And they banned r/assignedmale as well. They use to make the most funniest strips from his comic.
Have to say Black Books as well.
Hornblower is a TV mini-series about a young British officer in the Royal Navy back when Britain had a spine. Each episode is movie length and despite a low budget has very high production value. All eps should be easily found on YT.
Gargoyles is a known forgotten Disney property and at this point that's probably a good thing. It kinda does have a bit of that 90s PC vibe to it with Elisa but she's cute, actually helps out and gets shot in one episode because Brooklyn didn't know what a gun was. Shakespearean themes and continuous Season 2 plot. It's a good watch. Just kind of avoid anything unrelated to the main series and S3 can be ignored as the creator wasn't involved with that.
Metaloclypse is another series that's been abandoned by Adult Swim before it had a proper ending. Still though, blood and guts and the 5 idiots fulfilling the prophecy set before them.
Boondocks is a very funny series to me. Even if you're not into the whole black american culture thing, just it being a self reflection of black culture ~c 2007 is worth a watch. Episodes like dodgeball, Stinkmeiner and Jimmy Rebel (removed because too racist) make it good.
Tintin has always been a favorite of mine and there's 39 animated episodes that covers most of the books.
There's old sci-fi like Stargate and Bablyon 5, not sure how good they are. Also Miami Vice, better than alot of cop shows today.
The Sky Movie adaptations are surprisingly good as well. There's also a few older animations of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters that might be worth a check, that opening animation is the most 90s thing ever. The Watch was in dev hell for years and came out last month, it's dogshit.
America is corrupting the world.
It's worse than that I think. For so long, American culture has been a corner stone of the west, You get 80s American tv shows in former USSR countries just coming out of the break up and everyone is copying stuff from that. This matters because that's been ingrained for such a long time, that when US culture started to degenerate and go into a purity spiral like it is now, it drags every other country with it. It's why you have Antifa set up in other countries, people in Britain marching for BLM. When you have a culture that's regressing and collapsing in on itself, it drags everything into it like a black hole.
I know physical is the way to go, but even buying a hard-drive you can back stuff onto then finding .pdfs of tech manuals, Dr Seuss books and other actually learned material is also a way to go, just make sure to back it up.
Remember, after the fall of Rome, the catholic church at the time hoarded the knowledge of reading and writing, thus having a monopoly of learned materials during the dark age and because they were learned they also drew attention because local peasants who couldn't afford to read and write would get a priest to help with local trade deals, I think. My analogy stands, when everyone around you becomes a peasant, you must be that priest, only then can you make a difference.
I love Democracy. I love the Republic. The power you give me, I will lay down once this crisis has abated.
Once said by an certain old man.
So GBA games are my thing, I'd recommend:
Golden Sun 1 & 2, obligatory RPGs, 1 leads into 2 and both are good.
Astro Omega Factor, loveletter to Tezuka, meaning you'll need to brush up on who Blackjack is for example.
Pokemon Emerald (Firered, Leafgreen, Ruby, Sapphire, Gold and Silver) are all on the system
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team, dungeon crawler with pokemons.
ATLA and Burning Earth, two small sprite games made by a studio here in aus, it's simple puzzles and the like but I like it.
Zone of the Enders - The Fist of Mars, tactics game set inside Z.O.E, unrelated but Kojima says it's canon anyway. Pretty good with a good selection of units.
Tactics Orge - the Knight of Lordis and Onimusha tactics. Both kinda like FFT and both pretty good games in their own right.
Metroid Fusion, some like some hate I like as it's a pretty good metroid on the GBA.
LOTR two towers and return of the king. Diablo clones essentially, smash orcs and get gear.
Breath of Fire 1 and 2, both ports from the SNES and both have re-translation patches which you really should get. Is a good series with memorable party characters, can't go wrong.
Summon Night - Swordcraft Story 1 and 2. First game is a dungeon crawler where you get material, forge them into weapons and summon help to help you in combat. Second is kinda like that but opens up more in that it's not just a dungeon but more varied landscapes. Very recommend. For helvetti's sake, pick Sugar, Best girl.
Yu-gi-oh, there's a few here. Sacred Cards I'd say is the best if you want a classic game where you're inserted into the game but just for dueling, Ultimate Masters 2006. This is a comprehensive game that covers the original and GX, introducing Neo-Elementals for example. You buy your decks, trade out cards and see where it goes, it's basically Legacy of the Duelist before it was that. I sunk so many hours into this. It continues on the DS with 07 and 08 as well I believe but 06 is a good place to start. Has duel puzzles as well, like needing to defeat an opponent in 1 turn with only the cards you draw. Gets you to think about card effects and the like. There's also Duel Academy if you want to actually be in the events of GX.
Cima the Enemy and Lufia the Ruins of Lore, Both kinda weird RPGS. CIMA has you rescuing people from a dungeon after a train gets stuck in a neververse, people can actually die and if everyone on the train dies, well you're really bad at the game. Lufia features a job system from memory and good interactions with the environment.
Shining Souls 1, 2 and Force. 1 and 2 plays like normal RPGs where Force turns into a party based game system from memory. Check em out.
Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword, Sacred Stones and 6. BS was the first FE in the west and it's just so good, Lyn, Eliwood and Hector are still fan favorites to this day because of how great their adventure was. Sacred stones improves the gameplay a little bit but still has alot of good characters (Joshua, Lute and Amelia for example). 6 is a prequel/sequel to 7 but didn't get released in the west I don't think. There is a patch out there somewhere for it, so grab that. All these games are hard but so worth it, the sprite work is honestly some of the best on the console, it's just so expressive.
Zoids Legacy is kinda slow for a Super Robot Wars clone but I still like it. Collect all the zoids, travel on the overworld map. Give it at least a try I'd say.
Metal Slug Advance is on here, if you're a fan of Metal Slug.
Riviera - The Promised Land, a full length RPG from Sting. A unique art style, battle mechanics and game in general. I like it. Translation is good. I think there was a Vita version as well with more content but the GBA version still works. Yggdra Union as well, one of the last games released that I think also got on the DS, card based unit game from the same creators, it's not bad. It's not Riviera though.
Sword of Mana is another good RPG, over land battles instead of needing to go to a separate screen I think. Lots of gorgeous sprite work.
Scourge Hive, totally forgotten game. Maybe you'll enjoy it. It's one of the ones I never played.
Advance Wars. Hope you like FE because that's all they're going to make for the next 15 years, after Days of Ruin on the DS the studio has forgotten about this series. Grab AW and Black Hole Rising. Both excellent games with good sprite work.
Broken Sword, Shadow of Templars. Yes someone actually ported over the first point and click game from the broken sword series, the videos are still images instead but it plays rather well I might say. If you wanna get into it with a graphical downgrade from it's PC counterpart, it's worth a shot.
Donkey Kong Countries 1, 2 and 3 are on the GBA as well, straight ports from the SNES. Worth having.
Lunar Legend is a remake of the SNES game Lunar Silver Star. It is worth playing however, as it's a classic RPG that has a decent translation by Ubisoft of all people, they translated alot of the GBA western releases so they're hit and miss sometimes. But yes, play it.
Medal of Honor Infiltrator is a top down sprite shooter borrowing a few things from metal slug. It plays alright, give it a look at. Avoid underground, there are no good first person shooters on the fugging GBA, as far as I know. Didn't have the power for it.
Sonic games, Super Ghouls and Ghosts and River City Ransom are some other good ones.
Megaman Battle Network. It's different than Megaman X for example in that you control some other guy and use selected chips in an RPG fashion to battle through. There's like 5 games in the series on the GBA I think. They reused alot of the sprite work.
The Harry potter games have varying degrees of Sprite works. Might be worth checking out.
Last one is Mazes of Fate. There is a DS copy of this but a first person dungeon crawling game on the GBA? Yes please, and this game was made in Argentina of all places. It really worth checking out.
Just finished Haven, made by the Furi devs. It's an okay game, you explore around a shattered world and it's a mellow experience. It's not bad but I wouldn't recommend it, music by Danger is good though, he does good work. Like I said, perfectly "Ehhh," game.
Other than that, somehow survived Project Wingman on Mercenary. Conquest 30+ is impossible with all the prototypes the game throws at you and even my MTD has trouble with that many. One thing I did try out was replacing the music with other stuff. Zero from Ace Combat 0 kinda works when dueling Crimson but the best track I found was Spread your Wings by System F. They're an early 2000s Trance band that got a few of their songs in the Area 88 anime in 2004, so it's oddly appropriate for dog-fighting.
Other than that, CoD 2 with Back 2 Fronts, because it's not CoD 2 for me if I can't die in 2 bolt action hits. Veteran is punishing, Hardened is oddly balanced.
I still need to finish Huniepop 2, Sakuna's been on my list for like 5 months now after I just stopped when my wheels were being grinded down. This month brings Startopia remake which looks decent and Evil Genius 2 (with Denuvo). I kinda wanna focus a bit more on anime in the next few months however. We'll see.
Alot of the old rockers back from the 80s are turning around 60 or so yet they still go on, having done alot of hard living as a result.
They fixed the memory bug but it still isn't what I'd call stable, still has weird texture bugs, braindead ai and missing features. It doesn't fix the story lazily throwing in religious and spiritual discussion with no connection (Crucifying a guy for a BD), characters who address V and not you the player (there's one point where V talks to a doll about losing his/her identiy and it would work real well if I was roleplaying ala Revan or the Currier but it's just press X to feel anxious there) and ham fisted social issues (Claire is a tranny that's revealed in a throwaway line that doesn't mean anything. "She" then proceeds to ram the supposed guy who killed "her" husband off the road and while he sits there and bleeds out "she's" ranting and raving about how bad he is).
The game is busted beyond the bugs, the basic questline and story doesn't engage the player for the simple fact they promised an RPG but delivered an action adventure.
And the thing is, CDPR have been tipping this way for awhile, Witcher 1 was a pure RPG, 2 dropped alot of stuff but still had some elements, 3 was a tipping point, less RPG and even less quest outcomes but combat, characters, story and world managed to save it. This is a Bethesda result of cutting so much off the RPG tree they essentially don't have an RPG anymore, only one that looks like it.
You're not to blame, we were all blinded by the light, ME3, NMS, FO4, and this have all caught me.
t. someone who played it so you don't have to.
That's wizard, son.
I'm reminded of this from Millennium, even though I've never seen the show. The Nature of Evil part always still makes me think. Modern society has taken out pretty much every challenge and as a result has made it all to easy for people to torment themselves. Classic tactic, why kill an enemy when you can make em so miserable they do it themselves.
The Embed here (parody channel) is a little fascinating because then you see the mother. Look at here eyes "Windows to the soul". This is someone who has grounded themselves down with modern society so badly they died a spiritual death long ago. They let their candle, that flame inside that represents their individuality and inner thought get blown out by the wind long ago.
Just wanna leave this as well. And as for people who say there's "No Hope" and being blackpilled, you're mistaken. The prisoners in the city who lost their candles are beyond saving. They're husks of humanity now, drowned out and given up control to the media devices around them (kinda ironic me typing this though), but still true humanity, those that think you'll find out in the country, those who have a connection to the land. The dark ages preserved written works and latin inside conclaves of churches, this next dark age will preserve humanity in communities remote enough and away from cities.
This basically, tell them rushed production, no studies of long term effects, over-hyped infections of corona and why take it now and not in a year after it's had more testing.
Original and Zeta are good, Wing and Seed are kinda cringe. Reconquista and Unicorn are kinda iffy for me, like or leave em. 00 and Awakening I like even though some don't.
I'd recommend original > ZZ > Char's Counterattack. And F91 and Crossbones if you can. It's a shame Tobia never got his own series, even though he's still kinda popular, plus pirate gundam.
I have never seen a Gundam show, I've just used their mechs in Super Robot Wars, so I'm biased on what pilots I like and which ones look cool.
Just wanted to say, back in December I went for a pre-learner course to get my learners license for a motocycle, as that's required here. Completely failed as I didn't have control of the bike. Went for 2 one-on-one courses, learned to control the throttle and the clutch and actually passed the assessment last week. This isn't to brag but rather to point out that dedication can eventually teach you things, it's only your mind making excuses for not doing something.
This. If you've read the VNs you know the Family Wreath the guy made out of his Family Tree
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/index I know is a reddit site, but r/piracy has a wiki dedicated to good trusted sites and software that's easy to use. Perfect for a start pirate or if you need to bookmark a decent site to get content.
To be honest, you shouldn't be paying for any streaming service. Just find a show or series you like and pirate it. You'll be surprised how much you save in a year because of it.
That's just degenerate then.
The least you could do would be to .rar it and share it. Still got some sites bookmarked of old ASCII porn somewhere.
Malware bytes is a highly recommended in piracy circles, as it doesn't have alot of the bloat that other ones have and is pretty good at searching as a result. You can still get false positives on files but generally I find it good.
Don't use AVG. it's not a bad product but they spam you with advertisements every few hours reminding you to buy.