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Uh, I never found Slacks funny, but what happened?

In a sweeping act of goodwill:

Welcome to Payday hell

You might experience what I did, which was an inability to put the show down. Like I said in my long blog post about LotGH, it starts out pretty slow, but following the first season climax I was hooked. It's really good if you can get past the initial episodes (Which aren't bad mind you, just not as good as the rest of the show). Speaking of things that are really good: "Seirei no Moribito". This anime is basically my wet dream. It's got all the qualities of a good Samurai story, but without all the clichés that follow, because it's not actually a Samurai story. It follows a female warrior named "Balsa" whose past is a mystery to the viewer. All you're told in the initial episodes is that she "once took the lives of eight dear people" and she now works as a bodyguard for hire in an attempt to find atonement. She will not rest until she herself has saved the lives of eight people. This anime has a number of things that really sells it though, besides the "Wandering warrior haunted by ghosts of the past" trope. Animation. It is fucking gorgeous looking. It's made by Production I.G. so it is not too big of a surprise that it looks good, but this TV anime has better quality than many animated films. Setting. Even though it might look like we're on planet earth somewhere in Asia, we're not. This world has two moons and the culture that surrounds Balsa is a mishmash of Chinese and Japanese squished together to form something unique. World building. I can't really explain this very well but there is something about the world of Seirei no Moribito that just makes so much sense. It's not an anime that spends literally entire episodes on exposition (See: Fate/Zero) but instead just makes it feel natural by the sheer detail put into the world that surrounds our heroine. It feels realistic, even though the show includes supernatural elements. You'd probably have to watch it to experience what I mean. NO FUCKING FANSERVICE. NO DUMB LOLI DEMIGODS. NO STUPID "EMBARASSING" MOMENTS. NO "KONO HENTAI, ECCHI, BAKA"... So far anyway. The truth of the matter is that I've only seen the first four episodes (4/26) of Seirei no Moribito, but with the way things are currently looking I will be very very very very very surprised if I find any of the stereotypical clichés that permeate Otaku culture in this anime TL;DR: If you like medieval/martial arts/fantasy/samurai themed stuff, give Seirei no Moribito a try. I can almost guarantee you will like it.

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Apparently, we're making memes about not liking memes? I don't get irony. Or stupidity. I'm going back to playing Techies. Still bad, but getting a bit better each time.

reading a webcomic I got linked and this gem showed up

Everything is Awesome (Wicket) FINISHED: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bykzn2FRXgdbUXMxLXBNWU9GZTA/view?usp=sharing

I'm here to speak with you about a very important issue that we in the Dota2 community face everyday, memes. Memes are infiltrating our ranked queues. Memes are infiltrating our in-houses. Memes are raping our mothers and killing our fathers. The World Health Organization has traced the source to a subset of extremely toxic streamers. This group of streamers is led by the one called SirActionSlacks. If you ever come in contact with SirActionSlacks, please do a 360 and moonwalk away from his stream. Unfollow and unsubscribe. If you do this, we may still have a chance. I dream of a future where Dota2 is played in parks and playgrounds, in office and student lounges, and even in the bedroom, completely free of memes. Please support our cause.

None of that answers my question. How is NV any less "space marine" than 3? As for your other complaints, almost all of them are answered in game besides the settlements thing, which is mostly based on technical limitations. A big 3d game is a hell of a lot harder to add more people to than the isometric 2d previous ones. NV had a head start by 90% of the assets being created already. Besides that, Megaton did have a water source (though not a very clean one), utilizing old water pipes that presumably drew from the lake not too far away. And subsisting mostly on scavenging and trading and hunting isn't too far fetched consideration ng their status as one of the few trade hubs for traveling caravans. All of your complaints about FO3 are either nitpicks or minor continuity errors, when they're not outright borne on a "They changed it now it sucks" mentality. New Vegas is practically identical to 3 in most of those details. It's a continuity error when the Enclave, in control of multiple military bases and hidden stockpiles mind you, has fuel for their helicopters, but not when the Boomers have enough stocked up in one base to fire fucking mortars at everything that moves for GENERATIONS and fuel a bigass bomber jet? Please.