Top Gun

Gonna need some tissues. For...science.

Tweak the font so that the letter 's' doesn't look like it's been sliced in half?

I think Luuv shot me a PM well before the original board death (did he set it up before NodeBB even?), but I didn't give it more than a cursory glance at the time. I finally started lurking for real when the boards came down and before the staging link got passed around.

I used to have a reputation for liking everything, so does that make JMan my evil mirror universe double? ...but wait, I have a goatee...

Someone I know will be...displeased.

y u do dis

What's getting to people this year isn't just that a bunch of prominent celebrities died, but that the vast majority of them died in an untimely manner. I mean 60 or less is way too goddamn young to go. For Debbie Reynols in particular, if she had died of natural causes at this age, the general reaction would have been, "Aww, that's a shame, I loved her in those roles 50 years ago." But when we all know that it was from being distraught over her own daughter's tragic death, that makes it all the worse.

Oh, I think it's pretty clear-cut in the case of Franz, and you might be able to make a case for Albert being romantically attracted to the Count. Fun story too: in the original Count of Monte Cristo, Eugenie apparently runs away with a woman by the end. (Peppo is best trap though.)

And/or ka-kow.

boooooo

At the very least, Ivankov himself comes across as very positive all things considered. He's quite literally genderfluid, but that aspect is played as a positive strength, and overall he's a total badass. Bon Kurei is a bit more iffy, but I think he winds up being a net positive too. The minor characters there...not so much.

TINY MINISKIRTS!!!

ASMB had decent individual mods but a godawful fundamental modding ruleset. Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as an IP ban! Use it!

An entire island's worth of characters in One Piece, though they do sort of straddle the "man Japan this is kind of blatantly offensive" line.

That is...very cheap as far as anime goes, and I'm not even counting Aniplex's supreme horseshit or Japan's domestic insanity. Like at one point the domestic anime industry ran on $30 single volumes with 3-4 episodes each. If you shop during a RightStuf sale and/or wait until a later bundled re-release, you're not paying any more than you would for a domestically-produced TV series.

Fuck this fucking motherfucker of a year.

I hope Paul McCartney wakes up every day on his giant pile of money in a state of existential horror over the fact that he released "Wonderful Christmastime."

We don't even have local providers around here. It's a Comcast/Verizon duopoly.

Ooh, that'll work.

Sword of the Stranger is fucking amazing. It's BONES going all-in on classic samurai action. Also this.

I'll stick to the Philly parade, thanks.

Wait, they've been showing fairly high-profile music videos on those marathon nights that I've completely ignored? Well that just seems silly.