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Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Terrible Opinions posted:

You must have played a very very different doom than me. Was there like another version that was released with weird misery porn fixation on the people who you find as corpses in normal doom?

Duke Nukem?

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Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Roth posted:

Why do so many Tolkien-esque fantasy anime use RPG mechanics as a part of the actual world anyway?

I feel like that Adventures' Guild where the main characters get quests from could be from any 50 fantasy anime.

Isekai
Originality

Pick One

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Someone please tell me that this trash anime is only one cour so I don't have to see a million posts with handwringing recommendations of it anytime it comes up for more than the next 3 months.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

I finally caught up on not watching a single episode of Goblin Slayer.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

In every age, in every place, those with poo poo taste remain the same.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Good to know Finland has something it's bad at.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Every lovely spinoff of GS is going to get an anime adaptation isn't it. Meanwhile, we'll never get Konosuba season 3. This world is so corrupt.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

DisDisDis posted:

i don't care about the length

Thanks this really boosts my self-esteem

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

I would also like to ban people saying an anime was done badly ironically or that cheesecake was shown for the sake of female empowerment. Thanks.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

I'm so hosed up.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

SatoshiMiwa posted:

To be fair though Gendo's beard is quite amazing

Ritsuko was kind of bland actually.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

I love being pandered to with things that came out 20 years ago. Thanks based netflix.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Endorph posted:

Sort of. More that they're obsessed with all anime being either critiques of or pandering to people who watch a lot of anime, and specifically, american middle class white males who watch a lot of anime, since that's the only anime fan perspective they actually know. It's how you wind up with takes like 'this series written by a lesbian, running in a magazine with a 70% female audience, is clearly pandering to men,' 'gatchaman crowds is pro gamergate,' or 'kill la kill is clearly a critique of fanservice.' Everything has to exist in the context of whatever twitter arguments they're having that week, and whatever opinions they have have to be supported by the things they like, and whatever things they dislike have to be catering to people they don't like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke1YKF3tNCE

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Endorph posted:

i dont really like 'uhm actually' *annoying nerd voice* gags but the punchline was pretty good there

I can hear the punchline in my head clear as day anytime someone tries to claim fanservice isn't what it is.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Motto posted:

tho I think people, especially in the anitwitter sphere tend to lean on the "haha they're horny, but that's okay" read a bit much

Not being flippant but I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying. Are they categorizing stuff that's sexual but has a legitimate purpose into the "fanservice" category or are they not being critical enough of how much fanservice there is these days? Or something else? Thanks.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

I watched the Nico introduction episode (which was good) and a few after that before giving up on it. One of the things that irked me was how their fingernails were drawn, I couldn't ignore it. I have the same problem with the way Double Decker's noses are drawn, but I've managed to stick with it. In conclusion, I can't stop coming up with weird reasons to dislike things.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008


Yeah that's what I was talking about. I'm not a fingernail aficionado so I usually don't care but those stuck out to me. The real reason I gave up on it was probably the bland idol drama so I might check out sunshine.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008


The goblins were better before they all turned into beef/cheesecake.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Reincarnated Into Another World as the Wife of a Brutal and Tyrannical Warlord, but I'm a Man!

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Anime stinks.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

I think you could call Girls und Panzer Nazi propaganda since using mainly German tanks for the protagonist's vehicles has probably led to a non-zero amount of neo-Nazi converts via the Aesthetics -> Wehraboo -> Nazi Apologist -> Nazi pipeline. But it's propaganda in the sense that Gundam is pro-war propaganda because it makes war look cool, not because it ever promotes such a thing (in fact most series promote the opposite).

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiaC0jpQ4Kg

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Is Strike Witches fascist propaganda?

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Sorry, I didn't watch it back in the day and vaguely remember them having WWII uniforms (with hotpants/skirts). Good to hear it doesn't promote fascism.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

DisDisDis posted:

I immediately lose interest in every anime I watch after three episodes. If I've watched and enjoyed episodes 8 and 9, what would be a good third episode of Zombieland to watch before dropping it forever?

5

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Depending on how strong you were at the time, that may get you a free trip to the reeducation camps.

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Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008


If you were strong enough to do serious damage then you had to take the shot. You're gonna have to carry that weight.

(It was a dumb post and I'm sorry)

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Davincie posted:

its a tough fight in the dumb post catagory today between the violent fantasies and glorified *potentially underage* poster fanfic

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Drake Disapproval: Sorry, I can't make it to work Thursday. My daughter is going through her next cycle of chemotherapy for Hodgkin's Disease and I need to be there for her.
Drake Approval: Sorry, I can't make it to work Thursday. My daughter is sick *cuts to cute daughter in hospital room who coughs once or twice*

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

You could remove 3-4 episodes of material from Zombieland and it would be better for it I think.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

dogsicle posted:

i don't think ZLS had too much time, just time not put to good use. it'd be better to rework some of the weaker eps than just have a shorter show

I agree with that, I just meant that if I had the choice between what we got and an abridged version of what we got, I'd prefer the latter.

an actual dog posted:

What if ZLS was a short 🤔

I don't think ZLS could have worked as a 12 minute show. Episodes 8 and 9 specifically couldn't really fit into that formula.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

doomrider7 posted:

The reason why I feel Uzumaid isn't quite as bad is that we the viewer are supposed to find Tsubame weird and creepy hence the humor of her doing these overt displays and other stuff. Again VERY YMMV for the whole pedo thing, but we're not supposed to think that's cool. Goblin Slayer (etc)

Your defense of Uzumaid feels very similar to how people defended Goblin Slayer by saying "the rape is very serious and isn't for shock value/fetishism". It would take some top tier writers to pull off making a "cute girls" show about a lolicon while simultaneously not pandering to lolicons themselves, and I'm not sure the fine people at Doga Kobo are quite up to that. I'm not sure anyones up to that. I think it's best to just acknowledge that we sometimes put on blinders to problematic things and it lets us enjoy the better parts of something. It's not necessary to defend the parts we ignored.

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

I wish I didn't know about this "japanese culture thinks lesbians are pedophiles" thing. I realize now I've seen it in multiple places and I don't know where the line is drawn between pseudo-motherly affection and pedophilia.

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Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

I'm sorry. I rewrote that sentence like three times before I actually posted it to try and make sure it wasn't seen as racist (it went from Japan to Japanese people to Japanese culture). I didn't go far enough obviously but I know that every culture/country isn't some monolithic entity that should be treated as such.

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