Bartimaeus

Me too. Go Rams*! *I have been cheering against the Bengals this entire postseason because every time I've ever cheered for them in the postseason, they lose. So...can't stop now, 3-3 so far!

Gee, haven't thought about him in like ten years. Boy, the meta on making silly YouTube videos has changed a lot since his heyday.

Not sure which is more heinous, KP. I imagine the client scientists ask themselves the same thing pretty frequently.

I didn't watch much of last week's games after that Packers debacle, but holy crap Batman, the Bengals are going to the Super Bowl - words I didn't think I'd ever say in my lifetime.

It's not that they're universally bad, it's more that they just don't feel like they belong to the show in my head for some reason. It's probably a function of it being arguably the least important part of the show for me by and large...meanwhile, it's apparently the most to a number of other viewers. Maybe also because a lot of it feels pretty tonally disconnected from the otherwise pretty silly lives of the group... Oh, yeah, I guess you said that before I wrote it. Worst example I can think of that I've experienced is still My Hero Academia. Multiple pauses for pathetic minute-long monologues in the same fight that would otherwise be 20-30 seconds long. Man, screw that show. It's just 50 episodes of edgy, boring shonen trash - what's the problem? Yes, what a terribly interesting subject, especially in a series where the heroes are just arbitrarily given new power-ups whenever the writers decide that the old one wasn't quite powerful enough for whatever reason even though it makes no functional difference 99.9% of the time. Oh, so Nanoha was actually a JRPG.

In my first playthrough, I remember that I put a couple of hours in before restarting for whatever reason, and I was super confused upon my restart because I couldn't figure out where anything I recognized was. Took me a bit to realize that the starting position, although it stays in that safe shallows area, can move around a bit - I am not a smart man. Yeah, it's a good game. I put a few hours into the second game before I died and realized I must've accidentally chosen hardcore instead of normal, because it erased my save game...but before that, it seemed fine - sequels to games that had mystery/surprise elements rarely have the same mystique as the originals, though.

Haha, that first comment broke my brain - started laughing out loud for a solid 30 to 45 seconds after I read it, starting with a Picard facepalm. The exact way they said that is phrased as if they were being completely sarcastic...and yet, in the back of my head, I knew that they were not being sarcastic, and so that juxtaposition was just hilarious*. I guess you have a better idea of who this garbage is made for now...and you're now armed with the knowledge that StrikerS (and even the original series) were complete aberrations. You really need to implement my "[X] doesn't exist after [this date] because I decided it doesn't anymore" OCD-avoiding cheat, at the very least. I mean really, what if I sent you an .mp4 entitled "Sailor Moon S Super Secret Lost Episode!" and it was actually the first episode of Sazae-san or something (+8000 episodes!) - would you still try to watch all of them? *Although the commenter probably meant that it isn't filled with idiotic pointless internal monologues or any kind of equal that I would agree do tend to unnecessarily burden any show that makes frequent use of them, what they said was "[no] pauses for talking", and that's a different thing entirely. Man, looking back, a lot of the parts of Sailor Moon's main story feel like they don't even belong in Sailor Moon to me. Any time I ever think about Death Phantom or Black Lady or the circus crap from SuperS or even the non-silly Hotaru/Professor Tomoe stuff from S...pretty much anything besides defeating Queen Beryl from season 1 and I guess the Sailor Starlight stuff from season 5 to a degree isn't even really like a part of the Sailor Moon canon in my head. The beatings will continue until morale improves the mind control situation improves.

Unofficial reports are saying that Tom Brady is going to retire. Pretty crazy if that just happens out of the blue without anyone knowing it the entire season.

You know, this guy is starting to sound a little like a moron. So...what's the deal with the skybeams? Is there some sort of humorous and stupid overuse of them in anime I don't know about?

"There's no way they actually use the full name when talking about her though, right?" *screenshot* Oh. Yeah, that is not good. I couldn't help but laugh at this, because there's a famous American basketball player named Kyrie (Irving) who has been very publicly sitting out the entire current season because he refuses to get vaccinated. ...But that's pretty much the only thing I laughed at, because the rest of that was terrible. I don't think you have to worry about any of us watching this trash, . Maybe it was because there was nothing else of note to talk about this for this movie?

Also, might be obvious, but if drinking cold water starts getting you queasy, try drinking some hot water instead - tends to be much easier on you than cold whenever you're sick for whatever reason. Note that I said "hot", and not "warm", because warm water is the worst.

"Ever since you fell off the roof, you've been acting like a granola bar!" Lmao, the original English dub is amazing. ...Hey, wait, the video lady said that was supposed to be a demonstration of how bad the dub was, what gives! Ah, screw it, she doesn't get it... Tia Browsh sure, uh, had to record a lot of those clips. ...I'm thinking anime hairstyles should uh, probably stay in anime.

Yeah, it's a real shame they didn't go through with it, otherwise @majestic's OCD would've required that he watch the entire thing. We've been robbed again! Of course, then we wouldn't have the precious original English dub either, which we should also force majestic to watch all of... (e): Heck, maybe if the American version had been made, they might've aired that over in Germany instead of the original, and his entire childhood would have been an endless empty void.

*chef's kiss* -majestic, probably

You know, if Naoko Takeuchi had wrote Sailor Moon when she was like...I don't know, anywhere between like 14 and 18, some of the more..."interesting" creative decisions wouldn't be quite so glaring. Unfortunately, she was 24 by the time she started writing Sailor V and Sailor Moon, and some of the character and storytelling choices she made were pretty sketchy for a 24 year old woman. P.S. While looking up how old Naoko Takeuchi was when started writing Sailor V/M, I came across this article about some images that are purported to be from a prototype Sailor V anime adaptation: http://sailormoonnews.com/2021/10/04/some-images-appear-to-be-from-a-sailor-v-anime-that-was-almost-made-before-sailor-moon/ Minako should've gotten her own show! ...And also this American Sailor Moon pilot monstrosity: https://lostmediawiki.com/Sailor_Moon_(partially_found_Toon_Makers'_live-action/animated_series_pilot;_1993)#Gallery

I straight up forgot I watched it altogether, to be honest. It doesn't help that on my normal site that I use to rate stuff, I didn't rate it at all because...well, I guess it didn't feel right to do so. As a consequence of that, though, I don't see it in my list of watched shows and I don't remember it exists. It probably doesn't help that our tastes in shows mostly doesn't align. The chance of anybody finding anything that I like is pretty low, but it's especially low if we don't like hardly any of the same things to begin with. At least you correctly guessed that I'd like Memories' Magnetic Rose! I don't really begrudge anyone their tastes - what we all like is completely arbitrary. Why do I only like older stuff while Lexx only likes newer stuff? Even when we can come up with specific little things that bother or appeal to us, there's not much reason to any of it beyond that we just do, and that's that. I just wish I was more flexible and didn't so often feel so extremely about all of it, but I do for some dumb reason. I'll get around to trying Aggretsuko sometime. Right now, I'm watching Samurai Jack and Gilmore Girls, which are basically polar opposites of each other (girly girl show for girls vs. manly man show for men ) but I like both of them. Shinji: Yeah, you're dead on, I think. In a world where you were already incapable of seeing yourself as being worth anything beyond your objective uses and everyone else is constantly feeding into that even when they're not trying to, someone that just accepts and treats you well only because of you being you would be a godsend.

I'm so sorry, but I actually recall this now, and I'm afraid that I did not ever actually watch even two minutes of it. My answer was a literal response to your rhetorical question, i.e. "what could go wrong if you watched this". That's exactly what *could* go wrong...but it didn't, because I didn't even try it. Once again, I am so sorry. Sort of, . Don't let my terrible betrayal affect your sleep! P.S. My old posts are disasters due to me habitually removing all my Dropbox links. Context becomes much harder to understand without all the linked images...

I did? The name did sound vaguely familiar, but more in a "I found this online and immediately left the page because it looks like unappealing trash" kind of way than "I actually found a copy of this and watched it for sixty seconds before never watching it again". It's been about a decade, so I'm not certain. ...Of course, the second show was released just slightly over a decade ago - naturally. Nah, of course not. I always forget how extreme that scene was. Even Chibi-Usa preceding it looked pretty shook, and she hated Usagi at that point. Yeah, they did well with how little they had to work with, . And then Crystal also did the absolute best with all the resources it was given, except kind of the exact opposite of that. History repeats itself! They absolutely are - no need to think about it. ...I was about to ask whether a single girl watched any of those shows, but then I realized my own sister watched Naruto, and I guess I have to reconsider. I guess there was probably at least one girl...statistically speaking, it's likely at least...

That sounds...vaguely inappropriate. Well, it should at least make KP happy.

Maybe you've been doing this guy an injustice, as he was actually being ironic when he said it, and it was in fact a deep-cut satire of the people he purports to speak for? Oh, screw that, that's even worse! Is even anime no longer sacred? No more multiple timelines, people - all it means is bad storytelling and obvious retconning. Stop it!

Sounds like one of those "it forces you to like it because you like what it's used in and it's used appropriately" situations I've talked about in the past, e.g. with Samurai Champloo's intro music, . I'm trying to think of what my very specific favorite aesthetic is, but I'm not entirely certain. Oh, wait, no, now I am since I thought about it: the childhood sections of Only Yesterday (which are slightly distinct from the adulthood sections - they have a more surreal and hazy memory-like look to them and it seemed like everyone's faces and body shapes are a little softer and more cartoony than the adulthood sections of the movie...even for the adults of her childhood, like her parents). I still use this silly dance/exercise gif (which is also coincidentally recreated twice in Steven Universe - once in season 1, and once in SU:F) as my avatar in some other places: It was also a nightmare to make it just how I wanted it, and I still didn't quite get there due to size limitations, but it was pretty close. So that receives my vote for favorite aesthetic...uh, whatever that is, . Elicits a very..."memories of a life I didn't and couldn't have ever had" feeling, . You can also probably thank Only Yesterday for me being open to Sailor Moon's art style, because Sailor Moon season 1 has that same sort of odd, indistinct surrealism while also sharing a similar color palette and style of backgrounds to Only Yesterday's childhood sections (albeit much more simple - the style is what's important to me, not necessarily the level of detail!). I'm trying to think of all the gay characters that I've seen in anime shows/movies I've watched. Haruka and Michiru in Sailor Moon... Maya was implied to be in Neon Genesis Evangelion, I guess, but that's a little bit of a stretch. There's also Tomoyo in Cardcaptor Sakura, but she's like thirteen and that's a whole different thing. Um... One of the main characters in Tokyo Godfathers...uh, I think. It's a little confusing, because they're also transgender... Maybe there's someone else I'm forgetting? All in all, not like your typical obnoxious or unrealistic ones that you typically see in anime. (e): Also, possibly Shinji. Hey, don't blame me he willingly got into a bathtub with Kaworu while ignoring Asuka - it's not my fault! Well, then the show would be over awfully quick and without any fuss or muss, wouldn't it? ...Oh, now I remember why I don't like it when a whole bunch of pointless and repetitive action is horribly drawn out and framed as if it were important! Can't help but notice that shoujo has a tendency to do the opposite and underframe with its action...except for Utena and Lady Asuka, I guess. Have you ever heard Weird Al's "Talk Soup"? There's a couple parts of the song that go something like "I'm just an anorexic, co-dependent, bingo-addict stripper born without a chin", but you should definitely replace that with something like "I'm just an anti-vaxx, Bible-thumping, Libertarian, Trump-loving flat-earther shell of a man" for me, because that's totally accurate, . Think I'll skip MD Geist. If I'm going to watch 80s trash, at least give me a half-decent relunctant action lady instead of boring macho hero action man, . My sister loved Fullmetal Alchemist...and she also loved Naruto. Terrible person as far as I'm concerned, . She once tried to get me into Fullmetal Alchemist, and I made it approximately five minutes before some shonen starting shonening the whole place up, and I had to call it quits.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring - thank goodness, I wasn't looking forward to the inevitable 7-2 conservative Supreme Court if he didn't.

Yeah, the figure-skating bit you just mentioned is the same ice-skating thing I just mentioned as being "the end of the show" (because it was the final thing from the original season). I thought that, as well as the preceding gymnastics "tournament" arc with the lovely (...and completely insane, ) Black Rose Kodachi... ...were both great. It's unfortunately after these two little arcs that the original show ends and the "reboot" starts...I can't remember exactly what happens, I wrote down episode synopses in one of these threads a long while back, but it was very dumb and made me the big mad. Characters were just not acting like their previously established selves. Ranma said stupid stuff like he would never willingly turn into a girl even if it was necessary to help someone he cared about (...???, the last two arcs were all about him doing exactly that, PLUS he had literally decided to turn into a girl several times for non-important reasons in situations where he realized he was actually comfortable with it, like when he wanted to learn how to ice-skate with Akane). I remember being especially offended with what they did to Ranma's father, speaking of, because they essentially turned him into a really stupid meme that lacked any common sense or values for the sake of some really poorly set up jokes...his father is an established character, please do not attempt to ruin him with terrible gags that don't make any sense for who he is. All the episodes became one-off wacky forced premises that didn't feel like they had anything to do with each other, and it didn't feel like the show was attempting to do much anything besides be crazy and comedic (especially because those wacky premises were necessitating that characters not act like their natural selves so much of the time). Objectively, the second season wasn't terrible...but it subjectively felt terrible and very frustrating after such a good first season. I was pretty wounded that the original show somehow failed but the reboot was apparently a smashing success. (e): Turns out, I'm still pretty burnt up about this, .

The fact that it's open world was already a huge red flag for me. I expect the game to be fine-ish, but not really be my thing a la Sekiro*. *But in a totally different way from Sekiro, which eliminated all the interesting enemy encounter design of Souls games in favor of going all out on bosses and mini-bosses (...many of which effectively fought the same way, so that wasn't really ideal to me, especially because many of my "fond" memories of Soulsborne games are the innumerable ways the world and non-boss enemy design could screw you over, which was just...not really a thing in Sekiro). Sekiro also bizarrely got rid of a lot of incentive to explore since there was no gear or interesting items to ever pick up, so that's one way Elden Ring can immediately become more appealing. You didn't like getting smashed with ten thousand different pieces of world lore in the first half hour of PoE?