Bartimaeus

It's a little shocking the difference one week can make in the NFL.

Yeah, I've watched the entire thing. A lot of great music...but I wasn't so fond of all the theatrics. Also, the lady they got for one of my favorite Ghibli songs, Spirited Away's The Name of Life (Itsumo Nando Demo), was terrible in comparison to the original lady that sung it for the movie. Don't think it's YouTube's fault, but I could be wrong - the dynamics of the recording just sound really poor, like it's not a great recording to start with. I've definitely heard much, much better full-length concerts/performances on YouTube. Yeah, it is very weird. Different artists are able to pull off things differently, for better or for worse. And placing them in their proper time and context can also completely change your perspective on it...

Sorry, can't listen to it - it's almost always better to hear stuff in its proper context i.e. in the actual show. If I heard Evangelion's If I Can't Be Yours outside of the show with zero context, I would've probably hated it - hearing it in between the two parts of The End of Evangelion right after Asuka's fight with the MREs, on the other hand, is a totally different experience and I love the song as a result. I gotta at least give it a proper chance.

Actually, it's not too shabby. Kind of a...not bad, but definitely lacking recording, though - poor dynamics gave it such a muted kind of sound, . They never do, though...

I don't know if it was a shove, because I think it happens off-screen, but yeah, I think that's more or less right. Do not presume to know that which will or won't offend me, mere mortal. My tastes are inscrutable, incomprehensible, improbable, implausible, impossible! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/3huxtbotzfvxzy9/pUiLOshVK9.mp4 But yes, almost definitely. Thank god we'll never know. One benefit of watching a show long after it's over is never having to interact with the fandom.

Input lag: I remember trying to play Sekiro on a TV and being like "have I lost my touch", because I couldn't do anything right in that game. Switched over to my normal PC monitor and suddenly everything was so much easier and enemies that I couldn't ever react in time to before I could do so easily now. So then I got Super Mario Bros. running on the same TV and realized that the controls felt like I was playing in molasses and the input lag epiphany finally hit me: my TV is not meant for playing fast-paced/reflex video games (and the same probably applies to most flat-screen TVs in general unless you select a model specifically known for very low input lag). It makes a pretty large difference. I await the day Bloodborne comes out on PC...I already played through it on PS4, but I don't have a PS4 anymore, and I'd like to do an SL1 run just like I did for DeS/DS1/DS3.

That particular picture you posted of her reminds me more of Mari instead, for some reason. Same face, different hair. She wishes she could compare to Mimette. I still have no idea what's going on in the story of Nanoha. Just have to nod my head and say yes at this point... I remember thinking that was pretty weird, too.

I did not even realize that the developers had changed. The hell is Deck Nine? ...To be fair, it's not like Dontnod has the greatest track record either, but seriously, who the heck is Deck Nine? Some Square-Enix subsidiary? Wasn't Life Is Strange Dontnod's own IP?

My biggest gripes with how J.E. Sawyer designs games have been predominantly around making all aspects of combat (including things only indirectly related to combat) tedious as hell. ...So a game that takes all of that out and instead focuses on a cool idea in a unique setting? Yeah, I'm interested.

That is...not promising.

Bad and in-your-face writing is bad writing that's difficult to ignore, regardless of subject matter. What's that old saying, "act like you belong, and people will believe you"? Something like that. Most (though not all) media is still in that "we need to make a big deal out of it because it's new and important" stage, and I get why (...after an eternity of being ignored and/or shunned in media, and worse than that before media existed), but it sure doesn't make for enjoyable writing for myself personally. Media will get past it...eventually...probably...hopefully within our lifetimes, . I wouldn't like it if you took the same bad material and then inverted it to be about straight people, after all. In fact, toxic masculine characters (both male AND female) make me want to kill them just about anytime they appear in media, unless the writers are able to subvert, rationale, or otherwise use them in an interesting and satisfying way, which is pretty rare. Obnoxious is obnoxious is obnoxious. Anyways, that's...more or less the feeling that I got from looking at LiS3, that all subtlety as well as the atmosphere that I liked from the first game had gone straight out the window. I should probably give LiS2 a chance at some point - while I share your feeling in the premise not interesting me at all, the game at least looks more respectable in most other ways than LiS3.

I have not been able to muster up the motivation to try either LiS2 or LiS3 because they look a bit far off from what I liked about LiS1, although I have to say LiS3 looks like it misses the mark even more more than 2. I don't know if you're wrote about it on it before (if so, just link), but how does LiS2 compare to LiS1?

Surprised Nintendo doesn't mandate no turbo, since it could be quite unfair in some online games e.g. Mario Party. Doesn't look half bad, but be sure to let us know exactly how quickly it falls apart. https://www.amazon.com/10000mAh-Nintendo-YOBWIN-Portable-Extended/dp/B07QD5T6MJ Corrected your link, since yours wouldn't open.

Yeah, I read after that I apparently watched the "Director's Cut" version of the film. The "happier" theatrical cut ending seems almost seems even more subversive, because the "hero" gets away with several murders and lives happily ever after. Doesn't really strike me as right for obvious reasons, but in a horror black comedy musical, I could see it working as being an arguably even more screwed up way to resolve the story. Most likely, that wasn't what the film audience intended, though - dumb film audience gonna dumb film audience, I guess.

Little Shop of Horrors (1986). Uh, what? Final sequence with They didn't need to have that, but I (think I) am glad they did. Not one hundred percent sure it was needed from a plot standpoint, but it sure was fun to see the practical effects in action.

Samurai Champloo, episodes 13 and 14.

Only when everything else that remains is pure shonen. So...the gist of it is that the seinen anime gets less melodramatic and more shoujo-y after aging up the characters. Doesn't really make that much sense to me, but I guess that's okay, . Example #4719 of me being unsure if there's any truth to anything HoonDing says...

The Polish, uh, don't pull many punches with their posters, do they?

Is Drew Struzan the guy responsible for making all the "let's just throw all the characters into a giant hot mess a la Star Wars" posters? ...Yes, yes he is. Ugh. Okay, so I'm going to look real quick for some where he DIDN'T do that. It turns out, there weren't very many where he didn't do that, and most of them where he didn't were ultra cheesy in some other way, so this ended up being a very easy choice: The Thing. In retrospect, it's probably not necessarily his fault all his posters look the same, but more likely a function of the types of movies he's being hired to make posters for (i.e. big action/adventure movies that want a poster that "looks the same" as other successful action/adventure movies' posters in order to help sell it) and being "type-casted" into doing the same kind of poster over and over. I guess at least his posters are actual posters, unlike what we get today.

As I recall, I had my fingers in my ears and my eyes closed during most of the final act of Tales from Earthsea because of how deeply embarrassed and ashamed I was with the totality of that film. Of all the anime movies I've watched, including some pretty miserable ones like the final two Rebuild films but also some other misbegotten garbage that doesn't need to be mentioned, only the second Madoka film rated lower than Tales from Earthsea. Nausicaa was the very first anime film I watched (...two years ago now?) and it didn't even slightly make me want to pluck out my eyeballs and puncture my eardrums while watching it. In contrast, Tales from Earthsea was the very last Ghibli film that I chose to watch (outside of the recently released Earwig and the Witch*), both because of its horrid reputation as well as the fact that it was a shonen fantasy anime, so it was admittedly pretty predictable that I would utterly despise it**. Still, I am shook. *Which, for as much as I didn't like it and as kind of terrible as Earwig and the Witch was, I still liked a bit better than Tales from Earthsea. **Originally, I wasn't going to watch Tales from Earthsea, but I got roped into it along with Ghibli's more dubious Ocean Waves, but I actually surprisingly liked Ocean Waves...no dice for Tales from Earthsea. Anything that shoots down bad shonen is a winner in my books...uuunless it came out past 2000, in which case it's still inherently trash, .

e: shoulda watched samurai champloo

I think I remarked that was the only thing I even kind of liked from what I saw of the show, since it reminded me of 80s animation and less of modern-day anime like the rest of the show. A couple of the face close-ups I saw in that show in the ten or so minutes I watched of it were legitimately revolting to me, so the "can't speak" face was a hugely welcome contrast to that. Codename: Sailor V, episode 2:

I have not played any Final Fantasy games, . And it's not as though I am bigly into JRPGs - I've played a handful of S/NES-era ones, but that's about it. I've definitely never abused Ranger -> Cleric dual-classes before, no sir.

Don't know what a "white mage" is, so I guess I'm not really in on the latest JRPG tropes (latest true JRPG I've played for at least ten minutes is...ah, yes, MOTHER 3 on the Game Boy Advance), but pretty much everything about it the poster as a whole sure looks terrible very bad ungood I don't like it. If this is what is what modern JRPGs sell themselves as...

It sounds like they gave him a two year paid vacation as part of the settlement to avoid lawsuits, so at least there's that?