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Wheat Loaf posted:You'll have to exorcise the evil spirits. You forgot the nose tweak! 
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Yeah, anywhere you go you are guaranteed to see at least the government's "Don't drink and drive" campaign in some form, usually as roadside billboards or a Booze Bus (roadside alcohol/drug test).
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May 19, 2015 09:44
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Infamous Sphere posted:That's a specifically Australian preoccupation? I suppose here you're far less likely to die from gun violence, although to get a drivers license here it seems like teenagers have to jump through more hoops than they do in the states. I was watching an American TV show (The Fosters, if you're wondering) and a 16 year old character took his 15 year old sibling for a driving lesson. Here, you can't even be on your provisional license until you reach 16 and nine months - before that it's a learners, and you have to be in the car with someone with a full license. And there's at least three years of provisional license, sometimes with a whole lot of other conditions - while you're on provisional you can't supervise a learner driver, and in some states you can't drive above a certain speed limit and you have to have a blood alcohol level of 0. Teenage binge drinking is a thing, and they have cars. Do the math on that one.
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May 19, 2015 09:54
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PassTheRemote posted:
He's appeared in some of the Game Chaser's videos, and yeah he comes off a little caustic. Good-natured, but still caustic.
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May 20, 2015 03:06
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They should be called Teenage Mutant Ninja Tortoises guys, god.
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Testekill posted:Calling someone a loving moron for driving drunk is a pretty Australian thing to do. Actually the standard slogan is "If you drink then drive, you're a bloody idiot".
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May 20, 2015 14:43
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The 2004 Punisher is underrated I feel. I actually enjoyed it too. Punisher: Warzone is a real treat though if you want a mindless 80's-style ultraviolent movie 
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May 23, 2015 03:25
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't normally watch Sage but I'll have to give this one a look - the entire Robotech thing fascinates me, taking three different series and stitching them together with this unifying mythology and shared story. His vision for Robotech was apparently that it would a 365-episode mega-epic, where the ending would lead back into the start - a kind of ouroboros thing, I suppose. Well it kinda does. The next-episode preview for the last episode is for the very first one  .
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May 29, 2015 04:48
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PassTheRemote posted:My retinas still have not recovered. No-one's retinas have. 
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Jun 3, 2015 15:46
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Annointed posted:The MMOs were strange in many aspects. Particularly 11 when it could be summarized as "hard to figure out mathematically, but simple in how much the dev hates players". If you want a good modern Final Fantasy, go get The Last Story on the Wii*. It's made by the original creator of Final Fantasy. *Or wair for it to turn up on the WiiU eShop.
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Jun 11, 2015 02:32
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Rodyle posted:Anyone who likes Trigun should be reading and watching Blood Blockade Battlefront. Gungrave's really good too. The wheels fall off a fair bit when it gets stuck having to draw from the original PS2 game, but cribbing off Scarface and The Godfather is pretty drat good, and it's worth sticking with it for the ending.
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Jun 13, 2015 03:23
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Infamous Sphere posted:That sounds more like an Australian ideal. Which..come to think of it, why didn't Australia have a Baywatch style show about lifeguards? It would have made an absolute shirtload of sense, considering that there's a pretty big surf lifesaving culture here and a far higher percentage of the population lives on the coast as compared to the US. I vaguely recall there was supposed to be an Australian version at some point but it fell through before it got anywhere near pre-production.
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Jun 17, 2015 10:26
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dijon du jour posted:At least TGWTG doesn't pretend to pay its content producers, which doesn't make them less scummy but it does at least make them not crooks. Didnt they discourage using patreon for a while?
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Jun 25, 2015 01:29
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Darth Walrus posted:To be fair, when anime gets an unlimited budget, the results can be super rad. Watch Rage of Bahamut, you guys. Don't forget Redline  .
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Jun 26, 2015 12:39
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Kunster posted:So that's what, the 3rd person from Team Snob that was dropped for being hosed up? It's only the second, isn't it?
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Jun 26, 2015 15:46
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Kunster posted:I kind of consider Josh to be part given how much he contributed in terms of material and contacts. Given him not being around in Snob-centric casts, I kinda consider him to be the second one that left. I meant Josh and Jake. Who was the other?
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Jun 26, 2015 15:54
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Arcsquad12 posted:Sage has a new Anime Abandon out and.... hoo boy, is the poo poo he's reviewing bad. Jungle loving De Ikou. I got a good laugh out of "BECAUSE YOU DON'T LOVE ME!!!"
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Jul 3, 2015 05:32
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PassTheRemote posted:Why do Doug and Rob co-write and co-direct if they fight over the content so often? Creative control, probably.
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Jul 3, 2015 06:56
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nine-gear crow posted:The miniseries was good, season 1 was great, season 2 was AMAZING, and then everything that followed was the writers desperately flailing about to try and salvage the show after the big cleaver twist they ended the second season on wound up breaking it irreparably. Yeah, the first two seasons are fantastic and well worth watching, but after that the wheels fall off and send the show right off a cliff. The only real bad thing you can say about them is the Pegasus' CIC is a really cheap and tiny set compared to the "outdated" Galactica's. Granted it's apparently salvaged from a failed Lost in Space pilot, but still. Something I loved with the show was they actually had a large set of regular extras instead of just Tech Guy C for bit moments too. If you see some guy working on or flying Vipers in the background, chances are you'll consistently see him there a few times.
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Jul 5, 2015 12:37
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KayTee posted:As Tuurl. It's not like he's written any new ones to draw from.
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Jul 9, 2015 14:44
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FirstAidKite posted:Maybe he'll be there to talk about that time bennet made him watch anime porn When was this?
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Jul 12, 2015 11:24
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Arcsquad12 posted:It wasn't "technically" porn, but he and Sage did review an animated film together that involved gagging a fembot and then reprogramming her to be more sexy by tweaking a bunch of dials hidden in her rear end plate. Oh, that's right.
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Jul 12, 2015 13:52
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WickedHate posted:As long as it's only visible while you're holding it aloft dressed like Hamlet, you should be fine. Guybrush Threepwood is also acceptable.
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Jul 13, 2015 08:44
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watho posted:I don't know why but I really, really love My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU. I kind of want to review it because I have so many thoughts on it but I'm awful at writing so… If you're in Australia, it's up on AnimeLab.
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Jul 14, 2015 12:25
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Mraagvpeine posted:I'm sort of glad Discworld didn't get that treatment. I don't think it would work well as a movie franchise. There's a TV series coming based on the City Watch though.
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Jul 15, 2015 18:23
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Tracula posted:They've done a TV movie or two based on some of the novels and if you keep an open mind they're pretty enjoyable. Hogfather's great and Going Postal's okay, but Colour of Magic not so much aside from a spot-on Twoflower. I hope Charles Dance is the Patrician again for the tv series, because he was a perfect Vetinari in Going Postal .
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Jul 15, 2015 18:59
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I want someone to calm down and do a quiet analysis of what, exactly, makes Adam Sandler movies attractive to enough people that they keep getting made instead of just doing the angry critic thing. They're dumb safe lowbrow comedies. You know what you're getting going into them, for the most part.
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Jul 23, 2015 17:33
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DStecks posted:Pixels is not obviously a Happy Madison movie, so maybe people are upset because they thought it might just be a movie he was acting in? The real punchline to that movie is it's actually just based on some guy's short internet video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou8vRWTSsJo
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Jul 24, 2015 04:15
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Radio Dead Air's showing off a bit of the AT4W movie now/soonish alongside Linkara himself. It's going to be the preview shown at ConBravo, apparently.
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Jul 28, 2015 05:12
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Arcsquad12 posted:He did try to argue that Halo was a front for fascism once. This one's not actually as cut-and-dry as you first think. It's absolutely not a front for fascism, but it's interesting that if you go look at any of the backstory stuff it is a military dictatorship government. Even the Spartans were originally developed to stop all the various colony worlds going independent before the Covenant started glassing them one-by-one and suddenly the UNSC was the lesser of two evils for everybody.
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Jul 31, 2015 04:10
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Annointed posted:Yeah pretty much, including the way they always say Spartans never die as a method to mythologize them as godly instruments of war. Ironically enough the human population being completely decimated was actually in their favor, seeing as the colonies would have to stay, otherwise they won't have the means to survive. Nah, the Spartans were always PR'ed as heroes of humanity rather than getting a chance to be the terrifying anti-insurgency supersoldiers they were designed to be. They'd barely gotten to being ready for full-scale deployment when the Covenant rocked up and started ruining everyone's day.
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Jul 31, 2015 05:50
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Miss Wallace posted:I love that this derailed into lovely crime show plots. Like legitimately this is making me laugh out loud. CSI:Cyber is hilarious. It's every bad technojargon trope and buzzword you can think of said straight-faced. And has James Van Der Beek.
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Aug 1, 2015 18:49
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Gyges posted:They actually made a CSI:Cyber? Fuuuuuuuuck. Miss Wallace posted:This gives me life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcC00LLJygw
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Aug 2, 2015 04:37
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Gyges posted:Little Bow Wow is a Cyber cop? Better. He's a Black Hat hacker who got arrested and Patricia Arquette's brought him in to reform him
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Aug 2, 2015 05:46
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Junior Jr. posted:But seriously, all I'm asking is for Twitter (and Tumblr) to grow some loving balls. Tumblr already grows balls on plenty of things as-is  .
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Aug 3, 2015 04:30
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FirstAidKite posted:G4 is just such an entertaining trainwreck. I mean, it's a shame all the shows that I enjoyed were so heavily retooled into shittier versions of themselves or just outright cancelled, and it was just embarrassing seeing g4 constantly trying to reinvent itself and get an audience, but it's crazy entertaining just how lovely that channel got. They'll make a third series of Code Monkeys one day  .
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Aug 8, 2015 09:45
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Chimera-gui posted:The problem with Dailymotion and Vimeo is that they're not much better than Youtube when it comes to what content is allowed. Vimeo straight up banned anything using video game footage. One reviewer, Isaac the Media Hunter, already got a movie review removed from their Dailymotion page. Have to admit, I do like the Rangoon's riffs and rifflets .
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Aug 21, 2015 16:41
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Yeah, a unified login would only last as far as the first big database hack, or news story of "THEY TOOK MY UNIFIED ACCOUNT AND I LOST EVERYTHING!  " before going down the toilet. Facebook might offer a login for everything, but that doesnt mean people are actually using it.
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Aug 24, 2015 06:18
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If you want a basic look at what life is like for Japanese VA's, one of the currently-airing anime series this season covers this exact topic. It's called Seiyu's life, and each episode has a cameo from a well-known VA as themselves .
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Aug 29, 2015 15:42
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Spark That Bled posted:I don't think the Empire of Britannia can even be thought of as the same as Britain... I dunno, both are pretty terrified of having Charles at the top  .
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Calaveron posted:Quiet is always half-naked because there are parasites inside her that basically turn her into a plant: she photosynthesizes and requires plenty of water and oxygen, absorbed through her skin because she basically has no organs left. No, there's actually a reason to that. Their lungs work properly. Hers got burned to poo poo by Ishmael lighting her on fire in the prologue. It's still dumb as hell though. Jsor posted:Kojima is a writer where you're almost never exactly sure whether you're giving him too much or not enough credit. I'll grant him that he usually has a point to his stories, and when they fall apart at least they fall apart in interesting ways which is more than you can say for a hell of a lot of games. I think somewhere there's an alternative universe where he became a filmmaker and alternate universe Kyle is reviewing his films. The problem is you could write the same concept with a tanktop and shorts, rather than torn stockings and a thong. Quiet as a character otherwise is not bad at all, but all the idle animations in her cell at Mother Base and in the ACC are very clearly fanservice-focussed.
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