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« on: September 03, 2019, 03:37:36 PM »
FF11 is an MMO too
SHIT
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« on: September 03, 2019, 02:59:37 PM »
already a better guide than flee's
manga fucking sucks though
read Blame!
why would i when it's already been adapted
one movie on one chapter that fucks up the characters
maybe when japan learns to read in the right direction
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« on: September 03, 2019, 02:52:20 PM »
yeah i'm not sure why i even brought up BB when i knew full well that it wasn't from this decade, oops i guess
check out devilman though, it's tight
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« on: September 03, 2019, 02:50:14 PM »
already a better guide than flee's
manga fucking sucks though
read Blame!
why would i when it's already been adapted
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« on: September 03, 2019, 10:50:43 AM »
already a better guide than flee's
manga fucking sucks though
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« on: September 03, 2019, 12:44:05 AM »
apparently FF14 has a 30 day trial, so all hope isn't lost i guess
just gotta play I - XIII, no big deal
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« on: September 03, 2019, 12:37:20 AM »
ah fuck
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« on: September 02, 2019, 11:57:30 PM »
natsuko ishikawa receiving a standing ovation at pax east for her work on shadowbringersbecause of my autism preventing me from playing games out of sequential order regardless of story + the fact that i have a hardline policy against MMOs means that i will literally never play FF14, but the reception of this expansion has me feeling some big-time FOMO right about now someone tell me that it actually sucks or that i'd hate it or something so i feel less bad
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« on: September 02, 2019, 08:53:12 PM »
Especially for non-indie games.
What, you dont like interactive movies and asset flips?
tbf, asset flips can be good too sometimes 
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« on: September 02, 2019, 01:36:19 PM »
I do get the sense that this was a weaker decade than the 2000s and 1990s. Especially for non-indie games.
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« on: September 02, 2019, 01:23:52 PM »
There's SO many movies I still need to see, but for now, I'm thinking Gone Girl. I've seen BR2049, and it was pretty sick, but my problem with sequels is that, as good as they can be, they're unavoidably saddled with contextuality, whereas I tend to prefer films that can completely stand alone.
I don't watch TV, but Devilman Crybaby was pretty awesome (as far as anime goes). The only other non-animated show I've seen all the way through from this decade was Breaking Bad, which was quite enjoyable albeit overrated as fuck (and it's what everyone else is going to say anyway). I can't even say Marble Hornets, because it started in 2009.
As for albums, I'm gonna tentatively go with The Powers That B. It's not the most culturally significant album by any means, but it means a lot to me personally, and I'm among a rare few that happens to love both discs equally.
For video games, I think I'm actually gonna go ahead and say Dark Souls. There certainly have been plenty of games that I've scored higher, like Undertale and Breath of the Wild, but the only reason for that is because I think Dark Souls has the worst multiplayer of all time, and if there wasn't an option to play it offline, I'd consider it a straight-up bad game. But you can play it offline, so I'm able to appreciate one of the most artfully crafted and viscerally satisfying action-adventure games ever made. Breath of the Wild is too new and too flawed, despite tickling many of the same spots that Dark Souls does, and Undertale's cringeworthy sense of humor doesn't help its chances (as amazing and important as the game is, do I really want my GotD to have jokes like "Tsunderplane" in it? No, no I don't).
I'm gonna seize the 2020s. I'm gonna try consuming as much crap in the artosphere as I can, and hopefully contribute some of my own as well.
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« on: September 01, 2019, 03:49:28 PM »
No need to get all salty because I don't enjoy your favorite anime. We don't all have as much free time (or care) to spend writing down detailed reviews of cartoons or games. Seems pretty obvious that much of these snide remarks still stem from me calling you out over your stupid comments in that Serious thread. Get over yourself my man.
i'm not even asking for detail, i'm asking for coherent points and meaningful observations all you're doing is quibbling over nonsense, so maybe you should change the thread's title to reflect that if your biggest complaint about a show is the size of a knife, i think you have more free time than you're letting on
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« on: September 01, 2019, 11:42:02 AM »
you also didn't answer my question about what you find funny earlier, so i'm going to assume that there is no answer, and that you really do just have no sense of humor whatsoever
which is fine, having a sense of humor is overrated anyway
but it does make it a lot easier for me to summarily discard anything you have to say about comedy
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« on: September 01, 2019, 11:13:40 AM »
EVA EPISODE 3:
So many pan shots over still images. Gets beat up by bully whose seemingly nice friend just stands by and smiles as if it's common. No one questions why a child is the pilot of humanity's only real defense. Literal 0/10 monster design. Kid finally showing some emotion is good. The tiny little knife as the ultimate attack was honestly just laughable. Start of bully redemption arc was okay. Monster fight was uninspired.
3.5/10, was waiting for it to end and am losing interest.
unless you're an infant who needs constant shiny objects to be flashed around in order to be entertained, there's nothing wrong with panning shots over still images—it puts more emphasis on the dialogue, which is a nice and economic way of letting you know that what's being said is important (this episode in particular brings up the hedgehog's dilemma to explain shinji's fear and social anxiety in a way that the audience can relate to, which invariably makes him a more sympathetic character) if the dialogue doesn't seem important, then the shots probably serve to give the audience a chance to reflect a bit on what's happening (either in the grander scheme, or in the characters' minds), while simultaneously providing an establishing shot for what's about to happen next i guess that bully's "seemingly nice friend" isn't so nice after all, then, is he? it's not completely unnatural for somebody (especially a kid) to take the side of close friends during physical conflict, even if they're in the wrong—so once again, you're doing that thing where you mistake a character flaw for a narrative flaw, which basically means that you're running out of things to arbitrarily criticize, and are just grasping at straws it doesn't even count as a nitpick if it's just wrong while how the public feels about children being eva pilots (and whether they know at all) is left ambiguous, you cannot definitively say that "no one questions" it—once it eventually comes to light, and knowledge starts spreading, adults in the general public may very well start questioning or even protesting this in the background, but the reason we're not shown these moments is because it's ultimately unimportant, since there's nothing anyone can do about it anyway, and it would just dilute the plot with a bunch of uninteresting crap that you're only pretending to care about i don't see anything wrong with shamshel's design—it's not one of my favorites, but i think it's perfectly fine you're right about the eva's progressive knife, though—for an "ultimate attack," it does seem pretty underwhelming, which i too thought was kind of weird my interpretation is that, when shinji was being asked about it in class, he just got nervous and threw something out there—it's not like he knows all of the eva's capabilities, but since he was getting pestered by everyone about it, he didn't want to leave them hanging—but i do agree that the knife could've been made significantly larger, or at least cooler-looking that said, the fight scenes have virtually nothing to do with the show's overall appeal to me, so i don't really give a fuck either way pretty disappointing "analysis"—despite acknowledging a couple of positives, you've given the episode a 3.5/10 for nothing but the most vapid and insubstantial observations, ill-conceived complaints and criticism, meaningless nitpicks, and no substantive commentary whatsoever you can't even articulate your thoughts very well, which is just embarrassing and, again, proves that you're reaching i was genuinely hoping that you'd be able to find legitimate reasons to dislike this show, if only to give me something to chew on, and even though it was clear from the outset that you weren't actually trying, this was still just kind of pathetic i'm not sure what i expected from this thread, really—i thought it had some potential, but at this point, it's quite obvious to me that you are NOT equipped for this sort of thing (and that goes for all media) maybe i should take over for you
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« on: August 31, 2019, 02:39:48 AM »
the only experience i've had with rainbow six in general is the dreamcast game that i played for like ten minutes
otherwise, it's pretty much the exact opposite kind of game that i'm into
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« on: August 30, 2019, 03:50:19 PM »
WHAT ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK THOUGH VERB
this is good, even though it's literally the fairy fountain theme from zelda
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« on: August 30, 2019, 11:08:21 AM »
Anyone playing Pokemon Masters?
finna give that turbo gacha cancer the hardest of passes i like that Kris is pullable though
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« on: August 30, 2019, 11:04:38 AM »
it's worth reinforcing that flee should NOT click any of these spoiler tags, and that if you're going to post something in a spoiler tag, make sure it's an actual spoiler so it's not confusing Spoiler misato's like, "what's wrong? it's not like i'll be putting the moves on him,"
*proceeds to try to didle him TWICE before the end*
Spoiler true, and that's how i interpret those scenes too, but
TECHNICALLY
they're still up for interpretation + misato and shinji have been through a fuckload of shit by that point
i think there's a tragic irony to how that innocent joke at the beginning ends up becoming reality down the line, just because it shows you how mentally broken the characters have become
an irony that i hope isn't completely lost on flee, if he ever makes it to that point in the show
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« on: August 30, 2019, 10:54:06 AM »
That's pretty toxic stuff if this were to happen in real life, and I fail to see how it's anything other than that. that would be because it is, indeed, not real life you definitely wouldn't be wrong if it was, but i'm sure you can acknowledge that scenes like this aren't meant to be taken seriously, and therefore shouldn't be, right? i think the fact that we're working with a fictional cartoon world here kind of inherently gives it the license to exaggerate certain aspects of daily life that we take for granted and pull stuff like this every once in a while for the sake of comedy because the part of you that's right about what you're saying is also the part that's supposed to find it funny, because that's the joke—i think you'd have to be a wet blanket like shinji to not understand that humor is obviously very subjective, but this type of thing is common across all cartoons, even western ones you've enjoyed, such as MLP, so if this is the logic you're going to run with, i hope you apply it across the board as a point of curiosity, what exactly do you find funny? monty python, maybe? because i genuinely don't think i've ever seen you react positively to anything that was trying to be funny in any way
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« on: August 30, 2019, 06:48:37 AM »
Maybe I should come up with an actual scale or something. Like:
4/10 = "the show is bad, but it was somewhat tolerable and while I didn't have a good time, I can stand watching it"
7/10 = "I actually enjoyed watching this, this anime is actually what I would consider good"
9/10 = "would recommend to others and actually admit I watched it"
Something like that, you know?
i'd say it's a good idea to explain what each number means to you, yeah provides a bit of clarity, and allows you to be consistent with how you rank things
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« on: August 30, 2019, 06:36:23 AM »
fair takeaways, but i have a few points to argue with
you described misato as "toxic"—could you qualify that a bit? because we're definitely not on the same page there
in re "predatory," if you're referring to the scene where she's on the phone with ritsuko, talking about whether it's appropriate for her to be shinji's guardian, and misato's like, "what's wrong? it's not like i'll be putting the moves on him," surely you noticed that ritsuko was audibly disgusted by the mere suggestion, explicitly responding with something like, "why would you even say that?"
in other words, she reacts the same way that the audience (probably) would to that off-color joke
although you've correctly observed one of misato's character traits (she's a flirt with no filter), you cannot argue that the show is "normalizing" this behavior when you've already seen people in-universe chastising her for it—it's fair to dislike misato as a character for these reasons, and whether she really was just joking or not is up for you to interpret—but your language and reaction just come across to me as a little bit dramatic
in re "abusive," i couldn't even guess as to what you might be referring to there
Is it because she has Shinji do all the chores? They played rock-paper-scissors for that, and it's not like kids doing chores can be construed as a form of abuse. That's silly. Is it because of that one line where she questions his manhood after she gets annoyed by how constantly he responds to her every statement with a robotic "yes"? Sure, I guess you could say it was a little mean and uncalled for, but she's also just trying to tease him out of being so damn shy. Exchanges like these are typical between introverts and extroverts, or people who don't understand each other. You can say it's meaningless, but the point of these scenes (obviously) is to let us observe how their personalities clash, which will naturally set the groundwork for every future interaction to come. Pretty basic stuff. I'm not sure what you're so hung up about. It's not like Misato never says or does anything kind or supportive.
Shinji is anything but apathetic—on top of his introverted and meek personality, he's also lost, scared, and confused after having been very suddenly pulled into something impossibly larger than him, and he's struggling to cope with it. Misato serves as a foil to help highlight these traits, too, making them particularly hard to miss. Again, you don't have to like anybody, but I do find your character descriptions to be quite off-base so far. It's still early, though, so there's still plenty of time to flesh these characters out. Just be careful not to conflate negative character traits with narrative flaws. Everyone has a reason for being the way they are.
don't worry about pen-pen—he really doesn't show up that often at all, and every time he does, he goes away in like 10 seconds
the fight with sachiel is the least interesting part of the episode, which is why it's shown last (though you did make some good observations during this part)
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« on: August 30, 2019, 03:11:50 AM »
WHAT ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK THOUGH VERB
i was too flabbergasted with the plot to even notice tbh i know it's the same composer as the show, so i wanna say it was good, but i probably need to relisten to the soundtrack
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« on: August 30, 2019, 12:36:12 AM »
Based
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« on: August 29, 2019, 06:08:22 PM »
I'm sure he has more important things to do than post reviews of anime he rates poorly but I really would like to see Verb's full opinion on 3.0/Q seeing how it's not only one of my favorite anime movies but also one of my favorite movies in general.
Plus I gotta plenty of info-bombs I can dump in regards to 3.0.
yeah school started up which is slowing me down, but i do intend to post something huge about it within the next few days i will say that i'm not sure if 1/10 is legitimately how i feel, or if i'm just really mad, but it really was one of the most frustrating things i've ever seen
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« on: August 28, 2019, 04:44:00 PM »
yeah, a fair few of eva's tropes are 100% fine, because it was the first to do/was the codifier of a lot of those things
cliches are cliches, but i can't really begrudge the originator of them
most of your nitpicks so far haven't been completely invalid though
as someone who generally dislikes mecha designs wholesale, i actually really like the design of the evas
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« on: August 28, 2019, 01:15:09 PM »
And you actually like this, right?
it's one of maybe three anime that i genuinely love yeah and i've tried over three hundred not that i wouldn't understand if you couldn't get into it—as i implied, i didn't enjoy it the first time either
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« on: August 28, 2019, 01:07:33 PM »
>Kiss-Redirects.malware
Oh no
It said it was Evangelion but it was actually Gundam, lol. I think I found one that works now though.
https://www3.123movies.la/serie/neon-genesis-evangelion-5yke5ry/s1/watching.html
Let me know if that's the right one.
this link directs me to the last episode, but other than that, looks good to me just make sure you're on the right one
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« on: August 28, 2019, 12:56:05 PM »
oh, you also have to watch the whole fucking thing (unless you just REALLY hate it for whatever reason)
even if you slightly like anything about it, i encourage you to continue
it's not that long either, so it's not a big deal
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« on: August 28, 2019, 12:42:58 PM »
i feel like before you watch eva though, you have to understand that it's not really just a mecha show
without spoiling anything, the show actually has a lot to say about anime itself and the people who watch it
it's a show that requires you to be a little bit charitable, otherwise it's going to be VERY easy for you to pick it apart
i'm only saying this because i wish someone had said it to me before the first time i watched it
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« on: August 28, 2019, 12:22:23 PM »
1. Epsiodes 1-26
2. End of Eva
3. 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
^ genuinely kind of interested in your thoughts on this
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