I still need to see those movies.
I saw the series and End (ADV dub of both). Hoooly cow, no wonder this show is so beloved.
I wish I'd seen this 20 years ago. Wow.
Maybe it's because Gunbuster was made by the absolute biggest fans of the medium, like Hideaki Anno, who treated the art form with all the respect it so deserved.
Passion project, not corporate slop.
Loved Evangelion, which I saw for the first time last year and is from the same creators, for the same reasons--warts and all.
It's also due to changes in effects.
CGI looks too perfect. Practical effects and traditional animation will always reign supreme.
When I first saw Gunbuster recently, the fact that EVERYTHING was hand-drawn lent it a certain quality that made it even more pleasing to the eye, and I can't explain how that works. And yet it does.
It was made in 1988-89, and it still looks stunning today.
Of course, the movie Akira is this writ large.
My only theory is that the imperfections inherent in the medium keep everything from falling into the uncanny valley.
Like how "Japan is full of murderous psychopaths because Junko Furuta was killed 35 years ago"?
Snail-mail requires much more physical effort and time to compose.
In my opinion, that makes the words contained within carry that much more weight.
Bonus points if hand-written, not typed and printed off a computer.
Heh, thanks. Never thought I'd take that last sentence as a compliment.
But it's been a dream of mine for decades, and everyone I know says I rock at it.
I swear I'll get in eventually. I won't be able to tell you what I eventually appear in, but maybe someone someday can deduce it...
Unlikely dream, I know. Some people here actively oppose pursuing such, and I understand why--hello, Norenia.
I'd delete my account if I got into an anime dub. I don't want this traced back to me.
So if this account disappears one day...well, there's your first hint.
But you'd also know that you have an ally on the inside.
I was almost in the anime of this. Didn't get the role.
Wait until this fool learns of Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele and the like from Pokemon Sun and Moon...
The last games in the franchise I played before I dropped it, too, and it seems that was the right place to stop. I hear Legends Arceus is great, though.
Didn't Tales from the Crypt start out as one of these?
There are some tribes in in the SEA Islands that straight up worship military equipment and random American servicemen they met once who showed them technology.
I've heard of this. The infamous John Frum.
As in "Hi, I'm John, from America."
Reportedly, when asked several years ago why they were still doing this, one of them gave this answer:
"We've been waiting for our savior to return for sixty years. You've been waiting for 2,000."
In September 2020, my grandmother had a stroke, which would eventually kill her.
Taken to a downtown hospital by ambulance, my mother and I went there the next day to see her.
Because it was September 2020, they would only let one of us into the hospital at a time.
To "stop the spread."
I wound up having to sit outside the front door.
As I sat outside for hours while Mom visited grandma, a gang fight broke out nearby.
I could well have been caught in the crossfire and killed.
Because of stupid government policy.
Fuck the government.
Final Fantasy Tactics?
The one with the extremely rushed translation with tons of errors in it?
Though it did give us some based lines like "Governments falsify history only so it favors them."
Pro wrestler Katsuyori Shibata got exactly this, after delivering a full-force headbutt in a match.
Not only did he almost die, but he didn't wrestle again for five years.
I get the joke, but Shenron can't resurrect someone who died of natural causes, which is what this counts as.
It doesn't DEVELOP into a female, it IS a female.
Conception.
I saw a related rant here years ago, and this is a good time to share it again.
Without DLC/MTX, the amount of money a publisher can extract from one customer is capped at the initial price of their game. The only way for the publisher to make more money under such a model is to create a better game that generates greater sales from more customers. This market rewards game makers for creating the best possible games.
With DLC/MTX, the amount of money a publisher can extract from one customer is uncapped. The publisher can make more money targeting vulnerable customers and children via predatory skinner boxes and gambling mechanics. This market rewards game makers for creating highly exploitative games with deliberately painful mechanics that are only alleviated by further payment.
There is no reality in which DLC/MTX do not shift the motivation of publishers from “creating ostensibly good games” to “creating intentionally bad games.” And that’s what MTX-riddled games are: intentionally bad games.
The truly sick part: there are people whose sole job is to create and implement predatory DLC/MTX using psychology and statistics to maximize the amount of money they can extract from the player base while giving them literally nothing of real value in return. And these legitimately evil employees are paid salaries from the revenues provided by their victims. If you’re a “gamer” who spends big money on cosmetics and pay-to-win mechanics, you are literally paying horrible people to make your existing experience worse so that they can then turn around and sell you solutions to problems THEY create.
When I got a new computer, I was still able to download the NBA 2K16 I'd bought on Steam years prior and had since been delisted.
If you bought it before, you can get it again.
Which is good in this case, as that was the last truly great 2K.
"You can accept dragons, elves and talking trees, but you can't accept a 2021 BMW 5 Series 530i with optional heated seating. Why are you so bigoted?"
Canon and consistency matter.
The weird thing is, the WNBA career mode in 2K is better than the male one, because it's microtransaction-free.
Not that that's saying much.
Then damn it, JUST SAY THAT
The hell does this title and pic have to do with anything?
Seriously, am I missing something?
They forced it into the DS game. They'll do it again.
I still remember how pissed I was when, after you finished the new postgame content, Dalton showed up...
I hope he does anime before it's too late.
(I am such an old otaku)