Bartimaeus

"Evangelion 30th Anniversary Special Commemorative Showing", or "Asuka + Asuka, Episode 26 + Episode 1", or... I was skeptical for the first few minutes, but I liked it, even with Mari showing up for a few seconds.

Now she has more time to murder her dogs and goats for no reason...

I'm reading/playing Umineko: When the Seagulls Cry, I'm about a chapter and a half through (out of 8). I made this stupid, awful meme after I finished chapter 1. It will make absolutely no sense to anyone here...I think, but here you go anyways. bad meme

KPop Demon Hunters (2025). Despite not liking a single one of the songs (really, more an issue of the choice of vocalists than anything else, I think - it was a truly ghastly collection of singing voices, I'm afraid, though I'm obviously not into kpop which certainly has to play into that issue), I did enjoy the movie overall. Did it feel like I was re-watching what was essentially a dressed-up and restructured version of a certain Disney film released 13 years ago? ...Yes, yes it did. But I like Frozen, so I think that's okay. Also, the above image is surprisingly not from Frozen, it's actually from KPop Demon Hunters but it came like halfway through the film when I was already feeling like I was watching Frozen and, look, they heard my brain, because there's Frozen!

AP NewsSupreme Court rules the Postal Service can't be sued, eve...A divided Supreme Court has ruled that Americans can’t sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail.Shouldn't be using mail-in voting anymore: your post office would seem to be allowed to steal or destroy your mail without repercussion now.

"The final program of the "EVANGELION:30+; 30th ANNIVERSARY OF EVANGELION" event held in Yokohama today announced that a brand-new anime series in the Evangelion franchise is in production at Studio Khara and CloverWorks. Kazuya Tsurumaki, director of the Rebuild films and Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, helms the project alongside Toko Yatabe, who was an assistant director on Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time. NieR creator Yoko Taro is penning the script and series composition, and NieR composer Keiichi Okabe is providing the music." Written by Yoko Taro...perhaps a slightly lower chance of it being horrible than if it were written by Hideaki Anno? I'm not sure.

Oh, you did mean the Himeno one. Yeah, I mean...it was gross, I guess, but I wasn't super engaged by that scene in general. A bunch of people drinking is always a good time to check out for a minute...or an hour, depending.

Correction to my previous post: in the spoiler at the bottom, I said "while everything I said above is true", this did not apply to the "best show I've seen in the past 10 years" bit. I forgot I wrote that. The show is fine, but it was obviously not best in the last 10 years good, haha. ...The kiss scene? Uh...oh, do you mean Himeno in the show, or the one in the movie? Probably in the movie? Movie

I'm fairly certain it is "topics that you have posted at least one reply in". I'd be curious to see if LadyCrimson could show an example of it not being there for at least one thread that she has for sure posted in.

Chainsaw Man, season 1 and the Reze movie. Now...I know what you're thinking. Bartimaeus...Chainsaw Man...shounen action? Yes, it's difficult to believe... Why would Bartimaeus subject himself to Chainsaw Man? The answer is actually surprisingly simple: I was forced to watch this at proverbial gunpoint. Chainsaw Man is...very important to somebody I know, they have very strong feelings and emotions about the show, and it was basically a "hey, you can either sit down with me and give this an honest to god shot, or...you can find out what will happen to you if you don't" sort of situation. So...did I like Chainsaw Man? Well, funny, that's just what this person asked right after we finished watching the movie, except they phrased it more like, "So you like Chainsaw Man, right? And you're not going to say yes just because it's me and I happen to be tapping my fingers on this dangerous unseen metal object behind my back, right?". Um... So in short, yes, I really liked Chainsaw Man, it's probably the best show I've seen in the past ten years. T.O.R.T.U.R.E.

Reversal of normal for me this year: I didn't watch hardly anything of the game (though I was rooting for and felt the Seahawks should win), but I did watch the half-time show: I'd agree that it was a good vibe.

i'm just waiting for them to kiss

BBCode has not existed on this forum software for a long time, it was just hack-y one way parsing and conversion to HTML (hence why even if you did previously use BBCode, as soon as you pressed reply, it would convert and be gone for forever). I'm not very surprised that they've now phased out even bothering to convert it, they've been trying to kill it for a very long time. In theory, a browser userscript by way of e.g. Tampermonkey could parse and convert your BBCode tags just like how the forum used to, but...honestly, I've just gotten used to highlighting and hitting CTRL+b and CTRL+i and CTRL+u for the three basic font modifiers. Strikethrough, with no hotkey for it, is the annoying one.

Why is there an anime movie song in RLM's Revenge of the Sith video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYWAHuFbLoc&t=1319s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIyrnk9hy7M&t=26 ...Has Mike been a secret weeb all along?

I'd be a lot more curious if we hadn't already heard from him a handful of months ago and he was still pulling the old "it'd be just as bad under Kamala" nonsense...