i would suggest these things maybe if i weren't morally opposed to fur

the bionic commando reboot was notorious for having pretty gratuitous product placement in billboards, but i didn't mind

the most gratuitous i've ever seen was in disney skate adventure, which had product placement so far up the ass, there were even sidequests that involved going to a mcdonald's and delivering people licensed food products to them, and also one that involved nokia phones

didn't think anything of it as a kid but man that shit is really funny in hindsight

having a job IS traumatic and wrong

Yeah man, those grapes are sour as heck don't worry!!

i mean it's a pretty well agreed-upon notion that having kinks is more of a burden than anything else

unless you're content with being made fun of, never being able to find a partner who can satisfy you sexually, being a creepy piece of shit in general, etc.

i used to be that way

now i just post WHATEVER i want because literally who cares

secondclass must not have that filter either

Quote from: Shhhhhh on April 08, 2018, 10:17:30 PM

Quote from: ねこ on April 08, 2018, 10:13:02 PM

I'll get to it eventually

i'm surprised you haven't already

huh what makes you say that?

idk, just seems like the kind of thing you'd have played by now, you like old games

and this has a lot of shit i think you'd love

My example with Owen Benjamin goes against what you're saying, though. The context of him saying the word nigga was ignored by the people who protested him. They didn't care that he was making a joke pointing out the absurdity of racism from rich white yuppies, they didn't care that he was just referencing an old meme, they didn't care that he isn't racist at all, they simply hated the fact that he said nigga being a white man.

oh okay, i see now

yeah, i guess it was wrong for him to be imprisoned and beaten to death, then

oh wait, he's still alive? he's still doing okay? and still perfectly free to do whatever he wants?

well then, looks like we got ourselves a non-fucking-issue

As for the point about censorship, I was not making that point about individuals, I was speaking generally. It's good to know you wouldn't try to censor anyone although it's sad to me that you would be willing to de-platform people.

you've yet to explain how de-platforming is even bad to begin with

it's good

The first point isn't censorship it's de-platforming, but people who do that sort of thing aren't the type to stand against censorship.

tell me what you think censorship is

give me an example

having a platform is a privilege that can and should be taken away, just like anything else,

most people don't deserve a platform

You said that all of the left stands against political correctness, yet now you're saying political correctness is a good thing, so presumably, they wouldn't stand against it? That seems a bit contradictory.

i'm going along with the notion that you don't actually know what political correctness means, or what it's purpose is, so instead of cumbersomely explaining it to you, i'm playing along and using your terms as you use them

the truth is, political correctness is fine

YOU support political correctness, too, and you don't even know it

what you're actually opposed to is being polite at the cost of liberty; putting politeness on too high of a pedestal to where it begins to fuck with your precious freedoms

and the real issue is that social etiquette is highly subjective, and different types of people are going to have different standards for what is considered polite, impolite, acceptable, or taboo

the thing is, however, most of these taboos are VERY simple concessions—not saying "nigga" if you're a white person, saying "mentally disabled" instead of "retarded," referring to transpeople with their preferred pronouns, that sort of thing

for the MOST part, that's all being PC means, and if that bothers you, you're an unreasonable fucking loser

do some people take it too far? yes
are the left, by and large, opposed to taking it too far? yes

all political correctness is is an attempt to be courteous and respectful—that's it, it's very reasonable

but there are unreasonable people in EVERY ideology, so for you to shoehorn reasonable people with the crazies is kind of fucking bullshit—would you appreciate it if someone shoehorned you with nazis

you might think a white comedian should be able to say nigga, and you're right—i think he should be able to as well

but i also think the owner of the club has every right to boot that stupid cunt off the stage if he doesn't like him

Seriously, though, if anyone knows any left-wing peeps that aren't down with censorship/PC mess, let me know.

I cannot think of any who are, but you would probably like this guy.

Being politically correct is a good thing, first of all. What you're against is being "unreasonably polite."

It's sad that there doesn't seem to be as many left leaning individuals standing against those sorts of things.

they all do

every single one of them

you just don't really understand what censorship and political correctness actually are, what they mean, or what they really entail

Youre turning into a weeb ya know.

by hating anime more than i enjoy it

gotcha

Breaking news: Anime is STILL the worst thing ever—and I'm one more year closer to proving it once and for all.

Just like I did for 1995 last month, I went ahead and tried every single anime, movie, and OVA released in the year 1996 that I could find a stream for on the Internet (not that I condone piracy or anything). I may not have been able to watch literally every little thing, however, because (believe it or not) there's some obscure shit out there that simply cannot be found anywhere on the Internet. I've still seen a good 90%, though, and that's gonna have to be good enough.

Why am I doing this? So that you, an intelligent person who doesn't like anime, don't ever have to. If you hate anime, but you have a friend who's really trying to get you into some stupid looking shit that you know you won't like, just come to me, and I'll be sure to let you know whether you should give it a try. That's the goal. 99% of the time, my answer will be "don't bother," but once in a thousand blue moons, there is an anime that transcends the medium, breaks all of its conventions, shits down the industry's throat, and is just, overall, a cut above the rest in terms of its artistic quality and is well worth your time.

Those are the anime that I'm endlessly searching for, and those are the shows I want to share with you. Lists like these will help facilitate that imperative.

Last time, for all of 1995, I was able to find two things worth watching—a single short film in an anthology of three, where two of the others weren't nearly as good, and a guilty pleasure ecchi comedy show that's only good because of its off-the-wall dub. That didn't bode well for the future, but I pressed on anyway.

So, across the entirety of the year 1996, what was produced in the anime industry that was actually worth a singular fuck?

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That's right, I couldn't find a single goddamn thing for that entire year. Now, some of you might be thinking, "That doesn't make sense. Even if you hated all the shows, you could still just make a top 10 list of the least-worst ones."

True, but that's not how I like to do things. The thing is, "top 10s" are kind of arbitrary. If there were more than ten shows worth recommending to you, why would I not recommend to you ALL of those shows? Why limit myself to just ten? Furthermore, if there weren't ten shows I thought were good enough, why would I fill up the list with a bunch of horrible crap just to round out the list to the random and arbitrary number that is ten? That would be silly.

So, at the end of the year, if there wasn't anything that made the cut, I'm submitting a blank list.

Hell, here's a list of every single thing that I didn't watch, either because it was too obscure and I couldn't find it, or because it was part of a larger series that I've already given up on, like Dragon Ball.


For all I know, any of these could be absolute gold, and I'm completely missing out on it because of how I choose to consume this medium. So by all means, maybe check those out at your own risk, if you can even find them anywhere. In terms of them actually being good, though? I'd say the odds are against you, because 1996 was a dogshit year for a dogshit medium.

Mind you, my absolute bare minimum score to end up on one of my lists is a 7/10. That's me trying to be generous. Originally, I set it to 8/10 until I realized I wasn't going to have anything for the 1995 list, either. So I lowered it by a full point just so I could squeeze Magnetic Rose and Golden Boy in with a couple of asterisks. I can't even justify doing that with anything I've seen for 1996, because the highest score I gave was a 6/10.

I was dropping so many 1/10s that my mean score on MAL dipped below 3, giving me the "Less than three" achievement.


So, I suppose in order to prevent this from being a total shitpost, I suppose I might as well pad it with... I don't know, something. I guess I could try to give you a bunch of stuff that might suit your fancy, if you have low standards. I don't know if I'd consider these honorable mentions—they're certainly a cut above the rest, but they're ultimately just typical anime garbage. So, I'm not formally recommending ANY of these to anybody. Watch them at your own discretion.

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Spring & Chaos - If you put a gun to my head and asked me to give an AotY award to something from 1996, I guess it would have to be this. Directed by Shoji Kawamori of Macross fame, this is a touching little art film made to celebrate the Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa's 100th birthday (despite having been long dead since 1933). I think it's meant to be somewhat of an artistic retelling of the man's life or something. Everyone in the story is depicted by a cat, which is kind of weird until you realize it's a reference to another adaptation of one of Miyazawa's more famous stories, Night on the Galactic Railroad, where everyone is also a cat. Anyway, it's not fucking fantastic or anything—there's a couple of terrible scenes that use CG that are incredibly off-putting and pretty much ruin the whole thing for me, but if you were wondering what my 6/10 was for this year, this would have to be it. It's the best thing 1996 could muster.

Rurouni Kenshin - It's a fairly standard yet highly sterile shonen series with mature, likable characters, a decent if kinda dull at times plot, and most notably, is relatively low on the stereotypical shonen tropes that so many detractors of anime are sick of. It's not completely bereft of them, or anything, but with regards to female characters being portrayed like actual human fucking beings, this show manages to impress. But I find it a little bit too long and too boring to hold my attention. It's just not terribly interesting to me. This is probably the most successful show to come out of the year 1996, if that means anything to you at all. It doesn't to me, but there you go. It's a 5/10.

Martian Successor Nadesico - Another relatively popular show. It's not at all for me, but I can see some extremely nerdy Star Trek-watching loser just eating this show up. It's not particularly serious in tone—in fact, it almost comes across like a parody of the sci-fi genre at times—so if you want to have a lighthearted little space romp with annoying Japanese anime characters, I don't know, fucking go for it man.

Jigokudou Reikai Tsuushin - This one, I'm only mentioning because I think it has really cool atmosphere and art design. It's a 30-minute horror-lite OVA with just one episode, so if you scare easily, maybe miss out on this one, but it shouldn't be that bad. I think it's made for kids. It's a hard one to find on Google, and I had to watch a version that didn't have subtitles—but the story was easy enough for me to follow that I honestly didn't even need them. If an anime is able to keep me entertained without even needing to understand what anyone is saying, that deserves props.

Remi, Nobody's Girl - A World Masterpiece Theater production. People seem to love those. If you don't even know what that is, skip it and watch Romeo and the Black Brothers instead. Or not. I would suggest that you just read the original stories, personally.

There's also Case Closed (AKA Detective Conan), Spooky Kitaro, The Vision of Escaflowne, Chocchan Monogatari, Kodocho, Baby and Me, and the X/1999 movie directed by Rintaro. I rated all of these between a 3 and 4/10, so I have no kind words to say about any of them, but they're all rated relatively high on MAL, so maybe they're worth giving a simple mention to.

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That is all.

1997, you're next. I might do 2018, too.

pretty cool game so far, gotta say

Quote from: Shhhhhh on April 07, 2018, 11:44:58 PM

not that you care, but there's a board for this

He doesnt lol

how far under the poverty line do i need to be for you to suck my dick

everyone's favorite crackhead in the woods is still going strong too