Quote from: Vojtech Tuka on October 12, 2017, 01:24:49 AM

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Quote from: Vojtech Tuka on October 12, 2017, 01:10:52 AM

Fuck you, one punch man is a national treasure.

One of the stupidest things I've ever seen.

You're a god damn liar

Stupid doesn`t mean bad.

Except when it does (and it does, 99% of the time).

Yeah, that Death Note ending is a huge disappointment. Maybe it went down differently in the source material, but as soon as those kids come in I can't watch another minute.

I'm surprised by your reaction to FMA:B. It's probably the most similar to American cartoons as your list gets; on its face it almost resembles an American animation with nods to shonen tropes, like in Teen Titans. Its dub is excellent, the animation is great and the story is legitimately original and well-realized. As for the first series, the quality of everything is almost the same, but the story takes a bit of a nosedive when it succeeds the source material. Treat it like filler episodes.

Well, I never really claimed to be a fan of American cartoons either (though recently, it just dawned on me that, when it comes to making quality animated films, Disney is unironically the greatest of all time).

I kinda like Teen Titans, but I was never in love with it. It's a show that has really good episodes and really meh episodes—hard to rate as a whole, especially when I haven't ever seen them in sequential order except for the Terra arc.

When it comes to FMA, though, you're right about it being original. Can't take that away from it.

decided to get some toonami shit out of the way

Lupin the Third Part I (Tokyo Movie, 1971, fourteen episodes) - Japanese Hanna-Barbera makes a show for adults in the early '70s and flounders spectacularly. It's not just the extremely dated visuals, or the fact that the animation has aged like an underage alcoholic—it's also very serialized and offers little in terms of plot, and offers no likable characters with a particularly insufferable protagonist. I know it's extremely old, but that doesn't excuse it for me when there are movies and TV shows much older than this that are still worth watching today. It doesn't help that the show's original director for the first batch of episodes was fired (or something), and the new director steered the show in a more family-friendly direction. That's where I had to stop—at that point, I knew I wasn't going to get anything out of this. 3/10

FLCL (Gainax, 2000, completed) This is the perfect show to watch if you ever need to teach someone a lesson in style-over-substance, and why that's not something you ever want. You know things are grim when the best thing about your show is the music (and even that's not as good as people seem to think it is). The plot is too obtuse for its own good, and I'm given very little reason to care about anything that's happening, thanks to the terrible characters (especially Haruko). I understand that this is a show that's best viewed multiple times in order to piece everything together, and that's fine, but if I'm not enjoying myself the first time around, and it hasn't given me any desire to continue watching it—then, well, why the fuck would I? What EXACTLY will doing this add to my quality of life? Probably not a single goddamn thing. And the Invader Zim-style humor is a huge problem when the show is meant to be a comedy. Absolutely migraine-inducing, but mercifully, it's only six episodes. 3/10

Zatch Bell (Toei Animation, 2003, two episodes) 2/10

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Toei Animation, 2003, one half-episode) 1/10

One-Punch Man (Madhouse, 2015, completed) - 1/10

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good shit

some corny bars, but that's eminem for you

congrats on your engagement dunk

thanks

"anything that i agree with is reasonable"

how does he always get these amazing guests

How many hours have you logged already in BotW?

not sure if there's a way to tell, but easily 80-100

I defeated Clair—but not without another casualty.

Honestly, the fight was a bit of a slobberknocker, so I can't really give an exact play-by-play of what happened. I will say that training Mr. Green and taking Rocky along ended up being worth it. Rocky's immunity to Electric-type moves saved Mr. Green's life, and Mr. Green's Ice Punch did just the right amount of damage it needed to do.

Clair doesn't have the most interesting team in the world—three Dragonair and a Kingdra, but what makes her fight interesting is that each of her three Dragonair is equipped with a specific elemental move. One of them has Surf. One of them has Thunderbolt. One of them has Ice Beam. But since they're all the same Pokémon, there's no way to tell which one will have which move, making it this interesting and dangerous guessing game.

They're also all packing Thunder Wave, probably the best move in the game for its ability to shut anything down instantly in terms of speed, and Mr. Green was put out of commission pretty early by getting paralyzed by this move. Knowing that her Pokémon are all about raw power and damage, I couldn't afford to waste a turn to heal him up, or it would've been risky to do so, so after Green took out at least one Dragonair and hurt another, I focused on using other Pokémon.

Rocky got blasted by the Ice Beam-wielder, but props to him for living with 5 or 6 HP left.

No one actually died from the Dragonair. It was the Kingdra.

When Kingdra came out, I was using Montague at the time, who had about 65% of his health left. My plan was to use Confuse Ray to create a bit of a safety net for whoever I'd switch out to, but the Kingdra was faster, and it blasted Montague with a Hyper Beam.

Montague tanked it like a pro, only taking about 20%. Umbreon are super bulky, and it's really paying off right about now.

Knowing that Kingdra has to recharge now, it's still confused, and that Umbreon can easily take another Hyper Beam if he needs to, I decide to keep Umbreon in, slowly chipping away at the Kingdra's health with Bite (in retrospect, I should've used Shadow Ball more for that small chance to lower it's Special Defense).

Montague was in rare form—Bite after Bite, there was a flinch and there was a crit. Kingdra was down to 20%, and it was still confused after four turns and hitting itself once. The fight appeared to be mine for the taking.

And then Kingdra used Hyper Beam again. No problem, right? He can tank this.

Except it was a crit, of course. That's not something Montague could tank.

To avenge him, I tried to be stylish and use December's Mirror Move to fire a Hyper Beam right back at the fucking thing, but unfortunately, Mirror Move apparently doesn't work like that. Apparently December must have been hit by the move himself in order to parry it back, which makes sense, but it made for a less-than satisfying avenging process.

Not knowing what to expect, I switch to Narayan for some reason, and the Kingdra uses Surf—which is a Water-type move, and one of the few moves that Narayan cannot resist. He hung on with 5% health. Knowing that she'll definitely use Surf again, I switch to Verbette, who naturally resists it, and finished the Kingdra off with Dragon Rage.

Clair's a bit of a sore loser who doesn't give you the badge right away, instead sending you on a silly fetch quest to the Dragon's Den to pick up some useless item. This quest is made a lot more interesting in Crystal. Here, it's just kind of annoying, because it forces you to teach the move Whirlpool—fortunately, Verbette happens to already know the move, but still.

I can get Flee's Dratini here, too, but I'm more likely to catch one once I get the Super Rod, so I'm waiting until I get that first. Otherwise, I'm near-guaranteed to catch another Magikarp.

I picked up the Dragon Fang and Clair gave me the badge. That makes eight—and I'm officially done with the Johto League.

The Elite 4 is technically next, but I'm gonna have to do lots of training, and there's a couple things I still need to do here. In particular, I'm gonna visit Mt. Mortar, now that I can climb waterfalls.

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it's better than the last piece of shit nothing-ass trailer we got

aw man

a bad outdated meme is even worse than nothing

Quote from: Verbatim on October 09, 2017, 02:07:03 PM

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Quote from: Verbatim on October 07, 2017, 07:06:51 PM

i also found it visually displeasing, but not in a cool way

how

it was just an eyesore

i thought the bright lights and colors in the city mixed poorly with the dark and gritty everything else, and even though i'm well-aware that it's neo-noir, i found myself distracted and bothered by the fact that it's constantly raining, which is just silly

The bright lights and colors are supposed to be showing how oriented the population is to advertisements (if you've ever seen Minority Report it's a similar thing). It's dark and gritty and sleazy but with a very transparent facade that everything is great.

The constant rain is from climate change / global warming. It's also why the city is so diverse. Many people and to flock to smaller areas in order to survive.

no, i get that

i still don't find it pleasing to look at though

Well fuck bro

it also bothers me when these kinds of films take place in the "not so distant future," but they actually specify a real year, in this case 2019

it creates an awkward distraction where the people of our day are gonna see this movie and be like "haha, look how far off they were" in terms of the technology and stuff

like, we don't have hovercars

but that's more a flaw with the story itself, the original book written in the 60s, and not necessarily the film itself

I feel like this is a really flimsy flaw tbh

if it takes me out of the movie, it takes me out of the movie

on topic though:

no, unless you count superhero movies, in which case there's two or three

Die Hard
Commando
Predator
Last Action Hero
Demolition Man
The Running Man
First Blood
Rambo First Blood Part 2
Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Conan the Barbarian
Total Recall
True Lies
Die Hard 2
Die Hard with a Vegeance
Live Free or Die Hard
Death Wish (Original)

ones worth watching marked in red

Quote from: Verbatim on October 09, 2017, 01:51:56 PM

Quote from: TBlocks on October 09, 2017, 12:03:39 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on October 07, 2017, 07:06:51 PM

i also found it visually displeasing, but not in a cool way

how

it was just an eyesore

i thought the bright lights and colors in the city mixed poorly with the dark and gritty everything else, and even though i'm well-aware that it's neo-noir, i found myself distracted and bothered by the fact that it's constantly raining, which is just silly

The bright lights and colors are supposed to be showing how oriented the population is to advertisements (if you've ever seen Minority Report it's a similar thing). It's dark and gritty and sleazy but with a very transparent facade that everything is great.

The constant rain is from climate change / global warming. It's also why the city is so diverse. Many people and to flock to smaller areas in order to survive.

no, i get that

i still don't find it pleasing to look at though