Karmine wrote: 4x3m25

Genocidal Organ and Harmony by Project Itoh
Either the books (if you can find them) or the movies (or both if you like)
They're not a series but take place in the same universe at different times (Harmony does reference the events of Genocidal Organ a bit)

will read the books, may take a while tho

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote: 4l614z

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Bone by Jeff Smith

first of all, when I was looking for this book I realized it wasn't just one book, but a franchise, thankfully I found one that was like a compilation of every single of those, so it wasn't a big deal

next thing I realized was that this wasn't a book, but a comic, which is fine by me

I've only read the first book (out from boneville), as this really isn't my thing, there isn't much logical justification there, it's just comedy and not my type of comedy

there really isn't any real plot outside of the comedy, the art is also pretty stale, a page normally consists of a pretty simple setting and hten the character changing experssion without really moving

I don't really have anything more to say

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still playing rain code
next: Helck

Ok, this is one of my favorite comics, and honestly, I'm ticked off at you.
Every time I try to request something, you just make a bad review of it without fully watching/reading/playing it
I requested WOY and you only watched 4 episodes, I requested G-Darius and you never even played it, saying that you didn't review videogames despite ACTUALLY REVIEWING VIDEOGAMES, and now I requested Bone, and you just read the first volume and called it some dumb comedy book, you called the art stale, and you probably never take the time to even contemplate any book with illustrations other than manga.
Are you deciding to be a Jerkwad and troll me, or do a lot of foreign people just hate me in general for existing?

HAHAHHAHAHAHA how did I miss this gemmy gemstone.

anyway, review the song: Hey Ya by Outkast, please!

Kitte wrote: 1s143u

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote: 4l614z

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Bone by Jeff Smith

first of all, when I was looking for this book I realized it wasn't just one book, but a franchise, thankfully I found one that was like a compilation of every single of those, so it wasn't a big deal

next thing I realized was that this wasn't a book, but a comic, which is fine by me

I've only read the first book (out from boneville), as this really isn't my thing, there isn't much logical justification there, it's just comedy and not my type of comedy

there really isn't any real plot outside of the comedy, the art is also pretty stale, a page normally consists of a pretty simple setting and hten the character changing experssion without really moving

I don't really have anything more to say

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still playing rain code
next: Helck

Ok, this is one of my favorite comics, and honestly, I'm ticked off at you.
Every time I try to request something, you just make a bad review of it without fully watching/reading/playing it
I requested WOY and you only watched 4 episodes, I requested G-Darius and you never even played it, saying that you didn't review videogames despite ACTUALLY REVIEWING VIDEOGAMES, and now I requested Bone, and you just read the first volume and called it some dumb comedy book, you called the art stale, and you probably never take the time to even contemplate any book with illustrations other than manga.
Are you deciding to be a Jerkwad and troll me, or do a lot of foreign people just hate me in general for existing?

HAHAHHAHAHAHA how did I miss this gemmy gemstone.

anyway, review the song: Hey Ya by Outkast, please!

I dont do songs since I don't know shit

Watch Too Many Cooks.

eblf2013 wrote: 3l2l1q

Watch Too Many Cooks.

it says it's horror but it is also very fucking short so I may, still, I will do after I finish the anime i'm watching rn


also updates:

Book is good, finished chapter 1

I'm in the middle of the second (technically third) case of rain code

You have gotta play Super Mario Wonder its the best Mario game by far

Jarcrafted wrote: 4y1dk

You have gotta play Super Mario Wonder its the best Mario game by far

I've already beaten mario wonder

IMO it's not the best mario game ever as you claim it to be, it's good, sure, but that title is reserved for mario galaxy 2, nostalgia glasses I know but that game is sick and I keep coming back to it

now, I guess you meant to say 2D mario game, which is again, not really the case as mario maker exists

but in the mainline 2d mario game series, I do think it's a pretty good one. It's hard to rank mario games like that, every game with like the exception of mario 2 kinda stands on the same level, even with stuff like super mario bros for the wii u, the criticism was that it wasn't original, not that it wasn't fun (Which it was)

Now, mario woner does feel pretty different to the previous mario game, for one, and the things that is most obvious are the wonder seeds, you pick them up and the level is transformed, I really like this, it really makes the experience playing the game for the first time really good

I don't know how I feel about the removal of warp zones, they have been in every mario game and wonder does not have it. I personally liked them, as it kinda gave more experienced players some sort of reward, but I dont mind it that much

The level design is really really good, it does feel more crazy than in the preivous games, not only that, but the optional content in this game is probably one of the hardests out of any 2d mario game, only really rivaled by the special world of mario world. It does break a lot of the conventional design structure that mario games had always followed, however, I feel that some of the levels wouldn't be nearly as exciting as the wonder seeds, which dont ask as something like the star coins in mario bros wii. Wonder seeds aren't hidden half the time, which makes sense as the levels are built around COLLECTING the wonder seed, in fact, you cant progress in the game without picking them up


Thing is, the way the achieved this difficulty is not my favouite approach, they wanted to make levels difficult but not complex, so they removed all movement options. There is no flying powerup in mario wonder, there isn't even yoshi, you're limited to regular movement and projectiles. Difficulty isn't in like a mario maker way or mario world romhack way where you're flying all over the place and you feel powerful and the gameplay is frenetic. Mario wonder difficulty is a lot slower, and more focused on precise movement, which agian, to each their own, but I don't think it feels nearly as good.

my only other real complain is that I wish the levels were longer, specially the bonus levels, a lot of levels are like under 1 minute to 100%, which I think it's just a little bit too short, this was already a staple in the franchise but mario wonder turns it up to the max

The badges are fine, there is variety but I ended up just using the one I thought was the most overpowered (twirl as double jump). Badges felt more like celeste assist mode than power ups.

The only thing that I can say for sure that I do think is a bad precedent for the franchise, is that in co-op move they removed the ability to pick up and throw "friends". This was part of the fun of mario co-op and I think it's a total shame that they decided to remove it. Yeah I cried when I was 6yo and my older brother threw me to a bottomless pit, but god it was fun to do it to him later

To sum up it's just really different to the rest of the franchise, and while it's original and really fucking fun, there are still certain elements that rubs me the wrong game, but still, it's mario, this game is still a 8-9/10 for me, the fact that mario games are this consistently good is just impressive

bump, will contiue reading and start too many cooks today

do you accept fan fictions? (even the cringe ones)

Anaxii wrote: 61215b

do you accept fan fictions? (even the cringe ones)

mostly yes but I have my limits with some fics, cringe itself is not the problem

Too many cooks:

I think this would have been funnier if I hadn't seen every mister jagger video 3 times when I was growing up, like, actually, the intro on this video is straight up pulled from agente especial kevin, just with higher budget. But in a way that's the charm of jagger.



the comedy style is also extremely similar to the one of jagger's being the purest shock, rudest comedy. The bits in this video also feel like it would be something from MACHO ALFA TOTAL or AWAKEN 2x09 [Español - Castellano], just that agente especial kevin actually came a year before too many cooks, while those two came out later

so yeah, this is just a jagger video but with higher budget, and given that I don't completely vibe with all the jokes old jagger videos did and the fact that the higher budget kinda removes some of the charm, I don't know what to think about this short.

Also given that this is just comedy I can say anything too substanctial about it, it's just if you vibe with this comedy or not.

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no updates on book or game as I've been outside these past days

Review this video



If you dont review videos just review something regarding this
Shit you already reviewed the other one... well who cares

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

Review this video



If you dont review videos just review something regarding this

nope not doing that absolutely not doing that I literally just responded in the other thread 5 seconds ago I refuse to watch anything from that channel you need help all the fanbase need help this is not healthy go touch grass go reach god's light if you unironically enjoy that you have problems that realy need to be adressed

also i'm still reading the book, just been doing IRL shit so i'm going slow, i'm around halfway through

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

Review this video



If you dont review videos just review something regarding this

nope not doing that absolutely not doing that I literally just responded in the other thread 5 seconds ago I refuse to watch anything from that channel you need help all the fanbase need help this is not healthy go touch grass go reach god's light if you unironically enjoy that you have problems that realy need to be adressed

also i'm still reading the book, just been doing IRL shit so i'm going slow, i'm around halfway through

how do you have access to literally every single movie and book

sametdze wrote: 732432

how do you have access to literally every single movie and book

for books, u can literally order any book in amazon or whatever... or look for a copy online, like manga's you go to mangadex and the sort.



for movies well... streaming services exist, and if its not in any, well u can-

also I need to finish the book but i'm surprisingly busy this christmas

been trying look for that image at top for the past few minutes xD

Review The Lion King (the original one)

will do after I finish watching all the movies I'm currently watching

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if you review music, please take a look at TUYU

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Master Archives rain code

game is the purest definition of a 7/10, like, the game is entirely fine, however the moment I see any other game I decide to flop to that, I have stopped playing it and forced myself to keep playing 5 times already, and since I still have like 40 hours left, I just decided to stop trying

Farfocele wrote: 2y4v31

if you review music, please take a look at TUYU

I don't sorry

cephaphysic wrote: 406m6w

undertale yellow?

it has diverging pacifist/neutral/genocide routes btw like the game it's derived from

the only undertale fangame i've tried is undertale II, however I bunnrei being hyped for it and that caught my interest, may check it out. Is undertale yellow just an fan-made expansion for undertale or is it like undertale 2 where the game would hold on it's own even if it wasn't a touhou fangame?


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updates on book: christmas has been very busy and I have barely read, I haven't even read the manga I was reading either so it's not a book thing, the book is really good. Will continue it whenever I have the time

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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Master Archives rain code

game is the purest definition of a 7/10, like, the game is entirely fine, however the moment I see any other game I decide to flop to that, I have stopped playing it and forced myself to keep playing 5 times already, and since I still have like 40 hours left, I just decided to stop trying

sadge

well, at least you gave it a try. better than nothing i suppose

If you ever have time play I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, it's a hidden gem.
It's basically infinite though.

Karmine wrote: 4x3m25

If you ever have time play I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, it's a hidden gem.
It's basically infinite though.

will add to the list later

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----- The Lion King (1994) -----

I haven't seen this movie in over 12 years probably, the only thing I really ed from this movie was the sentence "hakuna matata" and that a character died. Not only that, but I was primarily raised with studio ghibli, not so much disney.

Now, watching the lion king fresh being 18, it's for sure not as shocking as it was when I was a kid (shocking, I know). Things like mufasa death is just a little bit dumb IMO. However, this movies has some really great stuff, the songs they include are really cool, I like the thought of the characters really growing older over the movie, representing how they have more responsabilities and their thought process changes

this is the most apparent on that one scene where they're looking at the night sky and timon asks what the stars were. I thought that scene was really neat. Specially for a movei targetting the demographic it does, it really sends a really great message

However, besides being a really good kid/family movie, from my perspectives it was lacking in some aspects, mainly, I can see now that the end of the movie was a little bit forced. Mainly the entire arc of the second half of the movie, where nala finds simba and tells them to come back.

My problem with this arc is that the point is that the kingdom is fucked and they have to come back as they're the true king and they need to fix shit. And they have been years living in that kingdom without any fixes, and they're the only ones that can change this fact. Not only that, but they assumed simba was dead.

If you had what basically was a dictatorship, you wouldn't care about the line of succession then, you would just unionize and drop a giant boulder in scar's head, not only that, butafter the actual ending of the movie, you would assume there would be a lot more problems with the hyenas as they had basically moved permanently to that kingdom.

The movie is still good, it's just not my favourite to watch at this age.

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cephaphysic wrote: 406m6w

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

cephaphysic wrote: 406m6w

undertale yellow?

it has diverging pacifist/neutral/genocide routes btw like the game it's derived from

the only undertale fangame i've tried is undertale II, however I bunnrei being hyped for it and that caught my interest, may check it out. Is undertale yellow just an fan-made expansion for undertale or is it like undertale 2 where the game would hold on it's own even if it wasn't a touhou fangame?

i'd say it could hold on its own

may play it before the other suggestions as I was going to play it anyways then


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no updates on the epic book

since you already analyze Chainsaw man, im quite curious on what your thoughts on Jujutsu Kaisen is, mainly the anime as season 2 of it recently finished and its getting praised with lots of good reviews with even some considering it to be the top 10 best action animes...


i finished watching it too recently and i dont wanna spoil much but... it was really cool.

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

since you already analyze Chainsaw man, im quite curious on what your thoughts on Jujutsu Kaisen is, mainly the anime as season 2 of it recently finished and its getting praised with lots of good reviews with even some considering it to be the top 10 best action animes...


i finished watching it too recently and i dont wanna spoil much but... it was really cool.

I don't like action and I dropped it after volume 1 lol, if you really wanted it I could give it another shot but I don't promise I wont drop it

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

I don't like action and I dropped it after volume 1 lol, if you really wanted it I could give it another shot but I don't promise I wont drop it

ahh i see, hmm well, i just really want to see your thoughts on Season 2 of the anime, so maybe if you really dont like Season 1 you could skip there and considering most of the story is packed in Season 2 and isn't so deep, but im not sure if it will ruin your immersion or something...

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

I don't like action and I dropped it after volume 1 lol, if you really wanted it I could give it another shot but I don't promise I wont drop it

ahh i see, hmm well, i just really want to see your thoughts on Season 2 of the anime, so maybe if you really dont like Season 1 you could skip there and considering most of the story is packed in Season 2 and isn't so deep, but im not sure if it will ruin your immersion or something...

if I didn't like season 1, the chances I enjoy season 2 are really low

-- Undertale Yellow (DROPPED) --

I'm dissapointed in this game

The game itself is fine-ish, it's just kinda boring. I made it to the third area of the game before going like "yeah this is not it" and dropping it. There is a lot of effort put into this game, but all of it is completely missfocused

This is not a game for people who enjoy toby fox, this is a game for people who have been playing undertale fangames for the last decade. I say that because I don't see anything of the energy toby fox had in undertale yellow.

One of the most notable aspects of toby fox and toby fox inspired agmes is the character writting, the way toby writes, giving each character different fonts and way to write in a typographical sense, having the dialogue be more internet-ish more than trying to emulate reality, having all those very unique and recognisable characters, that was one of the most important aspects of undertale, they needed you to care about the characters for you to feel bad about killing them in a genocide run.

Undertale yellow doesn't really have characters, in the ruins for example, toriel appears for a little moment, and it's just the same than undertale 1 with some dialogues ommited, and then you deviate from the route, and then you just do the entirety of place with the setting of the ruins without really speaking to anyone. There is one character that appears like 2 times to say vague dialogue and then that results to be the boss, but there isn't really any connection formed between you and that character. And after you beat them and leave the ruins, same story repeats, the zone feels empty, and at the very end you have a little bit of developement, to then be instantly separated from that character again

Not only that, but the way the character designs are basically copied from undertale, some scenes like the house in the ruins is just taken from toriel and in snowdin there is a very silly and dumb character which sets traps for the human, like come on. In order to emualte toby fox style you don't need to copy the exact same characters, just look at everhood for example

Even in deltarune, from second 1 you're introduced to susie and ralsei and underate yellow still have to introduce 1 character I really feel attached too

next: saints row

WATCH "Devilman: Crybaby" ON NETFLIX!!

it was my first ever anime and the end was very emotional
(warning, there are A LOT of gore)

Anaxii wrote: 61215b

WATCH "Devilman: Crybaby" ON NETFLIX!!

it was my first ever anime and the end was very emotional
(warning, there are A LOT of gore)

I don't like gore and i'm really not actively following these request too much as I've took request for like a lot of time and now i'm actually doing the things I want to do, will add to the list and watch someday when I feel the motivation to raelly do all requests

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Anaxii wrote: 61215b

WATCH "Devilman: Crybaby" ON NETFLIX!!

it was my first ever anime and the end was very emotional
(warning, there are A LOT of gore)

I don't like gore and i'm really not actively following these request too much as I've took request for like a lot of time and now i'm actually doing the things I want to do, will add to the list and watch someday when I feel the motivation to raelly do all requests

oh right it's fine
i saw in your MAL that you didn't watch it so i was wondering if you wanted to take a look

Watch 12th Fail. An Indian movie.

Rhythm32 wrote: 2t502t

Watch 12th Fail. An Indian movie.

only indian movie i've ever seen is RRR and I actually quite enjoyed it, going to add to the list

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Rhythm32 wrote: 2t502t

Watch 12th Fail. An Indian movie.

only indian movie i've ever seen is RRR and I actually quite enjoyed it, going to add to the list

oh damn I didnt even watch RRR myself

Speaking of Bollywood. Seeta and Geeta. Pretty popular in Russia.

Manishh wrote: 4f3g50

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Rhythm32 wrote: 2t502t

Watch 12th Fail. An Indian movie.

only indian movie i've ever seen is RRR and I actually quite enjoyed it, going to add to the list

oh damn I didnt even watch RRR myself

I really wanna see RRR ngl

KatouMegumi wrote: 3j2041

Speaking of Bollywood. Seeta and Geeta. Pretty popular in Russia.

will add to the list

Happy New Year is a pretty funny Indian movie.

analyze me cutie

Ymir wrote: 6i4b2i

Happy New Year is a pretty funny Indian movie.

will add to the list

Bump

I was doubting as to recommend Higurashi no Naku Koro (the 1st and 2nd season) ni as you're not fond of horror, but I'd really recommend it more for the mystery aspect (and how it's well stated).

The only spoiler I can give: Season 2 downplays horror significantly.

eblf2013 wrote: 3l2l1q

I was doubting as to recommend Higurashi no Naku Koro (the 1st and 2nd season) ni as you're not fond of horror, but I'd really recommend it more for the mystery aspect (and how it's well stated).

The only spoiler I can give: Season 2 downplays horror significantly.

my brother loves higurashi and follows my myanimelist so I fear the consquences but I may give it a shot

also, updates, i'm actually watching devilman and i'm close to finishing it, will continue with the book whenver I have the motivation to do so, will start saints row when I feel like it

devilman crybaby:

I love masaaki yuasa, they're my favourite anime director, however, I think this is my least favourite anime that i've seen from them, mainly because of the source material. And mainly because i'm not into action

The animation style and OST for the anime are incredibly good, thing is, while their other works like ping pong the animation or the tatami galaxy are more for older audiences, devilman is just pure raw shounen. The action scenes are a lot more messy than in ping pong, as they're just mostly fluff.

I'm also pretty sad that they didn't allow yuasa to make an ending, since the ending for the tatami galaxy is the greatest ending in anime history.

Now, I do believe that this is one of the best shounen i've seen. I've enjoyed it more than chainsaw man and the others. Mainly as it is not that much focused on the action scenes and the plot itself is nice. I was not the biggest fan of the first episode, but I feel the ending plot twist made me enjoy that start.

so yeah, good anime, doesn't fall in the pitraps of other shounen anime and has an amazing ost and animation. There isn't really anything more I want to say

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no updates on book or videogame

next: 12th Fail

Rate Jarcrafted's quitting OT thread.

have you done 8-mile yet i can't

you'd probably hate it but anyways

sametdze wrote: 732432

have you done 8-mile yet i can't

you'd probably hate it but anyways

is that the eminem movie?, I have not seen it no, will add to the list

12th fail


what the actual fuck this movie is actually kino

it's an underdog story of this guy who comes from a poor village, which cheated their way through school and they go to the city to basically become the equivalente of a police officer in india. Thing is that the exam is like stupidly hard

The actual story itself is largely exagerated and not something that could happen in reality even if it's based on a true story, no human being can work 15 hours, study 6 hours and sleep for 3 for a year. You would actually die of overworking. But what the story nails are the feelings. This is one of the most motivational films i've seen in my life, and even if the synopsis of the movie tells you the ending, you still feel really happy for the protagonist at the end.

Again, like the only other indian movie i've seen, RRR, if you look at this film "objectively" and try to spot plot holes or stuff that doesn't work like that or try to make a very concese story, this movie absolutely does not hold, but that is not the goal of the movie. This is all about the energy and the vibes. I don't know if all indian cinema is like this, but I really do not mind it, they're enjoyable from start to end.

The cinematography and acting are peak. This movie uses a lot of shots that lasts like 3 minutes with no cuts and there featuring a lot of characters and movement. The camera movement is very dinamic. For the entire first part of the movie there is basically no shot where there is a fixed camera. This is less common the longer the movie goes for, but I think just having these incredibly well done shots at the start of the movie just sets you in the right mood to enjoy the rest of the movie

This is not a movie like the human condition where there is a just a really banger plot that makes you think a lot and stuff. It's just a really enjoyable movie to watch

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next: Seeta and Geeta

updates: I've continued the book and started saints row

skipping seeta and geeta because I can't find nowhere to watch it / it, every torrent is dead

skipping to 8-mile


no updates on game and book, been outside all day yesterday



edit: realized next movie on the list is happy new year, not 8-mile

kkhta 5k2j24

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

skipping seeta and geeta because I can't find nowhere to watch it / it, every torrent is dead

skipping to 8-mile


no updates on game and book, been outside all day yesterday

Is it even a movie? It's my first time hearing it.
Talking about Geeta, You should read Bhagwat geeta.

My Angel Marisa wrote: 186o5v

kkhta 5k2j24

denied

Manishh wrote: 4f3g50

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

skipping seeta and geeta because I can't find nowhere to watch it / it, every torrent is dead

skipping to 8-mile


no updates on game and book, been outside all day yesterday

Is it even a movie? It's my first time hearing it.
Talking about Geeta, You should read Bhagwat geeta.

it is a real movuie, and I will not read religious texts

Saints row 1 and 2 (dropped? kinda?)

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I first played saints row 1, had to emulate it, the game crashed to me like 4 times. When I finally got it to run, it run really slow. This is all an emulator thing but it really annoyed me.

The game itself is an open world go commit genocide type of game, the main story is pretty ass, the voiceover sucks. It's just mainly a sandbox where you can just commit every crime known to mankind

after a while I decided that saints row 1 was just not worth it, the one that was requested was 2 anyways, so I skipped to that one

the game was drastically better. First of all, it didn't crash once, and everything just felt better, the main story was still pretty bad and kinda boring. So I just focused on running around and causing chaos, which I feel it's what the game wants you to do anyways

In fact, in order to advance the main story, you first need to go do random events in the open world, or else, you wont be able to play the main story. On itself I really dislike this mechanic, just let me do whatever, if I want to rush the main story let me, but in this case, it didn't matter too much as I didn't want to do it anyways

The side-events are fun, they're just excuses to break stuff and fight cops, however, after a a couple hours of just doing that sort of stuff it does get boring. So I decided to not really play the game too much more

so yeah, it's a good sandbox game, not so much a good story game. If I was stuck with this game it wouldn't be so bad tbh, I think as a game that you boot up from time to time just do try out some wack stuff it holds.

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next: rhythm doctor story mode

update: kept reading book

Review The Amazing Digital Circus

Corne2Plum3 wrote: 2mx5n

Review The Amazing Digital Circus

already did, I did not like it, it's good for a youtube video but when you compare it to actual tv shows and series it falls short. It was in a general disscussion thread about this show I believe

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Corne2Plum3 wrote: 2mx5n

Review The Amazing Digital Circus

already did, I did not like it, it's good for a youtube video but when you compare it to actual tv shows and series it falls short. It was in a general disscussion thread about this show I believe

Well it was just a pilot.
For an episode 1 of a series it was good. I hope they manage to keep it well for the rest of the series.

Also the internet sucks.

maybe the cuphead show?
you don't have to if you know you won't like it
it's on netflix if you do wanna watch it

Can you cover Solo-Leveling? Either the original manhwa or anime adaptation is fine.

eblf2013 wrote: 3l2l1q

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Corne2Plum3 wrote: 2mx5n

Review The Amazing Digital Circus

already did, I did not like it, it's good for a youtube video but when you compare it to actual tv shows and series it falls short. It was in a general disscussion thread about this show I believe

Well it was just a pilot.
For an episode 1 of a series it was good. I hope they manage to keep it well for the rest of the series.

Also the internet sucks.

I don't like the argument of "it's just a pilot", because I'm aware of it, and I think it's fair to judge a show based on it's pilot, since the fucking point of a pilot is to try to sell the show. If no criticism is allowed because "it's just a pilot", what's the point of having a pilot?

+ I think this is pretty weak as a pilot, I think this start is weak all-around, I think chapter 1 for all my favourite shows and mangas is WAY stronger than this. + some of my criticism is about what can the show do in the future. I don't expect them to be able to tell a story about insanity in this hyper kid-friendly format

lostsilver wrote: 2h4ne

maybe the cuphead show?
you don't have to if you know you won't like it
it's on netflix if you do wanna watch it

I could watch it, but probably I will either dislike it or feel no strong emotions torwards it. I don't really see much of a world where I do end up loving it

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

lostsilver wrote: 2h4ne

maybe the cuphead show?
you don't have to if you know you won't like it
it's on netflix if you do wanna watch it

I could watch it, but probably I will either dislike it or feel no strong emotions torwards it. I don't really see much of a world where I do end up loving it

okay, tysm in advance!

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

eblf2013 wrote: 3l2l1q

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Corne2Plum3 wrote: 2mx5n

Review The Amazing Digital Circus

already did, I did not like it, it's good for a youtube video but when you compare it to actual tv shows and series it falls short. It was in a general disscussion thread about this show I believe

Well it was just a pilot.
For an episode 1 of a series it was good. I hope they manage to keep it well for the rest of the series.

Also the internet sucks.

I don't like the argument of "it's just a pilot", because I'm aware of it, and I think it's fair to judge a show based on it's pilot, since the fucking point of a pilot is to try to sell the show. If no criticism is allowed because "it's just a pilot", what's the point of having a pilot?

+ I think this is pretty weak as a pilot, I think this start is weak all-around, I think chapter 1 for all my favourite shows and mangas is WAY stronger than this. + some of my criticism is about what can the show do in the future. I don't expect them to be able to tell a story about insanity in this hyper kid-friendly format

Speaking of beginnings, recommend me stuff that has a great beginning. Preferably anime/manga, can be stuff I have in my PTW.

keremaru wrote: 10654d

Can you cover Solo-Leveling? Either the original manhwa or anime adaptation is fine.

It has anime adaptation? Damn.

KatouMegumi wrote: 3j2041

keremaru wrote: 10654d

Can you cover Solo-Leveling? Either the original manhwa or anime adaptation is fine.

It has anime adaptation? Damn.

Episodes just started releasing mid-January, so I wouldn't blame people if they haven't heard yet. The only reason I know is because one of my friends started a watch-along.

Potato Brain, if you get used to watching hours and hours and hours of content, why can't you sit through the first episode of BFDI? ;_;

MrMcMikey22 wrote: 5p1w2r

Potato Brain, if you get used to watching hours and hours and hours of content, why can't you sit through the first episode of BFDI? ;_;

Not him and not talking about BFDI in particular but if I find something that my brain says "nope" to, I won't watch/read/do it regardless of length. Or will take an absurd amount of time or brain energy to.

MrMcMikey22 wrote: 5p1w2r

Potato Brain, if you get used to watching hours and hours and hours of content, why can't you sit through the first episode of BFDI? ;_;

I sat through the first TWO episodes of BFDI, and I did not like it. I just really dislike game shows and that sort of stuff.

Nuuskamuikkunen wrote: 1i5658

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

eblf2013 wrote: 3l2l1q

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Corne2Plum3 wrote: 2mx5n

Review The Amazing Digital Circus

already did, I did not like it, it's good for a youtube video but when you compare it to actual tv shows and series it falls short. It was in a general disscussion thread about this show I believe

Well it was just a pilot.
For an episode 1 of a series it was good. I hope they manage to keep it well for the rest of the series.

Also the internet sucks.

I don't like the argument of "it's just a pilot", because I'm aware of it, and I think it's fair to judge a show based on it's pilot, since the fucking point of a pilot is to try to sell the show. If no criticism is allowed because "it's just a pilot", what's the point of having a pilot?

+ I think this is pretty weak as a pilot, I think this start is weak all-around, I think chapter 1 for all my favourite shows and mangas is WAY stronger than this. + some of my criticism is about what can the show do in the future. I don't expect them to be able to tell a story about insanity in this hyper kid-friendly format

Opinion box

Well, never said it's not valid just to judge by a pilot, as I have a somewhat more... well, lenient policy for them. Pilots by nature are somewhat meh by nature. I just found it to be very good for just being a pilot made by an independent group (of which I tend to be more lenient to as well).

What I really expect is this to be more of a mystery/suspense show, because if they go to just the insanity way... it might flop hard for me... Solve the damn mystery and we'll be fine, right, Glitch? Don't make this a DHMIS v2 or a generic analog horror stuff.

I have a few criticisms for the characters too, for example aside from Caine and Pomni the rest of the cast was... existing, kind of difficult to flesh out everyone in 22 minutes. Didn't like much how Pomni's stress was portrayed either, it was way too fast, too rushed to be believable and even exaggerated.

Speaking of beginnings, recommend me stuff that has a great beginning. Preferably anime/manga, can be stuff I have in my PTW.

I get that, it's just an independent studio doing an yt thing and it's impressive that they have managed something like that. However, at the end of my day, if I have to choose between two shows, and one is just drastically better than the other, even if the other option is an indie, i'm not really going to watch it. I want to see the things I enjoy the most, no matter if it's indie or not. I do enjoy a lot of indie movies, series, and games, because I believe they're superior than their high budget companions. But I don't think that is the case for the amazing digital circus

keremaru wrote: 10654d

Can you cover Solo-Leveling? Either the original manhwa or anime adaptation is fine.

you FOOL, I have already read through solo leveling!

it was alright, i'm not the biggest fan of it, I read it half a year ago so i'm just going of memory here, but yeah

The most surprising aspect of this manwha is that it's full color, which is very impressive. But after a while you get used to it and don't think too about it, the art itself is fine. There are no incredibly striking s I , it's just average

The story itself is also pretty simple, a member of the family of the protagonist is sick, they're working as a hunter to make some money, shit happens. They are able to level up their skills, something that should not be possible in that world, so they just become really op, My biggest complain is that this plotline is resolved wayy too early, but due to plot reasons, the guy just continues to fight and level up and becomes very edgy, and I dislike edgy protagonists. I just think the plot loses a lot of force in their second half, they're not really fighting for a cause anymore, they are just forced to keep fighting against different enemies because he is forced too, there isn't really any really banger storytelling behind with an insane message or whatever. The guy is just there being edgy[/spoilers]

The actual leveling process is straight up taken from MMORPG's like many other fantasy stories. And I do think there are some pretty applications for it. [spoiler]one of my favourite scenes is when the protagonist didn't accept the daily quest rewards on purpose, that way. In one fight that they were about to die, they were TPed out of the fight, and they were able to save their life because of it. I thought that was incredibly neat, and I was excited to see that technique be used again in the future. Something that didn't happen. One of my complains is while the protagonist learns new tricks, the insane ammount of power-scaling just outshadows it. The final fight is not a culmination of all that the progonist has learned, it's just doing their basic attacks thing but now that they are 100000% stronger

It's also purely action too, so while a lot of characters are introduced, barely are explored since it's more important to see how sung jinwoo nukes those enemies.

from my point of view, solo leveling was just pretty average with a couple things I did dislike, it's not something I would recommend to people

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no update on book

haven't started game

next: happy new year

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

next: happy new year

dude your 21 days late for new year...

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checking your mal..

Have you watched Akira yet?
if not, then maybe give it a try?

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

next: happy new year

dude your 21 days late for new year...

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checking your mal..

Have you watched Akira yet?
if not, then maybe give it a try?

I could give akira a try, anime or manga?

the anime is cool, maybe try that first

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

the anime is cool, maybe try that first

will add to list


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cant find subtitles for the happy new year movie so I have to skip it, higurashi is next, but i'm currently watching mononoke so I will watch it after I finish that

I continued reading book

have not started game

Genocidal Organ (I finally finished it!)

This is a military fiction mistery book. The premise of the book on itself is pretty simple, simplifying A LOT, there is this bad guy called john paul and our protagonist has to stop them from like commiting more genocides

The most interesting part for me isn't the story itself, but what topics are covered in the story, as it explores deeply the nature of war. It makes the argument that in the future war will become so expensive that no ammount of control over the natural resources will make war worth it. However, war will still happen due to things like patriotism

I agree with the point than even if wart isn't worth it, it will still happen. War IRL isn't really an objectively right thing to do. Even if you take the morality out of it, a lot of wars do happen due to factors like religious extremism.

It also disscussed how war, murders, and other clearly awful things, can be seen as a positive in the right circustances. Our protagonist is a member of a government organization, which does make seem their action less bad. however, the acts that they're commiting in order to stop john paul are also on that same level. John paul is still worse, but the protagonist develops PTSD midway through due to the things they're forced to do and see

This is all twisted with the character of john paul, if war isn't objective, it can be seen as a positive thing, and is a part of human nature (they give the example of war and conflict happening on uncivilized tribes). Under what moral grounds are they convicting john paul? aren't they just acting human?

The answer to that question is very complicated, and the way john paul was made to stop murdering people at the end of the book is not appliable to every single human being on earth. The book does not exactly give a concrete answer, but it doesn't really need to, just raising that question is enough IMO

I liked this book, for me, i'm not the biggest fan of military things, so it was a little bit difficult to get the motivation to read the book, but I can see the appeal and I can really appreciate what the book does. I also have to say, at the end of the book it talks a little bit about the life of the author, and damn, I really feel bad for them

Lived a difficult life it seems, graduated art college at the age of 33, had to work as a web designer. Finally published a book in that same year, people really liked it, they were nominated for awards, and then they got cancer and died shortly after, at the age of 34.

The monet they fianlly were able to follow their dream, became a successful author, started talking with bignames, they just get cancer and die. That is just fucking cruel, I feel so bad for them. I hope they lived a happy life at leaast

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next: harmony (another book by the same guy who wrote this)

haven't started rhythm doctor

started higurashi

Happy New Year did have English subtitles on Netflix, but I'm not sure about Spanish.

Ymir wrote: 6i4b2i

Happy New Year did have English subtitles on Netflix, but I'm not sure about Spanish.

I dont have netflix and I don't care about english subtitles or spanish, it just that I didn't find the SRT file anywhere

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

devilman crybaby:

I love masaaki yuasa, they're my favourite anime director, however, I think this is my least favourite anime that i've seen from them, mainly because of the source material. And mainly because i'm not into action

The animation style and OST for the anime are incredibly good, thing is, while their other works like ping pong the animation or the tatami galaxy are more for older audiences, devilman is just pure raw shounen. The action scenes are a lot more messy than in ping pong, as they're just mostly fluff.

I'm also pretty sad that they didn't allow yuasa to make an ending, since the ending for the tatami galaxy is the greatest ending in anime history.

Now, I do believe that this is one of the best shounen i've seen. I've enjoyed it more than chainsaw man and the others. Mainly as it is not that much focused on the action scenes and the plot itself is nice. I was not the biggest fan of the first episode, but I feel the ending plot twist made me enjoy that start.

so yeah, good anime, doesn't fall in the pitraps of other shounen anime and has an amazing ost and animation. There isn't really anything more I want to say

i'm glad you liked my fav anime

Happy new year

I've finally found the movie, but NGL, I wasn't able to finish it, 3 hours of this is just way too much LMAO

there is nothing to analyze here, it's a weird crime comedy with buff indian men punching each other in the most dramatic, over the top and epic way, filled with comedy and musical numbers. There also many musical numbers. I'm generally not a fan of action, so wihle it was fun for a little while, i'm not sitting for this entire movie. I enjoyed RRR but that was an expcetion, I don't really know why I got into RRR and not this movie, but yeah, RRR sweep

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Genocidal Organ (I finally finished it!)

This is a military fiction mistery book. The premise of the book on itself is pretty simple, simplifying A LOT, there is this bad guy called john paul and our protagonist has to stop them from like commiting more genocides

The most interesting part for me isn't the story itself, but what topics are covered in the story, as it explores deeply the nature of war. It makes the argument that in the future war will become so expensive that no ammount of control over the natural resources will make war worth it. However, war will still happen due to things like patriotism

I agree with the point than even if wart isn't worth it, it will still happen. War IRL isn't really an objectively right thing to do. Even if you take the morality out of it, a lot of wars do happen due to factors like religious extremism.

It also disscussed how war, murders, and other clearly awful things, can be seen as a positive in the right circustances. Our protagonist is a member of a government organization, which does make seem their action less bad. however, the acts that they're commiting in order to stop john paul are also on that same level. John paul is still worse, but the protagonist develops PTSD midway through due to the things they're forced to do and see

This is all twisted with the character of john paul, if war isn't objective, it can be seen as a positive thing, and is a part of human nature (they give the example of war and conflict happening on uncivilized tribes). Under what moral grounds are they convicting john paul? aren't they just acting human?

The answer to that question is very complicated, and the way john paul was made to stop murdering people at the end of the book is not appliable to every single human being on earth. The book does not exactly give a concrete answer, but it doesn't really need to, just raising that question is enough IMO

I liked this book, for me, i'm not the biggest fan of military things, so it was a little bit difficult to get the motivation to read the book, but I can see the appeal and I can really appreciate what the book does. I also have to say, at the end of the book it talks a little bit about the life of the author, and damn, I really feel bad for them

Lived a difficult life it seems, graduated art college at the age of 33, had to work as a web designer. Finally published a book in that same year, people really liked it, they were nominated for awards, and then they got cancer and died shortly after, at the age of 34.

The monet they fianlly were able to follow their dream, became a successful author, started talking with bignames, they just get cancer and die. That is just fucking cruel, I feel so bad for them. I hope they lived a happy life at leaast

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next: harmony (another book by the same guy who wrote this)

haven't started rhythm doctor

started higurashi

Glad you liked it The end is kind of weird and honestly I didn't understand everything the first time I read it. It makes more sense after reading Harmony since they mention it, even though it's never explained in detail we just know that something happened and we can assume that something is what happens after the end of Genocidal Organ. I'm not sure if it's really intended by the author or if it's just fan speculation but it does fit very well.
Also yeah the author's story is very sad.

Hatoful Boyfriend.

Behrauder wrote: 4l2e6m

Hatoful Boyfriend.

1- fuck you
2- this has been on my staesm wishlist for over a year now LMAO, will play it

Behrauder wrote: 4l2e6m

Hatoful Boyfriend.

Was tempted to post that here too.

Karmine wrote: 4x3m25

Behrauder wrote: 4l2e6m

Hatoful Boyfriend.

Was tempted to post that here too.

Immediately after I posted that, I installed it and started playing the game with my younger brother, too bad it's in English and I had to stop to use Google Translate sometimes...

me

Manishh wrote: 4f3g50

me

no

Anaxii wrote: 61215b

Manishh wrote: 4f3g50

me

no

sad

Anaxii wrote: 61215b

Manishh wrote: 4f3g50

me

no

mae

bro there's a mandela effect in this thread and i just realised it 💀

sametdze wrote: 732432

bro there's a mandela effect in this thread and i just realised it 💀

which?

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

sametdze wrote: 732432

bro there's a mandela effect in this thread and i just realised it 💀

which?

not in one of the movies patatitta reviewed, its actually in patattita's main thread

ill wait for someone to also realise

sametdze wrote: 732432

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

sametdze wrote: 732432

bro there's a mandela effect in this thread and i just realised it 💀

which?

not in one of the movies patatitta reviewed, its actually in patattita's main thread

ill wait for someone to also realise

there is no mandela effect, everything is as I it being

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

sametdze wrote: 732432

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

sametdze wrote: 732432

bro there's a mandela effect in this thread and i just realised it 💀

which?

not in one of the movies patatitta reviewed, its actually in patattita's main thread

ill wait for someone to also realise

there is no mandela effect, everything is as I it being

welp i guess i might as well drop it

when you sayed "ned flanders in the AYA thread by also sametdze" i could've sworn it was "also by sametdze" and not "by also sametdze"

Victor Magtangol

sametdze wrote: 732432

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

sametdze wrote: 732432

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

sametdze wrote: 732432

bro there's a mandela effect in this thread and i just realised it 💀

which?

not in one of the movies patatitta reviewed, its actually in patattita's main thread

ill wait for someone to also realise

there is no mandela effect, everything is as I it being

welp i guess i might as well drop it

when you sayed "ned flanders in the AYA thread by also sametdze" i could've sworn it was "also by sametdze" and not "by also sametdze"

nah you're just missing

Fhaye wrote: 2e3h3t

Victor Magtangol

I assume the tv show from 2018? I don't know absolutely nothing about this

I have watched both higurashi (s1) and 8 mile

-------------Higurashi--------------

Full disclosure, my brother has been recommending me that I watch higurashi since like 6 years ago, so i'm biased against higurashi just because I have a mental block on the anime. I've just told my brother that i'm not interested in watching it so many times that actually watching it now is harder

So I finished higurashi (s1, original, 2006, not the remake). And while I got adviced that I watch the second season too, I just don't know if i'm really feeling it

Higurashi a mistery/horror anime where the protagonist moves into a town and learns that every year, during a festival, one person dies and another disappears. The story is told in a very strange way. The 24 chapter season is divided into many arcs, we have the question arcs, and the answer arcs. In the question arcs it will basically question your sanity as you wont understand shit (you can piece some stuff together but like you're missing 80% of the information). And then, in the answer arcs it gives you another perspective which should hopefully clue you in what the fuck happned

The anime doesn't show you a full chronology by the end, so you have a lot of pieces of what happened and it's your job to order them and learn what happened in your head

I don't dislike this format on itself, I think it can be pretty neat. But it really didn't grab me. The fact that it's horror doesn't really help that much either. There is a bunch of gore and pretty painful scenes. The scenes aren't that bad IMO. I have seen a lot worse in stuff that isn't horror. But I think in higurashi it was least tasteful than in those other things I've watched. The gore in higurashi feels more for shock than anything else. The idea is that you go "oh wow why did they do that????????" and you really get into the story, but my reaction is "oh come on I don't really want to watch this shit". But that is just me not liking horror or that type of scenes.

An example of a more gory scene that I like is that one scene in harakiri where they force a guy to commit harakiri with a wooden katana and it's like a 3 minute long scene of the guy struggling to kill themselves and slowly bleed out. Thing is, in harakiri, that scene was the climax of that part of the story, it was a representation of everything the movie wanted to say about honor, cruelty, and justice. How they can force someone to do something that inhuman in the name of honor yet the same samurai will lie to avoid a similar fate. Or dekalog 5, which had a lot of very bad scenes but that was as movie critizicing the death penalty.

Thing is that the combination of the question/answer format and horror is just not for me, as it happened that I was watching the anime, I had no clue what really was going on, I didn't have the information yet to really solve anything, and the fact that there were pretty distasteful scenes that didn't help me get engaged into the story, and only made the chapters that were already harder to watch even harder. I understand that for some people that gore helps them get into the story but i'm not them

What I do enjoy is that the story on itself isn't overly conveluted or anything. Once you learn of one of the plot twists that happens near the end of the anime, a lot of the things just begins start making a lot of sense. The story isn't hard to understand, it's just that the way that the story is told creates confusion.

You could argue that every mistery thing is kinda like that, where it just hides information to create the mistery, or not, there would be no mistery. But I think there is a difference between having just information that the protagonist doesn't know yet, and making them have to find it. And just telling the story in a way where a event that maybe happened very early in the story is told very late. I don't dislike on itself. But it's just combining that with horror that makes me less engaged on the story

the actual characters are fine, the actual plot is really neat, it just that the way that it was told and the other elements that were added into it amde me less engaged in the story, and even if Ienjoyed my time with higurashi, I don't think I want to continue it


-------------8 Mile--------------

8 Mile, AKA that one eminem movie

this movie would probably have been better if I was into rap. The movie is about this guy who is not eminem but it's inspired by eminem and played by eminem and how they had a rough start in life, but managed to pull through. So an underdog story about rap

The film is all about the living in the hood experience™, I don't know how accurate any of this is, I assume very little. It's all about the street cred and the reputation.

This movie isn't anything new, eminem isn't really an actor either, it's just if you enjoy eminem this movie is probably good but idk. For me it all felt very foreign to me, I can't really relate to anything that happened or whatever.

What I do enjoy about the story is how they humanize the protagonist. Eminem in this movie is a depressed mf who is trying to prove themselves constantly and overall being a douchbag, yet, they have a daughter, and it's on those scenes with the daughter that they show that while they're doing all of that stuff. It's more a result of the society that they were forced to live in, more than how they are as a person, I really appreciate that.

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next: the cuphead show
Have yet to start game or book

I think I said Higurashi S2 focuses way less on horror and more on character development and solving the plot points. Yes it's still violent (although lighter) but I really recommend to continue.

Also, they made animation better too.

Nuuskamuikkunen wrote: 1i5658

I think I said Higurashi S2 focuses way less on horror and more on character development and solving the plot points. Yes it's still violent (although lighter) but I really recommend to continue.

Also, they made animation better too.

you said that but I really don't know if I want to continue it, season 1 just didn't really engage me that much and there are other anime that i'm more willing to watch rn

play pleh!
it's free on steam, and is pretty short