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there is that moment, that fleeting light, that instant wich happens only once in our lifetime, when everything suddenly makes sense. when the world is beautiful. i have experienced that moment. when the Unlucky Hippopotamus returned, i was, truly, born anew

Praise be to the unlucky hippopotamus.

Did you drop Brotherhood since it was too much of a chore?

Nah, I've just slowed down on watching it because I'm not on vacation anymore. Got too much other work to do.

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Will you try Ghost in the Shell SAC sometime? The CR Uro Episode was heavily inspired by the SAC ep "Jungle Cruise" which dealt with shady CIA missions directly. Some of SAC's vignettes are actually quite similar in their themes to CR, and I thought it might be a show you would like.

Yeah, I'll get to it eventually. I suspect it won't be exactly my kind of show, but it does have a very strong reputation.
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Liked by: GJ Corban

My dear senpai, I know you usually do it on sats or sundays but given how amazing ConRevo has been and that today is its finale, do you think you can spare some time to watch the episode today as it stream, like the rest of us mere mortals? Onegai

I think I'll have to. My feed is already in tears, so I probably can't wait.
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Liked by: Eelz Sunshine Marmot Another Bystander

Are there any third parties you support in particular, even if not in the general election?

Not really. I align with the green party more than the democrats on a decent number of issues, but our system has essentially calcified into two-party stasis, and so at this point the only sensible choice is sneaking leftist priorities into democratic platforms.
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Liked by: Another Bystander

I don't get the ConRevo love, displayed by you and others. I've tried to, I sat through the entire first season and at this point will finish the second, but I find the show erratic and confusing just as often as it is impactful and arresting. What am I missing?

The show is messy in its direction - it often doesn't frame or sequence conflicts in ways that best create dramatic impact. If that specifically is a dealbreaker, it's very understandable that the show wouldn't work for you. But personally, I feel the show's dialogue and ideas and characters and vignettes and visual design and highlights and overall narrative structure are so very strong that I'm willing to forgive that particular weakness. It /is/ a weakness, but one I'm willing to accept in light of all the show does extremely well.
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Liked by: Rm Eelz Another Bystander

What do you think could've made MHA a better show than it has been?

I've only read through the volumes that have been published in English, so I'm not sure when the next reasonable stopping point would have been, but I assume making the show two cour, speeding up the current material, and finishing somewhere a lot further down the line would have made for a much stronger show. We should be in the school tournament arc by now.
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Liked by: JoaquinAlonsoAlvarez GJ Corban Sunshine Marmot

So I understand you dislike Red Letter Media? Is it how they present their critique or do you disagree with the critiques themselves or?

I don't really have any opinion on Red Letter Media - what I've seen of their stuff is fine, but I haven't watched much of it. Maybe you're thinking of Cinema Sins? Because they are super bad.
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Liked by: Eelz Robert Hopper GJ Corban

Are you looking forward to Death Stranding?

I don't even know what there is to look forward to. All we've got so far is "Konami you killed my baby, you chained me and you killed my baby but I am alive, I am alive in this dead whale graveyard." I'm not really sure how that will pan out as a gameplay experience.
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Liked by: Caramichael Yogshi Sunshine Marmot Eelz Colton King

Nice stream (that one D. Va ult was lovely)! Any plans to get/use a mike?

Thanks! I'll probably just stream off my computer if I do it again - this time I was just playing on PS4 anyway and thought "oh hey, I can probably stream this."
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I remember recently hearing one of the anime youtubers Digibro think of "forced drama" as "unearned pathos" instead. Think that's a better term considering the overuse of the phrase forced drama?

I feel like while that's more of a meaningful term, it also doesn't cover a lot of the situations people apply "forced drama" to, since it specifies a desired viewer response or textual focus and doesn't apply to dramatic turns by themselves. I'd rather just take situations as they come up and describe why I think they specifically work or don't.
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Liked by: Alejandro Colon Shahzeb Mangi

I'd argue the term "style over substance" is applicable when a show prioritizes a feeling over an idea (and also that it's not an inherently bad approach). So "remember this feeling" shows like Flying Witch and "isn't this cool" shows like Samurai Champloo are positive examples. Is this a sane view?

I can definitely see this argument, but the term is very charged - it pretty much inherently implies "substance" is associated with value, or at least effort and complexity. I see people use it to disparage stuff like KyoAni's shows, for example, and it just seems like a very myopic perspective. I'd rather not artificially partition goals that represent "style" and goals that represent "substance" - considering how diverse everyone's media desires are, the phrase is pretty much bound to be not terribly useful.
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"Style over substance" is another term fans like to use to criticize shows they don't like. Recently I saw it used against Tatami Galaxy. Would you agree that, with shows like that, it's not a case of style over subtance, but a case where style IS the substance?

Using a phrase like "style over substance" kinda implies a fundamental misunderstanding of how anime works. /All of a show's choices are substance./ Substance isn't constrained to a story's plot beats - in a visual medium, there is so much more than that going on. The direction, the art design, the sound design, the animation - all of these factors are meaningful, all of them have a substantive effect on the viewer experience. Many shows will not prioritize the things you personally find fulfilling, and that's just how it goes, but it doesn't mean those shows are plagued by "style over substance."
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Liked by: Aluido Shahzeb Mangi fgfdfh Eelz Arjuna Chatrathi Yogshi DIGITAL@MUGI Robert Hopper Scott Simon Sunshine Marmot

I see the term "forced drama" thrown around a lot these days, specially to describe drama created by an event that seems designed to shake up things in the story. To you, what constitutes as "forced drama" in a show?

"Forced drama" is one of those imaginary fan terms that generally just means "drama that I didn't like." But if it were have a meaning, it'd be drama that doesn't emerge naturally from the variables of the story. Of course, shocking and abrupt things are allowed to happen in stories (what people might refer to as "events designed to shake things up"), so its application would probably be limited to characters acting deeply out of step with their prior characterization to create conflict, or situations that seem contrived in a way that that doesn't make for graceful storytelling.
But both of those situations are very specific and require meaningful explanation, so I'd say it's fair to generally translate "forced drama" to "drama that I didn't like."
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Liked by: Alejandro Colon Scott Simon Eelz Yogshi Ignisalge

Senpai, if you were the editor in charge of advising A Silent Voice's author, what would you suggest in order to make the last volume a little less messy?

I'd cut the whole thing down to six volumes. Remove the grandmother subplot earlier, basically everything to do with the movie post-festival screening, and trim the epilogues of the secondary characters as well. We don't need to know entirely how they're going to turn out as people - just get through the personal reconciliations and a little push in their various directions. The manga has everything it needs, but it also has /more/ than it needs - include only what is necessary for the story you are trying to tell.
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