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So who else likes them Japanese comics? I thought this would be better than clogging up the comics thread where manga posts can get overlooked. I normally stick to vintage manga, mostly work published prior to 1980, but lately I'm in the mood for something modern. I could re-read what's available of Wandering Son, maybe? How's Knights of Sidonia? I hear that's good.

I'm getting a sort of weird nostalgia for the manga I was reading back in high school and college, namely Sexy Voice and Robo. That is a damn good manga.

Oh man, I just remembered this for the first time in nearly twenty years. Curse you all. These movies were almost certainly terrible (they were direct-to-VHS and produced by the Puppet Master guy), but I fucking loved dinosaurs as a kid so of course I was gonna love a trilogy of shitty films about kids with tiny dinosaur pals.

For stuff on Nintendo consoles, I'd most recommend Xeodrifter, Cave Story, the Metroid Prime trilogy, and -if it ever leaves the Japanese eshop- Metroid: Zero Mission. Super Metroid goes without saying.

I made another thing.

Air Bud gradually became the bane of my existence for a while. I remember thinking the original movie was alright when I was a kid, but by the time I got my first job at a video store, the "Buddies" spin-off series had started. They cranked those things out ridiculously fast, so every few months the trailer reel that plays 24/7 would include forever-looping footage of some hapless puppies that were clearly not enjoying themselves dressed up in uncomfortable-looking costumes and being dubbed over with terrible dialogue. Kids ate that shit up and we were constantly out of stock on most of them. I remember enjoying Homeward Bound and Babe though.

I've known about the existence of this for ages but never actually seen any of it. I choose to retain my assumption that it's basicall G.I. Joe with more Columbian Neckties. Also, don't forget Robocop.

The industry is getting a lot better at making CG animation that preserves the look of traditional animation.

E.T. just never gets cute for me. I also dislike the Ewoks. I've come around on practical effects vs CG in a big way recently. I feel like a lot of the artists who created practical effects got very attached to them, because -on top of the way that artists get attached to their work, something I know all too well- they're something tangible that you can see and touch and get all the more deeply invested in because of it, and the way that DVD features and movie magazine articles would constantly gush over the effort that went into them, I think a lot of that pride in the result rubbed off on the audience. I definitely appreciate the care and investment and love that went into making a lot of them, but at the end of the day they're just not convincing. Puppets tend to be stiff, slow and weightless; and very rarely actually resemble a real animal. Things like E.T. or The Thing or the Alien Queen or whatever are very impressive to me from a mechanical standpoint, but I don't for a second think of them as real, which still means that they've failed their intended purpose. (of course there's tons of bad or dated CG and the occasional practical effect that still looks great, like Jurassic Park. Also, squibs are better than CG blood every time)

E.T. (the character, not the movie) is fuck-ugly and creeped me out as a kid. He reminds me of the creepy, uncanny, overly-detailed CG versions of traditionally 2D cartoon characters we keep seeing, except much more obviously a stiff puppet.

I saw The Goonies for the first time a few years back and I didn't particularly like it either. Studies show The Goonies actually sucked.

They're almost certainly never going to put any of the Pokémon games on VC, since they wouldn't be compatible with any of the new games. I've had a 3DS since launch day and a lot has changed pretty significantly. I was listening to some old Bombcasts from 2011 the other day, and I had completely forgotten that there wasn't even an eshop at launch.

Has anyone here read Beautiful Darkness? I read a preview of it and it was pretty fantastic. I'd like to know if it's as consistently excellent as those first few pages.

Holy crap, I can't even imagine what it would be like to have a 3DS go through four years of updates at once. It's gonna be like owning an entirely different console.

I beat Xeodrifter and started Sakura Samurai today! Both are actually pretty fun little games.

The new Terminator also feels like kind of a transparent way to get Schwarzenegger back, even though he was always a terrible actor and will contribute nothing now that he's no longer as physically imposing as he once was. I'd prefer it if they didn't make more Alien; because the more details you learn about the Alien, the less scary it gets.

In happier news, they caught a group of people in Halifax yesterday who were planning to go on a shooting spree before they could do it So I heard is was supposed to snow today, but kind of felt like it wouldn't. I looked out the window this morning to check and... 404 outdoors not found.

I think it's one per game.

Roses are red Violets are blue Omae wa mou shindeiru

I feel like a lot of these aren't just trying to appeal to nostalgia; but pull in new audiences into known, safe franchises by abandoning canon.

I forgot how much I like sewing. I made this little bag I posted in the 3DS thread today. Already I've had people reach out to me about buying one for themselves, but I have no idea how I would do that. I have a tendency to be very bad at evaluating the value of my own work. This took something like five hours to make and the materials are expensive, but I also wouldn't personally buy one from me even if I were only paying the equivalent of minimum wage, because that'd be really expensive.

This thing is so glossy that I decided I needed a case. So I made one. (it's two layers. The inside is soft and fuzzy)

I'll probably be around on Sunday. Just shoot me a PM or something.

Works for me. I just hope the codes work in this region.

So I got a black new 3DXL today. ZL and ZR let you page through the Home Menu. 10/10.