just a machine lurking
i watched the first 3 ones and the funny part is that I cannot recall a single thing about them. i don’t have good memory but I usually remember the biggest plot points or the impacting scenes and for these ones there is nothing other than data. it feels so weird because it means that they didn’t had a single impacting thing that the brain could keep.
i wanted to watch the new one but it’s hard to commit on something i know it’s going directly into oblivion
scream of independence
this is probably the first time I read this in english and sounds rad. it could be the name of a metal band or something
this was not my idea of gender abolition but sure as hell I would welcome it
honorable mention to outbreak. i only played it in single player mode but i’m sure it would probably enter the list if i had the chance to play multiplayer. between it and REmake were two very good ways of moving the franchise forward and keeping the formula interesting. sadly, they went the action route so we got okay-ish games (4 is great although it still ranks way below the classics for me) instead of hypotetical masterpieces.
Peace Walker has some very good things but the game is either hit or miss. it’s very short missions oriented that are meant to be replayed multiple times. it has a couple of mobile-game-like minigames that are fun and weird to play. it totally feels like a portable game even on the remaster versions. it’s recommended to play it with multiple players if possible.
story is enjoyable even if it’s a mess. it has some questionable points but overall it’s okay. it also replaces the codec calls with tapes that are literally meant to be heard on the go
can someone explain how does these beds are supposed to avoid people having sex? I cannot see a single thing that woud even be a problem for it.
also, is not that beds are a requirement for sex, but that is a different discussion
are they finally adding professional sex at the olimpics?
how does it still holds up to these days?
i recently rewatched tamers (my favourite childhood digimon series) and while i liked the overal series, a big part of it was a slog to watch and almost dropped it a couple of times.
i have been wanting to rewatch the whole adventure saga, but the experience with tamers made it a bit scary to revisit
I am not watching too many anime this season, since there were barely any interesting new shows for me so now that I have some free time I might try starting something older soon
Anime
Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction(2024) - The premise looks interesting and I’m enjoying the character interactions a lot so I have big expectations, but after 6 eps, I am still very confused about the end goal of the story. It looks like something big is cooking behind scenes but it is still not visible. I have enjoyed other works by the author so I expect this one to be good.
Senpai wa Otokonoko(2024) - is this good trans representation or transmisoginy? cannot say yet. The main character acts a lot like a person with gender disphoria and the show depicts well a lot of common trans experiences like experimenting gender and euphoria. it appears to be going in a possitive direction. but at the same time, it has some… questionable scenes and the show empatizing that “he is a boy” in both the english subtitle and in some scenes so it give weird negative vibes. I remember having a bunch of problems with the manga back in the day, but I cannot remember almost anything of it.
Tasogare Outfocus(2024) - it feels a lot like old school yaoi, with a bunch of questionable tropes and a very simple and predictable romance progress. Characters are okay and not anoying and there are not many queer anime recently so it’s tolerable. hoping it improves soon or I might drop this one
Serial Experiments Lain(1998) - started it a couple of months ago but it’s not really hooking me in. idea is interesting and we really like the weird world that it depicts, but somehow i have a hard time continuing it often. I’m halfway and it looks like the story is finally connecting so this might change soon.
i think is more likely to be a “mainstream gamers do not like this” line of thought, like with motion controllers. DS and 3DS did really well, but they had always the “casual” label (analogue to the wii and motion controllers) so “mainstream gamers” stayed away from them. even with the wiiu, that had native dual screens, nintendo tried to cater to a “mainstream gamers” audience and there are too few games that actually uses the dual screen effectively.
there might be more to this, like casual audiences moving to mobile games and only “gamers” buying consoles, but i’m not educated enough in the topic to make a judgement there.
tangentially, but
loading minigames patent
what the fuck is this??? how did someone actually accepted this?? how did I not hear about it before? this is silly on so many levels. like, patentings characters jumping or so (don’t doubt something like this exist, but also don’t want to know)
the sp was clearly superior to the gba in almost anything, but it was a pain to play with (for me at least). i could have long sessions on a gba without any problem, but playing with the sp for long time was painful and uncomfortable. it was okay for rpg or games that did not require high reflexes or button mashing
I have been saying for years that dual screen (or asymetric screens. can’t really remember the name) was one of the best ideas in gaming that got fully abandonned no clue why. there are just a few games outside the ds line that actually did that and they were great (GZ did great. wiiu having two screens by default did not use it as much as it should). the DS games having usualy the map or sometimes inventory management on the secondary screen was simply great. many games would totally benefit from that
yay, the only ps4 game I ever had interest in will be playable without having to buy a sony console, nice
this hits way more closer than it should be
yuri is a heavilly abandonned genre in anime. there are a couple of series that are not bait but they either very badly adapted, incomplete or controversial. sadly, most of the series that get near yuri are either bait or pseudo-bait because they will never adapt more than the beginning. there are some good shows but there are too few so I expect there are already somewhere in the thread.
that is the main reason I stopped expecting to watch good yuri ever and I jumped to manga (altough I watched all bait shows this season with great dissapointment). even if not everything there is great, at least there are lots of works that address queer topics with different points of views and conclussions.
I hear “Lucho, no estas solo, carajo” which would translate to “Lucho, you are not alone”. Lucho is a way of referring to people called Luis (Luis Arce being the president’s name) and Carajo would be something close to “damn” as a possitive expression to accentuate the idea (not really sure how to translate it tbh)
really anxious about this one. watched the original anime at least twice complete (and a bunch of individual episodes when they were broadcasted) and while I really liked the series I remember that there were a bunch of things that felt wrong even back then. not sure how will I react if i watch it today.
wondering how much will they change from the original work. 48 episodes to addapt 37(?) volumes is too few but I remember there were a couple of arcs that didn’t really affect the story so they could just remove them. will they change or remove some uncomfortable scenes? not sure what would be the best then
won’t write my thoughts on it since i still have to let it sink to have a better analysis, but i got the feeling that they didn’t had clarity on what to do with the story. the series had some good ideas or plot points that were either forgotten or just set asside to be solved later. and the last episode felt like they skipped a whole season of character development. it really needed more time or a better planning since most resolutions felt incomplete.
and it’s very hard to not call the series bait. they had a very good episode that cannot be read at anything other than romantic development and then they split the characters for the rest of the series just to reunite them at the end as just a simple group of friends. and the whole thing with kiui/nox was very well written but then it’s just left asside
i really want to like the series but sadly I can only say it’s dissapointing. it’s probably better than the average “girls friend group” anime since it tried to pressent more serious themes, but it didn’t do much with them
you could try wet shaving (the whole ritual about shaving with safety razors and soap). i used to have problems shaving using both shaving machines and the regular plastic razors and after a couple of bad cuts, was finally able to shave without cuts or irritations
i just learned not so long ago the concept of “man cave” where they have rules like “no women allowed here” which in my opinion, sounds everything but het. but for some reason, it is considered very manly and very het