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I think that's a great idea Nappi. Maybe if that's not ideal, you guys could just include the timestamp in the episode description.

Has anyone been watching Peaky Blinders? My wife started watching it and I was around and started the series myself as it caught my interest. I finished the first season and I feel like it's been consistently great outside of a somewhat boring and confusing first episode, but I suppose they had to get that exposition out of the way. I think my only annoyance might be the use of modern music during the violent scenes, but I like the use of Nick Cave's Right Red Hand as the main theme. Such great performances besides just the usual by Cillian Murphy. It's also very beautiful to look at and has the added bonus of being condensed into the right amount of episodes, no filler, like all fine British shows.

Hey I didn't start the thread, people only sometimes talk about cartoons I like in here. "Genre and medium" are not equal to country. In Japan they animate just like the rest of the world and they use whatever genre as any film, book, or TV series may. Not sure how saying "anime" instead of "animation" or "cartoons" adds any value whatsoever. Comes off pretty western centric to me considering in Japan they don't have a catch all phrase for any kind of animation or comics other than their own, why must it be applied opposite? I'm not sure where you are coming from that there's Japan and there's everything else. I brought up how French animation and comics tend to also be very different from North American productions and are a great industry in that country as well but you said it's all the same, yet Japan is somehow distinct. But you didn't really address how all three animation industries we are speaking about have influenced a great amount of artists from one country to another, they are obviously not exceptions, but instead the rule. In fact as we get more global in our entertainment with the internet, the general sensibilities within each country tend to become more independent on choice of influence. Pretty much every country has a sensibility when it comes to media if the industry is big enough there, but we don't have a special catch all term for say German films or French comics. I was joking about "bande dessinee" because that's what the French call all comics. But your second post pretty much qualifies how pointless and confusing it is to make a distinction, because it's all going to be so subjective. If anything, I think anime tends to have negative connotations to people who might not be interested in animation from Japan just going by the homogenous stuff constantly produced over there. I tend to see a variety of original works that cover many genres with ground breaking art styles that many people can enjoy who may not know of and see animation as more than a Pixar film with a chase scene, a tear jerking scene, and is ultimately about finding yourself. I could say that's all the Calarts incestual style, but that's doing a disservice to a lot of the amazing student films I see from Calarts. The homogenous stuff in any country lumps itself together without any help from a label.

I remember that movie as having a deep kiss between a woman and a young boy, but I found the scene on Youtube a couple of years back, and while still grossly inappropriate, it seemed like it was chopped or something. I saw Blank Check in the theatres long long ago though, is it possible they edited such kissing for home video release?! Fucking kid brain. Also I just read that the woman in Blank Check was an FBI agent, just like Cooper. What is it with FBI agents and minors? Now that I have talked too much about Blank Check for one lifetime, I think I'm finally going to go drive by the castle house in Austin. I'm sure it attracts almost no one.

But that's exactly what I'm saying, by giving animation from Japan only an all encompassing word, you are insinuating that all animation in the country is pretty homogenous while there are things that are brilliant and stand alone in their stylistic influences and really should just be called nothing more than animation. Plus it complicates things when you have many French animators being influenced by the more anarchic animators in Japan while many of those same creators were greatly influenced by European produced animation and comics in the 60s and 70s. The manga distinction makes even less sense to me since early Tezuka style are clearly using Disney comics as a reference for silhoutte and layout. Plus Katsuhiro Otomo's comic output greatly takes after Moebius in both style, staging, and layout and then that led a great influence on other Japanese artists looking for more tech and realism in their work for a couple of decades after that. To me, these distinctions between countries blur very quickly when you start getting down to it. I don't see the point of making a distinction of what country it originated from as an introduction to a creative work if the work speaks for itself, but more of a secondary description. I suppose it's useful if you want to make the distinction between something like Family Guy and Dragon Ball or Garfield and Love Hina, but why would you need to?

I manipulated cloud syncing to my Origin Account from my PS3 to cheat and obtain two of the trophies for the game Fuse. So Origin isn't all that bad, saved me about 10 hours or more of grinding.

I glazed over this but I've always hated calling it "anime." All it means is just cartoons from Japan, which seems a bit odd to make a distinction of. If anything the word represents a gross time where you have to label an import from Japan as "anime" so that you know it will have nudity and violence and you should rent this VHS now. And I guess all characters will have the same faces but with different hair. I suppose, if that is indeed a drawing point. It's just a term that either means lesser or more than just simply animation, depending on who you talk to. I'll take that over "Japanimation" though. Also I hate saying "manga" as well. It's a god damn comic! It's comics! What if I started saying "bandes dessinees" when I started talking about French comics? It would be absurd.

Oh yeah, Masaaki Yuasa also animated this part in Samurai Champloo: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyow1_champloo-ep9-masaaki-yuasa-sakuga_video games He also directed a short for the Slimes from Dragon Quest which require subs, please contact me if you know Japanese and you want to do it! Since Twig stole my Yuasa love (although you forgot KickHeart, Catsoup, and I'd recommend his Genius Party short), I'd recommend trying out Koji Morimoto works too, who is somewhat of Yuasa's mentor. He was the animation director on Mind Game, while Yuasa served as animation director before that on his short Noiseman Sound Insect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOlYfHdpwU Morimoto has a lot of great music video directorial credits, but they are often very abstract (especially as of late) or just series of cool looking scenes, so they won't hit a story itch. He also was series director the the strange short reality show spoof thingy Eternal Family. His short Beyond on the Animatrix and the concert scenes in Macross Plus are probably his most well known outside of Japan. Pretty much everything else Koji Morimoto has directed is on some kind of anthology set like Memories, Robot Carnival, Neo Tokyo, Short Peace, Digital Juice, and Genius Party Beyond, which are all must see if you want to see the heights of what some of these Japanese animators are capable of.

Is it just a safety thing then on why no class reunions take place in the actual high school? I would love to just walk around my old schools and just get drunk on the nostalgia, but stupid laws and all. You can sort of just do this part with Facebook now. So chances are if they are interested in what became of you, they already know and vice versa.

She's just always a staple on his podcast, so I am assuming they are good friends. Found her statement though, it was only made known only recently as well it seems: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sd0v77 She's riding the fence some I suppose. Again, I get the idea that all of these Youtube types really have to try not to piss off what they consider to be most(?) of their fanbase, since I guess Youtubers are the ones keeping it real and unbiased even though they are all almost completely Disney owned.

My high school reunion was earlier this year, and while I was somewhat curious, Besides that I was in the midst of getting my wedding stuff done for the week after. I felt like I'd be wasting a lot of money driving there and paying for the tickets to get in at the hotel banquet room or wherever it was being held. Like that was really disappointing! In all of the movies people have high school reunions at their high school! I thought that was the thing? Apparently, as some have told me, it's more common to have some kind of event center booked. But anyway my graduated class had like almost 800 people or something, and I don't remember most of them and didn't interact with most of them either, just way too many folks. The people I did interact with after high school were my good friends that I ended up ditching because they weren't really good people I wanted to associate my life with anymore, so I wasn't interested in seeing them again. So about 130 of the graduating class attended and I saw the final photos for the event and I didn't really recognize many people and if it was someone I knew it was someone I had maybe seen more than a few times in a class, but never conversed with. What I did notice is nearly everyone at the reunion consisted of the pretty white kids from the nicer neighborhoods in the district while all other minorities in our class (there was a pretty good mix) were no where to be found. High schools should be more like 80s movies where people know everyone and lockers held a full person. Instead most of what I remembered about high school was a lot of people who didn't really know eachother and half sized lockers no where near your classes.

There was a thing a few weeks back where JonTron and Tim Schafer both released some short blurb on how they talked over lunch or something. I guess they met up to work it out, most likely initiated by Tim who is the most stand up guy. If I remember Tim stated in his post that neither of them represent any kind of faction and JonTron just sort of made some non apology. He never asserted he was with Gamergate though. But then a few weeks later he said he wanted to marry the woman from the "Factual Feminist," I guess because he loved her views? Or he was joking? I am guessing it's the former. So then I got annoyed and closed his twitter. And now he's saying he's a "humanist" among admitted that every piece of media is biased by default. He should really just stop beating around the bush. Do these Youtubers who keep steeping themselves in this stuff really feel like they need to keep an audience by not going too vehemently against these GGers? Does it really matter all that much? I always wonder what PressHearttoContinue/Dodger thinks of all of TotalBiscuit's nonsense the past few months.

Holy shit, I figured so. I mean I knew there was already a thing going on with all of the anthro animal comics in the 80s, I just figured the more mute animal characters like 1920s-1940s characters and the like would have been immune. But yeah Tiny Toons is just an extension of that as well yikes. I will try not to waste more than five minutes time reading about Dennis Dalk now.

I was wondering if I am incorrect in thinking that people sexualized the "canon" Sonic characters before the Sonic Adventure redesigned where everyone was lanky and aged. Like I know there were sexualized aspects just because of the Archie comics crap, since I used to be an avid reader for a few years of my youth, but it was always just the side characters who always looked like they did not fit in the same universe as the Sega created characters. Maybe the Dreamcast redesign was everything the furries who read routinely the comic had been waiting for? I'm guessing the probably answer is people were thinking of Sonic having sex since day one and since all I used the internet for in the 90s was for reading about Tamagotchi/Gigapets, downloading Calvin and Hobbes comics, and getting video game cheats that I probably missed all of that. Just seems odd to me that characters originally based on the asexual design of Felix the Cat would have sparked that sort of interest. I should note, I haven't looked up Felix the Cat on Deviant Art though.

Haha, that is the first one that made me laugh.

Nice missing dialogue.

Mighty Milky Way is more about spheres though. I quite like that one, lead designer by Sean Velasco of Shovel Knight. Velasco was also the lead on Boy and His Blob which was brilliant. Err... well... I've only ever played Wayforward Velasco games, none of which were Metroidvania or pixel based graphics (outside of Mighty Milky Way), so I have no idea how they add up. Haven't gotten to Bloodrayne Betrayal though.

As a Daniel Clowes fan, Lebeouf will never ever redeem himself, sorry. He was cute long ago in Even Stevens, but since then I've found him consistently cringeworthy. Also does the guy not fucking know how movie make up works? It's not about whether it looks real at all times, it's about whether it looks real under the correct lighting conditions and within the view of the camera lens. Then CGI can go in and make any necessary corrections later. What an attention whore.

My planet needs me.

Dana Ashbrook does a damn good job as Bobby, I really like the character despite him being a pretty seedy guy. Very interesting to watch. James is like a useless uninteresting version of him, so I don't know why they didn't just go with more Bobby. Possibly James was kept on as long as he was because he was so integral to the original murder plot that they were stuck with him. Maybe sort of like the opposite of when TV shows write a regular part of an actor who originally just did a bit role but it went over so well that they had to keep them.

Well in the early commentaries, when the show actually bothered to show that Homer had a job and didn't just do random shit all day, they said they did absolutely no research in what an actual nuclear power plant is like. Not sure if that actually makes you feel any better though, hah.

Well I tried to read some forums on his acting ability and it seems like there's this idea that at some point

Possibly the finale is just entails the last few rooms, and all of the end animation. I would guess backgrounds and set pieces were at least concepted a months ago. He also said he's wrote a lot of the circumstantial type puzzle dialogue as well. I at least hope this is the case and that's why it will be done!

Hey it originally aired once a week so this podcast can air once a week. It's pure Peaks.

Oooh, I'm gonna see if I can find that. I know the scene in 28 Days Later where the rats rush the group in the tunnel proved to be somewhat difficult for Danny Boyle to film because they were too nice and were not acting menacingly enough.