She-Ra Facebook Fan Pages: "Look at all of these creative drawings of love between the characters in this show! I love this message of love and understanding! It's amazing!"
Avatar Facebook Fan Pages: "Aang is the best; Korra sucks; and the final scene of The Legend of Korra made me cringe."
Toxic fan-dom hurts, man.
Go back and watch some good cartoons, then, like Adventure Time or Hilda.
I've given up on watching "adult" media, as I don't find it interesting any more.
@ominous said in Leave of Absence:
You live in Yellow Spring? My cousin went to Antoich something like 22 years ago.
No, but I live in the same county and frequent Yellow Springs a lot.
@sunny said in Leave of Absence:
CONGRATULATIONS. I hope you have a good time, and I hope you get some time to genuinely relax.
I'll try, but to be honest the stereotype holds true with me.
That and I'm absolutely killing in selling this legal procedure that I swear will help revitalize my community slowly but surely.
It helps that Dave Chappelle's outspoken advocacy for the area has led to folks like Tiffany Haddish getting interested in investing in the Dayton, Ohio area.
Not terribly important, I suppose, but I am heading on vacation with my family on June 19, 2021 and am slated to return on June 26, 2021. During this time, my availability will be limited.
I will return.
(I mean, I love my family, but --)
@chibichibi said in Idling all day on MU*s:
What's the point of even logging in if you're just idle?
I very much held this belief before.
I think this was because I saw myself as valuable to a game. Why? Because when I play a game, I try very hard to get engaged. And when I engage, as others can probably attest to, I engage. So, when I saw people idling, I believed that their presence didn't add any value to the game.
This may be true.
But the better perspective is examining the harm. While I could conceive of reasons as to why idling folks harm a game, none of them held water. Everyone engages at different levels, and expecting people to approach a game as I do was sort of foolish. After all, my level of engagement, reasonably, set me apart from others, and this was fine too.
So, I see otherwise now.
There is so much frackin' art talent here that I am feeling very inadequate.
@sunny said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I SKINNED MY KNEE. WHO FUCKING SKINS THEIR KNEE AS AN ADULT?
Does rugburn count?
@tinuviel said in Criticism: X-Men Divergence:
That's not what I was talking about. Which is why I didn't quote it.
Okay. Cool.
@tinuviel said in Criticism: X-Men Divergence:
If one is so easily, in their mind, dissuaded from joining, perhaps that is simply part of their desire. To weed out those unwilling to participate in such a way.
If not responding to applicants in a week-and-a-half is deliberate, this is just as much as sign of their willingness to work with the same.
But if this was unintentional, then change seems warranted, as I know few people, myself included, who will wait so long for what seems like an easy response.
Knob Creek is also very good. A little oakey, but that’s not always bad.
Baker’s. Basil Hayden. All very good.
@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I have not heard of this bourbon. I am intrigued.
Angels' Envy has this nice gentle flavor to it. At the same time:
Well, I mean, if it's okay for Disney --
Anyhow, this news makes me:
So, I finished watching Harley Quinn and I really hope they bring it back for another season or twelve.
Unrelated: being up until 3 AM with a stomach ache sucks.
Serves me right for drinking so much bourbon.
But it was Angels' Envy.
@testament said in Good TV:
Exo-Squad was a gem that was unappreciated in it's time.
I concur wholeheartedly. I even watched the entire series recently on Peacock. But you have to admit that the animation was terrible, even for 90s standards. Were there ever a case of "I didn't watch this due to its animation style," this would be a classic example.
Which is why I brought it up. Lots of people, I think, didn't watch the new She-Ra due to its art and animation style. But they are missing out on a gem that is en masse underappreciated. This may be because the style is aimed towards a younger audience.
Even so, the lessons that are being taught to this younger audience are things that need to be reaffirmed again, and again, and again to adults. It's not as heavy-handed as The War for Cybertron: Siege's anti-Trumpian theme, but they are there.
I don't often beg, but I really would beg you give it another chance. The show gets really good after the middle of the first season, where you finish the entire "getting to know you" episodes and begin the entire "now this is what's really going on" storyline. I hesitated to even show it to my girl because, well, I'm not sure how she would digest the dynamics (she's mildly on the spectrum to the point where she picks up way too much from what she observes).
@testament said in Good TV:
Mostly I couldn't stand the animation style. Just couldn't get past that.
You're the second person to tell me this, and I still scratch my head about it. Mostly because I have never watched or not watched a show based on its animation style.
Like, my friend loved A:TLA and TLOK, but couldn't get into She-Ra based on the animation style, and here I am finding Castlevania distractingly absurd in its gory details but appreciating how it tickles my nostalgia vibes.
I honestly have never considered an animation style what makes a series watchable or not, but I also watched all of Exo-Squad and the 90s X-Men series.
I like the trailer, but I prefer remakes that put forward something different.
Banging trailer, but I also liked the trailer for the War for Cybertron series.
