Top Gun

What a deal!

Never even dated, so nope.

I used to play baseball around that age, and it's cool watching kids who could play it way better than I ever could then. Plus it's nice watching people legit having fun with the game and not being overpaid prima donnas.

Neither. Though cats shit in a far more convenient manner, so they have that going for them.

Grab some Dogfish Head.

naraku and I were talking about it in who knows what other thread, but the consensus is generally that the 1999 adaptation handles the first part of the series, especially the Hunter exam, better than the 2011 version. It's sort of like FMA vs. Brotherhood in that the former spends more time covering the same material and is able to pace it better and flesh it out more. In particular there was a great little mini-arc between two of the Exam stages that was technically filler but fit in really well and let you spend more time with a lot of the other candidates. There was also a crucial little piece of backstory and Gon character development right at the beginning of the series that the 2011 series skips over in favor of chucking it in as a flashback somewhere down the line. The 1999 version probably does the Zoldycks and Heaven's Arena better as well, but I'd call Yorknew City much more of a toss-up, since I really enjoyed how the 2011 version handled it too. As far as structure goes, the 1999 series concluded Yorknew via OVA (it was literally just the last 8 episodes of the arc), then covered Greed Island via a couple more OVAs, and that's where it left off. Greed Island is the only part of the 1999 series I never saw, so I can't speak personally as to how good it was.

Luuv sent me a link to this place in the last days of the NodeBB disaster, and I remember being really happy that he was opening up his pet project to this group of people that [as] no longer gave a shit about. I didn't always agree with his moderation philosophy, and there were probably a few times I was a snarky asshole to him for no good reason, but God, it was crystal-clear how much he had invested in this community. He put up with our shit for almost 15 years, and yet he never stopped trying to make this a fun and engaging place to log in and hang out every day. More than anything else, that's what I'll remember about him. Thank you so much for everything you did for us. We'll text-flood the hell out of this place in your memory.

I feel like I was temped...once maybe? Or maybe not even. If I was it was banal enough that I don't even remember it. I do fondly remember getting warned for spamming the hell out of the reviews folder with a few other people the night [as] fucked up and skipped an episode of a show rerun.

Shit. Really hoping this is all just a crazy misunderstanding.

Oh he most certainly can't. I mean the entire premise of Sword Art Online the "death game" completely breaks down if you stop and think about it for more than 30 seconds.

Honestly the Excalibur arc was pretty much the only time the series resembled an actual MMO.

Oh wow, I knew some people who played Kingdom of Loathing more than a decade ago. Crazy to think there's a legit spinoff now.

If I wasn't over a 10-hour drive from totality I'd totally be doing that. As it is I might see if any stores around here are selling the glasses, or just hit up Amazon. There's always a good ol' pinhole viewer as a fallback. The 2024 totality path is more like 6 hours away, which is far more do-able. I just wish one of the damn things would swing by the megalopolis.

The problem is that you'd need to get simuldubs in order to make that happen, and that limits your choices to whatever FUNi has going at the moment.

Congrats, you're gonna fuck Zeni!

Regretfully. It has some of the absolute worst writing I've seen in any fictional work.

If I ever start upgrading my old Bandai DVDs to Blu-ray, it's going to utterly destroy my wallet.

Yes, clearly there's an equal expectation of responsibility there.

Because snow is pretty and humidity is terrible?

Such a fantastic role model for your child.

Welp

This is why I don't work out.

As someone who's genetically predisposed to high blood pressure and other related things, I'm honestly far more concerned about too much sodium than I am eating too many cookies. And I hate to tell you, but drinking a bunch of water doesn't magically clear up hypertension.

However your kidneys will certainly thank you for cutting down on extraneous sodium.