Top Gun

Honestly the funniest thing about this topic are the multiple people complaining about a scene that when you actually see it yourselves is about as tame as it could possibly be. But yeah, it's totally super-fanservice or something! (And yes Oda enjoys his well-endowed females, but this is literally the smallest of nits to pick.)

Jeans and normal long-sleeved shirt/sweatshirt in the winter, shorts and t-shirt in the summer. Y'all are nudists.

It's fun how you manage to interpret pretty much everything wrong because you haven't watched the goddamn thing you're bitching about.

I will never be able to stand Thom Yorke's voice.

Virus Buster Serge is not on here. Nor is Sword for Truth. This is incorrect. At least they did manage Psychic Wars.

I would be lying if I said that it did.

I know it's one big Jebus allegory, so maybe it's cheating the topic constraints a bit, but I've always loved the version of heaven presented at the end of The Chronicles of Narnia. A place where every decent person who ever lived is there with you, where you can revisit all of the places you ever loved, where everything feels far more "real" than it ever did in life. I could handle that.

Can confirm. Exploding. Lightsaber. Dildo.

Fukken' saved.

Of course it was rushed; that's an unfortunate consequence of this limited 10-episode run. If Genndy had had a full 20+-episode season to play with, I think he would have definitely paced things more naturally, but I feel like he's made the most out of the limited time he's had. I definitely disagree that Ashi has only served to wind up as a "lover": her regaining her humanity has served as a good counterpoint to Jack's own redemption, and with or without the romance element she's a badass warrior with an enjoyable personality. (Also cute as hell!) I don't see any way in which this ends with her being killed off: either she goes back to the past with Jack if/when he returns, or she stays behind and takes over his mantle, or who knows, maybe they both remain in the future. I don't think Genndy's going to make this a tragic ending after getting one more miraculous shot to properly conclude the series. Yeahno. People have been absolutely clamoring for a proper sequel for ages, and by some insane stroke of luck we finally got it, and it wound up being amazing. This is a pure labor of love by Genndy and the rest of the team.

Possibly, but cigarette smoke definitely makes you smell like shit.

Generally speaking, when someone makes a post in a thread, they're interested in continuing to read the rest of the thread, whether other people are directly quoting them or not. I can't think of a case where I've only been interested in someone's direct replies to me: at that point, I might as well be having a conversation over PMs. Plus this place isn't exactly the busiest forum on the planet, so it hardly seems like a major task to keep track of a few active threads that you've posted in. Honestly, the Lithium system just made posting exceedingly cumbersome as far as I'm concerned. The worst part of it was when you were trying to quote multiple people: I'd wind up having multiple tabs open for each individual "reply," then copypasta all of the code for each quote into another window. With SMF, or most other forum software suites I've used, you can easily insert multiple quotes into the quick-reply box, or at the very least quote multiple responses on the full-reply page. Lithium's still the only forum suite I've seen (outside of ancient comment-tree type setups) that treats a thread as a bunch of jumbled-together reply chains, instead of a cohesive conversation, which as I said before made modding in particular a real nightmare. (It didn't help that most mods never bothered to go back and re-add posts caught in a removal that weren't offensive themselves.) It just feels like reading a Reddit conversation in the default view, i.e. a fragmented pain in the ass.

It's not meant to track threads where people have explicitly responded to you (how it would determine that in the first place I have no idea), but instead threads you've posted in that have new posts after yours. You have to *gasp* actually read the thread to see who's talking to you.

At this point Media Blasters is just a sad remnant managing to crap out a single release every few months. They did have some legitimately good shows amidst all the crap of their past though. Twelve Kingdoms was a masterpiece. As far as possible Sentai stuff goes, how about Log Horizon? It'd cash in on the SAO fad, plus from what I've gathered it's far better written.

These titles are all reminding me of just how much pure garbage Sentai licenses. But they're bringing me Legend of the Galactic Heroes, so that makes up for pretty much every goddamn thing.

Usually people watch the videos they post.

Where did the hair gooooo?

I have never once been ready for a single Monday in my life.

Jack spent his whole childhood training to combat Aku and the last 50 years in a state of PTSD (not to mention the only girl we ever saw him like was literally Aku), while Ashi has never had anything resembling a normal human relationship before meeting Jack. How could they NOT be completely awkward once they started having feelings for each other?

I think that portion of their society was definitely modeled on the behavior of bonobo chimpanzees, which engage in widespread sexual activities among group members (both heterosexual and homosexual) as a means of forming bonds and resolving conflicts. Encouraging same-sex activity as teens would allow for the release of pent-up hormones without the risk of teenage pregnancy, as well as helping form social bonds. If there was any sense of "growing out" of same-sex relationships, it was in the desire that the community's members eventually form family units and have children. Regardless, the series acknowledged that the children retained their feelings of affection as they grew older, and in any case, the whole overarching social engineering aspect of their society was definitely portrayed negatively.

Eh, I think it worked. You have two very fit, very attractive people fighting with every ounce of their being to avoid being killed by a horrible monster, they just barely manage to survive, there was obvious prior romantic tension between them...in the heat of the moment, they're going to go for each other, even if it's just a momentary dalliance. I know it got me to cheer last night, and I'm still okay with it in the light of day.

Disappointed it's not Bridget.

Yeah, the nice thing is that nowadays, even a sub-$1000 build is plenty capable of handling a wide array of games with decent settings. Intel hasn't really done much improvement on the CPU end over the past few years, and now AMD is coming out with some sort of new architecture that people are hoping will drive innovation.

1. Can't you already do that with the "Replies" option next to your profile pic in the upper-right? 2. Maybe it's just me, but I always thought that was an exceedingly silly quirk of LIthium's setup. If you're responding to a point someone made, that's what quoting is for; if not, you're just making a post in the overall thread anyway. All it seemed to lead to on Lithium was a massive pain in the ass when a mod would move an offending post, and then every single post in the reply chain from it would be removed automatically for no good reason. It got to the point when I'd always make a point to only reply to the OP so that my posts wouldn't get inadvertently eaten. And out of random curiosity, why are we moving away from SMF in the first place? It's a nice fully-featured forum suite, and I've been around a number of sites that have been using it for more than a decade.

Really awesome mostly under-the-radar show. Anime has a pretty large amount of dystopian-future titles that explore the negative aspects of technology, but I can't think of another one that tackles genetic and social engineering like this one does. It does a fantastic job of cultivating this slowly-growing sense of dread as more and more of the world's underpinnings are revealed. It's been a couple of years since I've watched it, so I'm not sure of the exact answers to your questions, but I'll do some thinking and see if anything comes to mind.