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Can be excused, I think. I'm not German.

You rang? There is a German scrabble variant, obviously, and it is limited to words in the Duden (the most well known and most commonly used German dictionary) and all their inflections. Therefore the depicted word would be not accepted unless you're playing with house rules and e.g. allow for compound words with unlimited components. If it could fit on the board in the first place, which it doesn't. Building compound words with more than three components is considered to be bad form and the word above, by the way, literally translated means floor grinder renting agency. I think that covery all possible objections and information, right? edit: Took a bit longer than five seconds to type though. Sorry.

More Sailor Stars spoilers. Read at your own risk. All issues aside, I love Sailor Stars more than I should, and it really helps that all the filler episodes are like 95% character interactions with the obligatory fight at the end often lasting only two minutes. There are some details in the animation that show just how much of the creative team was changed for Sailor Stars (or probably fired over that SuperS train wreck, who knows), and there are a few things that probably won't even crop up in the dub. Like Sailor Moon calling Sailor Venus "Venus-chan" after 178 or so episodes of simply yelling Venus! when she gets hit by an enemy like she usually does (edit: although I am not completely certain if that actually applies to Sailor Moon, but none of the other girls use honorifics to address each other when transformed). But I'm good. I hope everyone will be too.

For us here it's been spiralling out of control for a while, with the zero interest policy of the ECB housing has become a prime investment with very little risk attatched, because even if the bubble bursts at some point, banks are too big to fail anyway. So when Hurlshot talks about a modest home he can't afford that is actually just as expensive a a similar house here, and you factor in the average income difference, then...

Then you're better off than we are. Care for a nice little 2 bedroom house for a bargain 3.1 million €? Ahem. Although looking at 400 year old houses in a luxury area isn't the best way to go about it, I guess. That's the equivalent of looking for housing in Beverly Hills. Here in the 'burbs getting a decent plot of land alone will set you back 800k. It's ridiculous.

Want to bet that "modest" house for 800k would cost like 2+ million € in a similarily developed location for us Euro-peons?

Come on, do it. I know you want to see the dimensional gateway that is the Discovery turbo lift system.

There's one thing about Sailor Stars that I find exceedingly strange now that I can properly recognize it (past me was only vaguely aware of the reference at the time). Music usage: And speaking of references, the first episode of the 10th season of the new Doctor Who drew some of its imagery from Sailor Stars' opening filler story. Or at least there's an awful lot of coincidences to go around if that wasn't inspired in any way. This is fun.

I said before that Sailor Stars has its own set of issues. You may have noticed it is the one season I've barely talked about an I can barely go an hour or two without posting about Sailor Moon ever since I started this rewatch (and even before that when it was just @Bartimaeus watching). That is because I find it incredibly difficult to talk about. By any "objective" means, this should be anyone's second least favorite season. It is better than SuperS, but what isn't? The very core of its problems lies at the structure, pacing, and the storyline that is derivative to the point of being almost a carbon copy. It also has a set of villains that make Queen Beryl and Jadeite look interesting, and more characters than the writers could give a decent amount of screentime to with "only" 34 episodes. But... what does that actually matter? Does anyone watch this show for its overall plot? There is but a brief moment in Sailor Moon S where the plot becomes interesting enough to even care about being spoiled about what happens, otherwise it is just there to serve as a backdrop for the characters to interact, and Sailor Stars isn't half bad in that regard. In fact, it's pretty good, just in a different way. In the way that SuperS should have been, continuing somewhat neatly from Sailor Moon S. I'm really looking forward to your comments on the last two seasons. As much as I've complained about SuperS, I didn't actually hate it. I just enjoyed it a lot less than the 127 episodes before that, but I'm hard pressed to come up with an equally sharp drop in enjoyment in other shows. Andromeda comes to mind after they fired the creative staff and made Kevin Sorbo the executive producer (although watching Hercules in Space had its own schlocky charm).

That was squarely on him though. Star Trek: Beyond was Beyond crap, in my opinion. I have no idea how he fanboyed a decent movie into that dumpster fire. I actually contemplated leaving the cinema after that opening. I wish I had, at the end. Plot so dumb makes me dumberer for look at screen with eyes.

No way, yeah. Discovery and Picard I think finally killed Mike's capacity to endure anything. Used to be they sat through all Resident Evil films for some fun on Half in the Bag, but those days are gone, I guess. And I get it. Who wants to watch stuff like that all day, not even for money.

Okay, so this is not her fault, but that unicorn hoodie is creepy. If I never see another unicorn anywhere it'll be too soon.

Well, KaineParker's post pre-empted my edit, so here goes a whole new post: I've also seen reviews of the show that suggest there are people on the planet who unironically think that the first season's villains are more interesting than Sailor Moon S' (I'd say you're hard pressed to make a case for R, but that can be made, theoretically, depending on what you like in your villains), and there are also people who think SuperS is better than S. Warning: Mild spoilers regarding KP's point here. Don't blame me if you look. Manga spoiler: Edit: Oh, and that clip show was super confusing. They all talked over each other and very fast and the subtitles didn't show who was saying what, so it all came out a jumbled mess most of the time.

You just used "SyFy" and "good" in the same post. You can bet dollars to donuts that it ends up being cancelled.

Off to a good start then. Sailor Stars minor spoiler, part 2: Character art spoiler:

Very minor Sailor Stars spoiler: And... we get another ridiculous Sailor Moon attack. Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss, just in case you thought Rainbow Moon Heart Ache was weird.

I'm really tired of the concept, and every sci-fi series under the sun has its own version...

Let us know what you think, and don't worry, we're not going to hate you (much) if you don't like it. I'm really curious to see how you all will react to SuperS, so don't skip. At least try the first episode, it has enough of both major creep factors. It doesn't even start out that bad, because the initial episodes accompanying the creep factors are quite decent. It just goes down the crapper really quickly.

Anyway, huh, I just checked my SuperS episodes and yeah, they all have the same opening too even though there I know there were two separate versions. They all have the Amazoness Quartet one. Talk about lazy. So, sorry about that, your episode probably don't have opening spoilers in them. Unlike mine. Whee!

Look at you guys complaining about Kingmaker's Kingdom building minigame even though it went through several patches and now actually works. Back when I played we had to hike up a mountain backwards every time we wanted to go to school. No, actually, it was so broken you constantly had to edit the save game to fix the variable states for upgrades and promotions to work properly (and even then most of the craftsmen didn't show up for me). And it made the secret ending unavailable, what with that curse research counter not doing what it should (for me, my game was a mess of bugs). Tides of Numenera just had a handful of encounters, and almost all of them were optional. They realized that PS:T's combat elements hurt the game, but created weird interactive novel with stats and a whole caracter system that felt wasted by not doing any encounters, and said encounters were often cumbersome and slow. Not to mention buggy. Oh, and it was unecessarily verbose and overwritten. Still liked it better than Pillars of Eternity: The Quest for Balance. As for gameplay of the IE games, my experience was slightly different, but at that point I had some years of playing AD&D games under my belt. Having the manual for the game was nice because I finally got to read how all the stats are calculated and all, but I figured out how to, uhm, approach stats and magic in AD&D from games like Eye of the Beholder by careful observation and experimentation (it's not like I understood a lick of what was on the screen in Eye of the Beholder, I was nine or ten at the time). And boy was I happy that my characters ate without me having to click on food in Baldur's Gate. Worst mechanic ever, or maybe tied with money taking up inventory space or having weight. Or both.

I didn't expect either of you to actually watch it. There went my one chance to actually rickroll someone, and I wasted it. Well, no, showing someone the glory that were the early EAV music videos is not a waste. Be optimistic here. On topic, for a change: Sailor Moon Sailor Stars...

I think KP was refering to Torment: Tides of Numenera when he referred to IE derivatives here, not the original Planescape: Torment, which indeed had not so great gameplay, but which IE game had great gameplay? Or even good combat? I enjoyed the games, each for their own reasons, but it takes mods to make the combat fun. It is also the reason I rank the first IWD dead last. The game is actually helped by the Enhanced Edition insofar as you can pick a sorcerer to come along. It's not much more engaging to simply nuke the million enemies in the game with fireballs, but sure is a lot faster. It would be interesting to know how many players began BG1 without setting their CON score to their class' highest hitpoint bonus and ended up being killed by random lucky dice throw from Shank or Carbos.

Wait, you really watched the video? Heh. It's about sex tourism in Thailand, set against a backdrop of virtually every common (south)eastern asian stereotype. That's why the song is called Samurai even though it's story is set in Pattaya, you see random kanji popping up and people being pulled about on a rickshaw. The titular hero, an uptight and otherwise unremarkable person from a German speaking country flies to Thailand once per year to break through his inhibitions and is called her "Samurai" by his Thai prostitute Madame Butterfly* who is apparently young enough to be his daughter (ugh). The song ends with him flying home, with a little gift from the trip in the form of itchy balls. *Not sure if I neet to point out that Madame Butterfly was a geisha, not a prostitute. It's another common misconception about Japan that geishas are sex workers.