Top Gun

Well yeah, there's no denying what people are there for, but the problem is that the series itself tries to play up these big dramatic moments but only succeeds in falling flat on his face. Like, even taking the parody out of the picture, Abridged is a far better-written show than the original work it's spoofing.

I really like the numerous times that the rest of the cast has been broken up over someone dying, even "permanently"...and then the shot cuts to them 30 seconds later chilling happily in the afterlife still talking to everyone via King Kai. Because gravitas!

Christ, mochi.

"That...was for...m'dick."

The fact that the Dragon Balls exist in the first place makes any sense of tension or high stakes in DBZ laughable at best, because the whole audience already knows that anything bad that happens will inevitably get wished away. And that last one is what really gets me the most. I didn't get far enough into the original Dragon Ball to meet Launch, but the fact that Toriyama has flat-out said "hahaha whoops I forgot she was a thing!" is just fucking pathetic. Contrast that with someone like Oda, who on multiple occasions has pulled minor throw-away characters from hundreds of chapters prior, made them integral parts of the current arc (complete with requisite tragic backstories), and made the reader give a damn about them., all seemingly effortlessly. I've felt since I first started watching it that OP is what happens when you take DBZ and give it an actual plot.

See those are the sorts of shows that make the least sense to binge to me. If there's a series I'm watching with intricate plotting or really good pacing or devastating cliffhangers, I need some time to chew on each individual episode and speculate on what's coming next. Some of my fondest memories of watching [as] were when shows would leave off on "oh WHAT THE HELL" moments, like in the penultimate episodes of FMA 2003 or Eureka 7, and I'd spend what seemed like every spare moment of the rest of the week thinking about where the story could possibly go. The instant gratification of automatically-queuing seasons just totally destroys that sense of anticipation. It also totally murders the collective cultural aspect of watching: everyone's doing it at their own pace, so if you want to talk about the show to someone, you have no reasonable expectation as to how much of it they've seen so far.

You need a goddamn hobby. And I'd feel far more sympathetic towards DBZ if Toriyama showed even the remotest shred of writing ability. I'll at least give him the credit of inventing the modern long-form shounen, but by this point at least a dozen other authors have taken that mold and created far more satisfying products. When you step back and take an honest look at it, DBZ barely has what one could consider a plot. I thought it was stupid when I was 13, enough so that it almost single-handedly turned me off of anime for years, and this Toonami run has done little to avail me of that opinion. Granted, it does have those occasional classic moments that scratch that middle-school "zomg this is awesome!!!" itch, but dear lord it is just dumber than an entire pile of bricks. The sad part is that I think the original Dragon Ball is absolutely charming and fun, well-deserving of its classic status, but the moment Toriyama tried piling apocalyptic stakes onto a universe setup that quite frankly doesn't allow for them, the whole thing just collapsed. At this point the only reason it maintains so much cultural relevance is that it was Babby's First Animu for a whole bunch of people, the majority of whom never looked all that far beyond it.

Binge-anything is fucking stupid. I have absolutely no understanding of how someone can stare passively at a screen for hours at a time watching the same goddamn show.

Of course it's real. The cover pages for the past couple of years have been Oda drawing whatever crazy shit the fans request him to do. He did a gender-swapped Straw Hats doodle ages ago...Brook just had a question mark next to him/her.

Ahoy, mateys.

Honestly I loved the tilt controls, because it finally captured the "DAMMIT IF I TWIST THE CONTROLLER I'LL TURN FASTER!" technique I used all the way back in Super Mario Kart.

Ages and Seasons were my first Zelda games. Kicked ass.

iRacing.

A face of disgust because you didn't buy real beer?

lol, Beats

I contnue to be amazed that the world has not collectively gotten over DBZ yet.

It's a marathon night, nobody will be watching anyway, so who gives a shit what they stick there?

As a point of comparison, the entire premise of Toriko was a simple career choice by a single character in Hunter x Hunter. And oh lord, those One Piece and DBZ crossovers were painful. The OP/DBZ one might have been decently fun if Toriko hadn't been awkwardly inserted in there like the world's biggest third wheel.

I think we have a winner.

To be fair, pretty much everyone.

wasAAAAAbi

I'll give the benefit of the doubt and assume that the microwave emitter is only activated by a kill-switch, but that just further begs the question of how the fuck any device with a powerful microwave emitter THAT ISN'T NEEDED TO FUNCTION AT ALL made it anywhere near the market. Let's not even mention the fact that the game's creator was somehow magically gifted at both software and hardware design, and apparently managed to slip ENTIRE MURDER FUNCTIONS past the entirety of the game's development team. Like, all of this is just the tip of the shitberg that is SAO's writing, but it still amuses me how the entire thing falls apart in the very first episode.

Yeah, that doesn't exactly fall into the "legally" bit. Plus ad-supporting shitty malware-infested illegal streaming sites just sucks. At that point you're far better off downloading the thing and cutting out the scummy middleman.

No, we haven't. Not high-tech products subject to both public and private regulatory groups. But please, cite me an example of personal electronics capable of delivering LETHAL DOSES OF RADIATION for absolutely no reason.