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Silver Falcon posted:I don't think Jaws is a bad movie, but I don't like it. I'm a marine biologist and to me sharks are friends. Movies like Jaws only serve to further demonize sharks as vicious killers who will eat humans on sight, and cannot be trusted. When in reality very few species of sharks will ever even sometimes attack humans, and most of the time when they do it's a case of mistaken identity. These misconceptions make it very difficult to get legal protections for sharks, because lawmakers have seen Jaws and go "Why would I want to protect sharks? They monsters!" thats actually pretty cool and totally fair but its very very individual, it'd be like saying you don't like Cowboy Bebop because your dad was a jazz bandleader and you were over-exposed to big band music as a kid, it's valid but cmon now speaking of cornish accents, some of the regional accents in Dragons Quest 11 were fantastic, a few very strong southern english accents, delightful in the middle of a jrpg
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Silver Falcon posted:I don't think Jaws is a bad movie, but I don't like it. I'm a marine biologist and to me sharks are friends. Movies like Jaws only serve to further demonize sharks as vicious killers who will eat humans on sight, and cannot be trusted. When in reality very few species of sharks will ever even sometimes attack humans, and most of the time when they do it's a case of mistaken identity. These misconceptions make it very difficult to get legal protections for sharks, because lawmakers have seen Jaws and go "Why would I want to protect sharks? They monsters!" 
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Feel like Wolves have recovered their reputation thanks to fantasy movies, we just need more fantastical sharks in media
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May 22, 2022 15:58
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JollyBoyJohn posted:thats actually pretty cool and totally fair but its very very individual, it'd be like saying you don't like Cowboy Bebop because your dad was a jazz bandleader and you were over-exposed to big band music as a kid, it's valid but cmon now It's not really. I mean yes the thing you said is a personal preference thing that only affects me, but movies like Jaws do have actual tangible real world consequences in the form of making it difficult to get legal protections for real actual sharks.  hatty posted:Feel like Wolves have recovered their reputation thanks to fantasy movies, we just need more fantastical sharks in media This man gets it. 
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Your Computer posted:jaws was never my scene and i don't like star wars Nice.
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May 22, 2022 16:01
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I don’t like movies based on whether I like the movie itself or not. I find beebop kind of bland and jaws as boring. I don’t care about sharks either way
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May 22, 2022 16:02
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Video games don't have enough friendly sharks IMO.
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May 22, 2022 16:11
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Silver Falcon posted:It's not really. I mean yes the thing you said is a personal preference thing that only affects me, but movies like Jaws do have actual tangible real world consequences in the form of making it difficult to get legal protections for real actual sharks. I mean without knowing anything about marine biology or your field of work this is a difficult statement to understand, are you meaning in terms of stopping people poaching sharks for fins/teeth etc? I was being kind of flippant, yeah I've heard about things like people being hesitant to go into the water on the back of the film and a general misunderstanding of sharks as a man eating killer but I've never really thought how that plays out with real world conservation and legality.
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May 22, 2022 16:13
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Sadly I totally believe members of Congress would make important decisions based solely on movies they've seen.
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May 22, 2022 16:15
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Worst derail.
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May 22, 2022 16:19
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I like some sharks that other people like and also like some sharks other people dislike
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Mega64 posted:Sadly I totally believe members of Congress would make important decisions based solely on movies they've seen. They were referencing Jack Baeur when discussing ending the use of torture
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you're exiting the realm of aesthetic evaluation and entering into moral questions if you do that imo, which is usually tricky when trying to say if a certain game/film/song/book/etc is good or not
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May 22, 2022 16:23
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every switch game is good.
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May 22, 2022 16:26
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The Jaws game was pretty fun on NES.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I find beebop kind of bland jesus, dude Bug Squash posted:The most important thing to realise is that it doesn't mean "animation made in Japan". You can watch all of Ghibli, Red Line, Cowboy Beebop, and Legend of Galactic Heroes and not see any animé. lmao what especially with Red Line, wtf are you talking about Augus fucked around with this message at 17:03 on May 22, 2022 |
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I mean without knowing anything about marine biology or your field of work this is a difficult statement to understand, are you meaning in terms of stopping people poaching sharks for fins/teeth etc? I was being kind of flippant, yeah I've heard about things like people being hesitant to go into the water on the back of the film and a general misunderstanding of sharks as a man eating killer but I've never really thought how that plays out with real world conservation and legality. Basically that, yeah. You get the gist. Sorry for the marine biology/conservationist derail. I'll stop now. I get touchy about sharks.
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May 22, 2022 17:00
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I get touchy feely about sharks, luckily they're smooth as hell
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Silver Falcon posted:Sorry for the marine biology/conservationist derail. I'll stop now. Yeah, let's get back to figuring out how to say that Xenoblade 2's art and writing is generic garbage for perverts in a way that doesn't offend people who like anime
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May 22, 2022 17:12
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xenoblade 2, like all switch games, is excellent
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Augus posted:lmao what This was a little tounge in cheek, but for real, noone is standing around repeating every sentence with completly identical faces but slightly different hair in Redline, now are they? When people say "anime", they mean the lazy trope heavy crap. Once it's good it's no longer anime.
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Waffle! posted:The Jaws game was pretty fun on NES. its very quirky and a lazy as hell use of the jaws license but it was also the very first ROM i downloaded so i have a fondness for it lol
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Bug Squash posted:This was a little tounge in cheek, but for real, noone is standing around repeating every sentence with completly identical faces but slightly different hair in Redline, now are they? When people say "anime", they mean the lazy trope heavy crap. Once it's good it's no longer anime. I can't remember which posters but I do remember the last time this came up and someone was like, "feh, everybody that says 'anime' as a pejorative means something totally different," and then someone else was like "it's when the art is generic and the writing is lazy embarassing trope stuff" and then a chain of several posters going "yeah, that."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Def-jZ3jYvw
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Bug Squash posted:When people say "anime", they mean the lazy trope heavy crap. Once it's good it's no longer anime. actually, they don't, and this is moronic.
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Bleck posted:I can't remember which posters but I do remember the last time this came up and someone was like, "feh, everybody that says 'anime' as a pejorative means something totally different," and then someone else was like "it's when the art is generic and the writing is lazy embarassing trope stuff" and then a chain of several posters going "yeah, that." I know it when I see it.
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The way goons classify something as "anime" or not is if they could play it in front of their SO without feeling embarrassed. Ergo, Fire Emblem is anime and Dragon Quest is not. Now please no one else post about this stupid poo poo for at least a week, thanks.
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if your SO doesn't like anime you should leave them immediately
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I’m sure your SO watches some dumb nonsense too you can bully them back with, be it dating shows or Marvel stuff
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An Actual Princess posted:if your SO doesn't like anime you should leave them immediately
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This is getting dumb, let's cut the anime arguments here, take it to another thread if you wanna say this same stuff over and over. Instead let's talk about the thousands of games on the Nintendo Switch.
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I don’t feel embarrassed playing anything because I’m not 12
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CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t feel embarrassed playing anything because I’m not 12 I thought I was like this, and then I bought “Disgaea 5”
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Thanks for this - I've been trying to remember "what's that anime movie where they get stuck in the whale" for a while and nobody I spoke to had any idea what I was talking about, and now I've found it.
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get yourself a partner that's embarrassed with you at the embarrassing thing in the game rather than at you for playing it
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I really want to experience a Piranha Bytes game on the Switch, preferably with motion controls. I need that Gothic jank on my console.
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Mega64 posted:This is getting dumb, let's cut the anime arguments here, take it to another thread if you wanna say this same stuff over and over. Summer's coming up and with that end of work with me. I want some long stretches to really finish up with Disco Elysium, so I can dive head on in to Triangle Strategy. Only thing I've been able to get through, a level a night, is Kirby, which is amazing. Also though... I need to dig into some Ninflex games. I got the subscription for 64, which I've only used to burn through half of Mario 64. I'd like to try Kirby again, play Yoshi for the first time, and maybe rebeat OoT and MM. I need to finish at least Dreamland 3 on the SNES, if I don't try to get through Superstar Saga again. And this is all without me having started/beaten Metroid Fusion so I can finally get Dread. Not to mention Subnautica's sitting in my backlog just waiting for me to get wet this summer. With no dates on Silksong, Omori, or Outer Wilds, I don't think there's any must-buy indies on the horizon for me aside for maybe TMNT, so I think I can realistically get through something prior to a major release. Don't know still if I'll get Splatoon 3 on release... it's likely. The online when it starts is always tons of fun. And playing with you all is good in that game too. And this is all without me trying to beat Oracle of Ages (to see if it's better than Seasons or even good); or digging into Bravely Default on my 3DS. Too many games on these systems people, and lots of them are good.
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Omori does have a release date of July IIRC, it's just not on the shop for some reason
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