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Another idea: "The Worst Anime You've Ever Seen." Mine is My Neighbours The Yamadas, because Isao Takahata is secretly the best director at Ghibli.

So a brief update on this: We couldn't get the scheduling to work out, so I ended up coming out to him via email last night. I told him about all the shit my parents put me through, how my job situation has been, everything. I haven't received a response yet, and I've been feeling anxious and nauseous the entire time. You'd think this would get easier each time, but it really doesn't. All I can do is wait and hope it works out fo the best, but I'm having a hard time keeping my mind off of things. Also, it's kind of a downer to see the last five years of your life summed up into only a few paragraphs.

FOLLOW UP: -"Thanks, Obama-kun: Western Media Influence on Anime"

I was actually thinking of things like how robots caught on in a big way because they still looked fine if they were stiffly-animated, how transformation sequences became standard because they fill time with old material, or how voice recording is done after the fact to keep schedules tighter. If I were to do a western equivalent, I'd personally be talking about things like Hanna-Barbera's complete domination of TV animation for several decades because of their cost-cutting techniques, or all the barely-animated Marvel superhero cartoons in the sixties.

The sound was excellent. You could hear the Skypiness shine through with certain hosts, but that's more a result of their mics than anything else. Thought I'd springboard a few suggestions for future discussions: -The Big Damn Ghibli Episode -Food in Anime -LGBT in Japan -Episode 2.22: This is (Not) the Evangelion Episode -Summer Wars is Basically a Perfect Movie -Osamu Tezuka -Moe: Threat or Menace? -How Low Animation Budgets Shaped the Aesthetics of Anime -"Gender and Its Place in Japanese Media" (or "Why Women in Hentai Always Sound Like They're In Pain") -Magical Girls -Anime Influence on Western Media

So what's the countdown on someone giving a stage presentation or a Ted talk or something on robotics that ends with the presenter pulling off their faceplate while the real person who created them walks onstage?

I really want the Splatoon ones. Even just the girl, so I can at least get the exclusive outfit. If anyone sees them and wanted to grab them for me, I'm willing -if not presently able- to pay the appropriate amount in cash, artwork, or bags of regionally-exclusive potato chip flavours.

He was originally supposed to have no lines, all of his dialogue was dubbed in.

'grats on the 'puff

This comes out on Monday. I made a thing. It doesn't sync up quite as well as I'd like, but you get the gist of it.

I didn't realize there was a fourth person on the podcast until my second time through. They never talk over each other, which is the weird part.

It's worth noting that they got a package with a t-shirt from their own EVE corporation later that same day and didn't even realize they had one.

First-person almost universally makes me feel nauseous. The only first-person games I've ever managed to finish were the Metroid Prime trilogy and the Portal games. Which is funny, because Portal is already disorienting enough.

Regarding games with strong themes and messages that are still mechanically engaging, I've been thinking for a while now that the first Ace Attorney might have been one of the smartest games of its era. We're still in an awkward adolescent phase where games with very blunt, obvious themes or self-serving metaphors about video games (eg: Bioshock, Spec Ops: The Line) are considered to be high points, and then we have this Japanese GBA game from 2001 about how the Japanese legal system is unjust and horribly skewed in favour of the prosecution. It's obviously not 1:1 because Ace Attorney is entirely scripted events and not systems-focused, but you get what I mean.

What if the payoff at the end is that it's actually an activist game about how pugs can't mate without human assistance?

I wasn't sold at first, but both of these are pretty great.

I am so disappointed that they didn't go for "Show Me The Monkey."

Dr. "Robot" Nick Breckon

I love that this game has a dance remix of the Junes music. Okay, that's all.

Were they ensorceled by the insects?

Wait, if Tails has a full name, does that mean everyone else does too? Is Sonic's last name just "The Hedgehog"?

I saw that posted on my tumblr this morning with the comment that it was "the Rosetta Stone of choreography."

Damnit, I came here to say just that.

I can't stop listening to Flip the Table lately. I have yet to hit a bad episode, even listening to them out of order, but I'd recommend starting with Lingo and G.I. Joe solely to understand the origins of the word "bance" and why they keep referring to one of the hosts as "Professor Laserbooks," respectively. I like the Battle of Wits at the end of each episode, particularly the variant where they take turns trying to guess the ridiculous Buy It Now prices of ebay items.

I've been watching/reading a bunch of yuri lately because I need more gay shit in my life. Do an episode about that.