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I think I missed this thread a while back

It’s pretty crazy how normal games were $50 on the PS2 and how that feels like a steal compared to a new game nowadays.

Do You Love Your Mom and Her Beefy 5-Layer Burrito Supreme Combo Meal?

I had a pretty good time with the Demon Slayer anime & manga, but that’s mostly because it ended before it overstayed its welcome. It’s a well put-together shonen that’s consistently acceptable, but that isn’t as bad when many of today’s beloved shonen need much more time and investment before they hit the same level of quality. Demon Slayer being the highest grossing anime film isn’t the worst thing that could happen, especially when it’s as much of a spectacle as many of the highest grossing films out there.

Back in kindergarten, there was a porcelain crying clown face that was hung up in the hallway as a decoration. Everyday, one of my classmates would ask why the clown was crying. We’d feel bad, but then pass by it and head our way to the buses after school. Then, one day, when she asked that same question, I wanted to see if I can cheer the porcelain clown up by taking it off the wall and holding it. But because I was maybe 3 or 4 feet tall and the clown face was high up on the wall, that clown’s face went down, smashing into pieces. My kindergarten teacher was pissed. She rushed to me and instantly got up in my face as if I was trying to break it when I just wanted to cheer up the clown face.

It’s nice to have all the bells and whistles, but $274.99!?

RIP to the OG Street Fighter.

Eminem and the Taliban trading diss tracks is gonna be like

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The guy that made Purple Haze Feedback is helping write the new spinoff manga where the story focuses on Josuke and Hol Horse: https://www.siliconera.com/jojos-bizarre-adventure-spin-off-manga-josuke-hol-horse/

Hopefully Araki isn’t going to feel overworked by doing a Part 9. But it does give me a reason to power through Jojolion. I believe I left off around Chapter 55. I’m also curious about the odd spinoff series that was announced to be a story where Josuke and Hol Horse meet.

Nature will just throw in a natural disaster that can’t be bargained with or punched in the face.

Yeah, I feel like people overestimate how aliens would react if they were able to make it to earth. As if aliens would be tricked into thinking earth has any plentiful resources to take. I guess it gives us a sense of importance to believe we’d be enviable enough for aliens to want to invade or take over. Or just a gut reaction based on our own history of invading other nations for resources.

I think burgers are the one beef you can get away with cooking well done or medium-well because you’re dealing with cruddier ground meat. Steaks, however, have no place being cooked anywhere past medium.

I think I’m more lenient on VC because none of the missions were as traumatic. The RC one was bad and I had a hard time with getting Lance to the hospital. But the worst thing about VC’s missions was only that you had to go back to the beginning location to retry if you failed. And because you might be halfway across the map or get wasted partway through, it’s a whole song & dance to get back to where you left off.

It’s impressive that Kondo alone composed both the mainline Mario’s up to Mario 64 and the mainline Zelda’s up to OoT.

I used to pay with cash back when I made an effort to use it for everyday purchases. My Chevy would only need $20 to be mostly full so I’d just say “I need 20 on Pump #_”. It made life easier for me and the cashier to be direct with the cash I have in hand and the pump where my car is at.

Cheesus Crust

The next generation of gaming ended up amounting to having a POV perspective of constantly redoing the driving/plane exams, the train mission, and the RC plane mission in SA. VR would also be unsettling because you’re just expected to accept that you’re trapped in a blocky PS2 open world. It’d have to be the worst VR experience on edibles. On the flip side, the VR possibilities are endless if Hot Coffee is allowed in the SA remaster.

The old GTA’s had great open-worlds and soundtracks, but replaying the missions sounds like a nightmare.

Yes to the highest power. Unless you’re unionized, have ADR direction experience, or have moved onto video games, you’re dealing with a thankless profession with low pay and a fan base that either hates your guts or tries to have a parasocial relationship with you because you voiced a character they liked.

Herbs from Resident Evil

They got almost all the old dub voices back. Spike, Tiffany, Allison, Amanda, and John are all there. There are some new voices for Ritsuko and Kaworu, but it doesn’t feel as demoralizing as hearing about Amanda Winn Lee and Tiffany Grant having to audition for the Netflix dub and not getting their respective parts.

There is another new dub cast for Eva 3+1! https://www.siliconera.com/new-english-dub-announced-for-amazon-prime-evangelion-films/ From the looks of it, it’s probably the closest we’ve gotten to a reunion from the old dub with Amanda Winn Lee returning. There’s also the insane idea for all four movies getting a redub with this cast given how many actors were involved with the first three films, but it helps to make it consistent. It also makes me question what was involved with Netflix to be put in the position where they’d have to redub it when Amazon got most of the old cast together. I’m guessing it’s a Khara issue given the 3.0 situation, but I feel bad that both casts were jerked around so much. Where the original cast was shafted from being a part of the newer dub and the Netflix cast was thrown under the bus for replacing older VA’s.