ben0119

I'm not the one that derailed the thread. Haters gonna' hate. Baiters gonna' bait. 'Baters gonna' 'bate.

Aaahhh and now I see the originator post of the joke you posted in the Hiatus thread. Things make more sense now. Would you be surprised to learn-- Nah, nevermind, I'm not a trader in TMI like you. >

It took a while. My head is pretty big. :-D

I could, but I can't be certain if the paint or plastic might mess with the fish. Could probably do Legos since those are made safe as fuck for kids, but I dunno', haha.

There was something I had mentioned before and was meaning to bring back up. I once stumbled across this Ichigo x Uryu yaoi and the art style looked exactly like Kubo's. The one-sided unexpected anime hug thing even happened! > I can't find it back though! But yeah I'm sure there's a few that do, or once did porn doujins.

God damn it, Moose. The whole asexual thing is really stupid, though. Especially when some characters are sexualized as hell. Bit of disconnect and hypocrisy there. You know, a line of dialogue from Thriller Bark really bugged me. Nami said she didn't want to marry inviso-perv (blanking on his name right now for some reason) because - "I'm a pirate! I'm interested in adventure, not romance!" Can you possibly have a more stupid and unnatural sounding line? She should have just said she's not interested in HIM. The other thing is, romance or not, which some pirate stories do include, pirates are the furthest thing from "asexual." They lust after treasure, booze, and adventure as much as they do "wenches." Jack Sparrow is a prime example. Going by this logic/theme/trend/trope, Nami should be as interested in man-whores as she is in money. I can accept Luffy as being "a big kid," or "not done with puberty," like Ace said, > but every other character? And from what I can tell, the only Straw Hats that show hints of possibly having romantic relationships are Usopp with Kaya (the Veggie Pirates made this even more blatant in one of the last worldwide check-ins we had), and Zoro with Kuina/Tashigi. Well, we've got Sanji, of course, but he's got about the same success rate as Miroku.

I've heard people say that One Piece is "too dense" and supposedly the art is crammed together and the pages filled with walls of text, and that Bleach is too light (again the large pictures and panels, telling story more with the art than dialogue is Kubo's style), and that Naruto was in the Goldilocks Zone and "just right." Not sure how true any of that is since I've only read a handful of Naruto chapters ages ago and not sure if I ever read any One Piece chapters. That's good though, then. Yeah, we're stuck with it. And as we've discussed before, Toei isn't going to make One Piece a seasonal series or anything like that. Too greedy and they can always use the excuse that it was started before that way of doing things became more or less the norm... So Naruto and One Piece will be the last of the long-runners, then. Dinosaurs of the anime world.

Pretty sure he has nothing to do with Garlic Jr. That was a filler saga and Funimation happened to use the same voice actor for both characters. Not sure about in Japanese.

Are you sure it's not Toei's fault for being lazy and shitty?

I wouldn't be surprised if that already happened, actually. Funny thing is as many times as I've re-watched Dragonball/Z my memory seems foggy of some things at the moment.

He only ever fucked Asuna. And no, that isn't what I mean. Oberon will gleefully lick up the tears of butthurt of the SAO haters. NOT CANON NOT CANON NOT CANON! Damn it.

More people know who Kirito is than will ever know of Gon! :-D

People complain about bad acting and clunky dialogue in the prequels... I'm like, have you ever seen Star Wars? I've also heard the argument that Lucas' "clunky dialogue" is more realistic, since people don't talk perfectly in real life. It's a good point. As far as Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, they're my least favorite Star Wars movies, but to me they are still good movies, good Star Wars movies. Phantom Menace gets a lot of beef for the slice of life moments. If we don't have those moments then there's no reason for us to care about the characters when the shit actually hits the fan. Why do we care if Anakin is leaving his home if we spend like 2 minutes there? Besides, the pod race, ligthsaber battle, space battle, and ground battle are undeniably awesome. As far as "green screen the movie," each individual Prequel had more practical effects than the original movies combined, and I don't see the issue if the effects are done well. As for Attack of the Clones, I think there's a lot of great parts in it that are undersold, like Anakin finding his mother and going after the Sand People. Not enough credit is given to the visuals of scenes that match the mood, either, like when he's searching for his mother and what happens after that. Revenge of the Sith is the second best Star Wars after Empire, I don't care what anyone says. I should probably make a general SW thread, getting on a tangent here. Anyway, here's my personal rankings - 1. The Empire Strikes Back 2. Revenge of the Sith 3. Rogue One 3. Return of the Jedi 5. The Force Awakens 6. A New Hope 7. Attack of the Clones 8. The Phantom Menace

You take that back right now.

Spamming post count?! Every one of my posts is a priceless treasure of wisdom! And when arguments need to be made and points need to be reiterated... I'll be there to make sure "a guy is wrong in the internet" justice is done. > I don't see any trolling here.

That was random. Anyway, Hiatus sucks and he's wrong. Accept it.

The thing is, there's no context for it. We don't know if the Hunter Org. is considered good or bad by the people that live in the world, namely because nobody seems to give a fuck about anything. There can't be "bad" or "good" or anything else between if we don't set a baseline.

Sounds like you're a hipster then.

Oh god, you're right. They got in on the trolling cockteasing.

OR MAYBE HE'S EVEN MOOOORE POWERFUL BECAUSE HE'S MYSTIC SUPER SAIYAN GOHAN AND GOHAN WAS JUST TOO COCKY AGAINST BUU TO DO THAT!!!!

Not really sure why there's any need for Illumi to "cover his tracks" when no one gives a shit if you kill people. There's a literal sequence where Illumi asks Netero if he could kill everyone in the room and it wouldn't be against the rules and he'd still get his license, and Netero confirms this. There was no indication that licenses could be revoked, either, so... If the "logic" here is "Oh they let people like Hisoka and Illumi become Hunters so that their misdeeds would be more out in the open as Hunters and they could be punished then!" ...Since when did Netero or this Hunter Organization care about legalities, moralities, or keeping up appearances? And don't tell me they don't know these guys have killed people. Hisoka and Illumi are part of the underground, which the Hunter Org clearly deals with, given the Zoldycks and the type of Hunter Kurapika wanted to become, etc. And just as they committed their crimes in the shadows, they could be taken out in the shadows. Soooooo yeah, not really a good excuse.

You must have oxygen deprivation from your masks if you think Top Gun is anything close to right.

Oh yeah, because there's no sort of extraneous mundane bullshit in this show and it's so trim, lean, and mean. It's paced oh so ever fucking well. BEHOLD THE GRIPPING STORY OF TWO YOUNG BOYS HUNTING FOR A VINTAGE GAME CONSOLE! Behold the edge of your seat brilliance of entire episodes dedicated to opening doors and making phone calls! It's all show no tell! That's why we literally had an entire episode of people sitting around talking, and another episode of people running and telling each other their backstories. And why does Gon have this issue? He lived on a populated, civilized island. I can't really see being a "country boy" as his reason for being a quasi-sociopath, either. If anything, people that have to live and survive and make their own lives off the land (even though Gon didn't have to!) would understand more than anyone how precious life is. Subversions... pgggfffffbbbtt AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Of what we've seen thus far? The candle thing, the fork in the road thing? All cliche as fuck. Seen it all before. Don't know what show you were watching. And for that matter, if you knew anything about Goku, you'd know he doesn't exactly follow normal social conventions or cues. He's constantly doing bizarre and inappropriate shit that people freak out over, especially early on. I mean, in the first episode, he lifted up Bulma's skirt to see if she had a tail. And let's not forget Goku acting like a jackass as an adult and people continually calling him on it. Really, if Gon wasn't such a nonsensical, illogically-written character, there wouldn't be much to talk about, because he's pretty boring and doesn't have much of a personality in general. The thing is, we are given no context for this Hunter Exam. The show goes from 1 episode of Gon catching a fish, to multiple lead-up episodes of EVERYTHING IS PART OF THE TEST, to a Game of Fucking Death. We don't know if this considered normal for this world or irregular, because there's no context. So the reactions or lack thereof to the deaths and other things in the Hunter Exam doesn't tell us much of anything. Either way, the "story" Togashi is telling isn't interesting. The only thing to talk about are the baffling writing decisions. Would having people act normally and react to death in some manner (or have some sort of explanation for why they don't) make the show make more sense and be less frustrating? Possibly. But it still wouldn't be interesting. Just face it, Togashi sucks as a writer and doesn't understand human psychology, how to tell a story, or how the world works.

Wow. Well, as long as it doesn't suck, I'm good. I probably won't be bothered by the pacing, since you said it doesn't get any worse than the original Dragonball Z. I'm sure even Toei is more skilled and gives something of a semblance of a shit than to just have bullshit like the endless tunnel of logs in early Shippuden. Good lord the pacing in that part of the show was so atrocious it beleaguered belief. You couldn't even imagine pacing that bad. Worst I've ever seen.