HardcoreHunter

I use yoututbe TV so it's pretty much like the guide function offered by cable companies. I still use the numbers on the remote for my stereo though. My smart tv I got last year though doesn't even have numbers on the remote that came with it. Just power, a d-pad, back button, and select. Everything is done via the menus now.

Years back when I was doing my FX 8350 pc build I had 4 faulty CPU. That was back in 2012. I finally got the reimbursement check from their warranty. Only took them 8 damn years. If the check didn't come with a letter I wouldn't even have remembered what the hell I was getting a random check for.

opposite, I feel like I'm going to die and get claustrophobic when I'm in a small car. I think it's because my first car was a fucking death trap my parents bought for $200 off of my cousin. I was way too big for that car. I even had to tilt my head and even then It was smashed against the roof. If someone else was in the car with me I'd have to roll the window down to stick my arm out or else it would smash into the window glass.

I had to curb my dad of that as tech got more delicate. He tried hitting our first HD tv, whole thing just cracked. Then bitched that it was junk because a tv shouldn't break when you "tap" it with a metal wrench on the side.

What about one with a ps2 built in

Near the end of it's life you'd have to kick it on the right side for it to turn on. Have the channels weren't even numbers on the knob, some were letters. Like PBS was W and Disney was A but Nick was 8 and is still 8 to this day in my area. I remember going to another kids house for the first time and saying put channel A on and he had no idea what the fuck I was saying.

Zenith was my first TV. I always think of Zenith when I think of TVs but they've not been around since 99.

I haven't watched dub one piece since it was on adult swim, so can't say I even knew that Vic was cast to be Sabo. I don't like Sabo as a character though so it wouldn't have bothered me either way.

18 - 20 million? Goku - O~Okay....I'll pay!

Was having some lag and stutter issues. Realized that my bios was 25ver out of date. Updated that and it seems to have fixed the lag issues.

As most Irish farmers in the late 1800s she was probably thinking about spuds and beating children, so you're probably right. Back on the topic of odd state food. Cherokee red cherry soda. It's around here at like every kind of family function. Though I've never seen it anywhere else. It's probably the most cherry flavored soda I've ever had. It's not like a knock off soda though like Dr thunder.

looking at old photos I can see that the doctor side of the family really clashed with the farming side of the family in the comfort and functionality vs baller aesthetic. I mean look at my great grandmothers mom on her wedding day. Isn't that the face of someone just in full comfort and not wishing they weren't wearing 8 layers in the summer and standing still for a tintype that is probably going to steal their soul. Great great grandfather though dapper as fuck bully for him good sir.

Yuno got fucked over when it came to spirits. So far we have the fairy, that fire salamander that Fana had but now Fuegoleon has, and Giant water ara ara.

The thing is that he had to go over the top with them, because the good guys like Shank's men were just shooting people in the face. When you have your heroes acting insane, you need to have your villains being even more insane. " As for what was taught to us in school. My class 100% learned about Columbus doing all that fucked up shit in 8th grade. That would have been in like 2003. I honestly doubt though that 90% of japanese even know who Columbus is. Columbus was only celebrated in america because Italian immigrants needed a "hero" to stand behind and say that there wouldn't even be a USA if not for Italians. Truth is he never stepped foot onto mainland america and was more than likely in Cuba and the Bahamas. His holiday wasn't even recognized in Italy until 2004. This was more to try and capitalize on Italian Americans. They wanted to try and see if Italian Americans were as dumb as Irish Americans and flock to the country to spend money and drink. Speaking of which the Irish did the same exact thing with St Patrick. The guy wasn't Irish, his color was blue not green, and he did a "peaceful" crusade in Ireland to introduce Catholicism to the pagan celts. In Ireland St Patrick's day was just another recognized saints day. You'd go to church for it and show reverence. Irish Americans made it into this big party like the Italians do for the Feast of San Gennaro. Irish Americans later going to ireland were like wtf when seeing that the country didn't have these huge celebrations like we do in america. That is until they were like oh we can make money off of these idiots. It's pretty much like that episode of Venture Bros where Rusty goes to Greece every year to celebrate a made up holiday and they just go with it so they can fleece him. Luffy used to preach to other pirates in early op about what really being a pirate was. To him it was pretty much just adventure and live free not everything else that goes with being a pirate. After they leave east blue the word pirate is used about as much as ninja in Naruto that it stops being something that luffy has to explain. It's weird to think that in pt 1 he would even introduce himself as a pirate then explain that he's not like others. Zorro being a pirate hunter even asked luffy what being a pirate is and luffy explains his pirate way as freedom, treasure, and adventure and "stuff". Luffy couldn't even understand the concept of pirates being mean. He treated the marines with more hostility than he did Alvida and Buggy. The corruption of the Marines early on could have been done better I believe. The saving grace for the marines not being complete garbage in the first arcs of op was Smoker. Nami's foster mother quit the marines over the corruption, and we don't see Garp for a long time, and even then it's never explained why he does nothing to change the marines, but is fine with his grandsons fighting against the govt, but also wanted them to become marines. His character is such a mess and I feel that he'd have had better popularity if Oda had actually given him proper focus. The more though he seems to try and develop him the more confusing the character becomes. Like he dropped ace and luffy off to live with mountain bandits on an island that Shanks would hang out on...Yet he was surprised that they became pirates. The revolutionary Army is the worst implemented faction of One Piece. They had done nothing the whole series. They're this hyped up faction that has been at war with the world govt since before the start of the series. The only hint we ever had of them pre-time skip was Dragon helping luffy one time in the first arc, and Ivankov saving prisoners in impel down. Even post time skip they haven't done much. Sabo gets introduced as an expy for Ace which makes his death kinda pointless. Oda should have just had whitebeard die in the war saving Ace, then Ace joins the RA to avenge him. We didn't need Sabo. I'd say I began to lose a lot of my patience with OP around the fishman island arc. The painfully slow pacing and predictability of the post time skip arcs were painful for me and I'm someone who has a good deal of patience. Like the current arc Wano. I don't even remember why the hell they're there. In the manga I remember 2018 they were running from big mom and ever since they've been in Wano. They were doing undercover shit for a full damn year and I don't even remember why. It's stuff like this where I just wish the anime would condense the manga instead of having 1 chapter = 1 episode. They could fit 3-5 chapters into an episode but they wont, because studios now have a fear of long filler arcs. I think the death of bleach and bad ratings for later shippuden put the fear of god into them or something.

Yami is the roy mustang of the series. He's pretty much meant to be the op cool japanese insert character. If you want to believe that this whole story is nothing but a direct 1 for 1 representation of current american or japanese political systems then that'll be up to you. As far as I see it, it's a story that's already been done with a teen wanting to be the worlds strongest pirate king of hokage's. There are no current real world politics going on. It's a historically fictional setting. I don't know what you mean by "especially what's shown in the series". Nothing has been shown! You're like those people who said that if you give a mouse a cookie is directly referencing socialism. You're building parallels because it's what you're conditioned yourself to see. G-Gundam reminds me of 80s wrestling which is probably why I liked it. Just these fun over the top cheesy storylines that can only make sense if you suspend all disbelief. As if the world is going to have this epic battle every 8 years to replace war and have one country rule over all of the world. Not only that but have the most meme as fuck robots to represent their country. Neo-Hollands gundam is a fucking windmill!!!XD The early gundam anime though I feel were a product of their time. It was deep story telling for an anime in the 80s. I didn't watch it till over 20 years later when it aired on adult swim. Had I watched that in the 80s that might have blown my mind like GIJoe and TMNT did as a kid. Looking back though it's like watching GI Joe as an adult. Like this overly forced message and merchandising is all you can really see in it. Then the later series that came out always get overly hyped with stories that get even worse. The worst part is that it's nearly always the same message, for almost 40 years! It's like when you watch a friday the 13th marathon and by the 7th movie you realized that you just watched a film with the same exact plot 7x in a row. I'd agree that this series does somewhat better in making women competent assets to teams. However it does also faultier by making every single strong woman so far aside from the witch queen fall for a strong guy. Just straight thirsty putty when the guy gets close and wanting to get noticed by him type of girls. I think it's cute, but at the same time far from progressive. It think some of this comes down to a lack of being able to write a subtle character. All characters emotions and personalities in BC are pretty much worn on their sleeves. There aren't really deeper layers to anyone. Like in most other series we might get a girl blushing or get flustered around a guy that they like saying something to them. That can even be on the nose. In BC we'll get then then instantly follow it up with an inner monologue about how damn thirsty they are. It's possible that Japan needs more of a lesson about racism. I could see that being more of an issue, as even what Japanese would consider being normal or polite way to treat Gaijin would still be viewed as someone being very ignorant and racist in America if we acted like that we seeing someone different. Slavery though is more done by the Yakuza and Oda is pro Yakuza organizations at least publicly. Many times in manga/anime the mangaka is more writing against the bureaucracy in the japanese corporate world. From a western standpoint it looks though like it's directly referencing the govt. In the working world in Japan especially in animation and manga the workers are slaves and the studio's are these celestial dragons that can't be questioned or your work life is done. In Japan you'd have better luck getting a better job if you moved to another country than trying in Japan for what it's worth when you get fired. Japanese are taught to be thankful to nearly any job they begin and treat it with better loyalty than you'd give your own family. It's why quitting a shit job even is always a big presentation as well. Though as a whole Japanese don't care about the world outside of Japan a whole lot. The bulk of Japanese have no desire to ever leave Japan. A youtube video I watched with a western teacher pretty much had one of the other teachers outright tell him that he was boring the students, when trying to teach them about other countries in a world studies class. Outright says that they all have no interest in ever leaving Japan, and that is the Japanese school system It's geared not to prepare kids for the world, but for the Japanese world. The messages in anime are being written towards this demographic that as americans we really can't relate towards. Like Darling of the Franxx. The whole message of that series was to get Japanese kids to breed. The older generation in japan needs the younger generation to leech off of and the younger generations aren't being born fast enough. Also the older generation is about as insane as our boomers. They even put out an ad telling young people not to vote because they don't care about climate change or fishing regulations, and environmental laws as they will be dead in 20 years. It 100% says that as if it's being pleading and sincere.

Kishi did her design. The other guy though cut off nearly everyones tits because he's a lolicon.

Same I keep forgetting about it. I think it's because BM runs 2 episodes but each episode is only half the length of a normal show. So I'm thinking it's an hour of bullshit instead of a half.

From what kishi did to her in boruto it may have been better had she just died in the war

Not evil just a dumb tarzan that gets a green bulma gf As for the fanbase he's now canon as of that film according to toriyama. He's also probably less cool to fans.

Seriously though in OP if it weren't for the slave trade the world nobles would have posed as much of a threat as that fat guy on Shank's crew that shot that one guy in the face. If it wasn't for slavery then the world nobles would be bottom tier in evil act. 99% of the evil shit they do is related towards slaves. Remove that and they probably get bumped up to one of the actually best groups of people in the series judging that nearly every large organization in this show is run by garbage humans. Then the series would just be luffy being a marine without actually being a marine. As all he'd do is beat up pirates for not following his ninja/pirate way; of what he thinks being a pirate means. Like I don't think oda meant for the message of slavery is bad to be the driving force for his villains, but that's pretty much what it's become. Without them being slave owners they're just very weakly implemented villains. I think oda had like several ideas of what he wanted this series to be and just never developed them fully leaving a lot of weak points. Pretty much he just had to have a universally accepted as evil thing for the bad guys to do, to make the bad actions of the straw hats and other pirates seem justified. Early one piece all we had to go on for the marines was a couple of corrupt captains, but they were still dealing with criminals at the end of the day. There really was no reason for us to be rooting for luffy other than for the sake of adventure. He was the villain. Oda had to introduce more things to balance this.

So you're saying that when the creator directly says they didn't intend there to be a message, that the message still exists. Like when that guy read the catcher in the rye which "brainwashed" him into killing John Lennon (don't know why this keeps going back to the beetles). By your logic that message was 100% intentional by the author and in no way could have been misinterpreted as media is subjective to the reader and never in control of the authors original intent. Series can have conflict without it needing to be a message. Also the only gundam series I liked was G-Gundam and will say the others sucked horribly. They'll always be some of the worst boring anime I've ever seen. As for one piece Luffy's crew are garbage pirates. They don't steal, they don't rape, they don't murder other people for their loot. Why even make them fucking pirates. Also most of the govt run islands are run far better than the places being raided by mid and low tier pirates. The only times we see that turn to shit are the parts involving the slave trade. I guess enslaving humans is a big issue in Japan that kids should learn is bad...unless it's not a huge issue; but still good moral. Glad they spent 10 years of arcs explaining that.

It's pretty much Japanese My Chemical Romance, not even a joke.We got the super pale lead, the two that look alike, the one with wavy hair past his ears, and the one with a goatee

Yeah there's no real world politics in this show. It's all a feudal hierarchy. If someone wants to they can find some forced parallels. College brainwashing does that to a lot of people. A lot of Beetles songs got written just to spite a college professor who was trying to use beetles songs to teach kids about political messages. They told him that it's just songs, and he tells them that even though that's what they think on a subconscious level they're really saying what he's teaching his students. So then they wrote I am the walrus, yellow submarine, and come together with some of the most nonsense words that mean nothing that they could think of, just to spite this dick college professor that was telling them what their songs meant. Also the Author of "If you give a mouse a cookie", had his book being taught by colleges as an anti socialist message. The author was like, no it's about not giving a mouse a cookie.