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You were able to gleam a lot more information from those weird sequence s than me

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I think they just had a really intense spiritual bonding moment

while on acid

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It's fine, tbh I didn't remember most of the bad guy's names either. Oh wait, you mean his sister? She's like Seyla or something iiirc probably spelled it wrong

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Guess I'm saying soon again.

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Thanks. There's a lot more shows to watch atm but it's still in my viewing rotation so it will be up soon.

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Episode 7 - Double Dipper

Here we go, this makes up for last episode big time. I was a bit worried a Dipper centric episode might not be as funny, but no, he had plenty of great lines in this one. The moment to moment dialogue, the incidental lines, in this show in general they're top class. Really a sign of scripts that they go with a fine tooth comb looking for places to add extra wit.

In this episode Grunkle Stan wants to throw a party at the Mystery Shack to make some money from kids, and I imagine Gravity Falls isn't exactly swimming in hangouts so it seems to have gone off at least somewhat well, despite some of the people there wanting to escape (And not being able to because there's a 15 dollar exit fee and they only have 15 dollars).

Dipper agrees to man the ticket stand because he figures he'll get to spend the entire evening with his crush Wendy, and he has a plan, or one of those "over complicated list things" as Mabel puts it. When the two are trying to make copies, they discover the old copier Stan has can produce copies of living things for some reason, and I was all "wow, the paranormal thing even before the opening credits."

When the party gets down Mabel makes friends with some unpopular kids, one of who I recognized as being Niki Yang, so that was awesome. I keep seeing BMO.. lol. Mabel ends up in a dance contest against a popular kid named Pacifica Northwest, which is, that is quite a name. Dipper isn't having as much fun, especially when Wendy just ditches her post and Grunkle Stan is clearly content with only forcing Dipper to stay out there alone. Thinking quick, he decided to cause his very own little sorcerer's apprentice gag by making a copy of himself, which of course eventually leads to multiple copies. But hey, they promised they wouldn't turn on each other and he even names the first copy Tyrone, a name he wished he had!

But yeah, "they all know this was coming" and after Dipper actually ends up talking to her like a normal person (Instead of just doing it because it was step 9 of the plan) he decides to ditch the plan; despite the fact the tons of Dipper copies were actually super cooperative with the plan and not at all fighting amongst themselves..but no, that really screws with all their little anal retentive brains and chaos breaks out, leading to Dipper and Tyrone as the only survivors (Since water ruins them and he sets off the fire sprinkles with a popper toy).

The two reconcile when Wendy ends up spending time with Robby, the guy from the convenience store episode, and Tyrone admits they should just be natural and not have overly complicated plans.. and they share a Pitt Soda toast, which I could tell was a bad idea when they first proposed it, but they didn't realize until the liquid in the soda finishes him off, oops.

Mabel barely loses the dance contest but gains some friends; surprisingly, I found this to actually be the less exciting subplot. Mabel's grin not leaving her face as she announces "She's going down" and generally just being Mabel was nice, but the plot was unusually predictable for GF, ooh nerds vs popular kids, be still my beating heart. Dang good thing the A plot was hilarious.

Funny bits: Paper Jam Dipper was amazing and kind of sad, poor guy didn't fit in and accepted his fate (Kind of wonder what he was saying the whole time, if only we had subtitles.) Don't Start Unbelieving is certainly a parody of Journey and certainly had some lyrics that were a thing. And distracting Soos with the dot was hilarious "The dot does not disappoint" and "He's gonna get tired of that thing eventually" followed by "NEVER!" from offscreen, that was a comedy highlight. And him finally finding the right whimsical sound effect in the ending. Other bits I liked was the "Dipper Classic", faking the 7 on his hat, "Quit hitting myself"...And that unusual Big Dipper birthmark, but now I wonder what his real name is... one final note, guess Wendy's (Kind of?) boyfriend was faking not remembering Dipper harsh, I thought he'd at least warmed up with the others enough to be like "oh hi" but guess not, geez.. Least we got a funnier second version of Dipper's dream sequence where Wendy kicked him in the nuts? Guy should maybe listen to himself about being too young for her.

All in all, finally, Dipper is funny. Woot. I'd be up for seeing Mabel's new friends again in a funnier plot.


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Forceful_Dragon posted...

the type of code-breaking that has been used thus far is a Caesar cipher.

Ah, I didn't connect that. I guess that's an announcement of the new cipher?

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Grand Kirby posted...

I personally find this episode to be a bit weak, but Alfred Molina as the Multi-bear is great, and I love that training montage song, "Keep on shaving that hairy uncle!"

I did not recognize the voice, cool. Multibear and the funny song were highlights yeah. Glad it wasn't just me finding this one a bit undercooked compared to the last few. Not actually bad mind, I just already have higher expectations for this show.

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Mr. Caesarian will be out next week. Mr. Atbash will substitute.

Well that's unclear

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Ha ha, yeah I didn't connect that until you said it, but that's great.

Episode 6 - Dipper Vs Manliness

Dipper thus far hasn't been the biggest source of humor, so a Dipper focused A plot about him wanting to be manly isn't likely to be my favorite episode, and not so shockingly it wasn't. It wasn't a BAD episode as such, but it had less laugh out loud moments than usual due to the lower amount of Mabel.. although intellectually I suppose getting a break now and then helps reinforce just how weird she is when she returns. "DIPPER!! It's me, Mabel! I'm looking at you through this glass! Right here! This is my voice! I'm talking to you from inside!" and "Did you see me through the -" when he comes in. Ah, classic Mabel.

It starts when Mabel and Dipper want to head to the diner and get some food, so Stan leaves off from scamming some tourist, saying "I'm fine locking him inside if you are" and sticking a board out in front of the door as they go. At the diner Stan is too cheap to buy them much of anything (ordering Dipper a "ketchup packet") Mabel wanted pancakes and Dipper decides to try his luck at a manliness tester machine where you squeeze a lever and can win some pancakes (which are stacked up next to it for some reason) but both Mabel and Stan laugh at his idea to try it, and Mabel says he's not "Manly Mannington". Dipper can't reproduce that name but tries anyway and gets the "Cutie Patootie" result. The huge lumberjack guy tries and wins so hard the machine explodes, sending pancakes flying directly onto everyone's plates which got a laugh out of me.

I also liked how when Dipper was leaving he tripped over the beaver that had been popping up out of the floor and getting hit by a broom by Lazy Susan; which is a great name referencing revolving kitchenware. And Mabel notices Grunkle Stan has the hots for her, which makes her decide to hook them up, delivering one of the best bits in the episode, "Grunkle Stan, you are a cranky, gross, weird old man. But we will get Lazy Susan to like you because nothing is stronger than the power of-" "Love?" "Mabel! To victory!"

Dipper gets upset about not being called a "Male man" in a terrible mailman pun, and runs off into the woods where the supernatural stuff of the episode begins iin a more obvious way than usual even, a minotaur just leaps out of the woods, and I was like "Oh god, they're going to call this a Manotaur aren't they" and yep they sure did. Dipper is taken back to their "man cave" and after using some reverse psychology and taunting (calling them "chicken") or "using some kind of brain magic" as they put it, they decide to train him to be a real man, involving dumb things like sticking your hand in the "pain hole" and it's never explained what that actually does. I assume there's some kind of animal down there biting it?

Meanwhile, Mabel is trying to help out Grunkle Stan with flashcards and Soos dressed up as Lazy Susan, Soos ends up fleeing from a weird face Mabel has Stan make at one point. Mabel eventually decides this is going to take " some really great training music" one montage later including lyrics like "I really don't know what's happening at this part" and
they get their results. Stan is even more of a mess than usual, but Dipper just has to pass the final test of beheading the multibear, a bear with a lot of heads.

I like how Dipper is all "I have to take your head, or one of them anyway, there's like what, six heads?" Eventually they both bond over their shared love of Babba and their hit Disco Girl (A clear reference to Abba and Dancing Queen), which up to this point was something he'd been trying to hide from the Manotaurs and got embrassed when Grunkle Stan had brought it up; one thing this show does well is they have at least one solid running gag per episode. So Dipper decides not to be manly, and acccording to Stan in a surprisingly reasonable and affirming response to that, standing up for yourself even when it isn't popular IS manly. And Dipper grows a single chest hair that Mabel steals for her scrapbook and I seriously need to see more of that book; I think I spotted the beheaded Grunkle Stan wax figure in one of those photos. Also somehow Grunkle Stan ends up getting he number because Mabel gets the idea to introduce him as a fixer upper since Susan can't seem to stop getting her broken cake revolver thing to work, and it succeeds, but possibly "Also women live longer than men so your dating pool is smaller and you should really lower your standards." helped too, which was hilariously blunt again. When head in the clouds Mabel is super blunt like that it's unexpected at this point and make its funnier.

A few good jokes; The Manly Jerky with the guy saying "You're inadequate!" on it, Multibear in general, the names of the manotaurs were weird and I didn't recall them all, so I loved it when Dipper called one "Beardy" because he also forgot them all, but the guy was like "Yeah, I'm Beardy", so it was actually him remembering it instead of just making one up, which was a good reversal of expectations. Also when Dipper and Mabel were making tummy growling noises at the top of the episode and just started slapping their cartoon bellies together.

One thought: wonder if the Manotaurs revealed something new with "the gnomes in the trees and the mermen in the lake", since we haven't seen mermen yet iirc.

Also one of the cats names is literally catface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBQNQ6qzCA0

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That's entirely possible that's what it said because it's also hilarious but I make no claim to be able to remember with that level of specificity; I defer to your superior memory in this case. And it's really funny.

I also loved the "irascible coxswain" part.

oh right and i noticed the dusk 2 dawn reference because it wasn't subtle or I'm stupid, but I was thinking from dusk til dawn, the horror action movie.

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My roomie helped out with decoding those messages, and here's what we have so far.

Decryption key: DEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABC ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Answers: ZHOFRPH WR JUDYLWB IDOOV Welcome to gravity falls QHAW ZHHN: UHWXUQ WR EXWW LVODQG Next week: Return to butt island KH'V VWLOO LQ WKH YHQWV He's still in the vents FDOUD, ZKB ZRQW BRX FDOO PH? Calra, why wont you call me? RQZDUGV DRVKLPD! Onwards aoshima!



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Episode 5 - The Inconveniencing

I had a longer gap than usual between watching and writing, so my bad if I get something wrong. What was the names of Wendy's friends? I forgot them all.

As for the title, a reference to The Shining perhaps? Probably, because like in the Shining we have a place haunted by ghosts. Finally we get an episode with more focus on Wendy, the main cast member (?) who has by far had the least screen time. When Grunkle Stan goes out (Apparently his last name is Pines and I wonder if that will be important later) he asks Wendy to watch the shack, but instead they all decide to slack off with her on the roof and throw pine cones at a bullseye she stuck on the totem pole out front. This establishes Wendy as kind of a troublemaker, and Dipper immediately gets a crush on her and wants to look cool. So he claims they're "13, technically teenagers" as an excuse to hang out with her when she goes to hang out with her friends.

After a rough start of being considered a kid and not getting along with the goth guy, Dipper helps them get into an abandoned convenience store. When it turns out to be haunted, he first loses street cred by getting freaked out and warning them, but then gains it again when he saves the day while the teens are passed out; and Wendy lies that he did it a cool way rather than with the "Lamby Dance", a hilarious dance preformed in a lamb suit that he was ashamed his parents had him do as a kid. Interesting childhood I guess.

Meanwhile Grunkle Stan won't get up to get the remote and ended up getting really into a victorian england over the top romance movie of some sort with the most hilarious names; he ends up throwing the tv out the window due to how into it he was in fact, and goes "Couldn't find the remote" to Dipper and Mabel's baffled expressions as they get home, which was hilarious. I love how he was actually predicting dialogue by the end "That's what I said!" he agrees to the tv.

Memorable/Funny bits:

Loved Mabel spinning on the globe at the start, Dipper's "I am pretending to write something down" note on his clipboard when he was trying to look like he wasn't just staring at Wendy. Actually, Mabel is funny in a lot of little ways like when she was going "bplht" over and over through her hair after Dipper flipped it in her face rather than removing it like a normal person. Her attempt at a greeting to Wendy's friends: "I chewed my gum so it looks like a brain!" They seemed to just kind of ignore her for most of the episode, although I did like the bit where they were climbing the fence and "your sister did it" and we get to see her doing that running in circles on the ground making whooping noises bit like Curly and later Zoiderber did.

I was a bit disappointed on the reduced attention to Mabel once she startedeating all that "Smile Dust" but dang, I first though she was just sick to her stomach which would be predictable, but then she started hallucinating and it was amazing. "Would you like to eat my candy paws" and that.. flying dolphin with fists coming out everywhere that shot lasers she was riding on.. I can't even.

It's probably good to have the more normal MC and the wacky one, so the wacky antics stick out more, but Dipper is kind of "protagonist guy" at times; hopefully he gets more of a thing later on? He had some bits here that amused me, like missing his face with his ice cream when being praised by Wendy, and I loved at the end when he realized the store was about to flip rightside up again he had this wide-eyed sort of "uh oh" look.

The ghosts just hating teenagers was certainly a twist, although when Wendy said "typical teenage behavior" I was also like, oh man. And him not being a teenager saved them all. Some of the bits like being inside the ddr machine (I'm not a dance machine! You are!) and being on the not Froot Loops box were funny (bonkers for eating you alive) but the bit where he all saw them as skeletons was actually kinda surprising; little kids would have really flipped their shit at that one.

The one phone girl's message being "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh emoji emoji" lol..

I also noticed the reappearance of Pitt cola on the soda machine in the convenience store, I see what you mean there. Looks like the book sort of came in handy again, even though he didn't read that much of it, and I guess they didn't have any lingering regrets? It may be he didn't actually banish them or let them pass on so much as appease them I guess?

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This sounds even stupider than it is offensive which is saying a lot.

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

And I can just post the screenshots from ep 1-3 if you want to save the time of pulling them up if you want.

Sure

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

Malcom in the Middle premiered in January of 2000. Everything before 9/11 is still spiritually the 90s.

It reminded me of Pete and Pete and Clarissa Explains it all, both 90's Nick sitcoms that had kids that spoke to the camera a lot. Never saw Malcom myself.

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Not sure if I have any way to decode it yet, but I'll be saving any others I see in the topic.

Does the can in his hand signify "P" might be "I"? Am I overthinking? It's my first thought on it so far. If so, "H" might be "S" and the last word might be IS?

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Also thanks for the heads up on the credits, I spotted this code of some sort

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Episode 4 - The Hand That Rocks the Mabel

There's another con artist in town "Little" Gideon and his Tent of Telepathy; and Grunkle Stan is not a fan. They've apparently given him trouble since they came to town (Like stealing his parking spot with their big fancy bus, gasp) and he says anyone living under his roof won't go under theirs; Since tents don't have rooves, Mabel says they've found their loophole (showing a small loop of string and making a strange bwoop bwoop noise with a hilarious face, Mabel is amazing btw).

This guy really is ripping off Grunkle's ripoffs since he even has a 'psychic sack' just like Grunkle's 'mystery sack' ie a bag you drop your money in and has it magically disappear lol. They even have their own Soos! (nametag said Duece or Dueke, didn't go back to check). "Little Gideon" really is a little kid, and sings a song about being a psychic and everyone in the tent is into it including Mabel (who is amazing he can figure out her name despite it being written on her sweater. shoutout to all the funny Mabel sweaters) who I saw the name drop coming when he needed to rhyme "able". That little American flag pin on his lapel is a great con artist giveaway, and his whole deal felt a lot like one of those television evangelists, "step right up and be healed!"

The two end up becoming friends despite Dipper thinking the guy is a dip essentially, and after a creepy chat about how he feels like the king of the world up on the roof they're hanging out on, Gideon asks Mabel on a date. Dipper "Doesn't trust anyone whose hair is bigger than his head", which is a great line. Guy is already a ten on the creep o meter, even before the "are you sniffing my hair" line when they hug after Mabel super reluctantly accepts "one date".
Unsurprisingly, this leads to more and with people in town peer pressuring her "I'll die if you say no!" and a doctor who goes "I can say medically this is true!" she ends up having difficulty dumping him and actually getting stressed; the "Mabel is in sweater town" thing was cute, but Gideon really got on my bad side there; it was uncomfortable seeing the normally unflappable Mabel that upset tbh. Dipper stepped in, and it turned out Gideon's bolo tie he kept fingering had a magic telekinetic power, so he was beating up Dipper after he called him out using the reporter Toby to fake an interview about the weird stuff in town.

I loved the callback that Dipper apologized for "accusing him of murder last week". I'm really feeling that there's going to be more continuity in this series than the gag show exterior might have made me think if I hadn't known just enough to know there would be long running mysteries. On that note, I like how the detached S from the Mystery Shack sign is still sitting on the roof from last episode.

Mabel gets up the gumption to personally dump him, and ends up snatching away Gideon's bolo tie when she distracted him, "Of course not you're attacking my brother", that was an awesome trick, and then I liked it when she saved them both while flying in the air with the bolo's powers. It was really cathartic after seeing her squirm so much around this guy earlier in the episode, especially when she smashed it.

This was all very difficult for Grunkle Stan, who had first gotten angry and then was going to do a profit sharing scheme with the Tent, but hey, he managed to steal their weird clown painting when he left. Loved that "you got a word a day calendar or something" crack to Gideon when he was getting multisyllabically annoyed.

Mabel isn't worried about him because nobody will guess she's thinking of -8, nobody guesses negative numbers! But his threat that "This town has secrets you haven't begun to understand" may be true when it turns out he has mystery journal 2..and it made me realize Dipper's has a 3 on it. So who has journal 1? Niiiiiiice.

Hilarious bits: the show "Tiger Fist" about a tiger with a fist surgically attached, Mabel bedazzling her face "Blink Ow" "is that permanent?" "I'm unappreciated in my time" and how when Gabriel was at the door she basically coughed up a bedazzle hairball that bedazzled his suit. All the bedazzling jokes were great, including turning Soos into some kind of bedazzle disco ball in the end credits. Gideon arriving on a horse and keeping it in the restaurant was kind of funny as well, and Mabel describing his attention as "Quicksand, chubby quicksand". I also liked the warehouse with Gabriel brand merchandise that included a bat labeled as "blunt object" and for some reason, "Lamb shears".


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Oh ok... huh. I'll do that.

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That doesn't just look like one, it basically is one wow

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I have not seen it spelled this is true, thank you for the correction I shall apply it going forward.

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Episode 3 - Headhunters

At first I was really excited when I saw that Zeus found a hidden room in the Mystery Shack (and I hope after the fight at the end the building says Mystery Hack for a while) but was a bit puzzled when it was wax dummies. Of course, later when they were cursed wax dummies (totally not magical like Mabel wondered clearly) that fit in more with the weird stuff theme. But I was kind of disappointed wax Grunkle Stan never started moving. My roomie still thinks someone killed wax Abraham Lincoln (wax John Wilkes Booth, Stan is looking at you)

I love how Mabel made the wax figure though, that was hilarious, and it turned out surprisingly good considering her previous ideas like waffle with beefy arms. Anyway, they definitely ruined some of the sympathy ol Grunkle Stan got last episode by focusing on what a con artist he was this one (And it's all thanks to one person; the wax statue, oh sure and you too Mabel). Liked seeing the crazy redneck in the audience again worrying about when the wax statues will take over and if they can survive; clearly this guy is more on the ball than we realized. The kids were pretty good at wax figure slaying, although I was kind of sad to see all of them except Larry King's head go before it was over.. >_>

Highlights; Ducktective saying "Don't patronize me" in the subtitles when the guy made a duck joke, "The murderer could be anyone!" - Dipper "Even us!" - Mabel. Also the running gag with Dipper being adorable and his sneezes sounding like a kitten even wax Sherlock Holmes commented on, Mabel saying "We have an axe! Ree! Ree! Ree!" when explaining to Grunkle Stan why they were going into town (And Zeus being all "this is an axe" earlier..) And their fake ids having glitter and googly eyes on them that Mabel shook up and down just killed me. Girl loves her glitter. "Excuse me, I have glitter in my eye!" - Grunkle Stan at the 'funeral'

Now they better have the surviving head of Larry King come back later, or I'm going to be disappointed. "Llamas are the greatest warriors" - as why Mabel should wear the llama sweater.

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You think they can finish up the whole series in about 7 more episodes?

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scar the 1 posted...

Because it isn't intended to be at your heels no matter what. It's just a flat increase in speed of the racers behind you. If you're still better, you can still overtake them. Rubberbanding is a general term, and SMK had a very simple implementation.

That must be it then. Because in SMK64, those dudes are on you like glue. Even as a kid I could tell they would spin out but be right on you again in seconds. It felt really different from the first game.

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AlisLandale posted...

Whenever I think about rubberbanding AI I think of canary Mary lol

The funny thing is I really don't remember her being that hard. When I was a kid I had one hell of a tapping arm. Long story short that's why I had carpal tunnel surgery in both wrists, probably. Oops.

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scar the 1 posted...

https://guiguilegui.wordpress.com/ 2016/11/16/rubber-banding-in-super-mario-kart/
Remove the space

Then why are they so bad at it? I could lap them.

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so anime only here, a manga reader friend of mine is convinced they are going to need a final season part 2 to wrap this up, this is true right? Because it would feel kind of abrupt right now is al im saying.

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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

What racing game doesn't have rubberbanding ai

The original Mario Kart.

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I'll probably only watch it about once a week, so not yet. Probably soon.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

Chrono Trigger

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Personally I prefer items on because I like smash as a wacky party game but its not like its wrong to enjoy the game the way they want to

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I liked Grandia 2, played it on my dc back in the day.. ah.. old sega games have gotten so pricey.

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K, might take me a bit tho cuz I watch a lot of different shows so I might get to about one a week. Im following a lot of anime lol. Ty for your patience with my slow watching.

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Bummer.

kind of a brief statement I guess but I mean it, that sucks

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If we can avoid it I prefer not to have to doge a lot of spoiler tags xd

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Wow, and I thought I had an old account without much karma

Oh wait I do

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

I appreciate the long write up!

I'm glad you are enjoying it. And continuity will play a larger deal as the show progresses. There is a deeper mystery that the show eventually reveals.

That's good; I'd kind of gotten that vibe from the very very little I'd heard. I'm basically completely unspoiled.

Things I knew

1) people liked it
2) a lot
3) apparently get quite good in a "best kids cartoons for adults" way
4) rainbow barfing gnome

That's it

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I wrote more than I intended, huh.

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Episode 2 - "The Legend of the Gobblewonker"

So in this episode Grunkle Stan wants to take Mabel and Dipper (It turns out his name isn't Dippy as I misremembered previously) on a fishing trip, but they end up searching for the Gobblewonker, a Nessie styled lake monster a crazy hillbilly guy was yelling about instead with Zeus, who as far as I can figure is some guy who works at their uncle's mystery shack or whatever he called it. Bonus points for the hillbilly's son disciplining him with a spray bottle of water like he was a cat.

Mabel is full time crazy. It's wild. I loved her fantasies with the human sized hamster ball "I'm human sized!" love those Mabel one liners, although she was almost too wacky in the first half, ha ha. Also liked the end credits pelican reprise. Other great jokes; the beavers and their hilarious subtitles, "We're still beavers" and "If it makes you feel any better, I got a lot of pictures of the beavers" as they were fleeing the sea monster. "Why would that make me feel better?!" Also I kind of like how in the first shot one of the beavers just casually slipped off the fake lake monster into the water like some kind of idiot beaver; it just sort of tipped over and fell in with no reaction.

I called the last camera under his hat being the last one in a key moment (love all the random shots of throwing cameras overboard for no reason and Mabel blackmailing him to be co-captain) but I didn't predict the monster would be a robot; then once it was I predicted it would be the hillbilly. But then I didn't predict him to go full mad scientist hillbilly. I had no idea I needed that in my life.

I was a little concerned some of the jokes heading onto the island might be trying too hard, but by the time their beaver laden ship was fleeing, well it had me again.

Also I must be getting old because I already felt kind of sorry for Grunkle Stan having his nephews not care about hanging out with him even before feeling sorry for him was explicitly part of the plot; the joke about his new ankle monitor was classic though. Decent episode, although it was a bit odd at first that they acted like they had been there a while, have to get used to that western cartoon thing where after the first episode they write them so you can watch them out of order more easily but not really placing stuff.

Though I liked the way the adventure book came back in to find the secret cave, wonder how much the ongoing mysteries will evolve? Right now it's funny, but I can't wait to see it become legendary.

That first hamster ball daydream might be legendary though. "You can look, but you can't touch".


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Deja Blue 03 posted...

The evil Robinhood app sells it

Right up until it becomes profitable?

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I dont know the purge rate so Im bumping this.

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So how do I buy doge coins anyway I dont get crypto

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I dont date anyone because I dont put in the effort because I fear rejection

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If I dont get 80s and 90s sitcom style Im going to be disappointed

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

snoke was obviously going to be this trilogy's palpatine but since snoke was killed off in last jedi, abrams actually brought back palpatine >_> dumb move but rian johnson killing off snoke was also dumb.

Perhaps once they found the cloning facility they could have fought another clone of smoke; making it clear they need to destroy the facility to get rid of him (and leaving a back door for extra smokes?)

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So what the Star Wars fandom at large considers the series to be one good movie, one great movie, two okay movies and five terrible movies? Harsh assessment.

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So I tend to like cartoons of all sorts and I'd heard some good things so I decided to try this out. I probably won't post a ton about each episode and I may only watch one or two a week so this might be a while, but here we go.

Episode 1 - Tourist Trapped

Pretty strong introduction, I tend to always feel a little uncertain going into one of those "for kids but also for adults cuz it's awesome show" that I was more in the adult agegroup when it came out, but this one is worth it. That was funny. Mabel is awesome, basically everything she said was hilarious. Loved that montage of weird pickupline attempts, the whole leafblower scene (and how after the flashback of her getting a leafblower stuck to her face ended she said "That was fun") and "Grappling gun!" just killed me.

Did not expect giant gnome monster, even though I'd seen the gnome puking rainbows GIF. lol stack of gnomes in a trenchcoat, and the zombie fakeout had me going. "Gruncle" seems nicely mysterious, so excited to see where this goes and what the book has to say about the Mysteries of Gravity falls.

Anyway yeah so far Mabel is the standout, but I have hopes their uncle is going to be the fun kind of weird too. Drippy is allright.

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dj1200 posted...

24 for me

Did you inherit that account from your father

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I don't know I haven't gotten that intimate with a ps5 yet

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