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Those guys are as boring as a macroeconomics teacher. Jimmy Fallon is just an annoying creature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSNasZ5W_8A
Just... no.
I cringe a little every time I see a user with anime background and eyes avatar combo. I thought it was kinda cool the first time but it's become so common it just feels lazy and uninspired.
Not that I'm any better.
It looks silly when it's not a character that looks like they should have glowing eyes
I was trying to get a torn canvas look on mine then I realised cracked glass fit how I felt much better
It doesn't bug me so much as look really weird. I use Awfully Dark so the background already stands out more, but then these super bright eyes stand way the fuck out and it just kinda clashes for me.
Alright, I'm dropping the bomb: I fucking hate nowadays manga and anime.
It's like what Hayao Miyazaki said a while ago: they are clearly written and produced to cater to otaku and similar people and pretty much no one else.
The majority of the Japanese series I try to know more of are either based on a premise I find totally ridicolous, to the point I feel the author is taking me for a ride or something, or I start wondering why the writer couldn't just produce the hentai he/she really wanted and call it a day.
Really, I can't even tell them apart from one another most of the time
If you let your dog take a shit in the middle of any sort of established path (including forest trails and dog park roads) you're a bad dog owner.
If you let your dog bark at strangers who aren't doing anything other than walking, or even just standing around, and you don't reprimand your pet, you're a bad dog owner.
If you feed your pet snacks/human food literally any time they beg for them, you're a bad pet owner.
"Adam Ruins Everything History Reanimated" is a fairly poorly sourced pop-history show that's only really attempting to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian rather than actually educating people about history.
pop sci was a mistake
I hate the term "soft reboot" and I hate that people use it so fucking much.
It's a stupid buzzword with no substance, no meaning. It's a bargaining term used when someone wants to pretend they know more than they do, to justify change without actually thinking about that change.
A sequel is not a "soft reboot" just because it took like ten years to come out. You can't explain large changes by saying "well it's a soft reboot". It's completely devoid of meaning.
Yeah, as someone who loves old school Gundam stuff (still do, v much so) because of the anti-war message, gorgeous animation, dark tones and yknow actual meaning. It fucking hurts to see modern mecha anime that's just mechanical fanservice, titties, and 'oh she's totally a 30 year old, ignore the fact she looks like she's 12 and we keep showing them only in skin tight body suits.'
Sometimes it is, though.
All soft rebooting is is just an attempt to culturally "reboot" a franchise in the eyes of the public while maintaining continuity. That's basically it.
People use The Force Awakens as an example and I think it's borderline. It's clearly an attempt to create a new Star Wars story with new characters to draw in a new generation while not invalidating the original trilogy, but something about it makes me feel as though it doesn't quite deserve the "soft reboot" label, or it just barely lies within that territory. I feel iffy enough on this that I could totally have my mind changed with a good argument.
Jumanji is probably a better example. It technically maintains continuity with the original, but functionally serves as a reboot, acting effectively as a remake instead of being an actual continuation of the story.
Really feels like there will be no more artists trying out a series looking a bit more old school'ish. Zero nostalgia reasons, just because it had content.
It is unsettling to stumble upon someone with that recurrent "it is all right guys, she is 30/90/400 years old trapped in a body of 10". How does that even justify it.
I really miss the free tv here having mech-space war-cyberpunk series from 80 and 90. Space Adventure Cobra, Macross, Mobile Suit Gundam, and others in general like Trigun, Lupin, Saint Seiya, or Zenki. All gone now because of this neverending copy&paste of sexualized children.
It is near impossible now to find different artstyles, I really liked dedicated artsyles from more modern series like Ergo Proxy. But I just lost interest for searching and dedicating time to anime in general. Even for dark, phylosophical, cyberclusterfuck ones that I wanted to watch like Serial Experiments Lain.
Why is it so hard to ask for more varierty.
I miss B't X, though.
Could you give examples of the bad sourcing they do?
One of the big ones is in the episode on Rome, he makes a claim about gladiator sweat being bottled up - except their source is an MA Dissertation on Sports Media Marketing in the modern era, and the thing about gladiators is an un-sourced anecdote. The America's episode has an overreliance on the book 1491, which to be fair is actually one of the best pop-history books on the market, but they could have easily gone to his sources on that. Also they quote an Ars Technia article at one point, as opposed to an academic source in Cahokia. While the author of the Ars article has a Ph.D, it's not related to Archaeology or History which makes can be problematic. An even bigger issue is the use of Lies My Teacher Told Me, a polemic quest for the "Truth", which goes against what history as a discipline is, that we can never know what the truth actually was, to quote from AskHistorians
I cannot understate the importance of a diversity of sources. We can never really "know the truth," and even then "the truth" is so multi-faceted that it is hardly "a" truth. The best we can do is examine all of the resources at our disposal, contextually evaluate them, and craft some kind of narrative with a conscious perspective.
That is what history is about. We're all biased, you just have to be aware of that in your writing and analysis. Someone like Lowen is just polemic for the sake of an argument, rather than trying to craft an understanding of the past. Using his book as a source is iffy in my book. But to be frank, I feel a lot of these issues are probably present because the sourcing has been placed on a bunch of interns on a limited schedule, so they draw from anything they can.
maybe people don't use it right but it's still a perfectly valid term. there's large changes and then there's fundamental, retroactive changes. a soft reboot to me is when those changes aren't made explicit, like Doom 2016. maybe it's a direct sequel, maybe it's a whole new thing, who knows? it's basically when you take a franchise back to right before it went horribly wrong and future installments became impossible.
That's not an unpopular opinion tho?
I mean it is if your only exposure to history was grade school where your teacher just slammed down unquestionable truth and dates. But that ain't how it works in academic history.
and if it was in response to me, that was my point anyway.
You'd be very surprised
Can't help but think that a new Bioshock should actually take place in modern times. You'd still have your 60's aesthetic due to Rapture's isolation and degredation, though this could probably mean that instead of starting with an old-fashioned revolver, you could instead have a modern assault rifle that would be mutilated upgraded with attachments that stay true to what the 60's thought what the future would look like
Here's another unpopular opinion: assault rifles are generally a boring design in video games. They really lack some kind of "cool factor" that other weapons have. It makes me really happy when a game like Doom makes its "default weapon" a shotgun or something similar. Shotguns never get old.
IIRC Lamb pretty much destroys what was left of Rapture in 2 on top of Rapture being in even more disrepair than the first game so I doubt there'd be much left to explore by now.
I hate jeans/trousers what don't sit properly around the waist, it looks awful.
The Time-Saving bias is real, and any time you do end up saving by speeding is negated by other factors such as stop lights, stop signs, traffic, and legal ramifications.
drive smarter, not faster.
On the topic of shotguns, , i really hate it when they try to portray shotguns as glorified melee weapons, or as i would like to call it the Doom 3 Shotgun Syndrome. (Doom 4 singleplayer suffers from this, though the grenade launcher sorta offsets it)
Doom 4's shotgun had a decent range for video games. But there's a reason my favorite shotgun is Half-Life's. The range on that thing is respectable.
Doom 2016's multiplayer is actually good. In fact, the only complaint i have about it is the fact that we're talking about an id Software game and it doesn't have rocket jumping
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