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How problematic that really is for me depends on a very simple factor that seemingly makes no sense when viewed from the outside. If a game has an achievement that is rarely, uhm, achieved, and I have that achievement, the need to complete the list is replaced by that part of me that goes into competition mode. So mostly, that's fine. Most achievement lists therefore don't bother me, they're either all easy to achieve and no problem, can't be achieved, which I despise but can't help anyway*, or they contain one that I can do to satisfy my need to surpass most other people. Done! If a game doesn't have achievements then that's fine too, I'll just play it as well. Otherwise I wouldn't play as much on my Switch as I do. I can empathize with your dislike of achievements, of course. But really, by far and large it is about two things, my inability to challenge myself without any need to and... it really is just that one, actually. * Minako is curious hat you will think of it as much as I am! No, I just really love using that GIF. Sorry. edit: I mean the visuals, from a storytelling perspective, framing, shot composition and the like, and if the show manages to overcome your misgivings about how it looks. To be perfectly honest, I didn't like the character art much at first. I still don't really, but I get why it is they way it is. The combination of it all looks fantastic, in my opinion. Oh? Oh. It should be illegal for characters to share names.

There's an issue in the second film, structurally. For a show, it's not too problematic to spend a full episode on a flashback, but putting this in the middle of the second film (albeit with the best visual hint you're going into a flashback ever) and then transit back to the regular film after the flashback with the (so far unseen) TV version opening sequence is going to be hellishly confusing for first time viewers.

No, I don't think I've seen anything by Satoshi Kon yet. Madhouse, the production company he worked with, sure - but it's hard to not have seen anything by Madhouse (Madhouse produced Animatrix... among other things, so it's possible even without explicitly being an anime fan). It's hard to talk about the visuals without going into spoilers, because they're just so inextricably linked with the storytelling. If this weren't animation and RLM made a video on it, Mike and Jay would probably talk about how well the scenes are set up. I mean... I could be fanboying this too much. I don't think I am, but it could be. I don't. I do dislike "Bioware" achievements that are like "Kill 5000 enemies with finishing move X" because they're just boring and not much of an achievement, but a way to show off and make me do fun things in a game? Why not. I positively hate achievements that become impossible to attain. Plague Inc. for instance has one that you can only get by playing a multiplayer game with someone who was in the beta (or something like that), or has played against someone who was in the beta playtest. It's frustrating now... it'll be unchecked there, forever. Probably. Ahem, much like a certain company's Pillars of Eternity Kickstarter thank you achievement. What WERE you thinking, Obsidian? Made the game in between levels 18 and 30 much better too, because depending on what you wanted to play, that was an excercise in frustration when playing solo. Changed a little when they introduced synergies of course, but respeccing is great. Gotta ask, Viz dub, DiC dub or original with subs?

Given how BotW is built, I would have done that anyway, because dropping a boulder on a camp of enemies is infinitely more satisfying than beating them up in straight, regular combat. With the inventory limitation that can only be eased by finding seeds (unless there's some other way later, I dropped the game relatively quickly), that combines into something that I just don't want to deal with. Where you see an incentive, I'm more cynical and see hidden gating in a world that needed none, or at least shouldn't have one. That does seem like a much more reasonable approach. I should try that. I probably won't, but that's... well, you know how that is. However, IF I would, I'd follow a similar approach. Can't have thousands of seeds if there were only 900 supposed to be there to begin with. I wouldn't use the talking trick either, or CTRL + Y anything unless something is so bugged out and broken that I have to, which usually only happens with mods anyway. I once playtested the Improved Sendai mod, and she just kept spawning and spawning and spawning because something got stuck in a script, what with her statues and all. ExploreArea() only after I've been everywhere I can go to remove the final fog of war patches that would otherwise stick around. However, I'm completely fine with killing Firkraag in an unmodified version of Baldur's Gate 2 by casting Chromatic Orb on him with a level 12 caster character. A lot of players assume this to be an oversight on Bioware's part, and it probably is. I usually don't really do it either, because I don't wait until my characters are that high in level before killing him anyway, but I have no qualms doing it. On the other hand, using the pause trick to kill the Yellow Devil in Mega Man? No. Never! Guess, as long as the regular gameplay allows for it, it's fine, if you venture outside of what could be reasonably considered regular gameplay it not longer is. So finding a spell that clears a (supposedly, anyway) hard encounter in the game without it ever being able to respond? Sure, why not. Pressing pause repeatedly to hit over and over again, shortening the fight? No. Funny you mention having to plan out your characters, all of my Grim Dawn characters didn't spend a single one of their attribute points yet. Skills are refundable, so no problem there, but unless I'm certain I want more spirit or cunning or whatever, I'm not going to spend that. The absolute epitome of this particular issue was one of my Diablo 2 characters, an incredibly min/maxed Amazon that had base vitality and energy, just enough strength to wear the equipment needed with a Hel rune slotted and any strength bonuses slotted in and everything else in dexterity. Even managed to bring down Hell Baal solo, but that was in a patch before Blizzard introduced phsycial damage cap limits. My sweet, sweety high damage output almost invincible amazon with barely any hit points died, not to bosses but to a silly patch. She died copious amounts of times before being able to wear the gear I collected for her, but that's something else entirely. Wasn't ever going to be HC viable anyway. If there'd be an achievement for winning with a SL1 character, then I'd probably try. Without one, well... nope. I'm talking about the films mostly because it's impressive how well they work even on a second watch.

This is the part of the post where I just add something to be not completely off topic, the spoilers above are just for hiding that fact from the lurking moderator here. I guess I'll have the time to watch soon. I'd still like to wrap up the Madoka movies first though. Second viewing so far has been really impressive. The movies also look so much better than the Netflix version, but that's something somewhat typical for Studio Shaft. They finish rendering their episodes like 5 minutes before they air and later touch them up. So there really are three different versions to see in theory: Broadcast episodic anime, Blu Ray episodic anime, and movie version. All with different animation...

Well, look at that. Kozue's team gets four new players because of a school merger. She manages to win three over, one, named Yuri Izumi leaves. She goes to visit her at home to try and convince her to stick with the team where she talks a bit to Yuri's stepmother. The girl shows up and is not only rude to Kozue but also to her stepmother and... yeah, you guessed it. Kozue slaps her silly for disrespecting her mother and lectures her about behaviour and how it doesn't matter if she's her real mother or not, she is her mother and damn straight needs to be respected. We're in 60ies Japan here, dammit, respect your elders and follow their every word, or else. Yuri all but throws her out (well, she's just rude). Kozue then sees her walking around with Tsutomu. Actually, Yuri is really spending a LOT of time with him, leading to some jealousy, drama and some yelling where Tsutomu really has no idea what's gotten into Kozue. Some things really are timeless. The slapping... not so much.

How did I miss this? Malc confirmed as Keyrock alt.

Doing some fun last minute patching because someone hard coded directory and file names a couple of years ago. Sigh.

Pretty sure the 90ies anime didn't just select a stretch of the episode in Adobe After Effects and apply a color filter to it, that certainly was more work than that. If result A and result B are essentially the same outcome, what does the starting point matter for the one on the receiving end? From my point of view the Jedi are evil!

To borrow a phrase from Old Nan: Oh my sweet summer child, what do you know of looking bad? As far as Crystal seasons one and two go, this is a decent one. You could see, for instance, this happy two frame animation: Or how weird the arms bend sometimes: Poor Jadeite, I mean, he sucks as a villain, but Rei breaking his arms like that? Uhm... looks like she's tearing it off. Sometimes Usagi suddendly stops looking like a humanoid giraffe amd becomes a... I don't know what: Sometimes her hair just explodes into EVEN MORE HAIR, she's probably related to the Independence Day aliens in some way: Every now and then the intern accidentally put a filter on a scene: And sometimes... the characters look like they're bodysnatchers in disguise. It's uncanny... Here's what happens when you turn your characters into proto-strain Blade 2 style Reapers, she's liable to bite your head off any time now: Sometimes everyone looks like spindly aliens from the Praying Mantis planet: And finally, sometimes they wear wigs and have mullets: No, wait, that was the wrong show.

Yes, if you want to see an English dub, then you really need to watch the new Viz Media version that was released not long ago. The first English dub - while funny in a meme-way - is pretty bad and it also censored some elements and left out episodes. Hulu, if you have access to that, has the entire show in original with subs. Either the Viz dub or the original with subtitles should be fine (the dub changes jokes for the better and smoothes out some of the rougher edges). You just need to make sure you watch the original 90ies anime, not the 39 episode long Sailor Moon Crystal, which is a hideous looking and more faithful manga adaptation that is by far and large bad. Sailor Moon is one of the few cases where the filler made for the anime is actually better than the source material. It's hard to describe properly though, and the first season has a somewhat rocky start, but it gets a lot better past the first 13 episodes or so, around the time the first villain is removed. It's mostly fun with the occasional brilliant character moment though, if you're looking for good action pieces than you'll not really be getting these from the anime, with some very, very rare exceptions at the end of the third season. The reason why the filler is better is because the manga was written with the mangaka under incredible time strain, so it's more or less just a first draft that went into publishing, and it only got worse once it turned out to be a smash hit and everyone wanted more. The plot is a mess, it feels disjointed, some of the plot points are really... let's call them gross, even, and, yeah, well. I said my piece. Stay way from Crystal at least until you've seen the older show. edit: One more fair warning, it's an early 90ies production that had a shoestring budget. While it looks really good for that (actually it looks really good anyway), it does have lots of stock footage. Lots and lots of it. Sailor Moon Crystal isn't just hideous, it's also bad. It's the worst of both worlds.

Well, it was worth a try. Just finished the first of the Madoka movies, by the way. Rewatching is well worth the time spent on it, and the film version adds a certain gravitas to some of the scenes (by the way, while he isn't exactly hung up on spoilers, we still have one person left who wants to watch this eventually, so anything spoilerish into spoiler tags... ).

I think only @ArtistFormerlyKnownasKP and myself are watching JoJo's, and I'm close to the end of Battle Tendency now while I'm certain that KP's watched it at least twice by now. We're actually really all in this thread because we watched Sailor Moon together and more or less told (more like hinted at, but you know) to stop spamming the TV thread with it... I re-watched it, the others saw it for the first time. It's been a quarter of a century and I still had a blast with it. With some... exceptions. Then myself and KP watched Steven Universe on @Bartimaeus's recommendation, which was in part at least inspired by Sailor Moon as it was a huge influence on Rebecca Sugar. Among other anime of course, full of references as it is and all. That's everything in a nutshell. Except Madoka, which KP and IC also watched. If you're in the mood for something bubbly, happy and pink, check out the trailer: Assuming you aren't familiar with the franchise, anyway.

Lost my mouse just now. Not mouse in a pet sense, but input device. The scroll wheel, which I lived without happily before it was invented but now feels like I cannot do without, has struggled to perform its duty properly for a while. First scrolling up only worked half of the them. Then a third, then nothing. Yet, I still could live with that. Ten minutes ago scrolling down stopped working too, and that was the final nail in the coffin. It's officially dead now, after over a decade of good service. I ordered a replacement when the issues began, one that has the exact same dimensions, but higher accuracy. Turns out there are three factors that I haven't considered. First of all, the clicking sound of a new mouse is intense. Ugh. It will take months until the buttons are whittled down enough to stop sounding like a Cherry MX, much like it will take a while until it properly glides over my desk in the way the old one did, and the worst for last: The mouse has only half the weight of the old one. It's extremely uncomfortable. To give you a timeframe: The one before the one that just died still had a PS/2 connector (that one I fixed several times by using super glue to prop up a very worn out left mouse button), and the one before that still had a RS232 connector.

Marshall would be so happy now that someone finally wants his cheese. The actual reason for this post was that we, or more accurately, I, asked everyone who popped in here if they'd like to watch Sailor Moon with us, which was next to Steven Universe and JoJo's Bizarre adventure the dominating topic of the past... 65 or so pages. Almost everyone immediately left, only InsaneCommander stuck around. I think it's fair to say that he enjoyed it. You wouldn't happen to have watched it? I mean, it's 30 years old by now... Other recent topics were Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Attack No. 1, Goblin Slayer, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Castlevania.

Hi there, I hope you don't get scared off. The only one who stuck around after we made this thread our personal playground was InsaneCommander. I'm not sure why, it can't be the smell. There's no smell internet yet, right? Right... yes, no, there isn't. Mental note: Brush teeth before posting next time just in case. Anyway! Welcome to our little anime thread. We may not be many, but we sure post a lot. Would you care for some refreshments? Or maybe some gouda? Ahem. So! The others ran away so fast, need to change the approach to this. Hmm. But how? Oh, yes! Can we interest you in some anime? Hm. Pictures first, asking later. Yes, yes.

The advantage of watching something in my native dubbed version is that I can have it running in the background while doing menial tasks at work, what with being stuck at home anyway, so Attack No. 1 has been playing for a bit now. That's not something that works for Japanese originals with subs. The showrunners really treated the idea of playing volleyball like martial arts. Kozue and Midori are currently learning the "Falling Leaf" technique, which is a slow service ball that drops all momentum in mid flight. The girl teaching them is all properly mysterious about it, telling them that the key to learning it is "in their own hands", this might just as well be some kung fu or karate shenanigans. Only took 8 episodes for the magic balls to show up. Huh. I thought that took longer. edit: Found some old reference material, this show's ratings were insane when it first aired here. 44% in the target demographics of children aged 14 and lower. So far this has been mildly amusing and really feels a bit dated. I wonder if my original impression that this gets better when the girls age up a bit remains true. I sure hope so. Hmmm. edit 2: Amazon really puts a LOT of effort into bringing these old shows back to life. The outro even has the original TV station signation in it, they just bought the distribution rights and did nothing else. Probably didn't even transfer the original video material to digital on their own. Good job there Jeff.

I apologize for this joke in advance, and I'll spoiler it. You may only click if you promise to not hate me for it first!