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Glad you're feeling better, GTG! With some meds, the cure is almost as bad as the poison -- especially those that alter brain chemistry. :/
How do you like L5R btw? I saw it at a thrift store over the weekend -- this one has a great rpg section! -- and I almost picked it up if only to give it a read.
It is worth picking up if only to read it. I have about 4 / 5 of the 1st and 2nd edition L5R books just to read them.
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Sadly, I may be naked but I am not a naked Asian with a sword. ~puts my scales back on.
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You have brought great shame on my eyeballs.
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Oh right. Work tonight. Bummer!
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So can someone re-link that list of great anime series? I don't feel like digging through 100 pages of FaWtL to find it, but oh geez our Friday night TV fest was awful!
We've watched and luuuurved:
One Punch Man
Seven Deadly Sins
RWBY
Sword Art Online, Season 1. No other SAO exists, in our minds
We've watched and enjoyed:
Soul Eater
Blue Exorcist
We've watched and tolerated:
Death Note
Full Metal Alchemist
We've turned off after a few episodes:
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
(Magi) Adventure of Sinbad
Kuro Mukuro
We didn't make it past episode 1:
Attack on Titan
Kill la Kill
Hopefully someone with a far vaster knowledge than I will say, "Aha! I see what the 'luuurved' series had in common! You need to watch THIS!"
Thank you for your support. :-P
EDIT: On the bright side, dinner of seared and roasted tri-tip, salt-crusted red potatoes, garlic bread, and a huge salad was quite the hit...
HOW COULD YOU HAVE TURNED OFF AOT AND GARGANTIA?!?!?! HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW?!?!
Sigh. It seems you have delicate constitutions, so i will float non offensive fare.
Check out nyankoi, new voltron, hell girl, daiguard, gurren lagan, child's toy, azumanga daioh, lucky star, Haruhi, heroic legend of arslan, I can't understand what my husband is saying, and hell, check out slayers if you can.
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Seeing Death Note on your list, I suggest Darker Than Black, and I cannot, CANNOT recommend Psycho Pass highly enough! DTB is a bit more action-y and PP is more dystopian, and they are both low on fan service and high on ethical grayness.
EDIT: Just read carefully and noticed that Death Note is on your 'tolerated' list. Oh well, still recommended!
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It is worth picking up if only to read it. I have about 4 / 5 of the 1st and 2nd edition L5R books just to read them.Glad you're feeling better, GTG! With some meds, the cure is almost as bad as the poison -- especially those that alter brain chemistry. :/
How do you like L5R btw? I saw it at a thrift store over the weekend -- this one has a great rpg section! -- and I almost picked it up if only to give it a read.
same here, although I really got into later editions of the game and went from a ponycorn to a follower of the Spider.
Then they slapped a bad ending on everything and sold the game.
Sigh.
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Seeing Death Note on your list, I suggest Darker Than Black, and I cannot, CANNOT recommend Psycho Pass highly enough!
you may also want to check out a certain scientific railgun.
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HOW COULD YOU HAVE TURNED OFF AOT AND GARGANTIA?!?!?! HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW?!?!
Sigh. It seems you have delicate constitutions, so i will float non offensive fare.
Check out nyankoi, new voltron, hell girl, daiguard, gurren lagan, child's toy, azumanga daioh, lucky star, Haruhi, heroic legend of arslan, I can't understand what my husband is saying, and hell, check out slayers if you can.
Sorry -- forgot to put Slayers on the "Watched and thoroughly enjoyed" list.
We watched Gargantia for quite a few episodes (10 or so? Until they learned the origins of the "enemy"). It was good, but didn't keep the whole group "engaged".
AOT gets insanely-good reviews, but we just didn't like it, at all. Just kind of boring "gore for gore's sake" to us. "We're going to shock you! See? See?!?! We CAN do it!!!!"
Didn't grab us.
Oh... and Trigun. Oh, gods we LOVED Trigun!
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Seeing Death Note on your list, I suggest Darker Than Black, and I cannot, CANNOT recommend Psycho Pass highly enough!you may also want to check out a certain scientific railgun.
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Oh... and Trigun. Oh, gods we LOVED Trigun!
Damn right you did.
Kaze No Stigma
Is It Wrong To Pickup Girls In A Dungeon?
Black Cat
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou
Actually, I Am
Our Home's Fox Deity
Chaika: The Coffin Princess
No Game No Life
And if you really want to cry your eyes out...
Plastic Memories
Your Lie in April
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?Seeing Death Note on your list, I suggest Darker Than Black, and I cannot, CANNOT recommend Psycho Pass highly enough!you may also want to check out a certain scientific railgun.
That's the name of the anime :) "A Certain Scientific Railgun". It is a pretty good show. It has a companion series, "A Certain Magical Index", that technically comes first, but they have different main characters and don't require the viewer to watch both a series (I haven't seen Magical Index, and Scientific Railgun worked fine for me).
Darker than Black is also good.
Oh... and Trigun. Oh, gods we LOVED Trigun!Damn right you did.
Kaze No Stigma
Is It Wrong To Pickup Girls In A Dungeon?
Black Cat
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Plastic Memories is fantastic, and Your Lie in April was good too (great story, but I think it spent a bit too long inside on the piano performances. I'm glad they were there, but they could have been shorter. That's just my opinion, though).
No Game No Life and Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon (the title of that one is a bit misleading - it's better than it sounds) are both good, although the fanservice is on the heavier side.
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I say, to Pea Bear and the General separately, that I thought it would be slow tonight. To which they both said to the effect of "yeah, if you brought a date to a toy store on Valentine's day, you've already lost" (I believe the General said struck out).
So, what's the first thing I see walking into work, three separate couples.
Hilarious!
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HOW COULD YOU HAVE TURNED OFF AOT AND GARGANTIA?!?!?! HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW?!?!
Sigh. It seems you have delicate constitutions, so i will float non offensive fare.
Check out nyankoi, new voltron, hell girl, daiguard, gurren lagan, child's toy, azumanga daioh, lucky star, Haruhi, heroic legend of arslan, I can't understand what my husband is saying, and hell, check out slayers if you can.
Sorry -- forgot to put Slayers on the "Watched and thoroughly enjoyed" list.
We watched Gargantia for quite a few episodes (10 or so? Until they learned the origins of the "enemy"). It was good, but didn't keep the whole group "engaged".
AOT gets insanely-good reviews, but we just didn't like it, at all. Just kind of boring "gore for gore's sake" to us. "We're going to shock you! See? See?!?! We CAN do it!!!!"
Didn't grab us.Oh... and Trigun. Oh, gods we LOVED Trigun!
you need to keep watching. While I HATED the twist, I found the world fascinating.
Liked trigun? Watch grenadier.
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Love is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon, but KONOSUBA beats it hands down.
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There's something in the walls in back by the bathrooms that sounds like two steam engines f+@$ing.
To be honest, I didn't need, nor want to know what two steam engines f!%+ing sounded like.
But now I do, so there's that.
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Seriously? Why is no one mentioning Cowboy Bebop on the list of essential anime?
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I watch Archer.
Used to get up super early as a kid to watch Robotech.
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Nope. One of those people who's never seen Cowboy Bebop...
EDIT: OK, that's not *quite* true. Cowboy Bebop is one of those series I despise precisely because it's so popular, much like Ghost in the Shell.
You say, "Wow! Everyone raves about how good this series is! Let me curl up on my sofa, fire it up, and..."
Well-meaning interloper #1: No! You can't watch the original series! It's too dated! Watch remake #3, but the Ukranian edits with the Swahili subtitles! That's the *only* thing to watch!
Well-meaning interloper #2: Oh! Wait! This has the Nanana background from the Peruvian version of series #2! You can't watch this! You have to watch the Australian translation of the Antarctican version of this other one first...
And on, and on, and on.
I have seen bits and pieces of random episodes of Cowboy Bebop. I have never seen a single entire episode, because someone else in the room always feels that they can somehow make the experience "better" by showing the frames out of order, and from different series.
Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop. Two series everyone tells me I should watch. But at this point I'm 99.9% sure I never will...
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Anyone have advice for flattening a vinyl battle mat? Tomorrow I'll be testing the raw power of the Arizona sun, but if that fails me...
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Heavy books. And time. Stupid time!
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Anyone have advice for flattening a vinyl battle mat? Tomorrow I'll be testing the raw power of the Arizona sun, but if that fails me...
A clothesline and a couple of clothes pins. Hang it outside for a day. Should be plenty, especially in Arizona.
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Realtalk, Cowboy Bebop was.... okay.
I liked Radical Edward, and Ein. The others felt kinda... I dunno, I just didn't connect.
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Also watch mysterious girlfriend x and is this a zombie?
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My interview date with Know Direction Podcast has been announced. I'll be talking about Play by Post! They'll be interviewing me at 8:30 EST. If any of you want to tune in and make encouraging noises or ask good questions in chat, please do.
Hmm
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Only twenty minutes or so.
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My interview date with Know Direction Podcast has been announced. I'll be talking about Play by Post! They'll be interviewing me at 8:30 EST. If any of you want to tune in and make encouraging noises or ask good questions in chat, please do.
Hmm
I'd love to join but I'm going to be at the second job at that time. Still please, let me wish you the best of luck. I'm sure you're going to kick all the ass.
And on, and on, and on.
Those people are being stupid. Just watch the series. There's only the one.
This.
Start at episode one, and just go forward from there.
Anything else is just trying too hard.
Realtalk, Cowboy Bebop was.... okay.
I liked Radical Edward, and Ein. The others felt kinda... I dunno, I just didn't connect.
I find this entirely a fair assessment.
I, personally, never really connected with Edward, but only because of how oddball the character was - don't get me wrong, Edward was totally cool, but I just didn't connect as well.
Ein, on the other hand, was the best character. Period.
The others were more classic tropes for bounty hunters, and you kind of have to like that unique aesthetic combination of Westerns, mystery noir, Jazz, and sci-space-stuff to really get into them, I think.
They aren't really truly likable characters - they're not despicable or irritating, and they're not ugly or spiteful, and they're not creeps or jerks (well, not exactly) - but the're not really heroes, either (though they can kind of be roped into it, on occasion, and they do have their own moral codes). You have to be able to enjoy a protagonist who is a reluctant hero and who can sometimes also be almost a reluctant villain.
I liked them (and consider the series "essential"), but it's certainly not for everybody, and that's just going to be how it goes.
In other news, Hotel Transylvania is a surprisingly solid film. I've been surprised at how enjoyable and pleasant the characters and such of both films really are - and how much I liked them. Both tread exactly zero new ground in either plot or outcome - the first was entirely predictable, and the second has been covered often enough that there's only so many outcomes it could have had, and I knew how each of them would have sorted themselves out - and, when one of those endings came up, I was basically correct. But that also doesn't actually detract from the films, in my opinion.
My interview date with Know Direction Podcast has been announced. I'll be talking about Play by Post! They'll be interviewing me at 8:30 EST. If any of you want to tune in and make encouraging noises or ask good questions in chat, please do.
Hmm
What if we want to make discouraging noises and ask bad questions in chat?
And/or will likely be putting our children to sleep during that time (and/or likely be sleeping with our head in the children's bed while they laugh maniacally and jump up and down repeatedly)?
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Liked the Cowboy Bebop movie, but couldn't get into the show.
The first few episodes of the Office were torture, but I think it's growing on me. Michael is an ass in several awful ways, but he's not portrayed as any kind of hero or role model -- he's pathetic, needy, and inept, so that isn't the part that bothers me.
I just want to hit him in the face with a gallon of milk.
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Dwight is the real gem of The Office.
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Liked the Cowboy Bebop movie, but couldn't get into the show.
The first few episodes of the Office were torture, but I think it's growing on me. Michael is an ass in several awful ways, but he's not portrayed as any kind of hero or role model -- he's pathetic, needy, and inept, so that isn't the part that bothers me.
I just want to hit him in the face with a gallon of milk.
Yeah, I generally agree.
He's just... so... cringe-worthy at times. :/
(Part of that, I think, is that he occasionally really wants to do something good, but still acts in such a horrid manner. It makes me wonder how he got to be in his position, even when they explain that it was basically because he made so many sales...)
The supporting cast is what actually makes the show interesting, to me, though, and they're pretty funny.
As someone who was engaged for two-and-a-half years, I'm not particularly fond of the show going, "engaged f'r three years, lol, nevergonnahappen" - I know from experience that it can be a fairly legitimate thing.
That said, the situation was certainly different: we were in a long-distance relationship, and I was working on a degree (that I never actually finished - life happened, instead). I do appreciate the dramatic irony (or whatever) of the situation, and I actually like her character.
I find the torment of the (admittedly annoying) Dwight to be rather excessive, and even self-defeating. Although he really hurt most people the first time through with his attempt at fixing the health care, his second attempt - while cringe-worthy - as actually a legitimate compromise: he wanted to make sure the plan "worked" for the employees, and so was going to cover their actual medical issues, until it was sabotaged. That he's clearly got problems differentiating fact from fiction should have been a thing his fellow employees took seriously and made the thing work. If they'd only flown in a little under the radar, they could have had a decent (if not excellent) health package, and no one would be laid off. But that whole, "Our own worst enemy." is kind of a recurring theme of the show (similar to the first season of Parks and Rec, though, on the whole, I like that show much better, along with its characters).
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When you get to it. Dwight's cousin Moes is the creator of Parks and Rec (also Brooklyn 911).
When you get to it. Dwight's cousin Moes is the creator of Parks and Rec (also Brooklyn 911).
What? Sorry, I don't understand.
The two are clearly related: they're both by Deedle-Dee Productions.
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Sorry! Didn't phrase it right.
I just meant Dwight's cousin Moes created Parks and Rec and Brooklyn 911.
Not the character, but the person behind the character.
Also, most of the side characters on The Office are writers for it. Phyllis was originally in charge of casting.
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Ah. Valentines Day. My wife had a wonderful start to today. She got a call at 4:30 AM to come over and help me out with my car. Needless to say she was not happy about getting woken up. It turned out that the battery cables were loose on the battery. My guess is that the person who worked on my car last did not tighten them. Lucky for me it was an easy fix with a 10 mm socket wrench. I even forgot to say happy anniversary to her when she drove up to help me out. OTOH the nice shiny new gaming computer that she got over the weekend as a Happy Valentine's Day, Happy Anniversary, may I please live another year? gift did go over very well as did treating her to the bar-b-que place that just opened up.
Sorry! Didn't phrase it right.
I just meant Dwight's cousin Moes created Parks and Rec and Brooklyn 911.
Not the character, but the person behind the character.
Also, most of the side characters on The Office are writers for it. Phyllis was originally in charge of casting.
Ah! I see! That's pretty cool!
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I am reading This is your Brain on Parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe and it is pretty good. Scary but pretty good.
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My interview date with Know Direction Podcast has been announced. I'll be talking about Play by Post! They'll be interviewing me at 8:30 EST. If any of you want to tune in and make encouraging noises or ask good questions in chat, please do.
Hmm
What if we want to make discouraging noises and ask bad questions in chat?
And/or will likely be putting our children to sleep during that time (and/or likely be sleeping with our head in the children's bed while they laugh maniacally and jump up and down repeatedly)?
Tacticslion, even your bad questions will be good ones!
Hmm
Season 2, Episode 4 of The Office is actually... kind of sweet.
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FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood is at the top of my list. It is much better than the original FullMetal Alchemist.
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Cowboy Bebop is a fantastic show, which to me hits the exact right spot of serious/satire/meta. That is, it does have a fairly heavy commentary level, while at the same time standing on its own. If you consider seeing it, just be aware that the first episode is not its best one, so give it a bit more of a chance. The series truly takes off with Jamming with Edward.