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Post by kaoru on Jan 13, 2018 14:13:33 GMT -5
Eating mermaid flesh turning you immortal is fyi based on Japanese folklore, not a thing Takahashi came up with.
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Post by ResidentTsundere on Jan 14, 2018 3:02:52 GMT -5
The Walking Dead TV show. I used to be patient with a lot of storytelling decisions that pissed other fans off, but season 8A is the straw that broke the camel's back.
The guy who has run the show for the last four seasons and will soon ruin Fear the Walking Dead co-wrote Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, which absolute shit, so it makes some sense now. To be fair, he wasn't the only writer on that script; David S. Goyer (who is sort of a pariah among screenwriters) also worked on the screenplay.
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Post by acidonia on Jan 15, 2018 19:15:53 GMT -5
Bennett the Sage is rather weird in how he reviews stuff though Like on one review he made a whole joke over thinking anyone in Japan would be weird owning a PC Engine GT/TurboExpress because one was in the background of a Anime yet in same shot they was a Atari Lynx. I always found him putting a gore warning on his elfen Lied review kind of funny when he never did any other review he did and how much he Hyped up reviewing Violence Jack only to make a non review of it showing no footage of the movie or even the story of it just one manga panel.
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Post by edmonddantes on Jan 19, 2018 4:55:45 GMT -5
I forgot about the Mermaid thing being folklore. Dumb forgetful me I guess.
(Incidentally I was offline for several days due to snow, so snow officially sucks and is no longer the fun childhood thing I remember).
A funny thing about Bennett is one of the few reviews of his I actually didn't mind so much... was his on Ranma 1/2 Tendo Christmas Scramble. He made ONE blatant mistake (thinking Shampoo's speech impediment was about stereotyping despite Mousse and Cologne not having the same issue, I'm pretty sure it's actually supposed to be cute) but when he started comparing Ranma to Inu-Yasha (and shockingly echoing a lot of my own points) I found myself nodding in agreement.
It wasn't enough to make me want to revisit his entire ouvre though, since I saw enough to know I find his jokes annoying and his analysis full of wrong. Admittedly in general I don't know if anime lends itself as well to reviewing as video games or other mediums do.
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Post by toei on Jan 19, 2018 15:02:21 GMT -5
Admittedly in general I don't know if anime lends itself as well to reviewing as video games or other mediums do. Sure it does, the approach just has to be closer to TV and Film criticism than how video games tend to be reviewed (ie breaking the game down into separate elements and giving each a rating or nitpicking dumb shit).
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Post by edmonddantes on Jan 26, 2018 15:02:09 GMT -5
So one more thing I felt like adding:
Metroid No, I don't just mean Other M...
Metroid is a series that I used to love, but its been descending for awhile. I'm one of the few who disliked the Prime games, but my major problem with the series as a whole is... the canon.
Yeah, the canon.
For me, see, the only true Metroid games are the original three. After that, stuff starts coming up that just feels like a bad fanfic concept. Like, for example, the idea that Samus was raised by the Chozo and is somehow special (which would be like if James Bond turned out to be an angel or something and not just a spy with a high success rate). Zebes is now her home planet, not just the one her first job took place on, and now its been canonically ruled that Metroid 1 is her actual first bounty hunt... which just doesn't sit right with me.
More than that though.... I've been hating how the official games keep wanting to have Samus do these supposedly-badass Kratos/Dante/Bayonetta-esque maneuvers. Samus is badass, but that comes in more than one form, and the hyperactive "style fighter" was never her type. Samus was more the kind who could take a lot of hits and still keep going, and had really picky tools but knew how to use them to their best advantage. Electrocuting Draygon with the grapple beam is not Dante at all, but is totally Samus.
It just seems like Nintendo doesn't get their own character. This is without even mentioning Other M and all that "The baby the baby the baby" stuff. On which note, the thing I hated almost more than that aspect... was the introduction of the Galactic Federation being on some level corrupt. Japanese media always does this, and it always feels like it undermines any positive notes the story might've had--that the govt is basically effed up but somehow the bad guy is wrong for wanting to rebel. It almost makes me wish the "bad guy" had won. I'm aware this is a cultural difference as they're very pro-authority over there but... well, I can't help it, I'm not Japanese.
Anyway, just a thought.
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Post by moran on Jan 26, 2018 16:52:43 GMT -5
edmonddantes I hear you on that. While I still enjoy Metroid (I never played Prime 3 or Other M though), I loathe forced canonization. I would say the same for the recent canonization of Zelda games.
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Jan 27, 2018 7:55:25 GMT -5
For me, I'd say Family Guy has long since jumped the shark. To use a concept that was spanwed (or at least is currently named by) the Simpson (Also a show I think is well tired and needs to stop and go away), I find the characters are so flanderized, the show seems to revolve more around the character being hateful to each other than about actually being funny, and it makes it show so hard to watch. Like the meg gag being blown to the point where they have characters literally vomit after look at her, or having stewey making Brian doing more and more horrible things, because he's apparently gay and in lobe with brian (Wait no he likes girls. No wait he's a baby. Wait gay again. This is a character that literally a baby, yet he seems to talk about his sexuality continually. Wasn't ever funny, but the writers seem to think it a comedy goldmind *sigh*)I also think "reality" shows have as well. Mind you, I hated alot of these when they were still new (stuff like big brother and survivor), I dunno about other countries but Australian free to air TV is still infested with this garbage. Espiecally now when it's obvious that these shows are scripted. Like auction hunters and the like, we all know the auctions/sheds/whatever are seeded with interesting things before hand for them to "discover". Or otherwise the contestants/housemates/whatever are guided or prodded to act a certain way by the producers(or probably outright hired and told how to act), who then proceed to edit stuff so they can make characters out of people. (Like when you have house building or cooking shows and they always have to paint one or two of them as "the baddies" of the show >.<
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Post by Woody Alien on Feb 10, 2018 16:39:19 GMT -5
Speaking again of Youtube stuff that jumped the shark: reaction videos. At first they could seem cute and harmless, now that everyone is doing it they've become annoying and pointless. Why should I care about what some random guy feels about the latest piece of fluff, also considering the fact that in 99% of the cases it's the same reaction as everyone else? Do they really think that they'll receive many views for something that everyone does and is so trivial?
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Post by Ace Whatever on Feb 11, 2018 3:12:16 GMT -5
I'm of the opinion that 99% of reaction videos were never good to begin with and are little more than another unfortunate consequence of Youtube giving anyone with a webcam/mic and recording software the time of day. Particularly egregious are the parasites piggybacking off of other content creators' efforts by just copying their videos and layering footage of themselves on top to "comment".
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Feb 11, 2018 13:54:44 GMT -5
Speaking again of Youtube stuff that jumped the shark: reaction videos. At first they could seem cute and harmless, now that everyone is doing it they've become annoying and pointless. Why should I care about what some random guy feels about the latest piece of fluff, also considering the fact that in 99% of the cases it's the same reaction as everyone else? Do they really think that they'll receive many views for something that everyone does and is so trivial? Well, they don't just think they'll get a lot of view from them, they actually might. It's still a popular genre on YT and it takes no effort to make them.
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