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Happy New Year! 38 22.22%
This year's going to suck too! 78 45.61%
Wait, it's still 2019! 17 9.94%
Zzzzzzzzzz 38 22.22%
Total: 171 votes
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Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

stop putting thread titles in quotes

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Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

drat it actually worked

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Grouchio posted:

Jesus christ what did I miss within 300 posts
anime discussion

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

SatoshiMiwa posted:

Akanesasu is a good choice cause it's really good and just got ignored cause Zombieland, Gridman and Bloom were same season
Akanesasu is outstanding, but a lot of the action in it isn't. Since Jose was asking for action anime specifically, I don't think it's a good rec for him--though it's a solid rec in general

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Aurora posted:

mob psycho 1 and 2
yeah this is a good pick

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

First they came for the insanely sexy anime thread, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not horny.
Then they came for the normie thread, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not hardcore.
Then they came for the manga reader site comments thread, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a reader site commentator.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Ibram Gaunt posted:

BUt for real someone buy stair that av
he who sought it bought it

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

K. Flaps posted:

What a scam. Don't fall for this lol.
how is it a scam? it seems like a weird marketing ploy at worst

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

wasn't gs the most popular anime on crunchyroll the season it aired? I'm pretty sure normal people do watch it, unfortunately

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Waffleman_ posted:

That was mainly in the beginning of the season where people were checking out the controversy and trying to own the libs but I think it dropped off as the season went on and people realized the show was just kinda bad.
Crunchyroll says it was the most popular anime in every single state a month into the season; I haven't been able to find a source on whether that changed, but my assumption would be that it didn't. So

Toshimo posted:

Normal people still don't watch Goblin Slayer.
would seem to be deeply wrong. SA isn't the world; just because people here thought it was a weird show for weirdos doesn't mean the world did, the discourse dropped off here doesn't mean people elsewhere stopped watching and engaging with it.

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Waffleman_ posted:

A month into the season is what I would call near the beginning of the season, yes.
I would agree. But it's past the three-episode test; where's the evidence that people stopped watching? I might be wrong, but given that it didn't seem like people were dropping off over the course of the season and the sole piece I was able to find on Fall 2018 viewership statistics said "people are watching Goblin Slayer", I'm kind of inclined to think those people stuck with it. I might be wrong but I haven't seen anything suggesting I am!

also I don't think most people watching gs were even aware of the controversy. they probably went "wow cool dark fantasy show" and skipped completely over the bad stuff

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

like I wanted to avoid talking about the content of goblin slayer because I haven't seen it and can therefore only regurgitate and synthesize other people's opinions, but here's my take: it's bad. the eroticization of sexual violence is obviously bad, and the presentation of an evil race of demihumans who are simultaneously evil and free-willed and who live as parasites on society and who go unchecked despite causing massive problems because ~people aren't willing to talk about it~—that's bad. but it's only slightly exaggerated compared to every work of Tolkien-derived fantasy—and therefore every work of D&D-derived fantasy—featuring orc-like "demi-humans", which is a hell of a lot of fantasy. if you've consumed a lot of fantasy, it's not impossible to totally gloss over the weird goblin stuff as genre convention

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Motto posted:

can't wait to feel like a vase

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

El Burbo posted:

croc is gonna die

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Lemon-Lime posted:

You only need to be bilingual to work for the Canadian government, Ontario is fully anglo and Québec plenty of anglo neighbourhoods.
Though Quebec's first language is French and it really, really pushes it, so you'd probably be better off in Ontario

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

This is like Garfield without the jokes

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

enough people like the cat comic that, as much as I loathe it, it wouldn't be fair for me to ask you to stop posting it, but I would appreciate it if you used timg tags so I could scroll past faster

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Coaaab posted:

as long as the cat is not an mra or denies any war crimes
2019 was a bad year for garfield

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

the last paper mario was more sticker poo poo in every way that mattered so im predicting a continuation of the trend

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Waffleman_ posted:

I feel like if that was the case, they'd port Color Splash rather than make a new one.
most of the ports have been really well-received games that languished on the Wii U. Color Splash didn't seem to get much buzz among critics or players, so it's unlikely that a port would get as much attention as a new game (even if that new game continued the trend)

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

littleorv posted:

drat this thread got good
who ruined your avatar

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Stairmaster posted:

I wish I could see the porn
you're really not missing anything


El Burbo posted:

wait orv you are canadian you have no choice
yeah orv you're not even american. stop interfering in foreign democracies!

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

so it looks like I was wrong re: the new paper mario game

https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/30/nintendo-is-making-3d-mario-remasters-for-his-35th-anniversary/

quote:

The Paper Mario game, meanwhile, represents a return to that franchise’s roots. This means something closer to the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube games, which are beloved. And leaving behind the baggage of the more forgettable entries on 3DS and Wii U.

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

an unfunny april fool's joke is the kind of thing that ought to be taken lightly, imo

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Cuntellectual posted:

Being unfunny and kinda pathetic is one thing, but when the punchline of a joke is something about a woman who is (last we heard) stuck in a DV shelter with her young daughter during a global pandemic
Wait what

Sorry, I thought it was just a bunch of "haha the mods are rebelling" announcements and 100k probations; hadn't seen anything related to that bit. Yeah, that's pretty hosed up!

e: I haven't been able to find the puncjline in question, so I'd appreciate a link

Elephant Parade fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Apr 1, 2020

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

then it's back to "unfunny prank too ignorable to be worth caring about" in my eyes

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

please stay 6 posts away from kyuu-chan

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

gently caress

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

timg the cat

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

kyuu-chan will stop being posted in 100 days

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

#4 reads like a dril tweet

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

if I was able to photoshop manga volumes onto politician's bookshelves, I'd pick something more interesting than dragon ball z

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Endorph posted:

Magia record is so insanely good. The first couple eps are kinda eh but it really hits its stride and the back third is just fantastic. The episode that mirrors the homura revelation episode is basically unimpeachable, explores a similar breaking down of the rules around magical girls in the franchise but from multiple perspectives and with a lot of verve and energy. Intensely good anime.
Magireco is great and I wish more people watched it. I like how Touka is introduced as the creator of a perpetual motion machine, i.e. a machine that breaks conservation of energy, and is later revealed to be the founder of the Doppel system, which appears to break conservation of magical energy, a law just as intrinsic to Madoma's setting as conservation of energy us to the real world. There are lots of little details like that.

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

I will never watch Brain Powerd, but it has one of the best battle themes in SRW J and I'll always appreciate it for that

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

NikkolasKing posted:

Also I'm so used to watching only long runners that when I found out the highly praised Madoka Magica is only 12 episodes, that kinda put me off. How can you even sink your teeth into something that short? And yet the way everyone went on about it a few years ago I figured it must be a brilliant masterpiece.
Twelve episodes is 240 minutes, or four hours. You can fit a lot into four hours.

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

ok this one is solid

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

vague memories of playing the Shaman King-branded Pokemon clone that ends after like eight hours with your party at maybe level 20

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Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

that's our garf

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