haha casual racism is so fun-e amirite lads

extremely bad show tbqh

and like verb said, teddy was cooler anyway

he was a bit of a genocidal maniac so nah not really. all us presidents are scum.

extremely dumb

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the creepy relationship between old man jack and his young female subordinate is a much bigger problem than a lack of consistency between the original run & the adult swim run re: violence

how about it's all of it

it's mostly fine. i wouldn't expect you to recognize that, though, being the dedicated, stubborn contrarian that you are.

that's not what i meant

you're saying that jack's relationship with ashi is a bigger issue than how the show handles violence

i'm saying they're both issues, among other--its attempts at "mature" humor have been pretty insufferable, and the pacing has been pretty all over the place--and i don't consider any one of these problems any bigger than the other

the show does have its merits--i thought the first episode was pretty great for the most part

but the bottom line is that it feels absolutely nothing like the show i used to love so much as a kid, and that's why i'm dropping it

i think the violence thing is handled well even if it is a bit of a jarring difference between the original run & current run, from a purely artistic perspective (in my subjective opinion). i do find it somewhat bothersome that young children who can watch the original run no problem (it was Y7 at first i think?) cant really be exposed to the current run, but i think kids as young as 10 or 11 or 12 would be able to handle this with the proper context so it isnt that big a deal imo.

as far as the potty humor goes, it is a bit odd but it isnt like totally invasive or anything. the original run had moments of potty humor too, like with the big farting totoro-like creature; the difference between farting and making an outright reference to a penis is pretty stark, again, not a huge deal imo.

id prefer slower pacing more in line with the original run but i kinda feel like its a budget limitation. they got an offer to make one last season, not to make four more, and so the faster pacing is just something that comes with the territory and it is something that i can easily look past.

overall ive been quite happy with what theyve been putting out- aside from the jack x ashi thing, of course. maybe you just cant look past these things the way i do.

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I dislike the direction of Death Stranding so far.

Why's that?

It seems like Kojima is throwing in all these big-name actors for no reason other than name recognition or that he simply can.

The advantage video games have over movies or television in story-telling terms is that their characters are created from scratch to tell the story in an ideal way, whereas film actors have that suspenion of disbelief hurtle to jump before we actually buy that they are the characters they're supposed to be.

It demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the medium's strengths on Kojima's part. Use the actor's vocal and facial animation skills and apply them to another character model ala Venom Snake and Kiefer Sutherland; that would be ideal. But simply throwing Reedus into the game doesn't make me think this is a new character, it just reminds me he's a famous actor.

he's hanging with del toro and norman reedus because they both worked closely with him on silent hills and he wanted to actually be able to release a game with them.

You completely missed my point, though.

nope, i got what you were saying; i was simply addressing one leg of your argument. js, you seem to think that kojima is working with big names just because he can. that might be the case with mads but he has a perfectly valid reason to include del toro & norman reedus. i also think your train of thought re: suspension of disbelief & character creation and how it differs between the mediums of filmmaking and video games is kind of dumb but hey you do you.

the creepy relationship between old man jack and his young female subordinate is a much bigger problem than a lack of consistency between the original run & the adult swim run re: violence

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Quote from: audrey on April 29, 2017, 01:12:18 PM

I dislike the direction of Death Stranding so far.

Why's that?

It seems like Kojima is throwing in all these big-name actors for no reason other than name recognition or that he simply can.

The advantage video games have over movies or television in story-telling terms is that their characters are created from scratch to tell the story in an ideal way, whereas film actors have that suspenion of disbelief hurtle to jump before we actually buy that they are the characters they're supposed to be.

It demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the medium's strengths on Kojima's part. Use the actor's vocal and facial animation skills and apply them to another character model ala Venom Snake and Kiefer Sutherland; that would be ideal. But simply throwing Reedus into the game doesn't make me think this is a new character, it just reminds me he's a famous actor.

he's hanging with del toro and norman reedus because they both worked closely with him on silent hills and he wanted to actually be able to release a game with them.

nah he definitely isnt the worst. doesnt have the most blood on his hands, anyway.

oh god the sheer levels of salt would be absolutely hilarious

dumb idea

I don't give a fuck I hope all these lying racist assholes lose their jobs and die in a gutter somewhere.

I don't like Cowboy Bebop and neither should you.

Let's cut to the chase, Spike was not a good character, he was a bitch, Spike was a selfish loser.

He purposefully let his whole team down to chase after some whore who gets herself killed and he ends up biting collateral. That's not a badass, that's a hopeless romantic that's not living in the sane world. He is basically the anime version of Forest Gump.

He ignored his own advice he gave to his friends and charged into a huge problem blindly when he could've just walked away from his past like he was doing for the entirety of the series but he decides to throw everything away. I can not fathom why people applaud a loser worse than Forest cause at least Forest was retarded.

Spoiler

Real opinion: I love Cowboy Bebop but I do still find Spikes actions in the end a huge blow to the entire series and he was being a huge hypocrite.

spike had horrible ptsd. his actions totally make sense for someone who went through what he did

this will most certainly be a productive discussion

Quote from: Azumarill on April 23, 2017, 10:58:05 AM

seems like theyre setting it up so ashi and jack end up being romantically involved. it could go either way at this point so i wont say much more but i will say that no matter what his physical body looks like jack is MUCH MUCH MUCH older than her and acts as her mentor in a sense so if they get together that would seem really gross to me.

lmao what

Jack is such a dork and frequently has a childish personality

I ship Jashi

borderline rapey due to power dynamics + ridiculous age difference but ok you do you.