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What I do not like about anime are long introductions, poor lips syncing because animation goes first and some art styles from mid-2000s and onwards because THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME, EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT SAME FACE SYNDROME!
@Kenetic Kups
Damn, bro. Also, as much as I can excuse "comic book age" trope for SpongeBob, I cannot excuse it for Diary of a Wimpy Kid series because it feels like characters do not progress and we see how they go to same grade over and over.
Just make them age. That's the problem I have with Simpsons and South Park. IDK about Family Guy.

You know. I am annoyed by how limited hardwares for Nintendo consoles were after SNES. Not really by graphics, but by what they also missed.
N64: Lack of video compatibility. Only Resident Evil 2 had it
Gamecube: Lack of DVD compatibility. Discs looked like chocolate chips cookies. YOU COULDN'T EVEN PLAY MOVIES ON SUPER GAMEBOY ADVANCE!
Wii: Lack of DVD compatibility. I could care less about graphics. Black Ops part was spectacular.
Wii U: Ahh…. lack of DVD and Blu-Ray compatibility.
Switch: not much. I see why it cannot really handle everything because after all. It's both handheld and home whatever you call it. Just wish it was just a little more powerful.
Nothing much. Also, I am impressed how Metroid Prime 4 can be played on Switch.
Also, Switch needs more ports of games from 6th to early 8th gen. I would then buy Switch and play them all.

There are genres of pornography I would never watch because they are too disgusting for me.
Even those weird rubber tf ones when it comes to cartoons are too much they are better off being horror material.

Alien Romulus is the The Force Awakens of the Alien franchise.

I've never actually watched the Star War films with the exception of Episode 6 and 2 forever ago, but that's it. Seeing that constant discourse about it over the years, especially now, I think it was for the best.

I only watched Episode 1 so yeah, same lol

It used to be that finding someone who didn't watch Star Wars was like meeting a rare species, but it's popularity has really fallen off.

Why only Episode 6 and 2 (that's the Clone Wars and Return of the Jedi right)? I liked 3 & 5 more.

@martinprince12345

Ah, I guess the first foray was not conclusive. Fair enough.

I've watched all of them, but haven't really engaged in other Star Wars media recently (and especially not the 'fandom'). I guess discussions about it have gotten really nasty & angry.

I decided to check out The Boys comics again and they are pretty good. While I do see how most supervillains being rapist and diddlers and such gets annoying, I can somewhat appreciate because that way I don't have to see those morons make those shitty edits like those with Patrick Bateman.

I liked protagonists in comics like Huey. And Super Duper was the saddest shit I have ever read.

So Kripke. YOU BETTER NOT RUIN SUPER DUPER!!

THB, there are far better Sci-fi films/franchises out there, I don't get why so many people are clinging to Star Wars.
But I guess that Star Wars is like the McDonalds of science fiction series. it's more like it's always there for your convenience, but there you're 95% better off with something else.

More power to you. Personally, I think there's a lot of potential in doing a parody of The Boys.

Like I had this idea where supervillains from DC, Marvel, and superhero media outside the big two like Ben 10, TMNT, Powerpuff Girls, My Hero Academia, Danny Phantom, Darkwing Duck, etc. all get dropped in the world of The Boys and run amok and react to the "heroes" in this world.

It explore how disgusted a lot of villains would be to this world's supposed superheroes being mostly degenerates along with show how screwed the universe of The Boys would be against actual supervillains.

Another idea was Invasion of the Body Snatchers where the heroes are replaced by degenerate imposters who immediately give themselves away and the remaining heroes and villains all band together to get to the bottom of it.

@Gilan
No particular reason, Episode 6 happened to be on the telly once and I saw Episode 2 in theaters. Not sure why, It was something to watch that weekend with my older brother I suppose. Needless to say not the best foray into the franchise since I was incredibly confused.

I have general idea of the original/prequel story from sheer cultural osmosis and memes. Not so much with the recent films/series, only that they generate a lot of vitriol. My only real investment regarding into anything SW are the Jedi games by Respawn which I quite like.

Only reason I understood what happened at the prequels is prequelmemes (so a bunch of brainrot ended up informative). I only got the cool fight scenes the first time around and my eyes glazed over at the politics & talking.

The KOTOR, Empire at War & original Battlefront game series were good. It's really tie-in media which has been carrying the brand for a while.

It was the first introduction many people had to Space Operas, and it was a big cinematic and cultural phenomenon.

I guess people imprint on their first experience. Maybe the Foundation series is better, but is sure is harder to get into (and that's a someone who likes it, I wish there was an actually good adaptation of Asimov's stories).

I went to two different high schools, I my first two grades of high school were in Florida then I moved to Texas so I graduated there.
I was obsessed with school shootings from middle school onward to the point where in when I was in 10th grade, I made up my own hypothetical school shooting and bought a map of the school to go with it.
I mention this because when I went to middle school in Florida, three years Parkland high school was evacuated to Westglades middle school which is a the middle school I went too. I also walked home from school, so I walked passed Parkland.

You do not like Soyjaks because "it's thing I don't like" and low effort when memes have been like this before.
I do not like Soyjaks anymore because of too many variants and drama.
Nusoicacas are hypocritical and Lessons in Meme Culture will do a good job reviewing it all.

Of the games i particularly really enjoyed Shadows of the Empire for the N64, and Star Wars Republic Commando for PC.

I didn't get to try either of them, but it seems they're on steam.

It's a bit like the Warhammer series, I've never actually read any books/played any wargame, but they have a lot of games (some of which like Mechanicus & Chaos Rising are pretty good).

They ruined amphibia on third season of the show

As much as it creates discourse online, diversity or a lack of it isn't really a factor when it comes to a video games' success. The truth is most people will, happily or begrudgingly, play a game if it's good.

And character designs. I hate modern character designs. If your character has one of those haircuts, redesign character's haircut.

I wouldn't say "ruined", but I would say that it peaked in season 2 and then spent most of season 3 running in circles.

Unironically, Amphibia would've benefited from a compressed third season.

My my favorite song is "Early Morning Dreams" by Pete Townshend Psychoderelict

The 3DS/WiiU era is got to be the worst time to be a Nintendo fan during that period. For their first party games at least. It doesn't help that WiiU is a financial failure, similar to the Gamecube. But unlike that console, there hardly anyone talking about it as if it sold 200+ million units. You still get people to this day talking about the selection of games back then, and how much they're under appreciated for their brilliance. But trying to find merits during the 8th generation would just end up being a the equivalent of a Stockholm Syndrome.

That whole period has far more blunders than there are for games that are good. if not, it's the contender for the most poorly receipted games for each of their franchises like Starfox, Animal Crossing, Metroid, and a bunch of Mario Spin offs. especially if you compare to them from either the Wii or Switch era.

There are some great games that come from there, such as Splatoon, Mario Maker, Icarus Uprising, Pokken Tournament, and a couple of hidden gems. and even then, the few good games that's left from those consoles, (especially the WiiU ) has been ported onto the Switch or have sequels to them. The only one I can think of at the moment that's missing is Xenoblade X and Tomodachi Life.

Funnily enough, the worst game to come out during that period is Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam for being a crossover game that does fuck all to either of the establish Mario RPG franchises and just the final nail in the coffin to the NSMB formula. The Worst of both worlds. and somehow, it manage to be worse than Sticker Star and manage to regress the development of Dream Team into Starlow, half the cast, and Starlow just shits on Luigi. The game alone just feels oddly cynical from what I remember too. but man, I'm so glad for both TTYD Remake and the upcoming Brothership.

but yeah, looking back it's not as good as I remember. I would say, a lot of 3rd party games really carry the momentum for the 3DS.

3DS and Wii U really did feel like wasted potentials. Even I feel like they needed more video games.

Well that's a fancy way of saying they ruined XD, even with the fact they only had one season to wrap everything they chose to do half of the episode on earth without touching many loose ends that could made the 3rd season better instead of repeating same themes on those episodes.

Sometimes, what was made for sake of being edgy or shocking is way better than what has a good concept and starts of good just to get worse later on.

The Boys show comes out of my mind because season 4 was the weakest season. Hope season 5 fixes the issue.

I initially enjoyed Chainsaw Man Part 2, even with some plot points going nowhere, but the current arc has been too bleak for me to be enjoyed, even moreso than usual.

I unironically cannot stand Barem at all. For what's it's worth, he served his purpose at being detestable. But what I hate about Barem is that he's an unnecessary commentary of wanting CSM to be just like Part 1. I didn't feel any satisfaction with his neck being snapped by Denji because 1. He successful did what he's achieved 2. he will just come back anyway.

If there is any trope I despise, then that would be "comic book age" trope. It works well for Family Guy and SpongeBob Squarepants because they are cartoons cartoons.
It doesn't work for comic franchises like Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Nor for cartoons like The Simpsons and South Park. South Park has those episodic seasons which really made me wish these characters could just age already.
Simpsons have this problem because they were meant to be something of a drama show. That makes Simpsons not aging make the show boring and just wishing it could end already.
I had the same problem for Pokemon anime because Ash not aging made this feel like Ash was just doing all of this in like 10 months.
As for Marvel Comics, THEY NEVER HAD A HARD REBOOT NOR ANY CRISIS TO JUSTIFY THEIR CHARACTERS NOT AGING!
We still see Peter as a guy in his late 20s. Even Curt Connors's son should have been at least in high school.
Dylan, son of Eddie Brock, ages faster than any of them.
At least DC has balls to do crises to justify their characters not aging, but at the same time, they make them somewhat age or progress.

old post, but I do agree. Every time I see someone come up with how to get rid of porn, they always come up with dumb ideas. Like selling your ID.
I do not find pornography good at all and I still think this is silly. Just like what sharty does with Cobson despite being "no gooning" gang.

I don't really like the tone shift for Adventure Time anymore. I wanted them back then when I was younger because of what Regular Show showed as I remember. Now looking at the show, I see it should have had the silly nature it had in first two seasons.
The show can progress, but removing the charming silliness kind of ruined the show.
Also, Steven Universe should have kept horror it had in first season sometimes.

You know what would be from Nintendo. To release their mid-budget games for $40 because $60 seems "overpriced" for such a game.

People have mostly been making fun of the "queers for palestine" slogans for a while, but it's made me think. I'm really hating the [minority group] for [cause] slogans in general. I know WHY it exists, it's something along the lines of marginalized people trying to show support for something. But I still don't like it. It makes it feel as if a genocide can only be relevant if it's tied to something "more familiar" for people to care about it. And yeah, sometimes it works, in a very cynical way. But sometimes it makes absolutely no sense.

"Queers for Palestine" sounds about as good as "Latinos for Trump." But "Latinos for Trump" at least has some consistent logic to it. It's attempting to disprove something, as much as I think it's fruitless. "Queers for Palestine"… is not. There's either some innocence towards how muslims view them, or just not caring.

Also I get that it's mostly a meme at this point, I've still seen people use it unironically. It's old news. I just keep seeing a certain sentiment more, that something can only really matter if it's focused on a cause in the first world. But maybe that's always happened and I'm only now aware.

I think the whole "safe edgy" shit is slowly becoming a nazi dogwhistle over time

Then where are the real edgelords?

no no "unsafe edgy" are real edgelords they are just turning into edgelord nazis

Just accuse them of slavophobia and vegetarianism.

Ian Flynn works best as fixing bad writing in Sonic but not a good writer in general, and it really shows during the post-reboot era of Archie Sonic and IDW Sonic.

While I do like IDW Sonic, it’s really clear that it has its flaws. Especially the lack of an establish world building/setting, character establishment over development, abrupt conclusions . Ironically, the fact that holds so close to the canonical lore chokehold the non-comic characters from expressing outside their roles. And Sonic himself is whole other mess in what they try to establish his morals.

It’s just that you would of expect for a comic being run for over 5 years would want to expand much of it’s world. [cough] and where are the humans at?[cough]

depends on what you're looking for also sorry for necroing this, i didn't see it and just popped in.

a lot of these games might require a bit of forum diving, some of them even require learning Russian or Ukrainian.
if you want spiritual successors to the iso fallouts, that would be colony ship, and underrail.
both are fairly accessible on steam, underrail might be more "crunchy" as RPGies go, mechanically focused, about builds and combat like fallout and dues ex's lovechild.

Olympus 2207 is effectively a new game that's blossomed fully out of fallout 2, new setting, new plot, and of course a game where you might want to learn russian.

a lot of the TC's are really hard to find info on but Senora and Nevada are complete games. the former even has DLC but i think it's entirely in russian. the guy who made all 3 may or may not be fighting to hold back the russians.

also goes without saying run them in a virtual machine and be safe. never know what you can catch in little internet rabbitholes.

other then that i can't really offer much more.
try as i might i'm not as much of a connoisseur of craft rpgies as much as i am wargames.

Dawn of war led many a man down the dark path of table top wargamming.
myself included.
You're not missing much i should say, warhammer is 2000ad, morcook's elric, dune and tolkein in a blender. it wore it's heart on it's sleave, but now ithey've gone and made Koschei out of it.

also chaos gate demon slayer is pretty good, but i should warn you it can be a bit of a slog compared to mechanicum and is a bit jank.

I do actually suggest Republic commando with a couple fixes to make it work on modern hardware. it's very charming and holds up way better then shadow of the empire.

I think the guys screaming woke are the direct result of people stressing how everything is political.
when you go around pushing that then people are going to be looking for politics everywhere.
it's also likely how we got the moralistic progressives in the first place.

also "media literacy" seems in large part to be parroting the surface level themes or the expressed intent of the author in large part.
the other part seems to mostly be dunking on people who have not actually fully fleshed out thoughts on the work. It's usually pop culture, we're not sitting down to thinking about metamorphosis and the social implications at the time and how it might be pushing back against the rule of Augustus or how Aeneas taking the wrong belt is a subtle jab at the long standing social wars.
We live with common people and it's best for them to approach a work and try to stumble their way through it as best as possible.
maybe i just find it elitist and small minded for art.

I am already tired of Soyjaks. They used to be somewhat funny to me depending on how they were done and if the joke nailed.
I do not have will to post some of them I find funny on this site anymore.
Doxxes are not only getting dumber, but also fail more and more to the point it's not worth doxxing anyone.
We must force Lessons in Meme Culture to review this Wojak variant now.

A disturbingly large amount of People seem to not be able to understand that two things can both be bad at different levels, it’s like as soon as you say “X and Y are bad” they come at you with “Oh so you’re saying x is as bad a s Y?”

I genuinely think game studio executives caring more about making a game as photorealistic as humanly possible. Like to the point you can see the bumps on a persons nose or seeing the micro hairs on a persons cheeks is unhealthy. As much of a Siberian winter popular take that is, that style of focus in graphics is not healthy for the current ecosystem as is far from sustainable. Gaming needs a hard reset and it needs to toss out hyper realistic graphics and focus on art style and choice above all else.

I do not like Kojima's newer Projects. They just feel like generic AAA games nowadays.

I think The Critical Drinker is a tad over-hated.

He must leave The Daily Wire and I will get my respect for him back.

Okay, yeah. Ben Shapiro is a hack.

I think the only live-action shows that'd fit Cartoon Network would be Tokusatsu and Puppet Shows like Kamen Rider or Fraggle Rock as respective examples

After seeing the robots Tesla made, I'm starting to think the film "I, Robot" is a prediction of the future and Elon Musk will be like Alfred Lanning and he'll get killed by one his robots.
And remember "I, Robot" takes place in 2035! That's not far away!
God damn, I love that movie. It's so cool. In my opinion, it's Will Smiths best movie.
That and "Men in Black"

>God damn, I love that movie. It's so cool. In my opinion, it's Will Smiths best movie.
That and "Men in Black"

I preferred Independence Day.