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Yeah, i mean im not saying outlaw is bad or anything just my personal thoughts but it's still one of my favourite space comedy

Like obviously SAC is superior to LOTGH in every way, even most of GITS scenes are more iconic than LOTGH, Even Gundam 0080 war in the pocket as a war drama shits on LOTGH which does not drag on for ages, Yes, u are right about LOTGH's design but Reinhard (Char Aznable rip off) still looks pretty cool as a character but still i agree, One of the only character i actually liked there was Yang rest were pretty meh, i would say

Btw what's with this anime called Texhnolyze. It was so damn depressing at the end, I don't really get depressed so easily but this one kind of hit me in the feels. I thought i would hate on this cause the start was so goddamn awful but the slight changes in the characters in the 2nd half especially ichise and the reveals were amazing. The relationships were weak but i mean it's pretty obvious like someone like ichise who is basically a beast would have a poor communication skills. That subtle change in Ichise basically becoming more open to the world really hooked me up cause i mean he has no one in this world who he can look up to and that small thing like giving him flower which was given by Ran meant a lot to him

These were some of my 2 cents on the series which i surprisingly really liked

Ah okay, that sounds fairly similar to Canada on the political level. I do like hearing about American corporations failing in Europe, I remember laughing at a Quora post where a proud Austrain described how Starbucks failed in her country because the coffee is such poor quality that "they couldn't give the swill away". Good for you Österreich! Do you get a lot of weirdos over there with the "pull up your bootstraps" type of ideology who unironically love the Musk and Trump types or is that more of an NA phenomenon? I've heard there is a bit of a concern about a rising far-right in Europe including a close call where it looked like Le Pen's party might win in the French elections earlier this month. One of the weirder things over here is that this type of thinking is actually quite popular in working class and manufacturing type areas, it was my coworkers at a steel factory who memorably told me the solution to homelessness should be "gunning them down in the street." Yeah Christians protesting gay marriage and all that is so hard to wrap my head around just from a theological perspective - that is, while Paul and Leviticus do identify it as a sin, who could read the Bible and think the best way to spend their time and energy living a Godly life is to protest people's secular weddings when there are so many other things the book identifies as sins that harm people so much more and were actually mentioned by Jesus? The greed I can at least understand because it's just people acting in what they perceive to be their own self-interest (incidentally the more time goes on the more I regret the influence Ayn Rand's writing has had on North American culture...) Is it just people mindlessly acting according to the prejudices they were taught growing up? Also I'm probably harping on this too much at this point but yeah the U.S. medical system is one of those things that just makes me so sick, especially the arguments people use to try and defend it. I remember hearing Ben Shapiro say that socialized medicine would involve slavery for doctors. No Ben you fucking cretin, look at every other country that has it, being a doctor is the same as any other job you just get paid by the government.

O yeah it would be more the Mother 1 treatment than the Star Fox 2 treatment for TCG2. Integrating Pokemon Home for the Stadium games seems like a pretty elegant approach, though releasing the Gen 1 and 2 games for Switch would be a huge help especially since the 3DS eshop is closed now so you can't legally access those versions of the game any more. I found out a game shop in my town can replace the batteries on Game Boy/GBC games so I'm thinking about getting my Pokemon Yellow done to play Pokemon Stadium on my friend's old cartridge.

I do remember reading someone who strongly felt Sun/Moon were the worst Pokemon games (this was before Sword/Shield came out) explain his feelings. He basically said that the story and campaign were generic and unchallenging. I have a hard time fully understanding why someone would feel that was true of Gen 7 to a greater extent than other Pokemon games though... I mean look at how bare-bones the narrative and world building are in Gen 1 for example. I do know some people miss the rivals in the first two games being jerks compared to how friendly Hau is, and I'm with them a little bit because I've always loved Blue but again I'm not sure about singling out Sun/Moon for this when the rivals are generally very friendly from Gen 3 onward with perhaps the exceptions of Cheren and N in B/W. I've never finished Black which is one of those weird cases where I have a much higher opinion of a game than I have hours in it, I've never played Gen 6 though I might try and pick up a copy one of these days (I've heard it's a little lacklustre but I think I just didn't have much money to spare when it came out,) also never played 8, and I've only beaten 7 and 9 once... this really reinforces the point that I'm a poke-boomer lol. How did Gen 9 with all bugs go? I feel like that's probably still the hardest monotype to bring to the end of the game but then the difficulty in Scarlet/Violet is kind of a joke...

In terms of being able to comprehend the story and guess the twists I totally agree the story explains itself well as it goes, and yeah I think I knew who Cassiopeia was from her first appearance and that the Prof couldn't leave the crater at the very least from early on... though I don't know if I figured out she was a robot until they started really dropping hints with her glitching out and all that. I just meant that I would've liked to see more of the Team Skull kids getting to know one another and hatch their plan and all that as it happened since we only really see one flashback per skull leader for their story, and likewise with the Professor discovering the zero area and meeting Koraidon/Miraidon and that relationship. I still haven't played the Gen 3 remakes, I'm definitely interested in them though. I'm very partial to the old 2D Pokemon graphics but it does seem like the remakes add a lot to the game. Yeah that's totally valid on Gen 5, for me I respect the idea of only having new Pokemon and like that it makes me try new ones instead of falling back on old favourites from a game design and strategy standpoint, but I can totally see it harming the game a lot considering how forgettable the designs on the Gen 5 Pokemon tend to be. Did you end up playing Black and White 2? I know they add some of the older Pokemon back into the maingame and I've heard they're quite good, though I don't know if the critters they bring back are the ones you want.

Haha Star Trek going woke! That's so funny to say about the show that had the first interracial kiss on TV. This is when I really start to understand people talking about "the death of media literacy" even though really takes this dumb have always existed, they're just able to be broadcast further with the internet. Anti-woke cancel culture gets absolutely absurd, I found a Steam Curator called "Woke content detector" that tells people not to buy games with "woke" content, and judges them woke if they have any content that goes against the most laughably reactionary ideology imaginable, such as including "anti-colonialist messaging" or "anti-patriarchy messaging" by featuring a storyline where a woman leaves her husband after he hits her. It started to feel like satire after a point and I still hope it was. True, you don't have to look nearly that far back, hell the panic about D&D being "Satanic" is a super public example that's still only a few decades old at this point. Yeah being concerned about what sexuality your kids will grow up to have is so baffling, it's crazy to me to hear about parents kicking their kids out of the house for being gay. I mean even if you grant that such a decision would change their sexuality, which makes no sense, how can someone feel like they would rather their kid be homeless, alienated from family and straight rather than gay? I'm glad to hear you liked Amphibia too, it definitely had some good character development and plotting with things like all the change Sasha went through and it brought a lot of the charm that the best kids' cartoons get by on. I'll be looking forward to seeing Owl House.

btw since we talked about the games of last year, have you played any good ones this year? I started Unicorn Overlord recently. It's made by Vanillaware but kind of puts me in mind of Square's "HD-2D" games taking on Ogre Battle (where Triangle Strategy was Tactics Ogre), so I'm having fun with the core mechanics but I find the aesthetics and the narrative rather bland.

Hey. How have you been? Have you watched any interesting films or live-action shows recently? I saw Tokyo Story, In the Mood for Love, and Pygmalion. They were good films. I didn't think I'd like Pygmalion, especially since it's from the 1930s, but it impressed me with its good dialogue and story. For live-action shows, I recommend The Americans and Better Call Saul. I watched some of HBO's Oz last week. I didn't think it was a good show, but maybe it was good for the '90s.

Aside from the villains,can you extrapolate how do you think the Fowards (Erio, Caro, Tia, Subaru) and the side/minor characters are insteresting (sorry for deleting your previous comments, I was attempting to delete my comment which is pretty much a rambling rant but I accidentlally deleted yours)

Idk man I love outlaw stars but it's non linear storytelling and that ending completely disappoints me to this day. As for Stand Alone Complex it shits on LOTGH in what it's good at, Psycho Pass is pretty good, Ergo Proxy while good i still find it pretentious at times, Haven't tried Bebop so no comments on that

But i still believe Lotgh's character design are spectacular for such an old series, It competes with Onisama e anime in terms of realistic character design for me, while I really love GITS and is absolutely a rabid dog Stan of GITS, I was disappointed by Motoko's character design tbh, The 1995 one doesn't feel vulgar cause, Idk man i just did not feel uncomfortable compared to the SAC version, She looks like a fucking whore in sac, I have never seen a police officer dress like a hooker still her design is cool but the clothes look out of place, Kamiyama tried to replicate the manga's dressing style but absolutely forgot that Masamune Shirow is a weirdo, and he is the type of guy who is into this kind of stuff. Motoko's weird season 1 dress also attracted some weirdos in the fandom who are not for the immersive story or lore of GITS but for something else, But all in all SAC still has a spectacular animation with actually decent cg and good character design but I still prefer Hiroyuki okiura's character design, it really attracts me towards Motoko not in a sexual way but something else like her eyes are really hypnotizing. Like damn it was so Hypnotising that i watched it for 13 times by now, Even more than one of my personal favourite movie Scarface, i watched it for like 7 times only. The 1995 version is really special with moody atmosphere and ost, Like it's better than most of the iyashikei bs out there

Hi ktulu, sorry it took me so long to write back. I've had a slightly hectic life situation these past couple months but it's settling down now.

America seems like the purest representation of Capitalism as a country, almost to the point where you can argue it's run by corporations, so it has all the problems of that economic system in very extreme degrees. Here in Canada workers rights and public access to resources like health care are much better but the people have a lot of the same attitudes that are common in the U.S., like an absolute lack of empathy for the poor and homeless. It's really depressing. How much better is it in Europe? I know a lot of the continent has an excellent standard of living but you do still get European corporations like Nestle doing horrific shit overseas. I always find it hard to understand Christian belief because it seems to me that the Bible isn't internally consistent enough to really base a way of life around, so they all just pick the parts they feel like following. However I think you're right that one of the things that is genuinely consistent, especially in terms of Jesus' teachings, is that condemnation of greed and hoarding of wealth, so those megachurches really are super sick - arguably still less fucked up than the business of American medicine though!

Yeah, I'd love to see Pokemon TCG 2 get the Star Fox 2 treatment, I played through the first one earlier this year and it was a lot of fun to get this snapshot of what the card game was like in its first few expansions. I found out that the Stadium games actually are on the Switch Online service but without support for Game Boy cartridge features which... were kind of the whole point of the games. Not only do we have to deal with Nintendo being slow to port their old games but also they sometimes bugger it up completely. Interestingly though this did lead the fans to start exploring a metagame around the Stadium rental Pokemon much more than had been done before.

Ah okay, I think I can see what you mean about the Gen 7 story. Lusamine was definitely one of the most memorable characters for me as I think I said before. I wouldn't mind giving Moon a replay one of these days, it's one of the only Pokemon gens I've only gone through once.

I did end up finishing Scarlet and playing the DLC, along with Team Star I also appreciated the professor's story and how her motives to discover something so extraordinary with the time travel were understandable even though the narrative also makes it clear that you have to dismantle her dream. I do think it's fair to say Scarlet/Violet has the best story in Pokemon, but I also find myself wishing the actual *telling* of this story content was a little better - both the Team Star and Professor plots are largely explained to you in dialog after the fact which I feel diminishes the impact somewhat compared to seeing them play out for real. I ended up having a similar approach to you for the new optimization stuff, I thought about doing online matches for the first time in years for a while and then just...didn't. In the end I think I agree with you about the open world, it wound up becoming too annoying to keep switching out my team for lower level areas and I just stopped doing it. I've played Diamond/Pearl a lot but mostly just because they came out when I was still in elementary school playing Pokemon with my friends, I don't think they're sacrosanct or anything and agree HGSS are the best Gen IV. For my top 3 I'd add gen 3 for nostalgia and I guess Gen 1 because I like oldschool jank... wow I'm actually the bigger Poke-boomer out of us! I think time has really shown that the Gen 5 designs are a lot less charming, it seems like so many of those Pokemon have been largely forgotten by the fanbase. It's too bad because I think in terms of design choices Black and White were actually very solid.

I guess I'm preaching to the choir here but yeah so many things about the "culture war" on the internet these days and the perception of DEI are just so unbelievably stupid to me that it's funny until I think about how sad it is. Braindead takes like being upset X-Men is now woke are already hilarious, and what's particularly baffling is when people say that "cancel-culture" and being obsessed with gender are "woke" phenomena when you have people calling Disney films demonic for having dialog scenes saying that boys can kiss - not to mention if you open almost any history book and read about the hundreds of years of people being tortured, killed or imprisoned for writing anything that went against the cultural norms of the time regarding sex, gender, religion, etc. Then you have people passionately fighting to maintain a social order where what clothing you can wear, what media you can like, what jobs you can have, and who you can date are all rigidly decided by gender accusing anyone else of being obsessed with the concept and it's just so funny. There is definitely a tacit admission in the fear that media is "indoctrinating" kids into being LGBT that they need to be indoctrinated into being straight which makes for a really weird ideology when you actually examine it. It is definitely way closer to the truth to say that people are indoctrinated into being straight than the reverse, I remember growing up and having the idea of same sex relationships never mentioned until I was around eight and then condemned every time they were from then on. The older I get the more I think that caring about other people's sexual orientation is just a complete waste of energy which makes it really sad to think about how many people have been subject to violence for such a pointless reason. For what it's worth you're really not missing much with Strange World. I think you're right that its approach shows the slow march toward this greater representation when compared to something like Gargoyles but the latter definitely trumps it on its merits as a work of fiction. btw I recently watched Amphibia (which I thought was pretty good,) so now Owl House is definitely my next Western cartoon, I'm looking forward to it because I've heard only great things including from your review.

I mainly said u don't like old anime cause of your ROV Rose of Versailles and LOTGH review even if i hate it, i still enjoyed it more compared to Code Geass which is kind of similar, I think most of the characters in CG are incomprehensibly stupid

also can u name some sci fi which are better than LOTGH just wanna check out which sci fi series do u like

I meant bad in the sense, She's hot

Most of those problems are same as mine and also the whole slow ass pacing annoys me to death, I have similar problem with code geass, That the enemy is so dumb enough to be tricked easily by the main guys, Basically Lotgh is a two man show, Yang and Reinhard, Rest are for the name sake, Most of the good tacticians simply fails in comparison to Reinhard except for that Old man who I think switched from empire to Planet Alliance, And the politics is pretty unrealistic too, Like how in the world can the two nation be so stupid enough to be used by Fezzan, Most of the leaders are simply incompetent in this series, "The greatest anime of all time" what a joke.

I call it Legend of the Galactic Poop for a reason

Also when I once commented "Why do u hate old anime?" I was mainly pointing out your LOTGH review, I hate Legend of the Galactic Poops myself, but that 2 star is too much, I mean come on, It still does way better than most of the rebellion and political anime out there, It still holds up to this day

Can I ask what is your first exposure to Nanoha

But Genie from Rune Soldier is kinda bad tho NGL I also like myself some black muscle mommy too

Read the ace of diamond review, its clear you've never played a sport in your life (or perhaps had any semblance of activity based on your list) and despite having seen and reviewed hundreds of anime you still don't understand the medium or storytelling in general. Many such cases!

didn't read the whole KareKano review just jumped in to your Final thoughts. Agreed with you, I actually have the ambivalent feelings toward the directing, as for the characters I think they are refreshing to see in my case coz maybe of the types of anime i've watched over the past couple of months.

I actually have yet to watch a lot of the stuff you've seen

was thinking of picking up penguindrum, and was linked to here from your review.
squid girl above AOT and having same rating as vinland saga is enough context.
but ngl there are a lot of lowkey names that I've gotten from your list that I need to pick up so thank you for that.