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Yes, I have noticed that as well. I mean the 80s and 90s still had the ecchi shows all around, but besides the tentacle rape stuff, most things didn't seem to come across as sleazy or infantile. Someone brought up Golden Boy earlier, and while it's wasn't my thing, I could see much more craftsmanship and a "coy" attitude put in to that show. Maybe that's nostalgia speaking, but I can't think of anything today much akin to Rintaro's Metropolis getting a good review by Roger Ebert (if he were still alive). Also I like having stuff I can watch with my fiance. She really got hooked when I watched Samurai Champloo for the second time, and that was a lot of fun. Kill la Kill is instead one of those things where you wait until she's asleep, unfortunately.

I think Gurren Lagann sucked for the most part and Yoko truly sucked. One dimensional character that had clothes that made no fucking sense. She existed purely for fan service. The fact that she wasn't as important as Nia was at least somewhat of a save. But the show ranged from boring, sometimes ugly, to ensemble cast with hard to keep track of story nonsense and Dragon Ball Z grade fight scenes of charging up. Show really didn't have much to engage the viewer beyond the first few episodes. My opinion at least. Kill la Kill Episode 2 is just worse. Fuck this shit. Way to completely squander potential. I think hardly any anime director understands how to keep a show somewhat classy and not turn it in to something a 13 year old boy watches when his parents are asleep. No one would have taken Akira very seriously in the late 80s if it had the girls constantly tripping and zooming in on a pantyshot or boobs flopping around during action scenes. Idlethumbs is probably the only forum on the internet concerning anime that would actually agree with me though, so I suppose that's what the fans want. But I'm not really a fan of anime and instead a fan of animation in general, and more mature stuff at that (unless it's just dumb fun) if available, and really don't care for 95% of the stuff that comes out of Japan, but still constantly looking for new and different looking shows/movies. And "mature" meaning subject matter, not school girls fighting to the death on an island or shows about boys constantly running from 12 year old girls who really want to have sex with him. Sigh.

Hahahaha, dirty Green Tentacle. Yeah Zeus, thanks for writing all of this stuff, the Day of the Tentacle one so far has been the most fascinating. The way you write it out is so puzzle and logic focused that it makes the game's brilliance and insanity very apparent in how they go hand and hand. It's a fun read for more than nostalgic reasons. Bet Tim Schafer would get a kick out of reading your posts. I mean, making a tentacle suit by swapping out the design for the American flag would most likely be a disaster in other adventure games, but the way DoTT frames the puzzle and drops hints through infectuous dialogue (you were having fun lingering around talking to Betsy Ross and taking in the problem through memorable inane conversation) pulls off such a puzzle without the player feeling pissed but instead smart. That's what every adventure game should strive to do.

I can't tell if he was able to get the hamster yet or not. It seemed like it was a pixel hunting issue? I don't remember having problems.

I like that there is a pixel reserved the cat's butthole. I'll never forget that. Zeus, your detailed posts are a living proof against the naysayers who exclaim adventure games are devoid of gameplay and are just a series of events the designers ask you to do to get to the next cutscene. I mean, just look at all of this.

Wow, surprised to see everyone was really in to this DLC because I personally thought it just sucked. I finished it up a couple of weeks ago for the fourth time because I wanted a save with everyone joining the camp and Vince's decision was arbitrary crap. For whatever reason the writing in this DLC is pretty shlocky and forced in my eyes and the situations and puzzles seem boring. The only part I had a good time with was when playing Russel, but that didn't last because weird white trucker's motivations were never revealed, nor why he was chasing Wyatt and painfully unfunny dude early on. Also a manboob joke in this. Fucking classy. The only character here I could get on board with is Shel, but her sequence was just walk to from one place to another, look at something, walk back. Her situation was just idiotic. Why on earth are they in some kind of society where people must be murdered in cold blood for trying to leave? That's incredibly bizarre, no matter what reasons the characters give. Yeah Stephanie's endangering them by leaving because someone might find a deluxe truck stop on the side of the road? What?! Their place was just obvious and not reinforced. The little sister was just a poorly written psycho and all situations lead to Stephanie being executed. Also, I was really annoyed that the sound effect for Stephanie being locked inside the semi was strange dissonant knocking without any kind of urgency. Is that what you do when someone is holding you against your will? Knock here and there quietly, loudly, softly, loud again? No yelling? Just really bizarre forced drama and most things felt rushed or just uninvolved, nothing felt grounded or believable like Lee's saga. Every single time I played the campground section I just started to see more and more plot holes. If Shel and her sister did not want to be found by Ramon then why did they put their photos at the truck stop? If everyone had reservations about being found, why were they hanging out in an open campground with a fire going while loudly playing around? This is the Walking Dead right? Every time I played this section at some point I would get confused who I was controlling as well and answer the wrong response. I really hope season 2 just sticks to one playable character. I was sort of hoping you'd play an older version of Clementine, but I guess that's not happening here.

Hmm, last month or so I finished my silent playthrough and my asshole playthrough. Asshole one doesn't do much except allow me to see some alternate paths and experience Clementine crying an extra time (that was no fun, but she hilarious stops short for the next line of dialogue). The silent one was just ridiculously hilarious. It pretty much ruins the game by making Lee seem like either an inept doofus or a passive aggressive jerk. I did every section I could possibly do being silent and the dialogue exchanges were just a riot, especially when meeting the St. Johns for the first time. Totally kills the last sequence of the game though by making it really disjointed and interrupting all emotion. My favorite part is that Amid will push you this time if you don't bother saying anything. Also apparently being silent totally means you'd like your arm cut off.

Why what happened? Can you maybe sneak in the storage and live there for a bit?

This is hilarious to me, because that's what my fiance does to my cat (but not to dubstep so far).

It turns out that there was a giant robotic monkey in the Cavefish hideout all along. Boy were we fooled.

Well, I was hoping Kill La Kill wasn't going to be shit because I like the director and all, but hated Gurren Lagann for the most part. Well it's was fine I guess up until the uniform part, overall just a big boring tying together of anime tropes. But I guess you can't leave out the trope of gratuitous fan service coming from the magical girl roots. I don't know what this show wants to be but the main character having her tits out and her uniform becoming tight on her already revealed body doesn't really help it to be taken any more seriously than the typical of sleaze of other high school fight shows. May be done with Imaishi soon, even though I love Dead Leaves and Panty and Stocking. Guess I can make a lot of money reselling these art books if so... See what the next episode brings I suppose. EDIT: I just read on some blog comments somewhere that the uniform is possibly going to be less revealing as the series goes on as it absorbs the threads of the uniforms of the opponents, but if this is true, it's not endorsed by any kind of clothing appearing on the first thread absorbed. If it did go against the trope and make the main character more powerful the more clothes she has on, I could get on board with that, but it also depends how it's handled. I can just see Cutey Honey moments happening all over for 26 episodes if done poorly.

The Peyote hallucinations was the whole third. It was just going to be like the Mystery Vortex in Sam and Max stretched out for hours.

It's even worse because Day of the Tentacle has at least one door that has a close function on ever screen. By the end of a game, you're pretty much just an asshole who runs around leaving every god damn door open there is. So hiding something behind one of these doors you most likely will never voluntarily close is ridiculous. Maybe if the characters were programmed to automatically close every door behind them like some adventure games it would be different, but I think they would have just been better off throwing the keys in a drawer on the guy's nightstand or something. It's just as much as a non-puzzle but at least it's not infuriating.

Yeah, I felt the same about that GDT opening sequence. I have no idea what is supposed to be good about it, and were it any other director, I'd assume it was some egotistical piece serving as an advertisement for their DVDs. Since it's Guillermo, the most humble director I've ever heard speak, I'm just confused why it's a long opening that is eventually strung along with references to everything he's directed ever. Add that to how ugly and terribly staged the Simpsons are now and you have what would normally appear to another idiotic piece of fan art.

Hah, that was quick! That was the fucking part I was stuck on for so long as a kid. Compulsively closing doors behind you when you enter rooms just seems to be a non-puzzle. But yeah, Monkey Island 2 pretty much prepared you for that crappy "puzzle." Which of two liked hiding stuff behind doors? Grossman or Schafer?

God, I don't know what it is, but after I spent about a week and a half sorting out our moving situation while my fiance had to work a ton, I really don't want to use Facebook anymore. Yeah I know, I don't have to, but I feel like I'm missing out on the lives of a lot of my friends and family, plus there's networking opportunities to be had. I mean I check Facebook every other day now, but I can't be bothered to scroll throw the news feed anymore (even after hiding almost everyone I don't want to hear from). It's just so exhausting now. Well, that's a non problem. Moving sucks by the way, but it is such a good feeling when you finish. It appears we accumulated way too much crap after we moved to a house back to a duplex now. So it's been garage sales, craigslist, and ebay for the past few weeks, desperately hocking out goods. Gotta save teh monies.

Costume Quest. I want more please. I wish I could enjoy Halloween more, but I always feel like I somehow fail the holiday because I don't have the time or money to go all out. I don't know what it is, but it felt so much more real and fun until I was about 14. I think Trick or Treating for hours with a group of friends in a dumb costume always made it for me, along with the TV shows and movies as well as the candy. Anytime I consume any Halloween based media I feel all nostalgic and teary eyed (Again, like Costume Quest). And you might see your cat turn into a dog.

Haha, I'm really anxious to see if Zeus stays stuck on that one part that ruined my progress on this game for about two months. I somehow figured the whole game out myself without cheating, but that one "bad" puzzle really annoys me.

Except for all of those unwinnable states he snuck in the Humongous games. Putt Putt Gives Up™.

How's Dallas' bus system? A lot of people seem to do alright in Houston on it. Austin's public transportation seems to be complete ass though. Good luck Twig!

I'm pretty sure there are no unwinnable states in Fate of Atlantis whatsoever. Are you thinking of Last Crusade?

Good ol' Google Søg. The last 6 pages or so of this thread have been really mind numbing. I like to read this thread sometimes, but it really went off rails here with nitpicky stuff. Make this thread more interesting, I command thee now. Google Søg!

Besides the obvious advice that many will give you about getting out of an unhealthy situation for your own sake, I think you should not try to contact her again because you broke it off in the midst of her depression. It's not exactly a bad thing or is it selfish, because that stuff can weigh you down when dealing with a person like that, but she's always going to remember this blotch on your relationship. I personally don't think that's something you can ever really get past without even more extra baggage. Really sucks she has clinical depression though, I know how it is to be a certain way with mental health issues and drag everyone down around you without meaning to.

Wow, I don't think I really was impressed by the upgrade until this video. The other video I saw on Nintendo direct recently seemed a bit cheap to me, because they didn't really remodel much, however, that is also me speaking as a person who was spoiled from the Ocarina of Time remake. I guess I was kind of hoping Wind Waker would have some of the more organic shapes around the background have polys added in, but it seems in most cases it really doesn't need it. Also it appears that I can hold more than three fucking pictures on my camera this time, so maybe collecting figurines can be fun for once instead of a fucking chore. However the new number said 12 max, so if that's not upgradeable I'm still going to be very annoyed. In my opinion, gathering pictures for the figurines is the only tedious part of Wind Waker. Most people have not even bothered to get 100% of them, so they probably have no idea what kind of work it entails when you can only have 3 pictures max and you have no way of knowing if you took a good photo until you get to the carver. Speaking of, I hope they can tell you if the pictures are good when you take them, like Beyond Good and Evil.

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