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I'm watching a review of Hydelide on NES. A slime is the first enemy you encounter. This game predates Legend of Zelda. I'm assuming it predates Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy as well.

So if it didn't start with a video game, was it from a pen and paper RPG?

It must've been somebody else.

"No Way Home is awesome because it has all of Spider-Man's villains."

I hit a hawk once. It skidded across the hood and flew off.

On the whole, it could've been better. We were too caught up in being trendy and new. The 90s were like an extension of the 80s in terms of style, but they lacked the underlining heart. Films like Gremlins, Back to the Future, and Ghostbusters had good characters and good stories to go along with the flashiness. Films like Bram Stoker's Dracula, Independence Day, or Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves were just style for the sake of style and no underlining substance.

There were some winners. Most of which had Spielberg's name attached to them. As much as I love the 90s, I have to admit that cinema collectively could have been better.

That's kind of the point.

I can't believe I'm paraphrasing the Nostalgia Critic, but...

"He's so comfortable with being an asshole that he makes you comfortable with him being an asshole."

"I have no argument, so here's a personal insult."

It stinks that these parents are trying to pollute their children's minds with this bigoted garbage. On the plus side, it's probably going to go right over their heads. Children don't pick up on allegories the way adults do.

It's also important that we have pro-trans media directed at young people. If a parent wishes to teach bigotry, those children need four or five sources of pro-trans literature/television to drown out what the haters might say. And the pro-trans crowd doesn't have to hide behind allegory like the anti-trans authors who write books about fish trying to be birds. The pro equality side can openly state, "It's okay if you were taught you were a boy but you're really a girl." (Or vice-versa.) They can openly state, "It's okay if you don't like being labeled a boy or a girl." They can operate in full freedom - without masks, without allegory, without passive-aggressive insinuations. The fact that the opposition can't even address what it is they're talking about is an open admission that they're in the wrong.

There shouldn't be an opposition to an individual's right to be who they are.

Good.

It's a good song and it's not about rape.

I got modded for that?

Does the moderator also have Trump's campaign theme as their ringtone?

HairyQueen posted...

This was true ten years ago.

Today, neither character would have a beard and the genders of the two characters would be inverted without further alteration to the character design.

Yeah.

It could have been better. The movie was a little cluttered. Overall, it was pretty decent. I think they could've found a better voice for Sisu though. She's basically Queen Elsa as a mystic dragon but she has a 50-year-old smoker lady voice.

If you saw the interview, it was pretty evident. Even Costas said he felt physically threatened.

If I remember correctly, it was when Costas brought up the Trish Stratus barking like a dog segment.

shnangyboos posted...

So Rittenhouse was just strolling through a peaceful gathering, and his presence shouldn't have been a problem.

He crossed state lines to pick a fight with unarmed protestors and then shot them. That's murder.

Coming together to say "don't shoot us" =/= rioting.

Season 7?

That's too late to introduce incest.

That needed to be a mid-second season decision if they were ever going to do that.

Fuck Rittenhouse and fuck the judge that let him off.

She's stunning.

Ysmir posted...

You know, typically anything that follows a statement like this isn't going to be very great.

Explaining why a person thinks the way they do isn't the same as being in agreement with them.

I'm pro-trans, not pro-bigotry.

It's this thread again.

Yeah.

Trump is totally gonna get reelected in a democratic election and then become dictator. 99.8% of all police and soldiers will be there to side with him in earnest. And only a diverse group of young people forming a resistance can topple this dictatorship -- not to restore the nation to its former inequality, but to bring about a new nation with social and economic equality the likes of which the world has never known.

Paperback $9.99
Hardcover $15.99

Story available wherever books are sold.

I'm not apologizing for people who are anti-trans.

I think the reason some people are outright offended that there are people who are transgender or nonbinary is because categorization is our first line of defense against potential dangers. For example, "These berries are poisonous." Because we're able to categorize harmful berries, we know not to eat them. When an individual defies standard categorization, their detractors go into panic mode because, subconsciously, they feel there is a fault in their defenses. They're looking at that individual the same way a computer would look at a virus that's able to bypass a firewall. It's the same reason most monsters are combinations of different animal types. If something is part fish and part mammal, it's unnerving because it defies categorization.

By and large, trans people aren't trying to frighten or harm anyone. Like anyone else, the vast majority are just trying to be themselves. It just so happens that who they are defies the "male/female" binary which so many perceive as being iron clad. (It's not.)

This isn't the guy who hosted America's Most Wanted, is it?

SrRd_RacinG posted...

But really, ... maybe that's all the patient needed to hear.

I was on the phone for another four minutes or so and the patient continued to call the deceased person's name. It didn't make her stop.

Asuka is 19 in anime years

I received a work call from an Alzheimer's unit at an assisted living facility. There was a woman in the background repeating a name over and over again. Finally, a nurse (not the one I was speaking to) uttered "Shut up, he's dead" in frustration.

There's no telling how long the woman with Alzheimer's had been repeating that name. But seriously, a nurse is going to talk like that to a patient? Had the nurse who said that been the one I was speaking to, I would have reported her.

My condolences.

Constantine isn't iconic.

I'm sure DC Vertigo fans really like the guy, but he's not really in the mainstream. His movie came and went without much fanfare. He's certainly underground.

Why do you need drawn futa when you have the real thing?

Yeah. I can't imagine someone expecting anything different.

Depends on the content or subject matter.

If you're making a Mario game and you're going for a depressing story, you're better off not having one.

TC is drama stalking

Don't look at me. I never got the appeal either.

At least it's still better than shipping Link with Epona.

I see what you did there. Well played.

:)

AMA

Are you keeping the original equipment?

:3

Why does Hercules dislike Black people?

:(

the closet >>> Narnia >>>>>>>>>> where this guy is

"Can't come to work, I'm gay" is the best excuse I've ever heard.

JimmyFraska posted...

Well, the God topic inspired my Monsters Inc topic about love and fear. Also I've been bumping the various God themed topics this morning.

>God
>Monsters Inc

...what?

List what your five sources of inspiration would be according to the following criteria:

1st influence: a series (any medium) you liked as a child that isn't as popular today as it was back then

2nd influence: that series' nearest peer

3rd influence: the first work (any medium) you remember enjoying primarily for the villain

4th influence: a dramatic under-the-radar movie you enjoy which features action

5th influence: a movie whose climax just kicks your ass

For me, it would be the following:
1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2) ThunderCats
3) The Lion King
4) Lady Snowblood
5) Ghostbusters '84

I guess it would likely feature anthropomorphic animal protagonists or characters who channel animal powers? It definitely seems like there would be a subtle martial arts side to it and some hints of the supernatural.

It's Sunday so I guess it's a good day to troll Christians?

I disliked it because of the way that it characterized Egon and because it acted as if nothing had happened since the first movie. It's a depressing take.

That said, I'm glad that the response has been positive and that the door is open for more Ghostbusters.

Sonic of the 3 of the Knuckles

Like many things dogs do, they're gross and adorable at the same time.

My sister's dog has a bad habit of springing unsolicited French kisses on people. (Yick.)

When there's a standard for quality, you don't throw out something substandard. That's like setting fire to a village to light a cigarette.

You can potentially destroy IPs when you do that and it's for nothing more than an immediate cash grab. Fans have a right to be upset about that.

"Batman and Robin isn't as good as..."

"NERD!!!"