Top Gun

Here's the thing though: in an age when the majority of your audience is probably DVR'ing at least part of the block, does it matter nearly as much at what specific times shows actually air? I'm an old man now, and I can pretty much never pull a whole-block marathon like I could in my halcyon college days, so I wind up DVR'ing the entire block and watching chunks of it at my leisure. I don't really care in what order the premieres occur, just so long as I get them all recorded. I can't be alone in this either.

Classy.

You still don't get it. Not touching Windows Update for two goddamn years and then proceeding to go online is the direct digital equivalent of banging anything that moves for two years without ever once using a condom. You're not only asking for your own system to get infected with all sorts of bullshit. you're asking for your machine to spread it along to any other machines it connects to. As a fellow denizen of the Internet, get that shit off of my network. I don't want what you have.

God I miss when the Internet was limited to technically-competent people.

And why would any sane, rational person desire this, pray tell?

Allman Brothers Band is the best goddamn driving music on the planet.

People like you shouldn't be allowed on the Internet. If you connect your machine to other people's machines, you sure as hell better make sure it's safe.

...you can't be real.

But it's probiotic!

For many years Descent 3 was my jam online. I also sunk a ridiculous amount of time into TF2. I do try to pick it up every once in a while.

Manatees.

Solar flare occurs, Internet collectively loses its shit for some reason.

I want what Oshii was smoking.

I choose to look at it a bit more optimistically. Simon wound up becoming the most powerful being in existence, and he quite literally saved the entire universe from subjugation. And yet, at the end of the day, he had always been Simon the Digger. He played his part, and then he chose to pass it along to future generations to move forward. But he stayed out there, watching over everything, and if there came a point in the future where his power was needed, he'd take up his mantle again. And as bad as Akame was, Dimension W wins this category head-and-shoulders above the rest. I have never seen moderate potential squandered that spectacularly.

All I remember about it is that it felt like a massive waste of Tensai Okamura's directorial talents. The guy's way better than having to adapt mid-tier shounen.

Also relatable:

I always had nigh-infintely more page views than posts, like a good little lurker.

This explains so much about how you post.

Then just...don't be a fuckwit? Seriously, Interneting isn't hard. Wheaton's Law. That's all you need.

Dirty little secret: it's not the ASMB anymore. People can be banned simply for being total fuckwits. What a joyous concept!

Dude. It's DBZ. That thing will print money until the heat death of the universe.

Will we be able to maybe, like, opt out of backgrounds and other such things that make actual post content actively difficult to read?

They did fix some things for the home video release, but even then the artwork was decidedly sub-par. And the iconic transformation sequences were some CGI nonsense. Ben was the one claiming they were chasing Crystal, which would be more reasonable. New dub or not, general audiences have a (really ignorant) prejudice against shows that "look too old," so I think that would have been a non-starter for the original series.

I won't watch live, but I'll probably record the whole thing and watch it at my convenience. I'd planned on rewatching the entire season regardless.

I can understand not liking the finale, but that's just bullshit. Genndy's been pushing to get a sequel made for years and even had a movie treatment in pre-production. The entire staff expressed crazy enthusiasm to get this chance to finish things off.