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Acne Rain posted:why is lapis so op Not a whole lotta places with oceans in the universe though
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Tollymain posted:This is a pretty cool bit of theorycrafting. I wonder how much of it might be correct I don't share the entirety of this deal but I'm down with some of its suppositions. Is anybody willing to lay down their predictions for the Serious Gem Business going on? That way we can go back to these posts a year from now and get smug satisfaction and a vague sense of superiority for having called it. Here's mine. some are obvious and some are dumb: 1. The Homeworld is currently a rump state. There's barely a handful of other Gems drifting through space, but they're hella mean. 2. Rose turned either her own soldiers into monsters to use as weapons against the Homeworld (unlikely), or set off A Thing that corrupted (almost) all gems on earth, friend or foe. She did this because she was under the impression that the change would be reversible in the short term. 3. The Crystal Gems (as in, not Rose's army, but like, the core gang) used to have more members. One of them was the one bubbled in Lion's mane (Bismuth).
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Mar 27, 2015 02:58
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Anybody have any clue as to how long the game is? Can you interact with BC's zany residents? Can you rave with Sour Cream? Is Onion the final boss?
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Apr 2, 2015 13:15
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UG's super-rapidfire humor isn't really my thing, but that was pretty enjoyable overall. I was very apprehensive about it at first worrying about "b-b-but my continuity" but once you realize it's just supposed to be a fun episode to chill and laugh at the jokes, it goes much smoother. Also I'm so pissed off at Pizza Steve. Not only does he mess with the drawing on the same layer, he doesn't even have the decency to do it in a couple of brushstrokes? HE PROBABLY USED UP ALL THE UNDO'S FOR gently caress'S SAKE
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Apr 3, 2015 00:47
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For some reason I imagined Greg to already be a washed-up schlubby man by the time he met Rose, he's a lot younger than I expected. Maybe it's just the clean shave.
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Apr 3, 2015 18:22
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IronicDongz posted:...not that people shouldn't have fun with it but I think occam's razor applies to this in that he probably just didn't want to be seen in an embarrassing situation? Same. Would be cool if any of BC's residents were trans or queer (and I'd frankly be pretty surprised if none of them are shown to be by season three or so), but them's some "hey what if Greg is 5000 years old" - level flimsy grounds
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Apr 6, 2015 02:44
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bigstupidjellyfish posted:actually maybe the reason "island adventure" seems so weirdly out of character for Sadie is that the writers were trying to show off the ways that she can be lovely too so that she'd be on the same level as Lars. except that the show definitely doesn't take that perspective, because the episode ends with Lars feeling bad for what he said (even though it's probably at least a little accurate and his anger was totally justified by the situation) and Sadie angry at him. No I'm pretty sure that's what they were going for. They can both do lovely things. It's just that Sadie killed an invisible alien monster, so her shittiness karma ended up a notch higher than Lars.
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Apr 6, 2015 14:38
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Say Nothing posted:
Well, the beard adds several years, at least: 
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Apr 6, 2015 15:36
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The Gems don't seem to need money. If they ever come across a situation where they might need money, they can either use magic instead of money or use magic in order to quickly have access to money. The end? Anyway I drew a sad Pearl 
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Apr 14, 2015 03:48
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I think we should just wait until the next time Marty shows up, which is bound to happen once season 3 rolls over and Onion becomes the 5th member of the Crystal Gems.
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Apr 14, 2015 05:40
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Yeah, the show seems to be designed around portraying Steven as the emotional core that the Gems were needing, and in a central light, not just "Ma-ti, with the power of heart"
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Apr 18, 2015 14:56
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I'm leaning towards thinking that Lion is just a regular lion. Rose infused it with weird displacement / sonic roar magic, but other than that it's just a big cat doing big cat stuff.
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Apr 29, 2015 15:22
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It's true, though. Pearl -> Lost her semi-transparent undershirt. Connie -> Lost her semi-transparent lenses. Amethyst -> Lost her asymmetrical shoulder strap. Garnet -> Lost her... asymmetrical... pants design? e: Next Amethyst-centered episode will conclude in her hair now freely switching between covering her left or right eye. Because see, her hair is a metaphor for her abandonment issues, and SexyBlindfold fucked around with this message at 02:06 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 3, 2015 02:01
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Macdoo posted:I guess. Maybe they'll sub it out with the sweeter sounding verse from Rebecca's extended edition. That being said, the extended version had a suspicious amount of "lalalalalas". Maybe those verses weren't sung since they contained spoilers?
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May 4, 2015 23:36
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Always post fanart trash.      [x]
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May 5, 2015 20:26
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 [x] have a gift for your favorite space moms on Space Mother's Day
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May 12, 2015 16:53
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I basically see it like, in Steven-Universe-Universe, gem bullshit is treated sorta like the weather. Yeah, sure, it can get pretty bad, houses may fall down, power outages may occur, but it's just, y'know, there. There's probably a brief boring bit after the news where some dude in a suit tries to give an accurate estimation of where gem bullshit is gonna go down next, and the graphics department keeps throwing increasingly elaborate animations and green-screen gimmicks at the Gem Report because the audiences keep switching stations because who caaares what mystical temple will house a legendary battle next, it's almost time for either Charade of Crowns or The Meandering Corpses.
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May 18, 2015 04:19
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Macdoo posted:The thing about Ronaldo is that he isn't a creep. The girls in it probably wouldn't actually be those from Beach City (not explicitly, anyway). It'd probably fit him more if it turned out that his conspiracies and love of anime collided very heavily. All of the love options are imagined members of the diamond authority (and a snerson or two. Maybe even the greatest evil, Koaleople (Koala People)) who just can't resist the dashing, painfully misunderstood paranormal detective Ronald (who is an original character NOT A SELF INSERT who is VERY MISUNDERSTOOD and MYSTERIOUS which is why he is so GRIMDARK AND SCEPTICAL SEE THE CHARACTER CONCEPT BELOW). "Peedee, please. He had a snamily"
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May 25, 2015 16:54
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Flying-PCP posted:Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the hiatus? Unless they really didn't need extra time to make episodes and CN is just being strategic with how they air things due to Summer Reasons The hiatus was never to produce more episodes. There's a shitton of episodes already made and awaiting airtime, plus another amount in late production. Last time we got an update on that part there were, like, as many finished episodes as we've already seen so far, I think? Some 50 or so? The hiatus was always for Summer Reasons, as was the previous one.
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May 25, 2015 23:25
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Interview suggests that the hiatus is going to resume right after the Stevenbomb. I'm mad!!! Interview also suggests a Rose/Greg duet, possibly more Pearl songs, and "heavy" episodes that will make "Lion 3" and "Jail Break" pale in comparison. I'm less mad!!!
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Jun 13, 2015 18:39
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Okay I REALLY wanna know what Connie said now. Probably something like "geometry is cool"
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Jun 14, 2015 17:56
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The finale for this season will be Pearl attending therapy.
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Jun 16, 2015 02:37
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Flying-PCP posted:He hadn't the foggiest idea what was going on, all he saw was a pretty dance and them becoming a new giant woman, why would he not like that? I wonder how they'd edit SU if it was aired in Homeworld. "Garnet's already in a [AUTHORITY-MANDATED FUSION]. She is a [AUTHORITY-MANDATED FUSION]." "Oh you mean 'cause she's a fusion." "Ruby and [HER AUTHORITY-ASSIGNED FUSION PARTNER, BRAD] are so [EFFICIENT], that they can't stand to be apart!"
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Jun 18, 2015 19:25
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axleblaze posted:I think it was clear we'd never get this just by how shocked the gems were that Steven could even fuse with Connie. Well the Gems didn't have to know that Greg and Rose (Grose?) fused. Anyway looking forward to gutpunch #4
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Jun 19, 2015 22:08
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Triskelli posted:Am I the only person that doesn't want Peridot to be redeemed? Or at least not converted. I could give reasons like "she's complicit" or "she's abused her power whenever she's had it", but the truth is that all I want is a hundred episodes her hurling insults and escaping like this: I'm ok with Peridot being redeemed as long as she remains a massive loving dork. I agree it would feel kind of unnatural if P, G or LL were legit added to the main team, but I'd be totally down with them being peripheral characters that show up every once in a while when the CGs need help with the Gem MacGuffin of the day.
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Jul 3, 2015 21:23
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Flying-PCP posted:Haha, I wonder how many people caught on that the room was almost certainly making up some vaguely plausible bullshit for that. He needs to hook that thing up to the internet somehow. Or better yet, never ever do that thing I just said. Everybody knows Golf Quest Mini just ripped off Silent Hill 2's secret ending.
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Jul 9, 2015 00:45
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Oh man they're finally introducing non-sad breakfast on Tuesday. Are you kidding me? Crying Breakfast Friends had such a strong formula, and then all of a sudden the network ruined it by introducing the new "hip" characters last season. Cereal With Sunglasses and Toast That Likes to Dunk are nothing more than cheap tie-ins for their awful toy line. Not to mention they really shat the bed by making the videogame an action platformer instead of a dating sim.
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Jul 9, 2015 19:27
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Hell of a way to start the Steven Bomb. Man, Pearl doesn't have issues, she has volumes, she has tomes, she has anthologies. Always sadder. Always gayer.
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Jul 14, 2015 00:39
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Devious Vacuum posted:If any of the gems do eventually have a total emotional breakdown, especially Pearl, I wonder if that will be used as more of an explanation on how these other gems turned into monsters. I'd say the chances of there NOT being an arc where someone from the gang either goes corrupted or borderline corrupted due to massive pent-up issues and has to be rescued from it through the power of friendship is pretty close to zero. And the chance of that someone being Pearl is, uh, is there an opposite of zero?
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Jul 14, 2015 03:18
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Writh posted:Ya know, I was talking about the fusions with my wife, picking our favorites. During the conversation we realized, at this point Opal doesn't really have a personality that we've seen. Thinking about all the issues wrapped up in Amethyst and Pearl I wonder if getting a prolonged look at Opal would result in us seeing one of the most depressed gems ever. Well they did get Aimee Mann as Opal's VA... there's a great opportunity for a sad song in there somewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c48vs4lwgc
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Jul 15, 2015 03:39
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Crain posted:Was there anyone left who was arguing that Ruby and Sapphire are just really good friends? I think in this particular case most of the cryptomophobes are still clinging to "hmm actually I'm pretty sure Ruby is a boy. Looks like a boy to me. Y'all just want to see lesbians everywhere"
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Jul 15, 2015 05:38
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Crabtree posted:How much poo poo can go down in one episode? I suspect this is gonna get quoted a lot tomorrow night
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Jul 17, 2015 00:45
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Hey, some of the episode previews or whatever appeared to imply there are gonna be two episodes tomorrow. What's with that?
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Jul 17, 2015 01:04
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The two laws of Steven Universe: 1. Always sadder, always gayer 2. Peridot can always be even more of a dork
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Jul 18, 2015 01:22
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Cabbit posted:Based on Pearl they're probably, like, general aide-de-camps. You stick one with a high ranking gem and they act as personal assistants/bodyguards/drivers/etc. Considering how lost Pearl is without Rose, maybe they're supposed to pull a Nogi Maresuke when their charge perishes and that's why Jasper thought she was defective. Since Pearl mentioned in "Sworn to the Sword" that she wasn't "made for fighting", a military role seems kinda unlikely. I'm leaning towards some sort of domestic servant - would explain her affinity for house chores.
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Jul 18, 2015 15:54
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TwoPair posted:Seriously most tumblrs where people try to pretend to be a fictional character are stupid as hell but this person just cranks the stupid up and it's great The blog works because the author understands the core elements of Jasper's personality: 1. She's big 2. She's an rear end in a top hat
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Jul 24, 2015 03:53
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Say Nothing posted:I like the idea that Peridork's gauntlets and boots aren't actually her real hands and feet. It would explain why her proportions look slightly off. You know, that could also explain her ridiculous hair (other than basic shape-based character design). Maybe she's got a Kim Jong-Il thing going on.
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Jul 27, 2015 06:51
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So far the most important important aspect of Lapis' personality is that she likes fart jokes. This will become a pivotal plot point in the show's finale, when the Crystal Gems are transported to Homeworld to stand trial but Yellow Diamond's draconian verdict speech is interrupted by a loud fart noise broadcast through the planet's communication system. And, so, the last episode of Steven Universe will end in the only way it possibly could: with a freeze-frame of everyone mid-laugh, a la 80's sitcom.
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Aug 4, 2015 02:22
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If you're pondering on a possible plot development that would max out the sad and/or the gay, it's gonna happen to Pearl.
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Aug 6, 2015 06:34
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fade5 posted:I would like to congratulate you all for teaching me that there is something more byzantine and confusing than the Middle East, and that it is toy marketing and audience demographics for kids shows. I didn't think such a thing was possible, but The basic logic behind it is, say you're a network and you want to have the biggest possible coverage on the kids market. So you'll need several shows, to appeal to different kinds of kids. So you make, I dunno, Adventures of the Alien Alliance and Zuper Zany Zoo. Which is great, since more shows = more viewership = more $$$. If a kid likes both shows he'll watch them back to back. Great for everybody. But when it comes to toys, marketers treat it as a zero-sum game. If a kid is into both AAA and ZZZ, he'll have to ask his parents for one over the other, which means the toy lines will underperform, because they'll effectively be competing against each other. And since you don't want your two products to be their own competition, you instead decide to segregate your shows so that there's no intersection in viewership. So instead of AAA and ZZZ you'll make Blue Battle Boys and Pink Pretty Princesses. So instead of trying to capitalize on the Kids Who Like Aliens and Kids Who Like Animals demographics, you simply try to zero in on Boys and Girls. Because there might be kids who like both aliens and animals, but (hopefully for you) there are no boys who are also girls. There's the basic explanation. You probably came up with at least three reasons why it's really stupid as soon as you finished reading that paragraph, and you're right, but marketing is the nadir of western civilization 
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