Top Gun

...they had literally days' notice on a few of these episodes not being ready, and probably no discretionary budget to grab something unplanned out of the blue. The fuck do you want them to do?

Damn. This is terrible.

I'm hoping against hope that rerunning season 1 of Mob means that we're finally getting season 2 after it.

MGDMT was the shit.

Hey there's a lot of good shit from back in the 80s and early-to-mid 90s. Back when they featured actual characters and actual animation.

A single person sitting alone in a recording booth is miles away from 70,000 people crammed in close proximity in a stadium.

Fully expected this to happen at some point. Honestly it's an amazing accomplishment that they managed to get the previous two episodes out as quickly as they did.

So I'm the coolest motherfucker on the planet, then. 😎

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.