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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    god I hate gundam seed so much

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    “Oh also the evil world government puppeteering arms merchants who’ve plunged the world into at least two major wars are fanatically rabid bigots who literally control humanity’s largest and most deadly racist terror group. But it’s still evil and wrong to murder them! That makes you just like them! Because murder!”

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    boy and the heron verdict: it good!

    glad i watched no trailers for it
    the titular birdman came across a lot cooler on the movie poster lol

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's not the most objectionable show next season, but the one titled more or less "The Strongest Tank Conquers Dungeons - A Tank With a Rare 9999 Armor Skill Is Kicked Out of the Hero's Party" is certainly the one that makes me rub my temple and sigh the most.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    god I hate gundam seed so much

    It's hardly worse than some of the hardcore Zeon apologists.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Last 2 JJK episodes
    seems like they double bluffed on the fate of Nobara since you have a character explicitly stating she's only mostly dead

    The recent episode, and I'm assuming the finale seem like an unnecessary escalation into endgame shit after the second arc narrative seems to have largely run it's course.

    My basic interpretation is
    okay, the long-term irritating bad guy is out of the way, now we'll show you how really out of your league you are against the even bigger bad, since he can basically solo the entire cast.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    It's not the most objectionable show next season, but the one titled more or less "The Strongest Tank Conquers Dungeons - A Tank With a Rare 9999 Armor Skill Is Kicked Out of the Hero's Party" is certainly the one that makes me rub my temple and sigh the most.

    I must admit I first read this as talking about a tank as in the armoured vehicle and I think that would be fun to watch

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    It's not the most objectionable show next season, but the one titled more or less "The Strongest Tank Conquers Dungeons - A Tank With a Rare 9999 Armor Skill Is Kicked Out of the Hero's Party" is certainly the one that makes me rub my temple and sigh the most.

    I must admit I first read this as talking about a tank as in the armoured vehicle and I think that would be fun to watch

    panzer iv making droopy sad face in the background as the party walks away

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  • KayuraKayura Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'll say this much for SEED: it had some rockin' tunes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa7DWhLk9C4

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    It's not the most objectionable show next season, but the one titled more or less "The Strongest Tank Conquers Dungeons - A Tank With a Rare 9999 Armor Skill Is Kicked Out of the Hero's Party" is certainly the one that makes me rub my temple and sigh the most.

    I must admit I first read this as talking about a tank as in the armoured vehicle and I think that would be fun to watch

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

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I do appreciate the brutal logic of, "oh wow, dragons sure are scary huh? I wonder what would happen if they stumbled into the moder-"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3bGKMYM_w

    "Oh."

    Too many shows rely on power levels or flat immunity. The pilots here use good tactics too.

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I do appreciate the brutal logic of, "oh wow, dragons sure are scary huh? I wonder what would happen if they stumbled into the moder-"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3bGKMYM_w

    "Oh."

    Too many shows rely on power levels or flat immunity. The pilots here use good tactics too.

    god I hate gate
    it was such a fun premise, squandered on pro-rearmament/japanese colonialism political masturbation

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Power levels in general are hilarious to me cause I don't care I want the villain to be defeated after all their machinations

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    gate sucks shit but the scene where the guy teaches elves to use rocket launchers which one of them then proceeds to immediately fuck up and straight up roast the three guys standing behind him is truly very funny

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I do appreciate the brutal logic of, "oh wow, dragons sure are scary huh? I wonder what would happen if they stumbled into the moder-"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3bGKMYM_w

    "Oh."

    Too many shows rely on power levels or flat immunity. The pilots here use good tactics too.

    god I hate gate
    it was such a fun premise, squandered on pro-rearmament/japanese colonialism political masturbation

    I kinda got the impression it sucked after seeing the outfits on show in that clip. Eeesh.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    gate sucks shit but the scene where the guy teaches elves to use rocket launchers which one of them then proceeds to immediately fuck up and straight up roast the three guys standing behind him is truly very funny

    "I read the instructions."

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I do appreciate the brutal logic of, "oh wow, dragons sure are scary huh? I wonder what would happen if they stumbled into the moder-"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3bGKMYM_w

    "Oh."

    Too many shows rely on power levels or flat immunity. The pilots here use good tactics too.

    See, personally I'm kind of done with Gun Wank in general. Whenever I see something that is like "haha wizards and dragons and scifi stuff is stupid, bullet and explosives solves everything easily, just shoot Ganon with a glock" I just kind of roll my eyes so hard I need to run around my room blind to fish them after they fall out of their sockets.

    I'm much more in the camp of "Is any of the soldiers pulling the trigger an unimpeachable paragon or virtue? No? Then your missiles ain't doing shit to a dragon, sorry".

    I often liked the Otherside Picnic take on it. Guns are very useful, Sorawo and Toriko go around kitted the fuck out and professional soldiers are a force to be reckoned with when they know the tricks to deal with the supernatural entities - but if you don't actually know what the trick is you're going to have Serious Problems no matter your level of firepower. Because the paradigm is different, and a gun is just a weapon, a tool for the characters to use, not an avatar of the superiority of the modern man or whatever the fuck totem they often get made into.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Think somebody in Cop Craft figured out that you can juryrig a fairy into a bomb.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://youtu.be/KPKgsFLuvl4?si=NuLCodpuogRlyCaL

    I hope they try and recreate Shiraishi oozing out of a small gap like a turd in live action. I don't care if it looks like crappy cg, it just needs to happen.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm about halfway through Blue Eyed Samurai and if you consider it anime-and considering some people are willing to die on the hill that ATLA is anime than I feel comfortable on dying on the hill that Blue Eyed Samurai is French-American anime-then I feel confident saying it's the most impressive anime of 2023. Each episode is between 45 minutes to an hour long, and each episode does feel like it could be a short film unto itself. Its cast is highly pedigreed and every actor is really giving some of their best performances. (It features folks from George Takei to Brenda Song, there's just so many great actors in this show.) The show is just so goddamned experimental from episode to episode that I'm genuinely surprised it manages to basically hit every angle it swings for. If I had to describe it briefly I'd describe it as 'Kurosawa and Sergio Leone had a baby and that baby grew up to marry John Woo's kid and that kid happened to major in gender studies.'

    I had heard some people say some good things about it but damn I could not have expected the level of quality I got with it. Frieren is probably still my favorite show that came out this year, but I can't think of any argument that doesn't put Blue Eyed Samurai as the highest quality animated thing to come out in 2023.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    You know what's better than shooting Ganon with a glock?

    Watch Record of Lodoss War and see how this guy goes out:

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    (I sadly wasn't able to find a video of it.)

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Re: magic vs guns. I think a lot of people remember the only good scene in that Bakshi movie Wizards and want to bring it back to life in different ways. Or their D&D group had a really good session where the DM gave them all M16s, I dunno.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cZqRzHnI8s

    Wizards really was a thing of beauty.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Re: magic vs guns. I think a lot of people remember the only good scene in that Bakshi movie Wizards and want to bring it back to life in different ways. Or their D&D group had a really good session where the DM gave them all M16s, I dunno.

    Spelljammer exists for a reason
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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Calling the gun scene the only good scene in Wizards is right.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    DanHibiki wrote: »
    Re: magic vs guns. I think a lot of people remember the only good scene in that Bakshi movie Wizards and want to bring it back to life in different ways. Or their D&D group had a really good session where the DM gave them all M16s, I dunno.

    Spelljammer exists for a reason
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    Rocksteady?

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cZqRzHnI8s

    Wizards really was a thing of beauty.

    That movie messed me up as a kid. I think I was like 5-6 when I saw it.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    it is such a muddled fever dream, I wish it was more coherent

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Drascin wrote: »
    I do appreciate the brutal logic of, "oh wow, dragons sure are scary huh? I wonder what would happen if they stumbled into the moder-"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3bGKMYM_w

    "Oh."

    Too many shows rely on power levels or flat immunity. The pilots here use good tactics too.

    See, personally I'm kind of done with Gun Wank in general. Whenever I see something that is like "haha wizards and dragons and scifi stuff is stupid, bullet and explosives solves everything easily, just shoot Ganon with a glock" I just kind of roll my eyes so hard I need to run around my room blind to fish them after they fall out of their sockets.

    I'm much more in the camp of "Is any of the soldiers pulling the trigger an unimpeachable paragon or virtue? No? Then your missiles ain't doing shit to a dragon, sorry".

    I often liked the Otherside Picnic take on it. Guns are very useful, Sorawo and Toriko go around kitted the fuck out and professional soldiers are a force to be reckoned with when they know the tricks to deal with the supernatural entities - but if you don't actually know what the trick is you're going to have Serious Problems no matter your level of firepower. Because the paradigm is different, and a gun is just a weapon, a tool for the characters to use, not an avatar of the superiority of the modern man or whatever the fuck totem they often get made into.

    It's less about guns rah rah, and more about just visually and logically thinking about good action scenes not reliant on "nuh uh, that didn't work because REASONS."

    Like in Helsing, maybe a standard police issue Beretta 9mm won't do Jack to the undead or Vampires, but Alcuard's .454 Casull Auto firing exploding silver made from Church relics sure as hell will.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The thing about Alucard's gun is that it's still a toy to him. By using it he's restricting himself, he doesn't actually need it to rack up a body count

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    New Apothecary Diaries
    Oh hey, reused footage. I'm genuinely glad the animators aren't pushing themselves too hard. Besides that, a really good adaptation. It was easy to get Maomao's despair as she's trying her best to stay away from a life of prostitution. And, just, gloom shroom Jinshi. And the synchronized happy dance at the end with Maomao and Granny. Mwah.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    The thing about Alucard's gun is that it's still a toy to him. By using it he's restricting himself, he doesn't actually need it to rack up a body count

    When he finally goes all out it's just incredible and recontextualizes just how much he was screwing with everything else the whole time.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Monsters are cooler than guns, it’s that simple.

    monsters are not cooler than tanks or boats, sorry nerd

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    What about tank monsters?
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  • CycloneCyclone Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    All this talk about guns and anime is making me want to watch some Black Lagoon.

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