Yeah I’m rereading Dragonball right now and it’s just solid fun. No underlying message or cynical take on humanity, just silly fun.

Sounds good on paper but in the 80s/90s the US people were told 401ks are better than pensions. Now in order to retire we all have to cheer on non-stop expansion of corporations or we can never retire.

Cucumbers and celery. Really the only produce I actively dislike

planet-killing microdickmobiles.

Saw a Ford F-250 recently… Why do people with micro dick energy feel they need these awful vehicles?

If any union makes a deal with Republicans or that lunatic rapist they are out of their minds.

Good to know on the animation front and thanks for the info. I don’t think good animation can save what’s become glaringly soulless production in the anime, but again, I’m trying to be open-minded and I’ll be glad to watch if I hear Daima’s good. Let’s hope Daima has some more heart put into it so it reaches the levels of quality as the Super manga.

the best people that worked on Super.

That’s a low bar imo. I watched all of the Super anime and it was mostly okay with a sprinkle of a cool scene every like… 20 episodes. Of the entire universal tournament arc, only the finales of Goku vs Kefla and Goku/Frieza vs Jiren were hype for me. Vegito vs Zamasu was cool too, but the rest of that fight was botched (a spirit sword? jfc). I’m in the minority probably, but I won’t watch the Super anime again when it continues; I’m sticking to the manga.

I’m trying to be open-minded about this series… but probably will not watch it. Doesn’t look interesting and gives reminders of GT (which is bad).

There are over 1000 Pokemon at this point. There’s bound to be some level of similarity here and there. Gamefreak even designed Pokemon after other creatures, so it just seems somewhat silly to point a finger.

How would you block threads? There are still many things about kbin that confuse me, so asking in earnest.

I’d crank all human empathy levels by 15/100 points to see what happens

Maybe it had some glitches on release

I haven’t heard much about it as of late and won’t comment on its current state, but when it first came out it was a glitchy mess. Several reviewers mentioned how glitchy it was and docked it points. dunkey made a whole video showcasing glitches and odd design choices. It’s a step in the right direction, so they deserve credit, but that doesn’t change its shortcomings at launch.

Kind of seems silly to buy any game developed by Sonic Team these days. They are either half-baked ideas (Sonic with a sword? Sonic as a werewolf?) or glitchy messes with repetitive, cheap gameplay (Frontiers, Lost World). They seem to rarely learn from previous mistakes or grow as a development team, similar to Gamefreak. Both studios are sustained by name recognition.

Watching 4 ads in a video under 6 minutes is bad design.

It’s the worst when you already own a product and then Google buys it, e.g. Nest.

This director doesn’t have many directing credits but seems that worked out well for The Super Mario Movie. His current catalog is averaging around 7 on IMDb, which is a far better indicator of quality than RT, so that’s promising.

I personally haven’t seen a FPS be unique or engaging since the last Bioshock… and before that was maybe the first Bioshock or FEAR lol

The MiLiTaRy Is CoOl vibe from COD and Halo never appealed to me, but Halo Combat Evolved on PC and Halo 3’s multiplayer was at least fun.

Lol - expecting the primary protagonist to be surpassed is a fool’s errand. Toriyama even played with the idea of making Gohan the primary character but went back to Goku.

Concentration camp turned graveyard

we’re all bored with the same product over and over again.

Obviously with the success of the franchise I am in the minority with this belief, but from a critical standpoint 80% of the MCU films are “okay” and just popcorn flicks. There’s nothing wrong with that, but now that has caught up with the viewers and Disney.

Infinity War was special because the good guys actually lost and that alone shook things up for once. Endgame was special because it was the culmination of 10 years of filmmaking and a downright spectacle. Once you drill in beyond those, there are only a few standouts: Winter Soldier, Civil War, Iron Man 1 and Age of Ultron are all standouts in my opinion due to their themes: “what really defines the good guys?”

There are a few others I enjoyed but they had problems: In Homecoming, Feige really screwed up a lot about what makes Peter Parker likeable. Ragnarok was fun but in retrospect it is dragged down in quality by the major screw ups of its successor and its refusal to take much seriously. The misfits of GotG were fun too but ultimately its success really messed up the tone of the entire franchise. None of those 3 really jump out as memorable long-term, either - just fun. The rest are forgettable and almost cookie cutter copies of each other.