Top Gun

The dichotomy of that block is still hilarious to me. It launched with a premiere of the GITS: SAC sequel movie Solid State Society, which kicked ass, and then I think that was followed by the great mindscrew sci-fi series Noein, and then like Jman said later on it had huge titles like Gurren and Gundam 00 and freaking Monster...but in the same breath it would air absolute drek like Vampire Wars or Sword for Truth, or what I still think may be the very worst anime series I've ever witnessed, Virus Buster Serge. I am never getting those brain cells back. Say what you will about [as]'s ups and downs over the years, but even in its worst moments it's never plummeted to those depths of shit.

SyFy tried running Ani-Monday against [as], but along with some great shows they also were in the habit of airing some of the most dire godawful OVAs ever animated, and they also had a ton of commercial breaks and wound up cutting out episode content for time. The whole thing fizzled out after a few years.

I had the exact same reaction to what you spoiled. Sooooo satisfying. This game has refined the BotW experience in myriad ways, and one of them is enemy placement. BotW had that invisible "leveling-up" system that universally upgraded the colors of monsters depending on how many you'd killed or bosses you'd completed or however it works. It seems to be more regional in TotK, since even after dozens of hours I'm still seeing clusters of red enemies. Powerful enemies like Lynels and the mini-bosses seem to be fixed at a certain level too, which is handy when you're trying to get a specific picture for the Compendium. There were a few weapons in BotW you could level out of ever seeing, and a few more that had limited fixed spawns, but all of those seem easily renewable now, which is nice. But yeah, I've been bingeing this off and on since the release weekend. I've finished three of the main regional quests, completed who knows how many side quests, done a ton of stuff in the sky, found at least some hidden treasures in the Depths, and there are still two whole overworld regions I haven't been in yet. Every play session I start off with a vague plan, but then I get distracted by finding something new that usually leads to a few other new things, and then I look up and I've been playing for 4 hours.

Dude can't even get past Piglet, Christopher Robin would fucking murder him.

Well that looks goddamn adorable.

It's kind of lame that we're getting a rerun plunked in the middle, but it's pretty obviously a warm-up for one of those new projects, whatever they wind up being. Plus...it's FLCL. I've seen it easily over two dozen times, I can quote almost every line, and I'll be there again quoting every line along with it.

Okay the burro joke got me.

The entire planet needs some seriously better taste.

I'm not sure if I ever interacted with her on the ASMB, but from hearing everyone talk I really wish I had. Rest in peace.

Hey, Shenmue was legitimately fun.

Summer Time Rendering was soooooo damn good. If anyone hasn't checked it out because of how Disney practically buried it, do yourselves a favor and watch it.

I've been a massive Zelda fan for a large portion of my gaming life, and Breath of the Wild is my straight-up favorite game ever. ...I think this is going to top it.

I've heard pretty mediocre things about this season. I still haven't even felt motivated to watch Mugen Train.

https://deadline.com/2023/06/adult-swim-expansion-nostalgia-block-checkered-past-cartoon-network-1235398446/ Hell yes.

It was my younger brother's game so I'd just fool around with it a bit, but I think he wound up having BIte for anything that was strong against water, and Water Gun/Hydro Pump for anything that was weak to it. That thing was a steamroller.

My brother got through all of Blue with a single overleveled Blastoise, so you shut your damn mouth.

I know that Eddie.

The viewer bumps were always really cool. In terms of programming, though, it had to be the Toonami April Fools stunt. They even led in with the first few minutes of The Room, and then a hard cut to TOM saying "Ohai [adult swim]!" The scary part is that I've now been watching the block for about as long with the Toonami packaging as I did with the old Action label, even though the latter feels like it lasted way way longer.

It's been 6 years since this thread was made (HOW), and looking back since my last post, what I really miss the most is the place itself, and still being able to access it. Among all the nonsense, I made some well-thought-out megaposts about different series and episodes (or at least I thought they were at the time). I know there was one gigantic one I made trying to explain what was going on in Big O. Unfortunately I never thought about throwing those in a Word document, so unless they happen to be in whatever the Wayback Machine crawled through, they're probably gone for good. It's a strange feeling, since there are a few still-running forums I'm on where I can go back and find my very first posts from around 2003...not that I actually want to read what cringelord teenage me was writing back then, but at least they're still out there. I'd also love to reminisce about some of the events and memes and stuff that I only half-remember. People are making all of these references in here, and I know I lived through some of them, but I can tell I'm getting older because I only remember vague snippets about them. (Hell, some days everything pre-Covid feels like a deluded fever dream.) That's even true for more recent stuff...I was thinking the other day about how Luuv's first invitation was to that FreeForums (?) site, but I don't even remember what it looked like or exactly when we jumped over here. It'd be cool to put together some sort of community history timeline, so people could see exactly when certain things happened or check out screenshots of what the boards looked like during various eras. One thing I don't miss was the silly folder cliques. Everyone was weird about staying in their own little silos on the ASMB, and there are a bunch of cool people I only met after I moved here, even though we'd probably posted on the same forum for a solid decade.

Welcome, fellow sudden furry!

Time is a flat circle.

The archaic production committee system Japan still uses means there are a ton of figures in every anime pie, and there are probably different companies involved with the OVA. They may not even offer broadcast rights to international licensors.

ahahahaha holy shit Genndy 😄

I think it's pretty obvious that we're not supposed to buy in to what's happened to them right now. Emma was clearly set up as an object of sympathy and/or horror with how her life was ripped away from her. It wasn't okay, and we're meant to think it wasn't okay. There's definitely going to be a lot more going on with her character moving forward, and I'm interested in seeing where Genndy takes her. Likewise, Edred is meant to come across as a dickbag, because like Poke said he doesn't realize that something's off this time, and here's this woman he's loved across millennia suddenly not knowing he exists. I'll give him a bit of benefit of the doubt for now. And then Alfie...well, Alfie is tripping balls. Interesting that he's the only one of the three who sees to have a separate consciousness from the original Seng. At any rate, color me intrigued by the first two episodes. I'm seriously digging the aesthetic here, such a cool classic-feeling style. Genndy is an absolute master at taking bits of inspiration from disparate genres and smashing them together into an entertaining whole. Forcible soul transfers aside, I love our robot fren Copernicus.