Dark_Cloud_Overhead

That's my approach to the holiday shopping season now... Just get the pain over with as quickly as possible. Agonizing over whether to splurge or not, when you know you're too weak to resist and are eventually going to sucuumb anyway just makes it worse. I think I already spent about $200 in the last two days, and I haven't even placed an order with Right Stuf yet, which when I do tomorrow will probably be like another $200. 😥

😶 This is why I'm thankful I have such a poor memory that I can't recall what the heck I paid for most stuff anymore: cuz if it was otherwise like you said, my heart would have likely shriveled to the size of a raisin by now.

I blew a ton on last year's Sentai sale, so didn't have many things left from them that I wanted, but there was just enough for me to get over the free shipping threshold to make an order. There's a few Aniplex titles I'm going to grab from Right Stuf, but I'm holding back to see if any Mega Deals come along to tempt me.

Hellboy (reboot) 5/10 (I like the original two way better, but it was still okay.) X-Men Dark Phoenix 3/10 (Not as bad as I thought it would be, but given how it bombed at the box office and I expected it would be a complete train wreck, heh heh sorta like the one in the movie, that's not saying much. Glad Marvel's got the rights back now at least and that the next X-Men movie will be coming from them.) MIB International 8/10 Pokemon Detective Pikachu 9/10 (Not a pokemon fan, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless.) Frozen II 10/10 (I liked the original, but wasn't nearly as crazy about it as lot of other folks seem to be, but I loved this one. Was definitely worth the wait.)

Abominable 10/10 That was pretty amazing. Just loved it.

I hope they don't reveal it to everybody too soon. I'm looking forward to seeing more of Rob and Sandra secretly whispering to each other their reactions at tribal council. "Was it this hard for you?" ... "No." LOL

Yeah, that drives me crazy. There's really no good reason for it, other than sheer laziness to not include the option in the menu. I always watch stuff with the subtitles or captions on, even with English language TV shows or movies to be able to follow the dialogue better. I personaly don't have any problem reading and hearing at the same time, so I find it helps me not miss anything being said. With anime it's a little different obviously, but I find it still helps me figure out parts of the dub dialogue that are difficult to make out some times, but I mainly do it to compare the translations. I think dubs for the most part are pretty decent nowadays though at not changing much of anything too drastically, but there's some older ones that were pretty awful. The ones that always leap to my mind are Guin Saga and the second season of Those Who Hunt Elves.

That's exactly what I mean. It's clearly not meant to fix anything. Feels more like what they did to the old forum, where they screwed it up so badly that nobody seemed to care all that much anymore when they finally pulled the plug on it all together.

WTH! I don't follow the schdule and ratings like I used to, so this caught me by total surprise right now when I checked my cable guide. But they Moribitoed MHA! Seriously? I thought this show was the closest thing to mainstream the block had besides DB Super. Unbelievable. On the bright side, I guess I didn't miss the episode like I thought I did, but damn. Thank goodness I've got On Demand. A move like this seriously makes me think they're planning on deep sixing the whole block in the near future. Wouldn't be surpised now if it happens when DB Super is over.

Another holiday, another holiday sale emptying my wallet. Sentai shop again. Prices are only about a dollar or two off from the winter holiday sale on most regular stuff, and quite a bit better actually on a lot of the premium editions. Well, at least this time I pretty much cleared off just about everything they got left that I want from them, so they shouldn't be able to hurt me much for a long while to come. New on order: Captain Earth collections 1 & 2, Celestial Method, Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth, Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat, Invaders of the Rokujyoma, Little Busters season 1 set 1, EX & Refrain, Love Election & Chocolate, Love Lab, Made in Abyss premium, Polyphonica Crimson S, Problem Children Are Coming..., Tamako Market, Tari Tari, Ushio & Tora premium, Waiting in the Summer, When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace, When They Cry complete collection, Windy Tales, Wolf Girl & Black Prince, and The World is Still Beautiful

John Wick 3 Parabellum 8/10 Crazy good fight choreography, but at times it did get a bit monotonous. Total body count for this movie has gotta be totally insane, was basically my first thought when the credits started to roll. Looking it up online just now I see I was right. I think the Wick character probably had more kills than words spoken in fact. Might be the only main character in a non-horror movie I can think of that I can say that about. In any case, I look forward to seeing more in part 4.

This season has been awesome. Probably the best one yet. Seems like every season they somehow manage to top the previous one though. But seriously, Lucha Libre, RV road trip, Bollywood musical: I'm not sure how the show can get any better. I can't wait for the season finale tomorrow night.

Avengers Endgame 6/10 Finally got around to seeing it. I wanted to go see it opening weekend of course, but right before I had a medical issue with my hearing (one of my ears went temporarily deaf due to a virus apparently) and it only recently got better. Wish I could say it was totally worth the wait, but I was actually pretty disappointed, particulary though with the ending.

Yeah, well most of the players who were left seemed pretty stupid, too. Or at least they seemed pretty incapable of catching them, let's just put it that way. I would think if they actually caught them anyway and ate them they would have mentioned it, and not have gotten so upset about not getting food rewards or been arguing about how much rice to portion out either. And Rick has to come back. I mean, unless he doesn't want to, but I'm sure they'll ask him back in the near future. For season 40 in particular I expect they'll be looking to bring back a lot of old players, since it'll be a big milestone for the show making it to a full 20 years.

Just check, and it's f'ed up the same way On Demand, too. Guess I gotta go and watch the second half on Crunchyroll.

Do they not have dice in Japan anywhere else? Or is he having him turned into a die so he can rig the game? Must be right?