Top Gun

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.

See now this is a great use case for machine learning as far as I'm concerned. It's not shitting out some hodgepodge of a bunch of other artists' work, it's taking an existing recording and isolating a certain part of it.

Ewwww.

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

So when Russia illegally invades Ukraine under false pretenses and tries to depose its (democratically-elected) leader and replace him with a puppet, you're saying the Ukrainians should just lie back and think of Putin. But when the US illegally invaded Iraq under false pretenses and deposed its (own-people-gassing) leader, well then of course it was right for the Iraqis to rise up against their evil oppressors. Such a consistent worldview.

No one could possibly be this stupid.

"If the Department of Justice gets his way, he will die in federal prison." Stop, stop, I can only get so hard.

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

Get rid of the fucking thing, like every other sane country on the planet. Denmark's the only other democratic country that has one, and raising it is a complete non-issue there.

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.

"My umbrella is stuck on something. I require assistance."

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.

I just want to know how many lead paint chips his mom snacked on while pregnant.

I mean the food in Beijing is probably fucking incredible.

That airport video is terrifying on a visceral level.

Welcome, fellow sudden furry!

Time is a flat circle.

The only thing I know for sure about Cleopatra is that she's comin' atcha.

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.