Top Gun

Pale Moon. It's a Firefox fork. Give it a shot.

My body is ready.

Boy I knew Atlantic City was drowning in debt, but I didn't know they couldn't even afford water fountains.

I petered out after season 3, when they started doing those flash-forwards. It was just becoming clearer and clearer that they had no idea where the hell the narrative was going. The early parts were good shit though.

Yeah, I don't really know when those threads devolved from talking about an episode after the fact to doing a play-by-play chatlog in the middle of it, but I don't see any real value in them anymore. I mean not every show is going to engender in-depth philosophical discussion and speculation, but hell, the old AD crowd managed to put down a lot of text about s-CRY-ed.

Action Discussion circa 2005-2008 or so. Back when anime was this weird awesome new thing I was immersing myself in. Reading and writing so many huge-ass posts, and premiere threads that used to have thoughtful discussions that'd last the entire week until the next one. Crazy alt names and zany icon themes and all sorts of nonsense. Most of all it was the people. There are too many from back then I haven't talked to in ages or have lost contact completely, and one or two that have already gone ahead.

The old consensus is (Your age)/2 + 7 as the lower boundary before it gets creepy. Adjustments for legality if you're young, obviously. Now if you're Zeni, it's always creepy.

On the other hand, intangible as it may be, we did this. We remembered him. I figure that has to count for something, no matter how small.

Isn't that still 9PM in Vegas? They could totally afford to bump it up an hour or 90 minutes.

Someone needs to 'splain to me how starting a huge PPV event after midnight Eastern makes any financial sense.

Yeah, thank you so much for keeping us in the loop. At least he's getting some sort of final remembrance.

Hey, balls require a lot of maintenance.

I'm glad the stuff I use is meant to be applied before you go to bed, since then I don't have to worry about it in the morning.

It's considered an all-time classic, so I'd think so.

Had the OP been anything else I would have been sorely disappointed.

The only way coffee is tolerable is if it has so much other shit in it that I might as well drink something better anyway.

You two deserve each other.

Psh, you and your warnings!

Not since 7th grade, and I didn't even really like it back then. I was just in it for the free candy.

When you just bought seasons 1-4 because you didn't think they'd bother putting those on Blu-ray...

Thanksgiving is best holiday. An entire day dedicated to being a massive glutton.

Red. Da red wunz go fasta.

Oh shit, he was Dan Turpin in the Superman animated series.

But here's the thing though: every time DBZ tries to create serious dramatic stakes, it falls flat on its face, because it's literally impossible to do so inside the Dragon Ball universe. Like, the whole franchise is literally titled after one of the most powerful deus ex machina in all of fiction. None of the characters ever feel like they're in legitimate danger, because even if they did die, someone will just hit the magic reset button again. When everyone starts to run up against the limits of the original Dragon Balls, poof, here come the more powerful Namekian variety to remove that in turn. In the Kai episode that just aired when Vegeta sacrifices himself attempting to kill Buu, it was admittedly a bit interesting seeing him act out-of-character, but I was just laughing at everyone (even the narrator!) acting all shocked, because it's like none of them remember the fact that they can magic him back at any time they want. Even the 12-year-old target audience would have figured things out by that point. Hell, even when the characters are actually dead for an extended period, we see them palling around in the afterlife with King Kai, so there's absolutely no sense of loss there. Goku chose to stay dead for 7 years just for the hell of it because he knew he could get called back into action any time he chose to. An object like the Dragon Balls works just fine in the early lighthearted portion of the franchise, when characters were making wishes for panties of all things, but the moment DBZ started trying to push these near-apocalyptic situations on the story, it just didn't work. And yes I'm well-aware that almost no shounen series out there ever kills off its main cast members, but most of them are still able to maintain a decent amount of dramatic tension during dangerous situations, because it's clear that someone could possibly die. Then when a significant character does actually get killed off for good, the rarity of it winds up making it all the more impactful. Tell me, when you step back for a bit, is there even a single instance of a character death in DBZ that winds up leaving any sort of lasting impact, at least if you're old enough to understand the series' underlying mechanisms? I can't think of any myself. Honestly, one of Super's highest points in my book is that it isn't afraid to poke fun at itself and hang a lampshade on some of the franchise's more absurd trends.

I guess I'm the only that thinks that Super's quality (or lack thereof) is pretty commensurate with the original DBZ as a whole. I mean the Final Chapters section of Kai has largely been flat-out dire.