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babish's buttered noodles episode clued me in to the existence of die-cut pasta, and since nearly half of my meals are spaghetti-based this turned out to be a significant improvement
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Oct 30, 2020 16:00
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Pants Donkey posted:Adult Swim funded two sequel series. The first is a direct sequel but also pretty awful especially with them seemingly not understanding how their protagonist and themes were supposed to work together. It’s basically a poor man’s FLCL and a downgrade in every way. flcl progressive had flashes of brilliance buried in a huge morass of pointlessness, and most of them were in the first episode. "I have nothing left to teach you. Now, for today's lesson" is a fantastic line alternative was generally competent up until the final fifteen minutes, which it completely botched, and that's almost worse than progressive's across-the-board malaise
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Dec 14, 2020 17:47
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Skippy McPants posted:You're not alone in this. I've been listening to the 1998 rendition of Mr. Mistoffelees on loop for days. i heard misstoffelees exactly once when i was like 17 or 18 and still knew the chorus word for word when i finally looked up the song a decade later those exuberant childish rhymes lodge in your brain like a fishhook
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Jan 7, 2021 16:30
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i'm well outside of pop music so i hadn't heard of Exile before it's very nice but what is up with that swooshing noise in the first half of the song? like an off-beat washing machine is running waaaay in the background. ruins the mix
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Jan 17, 2021 23:39
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McCloud posted:If only she could have taken her dumbass ideology with her, many a forum derails could have been avoided especially because one of the best ways to defuse objectivism seems to be having someone experience it right from the source, instead of its watered-down reinterpretations from other media. rand was her own worst advocate
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Feb 3, 2021 22:51
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RareAcumen posted:I dunno, sounds like Last of Us 2 endless misery porn to me eoe is literally life-affirming in that it comes away stating that the trials and misery which are inherent to being alive are still preferable to any alternative tlou2 just sucks
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Feb 28, 2021 23:58
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Alaois posted:oh hey someone made that Manami Toyota video i wanted imagine a tall cloaked man with a wheat scythe angrily shaking his fist just off-camera
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Mar 1, 2021 00:04
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:ah gently caress what did roald dahl do Dahl was legendarily horrible, in addition to gems like the above quote I don’t think I’ve ever read a single account of him (besides those written by himself) that didn’t describe him as a nightmare to be around
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Mar 11, 2021 00:35
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Garrand posted:Voidburger and Chipcheezum later streamed it, also mad in a similar fashion chip, meditatively: "i think my least favorite part was when they used the holocaust to humanize a pedophile"
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Mar 17, 2021 04:01
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:There’s also a famous part where the bullies give each other blowjobs and one of the characters sees it and realizes in that moment how scary and evil they truly are. you're misremembering, they lit each others farts on fire, as was the style at the time e: wait nope the dick-fondling bit happens after. too much book in that book
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Apr 4, 2021 21:55
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CYBEReris posted:i liked some aspects of woody allen movies and Antz is still a bafflingly but refreshingly pro-union film in spite of his involvement but I don't think there could possibly be a better example of the artist's rancid views seeping into their artistic output. in like every other film the guy made there's a creepy relationship dynamic. even fresh-faced junior high-schooler me could tell that antz was powerfully, shamelessly socialist a bug's life muttered a few lines about collective action into its palm, antz was full-on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs
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Apr 9, 2021 16:49
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Reaverbot posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX5rs0jjkw8 that dance sequence made me feel like i was going mad, and these days that's not an easy accomplishment
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Apr 12, 2021 05:58
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BigRed0427 posted:Homestuck is one of those things I always wanted to try but never did you and everyone in your position dodged a bullet
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Apr 13, 2021 19:39
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Mokinokaro posted:Dan Olsen's fulfilled his Patreon goal of commenting on the failure of Doug's The Wall video. this is turning out to be a hard watch because the analysis is very good but every time he cuts to walker's review my eyes and eardrums want to flee to the back of my head
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Apr 13, 2021 19:50
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Katt posted:So Capitan Smoker had Luffy caught but then a wizard appeared. Declared Luffy the Chosen One and then saved everyone and also smashed half the town. helps to keep in mind that one piece's perspective is 99% from those who are rebelling against the government so the readers get to see most of its nastier side. for ordinary people, the world government's way more admirable (and definitely preferable to psychopaths like krieg and kuro deciding to raze your entire island on a whim) there are decent people in the Marines but they're often bitter, frustrated, and constantly bashing their heads against leadership that's apathetic to ordinary people's concerns and beholden to a ruling class that doesn't give a single poo poo about anything but preserving its own supremacy
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Apr 13, 2021 20:28
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Katt posted:He did say "It's not for us to come between that man and his chosen path" which is close enough. that is literally, grammatically the opposite of being a chosen one. one statement is about someone's self-determination, the other is about a path being determined for oneself
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Apr 13, 2021 20:42
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Macaluso posted:Alastor feels like the only part of Hazbin Hotel that doesn't feel like a one note thing, and I kind of feel like that character is someone the creator has had for a very long time and finally gets a chance to use them. His backstory has a mystery about it from how he died, to how he was able to overthrow a lot of the really powerful demons basically overnight. i find HB mildly amusing at best but HH is a total face-ache aesthetically and alastor is the worst of the lot. plus the day-glo motherfucker wouldn't shut up
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Apr 30, 2021 17:34
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nurmie posted:yeah even disregarding all the creepy, gross poo poo and the clear lack of research going on, David Cage just fundamentally doesn't seem to be too curious about, well, people, it feels like. i know he's praised (or at least used to be, for a bit) as a great visionary and whatever. however, from what little exposure i've had to his stuff just now, when it's not gross it's just profoundly incurious - in this annoying up-its-own-arse kind of way people liked comparing cage and yoko taro during detroit, but i prefer kojima comparisons personally david cage is so incurious that he cannot be bothered to learn how a bathroom works. kojima, if anything, understands bathrooms too well
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Jun 7, 2021 05:27
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cage's near-complete obliviousness on every subject from home construction to climate to economics to basic human interaction, combined with the production values of his last three games, lends them a deeply uncanny atmosphere. i would compare them to museum exhibits on humanity created by aliens or something, but even that doesn't work because the only definite "thumbprint" cage leaves on his work is fetishistic - women in underwear, women being beaten, women in bathrooms, women in underwear being beaten in bathrooms
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Jun 7, 2021 05:34
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I know more about FNAF than I ever wanted and I have never heard word one about subliminal bible verses or cawthorn being a covert fundie evangelist. religious yes, “brainwashing kids for Jesus” no vvv: also true, every new fnaf game has YouTube lorelords swarming over it like termites. you’d think something like this would have been excavated and blared from the rooftops fifty times over Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jun 10, 2021 |
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Jun 10, 2021 03:54
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Pachylad posted:The whole thing is just fuckin is it bad that i feel kind of nostalgic reading about this sort of insanity today's online craziness is a different breed
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Jun 20, 2021 04:46
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, here's just one excerpt:
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QuoProQuid posted:imagine a gymnast who pulls off half of an impressive routine only to fall off the balance beam trying an overly complicated move, snap their neck, and loving die Whitenoise Poster posted:Homestuck the comic is exactly like watching a four hour long youtube video of someone setting up and incredibly long and complex domino based rube goldberg device, and at the end he knocks over the first domino backwards and then just leaves. The lights turn of ten seconds later and the video ends.
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Jul 1, 2021 02:52
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Pigbuster posted:I have said it before but just read Problem Sleuth because it does the same amount of nonsensically complex worldbuilding but unlike Homestuck it actually all pays off in the end. It doesn't even pretend to take itself seriously, either. problem sleuth is evergreen
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Jul 1, 2021 06:58
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Alacron posted:The more I learn, the more I respect the hell out of localization work. Like, I always imagine a translator looking at a pun that actually gets drawn out visually on screen/panel and going "gently caress HOW DO I MAKE THIS WORK IN ENGLISH" my first contact with this was a bit in FLCL where a subtitle explaining the word "mackerel" flashed onscreen apropos of nothing, because the pun attached to it was so loopy that the localizers had to give up and create their own
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Jul 4, 2021 23:05
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i think social media and the general compulsion to fixate on shows/games/etc as a distraction from *gestures at everything, everywhere* has done a lot to fuel the "consumption as religion" insanity in newer generations, though
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Aug 18, 2021 00:05
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The 7th Guest posted:No, it's the antagonist, who is emotionally manipulative and stalkery. People wanted the content warning updated to reflect that, and so Kitfox Games did so. But then that wasn't enough for others, who want an option to remove the antagonist from the game entirely. Which is a little much to ask for a small indie dev, to rewrite their story/game progression because people can't handle a bad guy being a bad guy, in a way that is portrayed as bad, when there is a content warning and also a billion other games out there they can play. parasociality around voice actors has definitely exploded in recent years. sometimes it's cute like when VA's will read shitposts to their twitter followers or whatever, but i think the combination of their relatively minor celebrity + existing in a more "abstract" sense for their fans makes a lot of people way more eager to crucify them then you get the occasional heinous creep like micgogna who helps the usual malcontents justify their aggression to themselves
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Aug 18, 2021 03:03
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RareAcumen posted:"Your stomach is a graveyard" oldie but a goodie 
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Aug 23, 2021 07:23
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saints row 3 was a very, very bad game that mainly consisted of volition trying their best to work around the demands of their failing publisher. the cast was far worse, its wackiness was overstated and often cruel, it lacked any of the contrasting pathos SR2 had, and the gameplay was unremarkable and somehow even more repetitive than SR2's side-mission grinding SR4 was basically a giant apology for 3 and would have ended the series on a high note if not for the wet raspberry that was Gat Out of Hell
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Sep 1, 2021 02:33
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Violen posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvrV337VgE and all those books had even more illustrations on the title pages, back pages, etc i think the only parts that didn't have stringy nightmare art doodled in the margins were the indices
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Sep 3, 2021 19:47
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Terrible Opinions posted:Yeah it is 100% the friends you made along the way. the climax of the story's first half was the world's strongest man, a guy who saw the one piece personally, throwing the world into disarray when he uses his dying breath to announce on global radio that the one piece is real and not the friends you made along the way have to respect the chutzpah of basically turbo-charging global piracy with a single sentence because now everyone knows that, holy poo poo, there really is a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow
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Sep 12, 2021 15:46
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Grondoth posted:Come the gently caress on, if you're gonna ruin your life at least kill one of the people you've been driven to madness over. he got shot by one of the proud boys during a protest and the cops predictably let the shooter off scot-free, and it shook something loose inside his head i recall seeing a lot of increasingly bitter posts towards his ex-wife for not letting him see his kids anymore during that time
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Oct 12, 2021 03:42
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Groovelord Neato posted:That change also led to the best song in the movie. mean green mother was part of the original cut, and had a better finish as well every part of little shop was superb but ellen greene doesn't get brought up often enough the way she switches from that breathy marilyn monroe speaking voice to blasting the roof off when she starts singing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DD7VIKZnGA
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Oct 17, 2021 19:21
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i know these forums are not representative of public opinion but B:I's defenders here pretty much ceased to exist after burial at sea was released, and levine himself has basically ceased to exist along with them the man had a tremendous amount of goodwill built up and pissed it all down his leg because he couldn't get over his moral cowardice i read a few accounts that he was also a nightmarish prima donna as a director, but there's no way i could find them now
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Dec 5, 2021 20:01
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DeafNote posted:I think he is saying that its an unclear subject not just because of the way anime is drawn, but because "A game like Persona 5 technically counts as diverse for us, but not for Japan itself." sounded sensible to me - he's considering "diversity" not just along race/gender lines, but also on power dynamics relative to the culture of its creators. specifically for persona 5, ann would probably qualify under those standards, but then you run into headaches with how to evaluate ensemble casts (to say nothing of how racial angst was already done much better by lisa silverman, but no one could ever accuse persona 5 of being too daring with social issues)
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Dec 11, 2021 22:10
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i overlooked jupiter jazz when i was into the show as a kid and that two-parter's portrayal of faye throws the netflix version into even starker relief she ditches the crew and robs them to go to a town with no women and flaunt herself in a public space, which at first makes her look suicidally dumb, except them it turns out she was planning to lure out all her would-be paramours and beat the tar out of them, which is less dumb but still dangerously overconfident, and when gren rescues her (in a totally unasked-for moment of chivalry) she waxes on about she doesn't need anyone to help her and it becomes clear that all her actions thus far have been her spiraling after getting a taste of actual camaraderie from the bebop's crew. gren's apartment is the first time in the show where she doesn't have anyone to perform for, and she's exhausted underneath it all with all the cast members, the netflix writing does so much less with so much more
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Dec 17, 2021 15:47
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Arc Hammer posted:Why is his head so big. It honestly felt like there was some uncanny cgi going on to make it look like he had no neck and a giant head. A live action Mr. Mackie. funko pop man
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Dec 17, 2021 23:26
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forums (at least these forums) are markedly different from twitter/tumblr/facebook if only because they lack the associated quantification. if you're very lucky, or unlucky, a post you make will be followed up by a bunch of other posts with yellow texts (purple if you're in mobile). that's it, that's all the recognition you're getting. no one is going to like or subscribe that quantification is high-grade poison regardless of platform, just look at reddit
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Dec 28, 2021 20:15
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Dias posted:yeyeye prozd is an anime now! i'm not sure if that really applies to prozd, guy's been slowly breaking his way into the professional VA scene for a long time now. and that is not an easy feat by any means but over the last 5-7 years he's been going from webcomic fandubs, to indie game roles, to tv/anime work, and unlike Team 4star he doesn't have those pricks at tecmo koei trying to blackball him
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Dec 28, 2021 22:28
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the classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diOhwvRYlsU
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Dec 28, 2021 23:07
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Solitair posted:Seconded. Odd Taxi's great. start the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBxX1tz1p4Y
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Dec 31, 2021 07:37
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