People who think there are more slop anime now than there were 20-30 years ago are simply unaware of how much slop there was back then because far less of it ever made it out of Japan.

.hack deserved a revival more than Dragon Quest.

My game will not have MANDATORY GODDAMN UNSKIPPABLE TUTORIALS So tired of every new game handholding me through an hour or more of "gameplay" where I'm not allowed to do anything except what the game tells me to do. That's not gameplay, it's a visual novel with extra steps!

my game will not have … (quote repost with something you dislike despite it being very normal)

My X-Men hot take: The Summers/Howlett polycule from Krakoa should've stuck around and been made explicit text, because "two guys fight over the girl they both idolize" has kinda worn thin after 50-odd years.

Star Trek has changed over the years. The Star Trek that was made in the 60s and the Star Trek being made in the 2020s are very different beast, presented and constructed differently. I believe that the core message is the same, even if it looks different. I like that it grows #StarTrek

Final Fantasy fans being unable to agree on which games are the best is actually a good sign, because it means the franchise has plenty of strong games that appeal to different geoups of people. (Signed, A Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy stan)

Bit rich to go around trying to troll leftists (badly, might I add...) when you've named yourself after a character whose defining traits are "hatred of the bourgeoisie" and "acute awareness of socioeconomic injustices under capitalism".

My Boyfriend: (telling me about a dream he had where a psychic parasite was taking over people's minds and convincing them to do and believe horrible things to/about themselves and others) Me: "The scary part is that that's just how depression works." Him: "...shit, you're right."

Patrick Stump, how could you...?

The latest episode of Starfleet Academy. My god. I have no words. I don't know that there ARE words. Just...it is transcendent. I spent the last 10 minutes sobbing. Give Star Trek to Tawny Newsome already.

Y'know, I'm getting really tired of game trailers that spend all their time advertising features that are bog-standard for their genre. Oh, Valhein lets you cut down trees and build a house??? REVOLUTIONARY. A FEATURE UNIQUE TO THIS EARTH. STAGGERING GENIUS.

Fansubs are a life-saver, especially with all of the "legit" anime sources switching to AI captions. Thank your local fansubber today!

Well, the Toku Grand Tour is on hold. My media drive was several years old, and has been slowly failing for a while, but I was only able to procure a replacement for it a couple days ago. The old drive crapped out completely 20 minutes into the file transfer process and I lost pretty much everything

Welp. Decided to try Upscrolled. I was never on Tiktok, and since people seemed to be fleeing it I thought I'd try the place they're going. Made an account, opened the Discover tab, and...nothing but rampant, blatant antisemitism. (contd, also cw: antisemitism example in next post)

abolish ice abolish dhs repeal patriot acts 1 and 2 + hsa repeal telcom act repeal crime bill defund police at this point honestly just wipe it all and start fresh, the constitution itself proved insufficient

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Deleted a QT dunk because the dunkee was a smol bean but folks, if you’re still thinking in terms of “lib”/“left”, your thoughts are just irrelevant. The only categories are “fight” and “surrender.” Bill Kristol is for fighting: he’s with us. Gavin Newsom’s for surrendering: he’s enemy. That’s all.

@amandawtwong.bsky.social I was wondering if you could settle a bet for me. I'm convinced that at least some of the character scenes on LD were done with cel-shaded 3D models rather than hand-animation, but my boyfriend thinks I'm nuts. Am I?

Also: "Why do you not yearn for a valiant death in battle like the rest of our kind, Cadet Kraag?" "Because I yearn for a valiant LIFE." 150% Worf in this Worf. That moment sold me on the show, though Holly Hunter already had me halfway there.

The only thing I didn't get about Starfleet Academy is why the Betazoids were all using sign language. Was that always part of their culture and I've just forgotten because I haven't watched TNG in a decade?

Dragon Ball Z is a bad show destroyed by its inability to let its status quo meaningfully change, its reliance on power level "number go up" mechanics for threat escalation, and its refusal to let anybody but Goku and Vegeta save the day.

decided to animate the remainder bit! The pug's name is Guns, so I'm thinking of naming the lifeguard dog Roses.

Toku Update: I'm decently into Hurricaneger and it's actually working for me this time! Not likely to be my favorite Sentai (though I won't rule it out after how hard my opinion flipped on Carranger!), but I'm at least confident I'll finish this one and have some nice things to say about it.

Hey, people who keep saying each new assault on the Constitution is "another step towards fascism": How many steps do they have to take before you acknowledge that we've been balls-deep in the fascism for a while now? Just wondering.

lol and also lmao get rekt you pansy-ass dipshit

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

JRPGs are a distinct genre with their own conventions, tropes, and common design choices and should be respected as such.

I need a distraction from the world, so I'm back on that toku grind. Now watching: Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, which I bounced off of before. Next up: Kamen Rider Faiz.

Extremely tired of seeing "this wouldn't be happening if you selfish leftists had voted for Kamala!" 1. Yes it would have, there weren't enough vote-abstainers to swing the results. 2. Why don't you wet bitches worry about the NEXT election instead of relitigating the last one?

Decided to try and hop a curb at 40 MPH on my bike (regular mountain bike plus very long, very steep hill) because Teenage Me had a bad understanding of physics. Flew about 100 feet, landed face-first in grass, bike landed next to me a second later. Rug burn on my face, moderate concussion.

The Secret Service does not allow me to have even hypothetical opinions on this subject. I will instead simply say that Canada has always been a friend to us, even when we have not been a friend in turn.

"Skirt". "End run". "Presents a challenge to". They're breaking laws. THEY'RE. BREAKING. LAWS. If you as a journalist can't say that, you aren't a journalist, you're a PR hack for the government and its fascist buddies.

The rest of NATO needs to invade us, depose all these fucks and deport them to The Hague, and set up an *actual* democratic government bound by international law. It won't happen, could never happen for so many reasons, but a girl can dream.

christ im so tired

Y'know, the weirdest bit of casual sexism I've seen lately is how in SD Gundam G Generations Eternal, during character request missions, ONLY female characters will ask you for money. Mission runs, suits, materials, those are all unisex. But cash? Only the girls will ask for that.

I find it really weird when people piss and moan about how they miss having rival characters in Pokemon games who are condescending assholes. Like, sorry there isn't enough bullying for your taste in this CHEERFUL ADVENTURE RPG FOR CHILDREN, ya fucknuts. Hau and Hop were great, suck it.

I know "Die Hard" is y'all's favorite Christmas movie but there's another film that has a lot of elements of "Die Hard" PLUS a much more involved Christmas message and musings on the "invisibility" of homelessness. This Christmas, check out "Tokyo Godfathers." www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainmen...

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

I was homeless for a while in my early 20s. At one point, I used the last of my money to buy a theater ticket to a midnight showing, just to get out of the cold for a while. That movie was The Fourth Kind, and it freaked me the fuck out. Especially when I had to go back out into the night after.

I don't understand why people are upset about that Startleet Academy poster. It's a show about a new crop of cadets establishing what Starfleet can and will be going forward, AND it's a YA drama show. Why were you expecting buttoned-up professionalism?

@paleolithicman.bsky.social HELLO RANDOM MAN I DEFINITELY HAVE NEVER MET BEFORE YOU HAVE A VERY NICE LANDSHARK.

No, Youtube, I will NOT "sign in to prove (I'm) not a bot". If you want to break embeds across the internet just so you can force people to your ad-infested waste dump of a site, you can go without my views at all.

Borders are imaginary lines created for the sole benefit of the powerful. We owe them no respect and if you think someone is "lesser" for living across an imaginary line from you, you're succumbing to propaganda.

In the US, law enforcement isn't just legally allowed to lie to you, they're ENCOURAGED to. OTOH, your lawyer is legally prohibited from lying to you and can lose her license for it. Which of those professions, though, do you reflexively associate more with lying? You're not immune to copaganda.

Candy corn is fantastic (as are the pumpkins), and if you don't like it, feel free to send yours to me.

@mountsthelens1980.bsky.social My dad was...17 or 18 (not totally sure) and lived in Vancouver. He used to like to tell us about the eruption shaking him out of bed so violently that he woke up when he hit the floor, and the sky going black as the plume spread out.