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nine-gear crow posted:It was literally some kid bought a website through Geocities in 1998 and threw the nine second remix of Whistle Stop he made online with a bunch of dancing hamster gifs and Disney didn't know what the gently caress to about it or even that it existed because it was the internet of 1998, digital copyright laws thankfully didn't exist yet. When the actual hamster dance song we know and love(?) today was made, Disney was like "nope, you can use the melody, but the clip is our IP, record your own version of it" and the rest is history. Which version is this, because the 1998 one is the only one that I know (and love).
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Soonmot posted:Blue Eyed Samurai, however, is even better than this thread made me think it would be. Holy poo poo this show rules.  I dont like anime generally but Blue Eye Samurai was extremely banging. Writing, voice acting, animation, all top notchlate to the party but I'm on episode two of Scavengers Reign. Show's a hosed up mix of Aeon Flux, Fantastic Planet, & Nausicaa and I'm here for it
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I'm on my third watch of Scavenger's Reign and I'm still obsessed. The plot and dialogue are so simple but I'm picking up little details in the background and the alien ecosystem, nuances in how the flashbacks tie with the present events, it's just a delight. A horrifying psychedelic delight.
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Rand Brittain posted:You could just drop the whole "plot" thing and do a sitcom. That would be a great April 1st 2025 30 min short.
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Soonmot posted:it loving sucks and is bad. I am curious, since you're one of the few here with that opinion. What about it?
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muscles like this! posted:The bit in this week's Krapopolis where the adventure party got brutally murdered sure was much. I was more caught off guard by the weird NFT mention. What did the crypto poo poo vote on or whatever there?
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Khanstant posted:I was more caught off guard by the weird NFT mention. What did the crypto poo poo vote on or whatever there? Nah, I don't think there was a vote that happened. I did notice that the episode he referred to was several weeks ago though, and no the immediately prior one.
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https://www.themarysue.com/will-there-be-blue-eye-samurai-season-2-answered/ So Blue Eye Samurai's creative time is trying to coach people on social media on how to appease The Algorithm and get the show renewed for a second season, so that's totally a good sign right 
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That part made my jaw drop once my brain caught up and recognized the song. This show is extremely my poo poo 
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Holy cow everyone who said Bee and Puppycat had an abrupt ending were not lying, it felt like they just hacked 90 seconds off or something, very anti-climactic. Definitely need more even though I have no idea what that would look like I don’t think I’ve vibed as hard with a show in a while (or since Bocchi the Rock ended at least), the score and the color palates and the character designs (both human and not) were all the exact right kind of off kilter, and the combination of chill, silly, malaised and fantastical is very unique. Also Puppycat is a little gremlin which is why it’s extra funny that he’s canonically Space Pirate Bishounen Steve Blum. All the voice actors they got were great too, the main cast were all very cool even if most were fairly unknown and then people like Stephen Root and Jennifer Tilly popping up also ruled. Bee is intensely relatable.
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Krapopolis doing a "previous episode preserved on the blockchain" thing was absolutely nuts because that's not even what that tech is supposed to even do, which is already saying that the tech does anything more than be an infinitely-expanding ledger that bloats any system that adopts it.
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yeah, the blockchain is for spending $300 for the right to vote on which colour pants the characters will wear
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I just watch the Scott Pilgrim takes off, and I loved it.Having just watched the movie before, whoever said this was Rebuild of Scott Pilgrim was completely right. Normally I don't like this type of story retelling very much, but here it really worked. The thing I thought the movie (understandbly) lacked,or didn't show enough of, really got to shine in the series, specifically Matthew and Lucas.Wallace though was way more of a rear end in a top hat than an funny rear end in a top hat, but his time with Todd was amazing. The final fight vs even older Scott left a bit to be desired (they shoulda have him literally do a Evil Ryu combo on somebody), but it's ok. If they do a second season, I' hope it's more of a episodic one, rather than an straight sequential plot. This would make it easier to fit in stories about the ensemble cast they have. Oh , and also, weekly episodes please,full releases are just so much worse for community and discussion
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Just finished Blue Eye Samurai and what a great show. Expect the entire next season to be about her getting to London across almost 10,000km and a score of countries.
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repiv posted:yeah, the blockchain is for spending $300 for the right to vote on which colour pants the characters will wear Lol this is the sorta thing I wouldn't participate in even if it were free.
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repiv posted:yeah, the blockchain is for spending $300 for the right to vote on which colour pants the characters will wear Oh god you guys aren't kidding. There's a whole bunch of these and every one is equally dumb. What colour dress does this pregnant woman wear? What colour is this spell? What colour is this pair of lizards? It's so hilariously low effort. It's like they tried to sell the network on this by appealing to some random marketing buzzwords and then discovered that they were actually expected to follow through on the drat idea and therefore gave it the absolute minimum amount of shits.
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Text BLUE to *88473 or text GREEN to *88497 Carrier fees may apply
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repiv posted:yeah, the blockchain is for spending $300 for the right to vote on which colour pants the characters will wear Imagine spending 300 dollars on that Honestly, it feels like they promised to do blockchain stuff, realized it was more of a pain-in-the-rear end than they realized, and are now just doing as much low-effort stuff with it as possible so they could at least say that they're still doing it I dont know, I don't know anything more about the background of this show tbh Happy Landfill fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Nov 21, 2023 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:Oh god you guys aren't kidding. There's a whole bunch of these and every one is equally dumb. What colour dress does this pregnant woman wear? What colour is this spell? What colour is this pair of lizards? It's also just notfeasible to make drastic changes in that short of a turn around, so of course they pick colours they can more easily swap out or go ahead and render out the 3 variants. Ultimately I'm glad it's meaningless changes, audience votes influencing fiction never seems to be that interesting. South Park might be the only cartoon flipped out fast enough to do such a thing beyond nominal changes but I'm not even sure how they could satirize it, the reality of it is already too nonsense.
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Does Scavengers Reign get better past the first episode? I didn't really like that one. I guess it felt to melancholic?
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cant cook creole bream posted:Does Scavengers Reign get better past the first episode? Yes, absolutely. The whole show remains rather melancholic and spooky. After episode 1 the journey to the ship begins, so there's more of a binding plotline now. It might not be your cup of tea, but add me to the chorus of overwhelmingly positive reviews. It's one of the best shows I've watched in a long time
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Vampire Panties posted:
blue eyed samurai reminded me of why I was really into anime back in the 90s. It managed to evoke all those feelings of "holy poo poo, a CARTOON did that?!" without all the gross tropes that turned me off from most of the medium as I left my 20s. I guess it could fall apart in the remaining episodes, but I doubt it. Just all together quality show. Are they using the same animation style that Dragon Prince did? edit: M_Gargantua posted:I am curious, since you're one of the few here with that opinion. What about it? I honestly cannot tell you. I was pumped for the movie, it looked like it was made for me, but I left film feeling like I was being pandered to. It wasn't to the same extreme as something like Ready Player One, and it's not as if I'm above weaponized nostalgia, given how I like shows like Cobra Kai, Willow, or Picard. I just could not care about Scott, or really any of the characters. Maybe it's because I'm aroace and cishet relationships just immediately cause me to lose interest, but the stakes put up in the first three episodes did not hook me. I also didn't care for the animation style, but if the story had been to my liking, that wouldn't have been a problem. Basically, this show is Not For Me, and that's fine, it just weirds me out that, almost literally, everyone else I know raves about this show/the movie/the comic. Soonmot fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Nov 21, 2023 |
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I'm showing Blue Eye Samurai to my sister and she brought up something I hadn't considered: "Does she know not all white people have blue eyes?" And I was like poo poo, yeah, that's legitimate if you've only met two in your entire life and they both had blue eyes. Might be interesting if one or both of the other marks have brown.
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Just because people are really racist against her doesn't mean she can't be ignorant about race herself. Only watched the first episode myself, though.
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Oh, it makes a lot of sense! Information on white people in Japan at that point is entrenched in ignorance and superstition from that sampling of a whopping four black marketeers to represent everything. I just hadn't considered that her pool of knowledge is so limited that it makes more sense if she doesn't know.
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Das Boo posted:Oh, it makes a lot of sense! Information on white people in Japan at that point is entrenched in ignorance and superstition from that sampling of a whopping four black marketeers to represent everything. I just hadn't considered that her pool of knowledge is so limited that it makes more sense if she doesn't know. Also it is a stated point about Mizu's character that she's so blinded by self-hatred and the lust for revenge born out of that self-hatred that she does not give the slightest poo poo about trying to logic any of that out. Fowler explicitly calls her out on all of it during their duel.
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Mizu also is going to end up in London next season if it gets made, which is presumably going to basically force her to reconsider things considering she will be less likely to on-sight be called the most hideous monster who has ever existed as well as meet at least some white people who are not cartoonishly evil supervillains. Not having every person you meet call you the spawn of Satan may help a bit with the ol' self esteem.
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Hell, it could lean so hard in the other direction with Orientalism that she finds a fun new way to hate things. All this to say I hope Blue Eye Samurai gets a second season. I'm not often left with thoughts running wild and getting excited about how a character might grow.
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nine-gear crow posted:https://www.themarysue.com/will-there-be-blue-eye-samurai-season-2-answered/ Getting flashbacks to The Sandman, when Netflix was radio silent on a season 2.
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Das Boo posted:Hell, it could lean so hard in the other direction with Orientalism that she finds a fun new way to hate things. Let's face it. It absolutely will! (Assuming a second season of course. (Which I wont because Netflix sucks sometimes.))
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Thank you posters that are not already fans of Scott Pilgrim voicing their indifference to this new version of it. I got too much other stuff to watch that has a better chance of interesting me, so I'll just keep ignoring it. Thankfully the thread seems to be self-correcting and going back to fawning over Blue Eye Samurai and Scavengers Reign instead.cant cook creole bream posted:Does Scavengers Reign get better past the first episode? It does, I did notice that I wasn't exactly hooked with the first episode, more so bewildered. It was the second episode that made me feel like I had a grasp of what was going on and was all for it. The show was released in 3-episode chunks that seemed to work well for pacing.
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Electric Phantasm posted:I will continue to fawn over Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and Lucas Lee's hot bod. He was NOT nearly that big in the original it's so funny
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mycot posted:He was NOT nearly that big in the original it's so funny Yeah, Todd was the one with the huge stocky build in the comics originally. Lucas was just a really tall motherfucker.
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Electric Phantasm posted:I will continue to fawn over Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and Lucas Lee's hot bod. Best chest in the business.
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