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Finally I'd like to explain my reasoning a bit:

Nobody's called my taste shit in a while so I'm going to post the best Anime OP per year, for the last 40 years. To make things clear, these aren't my favorite anime of each year. In fact I don't even like some of these anime. These are simply the anime that had the best openings, both in terms of the music and the animation. To make sure that I don't lose anything in the middle of writing a really long post, I'll put 5 OPs per post and to make things more manageable they'll all be in spoiler tags.

Continuing onwards through the nineties (and without spoiler tags): 1999: Big O 2000 - Vandread 2001: Digimon Tamers 2002: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2003: Wolf's Rain 2004: Samurai Champloo 2005: Pani Poni Dash 2006: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2007: Lukcy Star (ED 5) 2008: Spice and Wolf 2009: K-ON! 2010: Working!! 2011: Steins;Gate 2012: Psycho-Pass 2013: Attack on Titan 2014: No Game No Life 2015: Is the Order a Rabbit? 2016: Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 2017: Little Witch Academia (ED 2) 2018: Uma Musume

EDIT: The board helpfully changed my formatting to a spoiler tower rather than having individual spoilers for each video. Not going to change it at the moment. The long awaited sequel of the best ED's from 1978 onwards: 1978: Space Pirate Captain Harlock

I thought they made Gundam fight a MMORPG instead of a real life tournament (with magic physics) was so that they could have the main characters regularly interact with people from all around the world. Then it turns out that everyone they meet lives close enough to them to easily meet them on a nearly daily basis anyway. I'm starting to think that the whole purpose is to have Erwin Rommel as a weasel.

After weeks of my volume levels randomly changing, but only when I'm not using headphones, I found out that Windows 10 includes a feature where it tries to determine if you are using voice chat and lowers the volumes whenever you are speaking. As far as I can tell, it defaulted to thinking that any time that the microphone picked up noise I was speaking and so the volume levels had to go down. Figuring this out wasn't helped by the fact that the sound settings are split between three different locations for no apparent reason.

The issue is two fold: New sets are putting "build around me" cards more and more into the legendary slot (analogous to mythic rare), where in previous sets they commonly appeared in the gold and silver slots (analogous to rare and uncommon). This means that new rotation decks often need at least six legendaries (two sets of three) and sometimes up to 12 or 15. In contrast there are plenty of good archetypes in unlimited that use golds as their key card (such as dimension shift or rhinoceroach, both of which would almost certainly be printed as legendaries today). The only recent exception to this is the dominant Tenko's Shrine deck, Tenko's Shrine being only a gold, but even that deck has some essential legendary support cards (such as De La Fille and the absolutely ridculous Ceryneian Hind). That's not to say that legendaries aren't commonly used in unlimited decks since they are and there are still wallet decks that have tons of legendaries, but it's easier to find a deck that only requires a few legendaries and over time it's a lot cheaper since you don't have to constantly get new legendaries. Cygames has recently started doing "mini-expansions" where after a month new cards are added to an expansion. These cards are intended to shake up the rotation metagame so usually at least a third of them are essential for certain decks. However, these mini-expansions consist entirely of golds and legendaries, meaning that you can't get most of the mini-expansion by just opening packs. This means that even when you do get a good rotation deck going, you need to blow your vials on more crafting shortly afterwards anyway. But these expansions are too small to offer cards for the various unlimited decks, so you can usually keep doing what you were doing there. Recent expansions have lacked support for many traditional archetypes (such as aggro sword, midrange forest, or practically anything involving blood other than vengeance). You might get a card or two that could be useful, but it isn't enough across the rotation legal sets to build a functional deck. There are also many cards that formed the foundation of an archetype and were never reprinted (such as the aforementioned rhinoceroach and dimension shift). Thus the meta has less options from the start and makes it easier for two or three dominant archetypes to rise up without the possibility of a rogue counter deck to shake things up. In contrast unlimited has so many options that if one thing takes over for too long people will find a counter to bring it down. Things can get pretty degenerate (like that shadow deck that could start summoning zeus, basically a 5/10 with haste and deathtouch, on turn 5, and then summon him again up to 8 more times throughout the game), but somehow the overall meta is more reasonable. EDIT: Up the irons

Every time the radio plays "Love Gun" there's a half second where I think they are playing this:

Somehow in Shadowverse rotation has become wallet deck central while unlimited is where budget decks reign.

Are there any words more terrifying than "the beta has ended, we are rolling out the new version"?

Gundam Build Divers is definitely a better show than Gundam Build Fighters Try, but try as it might it can't make up for its dumb premise. It's amazing how "plastic robots come to life because of mystical fantasy particles and people fight with them in tournaments" is somehow a more manageable concept. EDIT: Also, it appears that we will be getting a new gundam series with the antagonist as "neo neo neo neo zeon"

My favorite part of Jojo's bizarre adventure is how in Part 3 Dio's stand is a huge secret that is kept a major mystery until nearly the very end, but now the very first thing people learn about the series is that Dio can stop time. Kind of like Vader being Luke's father, I guess.

In recent news Darkspore is still dead.

Obviously that's Fokker from Powerstone.

I am considering making a long series of essays on the errors of frequentist statistics and posting them on the Daily SPUF.

But where do ultraterrestrials and the name game fit in?

I stood by when you made a poochy reference in thread, but this new avatar is a step too far. I'll never forget the number of times that bastard left me to die on spikes.

Usually the only reason that I know that Steam is having a sale is because Gog just got done having sale.

Whenever I hear a cat get pissed off the result sounds more like something you'd hear in the black lodge in Twin Peaks. Which makes me think, perhaps if we reversed the audio of cat yowls we'd actually understand them.

Hey, sea's claim was a key card in my Blue Jank deck. Go second. Turn 1: Sea's Claim Turn 2: Dandan Turn 3: Fishliver oil, Unstable mutation. That's 7 unblockable damage, and 28 damage over the long term. How do you possibly stop that?

For 30 seconds, battles last twice as long.

I want there to be some TV show with a talking cat that sounds like a cat would if cats could actually talk. I.e. as some sort of demonic midget.

It is common to have rain followed by a drought followed by rain followed by subfreezing weather for one random day followed by heatstroke conditions.