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Discount Viscount posted:I'm playing Persona 3 again. It's all because I watched Azumanga Daioh last week and something about Japanese high school fiction about friendship makes me nostalgic for a high school experience I never actually had. Or maybe the one I did have, the good parts anyway. Or something like that. You should read Zatch Bell. It's about going to school and making friends and shooting a baby with a dragon made of dragons made of lightning.
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Discount Viscount posted:I'm playing Persona 3 again. It's all because I watched Azumanga Daioh last week and something about Japanese high school fiction about friendship makes me nostalgic for a high school experience I never actually had. Or maybe the one I did have, the good parts anyway. Or something like that. EDIT: If I remember correctly, I lost my completed save too, which is a giant bummer.
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Fat Lou posted:Haha no problem at all, who wants it? Otherwise it is going to be a tag team job. This guy will do it. An English degree followed by a career change makes me never want to write an essay again but gently caress do I enjoy reading them. Of course I will immediately yield to anyone else.
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Aug 24, 2014 05:48
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Anyone know of any good movie podcasts that aren't about current releases, and aren't just fluffy banter between the hosts?
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feedmyleg posted:Anyone know of any good movie podcasts that aren't about current releases, and aren't just fluffy banter between the hosts? We Have Such Films to show You is usually pretty good. Sometimes they get really close to hitting on something only to veer off and it's infuriating though. Only for horror fans though. It's finally sinking in that I moved out and became an independent adult and I didn't die and I didn't have to turn around and go home defeated and I'm going to make this work and it's going to be awesome.
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Literally The Worst posted:You should read Zatch Bell. It's about going to school and making friends and shooting a baby with a dragon made of dragons made of lightning. I knew about the second part but not the first. How's the Gamecube game? CloseFriend posted:Persona 3 is one of my favorite games that I've ever played. I think I even prefer it to Persona 4. I keep meaning to play FES, but Persona 3 is such a long game even without all that material that I have yet to gather the courage. It's like Xenogears, more of a life commitment than a game. My old save is there but I started fresh on Hard because I hate myself or something. And yeah, it took me a month of playing every day pretty much to get through it the first time. 120 hours. When you say FES do you just mean the extra "The Answer" scenario or that you played through the original release? I was surprised SubG had played it, and had something to say about it. He was the first other person I knew to say something about the culmination of the Aigis social link, and I respected that. Discount Viscount fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Aug 24, 2014 |
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So I got someone who has almost no familiarity with anime to watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. They love it, but hoo boy this is entertaining to witness.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Ryan Reynolds' reaction to this thing is by a huge margin the best thing about Blade 3 and that's not saying all that much. Nah it's definitely this
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SALT CURES HAM posted:So I got someone who has almost no familiarity with anime to watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. They love it, but hoo boy this is entertaining to witness. Do not expose innocents to anime. There is still hope for them.
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weekly font posted:This guy will do it. An English degree followed by a career change makes me never want to write an essay again but gently caress do I enjoy reading them. You're hired! Your starting wage $0/hr but you can eat that week old sandwich in the back of the fridge.
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Aug 24, 2014 07:24
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Do not expose innocents to anime. There is still hope for them. Jojo loving rules though. I'm looking forward to having disposable income so I can buy it. The manga I mean. Not the anime. I can't watch anime for some reason.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Nah it's definitely this This is considerably funnier than anything I've ever seen Ryan Reynolds do. Literally The Worst posted:Jojo loving rules though. I'm looking forward to having disposable income so I can buy it. The manga I mean. Not the anime. I can't watch anime for some reason. Anime sucks! ::Reads thousands of anime comic books::
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Discount Viscount posted:When you say FES do you just mean the extra "The Answer" scenario or that you played through the original release? There's something about the character designs of the Persona games that always really grabbed me. Kazuma Kaneko did the first two games and the monsters that show up in all the games and he's probably my favorite concept artist of all time. Shinichiro Soejima did the designs for Persona 3 and 4 and he's no slouch either. poo poo, I just remembered that I need to save up for Arena Ultimax too.
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Aug 24, 2014 07:28
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Today I saw both The Double and Calvary - both extremely solid films, but I think I liked the Brazil-y ambition of The Double just slightly more. Regardless, in no way was I expecting to get a Chris O'Dowd double feature out of it.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Nah it's definitely this I know what this is without even clicking on it. And you're right.
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Aug 24, 2014 07:37
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Cool Hand Luke and Easy Rider made for a pretty dope double feature.
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Aug 24, 2014 07:38
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I had a bit of an eclectic entertainment block tonight. Watched The Great Escape, then played the last 2 levels of The Last of Us: Remastered, then watched the season premiere of Doctor Who.
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Gonz posted:then played the last 2 levels of The Last of Us: Remastered 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:The ending's loving brutal, eh? "Brutal" is a good word for that ending. I mean, fuuuuuuuuuuck.
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CloseFriend posted:poo poo, I just remembered that I need to save up for Arena Ultimax too. I want to play that but at the same time I never bother to get even halfway decent at most fighting games. I collected a ton of them because we played a bunch in college but now it's like... ehhh. And even playing for the story... I feel like I don't need any more from Persona 4 and I look at the new characters and the one from the Vita release and I'm like, "Nah, that's fine, I'm good." That's what I tell myself anyway.
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CPL593H posted:This is considerably funnier than anything I've ever seen Ryan Reynolds do. That's not what I said buttmunch.
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Aug 24, 2014 07:55
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For at least the next day or two, the Simpsons marathon on FXX is the greatest thing ever. I love being able to turn on my TV and watch a classic Simpsons episode with zero effort. 
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I know putting DVDs on requires more than zero effort, but does everyone not own the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons?
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At the Cannibal Holocaust screening. Robert Kerman is doing QA and brought the original pole from the movie!
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Kevar posted:I know putting DVDs on requires more than zero effort, but does everyone not own the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons? I do in fact own 3-10 on DVD. I am that lazy.
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Kevar posted:I know putting DVDs on requires more than zero effort, but does everyone not own the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons? So seeing them on the marathon is nice. Some of them I've seen recently on the local station that plays the show, but a lot of them I haven't seen in years.
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Six String Samurai is almost criminally sedate for the kind of movie it presents itself as. I want to say it wasn't very good but then I watched it in a double feature with Phantom of the Paradise, which is one of my favorite movies, so I'm kind of doubting my own calibration. I will however say that it's totally one of those movies thats too busy being self-congratulatory about its premise to really act on said premise to full effect. Also its weird that everyone is talking about the Persona games because I just picked up FES on the cheap because I've heard good things and I'm basically going into it blind. Literally The Worst posted:Jojo loving rules though. I'm looking forward to having disposable income so I can buy it. The manga I mean. Not the anime. I can't watch anime for some reason. I have to admit that the anime is kind of dragging its feet adapting part three, but then part 4 is my favorite and I'm just impatient to see a man heal a crippled biker to perfect health just so he can beat said biker back to crippledness again with a clear conscience.
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mr. stefan posted:Also its weird that everyone is talking about the Persona games because I just picked up FES on the cheap because I've heard good things and I'm basically going into it blind. I think seeing it in that PSN sale is also part of what triggered me playing it again. I went in blind, too, and ended up enjoying the hell out of it.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:No, I don't. My dad bought seasons 1 and 2 on DVD back in like 2003 because those are his favorites, but I never bothered to continue buying the rest after that. I guess I figured there were too many of them so I wasn't even going to try. I bought them all as they came out so it was easier to keep up. Although it looks like they're around $20ish per season now. That poo poo was like $50 when they were new. Criminal Minded posted:I do in fact own 3-10 on DVD. I am that lazy. I am also this lazy, but I don't have cable so I ended up watching all 12 episodes of Bojack Horseman. Not terrible, but should have been better given the stacked cast.
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It really just needs time to find its legs. I hope Netflix gives it at least one more season.
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Did Escape Plan just have an overtly muslim protagonist (trying to escape from a Guantanamo Bay analogy) for Americans to not only root for, but also sadly cheer on when he, dying, defiantly says "Allahu Akbar" and for us to despise the man who responds with "Whatever" before gunning him down? That's cool. Dissapointed Owl fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Aug 24, 2014 |
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mr. stefan posted:Also its weird that everyone is talking about the Persona games because I just picked up FES on the cheap because I've heard good things and I'm basically going into it blind. mr. stefan posted:Six String Samurai is almost criminally sedate for the kind of movie it presents itself as. I want to say it wasn't very good but then I watched it in a double feature with Phantom of the Paradise, which is one of my favorite movies, so I'm kind of doubting my own calibration. I will however say that it's totally one of those movies thats too busy being self-congratulatory about its premise to really act on said premise to full effect. Discount Viscount posted:I want to play that but at the same time I never bother to get even halfway decent at most fighting games. I collected a ton of them because we played a bunch in college but now it's like... ehhh. And even playing for the story... I feel like I don't need any more from Persona 4 and I look at the new characters and the one from the Vita release and I'm like, "Nah, that's fine, I'm good." Persona 4 Arena is on the upper end of fighting games in terms of mechanics, too. It's one of those fighting games—like King of Fighters or Rage of the Dragons or BlazBlue—with so many different mechanics that it's pretty much made exclusively for hardcore players, without a gently caress given to casual gamers. Criminal Minded posted:I do in fact own 3-10 on DVD. I am that lazy.
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Cannibal Holocaust: I forgot / blocked out whole parts of that movie apparently. So hosed up. Glad I saw it in theaters. Haven't seen an audience this uncomfortable since Killer Joe. Edit: SOL: HOLY gently caress 2 MINUTE EARTHQUAKE\ Edit2: SOL: nothing fell over but the ground shook like gently caress. Surreal to have seen Cannibal Holocaust in theaters and then seeing somebody forgot to turn the lights off and set the alarm at work at 2:40am and then coming home to an earthquake at 3:00AM Jigoku fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Aug 24, 2014 |
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TwistedLadder posted:Or you could avoid that entire dichotomy by not trying to hook up with somebody that it didn't work out with the first time around? But that wouldn't be as entertaining for the rest of us. Also, Dissapointed Owl posted:It's French.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Did Escape Plan just have an overtly muslim protagonist (trying to escape from a Guantanamo Bay analogy) for Americans to not only root for, but also sadly cheer on when he, dying, defiantly says "Allahu Akbar" and for us to despise the man who responds with "Whatever" before gunning him down? Yeah. That movie was pretty solid and I wish more people had seen it.
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I've been trying to get lots of people, but especially CloseFriend, to watch Escape Plan since it came out.
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It's fun and good.Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Yeah. That movie was pretty solid and I wish more people had seen it. Schwarzenegger's still got it. He was pretty delightful in this film. "Say Cheese" 
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Kevar posted:I know putting DVDs on requires more than zero effort, but does everyone not own the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons? I own 1-6 and I keep meaning to buy 7-10 but I never want to spend the money.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:It's fun and good. Honestly, it's one of his best performances. It's a shame that the movie isn't that great, but he's having a lot of fun.
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I watched Dragonheart last night. Everything about the plot feels weird and incongruous… Bowen blames Draco for corrupting the prince (even though we learn later that it wasn't Draco's fault), so Bowen swears revenge and spends the next 15 years killing literally every extant dragon but Draco. Eventually, Bowen and Draco meet and fight, but they start working together and become friends. All the while, Bowen fails to recognize the one dragon he wanted to kill, and he never expresses remorse that he killed every other dragon in the world. Draco, for his part, never shows the slightest sign of umbrage that Bowen effectively committed genocide against his species. In fact, it never really arises in the film again. Is this a tactical realism complaint? I'm not crying plot hole or anything, but I just don't think minimizing genocide is very good writing. Vargo posted:I've been trying to get lots of people, but especially CloseFriend, to watch Escape Plan since it came out.
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