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Well, the Big N has proceeded to sue them into oblivion, so you likely won't hear much about them ever again.

BTW, since I haven't said it lately: fuck Nintendo.

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: Just a heads up.
« on: Nov 16, 2024, 06:19:08 PM »
Old fart.

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Not this nasty Trumpmerican...the tree says in its box until after Thanksgiving (aka best holiday) is over.

Listened to this while my plane was taking off yesterday:

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Raise wa Tanin ga Ii has been an unexpected hoot. Yakuza granddaughter being married off to a yakuza grandson...she's normal, and he's not, hijinks ensue. I've been slowly dipping into the new for season stuff, and that's the first I've really dived into.

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Watched Transformers One. I didn't find it atrocious, but it's about ten years too late for me to care about the property as a film franchise anymore.

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God damn if comics people aren't still fucking functionally retarded.

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Heh. I downloaded it Friday night and stuck it on my server. Good to know I can remove it without compunction.

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I've drastically scaled back my pull list since my backlog has gotten pretty deep. Here's my current selections for Fall 2024:
2.5 Dimensional Seduction S1P2 - I liked the first cour, so I'm sticking with it. Despite the title there is no seduction at work here. A bit of fanservice, but nothing truly gratuitous, it's a show about a guy who loves an anime girl and a girl who loves cosplaying said girl.
Spirit Chronicles S2 - isekai, but decent isekai about a guy who's overpowered but not drastically so. It's been awhile since watching the first season, but I remembered liking it so here we are.
Blue Box - haven't started it yet, but it looks like a cute pairing with a bit of sports anime thrown in.
Nina the Starry Bride - I kind of like the shows about the plucky girl cast into a tumultuous royal situation and making hay with it. We'll see.
Sengoku Youko - continuing from the previous run, but I've yet to actually sit down and watch it. It may be getting binned depending on the first few eps, which is crazy as I've downloaded 24 eps so far.
DanMachi S5 - hell, yeah, brother, I'm on-board with this. Hopefully they'll streamline this story, as the LN author really teased this one out way too long to the point of becoming unwieldy and confusing. But it's brings a close to a couple of the most lingering undercurrents of the franchise, so it's well worth watching if you're this far in the story.
365 Days to the Wedding - two socially awkward coworkers decide to pretend to get married so they don't get transferred to Siberia, and more social awkwardness ensues.

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I haven't even gotten to that part yet. I disliked this show in the first season, and so far the second has only gotten worse. I've genuinely mourned the time spent watching it thus far and don't know if I can finish it out. The pacing is shit, the story is shit, the dialog is shit, and it still smacks of fanfiction.

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Kris Kristofferson has died and left the Red-Headed Stranger as the last of the Highwaymen (and I wouldn't be shocked if Willie kicks it soon, himself).

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Grand Blue Dreaming is returning. I'm frankly shocked at this news but also very glad...this show has the best extreme facial expressions since GTO. It never fails to make me laugh...I've been trying to follow the manga ever since first watching this show, and it never really fell away like a lot of them do.

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I'd fallen off the gaming bandwagon for quite some time...just catching some emulated 8- and 16-bit goodness for the most part with an occasional bout of Burnout Revenge on the newly-configured and finally figured out Xbox emulator.

Then I developed trigger thumb rather suddenly and pretty much lost the majority of use of my left hand (basically anything requiring an opposable thumb) for a few months. A week out of having surgery, and the prognosis is good...I can actually press a d-pad without sharp stabbing pain (now just sore aching pain which should subside soon, or so I'm told).

So I'm looking forward to picking up Undefeated, which is a game some startup group did for Steam some years ago. It's a not-Superman video game that's actually reputed to be pretty good. They're an official company now and working on a sequel, but they've released the original on PS5 for free to gen up interest. I may be playing it before long, being a Superman nerd from way back. That, or AstroBot.

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I was working off-site today in a once-a-year account all on my lonesome, so I had no co-workers/employees to break my monotony with their tales of woe and pleas for remediation (or who I could regale with my typical everyday bullshit). Therefore I was reduced to listening to music, and since I'm allergic to most streaming music providers I just mainlined Youtube music videos most of the day. This one caught my fancy, because I love Mega Man music, and the Spark Man theme from III has always been a favorite.

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I'm watching it, but I couldn't tell you why as I don't really find it humorous.

I've caught myself enjoying Pseudo Harem despite the male lead senpai who comes across as incredibly dense (like that's never been a complaint in anime). Dude, it's painfully obvious that the main girl kohai is crushing on him. Then again, maybe he does realize it and is just keeping her at arm's length knowing he's about to graduate. In any case, contrary to the implications of "Harem" in the name it's a rather sweet show.

2.5 Dimensional Seduction is another show that's a bit deceptive. Sure, there's quite a lot of fan service, but the relationships therein are rather low-key. If anything it could afford to be a bit more romantic. It's really in the same vein as My Dress-up Darling, just not as good and without the MC closeness.

Talking about low-key reminds me of Days with My Step-Sister. The title is self-explanatory, with two classmates who suddenly become step siblings and are doing their best to set boundaries that you just know are going to come crashing down and hurt inside (like R3@1 Americans).  This has been done before, and time will tell how much better it's been done, but one thing for sure is that this show is sloooooooooooooow. Not a good late-night watch, I've found.

I've historically enjoyed the Reincarnated as a Slime show, but this season I haven't really delved into. And it apparently has finished jumping the shark and has become a boardroom simulator. Frankly, I have enough of that boardroom bullshit at work and don't need to find it in my trashy big-titty harem isekai anime thank you very much.

Speaking of big-titty harems, I've low-ball enjoyed the The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses show. Dude has sufficiently irritated 60% of the girls under his roof into marrying him, and of the other 40% one is just barely not underage and the other is completely uninterested (who I imagine long-term will wind up being the one). Not only that, but they instigated another restaurant full of afore-mentioned goddesses of the melon grande variety who'll probably want to fuck him next. But there's enough story between the guy walking in on ten tens in various states of undress to string me along.

The Alya show has been enjoyable. It boils down to the guy being able to do whatever he wants but doesn't want to because of family angst. Golden Boy he is not, but the statuesque white-haired Russian sure fills him with want-to! Unfortunately like many anime involving student councils we get stuck with the plot being driven by student council crap. I get that it's the raison d'etre for the core cast to be brought together, but it drives everything...I've read the LN, and five volumes in it's still student council this and student council that. They really need to get out of that rut, because the Russian sisters and the MC and his sister (sorry, Nuri, but Yuki and her relationship with Masachika is one of the main reasons to watch this show; that shit's hilarious) are awesome as are some of the peripheral family members like Masa's chill Russia-loving grandpa and the classroom neighbors.

I haven't started watching Too Many Losing Heroines yet, nor Sengoku Youko, which are supposed to be good to fair, respectively. I started pulling Failure Frame, but reading the manga made me remember that I don't care for gore and/or depressing anime (the latter being why I no-sold Anohana after downloading the whole season some time back).

As for War of the Rohirrim, I don't consider it so much as anime as it is a peculiar melding of east and west styles à la Castlevania (and, good Lord, the set shots look freaking amazing!). The Rohirrim were my favorite people group from Middle-Earth, and the tale of Helm Hammerhand is one of my favorite backstory elements from the legendarium. Consequently, I'm very much looking forward to it; granted, there will be significant poetic license taken as it features the unnamed daughter of Helm as the main character, but that gave them quite a bit of freedom. I'm not going to elevate this to the level of the LOTR movies, but I fully expect it to be superior to the Hobbit movies and for damn sure Rings of Powet (of which I will be watching the first of the second season episodes tonight...against my better judgment). I'm expecting Nausicaa in Rohan which fills me with unmitigated glee.

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The first half of the animated Watchmen effort was actually enjoyable, although I could live without the herky-jerkiness of the animation. But it actually looks like the book, which counts for something. However, the live-action Watchmen was one of the few adaptations that actually improved on the book, so take it as you will.

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Get well soon!

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I have no use for bullseye shooting, especially with pellet guns. None of it is practical...now, if USPSA or IDPA somehow ever became an Olympic event I'd have to reevaluate the situation.

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Oh, and since you mentioned it, let me just say this. 

*ahem*

FUCK the Olympics.

Thank you. This has been a public service announcement from your favorite inebriated rodent in residence.

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They force federal workers to retire at 65...I see no reason that shouldn't apply to politicians. There's no reason to shuffle cadavers on and off the congressional floor to do whatever shambling they can muster when there are others who can actually, I don't know, walk up and down stairs when called for. But they won't cut themselves off the teat, and the voters are too indoctrinated to do it themselves, so here we are.

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I'll watch it for free later on. I'm not a big fan of Deadpool, but I find those flicks more entertaining than roughly 75% of everything else Marvel produces.

BTW, the Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths movies are utter trash. The resemblance between these and the source material is virtually non-existent, and it only exists to kill all the animated movie continuity from the last ten or so years.

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: Fuck you, Google.
« on: Jul 30, 2024, 07:04:44 PM »
I've never used Gmail for anything more than a virtual FTP.

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And that's to say nothing of the mummy he was running against until early last week :p

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Funny thing is, I wind up binging a lot of stuff after it's been either batched after the season or released on blu-ray with a dub. Plus I read a lot more manga and light novels than before.

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The truly odd thing about my anime watching is that, I've been pulling stuff at a record high-speed pace (damn these fabulous fiber innerwebs) and watching it at a record low-speed pace.

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You have to give that guy loads of credit for gumption's sake.

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"Cordless hole puncher" is one of my go-to social media terms for firearms. Algorithms seem to be relatively okay with that.

As the resident firearms enthusiast I find the various theories and conspiracy stuff that's been perpetrated about this event to be amazing due to sheer bald-faced ignorance. I heard someone say that if a dude's ear got hit with a bullet from an AR15 it should have ripped it off or done more damage or whatnot: the fact is that ARs are barely intermediate-powered, let alone high-powered rifles (OTOH, if you want to see what those can do to noggins chell the shooter's cranium afterwards). I'm consistently shocked at how so many people don't get that and continue to perpetrate that as if it were a fact. I'm also surprised at how few people have apparently had something hurt their ears and thus missed out on just how much they like to bleed with the least little prick (srnk).

Whether you love him, hate him, or fall somewhere in between, the biggest fact of the matter is that Donald Dumps is lucky to be alive today.

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Noticed they were doing a memorium showing of Popeye on Pluto or Tubi or one of those damn free to view channels, and I was like, hell, no, I remember being disappointed with it back in the mid-eighties....

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Glad you brought up SSI -- I didn't even realize it was out. Didn't turn up at my usual spot, so I'm guessing they're afraid of WB lawyers.
Here you go.

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Willie Mays, the Say Hey Kid and oldest MLB Hall of Famer, passed this week.

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