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Well, I hope you'd heard this before and it wasn't me that ruined it. Personally, I never really thought about it that much - the conversation just sounded like a writing device to indicate that something had occurred in the past that left Marion the big mad at Indiana, and that's really all it had to be as a way to quickly setup some character history as well as some motivations for how they were going to act towards each other for the rest of the film. Then the internet happened, and I was told that no, that's there because the creators of this film deliberately thought out that Indiana raped the poor girl when she was anywhere between 10 and 12 years of age. Thanks internet, thanks George Lucas - very cool.

I was recently informed that the Bangles' Walk Like an Egyptian apparently shows up at some point during Stardust Crusaders, because it happened to also appear in Gilmore Girls and the person I was talking to about it knew it from there. I suppose it's appropriate enough for that particular chapter of JoJo.

The thing that really confuses me is that Spielberg apparently said that "she had better be older than 22" (22 - 12 = 10, she would have been ten years old, George Lucas - quick maths!)...and then the very next thing he says is that "let's make it her fault by having her be promiscuous". What the hell, guys? Luckily, all that really materially exists of that idea in the film is that one solitary thread of conversation, especially because the actress, Karen Allen, was actually in her late 20s at the time of filming.

George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan in 1978 during the brainstorming process of creating Indiana Jones: An actual conversation between Indiana and Marion from the first Indiana Jones film..: Thanks, George - glad I'll remember this one anytime I re-watch Indiana Jones.

Princess Daisy has been dropped from the base roster in favor of that hack fraud Rosalina. Nintendo, you are dead to me.

I don't know if it makes sense to keep the Wii U asterisk if Fire Emblem is actually on the Switch...unless you also happened to own a Wii U, I suppose. If you're one of the other ten people that own a Wii U, then you can do whatever you want, just like me! Also, I thought Fire Emblem Warriors was a joke, but no, it's also somehow a real thing. I know there's some kind of market for these, but they seem to make me long for the heat death of the universe, which is not a great feeling.

I remember trying the first Hyrule Warriors when it came out on Wii U* and more or less having a small mental breakdown where I couldn't stop laughing because of how hilariously...nothing everything about it felt. It was a real "am I even alive right now" kind of surrealist/existential experience. Based on the evidence, I do not believe that the Dynasty Warriors games were made for me, and I think that is okay. *Yes, I am one of the ten people in the entire world that own a Wii U, so you can laugh at me for that one.

Hah, majestic wanted the rest of us to watch that one a while back, but none of us bit. Looks like he finally found a kindred soul with the same taste in anime as him, .

It's a good thing you're giving us descriptive text, because it kinda looked like Cobra broke his neck and was lying there horribly paralyzed without the description...although that interpretation was better. Guess I'd learn how to play Bach real quick. I mean, how hard can it be? Let me Google it real quick... Oh.

Top five, don't @me. I mean, probably - there are a lot of them and they're kind of hard to see individually, . Okay, this one is pretty clearly a fox and not a cat.

I was very confused for a minute here, because I thought I watched like half of the first season of Reacher like a year or two back...but apparently, I believed Jack Reacher and Jack Ryan were the same thing. I mean, I think they basically are, but technically, they are distinct properties. First season of Gilmore Girls. The style of dialogue in this show is unusual - it has a tendency to be very quick with a lot of back-and-forth between multiple characters and yet sound perfectly natural...though if you stop paying attention for even a couple of seconds, you may lose critical context that renders entire conversations incomprehensible, and there are a lot of them and they'll all well-written and usually fun, so you should pay attention. I thought I'd take a break before starting the second season, but I accidentally jumped right into the second one which was a direct continuation of the first, so I guess I'll be watching that for a while longer yet.

1994 vs 1996. The OVA ended with a colored sketch drawing of the two characters with "THE END" under them, so I don't think it was really intended to go any farther. 47 freaking episodes, which is also how I figured it was terrible, because that's just too long for an inexplicable sequel two years after the original 4-episode show ended. So I highly doubt you'll be watching this one, . Yeah, tough to be your typical every day hero man when you look like that, . No, I think it's specifically an Obsidian forums thing, because I did a quick Google search and the Obsidian forums are literally the only place that someone's written about that error (marelooke and Azdeus back in 2021).

Sawako is his stupid brain-dead avatar in the show, I'm pretty sure, so it's basically one and the same.

Eh, if there's anything I *need* to respond to, I'll just do it anyway. It did, but in a kind of stupid and dissatisfying way - IIRC, it only manifested when two or more of the girls were fighting. Since Mugi was my favorite character, I was completely prepared to ignore how dumb of a way of showing it that was, though. I have a feeling that Sawako was responsible for writing that part of the script.

Well, you may not be following the terms and conditions of watching Pretty Cure, but I will...halfway, that is. For every Pretty Cure post you make, I may only respond with exactly one tangent of thought - it is simply the right thing to do for a show that has 900+ episodes and 30 movies that you will presumably write approximately 5,000+ paragraphs over the next year or two for, . Is Tomoyo...like, an anime character archetype? Her, Honoka, and Mugi all look very similar - not strictly in terms of physical appearance, mind you, but rather their expressions and mannerisms. I made one quick search for Honoka and it was immediately clear that she was the Tomoyo-like character just from a few screenshots.

I watched the first episode a while back and it was okay, but it didn't really grab me, probably because I didn't like the characters. Very angry shonen protagonist boy, twitch.tv stream-my-entire-life girl and her little twerp of a brother, a weak Ayanami-esque girl, and ambitious secret agent boy...all in some EPIC/DRAMATIC SPACE STORY. Eh, didn't really feel it.

I feel like Nathan Fillion every time this happens. How can you take everything about the original show that was good/enjoyable/different compared to the endless waves of trash that were your contemporaries...and immediately turn around and make it just like them? Is it deliberate - do you want to just make a quick buck off of an existing property...or is it just because you're a talentless hack that doesn't know how to make anything but generic trash? Directors, writers, and producers all changed between the OVA and the TV show, so I guess it could very well be either one. The show is pretty low-stakes in terms of action, so nothing like that ever really comes up. We're talking some minor traffic violations, getting a pregnant cat to a veterinarian during a typhoon*, and one actually semi-serious car-chase with some psychopath that tried to drive our ladies off the road for no good reason (which actually legitimately made me mad because of how insane that dude was being - that was probably the most outrageous thing that happened during the entire show). Otherwise, most of the show's serious moments were reserved for some nice dialogue between our characters. *Whoever made this show must've liked cats, because at least one cat appeared in every episode, and the episode about the pregnant cat having birthing issues was probably the most serious episode out of them all - they were decidedly very intent on getting that cat to the vet. Sounds like a pretty decent show. It's funny how *not* trying to impose that your morally ambiguous character be the "cool antihero" that somehow magically always does the correct/perfect thing with it always inexplicably working out...is actually the key part in what makes them a properly interesting and grounded antihero. An antihero doesn't need to always be perfectly justified in what they do (though their actions/behavior should at least make a sort of sense empathizable sense), and they certainly shouldn't always be supported by framing and/or the other characters. A magical girl show...that is "surprisingly enjoyable"...that isn't binge-worthy...for majestic? Does not compute, .

You're Under Arrest (1994), a nice little 4-episode OVA about two policewomen becoming partners and friends...that I was certain was going to be bad (top three tags: "action", "comedy", "police"...also, the name is terrible, why did I even try this again?), but which inexplicably wasn't. The two main characters were both distinct and immediately likeable (Miyuki, the gentle but serious veteran with a passion for all things mechanical; Natsumi, the impudent but driven rookie who always does the right thing, even if it's not necessarily by the rules...or particularly wise). I thought this was going to be some dumb fast-paced action comedy with our mains doing patently ridiculous stunts leading to arrests of baddies...but instead it was usually a slow-paced, low-stakes show primarily about and driven by our cast of characters with a pretty equal comedic/sincere split...which I guess is just how I like 'em if "comedy" is going to be a thing. Bizarrely, literally nobody was ever arrested on-screen, and there wasn't even a single shootout (heck, I don't think a single gun was fired at all)...a few short car-chases, but that's it. Our big "action finale" was making sure that a marathon ran smoothly after somebody's motorcycle accidentally caught fire while our characters used teamwork to deal with it. Why in the world was this called "You're Under Arrest" again? Apparently, they ended up making a longer TV sequel/reboot of it a couple of years later, so I still have to check that out. I'm assuming that that one will be dumber because sequels that are longer than the original usually are (why make something that accurately captures the spirit of the original show which is presumably what made people like it in the first place when you can just...make it a lot dumber way easier instead?), but who knows, I could be surprised. (e): Out of curiosity, I decided to try an episode of the second series. Maybe it'd pick up right where it left off and I could actually recommend this to @majestic given his OCD for needing to finish a series, and...oh my gosh, this is so utterly terrible - why do they do this to me? First five minutes was a litany of gay jokes, nosebleeds, immediate and terrible flanderization of established side-characters, women in their underwear, up-close shots of women's chests, people shooting guns, bad animation... It's like they deliberately made this to be the complete opposite of what the original OVA was like (and it's also "coincidentally" everything that I hate) while (nominally) using the same characters, setting, and universe. This is what I expected when I read about the original OVA and hesitantly tried it out, but which I oh so mercifully did not receive - just shoot me in the face. I guess this is probably what also would've happened to Carried by the Wind if it had ever become a full TV show. Let's just...not, okay?

I never do well against sine wave enemies/projectiles in anything. In theory, I perfectly understand what to do to dodge them, but reality is a little different...

Yeah, it looks a little weird because on Playstation 4, it only runs at 30 FPS - on Playstation 1, it runs at 60. That's probably what you're seeing...probably.

Re-visiting Bloodborne a little today. Was pretty sloppy for the first half of the video (first try!), but did better as the battle went on. Would've been pretty embarrassing to die to Cleric Beast, but give me a break, I haven't played this in years. And also, I was using a freaking d-pad because it's on Playstation 1.

Milk Outside of a Bag of Milk Outside of a Bag of Milk I don't play many visual novels (...pretty much never, in fact), but I liked this one. My impression of the game was that I played as the imaginary friend (or perhaps therapist?) of a paranoid schizophrenic girl trapped inside her room trapped inside her brain with only you, the player, as her guide to try and help make sense of her unstable thoughts and surroundings. Why I am playing this incredibly esoteric game...I'm not a hundred percent sure - I guess because I saw some stylish-looking pixel art and it had overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam and it only cost a couple of dollars. Money well spent, I suppose.

It's completely awful - went from racism to some pathetic and utterly generic attempt at being pro-military, great. One good thing about is that three syllable teams pretty much always have a shortened version, and it seems the internet has already dubbed them "the Commies", which feels appropriate what with the red and all.

CLAMP's Clover (1999). Uh...I think I should stop watching anime. Or at least the weird stuff - I could certainly do a little more research before I try something out of the blue like this. It was basically a really weird 7 minute or so...music video-esque thing. Apparently, CLAMP's Clover is an unfinished manga that "takes place in a dystopian, futuristic world where children known as 'Clovers' have special powers". I guess I kinda got that, but it sort of felt like I was watching a Lincoln Park music video (but without the high energy angsty music). Rilakkuma and Kaoru: A short stop-motion show (thirteen 11-minute episodes) from Netflix about a single woman and her teddy bears. It's slow and sombre, and seems to primarily focus on how disappointing and sad life is...but also, you should try to make the best of it when and where you can. The last episode I watched was about them having a power outage during a storm and suddenly being host to a dead girl that had been run over and killed by a bus right in front of her first boyfriend. Seeing her boyfriend get comforted by another girl nearby while quickly forgetting about her made her spirit upset enough to turn her into a ghost...and more of a sad ghost than one doing any actual haunting. Yeah, that's fair. Did you listen to it at least 50 times? Because I do believe that's the key here, so if you haven't done that yet, you really ought to. It's just the right thing to do.