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don't have time to parse the entire thing right now (it's common courtesy to use a list instead of just an inequality for something this long...!) but initial thoughts - swap 1-4 and 3-5, e1-4 and 1-5, and baby you got a stew going!
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

on episode 6. mostly liking it a lot except for basically every scene with the howard family and/or rebel
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Paratroopa1 posted...

I keep 6-5 combined because I have a really hard time deciding how I want to rank 6-5a and 6-5b separately

This is kind of what I was getting at! Together, 6-5 is a top tier case for me, but it's hard to gauge how I'd rank it split up - so if it's me, I probably keep them together.

Though as a thought experiment, I guess I could try ranking them split up, too. That would make me feel sad!
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oh man, a full case ranking, hype!

the 5-4/5-5/6-5 situation is at your discretion! i think 5-5 benefits from losing 5-4, while 6-5 day 2 probably benefits from being part a contiguous whole. so depending on your favorite segment of each of these cases, you can make a selection based on that, maybe?
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correct top 2, correct bottom 3, i like the ranking!

i like the comparison to 'AA2 but less painful lows' - though every corresponding case is significantly longer, so the lows take more time
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

MrSmartGuy posted...

OMG this full Inga name.

Inga Karkhuul Haw'kohd Dis'nahm Bi'ahni Lawga Ormo Pohmpus Da'nit Ar'edi Iz Khura'in III.

Inga Karkhuul How could this name be any longer or more pompous than it already is Khura'in III.

This fucking game

lmfao. how did i not know this!
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MariaTaylor posted...

this is an explanation I do actually enjoy quite a bit. I highly doubt the writers put that much thought into it, but it does make the flanderization a bit easier to tolerate. good observation!

"the writers didn't put that much thought into it" is a very common solution in tv shows, but AD (even S4) has never come off that way to me.
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"Here they call it (whispering) AIDS"
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

better to pretend the reason never happened tbqh
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Those songs seem grim! I guess if I were to watch 20 episodes of them, I'd get into them, but they're also not insta-hits with me.

I kinda like the 90s art direction a bit more, but hard to say without actually seeing the show.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

OliviaTremor posted...

But hell I think 6-2 is the best Phoenix Wright case out of all the games so it's probably not even worth listening to my opinion.

hey now, your opinion is worth listening to! just not taking seriously :P

MrSmartGuy posted...

Really though, that was amazing. It actually felt like Phoenix was over there and not some cookie-cutter prosecutor like I was worried it might.

wonderful way to articulate it!
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steve javie is the fucking worst
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

literally tony brothers in a finals game lmaoooo
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

varejao got a ring in 2016
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

MariaTaylor posted...

the timeline is a little bit confusing but basically season 4 is telling a story that takes place over a short period of time (the events leading up to cinco de quatro), while also telling the events that took place during the X years between season 3 and season 4. I had a pretty huge 'wait really???' reaction when they explicitly mention lucille was in prison for years. I thought it was a really short period of time.

anyway, season 5 is basically telling the story that takes place over a short period of time (the events leading up to the second of july), while also retelling the events that took place during the month between cinco de quatro and the beginning of july. so they are kinda doing the same thing again but with a shorter time window to cover with recaps and flashbacks.

this is incredibly helpful, thanks. i think i intellectually know all of this, but it's always lost when i see the actual show and am unable to distinguish what happened when.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Episode 59

Recap: Greed Island is sold for tens of billions of jini, beyond even what Killua's brother can pay. But the buyers are looking for pro hunters to play the game. G/K are unable to impress the buyers, however, so they work on developing their Nen further to the point where they can be chosen.

Killua's electrical powers look fun. I love the way the guy reacts to information when he hears it. His rivalry with/romantic interest in Gon is great.

More of Gon being great. This last arc mostly made him the straight-up shounen good-guy hero with inflexible morals and whatnot again. But here, he demonstrates that even at the age of 12 and with naivete as his defining trait, he has some wisdom, restraint, and guile to him. Specifically here, he has the presence of mind not to tell Kurapika that Phinks and Feitan are still in town.

(Speaking of, how funny is Phinks and Feitan just deciding to join the game for the hell of it? Feitan especially is just so stoic about it.)

I'm glad we're getting back to some foundational Nen techniques now. Kurapika actually describes his process for getting good with chains, and I feel like if we'd seen at least a bit of that, that could of reduced the sting of his broken abilities. For now, Kurapika is sticking with Neon and co. (and we know that Leorio isn't a full-on Nen user yet), so this arc will instead feature some perky little twelve-year-old girl (instead of Kurapika's disturbingly accurate drag outfit).

It's always nice to see Wing. I love how joyful and flippant the music becomes during his scene.

This episode features a lot of Gon attempting to use his noggin, which inevitably results in steam literally coming out his ears. It's a hilarious visual, and there's a point where Killua is in a different room and realizes what's going on with Gon because he hears the steam.

The new ED has real potential. Gonna take some time to become accustomed to this new opening sequence, though.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

think the only game i've played that fits might be ghost trick
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

though "I'm just sliding in and out of Michael" was brilliant, classic Tobias
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Yeah, the humor of the show is just worse now. The humorous continuity used to come from running jokes that came up in seemingly unrelated situations, not from repeatedly revisiting the same plot point (the Rebel situation has been awful)
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

episode 3 was definitely better after having killed off most of the previous season's bad subplots by reuniting everyone
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

what happened with roseanne?
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

He was bad for the league in the sense that they'd rather have inept people than people who refuse to pretend to try to win. Great for the Sixers, bad for the league.

BC was never believed to be competent. He got his job out of pure nepotism since his dad was an excellent GM.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Hinkie just accepted a job offer from the Denver Broncos I think.

... but yes
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

condolences to @ShatteredElysium for the magic hiring steve clifford

i mean i don't think clifford is terrible, but you're really firing frank vogel to hire steve clifford???
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

ah yeah, forgot about the video. thanks, you've discouraged me from wanting to pick up AA4 again in the future. i was specifically thinking of the cocoons testimonies, territory that seemed kind of bizarre but super-fun.
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Oh shit, I didn't know you were getting married! Congrats!
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Jakyl25 posted...

I like the idea that this is a very very long con by Sam Hinkie to discredit Colangelo

"the longest view in the room" lmao
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transience posted...

day 1 trial... is better than day 2 trial, at least.

They all blend together in my mind, but I remember actually enjoying Daryan on the stand, unlike every other witness?
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

pjbasis posted...

Do you think it's not in character for kurapika to want to develop such one sided powers, or that the nen system shouldn't allow it?

It's certainly in character for Kurapika to want these powers. But yeah, I don't like the Nen-based justification at all. "I turn into a god when I fight some guys" is something I can abide by, but not as a rule of the system. Red eyes = specialist I also found lame.

And otherwise how could we have scenarios where he successfully kills people way above his league? The way the whole story goes down hinges on it being the way it was I think

Yeah, the way the story goes down does depends on these powers - which is why I tried not to complain about it too much at the end.

Instead, I'd turn this question around - why does this story need to be told now? Gon v Hisoka and Killua v Illumi (and/or possibly Silva?) are obviously being saved for later, for when the corresponding heroes become stronger. It just feels like Kurapika hasn't engaged in a journey to reach that point; we don't see any improvement from him; rather, he's just gifted this power.

So if it's not about training/fighting for Kurapika, then it's about his character journey. But that journey is almost trivial in length - the changes we see in his goals (from revenge to redemption, from angsty lone wolf to protective companion) are almost entirely driven from a single episode where Gon works his magic.

But the way the story is told, based on screen-time alone, suggests that the arc is about training/fighting. Obviously I'm projecting my desires/expectations here, but the show seemed to build them up a lot and leave me frustrated/disappointed with how they were resolved.
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this article is blowing my fucking mind

this is so much better than KD, too. KD is in his 20s and plays a children's game for a living. colangelo is in his 50s and is a white-collar executive manager.
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they *did* release a S4 recap. it was like 2 minutes long.

but i haven't seen it in forever and still couldn't follow the plot. there were a lot of intricacies to the rebel alley situation that were unclear.

jokes like george sr having low testosterone and GOB being gay just aren't very funny to me. and michael simply doesn't work when he's not playing off other cast members. george michael and maeby just seem really weird to me now - like they've aged past this role (and the role is different from what they used to be, too)

GANON1025 posted...

I've only seen three episodes so far, but episode 3 was way better than the first two.

this is encouraging!
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i didn't like S4 and the first two of S5 have been... not good

part of it is just seeing how old the actors are, which is just depressing. part of it comes i'm sure from unfamiliarity with the characters now - i like old AD episodes more on rewatch. butba lot of it just feels like a big focus on telling a contrived story that isn't very funny.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Episodes 56-58

Recap: Gon and Killua are captured again while stalking the Spiders. Kurapika takes advantage of a planned power outage to capture Chrollo and use him as a hostage. This leverage causes a schism among the Troupe, and eventually they decide to split and let Kurapika and his bullshit Chain Rules walk free.

I have to say, I absolutely hated everything about the idea of this conclusion. But you know what? I'm gonna let it go, because given the setup, there was virtually no good concept that could have satisfied me here. Kurapika's power was too stupid and the Troupe was far too powerful for anyone else other than Hisoka. The gaps were just ridiculous for a satisfying ending by violence. But even so, relying on the ridiculously-designed Paku and contriving a schism over Chrollo's life (and ending Chrollo) was disappointing.

Chrollo is really great. It's unclear what he believes in since he never really talks to anyone, but you can see how beloved he is by his crew that they give up assault in favor of letting Chrollo live - even without ever seen him again. But he returns the favor by being cerebral and loyal to his people. Throughout all the debates, Chrollo always picks the right combination of people for each team, emphasizes that the Troupe members need to play to their roles (discussing the replaceability of members' abilities, pointing out that Nobunaga's job is more or less to die), reminds everyone of what their purpose is. He's got the series's best character design and now he's done without even getting a real fight. (Poor Hisoka.)

I do come out of this more pro-Melody, though. And I guess we can move on to something where Kurapika can be more of a regular character with lesser bullshit powers now.

Probably my favorite plot/character moment specific to this arc is Gon showing his usual realistic determination. He snaps out of the chains right in front of the entire remnant of the Troupe. Phinks snarls that if Gon moves he'll rip his head off, but Gon isn't going to back down from saying his piece: "Then I'll stay right here!"

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* Squalla was a bad character who gets a bad ending. Talk about depressing - you know he's doomed when he suddenly has a love interest.

* The healer chick stopping Killua from stabbing her using her abs alone - wut.

* Phinks and Feitan cornering Killua and Gon at the end of the arc is hilarious. Killua is terrified as always, but he does note in internal monologue, "It's pretty useful to have someone who's willing to ask questions."
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

song rankingz?
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

The weird framing device comes from the musical. The movie is pretty faithful to it.

Carlotta is definitely great.

And yeah, it's worth listening to Broadway cast recordings.
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MrSmartGuy posted...

OK I just finished the investigation phase and I'm stuck with this massive stupid grin on my face. I have to go to bed, but I don't know how I'm possibly going to sleep, knowing what's in store for me in the trial.

yyyesssssssss
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I don't know why LeBron needs excuses. He's incredible but obviously the underdog here. The teams that lose to him are the ones that need excuses.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

No Iggy/compromised Iggy is going to be interesting. We'll see how well KD/Steph play in the Finals.

People thought that Miami would lose to OKC in 2012.
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tomorrow!
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i highly suspect there are spoilers in the hxh writeup so i'm not reading it :/
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

KommunistKoala posted...

why are brothers and foster still employed

holy shit they're BOTH in a GAME 7? lmfao

anyway, all the credit in the world to harden this game. he's got a history of coming up small in elimination games, but he's been playing so fucking hard all series.

KD and steph playing nicely this quarter too.
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honestly think that the cavs have a good shot at winning the finals now

ugh
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

From a different perspective, there's nothing particularly vital about any movie prior. It's very easy to follow.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Celtics '69?
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

transience posted...

lebron played all 48, put up a 35/15/9

and it wasn't even a very good game

This game is especially dispiriting because it wasn't a supernova LeBron performance.
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okay, that was a soft fucking call

Nelson_Mandela posted...

God I wish the warriors and rockets were fully healthy so they could sweep either of these garbage teams by 20+ every game

i wish the celtics were healthy too!
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rozier and brown didn't hit shots today. they blew their load on game 6. :(
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

marcus smart is 1/9 from the field with a team-best +9
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Not crazy about the reffing in the post but also can't blame it really atm.

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Tatum is ridiculous

He'll miss, but I never want him to pass it.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

that might have been a makeup call though, green got a lot of ball on the baynes attempt, lol
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness