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Auspice · Mar 31, 2020, 9:30 PM

Heck, the story last week between Tobin and Leif was really touching.

THEY MADE STRIFE BETWEEN BROS RELATABLE AND TOUCHING.

Runescryer · Apr 1, 2020, 1:40 AM

New Anime....

BOFURI (aka 'I Don't Want To Get Hurt So I'll Put All My Points Into Defense')

Just started up January of this year; simulcast with Subtitles on Funimation's streaming site.

Maple is trying out her first VRMMO, New World Online. Her friend, Sally, isn't there to help her at the start due to having to study. Left to her own devices, Maple decides...'I Don't Want To Get Hurt So I'll Put All my points Into Defense'. And begins unintentionally breaking the game. She can't move fast with an Agility of 0, but she's an unstoppable tank that surives everything thrown at her. And she keeps getting skills and equipment drops that keep multiplying her unbreakable defense.

The game devs keep trying to nerf her...only for her to find some other combination of skills that cause a whole new set of problems for the devs. Quickly, Maple develops a fan base among the players who adore this sweet, unstoppable monster as the guild Maple and Sally form with other misfits starts rising through the ranks.

Sword Art Online with more moe and less 'why the Hell haven't they shut this game down already?"

Ominous · Apr 1, 2020, 4:27 AM

@Runescryer said in Good TV:

Sword Art Online with more moe and less 'why the Hell haven't they shut this game down already?"

Because the players were neurologically connected to the servers and shutting it down or disconnecting them before the game was beaten would kill them. Also SAO was pretty terrible; however, this sounds kind of adorable.

EDIT: Man, that would be a hellish game to start having connection issues while playing. The Aussie players of SAO were fucked.

Runescryer · Apr 1, 2020, 4:29 AM

@Ominous Well, yes. For SAO. Then (almost) everyone got freed. Then came the second game; Aelfheim Online. By the same effing company. And then the third game, Gun Gale Online, and 'oh, we've fixed the system; no-one's going to die here....' And that's when the murders began.

Jaded · Apr 1, 2020, 4:36 AM

@Runescryer
Bofuri is easily one of the best anime that had come out with the most recent season. They did a great job with it.

ZekeTheG33k · Apr 1, 2020, 1:15 PM

@Jaded said in Good TV:

@Runescryer
Bofuri is easily one of the best anime that had come out with the most recent season. They did a great job with it.

I completely agree. This anime has me laughing at how ridiculous Maple is. It reminds me a lot of Bleach and Dragon Ball, in the sense that... Oh. You can do that. Well I can do this.. The power creep of Maple is insane. She gave up on being human for sure

Runescryer · Apr 1, 2020, 7:07 PM

@Seamus And the thing is...

She's not even trying to break the game. She's a non-gamer that hasn't had exposure to how these games work before. She's the embodiment of the Gordian Knot solution; such a simple and obvious answer, you wonder why nobody's never tried it before.

Weapon dissolved? I EAT THE POISON DRAGON
I got a skill from doing this? I wonder if I do the same thing to another monster, I get a different skill?
I can't run, but I have a ranged intercept move I can use

It's not her fault that the game devs put in all this outrageous, stackable skills and abilities contingent on a player doing something no veteran game player would ever think of doing.

ZekeTheG33k · Apr 1, 2020, 7:41 PM

@Runescryer said in Good TV:

@Seamus And the thing is...

She's not even trying to break the game. She's a non-gamer that hasn't had exposure to how these games work before. She's the embodiment of the Gordian Knot solution; such a simple and obvious answer, you wonder why nobody's never tried it before.

Weapon dissolved? I EAT THE POISON DRAGON
I got a skill from doing this? I wonder if I do the same thing to another monster, I get a different skill?
I can't run, but I have a ranged intercept move I can use

It's not her fault that the game devs put in all this outrageous, stackable skills and abilities contingent on a player doing something no veteran game player would ever think of doing.

Oh I get that, that's what makes it funny. Like falling asleep and getting nibbled on by low powered monsters makes her defense raise higher. That's kind of the charm of it for me. She is just playing from a logical non-player stance. Where as any gamer, like Sally, knows how to focus and balance, Maple... yeah she doesn't. And Syrup doesn't help either.

Runescryer · Apr 1, 2020, 10:06 PM

@Seamus I also like that most everyone, even in the opposing guilds is pretty chill. Sure, Payne (and most of Holy Sword, for that matter) may be an arrogant prick, but he gives respect and honor when it's due to Maple and her crew. The only character that I consider to be a greifer/a**hole would be Shin (Flame Emperors, does the split sword thing); and even then, he's really mild.

There's reasonable complaints from opponents that Maple is just way too OP, but no-one is taking to the Pub Channel (for instance) and having a total b**chfest about it, like what would happen in pretty much any online game. No-ones publicly calling for Maple to be banned for cheating or hacking, even the random scrubs that she's powered her way through in the events.

Jaded · Apr 1, 2020, 11:13 PM

@Seamus
I will say I think some of the funniest moments is the dialogue in the "forums" at the end of the episodes. Just reading that has me cracking up. But I do find that I laughed a lot during the episodes.

And the artists did well with the "surprised expression" animations when she'd reveal something new and totally incomprehensible. Just loved it.

Auspice · Apr 8, 2020, 4:10 AM

Finally watched this week's Zoey and homg. Fight Song in ASL.

Excuse me, there's onions all up in here.

ZekeTheG33k · Apr 8, 2020, 5:09 AM

@Auspice said in Good TV:

Finally watched this week's Zoey and homg. Fight Song in ASL.

Excuse me, there's onions all up in here.

OMG yes. I took me a minute to figure out the melody, but once I did.. There were LOTS of onions around. It was an epic scene.

Auspice · Apr 8, 2020, 7:26 AM

@Seamus said in Good TV:

@Auspice said in Good TV:

Finally watched this week's Zoey and homg. Fight Song in ASL.

Excuse me, there's onions all up in here.

OMG yes. I took me a minute to figure out the melody, but once I did.. There were LOTS of onions around. It was an epic scene.

It's one of my favorite songs, so I noticed it on the opening cords and then she began signing and just TEARS.

silverfox · Apr 8, 2020, 3:13 PM

I've watched it all the way though twice, and I'm going on my third.

West Wing. I imagine for a bit we have a president who gives a fuck.

Alamias · Apr 8, 2020, 3:14 PM

@silverfox Would be nice, wouldn't it? (Yeah, I know...take it to political.)

Aria · Apr 8, 2020, 8:39 PM

@silverfox said in Good TV:

I've watched it all the way though twice, and I'm going on my third.

West Wing. I imagine for a bit we have a president who gives a fuck.

Oh, God. I did a full West Wing watch a couple of months ago and when I was finished, I literally sat there and cried.

Poor insomniac asked me what was wrong and I just wailed that I wanted Jed Bartlet.

Cupcake · Apr 9, 2020, 2:49 PM

I've watched 3 episodes of Motherland: Fort Salem and I still don't quite know what to make of it. Thoughts, anyone?

The worldbuilding is pretty cool, but the premise in and of itself is a bit whackadoodle. I think it might be too much for the casual tv watcher to handle.

ZekeTheG33k · Apr 9, 2020, 3:11 PM

@Cupcake I like it. It's not perfect, but it has a few interesting things going on. I'm excited to see where it goes.

surreality · Apr 9, 2020, 3:15 PM

I'm liking it, too. It's different, and I have to second 'the worldbuilding is pretty cool'.

Also, a small-but-not-insignificant part of me just knows the incel crowd surely has a bigger hateboner for it than The Handmaid's Tale, and that always tickles just a smidge.

Groth · Apr 9, 2020, 6:57 PM

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

I've watched 3 episodes of Motherland: Fort Salem and I still don't quite know what to make of it. Thoughts, anyone?

The worldbuilding is pretty cool, but the premise in and of itself is a bit whackadoodle. I think it might be too much for the casual tv watcher to handle.

I haven't actually watched it yet, but isn't the premise basically just 'What if elite soldiers were magic?'. Depending on how they choose to play it, it could easily fit in next to the likes of Top Gun, 24 or Homeland with magic instead of fighter jets.My biggest concern before watching it would be how much it plays into fascism and imperialism and I'm hoping it will be a good undermining of those elements rather then embracing it like many other military themed shows.

Edit:

After having watched 3 episodes I feel like they've taken an interesting premise and then just.... not really done anything with it. It's mostly just a bunch of random relationship drama that I have a hard time paying any attention to because at no point have they made me care about the characters yet. 3 episodes in I can't really tell you what drives any of the characters aside from their urge to fuck eachother in semi-public spaces.