It doesn't make much more sense to me to be in a pristine sports car when there are giant animals, diverse terrain and all kinds of shit. The ground clearance on a fancy car like that and it's ability to handle off road would be shit for cross country driving.
If they were in a fucking jeep or on a hovercraft I might give it a pass.
Also, I don't think the bar for "strong enough to do what you need to for work or stuff around the house" is really that high.
I didn't either until I sank below it
I'm assuming something happened for that to occur beyond "I got lazy" though, yes?
God, I wish.
I just got fat and lazy over the course of maybe 5 years. I just... didn't do any things. When I got within a couple pounds of 200lbs (I'm 5'8) we started turning things around... I'd say that was February? Around then. Diet change, and now exercise regime.
Damn, really? I don't know, I guess it's been my experience with myself and people that I know that any rudimentary amount of physical activity in your life will leave you with enough strength to get by. As long as you play a sport or like walk/bike places or consistently do work around the house or something, people seem to get by. Maybe I just know fairly active people.
I drove everywhere, sat at a desk all day and then came home and sat at a desk all night. I couldn't run 4 houses down the block to get the mail without gasping for air. Didn't play a sport, didn't walk to any places if I could avoid it.
Ahh, nothing like reading through a thread, getting to page 2/19 and getting ready to post something quick, only to see that magical message...
_J_ has been banned from this thread
It's like a little preview of coming attractions of J derailing yet another thread
Avoiding that thread like the plague
I already know I'm going to agree with the general sentiment of the thread and the times where I'd have something to add odds are very high that someone will have already covered it
20 pages of nodding my head in agreement does not make for a good read
The only immediate hangup that comes to mind re: cowboy bebop is that they might try to pack too much into a 26 ep series
it's too ambitious on some levels, and because of that, too shallow in others
That's sorta the feel I'm getting. It feels like there's good ideas in here and some good execution, but often there's just not enough time in each episode and so it feels underdeveloped. And at this point I'm 13 episodes in and 13 to go and I feel like we've just barely established the setting and relationships.
The only immediate hangup that comes to mind re: cowboy bebop is that they might try to pack too much into a 26 ep series
it's too ambitious on some levels, and because of that, too shallow in others
That's sorta the feel I'm getting. It feels like there's good ideas in here and some good execution, but often there's just not enough time in each episode and so it feels underdeveloped. And at this point I'm 13 episodes in and 13 to go and I feel like we've just barely established the setting and relationships.
In terms of conventional storytelling, Samurai Champloo was "better" in that its theme and end were immediately apparent from the first episode, and so there was a clear arc in sight and all that even with the frequent detours. CB's narrative arc and individual eps reflect its overall motifs and themes as well as SC did, but the problem is that the theme is primarily about trying to find a sense of peace in a world that no longer has a place for the protagonists ... and so it's really vignettey, disconnected, lonely, etc
(It may be that this was a coincidental match of aimless, filler-heavy writer-scrambling that is mainstream anime to a similar creative theme, but that's unlikely given the specifically limited number of eps they planned for)
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Also, I don't think the bar for "strong enough to do what you need to for work or stuff around the house" is really that high.
I didn't either until I sank below it
I'm assuming something happened for that to occur beyond "I got lazy" though, yes?
God, I wish.
I just got fat and lazy over the course of maybe 5 years. I just... didn't do any things. When I got within a couple pounds of 200lbs (I'm 5'8) we started turning things around... I'd say that was February? Around then. Diet change, and now exercise regime.
Damn, really? I don't know, I guess it's been my experience with myself and people that I know that any rudimentary amount of physical activity in your life will leave you with enough strength to get by. As long as you play a sport or like walk/bike places or consistently do work around the house or something, people seem to get by. Maybe I just know fairly active people.
I drove everywhere, sat at a desk all day and then came home and sat at a desk all night. I couldn't run 4 houses down the block to get the mail without gasping for air. Didn't play a sport, didn't walk to any places if I could avoid it.
I guess I started to get a bit of this over the summer with my new job. Summer is usually my low activity time and I used to supplement it a bit with other things but this summer was crazy and my suit was fitting kinda tight around the ass come august.
Back to my normal schedule now so hopefully it'll loosen up again. I kinda dread moving back to Toronto and out to the burbs. So much sitting on my ass in a car.
People didn't like 8 because they didn't realize how effortlessly and hilariously you could break the game harder than FF6.
A lot of people played it when they were kids and it was just complex enough to make someone young just grind and level all the enemy encounters instead of drawing and levelling the right stuff to make all the fights trivial.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I feel like strong loses its usefulness if it starts to mean 'can stir food for 10 minutes'
I agree with eddy on the distinction from competent.
Depends how vigorous you are being.
Whipping a batch of cream or something by hand requires some goddamn muscles.
This is truth.
I saw a graet video from Jaime Oliver on how to change the angle of your arm while whipping something to move the strain from one muscle to the next so you could whip continuously without getting jello-arms.
Also, I don't think the bar for "strong enough to do what you need to for work or stuff around the house" is really that high.
I didn't either until I sank below it
I'm assuming something happened for that to occur beyond "I got lazy" though, yes?
God, I wish.
I just got fat and lazy over the course of maybe 5 years. I just... didn't do any things. When I got within a couple pounds of 200lbs (I'm 5'8) we started turning things around... I'd say that was February? Around then. Diet change, and now exercise regime.
Damn, really? I don't know, I guess it's been my experience with myself and people that I know that any rudimentary amount of physical activity in your life will leave you with enough strength to get by. As long as you play a sport or like walk/bike places or consistently do work around the house or something, people seem to get by. Maybe I just know fairly active people.
I drove everywhere, sat at a desk all day and then came home and sat at a desk all night. I couldn't run 4 houses down the block to get the mail without gasping for air. Didn't play a sport, didn't walk to any places if I could avoid it.
I started to get a bit of this over the summer with my new job. Summer is usually my low activity time and I used to supplement it a bit with other things but this summer was crazy and my suit was fitting kinda tight around the ass come august.
Back to my normal schedule now so hopefully it'll loosen up again. I kinda dread moving back to Toronto and out to the burbs. So much sitting on my ass in a car.
It feels really good to have pants falling off me that I bought because I was too fat for my current wardrobe. It also feels really good to be able to do something like "oh shit I left the thing in the car in long term parking, I'll just run all the way there and then back to the terminal, no big deal".
Sex also better, fwiw. Belasco has lost a similar amount of weight and though her workout results are coming more slowly because of needing to manage FM, they are happening.
I feel like strong loses its usefulness if it starts to mean 'can stir food for 10 minutes'
I agree with eddy on the distinction from competent.
Depends how vigorous you are being.
Whipping a batch of cream or something by hand requires some goddamn muscles.
This is truth.
I saw a graet video from Jaime Oliver on how to change the angle of your arm while whipping something to move the strain from one muscle to the next so you could whip continuously without getting jello-arms.
In terms of conventional storytelling, Samurai Champloo was "better" in that its theme and end were immediately apparent from the first episode, and so there was a clear arc in sight and all that even with the frequent detours. CB's narrative arc and individual eps reflect its overall motifs and themes as well as SC did, but the problem is that the theme is primarily about trying to find a sense of peace in a world that no longer has a place for the protagonists ... and so it's really vignettey, disconnected, lonely, etc
(It may be that this was a coincidental match of aimless, filler-heavy writer-scrambling that is mainstream anime to a similar creative theme, but that's unlikely given the specifically limited number of eps they planned for)
Iunno, episodes like Pierre le Fou are as fillery as can be, but are just fantastic. It's just an episodic show mostly, it's best to just enjoy it as that.
There are still a fair share of eps that are tied into the core theme of letting the past go and moving on, as well. They just don't really feel apparent until you hit Spike's finale, which is him being unable to do the same
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
It doesn't make much more sense to me to be in a pristine sports car when there are giant animals, diverse terrain and all kinds of shit. The ground clearance on a fancy car like that and it's ability to handle off road would be shit for cross country driving.
If they were in a fucking jeep or on a hovercraft I might give it a pass.
nah dogg
final fantasy has always had stupidly pretty heroes
yeah the secondary theme is letting go of the past but that goes back to my earlier comment about how friggin ambitious the whole series is, trying to address all three of these things (the past / personal niche / yo check out this super fucking cool gutterpunk world) in the span of what, 12 hours? I agree with your general premise but I would like to add that they succeeded in evoking the feeling of figuring yourself out in a disinterested world and that there is a decent evolution on that front for most of the main cast
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
two kids aged 4 and 2 will be 50-60lbs total, on average.
yes you will definitely be picking up both your kids at the same time on a daily basis when they are that age.
And that doesn't even cover the 100lbs of shit you gotta carry when you have kids.
Yes I didn't even mention the army rucksack full of paraphernalia in case of basic emergencies like "I'm hungry" or "I went poo poo" or the 40lb stroller you're hefting into and out of the trunk 6 times per trip that they won't even get in so you just use it to hold all the shopping while they both try to escape from your arms even if that means a head-first drop onto the concrete parking garage floor...
It doesn't make much more sense to me to be in a pristine sports car when there are giant animals, diverse terrain and all kinds of shit. The ground clearance on a fancy car like that and it's ability to handle off road would be shit for cross country driving.
If they were in a fucking jeep or on a hovercraft I might give it a pass.
nah dogg
final fantasy has always had stupidly pretty heroes
it's just that this time one of them is the car
You're right.
I'm sorry.
I thought "car" was a registered trademark of EA but maybe Squeenix got the rights to make their own hero "car"
And knowing how the new FF games are, "car" might be the best character after all.
Also realtalk nerd confession, I think my favorite anime ever is still FLCL
Like once you scrape past all the surface nonsense and sexual double entendres, at its core it's a story about a 6th grade boy who doesn't want to grow up because all the men he knows are awful to women. His dad is sleazy as fuck, his grandpa is an ass.
The classmate who has a crush on him is getting dropped off by her dad's ex-secretary, who he was cheating on her mom with until he got a divorce and married the hot young secretary. Her favorite story is Puss in Boots because Puss makes something come true by pretending really really hard that it's the truth.
Meanwhile the kid's older friend is a high school dropout, possibly a homeless runaway, and occasionally using him for sexual exploration that he's not really comfortable with.
That show sort of had to be super hyper because otherwise it's depressing as fuck
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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If they were in a fucking jeep or on a hovercraft I might give it a pass.
Depends how vigorous you are being.
Whipping a batch of cream or something by hand requires some goddamn muscles.
I drove everywhere, sat at a desk all day and then came home and sat at a desk all night. I couldn't run 4 houses down the block to get the mail without gasping for air. Didn't play a sport, didn't walk to any places if I could avoid it.
I figured it out, after two hours of fruitlessly dying.
Avoiding that thread like the plague
I already know I'm going to agree with the general sentiment of the thread and the times where I'd have something to add odds are very high that someone will have already covered it
20 pages of nodding my head in agreement does not make for a good read
That's sorta the feel I'm getting. It feels like there's good ideas in here and some good execution, but often there's just not enough time in each episode and so it feels underdeveloped. And at this point I'm 13 episodes in and 13 to go and I feel like we've just barely established the setting and relationships.
This is truth.
yeah seriously, 8 i feel nailed the mix well for my tastes until later in the game and this looks to capture what i liked about it
It does feel rushed in places
But it's still p fantastic overall
(It may be that this was a coincidental match of aimless, filler-heavy writer-scrambling that is mainstream anime to a similar creative theme, but that's unlikely given the specifically limited number of eps they planned for)
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
8 had a cool setting
pretty much hated everything else about it tho
I guess I started to get a bit of this over the summer with my new job. Summer is usually my low activity time and I used to supplement it a bit with other things but this summer was crazy and my suit was fitting kinda tight around the ass come august.
Back to my normal schedule now so hopefully it'll loosen up again. I kinda dread moving back to Toronto and out to the burbs. So much sitting on my ass in a car.
A lot of people played it when they were kids and it was just complex enough to make someone young just grind and level all the enemy encounters instead of drawing and levelling the right stuff to make all the fights trivial.
Sous-vide is the shit if you've got the rig and the time.
I saw a graet video from Jaime Oliver on how to change the angle of your arm while whipping something to move the strain from one muscle to the next so you could whip continuously without getting jello-arms.
It feels really good to have pants falling off me that I bought because I was too fat for my current wardrobe. It also feels really good to be able to do something like "oh shit I left the thing in the car in long term parking, I'll just run all the way there and then back to the terminal, no big deal".
Sex also better, fwiw. Belasco has lost a similar amount of weight and though her workout results are coming more slowly because of needing to manage FM, they are happening.
This song was just playing and is the shit:
give dis, I need it lol
making vinaigrette will wreck my shit
Made me curious and looked it up, children only reach that when they are above 5 years old. By that time you've had 5 years to practice.
Iunno, episodes like Pierre le Fou are as fillery as can be, but are just fantastic. It's just an episodic show mostly, it's best to just enjoy it as that.
There are still a fair share of eps that are tied into the core theme of letting the past go and moving on, as well. They just don't really feel apparent until you hit Spike's finale, which is him being unable to do the same
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41l021.pdf
two kids aged 4 and 2 will be 50-60lbs total, on average.
yes you will definitely be picking up both your kids at the same time on a daily basis when they are that age.
nah dogg
final fantasy has always had stupidly pretty heroes
it's just that this time one of them is the car
yeah the secondary theme is letting go of the past but that goes back to my earlier comment about how friggin ambitious the whole series is, trying to address all three of these things (the past / personal niche / yo check out this super fucking cool gutterpunk world) in the span of what, 12 hours? I agree with your general premise but I would like to add that they succeeded in evoking the feeling of figuring yourself out in a disinterested world and that there is a decent evolution on that front for most of the main cast
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
And that doesn't even cover the 100lbs of shit you gotta carry when you have kids.
still not where I'd go with my word choice
Yes I didn't even mention the army rucksack full of paraphernalia in case of basic emergencies like "I'm hungry" or "I went poo poo" or the 40lb stroller you're hefting into and out of the trunk 6 times per trip that they won't even get in so you just use it to hold all the shopping while they both try to escape from your arms even if that means a head-first drop onto the concrete parking garage floor...
jude law is delightful
hungry in a very british way
jude law.......
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
You're right.
I'm sorry.
I thought "car" was a registered trademark of EA but maybe Squeenix got the rights to make their own hero "car"
And knowing how the new FF games are, "car" might be the best character after all.
Like once you scrape past all the surface nonsense and sexual double entendres, at its core it's a story about a 6th grade boy who doesn't want to grow up because all the men he knows are awful to women. His dad is sleazy as fuck, his grandpa is an ass.
The classmate who has a crush on him is getting dropped off by her dad's ex-secretary, who he was cheating on her mom with until he got a divorce and married the hot young secretary. Her favorite story is Puss in Boots because Puss makes something come true by pretending really really hard that it's the truth.
Meanwhile the kid's older friend is a high school dropout, possibly a homeless runaway, and occasionally using him for sexual exploration that he's not really comfortable with.
That show sort of had to be super hyper because otherwise it's depressing as fuck
I was like why are there all these panty shots this is stupid
and then I hated anime forever.