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I’ve seen az copy do some upsettingly fast transfers before, but yeah that was pushing it. I’m vaguely irked about the bad guy cube’s inner design, but that’s mostly due to having been in actual data centers and being aware of some do the design considerations there. The extremely accurate copying of real world electronic UI stuff is kind of odd to me, but not in a bad way. I’m fairly sure the /x/ 4chan website that was briefly shown was literally a screenshot of the website that someone had tweaked the html to show a different name.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I spotted a neat little Easter egg in Pantheon on Maddie's desktop. There is a shortcut to a youtube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MSEsh6jgHE
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Pantheon is really good. I absolutely loved the first episode but the second episode kind of hosed me up a bit (there’s a rather gruesome scene, more in a psychological sense than a literal one, but definitely both). I’m looking forward to the next episodes though, I just hope they get a little less… graphic.
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I gave Tuca & Bertie a shot twice and couldn't stand it, so it's weird seeing that one of the key people behind it is an active danger to society. I just hope she gets held accountable for the harm she's caused and gets help before she does more.
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Is this where we talk about Rick and Morty? I think the season premier was the best episode ever.
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Lammasu posted:Is this where we talk about Rick and Morty? I think the season premier was the best episode ever. Yah it was really good. Par-MEE-see-en Gross. I hate it.
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We have a Rick & Morty thread in TVIV and at least two active goons who draw on the show post in there from time to time. It’s a good thread.
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Is this the thread to talk about Bee & Puppycat? I'm not really sure who that show is for to be honest.
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I'm enjoying Harley Quinn well enough but this season feels like they fired all the women in the writing room. It's not the end of the world, Harley has always been a male fantasy, but the earlier seasons were fun enough that it didn't bother me as much. This season it has been much harder to ignore.
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2nd Amendment posted:I'm enjoying Harley Quinn well enough but this season feels like they fired all the women in the writing room. It's not the end of the world, Harley has always been a male fantasy, but the earlier seasons were fun enough that it didn't bother me as much. This season it has been much harder to ignore. Yeah, the "Honeymoon" episodes really felt like "how guys think women married to each other act." Just take solace that it's not as bad as the League of Their Own series. I know that's not animated, but maybe if it had been they could've animated them playing baseball instead of making out every ten minutes.
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Hexmage-SA posted:Is this the thread to talk about Bee & Puppycat? I'm not really sure who that show is for to be honest. Neither do the show runners. Always came off as a bad "Teen on deviant art really wants to make an anime" hodgepodge.
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I watched a bit of Bee and Puppycat on YouTube and didn't get what it was going for at all. It seemed like a particularly aimless Adventure Time or Steven Universe story but stretched to an entire show concept.
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Screw y’all, B&P is wonderful.  It’s mainly a vibes-based show that uses a lot of dream logic so I can see why people might not be into it. It looks fantastic though and it’s weirdly dark sense of humor gets consistent laughs from me. Mostly though I just love how different it feels from anything else out there. It’s like a weird blend of studio Ghibbli, Animal Crossing, and Revolutionary Girl Utena that’s completely unashamed of doing it’s own thing.
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Hexmage-SA posted:Is this the thread to talk about Bee & Puppycat? I'm not really sure who that show is for to be honest. It’s definitely geared towards adults who grew up with shoujo anime from the 90’s. They even got the old VA from the original Sailor Moon dub.
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readingatwork posted:It’s definitely geared towards adults who grew up with shoujo anime from the 90’s. Yeah that's kind of the vibe I got from the trailer, but I'm still not that interes- quote:They even got the old VA from the original Sailor Moon dub. I'm in.
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readingatwork posted:It’s definitely geared towards adults who grew up with shoujo anime from the 90’s. They even got the old VA from the original Sailor Moon dub.  THAT's why they sounded so familiar.
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Watched the first two Bee & Puppycat episodes on Netflix, it is firmly & squarely aimed at the Steven Universe crowd, but with more of the energy of Adventure Time, and maybe a little more, uh, fluid, like if you took Steven Universe/Adventure Time and added a tiny smidge of Invader Zim. I really love the art style but every character being this completely muted level of energy in dialogue makes the pacing feel absolutely glacial. Ironically the only character who sounds real is the computer AI. Excellent sense of comedic timing though, I giggled and snorted a bunch. Will def be finishing at some point. Basically if you like any of the Rebecca Sugar twee cutesy stuff then you should give it a try. My personal spicy take is “It’s Steven Universe but GOOD”
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+1 on being not getting Bee and Puppycat. It's not bad, but I don't get what it's going for at all and has given me no reason to go past the second episode. It may just that I read the above posts before giving it a try, but it's absolutely like someone found a venn diagram of the small handful of things that didn't work for me in Adventure Time and the small handful things that didn't work for me in Steven Universe and decided that would be their show. It's honestly impressive how they threaded that needle.
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Bust Rodd posted:Watched the first two Bee & Puppycat episodes on Netflix, it is firmly & squarely aimed at the Steven Universe crowd, but with more of the energy of Adventure Time, and maybe a little more, uh, fluid, like if you took Steven Universe/Adventure Time and added a tiny smidge of Invader Zim. Steven Universe's plot basically stalled completely after season 1. There were arcs of course, but they meant as much to the overall plot as anime filler arcs. Despite the story going nowhere, it started focusing a lot more on it and the comedic elements weren't as prevalent. The super stretched out release schedule made it less obvious because people were happy when any new content came out.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Steven Universe's plot basically stalled completely after season 1. There were arcs of course, but they meant as much to the overall plot as anime filler arcs. Despite the story going nowhere, it started focusing a lot more on it and the comedic elements weren't as prevalent. The super stretched out release schedule made it less obvious because people were happy when any new content came out. That... is a really weird way of describing the plot of Steven Universe. The first episode of Bee & Puppycat seemed fun; I'm not sure how long it will be able to keep up with its usual comedy mode of "do exactly the opposite of the take the audience expects."
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It's about loving time. Never should have left in the first place, but I'm glad it's back.
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I haven't watched the Netflix one yet, but saw the entirety of the original Bee & Puppycat. It was going for chill, cute, and indie comedy- both in awkward humor and occasional unexplained bizarreness. It reminded me of Wristcutters which, despite the name, I thought was dear. Just something to make you smile and feel a little better after watching it.
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Das Boo posted:I haven't watched the Netflix one yet, but saw the entirety of the original Bee & Puppycat. It was going for chill, cute, and indie comedy- both in awkward humor and occasional unexplained bizarreness. Holy poo poo, it's so rare I find another person who's watched Wristcutters. And yeah, that's the feeling I got from the movie as well. The title made me except an edgy black comedy, but instead I got a life affirming road trip through purgatory. I still think about the "it can only happen when it doesn't matter" small miracles sometimes. I'm not sure why that bit of magic realism stuck with me so hard, but it did. The the whole concept invoked a very specific nameless mood in me.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:It's about loving time. If I recall they made a episode making fun of boston because of the moonite bomb. The higher ups said if that episode ever leaked the show was done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mwYnxbHShg&t=434s
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Holy poo poo, it's so rare I find another person who's watched Wristcutters.  I don't know why I ever watched it with that title, but I'm very glad I did even a decade later. You're right that the mood it evokes is nameless, but there's definitely some happiness in there. It's so special in such a mild way.
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Das Boo posted:I haven't watched the Netflix one yet, but saw the entirety of the original Bee & Puppycat. It was going for chill, cute, and indie comedy- both in awkward humor and occasional unexplained bizarreness. Wait. There’s a new B&P on Netflix?
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Steven Universe's plot basically stalled completely after season 1. There were arcs of course, but they meant as much to the overall plot as anime filler arcs.
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The 7th Guest posted:....huh??? They stopped focusing on Beach City and the only good part of that show were the extremely deep cuts to niche DelMarVa coastal culture like square pizza and Ocean City MD boardwalk fries. (/s)
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AlternateNu posted:Wait. There’s a new B&P on Netflix? Sort of, they are basically retelling the story but with a much, much higher budget
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The 7th Guest posted:....huh??? Jasper plot has a whole lot of build-up, then its resolved and Jasper vanishes for a long time with the status quo not changing much after the arc is wrapped up. The Cystal gem at the core of the world has a whole lot of build-up, is dealt with, and then things return to status quo again. I admit, I haven't finished Steven Universe completely. I think I stopped watching around the time the Bismuth arc concluded, so maybe the plot actually starts progressing at some point. That doesn't change the fact that it spends a long time with the plot going nowhere.
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Crain posted:They stopped focusing on Beach City and the only good part of that show were the extremely deep cuts to niche DelMarVa coastal culture like square pizza and Ocean City MD boardwalk fries. (/s) The square pizza was Pennsylvania.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Jasper plot has a whole lot of build-up, then its resolved and Jasper vanishes for a long time with the status quo not changing much after the arc is wrapped up. The Cystal gem at the core of the world has a whole lot of build-up, is dealt with, and then things return to status quo again. I admit, I haven't finished Steven Universe completely. I think I stopped watching around the time the Bismuth arc concluded, so maybe the plot actually starts progressing at some point. That doesn't change the fact that it spends a long time with the plot going nowhere. So, a lot of stuff happened, but it doesn't count as plot for some reason?
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SlothfulCobra posted:The square pizza was Pennsylvania. She put it in "Not Pennsylvania" but it's Ledo's and I'll hear nothing against this theory.
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Rand Brittain posted:So, a lot of stuff happened, but it doesn't count as plot for some reason? If it doesn't change the status quo yes. Like I said it was like anime filler arcs. Things happen, but they don't actually have long lasting effects and characters don't bring them up. At least not for a long time.
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Rand Brittain posted:So, a lot of stuff happened, but it doesn't count as plot for some reason? I can't speak for him exactly, but I think it's more accurate to say that Steven Universe grew into a different kind of show than people thought it was going to. Jasper's arrival is a tone shift for the series, and it feels like there's going to be a much more severe conflict with the gem homeworld and the Diamond Authority. That never really materialized--and that's not like, a failure of the writing, but it's going to leave some people waiting for something that's never going to come. Instead, you get something that's a lot more about Steven having to come to terms with who his mom really was, and what she did.
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Crain posted:They stopped focusing on Beach City and the only good part of that show were the extremely deep cuts to niche DelMarVa coastal culture like square pizza and Ocean City MD boardwalk fries. (/s) This except no /s
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Ironically one of the big issues Steven Universe had was due to it mostly dropping the "Monster of The Week" format after the first two seasons that it used to use for many of the non plot episodes, not to mention they started more heavily segregating "Gem Stuff" and "Townie Stuff" in episodes so it results in a lot of episodes in Seasons 3 to 5 feeling kind of dull and pointless if they don't directly connect to the main plot(particularly since as mentioned they kind of fumble hard when it comes to many of the plots that aren't the main one surrounding the Diamonds), like sure a sizable chunk of Seasons 1 and 2 could arguably be considered "filler" as well but at least you'd generally have something Gem related to make things interesting towards the end of an episode otherwise mostly involving Steven helping out Townies
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