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TopicSave My Favourite Anime Series 5: Round 73[SMFAS]
pjbasis
07/17/18 5:45:00 PM
#55
TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters: Special Edition Discussion Topic
pjbasis
07/17/18 5:11:38 PM
#226
TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters: Special Edition Discussion Topic
pjbasis
07/17/18 5:06:09 PM
#224
LeonhartFour posted...
Regardless, she kept quiet for reasons she admits are selfish, which isn't a good thing.


Is this even a bad thing. Flaws are good in a character
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters Special Edition: Day 11 [smfffc]
pjbasis
07/17/18 5:04:53 PM
#14
Topicseabassdebeste watches hunter x hunter 2011 (spoilers)
pjbasis
07/17/18 4:53:22 PM
#389
TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters Special Edition: Day 10 [smfffc]
pjbasis
07/17/18 3:34:27 PM
#35
TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters Special Edition: Day 10 [smfffc]
pjbasis
07/17/18 2:01:30 PM
#11
TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters: Special Edition Discussion Topic
pjbasis
07/17/18 2:00:15 PM
#221
Or in Chrono Cross when you can win because of New Game Plus in Fort Dragonia.
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters: Special Edition Discussion Topic
pjbasis
07/17/18 1:44:49 PM
#218
Topic23 y/o TEACHER who had SEX with 18 y/o gets NO PRISON..long as she gets REHAB!!.
pjbasis
07/17/18 4:29:30 AM
#11
A power differential doesn't automatically imply something sinister. Like, there's a higher chance maybe, but it doesn't have to be.
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TopicUncharted fan film starring Nathan Fillion
pjbasis
07/17/18 12:05:20 AM
#6
Lucky for me I actually do have more uncharted to play!
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TopicSaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Best Smile Edition [SELF]
pjbasis
07/17/18 12:00:12 AM
#350
I never want to see Zack do well in smfffc, but yeah it's not like it changes how I feel about his character.
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TopicUncharted fan film starring Nathan Fillion
pjbasis
07/16/18 11:59:06 PM
#4
Topic23 y/o TEACHER who had SEX with 18 y/o gets NO PRISON..long as she gets REHAB!!.
pjbasis
07/16/18 11:43:44 PM
#5
Good, jailtime for small sexual crimes like consensual sex with someone 1 or 2 years under the limit is busted
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters Special Edition: Day 9 [smfffc]
pjbasis
07/16/18 10:24:29 PM
#44
TopicMega Man X Legacy Collection 1 and 2 Trophy lists
pjbasis
07/16/18 8:37:46 PM
#8
Missables in 3 hour or less games are no big deal
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 8:36:51 PM
#238
TexasZea posted...
best battle shounen for female characters is buffy the vampire slayer


^
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TopicSave My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters Special Edition: Day 9 [smfffc]
pjbasis
07/16/18 8:32:54 PM
#15
TopicSave My Favourite Anime Series 5: Round 72[SMFAS][NEW RULE]
pjbasis
07/16/18 4:20:15 PM
#77
TopicDo you boycott any companies?
pjbasis
07/16/18 4:06:48 PM
#2
Nah. Fundamentally I don't see myself as an agent of change in the world.
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 4:02:14 PM
#224
Mac Arrowny posted...
I believe what he was saying that a lot of the female character representation in anime comes through fanservice heavy series or moe SoL anime or whatever, which has problems in its own way.


Yes. Which is why I can see the point of Bane wanting Kurapika to be a girl now. Poor example to pick on on my part. (S)he probably wouldn't have run into those problems.
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TopicSave My Nintendo Series: Day 15 [favourite] [smns]
pjbasis
07/16/18 3:57:33 PM
#24
Topicseabassdebeste watches hunter x hunter 2011 (spoilers)
pjbasis
07/16/18 3:56:55 PM
#381
Topicseabassdebeste watches hunter x hunter 2011 (spoilers)
pjbasis
07/16/18 3:46:34 PM
#378
I think something people don't consider is the meta cost.

Kurapika effectively took himself out of the story with his power up because of it's extremely narrow use against the Phantom Troupe. Sure, it was convenient at the time, but it's basically how Togashi wrote him out. He would just not be nearly as useful in any other situation.

Similarly, Gon, the freaking main character, has barely had any screen time since his own trade for power. Rarely does a story ever create such a cost to power ups like this.
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Topicseabassdebeste watches hunter x hunter 2011 (spoilers)
pjbasis
07/16/18 3:41:56 PM
#377
Yeah the key thing is Gon's potential.

He's also a kid, the transformation aged him up to some prime age where he had unlocked his full powers. It wasn't a generic exchange for more power that he didn't possess. So I don't think anyone in the world could really do what he did (besides a few exceptions perhaps).
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TopicTiny Toon Adventures Mafia
pjbasis
07/16/18 2:45:58 PM
#2
TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 2:44:22 PM
#220
Topicseabassdebeste watches hunter x hunter 2011 (spoilers)
pjbasis
07/16/18 2:32:55 PM
#372
I think in this case it doesn't require too much logical explanation and works more as an expectation.

Gon is repeatedly said to be holding some scary potential from veteran hunters, and Pitou even takes him extremely seriously way before she should really have any proof he'd be dangerous. "His fangs may reach the king."

I interpret it as not a power up but more that Gon brought out his full adult potential. And we know that nen allows the user to attain great strength at great cost. Also Gon basically dies for this if not for alluka hax.

Edit: I actually don't know what I mean by that first line.
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 2:19:29 PM
#218
TopicSave My Favourite Anime Series 5: Round 72[SMFAS][NEW RULE]
pjbasis
07/16/18 2:15:15 PM
#29
TopicSave My Nintendo Series: Day 15 [favourite] [smns]
pjbasis
07/16/18 2:14:42 PM
#8
TopicMega man x collection on the PS2
pjbasis
07/16/18 2:14:03 PM
#3
Topicseabassdebeste watches hunter x hunter 2011 (spoilers)
pjbasis
07/16/18 2:13:00 PM
#370
I said in another topic that hxh is really divisive on what people take to.

Here it is in full glory
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TopicSaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Best Smile Edition [SELF]
pjbasis
07/16/18 3:15:17 AM
#337
Kirby debuted on the Game Boy.

Metal Gear should have been on it, msx be damned.
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:44:21 AM
#211
This is actually because they didn't change Goku's VA when he grew up.
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:40:02 AM
#209
this is a yuuuuge topic though I'm not really ready to get into.

That's it about that! Emma is the best though
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:38:24 AM
#208
I think representation of strong women is decently common in anime, but I also think it comes from an otaku sex appeal place too.

Something like akame ga kill, yeah they're strong, but they're also portrayed so that you want to fuck them.
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:34:33 AM
#206
GranzonEx posted...
what part of weeb culture obsess over gender ratio?


It was more latent sexism I was getting at. Waifu culture and shit.

I'm not really engaging in an intelligent way right now, more one-sided ranting. Don't take it too seriously.
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:26:59 AM
#203
Why not though?

Androgyny is not a bad thing. Do you think "men should be men, girls should be girls" or something?
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:24:46 AM
#201
What's funny is that Kurapika is not even the most feminine looking man in HxH lol
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:23:17 AM
#200
Don't worry I didn't take it that way! I'm not arguing against a perceived slight against HxH.

I can't relate very well to thinking something needs more of a gender. And really your comment was just a "last straw" that got me thinking about how I don't really feel comfortable with the way the culture, imo, obsesses over it. (Not that your comment indicates you obsess over it either.)
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:18:05 AM
#198
It is blatant that he looks like a woman.

Why you should feel that a man that looks like a woman might as well be one is beyond me though!
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TopicSave My Nintendo Series: Day 14 (C) [hello] [smns]
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:13:42 AM
#99
TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:12:35 AM
#196
LapisLazuli posted...

I mean it has tons of great girls, but as far as limelight you're 100% right.


Like yeah I think My Hero is worse example than HxH. The girls consistently do nothing despite being well designed and interesting. They're just not there in HxH most of the time.
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TopicAnime & Manga Discussion Topic 195: The Month of Bleach
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:11:13 AM
#195
I don't think every show needs to have equal gender splits. It's silly to even care that something doesn't have enough men or women in it.

However I'll say that if the work has lots of women or men in it that consistently underperform, that's when it gets more unfortunate.
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TopicWho is America? New Sacha Baron Cohen show premiered tonight...
pjbasis
07/16/18 1:01:51 AM
#4
Funniest part

"Typically members of Congress don't just hear of a story of a program and indicate whether they support it or not."

*cut to guys doing just that*
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TopicA terrifying SPIDER that is the size of a DINNER PLATE are released!! Scared????
pjbasis
07/16/18 12:44:32 AM
#5
Those are some boring ass pictures.

Can't even tell it's as big as a dinner plate without the plate next to it.
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Topici saw a kid dabbing in real life for the first time today
pjbasis
07/16/18 12:43:59 AM
#16
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