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Yes, exactly. Anyone who rates an episode where a pedophile horse rescues three rapists from their well deserved punishment, fulfills their every wish and takes them to watch what he does at his lake where he brings his little girl(s)... even as much as an honorable mention... I don't even... that's just vile, man. Vile. edit: In all fairness (and that is REALLY hard to do when it comes to SuperS), the episode did do a good job at showing how little agency these three SOBs had over their own "life" and sparked a modicum of understanding for their position and made their sacrifice somewhat meaningful, in the end. Then comes Pegasus and everything falls hard apart. Because, really, even without agency, these three were just terrible people all in all. Could have been a really nice episode if they just stayed dead after giving up their "life" as pseudo-humans to save Usagi.

Well, not every single thing, but more on that later...

Fun fact there, watching on Amazon Prime and turning on the subtitles, the words "Look up" uttered by the Borg Queen are actually captioned as coming from Yvette (Picard). Rich is probably right about that, and this isn't the first time subtitles spoiled who characters are before they are supposed to be revealed. edit: Fun fact 2: I started out hating Wesley Crusher in TNG, and I still hate him on rewatches, but less and less with each rewatch. This is an inverse of Wil Wheaton. The more I see of the guy, the more I just loathe him. That he apparently lives in Alex Kurtzman's rectum doesn't help that impression. Sheesh. Golden age of Star Trek? Forget brown-nosed, he's got a brown neck already. Yikes.

Of course not, you're just being you, as usual. Something we're all guilty of, of course.

Pretty much my impression as well.

Not sure if it was linked before: https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine Celeste alone would be worth the asking price, but it ALSO has THIRSTY SWORD LESBIANS. Plus 989 other games...

No freedom toast? Count me out.

You should really try Attack No. 1 at some point. There's a whole class of girls and outside of Kozue and Midori, I can't seem to retain any of the names. Well, no, not right, there's this Tsutomu guy, but who cares about Kozue's first half of the show's romantic interest.

I have no idea how anyone can take my post as recommendation, just because it's not painful enough to stab yourself over doesn't really mean it's worth watching. Also: ^ Very much this. I hated every second of the first season of Picard, so the first episode of the second season being sort of all right - outside of making up a family trauma for a long established character to explain something that needs no explanation for the sole sake of having romance drama in your show - was indeed a pleasant surprise. I'm pretty sure it won't last. It never does with nuTrek.

It is for Germany and Austria, but that doesn't mean it's available in Serbia. Distribution licencing is a mess, streaming services are springing up left and right making everything even worse and the executives then wonder why everyone's turning to easier alternatives. Yeah, wonder why. No idea, really.

Yes, we did, because everything happens in cycles, just like the Timless Prophet said. I mean, ehm... well, yes. Sekiro for sure was more straightforward, but it also felt like a whole lot more was missing from the game. I don't exactly mind indirect storytelling or having to go look for backstories. The best part about Dragon Age: Inquisition for me was looking at elven ruins trying to figure out what really happened in the past. The actual plot not so much, and the gameplay, well... erm, nope. It's just that I for some reason bought into the hype and ended up being sorely disappointed by virtually everything about Dark Souls, from the supposed difficulty to the fantastic and deep story. I still enjoyed playing Dark Souls very much because it's a good game, it just wasn't what I thought it would be. Going in without expectations would probably have been a lot better. Dark Souls is well worth the price of admission, although 40$ is a bit pricey considering it's age. From that you can gauge if you'd actually like the other games, except Sekiro, because that's a very different game and forgoes many of the elements found in the Soulsbourne games. For some, like @Bartimaeus to the detriment of the game. I liked Sekiro's focus, although I can understand why the relative lack of variety in combat styles and enemies can be a problem. Regarding the game's fabled difficulty, I can't say much. Dark Souls is home to an iconic pair of bosses you fight at once that I heard a whole lot about that I ended up beating on my very first attempt, but I struggled with a boss that is supposed to be an early pushover learning experience. Mostly, like I posted once or twice already, because I really gimped my character. I read that magic users have an easier time, so I started out as one, then noticed that I just can't kill anything with magic (because I didn't get how the system works, oh my!) then switched to pyromancy which is flat damage that doesn't depend on anything but gear upgrades and also noticed that it's not enough to kill things (because I didn't get how the system works, oh my!) and so I had a character with 45 agility for the highest pyromancy casting speed, some other casting stats and a whole lot of nothing else wading into melee. Which wasn't very pleasant, but hey, school of hard knocks and all that, the rest of the game was smooth sailing, especially after finding a good agi-scaling weapon. Turns out playing a quick melee glass cannon works too. Except it was not the easy mode I hoped for. That said, while I don't think of myself as the greatest of players, the above statement was made from one of the 1% of players who were able to achieve Embrace the Void in Hollow Knight. Not that the games are comparable at all (and achievement trackers aren't the most reliable source of information), just as a point of reference. There's some fun jank in Dark Souls too. Fans claim it's always fair and you never die unless you make mistakes, but that's not entirely true. There's the usual, hits that shouldn't have been there, invulnerability frames that don't always work the way they should, ridiculous gotcha moments and the funny archers in Anor Londo... which, sorry fanboys, is just bad, bad, BAAAAAAAAAAD game design. Ugh.

I'm very, very sorry. If/when you try the series be sure to explain in detail what you think of Spike.

Star Trek Picard, season 2, episode 1: "The Star Gazer" So... time travel Q alternate reality plot aside, this wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. At the very least I didn't feel like gouging my eyes out and piercing my eardrums to make it stop, which is a big improvement over all the other episodes of this show, even though it still took an awful lot of stupid contrivances to get everyone back in action and everyone is quite frankly at their dumbest, not being able to see the forest for the trees. Let's see how disappointing it will get.

Welcome to the club, I've made more than my fair share of such comments, and apparently in reply to the same posters.

What can I do to purge my mind of some of the thoughts that accumulated over watching Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Wicked City? I look at that BR cover and... don't look if you can't... you know, yeah. Probably not the intention of the image and it's for sure just harmless. Huh. Oh dear, oh dear.

I wish I could like this post ten times over. While I enjoyed playing Dark Souls, it's fandom fandumb also caused it to be one of the bigger disappointments for me. I was looking forward to a dark, excessively hard game with this supposedly amazing story... and it ended up being all right in terms of difficulty (even accidentially gimped my character pretty hard) and the story is basically just you being the chosen one who can either keep the world alive as it is, or let it start over. Such wow, much awsome, <more meme stuff goes here>. Sure, the world building in the game was pretty good and the way you can unlock shortcuts is fantastic, and you could read item descriptions and look at the world design to gather a lot of the history of the setting, but that's just not what I was looking forward to. Not the game's fault. Fandumb's gonna fandumb: QED.

Uh, no, thanks, but I'm not losing sleep* over the situation, just said it was surreal. *Not any more than my messed up sleeping cycle from the lockdowns does, anyway, or the usual sort of insomnia that's normal for me, anyway.

St... St... Discovery, thing. Episode something, season whatever. "We're in orbit around a former gas giant. The gas was burnt off by meterorite impacts." Except for the beginning, the episode was fine, actually. Not good, but in the context of the endless sea of stupid this is, it was passable.

We have colleagues in both Russia and the Ukraine (who are all fine, luckily, for the time being at least), it's pretty surreal.

Speaking of Madhous stuff, time to give an opinion, I guess. Not sure why, but I, ahem, decided to watch: 妖獣都市 / Yōjū Toshi / Wicked City (1987) If one does a quick google search for the title and looks at images, one could get the impression that this is tentacle porn. Hard to deny that there's one scene that fits the bill, there's also a visit in a brothel by a rather energetic old man and not one, but four separate rape scenes (assuming one counts a demon posing as a girlfriend to seduce a man as sexual assault, I'd say it is, but your mileage may vary), which is always a plus. The erotica is softcore by far and large, there's some very explicit tentacle/mouth penetration going on at some point, but that's the worst of it. Well, let's not forget that there's a spider demon with a vagina with teeth and one of the demons has a full body vagina the male protagonist eventually gets, dunno, sucked into, more or less. Let's just say that stuff is pretty Japanese all in all, but it's not as bad as the uncensored version of Legend of the Overfiend, for instance. This film also happens to be one of the few instances where still images look better than the actual film in motion. The animation is choppy and feels pretty constricted, if you've watched any of the old animated Superman or Batman cartoons you know what I mean, scenes where only the mouth moves, animations that seem to be only key-frames strung together, that sort of stuff. It looks a whole lot better than a Saturday morning cartoon, but the animation quality is on par with that, which is somewhat strange for an actual animated feature of the area - much less one made by Madhouse. With that out of the way, let's discuss the films biggest failures. Wait, you say, that wasn't it? No, sadly, it's also tremendously boring. At first its ponderously slow, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it squanders its time on useless erotic scenes that don't look good enough to be interesting and only have a very limited link to the actual plot. What do I mean by that? Well, the entire opening of the film has one very simple goal: The demons want to obtain a DNA sample of the male lead character Taki. They do so by replacing his girlfriend - or rather the girl whose pants he spent the last three months trying to get into - and cue one very long, excessively boring (albeit quite stylish) scene that ends with a spider demon with the aforementioned toothy vagina absorbing his man-goo. No, we couldn't just had a scene where they'd take his glass in the bar, or something. Pluck out a hair with follicle, or anything else that doesn't waste 15 minutes of the runtime of the film. Normally that would be fine, but the movie stays this ponderous until the end where everything is rushed to a conclusion with no setup, and the final fight between the "Black Guard" (original Japanese means Dark Guard) and the bad guy lasts all but half a minute because the film needs to be wrapped up, folks. Not that I need protracted action scenes or anything, but it sure feels rushed. The subject matter - a tenous peace treaty between demons and humans scheduled to be renewed soon, and the signing ceremony is under threat by extremists - might have been interesting, maybe even original, in the year the film came out, in this day and age that's simply par for the course, but I'm not holding the plot against the film, but the fact that it was boring. There's a plot twist too, one that's silly and links back to the aforemntioned DNA check by the spider demon. Taki is paired with the female lead of the film - after being, well, raped by the spider demon, I guess so props for making a man the victim of something for a change... I think... not sure if that makes it better, but sex with demons is said to be so great many times through the film it should probably tide Taki over any misgivings with the teeth and all that - the demoness Makie, to protect an old geezer who is necessary for the peace treaty signing. Plot twist: As a final insult, none of the characters are actually interesting. Taki is a philandering macho who poses as a pseudo-film noir hardass Dark Guard, and Makie has all the personality of an ice block. Makie is sexually assaulted no less than three times, by her demon ex in the beginning, once by a parasite demon shoving their tentacle down her throat and once in a great gang rape scene where the extremists capture her and the leader decides to let his underlings have fun with her before she's executed in order to lure Taki to the demon realm. Right, there's also the scene where the spider demon catches Makie and Taki, and, ah, she shoots her spider webs at them, in what I can best only describe as a scene looking an awful lot like animated bukkake (editor's note: Do not google if you're unaware) with spider "silk". All in all, this is pretty much a waste of time. The plot is, eh, not very interesting, the plot twist is stupid, the movie at first doesn't go anywhere storywise then wraps everything up in ten minutes, there's a whole lot of not very interesting erotica (and I presume not very interesting even for people who otherwise like animated erotic scenes), some action which is universally boring, choppy animation and... yeah. There's really no point in watching this. Like, at all. Google pictures yourself, I'd rather not post those.

That's pretty much every open world game I ever tried. Dragon Age: Inquisition's Hinterlands was already too large.

Looks like I will not be playing Wrath of the Righteous this weekend. Prior to 1.1.7, I had on and off problems with Steam's cloud syncing where Steam would not properly upload savegames - and only with Wrath of the Righteous. I got into a habit of manually uploading them to my Google Drive just in case. Except today, of course, because it's been working for a month now. Steam immediately started patching the game when I quit earlier today, and guess what's not synced? Hard spoiler!

I have one great example that doesn't feel phoney or ham fisted or forced at all, don't worry, it's time coded to link directly to the good parts. I like to call this one "Two gays talk about a non-binary person", and it's wonderful: The actors almost bursting out in laugther at the dialogue they're having to say really helps selling the point. *snort*

As far as I know the records of his personal physician had Hitler at 5'7", but fine, we can use Stalin just as well. Could also use Berlusconi instead of Sarkozy too, if corruption and underage prostitutes round the image out better than just plain old corruption. Oh, I don't disagree with you there, especially when it comes to having scary buttons that destroy everything, no one person should have full access to those. Nobody should have acccess to those regardless, but that's something else, I guess. I added a disclaimer to the original post and am sorry if that's a touchy subject for you. I'd vote for you if you ever ran for president.

I was thinking about Hitler, Putin and Sarkozy (to complete a murder, arson, jaywalking list ) when I made that comment, more in jest than anything, even though I wrote sorry not sorry for the suggestion. Carry on.