Top Gun

Everyone needs to cancel all of their streaming services. Hit the fuckers where it actually counts.

It may have aired early on. I've tried to block as much about it from my memory as I possibly can. Another fun thing about that block. At one point it aired the deliciously cheesy Street Fighter II V, but it cut the series off about 2/3 of the way through for seemingly no reason. A group of us on the boards were already watching shows on our own and then discussing them once a week (we started off with Monster, before SyFy aired it), and because we weren't going to stand for letting that masterpiece go unfinished, we decided to try watching the rest of it together live for the first time. It worked out pretty well, and so a certain poster who liked a certain pirate anime put together a schedule and forced us to start watching it together from the beginning. It's been over 15 years and counting, but most of us are still watching the new episode of One Piece every week, and we have that interrupted Street Fighter series of all things to thank for it.

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.

Kudos to the dumb rednecks of Alabama for electing one of their own.

Darwinism in action.

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.

That's really cool, but who let the Pokemon nerd name the project?

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

Thanks, I hate it!

At least they could throw some grass on there.

Take a good look at this table. They even provide multiple indices so you exclude any that you feel are evil Western bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices#Annual_assessments

Well that looks goddamn adorable.

Imagine being this delusional.

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.

You couldn't pay me enough to make an account, so bye Felicia I guess.

"You got that Botox!" "It's true! But I still won three Purple Hearts!" Still lives rent-free in my brain.

Quagmire, somewhere: "Heh, heh, alllll riiiiight."

We've been stuck in an off-and-on pop-up thunderstorm loop for at least 24 hours now. There was theoretically a decent severe threat last night, but they've all been garden-variety summer thunderstorms. Nothing all that remarkable, but they did weird me out when I was brain-deep in Tears of the Kingdom last night. "What the hell, I'm in a cave, why do I hear thunder--oh wait that's a real thing that's happening."

The Poles love how our shit stinks apparently.

Okay the burro joke got me.

Prigozhin:

Man, if this season ends with a wet fart I totally want my money back.