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Oh man, I started Clannad After Story and right out of the gate it produced tears... of laughter. Nagisa's father decided he wanted to put a ragtag baseball team together to compete against a rival shop and one of the players they managed to recruit was a guy named Yoshino who was apparently really popular and someone a lot of them looked up to. It took a little convincing to get him to join but he obviously knew that people looked up to him because his first at-bat resulted in this: Then his second at-bat: I just love that everyone else is more or less playing it straight and trying to do well and this guy is just absolutely obsessed with living up to his role model status and making sure that he creates these "lasting memories" for all the people that look up to him. Just awesome. But episode 2 started getting a little weird. Nagisa's mom is pretending to be Sunohara's (Okazaki's delinquent douchebag friend) girlfriend to help encourage him to get his life on track. But Sunohara thinks that she is actually Nagisa's sister and they are all fully aware of this and playing along anyways. Please don't let this go to a dark and gross place.

Uneven terrain. Our only hope for stopping the robopocalypse.

I finished Clannad. There were parts of it I didn't like that felt a little too disjointed with the rest of the story (like the Fuko arc and some of the stuff with the genius girl) but the rest of it ended up coming together pretty nicely and I'm happy with the way it concluded. I'm still having a hard time though comprehending why they threw some of that supernatural stuff into an otherwise normal story about high school students doing high school things. It just detracted too much from the main story and didn't really go anywhere or result in anything meaningful. But taking the less favorable stuff out, this show managed to grab my interest with the high school drama and relationships in a way that Kids on the Slope didn't. The characters were more interesting, they acted way more mature and did less of that "I'm giving you the cold shoulder" bullshit that Kids on the Slope kept trotting out over and over, and the relationships that came about felt more natural and believable. Spoiler for the rest. All in all, I enjoyed this show and if you trim away some of the fat, it has a really good core. I'll be moving on to Clannad After Story next and am hopeful that they keep the focus on the things that worked for me and have zero coma ghosts.

If there was a god, she would be a kitten.

For me, the payoff in Steins;Gate was huge and I feel like in the last couple episodes, everything tied back into the events in the beginning about as perfectly as you could hope. I actually didn't care much for the show in the first 12 episodes or so but I loved everything after that and it's probably my number one favorite anime now. No guarantees that it will work for you though as I enjoyed all the stuff you aren't enjoying.

Journey Walking Dead Episodes Gone Home Last of Us Left Behind DLC (I think this is available standalone now) Loom Punchout!

For better or worse, my stance is to basically never trust anything the police say. There are so few repercussions that cops ever have to face for their actions and I truly believe it is a deeply corrupt system. How can a system with no accountability not be corrupt?

So gamergate should be all over this right?

Via the weekly update, Gjallarhorn will remain a year 1 exotic. I'm still confused though as to why they would even go through the bother of nerfing it if it isn't going to scale to year 2 stats. Makes me think and hope that there is more to be revealed at some point. Also, fuck Xur.

Pretty much this. Working out is the worst and it's boring and I also hate it. My preference was just to start eating super healthy and do zero exercise and I dropped like 40 pounds in 8 months. And JRPGs are definitely fun too. Way funner than exercise.

Yeah, it's certainly been entertaining to watch these arcs build up, reach their conclusions, and then the next episode everyone's moved on to something else and whatever huge important thing had just happened is now something they couldn't give two shits about.

I like Matt Damon. What did Damon ever do to deserve Damon hate?

Clannad update. On the off chance someone actually cares about spoilers, I'll go ahead and spoiler this one.

I got a chuckle out of this. The last one is especially solid. DBZ cast redubs some movies

Ninety-Three, this might be a helpful way to look at some of this. I'm sure we've all experienced that shitty situation where you do or say something unique or clever and then somebody else turns around and repeats it and everyone thinks they are awesome and have no idea that it was really you that thought of it. It's a douchey thing to do and people that do that kind of stuff are shitty. With the jazz example, I think it's kind of the same thing. They created a style of music that was unique to their culture and then white people took it, made it popular, got all the credit for how great their music sounded, and never gave due credit to those who actually deserved it. To me it is pretty clear how that is a super shitty thing to do. It's basically cultural plagiarism.

Honestly, you're probably right. It's just so fucking weird and hard to extrapolate what will potentially come out of this demonstration. At the very least, it will hopefully force some people to face some of the ugly hypocrisy in this country. I can just imagine right wing gun nuts all over the country watching the demonstration on TV and having an existential crisis when they see non-white people exercising their right to bear arms in the same brazen way they do.

Clannad finally started to pique my interest last night. The Fuko arc finished a few episodes ago and now the focus seems to have shifted towards the girl genius and some of her mysterious past. And then suddenly it became a show where there is supposedly a hidden microscopic dimension that the genius girl's scientist parents had found but then something horrible happened and a mysterious man wants to tell her he's sorry for shit. This show is kind of hard to process. I can't tell if it's just supposed to be a show about silly high school hi-jinks with some coma ghosts thrown in or if it is a deep sci-fi mystery and some of what is happening isn't what it seems because the main character might possibly have schizophrenia (I think this was alluded to in one of the dreams he had when he fell asleep next to the genius girl who might have like hypnotized him or something?). Whatever this show is, I'm actually starting to like it quite a bit and I'm hopeful this weird trajectory continues and culminates into something much more than the boring high school drama that the first 10 or so episodes focused on.

Man, I caught some of that and my head just won't stop exploding. Talk about a freaking crazy development out of left field that nobody saw coming. I'm having a really hard time figuring out how to process this but my gut is telling me that this will ultimately be a good thing if it goes down as they're claiming (with a line of people armed to the teeth, alternating between BLM supporters and Oath Keepers). At the very least it will be a big reminder to everyone that the right to bear arms isn't a privilege exclusive to white people and that police react to a black person with a gun in a vastly different way than they react to a white person with a gun. Head exploding.

"That pun was stupid and you're a fucking idiot for opening your dumb mouth." should do the trick.

I think this discussion is worthy of a new topic. My opinion is that a $60 price tag is a pretty fair price for many games considering that price has stayed relatively flat over the last 25 years even though development costs (for AAA games at least) have continued to go up. I've even come around to being pretty okay with developers or publishers carving out parts of their game ahead of time so they can release it as paid DLC. Making games isn't cheap and people in the games industry are worked to the bone as it is so I don't mind paying a little extra in a lot of cases. But there's a whole lot of factors at play and I'm sure it's not a black and white issue. Some games seem more fairly priced at $60 and some games don't. Some DLC feels exploitative and some of it is great and can improve the overall experience of a game. Let's talk it out. And also, I'm quoting dartmonkey's question here as I think it is pertinent to the discussion:

Anyone who loves the music in Chrono Cross as much as I do will appreciate this article: http://tay.kinja.com/the-amazing-music-of-chrono-cross-1724009925 Edit: Damn link is acting weird. The article is available on the left sidebar on that page.

I think a better way to look at that exchange is that someone took the time to give you an honest response on how they felt about what you were saying without attacking you as a person. You are looking to better yourself and that type of response is pretty valuable feedback on where you're going right and where you're going wrong. You may not have liked the way namman siggins reacted to some of the language you used but it's kind of a double standard to expect to be able to say what you want without anyone being bothered by it, but at the same time not have any patience for people responding in a way that bothers you. And why would you just bail like that over something so minor? You definitely used some troublesome language and despite that, namman took the time to respond to you, giving you the benefit of the doubt on a lot of stuff and lightly calling you out for some of the stuff that should rightly be called out. That was a totally fair exchange and I've been called out worse than that many times around here when I've acted stupid.

No, she just knew it was a popular thing and assumed it was bad because God or something. Another random thing that was burned into my brain by Ms. B was this thing we had to chant during the last week of school to remind ourselves of what we needed to bring on the last day: "A rag and a bag, a bowl and a spoon and a sandwich... and toilet paper." A rag to clean our desks A bag to put all our shit in A bowl to put ice cream in A spoon to eat the ice cream A sandwich... so we could eat a sandwich And toilet paper so we could roll each other up in toilet paper to look like mummies Students that didn't bring a bowl and a spoon got their ice cream dumped on a sheet of paper and had to eat it with a ruler.

I can kind of buy the argument that college kids can maybe be a bit too sensitive, but I think it has less to do with the current state of our society and more to do with age. When I was in my early 20s, it wasn't all that uncommon for me to get super worked up over things and blow them out of proportion because I was young, naive, idealistic, and just found it frustrating when things didn't work the way I thought they should work. But now that I'm at the ripe old age of 30, it's a whole lot easier to just not get too worked up about things and to understand that there are a whole lot of people with various life experiences that cause them to act in ways that don't make sense to me.

If it makes you feel any better, I've got the entire southwest United States all to myself. If you exclude California.