Internet Critic Discussion Thread 3.0: 0 Days Since The Last Drama Bomb

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Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

OldMemes posted:

I think the sequels make everyone forget how important the first Matrix was - it pretty much set the benchmark for actions films after the 1990s, and still holds up. Just ignore the sequels.

I saw American Sniper today - I don't think it's massively pro-war. It's not a balantly anti-war film like, say Full Metal Jacket, but a major point seemed to be "these guys are in way over their heads". It's like The Hurt Locker, where its not so much a political statement on the war as it is showing what horrible effects this kind of trauma has on the indivduals who for whatever reason, signed up. That, and it seemed like Clint Eastwood was taking pointers from Kathryn Bigelow's style. It definatly shows that combat is a bad thing - the controversy is more how true to the real story the film is. When you depict something as controversial and dividing as the war on terror, people are going to have issues - The War on Terror is a pretty popular topic in film academica for that reason alone.

If you do want to see a balant HOO-RAH unbashed jingoism movie, watch Acts of Valour. Or rather, don't because that film is terrible and is literal advertising for the US Army. American Sniper is much better.

I think a bit sticking point is the title - "American" Sniper has certain connotations. But the people coming out of it going "WAR IS AWESOME!!!" are missing the point. It's largely about PTSD, even though it doesn't cover the subject as indepth as it could. It's a different kind of controvers to Zero Dark Thirty, where people accused that film of glorifying torture (the whole point of that film is TORTURE IS BAD), whereas American Sniper is more about the behaviour of an indidvual, rather than an adminstration. Eastwood isn't massively political - he's conserative, yes, but not Republican iirc, so it's not a film thats apologising for Bush and what happened under his watch.

Contorversy aside, Bradley Cooper is excellent in it though, it's worth seeing it for his performance.

And to tie it all back, I really like Lupa's new set. It has a cool neo-80s feel to it.

ZDT showed torture as unpleasant but useful and arguably vital to taking down Osama. Given the evil, incompetent fucks that the real Maya, Alfreda Bikowsky, and her team were revealed to be (and the not-insignificant amount of evidence that ZDT was their attempt to put a positive spin on their actions before poo poo hit the fan), it's legit to criticise the movie for how it handled it.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2015 03:36

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 15:25

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Fans posted:

Yeah we can still make fun of Ben Kuchera's headlines. Don't let them take something wonderful from us.

Jim Sterling used to say some pretty stupid stuff a year or two back, MovieBob can have a little slack. He needs to stop doing skits though, they're awful. At least he's bringing it to an end. TotalBiscuit on the other hand has only seemed to got worse of late. It's friggin' weird to see him have a go at people getting harassed when he bailed out of reddit precisely because of it.

Anyway I'm good for film, games and music critic but with JO no longer doing them is there any Critic out there who reviews anime and isn't a terrible human being? There has to be one. In theory.

I don't know about video reviews, but Hope Chapman (JO) does written review work for ANN, and two of their other reviewers, Gabriella Ekens and Nick Creamer (who has his own website), seem to be good people who do solid work.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2015 17:31

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Puppy Time posted:

I'm not super-comfortable with saying any small-time entertainer "deserves" to fail, but if I were I'd say it's because he's dumb, screamy, and has a super-stupid sense of humor.

WRT "tumblrite" if you have a better term to describe the echo chamber slacktivists that get wound up beyond all sanity over social justice "issues," please share. I'm too lazy to type that description out to distinguish them from the less-crazy tumblr users.

ETA:

I... are you serious, or is this some kind of goofy trolling?

It's the slow and (very) messy process of WickedHate trying to learn to have good opinions from the Internet.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2015 21:35

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Speaking of saying dumb, bigoted stuff on the Internet, the Escapist's new writer just made quite a first impression. :stare:

# ¿ Feb 22, 2015 01:05

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Since Redwall has been brought up again, it is mandatory that someone posts this.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2015 23:21

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Wheat Loaf posted:

As I recall it, Pearls of Lutra is one of two books which had a "good" vermin character (Romsca, the guard captain, who helps the heroes and dies at the end). I was mad keen on the Redwall series when I was a kid, before the Edge Chronicles became my juvenile fantasy series of choice.

Haha, first thing I ever read on SA and still probably my favourite.

Man, the Edge Chronicles really lose a lot of their charm when read as a series. Basically, every triumphant note and happy ending in any given book is immediately overruled by its sequel, to the point where it outright saps your investment. C'mon, dude, let the good things last sometimes. Make your characters' triumphs meaningful. It's not like it'll kill you.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2015 00:33

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Hbomberguy posted:

As children's stories the Edge Chronicles are fascinating. Every story ends with what resembles a 'they lived happily ever after' line, but the next picks up with things falling apart again - or a new character's trilogy starts and we get to see what ten/twenty years did to the old characters. Even if they fare well, they still eventually get old and die.

It's great. Rather than tell kids to go in search of happy endings, we're repeatedly shown how there basically aren't any, and at the end you die - and living forever is even worse. Instead it settles on doing what you think is right even if it kills you, because you are going to die anyway and it might as well count. The key section for me in the whole series is when an old Twig in the last ever sky ship decides, knowing full well the battle will destroy the ship by infecting it with stone-sickness even if they win, but he decides to do it anyway because he believes it is right. That's totally baller.

The catch is that any potential 'life is short, so do good while you can' message is undermined by even the protagonists' good deeds having no lasting value. That's not realism, that's cynicism, and it gives the reader little reason to invest. This is particularly true because of how fast things go to poo poo - it's entirely possible to live a long, happy life in the real world, whereas the protagonists of the Edge Chronicles' lives seem to fall apart almost immediately after their own books end.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2015 01:28

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Hbomberguy posted:

The word I like to use is Ludonarrative, but it might not be the proper one. The point is, the experience of playing a game is the real story. This isn't done too well all the time but lots of early games harness it very well. Mario for example, is engaging because it creates the simple narrative of you, personally, trying to navigate an avatar to a goal. Saving a princess or whatever isn't actually the story so much as navigating those worlds and avoiding obstacles. You're viscerally there. I can't put it in words because really great games manage this with no words at all and I'm tired, but the point is games tell stories in completely new forms from a television show. In a Fire Emblem show viewers would be passively engaged in a war and interested in characters and their relationships, but in a fire emblem game the player directly experiences being turned into a battle commander and sending cute cartoony anime people (who they might actually like) to their deaths. This is why, even though the plots to FE games are often kinda badly written, they rank to me pretty highly as narratives/stories/plots/poo poo there's a word for this. Experiences? God that word sounds like a cop-out but sure let's go with that for now.

That's why people have more connection to Tetris than most of the characters in an fps. One is a narrative that the player experiences themselves, in a visceral way, and another is a simulation happening at an intermediary. Games like Half Life are revolutionary because they make the player and the 'main character' interchangable, and there are less barriers to experiencing the landscape or world where with others you have to work harder to dispel the contrivances.

If you only do what you think is right when it is valuable to do so, you are vastly more cynical than any Edge Chronicles character, and have failed.

At the end of your life, I can almost guarantee that you will die, and it will suck. But so what? That just makes what you stand for in the meantime before the inevitable all that more important. Also if the world was ever actually saved, for real, there probably wouldn't be more edge chronicles books because the conflicts would be over?

That's a false dichotomy. You can improve the world in a lasting manner while still leaving more monsters to slay (not least because holy poo poo the Edge has a lot of monsters, and the gloamglozer is pretty much an eternal, indestructible embodiment of evil), and you can have a long, happy life even if you're doomed to die eventually. You don't see many Edge protagonists dying peacefully in their beds surrounded by their grandkids - they either die prematurely and unpleasantly or have their lives comprehensively ruined.

We cheer for heroes because they give us hope - even if they don't enact change, they tell us that change is possible so long as people like this exist. To sustain that hope, you need to let them have something lasting, even if it's hard to find and difficult to preserve. Suicidal, tragic heroism only retains its charm for so long until it starts looking kind of dumb and pointless, because you're not actually helping anyone and there is little evidence that anyone can be helped. And yeah, a long-running series can have lasting good in it - the Discworld novels, for instance, are basically the long, slow story of Ankh-Morpork becoming a less eye-wateringly horrible place, and even the ones set hundreds of years before the main timeline, like Small Gods, have a lasting significance.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2015 02:02

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

On the written criticism side of things, anyone else been following Anime News Network's Episode Review section? Any thoughts on the review team and their work? I like Nick Creamer, Hope Chapman, and Gabriella Ekens - they all have a good eye for detail and do fun, informative, and often educational work. Rose Bridges seems decent too, but I haven't followed up many of her columns or the shows she's assigned to. On the other hand, Theron Martin has a severely miscalibrated/nonexistent creepometer and a tendency to miss out on/ignore important elements of a show, while Lauren Orsini's writeups have all the depth of a puddle. Any thoughts from anyone else?

# ¿ Mar 7, 2015 16:39

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Hbomberguy posted:

I tried reading them but don't find them all that thought-provoking. I did an experiment where I watched a single episode of Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons and read the reviews, and barely any of them talked about the show's properties beyond its bare story elements. While 'Rondo' is in the title, implying strong musical themes (in the episode they played the same happy song about the immortality of the royal family over a royal's death, and a massive battle), only one of the reviews even mentioned that the show had music. I don't recall even liking the show that much, but basic observations like this netted the accusation from one of the writers that I was a rape apologist.

Cross Ange is currently getting Theron Martin writeups, because nobody else got past the first couple of episodes because hello aggressive in-your-face misogyny. You only write about stuff you find interesting, after all, and it's not uncommon for them to drop a series out of disgust or boredom after a few eps. Since Martin's a pretty shallow reviewer, that means CA gets shallow reviews. Ekens's writeups on Yuri Kuma Arashi are a bit closer to the high end of what the site offers.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2015 19:10

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Mraagvpeine posted:

I meant more like classic reviews.

I think you're going to have to further define what you mean by a 'classic review'.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2015 03:12

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Gertrude Perkins posted:

Given the film it's from, I think eye-strain is entirely appropriate.

Film? It's just a big blue square.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2015 23:52

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

OldTennisCourt posted:

In all fairness to Spoony we're coming up to what might be the biggest clusterfuck of a Wrestlemania in WWE history so there is a lot of poo poo to talk about. I'm talking good chance of the show being booed out of the building bad here.

Rough summary for those of us not in the know?

# ¿ Mar 22, 2015 21:46

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

lornekates posted:

The videos are a narration of the 5 part article "Opinion Why Feminist Frequency almost made me quit writing about video games". The articles (essays, really), are insightful and well written. They're a bit long (hence the readings), and get very in-depth-- but then again, if the stated goal is to have a well reasoned, thoughtful and researched discussion about a topic rather than just screaming Twitter-length talking points louder than your opponent, well-- you get essays.

Part 1:
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-1

Part 2:
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-2

Part 3:
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-3

Part 4:
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-4

Part 5:
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-5

I dunno, there was something about this series of essays that just didn't sit right with me. Maybe it was the 'yes, I'm a feminist, but I'm not one of those sorts of feminists' theme, and maybe it was paragraphs like this one:

quote:

Sarkeesian, interestingly, fulfils both stereotypical female roles. She's an attractive, modestly sexualized woman beta male gamers can "protect," thereby assuming a traditionally male role they may rarely get to fill. In her own way, Sarkeesian personifies the "damsel in distress" that she so frequently criticizes. At the same time, her persistently negative focus sets her up as the destroyer of fun that perpetuates the idea that men are the "real" gamers: the assumption that gaming needs to change to be more welcoming to women presupposes that it is currently primarily for men. Now, I won't deny that some developers really need to get the memo that women are gamers too, but those guys are in the minority of the developers I've encountered. Still, there's an implied benevolence in humouring Sarkeesian's recycled theories which defuses any real threat to the assumed male hierarchy in gaming. Note that I'm offering this hypothetical as a potential mindset for Feminist Frequency's supporters.

I'm having difficulty articulating my discomfort, but there's definitely something weird and itchy about those articles.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2015 17:04

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Basically, while she seems moderately self-aware and seems to acknowledge that there is a fair amount of misogyny being thrown at Sarkeesian and her ilk, hers and the Gamergaters' criticisms do seem to come from very similar places. This line is especially telling:

quote:

Video games are art, and art should not censor content simply to appease extreme North American political beliefs.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2015 17:33

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Jimbot posted:

But she does back this up with the whole Dragon Age example. They were so afraid of criticism from Anita or people from her camp they basically removed the Desire demons and Compassion spirits as they were previously established because they were fit outside their comfort zones. She went into the whole body shaming thing, given that Liana K identifies as a sex-positive feminist I can see how that stuff would grind her gears. But back to Dragon Age, I was half and half with her Iron Bull example. If Iron Bull were a woman the gaming press would have probably had a meltdown but she worded it like that was all he was about. Beyond the sex n' violence attitude he was a window into qunari society from a place where they weren't up their own butt about it.

She assumes that. Unless I missed something, she doesn't back it up with specific evidence. And her paragraph on Cole was, again, super weird:

quote:

Meanwhile, the character of Cole, Inquisition's anthropomorphised spirit of compassion, is gendered male. This is despite compassion being traditionally seen as a feminine trait. As awesome a character as Cole is, he's male... just because. There's no compelling reason he couldn't have been female. It's stuff like this that makes the changes to Dragon Age lore seem less like a logical refining of the game and more a reactive change to Feminist Frequency's brand of public pressure... and trust me, it kills me to say that. Overall, I love the work of David Gaider and his team.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2015 17:52

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

I've already quoted parts from this section, but Imma just quote the whole thing here because it's so deeply, deeply strange:

quote:

Gaming was founded on people who were bullied in other places. I won't be a part of becoming bullies ourselves. An attempt to oppress ones oppressor does not end oppression. We can't solve sexism with Mean Girling, and we can't solve a sense of female inadequacy with Queen Bee tactics. Anita Sarkeesian should not have the right to determine that my body type is inherently bad when used in video games.

There's absolutely no need to demonize anyone on the path to encouraging more dignity for everyone, no matter what any sales charts, surveys or statistics may suggest otherwise. This should be an ethical debate, not a popularity contest. The perspectives of gay and straight white cisgendered men matter. The perspectives of transgendered men and women matter. The perspectives of non-white people, male and female, gay and straight alike, matter. And the diverse, contradictory perspectives of cisgendered women matter too. These perspectives include the perspectives of sex workers, both those who entered into sex work of their own volition and those who were forced into it through poverty, human trafficking, or addiction. Erasing any group or people from video games will not make the real world issues affecting them go away. It will just make people like Anita Sarkeesian more capable of avoiding the issues entirely to avoid uncomfortable emotions and thoughts. No matter how you feel about the practices of prostitution and pornography, it's wrong to deny the existence and personhood of sex workers themselves. Video games are art, and art should not censor content simply to appease extreme North American political beliefs.

Right now, the gaming industry is catering to a handful of women who personify the nagging wife or girlfriend; that, in itself, is rooted in sexist assumptions about what women can be in gaming and the world at large. Female media personalities are still being cast as the "girlfriend" or the destroyer of fun. There is a surprising acceptance of women who have a hard time saying anything good about AAA games which just might hinge on the expectation that women just naturally hate those games. That assumption is wrong. I love Gears of War so much that I've come to see "Brothers in Arms" as a gender-neutral term. I'd be the one woman who wouldn't sleep with Kratos because I respect him too much. There is nothing inherently stopping women from accessing these games. Perhaps we just haven't been given social permission to give them a chance, because the narrative is that gaming hates women.

Sarkeesian, interestingly, fulfils both stereotypical female roles. She's an attractive, modestly sexualized woman beta male gamers can "protect," thereby assuming a traditionally male role they may rarely get to fill. In her own way, Sarkeesian personifies the "damsel in distress" that she so frequently criticizes. At the same time, her persistently negative focus sets her up as the destroyer of fun that perpetuates the idea that men are the "real" gamers: the assumption that gaming needs to change to be more welcoming to women presupposes that it is currently primarily for men. Now, I won't deny that some developers really need to get the memo that women are gamers too, but those guys are in the minority of the developers I've encountered. Still, there's an implied benevolence in humouring Sarkeesian's recycled theories which defuses any real threat to the assumed male hierarchy in gaming. Note that I'm offering this hypothetical as a potential mindset for Feminist Frequency's supporters.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2015 18:45

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

NutritiousSnack posted:

Twitter feminism is good and if you feel the need to denounce this single brand of feminism, you aren't like the feminists of yore during the Porn Wars of the eighties but an MRA PUA GamerGator...we know this was the claim of fringe anti sex feminists in the 80's and viciously mocked as more destructive then sexist social conservatives in feminist literature like The Handmaiden's Tale, but it also true this time.

here's a morbidly obese man to explain feminism and censorship.

Nah, I'm pretty sure calling a rival feminist a nagging girlfriend and a damsel for nerds to protect is just super weird and creepy.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2015 21:40

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Sephiroth_IRA posted:

I can't watch atm but does she literally call her a damsel or does she imply that some nerds see her as a damsel?

I kinda get the latter.

Read my quote a page ago. It's kind of both, and not in a way that makes me want to interpret it charitably. As in, she hypothesises that it's a primary source of Sarkeesian's popularity. Because, of course, nobody could be swayed by her actual arguments.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2015 21:58

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

NutritiousSnack posted:

But no one really has and she's made that point. The only people who watch her videos are early supporters who already agreed with her and had been mad at 4chan/Reddit/Insert whatever communities for years for a variety of valid and invalid reasons.

You got any evidence to back that up? Because from what I've seen, her vids have had a pretty big audience.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2015 22:17

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Cubey posted:

They hired a complete shithead.

To elaborate:

Darth Walrus posted:

Speaking of saying dumb, bigoted stuff on the Internet, the Escapist's new writer just made quite a first impression.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 16:25

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Jay O posted:

Seems like as good a time as any to post that Spring Anime Season post I said I was gonna make!

So, I've said time and time again that this is actually a really great time to be into anime, not only because everything is legal streaming, but because for the past couple years, it seemed like each new season was packed with so many germs o' quality for such a wide variance of audiences. There's a great wealth of new lovely things for all sorts every three months.

For the first time in a long time, this season was kind of a stinker. There was a lot of sucky poo poo this time around and fewer nuggets. Normally, I'd give you a top five, but I can't in good conscience even give you a top five this time, only a top four quality things I would recommend, and maybe some honorable mentions with caveats below those. I stand behind the top four, though! Just used to a lot more selection, especially in Spring. Used to be that Spring and Fall were the plum seasons compared to Winter and Summer, but that has really changed now to where this Winter was almost overstuffed with quality and this Spring erm...tumbleweeds.

Regardless! The links in this top four go to my reviews/writeups for the show, but all these shows are legally available streaming from either Funimation or Crunchyroll. I'll be reviewing the #1 entry all season long for daily streaming, so that link just goes to my review, but the others link to the multiple-reviewer pages for preview guide, so the one I wrote on any given page is marked "Hope Chapman." You can read everyone's impressions of All The Spring Things here, though! Lots of folks with lots of different reactions and takes.

1. Blood Blockade Battlefront (action/sci fi dramedy from the creator of Trigun, superbly well-directed and researched, lovable cast, just look at this loving credit song, <3)
2. MY love STORY!! (romantic comedy, great heartwarming premise, extremely lovable characters, based on an award-winning manga)
3. Plastic Memories (sci fi melodrama, from the writer of Steins;Gate, terrific animation and color palette, promising if mushy premise)
4. The Heroic Legend of Arslan (re-adaptation of the HOOGE HIT fantasy novels by the Legend of the Galactic Heroes guy, but re-imagined with character designs by Hiromu Arakawa, the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist, good fix for your SRS BZNS low fantasy needs)

Quality sequels to good things that may interest you if you dun saw the first thing: Fate/stay Night Unlimited Blade Works is back for its second half, My Teenage Romcom SNAFU is not my bag personally but its fans swear by it and it got a much higher-budget second season, Uta no Prince-sama has a new lower-budget season by contrast if you like shameless beefcake parades, and The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan is a cute romcom-y Haruhi Suzumiya spinoff that I honestly kinda enjoyed provided you're down with "sweeter and kinder TMOHS universe."

So there you go! It's not a good season overall so you could very well check out something from the now wrapped-up Winter, or stuff from 2014 or 2013 etc. that's lyin' around on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, etc., but I'll stand by those top four at least!

Oh, absolutely. Even if you're explicitly talking about the Fox Kids version (Escaflowne was released uncut on home video and most people are familiar with that version because the Fox cut flopped,) it's not nearly as bad as what they did to One Piece, Tokyo Mew Mew, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors or several other forgotten kids' properties. Escaflowne got off relatively easy. I think One Piece is the worst, though.

Sound! Euphonium seems like a decent fifth for the top five. It's a fun, low-key dramedy about a group of girls entering a high-school band, with Kyoto Animation's usual stellar production values and a certain deliberate, directed energy underneath all the fluff that their works often lack.

Also, Asuka is the best.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 01:08

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

BigRed0427 posted:

Ah, so thats why that show is hated. Cause on first glance it sounded right up my alley. I loved .hack back in the day and this has a similar premise.

Nah, it's the rape cage and all that surrounds it that makes SAO outright hated. In comparison, the sister/cousin stuff is merely a somewhat annoying 'oh, Japan' thing.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2015 01:41

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Phil Collins. Groovy Kind of Love.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2015 11:45

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Just wait til you get a load of my new show, in which I review CGI pornsites, and my bookshelf is filled with editions of Lou Bega's first album from different countries.

Would watch.

# ¿ May 28, 2015 18:49

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Cyron posted:

Somebody please think of the feelings of the flesh eating demons!

I thought we weren't talking about Gamergate any more?

# ¿ Jun 15, 2015 20:01

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

The Vosgian Beast posted:

I've seen a decent amount of anime, but I will never understand why people watch movies that recap a show they've already seen with a few new things here and there.

I don't remember if Madoka: Rebellion is one of those, but just putting that out there.

Rebellion is a sequel to the TV series. As for compilation movies, they're the show in condensed form. Not bad if you want a fast rewatch of a series you like with some added spectacle.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2015 15:21

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Arcsquad12 posted:

Because you guys got me talking about Extra Credits and the Escapist, I decided to see what their forums were up to. One thread was a weaboo complaining that western animation studios get bigger budgets to work with and how unfair it is that anime does stuff cheaper but still looks just as good and would look better with western budgets. The big thing I noticed however was that they have a new forum called the Games Industry Forum.

It's all Gamergate threads and psycho watchdogs jumping at everything they don't agree with. That shithead site owner has his little playground all set up.

To be fair, when anime gets an unlimited budget, the results can be super rad. Watch Rage of Bahamut, you guys.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2015 12:27

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Doug will never write a line with the perfect, immortal majesty of 'the dickgirls opened fire'.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2015 13:35

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

quakster posted:

imagine a pacman eating itself

loving crrrazy

Wouldn't that just be a rapidly-rotating yellow semicircle?

# ¿ Jul 8, 2015 09:56

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Keromaru5 posted:

Based on those Baywatch Nights intros, you know what I'd love to see? Something seriously analyzing and picking apart 80's/90's cable TV "sexy" stylistic motifs, like what these intros use -- especially the saxophone. I've always wondered how the sax became so closely linked with sex... and it better not just be because they're one vowel off from each other.

The saxophone is an iconic jazz instrument, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's tied in to America's complex relationship with black culture.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 23:32

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

WickedHate posted:

He might as well review getting stabbed in the ears.

I'm kind of amazed some internet denizen hasn't done this at some point.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 21:06

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Mokinokaro posted:

It's a fairly mediocre robot show that's trying to be Gundam in a lot of areas. The first season is okay, but the second is a giant wet fart.

It's a lot more campy and theatrical than (most) Gundam, though, for good and bad.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 11:55

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

icantfindaname posted:

According to the podcast it's basically just Japan being the good guys and the cartoon caricature British Empire being the bad guys, with about as much intellectual depth as anything else in the show? I mean, it's not as Ideologically Correct as like a Miyazaki movie or some of the Gundams, but it's not nearly worth criticizing unless you get mad at Japan having a flag and a national anthem (there are people who do)

And yeah, the CLAMP character designs look hilarious

Also, Japan gets a white saviour and the Refrain episode directly mocks a whole string of Japanese nationalist talking points, further diluting that message if they'd wanted to push it.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 16:18

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Terrible Opinions posted:

Not really at all. As an insult it's always been about shaming people for becoming obsessive beyond social norms in one subject or another. Nearly identical to this thread's most common mantra "nerds are terrible".

Except, of course, that one of those two terms also refers to an actual mental illness, and outside of Gamergate's weirdest, filthiest persecution fantasies, nerds aren't even remotely as discriminated-against as the mentally-ill.

That's a fairly significant divide.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 02:34

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Puppy Time posted:

Yeah how dare people talk about movie makers paying attention to internet critics in response to someone suggesting that movie makers don't pay attention to internet critics! How could anyone point to this guy doing a thing when people were saying bad things about him before? IT BOGGLES THE MIND!

... huh? Near as I could tell, he was just pointing out the amusing irony of a guy getting very enthusiastic about RLM and then getting savaged by their critical circle. Which is quite funny.

Your post is a weird post.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2015 17:37

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Zedd posted:

Who wants to start a kickstarter for a GG movie? It's actually a charity that supplies water to african villages by collecting GGer tears.

I'm pretty sure that condemning African villagers to drink Gamergater secretions for the rest of their lives is a good way to get a speedy plane ticket to the Hague.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2015 10:13

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Oh look, another incoherent Cyron flameout. Been a while since we had one of those. Not entirely sure what's going on in your life that makes you do these on the regular, but it doesn't seem healthy and you might want to go about fixing it.

So, Internet criticism?

# ¿ Jan 21, 2016 19:49

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Jay O posted:

The answer to this question (not counting MST3K level not-quite-real-movies) is The Nutcracker 3D, otherwise known as The Nutcracker: The Untold Story.

There is no other answer. That movie will suck your soul right out of your body.

C'mon, don't tease us like that. Link the review.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2016 02:37

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 15:25

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Jacob 'JesuOtaku' Chapman just outed himself as transgender. Congrats, and all the best to him.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2016 23:40

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