Top Gun

I'm glad the stuff I use is meant to be applied before you go to bed, since then I don't have to worry about it in the morning.

It's considered an all-time classic, so I'd think so.

Had the OP been anything else I would have been sorely disappointed.

The only way coffee is tolerable is if it has so much other shit in it that I might as well drink something better anyway.

You two deserve each other.

Psh, you and your warnings!

Not since 7th grade, and I didn't even really like it back then. I was just in it for the free candy.

When you just bought seasons 1-4 because you didn't think they'd bother putting those on Blu-ray...

Thanksgiving is best holiday. An entire day dedicated to being a massive glutton.

Red. Da red wunz go fasta.

Oh shit, he was Dan Turpin in the Superman animated series.

But here's the thing though: every time DBZ tries to create serious dramatic stakes, it falls flat on its face, because it's literally impossible to do so inside the Dragon Ball universe. Like, the whole franchise is literally titled after one of the most powerful deus ex machina in all of fiction. None of the characters ever feel like they're in legitimate danger, because even if they did die, someone will just hit the magic reset button again. When everyone starts to run up against the limits of the original Dragon Balls, poof, here come the more powerful Namekian variety to remove that in turn. In the Kai episode that just aired when Vegeta sacrifices himself attempting to kill Buu, it was admittedly a bit interesting seeing him act out-of-character, but I was just laughing at everyone (even the narrator!) acting all shocked, because it's like none of them remember the fact that they can magic him back at any time they want. Even the 12-year-old target audience would have figured things out by that point. Hell, even when the characters are actually dead for an extended period, we see them palling around in the afterlife with King Kai, so there's absolutely no sense of loss there. Goku chose to stay dead for 7 years just for the hell of it because he knew he could get called back into action any time he chose to. An object like the Dragon Balls works just fine in the early lighthearted portion of the franchise, when characters were making wishes for panties of all things, but the moment DBZ started trying to push these near-apocalyptic situations on the story, it just didn't work. And yes I'm well-aware that almost no shounen series out there ever kills off its main cast members, but most of them are still able to maintain a decent amount of dramatic tension during dangerous situations, because it's clear that someone could possibly die. Then when a significant character does actually get killed off for good, the rarity of it winds up making it all the more impactful. Tell me, when you step back for a bit, is there even a single instance of a character death in DBZ that winds up leaving any sort of lasting impact, at least if you're old enough to understand the series' underlying mechanisms? I can't think of any myself. Honestly, one of Super's highest points in my book is that it isn't afraid to poke fun at itself and hang a lampshade on some of the franchise's more absurd trends.

I guess I'm the only that thinks that Super's quality (or lack thereof) is pretty commensurate with the original DBZ as a whole. I mean the Final Chapters section of Kai has largely been flat-out dire.

Who's picking a fight? If I'm dead wrong about something, and someone who knows what they're talking about corrects me, you can bet I'm going to listen to them. It just boggles my mind that you won't do the same. And being ignorant of things like this is why FXX shows some shitty zoomed-in version of classic Simpsons episodes instead of showing them in their proper original aspect ratio. It's like those terrible "fullscreen" versions of movies in the early days of DVD.

I was amazed that the ambient light was noticeably dimmer even at 75% of totality. It felt like the level of light you'd normally see around 7PM or so.

Fine, don't listen to people who actually know what the hell they're talking about and continue to sound completely ignorant.

It's. Not. SD. Did you not read anything Naraku wrote?

Or you could not be a cheap fuck, crazy idea there.

No, air the content as it was originally created and don't arbitrarily cut shit out of the scene. It still blows my mind that literally everyone over the age of 20 grew up in a world of 4:3 aspect-ratio TV, and yet get completely butthurt when they see things properly presented like that.

2017 still has a few months left, we can totally make that happen!

How do people still not understand aspect ratios in the year 2017

Sneaking? It's an [as] event, they'll probably have 20 booths giving it out.

Yeah, ours looked pretty similar. Kind of a cool yellow-ish cast on everything after the storms rolled through.

No, he passed away.

If the alternative is being a living breathing episode of Maury, I think I'm doing just fine for myself.