg

It's set in the Tim Burton Batman movie universe, and is supposed to be the sequel to what the movies after Batman Returns would have been, like having Billy Dee Williams Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face. And what happened to Catwoman.

Week 3 Day 4: OMG OMG OMG It's Neku it's him!!!!!!!

Was screaming in delight for like 5 minutes, it's him it's really him!!!!!!!!!!!

We were fighting Sho who went psycho and absorbed some energy to transform into this badass looking beast, like good god talk about difficulty ramping up. Beat was trying to hold him off so we could escape. And just when Monster Sho was about to deliver the killing blow, in a flash of light Neku stops him with one hand and destroys him! Oh my god this was beyond hype.

I mean yeah, Richard Lewis has basically looked like a phantasm in the past few seasons, but this time the jokes they make finally stuck.

Catching up on season 12 now. There's a scene about Richard Lewis leaving Larry in his will, and asking for him to do vice versa, and then they were arguing on who would die first and betting on who would outlive the other. For that to come up so soon after his passing is sad.

Something I been thinking about, does Sho remind anyone else of Greedo from Fullmetal Alchemist? You've got the heroes, the villains, and then this 3rd party who's not quite with either group and is doing his own thing, usually to get more power or to usurp the current villains or something to that effect. I always like the whole "3rd faction that's causing chaos and screwing with the villains' plans as much as the heroes' plans" trope.

Wow you really like the trilogy huh. Once was enough for me.

Wait what do you mean solo, like keep party members dead except for one? That seems daunting. And isn't it next to impossible in Xenosaga 2?

I swear I'm going to freak if on the last day there's a scene where Shibuya's about to to be destroyed by that giant meteor as Rindo looks on in despair, and at the last second who should show up but Neku to stop it with an epic blast. Don't think I could contain myself

I do think it's weird that enemies drop better pins on Easy than they do on Hard. Or at least, better for me. You'd think the higher difficulty level would always yield the highest attack power pins, but sometimes normal and easy pin drops have way more attack power than hard (or at least evolve into pins with more attack power)

Akuryu posted...

Nothing in that article that says she has been fired. It's unknown if she'll return to the role because a season 2 was never greenlit. The first season wasn't very popular so it's unlikely they'll do anything else with the character.

Rosario Dawson was one of the most outspoken actors during the strike, and they are still making more Ashoka.

I'm curious about how popularity is measured on streaming.

I thought MCU was taking a breather this year and going back to the drawing board and that's why no announcement had been made for whether or not it'll be greenlit.

Dang I really like tatiana maslany, that would suck if it happens. Why is this only being reported now though didn't the strike end months ago

pegusus123456 posted...

If She-Hulk doesn't continue, I really doubt it's because of what she said about the CEO during the strike.

Why not?

We're so close to the end, I'm gonna be doing daily thought updates.

Week 3 Day 3: We could not rescue Kanon, who was infected by Shiba's evil Noise and she's gone... all that time traveling for nothing. The boss was waaay easier than Day 2's Ayano especially since it was just a regular Noise, I'd almost be upset that I overtrained for this heh.

If nothing else so many uber pins I can equip now, it feels so fun to mix and match different pin types to see what works best. Screw up a mind dive? Just change my pins to combine strength + enemy weakness, and I get that gold rank.

Week 3 Day 4 preview: holy shit is that Sho? Did he get infected too? Haven't seen him since week 1! Omg so much stuff is happening it's honestly difficult to pry myself away to get some sleep.

Damn. I honestly expected the whole Ayano thing to be a trick but she really did let herself be consumed by the noise... all in a misguided attempt to get shoka back.

Things are really heating up in week 3. I was honestly expecting Kanon to betray us, I was surprised that her offer to help was at face value. In week 2 I was sure she was gonna team up with the reapers like what Motoi did whom I always suspected. The fact that she was sincere (so far) is making me feel bad for her now.

Heh it's definitely simpler than it was evolving pins on the DS, I remember DS pins that required real world time to pass to exp up, or putting the DS in sleep mode, or other things that I don't really remember anymore.

Also I couldn't help looking it up, but I found out how the pins with question marks on their evolution work. Apparently they only evolve if the right person is wearing them.

Previously I had those pins and when I mastered them, they wouldn't evolve like the rest of the pins. So I put them aside. Then I had one of those question marked pins equipped on Fret and got more exp than I expected, and at the end of the battle screen the pin turned rainbow colored and asked if I wanted to mutate the pin, instead of evolve the pin. I said yes and voila, got a whole new stronger pin. Looked up that specific pin and apparently it evolves when Fret equips it, so I assume that's how it works for other pins and other characters, but I'm not gonna look it up yet in case even more people join my party and don't want spoilers.

My pin setup has been:

Rindo: Triangle button (of course) with the fire sword pin, it's an absolute beast of a pin when I first got it, Yukimitsu

Fret: Square button ice bubble pin. Reloads fast.

Nagi: R1 button light bomb pin, and I equip the helpful smartphone accessory that changes the R1-Charge requirement to a tap for instant attacks, real life saver

4th Party Member Beat: L2 Hold Time wind pin, it blows the enemies away and rapidly increases my groove to 300% when I pair it with the other members attacks just right

5th Party Member Shoka: Pin Grinder for pins I want to see the evolution of, or same as above which basically ensures me getting 300% every battle when I drop the beat just right; the boost grinder pin is helpful for this

That's for set 1. For set 2, I switch it up a bit:

Fret: Bomb pin. 1 time use that has this huge bomb which gives out massive damage IF I plant at the right spot at the right time

Nagi: Ice Frost chain pin, holds enemies in place AND makes them take damage while they're stuck

4th Party Member Beat: Darkness Sword Pin, just because its so fun to use. Otherwise it's a healing pin

5th Party Member Shoka: Vortex Pin, to suck up all the enemies onscreen and keep them in one place for the bomb that's about to go off on them

tremain07 posted...

Oh, that's simple, the best way to use the Bomb pin is after one of the pins that drags all the enemies into it's circle, where you are now you should have one of those water or fire vortex pins, they'll drag all the noise into them unable to flee from the bomb's splash zone, as for the boss, they're weak to fire pins so definitely put a bunch of those on especially for the desperation attack as the boss spams it more and more the closer to death it gets, as for those weird noise, I bet they seem familiar you faced something similar to them in the first game.

One enemy you'll really fucking hate is the elephant noises, they're huge, have a shitload of HP, can't be stunned and their most damaging attack sucks everybody in so if you don't know now to dodge you're in for a world of pain, especially because there's a dive sequence where you have to fight two of those fuckers at once, i won't tell you which dive it is, but all I can say is groove that shit as soon as you can

Thank you, it clicked for me, I was wondering how to make use of that darkness pin vortex that drags enemies, and the bomb strategy is great! Especially for the wolves that zip all over the place and leave a trail of fire that instantly burns my party and drains all my HP. So being able to trap them and explode them was hella satisfying