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Messages - jonhammstein

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I've been on the fence about grabbing the third season pass for Guilty Gear Strive, but now that they've revealed the next character, I have no choice:


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Anybody else catch X-Men '97?

I'm still in shock over how competently plotted it is. Like, it's ACTUALLY fucking good.

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I'm so pathetically desperate for this to be amazing, but probably the most I can realistically hope for is that it's not awful.

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Yeah, I remember that one. I enjoyed it overall, but you're right that it never fully developed/delivered on its premise. Or at least not in the ways I would have liked.

I think I "own" it digitally... somewhere. Or I hope that I still do. I could definitely give it another look come October.

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I'm interested in Unicorn Overlord, but I've never been a strategy buff. I'd probably just set it to easy and steamroll everything, so I might as well wait for a sale.

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Oh my God, I can't get over how fucking good Frieren is. And how does it have any business being that way? Tropey JRPG characters doing tropey JRPG shit, and yet... pure gold. In the most recent episode I watched, she nuked this giant monster and it gave me goosebumps. I don't remember the last time an anime gave me any kind of visceral reaction like that.

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I originally came to Dune by way of Lynch's film, so when I tried reading the novel, I'll admit to finding it rather dry. :P

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I just didn't even really give it a chance. I'm sure if I sat down and watched it, I would probably end up liking it.

The original show, I mean. This new thing, not so much.

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Man, I haven't even watched Netflix's new Avatar thing. To be honest, I was never an Avatar head in the first place. I was always put off by its faux anime trappings. Nothing against it or its fans, though.

And from what I'm hearing, everybody's pretty lukewarm about this new adaptation.

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Villeneuve's Dune movies are weird. They're really well made. Great performances. I was never bored. And yet, I'm not over the moon about them.

I hope he gets to make another one. I guess that's my endorsement?

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I'm looking at the upcoming Spring lineup, and man, I don't even know. I think I'll just cast a wide net and see what sticks.

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Man, 68's not that old. Bum deal.

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First episode of Ninja Kamui wasn't bad.

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I watched American Fiction. It was really good, not sure what else to say about it. The trailer had me worried it might lean a little too hard into schmaltz territory, but that wasn't the case at all. I laughed a bunch, got choked up a time or two. I'm fairly confident it's a movie most people would enjoy.

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I was cringing the entire time during that bike eulogy thing, because it's a story that Kevin frequently tells about his own father! Back when he was a kid, all his friends had BMXs and he mentioned to his parents that he wanted one. So he comes home after school one day to find this fugly homemade bicycle that his dad had cobbled together, and he thanked him for it, but he never rode it because he would have been too embarrassed. Then much later after his old man had passed away, he was reminded of that bike and said that if he could go back he would have ridden it all up and down the streets all over town. And he's getting all teary-eyed while he's talking about it and I'll be honest, it was touching.

But then for him to just repurpose that shit for this dumb cartoon he's working on. Jesus Christ.

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Sakura Wars is such a weird thing, because I'm sure you remember as well as I do how ubiquitous it was in the mid-to-late '90s/early 2000s with all the shows/movies, video games, and other assorted merchandise. It was very heavily marketed, possibly on par with Evangelion during that same time period, but looking back now it kind of feels like it disappeared overnight.

Maybe people just grew bored with the setting? It's basically Taishō mixed with steampunk, right? I never liked the mecha designs. Pressure-cooker-ass-lookin' motherfuckers.


I'm sure I've linked to that one several times over the years. For me it will always be the perfect encapsulation of existing as a shitty little '80s kid. :laugh:

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Steam is supposed to store backups of your saves on their end, but not all games do for some reason, and some games that say they support it don't actually. I lost several years of progress on a certain game when I got a new PC, and that kind of killed my desire to stick with it.

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You ever read Boy's Abyss? That's some real misery pr0n. I fell off out of distaste. I'll give Maria a look.

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Carl Weathers is dead.

I had no idea he played in the NFL/CFL before getting into acting.


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The thing about Shakespeare is funny to me, because I don't know if you follow Kevin Smith at all, (I only watch his Fatman Beyond podcast with Marc Bernardin) but he has mentioned time and again that all his corporate overlords ever asked of him was to treat the source material with respect, like it's Shakespeare, if you will. Literally in those words. And the way he talks about it, he's totally confident that he nailed the assignment.

And you see it most in the monologuing from Skeletor and Hordak, the waxing poetic and the groan-inducing alliteration. I don't know, did these guys do that a lot in the old show? I don't remember. To be clear, I'm not saying it is Shakespeare, just that I think Smith believes that's what he's accomplished here.

I did like how Hordak snorted derisively at Skeletor at one point, that was a nice touch. And I did genuinely laugh at a couple jokes, I just don't recall what they were at the moment. One of them was one from He-Man towards the end of the fifth episode.

You mentioned the Snake Men, and I did like what they did with Teela in regards to that. I don't know if you ever had any of those mini-comics they used to pack in with the figures, but one of the earliest ones had that green-skinned Teela character, and I'm not sure she was even referred to as Teela at that point, to be honest. But then later when she got her own toy, they mostly kept that same design (albeit with the swapped out skin tone) complete with her cobra hood and scepter.

Also, seeing Rio Blast and Snout Spout animated was pretty sick, even if they were purely visual and inconsequential as actual characters.

And from the way Kevin talks about it, it sounds like Revolution is being very well received. He sounds hopeful that they'll get to do more.

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I've been watching Snack Basue. Not much to say about it. It's a gag show that takes place almost entirely in a single room. The art style is extremely simplistic, but at least it allows them to keep the animation consistent.

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I thought the final episode was a really good payoff overall, but man, I found a lot of the dialogue throughout to be fucking awful.

I wouldn't be opposed to them coming back to it at some point down the line, though. Going by the epilogue, they clearly have some ideas.

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Wow. I hadn't heard about that, but having seen it now, it makes so much more sense how hollow the movie feels. What the fuck.

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I watched Wish. Not great. A couple of the songs were a little catchy. The backgrounds/environments were all very flat/drab/dreary.

I don't think it's as insufferable as everyone says on its own, but when you factor in that it's supposed to be this grand centennial celebration of Disney's theatrical animated features... yeah. Kind of a dud.

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Yeah, I think some of the moments in Pluto that stuck out were character walk cycles. I'm trying to think of what it looked like. Maybe if you were to record Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk, but then you played it back in reverse. Kind of like that.

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It probably doesn't help that I'm simultaneously working my way through my highly-curated backlog, where pretty much everything is guaranteed to be something I enjoy. For instance, I always look forward to watching another episode of Frieren, and so far that show hasn't disappointed me once. Of course, there's the possibility that that won't always be the case.

To Your Eternity is a recent example. That show had such a strong dozen or so episodes, but I'd say even as early as the second half of the first season, the quality fell off a cliff in every meaningful way. The art became rushed and ugly, but even worse, the storytelling was a shadow of its former glory. And the second season only cemented my attitude, with its tendency to spoon-feed viewers the Reader's Digest version of events. It was almost like watching a bunch of recaps strung together for more fleshed-out episodes that don't actually exist.

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