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Kwyndig posted:Yeah Brotherhood had the double advantage of being able to blow through the content covered in the first half of the original anime at breakneck speed and also knowing where the end point was on the manga so the pacing is able to be managed properly post that. (1) Goddamn it Netflix I want to watch this show and now I need to do it elsewhere. (2) Oh thank christ they're not going to try and squish this much closure into the last 2 episodes. It was goddamn awesome, but now I'm looking for more anime that is both not lovely and minimally creepy about women. But gaming news - I'm still running the Zeitgeist adventure path and it continues to impress, but man running murder investigations is hard.
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Apr 17, 2014 16:58
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Aside from the main character being a strong cyborg woman who don't need no pants, I can't recommend Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex enough. It's pretty much a cyberpunk police procedural.  On a tabletop gaming note, augh, I got sucked into miniature wargaming again. Goodbye, dreams of disposable income. Edit: If I edit it in later, it's not emptyquoting. Mors Rattus posted:Go for Baccano, Baccano is the best.
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Apr 17, 2014 17:02
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Siivola posted:Aside from the main character being a strong cyborg woman who don't need no pants, I can't recommend Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex enough. It's pretty much a cyberpunk police procedural. This. Both seasons of SAC should be watched. Also, Cowboy Bebop, although I'm not sure Faye counts as "minimally creepy about women." Also also, Log Horizon, but that's more recent and therefore harder to find. e; vvv ProfessorProf posted:If you want an anime that actually respects women, you should probably avoid Log Horizon. It's okay until the last 3-4 episodes turn it into creepy harem animé, although it's not like there are very many female characters in the first place. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Apr 17, 2014 17:17
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Every episode of Log Horizon is free on Crunchyroll. I recommend Mushishi for anybody doing a horror or fantasy game without an established setting, it's got a good mix of "the world is beautiful" and "the world is terrifying".
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Apr 17, 2014 17:22
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If you want an anime that actually respects women, you should probably avoid Log Horizon. On actual forum topic: I've basically never bought a published adventure module and run it straight. Is doing this ever a good, worthwhile idea? Are there any pre-packaged dungeons that work great right out of the box?
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Apr 17, 2014 18:00
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Lemon Curdistan posted:This. Both seasons of SAC should be watched. Also the Major starts wearing pants in the second season, so there's that.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:01
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ProfessorProf posted:If you want an anime that actually respects women, you should probably avoid Log Horizon. It's a great, worthwhile idea when you are new to GMing and/or new to the system. It's good to adjust adventures before and during, according to your players' respective backgrounds and decisions, but if the adventure fits as far as you know and the players go along with it as printed, tinkering for the sake of tinkering is just that. In your depths of your ignorance, you risk making it worse.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:16
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Mors Rattus posted:Go for Baccano, Baccano is the best. I'm in a mecha mood so I was told to watch Gurren Lagann next, and after 1 episode I can't tell if Bikini Boob Gun Girl is meant to be taken ironically or not.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:17
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dwarf74 posted:I'm in a mecha mood so I was told to watch Gurren Lagann next, and after 1 episode I can't tell if Bikini Boob Gun Girl is meant to be taken ironically or not. MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Apr 17, 2014 18:35
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MadScientistWorking posted:I would skip over Gurren Lagann and watch Gargantia on the Verurous Planet if you want mecha and liked Full Metal Alchemist. This is the opposite of what he should do if he's worried about creepy portrayals of women (or if he wants to watch interesting anime  ).
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Apr 17, 2014 18:41
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Yeah, Gargantia is mediocre at best. Gurren Lagann is at least fun if you enjoy the ridiculous, exponentially scale of everything as the show progresses.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:53
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Sindai posted:Yeah, Gargantia is mediocre at best. Gurren Lagann is at least fun if you enjoy the ridiculous, exponentially scale of everything as the show progresses.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:59
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Oh hey are we talking about anime? Go watch Space Pirate Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999.
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Apr 17, 2014 19:24
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dwarf74 posted:That's on my list! Everything is Gurren Lagann is meant to be taken so seriously that it's a parody of itself, like everything else about adolescence and the insecurity of being a young man. Give it until episode 8, and I'll bet you can't stop watching through to the end.
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Apr 17, 2014 19:29
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NGDBSS posted:Really? I've only seen the first 2-4 (I forget the exact number) episodes but they looked promising. How'd it go downhill, in brief?
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Apr 17, 2014 19:31
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Spoilers Below posted:Everything is Gurren Lagann is meant to be taken so seriously that it's a parody of itself, like everything else about adolescence and the insecurity of being a young man. Give it until episode 8, and I'll bet you can't stop watching through to the end. I'll keep with it then.
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Apr 17, 2014 19:44
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ImpactVector posted:the reveal for the reasons behind the big space war was lame (and only tangentially related to the main plot anyway). ImpactVector posted:a "fish out of water" story
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Apr 17, 2014 19:47
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Please stop "arguing" about things by make one-line, zero-effort posts that contribute absolutely nothing to the discussion. Try maybe typing out some more words until you have a sentence or two (or maybe even a paragraph!) that provides some explanation as to why you have the opinion that you are posting to tell us about. Thanks!
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Apr 17, 2014 20:01
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Kai Tave posted:Also the Major starts wearing pants in the second season, so there's that. Yeah, I never understood how Major Kusanagi is actually less dressed in the show than in the comics, where she actually tends towards more practical clothing. But the show is strong besides that, it always just stuck in my craw, though. Still need to finish the 2nd Season. Alien Rope Burn fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Apr 17, 2014 20:08
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I've been watching Kingdom on Hulu lately. It's a pretty standard shonen anime, but it's probably safe to call it one of the greatest anime about the Warring States of ancient China ever made. It's also making me want to play some kind of wuxia game. Edit: It's weird watching Chinese George Washington Hitler as one of the protagonists of a shonen anime. Rockopolis fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Apr 17, 2014 20:22
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MadScientistWorking posted:Considering the fact that people are throwing tantrums over stuff that is similar to this day I don't really find the rational for the space war all that lame. I could see an argument for it being a story of a soldier adapting to civilian life, but if that's the case, then the reveal for the reasons behind the war completely nukes all the MC's character growth. Of course "man is the real monster" (both literally and figuratively in this case) and "my team are pretty much the bad guys" (as was pretty well telegraphed by the whole child soldier/no free will thing), but that gives him too easy an out for his conflicted feelings about becoming a civilian. I'm not saying the show is awful, it's just really jumbled and IMO squandered what should have been a really interesting premise.
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Apr 17, 2014 20:41
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, I never understood how Major Kusanagi is actually less dressed in the show than in the comics, where she actually tends towards more practical clothing. But the show is strong besides that, it always just stuck in my craw, though. Still need to finish the 2nd Season. Look, if you want a show that discusses the philosphical concept of personhood and how that inter-relates to a kantian framework of good action due to prompting the question when money-shooting assassin droids are stalking a reclusive day-trader sometimes you just learn to accept absolutely atrocious clothing decisions.
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Barudak posted:Look, if you want a show that discusses the philosphical concept of personhood and how that inter-relates to a kantian framework of good action due to prompting the question when money-shooting assassin droids are stalking a reclusive day-trader sometimes you just learn to accept absolutely atrocious clothing decisions. So what you're saying is that the Atlas Shrugged movie would have done better if the protagonist was half naked?
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Error 404 posted:So what you're saying is that the Atlas Shrugged movie would have done better if the protagonist was half naked? Dunno, does he also have robot eyes and fight tiny spider robots who are grappling with a level of intelligence that allows them to comprehend death and gain a fear for it?
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Apr 17, 2014 23:01
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I don't know, I never read the book. I think so.
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Barudak posted:Dunno, does he also have robot eyes and fight tiny spider robots who are grappling with a level of intelligence that allows them to comprehend death and gain a fear for it?
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No, you're both wrong, the sci-fi Rand book is Anthem. I do think the aliens in the third act were a bit gratuitous, though.
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The best Randian sci-fi book is 'Time enough for love' by Heinlein. It's awful.
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Barudak posted:Dunno, does he also have robot eyes and fight tiny spider robots who are grappling with a level of intelligence that allows them to comprehend death and gain a fear for it? Well, there's a female protagonist with a deep-seated enjoyment of psychosexual violence, social darwinism, and long rambling diatribes about ultimately-impossible social systems. And then there's Ghost in the Shell.
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I like Gargantia for a couple of reasons. Its a quieter take on the mech genre. Its slice of life elements are nice, cause they are relateable in a more cerebral sense rather than a "This is something we do all the time" sense. Its mech elements are presented less as a "Lets have lots of battles with mechs" and more "This is the reality of super war machines". I like the conflicts presented by the main character. In very simple terms its a story about the typical military mech protagonist of any gundam like show, learning to not be a heartless maniac, and actually contribute to himself and others in a meaningful non destructive way. Oh right. AND IT HAS A SURFING LOBSTER MECH THAT RIDES A JETSKI BOARD. ( this is how the show was sold to me )
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Please stop "arguing" about things by make one-line, zero-effort posts that contribute absolutely nothing to the discussion. ImpactVector posted:I could see an argument for it being a story of a soldier adapting to civilian life, but if that's the case, then the reveal for the reasons behind the war completely nukes all the MC's character growth. Of course "man is the real monster" (both literally and figuratively in this case) and "my team are pretty much the bad guys" (as was pretty well telegraphed by the whole child soldier/no free will thing), but that gives him too easy an out for his conflicted feelings about becoming a civilian. Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, I never understood how Major Kusanagi is actually less dressed in the show than in the comics, where she actually tends towards more practical clothing. But the show is strong besides that, it always just stuck in my craw, though. Still need to finish the 2nd Season.  I remember the comics being pretty dam atrocious compared to the anime though. I'll have to check my copy but it might have been the superfluous sex scene that was in the comic that had absolutely no bearing on the plot.
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Evil Sagan posted:Someday I hope to experience that ideal of roleplaying in which the setting and characters carry a sense of history and purpose that only comes from actually having been played with the same group of people for an extended period of time.
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MadScientistWorking posted:
Don't forget the setting highlight where in order to justify not wanting to draw naked men he made it so that every cyborg is exclusively homosexual.
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Yawgmoth posted:I've been running a 3.5e Eberron game for close to two years now. The party started at level 5 and have just recently hit 20th, and it's kind of a weird feeling knowing that it's all coming to a close; I've gotten so used to planning for this game that I can't really imagine not doing it anymore. Now comes the awesome part where you run a new level 5 campaign and make all the old characters into demigods and villains and poo poo.
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I may have just seen the most mind-boggling reason for not wanting to buy an RPG that the person is really interested in: "It's not available in hardcover".
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Evil Mastermind posted:I may have just seen the most mind-boggling reason for not wanting to buy an RPG that the person is really interested in: "It's not available in hardcover". Wow just wow. That's crazy. I still remember back when people tore apart their books to laminate the pages and put them in 3 ring binders. Those guys hated hardcover books, harder to strip.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I may have just seen the most mind-boggling reason for not wanting to buy an RPG that the person is really interested in: "It's not available in hardcover". Is it available in pdf? If so its also available in hardcover if they really want it.
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Oh no, see, he only buys hardcovers. The game in question is Dungeon World, which is available in both softcover and PDF, but he's apparently not happy that the hardcover was only for KS backers. Because no matter how much he likes the game, he only buys hardcovers.  Although how he can say that (in a DW community no less) and not expect people to roll their eyes is beyond me.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Oh no, see, he only buys hardcovers. The game in question is Dungeon World, which is available in both softcover and PDF, but he's apparently not happy that the hardcover was only for KS backers. Because no matter how much he likes the game, he only buys hardcovers. I smell an arbitrage moment. Sell him one from your "personal collection" for $200+ or whatever amount lets you make a tidy profit.
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