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I watched this a couple of weeks ago, I think. Don't think it's a real show, just a...short they did, basically. If it became a real show, I'd be pretty interested in checking it out just for the novelty. Both Mike and Jay of RLM said a new Netflix show that came out on the same day as Squid Game called Midnight Mass was one of the best things they saw in years, and to go into it blind. I closed the video before they could say anymore and watched the first couple of episodes, and all I got so far are the "eyes wide" emoji. Small town atmosphere and mystery show.

Didn't you also first watch Sailor Moon as it came out when you were a teen? Lot harder to discern than when you're young, especially if you don't know if there's gonna be a second season or not... Technically speaking... Notepad++ is basically just Notepad...plus-plus. No, but really, I just keep around a .txt that I write stuff down in and then delete as I get to them, . It's easier than trying to magically remember everything in life, plus it means I don't have to use...you know, actual real life notepads. As for the BDs, every time I see a glimpse of the show on Netflix, I'm shocked by how much...cheaper the show looks. It makes me sad to think about other shows that couldn't get equal treatment to Sakura's BDs, like Sailor Moon or Miyu. It makes sense for something like Miyu, of course, since there would never be enough of a market to warrant tracking down all the materials and doing a new transfer and such, but it's an absolute shame for Sailor Moon - those blurays are bad. Also, I forgot that I'm going to have to try Clear Card...ay, karamba!

Yeah, I can't really hype myself into buying a $300 certificate that says I'm an owner, . There are a whole lot better things to spend $300 on...heck, just going to a game would probably be better.

Yeah, that...ain't right. Weird. Bloodborne's difficulty curve was a little weird for me, very up and down. I remember the faster-paced combat needing a bit of an adjustment from Dark Souls.

Strangely, the episode that "got me" the most is still the episode you just posted a picture of, S2E5/E40, but purely because...well, it was a great episode in of itself, but especially because of the montage of memories near the end. I might just be a sucker for good emotional montages with characters I love, though. Although obviously very different, that one in particular conjures some similar feelings, at least for me, to Pearl re-enacting her old war-time stories with Rose back in season 1 of SU. My heart attempts to bloodily carve itself out of my chest anytime I watch that one.

I watched the next episode, and edited in an @you with the big edit before you posted. Did it not notify you? I thought it would even if you edit it in later. Oh man, I did not understand what she was trying to say to him at all, but now all that totally makes sense. Okay, that's weird...maybe my "harvesting Sakura" idea isn't so crazy after all, then...

Yeah, I initially wrote "of all times to eavesdrop, Sakura..." I'm not...sure it's going to work out quite how she expects. @majestic Episode 66. We're almost at the end now.

Lmao. That's pretty helpful context, because I had no idea how you reached that conclusion, but I figured you must've said it for a reason that was escaping me. Cardcaptor Sakura, episode 65:

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...