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Does anyone want to feel really uncomfortable? I mean, like SUPER uncomfortable? Like "I regret watching this show" uncomfortable? Well, here you go: I don't even remember this scene, but giggling Rini is so uncomfortable and then just goes on and on...my gosh. And then Pegasus' final line... "I know: it's magical every time." This...this implies that this is not the first time he's taken little girls into his dreams and given them wings, not by a long shot. @ArtistFormerlyKnownasKP Yeah, I never particularly minded any of those characters except for Onion (well, I used to also hate Ronaldo, but a re-watch has convinced me that he's actually funny...most of the time). Onion sucks - and not only just because his character sucks, but also because he makes everyone else not as fun, too. But anyways, do I love the episodes heavily focused on the more random characters like townies? No, not at all - they're usually the weaker or weakest parts of each season...but I still don't mind the characters themselves. In a similar vein, I really actually like Chibi-Usa...BUT BOY a lot of the episodes that are heavily focused on her in R are less fun, and that goes double...no, triple...no, a hundred times for SuperS. That's not the character, that's the episodes. And the general point about those SU episodes slowing down the show and grinding character/plot development of more important characters is almost always true, .

I think the problem was Usagi was being...kind of un-Usagi-like throughout the last handful of episodes? In addition to being just kind of sad and pathetic for a lot of it, why did she keep insisting on phrasing everything as if everything that was happening was her own personal loss, or that her friends literally dying was something being done to her? I thought that was bizarre while I was watching it. That was behavior I'd have expected from a much earlier version of Usagi, or maybe a SuperS version of Usagi, not end of the show, end of Sailor Stars Usagi - Sailor Stars Usagi should be out there kicking butts (metaphorically) while keeping everyone and everything together like she'd been trying to the entire season. So I think I kind of get what KaineParker means, though I don't think the comparison to specifically Shinji holds up, but that's fine - she was being something all of her own making that was kind of unpleasant and undermined the message of what she was trying to accomplish at the end there. I didn't have any clue what was happening during that entire sequence re: Galaxia, she was acting kind of bizarrely herself without clearly expressing what was going on inside and I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to be getting out of her dialogue and actions. The way I initially read her finally taking Usagi's hand was that she was somehow being forced against her will. You're almost certainly right in that that was simply not the case, but boy, I was having trouble following how I was supposed to be reading her. Also, who said you can use my reaction videos?! Guess that's what I get for making them public... But anyways, the fact that you loved SU probably further helped convince KP to watch it, so at least indirectly, you had a hand in it - particularly seeing as he'd only heard terrible, horrible, no good things about it outside of my singular self bringing it up on here.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but you're kind of confusing me: Diablo 1 (and Diablo 2) are 2D sprite-based games, not 3D model-based models. 2D graphics like sprites and textures, which have a finite amount of pixels to them, can't magically gain more detail from increasing the resolution - increasing the resolution just allows for greater magnification of the details that were already there. The detail that is already there is all there is - it's a 1998 game. So when you say this... ...you're literally asking for exactly what you just said you didn't ask for: Either that, or you're asking for a remake of the graphics altogether. Either way, I'm not understanding what you're getting after, . I preferred using 1024x768, because I don't like getting smashed by stuff off-screen and that just about covers enemies' maximum range, but 800x600 would be a good compromise too.

Hm, I'm unsure what you want re: the resolution. It's a 2D sprite-based game - the only way you could "more detailed" sprites is by completely remaking them. How do you want the game to look, exactly? "Disable Crippling Shrines=1" under [Game] in the .ini should work.

What really matters for Green Bay is that all of the Rodgers media noise ends up being complete bologna in the coming days. Ain't gonna be no team without Rodgers for a while if what was reported is actually true (and I'm banking on it not being true, given the things being said were so out of character for everything Rodgers has said and done so far, but...smoke, fire, etc.). For specifically Stokes, I don't know anything about the college game or how players translate over to the NFL, but I do know we definitely need another good CB after it was quite literally the downfall of our team in the NFCCG when Kevin King, who's been average to below average his entire career, got chewed up and let up several TDs all by himself...and while our GM is relatively new, he's already made a couple of really good DB picks (as well as picking to sign Amos, who has been great) over the past few years, so I can't be too mad about him picking up another CB.

lmao @ that YD/Dio pose Glad you really liked it, genuinely wasn't sure if you would.

Yeah, the GOG .mpq works fine too. Oh, yeah, you could always play on local multiplayer as well for unlocking nightmare/hell, but DevilutionX gives that option to singleplayer characters as well now. Lachdanan was a cool dude - his voice always reminded me of Tyrael's too (surprisingly not him, though), so I always liked him just for that, . Fun fact about Tyrael - he's first mentioned in Hellfire, of all places: "And in the year of the golden light, it was so decreed that a great cathedral be raised. The cornerstone of this holy place was to be carved from the translucent stone Antyrael, named for the angel who shared his power with the Horadrim. [...]"

Correct. Also, for the devs to stay legal, the one thing you need to do to finish "installing" it is to drop and drag the "DIABDAT.MPQ" file from a Diablo installation into the DevilutionX folder. That is one annoyance I run into every time I update it - have to remember to get my DIABDAT.MPQ from the previous folder before deleting it. If you need help with that/don't feel like finding your CDs or whatever, just send me a quick PM. One thing I particularly like about Diablo 1 compared to most ARPGs is that how short and self-contained it is. You can play the game for 5 hours, complete it, and feel satisfied with that. ...Although now with DevilutionX, you can actually play and continue singleplayer games on Nightmare and Hell like old multiplayer Battle.Net characters used to be able to do, so you can continue with that if you really want to. Don't need to farm for a trillion years, don't need to engage with some bullcrap economy...the game was 95% designed as just a simple, consistent singleplayer experience, and I appreciate that a lot. (e): My one complaint with the game used to be that it was just a bit too slow-paced, but DevilutionX solved that too by allowing you to adjust the speed of your game on the fly if you want a faster-paced game.

Correct me if I'm wrong, @Guard Dog, but I think it's two competing, conflicting thoughts and feelings: 1. I really hate and am sick and tired of these scumbags, and I wish they were dead. 2. But if I was actually in charge of deciding whether they lived or died, obviously I wouldn't kill them - there's a reason we have the legal system we do, as flawed and frustrating as it can be. Pretty sure that's more or less it. Every time he's posting some off-the-cuff feeling about how they all deserve to hang together, it's the first feeling manifesting all by itself; when you get the inevitable response about how he doesn't actually want that, it's the second pulling him back to a more measured and realistic take. You're gonna keep getting this kind of interaction over and over and over because he, and many more people like him (including others I personally know and hence why I feel equipped to explain what's happening here), is very conflicted about how he feels and he's not considering every single feeling, thought, bias, or prejudice equally at all times of the day, thus leading to this same interaction repeatedly...and it's probably not going to change any time soon.

It's difficult for me to gauge best/greatest TEs, because of how much the position has changed. Nevertheless, I have trouble placing Gates that high because while he was a really great receiving TE for his time, he was always known as being a below average at best blocker, and while pure receiving talents like him and Jimmy Graham may pretend that's not part of the position, it really actually is; guys who were good to great at it like Sharpe, Gronk, and Kelce have consistently proven that in addition to being just as great receivers, .

If that's really all there is to it, it's kind of a wonder that some of these shows last for more than a season or two at all: ain't no merchandising to be found basically at all for their more serious shows. The very first iteration of this thread was started back in January 2013. You resurrected it back in January of this year on page 15 after basically telling all of us to quit spamming the TV thread. We've now run through 65 pages' worth of posts between you doing that and right now, in just a little bit over 4 months. In the same time period, the Politics series of threads have been through just about 81 pages' worth of posts. So not too far off for basically just 4 posters in the anime threads doing 99% of the posting, . Of course, you should also account for the fact that it's been much more intelligent conversation in here than in the politics thread, too, .

Feel like that's pretty normal for kids/teens, since it's not like you can exactly frame stuff at that age (and the paper quality of the poster doesn't usually warrant framing to begin with, anyway). I think Minako's is the only one I saw. I take it she handled it the best, what with her breaking herself out and attacking them? But, but...her self-esteem! Doesn't that matter at all to you?

The floor is Travis Kelce, the ceiling is Antonio Gates? Not really allowing for whole lot of range there, given Antonio Gates is considered to be a top 5 TE of all time, while Travis Kelce...already has had a HoF career himself and will likely finish close to around the same spot as Gates, .

I kind of get the feeling that for a studio like Cartoon Network, a show basically has to be selling a lot of physical merchandise (i.e. primarily but not limited to just toys) in order for it not to be at constant risk of cancellation. It's about the only thing that I can figure out that makes sense for why they cancel the shows that they do while letting the absolute garbage continue to get season after season. And I guess that basically means that unless a show is popular with a large segment of <10 year olds, it's pretty much always going to be at risk of being cancelling. Prestige, critic reviews, adult followings...all simply just do not matter as much as the glorious dollar.

That one literally doesn't change any gameplay at all that I can think of - everything feels exactly the same. There are some optional stuff you can enable in the settings .ini like being able to highlight items with the ALT button or enable monster health bars, but they're optional. You can set a higher display area so you that you can see more of the area if you want (what you just described), or you can just keep the same display area while simply increasing the resolution with the same display area - up to you. e.g. I set mine to 800x600: ...but you can just as easily set it to the original 640x480: It also doesn't require Hellfire - in fact, Hellfire was only recently made compatible, as it was originally only for D1.

Speaking of wanting to destroy Cartoon Network, they have now cancelled Infinity Train because, as the creator put it, "the series' stories and themes [had become] too dark and unappealing to children", . ...I mean, they're mostly not wrong, but gosh. Haven't had a chance to watch the last season that came out recently yet, but the second season is one of my favorite seasons of any show ever (I only just barely watched it too - the first season was pretty good, but I didn't find its characters or themes to be particularly resonating with me...very glad I was persuaded to, because boy did that change in the second season). Guess I kind of knew the writing was on the wall when...well, actually, never mind - just in case any of you guys ever watch it. Well, at least Hilda's still continuing (its second season was also better than the first, and the first was already pretty darned good)... The story I've heard about that Ghost Stories dub is that it was *extremely* expensive to make because of various talents they had hired on, but it utterly bombed in Japan, so they ended up giving the distribution and dubbing rights with absolutely no requirements or guidelines to whatever company was willing to pay the most for it, and that company...decided to do that with it.

Probably too much for you to bother with, but there's a quite good engine remake of D1 called DevilutionX that attempts to keep all the gameplay and feel of the game exactly the same while providing quality of life features and fixing some ages old bugs: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX#readme

I didn't even read the description for it until you quoted it. Way worse news than even I initially imagined. The description does say "faint first love". The only hope in hell that it possibly has is that we are talking about a love so incredibly faint that it can't even be detected by anyone that wasn't already a dedicated superfan, because that crap is not going to go over well with general audiences that just turn it on to see what the hey is. lmao, I had all of my post CTRL+A-ed because I had just copied it, then I hit quote on a different section of your post and it deleted my entire post because I guess it decided to overwrite what I had been highlighting. Good thing I had copied it... You know, that kind of makes sense. I can't say I can think of any accents applied to non-English that bother me, so maybe heavy Southern or East coast accents would actually be fine to me...if they were speaking German or French or something, . It's not just American English accents I hate, either - some British and British-Indian ones as well (though not all - I'm very particular about which ones). As far as I'm concerned, there are a few different Scottish accents speaking English that I've heard, and they beat everything else - I haven't heard any that I've disliked. That really was the most insulting thing. How can you have your main characters be assaulted and traumatized while they're screaming bloody murder, like they're being...well, killed or something else...and then just completely ignore it ever happened mere moments later? That'd be bad enough for infrequently appearing side-characters like Matoki and his sister...but the MAIN CAST? And not only is it so quickly forgotten, the tone of when it's happening is almost...like it's just for laughs, like it's no big deal, it's just Sailor Moon villain business stuff as usual. I'm sorry, but you just can't do that.

my buddy and I theorized that tyrael would fulfill the deckard cain role for D4, considering they killed him off lol

Yeah, I think that's definitely true. The same way I hear a lot of 90s and especially post-2000s Japanese voice-acting and can't last for more than ten seconds, and then I actually hear Japanese people talking (or stuff from pre-1990s) and they sound perfectly normal to me.

Okay, so full disclosure...season 5 is the last season of SU (not counting SU:F). The SU crew originally planned for two more seasons, and didn't know it was to be the last season until production was already underway. So...you know, you've been warned - things get a little screwy in some ways, and you'll just have to forgive it because ya can't really do anything else anyways and they tried their best to make do in their very limited amount of minutes (and as I understand it, they begged and begged for more time and CN only gave them just a few extra episodes). It's not SuperS or anything, but...you'll see what I mean, I think. Why they then turned around and then decided to greenlight The Movie and then also the short Future epilogue series after basically cancelling the original, nobody really knows. Probably even Cartoon Network itself doesn't really know.

Have I ever told you all of the story of how much I hate certain strong accents? In that way, I am supremely un-Steven Universe-like, as I instantly and utterly despised Andy purely because of his accent, and that episode was very painful for me as a result. I've gotten to the point where hearing his voice doesn't make me want to claw my ears out though, which has allowed me to enjoy that episode a lot more. I would never make it on the East coast or in the South, suffice to say.

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Oh, now you've done it. Look at what you did. Look at it! Now @majestic has to do it all over again. How could you do this to him? There's one good moment towards the end when Steven realizes it's not Onion but actually himself that's the one with no friends close to his age, but that's about it. You and everyone else, . Now I can finally post this: (removed because related videos spoilers pop up, whoops) Okay, uploaded to my dropbox instead: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/76ndwfzx9iiqpiq/You rePEARLsted in the Wrong Neighborhood-yH1-dR_dfNs.mkv