Discuss one of the most iconic anime characters of all time.

I'll ignore the fact that there is a clear difference between "Nigga" and "Nigger". There are still consequences for black people using the word, at least there are consequences in the setting. No black person with a brain cell would use such terminology while at work or some public setting like a restaurant. It's just an informal setting like when you're at home with friends & family, in which case I will completely agree that everyone including white people have free access to the word, because how is anyone supposed to know it's being used?

With that being said, you may or may not remember an Asian-American band went before the Supreme Court for their right to call themselves "The Slants". A study showed that groups using their own pejoratives among themselves may help lessen the impact of such terms.

This is really the crux of the debate. I have never used the word in real life nor do I intend to. I think everybody in this thread has the good sense to be reasonable in their everyday life. It's the principle of the matter where black people can say it and non black people can't. And when I say can't, I mean there are social consequences for using it. I understand where it comes from but should we should examine whether it is worth continuing if we want to get to a point where we see no differences between races.

Either everyone say it or no one say it if we want to get past it

I haven't played ant of the ones in your Mildly Interested section, but I will say Sekiro and RDR2 were on a list of games I was somewhat interested in as well. Ironically RDR1 was not.

of the ones i'm at least somewhat interested in, are there any you've played that you'd say i shouldn't bother with

It's right before the code breaker picks them up with a ship, Rose releases one of the animals:

ROSE: No. Now, it's worth it.

Your second link has her say "Go. Now it's worth it." but that doesn't really make sense since she was talking to Finn about how he said beating up the bad guys was worth it.

EDIT: Both links have her say "Go". I'm going to have to rewatch that scene to see who's she referring to.

i feel like you just made that up, or whatever the real quote is, it doesn't sound as bad as you're making it

Holy shit that monkey's got some strength.

Despite having physical copies of both at my parent's house, my PS2 is dead so I went ahead and bought both Persona 4 and 3 FES on PSN for my PS3. Gave me an excuse to dust off the thing from underneath a pile of cables next to all my books.

Never got to really play them when i first bought them for the PS2 because I was sinking most of my free time into FFXII, so I'm starting with 3 FES.

yeah but pure marxism =/= ML, Stalinism, Maoism, Trotsky's Permanent Revolution, Juche, Nazbol gang, or Titoism

If I get uptight about people conflating Hitler's Nazism with proper Fascismo Italiano I gotta give the other side a fair deal here too.

I don't entirely disagree but socialism isn't communism. His most famous written work isn't called The Socialist Manifesto. You can't compare "socialist" UK or any European country to Communist China of the past or Soviet Russia. But you most certainly can compare those last two countries to what Marx was advocating for.

capitalism, on the other hand, has never killed anybody ever

I won't deny capitalism is flawed and that there have been deaths because of it, but it's not anywhere near the numbers communism has. I won't doubt your specific name brand Verbatim communism, but compare countries in the past (or now) that have tried to capitalist countries (including European countries because they're not communist) isn't going to make a good comparison.

His kill count was lower.

Two weeks ago was Hitler's birthday but he didn't get a special thread.

Name one situation where this was ever the case and there weren't other factors at play.

and you're damned if you give the fans what they want.

I want to see Shinji lose his mental shit on the big screen though!

the "authentic experience" meme only applies to video games for me

when it comes to movies idgaf, they should put literally everything on vod

The universe is going to have to do some serious bullshit to revert the downward trend the virus is taking and prevent theaters from being open seven months from now.

The universe doesn't want us to watch Godzilla vs Kong

In the 80s, the time between a movie ending its theater screening and its home video release was roughly six months, nowadays 3-4, the worse a movie does at the box office, the longer it takes. Ghostbusters 2016 did extremely poorly which is why it took so long to get released on home video. Evangelion 3.33 was released a little less than five months after its release day in theaters which is exceptionally early for a Japanese release considering there's adjustments and corrections made between 3.0 and 3.33 that typical western releases don't do when just going straight to home video.

i was pleasantly surprised when onward was put onto disney +, i always thought it took forever for movies to get on blu-ray/VoD, but apparently not.

Jesus dude, tell your tenants how you really feel.

I debated whether or not to put this in Serious, but I figured it wasn't super serious business technically so....

With movie theaters shuttered for a while, there's been a lot of talk about whether or not they were even viable even before lock-downs became common place and the virus has certainly gave it a blow to the knees. Big companies like AMC are rumored to be filing for bankruptcy and several big titles have made their way to VoD in time frames where they should've still been in theaters had they been open.

Disney's Onward is now on Disney+ after only a small window of being in theaters before the lock down really went into place; but the biggest movie in the discussion is Trolls 2. That movie went instantly to VoD via Amazon Prime and despite Amazon being very stingy with their revenue numbers, it's estimated that it already made back its initial investment in only a few days. The fact that this was a family movie only further creates problems for the theater business. Most families will look at streaming as a much cheaper alternative for getting to see the same movie.

Big studios like Disney, Universal, & Paramount would immediately cut out the middle-man theater business if straight-to-streaming was proven to be a viable alternative and Trolls World Tour has been a perfect example of that being the case. I don't know how to feel about this. One the one hand, most of the movies I go to see nowadays are Fathom Events, either anime screenings, classic re-releases, or art-studio plays. Those have a higher premium ticket price than the already high ticket price for a standard movie in most locations. I'm easily looking at $30 for just myself when I also take concessions into account, although using various reward programs has helped alleviate the price somewhat.

On the other hand, I'm also one of those snobbish art critics who considers seeing my Chinese cartoons on the big screen with the sticky gum on the floor and hearing the crowd go nuts at whatever bullshit happens on screen as an authentic movie-going experience. Certain movies have become social events (Hence I guess why its called Fathom Events) and you just can't recreate that experience from the comfort of your home. Going to the movies is also a social experience, I think the last time I went to see a movie by myself was Pacific Rim 2 and needless to say ignoring the fact that it was a garbage movie, it was also a lonesome experience and I've always gone with somebody to see a movie afterwards.

In my personal opinion, family movies will begin to get phased out of theaters regardless of when society reopens. It simply makes too much sense for both the consumer (budget-focused families) and the producers (cutting out the middlemen) to maximize efficiency and cost. But big KINOPLEX 9K theaters will still be around for generic Marvel capeshit #843 and college-dropout director films that are thinly veiled pornos disguised as Neo-Noir NC17 art films.

What are your thoughts?

>Thread about discussing awful fetishes
>Turns into an argument about gay it is to liking traps

I think anything involving literal shit and pissing is absolutely disgusting and I will never understand it. I feel sorry for people who develop those fetishes, I'm sure they wished they'd having something a little more normal like feet or bondage or something.

"Hey babe, what do you say we make our sex life more wild?"
"Sure thing, how crazy you wanna get?"
"Please shit in my mouth."