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Dang it, I was literally going to repost the Usagi Oh My God video I just made earlier after reading that. Also, I told you the English voice actor for him was creepy and uncomfortable! I don't think I've ever even heard the Japanese VA for him - hope it's not as bad. Luckily, I stick to the Sailor Moon Says channel where everyone seems to agree that Pegasus is a creep: >This horse needs to go to jail. >Jeez why is everyone trying to be cousins in this show. >Rini: How will I know he’s the one for me? Pedosus: 👁_👁 >creepy deep voice "What are you doing? You'll make a beautiful bride Rini." >If this is Utena instead the horse would be the bad guy.

I haven't given up! I'm just scared since apparently the last 6 episodes are all main story episodes and that seems like more than should be allowed under the Geneva Conventions of War given the increasing appearances of Pegasus. The Fourth Geneva Convention, Part III, Article 32, Providing Excellent Guard Against Suspicious Ungulate Species, also known as the Pegasus Protocol, explicitly states that the involved parties... Japan signed the Geneva Conventions of War after 1953, so I'm not really sure how they got away with this one. Unfortunately, this article does leave a loophole where we can be violently subjected to extinct ungulates, so one does need to watch out for species such as steppe bison and the megaloceros, but fictional species are quite clearly covered by the Conventions.

Just got my first dose literally like fifteen minutes ago. I'll let y'all know if I die. They also gave me a bag of skittles for my trouble - they were giving them out for people who got the vaccine. Haven't had them in years, so there is that, .

I'm not a base-building sort of guy and...I also didn't have the heat-absorbing batteries, either. Let me just reiterate that it was a terrifying experience where I had very little resources left by the end, .

Nothing will ever beat the odyssey that was deciding to NOT build the Cyclops and instead just going full steam ahead with just the Prawn Suit to traverse the Lost River completely blind down into the Inactive Lava Zone. Best/worst decision I ever made, because it was so slow, and terrifying, and it was impossible to see where the hell I was supposed to be going. It was terrible, but also a great and unique experience. On a second playthrough, I built the Cyclops, and marveled how much easier, quicker, and safer that whole trek was.

Oh no, I actually like them a bit too. My internal comparison was the Spectre Sisters, but funner and nicer to each other. Don't worry - it's not movies, it's just anime. What are they going to do, send catgirls to kill you? - Man ripped to shreds by catgirls

Yeah, and I just checked, they don't seem to do any regional differences - even if I'm VPN-ing from Germany, they still only offer the U.S. version of the site and require what looks like U.S. cable providers. So...big nope to that. My suggestion? Find a VPN you can buy just a month of for like $5 and go find an illegitimate source, .

@Lexx Legitimately or illegitimately? Legitimately, adult Swim appears to be the source for the English dubs of Golden Wind and Diamond Is Unbreakable, and in the U.S. at least, they require a cable subscription in order to stream the episodes (or so their website claims). Unsure about other countries. @ArtistFormerlyKnownasKP Chibi-Usa's friends are straight garbage, but that episode where Jun taught him how to vault was pretty funny (if a little strange). If nothing else, the Amazoness Quartet has a lot more redeemable qualities than the Amazon Trio, both in and out of universe.

Sounds weird and also kind of interesting, particularly given that it's Ikuhara's show. It's not very long, either...might be worth checking out at some point, even if I don't like the art style.

This Utena clip is on the Sailor Moon Says channel. so many "wat"s

That was a much better moment, emotionally, than pretty much anything that happened in all of SuperS................SO FAR. I'm really holding out hope for something great in one of these final story episodes, .

Yeah, totally with you on everything you said there. Also, that additional context for Rei helps her case. Episode 33:

Episode 32: @ArtistFormerlyKnownasKP Oh, I wouldn't have minded if she literally murdered the kid, it was her being so horrible to Makoto with not even the slightest attempt to apologize or see eye-to-eye that I didn't like (even after Makoto went and tried to comfort her!). The child-attacking and ultra-cringey singing and performing stuff was pretty funny, though. Also yes, I was hoping it would, because Usagi screamed it in the English dub and I immediately thought of you and laughed heartily, .

And on that note...no, MUST RESIST BACKSEAT WATCHING! I'm going to go watch a SuperS episode, excuse me.

@ArtistFormerlyKnownasKP I loved the dentist episode, I...didn't feel so good about the Minako/Makoto episode, but maybe that's just because Minako was being a complete prick in that episode (...that, and it felt like their power-ups came out of nowhere with no explanation - they hadn't even reconciled before Artemis just randomly announced that they were there with no agency from the girls; at least Ami's seemed a little organic!). Also, I made this photoshop back when I watched this episode after that kid called her a witch: She's totally a witch.

Somehow, I missed this part of your post yesterday, and definitely did not deliberately ignore it. All I can say is...

@majestic

I forgot that lady existed on account of her only appearing in like one, maybe two episodes. If he gets to episode 31, at that point, he probably finishes it because you're only 8 episodes from the ending anyways. That's what I'd reason anyways, .

Please tell me you're joking. Episode 30 & 31:

It doesn't feel like I can really differentiate between my attachments very well - I can differentiate between the *reasons* for my attachments, as in what I particularly like or find compelling or...whatever about a given character versus another, but the end result is still a similar kind of attachment (i.e. I like/love this character), . Might be more of a reflection on me than anything else, though! Yeah, I was going to write an "although on the other hand real people are also the worst...most of the time, which is probably why people become obsessed with characters that can't hurt them or otherwise make their lives more difficult instead" addendum, but it didn't feel like it needed to be stated, .

It's easy for me to get attached to a character - the number of attachments I have for 'favorite' characters can probably be measured close to the triple digits somewhere across all the different things I like (both female and male, although mostly female because male characters tend to be so much more boring...at least to me). I even still have attachments to characters from some of the very first video games I played. Attraction/crushes is a wholly different thing, though - can't say I can ever recall a time where, like, I felt like I loved a character so much that my heart fluttered at the thought of them or when I'll see/hear/read about them next or something like that. So I might be a Minako fan and love her character, but I'm not ever going to be in love with her, . Fictional characters can be really fun and lovable (albeit limited and simplified) ideas of people, but they're no substitute for the real thing.