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Lizalfos

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(not copyrighted by /r/anime so i can do what i want)
Everything is copyrighted upon creation here in the good ole usa. The work is transformative too so they prolly have recourse. Except you aren't even claiming it as your own, just sharing it?

Is this a US secret???
/r/anime = US gov???
 
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Helsong

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@ Player -0 Player -0 You changed it again, you bimbo.
Wait.
Huh, I'm actually kind of touched.

Also, I've been light drinking the past few days and it's working out..interestingly? It makes things a bit better, I guess. I think I'll stop now though, don't want to overdo it.

Also, I won a shopping trip. Nice clothing for my sorta-broke ass, yay!

Oh, and I'm dropping my Roy secondary. I just feel like random dtilt->almost anything is a bit much, and I don't enjoy doing it to people. Plus the fire just doesn't do it anymore. Ike's fire is technically hotter anyway-it's blue!
I'm also bad, so that's got a lot to do with it. I think I'll develop my GnW, and I've started a budding Ganon.
 
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Soft Serve

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finished Kill la Kill finally. It was good. Don't have much to say tbh, other than it made me wish I was just re-watching TTGL instead. Premise was interesting, didn't really enjoy the fact it is fan service the anime and knows it (yeah yeah its the point of the story/commentary on the state of anime now, deconstruction of genres blah blah blah) although Ryuko is mad cute.


Need to find more things to watch during down time until I feel comfortable enough to take this stupid wrist brace off and play smash sparingly
 

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finished Kill la Kill finally. It was good. Don't have much to say tbh, other than it made me wish I was just re-watching TTGL instead. Premise was interesting, didn't really enjoy the fact it is fan service the anime and knows it (yeah yeah its the point of the story/commentary on the state of anime now, deconstruction of genres blah blah blah) although Ryuko is mad cute.


Need to find more things to watch during down time until I feel comfortable enough to take this stupid wrist brace off and play smash sparingly
Ping Pong the Animation. No, I won't stop talking about it. My go-to anime to watch when I(for whatever reason) feel like watching some random anime is typically Outlaw Star. Watched it when I was a young un and loved it to death. Still holds up decently well, but it's nothing special, to be fair. TTGL is another good one, but it's more like..junk food anime to me, if that makes any sense? Don't need to think much, just sit back and let the kinda one-dimensional writing, cliche narrative, and bright flashy lights wash over you. TTGL is like a not-terrible michael bay movie.
Otherwise, do you watch media other than anime?
 

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finished Kill la Kill finally. It was good. Don't have much to say tbh, other than it made me wish I was just re-watching TTGL instead. Premise was interesting, didn't really enjoy the fact it is fan service the anime and knows it (yeah yeah its the point of the story/commentary on the state of anime now, deconstruction of genres blah blah blah) although Ryuko is mad cute.


Need to find more things to watch during down time until I feel comfortable enough to take this stupid wrist brace off and play smash sparingly
Have you watched Serial Experiments Lain or Haibane Renmei yet?
 

Soft Serve

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Ping Pong the Animation. No, I won't stop talking about it. My go-to anime to watch when I(for whatever reason) feel like watching some random anime is typically Outlaw Star. Watched it when I was a young un and loved it to death. Still holds up decently well, but it's nothing special, to be fair. TTGL is another good one, but it's more like..junk food anime to me, if that makes any sense? Don't need to think much, just sit back and let the kinda one-dimensional writing, cliche narrative, and bright flashy lights wash over you. TTGL is like a not-terrible michael bay movie.
Otherwise, do you watch media other than anime?
I try not to watch too much TV or anime tbh, when I do watch a show I just binge through a season in a few days and not pick another up for a month or so. Other than keeping up with a few letsplay channels, honestly most of my time spent media-wise is reading (slowly working through all of Shakespeare) and I'm also diving into Pact and Twig, by the guy who wrote the web serial Worm, which everyone should read like right now.

I've had a good number of friends recommend Ping Pong, I'll pick it up eventually.
 

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I try not to watch too much TV or anime tbh, when I do watch a show I just binge through a season in a few days and not pick another up for a month or so. Other than keeping up with a few letsplay channels, honestly most of my time spent media-wise is reading (slowly working through all of Shakespeare) and I'm also diving into Pact and Twig, by the guy who wrote the web serial Worm, which everyone should read like right now.

I've had a good number of friends recommend Ping Pong, I'll pick it up eventually.
Shakespeare? Why?
 

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Shakespeare? Why?
Because I have one big book of all his works and it was next in my randomly assorted line of books to read. I also do enjoy most of his plays. I'm going to just break it off and scatter reading one play at a time in between other books though, I don't think i have the patients to handle that many "thou"s and "Pray you"s and "Zounds" at once haha.
 

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Because I have one big book of all his works and it was next in my randomly assorted line of books to read. I also do enjoy most of his plays. I'm going to just break it off and scatter reading one play at a time in between other books though, I don't think i have the patients to handle that many "thou"s and "Pray you"s and "Zounds" at once haha.
Why not just watch the plays
 

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I try not to watch too much TV or anime tbh, when I do watch a show I just binge through a season in a few days and not pick another up for a month or so. Other than keeping up with a few letsplay channels, honestly most of my time spent media-wise is reading (slowly working through all of Shakespeare) and I'm also diving into Pact and Twig, by the guy who wrote the web serial Worm, which everyone should read like right now.

I've had a good number of friends recommend Ping Pong, I'll pick it up eventually.
As far as reading online stuff, I picked up Tower of God and got through the first season. It's..got potential, but I feel like it's a bit too shonen for my tastes. Also, the translation leaves a bit much to be desired, so I might drop it, I dunno. I kinda turned away from narrative-driven webcomics a long time ago, though I should catch up with Girl Genius and Order of the Stick.

I actually never got into Web Serials-mostly because the few times I tried reading them, Sturgeon's Law was in full effect. A lot of them were amateur writing, and not necessarily in a good way, unfortunately.

Shakespeare is a great choice. Historical context is usually good to have though, otherwise you miss a lot of his humor. I became far more interested in his work when I wasn't forced to analyze it for school. What's you favorite of his work that you've read so far? I really liked A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Speaking of dead authors, I've been trying to churn my way through Milton. Specifically Paradise Lost. Short, but dry. I just need to sit down on a rainy day and plow through it, I think. Alghieri's works are interesting, but I never found Purgatario and Paradiso as interesting as Inferno.
 
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Why not just watch the plays
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I'd rather just read the play instead of watching a director's interpretation of it. Also reading is more enjoyable and easier to stop/put down and pick back up.

@ Helsong Helsong I enjoyed Much Ado about Nothing quite a bit, although I think my favorite of what I've read is still Hamlet. The Tempest fell really flat and I felt the ending really anti-climactic for the great build up it had.
 
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The thing about Shakespeare and lots of other older playwrights/philosophers/etc. is that you're not supposed to read it as if you were around in the time of ye olde English, since Early Modern English is not Modern English; you have to use footnotes/take some guesses as to how the language in his stuff would sound in present tongues. ...Let me just say in advance that a LOT/most of his wordplay is either naughty(audaciously so), nightmarish, or sometimes a disquieting mix of both.

As an object lesson here, I REALLY don't get why Romeo and Juliet/stuff like that gets taught to grade-schoolers. And then there's Othello and Richard III...
 
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I finished Akame ga Kill last night, I've since realized that it was just "Read the Manga - The Animation" (Although I liked the fight in episode 23 because of TTGL reasons.)
 

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So a pretty lady on the bus told me I looked really strong on the way home.

Did I do good, @Old Man Grey?
 
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The thing about Shakespeare and lots of other older playwrights/philosophers/etc. is that you're not supposed to read it as if you were around in the time of ye olde English, since Early Modern English is not Modern English; you have to use footnotes/take some guesses as to how the language in his stuff would sound in present tongues. ...Let me just say in advance that a LOT/most of his wordplay is either naughty(audaciously so), nightmarish, or sometimes a disquieting mix of both.

As an object lesson here, I REALLY don't get why Romeo and Juliet/stuff like that gets taught to grade-schoolers. And then there's Othello and Richard III...
Cause it's bad to go around having sex with a mob boss's daughter like duh

Do you even subtext
 

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Cause it's bad to go around having sex with a mob boss's daughter like duh
Do you even subtext
I was referring more to the black and grey morality/dudes-doing-evil-for-it's-own-sake-type stuff that is present in a lot of his work, but you're not wrong.
 
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Lizalfos

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Can sombody explain taming of the Shrew to me or is it literally just a silly book with some old jokes and otherwise the resolution is misogyny always wins?
 

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you know, I saw the movie like last week and I thought I'd be onto something else by now but I am still way too heavily into mad max fury road

the best action movie of at least the past five years, maybe even up there with all-times. it just flowed so effortlessly and worked so beautifully, god damn I'm not used to loving a popular piece of film like this
 

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you know, I saw the movie like last week and I thought I'd be onto something else by now but I am still way too heavily into mad max fury road

the best action movie of at least the past five years, maybe even up there with all-times. it just flowed so effortlessly and worked so beautifully, god damn I'm not used to loving a popular piece of film like this
K gonna watch it. I don't know how though, either get lucky to see it with smasher friends or see it with girl in a few weeks. OR parents.

You see it in 3d or anything special like that?
 
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nah, I saw it in cheapo 2d, I'm not a fan of 3d stuff

probably looks brilliant in 3d, though, I can recall at least five different shots that would have had twice the impact with perception
 

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nah, I saw it in cheapo 2d, I'm not a fan of 3d stuff

probably looks brilliant in 3d, though, I can recall at least five different shots that would have had twice the impact with perception
My smasher friends chose 2d for Age of Ultron. But If I saw that, I'd really want 3d for once I think. Especially if I knew the place wouldn't be crowded, since I think the more off-center seats you get from the screen the worse 3d feels.

I've only seen a couple of films in 3d since Avatar, none of them were good like Avatar. It's also a little odd to wear the glasses over glasses, but not that much of a nuisance.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/3D-Or-3D-Buy-Right-Mad-Max-Fury-Road-Ticket-71474.html
 
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Holy ****

6 months lurking and I finally realized the PMS tag stood for Project M Social.

Although for a good couple weeks I was convinced it was "pardon my ****post" and could still be swayed either way
 
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