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Miftan posted:The last league event they did (World championship?) had several alternate league universes in it. Arcane, their card game, wild rift, team fight tactics and the main league game were all shown to be distinct universes. Yeah, I probably should been more specific that the question is whether the MMO is going to go with Arcane or League. Macaluso posted:Caitlyn is absolutely the top, yeah
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You all are mad if you think Cait is the top in that relationship.
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There is no response I can make that isn't dangerously horney
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Feb 18, 2022 22:49
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*turns hose onto thread* Calm down, the lot of ya
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Miftan posted:You all are mad if you think Cait is the top in that relationship. All tall women are bottoms ime yeah.
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Firstly, not a fan of LoL but I do love a good weird fiction dystopia, also love to draw/paint and have a huge appreciation for concept art. Was recommended this by a few people last year who told me 'Trust me, completely ignore the LoL thing, watch this because the animation and story is amazing', but sort of set it on the backburner due to busy times after Xmas. Finally got around to it this last weekend after my plans were derailed due to the local storms and me recovering from a migraine. Thought I'd pop on some easy watching nonsense to enjoy while resting out the postdrome in bed. Holy poo poo I was wrong to sleep on this, it is hands down the best series I have seen for a long time. I cannot even begin to express how good this series is. I ended up binging the entire nine episodes in a day. The entire thing looks like beautiful concept art paintings, but animated. Every part of it is gorgeously animated. In nine episodes, the storytelling is so lean - it's a masterclass in show don't tell. There's no need for much exposition, all the setting and nuance unfolds organically in conversation or suggestion. So much is crammed into character expressions and body language. The voice acting is incredible, and in combination with the animation pulled off some heart-wrenching stuff that I've rarely seen actors pull off before. The soundtrack is great. Maybe the only thing I found annoying was the Imagine Dragons cameo (though I do like their song as the theme). The music at the end of the 3rd episode, and the during the Ekko and Jinx fight, and the finale though? Amazing. All the characters are nuanced, even the villains. That's not me endorsing any of them, but just glad they are fleshed out as people instead of stereotypes as such. Every episode was good, not one weak one. Just an absolute powerhouse of a finale. Was glad to see some queer representation, and happy to wait until the next series to see it (hopefully) pay off, as it might have been a bit rushed for series one. I'm just absolutely loving bewildered and delighted that this exists and somehow is way better than it has any right to be, and also there is going to be a second season (also impatient for that). I'm going to re-watch it immediately.
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TONY MEATBALLS posted:Was glad to see some queer representation, and happy to wait until the next series to see it (hopefully) pay off
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It really wasn't queerbaiting, it was super obviously a romance and the characters are long established as a couple in the lore. It's possible they'll restrict the explicit kissing and love declarations to a few scenes that they'll cut out for China and Russia, but there's no way they leave it even as "ambiguous" as it is now.
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pidan posted:It really wasn't queerbaiting, it was super obviously a romance and the characters are long established as a couple in the lore. It's possible they'll restrict the explicit kissing and love declarations to a few scenes that they'll cut out for China and Russia, but there's no way they leave it even as "ambiguous" as it is now. Yeah. Unless something happens the creators act like it's much more a question of 'how' and not 'if.'
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pidan posted:It really wasn't queerbaiting, it was super obviously a romance and the characters are long established as a couple in the lore. It's possible they'll restrict the explicit kissing and love declarations to a few scenes that they'll cut out for China and Russia, but there's no way they leave it even as "ambiguous" as it is now. If you mean Vi and Caitlyn they haven't actually been long established as a couple, Arcane is actually the most explicit about them even being potentially in a relationship, everything else has been teases. They've been partners in the police sense since forever, they've had fliratious lines, but any actual romantic connection hasn't been an official thing until Arcane. However, the following has been official. Leona and Diana (they went on a date and have a mutual attraction torn apart by their current religious situation vis a vis moon and sun), Valmar and Kai a pair of gay men who have been transformed into a singular body for the Darkin Demon Varus to use as he enacts his ancient vengeance except if they are in sync they can stop him from acting. There's also Neeko (officially a lesbian, no actual romantic partner, interested in Nidalee) and Miss Fortune (lovers both male and female) and Rell (clear attraction to both genders, no partners, is 17). For what it's worth, Caitlyn and Vi have had the same amount of teasing as Graves and TF (partners, comments about them being together all the time by other characters, pet names, in-jokes) and I'm pretty sure Graves and TF are going to be canon soon enough. They also get the same amount of teasing as Garen and Katarina (who are on opposite sides of a war even). I do agree there's no way they leave it as "ambiguous" as it is now, but Arcane is where it has really been highlighted and made official, it's not using previous official lore. Arcane also notably has already had disconnects with the lore that League champions have since had (the most recent Zaunite champions don't fit Arcane whatsoever, Arcane itself doesn't fit the presentation of the Universes page for Piltover and Zaun visually). Right now there's effectively 3 pseudo-canons, League itself has backstory and setting details for champions, Legends of Runeterra has an expanded amount of details of the world, but doesn't always match itself or League, and Arcane is its own thing that is using details from both but already has divergences, especially in terms of Hextech (at least one League Champion has a backstory that doesn't work with Arcane's version of Hextech).
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The romantic elements were pretty blink-and-you'll-miss-it so I can imagine it was easy to cut from the Russian and Chinese versions.
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There's nothing ambiguous about that Caitlyn shower scene
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Irony Be My Shield posted:The romantic elements were pretty blink-and-you'll-miss-it so I can imagine it was easy to cut from the Russian and Chinese versions. "You're [HELPFUL], [COMRADE]."
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Dawgstar posted:"You're [HELPFUL], [COMRADE]." 
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Macaluso posted:There's nothing ambiguous about that Caitlyn shower scene I used to think it was queerbaiting but the third act is pretty unambiguous. All of my friends thought they were pretty explicit about Caitlyn/Vi. Plus, they will just censor it like when China removed the entirety of the Jayce/Mel sex scene.
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I'm going to watch Arcane again because it owns.
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I know fuckall about League of Legends but watched this in like three days just now and goddamn this was good. It's really creepy and weird how thirsty the show is for Jinx, though, seeing as how we saw her as a kid and she's also insane with some heavy Harley Quinn vibes, but drat, the character designs in this show overall are just badass. Particularly Mel, Silco, and Vi.
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Not sure if this has been posted in the thread before but one of the composers for Arcane did a video breaking down the arrangement and composition of "What Could Have Been". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DegKNj62-w I've been a fan of Sting and The Police for my entire life, and when the final episode first aired and I watched it and Sting's voice came on at the end I literally broke out in tears. It's so wonderfully staged and set to the visuals that I was having a hard time not crying watching it as it all came together in this video.
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With Netflix announcing that they are canceling animation shows, does anyone know if Arcane is affected? With how much praise the shows been getting, I can't imagine it's one of the shows on the chopping block...
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GlassEye-Boy posted:With Netflix announcing that they are canceling animation shows, does anyone know if Arcane is affected? With how much praise the shows been getting, I can't imagine it's one of the shows on the chopping block... It won't be affected. Riot is paying for it, not Netflix.
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Yeah and as much as I am hoping Riot takes their ball and goes elsewhere, Netflix has no actual control over Arcane
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Asema posted:Yeah and as much as I am hoping Riot takes their ball and goes elsewhere, Netflix has no actual control over Arcane If they wanted they could probably take it to Amazon Prime or heck, maybe even do it themselves.
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Please god anywhere else but prime. It has the absolute worst picture quality and wouldn’t even come close to doing the show justice.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:With Netflix announcing that they are canceling animation shows, does anyone know if Arcane is affected? With how much praise the shows been getting, I can't imagine it's one of the shows on the chopping block... While I'm fearful for things like the Devil May Cry animated show and the Castlevania animation continuation with how cost-cutting happy Netflix is acting lately, Arcane's absolutely the safest animated thing on Netflix. It's got heaps of praise and popularity going for it, and on top of that it's the IP of a game company with plenty of money to throw at it. All Netflix dropping it would mean is that it'd go to somewhere else for distribution in like, two weeks tops. One of the knocks against Netflix seems to be that it'll spend a lot of money on the shows it really values or sees as big attention grabbers (Stranger Things is the show that's been brought up the most, but things like paying a fortune to secure the streaming rights to Seinfeld come to mind as well), and Arcane's got to be the closest animated show to that "big deal" status on Netflix's end at the moment. I'd be shocked to see it not just continue on at Netflix for as long as the creative forces behind the show want to keep it going. NowonSA fucked around with this message at 06:06 on May 3, 2022 |
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Does anyone have a link to an actual announcement saying Netflix intends to stop hosting animated shows on their platform?
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Slashrat posted:Does anyone have a link to an actual announcement saying Netflix intends to stop hosting animated shows on their platform? https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-is-slashing-animation-amid-subscriber-drops
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Arcane should probably be exempt as it was a worldwide success and their most critically acclaimed original since like The Good Place.
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Lid posted:Arcane should probably be exempt as it was a worldwide success and their most critically acclaimed original since like The Good Place. And also because neither were Netflix originals -- they were both broadcast acquisitions IIRC.
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I mean even if Netflix did decide to ditch Arcane, which they won't, any other streaming service with half a brain would scoop them right up. Or hell they could just sell the show digitally themselves, they don't need Netflix.
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Macaluso posted:I mean even if Netflix did decide to ditch Arcane, which they won't, any other streaming service with half a brain would scoop them right up. Or hell they could just sell the show digitally themselves, they don't need Netflix. Isn't this what they're looking into? I heard Riot was planning on stepping up in house production on original narrative material, so I assumed that this was their plan.
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Open Source Idiom posted:And also because neither were Netflix originals -- they were both broadcast acquisitions IIRC. Yeah. Fortiche is the studio that made Arcane with Riot funding the costs. Netflix wasn't heavily involved in the making at all so Riot can just pick another distributor if Netflix lost interest in Season 2 or whatever. JuniperCake fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 11, 2022 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:Isn't this what they're looking into? I heard Riot was planning on stepping up in house production on original narrative material, so I assumed that this was their plan. https://deadline.com/2022/05/riot-games-hires-netflix-hbo-max-paramount-execs-entertainment-division-1235015453/ Riot hired people from netflix/hbo max/paramount to run up an entirely new division so I think they are looking into that.
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https://www.destructoid.com/league-of-legends-arcane-series-emmy-nominations-outstanding-animated-series/ Arcane better win all the drat awards. I mean, I loving love Rick and Morty, but this thing was on a whole different level, especially technically.
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Phenotype posted:https://www.destructoid.com/league-of-legends-arcane-series-emmy-nominations-outstanding-animated-series/ I still think Arcane is the best LOOKING animated anything I've ever seen. I'm not saying it's the best show/movie I've ever watched, but I don't personally think there's anything out there right now that is as good from an animation standpoint. Any other animated thing winning over Arcane will be outrages
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Surprised it's episode 6 specifically that's nominated, rather than 3. It's a good episode, but I think most regard 3 as better, if not the best.
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Doing a bit necromancy to let people know that the first part of a docuseries on the making of Arcane is up on YouTube.
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