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Motto
Aug 3, 2013

It let people anonymously ask stuff that could be publicly answered without a character limit, yeah.

Darth Walrus posted:

Wasn’t Ask.fm also shady? I remember there was a reason everyone switched to CuriousCat.

At least on mobile it started hammering me with lovely ads.

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Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Yes but that's true of Auralnauts Wars:Star Wars in general.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

hes right

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

anime is cylically self-reproducing trash by obsessive otaku and washout art students who couldn't hack it in real jobs or schools

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

nowdays stuff gets picked up and published straight from their deviantart equivalent so

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

:thunk:

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

I meant BotL.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Max Wilco posted:

Going somewhat in line with what Lamps said, though, I remember someone saying that anime twenty-thirty years ago was a lot more 'globalized', in that it had a more broad appeal in its content (sci-fi shows like Gundam or the like ). Nowadays, it feels like it's more insular, or rooted in Japanese culture to a point where you need knowledge of Japanese cultural norms to get a better context. In those cases, sticking to original dubbing and subtitles feels more appropriate.

This is just one example from years back, but they aren't totally unaware of how the last decade or so of industry trends are unappealing internationally.

quote:

Just left a seminar on overseas broadcasting where there was a breakdown of what overseas anime fans want. In particular, Shirobako was used as an example of what not to do.

Supposedly the scale of the story was too small. This makes me remember when I was in elementary school, I would often be called up by my teacher to do a math problem on the blackboard only to be introduced as an example of how to do it wrong.
https://amp.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/4curn1/pa_works_ceo_kenji_horikawa_on_shirobako/?__twitter_impression=true

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6mG3U4vaY

Superbunnyhop on Eidos' "Project W" and SE's general mismanagement of its western acquisitions.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuUGrtmjQfY

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Yeah, but if I recall correctly mostly in the form of stuff like text logs that would be easy to shove in late in dev.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

GoneRampant posted:

People like Errant Signal (who hasn't made a single good video since he left Spoiler Warning) who were looking for deeper political meaning in this game are comparable to people who try and strike gold in a silver mine; they're looking for something that was never there in the first place.

No? He's upfront about not expecting much, if any of an intentional message in a modern AAA game. He's talking about what you're left with in that void since you can't actually just "say nothing".

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

https://deorbital.media/the-game-of-the-generation-58ab544630cb

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

I mean, Automata did genuinely get a lot of play and accolades compared the original's most memorable coverage being the guy who couldn't follow quest markers.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

It was a big company's smaller budget game versus another big company's system seller for the year. It's cynical to say, but game penetration comes down to marketing dollars and few if any gaming sites punch above the level of those that are currently posting dozens of Infinity War clickbait links because that's where the clicks are.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

I only barely know of thundercats having been a thing in my 20s, so I dunno what pull the IP would have with current kids to begin with.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

:shrug: it just looks cartoony to me

e: though that said I have memories of watching the he-man reboot despite having basically zero knowledge of the original besides memes to this day

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

trends and/or influences are just a part of creation, and while stuff that breaks the current mold and maybe inspires a new strain of works is cool, taking recognizing it as a slam dunk on any individual work is lame imo.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Sephyr posted:

Ok, I gotta ask this: Is having a laggy connection really such a boon in playing online fighting games? I see dopes like DSP and others blame their losses on the opponent "cheating with a bad connection and doing lag combos", and it just eludes me. Living in South America, having a bad connection always meant being delayed and bodied by everyone else in every game, but I'm not big of fighting games so I'm not sure the netcode compensates or something.

Or I may be giving them too much credit.

The idea is that there are simplistic strategies that function under laggy conditions and are employed on someone who's playing conventionally and getting disrupted by it. I think there's some kernel of truth to that in the sense that when a player has a laggy match they'll naturally avoid doing a lot of precise inputs, which is why online play isn't considered 1:1 to local.

Of course DSP being himself just calls online inherently mega laggy and that losing proves that he was fighting scrubs.

Motto fucked around with this message at 23:31 on May 21, 2018

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Tired Moritz posted:

most good animes are movies tbh

anime movies are getting taken over by TV franchises tho

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

It's also way easier to make decent merch. Even with the pricey stuff for collectors, molds of actual people have a tendency to look odd.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

im woke

wish was sleep

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

piss

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

That's pretty much it. dyed hair is a common aspect of negative feminist stereotypes.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

TLJ is good but like all better Brand movies it's mostly a rec to watch the director's movies not chained to the Disney machine and their Star Wars Canon and Plot Committee.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

*whispers* virtual youtubers

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Chip's LPs are crazy meticulous though, in both covered content and editing.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

It sucks since their humor channel was pretty good.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

These days people actually complain about Pokemon games leveling your whole party too fast for some bizarre reason.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/994628954144362499

;) I don't actually think this

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Conal Cochran posted:

Does anyone know exactly what FilmCritHulk tweeted about socialism today?

https://twitter.com/chabantyabann/status/1007053938674184192?s=19

e: ^ lmao

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

business hammocks posted:

What’s the problem with twitter? I’ve never seen anything good come from it? All the worst people in my dsa chapter are terminally on it and don’t do anything other than pick fights.

I use it without issue, but platforms meant for use by literally everyone on earth and only moderated with an eye for maximum profitability via selling data and ads are always gonna be a bad time.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

If association with shithead nerds could sink something, pop culture as we know it wouldn't exist in general.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Yeah, people made fake homophobic Instagram captions of her until others assumed they were real.

this is a 14 year old btw

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

I could see it either way; it being an earlier work before coming up with a structural justification for constant references, or a churned followup that took a reference-hungry audience for granted.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

I like how he keeps phrasing it as if SSM hasn't already been achieved in the US to make it look like a concerned opinion and not an admonishment.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Boogie talk made me look up his bit at the Game Awards and god is it farcical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV2h9wWj4_Y

Corporate Representative: these are the Gamers that speak unfiltered to the Fans
*montage of screaming YouTube men*

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

I don't think it's especially explicit since monhun is never super story-heavy, but I think the backstory is that it's one of those surprise post-apoc settings and most of the big destructive monsters are byproducts of whatever happened back then.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

The funniest thing about DmC's narrative is that outside the scenes people talk about it's a pretty flavorless narrative, to the point that those notable scenes seem out of place when most of the time Dante is a vaguely concerned piece of cardboard pulled around by his two supporting characters.

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Motto
Aug 3, 2013

It's an affront to god so yes

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