Top Gun

PlanetDescent, which was part of the GameSpy Network of gaming communities. It was dedicated to the Descent series of 6DOF PC games from the mid to late 90s. This had to be in...oh, 2001 or so. I wound up becoming a staff member and doing news posts and file uploads and such. The site eventually started to break down when its older coding wasn't compatible with GameSpy changes, and IGN has long since killed off the entire GameSpy brand, so it only exists in the Internet Archive now. Some of the staff made a new site that carries on the name, and there are still a few die-hards who hang out there, but I haven't been by in a while. There's another Descent-related forum I joined in 2002 that's still plugging along. ...damn I'm old.

Alita.

Yup.

I got a whopping $50 back from Nationwide. Wheeeeee.

That character is fucking terrible.

All I want or need to know about Fate is that everyone's GAR for Archer.

Hell I'd watch it.

I'm more amused at how Netflix counts "views" as "people who watched at least two minutes of a program." Wow. Two whole minutes!

Are you people seriously still bitching about Bebop in 2020. Fucking hell.

...she's not a writer, she's a character designer. She designed Maromi, who's essentially a stand-in for Hello Kitty and other similar mascot characters. So yeah, I highly suggest that you rewatch this series, because there's a lot of it you're not remembering accurately.

Yeah, that's...not correct in the slightest. Spoilered for people who care I guess: There's certainly a lot about the series that's open to interpretation regarding just how "real" the events portrayed are, but at no point is it ever implied that all of it is just someone's dream. I feel like you're confusing things with the episode "Happy Family Planning," which does feature its three characters in a building that's being demolished.

...what the hell are you talking about with the "near-death experience" thing? That episode actually happened, as did the rest of the series. Lil' Slugger was an actual entity, albeit one born from Tsukiko Sagi's lies and desperation. All of the people in the series were actually attacked. A prevailing theme throughout all of Satoshi Kon's works is the very blurry line between fantasy and reality, and how the former can spill into the latter and become real. It's like you missed the entire point of the series. And how was Paranoia Agent's message "bleak"? As Jman put it, it's most definitely positive, albeit somewhat harsh. The overriding theme of the series is that you can't run away from your troubles, or count on some sort of outside intervention to magically solve them. You may get a temporary reprieve, but at the end of the day they'll still be there. The only way forward is to face them head-on, to confront them and deal with them once and for all. The characters who are able to do so are the ones able to stand up to Lil' Slugger, and eventually defeat them.

How the fuck does someone have taste this shitty.

...and nothing of value was lost?

I mean there was April Fools' from two years ago. We got freaking Mind Game of all things out of that.

Y'know the part that pisses me off the most about that whole storyline is how the entire family gets infected with HIV from...a blood transfusion. A blood transfusion that would have taken place somewhere in the mid-to-late 2000s based on the series' timeline, long after first-world countries had comprehensive screening of donated blood with an extremely low rate of false negatives (we're talking a literal one-in-a-million shot, if not even rarer). And I don't even remember what bullshit excuse they came up with as to why the HIV infection immediately escalated to superAIDS, when if the donor was recognized as being HIV-positive they could have easily traced past usages of the donated blood and had the family start antiretroviral treatments. The fact that Kawahara went with such a ridiculously-improbable premise completely destroyed any suspension of disbelief I might have had and made that arc feel like a farce...of course he's an expert at that, so I was hardly surprised. Oh, and that's not even getting into how massively fucking irresponsible it is to cast aspersions on the safety of blood transfusions when it's hard enough as-is to get people motivated to donate. Fuck off, Kawahara.

Tweet at DeMarco, maybe?

I forgot how much this folder sucks. I don't give a fuck if it fits, I don't give a fuck how many people watch it, it is one of the greatest motherfucking pieces of animated television ever created and I am goddamn thrilled to have the privilege of seeing it on my screen again.

Fucking yes.

"You're all in our crew, too!"

Well done.

If this wasn't such a dire situation you could probably come up with some hilarious captions for that pic.

Fire Force's "fanservice" is pretty fucking terrible and definitely somewhat brings down what would otherwise be a super-solid show. And SAO has been godawful in its treatment of female characters from the get-go.

Not really a surprise. There's presumably going to be no way for them to get any current premieres for some time now. And that's assuming that they can even keep airing MHA and Jojo without a break.

I know Pittsburgh well, and it doesn't surprise me at all that that clusterfuck of a city can't even manage a drive-up testing site. No one's going to be at risk of getting infected from sitting in line in their own car. And people who have been exposed to someone who tests positive are required to quarantine themselves until the test results come back, so unless they're being an absolute piece of shit and breaking that, they're not going to be exposed to another potential source of infection in the meantime.