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Gainax. Mechs. Gunbuster, also known as Top o Nerae, also known as Aim for the Top. 1988. I was originally going to have a poster here, but all of the posters for this show are terrible. Which, I have to be honest, doesn't exactly fill me with the utmost confidence about this show as I sit here writing this post after having only seen only the first 3 minutes of the show. So instead, you can watch that hilarious PS2 opening intro (which is actually pretty accurate to the show's real intro, but just...extremely terrible looking because it's in 3D PS2 graphics). Also, this, since I just saw it: No, I don't know what it means either, but it sure is provocative. The first two minutes is the main character, Noriko, very matter of factly stating the apparent premise: she's very young and dearly loves her father, who is an accomplished space captain - now she's a teenager and he was just killed by invading aliens, and she's going to avenge him. Right! Well, that doesn't sound the most interesting to me, but let's see how this episode (there are a total of six) goes.

Sure, they're generally equally terrible, albeit in different ways.

Hey, I saw you mention something about Tokyo Godfathers once. ...I guess you didn't actually say whether you liked it or not, though. Third song was a jam, first two vocalists made me want to carve my ears out, but that's not a surprise because I don't like most vocalists. 99.9% of anime is hot garbage...but so too for cable television: a discerning eye and the willingness to put in some research may get you closer to something that isn't totally terrible and might appeal to you. Maybe. Probably not. I've almost entirely given up on anything past the year ~2000 personally, so most everything available for streaming is going straight into the trash for me.

I was hoping for Empress Severina, but I guess that's cool too.

And to your credit, I have no clue what that would've been at the time (probably...starting around 2007 or so).

I know that I rag on everyone and everything way too much as it is, and it can be a really mean and trashy thing to do, especially for earnest recommendations from people who genuinely enjoy or even love what they're recommending. It must sometimes (or maybe even always!) seem that I am just being some combination of unnecessarily acerbic, contrarian, or simple hostile bastard that somehow literally everything you recommend invariably draws some kind of dire and terrible ire from me... I would just like to say that I don't mean to, I really honestly don't. I have not watched hardly anything of the show, but I have been frequently compared to Sheldon of The Big Bang Theory by others with regards to his ludicrous levels of intolerance and hatred for anything that even slightly deviates from exactly how he likes it: I am just the totally wrong person to recommend stuff to unless you have an excellent handle on exactly what I like and the particulars of why, and almost literally nobody does - sometimes not even myself. With all of that said, let me just say is that many years ago when I was younger, I had a couple of close friends (including the aforementioned woman that recommended I Want to Eat Your Pancreas to me recently) that were super into both Bleach and One Piece, and so I had some amount of exposure to them. Those two are the animes/mangas that made me...not ever want to even look at the medium again. If they had instead been into other stuff, like maybe some lame and crappy shoujos, it's quite possible that I would have been something less than the full-on "DEUS VULT" that I have been with regards to anime up until very recently...but they weren't: here's another reminder that I truly believed that I wholly despised the entire medium until I randomly came across and tried Nausicaa and Sailor Moon, .

Continuing to rock my crappy GTX 1060...continuing to not feel any pressure to upgrade. I guess it helps if you've completely given up on all AAA gaming and thus really have no need to upgrade. I'll probably buy a moderately priced AMD card at some point within the next couple of years assumin' the piece of crap works with current emulators, which was the key issue last time when neither the PS3 or Wii U emulators wanted to work with them.

Yeah, putting your whole being into something like this for years at a time and coming up short is understandably going to be pretty tough to handle, especially when you're at this level which requires arguably unhealthy amounts of drive and competitiveness. Always pulls on the old heart strings to see crying in public like that when you understand the context, even if it's over "just" a game. Well, unless it's a player whose public persona people generally dislike, in which case they'll probably be mocked online for the rest of their careers and/or lives for it, but that's a whole other thing: the dual-edged blade of public emotional displays can certainly be a sharp one.

The original anime started in 2004 and stopped in 2012 after 366 episodes. A new anime has started this year. Yes, that is definitely a thing maj "I Have to Watch All Episodes of a Series Even If I Utterly Loathe It" estic would do, and certainly something you should confidently tell him when he's considering a show, . Not that there was any real possibility of him starting a several hundred episode shonen anyways, but...

Do you have psoriatic arthritis to go along with it, or has been skin only? The skin bit does suck in of itself, especially if it's affecting a large percentage of your body, but the arthritis component is a whole other thing.

Did it reset your progress so you can pretend you never watched it at least?

That was the only reason I clicked on it. 30 seconds into it going ???, I saw your note after. I have been smeckledorfed.

One potential reading... One could argue the first definition as well: just because you care nary a thing for someone's thoughts or well-being doesn't mean you can't enjoy yourself by dunking on them when they readily present the opportunity, though that's admittedly a near constant with BruceVC.

Between Rodgers' broken thumb, potentially broken ribs, and the season being 99% mathematically lost at this point, I'd say so. Start Jordan Love, see that he probably sucks, lose most or all of the rest of our games, get a nice draft pick, try again next year. If Jordan Love sucks, we finally know for sure that he doesn't matter and it's the Aaron Rodgers' show for the next couple of seasons...if he shockingly doesn't, then...well, that's a good even if difficult problem to have.

"You have to break an egg if you are to know what is inside."

It was pretty good, I'd recommend it.

is it just becoming a meme show i mean, it kind of already was for the first season, but it's sounding more so for the second

The World of Tomorrow II: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts and The World of Tomorrow III: The Absent Destinations of David Prime.

I once heard a pretty good line about that: problems that disappear on their own can also come back on their own. Maybe it should be corrected to "will" instead of "can".

Hey, you never know, Packers might have already been the stupid loss.

A slightly better second half. Well, probably: I didn't actually watch any of the game, Thanksgiving stuff.

At least he got his big celebration, ALS worked overtime to off him it seems.

I had to go check: in the English dub (and in the subtitles for Japanese that I'm reading), Minako specifically mentions Luna having given her the transformation pen to do it. The creator being young and dumb and thinking it was all naively romantic is one thing, but everyone else going along with it without taking the effort to reframe it and make it less creepy is a whole other...

But Usagi doesn't, that's a Sailor Star Maker power. Star Maker? Hmm... Naoko Takeuchi was on some stuff, methinks. Didn't Minako also use it in the third season, to transform herself into the hilarious knockoff version of Sailor Moon?