As someone who, as a kid, was basically raised on Dragon Ball.... I really dislike Dragon Ball Super series. You know, the newest and ongoing one. I think it doesn't improve on what previous sseries did right, and instead keeps repeating the same mistakes. Like, very weak plot, making only saiyan characters relevant (actually Super is even worse on this aspect than original) and thus wasting the very diverse cast.
It might be unpopular opinion, but I think that Super series should never been done. So far, it recaped two movies, which was pointless. Introduced tournament arc with zero development - pointless. Now, we have something that can finally have some meaning or some stakes, but it's still feel unoriginal, unimpressed and weak overall. I wish Dragon Ball could die in peace, instead being raised as a dumb zombie.
I'd really like to read a book where vampires are just displayed as intelligent monsters that feel nothing about their prey but are intelligent enough to integrate into society and not call attention to themselves... Seriously whenever I see a story where a vampire falls in love with a human... it feels like a story where a person falls in love with a broccoli or cauliflower... or even a chicken... We are food to them. Nothing more.
Psychologically speaking, vampires used to be humans, so when they have emotional attachments to humans it actually makes sense.
I don't recall reading many stories in which humans were food to vampires and nothing more. Probably a good thing, since such stories lack moral complexity.
Will forward feedback to your life's game design subdepartment. You should generally expect more Colombian drug cartels and inter-government agencies taking interest in you from now on. Also, you might want to make initial preparations for the role of an anti-zombie guerilla leader in store for you in an exciting DLC to be released soon.
It made DnD popular, it was everywhere on video games, it had some good ideas, it was the breakthrough edition for a lot of people, it set standards, it is classic DnD, it paved the way for RPGs...
But it's a bad game. It has nonsense rules. It has restrictions for their own sake. It had exceptions for exceptions. It had obscure rules. It had inconsistencies.
It has stuff that makes you go: "what the hell where they thinking when they made these rules?!" and "did they actually read that stuff and it made sense to them?!" and "did you actually test this game before publishing it?!"
People actually made those rules, played with them, beta-tested them, tested low-mid-high levels and other stuff and said: "Yeah, this is really intuitive, quality stuff that makes sense and works GREAT!"
It seems like they just threw a bunch of ideas as it came to mind and kept it, then kept patching it with more stuff and more rules and published it, without going back to see if stuff could be improved.
Not that 3E was perfect or really optimized or anything but it seemed they started from the beginning and tried to make things more open yet more intuitive and organized, while keeping the DnD spirit on.
Making it more streamlined and intuitive but actually giving you more customization and options.
There's a reason 3.5E is played to this day and ADnD 2E is used only for nostalgia's sake and 4E is best forgotten. At least 1E had the honor or being the very beginning. So flaws and nonsense can be forgiven.
Coca Cola, McDonalds and other disgusting crap people keep stuffing into themselves. The sickly sweetness of the sodas and the salty/fatty meat in the burgers repulses me.
I loathe Doritos, which only seems to encourage people around me to eat them more
I went to watch Kubo with my brother his partner and my neices, my brother's gf pulls out a bag of Doritos as the film is about to start, I glared at her, she was like "What?" -.-
the neverwinter nights series. the first one i can't get over how it plays and 2 was just way to buggy and slow paced for me to enjoy. and before you say anything this includes motb i just could not get into that either.
The screen changes 5 times. It takes 30 minutes. I've always just found it confusing.
I don't want to sound like I'm defending anime (the gods know how much I loathe it), but I think this is mostly a matter of budget. Most anime series are produced on a miniscule budget, and the animations often make poverty-level wages (let that be a warning to anyone who has any delusional ideas about "moving to Japan and drawing anime/manga"). So in order to save money, animators use several tricks to avoid having to draw additional frames, such as:
Instead of showing a character moving, the animators will simply scroll the background and show a still frame of the character.
Long, dialogue-heavy scenes where nothing moves except the characters' mouths (A defining characteristic of anime, and one of the things that I find absolutely insufferable, is that characters never shut up, even when it would be completely inappropriate.
When a character swings a weapon, the animators will black out the screen and draw white arcs across the screen to represent movement.
If you're like me, and have grown up with classic Warner Bros. and Disney cartoons (which actually had substantial budgets behind them), most anime will seem unbearably choppy and stiff.
The screen changes 5 times. It takes 30 minutes. I've always just found it confusing.
I don't want to sound like I'm defending anime (the gods know how much I loathe it), but I think this is mostly a matter of budget. Most anime series are produced on a miniscule budget, and the animations often make poverty-level wages (let that be a warning to anyone who has any delusional ideas about "moving to Japan and drawing anime/manga"). So in order to save money, animators use several tricks to avoid having to draw additional frames, such as:
Instead of showing a character moving, the animators will simply scroll the background and show a still frame of the character.
Long, dialogue-heavy scenes where nothing moves except the characters' mouths (A defining characteristic of anime, and one of the things that I find absolutely insufferable, is that characters never shut up, even when it would be completely inappropriate.
When a character swings a weapon, the animators will black out the screen and draw white arcs across the screen to represent movement.
If you're like me, and have grown up with classic Warner Bros. and Disney cartoons (which actually had substantial budgets behind them), most anime will seem unbearably choppy and stiff.
Also: Use the same facial features for a number of characters, but give them wild hair colors to differentiate them.
To be fair, American cartoons in the '70s & '80s used most of the same tricks. Watch old Scooby Doo and you'll notice they had stock walking and running animations with stock backgrounds scrolling behind them.
About animation in anime, it is worthy to notice that it is often made (for series aired weekly) by freelancers, who are typically paid very little for extensive work. Being animator for anime series is really not good job. Hence, often animaiton lacks significantly.
Speaking of animation in anime, I'm a sucker for old hand-drawn animation. This is from the 1984 film, Macross: Do you remember Love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1MlXmNSL7s
On topic, Sportsball. And by that I mean sports in general. I know it's a nerd-thing to not like sports except almost all of my D&D group that I play with IRL likes sports and I just don't understand it.
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I realise I have posted this in both 'Post something that everyone likes but you' AND 'Post something that everyone hates but you'.
Its a love hate thing, you see.
Curses to those breeders who unleashed this nightmare upon the world!
Nothing says "I'm a try-hard snob" like playing the Ride of the Valkyries every time you invite people in your home.
It might be unpopular opinion, but I think that Super series should never been done. So far, it recaped two movies, which was pointless. Introduced tournament arc with zero development - pointless. Now, we have something that can finally have some meaning or some stakes, but it's still feel unoriginal, unimpressed and weak overall. I wish Dragon Ball could die in peace, instead being raised as a dumb zombie.
I don't recall reading many stories in which humans were food to vampires and nothing more. Probably a good thing, since such stories lack moral complexity.
Sentence I never expected to type at any point in my life
Alcohol
Just had too much of it now.
Sucks, then you die
You should generally expect more Colombian drug cartels and inter-government agencies taking interest in you from now on. Also, you might want to make initial preparations for the role of an anti-zombie guerilla leader in store for you in an exciting DLC to be released soon.The screen changes 5 times. It takes 30 minutes. I've always just found it confusing.
It made DnD popular, it was everywhere on video games, it had some good ideas, it was the breakthrough edition for a lot of people, it set standards, it is classic DnD, it paved the way for RPGs...
But it's a bad game. It has nonsense rules. It has restrictions for their own sake. It had exceptions for exceptions. It had obscure rules. It had inconsistencies.
It has stuff that makes you go: "what the hell where they thinking when they made these rules?!" and "did they actually read that stuff and it made sense to them?!" and "did you actually test this game before publishing it?!"
People actually made those rules, played with them, beta-tested them, tested low-mid-high levels and other stuff and said: "Yeah, this is really intuitive, quality stuff that makes sense and works GREAT!"
It seems like they just threw a bunch of ideas as it came to mind and kept it, then kept patching it with more stuff and more rules and published it, without going back to see if stuff could be improved.
Not that 3E was perfect or really optimized or anything but it seemed they started from the beginning and tried to make things more open yet more intuitive and organized, while keeping the DnD spirit on.
Making it more streamlined and intuitive but actually giving you more customization and options.
There's a reason 3.5E is played to this day and ADnD 2E is used only for nostalgia's sake and 4E is best forgotten.
At least 1E had the honor or being the very beginning. So flaws and nonsense can be forgiven.
3E is simply better and more fun. Even to 4E.
Even the undead find dying all the time to be rather tiresome.
Bloom, Depth of Field, SSAO, volumetric fog, godrays... I hate them all. But what do you know, this is what passes as "good graphics" these days.
The setting and atmosphere were great, but the plot felt very generic and stretched out.
I loathe Doritos, which only seems to encourage people around me to eat them more
I went to watch Kubo with my brother his partner and my neices, my brother's gf pulls out a bag of Doritos as the film is about to start, I glared at her, she was like "What?" -.-
Or, to be more precise, their price tags. They're the nemesis of my wallet!
- Instead of showing a character moving, the animators will simply scroll the background and show a still frame of the character.
- Long, dialogue-heavy scenes where nothing moves except the characters' mouths (A defining characteristic of anime, and one of the things that I find absolutely insufferable, is that characters never shut up, even when it would be completely inappropriate.
- When a character swings a weapon, the animators will black out the screen and draw white arcs across the screen to represent movement.
If you're like me, and have grown up with classic Warner Bros. and Disney cartoons (which actually had substantial budgets behind them), most anime will seem unbearably choppy and stiff.To be fair, American cartoons in the '70s & '80s used most of the same tricks. Watch old Scooby Doo and you'll notice they had stock walking and running animations with stock backgrounds scrolling behind them.
On topic, Sportsball. And by that I mean sports in general. I know it's a nerd-thing to not like sports except almost all of my D&D group that I play with IRL likes sports and I just don't understand it.
Humph humph harrumph
There is something sinister deep in Mickey Mouse & Friends eyes.
Or any cat meme stuff.
Cat memes are the knock knock jokes of the internet.