Gyokuyoutama

I've had a change of heart about this. This would only be true if the firewatch devs were in the business of making video games, and it isn't clear that that's the case.

For this to be an act of "silencing the competition", Valve would have to be in the business of making video games.

Why wouldn't they release Eador: Genesis for free instead? You know, the one that people actually play and the one that has a million mods?

Kill me.

Got it. Realized that Mask of the Phantasm was pretty overhyped. Ultimately it's just a pretty good episode of the animated series, like something you would see in a two or three parter (if the show did those). Which, don't get me wrong, is still good enough that I enjoyed it and don't regret the purchase, but at the same time it's hardly anything groundbreaking or all that exceptional. I can see why people would say that it was the best Batman movie when the Schumacher movies came immediately after it, but that's really more of a reflection of how bad those were than how great Phantasm was. Besides, even at the time the claim was obviously false because of the existence of Batman: The Movie starring Adam West.

(Had this happen when I was foolish enough to say something in German at the Munich airport.)

>Coworker retiring >Everyone signing a card >By the time that it gets to me, almost everyone has already signed it >Every single person wrote "Congratulations" with their signature >Never anything more or less, the exactly phrase "Congratulations" >Seriously consider writing "Wark Wark!"

And literally the only reason that Larry is staying is so that he can call himself things like "champion of the Channel Awesome hunger games."

Do the little slide things on the character cards actually stay on, or do they slide at the slightest hint of a touch? As far as I remember, the severe warping issues were a bit more limited, but every copy of the game that I've seen had horrible sliders.

Corv did you ever make that fan set?

Now that I think of it, are there any examples of good shounen martial arts shows where the main character isn't a tricky asshole? EDIT: The only counterexample I can think of is Rurouni Kenshin, and I don't know if that counts in the genre.

Only western super hero whose series is worth reading is Hellboy. I guess Doc Savage and the Shadow are pretty cool too, but since they predate comic books I don't know if they count.

Dragonball's biggest problem was that it started as a gag martial arts manga. Because of this, the characters often did ridiculous things early on simply because they were funny. Most notably, Roshi blows up the moon for a joke before Goku even faces his first (somewhat) serious set of villains in the form of the Red Ribbon Army. At the time it worked because it was really just a gag and no one really cared about how ridiculously powerful someone who could perform such a feat would have to be. But this caused a huge problem as the show became more serious and more obsessed with relative power levels (even putting an exact numeric measure on them) since there was pretty much no place to go visually to show that someone was stronger than Roshi. Even if a villain blows up a mountain, it's not really much compared to blowing up the moon. The villain can't blow up the moon, since it's already blown up, and if he blows up Earth there's nowhere for the story to take place anymore. The series could still up the emotional punch by having beloved characters get injured or die, and it did have some success in doing this, but after you do it enough the audience isn't affected as strongly anymore, and the combination of the senzu beans and dragonballs meant that neither injury nor death was a permanent problem anyway. Thus all the series really can do is arbitrarily decide that character A is more powerful than character B, and as such when character A attacks character B character B takes damage but character A is fine. However, the series no longer has a credible way to demonstrate this power visually or emotionally. The series should have either stuck to its gag roots, in which case none of this would have mattered much, or if it wanted to become more serious it should have scaled back the size of the conflict or alternatively put characters against so ridiculous of opponents that the only way that they had a chance of victory was through victory. Ranma 1/2 had success with the former route. Jojo's bizarre adventure famously had a lot of success with the latter route (just imagine if Part 3 had revolved around a race of super-super-vampires who were even more powerful than the pillar men). I think that Toriyama tried to do some of this by being just a little more creative with side characters, but ultimately it was too little too late. Even if Vegeta or Piccolo or Krillin or even Tien (who probably has the most interesting movelist, not that the series remembers anything about that) became the main character, we'd quickly get tired of their moves as well because the series would still ultimately be about continually fighting opponents who are arbitrarily more powerful than the last, but which aren't in any way more impressive than the last, which are then overcome by having our heroes become arbitrarily more powerful than the villains at the last minute.

How long until this gets an anime adaptation?

ヘーマスタ！アイアムマドサイエンチシト！イツソコル！サッナアビチュ！

This is part of why Yu Yu Hakusho worked so much better, despite having a lot of the same gimmicks (such as protracted tournament arcs). The only character who couldn't catch up was Kuwabara, and even then they were able to extend his relevance another arc by making the villain's plans revolve around his abilities in particular (as opposed to his raw strength).

I legit thought that Uma Musume was a joke. But now I guess it's real. I guess you could say this about a lot of shows though.

Imagine if Dragonball had stopped following Goku after he beat Piccolo, and instead became a baseball manga following Yamcha's exploits.

Every sound effect from Johnny Test.

I'm not one to normally recommend games, because it's certainly not like I work for any video game company and I don't get any personal benefit from other people buying games, but nevertheless I have to recommend Skyrim for the Switch. Now I know what you're saying: I already played Skyrim years ago when it came out, so why should I buy it again? But have you considered how much more immersive the experience would be with the motion controls of the switch? And that's without getting into the ability to easily take the game and play it on the go. You'll really notice how much care all those fine folks at Bethesda put into every nook and cranny when you are able to put in short sessions of play on the bus or during your lunch break at work. But I hear you say: isn't it kind of silly to play such a visually impressive game on so small of screen? Well if that's your worry, why not just get the new Skyrim VR experience? Remember that feeling of awe that you got the very first time that you played Skyrim? I can guarantee that you'll have the same experience times ten when playing Skyrim VR for the first time. It's worth buying a full VR system just for this one game, believe me. I never thought that any port could be so good as this one. The fine folks at Bethesda really outdid themselves. Now you may be saying that as utterly amazing as Skyrim is in each of its incarnations, that it will inevitably get stale over time. That's why I recommend also getting the special edition of Skyrim. The game has an integrated mod workshop system. For a low price you can get nearly endless amounts of new content. I think you'll really enjoy what we're planning to do with the Nexus in the future.

Had something like this happen to me once. Ran into someone in the grocery store who knew my name, where I worked, my basic personality, talked like we knew each other well, etc. Had no idea who the hell this was. Turns out it was the janitor at my place of work. That is, the only janitor who had worked in my section and who had worked there for at least two years while I was there. Felt like shit when I realized this.