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The lingo in this thread and 'gate stuff in general is making it unreadable without googling gamergate terms, which is the last thing I want to do.

Kids on the Slope is beautiful. High recommend.

Hahaha I have a funny idea for Dishonored Halloween I agree with letting everyone pick their own episode.

Wait what the fuck this was a sixer? Historical.

From that same article: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/irish-language-version-of-same-sex-vote-text-changed-1.2133577#.VP8XaPh7k0g.twitter

Second. Could have Dinosaurs edit the original post with willing participants and their stuff. I'm willing to do art, teach or use gamemaker, and be of general use art/programming advice.

I enjoyed Samurai Champloo a lot more when I viewed Mugen and Jin as incredibly stupid and unlikeable.

Pssst seriously though, programmers. I can pixel/paint pretty damn fast just keep me 100 feet away from any IDE

I'm now done with episode 16 of Mushishi. Edit: I think a big part of my I'm still watching (beyond alchemist detective awesomeness) is because I really want to see how Ginko develops as a character or if he develops at all. He's this perpetual, ghostlike presence in every episode that seems opaque before you start digging into how his actions reflect his inner landscape. This is another reason why I'm not too fond of episode 12, but I guess I never would've gave Ginko's character a second thought if it weren't for that. Edit edit: wait am I reading into everything too little or too much?

Try aseprite. It's specifically for pixel art, and it has layering and animation tools. The current version's not free, but I think the older versions are.

Yes this, and it would let group members specialize. I really just want to make art.

Ooh I'm so interested in this.

I just got to episode 12 of mushishi.

I'm at the "world select" dialog box. Maybe a stupid question but can I pick any American world and be included in the guild? Edit: liking this game so far

Hey yo, I'm BLAMBOID.2056

I wonder if the interfaces for each of these VR headsets are unified enough to make a cross-device API for developers. If so, something like that would make me feel a lot more at ease with competition allowing VR to be a thing in the mainstream market if you have lots of devs independently developing for all devices rather than having a bunch of Vive or Oculus exclusives. It feels like a big reason why motion control failed was the platform lock. EDIT: wow ok so I should've just watched valve's thing from like a year ago:

Hey guys, I tried following Danielle's suggestions (thanks so much!) and I definitely don't have any more running-induced joint pain when I increased my cadence a bit and leaned forward, trying to do midfoot running. Now I have mad shin splints! I might need to buy different shoes (I'm wearing these thick heeled basketball shoes) and take it a bit slower. But so far I find running a lot more enjoyable now that I'm either doing it at a track or outdoors, and frontfoot/midfoot running feels bouncier and more interesting second to second, rather than plodding along. It feels more tiring since I can't control my pace that well, but it doesn't feel like a drag anymore!

Why didn't the rocket blow up Buzz at the end of Toy Story? If it wasn't going to, why did they go through the trouble of saving buzz in the first place?

Because of the similar voices and the point where Jake says "you've regressed 150 Nick Breckons" I thought of Nick as the proto-Steve who got a branching line of production after the Steve model succeeded, and every few episodes the thumbs crew redesigns the Nick model, loads him with the Baboo database and puts him on the podcast to see if he has a meltdown. If he does, he's put in the incinerator and a new one takes his place.

Ah I saw Watamote. I felt less protective of Tomoko and more...pity and embarrassment, which I guess I can see how having a sort of cute character wracked by social anxiety helps bring home how debilitating it is. It kind of reminds me of the manga Oyasumi Punpun where the main characters are deliberately cute to produce a dissonance with the horrible events of the story, as well as to let the audience project onto punpun. In this though the author leans hard on the dissonance, where he depicts the world in a kind of supremely ugly realism that reflects punpun's constant disenchantment. I guess manga can take greater risks than anime can, though Punpun wasn't exactly something slated for a franchise or anything. K-On has a point? My friend keeps telling me that it's all (really really well made) fluffy happy fun without any emotional or aesthetic takeaway. I see it as the logical endpoint of the moe train. Non Non Biyori actually initiated the original conversation I had with my friend. I could've been great if it weren't for the needlessly flashy, generic character design and flat, shitty personalities. It's billed as a slow, atmospheric story about a girl adjusting to country life, but it's just not that. Because the whole tone of the show was so mellow and sleepy, all that was left was pure distilled moe and the theater of shallow stereotypes, and so the conclusion I came to was that the reason why people watch this show is precisely because of this watching porcelain dolls act out perfect little lives with tiny adorable flaws and quirks, and it just reeked of a fantasy that only a dude would have. If its goal was actually to show the quirks and life in the countryside, it definitely didn't hit it. Barakamon hit it 1000% better. I've been meaning to watch Kill la Kill since everyone seems to like it. It seems out of control, and Ive always liked weird stuff.

Pretty sure it was Nick subtly indicating his burglary advocacy.Steve is fine with anyone HACKING into things.

I wouldn't be able to tell you if nyaruko gets better or worse because I couldn't get past the first two episodes. The inane formula seems to work though, since during the time I was giving it a shot I kept listening to the theme song after I stopped watching and glancing furtively at the OP animation in guilty, self-conscious moe indulgence. It's fucking catchy. And if I remember correctly Norio Wakamoto sang it in some video and it was funny.And yeah, I do guess all of this is perpetuated by the wheels of capitalism crushing art into fine, adorable bonedust. I'm sincerely sorry to just be using these two pages to rag on moe as a stereotype (and also anime in general). It's probably just that I haven't been exposed to moe being used in a context that isn't either perfunctory, pointless, lazy, socially questionable, or exploitative, (other than like, nichijou or azumanga daioh) but that's probably a function of my having no patience with it. I'm not sure what iteration of the KyoAni moe machine Chuunibyou is in, but when it's made explicit like this: Yuuta...it huuurts... I can't help but project that pretty unambiguous intent to minimize a character everywhere I see big eyes and little mouths.

I feel like the comedy equivalent of Potato-kun is the voice of reason guy. Again I didn't watch enough of Haruhi Suzumiya no Yuutsu to make this claim universally (this is becoming a trend. I just don't have enough time to watch anime I feel like I wouldn't like), but the main character is reacting to the crazy antics of haruhi and co. in a way that seems to be what the audience should be thinking, and for some reason he's always present no matter what to conveniently provide tsukkomi in a way that makes it seem like he has the only legitimate, reliable perception among a mostly female cast, who each have some kind of personality infliction. He (invariably he) is always present, no matter how much he complains, to act as a floating perspective point. This is also what I found appalling about Chuunibyou (the first two or three episodes have exactly that plot). This isn't haruhi but... It's probably a symptom of the bigger trope of "the only rational guy in the room" but that's been done in a way that isn't gendered, like in Arakawa Under the Bridge. But again, I need to watch more. Girl und Panzer sounds like it has mad layers too.

So what we're saying here is that all anime should be Tatami Galaxy and every anime studio must be given a Murakami book.

That example you gave from Girl und Panzer just gives me the impression that the character is "the one who likes flowers and is motherly". Maybe I'm overly negative, but I can't see that being appealing as a character anymore. I watched some of Chuunibyou and yeah I see that. The issue I have with stuff like it has been that these eye-catcher characters have been consistently female, and that doesn't fit the goal of creating humans-that-are-also-girls in media. I dunno, maybe it's a function of needing to create immediately appealing characters to sell an otherwise interesting story or something, as you pointed out. So HA. Moe is complicit in killing anime. At this point I'm thinking that my extreme aversion to moe is me trying to legitimize my liking anime at all. Truth be told if I really couldn't stand it I wouldn't have watched any of the stuff I'm complaining about, but I did watch non non biyori and fuck it I'm gonna watch the next season when it comes out. I watched Lucky Star as well, which seems to poke fun at this kind of thing but still indulge in it wholeheartedly, which is a kind of relief-of-cognitive-dissonance that allowed me to trudge through it but feel like a traitor at the end. Anime is weird. EDIT: I just remembered what I was going to say about using moe to ease someone into a world of characters. Isn't that also part of the culture that exploits the tendencies of a small market to expand a franchise, and is more of a business move than an actual artistic device? Doesn't it make the medium homogeneous? I might actually check out Girl und Panzer to see what you mean though.