Lurker > Zeus

9/10

Also, was the live-action intro actually from the show? Because I don't remember it and they omitted a lot of shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLhI6C1nh_Q

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7.5/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF29LRqwjXA

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9/10, although mostly for Barney at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y167DNVrOI

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8/10. Great range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jWAwUb63c

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1/10, although it might have been funny in the episode itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx1ztJROpyU

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0/10 - That clip was so bad it very nearly killed the topic!

On the note of questionable clips and involving cats...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvZql6RToE

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10/10 Great clip, works in a lot of stuff. However, didn't that get posted not that long ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KojYatpLPSE

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I realize I simultaneously love the LA version of Kakegurui and get bored to distraction while watching it. I imagine it might be different if it had a dub... which actually would also increase the show's level of camp.

Granted, I guess half the problem is having already seen the anime past this point. I also dislike how they don't do the wild hair colors for most of the characters.

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5/10

And was that really from a 2005 episode? Oo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLXOpxDR5kI

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Lost my wifi for a while the other day so I wound up:

A) Realizing that despite picking up a ton of DVDs, I didn't really feel like watching anything

B) Finally watching 2 of the digital films I have on itunes (through purchased DVDs with digital codes)

Which brings me to:

C) Despite often mentioning Hobo with a Shotgun as one of my favorite films, I realize that I might have only seen it once or twice max because I couldn't remember half that shit. Granted, I really love it for the fake trailer -- which provided a rough outline for the film and additionally some of its quips were rather clumsily incorporated into the film at moments that didn't really work -- so I guess I shouldn't find it *that* surprising. The biggest things I remembered from the full film were the scene where Slick torches a bus and the Plague, although I guess the Plague was also in the trailer. What wasn't in the film, however, was the scene where the chick was taken at the end to replace the Plague member she killed. Still a really fun movie, though.

D) The Dark Shadows movie is much better than I remembered, and I kinda liked it the first time around (despite taking the show's concept in a somewhat more comical direction). I had recalled being annoyed by Depp's performance as Barnabus Collins, but a lot of those things weren't really bugging me while I was watching it again. Only made it halfway through that night, although I'll probably finish it tonight.

Then we have ...

E) The movie is also notable for featuring Michelle Pfeiffer, which is notable for my previous discussion of how she's aged. It effectively serves as a kinda in-between since Dark Shadows came out in 2012 or so.

The Wave Master posted...

Scarlett is pretty sure she's going to be laid off from her supervisor job at the casino. The good news is that we will be able to catch up on some shows we missed. We also already planned separation time where I get to play video games, and she reads her books or cooks. (See what did there) as she can cook and definitely bake better than I can.

It's pretty much a guarantee at this point. CT shut down its casinos today and I imagine other states are all doing the same.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Idirs Elba has corona.

Gee, how will he get through another 2-episode season of Luther?!


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I dread the prospect of being quarantined mostly from the perspective that I might have to actually cook or, more likely, rely on dry foods for a few weeks.

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The Wave Master posted...

I let them move into the house, and 8 years later they still haven't left.

LOL! >_<

The Wave Master posted...

Thinking about making the next topic a Covid 19 related topic like Corona-Geek or Geekvid 19.

Before this mini apocalypse, I already had a title I wanted to implement, but I guess I'm wondering if I should keep up with the times or stick to our Geek heritage?

Geek Topic: The Purell, Guns, and Canned Food Edition

Geek Topic: Postponed Until Further Notice

Geek Topic: 3 more months of winter

Geek Topic: Hibernating until all this shit blows over

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Quarantine and chill with Corona-chan?

Instead of Quarantine we should go with [REC] because that's the original =p

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The real downside with a flu-related topic title is, if this things takes a REAL turn for the worse, and get way more tragic than swine flu/bird flu/SARS/etc did, and a lot of people die, then the new topic is going to start feeling pretty morbid, and sort of a case of "Man, I really wish we hadn't named it that."

Yep... but when has that ever stopped us? If not for bad decisions, we wouldn't make decisions at all.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

So, "The Geek Topic has closed it's Ports" is a non-starter?

Yes, because that's bad grammar.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I do like that one.

Despite the grammatical mistake?!

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So continuing my addiction, I recently stopped at a Gamestop and picked up 3 more FF Mystery Mini boxes. Got 2 Sue Storms (blargh) and finally got a Doctor Doom. I might just go without the Namor, although I also kinda want the Human Torch.

And last night I watched Spenser Confidential starring Mark Wahlberg which, surprisingly enough, is a NF original (which explains why I hadn't heard of it before seeing it in my feed). I enjoyed it, but it also kinda reminded me how much these streaming services are stepping up their game.

The Wave Master posted...

Hard games like Dark Souls or Nioh 1 and 2 are not my cup of tea. I'm just not the type of person to get his jollies from mental pain and suffering. Unless it's the mental pain and suffering of others for my amusement. So, that is my take on the whole genre.

I like difficulty, but not in "story" games. If I'm playing a game for the story, difficulty can be a distraction. If I'm playing a game for the challenge, I want the story to be less pronounced.

The Wave Master posted...

In fun news, I'm at an early dinner with Scarlett, and my brother, not Oreon, called me and ask if I'm willing to help chip in for a bus ticket for my other brother to come to the funeral...

Did you ever finally answer my earlier question about why you own your mother's home? Oo

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If I was still able to remotely work 100%, I'd probably retreat to a friend's cabin for a few weeks and let this nonsense blow over. However, I'm stuck going into an office like a muggle at least half the week.

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I'm more concerned with potentially infecting others if I caught it myself than I am concerned with it doing me much harm. That said, it's somewhat hit Connecticut at this point so... guess it's just a matter of time til it spreads. Feels like a bigger deal than the last few scares, but who knows.

Also thus far left unanswered:

Zeus posted...

Wait, why do you own that house?

Yeah, also not sure why this isn't an option.

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Wait, why do you own that house?

shadowsword87 posted...

Would you be all right having them live in the same house as you?

Yeah, also not sure why this isn't an option.

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What's that expression? Something like "Only the poor are mentally ill, the rich are merely eccentric"? >_>

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Sounds like kind of a post hoc argument. Is somebody addicted only at the point when it becomes a major disruption to their lives to the exclusion of the escalation that's led to that moment? And is it purely a means-based argument? If somebody's means exceed an unreasonable action, does that they aren't addicted? Otherwise, given that I have as much as I do -- and often as poorly organized as it is -- I really shouldn't be picking up more at all. That's not purely a gambling aspect, though.

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shadowsword87 posted...

I don't think that exactly constitutes a gambling addiction.

What if I were thinking of buying more boxes?

The Wave Master posted...

My wife works at a casino. We live in a casino town, and have worked with pretty bad addicts. I know gambling addicts when I see them, and you didn't have a problem. Oh, you have tons of problems, but gambling isn't one of them.

https://i.imgur.com/HX9Jz96.jpg

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Today has probably been my worst birthday yet.

Each of my birthdays seems worse than the last. Granted, celebrating birthdays in general ceases to be a fun thing after 21 or 22.

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So at this point I'm just going to say I have a gambling addiction. After picking up two packs of the Fantastic Four Mystery Minis from Gamestop (for $3 apiece), I wound up buying three more. My first two packs contained Thing (which I kinda liked despite not wanting since I have a lot of Thing-related merch) and one of Mole Man's minions (Moloids?). The next three had Mole Man (had been tempted to get the Pop! which might have been $5 there so it kinda works out... although the Pop! looks nicer), Mr Fantastic (which I hadn't wanted, but he looks alright), and Silver Surfer (who I really hadn't cared about but... not terribly upset to get).

My big wants were Doom and Namor (with Galactus being mildly up there -- although he's got a new Pop! now which I could do instead)

Also after mild deliberation, I picked up a Pop! Owlman for $3 at a Hot Topic over the weekend.

In other news, I wound up watching/spoiling a lot of clips from the new Harley Quinn cartoon since they were up on YT (I guess they're locked behind DC All Access, a new streaming service, normally)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Quinn_(TV_series)

It's kinda shit because it mixes kiddy and adult humor (I guess the demographic is anybody hard enough into DC to pay for All Access), although I liked the running continuity and how some of the relationships were handled. It also features a *lot* of humor that's going to be completely dated in as early as 5 years, including a stupid Roger Goodell joke that doesn't even work today.

I also saw a tiny bit of the Deathstroke series (which might just be on CW?), which seems more promising.

The Wave Master posted...

I was going to talk about The Final Fantasy VII Remake demo, but my mom died this morning, and I kind of don't care.

Well, that's certainly *one* way to break the news. Thoughts and prayers.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

No. Dracula (the book) explicitly mentions Dracula (the character) outside during the day. So does Carmilla. It was never really a major thing before Nosferatu introduced the idea. At most, in some interpretations sunlight would weaken their unholy powers a bit, but they'd still be more or less fine. And in others they were almost entirely unaffected by sunlight other than just being tired because they were awake all night.

So basically your argument is because a fictional book chose to ignore lore that the film later actually used, the lore is somehow invalidated? You can't turn around and claim that Dracula is the inspiration for all vampires when the book was inspired by folklore.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Keep in mind, it would have been almost entirely impossible for anyone to pass as a normal human if they couldn't interact during the day for most of human history. Prior to the advent of electricity/electric lighting, almost every service and social activity only took place during the day. Someone who only went out at night would be an almost immediate suspect for pretty much everything (which would suck for anyone who had a legitimate sunlight sensitivity).

He says overlooking that a lot of traditional vampire lore *doesn't* have them passing as normal people which, humorously enough, was more a thing introduced in Dracula than folklore. In fact, a vampire's reputation as the undead often came from individuals supposedly encountering people they knew to be deceased.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

That wasn't why. The point was to keep the vampire counting so you could run the fuck away. The idea was, by the time the vampire finished counting, you'd be gone and it wouldn't be able to follow you. It goes hand-in-hand with the running water thing - it wasn't a method for killing the vampire, it was a method for running away from the vampire (ie, find a river, creek, stream, etc and cross it as quickly as possible).

Except for the lore that explicitly references them doing it for that effect. Again, we're talking things that predate Dracula which -- also again -- was an explicit work of fiction rather than a folk tale or legend.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yes - silver was a weapon you could use against vampires. And demons. NOT werewolves.

Silver was mostly a weapon that could be used against unholy/demonic things - and werewolves were never actually considered to be supernatural in that sense. Like I mentioned, they were usually considered to be humans using black magic, or under the influence of magic, and silver was rarely used as an anti-magic substance (if anything, silver was often pro-magic for a lot of ritualists). They have more in common with witches than they do vampires - and silver doesn't hurt witches, either.

Are you talking out of your ass at this point? Because earlier you were claiming, "Well, werewolves were just witches!", and now you're claiming that witches can't be hurt by silver *despite* one of the earliest examples of a silver bullet being used against the supernatural was to kill a witch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Brothers

If a werewolf is a witch -- per your claim -- and a witch is killed by silver bullets, it stands to reason that a werewolf would be killed by silver bullets.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Believe me, I spent waaay too long playing White Wolf games. I've done a fuckton of research on this sort of stuff.

Then how are you missing what seems like basic information?

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Watched the live-action Aladdin finally, which left me with some pretty mixed feelings. While I liked it for the most part, I can't help but wonder if I would like it at all if I hadn't already seen the cartoon version because the presentation at times almost presupposes a certain amount of knowledge (such as the intro scene where we see an overview of characters, locations, etc). The Cave of Wonders in particular feels like it has less of an explanation, although I suppose it hardly needs one.

My other semi-criticism is that it has something of a Bollywood feel and that a few of the song numbers (particularly "You've Never Had a Friend Like Me" really drag), in addition to the song quality being a little lackluster. However, the thing that irks me the most is the SJW, girl power "I Won't Be Silent" song which was just a ridiculously stupid moment, a transparently agenda-driven song, and not even a half-decent song to boot.

I'm still split on the casting. Will Smith was alright as Genie. I kinda like Jafar, but they didn't really bother with the cartoon appearance and I missed the ridiculous beard. Plus the Jafar-Genie didn't look nearly as badass as it did in the cartoon.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

In the case of werewolves, it's entirely because a movie came out in the 1940s and the entire world was brainwashed into accepting it as fact. Silver was never a thing in werewolf myth before. Most people would be absolutely astonished to realize just how much of what they think they know about werewolves comes from The Wolf Man (their bite was literally never contagious before then, either, for example). It's the same way sunlight wasn't actually lethal to vampires until Nosferatu came out. Hollywood has seriously distorted our understanding of supernatural folklore.

Though in the modern context, silver hurts werewolves almost entirely because werewolves are now tied so strongly to the moon. Silver is the moon's metal, werewolves are clearly moon-touched, so it's mostly a case of "fighting fire with fire" or turning their own nature against them.

Sunlight didn't hurt vampires? wtf, the superstition involving vampires counting -- which you yourself acknowledge -- directly contradicts this claim. When somebody left mustard seeds out (I *think* it was mustard seeds), it was to keep the vampire counting until the morning sun could get them.

And while the Wolfman may have popularized silver as a werewolf weapon, it *already* existed in folklore to some extent and it was broadly a solution for supernatural beings so it was almost certainly seen as a historic solution as well. The moon connotation is merely how people choose to read into and justify the existing weakness.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I already mentioned how most werewolf lore stems almost entirely from The Wolf Man (prior to that, werewolves were mostly just considered witches who could shapeshift into animals via demon magic).

Sounds like you're cribbing the Wolfman >_> The satanism connection has been closely aligned with Hollywood, starting with the Wolfman's pentagram

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I've always enjoyed the "can't cross running water" and "have to be invited in" ones. Or that they need to travel with their coffins/native soil. IIRC, Hellsing keeps most of these, which I enjoy, and makes vampires ridiculously inhuman in their strength. Or how Castlevania does is.

The invitation clause was always a really cool handicap which also gave them an additional menacing connotation. A lot of things still use that one (including Being Human), even if they abandoned the running water one.

It's worth noting that the running water restriction is prevalent throughout a lot of supernatural lore, including as a precaution against werewolves and ghosts (coincidentally, it's why the Headless Horseman was said to be unable to cross the bridge in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow)


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ParanoidObsessive posted...

This is the real problem with that discussion. Because we're talking about fictional concepts that are basically public domain, there's no single vision or objectively correct interpretation of how they work. So it's hard to say how multiple quantumly uncertain mechanics would interact.

Is zombieism a virus? A curse? The result of black magic? Voodoo drugs? The fact that there's no more room in hell, forcing souls back into their bodies? The beginning of the Day of Judgement? Something else?

Is vampirism a virus? A curse? Black magic? Something that makes you glitter in the sunlight? The next stage of human evolution? A literal punishment by God? A form of demonic possession?

Is lycanthropy a virus? A curse? Black magic? A deal witches make with Satan to change? A distinct race of their own? The chosen champions of a literal world-spirit? The result of ancient furries fucking their way across the world? The descendants of trickster gods?

Well, you always have historic lore... which can also be contradictory, varying based on region, etc. In the case of zombies, our conception is almost entirely a Hollywood invention bearing little resemblance to the original concept. It makes the liberties taken with werewolves and vampires seem small by comparison.


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Deadliest Warrior was such lulz. The fight "science" was always a joke, but the episodes usually managed to entertain.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

I read that as "Jughead" and had flashbacks to Punisher meets Archie...

It *is* Jughead. The "d" was a typo on my part.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

So did I - and I didn't even notice that it didn't say that until your post.

I just assumed it was another attempt on their part to stay hip and relevant, like the time they did Afterlife with Archie. With Jughead as a zombie. Or a vampire.

It's a delightful lark starring Jughead as a werewolf and featuring other monsters! Do you hate fun?

Lokarin posted...

If a vampire bites a zombie... does it become a vampire?

The vampire would likely just get really sick. In Being Human, werewolf blood made vampires violently ill (or, at least, up until the virus arc in the US version where it made them immune to contaminated human blood). The zombie, already being dead, likely wouldn't be affected (unless the zombie was still alive, at which point it'd either die or being a weird hybrid -- I imagine the brain function would remain gone)

idk, I seem to remember reading in one lore or mythos that people scratched by a vampire could become a zombie-like creature.

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Judghead: The Hunger is the first comic in a while that's really interested me >_> Read a few random issues, kinda want to check out the full run (maybe when it's combined into a TPB... assuming that it's not already?). Also still tempted by the Legion of Doom event that DC ran some time ago. Glanced through an issue of it which kinda includes the set-up


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tbh, I still love the whole, "One year after the Magna Carta!", crap, which is later used to mock him.

shipwreckers posted...

I guess I can't make a "revenge" topic without including the Count of Monte Cristo. That entire plot is based on revenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGLi49u-5-k

When Edmund reveals himself to Count Mondego, it is pretty intense (and the real "fight" hasn't even started yet).

Huh, did I not do any posts about it? I had been tempted to post that clip but realized he didn't get much revenge out of it.

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Finally watched the new (well, it's getting close to a decade old) Tintin movie. It was surprisingly good, although parts of the ending were a little sketchy. Shame that a sequel seems absurdly unlikely, between the amount of time that's passed and the so-so box office return.

Speaking of things that seem unlikely due to the passage of time, I saw a display with the movie Trick 'r Treat (the long-delayed anthology one) and was reminded of the fact that its potential sequels have been in development hell for a long time now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_%27r_Treat

I think the creators are probably content milking merchandising money since the movie has become something of a cult classic (and, in all honesty, it was nothing special as far as anthologies go -- most of the hype came from repeated delays)

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I could have stared at a wall for 2 hours and enjoyed my time more than watching the Oscars.

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shipwreckers posted...

Have any of y'all watched the series Luther? It's from BBC, but Prime Video has seasons 1-4.

It's more psycho drama than action, but there's definitely some good revenge scenes (especially when Luther gloriously takes down mass murderers).

Yes, although of most of the takedowns didn't really seem that satisfying (one exception was when he just outright ignored the serial killer looking for attention) although a few were really cool, like the truck scene where he plays a game against the second RNG twin just to buy time so a sniper could shoot through the truck.

I think NFI used to have the early seasons.

shipwreckers posted...

I know many people thought Deadpool (the movie, with Ben Afleck) sucked, but that fight scene with Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin was freakin awesome.

...that's Daredevil, not Deadpool. And I have very mixed feelings about the movie, although the casting of MCD and Garner were both issues. MCD's fighting at the end where he just throws his arms the same way and DD keeps ducking detracted from the moment.

shipwreckers posted...

R.I.P. Michael Clarke Duncan : (

He died way too soon. Would have loved to have seen him play Barracuda in Netflix's Punisher series.... although I guess that also ended way too soon as well. Barracuda would have been fucking perfect for that show, especially given his ability to survive injuries that would kill other people.

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Just noticed that Disney+ even has X-Men: The Animated Series >_> Saw that it had Spider-Man Unlimited first, though. Had started looking at some of the other stuff because I saw a copy of Maze Runner on sale -- which I started watching one time and it looked interesting --- and then noticed it was connected to Fox (or, at least, I *thought* it was) and figured I might be able to just watch it on Disney+

Tempted to rewatch it soon although I remember that first episode having a lot of cringy moments the last time I rewatched it. In general, though, I kinda credit my love of Sentinels to the cartoon more so than anything else.

Korruptor posted...

She still looks decent for 61 years old.

She looker older than that in the movie.

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Revelation34 posted...

Didn't she kinda retire?

Can't really tell by her wiki. She's been in 10 movies in the last decade, with another in post-production. The longest gap I see in the last 10 years is maybe 3-4 years, but she had 3 movies in the same year on that fourth year (technically 4, since she was in a tv movie as well -- The Wizard of Lies, starring Robert DeNiro as Bernie Madoff). Before that, she had another 3-4 gap in the 2000s that ended with 3 movies in the same year. She seems to work more consistently than a lot of actresses.

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Watched Ant-Man and Wasp, which was also really great. I think these are are the only MCU films I've really loved (even the ending credits were great). However, the whole thing reminded me what a double-edged sword the MCU continuity is, considering that there's such a jump between AM1 and AM2 because you have things like CW in-between. And then, for the after-credits, I guess it correlates with Infinity War spoilers.

At any rate, one of the craziest moments in the film is when we finally see modern-day Janet and she takes off her helmet to reveal Michelle Pfeiffer. I was surprised since I was looking at her and thinking, "Wait, is that Michelle Pfeiffer? Damn, she's aged!" and then I was trying to remember the last time I saw her in a movie. Scrolling through her filmography, I guess the answer would be Dark Shadows (which, I suppose, makes sense since it's a Burton film) but I mostly just remember that movie for Johnny Depp's performance and after the fact because it had Chloe Grace Martinez or whatever from Kickass


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Was finally going to get around to watching Avengers IW/EG.... but then happened to go onto NFI for some reason and noticed that the new Bojack season was out so I started watching that instead.

Granted, this was after seeing the ERB with Thanos and then looking up some clips and inadvertently spoiling some IW/EG shit. Great ERB, though. Some catchy lyrics. Actually, the last few have been surprisingly good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1vXC-vKgKg

It's weird to have 3 great ones in a row.

In other news, because Pokemon Go has online battling now, I finally started to play Let's Go! Pikachu. Re-post from other topic:

Finally started Pokemon Let's Go! Pikachu (figured I'd put a hiatus on Shield which I started then got sidetracked) because I want some Meltan and, in addition to being impressed by the into, I'm a little stunned that the whole thing can be played with the Pokeball Plus. I hadn't realized that it could even be used to move your character. How wild is that?!

At any rate, absolutely loving the concept of once again being able to play one-handed... although there's no real practical benefit to it, particularly since the L=A benefit with some of the GBA-SP games was being able to play while on the go but you can't really do that with a Switch.

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Finally started Pokemon Let's Go! Pikachu (figured I'd put a hiatus on Shield which I started then got sidetracked) because I want some Meltan and, in addition to being impressed by the into, I'm a little stunned that the whole thing can be played with the Pokeball Plus. I hadn't realized that it could even be used to move your character. How wild is that?!

Revelation34 posted... Probably the movie if you watched it dubbed.

They never dubbed the series? I thought they had.

Chrono_Trigger posted...

i read and finished magical girl of the end

it got real convoluted at the end and didn't make a whole lot of sense but it was fine

JFC, I wish I had just checked out when they began to get into the time travel nonsense. Pretty much everything that happens in the next arc is fucking terrible. At any rate, stopped reading several years ago -- I think -- because it hadn't been scanlated that far. Guess I should see how it ends. Also want to read the end of that New Soil Town thing I was reading at the same time.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Ishuzoku reviewers aka interspecies reviewers is about a group of dudes (and a futa angel) in a fantasy world who bang prostitutes of every species they can find, and review them. They post the reviews at a local pub and people pay them for the info.

It's hilarious and borderline hentai. Especially episode 3 and 4. Like, I wouldn't have been surprised if funimation chose not to pick up the show, no big deal there, it's that they aired 3 eps and then canceled it.

The uncensored version is quite graphic. Like, they show sex and some fluids and stuff. Funimation wasn't airing that version though.

I've got to check out that series.

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Oblivion_Hero posted...

The new online battle function seems underway. Great league wins let me progress through the Rocket special quest line (Swampert, Meganium, Latias), but not the Jirachi defeat other trainers quest

The new battle mode has been pretty fun, but it just kinda sucks that you're limited to 5 battles per a certain walk distance. That and I burned so much fucking stardust to set up a so-so team and, at this point, I don't have enough dust to get a secondary move for my Azumarill (which I'm not sure whether to invest in or wait for a better one) nor do I have enough candy or dust for def deoxys. Not having secondary moves on some Pokmeon is a killer.

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Well, other than dragging in the middle when they explained the ant types and trained Scott, it was pretty great. I just regret spoiling some of the major fights before seeing it, since the Falcon cameo was fucking awesome, as was the big fight against Yellow Jacket. In fact, the only thing I *hadn't* seen was how Scott actually beat YJ, although they strongly foreshadowed that he'd be going ultra-tiny early on.

Continuity-wise, I'm just wondering when Scott first went Goliath since we see him with it in Civil War. I'm *guessing* it might have been intro'd in a previous film, probably Avengers 2 which I still need to see... and now I can, thanks to Disney+! May possibly watch that next instead of IW/End

I also checked out the first of the Ant-Man short cartoons, which is a decent concept. D+'s controls seem to suck, though, since there's no next button to bring you from one episode to the next.

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Finally watching Ant-Man tonight, thanks to Disney+. 10 minutes and really digging it. This might be that super-rare Marvel movie I actually like instead of just thinking it's pretty good, okay, or worse.

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Found vols 1 & 3 of ROD at a local GW, which kinda worked because I had been meaning to check out the manga. Can't remember if I watched the show or just the movie.

DeltaBladeX posted...

I got Dragon Quest VIII on my 3DS last week because I'm never going to find a working model 50002 PS2 for sale to use as a replacement for my dead system.

Pretty sure my ps2 still works but too lazy to find the connections and remember how to actually use it. I might get DQ8 for my 3DS eventually, but I still have another DS or 3DS DQ I have yet to play (might be 6? Can't remember. I just know it's not 9 because I played the fuck out of that.)

keyblader1985 posted...

I started reading "Kimi no Okasan o Boku ni Kudasai," about a part timer in his early twenties who likes an older coworker, a single mother. He goes in cocky, saying he'd make her happy and her child "doesn't matter" to him, but his bubble is quickly burst by the reality of her life, what she needs, and that she probably doesn't even have room in her life for dating. There's only a few chapters out, but it's nice.

I wouldn't ever date a single mom. Too much baggage.

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I had Edge spoiled because... idk, either it was featured in YT videos as a thumbnail or when I googled the rumble to learn the results.

Cleared or not, I can't imagine him coming back to active competition given his age (oh wait, he's just 46) and how long he's been out.


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Watching the start of the women's royal rumble makes me want to start watching wrestling again. The version somebody uploaded to YT was otherwise choppy to the point of being unwatchable, unlike the WWE's normal product which has often been unwatchable because it has a lot of fluff.

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Well, it was only six episodes long, the quality was kinda so-so, and they under-utilized the cast, but that Saiki season at least ended pretty well considering that the sixth episode acted as an epilogue for the previous storylines where we got to see what happened after Saiki gave up his powers... and it was a pretty neat resolution up until things returned to the status quo. Granted, in terms of chronology, it kinda feels like that should have been the *first* episode of Re-Awakened instead of the last, but whatever.

One of these days I might check out the manga, although all of those manga sites keep getting axed or trying to go legit which is like getting axed but worse.

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I will say that I prefer the new VA for the gyaru, who now sounds super-cute. (Or is it a new VA? idk, sounds different than what I remember.)

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Revelation34 posted...

Don't watch dubs then?

Even if the sub had the same VAs as the original run, it'd be meaningless since I don't know Japanese meaning it'd just be noise. Plus following the subs would be annoying given that they do rapid-fire exchanges at times.

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8/10 Classic but hasn't it already been done in this topic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqfLOJGS_7o

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Started to watch Saiki K: Re-Awakened. However, the VA change is distracting and I still hate the untranslated kanji

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMRtx_vTcD4

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Oo

Nice

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