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I started season 3 of Ozark and immediately lost all interest in it, it's like what happened when I started the first episode of Westworld season 2
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Inspector Hound posted:I started season 3 of Ozark and immediately lost all interest in it, it's like what happened when I started the first episode of Westworld season 2 You should keep going because it's actually the best season so far.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:53
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C2C - 2.0 posted:You should keep going because it's actually the best season so far. Alright I'll keep chugging, it just kind of dawned on me like two minutes in that basically all the bad guys were dead and he was just running a casino now. Also I may have been too sleepy for the last couple episodes of season 2 because I don't remember the casino ever actually opening, but that would obviously be on me
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Apr 30, 2020 13:56
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The casino opening is literally the last scene of S2.
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Apr 30, 2020 15:30
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C2C - 2.0 posted:You should keep going because it's actually the best season so far. It honestly does feel a bit melodramatic in the first half, but that might be because they didn't want the stakes in the back half to be too jarring.
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Apr 30, 2020 15:54
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Is it some sort of meta-commentary that Ghost in the Shell SAC 2045 looks cheaper than a PS2 cutscene? I'm about 3 episodes in and it just feels really jarring that Major Kusanagi & Co are rendered like they are extras in Toy Story.
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Apr 30, 2020 16:07
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I skipped through the first episode and noticed three things, 1) Yes, it actually does feel as much like a video game cut scene as everyone says, due to its incredibly stiff animation, laughably flat direction, and cheap/bland production design, 2) In 20-loving-20 the series is still obsessed with framing shots around tits and rear end, and 3) Absolutely nothing of interest happens whatsoever. I hear that it (very lightly) explores some interesting themes as it goes, but the whole thing felt so utterly lifeless in the first episode I'm not sure why you'd bother getting invested. I couldn't really get into the franchise outside of the original movie anyway, but I really should be the prime demo for this sort of story. IIRC it's the same studio that's behind the upcoming (?) Blade Runner animated series. So hopefully they were either planning to stick with the look of the BR2049 prequel animation for that to begin with, or the backlash on SAC2045 means that they've pivoted.
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Apr 30, 2020 16:32
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That new Netflix show by the creator of Adventure Time is really boring. It's literally a fake podcast with random animation playing throughout it.
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Apr 30, 2020 17:42
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punk rebel ecks posted:That new Netflix show by the creator of Adventure Time is really boring. It's literally a fake podcast with random animation playing throughout it. counter point it’s amazing and has a lot of great discussions and ideas on top of incredible animation
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Apr 30, 2020 17:44
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Extraction was a fun action movie that wears its John Wick influence on its sleeve and all the best parts of Winter Soldier in its direction (stunt coordinator is director here) but it absolutely is a white savior film and I think it may be the most frustratingly egregious one I've ever seen. In a lot of "American in a foreign country" action films the protagonist is the central character and everyone else is either outright evil or morally ambiguous like the cop in Taken or literally everyone in Temple of Doom. But Extraction has Indian actor Randeep Hooda playing as a retired special forces soldier who has to rescue his drug lord boss' son or else his own family will be targeted by his boss. He's set up as an action movie protagonist, he's an absolute badass whose physical acting outclasses everyone else, but as soon as Hemsworth's character arrives on scene all character development for him vanishes. It was such a baffling decision that it actually negatively impacted my viewing as every scene I'm wondering how this guy will fit into the bigger picture but it never happens. punk rebel ecks posted:That new Netflix show by the creator of Adventure Time is really boring. It's literally a fake podcast with random animation playing throughout it. I think the audio is edited from actual podcast episodes, I'm not familiar with Duncan Trussell, but the first episode gave me Dr. Katz vibes just with an actual budget. al-azad fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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Apr 30, 2020 17:45
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Just finished season five of Better Call Saul Just finished the penultimate season of a tv show and it still loving feels like it's desperately trying to find some kind of identity. IMO brining in the cartel and Gus Fring more kind of killed any momentum the show has. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't really give a poo poo about some Cartel guys squabbling over territory where we already know the fates of all the major players. It feels like they really wanted the characters back, but those chzracters in their natural habitats is just not interesting. The reason those characters were so compelling in Breaking Bad was in contrast to a weak dying family man who was slowly hardening and adapting to the world. Don't mean to poo-poo the show; I like elements of the show a lot but it feels like around season two they decided what the show "would be" other than a one-season origin for Saul Goodman and what they decided on was profoundly misguided. IMO you can watch the first season and understand everything about who Jimmy is and how he got to where he got when we meet him in BB and the entire rest of the show is unnecessary.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:11
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Inspector Hound posted:Alright I'll keep chugging, it just kind of dawned on me like two minutes in that basically all the bad guys were dead and he was just running a casino now. Also I may have been too sleepy for the last couple episodes of season 2 because I don't remember the casino ever actually opening, but that would obviously be on me It's really weird because I was 100% sure I had watched all of season 2 and remembered it ending with the scnhells(sp?) killing the cartel guys but when I got ready to watch season 3, I still had 3 episodes of season 2 unwatched and sure enough I hadn't seen any of them. I don't know what happened there.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:18
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Calico Heart posted:Just finished season five of Better Call Saul I like Better Call Saul a lot but I fully agree it has an identity crisis.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:22
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veni veni veni posted:It's really weird because I was 100% sure I had watched all of season 2 and remembered it ending with the scnhells(sp?) killing the cartel guys but when I got ready to watch season 3, I still had 3 episodes of season 2 unwatched and sure enough I hadn't seen any of them. I don't know what happened there. Same basically but my memory stopped with the casino kind of still being uncertain and what's her face killing her husband Weaponized Cum posted:The casino opening is literally the last scene of S2. Oh yeah that's the prime nodding zone
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Apr 30, 2020 18:29
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Also Halt and Catch Fire never gets the love it should because of a weak first season and that's depressing. I liked s1 but the ending was the dumbest I've ever seen. It played like a joke on viewers. The series is fantastic though.
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Apr 30, 2020 19:12
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holy gently caress is brews brothers just a streaming pile. i am seriously reconsidering even having a netflix account. the characters are just blank: generic dim guy, generic tough girl, generic genial man, generic douche. they aren't "characters" they are joke delivery systems. and they seem to be running some sort of experiment in how to ruin a joke? because they will tell the exact same joke three or four times and they'll ruin it in a new way each time. the show takes place in a brew pub. it looks like a brew pub.  big windows, lots of light, beer prominently on display. i can not reinforce enough how much this brew pub looks like a brew pub. in the first scene an extra sits at the bar and the main character, a generic genial idiot, greets him "hello sir, would you like a beer? i serve beer!" "oh, no thank you, i would like a dildo." "what? why would you think i sell dildos." "well, there are three x's in your sign." "AW now i see the joke!" and they go to the back where he talks about beer. after that zany scene we introduce the characters who simply explain their characters to the audience. "i like things casual!" says generic genial idiot, "i want free beer and to party and i'm kind of dumb. watch me insult genial idiot to his face making me not likable and him pitiable because he doesn't stick up for himself" explains generic dim guy ruining the ability to root for both characters with one line. generic tough girl enters and is tough. "I just cleaned up three messes by taking quick, no nonsense action. now watch me put up with nonsense, even listing some of it, and do nothing about it for no reason." which ruins both the goodwill the character was given and negates the only character she was given. we then get a repeat of the sex shop joke but with a twist: this time it's the same joke told just as poorly, but one of the character points out that it's a joke! "i don't sell dildos, why does everyone think i sell dildos? would you like this beer called 'stiff rod'? AW now i see the joke!" "like a penis!" yes, thank you for pointing out the joke twice in the same scene two scenes after the same joke was explained to us twice. look "comedy" is a science, what makes you laugh is subjective, "what's the difference between a snowman and a snowwoman? snowballs" might not make you laugh, but you recognize the structure of the joke. comedy is about timing and rhythm and reveals and surprise. the scene above COULD have worked if the place wasn't so clearly established as a brew pub, if the confusion was understandable. the reveal of the sign "well there are three x's in your sign" is absolutely ruined because the sign is a generic "exxxtreme rods" sign in sports extreme font. i'd believe the character would have mistaken it for a vin diesel fan club before a porn shop. the timing on everything is off, they're either pausing for laughter (there is no laugh track but there are noticeable pauses after some jokes) or just filling in every gap with "like a penis!" type joke lampshading. this would be embarrassing on youtube. how the gently caress are these talentless hacks getting loving tv shows??
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Apr 30, 2020 21:10
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InsertPotPun posted:this would be embarrassing on youtube. how the gently caress are these talentless hacks getting loving tv shows?? Streaming services need all the content they can shove in the firebox to keep the boiler running even if it's flaky lignite.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:53
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They've got the guy that lied about being at the WTC on 9/11. Clearly the show was going to be poo poo
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Apr 30, 2020 21:57
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I watched the trailer for it and not a single joke was funny or well executed and I'm guessing that was their sizzle reel of the best jokes.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:20
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Brews Brothers is wretched. The Sheldon of beer guy is so abrasive you can understand why he’d be kicked out of an entire region and yet no actual humor comes of it you just find him unbelievable. Not that I’m saying BBT is funny this is just less so with less believable or relatable characters, somehow.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:25
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Haven't watched Dredd in a while so I looked up where it was available to stream. It's available on a streaming service called Pluto.TV which has a bunch of movies on demand and also live tv channels which run with ads. Ads suck but maybe I'll get lucky like watching You're Next on TubiTv where they just put a single commercial before the movie. So I go to Plutotv and quickly realize that there's no search option at all. I page through a bunch of Action listings and then a bunch of SciFi listings but don't see it. I sign up for an account with a throwaway email thinking maybe they've locked things like the search feature behind providing an email address. Nope. No search at all. I go back to Justwatch.com and look it up there and click the link for plutotv there. I'm finally I'm able to pull up the movie which is listed as: Dredd (LAS): https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/dredd-(las)-1-1 It's dubbed in Spanish. So hey, if you want to watch Dredd in Spanish, Plutotv has got you covered.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:05
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I started watching Community for the first time on Netflix, and it's pretty fun!
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Apr 30, 2020 23:32
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Jolo posted:Haven't watched Dredd in a while so I looked up where it was available to stream. It's available on a streaming service called Pluto.TV which has a bunch of movies on demand and also live tv channels which run with ads. Ads suck but maybe I'll get lucky like watching You're Next on TubiTv where they just put a single commercial before the movie. So I go to Plutotv and quickly realize that there's no search option at all. I page through a bunch of Action listings and then a bunch of SciFi listings but don't see it. I sign up for an account with a throwaway email thinking maybe they've locked things like the search feature behind providing an email address. Nope. No search at all. I go back to Justwatch.com and look it up there and click the link for plutotv there. I'm finally I'm able to pull up the movie which is listed as: Dredd (LAS): https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/dredd-(las)-1-1 I bought Dredd on Blu Ray for like $4 and recently watched it on my PSVR in 3D set to the imax sized screen and it was glorious. It was like seeing it in theaters all over again. Best use of 3D i've ever seen in a movie. 4 bux well spent.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:40
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I keep an old 3d 1080p monitor hooked up to a ps3 pretty much solely as a Dredd and Avatar machine.
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May 1, 2020 00:14
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veni veni veni posted:I bought Dredd on Blu Ray for like $4 and recently watched it on my PSVR in 3D set to the imax sized screen and it was glorious. It was like seeing it in theaters all over again. Best use of 3D i've ever seen in a movie. 4 bux well spent. You know, I haven't done this with the psvr and a 3d movie yet. I should just buy it. It was oddly unavailable on Blu-ray on Amazon near Christmas last year.
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May 1, 2020 00:24
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Brews Brothers is wretched. The Sheldon of beer guy is so abrasive you can understand why he’d be kicked out of an entire region and yet no actual humor comes of it you just find him unbelievable. you can have unlikable characters but the writing better be loving stellar, or give them a redeeming quality (and be consistent). veni veni veni posted:I watched the trailer for it and not a single joke was funny or well executed and I'm guessing that was their sizzle reel of the best jokes. "all races drinking together is the german way." "no it's not." *other character points to her* the trailer is also edited far better than the actual show. god i blocked out the sex people. guys: they have sex. did you know...they have sex? they are two adults, having consensual sex. would you like to see his rear end and part of her left cheek? well too bad because they will turn around. they have sex. it's introduced like a skit from pee-wee's playhouse too, the characters are inside talking when they hear a noise offstage! and they run out to the pre-recorded segment of the two people who have sex. uuuuuuuuuuuuggggghhhh
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I really enjoyed Halt and Catch Fire and I also think it's a great name. Catchy, cryptic, and semi-relevant. I eventually got to the point where it was just wearing me out, though. Everything is so tense.
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May 1, 2020 00:54
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Jolo posted:Haven't watched Dredd in a while so I looked up where it was available to stream. It's available on a streaming service called Pluto.TV which has a bunch of movies on demand and also live tv channels which run with ads. Ads suck but maybe I'll get lucky like watching You're Next on TubiTv where they just put a single commercial before the movie. So I go to Plutotv and quickly realize that there's no search option at all. I page through a bunch of Action listings and then a bunch of SciFi listings but don't see it. I sign up for an account with a throwaway email thinking maybe they've locked things like the search feature behind providing an email address. Nope. No search at all. I go back to Justwatch.com and look it up there and click the link for plutotv there. I'm finally I'm able to pull up the movie which is listed as: Dredd (LAS): https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/dredd-(las)-1-1 I should have mentioned that when I talked about pluto, because I did literally the exact same thing you did, but I then saw Blow Out was streaming on there so I just watched that instead.
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May 1, 2020 02:04
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Can you subtitle it in English?
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May 1, 2020 02:15
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Streaming services need all the content they can shove in the firebox to keep the boiler running even if it's flaky lignite. WHY THE gently caress DID THEY CANCEL MST3K? IM STILL ANGRY
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May 1, 2020 02:21
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I've seen plenty of films in 3D in the theaters and Dredd is the only one that I felt "lost something" when I watched it again in 2D on video.
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May 1, 2020 02:22
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rich thick and creamy posted:Is it some sort of meta-commentary that Ghost in the Shell SAC 2045 looks cheaper than a PS2 cutscene? I'm about 3 episodes in and it just feels really jarring that Major Kusanagi & Co are rendered like they are extras in Toy Story. Japan can not wrap its head around what kind of 3d animation looks like poo poo and Netflix funded a 3d animated 3 part movie called godzilla and its what you just watched but way loving worse
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May 1, 2020 02:23
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I don't know if it's been up for very long but Hulu has both Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile. I haven't seen them in like 30 years since they used to air on HBO all the time. I'd forgotten how fun these movies are.
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May 1, 2020 02:27
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Junkie Disease posted:WHY THE gently caress DID THEY CANCEL MST3K? IM STILL ANGRY Is there a place that has a good chunk of episodes or is it still a "look around for bootlegs" situation
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Inspector Hound posted:Is there a place that has a good chunk of episodes or is it still a "look around for bootlegs" situation youtube is still the most complete collection I've found. There is an official MST3K channel, but those episodes are usually full of ads
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May 1, 2020 02:31
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Jolo posted:Haven't watched Dredd in a while so I looked up where it was available to stream. It's available on a streaming service called Pluto.TV which has a bunch of movies on demand and also live tv channels which run with ads. Ads suck but maybe I'll get lucky like watching You're Next on TubiTv where they just put a single commercial before the movie. So I go to Plutotv and quickly realize that there's no search option at all. I page through a bunch of Action listings and then a bunch of SciFi listings but don't see it. I sign up for an account with a throwaway email thinking maybe they've locked things like the search feature behind providing an email address. Nope. No search at all. I go back to Justwatch.com and look it up there and click the link for plutotv there. I'm finally I'm able to pull up the movie which is listed as: Dredd (LAS): https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/dredd-(las)-1-1 There’s dialogue in that movie?
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Junkie Disease posted:Japan can not wrap its head around what kind of 3d animation looks like poo poo and Netflix funded a 3d animated 3 part movie called godzilla and its what you just watched but way loving worse People know what does and does not look like poo poo, it’s just budget and time. High Score Girl and Dorohedoro are CG and look great but the 1998 Starship Troopers series looks better than that GitS show. Hobbyists posting their experiments in Blender on Twitter are producing better stuff than GitS but I’m positive some exec was like “we need to release something in X time with Y budget or we’re laying off half the staff.” It’s pretty wild to me how much game designers are trying to look like animation, look up a game called Sable if you want to see what a game designed by Moebius would look like. But for the most part 3D animated shows are stuck doing these boring “Dreamworks-knockoff” house styles even though the tools to do unique things are readily available.
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May 1, 2020 03:20
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Hey content-starved goons, you might want to check out Windows Movie House for completely free and somewhat legal goon-run streaming content.
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May 1, 2020 03:22
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I've been watching All American with my mom during the quarantine and it's pretty good. I'm a sucker for some good football drama and it really scratched the itch. There's a lot, a whole lot, of corny rear end poo poo, but it's got pretty likeable characters and a fantastic performance from the lead actor. The football and family drama is pretty great, but the gang drama is a bit too corny whenever it pops up, and the number of sensitive social issues it tackles it often handles very hamfistedly. Overall it's been a very enjoyable show.
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al-azad posted:People know what does and does not look like poo poo, it’s just budget and time. High Score Girl and Dorohedoro are CG and look great but the 1998 Starship Troopers series looks better than that GitS show. Hobbyists posting their experiments in Blender on Twitter are producing better stuff than GitS but I’m positive some exec was like “we need to release something in X time with Y budget or we’re laying off half the staff.” Yeah I know they know it looks like poo poo but good lord watching a cheap 2d animated show followed by a cheap 3d animated show and its just sad
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